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United Automobile Worker
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1943-08-15
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Vol. 7 No. 16
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Detroit,
Vol. 7
August
eae
22
1943
No. 16
15,
Page 3
UAW-CIO’s National GM Council, Representing More Than 300,000 Workers,
Declares Little Steel Formula Must Go—Urge Escalator Clause In Additi
on
to Restoration of Purchasing Power.
5 aR
a
U8. INDUSTRY
CASUALTY LIST
Murray
Urges
Reconsider
Biddle
His Ruling —
on Smith-Connally Act
WASHINGTON—President Philip Murray of the CIO
has expressed to President Roosevelt his “utter amazement
and consternation” at the opinion of Attorney-General Biddle,
holding that under the Smith-Connally Act any group of
employes in a plant, no matter how small, may be entitled
to a government-conducted strike ballot, even though a union
in that plant may be certified as the bargaining agency and
have a collective bargaining agreement forbidding strikes.
“This opinion of the Attorney-
General
could
not
possibly
re-
fiect the intent of Congress,”
Murray said, in a letter to Pres.
Roosevelt.
“The
Attorney-General’s
result
of
Opinion
the
is
sheer chaos.
“I respectfully submit that ‘the
seriousness of the situation warrants the resubmission of the entire
matter
to
the
AttorneyGeneral, and that an opportunity
be afforded to organized labor to
present to him the problems in
the situation...”
NO-STRIKE
POLICY
Murray
emphasized
that
the
CIO, consistent with its no-strike
pledge, has adopted the procedure
of discouraging any attempt by
its members to request the strike
_ ballots provided for by the SmithConnally Act.
—
“Organized labor, determined to
prevent for the duration of the
war any stoppages of work, is
faced with the ugly opinion of the
Attorney-General which actually
encourages stoppages of work . ..
“We find the Attorney-General,
with a complete and total disregard of our nation’s needs, issuing an opinion reflecting a complete sense of irresponsibility.”
RECALLS
“When
was
under
FDR’s
VETO
the Smith-Connally
consideration
‘bill
in Con-
gress, the CIO expressed its opposition to the proposed legislation,
for the reason among others that
in the face of the pledge of organized labor that there must not be
any stoppages of work for the
duration of the war, the bill would
encourage stoppages of work by
providing the machinery whereby
strike ballots could be held, to be ©
followed
by
strikes,’
Murray
wrote the President,
Biddle’s
yond
that
Murray
ruling
goes even
in encouraging
told the President.
be-
strikes,
Goes to Buffalo
Page 8
DEATHS .:.-«.. 48,500
CRIPPLED .<¢«.. 258,000
DAYS LOST... 110,000,000
PAGE
6
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
DETROIT
WORKER
MICHIGAN
AUGUST
15 1943
Pampered Husbands
Should Be Educated |
Edith M. Stern, writing in the Nation, offers
solution to difficulties of women performing
homemaker and wage earner. She suggests that
over traditions and insist upon help form their
the
Women’s Bureau for
The Woman Worker
Women working in industry
today owe a salute to the Women’s
Bureau
of the
United
States, which recently celebrated |
its 25th anniversary.
This service was established
during the last war, in 1918, as
an emergency measures, but it
filled so great a need and functioned so efficiently that Con-
a sound and simple
the double role of
working wives kick
husbands in doing
housework and taking care of the children.
“If a woman can learn to run a drill press, why can’t a man
learn to run ‘a washing-machine?” asks Miss Stern. “In short, if
women must by war necessity
work outside the home, isn’t it
equally a war necessity that men
work
Shoppers
who have strained
their eyes in an effort to read
the small type used by OPA on
their ceiling price lists have been
the house and be a wage earner
as well, while your husband carries the burden of only one job?
promised relief by W. E. Fitzgerald, Detroit district director
of the Office of Price Adminis-
PAMPERING
So, put your husband
Stop pampering him. If
plain your new
plan
probably see the justice
be willing, if not eager,
amends.
tration, as a direct result of complaints made by Walter P. Reuther, UAW-CIO consumer division director.
