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MAY, 1950
VOL. 14, NO. 5
Chrysler Strike Won?
Workers
Ratify
Details on Pages Two, Three, Four and Five
Pact
UNITED
May, 1950
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Truck Crashes Picketline;
d
Kille
er
Memb
CIO
UAW|
Unanimous
|
'
Leland Martin, father of two, is dead.
Brother Martin, staunch UAW-CIO member and good American, was run down and crushed under the wheels of a heavy
truck driven by an unlicensed junior salesman, and manned by
a pistol-waving deputy sheriff.
established
picket-line
The
in
Casting
Die
front of the Rupert
Company in Kansas City, Mo., was
over like ten-pins as the
bowled
truck,
dise,
with
loaded
down
rolled
a
merchan-
“hot”
into
and
ramp
the peacefully patrolling pickets,
The picket-line was established
UAW
11
of
discharge
the
following
failing to
for allegedly
members
But
standards.
production
meet
the Company had previously sought
to
the
from
affiliation
their
changing
from
workers
the
prevent
discredited Mine, Mill and Smelter
workers to the UAW-CIO.
After the dispute began, a cusof
tomer
plevin
the
the
the
to
Rupert’s
get
a
got
certain
writ
of
items
re-
from
plant; but instead of loading
truck with the correct items,
truck was loaded with manu-
which
198
to
of the
favor
3 in
Martin
Leland
Brother
to establish.
for effective economic, political and
legislative actiom, and to seek or-
ganic unity.
“Already,
labor
has
gether. In
in political
has proved
any
doubt.
wholeheartedly
join
many
localities,
in
all
Die Casters Continue
March Into VAW-CIO
‘Vice-President Richard Gos ser, Director of the Die Cast
Department of the UAW-CIO, announces that the Stewart Die
*Casting workers at Bridgeport, Conn., have signed up with the
UAW-CIO Die Cast Department and have announced their intention of seceding from the M ine, Mill and Smelter Workers.
Prior to a Labor Board hearing,®
national officers of Mine Mill removed
the local union officers of|
the Stewart Die Casting Plant and
appointed
Irving
Dichter
as administrator
of the affairs of the
local union.
The hearing officers
of the NLRB
told Dichter at the
hearing,
that
he
could
not
inter-
vene in the election unless he personally, as administrator of the local union, put himself in compliance
with the Taft-Hartley Act by signing the non-Communist
affidavits
and signing the other information
required under the Act.
To date Dichter has not complied.
A petition for an NLRB election
has been filed with the NLRB
on
behalf of the members of another
Mine
Mill
local,
the
-Aluminum
Magnesium
Plant
in Sandusky,
Ohio.
Application cards for mem-|
bership in the UAW-CIO
contain-
ing ‘the names of over 95 per cent
of the employees of the Aluminum
Magnesium
Company
were
filed
with the NLRB.
for
Die
geles,
workers
of
Casting
the
Los
Company,
California,
will
be
— The
Inter-
national Union of Electrical Workers,
IUE-CIO,
claimed
a _ second
major victory over the United Electrical Workers (UE) as they won
bargaining
rights
for
29,000
of
Westinghouse
Corporation's
55,000
workers.
No
decision
has
been
reached
strike
provide
educational
recreational experience
dren who qualify.
The
FDR-CIO
County
Wayne
CIO
Council
chil-
Camp
Memorial
for children at Port Huron
sored by
Michigan
for
and
is spon-
Council,
and the
UAW Recreation Department, and
will open on July 1. Augusta Harris, physical educational and recreational expert from Michigan State
Normal College, will be Director,
assisted by Merrill Hershey.
Both boys and girls are accepted
for all of the one-week
session.
Fee is $13 per week, exclusive of
transportation.
Local
12 camp
for children at
Sand Lake will open June 18 for
boys and on July 30 for girls. The
Toledo camp is directed by Clem
Holewinski.
Fees are $7 for children of members and $15 for children of non-members.
At
Pottstown,
the
community
camp will be opened on July 3, directed by Royden Welker and under the sponsorship of Local 644.
Five hundred
boys and girls will
be in attendance over a period of
six weeks,
the
auto
the
of
the
wage
vote
in-
it
was
unconstitutional
under
the
state
statute
NEW
the
exercise
protected
law
ACT
Michigan
the
that
labor
so at war
cannot
OUT,
Con-
Supreme
requirement
with
eral
industry.
Federal
said
flicts
erally
1950
season
at three
sites next
month.
Pottstown, Pa., and Port Huron
and Sand Lake, Mich., local unions
will send 2,000 youngsters during
the six weeks the camps are open.
All camps feature expert leadership, complete facilities and equipand
round”
by
“con-
of
rights.
with
survive.”
fed-
A
fed-
WRONG
Irving J. Levy,
UAW
General
Counsel, who with his partner, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., handled the case
in the Supreme Court, pointed out
that the decision meant that the
strike vote provisions of the new
Bonine-Tripp
Act
were
also
unconstitutional.
