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AIRCRAFT
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JANUARY,
Indiana
Vs IMPLEMENT
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WORKERS
OF. AMERICA—U.A.W.-C1.0.
9. BREAK THE MACHINE-TOOL BOTTLENECK.
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@ Defense mobilization policies are responsible for lay-
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6. ESTABLISH A TECHNICAL TASK FORCE ON
CRITICAL MATERIALS.
2. CONTINUE ESSENTIAL CIVILIAN PRODUCTION UNTIL DEFENSE JOBS ARE AVAILABLE.
@ Stop the waste of critical materials which is robbing
workers of their jobs.
@ Save critical materials by finding satisfactory substi-
@ Keep people at work making the things we need.
@ Rush defense jobs into civilian production
balance cuts in civilian production.
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7. INITIATE NATIONWIDE SCRAP CAMPAIGN.
3. DOVETAIL DEFENSE WORK IN CIVILIAN
PLANTS.
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@ Collection of copper, aluminum and steel scrap in the
backyards and alleys in America means putting people to
work in the plants of America.
© Make defense jobs available earlier.
© Minimize the need for new machines and new plants
by fully utilizing existing civilian plants for both defense and
civilian production.
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8. FREE THE AMERICAN ECONOMY FROM
THE STRANGLEHOLD OF MONOPOLY AND
SCARCITY.
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4. PLACE DEFENSE CONTRACTS ONA NEGOTIATED BASIS.
© Stop saving pennies by competitive bids and wasting
millions of lost productive man-hours through unemployment.
the tools we need.
fools.
© Congress has acted to protect corporations—it must
act now to protect laid-off workers and their families.
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Use the tools we have to make
@ The automobile, truck and agricultural implement
plants can build Bullards, mills, lathes and other machine
offs.
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basic productive capacity of copper, alumi-
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UAW-CIO PROGRAM FOR
ACTION ON JOB FRONT
1. ENACT A FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION BILL.
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© Stop wasting critical metals by non-essential plant
construction.
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“Passion for Life’’ is a French movie about modern
teaching methods
and modern
teach-
ing ideas which is sponsored by the Film Board of the United Nations. It is, according to the
title, proudly dedicated to all our children and to their future. Curiously enough, if the
UAW-CIO had a formal dedication somewhere in its title, it would read just like that too—
*‘the UAW-CIO, proudly dedicated to all our children, and to their future.”’
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In the movie, ‘‘Passion for Life,’’ children learn arithmetic, bida
rounding a snail race. The point is, education comes best to childrj +.
periences, But in a factory town, doesn’t that mean that childrés;
they were organized and what they have gained?
In Detroit, where the UAW-CIO is most concentrated, most children now go through high
school, When the UAW-CIO was first organized, most children stopped school in the seventh
grade. What makes the difference? The better wages, the better working conditions, the
greater security won through the union, make it possible for a family to keep the children
in school longer. How many times have you heard your fellow workers say (or yourself),
“I want my son to be better educated than I ever was.’’ Well, today, on account of the VAWCIO, he is.
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1952
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WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
to an Education
the Right
Faster Than You Are Educated?
What Happens If Your Child Is Miseducated
“Passion for Life” is a French movie about human rights, education,
and the vested interests that oppose education,
The movie is the story of a young war veteran teacher who shows
up as the new school teacher in a fown high up in the mountains,
Since forever the school
by an old man by the oldest
authorities
funds.
Education,
parents,
the
consider
more
or
the community,
has
and
school
less,
and
a
been
most
an old, uncared for place, run
out-of-date principles, the town
nuisance
is regarded
the
and
a rathole
as a necessary
children,
because
evil,
for
education
the
town
tolerated
is the
by
law.
Then along comes the enthusiastic war veteran with new ideas
about education. He ties the teaching in the school up with the occupations of the parents of the kids. Makes the kids feel proud of
their father’s work.
He shows the children how education is a part of life. To teach
spelling and grammar, he gets the children to put out a newspaper.
To teach the children about electricity they make a dynamo out of
a bicycle wheel and put it in operation on a stream outside town.
But then the education of the children begins to educate parents
too. The result is people who have allowed themselves to be pushed
around quietly and meekly wake up. The people who always pushed
the meek around decide that education wakes up people—and that is
bad. So they set out to destroy the school.