According
to ‘Fitzgerald, instructions have been issued that
all future lists be published with
larger type “that can be readily
to work.
you exhe will
of it and
to make
Educating husbands will not
be easy for those who have considered it their sacred and feminine duty to extend themselves
in the matter
of well-cooked
food, fresh clothing and a clean
house
for father... But
if you
pitch in with the energy normally used in preforming in one day
a thousand thankless household
tasks, you can accomplish your
purpose.
Result:
time to rest.
seen by the consumer when
enters the store.”
RESIST
away
is going
to
in the kitchen
be
sit on the front porch.
The
you
idea
want
is to share the work, so two
to do
time
will have
people
something other than work, not
just one, .
TEACH
over
the job.
But
steel yourselve
against
temptation. Resist it with everything in you. If you live through
a week or two of being patient,
the havoc won’t last long and
you will be repaid for your
trouble and annoyance by hours
of freedom.
HIM TO IRON
Take washing and ironing for
instance. Half the responsibility
of this chore should belong to
your husband now that your are
away from
home
eight hours
(at least) a day. He can learn to
wash and it is also possible for
him
to become
an
expert at
pushing an iron. Remember, you
haven’t always known how to do
these things—you’ve just done
them so long, it seems like always.
Housework can be arranged in
shifts, if you prefer it that way.
You do the cooking and marketing one week, perhaps, and your
husband the next. Let this work
include planning the meals, too;
otherwise you will not free yourself completely
from
the job
during your week “off,” and your
purpose will be defeated.
to take
MEN
CAN
Bear
in
LEARN
mind
|
the
fact
that
dusting, scrubbing, washing and
ironing, and cleaning the house
is not work understandable only
by women. Explain what work
is to be done and how to go
:
about it.
Do
your
share,
but
by
all
means permit your husband to
do his,
How. do you feel about this
plan? Are you in agreement or
not? Is it just an idea that seems
simple and just and workable.
Write
your
reaction
.to
the
Women’s Editor, 411 West Milwaukee Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. Perhaps you can turn up'a
better idea.
Bureau
voted
a
An Army
Cook’s
Dear
Editor:
chopped
2
2 tablespoons vinegar
4 tablespoons olive oil or
bacon fat
:
|
1 sliced lemon 4 inch thick
Cook potatoes, cool and slice
— thinly into baking dish. Season
and sprinkle with celery and
parsley: Mix vinegar and oil or
fat; add lemon, and heat to boiling point, pour over potatoes.
Cover and let stand in oven until
thoroughly heated. Serves six.
Mozart might
put into his own scores.” The
in four
result is a symphony
short movements, three of them
delicate and precise in the Mo-
zart manner, and the last movement extremely vivacious and
Russian in color. Superbly per-—
formed
by
Vladimir
Golschmann,
conductor,
and the
Louis Symphony Ochestra.
Women’s
I-have a recipe that I would
like very much to be published.
I have tried this recipe and find
it very satisfactory. I don’t know
if it will suit anyone in civilian
life, but it is very satisfactory in
the army.
Hot Potato Salad
6 medium-sized potatoes
salt and pepper
%4 cup celery, finely chopped.
1 tablespoon parsley,
dissonant form usually associated with this Russian composer.
Rather it was written, according
to Prokofieff, in an attempt “to
catch the spirit of Mozart and
to put down that which, if he
were living now,
Recipe
E. B. Roberts,
Army Cook,
Fort Brage.
N:
St.
C.
On the tuneful
side, Victor
offers Goodbye, Sue and There’ll
Soon
Be
a
Rainbow,
(20-1538)
with Perry Como, the new romantic baritone
and mixed
chorus,
Also, All or Nothing at All,
with
Freddy
Martin’ and
his
orchestra,, and Now We Know,
with clarinetist Artie Shaw and
his
by
orchestra,
Martha
the
Tilton.
vocal
refrain
(20-1537.)
