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Vol. 13 No. 10
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VOL.
13, NO.
10
OCTOBER,
1949
Le
FORD WORKERS
WIN PENSIONS:
Better
By
Working
Many
Conditions
Contract
Gained
Improvements
)
Page
Chrysler Workers
in 8-1
|
Three
Strike Vote
Page Two
Bell Strikers Get Board Support —
Page Eight
Edwards Contests
Big Business in
Detroit Mayor Race
Page Six
Oil Companies
seek to Block
Truman Appointment
Page Seven
|
October,
UNITED
1949
Region 4's New Union Center
Institutes’’
attracted
eager
groups
WORKER
Page 9
Die Cast Council to Hold
First Meet in November
Scene of Varied Activities
‘*Week-end
AUTOMOBILE
of unionists
from Region 4 to the new UAW-CIO Union Center near Ottawa,
[llinois, for educational and recreational activities this month.
>
Beginning a year-round program
First meeting of the UAW die casters council will be held November
and 13, at the Hollenden Hotel in Cleveland, Vice-President Richard
12
Gosser
has
announced.
The
majority
of
die
casting
workers
in
America
Justice Rutledge
WASHINGTON
(LPA)
The
death
of Supreme
Court
Justice
Wiley
B. Rutledge in Maine last
month saddened labor and liberals
and
has
brought
pressure
from
la-
are now members of the UAW-CIO, following mass secession from the bor-liberal groups for the appointMine, Mill and Smelter Workers and successful UAW
organizational | ment of another liberal as his sucdrives in non-union shops.
cessor.
for the Center, courses in stewards’
|is heading a drive among locals in
The council will review wages and working conditions for die casters,
President Truman named Attortraining, public speaking, parlia-| Region 4 to raise funds to finish lay plans for their improvement, and chart a course for further organi- ney General Tom C. Clark to rementary
procedure,
and
political
zation in this expanding
:
:
se ae
:
industry.
An intensive organizing campaign
place the late Frank Murphy, and
k
ea
aying
for the Ottawa center,
Loaction
were
offered.
In addition
PaY7NE
20
is under way at the Auto-Lite die casting plant in Lockland, Ohio.
there is a report now that he may
y
inois river,
river,
t the cen
enthere was ample
time and space | cated
on the Illinois
name J. Howard
McGrath
to reter
is 853 miles from Chicago in the}
for extensive boating, hiking, ball
place Rutledge.
McGrath, a Senagames.
heart of the Region 4 membership.
tor, was
named
Attorney
General
SPEAKERS
Formerly
a tuberculosis
sanitarium,
UAW
Speakers
at the institutes have | the
got the property
after
included
Prof. Clarence
Updegraff
the state government
discontinued
of the University of Iowa, permaits subsidy and the owners offered
nent arbitrator for the John Deere
to sell the elaborate layout for a
chain;
Brendan
Sexton,
Assistant
reasonable
Director of the UAW
Education
Department, and International Representatives
Miller
Robert
and
PAT
Voss,
Willard
RAISES
Regional
Included
Center
Frank
Allen.
in
are
the
Ottawa
rooms
and
space.
Pat Greathouse
large
Plans
are
housing
under
facilities.
Union
cabins
150 people, a modern
lounge
with
fireplace,
FUNDS
Director
price.
for
kitchen,
and
office
way
to en-
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Britons Write Appreciation
of Auto Worker Editorial -
Messages of appreciation from British government officials
and trade unionists have been pouring in to President Walter
P. Reuther as a result of last month’s editorial in the Auto
Worker, ‘‘We stand with British labor.’’
The editorial received wide circulation in Britain, and was reprinted by the Daily Herald, the Labor Party’s newspaper.
Here are excerpts from some of the letters received by President Reuther:
“*. . . puts the real position of this country admirably.’’—
Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
“*.,. Heartening to have this evidence of goodwill from your
organization in our efforts to solve the many problems left in
the wake of war.’’—Vincent Tewson, General Secretary, Trades
Union Congress.
