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United Automobile Worker
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1951-11-01
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Vol. 15 No. 11
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Fight Against Unemployment Goes On
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Page
Some Things
Congressman
While
fl
Borg-Warner Workers
|Pe
-
Recess Their Strike
Page Two
;
NATIONAL
CIO
CONVENES
He’s
Your
With
Up
to Take
Three
at Home
Page Five
Detroit Roundup of
Anti-Union Gangsters
Page Nine
IN
NEW
YORK
y
j
CITY
a”
vo
voveniber,
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UNITED
1951
icti
rike Conv
crions
VOnvi
‘y Bellee Strike
,
»: Reversed by High Court
Waiting
at
the
11
Church—Again
York Court
members have been reversed by the New
(1-7) MAW-CLO
Page
WORKER
of
law”’ convictions
‘lynch
court
N. Y.—Lower
BUFFALO,
UE
AUTOMOBILE
og qs tf Appeals.
The convictions of four CIO members, including UAW-CIO
a
s4'li fub-Regional Director Edward Gray, for alleged ‘‘riot’’ and
ini Weonspiracy,’’ grew out of the strike of Local 501 members
i) §gainst the Bell Aircraft Corporation in 1949,
‘1
®t
the
the
In a 5 to 2 decision,
fiighest court dismissed
had
i nent against Gray, who
|b Sneanor,
>" The
was
court
trials
new
| (Bai Hering
Df riot, a felony.
All four men
tei
7
Court
Workers
Catholic recently
unorganized
Commenting
at cent
They|roughs
1950.
24,
May
on
mages hockport
Paper
even when
| unions
six-| fied with their lot.
given
County
a
The Michigan
el
convicted |Ut8ed
were
Unions
Join
Advises
Ip-
'
e
.
after their convic-
Sep ions in Niagara
e
=
‘Catholic
in or-
Joseph
for
were
sentences
+ dim inonth
misde-|
unanimous
who
area,
P3uffalo
ia
been
Fried, Pearce
teats
a,
a
conspiracy,
of
tit @onvicted
state’s®
indict-|
NLRB
workers to join
editorially
election
Adding
are
they
at
Machine
satis-
on
the
a
re-
Bur-
Company's
19) Grave been free on $5,000 bail each | three Detroit plants in which em-
salir spending a decision on their appeal. | ployes voted against union repreThe Court of Appeals reversed sentation, The Catholic said:
et]
i) } Mr, Gray’s conviction. and -dis- |
“The workers apparently decided
on the
‘Hees imissed the indictment
the question of union or no union
legalis
evidence
bavie }ground that “the
in purely personal terms, They reJen ‘ly insufficient to Warrant a find- jected the union because they felt
Giling of guilt beyond a reasonable they would be as well off...
M%
ERRED
COURT
“*TRIAL
conspiracy.”
of
crime
the
of
“ddu jdoubt
The seven appeals judges ordered
Ri
trials for Messrs. Ippolito,
ainew
tun/£Blachowicz and Fried because of
ywhat the court called errors by the
'ftrial court.
In a memo, the Court of Appeals
erred
had
the trial court
said
~~? “when it received evidence of inin
unrelated
assaults
ya pidependent
or
ftime
i)
‘or
place
the
participation
the
to
to
riot
alleged
of
de-
the
nuit) fendants. therein.”
i) yl
They said County Judge John S.
¥ Marsh also had erred in receiving
§ evidence relating to details of “the
#so-called
invasion
or march
through
@ part of the Bell Aircraft Plant AuThis, the judges
19, 1949.”
Ggust
on
effect”
“prejudicial
fiheld, had
ithe jury despite the trial judge’s
Jlater
decision
not
6 evidence
officially.
§ charged
23
admit
to
such
judges also
indictment
The Court of Appeals
the
“since
that
r@ said
defendants
two
in
§ counts of the crimes of riot and
# conspiracy, the district attorney in
f
I
f
§
his opening of the case should have
as to the
statement
some
made
part each of the individual defendants played in the alleged crimes.”
JUDGE’S
WORDS
* “PREJUDICIAL”
The
e@
™)
after
hours
jury
convicted
deliberating
and
reporting
the
more
once
four
than
men
that
45
it
was unable to reach a verdict.
The Court of Appeals said that
without
one.
“But .. . coordinated action is
|} essential in order to establish stability and order and moral health
in the business world:. . . Burroughs employes, if joined in asso| cfation with those of other firms,
}could help their sister and brother
workers attain conditions as good
as their own,
have
themselves
unions
“Trade
not particularly stressed these alNor
|truistie aspects of unionism.
|are many employers endowed with
such
farsighted
wisdom.
Within
a longobviously,
groups,
both
range program of education will be
needed
to alter traditional attitudes.”
|
UAW
Wins
in
Owosso
|
>
——=—
From
ManufacOWOSSO —Strawsine
|
|
here
workers
Company
|turing
voted to affiliate with the UAW-|
margin|
CIO by an overwhelming
in a recent National Labor Rela-|
DETROIT—UAW-CIO Local 368
Dielection, Regional
tion Board
and the Eaton Manufacturing Comed.
rector Robert A. Carter announc
pany’s Spring Division jointly sponsored a successful blood bank drive
(by the trial
used
“the language
for the third year in a row. When
| judge) in sending (the jury) back
the American
Red
Cross
mobile
| for further deliberation could very
blood bank paid a two-day visit to
the
‘by
ed
interpret
well have been
the plant, they found that 326 of
jurors to mean thaf they were reThe the Company's approximately 800
|quired to reach a verdict.”
workers
had
pledged
a
pint
of
| appeals judges said Judge Marsh’s
| language “under the circumstances blood. Of this number, 200 were
| found eligible to donate.
| was prejudicial.”
the
ADVANCE
EATON EMPLOYES DONATE
In the evening following dedication of the big new Hudson
October 20 in Detroit, a dance
ASS
)
was held to break
in
the
new
Local 154 headquarters on
recreational
facilities
in the
basement, Lacking a baby-sitter, the Al Masi family brought the kids along in the old
American pioneer style, Gloria Masi is holding daughter Arlene on her lap, while ‘' Little
Sammy’’ takes it easy on a make-shift bed of two chairs.
Judy Attalla, a Hudson Local 154 youngster, had the
honor of removing the drape from the bronze plaque in the
lobby of the new headquarters, With her in the picture is
Delwin ‘'Whitey’’ Craig, president of Local 154,
The
new
Hudson
Local
home
boasts
the
largest
union
owned auditorium in Detroit, It will seat 1,500 people, It
was built by the John Cooley Company, builders of Solidarity House, new International headquarters,
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