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1951-02-01
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FEBRUARY,
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ILABOR RALLIES TO RESIST ATTEMPTED
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WASHINGTON—Labor is preparing to counterattack and turn back a
home-front offensive of business, military and anti-labor forces unleashed
since the Communist aggression in Korea. These forces have moyed in a
series of swift pincer actions-to take over complete control of the nation’s
economy and its mobilization for rearmament and economic aid to other
nations.
Since June 24, labor and consumer groups have had to fight to protect:
1. Gains in wages, hours and working conditions won in exist-
4. Genuine price control;
5. Effective nation-wide rent control;
6. The principle of taxation based upon ability to pay;
7. Voluntary methods of manpower mobilization.
By Executive Order, Charles E. Wilson, former President of General
Electric, has been set up as Defense Mobilization Director. In effect, he is a
“‘domestic President’? with greater powers over the lives of the American
people than have ever been granted to one man by the President.
In recent weeks, Wilson and his assistants have made it plain to
labor that they are prepared to impose ‘‘tough policies.’’
ing and futore collective bargaining BEteerien ts
pages 2, 3, 4, 5 and
mobilization issues.
2. Cost-of-living and improvement factor wage increases;
3. Penalty overtime pay above the basic 40-hour work week;
Turn to
6 for detailed reports on these critical defense
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The Government Must Meet Its Responsibility
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Petition for Chrysler Union-Shop Vote
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Local
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HOW THE COMMUNIST PARTY SELLS OUT LABOR
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February,
UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKER
1951
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The Government Must Meet Its Responsibility
A Statement by Walter
The defense of freedom against the threat of Communist tyranny places
a heavy responsibility on all of us. The American people are Prepared to
meet their responsibility to our nation, but they cannot do so unless the
Government is prepared to meet its responsibility to the people. To successfully defend freedom, we must fight against Communist aggression on
the battle front, and at the same time fight with equal determination and
courage against inflation, profiteering and runaway prices on the home front.
In the fight to roll back the cost of living, our Government has failed to
demonstrate the same courage that our fighting men are displaying on the
battle fronts. The Government’s so-called price freeze is a complete fraud
upon the American consumer. Prices of food, clothing and ether basic necessities were~ “frozen” at the stratospheric levels to which they had soared
in the past months.The Government rolled back the price of Cadillacs which workers .
and low-income families do not buy. The Government rolled back the
price of scrap iron $10 a ton, but people do not eat scrap iron.
The people have a right and must demand that the Government meet its
responsibility by rolling back the cost of living. The phony price control —
regulations will break down completely in the near future, and further increases in the cost of living will result. No one with any understanding of
the basic problem of inflation can in honesty defend the weak-kneed and
half-hearted effort of the Government on the price front. Viewed objectively, the phony price control order was issued primarily as an excuse to be used
to freeze wages.
UNFAIR, UNWORKABLE, UNREALISTIC
To attempt to stabilize wages in the.absence of any effective roll back in
the cost of living is unfair, unworkable and dangerously unrealistic. Stable
labor relations needed to achieve continuous high levels of production can
be had only if the equity of workers and the living standards of their families are protected.
‘Those in positions of responsibility who feel that workers can be deceived
by fancy talk and clever press releases are only deceiving themselves, and
are failing in their responsibility to the people, and will, in the end, betray
the best interests of our nation.
The Congress of the United States has the eleies and the responsibility to enact legislation to effectively control the cost of living. The present
price control law is full of loopholes and it does not permit effective control
of food prices, which are more than 40 per cent of the average family budget.
as follows:
“Government bigwigs have a new gimmick to describe what’s ahead.
They call it ‘controlled inflation.’ It means the Administration will go
through the motion of controlling prices, but the trend will continue upward in both prices and wages.”
INCREASES DUE UNDER ESCALATOR
The increase in the Bureau of Labor Statistics Cost-of-Living Index gave
‘orkers under the UAW-CIO cost-of-living contracts a five-cent per hour
Based
oon the best information available at present, it appears that the cost-of-
ving escalator clause will provide a further four to six cents an hour in“ease on March 1.
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Regulation 2, issuéd by the Wage Stabilization Board last week, relaxed
he general wage freeze to permit the cost-of-living escalator clauses to opere, providing that the date for the cost-of-living adjustment fell between
auary 25 and February 9. (This permitted operation of the cost-of-living
calator clauses in the UAW-CIO North American Aircraft contract, and
We
are
continuing
to work
on
this problem
and
we
have
served notice that we shall not tolerate any tampering with our basic contract provisions.
Our long-range wage contracts, including the cost-of-living escalator
clause and the annual wage improvement factor, provide a measure of equity —
and economic justice to a worker and his family, without which economic
stability and harmonious industrial relations are not possible.
Members of the UAW-CIO have invested years of hard struggle and
sacrifice to win the protection provided by their present contracts. They
will fight equally as hard to defend them. The International Executive
Board has stated clearly and unmistakably that we are prepared to resist
with all of our resources any attempt to set aside our basic contract provisions.
Our Union and its members are prepared to carry out their responsibility,
but they insist that the Government also carry out its responsibility.
MUST KEEP COST-OF-LIVING PROTECTION
If the Government carries out its responsibility and controls the cost of
living, then our cost-of-living escalator clauses will not operate to increase
IMPROVEMENT
WAGE
INCREASE
to a decision by the Economic Stabilization Agency that, throughout the years
of national mobilization, workers are to be compelled to turn over to employers their hard-won right to share in the proceeds of incteased productivity made possible by improved technology.
There is no just basis on which a Government agency can make this
_ decision against the workers for the benefit of their employers.
Action: by the Economic Stabilization Agency to deny to workers this
wage improvement negotiated in collective bargaining agreements, and based
upon increased output, would stand in sharp gontrast to the generous Gov-
No one can predict with certainty what will happen in Washington.
.pproximately 20,000 workers under this agreement received two cents per
clauses.
contrary, proposes to inflict. upon the workers the penalty for the Government’s failure to take effective action to hold prices down.
Cost-of-living adjustments which auto workers and other workers have
written into agreements with employers provide a wage parity for workers
parallel with the price parity which the Government guarantees to farmers.
The farmer gets parity for the things he produces, based on the price of the
things he buys. That is his cost-of-living clause. Certainly there is no justification for denying workers parity in terms of their wages based on the
cost of the things they buy.
ernment inducements which the Defense Production Act holds out to indus-~
try and agriculture to stimulate and subsidize increased output required for
the national defense.
The workers we represent are not asking for special Government subsidies as inducement to greater production. They are merely asking the Government not to take away the improvements which they receive for greater
production, which are already provided for in their contracts. Production »
payments to workers under collective bargaining agreements likewise contribute to the nation’s needs. They deserve equal recognition with the aids
and subsidies which Congress has voted and which are available to other
economic groups out of the public treasury.
