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NOVEMBER, 1949
VOL. 13, NO. 11
CIO Cleans House!
Page
Three
_ Ford Workers Vote Approval of New Contract
Page Two
|
UAW
to Demand
Union Shop in General Motors
F arm Implement Workers Rally
To ClO Following FE Expulsion
Page Two
Page Five
Page
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
10
November,
1949
Truman, F.D.R., Jr. ClO Convention Programs Are
Broad
cast
Over
75
Stati
ons
On Air Forum
CLEVELAND,
OHIO—More than 75 stations in 21 States
jthroughout the country aired a daily half-hour radio program
of the Eleventh Constitutional ClO Convention meeting in CleveTand, Ohio, the first week of November. Originating in the studios of the UAW station WCUO in Cleveland, the programs
attracted nation-wide attention and have been enthusiastically
| acclaimed by national CIO leaders.
President Harry S. Truman, Congressman Franklin D. Roosevelt, Oscar Ewing, Federal Security Administrator, General
Dwight Eisenhower, President of Columbia University, as well
as other equally distinguished Americans, were heard on the
UAW-CIO radio stations in Detroit and,Cleveland on the HeraldThe forum, one of the nation’s
Tribune Forum last month.
outstanding annual conferences, exploded the present and pro- |
jected policies of major American political parties under the
general heading ‘‘What Kind of Government Ahead?”’
Congressman.
told
Roosevelt:
the O———————
| and the nation’s leading political|
ecrats will Win the 1950” and Re- figures,
representatives
of major
publican National Committee Chair- non-partisan
groups
also
particiman Guy Gabrielson presented the pated in the forums, including the
case for the Republican Party.
General
Federation
of
Women’s
series
-day
three
the
of
last
The
Clubs, the American Association of
of the forum was devoted to “The
University
Women,
the
National
Probof World
Interdependence
League . of
Women
Voters,
the
John
by
statements
with
jems”
Women's Trade Union League and
Sherman Cooper, a member of the
Americans for Democratic Action.
U. S. delegation to the United NaBy popular request the HeraldPrime
Nehru,
Jawaharlal
tions,
Minister of India, and General Lu- Tribune program will be rebroadcast at 2:30 p. m. each Saturday
cius Clay, former Military Goverafternoon throughout November on
nor of the U. S. Zone in Germany.
In addition to the foreign guests WDET.
“How
assembly
and
the Dem-
Why
WCUO,
our
Cleveland
station,
carried the entire convention pro-| gamated
Clothing Workers,
and
ceedings, commencing
at 10 a.m.| others—made great radio, and the
every
morning.
Much
credit
is transcriptions of these shows pro-
| given
and
the
to
Chief
Manager
success
Engineer
debate,
included
was
in his usual
With
Wallace
Bill-
Hull
of the programs.
Commentary
which
Ralph
the
programs,
speeches
handled
skilled
and
by
Guy
way.
Nunn
arranged
flu-
CIO of its Communist cancer
eloquent, spirited and moving.
story
of
great
speeches
of
was
The
CIO
speakers,
of history’s
floor
most
ent
some
for
for
debate
on
vide labor with a living record of
CIO's most historic convention.
Stimulated by the air coverage
given by UAW
and the National
CIO Publicity Department,
which
ridding
and
sponsored
the major networks
time
to
convention
than ever before.
the
shows,
devoted more
deliberations
With multiple requests from CIO
organizers
and
directors
for recordings
of
the
air
shows,
the
leaders
— President
Murray,
Emil
UAW-CIO
Radio
Department
is
Rieve and George Baldanzi of the making available platters of each
Textile
Workers,
Joe
Curran _of day’s proceedings.
These are cut
NMU, Jack Potofsky of the Amal-| on 12- and
16-inch discs at 33%
revolutions per minute and sell for
$10 per half-hour show. Highlights
of each
day’s
recordings
Mon—day
Speeches
follow:
of
President
Philip Murray and
Secretary of State.
Dean
Tuesday—Oscar
Ewing,
of
Social
Security,
and
Acheson,
Director
debate
on
constitutional change niaking members of Communist
Party or any
Fascist organization
ineligible for
office.
A
Wednesda
— Maurice
y
Secretary
UE
of
expulsion.