The climax of the film is a dramatic examination at which the
school’s. continuance hinges on whether one boy can pass, The boy
passes, and in passing says:
“Maybe I didn’t answer all the questions, but what I understood, I answered. I remembered not the Battle of Agincourt, but
the Rights of Man. Men are born free and equal. Nobody can be
punished for his opinion. The law prohibits only acts of violence;
for the law is the expression of the will of the people. It must be
the same for all, on punishment and in protection, This is so because men are born and live free and equal.”
Simple story, about a school teacher, some cute kids, and a girl
school
T
teacher.
But also a powerful fable, too. Because in the United States, children
in many states, children in the country, children in the poorer districts,
are denied freedom of opportunity and equality because not enough
money is available for their education.
In schools where money is not the problem, the National Associa-
a
on
against
fight
in the
opportunity
a
and
Manufacturers,
of
tion
phony
fascist
that
enables
education
world.
organizations
children
to
carrying
are
have
an
equal
Out in Pasadena, the Chamber of Commerce crowd ganged up on
school superintendent and fired him because he ran a school system
treated
that
equally,
all children
In Indianapolis and Detroit, the manufacturers have received
a free hand to lead children through the factories and to load them
with Free Enterprise propaganda in the process.
A key
Chrysler
ought to cut out
ficiently on their
Corporation
that
declared
official recently
the schools
the frills and teach children only enough to work efjobs. Organizations like the Foundation for Economie
Education, which get huge sums from DuPont, Chrysler, International
Harvester, and the other big companies, carry on an endless war against
the school system,
say
In general you might
fought on three levels:
in
in
in
the plant
and leisure
the
legislatures
the
school
for
fight
where you
to live in
(State
and
struggle
the
that
a
laws to keep prices down, and for
conditions against corporation piracy
systems
where
your
wage,
living
Congress)
to carry on the fight in their generation
where
laws
children
for
living
you
protectihg
must
rights
human
get
conditions,
fight
the
is
your
for
the
living
knowledge
If your union loses out in the plant, you are lost. But you can win
out in the plant and lose out in Washington. Or you can win the fight
in the plant and in Washington and still allow your children to be so
cheated in the schools that they lose the fight for their generation.
Your education and your children’s education are major problems.
Both will be the agenda of the International Education Conference,
UAW-CIO, which will be held in Cleveland, Ohio, from the third through
the sixth of April.
At the conference you
for Life’, a French movie
and
vested
interests,
will also get a chance to see the “Passion
that is a fable about education and workers
Sie
The movie, ‘‘Passion for Life,’’ shows how education related to the activities of the community made the carpenter's
son proud of his father’s occupation for the first time; the shoemaker’s, conscious of his father’s skill and importance. Studies
show, however, that Michigan schools teach school children to
have a low opinion of their father’s occupation, and teach almost nothing about unions,
selling, in the circumstances surHiit comes out of their daily exd learn about unions,
and why
This is a picture of the vested
interests in the movie the ‘‘Pasion for Life’. These people oppose modern education methods. In the U. §., one study
showed that the children of the
well-to-do have eight chances
of attending college to one
chance for the children of
wage-earners and low income
farm families, Eight chances to
one to become a doctor, a scientist, a playwright, Senator, college professor, engineer, designer... eight chances for
the children of the well-to-do,
against one for your child,
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@ In the movie, the reactionaries are the people who oppose
modern education methods,
which teaches that every child
has a soul, that education must
teach go that the soul cag best
express itself, And the people
who oppose modern education
in the U. §, are reactionaries
who also oppose education for
the children of the rank and
file; oppose job security for the
rank and file; oppose civil
right for ordinary people; and
have always opposed Square
Deals, New Deals, and Fair
Deals,
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‘Passion for Life’’ should be shown in your city, Ask the manager of your movie about
it, It will be shown at the International Education Conference which will be held in Cleveland from April 3rd through the 6th, At the International Education Conference, world-fam-
ous educators will sit down in across-the-table discussions with UAW members to talk about
education and the world today and you and your children, The people who will attend the
Education Conference will take part in a most important education experience,
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WORKER
9
Carboloy Strike Enters 17th Week;
Workers Demanding Job Protection
As the strike at the Carboloy division of the General Electric®
Corporation went into its 17th week, Local 771’s members went
on record as solidly supporting their demands for a chance to
follow their jobs to Carboloy’s new plant in Edmore, Mich.,
letters®
to re- of
Clutching special delivery
from Carboloy urging them
the 500 employes
to work,
turn
meetmembership
the
attending
latest
Company’s
the
jeered
ing
offer—willingness to tell a worker
before
in advance
months
three
senting
TAX
dis-
six
only
were
There
ground.
