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Allis-Chalmers, Briggs Workers Make Solid Gains
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you
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In Case You Didn’t Notice Last Issue:
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TEN
REASONS
FOR POLITICAL ACTION
See Pages 6 and 7
See Page 11
New York World Telegram; UAW Helps
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picket line, Returning to Detroit, Reuther carried through on
a pledge made in New York and wrote Guild leaders that the
UAW-CLO would contribute $1,500 a week “for the duration”
to aid the strikers and their families. The first check was enclosed,
UNITED
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AUTOMOBILE
July, 1950
WORKER
Briggs Workers Win Wage Hike,
Pensions, Insurance, Union Shop
Mazey Calls Settlement
A Milestone of Progress
azey, UAW-CIO Secretary-Treasurer and
DETROIT
Director of the Union’s Briggs Department, announced that the
UAW-CIO reached another milestone in winning a Union Shopthe Briggs |
with
Check-Off -collective bargaining agreement
Manufacturing Company, in addition to a pension plan, medical |
insurance program, a general 5e per hour wage increase, which
took effect on July 3, 1950, a 3c additional ewage increase for
Evansville workers, improved vacation pay and approximately
28
other
gains
in the
collective
bargaining
agreement.
°
$7,500,000 BENEFITS
Mazey stated that the new eco- ||
nomic package was worth $7,500,-/
000.in increased benefits annually |}
at}
worth
and
workers
to Briggs
least five cents an hour more than|}
the settlement recently made with}
the Chrysler Corporation.
Winning of the union shop and}
check-off gives the UAW-CIO full
and
complete
first
time
13
in
bargaining
with
years
the
facturing Company.
provides
clause
by
the
after
the
covered
for
recognition
that
the}
Manu-
Briggs
all
Brigg
s
Barga
iners
‘Conferences Shape Aircraft
Praise
Aid
From
1950 Bargaining Program
Strikers
The National Aircraft Department, directed by Vice-Presi-| Chrysler
collective
of
The
Briggs workers lined up in the Local 212 hall in Detroit on Thursday, June 29, to cast ballots overwhelmingly approving the new contract. PAC enthusiasts got in their plug during
the ratification with a big slogan on the blackboard behind the ballot box.
|
union-shop
employees
agreement,
who
dent John W. Livingston announced the 1950 Aircraft Economie
|Pregram following the Eastern Aircraft Conference of aircraft|
local unions east of the Mississippi in New York on June 17-18,
and the Western Aircraft Conference composed of delegates}
from aircraft locals west of the Mississippi in Long Beach, California, on June 24-25.
©
are
of the Union,
members
not now
10
within
members
become
must
days
the
signing
PENSION
30th
of the
day
following
agreement.
AGREEMENT
The
pension
similar to that
Over
agreement
is very
|:
recently negotiated | *
fae
The
Geoniinereassd
| Blue
life insur- |
sromiSl000
BI’
to $3,600, with the Company
tributing $1.32 monthly to the
Shield
Company
2
ical
con-|
pay- | Pais
The
ment of this insurance. The agree-|
ment provides for paid-up life | made
delegates
50,000 aircraft
EMIL MAZEY
with the Chrysler Corporation and|
it provides pensions of $100 a month}
|for sickness.
It is estimated that |
at the age of 65 with 25 years’ serv| the Company will contribute $1.12
ice, with Social Security benefits.
this disability insurance.
, | towards
the
ULhe ene rcerien
Ing ee
&& |The Company will contribute $1.50
we;
S
g
|
insurlife
get improved
workers
tenner Ten aes |towards improved Blue Cross and
a eg
ae
ererS
SIC
pitalization benefits.
70
coverage.
:
;
contribution
insurance
One
total
The
for
program
the
will
med-
be
Negotiating Committee was
up of Secretary-Treasurer| |
craft
local
|regions
| heard
.
workers
unions
throughout
.
Director
craft Department,
| to the delegates:
from
and
Vice-President
ingston,
representing
of
26 air- |
nine
the
John
the
make
UAW
MORE
INSURANCE
cial
Secretary,
Local
742;
Orville|
paid
aircraft
mands
UAW
A
Liv-
by
per
delegates
20 Cents
of
both a conferences
sdaphed
ae
calling
Air-| cents
the
conferences.
Demand
W.
ed
no
for
hour
economic
than
de-
less
20
in contract
negotia+
this pledge | tions’ this fall for aircraft workers.
The 20-cent package will be allo-
rest of the organized work-
wages
the
Delegates
Guaninonely
ers in the heavy goods industries
insurance of $1,000 for workers who | Emil Mazey; Jess Ferrazza, Assistretire with 25 years’ service, $750 | ant Director of the Briggs Depart- | of this nation,”
for workers retiring with 20 to 24|)ment; Ken Morris, President, LoThis pledge was based on the
years’ service and $500 for workers| cal 212; Pat Caruso, Vice-President, | fact that wages paid aircraft workretiring with 15 to 19 years’ service. | Local 212; Jim Cichocki, President, | ers are presently 10 cents per hour
Local 742; Charles Malesev, Finanbelow
| of
adopted
country}
“We
will work for and with
you in every conceivable area to
consolidate the economic position
of the aircraft workers with that
of the
demands
in the rest of-the
Weekly disability sickness insur-| Johnson, Recording Secretary, Lo |heavy goods industries, When the}
settlement becomes the
ance has been increased from $12.50 | cal 742; and Brothers Ray Blythe, | recent GM
William} pattern, the aircraft wage structure
and
McLaughlin
a week for 13 weeks to $28 a week | Charles
for 26 weeks, beginning on the first | Milligan of Local 265, Evansville,| | will lag by 15 cents per hour unless
| the aircraft industry meets the just
day of accident and the fourth day | Ind.
cated in the following
|.
1. A
general
2. A
medical
manner:
wage
increase
for
and
hospital
in-
all employees covered by UAWCIO agreements in the aircraft
industry of 10 cents per hour.
surance program paid for by the
company
and in excess of any
existent plans in an amount of
benefits requiring no -less than
five cents per hour per employee.
3. Extended vacation plans of
three weeks’ minimum
vacation
or two weeks’ vacation and not
less than one week sick leave to
be
applied
on
a
pro-rated
basis
and with a qualifying period for
eligibility not to exceed one year.
A severance pay plan entitling
a worker at the time of layoff to
not
less
than
Elimination
and
the
matic
a week’s
of
merit
pay.
increase
establishment
of
auto-
progression.
Elimination of more than two
sub-divisions of any job classification
Five
within
cents
economic
the
to be
program
wage
structure.
applied
in the
for those items
covered in point three and those
items to be negotiated consistent
with the needs of the local union
and the provisions of the reopening clause of the current agree-
The Briggs UAW-CIO Negotiating Committee issued the following
statement acclaiming the contribution of the Chrysler strikers: and
the GM workers to the winning of
the new Briggs contract:
“We wish to take this opportu|nity to acknowledge the part played
by the Chrysler workers in their
historic hundred-day strike to the
ultimate settlement that we reached
with the
Briggs
Manufacturing
Company.
We sincerely believe that
the Chrysler strike paved the way
for the favorable
settlement
we
won
in negotiations with Briggs.
We wish to also gratefully acknowl-
edge the part that the General Motors contract played in our winning
|a settlement superior to the Chrys| ler settlement.”
tions, in addition to substantial general
wage
increase,
will
be
the
Union's drive toward hospital-medical-surgical insurance, paid for by
the employer and designed to protect every aircraft worker in the
UAW
and his dependents against
all expenses at the time of illness.
Wage
and
contract
data
covering
aircraft
local
unions
in
the
| all
United States, as well as statistics
| covering other vital economic
issues, were presented and discussed
during the conference.
The conferences went on record
in 100 per cent support of the program of CIO PAC and ‘pledged re-
| newed efforts in that direction
this fall.
|
Back Political Action
Livingston,
that “the
ernment
dustry
aircraft
active
manner
his
subsidizes
makes
in
in
in which
the
stated
the
aircraft
it,imperative
workers
PAC.
report,
particularly
The
for
personal
gov-
in-
that
are
for-
tunes that have
already
been
ment.
| amassed by aircraft industrialists
Paul M. Russo, Assistant Director through government contracts have
of the National Aircraft Depart-| | not been without regard to political
ment, conducted both conferences action on the part of aircraft exand impressed upon the delegates ecutives.”
the fact that only aircraft workers
The Eastern Aircraft Conference
organized under the banner of the
was addressed by Jerome Pollack,
UAW-CIO will be eligible for conof the Social Security Department,
tract gains this year. All other airand by Regional Directors Gerber,
craft contracts are closed until 1951,
Kerrigan and Starling.
He stated: “If aircraft workers are
The Western Aircraft Conference
to get any gains in 1950 it can only
Harry
by
talks
heard
delegates
be through the UAW-CIO, Whether
any of the ‘gravy’ of the greatest) 4 Becker, Director of the Social SeDepartment,
and
Regional
profit year in the history of corpo-| |curity
Letner and O'Halloran.
rate America will find its way into | Directors
The
conferences
by unanimous
|the aircraft worker’s pay envelope
is the
issue
in negotiations
this | action adopted resolutions calling
A hot tamale wagon has been pressed into service as a mobile strike kitchen by the 165
members of the Chicago Steel Foundry unit of UAW-CIO Local 734 in Chicago. They walked
out on June 1 in support of demands for a wage increase, insurance and contract improvements. Earl Whalen (center in plaid jacket), President of Local 734, said: ““We only got a
nickel in 1948—and we’ve been negotiating for a year on 1949 demands. That puts us about
18 cents per hour behind—so we're striking to try to catch up with the pattern,’’
of the
are deter- | for
UAW,
year,
We,
eurity
to our aircraft
full
scale
efforts
towards
the
unorganized
the
of
mined to make the answer to that} organization
question one which will bring in- | workers in aircraft plants now uncreased purchasing power and se-| |der contract and the organization
membershap.| | of white
collar workers
in the air-
That is why we refused to close our | craft industry in cooperation with
Office Workers Departthe UAW
contracts last year beyond 1950.”
The
principal
issue
in
negotia-}
ment.
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
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WORKER
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July, 1950
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Union Shop, Pensions, Wage Increases
Won in New Allis-Chalmers Contract
If
3
Rising from the absolute wreckage of their union two years ago, Allis-Chalmers workers have won
an agreement from the Corporation that, in the light
of the collective bargaining history of the strife-ridden Local 248, is considered sensational.
The workers’ vote ratifying the new contract was
unanimous.
wo
vi
if
The new contract provides for the modified union shop, 4 |
first-rate pension plan, a medical-hospital and insurance plan| |
|
can
which
clause
r
escalato
an
by
d
protecte
increase
and a wage
reduce
but cannot
upward
wages
move
wages.
Vice-President John W. Livingston, Director of the UAW-|
CIO Agricultural Implement Department, who led the negotiations, said that the new agreement ‘‘affords an opportunity for
the building of mutual respect between the parties. I believe
that it may be the foundation of a strong and lasting peace.”’
Under Communist leadership, Local 248 had gone down to
less than 200 members. Relations with the Company had deteriorated to the point where collective bargaining had ceased
to exist. Then, with the assistance of, the International Union,
the rank and file workers regained control of thei Union and
began to rebuild. How. successfully they did the job is shown
by the signing of an agreement containing terms which no observer two years ago would have believed possible.
and maintaining the Company’s|
eI
in regard
philosophy
basic
|
union membership.
