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United Automobile Worker
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1951-03-01
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Vol. 15 No. 3
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Entered as 2nd Class Matter, Indianapolis, Indiana
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MARCH,
1951
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LABOR ACTS IN PUBLIC INTEREST
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Above is a scene from the “showdown” meeting between
representatives of the United Labor Policy Committee and
Defense Mobilization chiefs. Around the table, left to right,
are: AFL President William Green, Economic Stabilizer Eric
Johnston, Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson, Defense Mo-
Crime
Big
bilization General Counsel Herbert Bergson, CIO SecretaryTreasurer James B. Carey, UAW-CIO President Walter P,
Reuther (back to camera, speaking
ists’ President Albert J. Hayes.
;
Investigation
to Wilson),
and
Machin:
—Acme
Photo,
Reveals
Business-Gangster
Links
Pages Five, Six
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March,
Page
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
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Above
f Robinson,
breaks strikes and heads for John Fry, President of the Detroit Michigan
Stove Company—and for other business associates. The looks of some concern
on each of their faces is because the pictures were made during their testimony
before the Crime Committee.
is a group of Detroit business associates. At left, we have Dean
President of the Briggs Manufacturing Company, who gave a scrap
i metal contract worth some $100,000 a year to Carl Renda for no other appar“ent reason than Renda’s being the son-in-law of gangster Sam Perrone, who
Committee
Crime
Hearings in Detroit
Ties
|Disclose Big Business-Gangster
Crin ie
Investigating
the
of
rq
Committee}
Jury,
Grand
1946-47
on the scrap contract; | tracts for union busting at major
auto plants.
losing
mind
didn’t
it
that
and
by
e
Committe
the
to
over
turned
in-|
but,
tion;
informa
| came here looking for in-plant gambling
e That John Lovett, Republican
money.
| Judge George Murphy.
) stead, came up with sensational evidence linking big industrialthe notorious Perrone “brain truster’ and manager of
| @ That
Those records showed:
the Michigan Manufacturers Assobrothers
broke
strikes
not
only
' ists with gangsters and racketeers.
e That the Briggs Manufacturin Detroit but in Battle Creek as ciation, was linked to the Detroit
chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.
Testimony provided solid evidence showing that the destruc- ing Company gave a $100,000 scrap well.
The story of the alleged link bemetal contract to Carl Renda, sone That the Detroit Michigan
the
was
terrorism
and
' tion of unions through physical violence
Perrone;
Klux
the Ku
and
Lovett
tween
in-law of gangster Sam
Stove
Co.—which
gave
the
Perobjective of the industry-gangster hookup.
|and, at about the same time, Union
rones their start—knew it was deal- Klan and its role at Briggs hasn’t
beaten ing with gangsters, called on them
were
Briggs
at
been printed by any daily newspaleaders
Even the appearance of fading@—
to break
strikes, and also didn’t per. It came out in the testimony
Harry Bennett, Ford's former ace} Perrone brothers, Sam and “Gas- nearly to death;
Grady
Klansman,
the | per.”
e@ That Briggs knew it was deal- mind losing money on a scrap deal. of a former
union-buster,
failed
to take
Murphy
the
to
given
Woodson,
e That
there
was
in existence
eleMost of the facts made public by ing
with
racket-connected
headlines away from the disclosure|
grand jury on June 25, 1946.
it was a “master plan” to trade scrap conthat it knew
and
of the activities of the notorious | th e Committee came from the rec-|ments;
Senate
DETROIT—The
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At right is the best that
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| Detroit industrial bigwigs
could think of to say
about the revelations of
the Senate Crime Investigating
igan—WO
Committee.
water
garden
and
with
variety
racketeers.
L. DORWORTH,
O.
BUSINFSS
DETROIT'S
Entered
as
Class
Second
O. H. J
Manager;
Matter
at
the
Price to Members
NINGS,
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Editor
Wiciiam
EEKLY
Michigan
Wittts
FRANK
J.
else.”
