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1950-06-01
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Vol. 14 No. 6
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VOL.
14,
NO.
6
JUNE,
a
—
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1950
EZ I 0 w
‘ GM Contract Goes Into Effect
Following Heavy Approval
Vote
Pensions, Union Shop, Wage Increases Won
——
(Details on Pages Two, Three, Four, Five)
UAW - CIO Leads the Way—See
Editorial, Page 4
WH
OP68]M 4 i,
Vite
The history-making GM agreement was announced to the press in the General Motors Building
in Detroit, where the negotiations were conducted. Seated, facing camera, are: “Pat” Patterson, Assistant Director of the UAW-CI
O General Motors Department; UAW-CIO Vice-President John W, Livingston; UAW-CIO GM Director “Art” Johnstone, and
UAW-CIO President Walter
P. Reuther.
Behind them are members of the UAW-CIO GM Top Bargaining Committee and the International Staff.
GM VicePresident Harry Anderson is standing at end of table with papers in hand. Newsmen are making
notes in the foreground.
Ten
Good
Reasons
for
$1
for
PAC... . Pace?
&
“
Page
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
“UNITED
7
SS
ni
ee
‘June, 1950
TEN
FOR
A DOLLAR
Ten Good Reasons tor Giving a Buck
L
FULL
EMPLOYMENT...»
passed
by
Congress
decide
whether we have full employment and job security—or unemployment
depression—insecurity. The dollar helps pass the right laws.
Z:
LOWER
the
wage,
price,
PRICES
profit
The
balance—the
real price you
health
of
the
and
economy.
The
goy-
ernment’s farm program is an important part of the total economic picture.
Your dollar will fight for the Brannan farm program which will conserve land
and cut food costs in the public interest.
3. REPEAL TAFT-HARTLEY ACT
while
Taft-Hartley
Hartley
Taft
Act
is
on
the
books.
Your
dollar
will
help
x5 union is sate
get
the
6. COMPLETE
rogram
prog
anti-labor
of
housing
rich, and
COMPENSATION
ber
on
Your
of
weeks
of money
you
contribution
get
you
the
fights
5. WORKMEN'S
get
money
in unemployment
depends
for a better
law—for
compensation
action
of
improved
the
and
state
buck
to
work
the num-
legislature.
benefits
COMPENSATION — ti. inount or
money you get in Workmen’s Compensation if you get hurt in the
fixed by law. This, law can be improved through political actions
on this job,
factory
Put
in Congress
is
your
would
The
the kind
kind
that
that
provides
makes
the
would
laws
insure
the
homes
and
,your
entire
familyJ
two
kinds
banks
for people
tierce arc
and
real
estate
at reasonable
operators
prices.
better
-Frederat education laws now pending
educations
for
your
children
A
dollar
will
passed.
9. CIVIL RIGHTS FOR ALL — baie tapioyment Practices
legislation,
laws
until
earners
wage
guaranteeing
finance
civil
effective
rights
to
political
everyone
action
with
will
never
their
be
dollar
passed
contribu.
tions.
10. LOWER
the
Politieal
Action
TAXES
Dollar
you
4 tair tax taw woutd sa
give
now.
Do
your
part
to
e you
fight
for
many
times
fair
taxes,
You owe it to yoursell, your family, and your conscience...
GIVE A DOLLAR
Your
law for consumers.
8. BETTER SCHOOLS
get
Ayou
YOU CAN AFFORD
laws.
Congress
provide
Your dollar will help pass the law.
dollar will help get a housing
in
repealed.
4. UNEMPLOYMENT
amount
J pendingg
7. HOMES
help
he
now
MEDICAL CARE ‘ic sational treatin
with complete medical care.
pay for food depends on
national
tor Political Action
FOR POLITICAL ACTION!
WDET-FM, the UAW station in Detroit, has been cited by®
Variety, radio and show business magazine, as ‘‘one of the most
unique postwar radio innovations,’’ in its annual plaque awards
WCUO
offers one of the most
for 1949-50, one of radio’s top industry honors.
The only FM station in the country cited by Variety, WDET unique religious programs on the
drew special plaudits for its initiative in spurring a boycott by air in its “Country Church” Sunthe Detroit Board of Education of single-bar Christmas seals days at 7 p.m. Broadcast from the
last year. WDET urged the boycott because the funds supported rural community of Bainbridge,
some 25 miles from Cleveland, the
a children’s camp which bars Negro children.
