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Page 6
Pictures
From
the
His rugged features bore the marks of long years of
hard work—first with his hands, and always with his fighting spirit. He had the strength of a tender-hearted man
whose life is devoted to the welfare of others. That tenderness is shown here in a moment of solemn reflection caught
by the photographer at the 1949 CIO Convention.
AUTOMOBILE
December,
WORKER
Life of
Philip
1952
Murray
One of the finest tributes paid to Phil Murray was his designation, in the nation’s
press after his death, as a ‘‘Christian gentleman.’’ He was a pious man, born and reared
in the Catholic faith; and his great works on behalf of the working people he loved gave
evidence of his devotion to Christian principles.
This phase of his character is reflected here as he stands with head bowed in prayer
during an invocation at a CIO Convention. Left to right are: O. A. Knight, President of
the CIO Oil Workers; Walter P. Reuther, UAW-CIO President; President Murray; Arthur Goldberg, CIO General Counsel; and Allan Haywood, CIO Director of Organization.
There was never a question about Phil Murray’s love for his country, or about his untiring contributions to the search for labor unity in America. Both of these features of
his fine character were reflected in this picture taken in New York, in June of 1945, at an
outdoor War Bond Rally.
Left to right are: President Murray; Henry Morgenthau, Jr., then Secretary of the
Treasury; and the late William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor.
President Murray paid his first visit to Solidarity House,
the new home of the UAW-CIO, in the early fall of 1951.
There was a meeting of CIO Vice-Presidents held in the
UAW-CIO Board Room during the day; and in the evening
President Murray was the keynote speaker at a CIO Community Services Committee Banquet honoring U. S. Senator
James Murray of Montana. At the luncheon held in Solidarity House that day, CIO President Murray posed as
shown here with President Reuther and Secretary-Treasurer Mazey.
See
In the years following election of Walter P. Reuther to the presidency of the UAWCIO, he and Philip Murray worked together on CIO problems. One of the most historic of
these problems was Communist domination of some CIO unions. In November of 1949, the
CIO purged from its ranks those unions that refused to abandon the Communist Party line.
UAW-CIO President Reuther was Phil Murray’s strong right-hand man in the work of
driving the Communists out of their last few positions of power in the CIO, Presidents
Murray and Reuther are pictured again here as they faced the press in Cleveland, Ohio,
at the end of the 1949 CIO Convention,
‘
In the early days of UAW-CIO history, the name of
Philip Murray was nearly always associated with that of
Sidney Hillman, the great leader of the CIO Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America, who died in July of 1946,
Phil Murray and Sidney Hillman assisted in helping
the UAW-CIO overcome its factional problems in 1938.
They spent many weeks lending their wisdom, their strength
and their experience to the struggling Auto Union.
They are shown here in a typical pose during that
troubled period when they gave so much of themselves to
help the UAW-CIO find itself,
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WORKE R
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
1952
Page 9
Aircraft Locals Ready
For 1953 Bargaining
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G|QEPE
December,
Aircraft
days
local
unions
integrating
plans
that
resulted
UAW-CIO
“boom
The
the
is subjected
which
to the
results
bust”
from
nature
Severance
of
Pay
the
the
in-
Program
by
received
was enthusiastically
in-]
the
delegates and adopted unanimously
as a “realistic means of combating
the
unique
type
characteristic
of
of
the
dustry.”
Vice-President
ton,
tional
Director
Aircraft
sponsors
pointed
out
severance
last
major
aircraft
engine
corporation
in the
nation
vote
climaxed
most
energetic
campaigns
in
of
placed
upon
eraft workers
of
the UAW was the IAM which holds|
0
of
most
Plants,
Pratt-Whitney
in the vicinity
which
are located
of
the
new
North
Haven
Approximately
are
now
which
an
at
work
is scheduled
employment
Vice-President
Director
employes
in
to
the
John
of
the
it
greater
raised
Plant but
W-CIO
at
craft
about
W.
Living-|
National
the
of protec
has made
engine
that
the}
Pratt-Whitney
ion gains that
at
other
Regional
staffs
Department.
and
Charles
the
craft
Department,
directed
UAW-CI
YD
ee
%
Air-|
Kerri-
Director
of Region
9A,
Nichols of the National
|
major
the
victory
teamwork
be-|
gan,
Jesse
paign.
Air-
plant
ingston
called
another
example of
{ween
at
welcome
UAW-CIO with a
pl
opportunity
not
only
of
levels
ft
off
of
craft Department, stated
victory was
particularly
since
plant
level
figure
7,000.
ston,
2,500
Plant.
and
Air-
the cam-|
ing from
T
2-A. | These
Manufacturing
Pittsburgh,
pany,
The
and
on
Com- |
Decem-|
1952.