To. deprive workers of these gains won by years of free collective bargaining, and to do so at a time when all other economic groups, except the
members of the Armed Forces, are being offered Government inducements
for production, would be a gross injustice. To disturb the stability in the
industry established by these long-range contracts would be a gross disservice to the defense effort and to the nation.
A newspaper report out of Washington, dated February 3, 1951, stated
ment
the Government does not intend to stabilize the cost of living, but, on the
The improvement factor in our contract is based upon recognition by
management of the right of workers to share in the proceeds of improved
technology. To cancel this provision of the five-year contracts would amount —
control the cost of living..
hour in cost-of-living wage adjustment.)
The Wage Stabilization Board as yet has not made a determination on
our over-all cost-of-living escalator clauses or on our annual wage improve-
wages. If, on the other hand, the Government continues in its failure to
control the cost of living, it cannot rob our members of the protection they
have under the cost-of-living escalator clauses incorporated in our agreements, > ©
It is obvious that the cost-of-living adjustments provided in our contracts
are not inflationary, since they follow the movement in price index by 90
days. They do not determine the index. They do not cause prices to rise.
They reflect the increase in prices 90 days after such increases take place.
The purpose of such cost-of-living clauses is to protect workers after such
price increases have already taken place.
The only effective answer to the inflation problem is for the Government to take prompt and effective steps to control the cost of living
on an over-all basis. If the Government carries out its responsibility and
stabilizes the cost of living, the cost-of-living clauses in our contracts
will be non-operative; since they only provide for increases if the cost of
living goes up.
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Cancellation of the cost-of-living adjustment would, in effect, serve notice upon workers at the very beginning of the mobilization program that
ANNUAL
President Truman has the responsibility for seeing that the present price control tools are fully used, while at the same time he must demand that Con-_
gress strengthen the price control law to provide better tools to effectively —
age increase in September and a three-cent increase in December.
P. Reuther
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We are confident, however, that our position in support of our contract
provisions is so sound and just that the Government can not find any
justifiable basis for setting aside our cost-of-living and annual Wage i improvement clauses.
2 I feel we have succeeded in making me in Washington understand
that the Government can not abdicate its responsibility to the people and at.
the same time expect the people to carry out their responsibility to the Government.
MUST STRIKE INFLATION ROOTS
The Government must face up to its responsibility and take immediate
steps to control the cost of living and stabilize our economy. No amount of
halfway measures or makeshift action is a substitute for an over-all price
control program with teeth in it. The Government must quit playing footsie
on the fringe of the problem and must strike at the root of the problem of
inflation.
1. Price of the basic cost-of-living items must be rolled back and then
effectively controlled.
2. Congress must enact a tax program that places the cost of the
burden of the defense effort on all groups, based upon their ability to
pay. The present approach to taxation will make the rich richer and
the poor poorer by comparison. Everyone must tighten ‘their economic
belts together, but the wealthy must be made to pay their appropriate
share. (At present, families of $5,000 and less income are paying the
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WORKER
UNITED AUTOMOBILE
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Renew Fight for FEPC Action;
Demand Executive Order
Liberals Press Battle in Senate;
Try to Repeal Filibuster Rule
WASHINGTON
—
Representatives
of minority,
labor
and
civil rights groups who since last August have been pressing for
reestablishment
by Executive
Order
of FEPC
for all defense
employment met with Defense Mobilization Board: Chairman
Charles E. Wilson Tuesday, February 6, to demand action witheo
pals
ee
out further delay.
Southern Democrats
ing that filibuster.
against break-
Wilson, who was chairman of the
President’s
Commission
on
Civil
Rights three years ago, is expected HIT FILIBUSTER
to carry out the recommendations
Senators Morse and Humphrey
of that Commission by dredging up have
re-introduced
their
resoluthe draft of the order from the tion (S. Res. 41) to amend the SenBudget Bureau, where it has been ate rule to permit the breaking of
held for weeks after the Labor De- filibusters by a simple majority of
partment finally forwarded it there those voting.
for clearance.
- Senators Ives (R., N. Y.) and Lodge}.
Senator Irving M. Ives (R., N. Y.), (R., Mass.) have introduced a resospeaking for an assortment of 11 lution (S. Res. 52) providing for the}.
other Republican Senators who are breaking of a filibuster by a constico-sponsoring an FEPC
bill with tutional majority, 49 Senators presthe power of enforcement through ent and voting, which would still
- the courts, urged the Administra- permit Senators to vote for a filition to re-establish FEPC by Exec- buster by being absent. However, if
utive Order
for defense
employ- the Ives-Lodge amendment could be
ment, making provision for coopgotten past the Rules Committee
eration with FEPCs in New York and the filibuster on the Senate
and other states and municipalities floor, it should be possible to assemthat already have
effective laws ble enough Republicans and nonagainst discrimination in employSouthern Democrats to break the
ment.
filibuster—a very iffy possibility.
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This endorsement by Ives has
Another resolution is shortly to
some practical meaning. The rebe introduced by Senator Lehman
introduction of an FEPC bill is
and others providing (a) for the
purely symbolic, as long as Senbreaking of a filibuster by a two‘ate
action
is blocked
by
the
thirds vote within 10 days and (b)
Hayden-Wherry amendment to
for breaking a filibuster by a simthe Senate
rules requiring
64
ple majority after 10 days of devotes to break a filibuster.
bate. All these resolutions are
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HAYRIDE
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Senate
Senators
But some
Republican
-are climbing on the FEPC bandwagon for a cheap political hayride.
As long as the Hayden-Wherry
for the deep freeze in the
Rules Gommittee, whose.
chairman
is
Senator
(D., Ariz.), co-author
Carl
Hayden
of the 64-vote
amendment and a steadfast collaborator with the Southern Demoamendment
to the Senate
rules
crats in voting to protect filibusters
stands, requiring 64 votes to break
against
cloture
(limitation
of
de‘@ filibuster—and as ‘long’ as Senate
bate).
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leadership allows six or more ReAs previously pointed out, even
publicans to vote with Southern
if the.supporters
of FEPC
and
Democrats against breaking a filiother civil rights measures
were
buster—chances of passing the naw
‘to pull off the miracle of getting
FEPC bill, introduced January 18
any such resolution favorably reby Senator Irving M. Ives for himported out of Hayden’s Rules Comself and 11 other Republican Senamittee, the Wherry-Hayden amendtors, are exactly zero.
ment contains the hidden roadblock
which provides that there can be
The tinniness of sponsorship by
some of the Republican, Senators
no limitation of debate on any mois shown by the fact that six of
tion to change the Senate rules.
the co-sponsors voted FOR the
ONE CHANCE
Wherry-Hayden
amendment.
They are Saltonstall
Practically, there is only one way
-(Mass.),
Hendrickson (N.J.), Capehart
that FEPC can come to a vote and
(Ind.), Jenner
(Ind.), Martin
certain passage by a sure majority
(Penna.) and Smith (Me.).
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(that does exist in the Senate): If
Only five voted right.