“Its real success story,’’ Variety said, ‘‘lies in how it pro- program offers the service of a
moted itself and its programs in terms of inviting healthy spon- non-sectarian “Country Church,”
“Country Church"
the Bainbridge
‘“‘The nation’s auto center, for example, has been flooded
with promotion standbys: when a lady get a run in her nylon,
a WDET Lucky Charm Mending Kit comes to her rescue; match
books and car stickers are constant WDET reminders. WDET
‘‘Opera Matinee Bulletins’’ are musts in the city’s public libraries; union talent (home-grown) entertains strikers with appropriate promotional hoopla, station taking live talent to the very
picket lines and union halls.’’
The
gan,
pastor,
an
erudite
Community
Church,
Rev.
L.
Cecil
scholar
and
Moran
ex-
cellent speaker, has gained a large
listening audience thru his interpretation of what should make up
modern religion.
The 25-voice choir, a highlight
of each broadcast, is under the di-
rection of Mrs. Ellen Woodward.
Leisy’s Lands
WCUOQ'’s Landau
In Cleveland
NEWSMEN PRAISE
NUNN BROADCAST
Danny Landau, sharpest
sportscaster on Cleyeland’s air,
will be calling ’em nightly over
WCUO at 6:15, EST, hereafter
for the Leisy Brewing Company, for years one of the city’s
outstanding suds suppliers. The
Danny Landau Sports Show,
already a Cleveland FM institution, has been a powerful
audience puller on the UAW
station from the beginning. It
went under contract to Leisy’s
on June 9, and can be heard
every evening, Monday
thru
Friday.
The Newspaper Guild of Detroit complimented the UAWCIO for its presentation of
Guy Nunn’s news commentary
nightly on CKLW and WDET
at its May membership meeting.
DEEP RIVER
BOYS ON WCUO
The Deep River Boys, nationally
known artists, are but one of the
fine musical
groups
that appear
daily
“The
commentary
ticularly important,”
stated,
“since
the
the
is
par-
resolution
information
diet
of Detroit citizens on economic and
political
matters
frequently
fails
fully to reflect contending
viewpoints.”
The
Guild
also
praised the UAW-
CIO for its ‘‘public-spirited venture
in the operation of its own radio
station, WDET-FM.
The Nunn newscast is heard at
7:15 p.m. over CKLW, 800 on AM
dial, and WDET, 101.9 on FM dial,
Monday through Friday.
regularly
on
The
Farm
Bureau
Mutual Insurance Company’s week-
CALLS,
Monday
eer
ee
ly program,
“CURTAIN
heard
on
WCUO
every
evening at 7:45 p.m.
M
SS
WDET Wins Coveted Variety Award
sor reaction.”’
) Tune, 1950
AUTOMOBILE’ WORKER
ee
UNITED
| ‘Page 10
Foreign Relations of the new democratic state of Israel with its neighbors in the Near
East were discussed June 8 on a WDET special events feature. Above: Guy Nunn, UAWCIO News Commentator, interviews John P. Dawson, of the University of Michigan Law
School, who is a liberal candidate for Congress in Michigan's Second District, and Victor G.
Reuther, UAW-CIO
Education
Department
Director.
Victor recently returned
where he was the guest of the American Christian Committee for Palestine.
REGION 4'S CAMP
TO BE BEE-HIVE
CWA Praises
WDET Program
CHICAGO
— Three-day
have
the
Walter R. Schaar, acting president, Michigan Division 15 of the
Communications Workers of America-CIO, expressed his appreciation
to UAW Station WDET for CWA’s
appearance on the popular “Brother Chairman” program, heard eyery Sunday at 6:30 p.m.
“We
want
to
let
you
“We
are sure that
listeners have a better
ing of our Union and
grateful for the chance
ed us to tell our story.”
know,
Lines
was
elected
city slate that swept
Lo-
on
Ottawa
Union
Cen-
the anti-|
City Hall. Lines is Chairman|
of the Water, Sewer and Gas|
Committee,
and also serves on!
the Finance, Claim, Police De-|
mittees.
- Waterloo
NO
Care STamwire
“My husband starts to burn every
time he hears those anti-labor commentators!”