Menu
a large
for Four
Pears
with
Meringue
this is not
an expen-
sive main course dish, as only
pound of ground meat is used.
and
fry
in butter
pepper and a
little finely chopped
parsley. Add a cup or more of flaky
cooked riee, as desired. Mix well.
To fill the cabbage, fold back the outer leaves carefully, without tearing
Poached
You Victory Gardeners who have
grown cabbages can make the following recipe for almost nothing. But
even for those of us who must buy
our vegetables,
fine
with a sliver of garlic and % pound
chopped meat. (Beef is good, or beef
and pork, or ham may be used.) Fry
until well browned. Add salt and
Russian Stuffed Cabbage
Tossed Vegetable Salad
Hard Rolls and Butter
Baked
onion
%
Russian Stuffed Cabbage
Select a rather large head of cabbage, with the leaves a bit loose.
Wash and clean cabage and place
in boiling water to cover. Turn off
the fire and let stand about 15 minutes. Remove cabbage from water
and allow to drain upside down.
Prepare stuffing as follows: Chop
|
them. When you come to the harder
center, cut it out and chop fine.
Fill center with meat-rice mixture,
fold over the next leaves, and so on
until the cabbage is back to its nor‘mal shape. Fold tight and spread
stuffing evenly. Tie with strong white
twine and remove toothpicks.
Place in a baking dish, surround
with chopped cabbage and pour a cup
or two of broth or hot water around
the cabbage, Butter the top of cabbage
well,
sprinkle
with
grated
cheese. The chopped
cabbage
can
also
be
seasoned
with
butter
and
cheese and @ can of tomatoes may
be poured over it if desired. Bake in
a slow oven (300 degrees) until very
brown. Undo strings and slice in pieshaped sections.
Baked
Pears
Peel, halve and core pears. Place
cut-side up in a buttered baking dish.
Fill centers with brown sugar and
spices,
add
%
cup
hot
water ‘and
bake at 300 degrees for 30 minutes,
or until pears are tender. (Since the
is the
required
oven temperature
same as for the stuffed cabbage, bake
at the same time.)
Baste several
times during baking and serve hot
with:
Poached Meringue
3 egg
%
whites
cup. sugar
dash of salt
2 cups milk or
1 cup evaporated
milk and
1 cup water
Beat
of
our mass production industries.
Working together with labor unions and other progressive organizations, the Bureau has so
changed
the status of women
that 1943 sees them paid wages
equal with those of men
for
equal work. Federal and State
laws have been legislated so that
working
conditions
have
improved tremendously in the last
quarter century; standards have
been
established
limiting
the
number of hours women may be
employed.
The function of the Women’s
Bureau is to investigate and report on the problems and conditions of employed women in
all types of work, to”
policies and standards of women
aS wage
they
earners, and to see that
are given
they
employers.
This
agency
a fair break
|
advises
by
govern-
ment, management and labor as
to working conditions conducive
to efficient and safe employment
in war establishments.
PEACE PLANS
The Women’s Bureau functions
in peace as well as in war time.
In its program for the peace,
the Bureau
announces
it will
“reveal reasons and methods for
including women in the special
program of adjustment of workers during the transition period
from
a war
to a peace time
economy.”
Their obpective is to
guarantee to women as well as
to men full opportunity and freedom from want.
During the 25 years of its existence, the Women’s Bureau has
contributed more than any other
agency
in
bettering
women’s
position in industry, and confidence is felt that its valuable
service will continue.
Russian Stuffed Cabbage Delicious and Timely
Dinner
the
permanent
strument in the development
“") GET AWFULLY TIRED HEARING YOU TWO TALK SHOP EVERY MEAL.”
- Sergei Prokofieff’s Classical
Symphony in D Major, published
by Victor (Album-942)
is not
entirely in the explosive and
time and with less effort. Right
there is where your greatest
temptation lies. In exasperation, or even out of fondness
for your husband,
you
will
1920,
STATUS RAISED
WOMEN’S
However, the Women’s Bureau
had the vision to see employment of women as a practical in-
Victor Recordings—
Swing and Serious
could do in less than half the
slaving
while
TEMPTATION
The big danger, of course,
- is that you will become discouraged and impatient with
the old gentlemen. You will
see him whacking himself out
over something you know you
cultivate your new interests, relax and enjoy your family. Don’t
jump to the conclusion that your
husband
he
5,
government
organization, as
part of the Department of Labor.
