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United Automobile Worker
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1949-07-01
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Vol. 13 No. 7
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INTERNATIONAL
UNION,
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE,
AIRCRAFT
AND
AGRICULTURAL
JULY,
VOL. 13, NO. 7
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WORKERS.
OF AMERICA —U.A.W,- Gl.
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GES a
1949
Convention goes to work on
“Unfinished Business on
Democracy’s Calendar’
MILWAUKEE
Ford,
AUDITORIUM,
SCENE
Chrysler
12TH
UAW-CIO
CONVENTION
Negotiations
Both Sound Off in
Taft-Hartley
Labor
OF
Points
Begin; |
“No” Letters
Repeal
To
Pa ge Two
Fails;
°50 Polls
Pa ge ive
UNITED
Page 10
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
July, 1949
—
WCUO-FM, UAW’s 2nd Station Goes on Air in Cleveland
CLEVELAND—WCUO, = second UAW-CIO owned-andoperated FM radio station, began broadcasting here Wednesday, June 29.
UAW-CIO President Walter P. Reuther participated in the
opening of the new station with a speech that outlined the goal
of the union’s radio activities.
““WCUO will be the voice of labor and the little people in
Cleveland and the surrounding area,’’ Reuther declared.
are the people who are
are the people who have
heard. WCUO and our
the channel for the little
COMMUNITY PROGRESS
“Tt
has
always
been
‘‘ These
the heart and pulse of America. These
not had channels to make their voices
Detroit Station WDET are to provide
people.
(a
the
belief
18
years
in
radio
management
and
adminjstration, is the manager of
of the UAW-CIO that labor makes
WCUO.
He
has
managed
four
progress with the whole community
We must dedicate ourselves to"mo- other radio stations—the latest bein Cleveland.
His
bilizing the people so that they may jing WEWS-FM
experience has been such that the
remain
free,
for an
enlightened
people is democracy’s best defense. UAW-CIO Radio Department feels
he will make the new station a real
*UAW-CIO radio stations will
contribution to community welfare
be used to penetrate the little
in Cleveland.
iron curtains of monopoly
centrol and the selfish interests of
big profit people. This is a great
educational
responsibility we have
undertaken
to help the people
to get the facts. This second station of ours is still just a start—
we want to tie WDET and WCUO
in with other liberal and labor
stations
in order
to
work
The new station’s Chief Engineer,
William B. Hull, began his radio career in Syracuse at Station WOLF.
| Later -he worked at other stations
jin Cleveland and-Elyria.
He is an
expert technician who has demon| Strated his ability in the work of
| getting WCUO under way.
toward
| OTHER SPEAKERS
the development
of a national
Norman Matthews, Chairman of
network.”
the UAW-CIO International Execu15,000 WATTS
tive Board Radio Committee, was
WCUO
has a power
rating of j}another of the chief speakers on
15,000 watts, and operates on a fre- | the opening broadcast.
Secretaryquency of 103.3 megacycles.
Con- | Treasurer Emil Mazey was on hand
struction was starting late in 1948 | to assist in the opening ceremony.
on the third floor of a building lo- | Paul Miley, Director of UAW-CIO
cated at 1025 Chester in Cleveland.
Region 2-A, and Richard Reisinger,
The programs will cover an area| Director
of UAW-CIO
Region
2,
including Cleveland, Akron, Elyria, | also spoke on the program.
The
Lorain,
Medina,
Cuyahoga,
SumRubber Workers sent Charles Lanmit,
Youngstown,
Sandusky,
Canning, their International Secretaryton, Wooster. and Norwalk.
More
Treasurer, to wish the new station
than
200,000
CIO
members
and well.
their families live in these comThe Ohio State CIO Council and
munities within the range of WCUO
the Cleveland
Industrial
Union
broadcasts.
Council had speakers on hand to
RALPH M. WALLACE
pledge
their support
in making
Ralph M. Wallace, a veteran of | WCUO a
success.
Highest Court OK’s
Steward Seniority
WASHINGTON (LPA)—The importance of trade union shop stewards was recognized by the U. S.
Supreme Court last week.
It said
that even veterans’ preference under the war-time draft law must
not be permitted
to deprive
the
trade union movement’s non-coms
of their job rights.
“Beeause a labor agreement assumes
the proper
adjustment
of
grievances at their source, the union. chairmen
play a very important role in the whole collective
bargaining process,” wrote Justice
Felix
Frankfurter
in
the
court
order.
“Therefore,” he said, “it is highly
desirable that union chairmen have
the authority and/skill which are
derived
from
continuity
in
office.”
