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Vol. 13 No. 3
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CONFERENCE OKAYS ’49 PROGRAM
VOL. 13, NO. 3
MARCH, 1949
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T-H Repeal Needs More Support
Pages Five, Seven
FARM IMPLEMENT DRIVE MAKES PROGRESS
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WASHINGTON,
D.C.— Walter Reuther, chairman of
CIO’s National Housing Committee, is shown as he appeared
before the Housing and Rent Subcommittee of the Senate
and urged that the Senate Banking and Currency Committee report housing legislation as soon as possible. Reuther
said: ‘‘Last year we had a housing crisis in this country.
Today we have a housing tragedy.’’ He also stated: ‘‘We
must build 4 minimum of two million homes a year for the
next ten years—a total of twenty million homes.’’ Reuther
was referring to his recently announced plan for homes,
jobs and planes.
—International
News
Photo.
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Pa ges
Two,
Four
UNITED
March, 1949
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Page
9
Farm Implement Driv e Moves Ahead
Livingston Reports Good
Progress on all Fronts
*
CHICAGO—UAW-CI10’s drive to unite all farm implement
workers in its ranks rolled into the second month, with reports
of progress streaming in from all fronts, Vice-President John W.
Livingston, director of the campaign, reported as the Auto
Worker went to press.
Following
sent
by
CIO
the
release
President
ray
to
Walter
P.
Grant
Oakes,
FE
stating
the
of a letter
Philip
Mur-
Reuther
President,
necessity
for
@—————__—________—_their regions to get into the UAWCIO and help speed the implementation of the merger.
In Chicago,
Mike Mann, Illinois CIO Direetor,
|said that his Council has set up a
five-man
committee
to assist the
UAW-CIO Farm Implement Drive.
PROGRESS IN LOUISVILLE
Hardy
Merrill,
UAW-CIO
Representative stationed in Louisville,
Kentucky, to work on the drive at
|the Harvester plant in that city,
|reported substantial progress.
He
FE
and
re-
to
merge with UAW-CIO,
there was
a sharp upsurge of FE rank-andfile support for the merger.
TWO PLANTS READY
In two plants, collection of signed
UAW-CIO
authorization
cards
neared the 30 per cent total required to back up a
petition for a
National
Labor
Relations
Board
|said that a large number of FE
representation election.
Harvester workers attended a CIO
At
the
big McCormick
Works
| Council meeting there, which was
plant
in Chicago—where
the FE
top leaders suspended a majority | addressed by- UAW-CIO Vice-Presjident
John
W.
Livingston
and
of the Local 108 leaders who are
| William Taylor, Kentucky CIO Dibacking the merger—a last minut
drive
A Harvester worker at East Moline accepts a handbill from a UAW
if\)
1
Mazey, Livingston, Board Members
in East Moline for Second Handbilling
EAST MOLINE—Freedom of speech and press were re- ®
fore, conduct ourselves in a peacestored to this community Monday, February 21, when the UA W- ful and orderly manner.
It
is
CIO returned to deliver the message of CIO policy to workers ridiculous to think that we would
do otherwise, since ‘we know that
at the East Moline International Harvester Works.
The
UAW-CIO
handbill
crew
was. led
by
Emil
Mazey,
UAWCIO International Secretary-Treasurer,
and
John
W.
Livingston,
UAW-CIO
Vice-President and Di-
pose
of
distributing
literature
at
the Harvester plant was announced
choice
Satur-| tions.”
to the press at 4:00 a. m.,
day morning, February 19,
In a release
issued jointly
by
rector of the union’s Agricultural
Livingston
and
Greathouse
from
Implement
Department,
plus
six}
the UAW-CIO
Chicago
headquarInternational board members.
ters, the union declared:
Board members present were: Pat
“Because
the
public
has
been
Greathouse,
Region
4,
Chicago;
confused
as to what actually
ocWilliam
McAulay,
Region
1-B,
curred when the FE people made
Pontiac, Michigan; Leonard Woodan
unprovoked
attack
on
UAW
cock, Region 1-D, Muskegon, Mich- |}
members
February
10, this
time
igan;
Ray
Berndt,
Region
3, Inwe
are
notifying
the
press
and
dianapolis; Russell Letner, Region
public well in advance, so that in5, St. Louis, and Thomas Starling,
terested
parties
may
observe
the
Region 8, Atlanta.