LISTEN
vicious
Com-|
Building
and
partment
was
the
scene of |
union-busting tactics|
used against the Packinghouse|
Workers in their strike two
years ago. A UPWA-CIO
ard
was
picket
shot
line
TO
by
to
death
a scab.
Stew-
on
| July 9 for the prize-drawing
Jackie
Robinson,
Brooklyn)
Dodger baseball star and most|
valuable player of the National
League, is currently starring in
“The Jackie Robinson Story.”’
William Oliver, Co-Director of
the
UAW-CIO
Fair
Practices}
Department, recommends
the
film as a moving drama depicting Jackie’s climb to a topranking notch in America’s
athletic hall of fame.
Isabel Edgar, woman’s editor
at WCUO, brings announcements of all the important functions of local unions, clubs, fraternal and civic organizations
Monday through Friday at 4
p.m. on the UAW’s FM station in Cleveland. ‘‘Around
the Town,’’ as the program is
called, is sponsored on WCUO
and its sister station, WDET| FM, in Detroit by the Gerity
Michigan Corporation, makers
of Dishmaster, kitchen device
for washing dishes.
“‘Around the Town’”’ is aired
on WDET-FM
at 4:45 p. m.
week days.
oes
cele-
| bration, at which President Reuther
will be the
main
speaker.
a
labor administration out of the|
© 1980
at
throughout
Union Administration
— June 16,
17 and 18.
Stewards’ Training—June 23, 24
and 25.
your many}
Advanced
Collective
Bargaining
understand—July 1 and 2.
are deeply
Prize Drawing Rally—July 8 and
you afford- |
9.
First CIO Councilman in in- Community Services Program—
dustrial Waterloo, Iowa, city of
July 14, 15 and 16.
Members from all over the Re70,000 population, is Clarence
Lines, the Financial Secretary- |gion are expected to turn out on
Bro.
$8.
summer
scheduled
11,
Treasurer of Amalgamated
cal 838, UAW-CIO.
153
Er
been
institutes
ter, the UAW-CIO Region 4 Summer Camp,
for members
of local
unions in Illinois, Iowa.and
Nebraska.
, Education and PAC Representa| tives Willoughby Abner and Robert
| Johnston
said that the institutes
would run as follows:
Political Action—June 9, 10 and
Brother Schaar said, “how appreciative we are for the opportunity
afforded us to appear on ‘Brother
Chairman.’
from Israel,
the
yiigvote |
Is the one
ees
:
Teves
i Register!
YOUR
“I've got my future all figured out.
Commie party, and when
««. Witness fees...
UNION
A couple of years with the
| resign...
fame,
fortune,
prestige
STATIONS-—
WCUO-CLEVELAND, WDET-DETROIT |
LOCKPORT, N. Y.—Five victims of Bell Aircraft Corporation’s cold war against the UAW-CIO were each sentenced to
six months in jail here by Niagara County Judge John 8, Marsh
on Thursday, June 1. Their attorney, Charles J. McDonough,
promptly set the legal machinery in motion to obtain a stay of
execution of the sentence pending appeal of the convictions to
the Appellate Court in Rochester.
on
May
seven
men
ran
and
27
April
started
trial
mass
a
during
ment
for
which
| SQUIRM
four
frenzied
Bell’s
of
break
the
eal 501.
judg-
in
sitting
after
24
tails
a vérdict
rendered
that
and
women
five
of
jury
a
strike
AND
and
endeavor
smash
On
DETROIT—A pension plan guaranteeing a
$100 per month—but with provisions for it to go
per month when Social Security benefits are
signed here to cover members of Budd Local
poration had installed
trial was highlighted by fre- | Sound
system to jam
flurries of legal disputation ments from the Local
jury.
McDonough sought to prove,
direct testimony and submission
exhibits
in evidence,
craft’s
the
1949
brazen
of
MARTIN
the mer-
JUDGE
But
which
Air-
based.
Local
in-
objected
all
the
way
|
objec-
Miller’s
of
majority
tions. And ofttimes the judge himself intervened abruptly, interrupt-
ing
McDonough’s
witness,
timony
to
revealing
activities.
When
witness,
foot.
rule
examination
out
a
point
Bell’s
of
of a
tes-
anti-labor
Miller was working over a
the shoe was on the other
Over
McDonough’s
objectiohs,
Miller was permitted to range far
and wide in his questioning of witnesses.