2. A three cents per hour general | 7
wage increase effective immedi-|
ately and another three cents at|
the beginning of the second year |
At the end A
of the contract.
the second year, the parties may |
continue the three cents per hour |
for each of the three remaining|
years, or either party may ask}7
that the contract be opened for|
Creation
mittee
fund
of a joint
on
rates
equal
3.
in
An
in
equities.
increase
$3,000
from
minimum
with
60
month
4.
5.
An
the
cents
to 45
amended
provides
pay
cents
to be used
adjustments
ance
of
to two
per employee
study
the
the
with
per
cents.
vacation
a three
group
in-|
insur-
$2,000
to}
reduced
$1,000
plan
weeks’
per
previously-announced
|
vacation
master
|
le
at
strike
eight-week-old
Mich.—The
RAPIDS,
GRAND
the
American Seating Co. was settled early this month as more than|
1,300 members of Local 135, UAW-CIO, overwhelmingly ap‘)proved a new three-year working agreement, a five-year pact|
on pensions and a wage and insurance contract which runs for|
Economic
per
JOHN
W.
hour
gains
and
discipline,
LIVINGSTON
procedures.
totaled
11 cents
Sey Tes
sett BID Peel
o=
one year.
insurance
of the
| program, extension
}
The
$100
pension
maximum
provision
calls
benefits,
for
includ-
covers employees represented by
ing social security, after 25 years
and on the}
the UAW-CILO at West Allis; La |tions only on wages
of service.
Early
retirement
is
lright
of
the
arbitrator
to
modify
|
TIL;
Springfield,
Wis.;
Crosse,
permitted at age 60 after 15 years
|
discipline.
A
no-strike
clause
proGadsden,
and
Pa.;
Pittsburgh,
hibits work stoppages except fol-| of service. Benefits will be paid
Ala., plants.
on the basis of $4 per month for
|lowing
a
strike
referendum
during
|
changes
6. Grievance machinery
each year of service.
|
the
one
reopening
period.
}
providing for increased particibe
to
program,
insurance
The
Daily negotiations, including eve-|
pation of Union bargaining committeemen,
on
Company
time, |ning sessions, have been conducted | financed entirely by the Company,
Representing the|Provides life coverage of $2,000,
19.
and the international represent- since June
ative
in grievance
processing.
UAW-CIO
were
Livingston,
Law-
$1,000
for
accidental
death
and
dis-
rence J. Carlstrom, Assistant Di-|memberment
and weekly sick and
rector of the Agricultural
Imple-| accident benefits of from $17.40 to
to match employee contributions
Department;
Harvey
Kitz- | $38.50 for a period of 26 weeks.
to the Mutual Aid Society on the |ment
Director;
Anthony |
The Company also pays for Blue
basis of the increased health and man, Regional
Company
accident
agreed
insurance
to continue
benefits
made
Ip
ae
eeae
Audia,
tive, and
International
Charles
of the Local
mittee,
Wie
| Pension Plan
DETROIT—Norman
UAW-CIO
Region
Matthews,
1
Co-Director,
and Clayton O’Donohue,
president
of Local 80, announced the signing
of a new
contract
covering
ployed by
Company.
The
the
and
1,000
Gemmer
contract,
pension
workers
to
the tremendous demand for new cars it
three days before delivery can be made."
em-
Manufacturing
signed
on
Representa-|Cross
hospitalization
Schultz, chairman | the worker
248 Bargaining
and
Com-| tion up to $150.
Major
coverage
for surgical
non-economic
for
protec-
improve-
an
inereased
| cation
bonus
in
June
lieu
12,
of
va-
adjustments.
ments
included
agreement
on
a
union
shop and
the
right
of the
Union
to have access to data
on
time standards. The strike had been
called
in
protest
to
the
Company's
insistence that it had the sole right
to determine production standards.
The
pact
was
negotiated
committee
headed
by
local
dent
Paul
Rudzinski
and
chairman
ing
John
John
Morris
Annulis,
secretary;
Louis
and
Jr.,
Sarog,
by a
presishop
includ-
recording
vice-presi-
|dent; Bill Nelson, Art Gale, Frank
Droski,
Morris
Morningstar,
my
Thorndill,
Milo
| Julius Bockheim, Mel
Joe Griegas.
Tom-
Mulholland,
Smedes and
“‘Come and get your coffee, brothers,’’ says the strike
chef in charge of the Local 135 kitchen trailer in Grand
Rapids. Pickets were on duty 24 hours a day at the American Seating plant, where 1,375 workers walked out May 8
in support of demands
for pensions,
insurance,
contract im-
provements and modification of the incentive system.
“Due
plan
covered a pension| Coverage, a three-cent hourly gen- |
provides
the
same
benefits
that
improveand
increase
wage
——______—_——|eral
were won by the Chrysler strikers,
|ments in the vacation pay and holij}and in addition gives the workers
seniority
and
layoff day pay plans.
The contract may be reopened at|
the end of, two years for negotia- |
pension plan offering $100 per
available to employees through
month
maximum
pensions,
inthe Mutual Aid Society earlier
cluding federal benefits, to emthis year.
ployees retiring at age 65 with | 8. Changes requested by the UAW
25 years of service.
This plan |
in contract sections relating to
eeTD
| [gealsO
American Seating Strike
which | 7. The
for employees with 15 or S
years of continuous service.
A
|
hour
of
premium
per
a
for rate|
area
from
com-
Assistant
Carlstrom,
Lawrence
Kitzman;
Harvey
11-Cent Package Ends
negotiations.
adjustments|
wage
Additional
for certain skilled occupations.
A cost-of-living formula providing an adjustment of one cent |
per hour for each 1.25 change in
the Bureau of Labor Statistics|
cost-of-living index. Adjustments |
to be
are
formula
the
under
|
made semi-annually.
10 Director
Region
Director of the UAW Agricultural Implement Department; Tony Audia, Int’] Representative, Agricultural Implement Department; Carl Sage (behind Audia), Richard Jones, Ray
Maxim and Douglas Bennett, members of the Local 248 Bargai ning Committee. Not pictured
is Vice-President Livingston, who was credited with the major role in winning the contract.
clause providing for a modified|
union shop similar in many xe-|
spects to that at General piers
wage
President;
248
Local
securities”
“mutual
unique
1. A
The UAW-CIO Allis-Chalmers bargaining team at the signing of the history-making contract. Above from left: Joseph Glynn, Local 248 Bargaining Committee; Charles Schultz,
pro-@
contract
major
the
Among
visions:
y)
will
be
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CIO
Nash Worker Werve,
Is Just Going to Rest
“Clang!’’ ? goes the clock for ©
the final punch of Ted Werve’s
time card—and he’s on his way
home to rest with a well-earned |
pension of $100 per month
guaranteed under the new Local 72 contract with Nash-Kelvinator.
KENOSHA, Wisconsin—‘‘I’ve been working steady for ov er?
60 years—and now I’m going to take a good rest, by golly!’’
says Ted Werve, age 73, one of the first Nash-Kelvinator works to retire here on July 1. As a member of UAW-CIO. Local
72, he will get®a $100-a-month pension under the plan negotiated
by the Union.
When
ing
for
Brother
he
said
more
Werve
he
had
been
toil-©
than
six decades,
wasn’t kidding.
In
north
of
the
toddling
of Chicago. Ted was born
March 26 of that year.
&
there
city
tion
on
“We
got straight
but we only worked 9%
got paid for 10 hours.”
hours
like a plague.
About
four | his marriage,
Becker,
told
the
they
are putting
public
time,
and
John
tee
for
he
chinists
much
that
cians
cringe
went
on
strike
in
the|f0r
the next
kept
this job
11 years, while Keno-
East. Their ranks were shattered|Sha gradually changed from
by the militia in a series of bloody | farmers’ shopping center into
riots. That was the same year that | 8TOwing
industrial
center.
a
a
“T stayed right there in that paint
shop
for
about
34
years,”
Ted
says. “The wages were something
like 80 cents per hour there in the
paint shop in 1916—but we often
the
quit
for straight time.”
It wasn’t until 17 years later, in
1933, that the Nash workers succeeded in organizing a union. First
they were in an AFL federal local,
farm just outside Kenosha.
went to school until he finished
fifth grade,
then worked
on
farm until he was 21.
On his own, Ted hired in at
tannery that his father had
Ted
the
the
worked
as
much
as
12
hours
Workers,
kind
of
fight
nation-
is undermining
in
doctors,
AMA’s
distribu-
a million
Flynn
He
copies
book,
“The
pointed
out,
would
make
with
Government.
“stands
most
for
physi-
embarrassment.”
is spending in the fight against national
health
insurance
actually
“has promoted public awareness of
the insurance idea and the advantages of prepayment,” Becker told
the
Granddaughters—Kathleen Uttech, left, and Marlene
Dainko, right—pose with Grandfather Werve on the porch
of his frame house on 60th Street in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
a day
but in 1936 they cast their lot in
with the youthful UAW-CIO. Local
72 has represented them ever since
that time. “The plant has been a
lot different since then,” Ted says.
“I was one of the first couple of
dozen fellows
to sign up in the
Union, and I’ve gone to a good lot
of Union
meetings since then.
I
don’t go much lately, though—too
tired.”
OWNS
HOME
Ted
owns
his
own
two-story
frame house, located within walking distance of the Nash plant. He
lives there with two of his married
daughters—and
there are three
grandchildren to keep him company.
Three
other
grandchildren
live elsewhere, but he is fond of
them all.
A member
of the St.
Thomas Catholic Parish in Kenosha, Brother Werve attends church
regularly.
“I’ve
years,”
After 34 years in the Nash Kenosha paint shop, Ted
Werve’s last job was wiping off hood panels on a conveyor
carrying them to the sprayers.
di-
BOOMERANG
The millions of dollars which AMA
the U. S. Supreme Court declare
| NASH
SINCE 1916
d
unconstitutional an eight-hour day
In
1916,
Ted
found
he
could
law for government workers,
make a better living by getting a
job with Nash.
He went to work|
ROUGH GOING
It was
rough
going
for young | there in the paint shop, where his
Ted from the start.
His father, a first job was that of dipping parts.
German immigrant, had a big family—finally totalling 12 children in
all.
Unable to support this brood
on his scanty wages as a tannery
worker, Ted’s father settled on a
security
Auto
Constitutional
CCG,
He
T.
they
coating.
up against
confidence
the
And
sugar
insurance
Asso-
Road Ahead,” which Becker termed
“a book of half truths and scare
words,” promoted by the Commit-
Ted quit the tannery
motorman.
25.
the
especially hit the
tion of more than
of
conven-
Medical
social
medicos
al health
by a union
annual
rector of the United
months after Ted’s birth in 1877,|Nd took a job as a Kenosha street
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad ma-|C@%
the
of the American
Harry
Ted didn’t know it, but he was}. At the age of 26, after five years
born in a year of grumbling unrest |i2 the tannery, Ted got married.
and strife among American work-|His wife, Helen, who mothered
ers. Following the panic of 1873,| three girls and three boys, died 20
mass unemployment ravaged the | Years ago in 1930. Two years after
country
at
truths
ciation
here
June
were given without
to take up farming. “I worked 10
hours a day, six days a week, for
wryly.
unpalatable
spokesman
i
adds
SAN
FRANCISCO
(LPA)—The
nation’s organized doctors were told
some
1877, Kenosha was just a small | $1.25 a day—and my pay was $7.50
frontier settlement on the Wiscon-| Per week,”
Ted says. “We a it
sin shore of Lake Michigan, a few] 2 little easier on Saturday,”
he
miles
Becker Gives
Diagnosis of
AMA Policy
sch
International
been tired for quite a few
Ted says. “But there wasn’t
much I could do about it until the
Union
got
us
this $100-a-month
pension.