Duff of the Republican leadership in the
Pennsylvania was not then a mem- Senate can and will get the 47
Republican Senators in line and
ber of the Senate.
The fact that the Senators who keep them in line to be present and
to vote to break the filibuster on
voted for the Wherry-Hayden
amendment
voted
last May
and FEPC, then the non-Southern DemJuly to break the FEPC filibuster ocrats should be able to muster -17
is robbed of much of its meaning votes from.among 20 non-Southern
by the fact that six fellow Repub- Democrats to make up the neceslican
Senators
voted
with
the sary total of 64.
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The following summary by UAW-CIO General Counsel
Irving J. Levy covers the five Wage Stabilization Board
regulations issued since the ‘‘wage freeze’’ of January 26
(General Wage Stabilization Regulation 1):
General Regulations 2-5 provide exceptions to the freeze
of all ‘‘wages, salaries, and other compensation’’ as of
January 25 contained in GWSR 1 and permit certain wage
FPC Nullifies.
Kerr Bill Veto
WASHINGTON—Nearly
months ago now
big
the American
a great victory
oil companies
a
Kerr
Bill
pub-
the
General Regulation No. 2 exempts from the freeze wage
His veto
10-billion-dollar
which
the
legalized.
increases without securing Board approval. General Regulation No. 1 merely provides that the freeze applies to all
forms of compensation, including fringe benefits.
Presi-
the
when
ten
over
dent vetoed the Kerr Bill.
blocked
increases agreed to or announced on or before January 25,
1951, which are to take effect not later than February oS,
holdup
would
have
This regulation has been held by the Board to cover wage
increases under agreements reached on or before January
25, even though the actual signing did not take place until
. after the 25th. It also permits increases to go into effect
after January 25 and before February 9 pursuant to cost-
Today the President’s veto has
been vetoed by the Federal Power
Commission
and the Kerr Bill is
as alive as if it were the law of the
land. The oil companies’ extortion
of the public goes on unabated.
Here is the chain of events: The}
city of Detroit and the state of
Wisconsin last year petitioned FPC
to force Phillips Petroleum: Company to reduce the exorbitant rates
at which it was selling natural gas
to the pipelines..
The Kerr Bill
would have denied FPC jurisdiction over Phillips’ gas prices, That
was its purpose.
of-living or other provisions of pre-January 26 contracts.
This regulation exempts from the freeze payments under pre-January 26 agreements calling for application of a
fixed amount of payroll increase to make intra-plant ad->
justments, even though the adjustments have not yet been
_ put into effect.
General
tracts Acts.
But the Kerr Bill was vetoed.
Whereupon
FPC
began
to
get
ready
to undertake-to
start in-|
Phillips’
prices.
But
General
it
kept so busy answering questions
and furnishing facts they wouldn’t
be able to perform their invalu-
only fell for
this phony, it fell in a hurry. Phillips filed its plea December
15.
December
notice to
and Wishearings
Tuesday,
after the
Commission
will
consider
the
matter
again,
merely out of courtesy to one of
its members who was absent when
the quickie was pulled off in December.
But with two firm friends of
the oil industry joined now by
Chairman
Mon
C.
Waligren,
there is a majority on the Commission which to date is in favor
of letting the Kerr Bill operate
benefit
of
legality
heating homes
try in a large
States.
natural
gas
--workers who had been disqualified due to model change
lay-offs.
Because of a contract clause on eligibility for holiday
pay, these workers would have lost their holiday pay beeause they were laid off early in December.
for
and fueling
part of the
that
In theeunderstanding agreed to by the Corporation, the
eligibility rules were waived for these workers.
is
indusUnited
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The tota
payment thus secured is in excess of one-half million dollars ($500,000).
Reuther Statement
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same taxes as they paid during the last war, while families of $500,000
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a hs are presently paying $40,000 less in taxes.)
3. Defense production must be coordinated with civilian production
to minimize dislocation, unemployment and hardship upon workers and
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their families. |
4, Congress should provide a Federal supplement to state unemployment compensation benefits in the amount necessary to provide 40 hours’
pay per week for workers who are laid off due to Government orders .
curtailing civilian use of scarce materials or for other reasons resulting
from the defense mobilization effort.
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Congress has provided protection to guaranteed profits during the
conversion périod. It is obligated to provide protection to workers and
theit families. This is a normal part of the cost of the defense effort.
5. Free labor can best be mobilized for the defense effort by a voluntary manpower program. Free labor out- ‘ptoduced slave labor in the
last war.
the
DETROIT—Norman Matthews, Director of the UAWC1O Chrysler Department, announced the negotiation of a
memorandum of understanding with Chrysler Corporaticx
granting New Year’s and Christmas holiday pay for 37,00¢
lated, so will the prices of Standard
Oil, Texas Company,
and all the
other big companies which sell the
the
freeze
For 37,000 Workers
the duration of the emergency.
If Phillips’ gas prices go unregu-
bulk of
the
Chrysler Department Wins
New Year's, Christmas Pay
QUICKIE PULLED
It is understood the
without
from
Regional Wage Stabilization Boards are in the process
of being set up. For the present, any problem with respect
to regulations of the Wage Stabilization Board will be
handled by the UAW-CIO Washington office. Channelize
such problems through the office of your Regional Director.
_ effort.
That was a Friday. On
19, without the required
the petitioners—Detroit
consin—it postponed the
indefinitely. That was on
just two working days
plea came in,
4 exempts
who should be contacted for further details.
able services for the mobilization
not
Regulation
permits merit and
length- of-service increases provided for under pre-J anuary:
26 contracts and plans. No prior Board approval is required. Also exempted from the freeze are wage increases
which come about as a result of promotions or transfers, —
or from rates established on new or changed jobs, or from
shift differentials, or from premium or overtime rates, or
from incentive plans.
The complete text of the Wage Stabilization Board
regulations are in the hands of your Regional Director,
The last postponement was
“for the duration.” Phillips came
in with the
preposterous
plea
that, if it was investigated, its
lawyers
and
officers
would
be
Commission
freeze in-
No. 3 exempts from.the
wages of non-federal public workers.
General Regulation 5, just issued,
has not got going yet. Seven times
it postponed the hearings which it
had announced.
Six of those postponements were at the request of
Phillips Petroleum.
- The
Regulation
creases to bring wages up to the minimum rates required
by federal or state law. This covers the rates called for by
the Fair Labor Standards and Walsh- Healey Public Con-
POSTPONE ACTION
vestigating
1951
WAGE STABILIZATION
BOARD REGULATIONS
Now|
lic won
Feb
| ruary,
It can do so again.
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The responsibility of Government to the people is inseparably tied to the
responsibility of the people to the Government. If the Government carries
out its responsibility, the people will carry out their responsibility.
AUTOMOBILE
February,
WORKER
1951
mana
UNITED
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In this issue—
NEW
AGREEMENT
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Votes Full Support to Council. .....Page
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Locals Approve Demands..........CEB
Pace T
Elect Conference Committee
ORGAN
JOINT
OFFICIAL
FURRIERS
Vol. 6 No. !