His favorite trick was to
rephrase
testimony,
ard
the
substance
twisting
ivserting
new
the
words
of
inside
down
the
the
plant,
of assaults|¢rime
strike
tent.
UAW-CIO
Vice-President
John
W.
Livingston,
Director
of the}
|UAW-CIO
Aircraft
Department,
and Hugh Thompson, Buffalo CIO
| Regional Director, were key wit|nesses for the defense.
They told
of meeting with Bell officials on the
evening of September 6 and urging
‘a resumption of negotiations in or-|
der
to ease
the tension
on
the}
picket lines.
Bell’s response was
;summed up by Livingston in these
| words attributed to Julius Domon| kos,
Vice-Président
of Bell
Aircraft:
“Come on out and put on
| your demonstration—we are all set
for you.”
to any evidence pointing up Bell’s
strikebreaking motives and proyvocation
of
violence.
The.
record
shows
that the judge
upheld
the
great
jacks
of|
throwing
of the
strikers,
on
|stones at pickets from inside the}
to burn}
of threats
fence,
plant
INTERFERES
Miller
judge
jury.
was in effect coercing
His motion was denied:
the
At
ers and special deputies for its|all the way to the United States
shock troops.
They told of the| Supreme Court if necessary—to get
manufacture
of clubs and black-) justice for the men
whose only
break
the
for a
then moved
McDonough
mistrial and dismissal of the defendants on the grounds that the
defense
of their union.
PAY WINDOW}
the
by
late
said.
Lacey.
one?
Philadelphia
UAW-CIO
announced
and
the
Mike
basie benefit of
as high as $140
increased—was
306, it was an-
Local
in
March,
joint administration
are provided in the Local 306 pension plan, The basic monthly pension for a worker with 25 years of
service
at age
65 is $638.00 per
month,
efits.
plus
But
Social
Security
if the
total
is less
pension
up
to
with
15
| $100, the company
will
the difference
to bring
monthly
mark,
If
a
more
of
worker
service
before he
| guaranteed
month
until
ben-
than
make
up
the total
becomes
the
$100
years
or
disabled
reaches
age 65, he is
a pension of $80.00 per
he
reaches
65,
after
which he will receive the full pension
payment.
A $1,000
paid-up
life insurance
policy
is provided
for every. worker who retires un-
MIKE
der the plan.
A new feature provided in the
Local
306 plan
specifies
that
a
worker need only work 1,600 hours |
per year to qualify for his pension
credit for that year.
If he works
more
tra
than
1,600
hours
per
may
be
year,
the
carried
add
the
following
pension
credit
year.
The new contract
hospitalization
and
insurance
of
ex-
over
to
LACEY
which
pany,
to
policy,
is
half
paid
Lacey
the
also provides
a $3,000
life
for
said.
for
of
by
the
the
cost
com-
Trailmobile Joins
Pension Parade
392, covering
Local
Ohio—UAW-CIO
CINCINNATI,
the 500
-| workers at the Trailmobile Company here, has signed a pension
plan which meets and exceeds the standards fixed by the International Union, it was announced by Ray Ross, Director of
Region
2-A.
®
dance
with
non-contributory and governed by
a Joint Board
of Administration.
Social
Security
Slightly
guaranteed
reduced
pensions
are
for workers who retire
financing,
after
are
Ross
It
said
is based
that
on
the plan
fixed
with
the
cost
is funded,
per
company
hour
con-
tributing six cents
per hour
for
every hour worked by the eligible
workers.
A
basic
pension
of
$100
per
month is provided for workers who
retire
earlier | BIASED
meaning |
But
which the | judge
CHARGE
when the time came for the
to charge the jury, he told
was
1 Co-Director
follows
with
plant
Lacey
GERBER
Bell used supervisors, engineers,| tion of the five unionists.
The convictions will be appealed
office workers, scabs, strikebreak- |
the
petty
displant
gates
on
7—upon
were
to
UAW-CIO
501
had
provoked
turbances
at the
dictments
Bell
attempts
strike
September
that
closely
plan
Funding
in| Midnight of the same day the jury
vivid detail on the manner in which| Came back out with the convic-
by
of
The
813,
7,
the jurors in effect that
The
quent
on the part of Defense Attorney | car.
McDonough, Prosecutor William E. | DEFENSE TESTIMONY
Miller and Judge Marsh.