Now
I’m just going to
rest and smoke my pipe. Oh, maybe
T'll mess around fixing the house
up a little bit—but mostly Ill just
rest.”
$1.05 Floor
Nailed Under
Aircratt Wage
doctors.
deserves
for
ance
for
to
the
making
that
certain
lems
do
as public
AMA,
therefore,
not-often-expressed
helping
to
“The
‘sell’
health
American
our
and
insur-
people
Congress
national
exist,
credit
health
that
they
and
aware
probexist
issues,”
Timed to coincide with the opening of its convention, AMA
announced
it will
spend
$1,110,000
in
the month before the fall election,
on a giant advertising campaign in
newspapers and on the radio, ‘‘to
alert the American people to the
WASHINGTON — Secretary
of}
danger of socialized medicine and
Labor
Maurice
Tobin
announced
to the threatening
trend
toward
here, June 19, that a new minimum
wage of $1.05 per hour was to be- state socialism in this country.”
Becker asked the doctors whethcome effective in the aircraft iner AMA approval of private-profit
dustry on July 8, 1950.
prepay ment
The old minimum
rate was 50 insurance company
in
cents per hour. Action to raise the plans might not be “given...
floor followed after 10 months of exchange for their opposition to national health insurance rather than
jnearings conducted by the Labor
on the merit of their programs.”
Department.
Both
the UAW-CIO
and the IAM, which together rep- INADEQUATE PLANS
resent the great majority of Amerthe Blue Shield medical
Even
ican aircraft workers, participated care plans, which are doctor-conin the hearings,
trolled and AMA-endorsed, are not
This action will bring wage in- satisfactory
million-odd
the
for
creases to about
5,000 aircraft
UAW members for whom the Union
workers, mostly employed in non- is negotiating, Becker said.
Blue
union shops.
Shield, like the insurance company
The importance of the new floor, plans, “falls far short of meeting
however, lies in the fact that it requirements for prepaid medical
prevents non-union plants from un- care programs when measured by
derbidding on government contracts the yardstick used by the AMA in
by paying lower starting rates and evaluating national health insurlower rates generally to unskilled ance proposals,” according to the
UAW spokesman.
workers.
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UNITED
July, 1950
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
WORLD’S FREE UNIONS
SUPPORT KOREAN STAND
BRUSSELS, Belgium (LPA)—In a scorching statement denouncing Communist aggression, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions voiced full support for the action of
the United Nations Security Council in the Korean crisis and
strongly endorsed the steps taken by the United States, Great
Britain and other UN members to restore peace in Korea. The
complete ICFTU statement follows:
of
50%
forces
on|
behalf
on
ICFTU,
“The
=
for totalitarian
ag‘support
|umn
million democratic trade unionists|
gressive design.
the world, registers a}
throughout
“This is clearly the latest move
protest against the fla-|
vehement
grant and unprovoked armed attack | in a systematic plan for enlarging
by Communist
launched
—by armed force if necessary—the
totalitarian sphere of influence. For,
whatever the merits of any dispute
Southern Korea.
“At the same time, we welcome
the firm stand which has been tak-
between North and South Korea,
now that the existing
en by the UN Security Council for we believe
countering
this act of aggression} machinery of the UN for the mainand the amicable
and for the restoration of peace in| tenance of peace
ences was adeKorea. This UN action will, we are| |settlement of differ
quate for the purpose, and enjoys
convinced, secure the wholehearted
lovers.of
support of all free and democratic the confidence of sincere
.
trade unions which will undoubted- peace everywhere
“In the firm conviction therefore
ly reject as they have done previso- that the steps taken by the USA,
from
appeals
spurious
ously
called peace movements aimed at Great Britain and other members
of the UN are designed to restore
defense
the legitimate
sabotaging
peace to Korea, and to uphold the
measures of a democratic people.
The overwhelming mass of workers dignity and authority of the UN,
we call on the trade unionists of all
already recognize these maneuvers
they are::a thinly dis- lands to give these measures their
for what
guised attempt to mobilize fifth col- unqualified support.”
At the left is the jeep,
equipped with high-powered radio
Labor Backs Truman Steps
To Halt Soviet Aggression
a
UAW Wins at Jet Engine Plant
Reuther Backs
Truman Stand
pines strengthened and military aid
to the government accelerated; had
ordered acceleration in furnishing
in Indoaid to France
military
China, and the dispatch of a military mission. He called the invasion
of South Korea a defiance of the
charter of the United Nations.
The statement for the AFL was}
issued by Vice-President Matthew
free
of the AFL
Woll, chairman
trade union committee, and for the
CIO by Jacob Potofsky, president|
Clothing
of the Amalgamated
Workers, and head of the CIO comon
mittee
Reuther said, ‘‘I do not believe that this firm and determined action will result in an-
other world war.
Regardless
of consequences, however, the
President
had no alternative
except
to give in to Soviet
plans for world enslavement.
relations.
international
0'MalleyAnnounces
Six Election Wins
One Week Strike
Wins Pension Plan’
bargaining
where
NLRB
recently.
In
rights
addition
elections
to
this
in
six
were
plants,
held
sizable
score
of victories, O’Malley said that organization work was progressing in
a number
he expects
of other
elections
plants, where
to be ordered|
soon.
Following is a report
in the six plants won:
Tow
Motor
Company,
Ohio
For UAW-CIO
NO
Wnlon! |
on the votes
het
Marathon
Electric
Erie, Pa.
85)
Fintube
ria,
Ely-
| paid-up
For UAW-CIO
UAW-AFL
.
For UAW-CIO
No union
,
Fabricators,
land, Ohio
Pay
Inc.,
For UAW-CLO
No Unlons oi casein sips
se
eT eee
Steel
Ohio
606|
806
Commercial
Heat
Treat
pany, Cleveland, Ohio
National
| for
ee
National
Malleable
and
Castings Co., Cleveland,
For
| accident
Ohio
For UAW-CIO
No union
Com-
>
benefits
$1,000
life
retired
of
$28.00,
insurance
workers,
plus
policy
graduating
with
to $500 in accordance
|down
past service credits,
|
Skilled
trades
and
workers
received
a
crease of five cents
a
maintenance
flat
per
wage
hour
inand
| vacation allowances were adjusted
| upwards,
A number of badly-needsac al ed contract improvements were se4 cured in the settlement,
Cleve-
a
23
| of
the
| Union
Amalgamated
Engineers’
in England.
Making
| dent John
the trip are Vice-PresiLivingston; Regional Di-
|rectors
Norman
liam
McAulay,
Matthews,
WilThomas
Starling
|}and Charles Kerrigan; Ed Bartell| bort, president of Dodge Local 3,
|
|
|
|
Malcolm Smith, Local 222, Oshawa,
Canada; Carl Dahl, Local 838, Waterloo,
Iowa;
Morris Hood,
Auto
Worker circulation department;
Kenneth
Bannon, UAW
Ford Di| rector, and T. A. Johnstone, UAW
General Motors Director.
Last year 12 British trade un| jonists
jtry
as
spent
the
a
month
guests
of
in
the
this
coun-
UAW.
a
%
limit.
A Company-financed insurance
106 program was also included in the
| settlement. It includes $2,500 worth
|of life insurance, weekly sick and
Company,
DETROIT—A
delegation
of 11
UAW-CIO
officials left early this
month for a month's visit as guests
|
203.
Michael F. Lacey, Region 1 CoDirector, who announced
the sef-|
tlement of the strike on June 21,
said
that
the
pension
plan
was
based on the General Motors pattern and would provide maximum
pensions of $117.50 per month, The
plan meets the basic pension principles of the UAW-CIO
and will
pay retired workers $1.50 per year
for past service credits up-to a 30year
Company,
For UAW-CIO
No union
Brown
|
Cleveland,|
,....,..... 218
.t0a)
do-
DETROIT—One
week of picket
lines around
the Motor
Products
plant here persuaded
a reluctant
management to come through with
|a very good pension plan for the
4,000 members of UAW-CIO Local|
CLEVELAND—Patrick J. O’Mal- |
ley, Director of UAW-CIO
Region
2, announced the winning of collective
Vice-President John W. Livingston, Director of the National Aircraft
Department, and Russell Letner, Director of Region 5, announced the
election victory on June 22 at the big Westinghouse Jet Engine plant
at Kansas City, Missouri.
Livingston pointed out that this was the third major aircraft campaign during the post war period and the UAW-CIO has been successful
in all three.
The results of the election were: UAW, 257; IAM, 181; no union, 3.
The regional staff of Letner in the Kansas City area and representatives of the Aircraft Department were successful in defeating the combined efforts of the IAM and the AFL:
The AFL Building Trades in the Kansas City area gave full support
to the IAM in the campaign.
Preparations for local elections and contract negotiations are cur| rently underway.
following Presiannouncement
followed in the
Korean situation, UAW-CIO
President Walter P. Reuther
told Detroit newsmen that he
“‘fully supported the President
in his efforts to halt Soviet aggression.’’
Philip-
the
in
forces
equipment,
| UAW hein oe
Visit England
Truman
announced he had or-?
dered US air and sea forces to give
government
Korean
the South
troops cover and support; had ordered the Seventh Fleet to prevent
any attack on Formosa, and called
Immediately
on the Chinese government in Formosa to cease all air and sea opera- dent ~[ruman’s
had of policies to be
the mainland;
tions against
US
sound
nated by the UAW-CIO to the
Independent Trade Union Federation of Berlin (UGO).
It
was delivered on May 26.
The sign on the side of the
jeep, enlarged above, says:
‘‘Here speaks UGO ... In Sollidarity with the UAW-CIO.’’
Yr
WASHINGTON (LPA)—Declaring that the attack on South
Korea by Russian puppet troops from the north was part of the
Soviet plan for world conquest, the AFL and CIO on June 27
strongly backed the position taken by President Truman in the
crisis.
ordered
and
Lacey said that the entire
age added up to 11 cents per
representing
Motor
a
Products
substantial
workers,
packhour,
gain
for
Four of Germany’s outstanding trade union women were guests of the Women’s Bureau,
UAW-CIO, in Detroit recently. The German trade unionists were in America to observe the
American labor movement and the roles that American women are playing in industry and
the auto worker's union. During their week's stay in Detroit, they visited a number of local
unions, community agencies and homes of workers. They had an opportunity to study the
Union's approach to political action, race relations, and observe the working conditions of
women in several of the UAW shops in Detroit. Their trip to America was arranged through
the Women's Bureau, U. 8. Department of Labor, and the VAW-CIO Women's Bureau cooperated with the Women's Bureau of the U. 8. Department of Labor in playing host to the
group in Detroit.
Above, from left: Lillian Hatcher, UAW Fair Practices Dept.; Caroline Davis, Director
UAW Women's Bureau; Mrs, Luise Margarite, of Wuppertal, Germany; Miss Lieselotte
Raupp, of Frankfurt, Germany;
Walter P. Reuther,
Pres, UAW-CIO;
Mrs, Elisabeth Alfhart,
of Frankfurt, Germany, and Miss Edith B, Wollart, Frankfurt, Germany,
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WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
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Lobby Quiz Bares Link
Tying Fascist Grackpots
To Big Biz Bank-rolls
PREAL ESTA
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alii
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Buchanan's
quiz
has
wee:
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WASHINGTON—The House Select Committee on Lobbying
Activities, led by its Chairman Frank Buchanan, Pennsylvania
Democrat, is turning over stones here to expose some very slimy
creepers and erawlers that have beén busily gnawing at the
roots of democracy.
confirmed?
labor unions and the British Labor
what a lot of folks have long susGovernment.
pected:
that a number
of highBoth
Rumely
and
Kamp
now
powered
fascist lobby agents are
face contempt citations for refusfueled by slush funds fed from the ing to divulge the names of the
bank-rolls of big business.
big bulk purchasers of their mate:
Among the outfits revealed are rials.