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Settlement Approved By ™ 7 Workers Mass Meeting
No January Wage Reductions
| While the locals were meeting on Decenber 18th and 19th to decide demands for a
new agreement and for two days after that
the union and the Association of fur bosses
had four conferences on wages.
p
k
that
agreed
if there
a right to reopen the wage question any time.
im
0. Si by negotiations
ch
the Association.)
Thus if the cost of living rises, the union has
cl 5
=ug. ‘Besides, the losses were also
informed that the anion demanded an end to
a right to negotiate a wage Increase in 1951.
As soon as this wage settlement was
ae
by both sides, the union at once called a s
the two-wage system, a cost-of-living wage reopening and a wage increase in 1951.
The December conferences were therefore
cial membership mecting which took place at!
compelled to negotiate both the demands of the | Manhattan Center on December 27th. Close to’
bosses-and the demands of the union although — 5,000 Council members attended the meeting.
The union officers submitted the wape settle.
the negotiations for a new agreement did not
ment to the meeting for discussion and action, )
begin until January 15th.
since the
denen could not be final unless:
it was approved by the members.
After four day and night conferences the
union came out with an overall wage settlement fer 1951.
Terms
Members Approve
a discussion. the big meeting veel
A
of Seitlement
jsgreerment they had a right to cut wazes im
anuary as they cut Wasts i st_year up
association
is a rise in the coast of living. the union had |
e Suspends 2-Wage System for “51
'¢ Cost-of-Living Wage
_ for Increase in “S51
present are emient.
under the
Reopening
January, 1951
FOR 1951
PACT
UNION WINS WAGE
OF
THE
COUNGIL
Bibs teases Sibi ES Cc
THE
4
to i}
;$ almost unanimously to approve the settlement.
| Only two members voted against. The menbers quickly realized that the wage settlement’
wae a new achievement for our union. On
top of stopping the January off-season wage
$
5
reduction, the union also opened the way for:
a wage increase in 1951, and won suspension
of the two-waxe system for 1951 even before
the negetiations for a new agreement started,
The wage setlement thus paves the way for a
settlement on all other demands,
Stocipigeons
jhe stual}
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Only
oan
ee
ee
of these stoolpigcons
Aoa
_ spoke against approving the wage settlement,
Leaders Betray Workers
How Communist
The reproduction above from the official New
York publication of the Communist-led Fur Workers’ Union tells the amazing story of how Communist union leaders betray the workers in their
unions, while pretending to a militance they simply
don’t
possess.
a two-year period, says this official publication, the leadership of the Fur Workers’ Union
has permitted one cut in wages of up to 11 per cent
and agreed to a contract that would have permitted a second cut in January, 1951.
Over
At
a time
when
UAW,
Steelworkers,
Rub-
ber Workers and other unions are fighting for
and winning increases to protect their members against increased living costs, these selfstyled ‘‘militant, progressive’’ leaders hail as
a great union victory the fact that employers
didn’t choose to exercise their right under the
as ‘‘stoolpigeons ”? those
contract to cut wages.
ought
In case there is any doubt about the character of
the Fur Workers’ leadership, it can be pointed out
that the two people on the platform in the picture
at-lower left are Irving Potash, manager of the
New York Joint Board of the Union, seated, and
3en
Gold,
International
President,
at
the
micro-
phone.
Gold was once a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Potash has
faithfully followed the Communist
always
Party line. It was because of their leadership
and that of others with similar political sympathies that the Union was kicked out of the
CIO as Communist-dominated.
You will notice in the article reproduced above
the use of the typical Commie tactic of denouncing
a wage
to have
who
think
that
workers
increase.
action of the Fur Worker leadership is the
same kind of leadership exhibited by Communist
Party Liner Harry Bridges, who tied the wages of
certain of his members to the price of raw sugar.
It is the same as that of the Communist-dominated
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, the wages of
certain of whose members is tied to the price of
This
raw
zine.
when
though
the
Under
price
these
provisions,
of sugar
or zme
living costs are going
The vast
have wisely
of elements
betray you
party line
go
down
down,
even
wages
goes
up.
majority of UAW-CIO members
chosen not to follow the leadership
in our Union who would likewise
when political expedience or the
demanded it.
February,
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
1951
or Daily Convention Broadcasts
E
TIM
N
DOW
NAIL
TO
ED
URG
S
CAL
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i
FOR BROADCASTS IN THEIR HOME TOWNS
Gosser Reports
On Competitive
Shop Drive
- Extensive plans for broadeasting portions of the daily proceedings of the UAW-CIO Con| vention through the facilities of the two UAW-FM radio stations are well underway.
The UAW Radio Departmeht, in cooperation with Regional Directors, hopes to work out ar-
Vice-President Gosser, Director
of the UAW-CIO Competitive Shop
Departmené4, reports consistent
of organizing}
gains in a number
areas.
OHIO
at Norwalk,
NORWALK,
drive
The
workers
DETROIT—
The
have signed cards at the Fisher-}
Norwalk and Rockwell Mfg. Co.
plants. Contacts are being made in
some of the other plants. The Fishis one of the |
er-Norwalk_plant
main suppliers of General Motors’
OWOSSO, MICH.
Standard
The
cards
are
and
attended
well
are
meetings
Highlights of the recent Ohio
CIO convention, aired on UAW
station WCUO-FM
in Cleveland, attracted wide-spread interest and favorable comment.
SecretaryJames B. Carey,
Treasurer of CIO and President
of the International Union of
Electrical Workers-CIO, keynoted labor’s continuing interest in political action.
The
good.
looks
coming
in.
has also been started at
Work
at
plant
Abrasive
the Midwest
This plant employs about
Owosso.
300 workers.
LIMA,
OHIO
drive
at
Co.
past
the
For
has been
employment
vote
figure
election
Ohio
was
election
The
was
is about
Foundry,
Lima,
UAW—45,
was
normal
150.
recently
won
Ohio.
No—35.
conducted
by
on
FM
President,
Webster,
programs
to
ference
the
of the
}eration
of
of Sleeping
Car|
Civil
Rights
Con-|
Wayne
County
Fed-|
Labor
here
were
carried
in every
Green
in a
other
believe our fine
intent unless we
a
living
try,”
reality
he
in
stirring
ad-
Eastern
major
hh
nations
declarations of
make equality
our
own
Mr.
Webster
legislation
and
stressed
AFL,
Samuel
the
Gompers,
was
by a Negro
unionist from
Pittsburgh.
He pledged the AFL to a
vigorous
program
Webster
Rights
program
wide
struggle
and
democracy.
the
carrying
program
Mr.
| make
of
aggressively
tied
for
peoples
the
to
the
the
human
“We
of
Civil
world-
dignity
cannot
Asia
and
that
FEPC,
civil |
Chairman of the one-day conference was Patrick V. McNamarra,
well known AFL leader and mem-
of
the
the Detroit Board of EduFrank X. Martel, President
Wayne
County
Federation
factorily
at
to come
Hercules
|
a
week.