Defense witnesses testified
by Region
Budd
Lo-|
a counter!
announce-|
501 sound)
|nounced
negotiated
Deputies and plant guards, called|its of the strike and the union’s
weeks.
and sworn to identify the defend-| charges of provocation were none
The outcome fell far below Bell’s ants,
He referred to
andjof their concern.
twisted
and
squirmed
expectations—for all the Local 501 evaded,
Representatives
International
but finally admitted that|)the
leaders on trial were acquitted, and | Bell officials had shown them pic-|and
the leaders of Local 501 as}
these were the men that the cor- tures and put the finger on the) “the instigators of the whole busiporation wanted most of all to see | indicted unionists. When requested | ness.”
yanked out of the plant and sent
‘The jury began its deliberations
by McDonough to face away from!
to prison.
On
May 22.
evening,
the defendants, one of the chief| Monday
fingermen for Bell could not de-| Wednesday afternoon, May 24, the
EIGHTEEN FREED
jury came out and reported that it
those whom he accused.
There were 23 defendants under scribe
a
that
and
in disagreement,
many)}was
from
wrung
McDonough
indictment when the trial started.
Judge
“impossible.”
One was severed by the court due prosecution witnesses a verification | verdict was
Bell) Marsh lectured the jurors sternly,
that
union’s charge
to illness, nine were dismissed by of the
horses| ordered them to go back into sessheriff with
the
prosecution supplied
the
when
judge
the
rested, and eight were acquitted by | and helicopters, and that the cor-| sion and reach a verdict.
the
om
Detroit Local 306
to|
TWIST
2
Budd Signs With
A
Martin®
were:
sentenced
Those
Gerber, Director of UAW-CIO Re-| witness had never spoken, in an
gion 9; Ed Gray, Sub-Regional Di- effort to prejudice the jury.
Despite
these
legal
booby-traps
rector of UAW-CIO for the Buffalo area; Joseph Blackowicz, a rank |and roadblocks, Defense Attorney
conducted a brilliant
and file member of UAW-CIO Bell McDonough
Fried, presentation of the case for acquitAircraft Local 501; Donald
and tal.
witworker
prosecution
Steel
goaded
He
Bethlehem
a
and Joseph | nesses
Bell
that
confessing
into
member of USA-CIO;
Ippolito, a member of UAW-CIO) Aircraft had worked furiously behind the scenes in the preparation
Ford Local 425.
Gerber and Gray were convicted
of evidence against the 23 defend-| |
7
from)
elicited
further
He
of conspiracy, and Blackowicz, Fried | ants.
of the de- |
witnesses many
and Ippolito were convicted of riot- these
by
11
BELL TRIAL CONVICTIONS
FIVE TO APPEAL
ing
Page
UNITED, AUTOMOBILE: WORKER
June, 1950
1950 Cart
STrAmwiz
“Psst-Boss! Haye you tried to collect
a kickback from any of your crew
since they organized?”
at
age
65
years .of service,
Security benefits.
or older
including
However,
with
25}
reach
they
age
the
65.
exact
benefit
60
but
amount
of
increases.
before
Permanently
they
disabled
workers who are less than age 60
with 25 or more years of service
may retire on a pension of $50 per
month,
The
agreement
further
provides
Social| that the company will continue to
if and
pay four cents per hour for a
life
when
Social Security benefits are
insurance,
sickness
and
accident
increased, there will be no reduc-| insurance program,
in accordance
tion in the company tontributions,
with
the
terms
of a settlement
and the pension will rise in accorreached October
19, 1949.
ae
yy
“Yyy~"~"4n,
YM
yypocmec
y ppp ci}yy,
Vids a
This is a Bell helicopter—loaned with a pilot furnished
free to the Niagara County Sheriff—hovering over a picket
line to intimidate strikers with its noise and confusion.
|,
i
.
a
pai ai
e,
Despite the clamor in the press, claiming small companies can't afford pensions, UAWCIO is signing pension plans with many of the smaller companies. Above is a photo of a
pension plan being signed with the O & 8 Bearing Company in Detroit for its 100 workers.
Left to right, seated, are: Louis Brozman, President of UAW-CIO Local 697; Phil Maggio,
Region
1A
International
Representative,
and
Newton
Skillman,
Jr., Vice-President
of 0 & $
Bearing.