2,
ber
Pa.,
the
CIO —
UAW
IAM
trounced
by
a
vote
27; UE— 154;
more
management
the phony
gression,
seven
raises,
to 24 cents an hour.
applying
to every
em-
Ray Ross, Director Region
ploye in the bargaining unit, boost
announces that the UAW-CIO was}
their
wages
to a par
with
other
| victorious
Independent
the
over
farm
implement
workers
in this
|
}
NLRB
an
UE and the IAM-AFL in
area.
representation election held at the |}
Since 1948, Local 1027 members
|
McKinney
which
conference,
comprehensive
will
be
a great
better
balance
emphasis
of
will.
be
related
to
the
of
UE
UAW-
IAM-AFL
have
wages
ers
been
to
doing
In 1950,
clause
trying
a
level
to
with
raise
other
similar
work.
they signed an
(providing
for
one
Conference
work.
Conference,
most
the
of
requirements
of
hailed
the
successful
one
of
as
its
kind,
delegates
were
brought together from all over the
United
States
and
Canada,
local
union
representatives
of aireraft
workers.
present
Over
200
representing
approximately
200,000 aircraft workers
UAW-CIO
In
dresses
covered
agreements.
addition
were
to
heard
by
Livingston,
from
ad-
President
Walter P. Reuther, Roswell L. Gilpatric, Undersecretary of the U. S.
Air Force, and John Flobert, Assistant
Secretary
United
States
Navy
Air
Reuther
craft
ner
Force.
congratulated
workers
in
sound
which
for the
they
programs
in
the
splendid
had
air-
man-
developed
their
local
un-
ions.
He
was
enthusiastically
cheered when he endorsed the sev-
erance pay plan that the Conference had adopted and pledged the
full support of the International
Union
toward
the
realization
of
those goals.
the drive
of airto reach high levels
properly
their
The
skill
they
that
were
‘‘merit’’ system and
eliminating
the
Tee
really
serious.
jobs,
securing
their
work-
escalator
cent
cost-
24
with
an
overwhelming
vote
of
confidence to the leadership at the
ratification meeting. Paul M. Russo,
Assistant Director of the UAW-CIO
National
Aircraft
from
staff
Villiam
Pat
the
Fowler,
O'Malley,
of
Department,
and
Regional
conducted
wage
pro-
shop
and
a union
the UAW-CIO
pro-
UAW Confident in
Western Election
Representatives of UAW-CIO in
California say that only
Director | Northern
negotiathe formality of an order from the
National
In addition to the automatic pro- |
count
gression plan, the UAW. Goodyear|
received
eliminating
representative
tions,
Workers
eral
about
instituting automatic
— Workers |
ILL.
SPRINGFIELD,
|many of the other things that characterize
the local Allis-Chalmers plant,|
members of UAW-CIO Local 1027,| gram in aircratt.
November®
The battle was won
recently won wage increases rang-
other |
the
in
rights
bargaining
a
Na-
high
1953
It took 64 days on the picket line for the workers at Akron
Goodyear, members of Local 856 in Akron, Ohio, to prove to
Wage Increase
S
Ca
against}
Competing
pay
Aircraft
for
these
Goodyear Strike Ends
In Complete Victory
to®
the®
and
most
colorful|
aircraft
organiza- |
history.
tional
one
plan
a
Continued
withstand the force of GAW-CIO organization has fallen. Work- Allis-Chalmers
|
ers at the big new Pratt-Whitney Plant at North Haven, ConWi
k
necticut, have voted to establish the UAW-CIO as their bar- W
phinihe ecumacnenite
ae
°
or ers
in
The
Department
that
pay
Livings-
UAW-CIO
annual
to maintain
employment.
Last Major Aircraft Engine
Plant Comes Into UAW-CIO
The
W.
in-
incentive for aircraft managements
to use their productive facilities in
peacetime as well as wartime and
Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey and Vice-President John W. Livingston are pictured
here following the text of a resolution as it was being reported to the Convention.
—
the
insecurity
aircraft
John
of
the
job
the
are busy
programs
National
designed
to meet
the]
aircraft
workers
whose
or
dustry.
from
nation
negotiating
priority in aircraft de-®
be a Severance
Pay,
employment
stability
their
the
held recently in Chicago.
Given top
mands
will
Program
needs
of
into
throughout
a
ten-cent
gen-
| arates
victory
Labor
the
them
at
Relations
challenged
from
Western
a
Board
ballots
to
sep-
representation
Sky
craft
in
effective Sepof-living increase for each %.14 rise
increase,
Oakland, California.
—69.
11,
1952.