MISSION
The
return
ANNOUNCED
intention
of UAW-CIO
to
to East Moline for the pur-
will
implement
ultimately
This
in
vote
workers
their
free
NLRB-conducted
announcement
was
elecgiven
wide
publicity
in the
press, and
a flock of reporters and photographers were on hand
to record
the conduct of the UAW-CIO and
the FE.
A
number
of local
policemen,
bolstered
by detachments
of IIlinois state police, were on hand to
protect the rights of people to distribute handbills.
MURRAY
MESSAGE
way
to
gather
OPEN
The
to
|
in
|
Taylor urged the FE members to
comply
with
CIO
policy
and
pledged his aid in uniting all farm
jimplement
workers
in the UAW|
hit
HEADQUARTERS
final
spurt
was
rector.
expedited
|
| CIO.
by
the
opening
of
a
UAW-CIO
|
UAW-CIO
activity
was
increasheadquarters near the McCormick
|ing in the Quad-City area, after a
plant, which will also be used by
successful
distribution
of a copy
Harvester
Tractor
worke
rs
and
}of CIO President Murray’s letter
McCormick Twine Mill workers.
|}to the workers at the E. Moline
While
the drive at McCormick | Harvester
Works.
The
distribuwas
gaining
speed,
UAW-CIO
tion
was
led
by
Vice-President
moved
on
another
front
against | John W. Livingst
on and Secretarythe FE dictatorship.
Harold Katz, Treasurer
Emil
Mazey,
with
the
a member of the UAW-CIO Region|
aid of Board members Greathouse,
4 Legal Staff, acting on behalf of|
Berndt, Letner, McAulay and Starthe suspended leaders of FE Local
ling.
108,
filed a petition
for an
injunc-|
tion to void the suspensions in Cook
County Circuit Court.
In
Springfield,
Ilinois,
a
rank-|
|
j ing
ary
and-file
committee
was
rounding
up the last handful of authoriza-|
tion cards needed to get an elec- ||
tion.
Russell
Merrill,
UAW-CIO}
Region 3 Representative in charge |
of the
Springfield
Allis-Chalmers|
drive, said that the petition for an
election
in the
plant
would
cer-|
tainly be filed before March 15,
BIG LIFT
The
Springfield
drive
lift on Sunday, February
the
CIO
Allis-Chalmers
got
a
New
in-plant
made
21
after
distribution,
and
were
the
a
Febru-
stream
up_the
drive.
REGION 3 ACTIVE
Region
3 Director
Ray
Berndt
reported progress in two other FE
plants
are
on
lers
which
working.
who
On
his
staff
March
members
2,
Berndt
led a crew
of handbilcovered
the
Harvester
Kitty Co-op Sa ys.
Handbilling
Moline Harvester
lineup
works.
at the
return
engagement
at East
Emil Mazey and Pat Greathouse,
bareheaded in a cold drizzle, are next to the car. Mazey's
assistant, Tom Clampitt, faces right in foreground,
be-
of literature was being mailed into
all
FE
plants
in
the
Quad-City
area,
Newspaper:
ads
and
radio
programs were being used to speed
big} personally
20, when
Council,
steadily
contacts
plant
in Richmond,
Indiana.
He
reports a steady collection of aumeéting in LaPorte, Indiana, adoptcards
at
the
Oliver
ed the UAW-CIO
1949 economic} thorization
program as their demands for this} plant in South Bend, Indiana.
year's negotiations with their em-|
On
Monday
morning,
February
| 28,
ployer.