The|
Region|
concentration
long,
will be necessary.
handbilled
showing
very
regularly,
slow
Motor
Products
Rosenbloom
Praises UAW
High
tribute
leadership
tern
1950
the
UAW
in setting
and
was
blum,
to
social
given
the
wage
York,
St.
Balti-
Louis,
Springfield,
In-
Ohio,
and
terest
on
direct
lines
the
| be installed.
sible
same
program
delivery
will
into
station
carrying
the proOr if there is sufficient into
part
of
each
UAW
locals,
community
can
pos-
make
This would
the
on
programs
the
airing
day.
A charge of five dollars will be
Telephone
tape.
for each
made
considerably
of course, cost
the charges depending on the
lines,
more,
to
a
public
local
station
for
union
pa-
and
posters.
in
carry
will
if
UAW
promotion
service
local
a
wide-
of
them
leaflets
If public
a
assure
publicity
service
station.
approaching
time,
wide comunions are
have
local
request
from
| tensive
Often
service
public
guarantees
the
of
time
First local in Detroit to set up a Radio Techniques training course in cooperation with
station WDET-FM is Dodge Local 3. Rehearsing a proposed show, ‘‘Letter from Local 3,”
are: (Left to right) William Stachiw, Local 3 Education Director; Pat Kayo, Al Kazen, Bill
Dawse, John Barno, Jerry Sherman, Instructor, and Harry Rinehart. Other active members
|
is not avail-
in the
Education
Radio
Department,
Rogowski.
Committee-sponsored
course
are Jane
Pomerzille,
Curvin
Sells and Walter
Locals interested in initiating similar courses are asked to contact the UAW-CIO
411
W.
NEWS
with a punch
GUY
Monday
NUNN
through
7:15
CKLW
(102
Friday
p. m.
& WDET-FM
on
FM
Dial)
Milwaukee.
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
America, in an address carried on
WDET-FM
to the annual installa-|
ean
translate
eral
program,
to
our
members
we
are
in
|
|
|
|
the importance
to their
daily
welfare and that of their families
of our political support of a libperiod of
he said.
reaction
in
for
a
America,’
Kiddies’ Corner
Favorite
fry
is at
listening
four
of the
younger
o'clock.Sunday
after-
noons on WCUO, when Guy Ewing
and
Roy
Nestor dramatize
children’s stories.
The same program
is
heard
Sunday.
your
UAW
on
Get
WDET
the
FM
at
3:30
every|
habit; have |
whole family listen to your)
stations
— WCUO,
103.3 on!
FM in Cleveland, and
on EM in Detroit.
WDET,
102|
|
ex-
program.
the
tion of officers of the Detroit A. C.
W. of A.
_ More than 1,500 members of the
Amalgamated’s two divisions in Detroit, Cleaners and Dyers and Retail Clerks, jammed
the
Dairy
Workers’ Hall to hear Brother Rosenblum
and
UAW
Secretary-|
Treasurer Emil Mazey.
Brother Rosenblum urged the
Amalgamated members to rededjcate themselves to the political
struggle in America.
“Unless we
a
|able, discuss with other locals in
|your area the possibility of pur-_
|chasing
time for the broadcasts.
pat-
of
every
gram.
program
|
security gains in|
by Frank
Rosen-
Secretary-Treasurer
in such cit-
Chicago,
Tapes of the UAW
be airmailed special
station
its
arrangements
to have
the
other communities in which there
is substantial membership.
|pers,
Local |
for
New
and
in Detroit.
also carried
dianapolis,
‘spread
The Competitive Shop
Depart- |}
ment is also assisting with the Ma- |
at Marion, |
rion Industries drive
Ohio. This plant is a runaway from |
the Detroit
203.
more,
When
but is |
progress.
Cleveland,
is hoped that
be completed
time
The Ridge Tool Co., Elyria, Ohio, |
is being
in
CKLW
programs
free
real}
and
urged
|
satis-|
|
a
It
can
WCUO
broadeasts will
munity appeal,
Motors, Can-|
Before
on
7
fices immediately, so that the plans
| of all the locals in each area can be
| coordinated.
Since the UAW’ convention
at|
ton, Ohio, despite the fact that the
drive is being conducted by con- |
tacting key workers one or two |
days
p.m,
the convention,
Friday, at 7:15
are
town
home
to their
grams
|asked to contact their regional of-
The|
in
each evening of
Monday
through
debate and~
on the air|
of Labor, greeted the delegates and mileage from Cleveland or Detroit,
introduced Michigan’s Governor G. | Local unions interested in bringing
Mennen Williams.
radio. proconvention
the UAW
2B with the assistance of the Com-|
petitive Shop Department.
|
CANTON, OHIO
Cards continue
|
he asserted that |
a substitute for}
quires,
ber of
| cation.
of the convention
speeches will be put
{WDET
the|
Jewish and that the name of their
organization
had
been
suggested
the
that
|
NO SUBSTITUTE
While
in the country.
ies as Milwaukee,
national basis were essential if we
are to move ahead with the rapidity which the world situation re-
of
out
|
area
Under the direction of Guy Nunn,
UAW-CIO commentator, highlights
said.
founder
pointed
UAW
coun-
rights,
and other
anti-discrimination measures on a local, state and
dress
|
Africa and
broad- | need for education,
Station
education was not
cast on the UAW-FM
WDET last month,
President
and |
Vice-President |
Brotherhood
Porters,
Dial)
WDET—Detroit
(102 on FM Dial)
is also|
conveyors,
organization.
(103.8
P.
of the
|
wcvo—Cleveland
grain-proc- |
various
15-minute
addresses of Wil-|
AFL
| Civil Rights
| forward.
To Your FM Stations
etc.,|
buses,
105 workers.
about
Elevator Co., which}
essing equipment,
the
plant
This
Ohio.
manufactures
An
C. D. Beck
school
employs
Sidney
under
ee
a
weeks,
on at the
Sidney,
manufactures
and
The
several
Green,
Milton
or-
Commutator
drive
ganizational
@\liam
etc.
rugs,
and
mats
to have
WDET AIRS AFL CIVIL
RIGHTS CONFERENCE
is}
Ohio,
few
a
Quite
progressing.
rangements
YOUNG AMERICANS LOOK AT BOOKS—Detroit high
school students say what they think about current literature
every Saturday afternoon at 1:30 on UAW station WDETFM. “Interview with India,’’ by John Frederick Muebl,
was reviewed recently by Jim Trainor, University of De-
troit High School; Melvin Janis, Northwestern High; Mary
Lou Wilkerson, North Woodward Branch Library; Anne
Shakespeare, Wayne University, and Jennie Sushinsky,
Pershing High. The program is under the direction of the
Youth Service Department, Detroit Public Library.