Frank
Gannett’s
Committee
for
Evidence pried out of witnesses
Constitutional
Government,
Mer- to»tiate shows that the Committee
win K. Hart’s National Economic for Constitutional Government has
Council and Joseph Kamp’s Con- spent $2,000,000 in the last four
years to distribute 82,000,000 books
stitutional Educational
League.
While
they
have
squirmed
and and pamphlets. That kind of money
7
twisted mightily to evade the spot- doesn’t grow on trees, and BuchanNow open your mouth wide and say, ‘Down with the
light of public scrutiny, Buchanan an is determined to discover the
names
of the people who supply
Truman Health Plan’.
is building
a firm
case
proving
the sugar for this operation.
One
that
these
anti-democratic
lobby
of the
contributors
disclosed
in
groups are financed by big money
testimony is Irenee duPont, who
from high places.
also kicks in heavily to Merwin K.
Hart’s National Economic Council.
MAILING LIST
The House Robby Investigating Committee has revealed the
Dr, Edward
Rumely,
who runs INFLUENCE ELECTIONS
existence of highly-organized big business effort to intimidate the Committee for Constitutional
The most recent big-time poison
Government on behalf of publisher
the Congress and influence the coming elections through a net- Gannett, has admitted freely that operation directed by these lobbyists took place in connection with
work of organizations primed to scare the American people and he has a mailing list of 10,171 the defeat of Senators Claude
fool the Congress into believing there is a swelling tide of senti- millionaires and 8,000 lesser fat Pepper of Florida and Frank Gracats worth between $500,000 and ham of North Carolina in primary
ment against the Fair Deal Program.
$1,000,000.
Rumely confesses that elections.
Lammot and Irenee DuPont have been shown to be the financial he regularly supplies this list with
Rumely
admitted
under
oath
angels of a “multiplicity of organizations” ranging from “Spiritual Mo- material denouncing the Fair Deal, that his organization had stuffed
bilization” through Foundation for Economic Education, the Commit-
60,000
tions and
people.”
These
organizations
They
Skirt
the
distributed
succeed
in
their
operation
through
which skirt the law. Millions of dollars secured from donors are alleged
to be charitable contributions and therefore deductible from the federal
income
tax.
tional
on
One
CCG,
through
Capitol
was
used
at
$500.00
through
the cooperation
Committee
illegal
of a network
to
have
Congressman
put
a month.
It
were
is no
to an
abuse
Constitu-
of the
franking
surprise
admitted
to 12%
closely
Ralph
then
total
figure,
W.
Congress-
allied with
Gwinn
that
on
Gwinn’s
of 2,450,000.
postage
their
frank
Even
saving
if
for the
post
office
legislation,
to this
department
is operating
at
a deficit.
the Chairman of the Committee, has
Ways and Means Committee, which
phony
dodge
for
avoiding
income
taxes
out that the use
as the National
Economic Council, headed by Merwin K. Hart, not only deprives the
U. S. Treasury of the tax due it, but is the dodge behind which these
organizations hide to avoid compliance with the Lobby Registration Act.
Buchanan recommended that the Ways and Means Committee explore
the methods of plugging this tax loophole.
.
.
DuPont’s
Views
on
People
Lammot DuPont explained the purposes of this whole activity revealed by the Lobby Committee in a letter to the vice-president of the
American Cast Iron Pipe Company when he said, “There would seem to
be no doubt that our troubles are mainly due to the thoughtlessness of
the people.
That very thoughtlessness prevents them from reading
sound literature or listening to sound addresses or broadcasts. They just
are not interested. Therefore, to do anything in the way of public education, the sound views have to be put in a form that the public will
read more or less inadvertently.”
Mr, DuPont used his influence with American industry to secure
contributions from industrial giants to the various organizations affiliated in this network. In a seperate block on this page donations to one of
the many organizations, the Foundation for Economic Education, of
over one million dollars are listed. Over a million dollars available to
this mysterious organization at Irvington on the Hudson, which hires
college professors, economists, writers and others to turn out the basic
material used by each of the various organizations.
Did Job
on Rent
Control
For example, this organization, financed by General Motors, U. S.
Gypsum, Chrysler, U. S. Steel, etc., did the basic research work for the
In September, 1946, two college procampaign against rent control.
fessors were employed by the Foundation for Economic Education to
turn out a booklet entitled “Roofs or Ceilings?” This booklet was purchased in quantity by the National Association of Real Estate Boards.
Their arguments were later reproduced by John Scoville, former economist of the Chrysler Corporation. This article was peddled on Capitol
Hill by Homer Dodge, head of the Washington office of the CCG. It was
finally inserted in the Congressional Record by Ralph W. Gwinn, after
having left it with Senator Albert W. Hawkes, former president of the
.
NAM.
This material was then reprinted to the tune of 500,000 copies and
mailed out over Congressman Gwinn’s frank to all the key mailing lists
of the organized real estate lobby.
“I do not believe
WOMEN’S
in democracy.
PLACE
“IT don’t
believe
I think
IN THE
women
can;
New
they started our public affairs have
KIDDING
“My
THE
...
activity
As
at all.
in a worse mess
contacts
with
to publicity,
constant
day
the
I have
by
day
radio
found
chains
Ever
than
that
attention
have
it
bogs
since
of
into
a
routine
function.”
A HELPING
“Also,
especially
have
HAND
some
of the favors
the
NAM,
built up our
have
organization
what
associations
have
matters
is called
interested
in
had
which
in many
from
other
cannot
be
intangible
great
discussed
“I
doubt.
man
viction
street
is that
a real
estate
construction
it is wise
is not
we
ADVICE
“Now
lobby.
and
It consists
real
estate.
members. We
emphasize
find
some
the
“The
or be swept
the
toward
and
aside
grandfather
own
personal
con-
limiting
the
some
we
got
would
of the
as the Committee
1950 ELECTION
more
federal
business.”
If they
Party.
must.take
as a whole
wait
question
housing
than
construc-
a more
it has
done
in the
NOT
by
taking
past
SOCIALISM
his home
from
government
the
have
time
general
also
group
for Constitutional
PREDICTION
to
(at
include
that
are
up
a
to make the claim good.”
TIE-UP
“Perhaps
tion)
The
for fighting socialism.”
claim in Wisconsin and living on it long enough
CCG
too
discredited.”
AID
GOVERNMENT
“My
industry
estate)
(real
attitude
tive
the
FOLLOWED
NOT
ADVICE
of
Republican
six months it will be too late.
“Ultimately that Party is our best medium
SOUND
On
REPUBLICANS
to reorganize
time
way
NAREB
working
Representative
Republican;
Gwinn,
Representa-
Recalls When
Roadbuilding Was
Called “Socialism”
These trade
correlate our
much.
My
the whole
end
This would
...
Mississippi
of 18 trade
how....
socialism
of socialism.
soon
TO DETROIT
is the
to
afraid
must
to tax income.
power
whieh
THREAT?
whether
in the
but
ways.”
associations have several hundred thousand
efforts very well and put up the best battle we know
whole, I think we’re holding the line pretty well.”
SOCIALIST
associations,
LOBBY?
ESTATE
A REAL
IS THERE
“We
are
we
York
Eastland,
the ranks of the rich and “wellborn
aristocrats’
who
hate
and
fear all forms of social legislation.
It is expected that the House
Select Committee
on Lobbying Activities will recommend important
amendments
to the Lobby Registration Act of 1946, to plug up a
few loopholes and ratholes in an
effort to discourage these sly and
secret attacks on democratic institutions.
great
give this whole
down
Pep-
Congressman Buchanan is trying
to prove his belief that the Committee for Constitutional Government is the central cog in a machine of anti-Fair Deal, anti-labor
lobbies.
He intends to show that
the
funds
for these
outfits flow
from a common source located in
ever.”
been
if I do not
during
Pennsylvania
Republican;
Representative Jackson, California Republican,
and
Representative
Smith, Kansas Republican,
PUBLIC
personal
value.
been
to vote
Florida
tive Hoffman,
Michigan
Republican; Representative Mason, Illinois
Republican;
Representative
Rich,
it stinks.”
be allowed
Senator
Democrat;
HOME
should
in
to the lobbyists are the following:
Senator Byrd, Virginia Democrat;
Senator Malone, Nevada
Republi-
DEMOCRACY
the
times the salary he is being paid by the CCG, and
from the U. S. Government as a Congressman.
on contributions to lobbying organizations. He pointed
of the tax deductibility angle by such organizations
fam
for
of reactionary
Features,
as little as the admitted
Congressman Frank Buchanan,
called the attention of the House
tax
the
the
Future
five times his salary
This is one reason the
handles
as
American
by this organization
amounts
such
Hill.
shown
his mailings
CCG
function
organization,
payroll
was
organizations
Government
privilege
men
Other
“The
FREE POSTAGE
A close tie-up of these lobbyists
with certain reactionary members
of the House and Senate has also
been indicated in the testimony.
On June 28, at a hearing conducted
by
Buchanan,
evidence
disclosed
that the Committee for Constitutional Government had mailed out
close to 10,000,000 pieces of literature
under
the
free
franks
of
friendly
Congressmen.
At
three
cents per envelope, for a four-year
period, this runs up to a ‘cost of
about $300,000—which taxpayers
have been tapped for to finance
this
undercover
hatchet
job
on
democracy.
Among the members of Congress
named as loaners of their franks
Executive Vice-President
National Association of
Real Estate Boards
activities
of
per’s vain fight for renomination.
Quotes From Herbert Nelson
Law
copies
Road Ahead,” a vicious anti-New
Deal book by John T. Flynn, into
North Carolina mail boxes to help
defeat Graham.
Flynn was one of
the most violent isolationists who
opposed American aid to nations
swallowed by Hitler prior to World
War II. Many
thousands of this
same smear publication were also
DuPonts Coordinate Lobby Fronts
tee for Constitutional Government to the National Economic Council,
which Mr. DuPont believes “aags as a catalyst on the other: organiza-
condensed
with
Convenus,
such
Government.”
“We almost beat them at the last election and next year I think the
job can be done.”
Proof that “socialism” is a reactionaries’ term for any improvement
comes
from
Vice-President
Alben Barkley.
He recalls that in
1912 he was labeled a Socialist for
advocating
federal
aid
to
roadbuilding. It sounds ridiculous now,
In the same way, present progressive programs that standpatters
now call Socialistic one day will be
taken for granted.
Barkley said we must keep up
with the times. “The complexity of
our lives, due to the multiple inventions of our people ... have
made it necessary for the government
to take
cognizance
of and
participate in many activities that
a
half
were
century
not
or
necessary,”
a
century
he
said.
ago
Social Security, soil conservation,
flood control, rural electrification,
aid to education and higher standards for colleges and teachers are
“trends
or even
socialism”
“not
towards socialism,” Barkley said.
Administration policies are not
leading to socialism or “statism,”
Barkley asserted.