“*, .. Great consolation to trade union members here in Britain
to learn of the sympathy and support from organizations like the
UAW, so bold and forthright in their support of British labor,”’
—William Stokes, Divisional Organizer, Amalgamated Engineering Union.
i
‘
*. 4 Most encouraging to receive such positive evidence of the
understanding and sympathy felt by workers in the United
States toward our problems here.’’—Sir Arthur Henderson, Air
Minister.
y
Little Gene Iaacin
o knows
fun’’ as he reache to open the
s
the Union Center.
Watchi
ng
Iaacino record
,
ing secretary of
cago) and Mrs. Iaacin
o.
Organi
°
into
High
progr
of
am
report
|
.
.
heavy
;
Drives
zing
Move
A
a8
activi
REGIO
ALUMINUM
drive was started at Jack- ae
ee
ng | Pa;
J
N
son
Motors
DE SATA
ackson
Russell Letner, directo of Region]
5. This plant in the soruth is a sub-|
sidiar
y of Redman
Michi
gan.
Motors
compa
with
bargai
to
ny
n
nitio
,
reque
UAW
the
as
Recog
n
was
gained
rk,
OHIO
The Farre
Found
drive
ll-Ch
r
y
in Ohio is movineek toward comple
g
tion,
N. J.
without yote at the Great Wester
n
Pyge Co., Newa
N. J.
Owosso
,
t ee
Norge
Applian
Di
of the|
Corp.,ce Eastvo. n
Pa.,
Warne
,
Electr r Dynam
Corp., Bayo
ic
Borg-
,
ville,
under Intern
Repre
| and
senta
ationa
twiive
l is wor
Marti
K
w
onne,
r
h
u
o
th
s
king
e,
n
ae
eee
Noose
Murphy.
his
that
was
added
the
Hercules
ton,
Ohio,
to
file
the
to
Motors
where
a
petition
election.
organizer
UAW
drive
plant
the
in
union
for
an
has
been
Carburetor
Colo,,
after
workers
NLRB
were
Before
highest
on the
the
Plant
at
of
shifted
his
was
by
after attracting
liberal views as
versity of Iowa
the
appeals
the
District
attention
by his
dean of the UniLaw
School.
On
court
he
voted
spiring
to
of
Columbia
violate
Yj
Biscuits & Crackers
VMMMMMM;CY/
LIQUORS
Anti-Trust
Act
Sherman
in their fight against
the cooperative
Group
ciation,
Justice
old.
He
Health
Rutledge
was
is survived
by
Annabel,
a
daughters,
son,
Neal,
Mary
Lou
HT
amples. Because
laws, (LPA)
of this sort of thing, Congress
is considering
strengthening
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NEW
G
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story
the
YORK—Ever
of
the
flea
hear
on
the
On
|
the
world
the
atomic
E.
expects
Friday,
hear
to
that
we
are
brains
the
day
Russia
had
Thomas
“This
news
really
going
in
the
Senate
Foster
afraid
of
UAW victory at the
Tubing Company,
charge
pro-union|
nearby
In
an|
Bundy
a|
Bec'y-Treas, Emil Mazey takes a healthy cut at bat during ball
game at dedication ceremonies of Union Center on Labor Day, Staff members of Reg
ion 4 helped Director Great-
house lay out ball diamond
and build backstop,
the
the
story,
had
ridden
on
five
miles
down
homa
Penn-
following
the
wagon
Gov.
said:
that
need
23,
bomb,
Dewey
means
NLRB}
Sept
in Colorado Springs,
Hazelton,
Jean
tongue?
at
Auto-Lite |
two
One World
One Brain
One Flea
whom
the
and
present
world
to
years
wife,
OUTSIDE REACH OF ANTI-TRUST LAWS—The Federal Trade
Commission has reported that 13 major industries are dominated by three companies
or less but are outside
the reach of present anti-trust laws. The eight industries represented
above are typical ex-
Carter
in
Asso-
55
his
and
man
organizers
con-
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Can-
to
con-
of
the
only
prior
to
vict the American
Medical
Association and the Medical Society of
the
fired
he
Roosevelt
is
of
the
where
President
Dulles
the
to
in 1943, Rutledge was
Court of Appeals for
of Columbia,
placed
in-
registra-
appointment
court
U. S.
District
to
majority
knocked
out a Texas law requiring
tion of union organizers.