Twenty-five years ago women
hadn’t the recognized place they
have
taken
in the _ industrial
structure of our country. Em“ployed
at low wages,
worked
anywhere from 12 to 18 hours
a day, frequently under dangerous conditions, women were generally considered unimportant in
the economic scheme.
In Big Type Promised
Think
it over.
Actually,
is
there any reason why you should
continue to do all the work about
June
Women’s
New OPA Price.Lists
inside?”
STOP
gress,
egg
whites
frothy.
Add
salt
and beat stiff but moist. Gradually
beat in sugar. Heat milk or combined
evaporated milk and water just to
the boiling point.
Drop meringue into the hot milk,
a tablespoon at a time and poach,
over low heat, for about 2 minutes,
or until meringue is just firm but
very
tender.
Remove
from
milk,
drain on paper toweling or unglazed
paper and then place on baked pears.
Do about 4 or 5 tablespoons at a time.
Overcrowding
will make the
meringue stick together and difficult
to handle.
Left-Overs
Don’t throw anything away*that
¢€an possibly be used. Use the leftover strained milk and 3 egg yolks
to make a
boiled custard. Add a
little
sugar and a dash of salt and cook
over boiling water until the custard
coats a metal spoon.
PAGE
8
UNITED
Helicopter
AUTOMOBILE
Sim ple Sam
Plant Votes
For UAW-CI0
BRIDGEPORT,
Conn. — The
UAW-CIO
has scored a smashing election victory in-the increasingly important field of heli-
copter
manufacturing.
Richard T. Frankensteen, vicepresident of the UAW-CIO
and
director of its aircraft division, announces that workers at the Sikorsky Helicopter plant here have
given the UAW-CIO
a= twenty-
to-one- endorsement
election.
in
an
WORKER
DETROIT
AUGUST 15 1943
MICHIGAN
_, UA W-CIO CONVENTIO
| 4 HIFTED TO BUFFALO;
70 OPEN OCTOBER 4°
The annual convention of
the UAW-CIO has been shifted
from
St. Louis,
September
29th, to Buffalo, October 4th.
This action was taken by the
International Executive Board
in a telegraphic ballot after it
developed that St. Louis hotels
would not provide satisfactory
accomodations for Negro delegates and visitors who may attend the convention.
NLRB}.
The campaign was under e
regional
direction of UAW-CIO
director Charles H. Kerrigan, with
international
representatives
Joseph Adams
and James
Gallagher taking an active part.
The plant is expanding to the
point where it is expected to employ some 5,000 workers.
North American
K.C. and Dallas
Raises Ordered
UAW-CIO
Thomas
George
Sc Raise
Given 1,400
CITY, Mo.—Workers
KANSAS
City and Dallas
at the Kansas
plants of North American- Avia| tion, Inc., will receive more than
one million dollars in back: pay as |
the result of work of the UAWCIO representing these workers
before the National War Labor
TOLEDO. — The Spicer ManuBoard.
has been
facturing Company
Workers in the two governmentdirected by the National War La- owned plants of McQuay-Norris
bor Board today to grant a 5c an Manufacturing
in St.
Company
hour increase to about 1,800 non- Louis
awarded _ inbeen
have
production workers, to correct a creases of five and a half cents
gross inequity which had arisen an hour, paid vacations, seniority
between the rates of these work- rights, maintenance of union memers and the production workers as bership,
dues
voluntary
and
a result of a bonus pay plan for check-off in a decision of the Rethe production employees.
gional WLB just issued here.
