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INTERNATIONAL
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VOL.
17, NO.
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UNION,
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE,
Indianapolis, Indiana
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Class Matter,
as 2nd re
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AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT
FEBRUARY,
Accept
Won't
‘Old’ BLS
Price
AMERICA —U.A.W.-C.1.0.
Zeke
PrintinedU. S. A.
1953
Controls
Wage
| UAW
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AND
AIRCRAFT
ie
End
Page Three
Revived
Index
Page Two
Big Business Riding | Reuther Calls For
~ High in Government | National Health Program
Page Five
Page Seven
More
bout the
Disgrace to the
United States Senate
Page Four
In the March Issue
Of the Auto Worker:
The
~
President’s
Report
To the Membership
Page 2
February, 1953
UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKER
|
No “educated guesswork...”
Revived ‘Old’ Price Index Unacceptable;
Negotiations Continue on ‘New’ Figures
The revived “old” Consumers’ Price Index, based?
on guesswork and admitted “estimates,” will not be
accepted by the UAW-CIO as a basis for wage adjustments under its contracts.
Walter P. Reuther, President of the UAW-CIO, made public
February 4 the text of an Administrative Letter sent to all
local unions on negotiations now under way with major automotive producers on conversion from the old to the new Costof-Living Index.
Included in this Administrative Letter is a copy of a telegram sent to Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin and Senator
Alexander Smith, chairman of the Senate Labor Committee,
on January
26, 1953.
which
LUCKY
WINNERS
RECEIVING
AWARDS—Chester
| Foundry
NLRB
in Alma,
Michigan.
The victory climaxed a strenuous
campaign started in September of
last
year.
Contesting
vote
agement,
in
the
the
election
recent
election
ca veunicies vcicis esi
tad
<....... Sieiielsieicieiaini
sie
which
voritism
227
for the
showed
AFL,
fa-
open
An effective measure used against
the UAW-CIO was a rumored threat
that
supporters
would
be
UAW-CIO
counteract
In a memorandum to users of the BLS Index, Commissioner
of Labor Statistics Ewan Clague virtually- admitted the impossibility of an accurate reconstruction of the ‘‘old’’ Index. He
pointed out that the staff compiling the figures had been dismissed; and said that it would be impossible to re-establish the
reporting system before April 1. Clague added that it would
be necessary to collect back prices and to make ‘‘estimates for
prices which cannot be collected.’’
—
an
The UAW-CIO was handicapped
during the campaign by the attitude and actions of the plant man-
GUESSTIMATION
“The UAW-CIO will continue to meet with the major autoWe are
motive producers in collective bargaining sessions.
confident that managements will recognize the equity of the
Union’s position, and that the transition to the new Index ean
be worked out through good faith in negotiations so that the
stability which has characterized labor-management relations
in the basic automotive industry will fe continued.”’
won
j}election at the Albion Malleable
Molders.
UAW-CIO.”’
one place, at the collective bargaining table.
UAW-CIO
WAWEGCIOR
in March of 1953, and is based on the January 15, 1953,
index. Issuance by the BLS of a questionable, delayed ‘old
Index’ figure for January 15, 1953, based upon back pricing
methods and educated guesswork, will not satisfy the terms
of our agreements and is, therefore, unacceptable to the
“This problem of conversion to the new BLS Index is
a collective bargaining matter and can be settled in only
|jthe
was;
‘‘The next automatic wage adjustment for a 90-day
period, under the escalator clause in our agreements, is due
Letter continued:
TO
| Vice-President Richard T.
|Gosser, Director of the Foundlry Department, announces that
The
we have in our industry.
The Administrative
Text of Letter on Price Index
was the Molders Union-AFL, which
defeated
the UAW-CIO
for
bargaining rights at the plant in 1950.
ILL-ADVISED, ILL-CONCEIVED
In making the Administrative Letter public, President Reuther stated, ‘‘The ill-advised and ill-conceived decision to revive
the old Index for January, 1953, after the old Index series had
officially terminated, does not materially affect the conversion
problem
UAW VICTOR IN
‘RUNOFF ELECTION
of
the
UAW-CIO
discharged.
However,
organizers were able to
this type of propaganda.
During the last week preceding
the election the AFL unleashed a
vicious attack against the UAWCIO,
It attempted to discredit the
UAW-CIO through full page advertisements in the local newspaper,
hourly radio programs directed to
persuading
wives of the workers
that should the UAW-CIO win the
husapproaching
election, their
bands would have to strike; and
even television programs.
However, the groundwork done
during the campaign by UAW-CIO
organizers
was
withstand
slaught.
strong
the
International
enough
to
last-minute
Participating
in
the
drive
on-
were:
Representatives
Bob
Lee, Joe Smith,
James
Arena,
Dewey McGhee, William Humphreys and Heinz Szeve of Gosser’s
staff; Jack Edwards of the staff
of Region 1A; Co-Director Joseph
McCusker; and Harold Marsh, SubRegional Director for 1B Regional
Director
Szeve
William
and
ant directors
partment,
Olsen,
McAulay.
Humphreys
of
the
are
assist-
Foundry
secretary-treasurer
=
De-
of
Local 900, receiving $100 bond for sales efforts, and Mrs. Marie Lange whose ticket for her
PAC contribution won a new 1953 Plymouth Cranbrook sedan. From left to right above
are: Olsen, Mrs. Lange, Art Valenti, Local 400 president, and Region 1A Co-Director Joe
McCusker,
ALL
UAW-CIO
LOCAL
UNIONS:
More than a year ago the Bureau of Labor Statistics advised bothmanagement and the UAW-CIO that the original BLS Consumers’
Price Index, upon which our agreements are based, would be discontinued as of December, 1952, and that a new and revised Index would
be published by the BLS as the official Government Index starting
January, 1953.