John
practices
decision
subject
on.
number
hearing.
Attention
sylvania
a
were
was
his United
day
against
Co.
and
this
labor
filed
1948
junction
proceedings.
A
opinion he wrote in 1945
from
unfair
a
L. Lewis
Workers
dissents
COPPER
COLORADO
An
famous
against
John
Mine
ry.
another
his
protest
]
to
refuse
compa
If the
ion.
s
ny
an
will reques
the UAW
comply
t
,
report
Organ
electi
NLRB
izers
on.
an enthus
recept
for. the}
iastic
ion
UAW-CIO at this non-union foundMeanwhile,
Among
un-
the
to the bench.
There was no question on where
Rutledge
stood.
He
usually
was
aligned
with
Black,
Douglas
and
the
sted
up
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Shops|
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th
giona s irectord
tment
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of organ
d
t
the | Marti
rives
hroug
izing
n Gerber has announced
hout
.
nation
rolled
into
Vice-P
As a result
o
N
e
f
LRB
lectio |
reside
ns
nt| the UAW rep
Richar
Gosser
d
i
r
w
i
e
t
n
o
h
c
e |
rkers
tor.
resent
,
d
follow
plants s Metal
Alloy
&|
ing
:
ARKA
Specia
Co.
in Buffal
PottsNSAS
lties
o,
A new
moved
MONOPOLY AND MANUFACTURING
(PERCENT OF CONTROL BY 3 COMPANIES.)
FIVE NEW WINS
IN
Clark
Anna.
that ‘‘livin in a cabin is
g
door of one of 21 cabins at
his effort are parent
s Paul
Local 477, UAW-C
(ChiIO
is
ty
—Y
when
road,
he
Russians
after
the
the
ington
New
papers
York
please
flea
tongue
dusty
looked
Okla-
back
a
and
copy.
the
are
the
wagon
sald, “My
God!
What
a dust
I'm raising!"
Albany,
in
hell
and
of
Wash-
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
‘*
CLEVELAND HEARS |
FM Definitely Best
For Clear Reception
FOOTBALL GAMES —
Cleveland
sport
fans
are
giving
WCUO rave notices for their broadcasts of high school football games |1
long ignored by major stations in
city.
Every
popular
week-end
WCUO,
with
George
Kozak,
athletic
director of the Cleveland Board of
Education,
announcing
the
plays,
will air major games.
A total of
30 games have been scheduled, running through November.
Below is
the schedule of afternoon and evening
Saturday,
Saturday,
West
was
from 3 p. m. to 10 p. m. Monday
through Friday.
Among
the
new
programs
already set for the additional time
are:
LUNCHEON
LISTENING—
a noontime hour of pleasant mu-
sic
from
12
to
1;
A
WOMAN’S
WORLD —featuring
news
cial interest to consumers
eral
1
and
to
1:30
other
women
p.
m.;
-spegen-
in particular, from
half-hour
followed
by
2 to 3 p. m.
of
in
then
of
MUSIC
there’s
sweet
an-
music,
HALL
from
WDET’s COSMOPOLITAN PROGRAM,
beamed at Detroit's large
foreign-language population, remains at its present spot, 3 to 4
p. m.
These programs are broadcast in Polish, Italian and Yiddish.
