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Vol. 14 No. 1
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JANUARY, 1950
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ASK CHRYSLER STRIKE DATE.
Page Three
Report
on
International
Confederation
of Free Trade Unions and the Manifesto
Pages Six and Seven
“Posted, Keep Out!’’ GM Tells U. S.
Pa ge Two
“FORCED
LISTENING”
Allis-Chalmers, GM and
Others Adopt New
Propaganda Method
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Page Five
And
ss.
An Editorial on
Captive Audiences
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ume ey
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Page Four
Page 10
“UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Liberal Commentators Begin
K-F Broadcasts January 17
Marquis Childs and Joseph Harsch, nationally famous liberal
commentators, will be sponsored by Kaiser-Frazer Corporation
on the two UAW FM radio stations beginning January 17. The
two commentators will be heard Tuesday through Saturday
Airs College
casts
Basketball
each week,
at
with the Detroit station, WDET,
7:30
6:30 Pp. an.
Mr. Childs,
for
reporter
one of the
umnists in
p.m,
a veteran
past
the
22
the
newspaper
years,
outstanding liberal
the United States.
Cleveland
0S
on
er
is
station,
WCUO,
a
at
eee
et
Cc ollege
‘|
|
colHis
|
Calling,” carried in the Wasirington Post and more than a hundred|
other
dailies,
earned
labor and
nation.
liberals
the
re-|
throughout
the
Sivcewuent traveler abroad: Mx
Childs has written several books|
of
control
democratic
on
UAW Cleveland station,
ny Landau, well known
With
|
The
weeks
is}
war
early
the
covered the European
wrote his first book,
teams
in
have
sion?
by
finest
the
JOSEPH
Jan.
18,
the
the
an-
play
college
country,
vs. De
Paul.
Feb.
you
radio
UAW-CIO
constantly
the
union
do
or
Radio
not
teleyi-
De-
meeting
who
after
they
Andrew
J. Biemiller,
Congressman from Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, and one of the Representatives rated by National
CIO with a 100 per cent right
new purchasers of FM sets and to
those who may discover that they
already have an FM band.
“FM tuning is different, not more
difficult than regular radio,
Tuning in FM stations becomes simple
once
a listener
becomes
accustomed to the location of the station on the dial.
“We
owner
himself
suggest
that an
FM
set
take
time
to
familiarize
thoroughly with the exact
position on his dial for either of
the two UAW stations. If you live
Cleveland |ticipant on the Labor’s League|in the Cleveland area, WCUO is
for Political Education weekly |@t 103.3, for Detroiters and Southeastern Michigan including Toledo,
next few show
on WDET every Satur- WDET
is at 101.9.
day at 7:45 p. m.
“It is helpful to paste *the
John
Carroll
vs. Loyola.
Tuesday,
of
is
your
that
The
following
suggestions
are
made by the Radio Department to
vs. Notre Dame.
Wednesday, Feb. 1, John Carroll vs. San Francisco.
Monday, Feb. 6, Baldwin Wallace vs. La Salle.
Thursday, Feb. 9, John Carroll
HARSCH
The
on
sure
checking their sets find that
already have an FM band.
Dan-
play
FM
members
with
sports
you
*|partment
are
by
schedule for
is as follows:
Friday,
Born in Toledo, Ohio, he was graduated from both Williams and Cor-|
the
Joining
colleges.
pus Christi
staff of the Christian Science Monitor in 1929, Mr. Harsch has been a
roving reporter, foreign correspon-|
paper.|
for this
editor
and
dent
During
of the
siastically received
FM audiences.
network.
CBS
the
on
some
Are
games
Se
WCUO,
“Gold” in Your
Radio...?
these broadcasts direct from the
.
.
Cleveland arena have been enthu- voting record is a frequent Pal!
is the Washington
Harsch
Mr.