The discontinuance of the old Index required the parties to our
Meetings
agreements to negotiate on conversion to the new Index.
between the UAW-CIO and representatives of managements of major
corporations have been taking place to accomplish this conversion.
On January 16, 1953, the chief of the Price Division of the Bureau
of Labor Statistics stated at a press conference in Washington that
the old BLS Index had lapsed sinee the Bureau of Labor Statistics
had not gathered price data needed to continue the old Index.
Following the inauguration of the Eisenhower administration
on January 20, certain corporation pressure was exerted to have
the government reconstitute the old BLS Index.
When knowledge of this came to our attention, the leadership of
the UAW-CIO advised government officials that the old Index could
not properly be reconstituted since the price data had not been gathered at the regular time and in accordance with established procedures. In addition to stating our position directly in meetings with
Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin and Senator Alexander Smith,
chairman of the Senate Labor Committee, we further set forth our
position in a telegram to them dated January 26, 1953, which follows:
“During our conference on Friday, January 23, you raised the
question of the advisability of having the Bureau of Labor Statistics
continue the ‘old’ Consumers’ Price Index.
“You will recall that I advised against this because I knew it
would further complicate the collective bargaining problems in the
industries under contract with the UAW-CIO.
=
“Upon my return to Detroit, I made a further careful check of
the problem and the following facts make it evident that calculation
of the old Index for January is not only inadvisable but impossible:
“1. The chief of the Price Division of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, during a press conference
on January
16, 1953, made
it
abundantly clear that the failure of the Bureau to collect January
price data in certain cities covered by the old Index had made it
impossible to compute that Index for January in conformity with
past practice.
“2. No prices at all were collected during January in about half
the -eities on which the January 15 old Index would have been based
had it been compiled and calculated in the same way as in the past.
While it would be possible to obtain accurate January figures for
those cities for some items like carfares and utility rates, it would be
totally impossible to do so for items making up the major part of the
Index.
;
“3. Food prices would. normally have been collected in 56 cities
for the January Index on the 12th, 13th and 14th of the month. Prices
were not collected in 36 out of those 56 cities. It is impossible now to
obtain the actual prices charged on those days in the stores in those
cities normally checked by the Bureau’s field staff. Any reconstruction of those prices now must be based on faulty memory, irresponsible guesswork or unreliable and unverifiable estimating procedures.
Since: food prices alone accounted for more than two-fifths of the
total weight of the old Index, and since essentially the same problem
affects many non-food items as well, deviation of guesses or estimates from the actual facts would
necessarily have a significant
effect on the accuracy of the synthetic Janyary figure.
“I cannot over-emphasize the fact that the BLS Index will remain
a useful collective bargaining instrument only so long as workers—
whose wages and the living standards of their families are so directly
affected by the Index—have faith in its accuracy and integrity.
“In view of the facts recited above, any figure published in
guise of the old Index for January will be considered by the
workers to be the result of political manipulation and pressure
by the corporations,
“We in the UAW-CIO sincerely believe that any such action will
end the usefulness of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in providing a
factual basis for orderly collective bargaining which has contributed
to stability in many important industries and which holds further
promise for the future.
“The leadership of the UAW-CIO, mindful of its obligations to
both the nation and the membership of our Union, feel compelled to
advise you that we are not required under our collective bargaining
agreement to accept any substitute for the old Index and that we,
therefore, will not be bound by any figures published under the guise
of that Index.
“We are advising representatives of management that we desire
to continue the negotiations required under our agreements to work
out a method for adjusting those agreements to the new Index.
“Tssuance of a questionable Index can serve no useful purpose. It
would,
however,
disrupt the current collective bargaining efforts
through which we are seeking an equitable conversion to the new
Index as the basis for continuation of the stability which has characterized labor-management relations in otir industry.
“A prompt decision rejecting any effort to publish an artificial
substitute for the old Index for January will dispel the confusion and
uncertainty
created by recent speculation and will facilitate the
finding of a sound and constructive solution at the collective bargaining table.”
As we stated in our telegram, the UAW-CIO felt that any effort
to reconstitute the old Index for January would be inadvisable since
the accuracy and integrity of the old Index would be questionable
and would, therefore, be unacceptable to the UAW-CIO,
The decision of the Eisenhower administration to continue the old
Index for a six months’ period under these circumstances has not
changed our position, and we are advising management that the Union is prepared to continue negotiations, and that further we consider
management
obligated under our agreements to continue negotiations to facilitate the conversion to the new BLS Index.
The decision of the Eisenhower administration to continue
the old Index has, on the surface, appeared to have complicated
the Union’s position. It does not, however, alter the basic soundness and correctness of the Union’s position, and we are confident that management will recognize the equity of our demands.
The General Motors Corporation has advised the GM Department
of our Union that it will be unable to give an answer to the Union
until after a meeting of the General Motors Corporation’s Operating
Committee, which is scheduled to meet during the second week of
February.
The
UAW-CIO's
position remains
sound
and unchanged—our
strategy will reflect developments in negotiations.
/s/ Walter P. Reuther,
President.
UNITED AUTOMOBILE
Pebruary, 1953
Page 3
WORKER
Issues Order Ending
ost Price Controls
All Wage,
President
WASHINGTON—AIl wage and most price controls were ended February 6 by order of President
Unionists
Men, Wilson Says
Eisenhower.
The wage order provides that the terms of the
9,250 petitions left pending before the Wage Stabilization Committee could be put into immediate effect
without its approval.
WASHINGTON
(LPA)—Former
General Motors President Charles
E. Wilson, who agreed to sell his
GM stock to become Secretary of
Defense,
said he
has
found
the
union men he has dealt with to be
“honorable men.”