The increase is to be retroactive
Workers in the privately owned
to September 29, 1942, the date of plants of McQuay-Norris in= St.
certification of the case -to the Louis have
paid
granted
been
iW LB.
vacations, maintenance of memIndustry members of the Board bership,
seniority rights and a
dissented from the award.
number of other advantages in a
The company’s
and
4,000 production
non- production
workers: are
represented by the UAW-CIO.
oR aren
this decision, the
In making
majority approved the
Board
recommendation of a WLB referee
as being consistent with the
- Board’s authority to order increases to remove inequities between inter-related jobs as set out
in the May 12, 1943 policy directive of the Director of Economic
Stabilization.
Blind
Are
Working
in Detroit War
Plants
Blind drill press operators are
war
in Detroit
employed
now
One company has three
plants.
blind who assemble 23 separate
subcomplete
one
into
parts
Packing, sorting, inassembly.
spection, wire splicing and similar
operations are now being done by
many blind workers.
Under direction of the local war
manpower office, a setup was efblind were refected whereby
and placed in
cruited, trained,
industry. A Federal course writer
‘ was given the pioneering task of
devising a training program, resulting in a 240-hour course. This
is now being taught at the Army
Ordnance School, 13000 Dequindre, Detroit.
Graduates are now working in
many shops. Their safety record;
speed, and accuracy is of the
highest order. These workers are
joined in the Allied Blind in War
its
encourages
which
Industry,
members to actively particate in
UAW-CIO
affairs.
decision recently issued by
Board
Labor
War
National
Washington.
NEW
DRIVES
Drives to organize guards at
war plants in the greater Kansas
City area, to organize workers at
the Pratt & Whitney plant here
and at Alcoa are now under way.
ns going
In St. Louis negotiatioare
forward to complete a contract
covering workers in Carter CarbThe
plant.
Company’s
uretor
UAW-CIO recently won an election at this plant.
These are just some of the organizational activities which are
being pushed forward in Region
No. 5, UAW-CIO, under the superLivingston,
W.
of John
vision
regional director.
The payments to workers of the
North American plants in Dallas
are the first steps in applying
the West Coast Wage Stabilization plan to these plants,
RECLASSIFICATIONS
When, under Livington’s
covering
contracts
tion,
directhese
plants were negotiated, the company agreed to join the union in
West
the
have
to
petitioning
Coast wage plan applied to these
two plants. The petition was filed
with the War Labor Board and
has just been approved.
Each worker in both plants will
get back pay at the rate of $1.85
a week from February 1 to August
Workers who have left the
9.
plant to go into the armed service
will get back pay at the rate of
$2.50 a week from February 1 to
the time they were inducted into
the armed service.
forms
CONVENTION
have
been
mailed
out
by
his office for 2,100 representatives
of unions in the United States and
Canada.
- Commenting
the convention
on the change of
city, Thomas said:
“It is a matter of regret that
an American city cannot provide facilities for American citizens regardless of color. The
no commakes
UAW-CIO
promise with racial intolerance,
and when we found that St. Louis hotels were raising color
lines which would bar some of
of duly elected delegates we had
no choice but to move
| "Goaibays are fifunn
uni Ot war rather tide than walk.’?
ae
elsewhere.”
vention
HWE
Trips
Labor
IWLB
to Army Camps
to be Repeated
WASHINGTON — Pressing forward its policy of giving workers
of the
all possible knowledge
forces,
of our armed
workings
the Army is arranging more visits
by union groups to Army training camps on a regional basis.
The trips are being sponsored
by Under Secretary of War Robert
P. Patterson as a means of promoting mutual understanding and
teamwork between the men on
the battle front and those on the
production front.
Details of the visits, during
which the representatives of the
live
wilf
workers
barracks:
in
with the soldiers and share their
are being
experiences,
training
handled by the Industrial Servites
Division, Bureau of Public Rela-
tions, War
Department,
UAW-CIO
WAS
ton,
of
D.
C.
Washing-
FIRST
Following the successful visit
250
of
stewards
shop
the
UAW-CIO from the Detroit area
Atterbury, Indiana,
to Camp
last March, it was decided to
expand this program. Seven ad-
ditional
AFL,
visits
have
been
CIO
and
Railroad
Broth-
August
4-6.