Bureau Chief of the Christian Science Monitor and until recently a
commentator
the
doing
basketball
capital-|
popular of which
Middle Way.”
ism, the most
the
“Sweden,
on
exclusively
heard
descriptions,
i
organized|
of
confidence
and
spect
has
basketball
u
nouncer,
“Washington
column,
syndicated
and
carrying the broad-
100 Per Center
14, John
Carroll
Mr.
Biemiller,
a longtime
advocate of adequate medical
care for low and middle income groups, recently returned
from England where he studied
the British Labor Government
Health and Social Security program.
call
letters of all your local stations on
your dial at their frequency locations. If this is done, you will find
that you can
favorite UAW
on
FM
as AM.
as quickly find your
or network program
Since your reception will always
be better on FM, you'll have better
radio in your home if you use your
FM band all the time.
he
years,
theatre and
“Pattern of
Conquest.”
On
when
WAR
to
way
his
Pearl Harbor
he covered the Pacific war
Australia and the Dutch
dies and the Southwest. At
of hostilities,
he returned
Washington
post,
where
been
continuously
quent
trips overseas.
1
East
Far
the
was attacked,
except
a
COVERED
front in
East Inthe end
to his}
he
has|
for
fre-
Both Childs and Harsch can be}
expected to be expert critics of the
MARQUIS CHILDS
hard-hitting
scene,
Washington
searchers for the truth with the}
=
fs
courage and conviction to bring it Michigan (ed [@) on WDET
direct to their radio audience.
The
Michigan
CIO
Council
will
The
nightly
commentaries
will | report and interpret news and acoriginate in the studios of WCFM, |tivities of interest to labor every
the
D.
co-op station
in Washington, | Sunday at 1:30 p. m. on UAW
C.
The
broadcasts
are
also|dio Station WDET
in Detroit.
being
sponsored
by
Kaiser-Frazer
Barney
Ra-
Hopkins, Secretary-Treas-
on
the
two
ILGWU
stations
in | urer
of
the
Michigan
CIO,.
anNew
York City and Los Angeles
| nouncing
sponsorship of the proand on WFLN,
an independently| gram,
said,
“We
plan
to. bring
owned
station
in
Philadelphia.
UAW GRATIFIED
“We
are
extremely
|}to
report
gratified,”
Emil
Mazey,
Secretary-Treasurer
of the UAW Broadcasting Corpora-
tion,
said,
sponsoring
“that
two
Kaiser-Frazer
of
the
WDET’s
best
is
known
liberal news commentators in radio.
We
are
confident
that
the
purchase of time on the UAW stations
will
be
mutually
advantageous to both parties.”
on
listeners
legislative
state
and
tional
progress
stories
and
national,
of the
file
and
will
continuing|
matters,
CIO
human
be
to
the
editor
of
the
‘
both
organiza-
contributions
members
the CIO.”
Ted
Ogar,
News,
a
interest
of rank
growth
the
of
CIO
commentator.
Striking Gar
Wood
members of UAW
Local
cuss the strike issues on WDET’s
Roundtable
program
with
News
Editor Jerry Sherman
(right).
With
Sherman
are
members
of
Local 250’s negotiating committee.
News
LENA
HORNE,
Americans.
That’s Fair
beautiful
star of stage, screen and radio,
was awarded a certificate of
honor by ‘‘Teen Tempo,” popular teen-age show on WDET,
last month. The award was in
recognition of Miss Horne’s encouragement and inspiration to
young
workers,
250, dis-
Teen
Tem-
po, which brings news of high
school activities and music well
liked by young people, is heard
every Saturday morning at 11
o'clock on WDET, 101.9 on the
FM band.
“Michigan voters should take immediate steps to secure a more representative apportionment of our state legislature;’’ Gus Scholle, president of the Michigan CIO asserted
on a recent WDET
Roundtable, a regular Friday night feature at nine o'clock.
Scholle charged that thousands of voters in industrial areas are being deprived
their democratic representation in state government under Michigan’s present law.
Participating
with
Scholle
in
the
discussion
were
Dr.
Charles
W.
Shull,
Professor
of
of.