The
1949
amendments
which
made
some
minor
changes in the law still retained
the
requirement
for
a majority
vote at a state election before there
could be a,strike.
The Supreme
Court’s holding was, however, that
a state could not do this in the
ease of any company
subject
to
WAYS
In declaring that the Michigan
law was unconstitutional, the Supreme Court pointed out that the
Bonine-Tripp
Act
conflicted
with
the federal law in several ways.
The state act imposed
additional
delays
TOO
SEVERAL
after
60-day
the
notice
Hartley
Union
required
Act
and
gave
by
was
the
the Taft-
free
to strike.
The federal law does not call for
a majority
vote
for any
strike.
Congress rejected such a requirement which had been proposed by
Congressman
Hartley.
Furthermore, Michigan could hold a strike
vote
only
to see
how
among
the
Michigan
workers.
In the case of Chrysler,
the bargaining
unit covered
employees in other states.
Before going to press, UAW
counsel had not had sufficient time
this
important
Supreme
Court decision affected the restrictive labor laws of other states.
Clark Plants Merge; UAW-CI0
Benefits Offered to Workers
UAW-CIO
benefits
are
being
offered
2,200
workers
Clark Equipment Co. of Jacks yn, Michigan, in an
drive conducted by UAW-CIO’s Regional office.
In
the
bucking
a
drive,
the
UAW-CIO
“sweetheart”
pickle
everything
The
makers,
else
but
backdoor
agreement | der
and
almost|
auto
workers. |
agreement
low UAW-CIO standards
important respects,
Organization
of
the
organizing
is?
signed by the Company
with the
UAW-AFL after just one man had
moved into the plant.
Previously,
the Company had two plants, one
under contract with the UAW-CIO
—the
other with the UAW-AFL, |
which represents potato chip shav- |
ers,
in
plant
is
of the
be-
many
the direction of
Representatives
Ted
Harold
Director
Marsh,
Chilson
workers:
sents
both
William
staff.
International
Chilson
and
C.
of
Regional
MacAulay’s
pointed
out
to
“The
UAW-CIO
more
gear,
axle
and
Clark
repretrans-
mission
workers
than
the entire
membership of the UAW-AFL.,
“If
benefits
won,
they
Union that
is un-' workers
and
gains
are
to
Los
throughout
the
industry.”
An-
held
on
June 28. The majority of the Los
Angeles Die Cast workers have indicated their desire to disaffiliate
from Mine Mill. Mine Mill is desperately
trying
to rush
through
negotiations in Southern California
and
signed
two-year
agreements
with employers so as to head off
the
revolt
of
the
rank
and
file
against
the policies of the Mine
Mill officers which
have
resulted
in the expulsion of Mine Mill from
clo.
in the election at the big turbine
plant
in
East
Pittsburgh
where 13,000 production workers
are employed.
The UE has won
majorities In plants with 12,000
workers,
Fifty-one elections were conducted by the National Labor Relations
Board in 40 plants in 31 cities,
46.
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ce
otheaean
sierea
pi
ee
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ea
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sl
“Reducing is easy! Just try living
on the same diet your employees
can afford!”
In the first major
test, among
30,000 employees
of General
Motor’s eléctrical
divisions,
IUE
defeated
UE
9
to
1,
Bargaining
votes
are
scheduled
to
be_ held
soon among 7,000 RCA Victor and
employElectric
General
100,000
ees,
In
the
Detroit
Westinghouse
manufacturing and repair shop,
the UL
from 61
won @ unanimous
workers,
vote
After discussion with UAW-CIO members, this ‘‘UAW’’AFL Chief Steward at the Clark Equipment plant decided
not to use his baseball bat; but did decide to sign a UAWCIO application card, Note pocketbook in same hand as
bat. He paid his initiation fee and dues,
be
must
be won
by
the
represents comparable
Angeles
in Westinghouse Vote
Pa.
in
Vinson,
A hearing before the NLRB
on
the petition
of ‘the Die
Casting
Department of the UAW-CIO filed
CIO Scores Over UE
PITTSBURGH,
MARTIN
Children’s summer camping,
a
booming
UAW
activity, opens its
ment,
brought
interstate commerce clause, it did
vineed that the Bonine-Tripp strike not reach the Union's other con|; tention that its members were devote
requirement
was
unconstitu-|
prived of due process by the intertional, the UAW officers challenged
ference
with
the
right to strike.
court’s
attention
was
the state law in a,suit to enjoin The
called
the Attorney General from enforc- to the provision in the UAW Constitution
for its own
democratic
ing the statute,
The state circuit
strike vote of the members,
but
court agreed with the Union that the Union pointed out that under
the law was unconstitutional but the
Michigan
law,
non-members
was reversed by the Michigan Su- would vote on whether Union mempreme Court,
bers could go out on strike,
In the opinion by Chief Justice
Children’s Camps
Open in June
“A number of great labor organhave
already
indicated
been and is working to- izations
those areas, cooperation
their approval of the CIO proposal.
action and other fields We
congratulate
those
organizaits effectiveness beyond| tions, and sincerely hope they will
be joined by the others invited.”
in
“third
Court
of the joint
formation
“The
committee proposed by President
would be another long
Murray
organic
eventual
toward
step
unity of all labor — a goal to
which we
aspiring.