Ed-
their}
hold
to
voted
and
more
to
is moved
machine
or
his job
votes.
PLANT
BUILT
reported.
Matthews
Norman
1 Co-Director
Region
GE,|
started After
trouble
The
Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wila new
firm, said it needed
son's
GE obtained
plant for war work.
one of those tax amortization deals|
pay
actually
taxpayers
whereby
and started to
for the expansion
build at Edmore.
This didn’t add up because at the
time Carboloy was employing 850
the
hard
extremely
per
cent
metal
used
to edge
an
carbide,
tungsten
nation’s
of
50
since
necessity
cutting tools and dies, is made in
said
Carboloy
works.
its Detroit
it
bomb
range.
an-
Carboloy
minute,
last
the
At
A-
of
out
get
to
wanted
then
nounced it was going to produce
civilian goods at Edmore instead,
with-
immediate
the
with
Faced
OUT
WALK
| WORKERS
|
drawal of 200 jobs from their plant
and the probability of a complete
taxpayer-supported runaway, Local
771’s workers struck.
“I’m telling you, Sansdome, you'll
never get a head working on those
non-union jobs!”
Christmas
GE, which apparently prefers to|
bargain with Communist-dominatof its}
in many
UE, already
led
plants, refused to offer any kind}
A
:
|
7
:
issues|
economic
settling
In-/frouble
agreement.
protection
job
lof
the
II
War
World
g
durin
yet
men,
started | now in dispute. But from the time
officials
Carboloy
its
stead
|
l.
payrol
its
on
Company had 1,200
| WEST
before
months
,
started
tions
negotia
|
anda
propag
AW
anti-U
of
barrage
a
plant
it
Detro
the
at
space
Floor
—When
since in Edmore to get support from that | the strike, to now, the GE division
doubled
almost
been
has
plant
Edmore
The
IL.
War
World
was supposed to give work to 250
men.
Carboloy argued for a certificate
activi-| has refused to budge from its stand
for its runaway
ties,
| that no UAW
spokesmen | job
and UAW
no} has
have
would
they
Company
that
agree
out
worker who has his|
or machine taken
the right to follow
to
it.
Bonus
Part of Wages,
NLRB
community
kid does it every time.”
“My
|
of
Declares
HARTFORD,
a
firm
Christmas
such
Edmore
i |
E.OM|BEMAQA
Vii
AUTOMOBILE
wage
the
Board
are
been
an
(LPA)
handing
National
the
three
integral part
and
subject|
Labor
to
Relations
one,
Co.,
in
the
and
maker
of|
machine tools and aircraft engine|
accessories. NLRB members Hous-|
ton, Reynolds and Styles signed the|
majority opinion. Member Murdock
dissented.
He
said,
“A
In
1938,
1939
and
1940,
the bonus
was a week’s pay, termed “special”
or “additional” compensation. From
1941 through
Leaders of UAW-CIO Local 7 71, on strike against the Carboloy division of the General
Electric Corporation in Detroit for the past 17 weeks, are shown above in a serious strategy
session with Regional Director Norman Matthews. Seated, from left, are: Rudolph Bringer, Claire Phillips, Matthews, Elmer Geroux. Standing, from left: Delmar O’Kelley, International Representative Ted McManus and William Anderson.
C10-PAC Calendar ANTI-STRIKE LAW
UPHELD BY MICH.
Features Noted
Artist's Work
| SUPREME COURT
display
for
homes,
headquarters,
wherever
workers
Action
Committee,
and
features
it
tractive,
the
bar-|
Strikingly
at-
the
drawings
hard-hitting
upheld
7, unanimously
uary
Political| Hutchinson Act, the state law
the
skillful
of famed
the
ring
The
Supreme
Michigan
strikes
court
59-day
by
did
so
public
in
ruling
and
data
for
are
such
items
cluded
final
dates
Presidential
filing dates
to
that
transit strike in Detroit
as
In-
opening
the 3,600 strikers
nalized.
