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United Automobile Worker
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1949-12-01
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Vol. 13 No. 12
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AGRICULTURAL
DECEMBER,
VOL, 13, NO. 12
WORKERS
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1949
Petition Filed For Union Shop
Election in General Motors
Page Three
Full Voting Record, Ist Session, 81st Congress
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TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE UAW-CIO:
: Our best wishes for a happy Christmas—
and for a-Fair Deal in 1950
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December,
1949
UNITED
Margaret
Truman
“Teen
ee
AUTOMOBILE
Tempo”
WORKER
Guest
Page 11
Kaiser-Frazer Show
on Liberal Network
Final plans have been nearly
show sponsored by Kaiser-Frazer
network,
as
announcement
the
Kaiser-F razer,
Auto
Worker
went to press, according to the
Mazey, l JAW-CIO Secretary-Treasurer.
of Emil
it has been
learned,
o¢—--—_——-
independently owned.
The Kaiser-Frazer
will produce a show of special significance to liberal and labor audiences
in the
five-city
York
City)
and
UAW and
eral-labor
and
WFLN
be
manuon the
that the new show
will originate
on the East coast
and
will start
within
and
the
listen
next
few
weeks.
for announcement
its sister sta-|Kaiser-Frazer
in
will
other stations in the libnetwork. It is anticipated
tion KFMD in Los Angeles. WCFM, | your local
the Washington, D. C., co-op sta-|Cleveland
tion
show
the
first nationally-known
facturer to purchase
time
hook-up.
In addition to the two UAW stations,
WCUO
in
Cleveland
and|
WDET
in Detroit, the Kaiser-Frazer broadcasts will be-carried on
WFDR
(owned
by
the
International Ladies’ Garment Workers in
New
completed for a daily radio
on the new liberal-labor FM
opening
of the
program
union paper
and
Detroit
Philadelphia,
| tions.
Watch
in
and on the
UAW
sta-
MU
PRESIDENT’S
CITY
VISIT—Miss
baum
Truman,
and cast member
standing
TEEN
and
DAUGHTER
American.
TEMPO
radio,
Len
Aired
program
including
Jo
CHATS
chatting
WITH
amiably
TEENAGE
with
RADIO
TEEN
TEMPO
STARS
writer
MOTOR
IN
Helen
Tennen-
Ostrow, holds youth group’s certificate honoring her as an out-
by the
boasts
Stafford,
UAW-CIO’s
recent
June
guest
52,000-watt
appearances
Christie,
Bob
Hope,
Detroit
by
outlet,
luminaries
WDET-FM,
Ralph Edwards,
of stage,
Frankie
the
screen
Laine
and ‘‘Spike’’ Jones. Heard each Saturday morning at 11, and featuring music selected by
the teenagers themselves and news of high school and college activities in addition to visits by such prominent personalities, TEEN TEMPO ranks as an outstanding youth feature
in Detroit
radio.
Interests Sabotage FM
Cleveland and Detroit listeners frequently query UAW Station Directors, ‘‘Why don’t the newspapers print FM schedules?’’ Resistance to FM broadcasting is nation-wide, and the
press has fought to keep its programs a secret from the radio
public. This is understandable, since much of the press is involved in ownership of AM radio stations and doesn’t want
to see this new medium of superior broadcasting become too
%
popular.
Evidence of this continued sabotage
is given
in the September,
1949, issue of Consumers’ Report as
follows:
“THE ANTI-FM
CAMPAIGN.
CU has heretofore called attention
to the fact that radio networks fa-
vored
AM
broadcasting
and
played
down FM, despite the admitted fact
that FM can provide better reception to listeners. Seldom, however,
has this anti-FM campaign been so
clearly visible as in a recent Chicago incident.
“The American Broadcasting
Company (ABC) owns and operates|
Stations WENR-AM
and WENRFM in Chicago. It also routes some
of its network programs over Station WLS-AM.
However, both AM
stations occasionally omit ABC net-
work programs in order to broadcast
programs
of
local
Chicago
origin; the programs
omitted
by
the
AM
stations
have
therefore
been available only via FM.
“The Zenith Radio Corporation,
in launching a new FM receiver in
Chicago,
took
advantage
of this
state of affairs to insert large advertisements in the Chicago newspapers, pointing with pride to ABC
programs available only via FM.
ABC's response was emphatic:
it
promptly cut its FM schedule to a
bare six hours daily—the minimum
permitted by the Federal Communications Commission.
The effect
of the move was to deprive Chicago
listeners of several ABC programs.
“The
reason
for this apparent
self-amputation
is
quite
simple.
Humbugless Hollywood
Why
Lena
didn’t
Horne
in
Daryl
the
Zanuck
role
of
cast
Pinky,|}
the
Negro
girl
who
“passed?”
That’s the question William Tusher,
WDET's Hollywood reporter, asked
on a recent Sunday evening report
on the movie capital. And that’s the
kind
of straightforward
observa-
tions which
movie
the UAW-CIO
commentator
makes.