Left to right, standing, are: Tom Spencer, Alternate Committee Member; Helen Jelen
Financial Secretary; Walter Stibbles, Vice-President; Caroline Mandle, Recording Secretary; Anna Eszes, Committee Member, and Bill Rankin, Plant Superintendent,
UNITED
Page 12
—_——
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
UAW Wins 5-Year Fight Auto-Lite Council
For Fair Play in Bowling Prepares to Bargain
William
H.
Co-Director
Oliver.
of the UAW-CIO
Fair
Prac-
Vice-President
Richard Gosser, Director of the Auto-Lite
MEETS
tices and Anti-Discrimination Department, who is also Execu- | AIRCRAFT
Department, has sent out notice of a special meeting of the
Auto-Lite Council to be convene d shortly in Detroit, to go over
tive Secretary of the National Committee for Fair Play in Bowlpre-bargaining matters with de legates from the various Autoing, said on May 15 that the overwhelming decision of the
The UAW-CIO National Aircraft | Lite plants.
delegates to the American Bowling Congress convention in|
Department is calling two aircraft
The Auto-Lite Health and Pen-©
i
12,
May
in
removing
the
Caucasian
clause
from
Ohio,
Columbus,
conferences in the month of June|sion Program currently being pre-| ficers will be elected for the com-
the bowling organization's constitution
bowling to the American people.
the®
For
more
than
35 years,
American
Bowling
has
Congress
represents
the return of|for
John Rankin
Day
its}
excluded
non-Caucasians
from
sanctioned league and tournament|
WASHINGTON
— May
19 was
play.
It has always been the con- |
Rankin
Day
in the Senate.
tention of the National Committee | John
for
once
Fair
Play
the
in
Bowling
Executive
American
body
Bowling
of
At
that,
that
day,
the
rabid
anti-
Negro, anti-Semitic, anti-foreigner
Mississippi enemy
of FEPC
slith-
the
Congress
1 p.m.
rec-
ommended
this change, the dele- ered into the Senate chamber down
gates would vote in a democratic |to a front row of desks, peered at
the names, located the desk of an}
fashion.
The campaign to remove the col- absent Senator and sat down with
the pleased, eager air of a hungry
man
about to demolish a chicken
dinner.
or line from bowling was launched
in 1944 at the
by the UAW-CIO
American
Bowling
Congress
Con-
Rankin
was
not
disappointed.
the International
Executive| The 52-32 vote was 12 votes short
1946,
Board of the UAW-CIO, by unani- of the 64 needed under the Wherry
Amendment
to the Senate
rules,
mous
action,
established
a policy
which had been adopted March 11,
which
called
upon
all UAW-CIO
by
the
Dixiegop
coalition
local unions to sever relations with | 1949,
the American Bowling Congress if |after the Senate had rejected 46-41
Barkley ruling holding that
the ABC
did not amend its con- |the
stitution to admit all bowlers with- | the old Senate rule allowed a cloout regard
to race or nationality | ture vote to break a filibuster on a
at the end of the 1947 bowling sea- | motion-to-take-up-a-bill as well as
upon a bill itself.
son.
vention
in
Buffalo.
In
December,
In 1947, the* UAW-CIO,
eration
with
more
than
in
Had
coop- |
25 na- present
all
absent
and voting
Senators
been
May 19, only 63
the
purpose
of formulating
a| pared by Vice-President Gosser with | ing year.
The
regular
officer
~~
IN L. A. AND N. Y.
elec-
| program
in support of their 1950) the assistance of the Social Secu- | tion
meeting
scheduled
for Vin| economic demands.
| rity Department, will be discussed | cennes, Ind., was deferred.
Aircraft local unions located east | with the delegates prior to submisA review
of current
drives on
of the Mississippi River will attend sion
to
the
Auto-Lite
Company.
Auto-Lite plants outside of the
|the Eastern Aircraft Conference
| Final details of bargaining proce- | UAW-CIO will also be made.
The
jon June 17-18 at the Piccadilly dure will also be worked out.
| Auto-Lite
plants under. organiza| Hotel in New York City.