The price control remoyal affected all meats, furniture, children’s clothing, restaurant meals, household textiles, leather
goods, small appliances, clocks, toys, sporting goods, yard
goods, notions, and most other items sold in department stores
and mail order houses. It also removes previously suspended
ceilings on liquor, radio and TV sets, men’s and women’s apparel, shoes and textiles.
All UAW-CIO local unions were immediately informed of
their rights under the new order in an Administrative Letter
The text of the Letter
from President Walter P. Reuther.
follows:
UNIONS:
LOCAL
ALL
TO
On December 16, 1952, in Administrative Letter No. 21, Volume 4,
I reported to you our efforts in
TruPresident
with
Washington
man and Mr. Roger Putnam, Director of the Office of Economic
Stabilization, to bring about an end
to wage controls. While the CIO has
been in the forefront in the fight
for an effective economic stabilization program that would protect
against
consumers
the American
inflation, we felt that at this time
be
could
there
of a
no justification
continuation of rigid wage controls
in which
circumstances
under
prices
had
been
largely
decontrolled.
Upon
the inauguration
of- the
Eisenhower Administration, we renewed our efforts to free wages
from governmental controls.
On February 4, 1953, as President of the National CIO, I addressed a letter to President Eisenhower restating and re-enforcing
the CIO’s position in support of the
end of wage controls,
On Friday, February
Eisenhower
President
Executive
Order
Governmental
Any
10434
Wage
existent
contract
6, 1953,
issued
ending
Controls,
which
all
has
not
the
been put into effect because of
necessity for prior approval by.
the
Wage
Stabilization
Board
may
now be immediately effectuated including any cases pending before
any level of the Wage-Stabilization
Board.appeal machinery, The full
terms of such contracts"may now
be effectuated including any contractual provisions for retroactivity.
Under
it is no
Executive Order
longer necessary
future cases with the Wage
bilization Board,
The
been
of
future
processed
the
Wage
of
cases
through
10434,
to file
which
all
Stabilization
Sta-
have
stages
Board
He told the Senate Armed Services Committee that when he was
picked to negotiate GM’s first contract, friends told him “you had
to pay off somebody” to reach an
agreement successfully. He said he
hasn’t found that to be the case,
Ford Payroll Up
Reuther Commends
Ike's Wage Order
DEARBORN,
Michig
— an
Payrolls of the Ford Motor Company
have reached a peak level while
the number
of employes jumped
to 164,427 this month, the highest
since 1944.
WASHINGTON (LPA) — President
Eisenhower’s
order
ending
wage controls immediately brought
The monthly wage bill at Ford’s
now averages $73,800,000 as compared to $44,600,000 in 1944 when
the company had 167,978 employes.
praise February 6 from CIO President Walter P. Reuther, who had
urged the President to do exactly
that just the day before.
Reuther called it “a constructive step that will permit wage
of
adjustments for thousands
workers that have been held up
in the wage stabilization set-up
for many months.”
Reuther made the statement as
he emerged from a White House
visit with Eisenhower. He was accompanied by David J. McDonald,
acting President of the Steelworkers. Reuther said they had “a general discussion on a number of general problems,” refused to specify,
and added, “we had a very pleasant
visit.” He refused to comment on
the removal of price controls.
appeal procedure in which the full
economic
package
has
not
been
approved by the Wage Stabilization
Board, should be reviewed by local
unions with their respective Regional Directors,
STAND-BY CONTROLS
While the decision to
and
wage
sound,
We
istration
controls
regret
has
not
end
at this time
that
seen
the
fit
price
was
Admin-
to
ask
Congress for stand-by control authority.
The CIO at its last Convention
called for
ending
wage
controls but for enactment
of
stand-by control legislation to meet
future emergencies.
It takes time to build control
machinery and to draft and issue
control orders, In the absence of
stand-by
authority,
any
new
"Honorable"
emergency will catch the government as unprepared to cope with
an
inflationary
upsurge
as it was
when
fighting broke
out in
Korea.
Although fighting started in Korea on June 25, 1950, it was not
until
September
Congress
duction
legal
enacted
Act
year
that
the Defense
Pro-
of
which
that
provided
basis for controls.
More
the
time
Donates
$250,000
UAW Backs Memorial;
Urges Local Support
In an Administrative
Letter issued February
4, 1953, UAWCIO Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey points out that all local
unions, which are financially able to do so, are urged by the
International Executive Board to make contributions from their
was lost while administrative machinery was being established to
carry out the authority provided
general funds to the Philip Murray Memorial Foundation.
by the Defense Production Act and
The Foundation was established
while the staffs of the new control
agencies were preparing the neces- by the CIO Executive Board as a
sary regulations.
It was not until
token of the great esteem in which
January
26, 1951, that the first
Philip Murray,
recently deceased
order—the
control
price
major
president’of the CIO, was held by
General Ceiling Price Regulation—
TAYLOR,
Texas
(LPA)—Dr,
all CIO members, It is intended to James
was issued,
;
Lee Dickey, Negro physistand as a living tribute to, Philip cian, was honored January 28 as
Meanwhile
the cost of living
rose by 7 per cent and wholesale
the outstanding citizen of 1952 in
Murray, his memory and achieveprices increased by 15 per cent.
ments in the fields of labor and this central Texas city of 10,000
These wholesale price increases
people. Four local civie clubs prehuman. relations,
later led to further increases in
sented an engraved plaque to Dr,
According
“to the plans set up
living costs as middlemen and reDickey, 59, who came here in 1921
for the Philip
Murray
Memorial
tailers pressured for and gained
just after finishing medical school,
Foundation, a million dollar fund
permission to pass their higher
At that time, Negroes waited in
is to be raised by direct contribucosts on to consumers,
hospital
halls until doctors were
tions from
the various~InternaWithout stand-by controls, the tional Unions affiliated with the finished with white patients. Now
the town has a 15-bed hospital for
same kind of delay, accompanied
Congress
of Industrial
OrganizaNegroes. Called the Dickey Clinic,
by the same kind of upward: spurt
tions. Foundation funds will not
it was built in 1935 on the site of
in prices will be inevitable in any be used to erect any marble monuhouse which the
new emergency that may arise in ments because it is felt that the an old rooming
city permitted Dr. Dickey to use
the future,
CIO itself is a living monument to
for treatment of typhoid patients
Fraternally yours,
Philip Murray,
during
an epidemic
two
years
Walter P, Reuther,
As stated in the letter, “Proearlier.