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37,500
35,000
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13,500
13,000
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ECONOMIC
COUNCIL
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26. Nelson, Norman, Chicago, Ill._-_-._-_-_____-_
27. Wright, W. Howard, Schenectady, N. Y.-----_
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5,300
4,529
4,500
3,440
3,350
3,140
3,102
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2,600
2,515
2,500
2,410
2,13
2,180
2,000
2,000
2,000
$206,735
And
who
here
provide
are
the
Congressmen
free postage
for the
Amounts
1, Ralph
Clare
Hoffman
(R),
4th
Dist., Michigan..____
ji. Noah Mason (R), 15th Dist., Ilinoigs--.-.____
J. Parnell Thomas (R), in Jail, of New Jersey
Donald L, Jackson (R), 16th Dist., California
*Quantity
caught up with the front-page
lies in the Toledo papers.
Paul Block, Jr., monopolist owner of the two Toledo papers, has
Toledo
Save
the
from
resigned
Payrolls Committee, the employer
to fight unformed
organization
ions in the city, and the hired press
propaganda
agents of the phony
outfit are looking for new jobs.
The imitation tempest that the|
Toledo papers bought and paid for
Jr.,
Block,
Paul
when
collapsed
closed up his pocketbook.
unavailable.
__
The
plans
union
All
during
cally.
problems
results are
been
have
picket
now in; pension
signed in four |
line,
to spend
cal
the
| oly
their
packing
are
children
thousand
a
than
More
Toledo}
bags|
their vacation at the Lo-|
12 Children’s Camp which was
target of most of the monoppress propaganda.
Only residue of the stink-bomb
legal
continuing
is the
barrage
Toledo
the
by
financed
trouble,
still
which
monopoly,
newspaper
keeps UAW officers and staff members wasting time in court.
Statistical comparison: when the
had
monopoly
newspaper
Toledo
full time,
going
its gas factory
more space was given on the front
democrati-
drive
propaganda
the
ahead.
by
Toledo plants, and in rapid fire the
. |Z
dl
.
in
fall
will
s
succeeding companie
The half dozen or so union people who were built up into a UAW
revolt have changed their minds,
and the only sounds you can hear
are the voices of people discussing
their
went
up
RICHARD
GOSSER
pages to making
charges against
the UAW
than are now given to
the Korean war,
Story of the Local 12
Office Girls Strike"
BOARD
OF
DIRECTORS
Refusing all offers to return to work and present their grieyances, if any, twelve office girls employed by Local 12, Toledo,
are continuing their ‘‘strike.’’
insist
They
This
to work.
return
they
removed
be
Gosser
Richard
Vice-President
that
before
is prob-
the first time in labor history
a small group of workers has
made such a demand, blandly igably
that
an International
more than 2,200
by
of
elected
vention
Gosser
that
fact
the
| noring
was
Condele-
The facts, as revealed by an
set up
Investigating Committee
by the International
Executive
Board,
there
that
show
more
is
e
show up, but did send a telegram
demanding,
in
effect,
that
they
name the International representatives with whom they would meet.
On
June
another
the
leader
7, in
response
telegraphic
of
the
group did finally
the Board.
After
or two questions
that no
sented,
the
office
to
still
invitation,
workers’
appear before
answering one
and admitting|
grievances had been preshe then walked
out of
meeting.
to the situation than a mere matOn June 9, the International Exter of legitimate grievances. It is
not a simple coincidence that this | ecutive Board reviewed the entire
the 4 office workers’ problem of Local 12,|
during
occurred
walkout
land, after appointing Secretaryof the management camheight
pro- | Treasurer Mazey as Administrator|
paign. against the pension
|over the financial affairs of Local
gram. Nor is it mere chance that
|12, adopted a motion ordering the
Toledo Blade reporters and phogirls back to work by Monday, June
more
shown
have
tographers
| 12, and that in the event the girls
than journalistic concern about
the problems and general wel- failed to return to work by that
of
fare
girls.
of
group
little
the
Here is a play-by-play report on
this manifestly engineered 12-girl
walkout:
On May 16,
any grievances
without presenting
to their own unit
chairman or to Local 12 officers, a
majority of the girls employed in
the dues collection office of Local
12 walked off their jobs.
UAW-CIO
Secretary-Treasurer
Director Edward
and Regional
their
Cote, in Toledo, conducting
investigation of other charges, rec-
ommended May 18 to a membership meeting of Local 12 that the
girls be invited to return to their
jobs and
to process
their grievances, if any, through regular contract grievance
procedure,
The
recomthis
adopted
membership
mendation, but the girls refused to
“We
raise
ands
give
can’t give our employees a
because we must spend thousto tell the public why we can’t
our employees a raise!”
Auto-Lite
Drive Still
Going Strong
Vice-President
Richard
Gosser,
of the
UAW-CIO
Com| Director
petitive Shop
Department,
announces
that
he
expects
the
the
week
Na-
time, they would be considered as | tional Labor Relations Board to
having severed their employment | °rder an election in the Hazleton,
with
sent
Local
the
12.
girls
The
Board
a telegram,
also
informing
them of this™action, and stating that
any
grievances
they
might
have
could be processed with SecretaryTreasurer Mazey.
The girls failed|
to report on June
12 as orderec¢ ;|
and
have
jobs since
no longer
Local 12.
stayed
away
that time.
considered
from
their
The girls are
employees of
Pa.,
plant
August,
during
When
the
| there will be
| ballot:
Independent
the AFL-IBEW.
This
is
Auto-Lite
in
election
comes
four unions on
the UAW-CIO,
Auto-Lite
first
only
plants
one
off,
the
the IAM, the
of
where
Union,
and
the
four
organiza-
tional activity continues
steadily.
A petition has been filed for an
election at the Sharonville, Ohio,
All of the girls who left their jobs plant.
Meanwhile, contact work is
are members of the UAW-CIO and} proceeding at the Lockland plant
subject
to its constitution,
which | near Cincinnati and at the plant in
they violated.
Woodstock, Ill.
Mazey and Cote had sent the
girls telegrams the day before,
suggesting that they meet with
the committee, but the girls said
they would not “meet with you
... until Gosser and his dominating clique are removed from their
Admitted
W. Gwinn (R), 27th Dist., New York--2,450,000
Senator Harry I. Byrd (D), Virginia________
70,000
Senator James Wastland (Dixiecrat), MissisBIDDI ees
oe Oe ane cae dome aneden ie
Wint Smith (R), 6th Dist., Kansas__--.-.-_-~
lines,
backed
return.
Committee for Constitutional Goyernments anti-Fair Deal, anti-labor
hate campaign:
/
sometimes
in Toledo finally
the UAW-CIO
gates.
een ont, -Lammop
oon
ee a cee
$ 34,513
2. Volker, Wm. & Co., Kansas City--_--_--_--__
32,163
Se DuUlont el rence ss
orn
4. Lone Star Cement Corp., New
For the first time in almost a year the UAW-CIO and Vice-|
President Richard Gosser are off the front pages of the Toledo
monopoly newspapers.
The reason: the truth in the? {
contract settlement signed by against the UAW, negotiations,|
AAMAAMAAAAAA AAA
EDUCATION
ECONOMIC
FOR
FOUNDATION
As Local 12 Wins More Pensions
EAE
and companies who finance the antiFair Deal, anti-labor hate campaign:
Toledo Monopoly Publisher Quits
MAA
QQ QQ
of the individuals
'
are some
Here
Page 7
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
July, 1950
40,000
200,000
165,000
100,000
®
’
offices and
On
| wrote
letter,
}turn
They
The
letter
26,
May
each
of
again
and
the
next
Mazey
their
Cote
and
girls
asking
process
again
was
positions.”
a two-page
them
to
re-
grievances.
refused,
day,
sent
another
them
by
similar
Howard
Seren, Local 12 President, His letter was ignored,
On June 5, the girls were invited
to appear before the International
Executive Board and present their
case to the full Board, They did not
4) CURE
— Lf tisher-
“| don't see how you can swallow that big business propaganda,”
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
Page 8
Your (Wt:
Bill Increasing Social Security
Is Gain, But Is Still Defective
WASHINGTON—Thanks to CIO workers in auto, steel, rub-*
ber and other industries who by collective bargaining and picket |
lines across the nation made a hot moral and economic issue of |
pensions* ‘for those too old te work and too young to die,’’ both
the House and Senate have passed a bill boosting Federal Old
Age and Survivors’ Insurance benefits 90 per cent and extending
coverage to 10 million more persons, including some regularly
—
employed farm and domestic workers.
Tatt’s Liberal
‘Coat Won’t Fit
House and Senate conferees are®
differ- | in this respect by Ja
House, it is
to comprise
meeting
now
ences between the bill as passed by|
A final bill is certain auto worker and his wife will get
each House.
Houses
to pass both
benefits
monthly
and be signed| ASI
of
about
before mem- | $114. Combined with supplemental
home to re-| payments under the various UAWthey | CIO contracts, this will mean averon what
to the voters
port
Nearly every member,| age total monthly benefits for 25have done.
(R., O.) | year
Taft
wives
their
and
workers
Senators
including
(R., Colo.) both up |ranging up from $138.
and Milliken
Strong demands by the CIO and
for re-election this year, wants to|
claim credit for doing what should| AFL and affiliated unions persuadhave been done years ago—boost| ed the Senate Finance Committee
base
old age insurance primary benefits | to agree to boost the wage
above the shameful averagé of $25 | | from $3,000 to $3,600 a year, there| by
increasing
maximum
primary
a month.
| benefits from $72 to $80 a month.
by President Truman
bers of Congress go
OLD AGE BENEFITS
Under the bill as passed by the} STILL FLAWS
Attempts to get the wage base
Senate and likely to be approved|
up to $4,800 a year (which would
have been equal to the $3,000 set
|
SCAB OR STARVE
AMENDMENT IS.
FACKED ON BILL
by
Congress
in
1935,
allowing
for
increases in the cost of living) or
even to $4,200 were beaten down
by a coalition of Southern Demo|crats and Republicans, led by
Chairman
Walter F. George
(D.,
WASHINGTON—The KnowJand (Scab or Starve) amendment, which would make it
practically impossible for the
U. S. Department of Labor’s
3ureau of Employment Security to enforce federal standards protecting workers receiving unemployment insurance
benefits against having to take
scab or substandard jobs and
wages, was hitched on to the
big Social Security Bill (H. R.
6000) at the last minute in a
lightning operation supported
by Senator Taft (R., O.).
CIO, AFL and affiliated unions
are making it the principal target
of attack, hoping that it will be
bill during
of the
out
knocked
House
the
between
conferences
and Senate on the final bill. Administration leaders and some Republicans will fight to kill it, point-
Ga.), Taft and Millikin.
Also defeated was an attempt by liberal
Senators to restore insurance for
permanent
total disability, which
was in the bill passed by the House.
George
and
Millikin
ran _ the
coalition’s
steam
roller
over
all
major. liberalizing amendments, using the same argument that
(a)
the OASI tax yield would not pay
the added cost, and (b) the U. S.
economy could not stand a higher
tax.
Liberal
Senators
made
the
point that, allowing for the proven
trend toward higher wages year by
year, the tax would yield enough
to pay higher OASI benefits and
also
permanent
total
disability
benefits.
But
George,
Taft
and
Millikin did not get a real workout
on the question of cost and the
nation’s ability to stand higher and
broader benefits.
Significantly,
tors
of
formerly
the
definitely
Social
on
conservative
against
liberalization
Security
the
Sena-
Act
defensive
were
and
apologetic about
the size of the
new benefits and remaining gaps
Lehman|
ing out that, as Senator
in coverage.