Lockland, Ohio; CompHistorically,,
Auto-Lite
negotia- tion are:
|
Aircraft
local
unions
located | tions are coordinated so that the} ton, Cal.; Toronto, Can.; Hazelton,
west of the Mississippi River will| weight of the Auto-Lite plants is Pa., and Woodstock, Ill.
attend the Western Aircraft Con-| joined together in concerted action
At Sharonville, Ohio, where AFL
|ference on June 24-25 at the Wil- |that
has failed
to negotiate
a signed
follows
closely
on
Chrysler
ton Hotel in Long Beach, Califor-| | settlements.
Auto-Lite, ‘one of the agreement for the past 11 months,
jnia,
An approximate total of 150 | world’s
is marking
time
until
largest
independent
pro- | UAW-CIO
delegates
are
expected
to attend |ducers of automobile
parts, is the action can be taken to support the
the conference representing 27 air- |largest
single source
of supplies growing ranks of UAW-CIO adher|craft local unions in nine regions
jents
clamoring
for
action
under
for the Chrysler Corporation.
throughout the country.
| At this meeting, also, Council of-| UAW-CIO.
Whose Political Hay?
FEPC Loses in First Test;
Dixiecrats Win More Delay
WASHINGTON
—As the price exacted by Southern Demo-®
tional organizations, established | would have voted for FEPC, Sena| they asked that FEPC be kept berenewal
of
rent
control
to
the
erats
for
bringing
a
six
months’
the National
Committee
for Fair tor Withers (D., Ky.) having anfore the Senate and fought to a
Play in Bowling in the city of Chi- ;nounced that if he had been pres- Senate
floor before rent control expires June 30, the shadow- | final Votelevenhifninteresiden cuir
}ent he would
have voted against
cago.
set aside and postponed after the) ™an's words, “it takes all sumbeen
has
fight
FEPC
|boxing
breaking
the
filibuster.
However,
During 1948, in an effort to open|
| mer.” Supporters of FEPC are exbowling to all American people on| Supporters of FEPC pointed out | May 19 attempt to break the filibuster failed; 52 to 32.
pected to renew this demand, along
a democratic
through
its
Recreation.
ment,
sponsored
which
were
American
The
Fair
ciate
Bowling
highly
in
Depart-|the
of All- | licans
successful.
Bowling
and
for
its asso-
appeared
be-
fore the Executive
body
of the
American
Bowling
Congress
on)
several occasions in an attempt to
persuade
the officials of ABC
to
delete
Caucasian
ruling.
In 1947,
Brother
the Executive body
Oliver
of the
ican
its
Bowling
Congress,
asked
Amer-
meeting
had
vote
the
competition
tournaments Would
Committee
organizations
| that,
UAW-CIO,
series
a
National
Play
the
basis,
and
have
been
between
non-southern
been
so keen
this
close,
Repub-
Democrats
Los Angeles, to end discrimination.
In 1948, Walter P. Reuther, President of the UAW-CIO, made a similar plea before
the
Executive
body in Detroit. In 1949, the UAW,
the Anti-Defamation
League,
the
American
Jewish
Committee,
the
The
voting
over,
John
withdrawing
take
up
Rankin
FEPC,
his
motion
Senate
to®
Majority
the
lines
of
| filibuster, are trying to make polit- | Statement,
the
Randolph-Wilkins
which
follows:
“For
too
long
the
Dixiecrats
said | ical hay of the bad showing made |
it had to be done in order to take| by the Democrats on May 19 when | alone have been blamed for strangling civil rights legislation in the
| eight non-Southerners were absent,
up the Commodity Credit Bill and
only 19 voted to break the filibus-| Senate.
Today’s vote shows that
H. R. 6000, the bill increasing benter and 26 voted to continue the) | both
major
parties
are
playing
The | hide and seek with FEPC.
Both
| efits and extending coverage of the filibuster and against FEPC.
and
non-Southern
Republicans delivered
33 all
votes for | Republican
Social Security Act.
Senators
the motion to
break the
filibuster, | Democratic
who
voted
Bankin
By
Soi we CU seus
aoe
5 | put six Republicans voted for the) |last year for the new 64-vote cloand against FEPC, anall ture rule voted against cloture
Chair- | filibuster
Committee
}and Currency
man Burnet Maybank’s
(D.,S.C.)| three were absent.
| today or were absent. If they had
the new: Senate rule re- | supported the rule they helped to
Under
earlier ultimatum that rent control
| pass, more than the necessary 64
|
debate,
limit
to
votes
64
quiring
|
Commithis
of
out
come
not
would
|
| votes would have been obtained.
absent
Senators
in
effect
vote}
| tee while FEPC was on the floor,
“It is time for both parties to
AS
sd
inst breaki
fili
that one | Leader
| vote might have been obtained by a
switch either of one of the six Republican votes cast against cloture
|—Bridges (N. H.), Acton (Mont.),
Gueney
(N.