Government, Wayne University; Mr. Eldon Sneeringer, Bureau of Municipal Research, and
WDET'’s news editor, Jerry Sherman.
Frank Edwards, noted commentator from Washington,
D. C., is
heard every week-day night Monday through Friday at 10:45 p. m.
on both of the UAW
stations in
Detroit and Cleveland.
Edwards,
who gained fame for his unceasing
efforts
to
dig
for
the
“story
be-
hind the story” is sponsored by the
American Federation of Labor on
eight
labor-owned
radio
stations
and 147
outlets of
Broadcasting System.
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WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
January, 1950
UAW Demands Aid for Jobless
In Blighted Michigan Area
YPSILANTI, Mich.—Moving quickly to avert ‘*mass suffer-|
ing on a 1932 scale,’’ the UAW-CIO, through Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey, placed its full resources behind a three-point
|
program of action for this hard-hit industrial community,
ing
6,000
workers
rate
benefits
loused
of
100
out
are
Washtenaw
ment
little
with
along
a
County.
of
week,
board
some)
jobs
in
at
a
Unemploy-
expiring
are
welfare
work,
of
children
Over
jobs
emergency
sons
and
married
families
couples
4%
$
ME lef fe eT, OCG
rrp
of
in
aid,
18,000
of a peak
people
Washtenaw
are
work-|
with-|
County
Uy
to-
|day, with the heart of the distress|
| centered in Willow Village, a gov-|
project. Seven |
housing
| ernment
OUTLINE PROGRAM
hundred families in Willow Village
is backing an Emer- |alone are unemployed, threatened
The UAW
comloss of unemployment
gency Committee for the Ypsilanti with
pensation and little hope of assistarea to: (1) get federal contracts
ance beyond that.
(2)
employment;
full
restore
to
families,
the
on
of jobless
commenting
stop evictions
Mazey,
said
and (3) mobilize state and county
need for full employment,
for
“It’s criminal
month:
this
resources to meet all current welfare needs.
families to suffer neglect while
Many
standing ready for work.
is directing its|
The
committee
of the unemployed people were
fire at the county welfare board
brought to Washtenaw County to
which adopted a “business as usuproduce the articles of war. They
al” policy when unemployment beare now anxious to do their full
relief demands
chronic and
came
share in turning out the products
grew heavy. To “spread its limited
of peace,
board |
welfare
thin,” the
budget
“Ypsilanti
must
become
a
reversed a time-honored policy, last
workshop of peace, instead of a
May, by depriving all single per-
having only 338
emergency aid.
4,
UNEMPLOYED
30 per cent
force
a
any
CENT
PER
30
cal- |ing
of out
“boasts”
while
y
mpm
|
limp-%
plants
industrial
44
With
My
3h
11
drawing
without|
ghost
town
of
|
ifs.
LAMY
Y
fy
YZ
Willow Village, a temporary war housing project, built during the war near the Ford
Willow Run Bomber plant, is still occupied by workers—but 50 per cent or more of them
are victims of the creeping depression that has blitzed the Ypsilanti, Michigan, area. The
photo above shows a portion of the flimsy dwelling units, heated against the winter cold by
coal and oil stoves, in which the unemployed workers struggle against hunger, cold and
eviction
notices.
@
Local 9 Clothes
German Children
The
war.”
children
jlage,
thanks
| ant’s
generous
a
Y
Gy
of
to
German
an
army
fellow
warm
Christmas
Over
1,200
was
a
by
lieuten-
unionists,
this
pounds
shipped
vil-
year.
of
air
got
clothing
from
South
Bend, Indiana, to Frankfurt, Germany,
addressed
to Lt. John
S.
Pallatin, in time for a kids’ Christto
|mas
party.
Pallatin, attached
an
army
wrote
special
his
brothers
|Local
9
kids
badly
So
about
in
the
some
a
school
At the time the UAW-CIO
photographer visited him,
Brother Baskin had just received a seven-day eviction notice because he was behind in
his rent. In this picture he is
in the Willow Village manage-
ment office to see if he can delay the eviction proceedings.