President,
ceeds from
the
funds
of ‘the
The epidemic was Dr. Dickey’s
Foundation will be used to progreatest challenge. During the devide for the endowment and suppression, many
poor people used
port of such undértakings as may
contaminated
water from Bull
suitably commemorate the memBranch Creek because they could
ory
and
good
deeds
of Philip
not afford the $1.30 a month fee
Such worthwhile projMurray,
for city water. When the typhoid
ects will best exemplify the way
epidemic struck, Dr. Dickey proved
he lived—humbly and bate i
to the City Commissioners that city
ing—and
with .a full belief in
sewage drained into the creek,
freedom from suffering and want
The Commissioners had the fire
for everyone.”
hydrants opened and allowed the
A committee of CIO representa- poor, both white and Negroes, to
tives shall constitute the Foundaget water. The state provided tytion trustees, and the trustees shall phoid vaccine and Dr. Dickey gave
in turn select an advisory board injections free of charge. Under Dr,
broadly representative of the pub- Dickey’s care, tuberculosis has al>
the Nelic at large.
among
most disappeared
At its last regular meeting, the groes and the infant diarrhea death
UAW-CIO International Executive rate is way down,
Negro Doctor Is
Honored in Texas
Board,
in
compliance
with
a
re-
quest, voted to donate $250,000 to
the Foundation. With me money
plus additional
funds donated
by
other.
CIO
Internationals,
the
Foundation
the good
intended,
is
work
expected
for
which
to
it
begin
was
Now, in line with the numerous
inquiries from
many
UAW-CIO
local
unions,
the
International
gether last month in Washington. They discussed arrangements for the resumption of unity
talks between the two organizations.
Executive
individual
contribute
Board feels that the
locals would like to
directly to the Foun-
individual
their
from
dation
treasuries,
So, a beautiful scroll has been
prepared, and will be sent to all
local
unions
which
contribute
to
the Philip Murray Memorial Foundation, All donations to the Founmarked
be plainly
dation should
“For the Philip Murray Memorial
Foundation,” and mailed to UAWMazey,
CIO Secretary-Treasurer
8000 East Jefferson Avenue, Detroit
14,
Michigan,
Page 4
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
.
February,
1958
... to catch thieves, a thief
Niuean
More on the Senate’s Chief Scoundrel
Probably the high point in a career noted for corruptign,?
lack of morals, Hitlerian demagoguery and political chicanery
was recently reached when Senator Joseph R. MeCarthy, Republican of Wisconsin, inherited the role of investigator-in-chief
and protector of public morals for the new Senate.
Despite the fact that this same Senator McCarthy is the
number one candidate for any Senate investigation, the great
American publie can rest assured that the chief investigator of
the ‘‘holier than thou’’ Congress will not investigate himself,
Even though McCarthy is the main subject of a 400-page report
by the Senate Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections, copies
of which are in the hands of all Washington solons, this hardly
seems likely.
Add to this the significant fact that this voluminous and
well-documented report has been filed with the Senate Rules
Committee. Who heads the Rules Committee in Ike’s dry-cleaned
Senate? Why, none other than another illustrious GOP keeper
of the public morals, Senator Jenner of Indiana.
tant
questions
These
questions
several
demand
were
dirty
red
who
thy’s
guts,
but
bygthe
the
SOME
into
ANSWERS
They
are:
1,
Whether
stances
it was
McCarthy
the:
hates
McCar-
bi-partisan
Subcommittee
investigation
answers.
not raised by
some
Senate
impor-
conducting
his
finances.
NEEDED
the
circum-
proper
for Senator
to receive $10,000 from
eas
ene
or
dealings
in
senatorial
connection
with
Ray
to
Additional
$35,000
with
Kiermas.
income
was
traced
amounting
as
during
of which
$29,230
cash.
enough
financial
record
Carthy, doughty
public, morals
was
about
the
of Senator
Mcprotector of the
and
otherwise.
McCarthy,
Jenner,
et al, will safe-
the public
as it has
trol
Congress,
cific purposes,
his own use.
were
diverted
to
Suf-
fice it to say that the Ameriean
.citizens can rest well-assured that
nasty Democrats,
mistake in retaining
spe-
the
unsavory
Those
made a
other
safeguarded
of
exception,
really
going
for
to
before.
some
with
catch
20
never
one
years,
hell—the
who
conbrief
are
in-
used close associates and members of his family to secrete receipts,
income,
commodity
and
vestigating variety a la McCarthy.
Sit back in your armchair, Uncle
Sam.
McCarthy, Jenner and Company will clean up—really “clean
up”’—America!
motives.
“LATE” SENATOR McCARTHY
Another
sidelight on mudsling-
3.
Whether
Senator
MeCarthy
stock speculation and other financial transactions for ulterior
4,
Whether
Senator
McCar-
thy’s activities on behalf of certain special interest groups, such
as
housing,
sugar
were motivated
by
5.