Ril
AX
il
February,
Page 1I
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AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
1951
i
bok
“\ DEERE COUNCIL THANKS LOCAL UNIONS
“FOR GENEROUS C HRISTMAS FUND GIFTS
Total Exceeded $73,500 Donated,
Y
Vice-President Livingston Reports
YY
TT
DETROIT—Vice-President John W. Livingston, Director of
the UAW-CIO Agricultural Implement Department, reported
to the International Executive Board meeting here January 30
that the John Deere Council had dispatched a letter thanking
UAW-CIO local unions for Christmas Fund gifts totalling $73,«
Following
ingston’s
“In
ber,
UAH
yy HB KE
excerpts
second
the
seven
week
on strike for nearly
been
making
quate
and
mas
strikers. Left to right are:
Financial Secretary, Bendix
CIO
field.
with
been
in the Agricultural
He
stated:
Chrysler,
followed
the Agricultural
“The
Ford,
and
Implement
pattern
and
GM
improved
Implement
on
|
set |
has
by}
Depart-
Delegates
|Cockshutt
Plow
Massey-Harris,
plants
in
needs of the strik-
families.
drawing
near
But
Christ-
and
we
in
cooperation
with
the
CHICAGO
| unionists
all-day
—
from
gathered
no
paychecks
before
“The
December
Christmas
and
|}maxed
Walter
Canada,
at
worker
Illinois
and
3, for
ceremonies
P.
5 p.
festivities
m.
by
Reuther,
an
were
address
21,
of
cliby
International
was
after
112
settled
days
du-
and into East
Mo-
and
of
the
from
the
fine
the
Regional
local
jurisdiction,
and
merry
cooperation
his family
Di-
unions
under
every
Deere
had
a happy
Christmas.”
Kearney-Trecker
Joins
VAW-CIO
|
UAW-CIO
Civic Center
10,000-member Local 719, |
UAW-CIO.
The
day’s
received
their
all
dedication
“Because
rectors
trade
February
strike
ration, but even before that date
trucks were rolling into the various Deere
communities.
All
week
long,
load after load of
food, candy, fruit, nuts and toys
came into the Iowa cities of Ottumwa,
Dubuque,
Des Moines
we
of
over
Deere
and Waterloo,
line, Tllinois.
Throngs
Saturday,
the new
built by
orkers
at
Kearney-Trecker,
Milwaukee,
members
of an independent union, have voted to affili-
ate
1,400
with
The
UAW-CIO.
workers
are
workers
in
had
An
the
estimated
unit.
invited
repre-
President, UAW-CIO.
Sharing the | sentatives from two AFL and two
|reported Cockshutt
Plow contract|
platform
with
Reuther
were
the CIO unions to come to their meet|settled
with
six cents
per
hour
Building
Committee
headed
by ing and present their case.
In the
}across the board,
retroactive to
Fred
Aiken,
President;
Henry
final vote between
UAW-CIO
and
| November
29, 1950.
An
escalator
| Uebel, Treasurer;
and Ray Miller,
UAW-AFL, &-T workers voted by
| clause was also negotiated. MasseyHarris
| turned
management's
down
by
the
offer has been
| Secretary;
whose
over a period
sulted in the
membership,|
re-
Carlstrom, of the Agricultural Im-| increased organization, it is next to| YAW-CIO on November 6, 1950, for
plement Department, reported to| impossible to battle that Company /10 cents across-the board with an
the delegates on the activities of |" the basis of the battle carried
| additional five to 15 cents on cer-|
the department for the past year|0n this year in Harvester and)tain jobs, it was reported.
They|
| also gave the Union the right to|
and he said:
“We have closed the| Deere & Company.
gap between
the automotive
and|
Harvester delegates reported that strike over
production standards,|
agricultural
implement
industries} their contract was well accepted
but stated that they had to keep
with our rounded out program.
before the holidays.
But we knew
that the Deere strikers would have
felt
prodigious
efforts
of 10 years have renew $300,000 struc-
J. I. Case delegates expressed a who are asking that the Company,
desire for the department and the which sells a great portion of their} ture.
gional directors and staffs.”
International
Union
to
complete
products in the U. S. A., bring their}
Duane
(Pat)
Greathouse,
DiDelegates to the conference were
plans for an all-out drive to com- | wages
up
to that
paid in their
rector of UAW
Region 4, attendwelcomed
to the Region 4 Union
plete the organization of the un- plants in the U.S. A,
ing the ceremonies,
stated, “All
Center
by Director
“Pat”
Greatworkers
in the
Case
Wishouse.
| organized
Massey-Harris,
of Racine,
of UAW-CIO members in Illinois
plants, They reported, that without }consin,
244, | and Iowa take great pride in LoAssistant
Director
Lawrence
signed
with
Local
ment
than
“Evenyone
recognized
the possibility of a strike settlement just
care
719 Building
Called UAW
"Civic Center”
Gains
from
to
of the various Deere communities
requesting their assistance and co-
; Agricultural Implement Conference
“The UAW-CIO
is the dominant driving force in the agricultural implement
field today.
Proof of this lies in the fact that
we were able to take on and win
two big strikes in the Harvester
and Deere chains almost simultaneously.”
ade-
more
donations.
“On December 5, I sent a telegram to the Board Members in the
distance
trucking
within
Regions
Local 9, South Bend; John Lauritzson, President, Deere Local 79, East Moline; Maurice Cohen, Chairman, Studebaker Local 5 Recreation Committee, South Bend; James Tadlock, Welfare Committee Member, Deere Local 865, East Moline, and Sam Grogg, President, Deere Local 81, East Moline.
UAW-CIO Vice-President John W. Livingston, Director of®
their toes to keep management
the Agricultural Implement Department, in an address to a|2?
from
“chiseling”
on the contract.
three-day session of the Agricultural Implement Council meet- A great deal of credit was justly
ing in Ottawa, Illinois, on Janua ry 19-21 stated: “‘A wage freeze given Locals 1101 and 1012, I. H. C.
that would nullify our cost-of-living wage) formulas, in effect McCormick Tool Room and Office
force for the closing down of that
today, just don’t make sense.
plant during the recent strike.
adjustwage
prices,
freezes
really
“If the government
The closing of the McCormick
ments based on the BLS cost- of-living index will not move
Works forced the closing of all
up or down and so cannot be charged with adding to curother Harvester
plants under
FE-UE.
rent inflationary tendencies.’’®——_—_
and
was
that they would be grateful for a
that a demonstration
of support
}eoncrete
expression
of
solidarity
from their fellow workers would
from UAW-CIO fellow workers in
be a great morale booster.
the nearby Regions.