LELAND
died
the
the
the
jurisdiction
of
the
National
Labor Relations Board.
the state court as a
Because the court threw out the
1948 Chrysler strike| Michigan law on the ground that
was
in
of
creases
Union
The UAW-CIO International Executive Board voted support
of the labor unity plan recent ly submitted by CIO President
Philip Murray to the country’s major labor organizations.
“Our experience
during the past
few years definitely shows that the
time is ripe for all elements
of
organized
labor to join together
for
It is called—Local
his memory.
132, UAW-CIO.”
The vote, taken by the NLRB,
Supports Labor Unity
by
a
said,
result
workers when they learned of his
death.
Region 5 Education Representative Ed Coffey said, “The Kansas
City die casters will be forever
grateful for the supreme sacrifice
Martin.
by Brother Leland
made
They have created a monument to
was
cause
UAW-CIO
fellow-
enraged
Martin's
UAW Executive Board
In
a resolution
adopted
unanimous
vote,
the
Board
The
scene.
led
Representatives,
UAW-CIO
by Region 5’s “Pete” Rinkenbaugh,
had great difficulty in restraining
Brother
Vote
Michigan’s Bonine-Tripp Act, requiring a state-conducted
vote before permitting workers to strike, was thrown out as
unconstitutional on May 8, 1950, by a unanimous decision of the
United States Supreme Court. The high court held that Michigan could not impair the right to strike in interstate commerce
in conflict with the federal law.¢
and protected by
the
on
officers
factured products
law-enforcement
9
Michigan Anti-Labor Law
Bounced by Supreme Court
1
4
Page
Page
UNITED
10
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
NAB Asks TV Mfgrs.
For FM
Band
Tuners
The National Association of Broadeasters, trade organization
of station owners, asked all manufacturers of television sets at
their recent convention to include FM band tuners in all future
models.
Morris Novik,
UAW
radio con|sultant, first proposed this action
at the eonvention
session of FM
independent stations. According to
Novik, the addition of an FM tuner
would
not
cost more
than $2.50
There
set
is
should
no
reason
not
reception
why
make
every
superior
possible
for
TV
radio
home
own-
ers by providing an FM tuner.
In
addition to the pressure which it is
anticipated NAB
will put on TV
manufacturers,
the
general
public
and
particularly
union
members
should insist on FM
tuners when
buying television.
Since
tuner
the
cost
is so
of
low,
adding
the
FM
it has been charged
by FM independent operators that
ithe TV
manufacturers have been
deliberately
withholding
the
advantages
of
sumers.*
all
TV
sets
FM
which
models
radio
from
have
are
FM
con-
tuner on
Dumont,
Atwater,
Pilot,
Adrea,
Remington
and
TRAD. All others restrict inclusion
}of FM
tuners to the high-priced| models.
AROUND THE TOWN
GETS SPONSOR
Detroit’s “Displaced Persons”’
Tell Story Over WDET Mike
£
Charming songstress Kay Armen delights WCUO radio listeners each Monday
evening
at 7:45 p.m. when the Ohio
Farm Bureau Insurance Cooperative presents ‘‘Curtain
Call.’’ The lovely Kay sings
old favorites and new hits from
well- known musical comedies.
Nunn on CKLW.
For 52 Weeks
The Poe-Jefferson Neighborhood Council of Detroit met to
The Gerrity Michigan
Corpora-|‘
hear Detroit’s Housing Director, Harry J. Durbin, deliver a tion, producers of Dishmaster, will
heartless explanation of the mass eviction of the-residents of sponsor “Around the Town” on
radio
stations
WDET
and|
their neighborhood.
Four hundred fifty people heard Mr. Dur-| UAW
bin—stooge
—tell-the
of the building and
people
May.
to get
out
real estate interests
or be taken
to court
on
WcCcuo.
in the city
the
Dishmaster, in its five-day-a-week
first of |} show,
will
listeners
ings,
The housing plan, which has forced the evictigns with no
provision for relocation of hundreds of families whose homes
After the meeting, several of the evictees told their stories
io Detroit audience over WDET’s Saturday evening program—
DETROIT.
bring
news
activities
of
of
to
local
UAW
union
clubs,
radio
meet-
members
of Local
1055,
|in Adrian, Michigan.
