United Automobile Worker

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Media

Title
United Automobile Worker
Date
1950-06-01
Alternative Title
Vol. 14 No. 6
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VOL.

14,

NO.

6

JUNE,

a



Y

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?
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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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