Labor,
and
Thursday—Murray
J.
Tobin,
debate
Lincoln,
Ohio
Farm
Bureau,
and
Roy
Wilkins,
NAACP; resolutions on civil rights
and foreign policy; debate between
Harry Bridges and John Curran,
Friday—Election
of
officers.
These recordings can be used for
local radio programs,
educational
eonferences and local union meetings.
Any local wishing to order
them can do so by filling in the
order form on this page.
At right is the UAW radio staff that handled the
CIO Convention broadcasts from Cleveland over
the facilities of UAW-CIO_
Radio Station WCUO.
From left are: George
Foltz, WCUO staff member; Mildred Jeffrey,
International RaUAW
dio representative; the
W CUO engineer; UAW
news commentator Guy
Nunn, producer of the
daily broadcasts; WCUO
Station Manager Ralph
Wallace.
This was the first time
that a major labor convention was aired nationwide. More than 75 stations carried the daily 30minute convention highlights.
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Life" Slated
"It's Your
Airing
for WDET, WCUO
Acclaimed the
radio, ‘‘It’s Your
slated for airing
Jand and WDET
‘“‘most outstanding’ development in American
Life,’’ a real life drama of health problems, is
on both of the UAW stations, WCUO in Clevein Detroit, for early in November.
Originally produced in Chicago,®
‘It’s Your Life” is the creation of| Sion from
Ben
Park,
Division
Health
Director
of
Director
the
of
Chicago
Association.
of WDET,
)
Ben
the
Radio} cast on the UAW
Industrial
Hoberman,|
secured
the association
To
produce
cording
permis-!the
the
machines
operating
stations.
series,
were
room,
Singer Jo Stafford Guests
for broad-
the
tape
re-
taken
to
hospital
WDET
Snap, Crackle, Pop!
Cereal Does It—But
FM Radio Doesn't!
bed and the doctor’s office to get
authentic documentary
stories
of
mentally and physically ill people.
Look for announcement in
local
union
paper
of
the
schedule
for “It’s Your
Life.”
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time
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view: Recent guest on WDET’s new all-teen show, the popular vocalist was interviewed in
her Book-Cadillac suite by Chicorel and Ostrow, regular participants in ‘‘Teen Tempo.’’ The
new teen program, broadcast each Saturday morning at 11:00, is a standout among youth
shows and features frequent guest visits by celebrities passing through the Motor City.
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Milwaukee, Detroit 2, Mich.
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Radio
Department,
411
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UNITED
Page 12
Lucky Californians Can
The attractive ex-movie actress who once took a basket of
groceries to the floor of Congress to plea for price control, is
going to run for the Senate in California next year. Mrs. Helen
Gahagan Douglas, Congresswoman for three terms from the 14th
district of California, announced last month that she will oppose
Sheridan Downey in the 1950 Democratic race for the Senate
Mrs. Douglas is a Fair Deal Demvoting
an impressive
with
ecrat
record on the side ef human welDuring the fight over price
fare.
she put up an eloquent
control,
defense for the American housewife by illustrating before the assembled House how grocery prices
She has been a paswere rising.
sionate spokesman for the rights
of farm workers.
Now
a member
of the Foreign
Relations Committee, Mrs. Douglas
is a champion of Truman's Point
Four program to develop backward
parts of the world.
She recently
told listeners of WDET and WCUO
that America should export “trade
union know-how” along with technical know-how.
She has been an
ardent internationalist, always with
the interests of people foremost.
Legion Head Gets Cool
Reception From AFL
An unexpected debate on the Welfare
AFL Convention in St. Paul last month.
State pepped
It all started when
George
N.©
Craig, the new commander of The
the bogey-man
American Legion, delivered a harangue on the evils of “statism.”
He
gave
American
a
away
Americans
their
if
cake
grim
liberty
and
Quipped
urer
ican
recital
would
try
have
AFL
of how
fritter
“to
it, too.”
eat
Secretary-Treas-
George Meany: “The AmerLegion
elects a new
com-
Smander each year, but this one
gave
the same
old reactionary
speech,
propounding
the
same
philosophy of Wall Street and the
National Association of Manufacturers.”