UAW-CIO,
FOR NEWS
THAT'S FAIR
LISTEN TO
~ WCUO
MONDAY
sored
ance
m— Curtain
by
Farm
Companies.
spon-
Call,
Bureau
Insur-
m.—News, sponsored
District Auto Council.
p. m—It’s
MONDAY,
4:15
Your
Sponsors
Dixieland Swing
featuring
Life.
Isabel
for the
Edgar.
back
Ladies,
by
AFL.
7:00
p.
sored
m.—Dixielanders,
by
Taystee
Vice-President Alben W: Barkley studies JeffersonJackson Day program before making his keynote speech at
the Michigan dinner April 20. UAW Station WDET-FM
again scored another first when it was the only Michigan
station to air the Vice-President’s address and that of
spon-
Caterin g Co.
Chairman,
G. Mennen
Michigan
Williams.
Democratic
is Mrs. India Edwards,
national organization.
Director,
Standing
is Hicks
Griffith,
Party, and to the far left
Women’s
Division
of the
the
trend
days
of
put
on
CKLW
by
:30 p. m.—Washington
Report
Liberal
Kaiser-Frazer
with
Commentators Marquis Childs
and Joseph Harsch.
Edwards,
10:45 p. m.—Frank
AFL Commentator.
|
twenties,
appear-
its
SATURDAYS
schedule SatWCUO
May 6, at 7 p.m., un-
sponsorship
the
music}
in
the
made
program
Catering
Governor
SUNDAY
the
| ance on the
utday night,
der
7:30 p. m.—Washington Report,
with Joseph Harsch and Marquis Childs, sponsored by Kaiser-Frazer.
Labor
$:15 p. m—Guy
Nunn,
Views the News.
m.—Frank
Edwards,
10:00
p.
to
new
la
WEEKDAYS—Daily
sponsored
Following
|
WEDNESDAY,
FRIDAY
p. m.—Time
first
WEEKDAYS
Taystee
by
FRIDAY
7:45
was
(DETROIT)
101.9 on FM Band
eee
ee
p.
in Cleveland.
LABOR'S ON
THE AIR
WDET
| UAW Radio Station in Detroit, |
| WDET, 101.9 on the FM band.
p. m. —
News,
sponsored
United Rubber Workers.
THURSDAY
6:00
Nunn
\lems. Tell your wife to listen}
levery Saturday at 5:45 p.m.,|
WEDNESDAY
6:00
by
FM
new | the International Union during the
‘“The Consumer Talks,’’
program on WDET every Sat- |Chrysler strike. The enthusiastic
urday at 5:45 p.m., features response from local unions through‘Caroline Ware, longtime pro-| out Michigan, northern Ohio and
Indiana,
to the broadeasts
stimu| tector of labor’s spending dol- lated the decision of the Internaprofessor at/| tional Union to continue the labor
Dr. Ware,
‘ar.
|Howard University, reports on| news program on a yearly basis.
Local unions are asked to publegislative proposals designed |
|to safeguard workers’ pocket-| licize the program at membership
meetings,
on
bulletin
boards
and
|
n,
Newma
books. Mrs. Sarah
in their newspapers.
| former president of the Poto-|
mac Cooperative Federation,
| joins Dr. Ware in the weekly)
|discussion of consumer prob-
FEATURES
p.
on
|
(CLEVELAND)
103.3 on FM Band
7:45
newscastGuy Nunn, UAW-CIO
er, will continue his searching commentary on national and international news at 7:15 p. m., Monday
through Friday on CKLW, 800 on
AM dial. “Labor Views the News,”
as the program
is called, is also
aired on the two UAW stations at
the same time, WDET, 101.9 on FM
band in Detroit and WCUO,
103.3
fraternal
organizations and women’s groups.
“Around the Town”
will be heard
at 4:55 p. m., Monday through Friday on WDET
in Detroit, and the |
time
of
the
program
on WCU oy
in
Cleveland
will
be
announced}
later.
Dishmaster,
a labor-saving,
by 1
dish-washing
device,
is made
are being torn down to make way for ‘‘ private enterprise housing,’’ was termed an ““atom-bomb approach to the housing problem’’ by the UAW-CIO representative at the meeting.
INSIDE
The UAW-CIO has signed a
contract with Detroit and
Windsor Radio Station CKLW
for a daily news program for
the next 52 weeks.
of
Co.
of
5:45
A
Cleveland.
half
SUNDAYS
hour of Dixieland swing played by
the Dixielanders in the traditional|
of this
revived memories
| manner
| musical
ing
|
the
style
loperate
| Plants
ings.
is again
12:45
son.
sw veep-
Catering,
catering
in
union
lunch
and
cater
Cleveland’s
concern,
circles,
rooms
to
union
in
is
as
well
they
m.—Rhythm
and
Rea-
p.