On
August
5-6,
the|
Oil Workers International Union
(CIO) ‘will send representatives
to Camp Wolters, Texas.
Soldiers of Camp McCoy, Wis.,
will be hosts to two delegations
The Wisconsin
from Wisconsin.
AFL delegation will visit Camp
11-13, and CIO
August
McCoy
from the same
representatives
ee
5-27,
will be in camp from August
Denies
WASHINGTON.—The
War La-
bor Board has denied workers
at the Bendix Products Division
of Bendix Aviation Corporation,
South Bend, a 5c per hour general
wage increase.
With labor members dissenting
on the denial of the general increase, the Board held that the
5c per hour general wage increase
demanded by the UAW-CIO was
“incompatible with the terms of
the Hold the Line order.
TOOL & DIE RATES
The Board referred a demand
for increased rates for 18 job
classifications back to the parties
for negotiations with the provision
that any adjustments shall be
subject to WLB approval. A re-
quest for an increase in the tool
and die rates in accordance with
the rates determined by ‘the Detroit Area Tool and Die Commission in the General Motors case
to the Chicago
was referred
Regional Board. The Board will
determine the rates in light of
the program now being developed
for ‘‘district-wide stabilization” of
tool and die rates in the area.
UAW-CIO,
ing
Local 9, represent-
approximately
ers at the plant, had
the general increase
a
“historic
8,500 work-
demanded
to restore
relationship”
the con-
©
“The call designating St. Louis |
Raise at
|Bendix Plant
ar-
erhoods of Baltimore, Md., and
AFL and CIO unions of Northern
New Jersey will send delegations
Md., and Fort
to Fort Meade,
N. J., respectively,
Monmouth,
Givd
?l
GOVLSOd *S ‘N
said that satis-
Addes reported that the convention will be the largest in the history of the union. Credential firms
ranged for the month of August.
LEGE “ON PULIEg
"HOIN ‘LIOULAG
J.
Secretary-treasurer
F, Addes
| LARGEST
the
in
ON
R.
factory arrangements for all delegates, regardless of color, have
been made in Buffalo.
At Spicer
4,000 EMPLOYED
and
President
bet-
ween the rates at Bendix and
the rates at the Studebaker
Under
plant in South Bend.
their contract with the company, one clause provided for
the reopening of the wage question after October 1, 1942. The
clause further specified that the
“company shall not be expected
to put its wage scale out of
line with other companies in
its industry.”
tas the convention city was sent
out in order to comply with the
even
constitution
UAW-CIO
still
were
negotiations
though
being carried on in an endeavor
convenient and
to obtain more
Satisfactory
acceptable quarters.
and adequate commitments, free
from
been
falo,
tive
all discrimination, have now
obtained in the city of Bufand the International ExecuBoard has unanimously voted
to change the site of the convention,” Addes said.
The convention call, as sent out
by Addes under the provisions of
consitution, outthe UAW-CIO
lines the basis of representation
cites constitutional clauses
and
governing presentation of resolutions.
Copies of all resolutions, grievances and proposed constitutional
amendments must be sent to the
secretary-treasurer
International
not Jess than three weeks prior
the date for the convention. They
will then be referred to the respective convention committees.
executive
International
The
board will convene early in September to elect the committees.
These include committees on constitutions, credentials, resolutions
and such other committees as the
board may: decide are necessary
to successfully promote the effi-
cient operation of the convention.
Avion Workers
in Los Angeles
Vote UAW-CIO
LOS ANGELES—UAW-CIO Regional Director L. H. Michener
reports a decisive victory for the
International union in an NLRB
election held here at Avion, Inc.,
an aviation manufacturing company.
The result was: UAW-CIO, 62
per cent of the votes; Machinists,
AFL, 11 per cent; no union, 295
per cent.
Director
Michener, his staff and
in the Avion plant, re-
members
ceived the warm congratulations
of Richard T. Frankensteen, vicepresident of the UAW-CIO, and
director of its aircraft division.
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