From 4 to 5, a new WDET discovery—Ernie Durham, Negro disc
jockey, has been gaining wide listening approval with his quiet, offhand manner, which contrasts with
the hot-and-heavy
platter-chatter
boys.
From five o’clock on, the regular
DWET programs remain the same.
more
plants
were
added
ful
a
vote
UAW
of
76
to
42
to
drive
at
the Indiana
Elwood
was
Die Castings Co. of | #
Another|
concluded.
drive
the
Victor
ended
with
Bristol
at
bargaining
agent
Coach
the
Co.
UAW
following
a
October
22,
8:00
vs. Marshall
October
27,
3:00
Friday,
October
28,
8:00
West Tech vs. Lincoln
Saturday, October 29, 2:00
Benedictine vs. Cath. Latin
Saturday, October 29, 8:00
Holy
Friday,
Name vs. Ignatius
November 4, 3:00
Central vs. East
Friday, November 4, 8:00
Ignatius vs. West Tech
Saturday, November 5, 2:00
Collinwood vs. East Tech
Friday, November 11, 8:00
Cath. Latin vs. Glenville
Friday, November 11, 8:00
West vs. Holy Name
Saturday, November 12, 2:00
Collinwood
vs. East
Lincoln
Marshall
November
ys.
12,
8:00
eSpace
ak
FM reception is superior at all times to old fashioned AM,
which is what most radio owners at the present time have on
their sets.
FM is the best listening because it eliminates all static and
silences electrical interference, such as street cars, vacuum
cleaners, refrigerators and other household electrical gadgets.
Ro
eek
When you own an FM set, you will learn quickly that with
FM your reception is clear and distinct both during the day
and at night,
x
x
*
*
The reason for this is the difference between AM and FM
sound waves. Natural static cannot penetrate the FM sound
wave and neither can the static created by electrical equipment.
FM gives the radio listener much greater fidelity of tone.
You'll notice particularly the difference in musical programs.
FM is true to life and gives two to three times the range of
tone you get from standard broadcasting.
Don’t buy a horse and buggy radio. Buy FM!
5
RAPID GROWTH. OF
FM AUDIENCE
as
President
L.
S.
Buckmaster
of
to-6 vote for the union.
the United Rubber
Workers-ClO,
The union shop was approved by | speaks over a WCUO
mike as the
617 out of 861 eligible voters in the URW Convention proceedings were
American
Foundry
Local
550
at broadcast over the facilities of the
Indianapolis,
demonstrating
over- UAW-CIO
station
from
Toronto,
whelmingly support of their union. Canada.
war have FM sets reached the market.
Actually it was this
year that, for the first time, low-priced good quality sets have
been readily available to radio purchasers.
The growth of this new radio baby has been phenomenal
—as the above chart shows.
The station’s chief technician,
William Hull, was awakened in
He awakened Wallace, who
stood by the blazing hull of the
Transcriptions were rushéd by air
to Cleveland where stunned audiences got a first-hand.account of
the holocaust.
The WCUO
broadcast was used by other radio and
television stations in Cleveland.
his hotel room early in the
morning by flames leaping into
the sky from the waterfront.
1949
FM is the newest kind of radio. Only since the end of the
Noronic for many hours, reporting rescue~scenes and interviewing survivors from
Cleveland and Detroit.
|ers’ convention.
in|
26-
8:00
A news beat on the Noronic|
disaster was scored by WCUO, |
|
|the UAW’s Cleveland radio
station. It happened while Ralph
Wallace, WCUO
station manager, was in Toronto covering|
the CIO United Rubber Work-
a success-
organizational
15,
of
*
WCUO FIRST TO
1946
1947
. 1948
REPORT DISASTER Radio's Baby is Growing Up
the UAW-CIO
and another voted
for the union shop in NLRB elections conducted last month, Raymond
Berndt, Director of Region
3, has announced.