Department.
many
eetner|
p.
m.—Voice
of Labor,
Michigan CIO Council.
:30 p. m.—It’s Your Life.
:00 p.m.—UAW-CIO Education
1:30
country.
Taystee
largest
known
that
Talks.
6:30 p. m.—Inside Detroit.
Sports
7:30 p. m.—UAW-CIO
Special.
Taystee
the
m.—Consumer
p.
|
Chairman
:30. p. m.—Brother
with Local Union officers.
LISTEN TO YOUR UNION STATIONSWCUO-CLEVELAND, WDET-DETROIT
at
UNITED
May, 1950
AUTOMOBILE
Page if
WORKER
-
Trials Begin
Vengeance
. Bell
LOCKPORT, N. Y.—Charles 8. McDonough, attorney repre-®
senting 23 union men on trial here for riot and conspiracy, told
the jury in his opening address of his intention to submit proof
that every act of violence in the Bell strike last year was delib°
erately provoked by the Bell Aircraft Corporation.
at
H
disturbance
a
of
out
grew
‘acy
conspir-@
and
riot
of
charges
The
declared
at| Bell
was
plant
the
that
and invited|
back in de-
for production
the gates of the Bell Aircraft plant) open
last September 7 in the course of|the workers to come
Foremen, suby | fiance of the Union.
the 19-week strike conducted
1,700 members of Local 501. Under | pervisors, engineers and scabs who
rioting| had been duped
into
returning
a max- | Ww ere pressed jnto the strike-breakct
¢
re Gallon
s
the
law,
state
York
New
charge is a felony carrying
penalty of five years
imum
jail
a1
pri- | ment,
oi)
we
Worker
incite
in
r
Y
and a $5,000 fine. The conspiracy |
and visited in their
ne
pho
the
ect
subj
,
r
o
isd
;
PC
5
,
5
rge nny
a n_| homes by these agents of managea. pec
: nor
ae sdemea
cha
fricti
tioc n,
5 vic
con
on
fine.
MASS
jury
last
time
in
back
a
mass
jury
of
mass
to
work.
They
procedure |
trial—a
puct
and
Two
trials
on
other
contempt
siml-|
,ocition
once
Au-|
Pep meetings were held frequently in the open fields near the Bell plant. Here Martin
Gerber, Director of UAW-CIO Region 9 (towering in center of picture), addresses such a
meeting. Gerber suffered a fractured skull on September 7 when he fell from a flying
vr
squad car to the pavement.
in which
which
made
a
took
Company
the
cottlement
Of)
late
in
September,
early
Livingston,
farmers
at
return
bargaining team|
UAW-CIO
led by Vice-President John W.
hampers the efforts|the
to explain the issues| was
housewives,
to be formed and
lose their senior- |
negotiations
During
one!
at
tried
being
are
not
did
if they
23) ity
the
of
all
September,
businessmen.
lar
come
pres-
were
told
that
the
Union
was |
| through, that an independent (com-}|
that seriously
of the defense
and
to
5
to terrific
subjected
pany) union was
handed|
indictment,
the
a Niagara County grand|that they would
defendants
the
andc
sure
TRIAL
Under
down by
to
a $500
and
jail
in
year
one
of
alty
n
ssma
oa
honorable
an
of the strike impossible.
faced
a total
of 116
pickets | 62 workers
court charges, held last fall befo|re
pei! officials insisted that the Union
penalties threatStill the ranks of the strikers| alike were clubbed, beaten and ar- | trials. Maximum
juries of the same character, Te-)| apeee to a six-point proposal which held. The wives came out in stead-| rested. At the Lockport jail, when |ened totaled over 375 years in jail
sulted in convictions which have) ingiuded superseniority for scabs| ily increasing numbers to take their| the women were slapped behind and $350,000 in fines. The UAWbeen appealed,
and discharge of all strikers whom| turn on the picket lines. On Sep-| the
bars,
inmates
already
there | CIO had to post $431,000 in bail to
Martin Gerber, | the management ACCUSED of vio- |
Defendants are:
9; | lence, threats of violence or viola- tember 28, Bell attacked Zenin.|eaid that the sheriff's matron had keep its people out of jail.
Region
Director of UAW-CIO
Plant guards brought tear gas out | started getting the place ready for|
SubUAW-CIO
F. Gray,
Edward
Director in
Regional
area; Ben Blackwood,
tion
of
the
the
Bell
plant.
| copters.
injunction.
Men
of the plant and threw it at the | the newcomers
It was at this point that a United| strikers and their wives; other tear | arrest.