Campbell protests that
Detroit's industrialists,
always noted for their enlightened social attitudes,
will now fear to employ
ex-convicts to beat up unionists and break strikes.
The shoe seems to fit,
but the Board of Commerce doesn’t find it easy
H
Harr,
M.
E, Coyir
B.
Setpen
sound economical practice of bui
highways to fit motor carriers
the way toward having a th
No
hundred-dollar automobile.
tamperers have fixed it so your
a car will amount to more 14
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Letters to newspapers shdéw that the
Kefauver Committee continues to undermine citizens’ faith in government.
The inquisitors diagnose their desired
findings—even then, fail to prescribe
cures. The public chorus queries,
“Where's the high up collusion in top
law enforcing agencies that allows nationally known criminals to enter our
country, despoil it—and avoid depor
tation?’ *** When will. Kefauver
subpoena Federal appointees and tele-
with
dealings.
vise their personal
thugs? And when will the Committee
get around to mentioning prostitution
and dope, fufidamental profit elements
of Prendergast-type gang syndicates?
4
John Burling has done much harm
if factory executives stop hiring ex
convicts.
They'll
rot
in
prison
un-
paroled — unless Kefauver clears up
social misunderstandings created by
the mean emphasis of John’s probe
tome
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bad, but somehody
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Stancey_
Maurice
Leo
CARLL
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Vice-President
Lernincer,
EpwinJ, ANDERSON
Notable
Nearly alone among all
elements of the city of Detroit, the Board of Commerce’s mouthpiece—a
puffy windbag named
Harvey Campbell—is tell-|
ing the Kefauver Committee: “Look somewhere
H.
Vice-President
Dieu,
Treas
yal
asurer
Assista t Tre
D. Bairey,
GEORGE
Erecitive
Vice-President
CAMPBELI
Harvey
hoodlums
O. Briggs, Jr., is a Director of the Detroit Board
of Commerce.
H,
President
Vice
S. Kiskappen,
Don
st Office at Detroit,
50 a Year
Coveman,
S.
Joun
President
Jr
Fisuer,
T.
Cuartes
common
among these was the
Briggs Manufacturing
Company, whose Walter
to wear.
.
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS OF
DETROIT BOARD OF COMMERCE
Big business operators
found themselves tossed
around in the same pot of
hot
Howls
Dog
Bitten
the
How
losing money
R.
A
Y¢
P. Rupp Wan
VANDERZEE
M, Winer
NKERS
having is a prime industry. You
can't count the number of retail
items
Sy
dally paralyzed
alleged
outlaw
certain carriers
strikes
which
they threatened to make nationwide if their drooling greed and
avarice be not satiated in full. This
is no news to you. | simply mention
these facts as justification for strong
public action aguinst those who
would prostrate the public. Strikes
no longer are against railroad management. They are against the public. No group has the right to sacrifice public interest to serve their
own selfish ends. Liberty is not License, and any self-interested sacrifice of the public weal under the
banner of Liberty and Freedom is
worse than License. In my opinion
it is treason during the awesome
existina
national
emergens,
or the number
of retail
stores
that could be indexed under shaving
equipment. *** Bud Guest recently
stumbled intg a broadcast on shaving
because a friend used toothpaste instead of soap. We never did that, but
we have cleaned our teeth with Molle
—and don't recommend it. *** Radio
rules of good-taste prevent Bud from
telling the why of shaving. Not being
so inhibited,
proof
they
we can
cite documented
that ever stnce men
have
shaved
tn
were able,
self-defense
be
cause they were lousy. They shaved
their heads, too. So did women. The
wig business flourished in the neighborhoods of continental courts, and
here in colonial times.
You can see
Fathers
museum
Wigs of
Founding
that bear proof of the presence of nits
and lice, Isn't history cruel? None of
Washington's cabinet members were
whiskered, *** By the time Lincoln
becary
mwobinet looked
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