George and Millikin
said when he finally got the floor. diverted criticism by providing in
it, a separate resolution passed at the
for
vote
Senate
the
AFTER
of the Senate did
members
many
|}same time for a new study of Sonot know what they were voting} | cial Security. Again and again, as}
to}
no time
for, since there was
|in the case of permarfent total diseffects of the ability, they admitted the need and
explore the many
amendment.
promised to include it in the new
study.
PULL FAST ONE
Before the vote, the Senate was
not even told that the Senate Finance
Committee
a
few
hours
earlier
had
turned
down
the
amendment,
for
with
Senate
it.
only
Finance
Taft
Committee
(D., Ga.)
George
Chairman
ported somewhat angered by
double
yielded
who,
it
whereby,
play
time to Millikin
was
assumed,
voting
is rea fast|
he
when
(R., Colo.)
would
sup-
bill boosting
efits
90
old age
per
liberal
who
erage
on
cent,
as-a
wanted
a
for
mental
payments
on
ben-
wild-eyed
universal
cov-
pay-as-you-go
benefits
based
insurance
everybody
a
basis,
and
on
supple-
top,
to
of
percentage
egister’
be
wage
loss.
Senators Cain
(R., Wash.)
and
Millikin
(R.,
Colo.).
also
heated
themselves up with enthusiasm for
benefits for everybody on a pay-asyou-go basis.
These ideas, advertised as “liberalizing”’ changes, are to be studied in the
newly
authorized
investigation
of the problems
of
Social Security and recommendations are to be made to the Senate
during the next (82nd) Congress.
The
catch
coalition
and
in
-of
all
this
is
reactionary
industry
lobbies,
that
a
business
beaten
in
at-
system
on
tempts
H.
R.
to block or whittle down
6000,
are’ aiming
now
at
putting
the
whole
OASI
a flat-benefits-for-all basis, the cost
to be met out of the U. S. Treasury
year
figure
would
each
by
year.
This
way,
they
the cost, for which Congress
have
to appropriate funds
year,
size
of
$25
and
would
the
would
flat
such
lief basis.
no
to
benefits
matter
the
perhaps
$50 a month.
Taft flirted with
singly uniform flat
workers,
down
benefit
perhaps
put
hold
on
That
a
re-
the idea of a
benefit for all
what
their
previous earnings had been, then
backed
away
from
it.
He
then
juggled this one: a flat uniform
primary
benefit
(dollar
amount
not stated) for every aged person,
whether covered by OASI or not,
plus an additional
monthly
payment (dollar amount not stated) to
be based on a percentage of wage
loss. This was to be on a pay-asyou-go
basis,
doing
away
with
what Taft calls ‘all this nonsense
about insurance.”
Not
amounts
efit for
mental
wage
having
of
the
given
primary
the
flat
dollar
ben-
all workers or the supplepayment
to be based
on
loss,
Taft:
did
not
bother
to
estimate the total cost of such a
it
how
explain
to
nor
system,
would be met, either by a payroll
tax,.or out of general tax reve-
nues.
WASHINGTON—Veto of the basing-point bill by President
Truman stacks up alongside his veto of the Kerr gas bill as an
act of political courage and as proof that the President is still
waging against the big interests the same all-out fight which
carried him to victory in 1948.
port Kerr (D., Okla.) in opposing
the amendment, Millikin promptly|
get®
usually
can
business
Big
yielded time to Taft and then to
Congress. It |
urged| what it wants in this
of whom
both
Knowland,
on enough Democrats to
the Senate to vote for the amend- | can count
join up with the GOP and outvote
ment,
The
the liberals in both parties.
ASK LOBBY PROBE
margin on both of these monopoly
Se- bills—Kerr and basing-point—was
Some 37 State Employment
for small, but it was enough to get by
lobbied
administrators
curity
through the taxthe amendment
Congress. It was not enough, howHe
supported Interstate Conference of ever, to get by the President.
Agencies | sent both of them back without his
Security
Employment
and directly by wire and letter to | approval, and in neither case was
|
NEURITIS
WASHINGTON—Senator
Taft
(R., O.) blossomed out during Senate debate on H. R. 6000, the big
Truman Shows Courage in
Veto of 2nd Monopoly Bill
The CIO Execu- | there any attempt to muster the
their Senators.
tive Board, denouncing the amend- | two-thirds vote necessary to override his veto.
ment as a ripper bill that would
system |
federal-state
High figures in the Democratic
the
destroy
and| party voted with the Republicans
insurance
unemployment
of
to become | on each of these bills, Their votes
state agencies
permit
in a political
the
President
scab-herding, strike-breaking agen- | put
cies, called for a Congressional in- difficulty. The fact that he decided
for the voters instead of his party
vestigation of the Interstate Confriends gives encouragement to the
Security
of Employment
ference
labor-liberal forces who look forboard
executive
whose
Agencies,
was in Washington at taxpayers’ ward to a realignment of political
expense to pressure the Senate for parties which will give new meaning to political loyalties.
passage of the amendment,
is the one
House Wields Axe
On NLRB Funds
WASHINGTON—Representation elections and processing of
unfair practice charges will be slowed down to a creeping crawl
if the Senate fails to restore funds which the House chopped off
the Labor Relations Board appr opriation.
Due largely to Taft-Hartley, the
case load at NLRB
is rising.
At
the end of May, 7,000 cases were
waiting
5,883
cases
action,
as
compared
with
a year ago.
Filing of new
in recent months have broken
previous records.
As the case load rises, delay in
board action increases.
On top of
this the House voted to cut $928,000 from the $8,615,000 which the
President requested for NLRB.
To
meet the higher salaries and travel
allowances voted by Congress last
year, NLRB
would have to drop
©
about 15 per cent of its employees
under the House cut.
CIO vigorously protested approv-
al of this cut in the Senate Com| mittee.
The
committee
has
ap|proved
the
full
$8,615,000
for
NLRB,
but
Senator
Bridges
and
his die-hard Republicans are trying to force through a blanket re| duction for all civilian agencies.
This “meat axe” proposal was successful in the House. If it wins in
| the Senate, NLRB will be hit and
labor-management relations are
going
to
get
tougher.
Bankers Want Government to
Pay for Deposit Insurance
WASHINGTON—With only CIO filing a protest, the nation’s bankers are hoping soon to practice a little practical soThey
law which will put the chief bur den
against loss upon the United St ates
the burden off their own backs, and
for their own
cialism
ment
to refund
benefit.
to the bankers some
when millions of©
expect Congress to enact a
for insuring bank depositors
Government. This will take
this will enable the govern$68,000,000
a year.
Back in 1934,
depositors had taken
bank
small
it in the neck, Congress passed a
(LPA) — Speaklaw requiring the banks to pay anWASHINGTON
nual assessments into an insurance |ing on the floor of the House June
fund to protect every depositor up lee Representative Wright Patman
These an- | (D., Tex.) paid high tribute to unto as much as $5,000.
‘the ion officials who worked
hurt
successdidn’t
nual assessments
and
cooperative
farm,
banks, because they stopped paying
fully with
and small business groups for a veto of
deposits
on demand
interest
collecting service charges
the basing-point price bill.
started
They saved
from their depositors.
George Nelson, who represented
$350 million a year in in- the
of
about
Association
International
terest payments to depositors and Machinists, and Donald Montgomhave been collecting $200 million
ery, for the CIO, “gave generously
a year in service charges from de- of their time and talents” in the
positors.
told the Congress| fight, Patman
they are asking Congress
Now
men,
to refund to them 55 per cent of
the $120 million a year they have
insurance
the
into
paying
been
fund.
of
Mich.—Draftsmen
LANSING,
PASSED SENATE
of General
by the Senate| the Oldsmobile division
bill went
Their
in favor of the
It is now before the Motors Corp. voted
in a breeze.
UAW-CIO in a collective’ bargainHouse Banking and Currency Comelection conducted this month
mittee where CIO, represented by ing
Relations
Labor
the National
by
UAWthe
of
,
omery
Montg
Don
a Board,
filed
Office,
Washington
CIO
Montgomery Praised
Olds Draftsmen
Choose UAW-CIO
statement
55.
eed
©1950 Care
STAmwire
“You're going to register to vote now
—if I have to drive you there!”
blasting
the
bill
after
|
The
vote,
heldyin
departments
913 and 919 of the Lansing plant,
being denied opportunity to appear
UAW and seven opagainst it. A strong group in the was 11 for the
is fighting to kill the posed.
committee
bill, or to strike out the bankers’
leaves the bankers in full control.
bonus of $68,000,000 a year,
socialtop-down
one-way
|“Such
ONE-WAY SOCIALISM
told the comism,” Montgomery
mittee, “backed by bankers in an
Montgomery described this bankers’ bonus bill as endorsing the wel- | election year, makes a mockery of
fare state for bankers only and | the Republican campaign to reduce
called it a piece of practical so- | government expenditures while
branding the Fair Deal as socialcialism which relies on government
to protect the banking business but
istic.”
a
ie
ES
al
I
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
Local 1024
Wins Strike
Canton Ford Workers
To Stay with UAW-CIO
Local 1024, newly
UAW-CIO
chartered to represent CherryBurrell workers after they quit
union.’’
CEDAR
has
FE,
the
RAPIDS,
called to back
a
new
the
won
strike
it
up demands
for
wage
in-
contract
and
a
ment,
RichVice-President
UAW-CIO
DepartCasting
ard Gosser, Die
ment
Director, announced
that
petitions had been filed for elections in three
more
die casting
plants.
The plants are as follows: Aluminum Magnesium Company, Sandusky, Ohio; Stewart Die Casting
Company, Bridgeport, Connecticut;
Peckinpaugh
Metals, Cleveland,
Ohio,
NLRB
hearings
have
already
been held on the first two petitions,
despite
delaying
tactics
by
the
Communist-controlled Mine, Mill
and
Smelter
Workers,
LOS ANGELES —Cy
O’Halloran,
Director
of UAW-CIO
Region
6,
reports
four
more
shops
voting
in recent National LaUAW-CIO
bor Relations
Top
was
vote
Board
of
at American
elections.
four
the
Chain
victories
and
Cable,
which was carried by a 95 per cent
margin. California Auto-Lite work-
ers voted UAW-CIO
by 87 per cent.
System Electric Company went
UAW-CIO by 90 per cent; and Cannon Electric registered a 70 per
cent vote.
K-F PENSIONS GO UP 10
$125 TOP IN NEW PACT
Bargaining Begins
With Auto-Lite
The new Compton, California Auto-Lite Battery plant, in
yote of 7 to 1,
an overwhelming
UAW-CIO has signed a pension agreement with the KaiserFrazer Corporation providing retirement benefits of $100 per
month. When Social Security benefits are increased by Congress, the pension payments will run as high as $125 per month
4
for eligible workers.
|
|
|
|
|
Features of the settlement fol-|
|
low:
|
1. A general
wage
increase
of
nine cents per hour.
2. Paid lunch period for the sec- |
ond shift,
3. Removal of inequities for sey- |
en occupational groups, taper- |
ing from
three
cents
to 10
cents an hour.
4. Pro rata vacation benefits for |
employees who fail to qualify
for reason of sickness.
5. Preferential seniority for Union officers.
6. Seniority improvements.
7. Improved grievance machinery
steps, |
for faster
providing
coupled with a better arbitration provision.
New Plant Won,
voted to join the ranks of 17
other Auto-Lite plants within
the UAW-CIO ‘on Wednesday,
June 26, 1950, snowing under
the
UAW-AFL.