D.),
Malone
(Nev.),
|/Munat (S. D.), Young (N. D.)—or
of the five non-Southern Democratic votes cast against cloture—Hayden (Ariz.), Johnson (Colo.), Kerr
(Okla.), McCarran
(Nev.), McFar}land (Ariz.).
in|}
In
Scott
Lucas (D., Ill.)
slithered out of the Senate chamber back to the House
to break | observers concluded that a princei- | #82!NS
filibuster.
reaking-a:
| stop
Fair
Deal
Democrat
leaders,
em#|
the good news to him and his ilk
parrassed’ by. the! 19svote showing cloak
| pal reason for Lucas’ withdrawal
that FEPC had been beaten again.
| of
his
| FEPC
motion
own
was
to
get
to
action
take
up| | on
on
rent| the
in a decision rendered
by Judge
control.
Lucas had stated, imme- |
John Barbaro in the Superior Court
diately after the May 19 vote, that|
NAACP,
and several other organ|
AmerThe
Illinois.
County,
of Cook
the case for fair
izations pressed
ican Bowling
Congress was fined | he would call for another cloture
play before the American Bowling
$2,500 because of its discriminatory | vote,to break the Southern Demo-|
Congress at its Atlantic City meetpractices.
cratic filibuster against FEPC at a
ing.
|
legal suits were filed in| future date when
Other
more Senators|
It was then that the Congress
New
York
State by the NAACP, |
stated publicly that it would give
| would be on hand to vote.
American
Jewish
Committee
serious
consideration
to
the
re- the
BI-PARTISANSHIP
League.
Anftt-Defamation
the
and
moval of its Caucasian rule.
But
Minority Leader Kenneth S.
it was necessary to start the filing In Wisconsin, suits were instituted |
by the Governor’s Commission
on
of legal action against the AmerWherry
(R., Nebr.) and other Reand}
NAACP,
the
Rights,
Human
to
bring}
ican
Bowling
Congress
| publicans who on March 11, 1949,
was
Action
organizations.
about democratic
participation in other
the Senate with the|
also taken in Minneapolis by the| handcuffed
the national pastime of bowling.
64}
requiring
amendment
Wherry
|
NAACP
and
other
friendly
groups.
The first legal action was taken|
of the Senate}
(two-thirds
votes
On Friday, May 5, the Michigan|
by Mr. Philip Murray on behalf of|
|membership of 96) to break the|
ee
a
filed
Rights
Civil
on
Committ
,
CIO,
supported
by
the
National
General
Attorney
with
Illi- |}complaint
County,
in Cook
UAW-CIO,
Stephen Roth, of Michigan, urging
nois, in October,
1949.
The
CIO
won this action on April 22, 1950, that he take similar action.
19,
May
Lucas
are
motion
certain
to
take
using
the
for their
to bring| |or their own
rights issues.
up FEPC
Dixiecrats
as
own irresponsibility
insincerity
on civil
“The defeat of the cloture moback to the floor before Congress
|adjourns, but their hopes do not | | tion today lies directly at the door
Demogo beyond achieving a vote of two- | of those Republicans and
| thirds of-those present and voting.| |erats who
exercised
a minority
their
absence
and
This will support their campaign| veto through
killed| failure to vote.
was
FEPC
that
| charges
“Cloture can be applied.
We into take up
amendment was adopted by a vote |sist that the motion
FEPC be kept before the Senate,
of 63-23.
| that more cloture votes be taken
|“ALL SUMMER .
.”
until the leadership and members
;
,
Lucas’
June
5 action
in withof both parties meet their respondrawing his own motion to take up | sibility for producing enough votes
|FEPC is contrary to the proposal | to honor their party pledges.
“President
Truman
is right in
made by A. Philip Randolph and|
Roy Wilkins, spokesmen for organ- | insisting that this issue be put to
Immedemocratic debate and vote, even
izations supporting FEPC.
diately after the May 19 defeat,| if it takes all summer.”
March
11,
1949,
when ‘the Wherry |
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