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United Automobile Worker
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1951-07-01
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Vol. 15 No. 7
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AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
- July, 19
Time Again for
That Corn Boil
This
but
may
that’s
about
Rockford,
gust
12,
sound
rather
all
Illinois,
the
on
day
of
corny— |
you'll
find in|
Sunday,
the
Au-
Annual | Constitutional
CIO Corn Boil.
local UAW
unions
hands
make,
the
with
20
tons
of
husked
and
boiled by | convict.
to
affair
corn,
picked,
UAW
members,
was
join
celebration
up.
CIO representative in Europe, and Frank Wallick, new CIO represent-
ative in Asia, are seated together at the 34th
tion meeting
tion of Trade
Republic was
after a plea
resist
the
session
of the
International
Labor
Organiza-
in Geneva, Switzerland. In the background is Eric Buhrig, German ConfederaUnions delegate, and his interpreter, Johannes Schregne. The German Federal
admitted to the ILO over objections of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Israel,
by the French labor leader, Leon Jouhaux, to help ‘‘German trade unions
restoration
of Nazism.’’
The
Rockford
Corn
Boil
was
originally
pioneered
in Rockford
by Local 449 UAW-CIO
aon
Lock workers)
back
in 1947.
It
became
an
all-Rockford
proposi-|
tion and workers come from such
UAW
centers as Chicago, Peoria,
Moline, and the state of Iowa to
participate in the eating of tender,
succulent
2.600 Strike Wesly Thompson
sweet
guilty
of
Congress.
corn.
June
Leagy
28
The
of
penalty |
The
in jail and $1,000 fin
took only 15 minutes §
jury
Lobby
headed
refused
to tell
Investigating
the
Committee!
by
conviction
after
refusing
,to
cer Division so much
meet competition.
costing
they
Spi-
couldn't
CHICAGO—Wesly
| International
Thompson,
Representative
52,
and
| Director of Fair Practices in Rerates, a worker was supposed to be | gion 4 for CIO. United Auto WorkUnder
the
newly
established
June
21, at
able to make
a minimum
of 30 | ers, died Thursday;
Michael Reese Hospital here. Death
per cent over the base rate.
was caused by a heart attack.
But one job, typical of 35 per
He was a mefnber of the Interplant,
the
in
jobs
cent of the timed
| national Union’s Advisory Council
$1.697 in May,|
a worker
earned
|}on Fair Practices and Anti-Dis1946, when the base rate was $1.15,
| crimination.
He was active in the
when
1951,
May,
in
$1.712
and only
campaign Zor FEPC legislation in
the base rate was $1.405, 25% cents
| Illinois. He was a member of the
m
minimu
The
higher.
hour
an
Mayor’s Commission on Human Reshould have been $1.826 under the|
lations and Chairman of the Hous30 per cent formula.
ing Committee
of the Chicago
The workers claim management | NAACP.
when
confidence
their
betrayed
In. 1940, Wesly Thompson became
they
used
the new
formula,
ed
to
given
sentence.
name his
when
quizzed
Committee.
a six
He
big
by
months
also had
business
the
suspends
refused
backer
Buchanan
Auto-Lite Member Retires
active in the UAW-CIO, serving as
out as a means of helping the ComPresident
of Amalgamated
Local
pany over a tight spot, as a license | 734,
UAW-CIO,
for three
years.
to bust the rates.
He became an International RepNo date had been set for a new | resentative for UAW-CIO in 1941
meeting with the Company as the| and in 1947, was appointed to the
Auto Worker went to press.
International Advisory Council of
the Fair Practices and Anti-Discrimination Department.
Local 12 Opens
Summer Camp
milk ($617.20 worth a week last
year) is supplied by Local 12 dairy
farm herds.
Rates for Local 12 sons and
The full complement of boys ardaughters are $7 a week (the Local
Camp
rived at Local 12 Summer
paying $8 out of the treasury) and
at Sand Lake, Michigan, Sunday,
June 24, when 225 sons of union for all others, $15. Dozens of boys
workers arrived in automobiles and | and girls from families unable to
afford even these modest fees are
buses.
For four consecutive weeks, the financed by local unions each year.
The camp was founded by Viceboys will take over. Then, after a
one-week stretch during which the President Richard T. Gosser while
he was president of the Local, and
camp will be nailed back together,
has grown to such proportions that
the girls will have the place.
Food is raised by four Local 12 the entire Region 2B now supports
it and sends its children there,
farms adjacent to the camp, and
Send notices of change
POSTMASTER.
of address on Form 3578 (Canada, Form
In the*photo is Bertie Page, Auto-Lite member from the Niagara Falls Division of AutoLite, who is retiring-after 32 years’ service with the Company. He is shown receiving his first
pension check from Herb Francis, President of Local 571, a UAW-CIO member of the Pension Committee, while Melvin Carpenter, Auto-Lite Council delegate looks over Francis’s
shoulder. Although the local committee did not get together until after the first of the year,
benefits to Bertie Page were made retroactive to November 1, 1950—the date the Pension
Arrangements have also been worked out so that when
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Shown above is the architect’s model of the proposed three-story, 100-bed Lower Bucks
County (Pa.) Hospital. A public subscription campaign for $1,500,000 is now underway to
build the first community general hospital in the area’s history. Frank Flatch, member of
UAW-CIO Local 130, Bristol, Pa., is chairman of the United Labor Hospital Committee.
Program was to go into effect.
,
| another House Committee similap
|
infarmation.
Recently Edward A. Rumely, who
runs another anti-labor outfit, thi |
Committee for Constitutional Goy
|
ernment,
was
convicted
of com
worked
labels
under
returned
copies
and
67B)
No. 3579 (Canada, labels No, 29B) to 2457
St., Indianapolis 7, Ind.
Washington
E.
f
g
The strike was authorized after
a five-hour session with management, led by Charles H. Ballard,
2B, produced
Director of Region
no satisfaction.
An emotional element
in the
betrayal.
is a feeling of
strike
management
helped
UAW-CIO
work out new rates a year and a
half ago when management claimed
were
igs
the late Rep. Frank
Buchanan (D., Penna.) the names
of his financial backers.
Last yeap
he served four months for contem
tempt,
a member
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We
Houf
TOLEDO — Twenty-six hundred
production workers at Spicer Division of Dana Corporation here went
on strike Tuesday, June 26, at 5:30
p. m. in protest against a year-long
grievance on pay rate cuts.
rates
I,
con
At Spicer
unbalanced
]
to a year
Kamp
Intl. Rep. Emmet
C. Poyner, in
his capacity
as President
of the
| Rockford CIO Council, reports that
progress
taqjyvards the
big day is
satisfactory
and
will.
make
the
Corn Boil as successful as in past
years when 18,000 persons showed |
Educational
found
tempt
al up
sweet
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WASHINGTON | (LPA) — Joseph
P, Kamp, who runs the anti-labol
Rockford
Eleven
real
Victor Reuther,
Kamp Guilty
For 2nd Time
retires, his total accu-
mulated vacation benefits for the work year are payable immediately. In Auto-Lite, members with 25 years or more service receive eight per cent of their straight-time year’s earnings as a vacation bonus—which adds to the benefits won for members with long service.
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