All
of
the
thirdin the index, plus the annual four | te
|
Competing against
the IAM
and
or “C” jobs were eliminated |
The plant currently employs 583 cents per
hour
improvement
fac- } le
on
UAW-CIO
was
only
rates
wage
workers in the production unit and
tor),
but
the
from
the wage administration plan.| “No
basic
sl
fa
1jority in the
|fabricates all types of hinges for were still below-standard. The new |
The contract runs until August,| two votes
|
first
electi
Witt
2 substantial
the automotive
industry.
|| boost
1954, with two wage reopeners, operases these inequities.
The successful contract negotia-| tional with the parties upon ‘ten- number of challenged ballots to be
Credit for this victory over the
counted
Regional
Director
C.
V,.
contracnotice.
Thirty-three
Communist-dominated
UE and the} tions for the Allis-Chalmers mem-| day
stated that
he is conwho
build
caterpillar-type| tual changes
combined With a full || O'Halloran
IAM
goes to International
Repre-| bers,
union shop provide Loeal 856 with| fident of a victory.
earth-moving
machsentative
Thomas
M.
Nolan.
In- | tractors and
what
they
describe
as “the
outThe plant will kee] » intact a long
carried
on
by
Harry
ternational
Representative
Domi-}| inery, were
UAW
in airstanding contract in the history of | list of victories for
and
Marshall
Hughes
on
Dornetto
also assisted
in the Lehnert
nic
||} craft over the past tw o years
| our Local Union.”
:
the staff of Pat Greathouse
campaign.
HICAGO
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AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
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WORKER
December,
1952
Maurice J. Tobin Warns Labor
‘Your Past Gains Are in Jeopardy’
Maurice
J. Tobin
his final major speech as Secretary of
had,
for working
people,
words
of clo
warning.
“The past gains of the American working men and women
are in jeopardy,’’ he told delegates to the CIO Convention. ment in its history, must prepare
“Their future progress is in itself for some very serious challenges in the months immediately
doubt.’’
ahead.
It is particularly true of
GOT NO MANDATE
Tobin pointed out that more peo-
ple voted for Governor Stevenson
than voted for Roosevelt in 1944
or for Truman in 1948 so that the
incoming Administration
clearly
has no mandate to turn its back on
the social gains of the past two
decades, but, he warned, some of
the men Eisenhower carried into
office are clearly anti-labor,
Tobin said, in part:
“The
American
trade
union
movement, at this particular mo-
purpose
of
Send
know
the
problems
you
GROWING
“In the last few months, there
have been reports of growing re-
sistance to reasonable trade union
demands among some employers. I
do not know what effect the election of General Eisenhower
will
have on this attitude; but I do not
think it is likely to discourage it.
“However, constructive and benevolent the General’s labor policy may prove to be, some of the
men he has carried with him to
power are not going to make the
atmosphere
any
more
trade unionism. They
it a lot more hostile.
friendly
may
to
make
“T don’t have to point out to you
what
a prohibition
on industry-
notices
of
U. S. Senate
Filibustering
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—Taking
issue with continued U. S. Senate
denial of majority rule, the 14th
Annual CIO Convention approved a
resolution condemning use of the
filibuster rule, Rule XXII, by the
U. S. Senate.
The resolution called upon the
Senate to enact rules of procedure
at the opening session “that will
restore to that body the principle
of rule by majority
that is the
mark of free government’
by free
men,”
Pointing out the need
for the
ending of minority rule under the
vicious filibuster rule, the resolution pledged a continuing fight by
organized labor in conjunction with
other organizations and groups to
end the filibuster abuses.
Poor Old World
Bursting at Seams
ATLANTIC CITY—Senator
Wayne Morse gave CIO Convention delegates this capsule formula for understanding the revolution
“In
many
on
the
going
1750
on
do
human
face
in
the
you
know
beings
there
of
the
world.
how
globe?
were
Our
population experts say 660 million. A hundred
years
later,
which is a short space of time
in terms of history, there were
a little over one billion. By 1950,
a hundred
years later, there
were two billion, two hundred
million.
“Where was the increase in
population? Not in the countries of western civilization in
anywhere near the ratio as in
the so-called backward areas of
the world.”
wide
collective
trust
prosecutions
do to the CIO.
point out what
we returned to
bargaining
I
don’t
it would
the days
against
would
have to
mean if
of antiunions,
the days when the labor of a human being was looked upon as a
commodity or article of commerce.
the
Conference.
After the Saturday luncheon recess, the delegates broke up into
two workshops to discuss ElemenRecreation.
Advanced
and
tary
Various recreation techniques such
as setting up bowling leagues, esclubs, holding
archery
tablishing
better
building
contests,
ehecker
etc.,
relations,
public
and
press
and discussed
demonstrated
were
specific
these
on
authorities
by
phases of recreation.