Assistant
Manager
Rhem-|
bree of Willow Village, dis-|
cusses the eviction notice with
Brother Baskin. It was agreed
that he would be given additional time to try to get another unemployment compensation check or to get rent money
from the welfare agency at
Ypsilanti.
4
.
les
:
Les
‘
Curtis Baskin, about to enter the Unemployment Com-
pensation office, is
was laid off at the
got another job in
ber 2, when he was
Z
ting
any
a member of UAW-CIO Local 142. He
Kaiser-Frazer plant April 20, 1949. He
October, but only worked until Decemlaid off again. At present he is not get-
unemployment
:
compensation,
because
the MUCC
officials insist he drew one check too many last fall.
receiving welfare aid.
He is
NEVER MIND THE
ANCESTRY
of
clothing.
pounds
Nick,
ready
Local
—
churches
the
Before
first
and
bundle
Christmas,
Lt.
cs
Photos,
|
bargaining
handed
Pallatin
had
Trade
union
membership
in Great
|
:
| Britain today stands at over 9,000,1000, with an income of $43,400,000
la
year
| 200,000.
and
EG
total
:
reserves
:
EE
— Fountain
Ven-
tn Of en Ee
SORTER
but with no job, it’s really tough going.’’
go.
to the airlines.
|-
MIND
soon
British Unions Thrive
DO
“NEVER
to
They
school,
/
Ella Baskin, wife of Curtis Baskin, unemployed Kaiser-Frazer worker, is shown here
serving lunch to her five kiddies, Curtains on door show how she has tried to beautify the
interior of the Willow Village Housing Project unit in which her family lives. Some of
the children are being kept out of school, because the Basking have been unable to get them
shoes strong enough to stand the muddy roads in the project, ‘‘It just don’t seem right,'’
Mrs. Baskin told the photographer, ‘‘T try so hard to keep my children neat and healthy,
church
began
to
9
with
dressed up as Sana group
from
the
Leer aniiire
|
and
EEE
CAN You
over
of clothes.
Bend
committeeman,
ta Claus,
with
y
German
and
bits
local,
for
children
collect
detta
Bendix
together
in South
300
party
UAW
got
people
had
in
need
local
union,
service
THE
ANCESTRY”
of
$151,-
12
UNITED
a
Page
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Commie-Line “Unions”
Won't Pay Their Dues
Six
affiliates cha rged
CIO
by the national CIO
with Commu-
nist domination were notified | xy CIO President Philip Murray
they are ‘‘not in good standing’ > because of failure to pay per
capita tax to the CIO.
from
Letters
|exonerated in accordance with the
Dur- | provisions of this Constitution, be
Murray
President
H,
James
President
to
went
g
in good standing, and shall not be
kin, of the United Office and Proentitled
to representation
on the
Ab- | Executive Board until restored in
President
Workers;
fessional
good standing by the payment of
ram Flaxer, of the United Public
tax.”
Exoneration
President John Tisa, of all per capita
Workers;
|
Agricultural
applies
to
affiliates
which
have
Tobacco,
Food,
the
Warehousemen’s
of
John Clark,
Union of Mine,
and
Workers,
the
of
Pizer,
“unemployed
President
Union;
the International
Under the national
Mill and Smelter j tution, each national
Morris | quired to pay the CIO
President
Furniture
United.
due
to
strike, lockout,
or other
involuntary cause,” none of which applies
in this case.
and
Longshoremen’s
International
members
the
of
Bridges,
Harry
President
Amerira;
of
Workers
Allied
and
tax
Workers.
of
eight
| special
cents
1950
tax
of
a
CIO Constiunion is rea
peg
capita
month,
two
plus
cents
|
a
per}
A happy holiday feast was assured the trade union women of Berlin through the generosity of the women of the UAW-CIO.