By
remainder
Collinwood vs. Glenville
Thursday, October 27, 8:00
Rhodes vs. West
Saturday,
Elections Won
In Region 3
Two
October
Tech
Thursday,
Three more hours were add ed to WDET’s broadeast schedule beginning October 3. The station is on the air daily from
12 noon to 10 p.m. Hours are the same—8 a.m. to midnight—
>
on Saturdays and Sundays.
heretofore
the
Marshall vs. Ignatius
Friday, October 21, 8:00
Benedictine vs. Ignatius
Saturday, October 22, 2:00
South vs. West
WDET Expands Hours of Operation
schedule
for
October and November.
Saturday, October 15, 2:00
Cath. Latin vs. Tech
Play-by-play description of the Benedictine vs. East
High football game, last month, was announced by George
Kozak, Assistant Director of Athletics, Cleveland Board of
Education. Kozak (at right mike) was a Notre Dame football star and all-American. George Foltz, of WCUO, is at left.
Daily
games
There’s no question any longer that FM—Frequency Modulation—is the best radio listening,
That’s one reason the UAW-CIO is operating two FM radio
stations, WDET in Detroit and WCUO in Cleveland.
MILLIONS OF SETS IN USE
that
‘Oetober, 1949
Bob Hope Inaugurates New Detroit Youth Broadcasts
To Broadcast
ClOConvention
The story of the National CIO |}
Convention will be told on 20 or
more major stations in large industrial areas October 31-November 4,
Allan L. Swim, Publicity Director,
announced recently.
National CIO
ments with the
the
show
every
has made arrangeUAW to broadcast
evening
at
7:00
who
nar-
p. m. (EST)
from the studios of
WCUO
in Cleveland.
Guy
Nunn,
UAW-CIO
commentator
rated the UAW
Milwaukee, will
CIO shows.
convention
from
also announce the
UAW-CIO
members
in
Detroit
and Cleveland, of course, can listen to the programs on the UAW
stations. Outside of
ies, UAW
members
contact
Mr. Hope being interview ed in his private trailer backstage at Michigan State Fairgrounds by Miss ‘‘Sonny’’ Dahlgren and her ‘‘Teen Tempo’’ cohorts, Ralph Chicorel and
Len Ostrow: The interview was recorded for use on the first
broadcast of the new WDET ‘‘TEEN TEMPO”’ program,
Saturday morning, September 17, at 11:00 a. m. The show,
featuring all teen-age participants, and written by 17-yearold Helen Tennenbaum, will be aired on Saturday at that hour.
Left to right: Ralph Chicorel, Mr. Hope, ‘‘Sonny’’ Dahlgren, and Len Ostrow. ~
their
city
these two citare asked
to
or
county
councils for
broadcasts.
information
2.5. aE
©1949 Cher
about
CIO
the
Sram
“New | know why that Headache
Pit] company continues to sponser
that anti-labor jerk!”
UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKER
October, 1949
CIO at the County Fair
Digest of an editorial from
The Jefferson
(Iowa)
Bee:
‘*We were wandering about the fairgrounds this morning
watching the old familiar sights—the old-fashioned bubbling
drinking fountain, the hokum of the carnival, the individuality
of the commercial exhibits and so on—all the things we have
gawked at as long as we can remember.
“Then something foreign caught our eye. Before we were
conscious of what it was, we knew it somehow
‘didn’t belong’
to the Greene County Fair of the past. We looked again. Yes,
that’s what we thought we had seen. A display tent of a CIO
union.
:
“We wandered over and in. Wé hope you will, too.
“The fellows in charge told us all about it. They are new at
the game,
they admit,
the farm folks—and
“They
are
but they believe they have
they are out to tell it.
pulling
for
the
Brannan
farm
a story to tell
program
among
other things. They also want to sell the farm folks on the idea
that union labor is not getting too much of the consumer dollar.
‘Now we don’t agree with all they have to gay. We DO
agree with some of it. But that isn’t important.
portant thing is that farmers and union labor are rubbing elbows, exchanging views, getting acquainted. It is healthy. We
hope to see more of it in the future.’’
