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United Automobile Worker
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1952-02-01
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Vol. 16 No. 2
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VOL.
Entered
2
NO.
16,
as
2nd
Class
Matter,
FEBRUARY,
Indiana
Indianapolis,
PRINTED IN U.& A
1952
Board Will Authorize Strike Action
As WSB, Companies Hold Back Wages
Page
_ Washington
Three
Conference Climaxes
Drive For Jobs, Unemployment
UAW
Comp
Page
Two
In 1951. . .
125 MILLION WORTH
OF HEALTH SECURITY!
Hospital Bills,
Surgical Fees,
Medical Bills,
Disability Income,
Life Insurance...
Paid at the Rate of
10 Million a Month!
UAW
HEALTH
OVER
PROGRAMS
THREE
Detroit,
MILLION
eee
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I
D
wove
ages
Kight
i]
and
James Hunter, 73, who has worked
A
.
Nine}
explains
cently underwent
ings,
$714;
to his wife,
Dorothy,
for 23 years in the Chrysler Plymouth
details
of the $2,632.94
a 120-day siege in the hospital,
laboratory
tests,
$163;
use
of operating
Room
room,
hospital
Division Plant,
bill paid
when
she
re
and board, $1,637; drug's and dress
$60;
anesthesia,
$20;
blood
trans
fusion and physiotherapy, $24, ‘An additional $190 was paid for surgery and X-rays. ‘‘The
UAW-CIO won us this protection that no workingman should be without,’’ said Hunter, ‘‘I
could never have paid the bill that was covered,"’
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UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
2k
President of Local 362,
UAW-CIO Region 1D.
UAW-CIO;
McDougald;
Jezak, and Leonard Woodcock,
Director of
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SHOE ON OTHE R FOOT—Emil Mazey, representing
management, signs a two-year renewal of WDET-FM’s contract with the National Association of Broadcasting Engineers and Technicians, recent CIO affiliate. Mazey is Secretary-Treasurer of the UAW-CIO Broadcasting Corporation
of Michigan which operates the FM station in Detroit. Seated next to Mazey
is David
Stewart,
Detroit
Chapter
Presi-
dent of the engineers’ union, and standing is Peter Opoka,
Councilman at WDET.
Since their affiliation with CIO,
NABET has extended its membership in many smaller radio
stations in outlying communities. The Union has contracts
with all major networks except CBS.
A. H. ATTAWAY DIES IN ATLANTA
|month.
He
Brother
was
54
years
Attaway,
of
a veteran
age.
mem-
ber of Local 34 and
the oldest
UAW staff member in Region 8 in
point of service, died much in the
manner
which
he had
said
he
would prefer—with his ‘boots on.”
Considered one of the most enthusiastic and successful organizers
within
THIS IS THE CHAMPIONSHIP UAW-CIO Cadet League team of Racine, Wisconsin.
Left to right, standing: Nick Commande, field manager; Ted Jacobs, Vincent Trentadue,
Dave Lampman, Jim Schoner, Clayton Lee, Jr., David Kitzman, and Mel Marweg, manager.
Seated: Ron Bekken, Ken Wittkofski, Carl Catrine, Gib Marweg, and Jim Janders. The team
is celebrated with turkey dinner recently, with Regional Director Harvey Kitzman presenting trophies to the boys.
CIO
ranks,
Mr.
Attaway
had devoted most of his adult life
;to his one great ambition—organizing the unorganized.
|
And his record speaks for itself,
with successes on such organizational
projects
as Fairchild
Aircraft,
Hagerstown,
Maryland;
Fairchild
Aircraft
of Burlington,
North
Carolina;
Bell
Aircraft,
Marietta; Wolverine Tube Co., De-
| @atur,
Alabama.
Arthur
H.
At taway,
for
many
There were many, many others,
years a successful and
beloved|and
Brother
Attaway’s
untinfely
leader in UAW
activities, died of|death will be keenly felt througha heart attack
in Atlanta
last
out UAW circles.
Keys tone!
LS MOHD RRR MES
€?
STAR PITCHER Jerry Mevis, of the UAW-CIO
SK
Cadets,
shows his form in this picture. He pitched 11 games, won
10 and lost one. He racked up 122 strikeouts, walked 53
and allowed 27 hits.
POSTMASTER:
Send
notices of change
of address on Form 3578 (Canada, Form
67B)
and
copies
returned
under
labels
No. 3579 (Canada, labels No. 29B) to 2457
E.
Washington
St., Indianapolis 7, Ind.
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ORAWH FoR
NAT be CLO
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OLDEST PENSIONER HONORED—Joseph Jezak (second from right), was the oldest
of 23 Bay City Chevrolet plant pensioners honored by UAW officials last month at a dinner.
He is shown receiving an engraved wallet and a life union membership card from Harold
McDougald, member of the Union’s Pension Committee. Left to right are: J oseph Douponce,
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