Later
in
the
chief of the
ey,
delivered
the Welfare
town on the
day,
Federal
a
Oscar
Ewing,
Security
Agen-
spirited
State.
Tories
He
who
defense
of
went
to
trot out
gladly
of statism,
approved
to business
under
federal
Herbert
up the
but
have
subsidies
Hoover.
“We believe government must
be the servant of all the people,”
Ewing said, “not just a few.”
“We
that
are
trying
every
to
American
make
shall
sure
have
minimum necessities of life—basic civil rights, the right to a job,
right to organize, right to re-
ceive
a
fair
wage,
the
right
te
education, health and reasonable
protection against
misfortunes
too often associated with old age
and unemployment.”
Said
AFL
President
William
Green when Ewing
finished, “He
spoke our language; he reflected
our
WORKER
November,
(Charge Stalling in
Vote for Helen Douglas
nomination.
AUTOMOBILE
|
thinking.”
FOR A REAL,THANKSGIVING
Elections Won
In Region 2
Flint Election Fraud
WASHINGTON—George D. Stevens (Dem.) of Flint, Michigan, who was backed by CIO in last year’s election campaigns
against Rep. William W. Blackney (Rep.) in the Sixth Michigan
District, is going to have a chance to appear before the House
Subeommittee on Elections next January in support of his claim
that he is entitled to Blackney’s seat in the House.
This will
election.
be
18
months
after
the@—————___LL_—_-
Stalling on the election contest
was charged against Election Sub-
committee Chairman Burr P. Harrison
(D., Va.) by Rep. Anthony
Cavalcante
(D., Pa.) in a speech
in the House Oct. 19, the day Congress adjourned.
PREPARE FOR
AUTO-LITE TALKS
The UAW Auto-Lite Council met
in Cincinnati early last month to
set the stage for negotiations with
the
Auto-Lite
Corporation,
ViceSTEVENS LIBERAL
President Richard
T. Gosser, DiCavalcante charged, in a state- Fector
of the Auto-Lite
Department to the press, that the stalling ment, announced.
was due to Stevens’ liberal opinions
Representing nearly 20,000 Autoand “especially because he was giv- Lite workers in 12 local unions, the
en such open support by the ConCouncil
discussed
the
UAW-CIO
gress of Industrial Organizations.} pension
and _ social
security
proOn
the
other hand,
the
record gram.
Efforts to wipe out inequishows that Blackney has voted con- ties in some Auto-Lite plants dursistently with the conservative side ing the 1950 negotiations were also
of the House and especially with
covered by the Council.
the faction made up of the SouthDelegates from the largest Autoern reactionary Democrats and the
Lite plant at Lockland, Ohio, were
Northern Republicans.”
present at the Council for the first
-In a legal analysis of the case, time. Organizing, under the direcCavalcante showed that the records
tion of International
Representahad been received by the House
tive Bill Groeber, is gathering momentum at the Lockland plant.
Clerk
May
25 and had been
delivered to the Speaker of the House
Sept. 23.
The Elections Subcommittee has taken no action other
than
to
notify
Stevens
ney that it will hear
next
‘and
Black-
oral argument
January.
Cavalcante
charged
bad
faith
and destructive tactics to Blackney, Hull, and their attorneys. He
pointed out that testimony showed the election
returns
in Flint
were
“grossly
and
manifestly
ir-
regular.”” In one precinct, 728 voted, but 919 ballots were counted;
in another 830 voted, 960 ballots
were counted; in a third, 703 voted,
but only 185 votes were counted;
in another
575 voted,
136 were
counted.
There were such irregularities in seven precincts.
CHARGES BAD FAITH
Cavalcante
declared
“there
is
reasonable ground to assume that
similar
gross
erroérs and_irregularities exist in the remaining precincts,”
and finally,
that
“it
is
reasonable to assume that an examination of the ballots cast ...
will show that the contestant (Stevens). has received a plurality of
the votes cast.”
There’s just one trouble. So far,
Stevens has not been able to get a
recount of all the ballots.
100% PAC
“A buck for PAC.” The brothers
and sisters of Local 317 in Milwaukee took that literally- There are
317 members in the local and they
took up $317 for PAC.
1949
Patrick J. O'Malley,
Region
2, UAW-CIO,
Director of
announces
that a National Labor Relations
Board election has been held and
won at the Ohio Gear Company.