VY you COULDNT DISTRIBUTE
GOOD OLD-FASHIONED
MEDICAL CARE IN THATS
PLEASANT, LOW-COST HOUSING through cooperative ownership is available from
the Schoolcraft Gardens Cooperative in Detroit. Shown here is one of the 60 apartments
to begin construction soon. Located next to Rouge Park and near excellent school facilities and shopping district, the Schoolcraft homes are priced at reasonable rates. Monthly
payments will range from $58 to $75, with down payments of $1,000 to $1,600. A number
of local credit unions are offering to cover down payments with automobiles and other
property as collateral. Applications should be sent to Schoolcraft Gardens Cooperatives,
Inc., 341 Michigan
Theater Building, Detroit 26, phone
Point Well Taken
In Shanghai, a union of
rope makers told Communist
city officials they were demanding a clause in their new
contract guaranteeing that no
rope which they manufactured would be used for hang-
CAdillac
6442.
s
Sweatshoppers Still Snipe
at Minimum Wage Bill
WASHINGTON
ate
— As
House-Sen-
conferees
work toward agreement on a final bill increasing the
minimum. wage from 40 to 75 cents
an
hour;
the
sweatshop
lobbies
backing the ‘ripper bill passed by
the House are centering their defense of that bill around
1. definitions of “rates of pay”
and “time worked” that would
have the effect of wiping out the
present statutory normal 40-hour
work
week
time
begins.
the
of
Senate
the
2.
the
before
(The
gether
passed
the
by
language
“indispensable
of
goods
commerce”
with
over-
law.)
words
production
terstate
bill
retains
present
the
penalty
specific
for
to
in-
which,
to-
exclusion
of
workers
in retail
and
service
trades, would deprive up to three
million workers of the law’s protection.
The
Southern
split
over
ging
in
the
the
lobby
exemption
of
House
bill.
is
log-
Because
Southern Pine Assorather the little “cof-
which was not as bad as the House
bill.
Indications are that both Demo-
crats
and
Republicans
want
to
put
reason,
the
the bill on the books before adjournment in order to have it to
talk about back home between now
and
January.
tee
meetings
For
this
sweatshop lobby is likely to be defeated in any attempt to stall final
House-Senate agreement
until adjournment.
Senator Taft, who
is
sitting in the conference committrips
the
to Ohio,
about
ate.
bill
seems
through
the
He
between
is
form
it
working
campaign
anxious
quickly,
passed
on
to get
and
the
in
Sen-
Republican
House conferees to abandon ripper
provisions
of the House
bill and
accept the Senate version.
CIO is continuing to urge House
members to work and vote for ac-
| ceptance of the Senate
bill as a
very
imperfect
best
that
can
be
got
out
of
this
Congress
li
le
the powerful
ciation would
lumber
fee pot” sawmills stayed under the
Act, along with the big lumbering
operators, this ripper provision is
likely to go out of the final bill.
Exemption for workers engaged
in manufacturing
in retail establishments
is being
narrowed
and
tightened in committee, to exempt
even fewer than the Senate bill,
il
i
The really im-
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STORYTIME—‘‘And then the fairy godmother waved her magic wand and Cinderella’s rags were changed to fine clothes’’—yes, it’s storytime at WDET with Mary
Jane Mossett, reading original stories and oldtime favorites adapted to modern times,
Every week
day twenty or more youngsters from the neighborhood near the UAW-CIO station
cluster
around the WDET mike to listen in rapt attention to her exciting tales, ‘'I try,’’
says Mary
Jane, who is a teacher at Marygrove College, ‘‘to take the blood and thunder
out of the
typical radio thriller, yet make the tales interesting and absorbing,’’ She must be
succeeding because the audience of boys and girls from five to twelve years grows every day,
Your
children can hear Mary Jane weekdays at 6:00 p. m, on the VAW-CIO
in Detroit,
station WDET-FM
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Senator Paul Douglas visits Region 4 Director Pat Greathouse in the hospital following an accident in which Great.