The
higher
the
was
under
city
not
could
Court
no
State
and
election,
candidates,
primary
they
registration
in|
ending with*that
election day on
a President, all
house, one-third
many governors
return
at
the
pay
current
to
La-|
ot
if
be-|
be no}
can
there
the strike,
fore
wage increase for a year, and the
returned
workers
are
on
probation
for two years, Presumably the latest ruling in effect orders the city
to penalize the strikers,
Company
the NLRB.
The
refused;
majority
the case
ruled
went
that
|
|
to
“the
realities
of the industrial
world
a percentage of the worker's year-| establish that a year-end bonus
ly earnings. In 1946, there was a} which has become part of the employes’ wage expectancy, though it
strike, no bonus.
In 1947 and 1948,
be
paid
at
Christmas
and,
the bonus was a week’s pay.
In may
1950, it was again a percentage of therefore, carry with it the Christyearly earnings.
On December 11, mas spirit of gift-giving, amounts
1950, the company announced the fundamentally to deferred compennew
retirement
plan
would
cost sation for services performed during the preceding year. The Christseveral times the year-end “distrimas spirit, as we conceive it, does
bution made to employes in recent
years,” but that each worker would
not stop short of the bargaining
get a Christmas check of $1 for table, for bargaining in good faith
is in itself a continuing effort to
each year of service, with a minimum of $5.
The Union asked to achieve good will between an emnegotiate on the 1950 bonus; the! ployer and his employes.”
last|
declared
obligation
submit the dispute to the
bor Mediation Board,
|
the}
be pe-|
Under the law, striking city
be
state employes
can
rehired
for
election days and
big date, general
November 4, when
of the
members
of the senate, and
will be chosen.
states
months,
the
primaries
for
type,
registration
various
voting
correspoftding
and
carries
also
page
each
readable
highly
in
printed
“I'm glad you get paid every two
weeks—One week’s wages is so insufficient these days!”
employes. |
Detroit}
The
Herschfield.
He’s summer was illegal.
his theatrical cari- transit system is city-owned.
York Times,|
New
Edward N. Barnard, attorney on
pen-and-ink drawings for humorist
the AFL Street Car and Bus Oper-|
S. J. Perelman’s travel books, and|} ators’ Union, announced he would
cartoons for PAC,
appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court,|
since the issues affect ‘members of |
First print order for the calendar was 25,000 copies at 15 cents labor unions on a nationwide scale.” |
be obtained on}
They may
each,
The Court reversed Circuit Judge|
order from the CIO Political Action
Ira W. Jayne, of Wayne County,|
Avewho last June ruled the city should|
Committee, 1346 Connecticut
nue, N. W., Washington 6, D. C.,
have submitted the issue to media-|
tion, and since it had not done g0,|
to a page,
months
two
With
illustrator Leo
been hailed for
catures in the
Stans tz
Caen
when
setback
a severe
received
1945, the bonus was|
<—
la-
Jan-|
is
CIO
Mich.~Organized
Court,
or
cafes
gather
of the
calendar
1952
local | bor
halls,
union
in
LANSING,
©1952
genuine||
sion.
(LPA) — Ready|
|
the|
Christmas gift has no place on the
bargaining table.” Chairman Herzog did not participate in the deci-|
WASHINGTON
|
|
UAW-CIO
Niles-Bemont-Pond
|
for 12 years,
bargaining.
ruled,
of
has
structure
to collective
So
Conn.
bonuses
bonuses
the
case
WN
mt
UNITED
1952
January,
¥
SHOWN ABOVE, the Executive Board of Local 757 UAW-CIO beams proudly over a
part of can goods collection of 5,000 cans contributed the first part of November to striking
Local 800 UAW-CIO in Chicago. Local 757’s outstanding support is now being returned the
local union membership by Local 800 and other UAW locals. Local 800 won its settlement
with all economic demands acceded to at approximately
forced to strike the Liquid Carbonic Corporation, Local
can goods for its benefactor, Local 757, the latter having
in a battle for contract, wage increases, etc. (Executive
the same time that Local 757 was
800 is now making plans to collect
been on strike since November 27,
Board surrounds President Tom
Gillespie, with leather jacket, above, 3rd officer from left, John Masac was fired by
Company in latter days preceding strike deadline in a last-minute effort to dissuade
local from striking and to intimidate the membership).
the
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