Labor
Defense
Committee
was | gas bombs were dropped from heli- |
At the peak
Inkins and Clayton W. Fountain,
formed in behalf of the CIO, the}
|
Rob;
ves
ati
ent
res
Rep
ternational
AFL, the IAM and other unions in |
ph
Jose
,
bate
Rala
ert Seigler, Phil
the Buffalo area to rally support|
es}
Jam
n,
ima
Sla
ald
Don
o,
Morden
for Local 501. On September 7, this|
ak,
Rub
Chet
ak,
Schuetz, Ben Now
committee
staged a mass demon- |
e,
Hous
ton
Joseph Yantamosie, Mer
stration
at the plant.
That
was}
e,
Bunc
on
Hilt
t,
mid
Sch
Bernard
when scabs and strikebreakers at-|
kBlac
eph
Jos
St. George,
Frank
tacked the pickets with stones and
,
Vohs
nk
Fra
o,
Varc
per
Gas
owicy,
crude blackjacks, precipitating the
of
s
ber
mem
all
e,
and Edward Lytl
disorder upon
which
the current
Ippa
ph
Jose
501;
l
Loca
O
UAW-CI
lito,
424,
of
Buffalo
C. Wat-
the
Jay
trial
Local
a member of UAW-CIO
Fried, a member
Donald
and
Steelworkers, CIO.
vindictive and vicious legal
This
persecution
ers
LEGAL
United
the
and
months
strike
of
strike
after
has
sympathizers
the
official
few
end
six | iff Henry
in
ty
the!
law—and
the
of
history
ago.
30
years
its invounion, the na-
eation to attack a
ture of the crime described
name
fancy
a
simply
is
act
rioting
for disorderly conduct.
means
the
What
trial
its
waging
ch
such
braze
¢
brazen
strations
and
of
anatic
fané
and
violent
LAST
1949,
after
weeks
of
June|uties
fruitless | ~
negotiations on routine UAW-CIO
including a pension plan
demands
improvements.
In a
and contract
where
plant
for
more
than
12
collective
bargaining
had
years
with
proceeded
ness,
relative
about-face
the
in
agement
1949
strike-breaking
harked
back
the
and
his
Rand did
novations
to
bring
These
with
bombs,
First,
junction
Supreme
limited
Sell
up
in
finks—as
and
charges
junction
to
feet
attorneys
of
control
squad
were
the
and
were
:
cars.
furnished
horses
used
both
by
The
|
as|
and dep-
”
fed
inside|
victims
been
of
the
appealed.
Bell
strike-
campaign are on trial for
and a misdemeanor
as a
result
which
of
for
of
ago
heli-|
horses
have
breaking
a felony
trol
of
mounted
and
six
they
years
may
all
each,
is
go
the
shady
|
These deputies, typical of the army of them kept in the
Bell plant during the strike, are shown here rushing a
picket off to jail during one of the disturbances provoked
by scabs armed with blackjacks.
—Bulfalo Courier-Express
and
policy.
Bell
Aircraft
initiated
about
its
a
new
year
labor
FUNDS
FOR
THE
EXPENSE
OF
THE
TRIALS
ARE
BEING
RAISED
BY
“THE
COMMITTEE
TO
AID
IN
THE
LEGAL
DE|FENSE
OF
BELL
WORKERS.”
CONTRIBUTIONS
SHOULD
BE
| MAILED TO RICHARD
LIPSITZ,
|506 BRISBANE
BUILDING,
BUP| FALO, NEW YORK,
of
15
In the middle
for
Vy
scabs
strike-
plant.
secured
an
YY
YY
Yy
|
in
York
State|
This
writ
at.a
violations
BAOCK-TO-WOKK
heli-
the
apart,
the
date
dropping
shuttle
processed
against
to
gate
not
Then
the
trumped-
of
the
in-
strikers,
of August,
1949,|
‘ay
Tear gas day—September 28—with a few women picketing and a few more strikers standing around with their hands in
their pockets, It was the menace of these women with placards and men with their hands in their pockets that frightened
the Bell plant guards into throwing the tear gas bombs shown exploding in the picture. The pickets were then arrested and
hauled off to jail,
to
form of the First York
Company,
a
Wall
Street
holding
company
controlled by two of America’s richest families—who
bought
up con-
heli-
Bell,
October
WALL STREET
In the background
tak-|
by
and
housed
his
23
jail
The
tower
direct
to
late
continued
Mr.
included
to
out
pickets
up
airlift
officials
10
the
In
Company
a
days—new
in-|
were designed
from a New
Court
judge.
than
Now
the plant with planes
buses.
The
under-
Airport
assault.
signed.
and
Bergoff
and
an
buses
Bell
used
finally
the
convictions
legal
still
still
Union,
the
November,
Company
attorpressed
contempt
of
court
charges
against
28
strikers
and
strike
leaders.
A
judge
literally
ir tructed
the jury to find them
guilty.