Whether
and
China}
self-interest.
loan
or
other
transactions
Senator
McCarthy
had with Appleton
(Wisconsin)
state
bank
or others,
‘involved
violation of the tax and banking
laws,
6. Whether Senator McCarthy
violated federal and state corrupt practice acts in connection
and
the
well-known
“Youth
Wants
ing
Joe
McCarthy
was
revealed
when he récently backed out of a
television show in Washington by
failing to show up.
Of course, it
could have been that the “honest”
Senator was telling the truth when
he called the studio, and pleaded
confusion over the time of his ap-
pearance,
Being
“ldte”’ ‘was one
excuse,
but how
does McCarthy
explain the fact that he never did
get to that television studio?
Date of the scheduled McCarthy
appeatance on video was January
“Meet the New Keeper...
ied
was
that
teenager
show,
to Know.’ *The
is co-sponsored
ican
smearing
program
NBC
same period, deposited $96,921.26,
assistant,
2, Whether
funds supplied to,
Senator McCarthy to fight Comany
18, 1953,
tor Théodore
istrative
been
for
being
“For
gram
ing).
or
his
deposited
elsewhere.
Ray
Kiermas, Senator McCarthy’s admin-
posedly for a pamphlet on hous- | guard
munism,
cam-
McCARTHY’S FINANCES
Other evidence cited-by the Subcommittee
was the fact that between January
1, 1948, and
November 12, 1952, when his salary
and expenses were roughly $70,000,
McCarthy deposited $172,623.18 in
one bank-account.
About $19,000
was in cash.
Well,
under
Lustron
paigns
1944-46
Legion,
by The Amer-
directed
Granik,
in the Nation’s
pro-
by
Modera-
and
televised
questions
regarding
Mc-
Carthy’s checkered career were
fired at the unoccupied chair.
NBC tried to soft-pedal the Senator’s non-appearance by-explaining that McCarthy
had called at
the last moment,
pleading confusion. He promised to be right over,
but never did show up. The network tried to provide another out
for McCarthy
by explaining that
the influx of Presidential Inauguration visitors made traffic conditions in Washington’
extremely
bad.
.
DECLINED TO ANSWER
During
the.
TV
program/
one
student pointed out that the illustrious Senator had declined to answer some questions on a previous
appearance. Strangely enough, the
McCarthy
lapse
was
the
second
during January in which the Senate
problem
child
had _ suffered
confusion’
over
broadcast
time.
Previously, he had been late for a
program over the
casting System.
Mutual
Broad-
Here are a few of the pertinent
queries tossed at the absent Senator by the teenager audience, plus
some astuteé~observations:
“I would like to ask Senator
McCarthy if he doesn’t think at
this
time
when
the
American
people: need
utmost
confidence
in
their
doing
government,
more
dence
that
to undermine
than
build
it up
he
is
édnfi-
.. .?
“Concerning
what
this
young
lady said about the results in Wisconsin, I think the proof that Sen-
ator McCarthy’s methods
ing faith with the people
in the fact that McCarthy
ran
considerably
behind
state governor in the 1952
sin elections.
ie
McCARTHY’S
“. « .
methods,
this
ever
fused
used
to
METHODS
Speaking
of
the last, time
progtam,
are losi# shown
himself
his own
Wiscon-
I
asked
wiretapping,
answer,
McCarthy’s
he was on|
him
and
possibly
if
he
on
he}
re-|
the
grounds that it might tend to incriminate..
I was going to ask him
if he had an answer formulated by
this time. ...
“IT would like to ask Senator
McCarthy
if he would consider
waiving his Congressional immu-
nity
yo
when
he
makes
an
accusa-
the call of decency,
tion,
or
presents
accusations.
“I
Waive
believe
his
he
proof
of
definitely
Congressional
his
should
immunity
and give those people he is accusing a chance to fight back, because
if he just continuously accuses all
these
Capital.
When the “late” Senator failed
to make his appearance, Moderator Granik proceeded with the
show
as though
McCarthy
had
shown
up
per
schedule.
An
empty
chair
was
shown,
and
many
beyond
people
on
the
floor
of
the
Senate,
they
have
no chance
to
defend themselves or sue him.
“T think that certainly there are
some
Communists,
but I believe
that the Senator is clouding the
issue
and
actually
is
hurting
good
people
and
helping
the
Communists in making.these shotgun accusations.
WORTH
$10,000?
“gf don’t think the fact that Senator McCarthy might have a
little
knowledge
of real
estate
should
justify the acceptance of $10,000.
“While we are on the question
of finance,
I should
like to ask
Senator McCarthy why he accepted a $10,000 favor from the Washington representative of the Pepsi
Cola Company at. any time?
“I would like to know: aren’t®
McCarthy’s finances part of the
mess in Washington?”
These are a few of the typical
a medal!’
UAW Rep. Gets
N. J. PAC Post
NEWARK,
Chairman
litical
will
New
of
Jersey
(LPA)—<«
State
CIO
Po-
Committee
for
PAC
1953
and
edu-
the
Action
be Paul Krebs,
cation director for the CIO United
Auto Workers’ Region 9, His appointment
was
announced
CIO
President
‘who
will
continue
Carl
CIO
Legislative
vacs,
for
international
the
Carl
CIO
De
the
Steelworkers,
Fazio
CHICAGO—M.
E.
Editors
CIO
Illinois
tary;
Jack
the youth
of America
real character
and his
and out of Congress.
News,
in
fooling
as to his
record in
(Curly)
Lore,
UAW-CIO International Representative,
has been
re-elected
Presi-
Editor
succeeded
of
Editors Elect Lore
chosen
not
also
Steelworkers.