Seven large CARE food packages were sent to
Berlin when Victor Reuther, UAW Education director, received an appeal for help from
the German unionists. Shown here are Victor Reuther as he turns the order over to Miss
Ethel Polk of CARE, Martha Snyder of the Pontiac Women’s Committee, Owen Thompson
and Betty Jasckierney of the Detroit Womén’s Committee, and Caroline Davis, UAW
Women’s Bureau Director. Not available during the presentation was Jane Hudzenski
of the Women’s Committee of Studebaker Local 5 (South Bend) who helped raise the
convention
in
member per month.
The ConstituCIO
1949
The
Cleveland ruled that “any affiliate| tion also provides that such paywhich is in arrears to the organizaments must be made to the CIO
by the 15th
tion
for per
capita
tax
for two
months or more shall not, unless
preceding
month.
All
local
have
by Cyrus
Director:
been
sentatives
en’s
unions
Unwillingness
to
the
conference
to bargain.
3.
Use
of
minor
officials
as
ne-
gotiators.
4.
Haphazard
yers as
5.
negotiators.
Lack
6. Too
. Lack
8. Lack
New
selection
of
vital
much
of
of
| Schroeder
information.
emotionalism.
Three
lems
|
send
repre-
first
UAW
Wom-
in Milwaukee,
at
a
the
of leadership.
The
Credit Unions
Security Cost Claims Deflated
one-day|the
banquet
panels
affecting
will
women's
in
conference
by
| jointly
and
the
in
discuss
the
rights
union,
and national laws
affecti
Be eee ae
workers,
and
women
in
action,
experience.
Feb-
the
will
staff
be
of
country,
the| handed
Hotel.
responsibilities
~
10
to
climaxing
conference
law-
Region
funds.
WASHINGTON—The giant hobgoblin of the High Cost of?
12.‘ Victor G. Reuther,
DiSocial Security, with which Senator Taft, the NAM, C of C and
of UAW education, and Maybe guest | other enemies of ‘‘the welfare state’’ have been trying to panic
Frank
Zeidler
will
or
reluctance|
speakers,
or
in
invited
1. Lack
of confidence
in the
| ruary
union, and lack of understanding
rector
of its problems.
2.
for the
‘Women's Meeting
The eight most
common
“management
mistakes”
were’ outlined
magazine
Mediation
month
Region 10 to Hold
How Do These
Fit Your Shop?
in a business
Ching, Federal
of each
proband
to
has
President
cial
existing
insurance
and
deflated
Truman
by
the
sharp
ice pick
of fact,
by the Council of Economie
by him in his Economie Report.
yisers and used
If all
been
proposed
and
Ad-
WASHINGTON — President
Truman’s declaration of faith
in planning is bound to be one
of the major challenges in the
1950 campaign.
;
so-¢————_H—
assistance|
public
state |P©Ograms in the Fair Deal program
were enacted into law in 1950, they
y
OED
would cost Federal, state and local
political | governmen
ts $25 billions a year—|
BUT
conducted
That
Region 10) 1950,
would
not
be
the
the
cost
in
nor in 1951 or 1952.
Women’s
Bureau
of the
It would
International
Union’s
Fair
Prac- | years from
be
ecost
Here
it is, as taken
from his
State of the Union message, January
in
perience
1975—25|
The estimate of 1975 costs of the
complete Fair Deal social security
program—including
expanded
oldage and survivors’ insurance, disability
health
insurance
insurance—is
and_
national
about the same
las the figure used by enemies
of
“the welfare state.”
So, in using
the figures of $25 billions, the President and his Council met the opposition
NO
squarely,
RUINATION
An increase of $20
present
costs during
years would-not ruin
the report showed, but
resent less than seyen
the total increase in
billions over
the next 25
the economy,
would “repper cent of
national out-
put.
“These die-hards are trying the last
resort te keep one jump ahead of
the labor movement!
:
ing income for a prosperous democ|racy to devote to the aid of those
themselves
to protect
jleast able
| against economic risks.”
|
(Llsewhere, the Report declared
that
unions
should
obtain
for
workers
higher
wages—“a
fair
|share of the benefits of our eco-
be only a moderate| | nomic system.”)