'
9
CANTON, Ohio—‘‘A good dose of democracy is still the best
cure for two-bit dictators who try to run hog-wild in a local
Iowa—
crease.
of the strike,
The settlement
which
started
May
6, was
an-|
Carlstrom,
by Lawrence
nounced
Assistant Director of the UAW- CIO
Agricultural _ Implement Depart-
Ask Elections in 3 REGION SIX WINS
Die Casting Shops MORE NLRB VOTES
Page
WORKER
That’s what members of UAW-®
large
number
of good
ing
to
a
CIO Ford Local 542 are saying here|
men in the local, Bannon
screwbal ]| union
disgruntled
a
after
| and O’Malley called a mass meetnamed William Owen failed in his
ing of the membership on June 23.
effort to sidetrack the 1,800-memMore than 1,000 workers came out
ber local into the AFL.
to hear the facts and discuss a plan
Thanks to speedy action by the |
|}of action.
By
an
overwhelming
International Union, the rank and}
vote the workers decided to stay in
file was given a chance to clean up
the UAW-CIO
and to go back to
the scandal kicked off by Owen's
work right then and there.
With the usual good |
power play.
The workers then marched to the
and
by rank
demonstrated
sense
where
they
brushed
aside
of Local 542) | plant,
filers, the members
picket
line set up by
turned out to put their own house | the flimsy
| Owens and his AFL cohorts—and
in order.
that
was
the
end
of the
little
News of the fast deal attempted
would-be dictator.
by Owen broke on June 19 when
of the midnight|
Until new elections can be held,
part
pulled
he
shift out on a wildcat strike, al- the local is operating under an administratorship voted by the Interthere were no legitimate
though
national Executive Board, with Regrievances behind this action. This
walkout did not have the okay of gional Director O’Malley in charge.
the membership as a unit, but was
International Auditors, called in
the
Local
542
records,
purely a trick by Owens to try to | to check
into absolute
his way
blackjack
have
turned up the
real reason
why Owens and company were so
control of the local union.
the country
across
Newspapers
hot to skedaddle into the AFL. The
picked up the story, saying that the audit shows that several thousands
to close the of dollars, amounting to the bulk
threatened
stoppage
Ford plants in Detroit be- of the local’s assets, disappeared in
main
form
of
checks
cashed
by
cause the Canton plant supplied vi- the
tal forging parts. Owens then called Owens and his buddies.
a rump meeting, packed it with his
Following a complete investigastooges, and pushed through a motion by the auditors,
if criminal
AFL
the
with
to affiliate
tion
Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, Drop
Forgers and Helpers.
Responding
to a call for help
| from the decent folks in the local
‘union,
Ken
Bannon,
UAW-CIO
Ford Director, and Pat O’Malley,
Director
of UAW-CIO
Region
2,
both rushed to Canton to look into
the trouble.
After
getting
the ‘facts
and
talk-
conduct is found evident, the International
Union
will
insist
on
prosecution to the full extent of
the law.
In the
other
meantime,
instigators
putsch have
Ford Motor
of
Owens
this
and
the
abortive
been discharged by the
Company for violating
the contract with Local 542—and
the membership isn’t shedding any
tears.
Four Borg-Warner Plants
Win New Pension Program
This drive was under the direction
of
Donald
Garriga,
a DieCasting staff member of Vice-PresDETROIT—UAW-CIO Vice-President Richard Gosser, DireeEdward Cote, UAW-CIO Region®
ident Richard Gosser, Director of
tor of the UAW-CIO Borg-Warner Department, announced that
1A Co-Director, said that the plan
the
Auto-Lite
Department.
Also
will provide genuine. security for
an excellent pension plan, first negotiated at the Morse Chain
working
with Garriga
was
Clarthe 10,000 Kaiser-Frazer workers
ence Curt, President of Local 76, unit of Local 42 here, had been put into effect at three other
employed in Willow’ Run, Detroit,
©
—s
Oakland, California, who gave in- plants.
Jackson and Dowagiac, Michigan.
20 years of service are provided
valuable assistance and aid to GarThe
other
Borg-Warner
units
The plan embodies several outwith no age requirement.
riga and the organizing committee
which
negotiated
the
plan
after
standing features including the folwithin
the
plant.
Curt,
while
PresThe most outstanding feature of
DETROIT—A
funded
pension
lowing:
Morse Chain agreement
are: Dethe plan, however, is a provision
plan calling for monthly
benefits ident of Local 76, is also Chairman
over-all
pen- of $100 after 25 years of service of the Auto-Lite Unit in Oakland,
1, The minimum
troit
Gear,
Mechanics
Universal
that all cost assumptions and acsion will be $50. This amount| has been won by UAW-CIO Local California, where Auto-Lite has an- Joint and Borg & Beck.
tuarial values must
be submitted
is payable
to any
employee
to the Joint Board of Administra189
for
1,100
employees
at
the | other battery plant.
Gosser
said
that
the
settlement
with
five
years
of credited
While
the
workers
within
the
tion for approval.
This gives the
Udylite Corp.
provided
six
cents
per
hour
for}
service who wishes to retire
The pension settlement places a new Compton plant were voting to pensions and four cents per hour Union a higher degree of participaon pension at or after age 65. $50 floor on the Company’s contri- join the ranks of the UAW-CIO,
tion in administration of the plan.
for
insurance.
The
plan
becomes
For employees
retiring
with bution toward ‘retirement benefits delegates of the 17 organized AutoThere will be no compulsory reeffective
on
October
1,
1950.
more than five years and up with the remainder of the monthly
Lite
plants
were
assembled
in
tirement
until 1952.
In 1953, the
to 25 years of credited service, }sum
Toledo, Ohio, with representatives
Under
the pension
schedule of compulsory retirement
consisting of Social Security
age will be
the pension will be $50 plus} | payments.
Under the pension for- of the Auto-Lite Company to work| | benefits, workers with 30 years of 69; after that it will drop to 68.
$2.50 for each year of credited
mula, if Social Security benefits are out details for bargaining on the service get $117.50 per month and
Negotiations are under way to
service over five.
pension,
insurance
and
wage
round.
increased as proposed, the monthly
workers with 25 years of service
bring all Borg-Warner
plants un2. There will be no compulsory
Discussions
were
led
by
Vicebenefits would jump to a maximum
get $100 per
month.
Permanent
der the plan within a few weeks,
retirement
at any
age.
InPresident
Richard
Gosser,
Direcof $122.50.
total
vas
benefits of $60 after| Gosser declared.
stead, employees
who
desire
tore of the Auto-Lite Department,
The contract calls for a sevento continue
employment
bewho drew up a plan for going forcent hourly pension contribution
yond
the
normal
retirement
ward with the Auto-Lite Council's
by the Company, joint adminisage of 65 will be permitted to
local union plant problems, as well
trationship, a year’s service credit
do so if capable of fulfilling
as a general wage proposal and the
after 1,600 hours of work
and
job requirements.
The
decipension program. This matter was
disability benefits of $50 after 15
sion in each case will rest
settled with Royce Martin, Presiyears.
with examining
physicians
dent of the Auto-Lite, who roundThe
1l-cent
contract
package ed out final details of procedure
designated
by
the Board
of
PITTSBURGH—Workers in the new GM Fisher plant here
also includes three cents toward a for the Company.
Trustees.
by the UAW-CIO on
pro3. Any
employee,
regardless
of hospital - medical- insurance
A plant per day schedule was set voted overwhelmingly to be represented
gram, adjustment of certain wage up to dispose of the unsettled in- June 28, it was reported
by Ray Ross, Director o f UAW-CIO
age, who becomes permanently and totally disabled after inequities and improvement in the equities and grievance matters, be- Region 2A,
15 years
of credited service vacation schedule to 50 hours after ginning with July 10, after which
Out of 920 eligible workers, 847
may retire on a minimum pen- one-year up to 120 hours after 15 the pension
proposal
and a gension of $30 a month, plus $1 years.
eral
wage
increase
will
be
dis- voted for the UAW-CIO, while only
for each year over 15. This
cussed
on
a
Council-wide
basis
11 voted for ‘no union,”
disability pension is over and
with the Company.
'
Frazer
pays
into the retirement
petition
for
Ross
said
that
a
above the Federal Social Secu- fund six cents per hour for each
In view of the fact that most
filed
election
was
rity benefit.
plant
contracts
expire a Union-Shop
hour for which any employee cov- Auto-Lite
i
;
4. Hours for which any employee
following the smashin August,
1950,
the Council
has |/immediately
ered receives compensation,
receives compensation are acThe pension plan is in addition worked out plans for Council-wide | ing NLRB victory vote for UAWcumulative for service credit. to the
contract clause proposals to be sub- |
.“Kaiser-Frazer
UAW-CIO
CIO, The plant will eventually emAny
hours in excess of the Social Security Fund,’ which pro- mitted to the Corporation after inploy about 2,500 workers,
basic
1,700
required
for one
equities,
grievances
and
the
pension
vides
medical,
hospital,
sick and
year of credited service can
International Representatives
accident
benefits,
and
$2,000
life and wage proposals are disposed of, |
be applied toward a succeed- insurance.
The
pensiow
proposal
is being
Dominic Dornetto and Joseph Zining year during which the emRichEstablished in 1948 ag the first drawn up by Vice-President
garo handled the drive,
ployee may receive credit for of its kind
ard
Gosser
and
will
include
the
in the auto industry,
less than 1,700 hours.
While,
latest
gains
made
Two other victories were won by
by the
UAWthe program
is entirely financed
beginning with July
1, 1950, by the Company.
CIO in the automobile industry,
Under a recent
Region
2A
in
June,
Orefraction
1,700 compensated hours will agreement,
K-F’s
payments
into
Company
in Pittsburgh
voted
18
be equivalent
to a year
of the fund were increased from five workers and their
families through
to 0 for UAW-CIO; and at Intercredited service, the credit for to 7% cents for each compensated
63,
«<2ho
1950 Cate Sraumre
the Michigan Blue Cross Plan, and
service before that date will hour,
national Harvester parts branch in
sick and
accident
disability
pay“Look! Here comes that seab! Let’s
be on a seniority basis.
Cincinnat
l,
the
vote
was nine for
The program provides hospitall- ments of $30 a week for maximum
me ousur need deed for the
Pensions Won
At Udylite
NEW GM PLANT CASTS BIG VOTE FOR UAW-CIO
Under
the
agreement,
Kaliser-
zation
and
surgical
benefits
for
of 26 weeks.
UAW-CIO
and
one
for the IAM,
day and
Ss
Page
UNITED
10
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Edwards, Childs, Campaign
Against Basing-Point Bill
500th Syphon y Broadcast on WDET-FM
Mark
£1
ee
NEWS
F
FACTUAL
July, 1950
Considerable
of the basing-point bill goes to labor and liberal commentators on stations
WDET
credit
and WCUO.
for President
Marquis
It was their constant hammering away at
the attack was AFL®
He | home state, for auto centers like
Frank Edwards.
Detroit and for small industry
Marquis Childs and
throughout the Middlewest.”
Kaiser-Frazer newsHumphrey,
Douglas,
CongressNunn of the UAWman Andrew
Biemiller and other
Childs
considered
the
basing-point
issue so critical that
he brought Senators Hubert Hum-
phrey and Paul Douglas to WDET
and WCUO
mikes to explain the
provisions of this complicated
measure.
“I believe the basing-point
niversary on June 29, with a
special series of broadcasts.