Others
has
succeeds
of Newark,
vote,
lard,
thy
Ko-
representative
of
participat-
PAG
Committee.
tion
the
State
Holderman
also announced
the
appointment of Charles Kovacs of
Trenton as chairman of the State
ing teenagers on “Youth Wants to
Know,”
and
may
be found
in a
transcript of that show.
Certainly,
the questions reveal that McCar-
by
State
director.
of the
asked
by
Holderman,
as
dent
questions
a
combine,
his
eee
McCarthy
with
ee
What chance is there that the®
numerous charges against McCarthy contained in the lengthy report
will ever be aired as long as “Shotgun” McCarthy
guards the front
door of Senate investigations, and
friend Jenner protects the rear?
In spite of the protection afforded
the
financial
shenanigans
of
McCarthy by the unholy Jenner-
tor
Illinois
W.
Treasurer;
Local
1121
referendum
were Bob Bol-
in
Lee,
Associa-«
a
Labor,
Editor
SecreLocal
65
A. W. Gorke, EdiNews,
Vice-Presi-
>
dent.
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RICHARD GOSSER and JOHN W. LIVINGSTON
Vice-Presidents
International
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RAY BERNDT
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CARTER
Executive
Board
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McAULAY
WOODCOCK
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February, 1953
Page5
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
.. Reuther Calls on Administration to Keep
Promises for F ederal Health Program
‘
CIO
(LPA)—President
YORK
NEW
Auto
and United
|
admin-|
Eisenhower
called on the
Workers,
of the?
Waltez P. Reuther
istration February 2 to keep its campaign %sromises and promote
a comprehensive federal health program for all Americans.
Reuther addressed the Philip Murray Awards dinner of the
CIO Community Services Committee honoring three men and
two organizations for their contributions to general health and
welfare.
&
federal
that the
He suggested
government enlist the aid of states
and private practitioners and institutions to provide comprehensive
and
remedial
care, both
medical
preventive,
it.
afford
for
His
those
proposal
cannot
who
based
was
on the findings of the President’s
Commission on the Health Needs
of the Nation.
Receiving the awards were Oscar
R. Ewing, former Federal Security
Administrator, for his work in social legislation; Robert H. MacRae,
executive director of the Welfare
Council
of Metropolitan
Chicago,
for his accomplishmentg in codmmunity organization and planning;
Wilbur F. Maxwell, director of the
Labor Participation Department of
the Community Chests and Councils
of America, for his pioneering work
in increasing labor participation in
community affairs; the Community
Services Department of the UAW,
and
an intensive
developing
for
unionwide community services program, and the United Nations In-
ternational
Children’s Emergency
Fund, for work in child and overseas relief.
Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey accepted for the UAW-CSD,
the UNICEF
Pate,
director,
who
was in India. Each honoree got
$500 and a Philip Murray plaque.
Reuther said that in all future
contract
negotiations
CIO
in
the
world,
deeds will save us, CIO is dedicated to a program
of saving
democracy
through good democratic deeds.”
A special feature of the program
a
dramatic
memorial
narrated
assisted
of New
CIO-CSC
presentation
as
The CSC was established in 1941
to
raise
funds
for
war-stricken
the
a
educational committees in Region 10 gathered recently in Milwaukee to éompare notes on
effective publicity techniques for unions. Shown here is Eleanor Klapper (left), editor of
Local 438 (A. C. Sparkplug) News, discussing ‘‘What’s Good and What’s Bad About Union
Publicity.’’ Seated at the table is Bill Dodds, Region 10 education director. Delegates
from Local 833 (Kohler, Sheboygan) and Local 72 (Nash, Kenosha) are shown in the
background. Eleven local unions were represented.
an-
give
their
full
support
to
that appeal.
“Union members recognize the
tremendous scope of the national
emergency that confronts the na-
Services
of
to
promote
of aid and
tain
our
that
in
the
organization
such
assistance.
will cooperate
Cross to help
of your
Committee,
1953,
our
do
programs
I feel cermembers
fully with the Red
insure the success
program.”
Jenner Ordered to
Pay Back $14,000
WASHINGTON
(LPA)
—
William E. Jenner (R., Ind.)
return
about
ceived
in
Army
and
the
law
receive
receiving
UAW Auxiliaries
Aid Polio Drive
The UAW-CIO Auxiliaries have
won the commendation of the National Foundation
for Infantile
Paralysis for their work on behalf
of the March of Dimes Drive.
The Auxiliaries were commended because their members manned
the March of Dimes Booth in the
heart of Detroit for eight days during the drive, according to Mrs.
Catherine Gelles, Auxiliaries’ Sec-
countries and developed into the
co-ordinating body for CIO participation
in, and
contributions
to,
community health, welfare and recreational activities. Past recipients
of its Philip Murray
Award
are
Sen. James E, Murray (D., Mont.),
the late Senator Robert F. Wag-
ner (D., N.Y.)
N. Bradley.
and
General
$14,000
disability
Air
Accounting
Jenner
retary.
tribute to Philip Murray,
by actor Ralph Bellamy,
by the Schola Cantorum
York.
Irving Abramson,
chairman, was master of
ceremonies.
will
much
unions
day and night, to take men who
have been exiled from the advantages
of democracy
and fit
them out in the uniforms of the
police state.
Good
intentions
won’t
save
democracy
in this
century of its trial.
Only good
was
endorse
nual appeal of the American Red
Cross,
that union
“I feel certain
members
throughout
America
members
to the nation’s health and social
security by setting standards.
He announced also that the CSC
will seek funds for the International Confederation
of Free
Trade
Unions as “the best antidote to
Communism,”
“Communism,” he said, “is at
everywhere
wholeheartedly
munity
will demand improved health and
social security provisions.