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WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
October, ‘1949
National C10
Golf Winners
BROOKLYN STRIKE
ENDS IN VICTORY
An
air-tight
seniority
clause
Dapper Pete Lakos, who shoots
his pars for Cleveland UAW Local
91, is the first national CIO golf
champion.
Brother
Lakos
solved
the difficult .Cascades Golf Course
and a 9-cent wage increase
were won by UAW-CIO Loeal
116 at the end of their bitter
18-week strike with the Amerjean Machine and Foundry Co.
in
the
company
enjoys
manufacture
chines
and
those
prevailing
area.
Prior
pany
wilfully
graded
paid
to
conducted
the
and 11, for a 74-71 and a
total of 145.
Harassed by
mathan
strike
the
and
com-
down-
regard
to
the
strike
the
a
vicious
campaign
coercion in
the strike,
firm
and
of Local 116 won
what
they
company
were
of
atbut
the
substan-
Local 116 members look on as Regional Director Charles Kerrigan signs the agreement
ending the 18-week strike against the American Machine and Foundry Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.
At left, New York Mayor O'Dwyer watches a company official sign.
demanding.
Drive Sped in Big
Auto-Lite Plant
REUTHER WILL
RECEIVE AWARD
Representatives from all Auto-Lite locals in the UAW-CIO
met in special session in Toledo recently to spur the organizing
drive under way at Lockland, Ohio.
Called
by
Vice-President
Richard Gosser, director of the AutoLite
Department,
the
meeting
voted
|“I shoulda known that you can't
tears a union man’s rights!”
New
Septem-
Brooklyn
without
fear, bribery, and
tempting to break
picket
-lines
held
tially
on
rights.
During
“members
lower
fired
workers
seniority
wages
the
Michigan,
a monopoly
of vending
in
Jackson,
ber 10
36-hole
Brooklyn.
This
in
in
CARE
Areas
Workers with relatives in Korea
or the Philippines can now~send
CARE packages to these countries.
CARE supplies a variety of parcels
with food and clothing for shipment and delivery overseas which
can be ordered through any local
CARE
office, or 50 Broad Street,
New York City.
for
Lite
to
raise
organizational
Council
ganizers
headed
by
in
substantial
purposes.
officials
the
and
Lockland
funds
Auto-
staff
or-
drive,
on-the-spot director Wil-
liam Groeber,
are
now
working
out details of the special drive to
get participation of all Auto-Lite
locals in the Lockland campaign:
Enthusiastic
meetings
have
already been conducted for Lockland
workers on departmental and group
basis.
predict
UAW
the
organizers
huge
confidently
Lockland
plant,
largest in the Auto-Lite chain, will
ultimately swing into the UAW.
HONEST ABE.
AND LABOR
coln’s
first
to
Congress
in
1861: “Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital.. Capital is only
the fruit of labor and could never
have existed if labor had not first
existed.”
Some of Lincoln’s ideas about
labor
were
even
stronger:
“All
that serves labor serves the nation.
All
that
harms
labor
is
treason.
No line can be drawn
between these two.
If any man
tells
yet
any
you
hates
‘man
country,
he
loves
his
labor, he is
tells you he
yet
fears
fool. There is
out labor, and
is to rob the
country,
a liar. If
trusts his
labor,
he
Then Wright added:
“This
dictum
Which
Congressmen
Senators should regard as a
of their
work
is a
no country withto fleece the one
other.”
and
conduct.”
in
New
York,
Reuther
award.
ther
Lincoln’s
attitude
toWright repeated Lin-
message
President Walter P. Reuther will
be awarded the annual Clendenin
Award for Distinguished Service to
Labor’s
Rights
by
the
Workers’
Defense League, the Hon. Harold
L. Ickes has announced.
Ickes will
preside over a testimonial dinner
will
December
16,
be presented
when
with
the
“As a leader of labor, of liberalism and of social and economic justice,” Ickes declared, “Walter Reu-
Abe Lineoln would
oppose
the Taft-Hartley Act if he were
alive today. That’s what Assistant Secretary
of Labor
Ralph Wright told the Illinois
State Federation of Labor convention in Springfield, Lincoln’s last home.