“Furthermore, these costs should
its
increasing
income for a prosperous democracy not be regarded as entirely new
Much
of
the
expenditure
to devote to the aid of those least) costs.
occur in the complete abable to protect themselves against | would
}sence
of
social
security,
but
its
economic risks.”
Here, for pasting in your hat for| burden would then be distributed
ready reference when someone says| unevenly among relatives, friends,
creditand
practitioners
the country can’t afford social se- medical
ors.”
curity, is the factual ice pick from
Actually, the entire social welthe President’s Economic Report:
would take care of
“This
($25
billions)
is a
very| fare program
large figure.
It should be viewed, so small a proportion of the inhowever, in the light of the total crease in national output that the
“This would
proportion
of
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national
income
which would flow
and _
from
production
a growing
other
gram,
parts
of
including
the
Fair
effective
Deal
pro-
collective
for, higher wages and
bargaining
year
year in and
which would |other benefits,
have to keep pace in
result
from
fairly constant
maxi- lout, would
mum
production
and employment | order to mmintain healthy distribu-|
|tion of national
income
and the}
would mean a total national output|
mass purchasing
power
necessary
of $500 to $600 billions 25 years from |
to keep the economy turning over
now, or in the range of $300 bil- |
at maximum
production and fulllions above the present level.
employment levels.
LESS THAN 7%
The 8ist Congress will increase
and
survivors’
benefits
“The prospective increase of. $20 | old-age
But whether the entire
billions
in
social
welfare
costs somewhat.
vould thus represent LESS THAN program will be put to work will
SEVEN PER CENT OF THE TO- depend on how many people regTAL INCREASE
IN NATIONAL ister and vote—and how they vote
OUTPUT.
This would be only a —in the 1950 primaries and elecmoderate proportion of its increas- tions.
economy.
“The rate of growth
4, 1950:
“We
Eighteen new credit unions were
now, when our nationstarted in UAW-CIO locals through- | tices and Anti-Discrimination
De-|al
output
should be more
than
out Ohio this winter, after an in- partment.
Panels will meet in Lo-| twice what it is now.
tensive
promotion
by the three
cal 248 7 Hall, : 8111 W. Greenfield
The
present cost of these
proUAW Regional Directors in Ohio.
| Ave., West Allis, Wis.
:
grams isiM about $5 billion
a ; year. BY
“Listen, my friend...”
Truman for
Planning
have
that
learned
progress
by
bitter
ex-
is not
auto-
and
main-
matic—that wrong policies lead to
We candepression and disaster,
not achieve these gains unless we
have a stable economy and avoid
the catastrophes of boom and bust
that have set us back in the past.
“These gains cannot be achieved
maintain
unless our businessmen
their spirit of initiative and enterprise and operate in a competitive
economic system.
“They cannot be achieved unless
our working men and women and
their unions help to increase proand obtain for labor a
ductivity
fair share of the benefits of our
economic system.
“They cannot be achieved unless
we have a stable and prosperous
agriculture.
“They cannot be achieved unless
we conserve and develop our natural resources in the public interest.
“Our system will not work unless our people are healthy, well
educated and confident of the fu:
ture.
“It will not work unless all citizens can participate fully in our
national life.”
the
gains,
these
achieving
In
government has a special responsibility
to
help
create
tain the conditions which will permit the growth we know is possible.
these conditions
Foremost among
is the need for a fair distribution
of our increasing prosperity among
all the great groups of our popula-~
tion who help to bring it about—
business, labor and agriculture.
Farm Leader Hits
Steel-Price Hike
An Ohio farm leader says higher
steel prices can’t be blamed on pen“The, greatest
sions for workers.
steel profits in 20 years” could pay
for pensions, according to John W.
Sims, Ohio Farm Bureau secretary.
in steel prices came
hike
The
prices skidding” and
farm
“with
farmers in a “vicious
has caught
Sims thought
However,
squeeze.”
it “regrettable” the big steel companies did not “absorb the costs of
pensions” from steel profits.
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