In this
way, he said, they will contribute
work
WASHINGTON, D. C.—CIO and
UAW President Walter P. Reuther
assured E, Roland Harriman, president of the American Red Cross,
that the Congress of Industrial Organizations would fully cooperate
with the American Red Cross during the 1953 fund-raising campaign.
The text of President Reuther’s
letter follows:
“On behalf of the Congress of
Industrial Organizations, I most
more ably the needs of our men
in the armed services as well as
the victims of disaster and misfortune throughout the country.
“Through our own CIO Com-
in behalf of Maurice
its executive
CIO Promises
Red Cross
Cooperation
tion, and they will, as they have
in the past, do everything possible to help the Red Cross serve
of which he is director, and Byron Price, assistant
secretary
general of the UN, accepted for
Y
such
pay
pay
Force.
Office
which
he
has
says
has
just
re-
from,
the
General
pointed
Jenner
disability
as a U.
Sen.
must
has
The
pay
to
cannot
while
S. Senator.
been
THAT’LL BE THE DAY
Ike Names Backer of
*Millionaires' Tax
named
Chairman of the Senate committee to investigate Communists and
subversives.
His
committee
has
$219,000 to spend.
He had been receiving from $150
to $179 a month, based on an eye
ailment
that
Jenner
said .began
while
he was
in the Army
Air
Forces, since 1944, when he retired
as a captain for disability. Legality of the payment was first questioned during Jenner’g campaign
for re-election in 1952.
WASHINGTON (LPA) — President Eisenhower has nominated as
Assistant Secretary of Commerce
Craig R. Sheaffer, 55, president of
the W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co. Sheaffer is a director of the Western
Tax Council of Chicago, which has
been
among
the
leaders
of the
drive to put over the “millionaires’
amendment.”
The
Western
Tax
Council,
backed
has
by
been
big
putting
legislatures
to
pass
gress
business
on
state
get
them
force
Con-
Constitutional
Con-
since
pressure
1938
resolutions
to
call
a
interests,
to
to
vention to limit federal taxes to 25
per cent. Such a move would shift
the tax burden from the rich to
the
poor
single
$8,000
and
persons
a year,
would
benefit
making more
and married
with
two
children
$20,000 a year.
making
only
than
men
over
“Back In my corner of the shop,
people overlook me when they're
collecting donations, I'd like to
”
in.
ded
inclu
be
a
Omar
Amos Jones of Oklahoma City, pictured at left in an easy chair presented him by his fellow workers, becomes the first UAW member to retire in his city. He is a member of Local
928, Ford Parts Warehouse, Pictured on the platform are International Representative Tom
Turbiville, presiding at the presentation ceremonies, Local 928 Entertainment Committee
Chairman Miller, and Assistant Region 5 Director Ted Hawks, who made the principal speech
and presentation,
UNITED
Page 6
Mt
Gosser Organizers
Face Busy Month;
Fifteen Elections Set
The departments under the direction of Vice-President Rich-
ard
Gosser
are facing
a busy
schedule
for the month
of Febru-
ary and first week of March. Besides their regular functions,
they have to conduct organizin g campaigns for 15 NLRB elections that fall within a 30-day p eriod.:
Bearing
the
brunt
of
the
work
will be the Competitive Shop and
Foundry Departments.
A heavy concentration of work
will be in Cleveland
where
the
NLRB will conduct 10 elections in
local foundries.
The Foundry Department has been very active in]*
set
gether,
The
to
be
held
Competitive
so
closely
Shop
Bruce
Foundry
Depart-
ton and at the Fram
at Greenville, Ohio.
All but
the
Bruce
at
Ken-
drives
or
present
by
the
are
at
the
orfanization
Jast
symptoms
pointed
to
of change:
these
“1, Last year 36,000,000 Americans moved from one city to an-
other—the
in
our
greatest
mass
history.
“2. One out of every
en is now working.
movement
three
wom-
care
centers.
and praise two years ago,
at
meeting
Defense
the
of the
Serv-
Waldorf-As-
George
D. Guest
of Atlanta,
UAW-CIO official, was re-elected
as a member of the UCDS board
of directors at the meeting.
Union,
plant
Seltzer
ices (UCDS)
toria hotel.
The
election
at Newark
was
ordered by the NLRB when it sustained charges filed by the UAWCIO
that
the
Timken
Company
aided another union in an election
held
Mr.
spoke at the annual
United Community
‘runaway plants which have been
charged with unfair labor charges
by the UAW-CIO
either in for-
mer
Pressures created by the national defense effort are changing
the pattern of life in America, and thereby changing the nature
of social welfare needs, said Louis B. Seltzer, editor of the Cleveland Press and president of United Community Defense Services,
a national non-profit organization.
| ognition
Corporation
Foundry
Social Needs, Editor Says
“4, Juvenile delinquency is nearing the records set during World
War II, and may break them. Now
juvenile delinquents are being arrested at the rate of a million a
year. In eight years, this figure is
expected to increase to 1,500,000.”
Mr.
Seltzer, whose
editorial
“Can't We Tell Right From Wrong
Any More?” received national rec-
to-
RICHARD
conducting
against the
a
At
T. GOSSER
vicious
campaign
UAW-CIO and openly
supports the latter’s opponent. The
UAW-CIO has pending charges of
unfair labor practices against the
Company,
which
will
not
interfere with the holding of the election that is scheduled for the third
week in February; the exact day
has not been set.
year.
The election at Greenville is a
run-off between the UAW-CIO and
an independent union, the UAWAFL having been elimin&ted in an
earlier election in which the UAWCIO had the high vote but not a
clear majority.