Shown above is a portion of the foodstuff donated by Indiana and Kentucky UAW-CIO
* Cheers Record 1950 Contract t
had
contributions
their
was
100 days:
substantial
weekly
had
Union
response
gratifying. Every Board Member
we had contacted gave his full
and complete
cooperation and
the local unions started immediately to collect cash and food
in
plants
International
“The
Decem-
workers
Deere
for the everyday
members as their contribution to a happy Christmas for Deere
Ronnie Nelson, Region 3 Staff Member; Charles VanDeVeire,
of
15,000
John
“The
ers
from
report:
the
been
C44
IIL
are
1950,
the
Livingston
pointed
out
to
the |
delegates that
the events in the
automotive industry had paved the
way for huge gains made by UAW-
®
|operation
in
bringing
Christmas
Livcheer to the Deere strikers.
502.82.
" b
and
the
after GM
escalator
clause
and Harvester,
patterned|
|
cal
719’s
having
achieved
one
of
the finest union buildings in the
country.” The Civic Center which
is already being booked by local
civic and fraternal organizations,
will
boast
10
cocktail lounge,
ber of meeting
bowling
alleys,
and a large
rooms.
num-
a
a 2%-1
majority
for
the
CIO
union.
From Racine, Wisconsin, the
truck below, loaded with 18
tons of food, fruit, candy and
|nuts, rolled westward to the aid
| of the Deere workers.
Left to
|right, are: Steve Olsen, President of Massey-Harris Local
244 and the UAW-CIO Agricul|tural Implement Council; Harvey Kitzman, Director of VAW|CIO Region 10; and Clayton
Carpenter, Recreation Department Staff Member.
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PETITION FILED
“FOR ELECTION AT
BURROUGHS PLANT
‘kers,&
NEW YORK—More than 14,000 brass and copper wor
formerly members Ss of the Pr “ooressive Metal Workers’ Coune il,
have completed an overwhelming vote to affiliate w ith the UAW-
CIO,
it was
UAW-CIO
here by
announced
Region
9A.
unions par- "PAC
for a trans-
A total of 13 local
ticipated in the voting
following
fer of affiliation
Charles
a
deci-
R
ector
Direct
Kerrigan, Dir
Dilan
d
d
T
of
The
UAW-CIO
filed
a
petition
sion of the National CIO to award
ecor
oppe
| February 2 with the National Labor Relations Board for a reprejurisdiction of all copper and brass|
|sentation election among the some
workers to the UAW-CIO.
A num-| B
Local
65
|4,500 employees of the Burroughs
ber of these local unions, rebelling|
y:
Machine
Company
— the
In response to a challenge, pub-| |Adding
controls, had
Communist
against
seceded from the Miné, Mill and/|lished in the November Auto Work- jlargest non-union manufacturing
which was ex: | &r at the request of Local 235, the | company remaining in the Detroit
Smelter Workers,
area.
pelled from the CIO for adherence | following letter was received:
The petition was filed by UAWIn the November publication of
to the Community party line.
| CIO Region 1A Co-director Joseph
The United Automobile Worker,
:
_Some 5,000 workers in the Sco- | there was a challenge from the | McCusker, who had previously sent
a letter to the Company asking recwat Manufacturing Company at | Chevrolet Gear and Axle Local
Waterbury, Conn., had already | 235 in Detroit to any local to bet- |ognition and stating that “we are
voted earlier to join the UAW- | ter the record set by one of its |prepared to demonstrate in a suitclo.
‘shop leaders in selling PAC dol- |able and legal manner
that we|
The
j have been authorized by your emtransfer
agreement
was,
Jar books.
worked out jointly by the UAWThey stated that Walter Juda, | ployees to represent them.”
Glow
the United iStcelwericons
a local committeeman, has been
It was expected that the NLRB
|would set a date for the election
CIO, and
the Industrial
Union
of} CUD eae
by
his local
un|
"
=e
aa
=
ion officers for selling ten
(10)
the
that
and
future,
near
the
in
Marine and Shipbuilding Workers.|
3
5
election would be held in or near
Rebel locals that had bolted from
PAC books during the: course of
;
aan
:
the 1950 campaign.
the Mine-Mill U nion had taken refWilll you (plossoumndricatnaeal |the Burroughs plant at 6071 Seclond Blvd.
UAW-CIO organizers, led by Walter Bell, of Region 1-A,
uge with the shipyard workers and
|
235, through the United AutomoInternational Representative
later formed
themselves
into
the
bile
Workers’
publication,
that
are pictured above distributing leaflets announcing the filWalter Bell, who headed the inProgressive Metal Workers’
CounJack Wilse, President of Locat 65
ing of a petition for an NLRB election at Burroughs Addtensive
UAW-CIO
organizing
cu
and chairman of PAC, sold twenAte. Machine in Detroit.
drive, said:
“There
are
many
Practically all of the affiliation
ty-three
(23)
PAC
books, and
UAW and other union members
votes were unanimous. The con- | Frank Mays, chief shop steward,
who have friends and relatives
tracts of the local unions are besold
twenty-three
(23)
PAC
who work at Burroughs.
I hope
ing transferred to the UAW-CIO.
books, or a total of $1,150.
| the union people will tell their
Mike Sviridoff, UAW-CIO Region
I hope to see this published in
friends and relatives of the many
9A Representative, and John Dristhe Auto Worker.
benefits that a union contract can
coll,
of the
Progressive
Metal
Fraternally yours,
| bring them, and to vote for the
Workers’
Council, shared
JACK
WILSE, President,
the re| UAW-CLO
in the coming
elecof pensions to retired| would be based on calendar time
Payment
sponsibility of planning and carryLoé@al 65, UAW-CIO,
tion.”
Auto-Lite workers has started, it|and not actual time in weeks or
ing out the transfer of affiliation.
(Murray Ohio Mfg. Co.).
was announced by Vice-President|days worked, back to a two-year
the purpose of comGosser, Director of the) preak—for
Richard
|
|
AUTO. LITE PENSION BOARD
OKAYS FIRST APPLICANTS
HUDSON SIGNS NEW CONTRACT:
INCREASE, IMPROVEMENT FACTOR,
COST-OF-LIVING CLAUSE WON
Agreement on a five-year contract with the Hudson Motor
Car Company was announced January 25 by Norman Matthews,
Co-director of UAW-CIO Region 1.
The new agreement, which is subject to ratification by the
Hudson Local 154 membership, contains the cost-of-living ‘‘escalator’? clause and provides for annual wage increases of four
cents an hour—the annual improvement factor.
Matthews
said
the
agreement©
with Hudson brought all automo-|
Delwin Craig, Local 154 Presibile manufacturers in the Detroit | dent, said that no date had been
area into line with the UAW-CIO/set for ratification meetings, but
basic contracts.
With the exception | that they would
of Willys-Overland, now in negotia- | as possible Gere
ae
tions
auto
States
with
the
Union,
manufacturers
are
now
all
major
in the
signed
United
to
oats 1
RD
similar|
basic contracts.
The “escalator” clause in the
Hudson contract is identical with
those in the “Big Three’ agreements, as is the amount of the
annual improvement factor. The
latter, however, is effective Au-
be held “as soon
PILES UP UNION1
ROCKFORD — Union-shop elections in this UAW town during the|
gust 1 of each year.