Engineering Council
Elects New Officers
Radio Committee Chairman Norman Matthews is one of the
first to speak over WCUO.
CIO RALLIES SUPPORT
FOR TELEPHONE WORKERS
Defensive war was declared on the American Telephone and
Telegraph Co., the nation’s most protected monopoly, as 330,000
members
of the Communicati on Workers
of America-CIO
emerged from their national convention in Chicago last month
Delegates to the Society of Designing Engineers, Detroit Council,
at the June 9 meeting, elected new
officers and
Board
members
for
the
coming
term.
Re-elected
to
office
were
Recording
Secretary
Claud Gage, and Treasurer Matthew Bering.
Brother Bill Archer
was elected to the post of President
jafter having served the last term
in the capacity of Vice-President.
New officers include the following:
Vice-President—Harry P. Church,
[peinae es
Crvel
Shuel,
Trus|tee—Frank
Barnes,
Board
Mem-
bers—Clarence
First,
R.
M.
Arch-
ambault,
Michael Furman,
Bill
Dornbrock.
The new board has pledged its
support
and cooperation
to the
Skilled Trades Department
under
whose jurisdiction the council func-
tions.
They have promised to deA
nation-wide
strike
was
apvelop a program of activity which
proved by the convention if A. T.
will add to the benefits the memand T. continues to dishonor its ers, Steel
Workers,
Textile
and} bers may derive from their active
contract with the newest CIO affili- Clothing Workers, who rallied to participation in the council affairs.
ate.
The delegates instructed the protect the union rights of their Some of the activities to be given
CWA
executive
board
“to
take brothers and sisters in the CWA.
special attention include: Standard
such action as may be necessary”
The new CWA has already won
Contract, Rates and Classifications,
within the next 90 days “to make
three important rounds in its bat- Journeyman Card, and Apprenticeeffective all division contracts now tle with A. T. and T.
The rich ship.
being violated and dishonored by monopoly—iong guilty of inhuman
the companies and to restore recog- | wages and bad working conditions
ray assured the delegates the CIO
nition
of
the
divisions
as _ bar-| —discarded its contracts with CWA | was behind their crusade to defend
gaining agents.”
Such action, the} after the membership. voted to join| | free, collective bargaining.
resolution said, may include “eco-| the CIO.
Recognition of the union |. Over 90,000 members of the CIO
nomic,
strike,
political,
and
any | was withdrawn from 37 of CWA’s} |Telephone
Workers
Organizing
other”
steps
needed
to save
the} divisions. The union rights of some | | Committee plus another 10,000 in
union.
| 200,000 workers are in jeopardy.
| the
Ohic
Federation
of
Phone
WAR CHEST
.
|
LARGEST WHITE-COLLAR
A half-million-dollar war
chest
UNION
to fight A. T. and T.’s union-wreckCIO
President
Philip
Murray,
ing and to unite workers in the
the CWA
convenvast
communications
industry
in who addressed
one
organization
under
the CIO tion, told the delegates, “‘American
banner was raised as contributions business is conducting a cold war
came rolling in from Auto Work- | against the American people.” Mur-
Workers merged with the CWA in
Chicago to form the largest white-
collar
union
Scene in ihescantol room of UAW-CIO Radio
Station WCUO in Cleveland as broadcasts began
last month. There are more than au; 000 CIO
unionists
in its broadcast
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8:00
8:30
9:00
10:00
11:00
11:55
12:00
12:30
12:45
1:00
1:35
2:00
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Radio Chapel
Cosmopolifan Program
(In Italian)
Cosmopolitan Program
(In Polish)
Cosmopolitan Program
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Around the Town
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News Roundup
Yesterdays
Music We Love
Community
Clinic—Discussions on inequalities
of opportunity
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MONDAY
3:00
3:30
4:00
4:15
4:45
4:55
5:00
5:15
5:30
5:45
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Sports Roundup
Keyboard Masters—
Sponsored by Smiley
Brothers
UAW-CIO Convention
Footlight Parade
Operation UN
Detroit Public Library
Pops Concert
THROUGH
Program
FRIDAY
6:30
(In Polish)
Cosmopolitan Program
(In Italian)
US Armed Forces Programs
A Woman’s World
Music from the Movies
Around the Town
Story Time
Melody Round-up
Rythym from Radio
Place
Sports Review
Dinner Music
UAW-CIO
7:00
17:30
Convention
Music You. Want
Commentary from Nation’s Capital
Mon.—John Herling
Tues.—John Carmody
Wed.—Robert Nathan
Thurs.—Marquis Childs
Fri—Mrs. Raymond Clapper
7:45
Invitation to the Waltz
8:00
“Detroit Public Library
Symphony
9:00
Gay White Way
9:30
News Roundup
9:45
America Sings
SATURDAY
8:00
9:00
10:00
10:15
10:30
11:00
12:00
12:45
1:00
1:15
1:30
2:30
3:00
3:30°
Tic Toc Tunes
Americana
Rhythm and Reason
US Navy Band
Young Americans Look
at Books
Spotlite on Song
Luncheon Serenade
Yesterdays
Marine Story
You and Your Health—
Det. Dept. of Health
Let’s Listen to Some
Records
Understanding Music
U of M Band Rehearsal
Melodic Strings
in America.