Walter Reuther, President of
the UAW-CIO, broadeast greetDetroit,
|the
UAW
month.
(station
in
Detroit
This
is
another
fight
for
among
example
a veto
of
the
increasingly important
influence
the UAW-CIO stations are having
in reaching not only union mem}bers,
but
the
general
public,
with
last
Other program
highlights
inWorkersCommunication
|cluded:
Harry
President
| CIO Convention;
and
the WCUO staff combined dramatic talents to present a satire
on radio, “‘Generation of the
| those who led the
|by the President.
were
The address of Ralph
Bunche,
|UN Secretary-General to the na{tional convention of the American
Red Cross, was one of many out| standing public service features on
celebrated its first an-
from
Congressmen
Ralph Bunche
On WDET-FM
WCUO-FM Has
Ist Birthday
direct
bill,”|
liberal
objective interpretation of vital legSenator
Humphrey
said, “could jislation.
It’s another reason why
have
a disastrous
effect on
the every active union member in leadeconomy
of middle
America
and
ership positions is buying FM sets
certainly would
affect consumers | to keep up to date with union news,
throughout the nation. Its veto by| labor policy and political informathe President is essential for my tion,
Although the great industrial community of Detroit, unlike other large cities, has failed
to support a symphony orchestra, the UAW-CIO Station WDET-FM has met its obligation
to music lovers by providing a nightly concert of the finest recorded symphonic music. This
has been made possible through the splendid cooperation of the Detroit Public Library. Last
month prominent Detroiters gathered at the WDET studio to celebrate the 500th concert
and to pay tribute to the UAW station for its contribution to community life. Above are,
left to right, Victor G. Reuther, UAW-CIO Education Department Director; Henry Meyers,
President, Library Commission; Ralph Ulveling, Director of the Detroit Public Library, and
Kurtz Myers, Director of the Audio-Visual Department.
ings
veto
the dangerous provisions of this legislation that helped mobilize
publie opinion for the President *s veto action,
Lead man in
Commentator
was joined by
Joseph Harsch,
men, and Guy
CIO.
WCUO
Truman’s
|Truman’s address to the American
| Newspaper Guild Convention; “My
2: | Attempt to Save Vogeler” report of
|Morris Ernst, American Civil Lib-
|
Cherubim.’’
WDET pin-up gal is Mindy | erties attorney; and “Sing a LaWCI20 is now offering a new | Carson, who delights UAW sta-| | bor Song” broadcast in cooperation
The tion listeners in Detroit every| with the International Association
program log to listeners.
| oe Machinists.
attractive folder will not only |Friday evening at 7 p. m. in the
list the daily log, but will list ‘popular after-dinner music|
the selections to be heard each | show, ‘‘The Stars Sing.’
|
The
UAW
stations
in
Detroit
|
day on WCUO’s symphony program, “‘ This Is Musie.”’”” Over | and Cleveland feature a varied|
250 requests were received as a |music program from labor balresult of four announcements. lads to symphonies,
Others may be added to the list
by making a request in writing ‘More Purse
Power
SPORTS SPECIAL every Saturday at 7:30 p. m. on
WDET-FM takes first place in favorite listening among
UAW-CIO sport fans. With Jerry Snyder, WDET sports
commentator, pitching the questions, local union recreation
chairmen keep WDET listeners well informed on the extensports and recreation activities.
sive and varied UAW
Above,
Snyder interviews
UAW’s
Recreation
Director, ver-
satile Olga Madar, about the Michigan CIO Children’s Camp.
to WCUO.
“More Power in Your Purse”’
is the title of a fast moving new
[radio series on co-op and consumer items. It will be heard
at 7:45 on
News for your Union FM sta- every Tuesday
WDET, 101.9 on FM.
tions’ ‘‘ Around the Town’’
Wanted...
News
picnics,
games,
ences,
News
about local union meetings,
negotiations,
parties, ball
elections,
sports,
conferetc.
from
publicity,
recreation
committees
union officers.
education,
and
local
Union news doesn’t make page 1
in the
daily
newspapers,
but
it
ranks first on the two UAW stations—WDET and WCUO.
Take advantage of this opportunity to publicize your Jocal union
activities.
If your local is in southeastern
WDET-FM
Radio}
it’s
Michigan,
Place, Detroit 28, Vermont 8-3048.|
In Cleveland,
Chestnut; Tower
it’s WCUO,
1-1111.
1025
The news program “Around the|
Town” is sponsored by Gerity-Mich- |
igan, makers of Dishmaster, labor- |
saving kitchen device.
LISTEN TO
GUY NUNN
NIGHTLY
Monday thru Friday
DETROIT: 7:15 P. M.
CKLW
800 ON
AM
DIAL
WDET-FM
101.9 on FM DIAL
CLEVELAND:
8:15 P. M.
WCUO-FM
103.3 ON
FLINT:
FM
DIAL
11:00
P. M.
WBBC
President Walter Reuther accepts the Variety Showmanagement award to WDET-FM
from George Rosen, Variety Radio Editor. One of the top radio honors, the Variety Plaque,
cites the UAW-CIO station in Detroit for its public service programs and its integration into
community life. With President Reuther at the award ceremony were, left to right, Ben Hoberman, station manager; Rosen, and Morris Novik, UAW-CIO consultant.
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July, 1950
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Ten Good Reasons for Giving a Buck for Political Action
1.
FULL
EMPLOYMENT
_11s
passed
by
Congress
Tee
whether we have full employment and job security—or unemployment
depression—insecurity. The dollar helps pass the right laws.
2.
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PRICES
and
1.
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and eut food costs in the public interest.
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REPEAL
TAFT-HARTLEY
while Taft-Hartley is on the books,
Taft-Hartley Act repealed.
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4. UNEMPLOYMENT
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COMPENSATION
5. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION = 1). amount of
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fixed by law. This law can be improved through political action, Put your
to work
program
now
pending
MEDICAL CARE2: National reatth
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with complete medical care.
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rich, and
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and
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entire
family
YOU CAN AFFORD tice are vo kinds
laws.
The
the kind that
BETTER
in Congress
provide
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kind
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provides
makes
insure
better
banks
and
real
estate
for people at reasonable
operators
pric s.
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for consumers.
SCHOOLS
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the
homes
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8.
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Federal
educations
education
for your
laws
children.
now
pending
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—The amount of money you get in unemployment compensation and the number of weeks you get the money depends on action of the state legislature.
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9.
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guarantecing
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ALL
rights
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to everyone
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10.
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TAXES
A fair tax law would
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UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Strike in Chicago
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' WERE DIGGING IN
COUN
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Sep
A Link-Belt Speeder foreman gets the royal razzberry from striking members of UAWCIO Local 281 in Chicago as he crosses the picket line. Men in suits, hands extended in front
of pickets, are plain-clothes police from Chicago Police Department Labor Detail.
wes SOK:
Since June 2, when they first hit the bricks demanding
a pension
plan,
a wage
increase
and
more
vacation
pay,
Local 281 strikers have had a smooth-operating strike headquarters across the street from the Link-Belt plant. In the
strategy pow-wow above, left to right, are: Mary Jane
Firth, Secretary-Treasurer ; Harold Culliman, Ralph Cooper,
Bargaining Committee Members; James Gragg, President,
and Harry Johnson, another Bargaining Committee Member.
Universal Products
Features Improved
Pension
Benefits
DETROIT—‘‘Pension plans are like automobiles—you have
to tinker with them to get the bugs out and make them work
better,’’ said Harry Southwell, president of UAW-CIO Local
174, commenting on the new pension plan negotiated for 500
Universal
In
Products
addition
tributory,
to
being
funded
a joint board
F
workers
and
here.
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non-con-|
governed
of administration,
for each
by
j
of service
year
:
time
at
of
| retirement.
the |
2. There is no compulsory
reUniversal
Products
plan
features
| tirément
limit; workers
may
rean
unusual
number
of vital im
“| tire at will after reaching age 60.
provements.
The
plan,
financed
seven cents per hour
tribution,
provides
eee
with
25
New
1.
than
per
month
yeaYs
é
of
-features
by
a
fixed
:
Past
seniority
service credits include all
plus
company con- |no limitation
benefits
of} ment.
oe
workers
service.
are
3.
|
active
service,
of breaks
years
of the maximum
of
ability
trust fund
get
in employ-
is
provided,
with
only
15
years of service needed to qualify,
regardless of age.
Future service
as follows:
7
Z
service
with
4. A $50 per month total dis-
Workers who retire with less | credits accumulate
25
Once they get into the plant, the Link-Belt foremen and supervisors putz around in the
yards, pretending to do the jobs of some of the strikers. But this trick hasn’t dented strike
morale—because the 600 strikers are sticking to their guns until the battle is won.
1/25}
benefit!
ity,
so
benefit
that
during
workers-may
at age 65.
disabil-
get
full
Reuther Speaker
At Rabbis’ Parley
$100 Pensions
Won by UAW
At Thompson
NEW
YORK
(LPA)—Walter P.
Reuther,
president
of
the
CIO
Auto
Workers,
addressed
DETROIT — Local
247, UAW- | United
CIO,
has negotiated
a pension | the closing session of the golden
agreement
with
the
Thompson
jubilee convention of the ~RabbiniProducts Co.
cal Assembly of America.
He told
The pact, which covers approxi|the rabbis that collective bargainmately
1,200 workers at the Deing must bewaised “above the level
troit plant, provides for retirement
benefits of $100 a month, including of eternal struggle between comSocial Security.
peting groups,” and made “a procThe settlement also calls for jess
a general wage increase of five |the
cents
hourly
and
tion and
holiday
contract will run
improved
vaca-
benefits.
The
for two years.
The terms of the new contract
were ratified at a general membership meeting, according to Joseph
Ferris,
UAW
international
representative.
to find the anSwer to advance
total economic welfare of so-
ciety.”
He
scarcity,”
3579 (Canada, labels No, 29B)
Washington St., Indianapolis
and
“the
high
called
for
priests
a
of
Fifth
Freedom— “the freedom from fear
of abundance.”
He urged also a
comprehensive
social program
at
home and liberalized foreign_aid.
POSTMASTER.
Send
‘notices of change
of address on Form 3578 (Canada, Form
67B)
and
copies
returned
under
labels
No.
E.
assailed
to 2457
7, Ind.
Detroit’s Scandinavian Symphony Orchestra, composed entirely of amateurs, toured the
Scandinavian countries entirely at its own expense.
Proceeds from almost 30 performances which began April 11 and continued through the
middle of May, were left for Scandinavian music students to study in America.
Called ‘‘An orchestra of the people,’’ members include carpenters, contractors, tool makers, manufacturers, machinists, salesmen, professional men, housewives, teachers, students,
and ‘saleswomen.
The old cannons at Skansen’s Solliden are renowned as subjects for photographers. In the
picture are Leland Bartholomew, 21, French Horn, Kenneth Rasmussen, 19, Tympani, and
Ralph Larsen, 22, Trumpet. Leland is working at the Pontiac Motor Division of the GM and
a member of UAW-CIO Local 653, Detroit. He thought that the new small Swedish car Volve
P 444 was a good piece of fine workmanship and it seemed to go smoothly as well. He didn’t
think there was a future for small sized cars in the States. ‘‘The good used cars, that’s the
American small car’’ said Leland Bartholomew. Kenneth Rasmussen is a member of AFL
1452 (carpenters and joiners) and Ralph Larsen is working at the Briggs Automobile (Body)
.
Co. He is a member of Local 212 UAW-CIO, Detroit.
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