Detailing
ward labor,
Pete Lakos
is a
and
test
has
richly
fought
injustice
peared.”
The
deserves
intolerance,
wherever
Clendenin
presented
this honor.
He
bigotry
and
have
ap-
they
Award
has
been
in past years to a distin-
guished group of American liberals, including: Senator Frank Gra-
ham,
former Senator
Robert
La
Follette, President H.-L. Mitchell
of the National Farm Labor Union,
and President A. Philip Randolph
of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters.
Files Charges
Against Case
Two
unfair
labor practice charges
against the J. I. Case Co. have been
filed by Pat Greathouse, UAW
director of Region 4.
The first charge was made to the
NLRB
in
Minneapolis
after
the
company’s refusal to recognize the
UAW-CIO in the Bettendorf works
after the union was properly certified by the NLRB.
The second
charge,
made
in Chicago against
the Rock Island works of Case, accused
the
coercing
ployes.
company
and
of
interfering,
intimidating
its
em-
a balky
putter,
Pete nonetheless
stroked the ball superbly from tee
to green, to elbow John Naglich
and James Hanes into the runnerup
spot
by
two
strokes.
Lakos
packed both the big championship
trophy and a wrist watch, donated
by Jackson’s Fox Jewelers, back to
Cleveland with him.
PONTIAC WINS
Team championship trophy stayed
in Michigan, thanks to the efforts
of four swingers
out of Pontiac
Local 653.
Brothers Rube Wideman, James Hanes, Wayne Beals,
and Bill Logie pooled their strokes
for
a
gross
of
637,
a
total
which
left
runner-up
Local
600
seven
strokes
back.
Local
600’s lineup
of Roy’ Carlson, Harry Yert, John
Naglich, and Vic Ulewicz won the
Michigan team crown in 1948.
‘Mrs.
J. B. Manor,
playing for
Lotal 2, annexed
the woman’s
championship over Mrs. R. G. Martel. Mrs. Manor had 93-90 for 183.
Mrs. Martel didn’t go home emptyhanded,
however.
With
an
assist
from partner Vic Halferty, she won
her share of the national mixed
team championship.
NEWCOMER
Agnes Eldredge, newcomer to the
golf game, marked up an impressive net score of 144 to earn the
prizes in that department for the
women’s
championship.
Miss
Eldredge represents Local 190. Agnes
gathered in more awards by teaming with Joe Gattler for low net
in the mixed championship.
Cigar-chewing Gene Dudek gave
his brothers from Local 735 something to applaud when he bounced
back after some first round bushbeating in which he used 86 strokes
to get over 18 holes. Undismayed,
Brother Gene just clamped
down
on his stogey and fired. a magnificent second round 70, the tournament’s best score. Dudek won low
net
in
the
formance.
first
flight
for
his
per-
—
‘A GREAT TRADE UNION ENTERPRISE,’’ says
President Walter P. Reuther of the City of Hope—a laborsponsored sanitarium. Entrance to one of the wings of the
300-bed hospital is pictured here in its restful California
setting. With contributions from many labor groups, the
City of Hope offers medical care to patients from all parts
of the United States suffering from
ease and chest ailments.
TB,
cancer, heart
dis-
Standing before their newly-opened Co-operative coal yard is a group of Anderson, Indiana, unionists, This is only one part of a co-operative drive in Anderson in which UAWCIO Locals 662, 663, 777 and 940 are participating.
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