BEIRNE CHOSEN
Chosen by the convention to lead
CWA’s membership were President
Joseph Beirne, Secretary-Treasurer
area.
4:00
4:30
4:55
5:00
5:45
6:00
6:30
6:45
7:00
7:30
7:45
8:00
9:00
9:45
Piano Patterns
Tropicana
Around the Town
Collector’s Corner
Sports Roundup
Dinner Music
Labor Views the News—
Guy Nunn of UAW
A Tapestry in Melody
All Time Favorites
Invitation to the Waltz
AFL Report from
Washington
Detroit Public Library
Symphony
Proudly We Hail
America Sings
(Clip and Save)
Carlton
Werkau
presidents—John
Moran
and
A.
T.
and
three
L. Crull,
Jones.
vice-|
John
J.|
with
will
Together | board.
four
make
regional
up
directors
CWA’s
they
executive
Serer
July, 1949
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Page 11
Racine UAW Members Stage
Educational “Ball Game” -
RACINE—UAW-CIO local unions miss no bets here in their
untiring search for new plants on the job of building a stronger
and more effective labor movement.
Latest
tiated
A
UNITED
of
the
by
novel
the
angles
Racine
ini-
UAW-CIO
Education Council was an “educational
ball game”
staged
at the
Council's annual picnic held June
12 in Johnson Park,
“We've always had picnics, since
our Council
was first formed
in
1945,” said Hugh Reichard, Council
Director, “but this year we thought
we'd mix a little education right in
with our fun at the picnic.”
BLUES
AND
The
ball
tween
two
the
WHITES
game
teams,
Whites,
ants
was
in
matched
a contest
the
which
wits
be-
Blues
the
and
contest-
answering
ques-
tions on topics and issues vital
the ‘welfare of the workers,
Victory
went
to
the
by Captain
Kenneth
596,
slim
by
the
15 score.
was
The
led
ranco,
by
sent
team.
swer,
was
If
or
called
UMPIRE
Harold
to
of Local
of a 17
to
Whites
team
Captain
Angelo
Bar-
pitcher
who
85.
had
questions
up
led
losing
side
hurled
Weill,
margin
of Local
Each
Blues,
to
bat
the
a
at
the
by
the
batter
answered
workers
opposing
failed
to
an-
incorrectly,
he
out.
THOMPSON
they carried Thompson out at
end of the game
and soused
head in a drinking fountain.
the
his
Frank Sahorske, another Region
4 Rep, was the time-keeper, and
John Pelk, of Local 244, kept the
score.
YEAR-ROUND PROGRAM
Racine is one of the few spots in
the UAW-CIO where the members
of the union spend more than the
required five cents per month per
member
on education.
Fourteen
local unions with a membership of
7,000 kick in $1.00 per year per
member to finance the work of the
UAW-CIO Education Council,
The Council conducts classes all
the
ed
the
year
by
around
a
planning
Leadership
on
subjects
group
Training
select-
known
as
Commit-
tee.
All Racine
consumer
co-ops
and
the
Racine
Branch
of the
NAACP
are also affiliates of the
Council.
~Sam
Rizzo,
President
of
Local
593, is the President of the Council, and heads an Executive Board
made
up of three
other
officers
and
one
member
at large
from
each affiliated local union, co-op
and community group.
FAIR EXHIBIT
Each fall, together with the coops and the AFL, the Council helps
operate a labor exhibit at the coun-
ty fair
in
Racine.
This
exhibit
fea-
tures a puppet show, free movies,
ternational Representative, was the
and an ample stock of leaflets—inUmpire who ruled on the correct- | cluding a free leaflet and pamphlet
ness of the answers, A batter could | service for farmers,
get a single, double, triple or homér,
UAW-CIO
isn’t bragging in Raon the basis of Thompson’s rulings.
cine, but it points to the fact that
Like in all ball games, the losing seven out of eight members of the
team gave the Ump the business—
City Council are UAW-CIO
folks.
Thompson,
Region
4
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