Region
4 Director
Pat GreatThis Council is made up of three| house led a crew of organizers who
UAW-CIO
locals, three» UE locals distributed
copies
of
the
special
the National CIO Executive Board and two FE locals. Charles Schultz, drive
“Farm
paper,
Implement
ordering the FE to merge with the
Facts,’ at the Harvester plant in
President
of UAW-CIO
Local 248,
UAW-CIO.
Rock Falls, Illinois.
West Allis, Wisconsin, was elected
While a handful of FE leaders Secretary of the Council—in which
Sunday,
March
6,
marked
the
were on hand to heckle and threat-| position he will have the responbeginning
of a regular
UAW-CIO
en workers who accepted the pa- sibility
of coordinating
the
1949
radio. broadcast on Chicago Station
pers, the reception from the worknegotiations.
| WJJID.
The
program
is
heard
ers themselves was generally good,
Two
CIO
Regional
Directors
from
1:10 to 1:15 daily, and from
and many
of them on both shifts have
called upon FE members in| 1:15 to 1:30 every Sunday.
carried the papers away for further study.
ee
The message delivered was conpeaceful and lawful conduct of the
tained
in
the
third
edition
of
UAW-CIO.
UAW-CIO Farm Implement Facts.
It featured a copy of the FebNLRB VOTE
14 letter from
CIO
Presi“For our part, we will, as be- ruary
| dent Philip Murray
to Walter P.
| Reuther
and Grant
Oakes,
clarifying and restating the action of
|
y/
under
the last. few cards needed
the 30 per cent mark.
member,
agricultural
was
e
“When you're looking
for someone to criticize,
don't turn away from
the face in the mirror.”
Soe
Mazey turns to chat with workers, Greathouse (left)
and Vice-President Livingston seem happy about their reception,
March, 1949
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Page
Are You
Listening?
If so, send a postcard to the
UAW’s own Radio Station.
Let us know Uf we’re reaching
you. Address 12300 Radio Place,
Detroit 28.
If not, begin now.
Listen to
WDET—101.9 on your FM dial
—the volce of your own UAW-
Clo.
SKILLED TRADES
MEET IN CHICAGO
Skilled Tradesmen of the UAWCIO,
meeting
in Chicago,
IIL, at
the quarterly conference of the International Skilled Trades Council,
after thorough debate, approved a
motion:
“That
the
International
Skilled Trades Council, UAW-CIO,
recommend
to all affiliated Councils a change in the requirements
for issuance
in order
to
of Journeyman
conform
to the
neyman-Upgrader
program
proved
at
had
Program.”
been
the
Cards
Jour-
unanimously
quarterly
This
ap-
conference
held at Toledo, Ohio, in November,
1948.
The
Journeyman-Upgrader
program was unanimously adopted
by the joint Journeyman-Upgrader
Committee,
which was established
by the UAW-CIO. Convention in an
effort to resolve this problem, and
subsequently
approved
by
the
In-
ternational Executive Board.
The conference was attended
33
delegates,
representing
by
Skilled
Tradesmen of 11 affiliated Councils
in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Wisconsin, New York and Canada.
The assembled delegates voted to
hold their next Conference on May
6th and 7th in Milwaukee, Wis.
“Community Clinic” featuring discussions of human relations is a weekly Sunday feature at 1:35 p. m.
on WDET. In the picture above, George Schermer, moderator, is discussing, “Should There Be FEPC in
Michigan?” With him are, from left: Geraldine Bledsoe, Chief Minority Section, Michigan Employment
Service; Schermer; William H. Oliver, Co-Director UAW-CIO Fair Practices Department, and Booz Siegel,
Law Professor, Wayne University.