A demonstration party was held
of
Sons
at the
night
Saturday
Britain hall, and Augusta Harris,
Director of Women's Physical Education at Michigan State Normal
College, assisted by students from
that college, showed the party-goers how to put on a successful shindig with full group participation.
During the Sunday sessions, two
workshops were held on the problems of developing year-round recreation programs on both a $500
and $1,000 budget. A general session on planning a party, and ananswers
and
problems
on
other
were on the program. An evaluation of the Conference concluded
the full agenda.
POSTMASTER:
“You
RESISTANCE
WINDSOR—More than 150 delegates gathered in the Ford Local
200 hall over the November 8 and
9 weekend
to participate
in the
Michigan-SouthFourth Annual
western
Ontario CIO
and UAW
Recreation Conference.
According to Olga Madar, DirecRecreation
tor of the UAW-CIO
the Conference was
Department,
the most successful one of its kind
ever held in the Michigan and Ontario area, and was a tribute to the
efforts of the Planning Committee
as well as to the hosts—Ford Local
200.
The Saturday morning (Noyemsession was adber 8) opening
popular
by Windsor’s
dressed
exHe
Rheaume.
Arthur
Mayor
from
tended an official welcome
deleto the assembled
Windsor
gates, guests and staff members.
UAWfrom
Representatives
CIO Regions 1, 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D
and 7 brought official greetings
from their respective regions,
and Recreation Director Madar
the
“For the last five years since
the passage of the Taft-Hartley
Law,
the labor movement
has
failed to make any substantial
gain in membership.
The small
growth that has taken place has
been at a much slower rate than
the growth of the American labor force. The ranks of the unorganized have been growing
faster than the ranks of the organized.
have had in the South. You know
how difficult new organization has
become.
I realize these things are
not pleasant to hear; but they must
be faced.
CIO Recreation
Conference Is
Huge Success
explained
the CIO,
Condemns
“T
have no desire to sound like
an alarmist; but there are men in
Congress who want to make these
changes in our labor law. I hope
that they will not prevail; but I
would be derelict in my friendship
for the American men and women
dependent on this organization if I
did not call attention to the danger.”
ween
ACTING
USA
1 TPE
HEAD—David
J. McDonald
(right), sec-
retary-treasurer of the CIO United Steelworkers of America since its founding, has been named ‘‘acting president’’
until the regular election of officers February 10. The USA
executive board endorsed McDonald for a full four-year
term to succeed late USA President Philip Murray. McDonald said he expects James Thimmes (left), USA vicepresident, to be elected a CIO vice-president representing
steel. (LPA)
Attack on Industry-Wide Pacts Ahead,
Cole Admits, Urges Calmness Anyway
ATLANTIC CITY—David L. Cole, Director of the Federal
Mediation and Conciliation Service, advised both management
and labor to strive for understanding at the bargaining table
in his talk at the CIO Convention.
He asserted that the Republican victory does not necessarily
mean that unions will be under direct attack and urged that
management and labor both
avoid the kind of relationship
in which ‘‘one side bares its
fangs and the other thumps his
chest.’’
He admitted, “There are some
(managements)
who
will try to
make capital of what they think
is a more favorable political atmosphere,’’ and said that, on the
other side, “We have already seen
evidence that some representatives
of labor are convinced that industry will seek
to undermine
the
position of organized labor and are
therefore determined to fight bitterly over every issue that arises.”
In his attempt to calm troubled
industrial seas before the tempest
actually starts, Cole asserted. that
both attitudes will harm the institution of collective bargaining,
Cole predicted some changes in
the collective bargaining pattern.
He said that some industries will
seek to review wage incentives
“which
they
consider too loose,”
and that others will seek plant-by-
plant rather
bargaining.
than
industry-wide
“He said I’ve got a tough row to hoet
sol'll need a lot of Union help!”
epee
rene rm
eS
et
Se
ey
LABOR was almost as surprised as Senator Taft when
the news broke that Martin
P. Durkin, 58, President of
the AFL Plumbers’ Union,
had been appointed Secretary of Labor. The 45-man
CIO Executive Board, pleased
to have a labor man in nominal charge of labor affairs,
E
Labor,
CITY—In
a
ATLANTIC
immediately wired congratulations. Taft gasped, ‘‘Incredible.’’
change
of address on Form 3578 (Canada, Form
returned
under
labels
67B)
and
copies
No. 3579 (Canada, labels No. 29B) to 2457
Indianapolis
7, Ind.
E.
Washington
St,
RECREATION CONFERENCE WORKSHOP — Johnny D’Agostino, VAW-CIO Recreation Department, pointing out the techniques of a successful recreation program to a number of UAW delegates attending one of the recreation workshops at the two-day Fourth An-
nual Michigan-SW Ontario CIO and UAW
Windsor, November 8 and 9.
Recreation Conference in Ford Local 200 hall at
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