A general wage increase of one past 12 months have inaugurated
cent an hour was also won, which | union-ship conditions for the first
brought wages into line with cost- time.
According to International Repof-living adjustments made in other agreements.
|Tesentative Willard Allen of ReThe new contract also provides | gion 4 staff, the union-shop
elecfor improved vacation pay, with a tion January 19 at Rockford’s largtop of 120 hours’ pay for those hav- est plant won 2,195 to 536 by Local
ing 15 years or more of seniority.
449, UAW-CIO, climaxed the drive.
Additional wage increases of
Other local unions that smashed
10 cents an hour for six classi- jenouen
with union-shop victories
fications of skilled workers, five [Sere Local 39 (Geo. D. Roper), Locents an hour for all other emeal 592
(Sundstrand), Local
541
ployees in the Experimental En(Bird Piston Ring), Local 718 (Gungineering Department and two
ite Foundries) and Local 803 (Rockcents an hour for those on sevenford Clutch), that piled up a 10-to-1
day operations were also included.
majority for union security.
POSTMASTER.
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address
on
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Form
notices
3578
|
of
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change
Form
67B)
and
copies
returned
under
labels
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‘PEARSON& PIERCE,
‘UAW-CIO. DUO,
‘NOW LEGISLATING
credits. This is 4
Auto-Lite Cor-
| puting past service
UAW-CIO Auto-Lite Department.
| Within 30 days after the Nation-| significant because
al Pension Board of Administration poration is made up of units purwas formally established, applica- | |chased largely from prior owners,
tions of 10 old timers in Auto-Lit te) on d because
of that,
records
in
SPRINGFIELD,
Il.—Now
there
from
Toledo,
Ohio;
two}
;are two where only one served be-| —seven
some instances are hazy as they
|
from
La
Crosse,
Wis.;
and
one
from
|
| fore.
Fostoria, Ohio—were approved and pertain to employees’ service recState
Representatives
Harvey
| ords.
Pearson (R., Waukegan) and Wil-| pension checks issued.
Due to illness and death among}
By unanimous agreement of the
liam Pierce (D., Rockford) reportPensfon
Board, Virgil
ed for duty in January for the 67th | top-level Auto-Lite executives, the|National
members
of the Board | Barnhart of the Toledo Unit of LoGeneral Assembly, convening in the Company
were not designated until Decem- | j}cal 12, presently President of the
state capitol.
Pearson, UAW-CIO International ber. Promptly, then, the Board as- | Auto- Lite National Intra-CorporaRepresentative on the staff of Re- sembled and proceeded to set up| tion Council, was elected as chairforms and proce-| man of the National Pension Board.
gion
4 Director
Pat
Greathouse, the temporary
was re-elected in November, 1950, dures necessary so that BDPUcan a
Local
plant
committees
have
could
immediately
file
and
receive
and Pierce, President of Local 449,
| largely been established and are copension
payments.
UAW-CIO, was elected for the first || Auto-Lite established a tempo- | operating well with the National
rary
fund
until federal
approval| |Board, which
made
possible the
Organizing Drives
Booming Along
In Region Four
|of the plan is obtained, and agreed| hee tate,
to
retroactive
payments
to
appli-
|
PAST
An
jall
tions
SERVICE
agreement
past
service
was
F. Lacey, Co-director of
Region 1, announced the
.
prior
to
}on
in its next
February
that feeeare the
seniority
establishing
reached
| Two More Wins
Michael
UAW-CIO
i
i
in |i
of pensioners
‘
|
Ly
|eants who become eligible on No-|
The Pension Board is expected li
| vember1, the normal.effective date.|to review a dozen more applica- 18
CHICAGO, Ill.—Region 4 Direc| tor Pat Greathouse announces in-|
|tensive organizing campaigns underway in three areas of Illinois.
Ford Aircraft Division in Chica-|
go is being organized by Interna-| For
Region
4
tional
Representatives
Peter
J.
Director Pat Greathouse reports
Watson,
Tom
Sullivan and Curly|two recent organizing victories in
Lore.
In Joliet, the new Caterpil- | Region 4 as follows:
Toolroom of International Harlar Tractor Co. plant is warming
| vester Works, Canton, Mllinois:
up.
UAW-CIO—97
Rockford, Ill., is the scene of an
organizing push in four plants with
IAM—72
over 4,000 workers:
Barber-Col- |
Election in main unit took place}
man,
Globe
Imperial
Tool Co.,
ov ee recent, eee
seen
Spengler-Loomis
and General Ces campaign slogan of “Don’t
ment Mfg. Co.
| vote
UAW
or you’ll
be out on}
International Representatives | strike”—split the plant between UE|
Willard Allen, Emmet
Poyer and} |and AFL.
Robert Brown, the latter from Die
In Chicago, 17 workers at Hud-)
Cast
Department,
are conducting son Motor Sales Corporation voted|
the drives.
|17 to 0 for UAW-CIO.
Region 1 Gains
8 Small Shops
a
|
and
meeting
to
further
procedures involved
pension machinery.
in
hit
|
a
NEW LOCAL WINS
27/2-CENT RAISE
|
Ray.
Ross,
Direetor
2A,
announces
Region
of
UAW-CIO
con-
| 1
| tract covering the Columbus Metat
Products workers, who chose the
1a
| UAW
in
election,
Among
a
recent
has
been
other
ie
contract
b
me ct
ene
that
concluded.
benefits,
t
se
1. Wage increases
eents te 40 cents per
average
of
27%
per worker.
2.
for
3.
for
Eight
hours
a
representation
bers the following gains:
Region Five
Wins New Shop
Russell Letner, Director of UAWRegion
5, reported
a heavy
organization of eight small plants | CIO
election victory at Luscombe Airin recent weeks.
The plants are: Millar Brothers, | craft in Garland, Texas.
With 162 eligible workers in the
Knight Plating Company, Mills Enbargaining unit, the votewas UAWgineering Company,
Lite House
Storm Window Company,
Marien- CIO 154, No Union 8, amounting to
Metal
Products,
Dasco
Products a 95 per cént victory.
Company, Van Worker Industries
Credit goes to Johnny Bates, inand Kelleher-Flynn Company.
plant organizer, and Walter Gray
International Representative Art and H. A. Moon, International RepVega was in charge of the drive.
resentatives,
15,
scheduled
cents
the
new
from
hour,
15
an
new : mema i
a
per
call-in
hour
pay.
Paid vacations — one week
one to five years; two weeks
five
4.
Six
or
more
paid
years.
holidays.
5. Greatly
improved
health,
surgical and accident insurance
plan with the Company
paying
70 per cent of cost.
6.
Adjustments
in
piece
wage
rates.
7.
Union
Charter
is
being
time.
shop
for
the
processed
and
new
at
check-off.
loeal
the
union
present
%
- Item sets