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United Automobile Worker
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1951-09-01
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Vol. 15 No. 9
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VOL.
15, NO.
SEPTEMBER,
Entered as 2nd Class Matter, Indianapolis, Indiana
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PRINTED IN U.®. A.
1951
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Rise in Living Cost Brings
5th Consecutive Pay Increase | UAW WINS ONE, STRIKES ONE
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UAW-CIO
UAW
children,
summer
camps
for UAW
summer
Above is a children’s archery
Page Nine
Two
school students and for | Local 12's camp at Sand Lake, Michigan.
(and acrobatic)
class at | mer school pictures.)
(See pages 6 and 7 for more sum-
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WORKER
They Come Curio
Record-Breaking
Graduates 2,500 St
For 25,000 UAW members
Summer School Wind.
the
was
1951
year
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of the}
if
More UAW members attended more UAW summer self
and learned more about what was going on in the world thé
any other year in history.
Twelve summer schools bulged at the barnacles from ¢
capacity registration. Indiana, Ohio, New York, all turned
three times as many students as in previous years. Every ¢
school had a 50 per cent to 100 per cent gain in registration
1950.
Large numbers were not all that distinguished the sch
Training was different, with the emphasis on workshops}
discussions more intensive than ever.
UAW Education Director Brendan Sexton said, ‘*No m
what a student took at the summer school, in each case the
was to send him back to his local union with more confic|
in his own abilities, more respect for the abilities of the pi)
he works with.’’
Brendan
Sexton, UAW
Education
Director,
shows
a class in, Union
Administration
at
the Buffalo, New York, Summer School how a company put on a propaganda campaign
based on lies and misrepresentations during an NLRB election. Armed with the knowledge
of what to look for and how to combat it, delegates will be better prepared for future
elections,
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Purdue University at Lafayette, Indiana,
played host to 170 UAW
students.
The uni-
versity, however, was only host, instructors came out of the ranks of the UAW. Past experiences have shown that university professors lack union know-how, and do not make
good summer school instructors. When President Walter P. Reuther visited the school, he
received the Speaker of the Year award from a national forensic fraternity.
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Big emphasis ak the UAW cane Behool of pee soutl Ih
techniqngs
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Ror ee
Black TOUR
political action. Seventy students learned the techniques whit
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What does a man do with his wife when he goes to a UAW Summer School? He brings
her along to most summer schools. There his wife attends classes in Economics for Union
wives, and other classes in crafts, ceramics, copper ware, weaving, photography, and millinery. This Port Huron Michigan Wives’ Class is talking about what a Union wife should
know. Second from the right is Caroline Davis, Director of the UAW-CIO Women’s Division of the Fair Practices and Anti-Discrimination Department.
Summer
change
schools give UAW
experiences.
Here
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local union leaders a chance}
Secretary-Treasurer
Emil Mazey}}
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