MAINTENANCE
The Skilled Trades Conference
also reiterated its previous position
in regard to the Powerhouse Workers’ “seven-day operation schedule”
and
instructed
the
Secretary . to
forward copies of the resolution to
the respective
Regional
Directors
for their consideration,
WDET-FM
101.9 Megacycles
with
the
8 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
SUNDAY
company.
Prosecuted
catching
ers here
Two
GAO
ISLAND—Justice
up with the
last month.
weeks
“ovok
RAAB
after
FE
they
ttack
top
began
lead-
directed|
distance ee
JAW-
mis-
WDET
guided members of FE, the FE top|
leaders
on
appeared
charges
of
and
*
Station
Manager
Ben
Hoberman,
con-
seated, Byes
a
circular
or
instruction
reception
commit-
tees” -were a hand At FE plants)
and
on
a
lette
r
trom
Oake
s
wdcig
.|
ing FE members to treat UAW-|
CLO people as “finks and scabs,”
12:45
1:35
2:35
3:30
4:30
5:15
6:00
Betty Hicks’ Sports Fairway
Community Clinie
Opera Matinee
Gilbert & Sullivan Concert
Great Books Discussion
You and Your City
Keyboard Masters
Labor
7:00
T'ootlight
{
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4
3:00
3:30
15
Correspondent
the News
Parade
Detroit Publie Library Symphony
THROUGH
5:55
1:00
9:30
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30
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/
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Program in Italian
Program in Polish
Program in Yiddish
Washington
6:30
FRIDAY
Cosmopolitan Program
Cosmopolitan Program
A Woman’s World
Story
in Polish
in Italian
Time
Around the Town
Sports Roundup
Labor Views the News
Musie You Want
News Roundup
Detroit Publie Library
Wayne Faculty Round
Other
to
alives
Moran based his charges on the
notorious January FH News which
“muscular
Your
700
the
members
and
did
distribute
said
circular
or
printed
notice
among
members of said organization with fraudulent and malicious |
intent, wrongfully and wickedly to|
injure
the persons
and
character|
;
of
other
persons,
towit:
Michael
Dergo, Charles Barnes, Pat Greathouse and John W. Livingston,”
The
latter
persons
named
are
all UAW-CIO officers or represent-
said
12:
8:00
¢
MEMBERS INSTRUCTED
Moran
said that Oakes, Shaffer
and Lawson “did unlawfully, fraudulently
and
maliciously
issue. or
utter
Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan
MONDAY
spiracy to cause‘a riot.
Those who appeared, in answer
to warrants
obtained
by State’s
Attorney Bernard J. Moran, on the
basis of information
filed by the
UAW-CIO,
were:
Grant
Oakes,
John
Shaffer,
Charles Lawson, John T. Watkins, |
Thomas Kelly, Arvid Sheets, Lyle|
Davis and Gerald McMahill.
9:00
10:
Vike
=
Ver program with Assistant Program Director Paul Morris,
left, and Announcer Bob Cordell,
to get bailed out|
conspiracy
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ENGINEERING
The
Engineering
Job Shop
organizing drive in the Detroit area
is receiving considerable
interest.
The most recent shop to be organized is the Multi-Hydromatic Welding & Machine Co. The Engineers
at this plant voted 100 per cent for
the UAW-CIO
and aré currently
in the process of negotiating
an
agreement
PROGRAM
nights,
Musie
Symphony
Table—Monday
of the Theatre.
SATURDAY
00
(00)
2:00
2:30
15
35
3:00
(00>
30)
“Sports Review”
women’s
with Betty Hicks, right, former national
golf champion,
is one of WDET's
most popular
Sund
ay
feat
ures
at
12:4
5
p.
m.
rtswom
an
Hick
s
tells
the big stories behind sports eventsSpoand
interviews leading
athletic figures,
OO
1:30
00
Tie
Toe
Tunes
Americana
Downbeat
News
Roundup
You and Your Fealth
Musie in the Modern Manner
Vocal Varieties
Piano Patterns
‘Tropicana
Jazz
Corner
Labor Views
the News
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