The
jury
did so and the
Company
strikebreakers,
was
by
shock-
Pearl
spying
armored
breakers
jess
of
improvements
gas
the
the
accepted
which
Remington-
“formula”
tear
Bell
time,
and
early
neys
Coun-
leader.
was
of arbi-
Valley
Formula”
Bell could not en-
in the old
and stunts
for
its
But
This
out
and
under
wa)ay,
tailor-made
the
professional
copters
and
to
services
the
contract
as a board
a
formula
Rand
“Mohawk
»f 1936.
Where
zage
|Company
recommend
This board wotked
to end the strike
itself act
| tration.
and
appointto look
man-
Bell
ing suddenness.
Once
the strike was
Bell officials followed a
,
| have
strikebreakers,
arrest
strikers
strike
strike
Dewey
board
smooth-
of
came
this
hiring
deputies,
on
started
every
| copters and
were
Bell Strike
The
up
sheriff
demon-
JUNE
of
the
settlement.
|a proposal
|
provocation
campaign
scabs
and
himself to
of
strike-breaking | .onters
union-busting.
BEGAN
12,
have
years
recent
All
| the
bY
marked
been
open
a
ing them into
|and
armored
in
strikes
Few
501.
Local
destroy
| into
Local 501 Hall and the UAW-CIO
Regional
Office
were
raided
by
squads of police and deputies.
| was
is still
Corporation
to
attempt
ferocious
Aircraft
Bell
|
that
is
this
launched
round
the
in
persecution,
Finally Governor
ed
a fact-finding
in wholesale lots and to set bail so|
high they could not get out of jail.|
Becker
sent
his deputies
out
to
from
aside
fact,
In
most
some
was
occasion
recent
the
of
this
their
|
Becker of Niagara
ing
of
pledged
the
in
previously
times
three
before
terror against the strikers.
Miller
visited the plant, addressed a meet-
labor
American
of the
history
movement. One observer has noted
that the riot charge has only been
used
the day
| CONTRACT
of violence by Bell agents, District
Attorney William Miller and Sher- |}
of the
precedents
women
|
TERROR
Following
lead-
strike
strikers,
is based.
and
.
Bullalo
Courier
-Brpres,
Page
UNITED
12
Nash Vacation
Plan Renewed
rector
of
Council.
The
at
the
plan
regular
Because
with
five
pay
years’
for
88
hours’
rate
all
employees
years’
for
all
Auto
this
Di-
provides
seniority,
employees
seniority
all employees
and
44
66
with
one
cent of
Time
their
lost
counted
as
purpose
two
two
of
and
and
time
worked
of
qualification
The
per
for
cent
vides that time
for vacation.
off
also
shall
be
of Budd
James
Mc-
of
this
praised
highlyand
by
he
Regional
Local
174 Wins
Bargaining Election
DETROIT—Local
is | CIO,
has
the} jing
the |Metro
of gross
agreement
pension
of the
name
agreement,
highly
UAW
per
for
was
Director
Martin
Gerber,
who
called the error to the attention
of the Auto Worker.
pay
gross earnings.
through
sickness
one-half
wages.
one-half
negotiation,
was
If employees of one or more years
of seniority
do not
work
in 26
weeks but do work
in 13 weeks,
receive
the
President
important
seniority, providing such employees
work in 26 weeks during the year.
they
type
in
the
Budd
the
last
issue
813
the
three
year
of
Caffrey
was
omitted.
Brother
McCaffrey had a major role in
pay
hours’
line
Worker,
Local
hours’
with
a
dropped
story
in
Nash-Kelvinator
for
WORKER
CREDIT DUE LOCAL
UNION PRESIDENT
Renewal of the vacation plan for
1950 for UAW-CIO
Nash-Kelvinator
workers
was
announced
month
by Leonard
Woodcock,
AUTOMOBILE
agent
vote
pro-
bargain-
Electric,
by
Relations
21
as
employees
conducted
received
UAW-
chosen
by
Auto
Labor
taken
been
174,
out
Inc.
the
27
the
In
a
National|
Board,
of
of
Local
ballots
174
‘UAW Presents Truck
cast.
To French Workers
i}
PARIS, France—Victor Reuther, Director of UAW’s Education Department, last month presented a sound truck, as a
gift from the membership of the UAW, to the French Force
Ouvriere
(Workers’
Force),
trade
Fully
equipped
for both
sound,
}and recording purposes and capa-}
ble of carrying almost 3,000 pounds
of printed
material,
the truck, a
one-ton
Renault
pressed
into
for organizing
auto
plant
during
will
in
the
be
will
Paris.
accepting the gift on behalf
of
FO,
Jouhaux
expressed
the
hope
that
the
American
trade
union movement would throw all
its
weight
into
making
the
newly-established International
be
in
Thereafter,
few
months,
strategic
throughout
Confederation
ions (ICFTU)
it
industrial
France
in
boards
| French
Top.
social
administering
security
officials
of
the | truck
system.