Well,
Tusher
didn’t
completely
answer the question about Pinky
—miaybe, he said, that Hollywood,
at long last sufficiently daring to
portray in the movies some of the
real problems of race relations in
this country, wasn’t quite ready to
flash on the screen a Negro girl in
the arms of a white man.
He concluded Pinky “is a great picture,
one that everybody should see.”
Tusher is something new in the
usual gossip mongers that peddle
slugging matches, love affairs and
divorces of cinema stars.
For an
up-to-date,
intelligent
movie
review, listen to Tusher every Sunday evening at 6:45 p. m.
ABC has a very large investment
and
a preferred
position
in AM
radio.
It would apparently rather
cut its own total audience than run
the risk that growing FM popularity
might
impair
its AM _ investment.”
When Congress adjourned, literally dozens of Washington legislators, by plane and boat, took off to
study conditions in Europe and the
Far East.
Labor’s League for Political Education, the AFL political
arm, has been following the Con-|
gressmen
and bringing reports of
their findings to WDET and WCUO
listeners regularly.
Entitled “Mr. Congressman
Reports from Abroad,” this series will|
hear on Saturday, Dec, 17, at 7:45
p.m,
on
WDET,
Representative
John McGuire of Connecticut, Senator Estes Kefauver of ‘Tennessee,
Senator Lester Hunt of Wyoming,
and Representative Chase G. Wood- |
house of Connecticut, with Al Hamilton as narrator
On
the
following
Saturday,
at
the same time, the second portion|
of “Mr, Congressman Reports from|
Abroad” will be heard, with Rep |}
JamesI. Dolliver of lowa, Rep An-|
drew
Bee eee
Jacob Clayman, Secretary of the Ohio State CIO Council, is heard weekly on WCUO in a program sponsored by
the Council entitled ‘Background for Thinking,’’
Ahr
i tieeniely 2 Bed). 8s
J,
Biemiller
of
4s narrator,
scribes
Editor
ported
areas
CARE
French
Comly
French,
Executive
Director
of
CARE,
de-
highlights of his recent world tour to WDET News
Jerry Sherman on a recent broadcast. French rethat despite improved economic conditions in some
of the world, there is still a very great need for
packages.
In addition to his WDET
broadcast,
met
with
Victor
Director, to discuss UAW
UAW
London
G. Reuther,
UAW-CIO
cooperation with CARE.
Education
Stations Carry
Broadcasts
Another first for WCUO and WDET were the daily news
reports on the new Free World International Labor Organization in London early this month.
Five-minute broadcasts by Harold Hutchinson, of the British
Broadcasting Corporation, were beamed to Detroit and Cleveland audiences daily, with a 15-minute weekly summary.
UAW listeners particularly enjoyed excerpts of the speeches
of President Walter P. Reuther in laying out the objectives of
the Federation.
It was Reuther, also, as chairman of the CIO
delegation, who proposed the compromise which permitted the
Catholic Trade Unions to affiliate with the new organization,
The compromise provides that, within two years, the Catholic
Unions must limit their International affiliation to one body.
Douglas Suggests Basketball Games —
Press Pay Postage Aired in Cleveland
WASHINGTON (LPA)- Newspaper
publishers
who
bemoan
the
lack of a “balanced”
have
ator
had
Paul
their
bluff
Douglas
challenged
them
to
of
WCUO
high-school
federal budget
during
called
Ente
(D,,
give
by
Sen-|
up
the|
IIl.).
Be et
~
Danny
play
“Tell your
publishers,”
Douglas
told reporters, “that
I'd welcome
an
invitation
from
the American
Newspaper
Publishers’
Association
to address
ent
He
them
pointed
year
the
$550,000,000
part
third
of
this
and
handling
on
this.”
the
because
fourth
red,
of
class
in
winter
by
ey
m
Cleveland
carrying
and
well-known
announcer,
by
play
will
Cleveland
handle
the
the preswill run
the
the
major
second,
postage-
losses
All of these rates should be re
organized so that publications with
heavy
advertising income bear the
brunt of rate increases rather than
the religious, labor and other spe
cial non-profit’ publications, Doug
the Swedish Fed-|
and Al Hamilton
“Why should we subsidize Henry
Luce (publisher of Time, Life and
other
magazines)
and
the Curtis
Publishing Co, (Saturday
BRvening
Post)?”
Douglas
asked.
93,
16
ae ate 9 broad-my
|
out that in
Post Office
in
sports
its coverage
om
the
Cleveland
Arena,
Landau, WCUO program di-
sports
government.
the
continue
es Eee
$400,000,000
in
newspaper
postal |
rector
subsidies now provided by the a
eral
will
Wisconsin, | 88 proposed,
Rep. John B. Sullivan of Missouri,
Senator Lester Hunt of Wyoming,|
Per Osterberg of
eration of Labor,
Paul
station’s
AFL Reports
From Abroad
|
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Browni
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