This company-has been in existence
for 34 years and though numerous
attempts have been made to organize this plant by the MESA and
other organizations, all had hitherto been unsuccessful.
The result of the election was
as follows:
52 for UAW,
49
against and one vote void.
An
NLRB
election
was
also
won at the National Foremetal
Company—result:
86
for
the
UAW, 88 against.
The result of the election won
at the Schaeffer Body, Inc., was
37 for the UAW with only two
against,
A
union
security election
held
at the Ford plant at Canton, Ohio,
was carried by an overwhelming
majority.
The
members
of
Local
542 voted 795 for union security,
125 against,
four void votes and
two challenged votes. This is better than.a 6 to 1 vote in favor of
the union shop.
Director
of these
by the
O’Malley
plants
have
present
stated
been
that
all
organized
staff of Region
2.
‘Congressmen Seek Another
Round of Pay Increases
WASHINGTON—Now
that salaries of Cabinet officers have been
boosted to $22,500 a year and other
top Administration executives have
received pay increases up to $8,000
a
year,
members
of
Congress
are
thinking about boosting their salaries to $20,000 or $25,000 a year.
They now receive $12,500 a year
plus a tax-free expense account of
$2,500, and can spend up to $500
for official telegrams and telephone
calls.
Congressional salaries were
"boosted
the
1946
from
$10,000
to $12,500
Reorganization
Act.
in
Congressmen have their own pension system, which costs them $750
of the $2,500 pay increase they got
in 1946.
Pensions payable at age
62 run up to $8,000 a year, depending on length of service. Eligibility
begins after six years of service,
and payments are in proportion to
length of service. These new wage
demands by Congress
give added
point to this statement in the CIO
convention resolution’
on pensions:
“We propose to the American
people that they join in a great
crusade to end the double standard whereby—
“WORKERS, who have invested their lives in building our industrial supremacy, receive average
than
Brotherhood in een
pensions
$300
3
of
a year,
slightly
while
more
“MANAGEMENT
executives
receive pensions from $25,000 to
$77,000
a
year
(usually
under
non-contributory plans that are
said to be morally debilitating
when proposed for wage earners)
and
“MEMBERS
of Congress
receive
pensions
of more
$8,000
a year.
“This
is
morally:
wrong,
may
than
eco-
nomically and socially destructive. It is part of the boom-andbust philosophy of the twenties
that has been repudiated in five
successive Presidential elections.”
Housing Available
Low-cost
housing
for $38.00
a
month
is offered by the Kramer
Homes
Cooperative in Centerline,
Mich., on Ten Mile Road, off Van
Dyke Avenue.
Once a government
housing project, the location is un-
der option
to the cooperative, which
requiresa down payment
per family.
of $370.00
The two-bedroom unit includes a
kitchen, pantry, living room, linen
closet,
and
automatic
hot-water
heater. Rental includes the cost of
water, gas and electricity.
Those interested should call William-Alquist, Centerline 2561W, for
more information, or write Alquist
at 8404 Wermuth, Centerline, Mich.
gbiggprrrnmememmirrnrnecercnn prem
National Labor Service
POSTMASTER,
Send notices of change
of address on Form 3578 (Canada, Form
67B)
and
copies
returned
under
labels
No, 3579 (Canada, labels No, 29B) to 2457
E. Washington St., Indianapolis 7, Ind.
Harold Luttman (center), President, Local 164, Auburn, Indiana, attends local union farewell party before leaving for Rochester, Minn., where he will undergo an operation at Mayo
Bros., to remove his leg at the hip. When Reg. Dir. Ray Berndt learned of Luttman’s plight
and the fact that he was the sole support of his mother, in addition to his own family including five small children, Berndt brought the matter to the attention of the Reg. 3 District
Auto Council. Through the cooperation of regional staff members and the council a sizable
amount of money was raised and presented to Brother Luttman. Pictured with Luttman
are officers of Local 164 and a member of Director Berndt’s staff, (left to right) Clifford
Searfoss, Vice-Pres.; Harold Shellenberger, Fin. Secy.; Luttman; V. L. Burgoyne, Int’] Rep,
and Charles Shoudel, Chief Steward. (Smith Photo.)
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