Force.
of Free Trade Una powerful instru-
ment for the defense of workers’
interests
throughout
the world.
Reuther declared that the sound
FO’s
campaign
for election of workers’
representatives
to the
highly-im-
portant
confederation.
In
service
immediately
work at the Renault
next
used
centers
model,
union
was
only
a symbol
of
|} common interests which bound
Ouvriere
| free
trade
unions
in
the
U.
the
the
§&.,
Europe
and
elsewhere
in
their
struggle against totalitarianism
| President of FO and for 40 years and reaction.
The UAW,
he said,
| general
secretary
of
the
French| regarded
the
truck
as merely
a
|CGT
until the split in late 1947. | small token of repayment for the
attended
the
presentation
ceremony,
including
Leon
Jouhaux,
Above is a group of delegates from St. Louis Locals 25, 819, 691, 282, 986 and 881, who
met last month and planned the program and arrangements for the first conference on
women’s problems, sponsored by the Women’s Bureau of the International Union and Region 5. An all-day conference will be held June 10 at the Fairgrounds Hotel in St. Louis.
In
MINESWEEPER
Washington,
publicity
gon
they
officers
get
C.,
in
the
|Sparkplug Workers
Vote UAW, 242-83 |
Naval
Penta-
|
planned
to frame
a letter
received from a Wyoming
housewife.
had
just
developed
“IT
D.
would
one
She wrote that she
read
the
Navy
had
a new
minesweeper.
like,’
of
these
she
mine my
husband
very dirty.”
wrote,
because
works
waukee,
of
to
vote
join
Mil-
UAW-CIO}
last”month,
Har- |
Region
10}
Organization
at Sparkplug
had
| been carried on since the plant
the
1s
|opened
several months
ago.
Sey-|
}eral
unions
tried
to organize
at
same
|TBEW
time,
notably
the
and UAW-AFL.
Voting
was
| pervision.
former| maintenance
Speight,
Sparkplug,
||
who knows the where-|jAw-CIO
Early
voted
A-C
| vey Kitzman, UAW-CIO
Director, announced.
$450 for Bro. Speight
abouts
at
242-83
a
by
“to
in
Workers
the
Anyone
Accompanying Reuther were Elmer | inspiration which the young AmerCope, CIO’s European
representa- ean movement had always drawn
tive, and Jay Krane, assistant to |from
the
long
struggle
of
the
>
Cope.
| French
trade unions.
In
,
under
the
NLRB
unit
won
IAM,
suby
are all production and|
workers.
Wally
Finn;
International Represent-|
t,
| tjaAw-CIO
Detroi
415,
of Local
member
| ative was in charge of the drive.|
should tell him that he has a check
precident of the Sparkplug Tos
for $450 waiting for him at the!
| cal 438, UAW-CIO, is Sigurd Olson.|
NLRB office.
by | Herb Jacobson is recording secrewas employed
Speight
Bro.
The local union charter was
Dean Sellers, Detroit Ford aealectiinie
who was ordered to pay back pay | installed several months ago durstrike.|ing the organizational drive, after
following the mechanics’
to| more than 50 per cent of the proreturned
be
money will
The
by Bro. | duction workers had signed up with |
Sellers if not collected
'UAW-CIO.
Speight.
POSTMASTER.
of
address
No.
3579
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E.
and
on
Send
Form
copies
(Canada,
Washington
St.,
notices
3578
returned
of
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labels No.
under
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Indianapolis
change
Form
labels
to 2457
7,
Ind.
PADUCAH,
Ky.—Pictured
above
are
members
of the strike-bound Paducah Battery Plant, Local
$9, UAW-CIO.
Local 99 is a newly organized local
in Region 3. It is the southernmost local in Region
3 and a key local in terms of the Southern Organizing Drive.
The local is on strike over wages and
contract demands.
Studebaker,
member
so they
above,
al
Local
5,
wanted
are
Frank
to
make
every
sure
of Local 99 had a ham for Easter Sunday,
sent down enough for the local. Pictured
left to
right,
Representative;
pretty young
lady
Maurice
receiving
Bartee,
Cohen,
a ham
Internation-
Local
5;
is a member
the
of
the
meeting
last
only
we
must
ler workers
mands, but
to assist
Director
Berndt,
Raymond
the
of
District
of the
bend
5, and
Local
Jerry Snyder,
of Local 99.
Local 99;
President
every
effort
Jack
3, stated
Region
Auto
Parkhill,
Council,
to assist
the
at
“Not
Chrys-
in their all-out fight to win their dewe must also do everything possible
Paducah
Local
99.
Local
99
is waging
a battle for all the Kentucky workers. Wages are
Local 99 demands are
low and prices are high.
most certainly justified, and I want to call on all
locals in Region 3 to send money, food and give
moral
support
to this fine group
of workers.”
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