The Fram Corporation has been
1 ClO Officials Picked
February,
Defense Effort Changes
day
ment will be engaged in elections
at Newark and Kenton, Ohio, Divisions of the Timken Detroit Axle
Company,
WORKER
“3. One out of every four mothers of children under 18 is now
employed,
outside the home,
despite the nationwide
shortage of
the
area
for
many
months,
but
never anticipated so many elections
being
AUTOMOBILE
UCDS
the
meeting,
the
was*founded,
second
organization,
composed
of
in
1952.
Organized
of
15
after
the outbreak of the Korean War,
UCDS has helped communities to
meet the problems created by mili-
tary
and
industrial
expansion.
25
According to Local 12, UAW-CIO,
cents
weekly
from
every
pro-
duction worker
at Willys
would
bring in $170,000 a year. The fund
will be run by trustees—three from
management,
three from the union, Applications for donations will
go directly to the trustees, to be
considered on a pro rata basis, with
a limit on how much any one applicant could get. Each worker can
earmark
wishes,
This
his
fund
contribution
if he
will
fund-
eliminate
Union Center
Sets Record
A
new attendance record was
set in 1952 at the UAW-CIO Region 4 Union Center, according to
Director Pat Greathouse.
Over
70,000
persons
visited the Union
Center during the year, attending
Institutes, Summer
Schools, Conferences, or for inexpensive vacation trips.
Four times as many students attended the 1952 Summer School in
Ottawa than attended in 1948 when
Region 4 included twice as much
territory.
Plans for building of a new Assembly Hall at the Union Center
have been needed to accommodate
at Conferincreasing
attendance
ences and Schools.
The Ottawa Times, local newspaper, recently carried a laudatory
article about
the expansion
and
operation of the Union Center,
raising drives.for the Local 12 Summer Camp, Community Chest, RedTo
affiliated
national
agencies,
responded to requests for aid from
public officials and civic groups in
over’ 400 communities
which
felt
the impact of the national defense
program
up.
signed
rest,
UCDS
accomplishments
mirrored
the changes to which Mr. Seltzer
had referred.
UCDS, a private, non-profit service
TOLEDO, Ohio (LPA)—Ten departments in Willys-Overland have
alréady signed up 100 per cent for
the voluntary check-off of 25 cents
a week to replace the many fundraising drives.
More than 80 per
cent of the entire plant is now
Cross,
sinte
reports
Gift Problenm
Solved at W-O
1953
Old
the
Newsboys
objections
and
all
the
of the Commu-
ity Chest that it would lose out,
Charles H. Ballard, Director of Region
2B, UAW-CIO,
said
“something sensible had to be done to
combine
pointed
the
out
pleas
that
for
the
money.”
He
Community
Chest itself was launched to end
the multiplicity of drives. He said
too many drives defeat their own
and
production workers
purposes
stop giving “just because they’re
sick and tired of the never-ending
drives. At Willys we’ve stopped all
that. In the end, I, think all agencies in Toledo
will
get more
and in the meantime,
will get some much
tection.”
In men’s clothing
For good value
For good working conditions
money,
Look
for
N
IVAYN
the workers
needed pro-
In the
the |
Inside.
is
22
ol
coat
L138
pocket.
For Unity Talks With AFL
The CIO Executive Board th is month named an 11-man committee, composed of top CIO officials, to meet with an AFL eommittee to discuss unity between the two big labor organizations.
first meeting of the
The
bined committees will be on
ruary 24 in Washington.
com-©
Feb-
CIO President Walter P. Reuther
will lead
the 1l-man
committee
which
includes
the other
executive officers of CIO, Allan S. Haywood, executive vice-president, and
James
B. Carey,
secretary-treas-
urer.
:
Others on the committee
are:
David J. McDonald,
acting president, Steelworkers;
Joseph Beirne,
president, Communications
Workers; L. S. Buckmaster,
president,
Rubber
Workers;
Joseph Curran,
president, Maritime Union; O. A.
Knight,
president,
Oil
Workers;
Michael Quill, president, Transport
Workers;
Emil
Rieve,
president,
Textile Workers,
and Frank Rosenblum,
Clothing
secretary-treasurer,
Workers.
Representing
nine-man
the
AFL
committee
will be a
headed
by
Pres. George Meany.
Other AFL
representatives will be William L.
Hutcheson,
Carpenters;
Matthew
Woll,
Photoengravers;
Daniel
J.
LPRES
“By adding a few extra parts, it
now knits a sweater with every
gun
barrel
it polishes.”
Tobin, Teamsters;
Harry
C. Bates,
Bricklayers; W. C. Doherty, Letter
Carriers;
David Dubinsky, Ladies
Garment Workers; Charles J. MacGowan, Boilermakers; and Daniel
W. Tracy, Electrical Workers.
Naming
of
the
lowed
a recent
cheon
meeting
and Meany.
UAW
committees
DANA COUNCIL DRAFTS NEW CONTRACT—UAW
delegates from the various plants of the Dana Corporation
are here shown meeting in Solidarity House with International UAW-CIO representatives of the Dana Council to
draft new contract demands. At the head of table (seated
left to right) are: Lowell Goerlich, attorney; Lloyd Bates,
president of the Dana Council; and Edward Brown, assist-
ant director of the Dana Department.
fol-
Washington
lunbetween
Reuther
Local Hosts
State Convention
PEORIA,
Illinois—Local
974,
UAW-CIO,
local union
of 20,000
Caterpillar
fi
workers,
served
nois
e
as featured
speakers,
The UAW-CIO Dana Council met
in Solidarity House January 30 and
31. Attending the conference were
18 delegates representing eight
Dana
bargaining
units
of Pottstown, Pennsylvania; Buffalo, New
York; Toledo, Ohio; Auburn, Indiana, and Lansing, Michigan.
Chief action taken was the unanimous adoption of a tentative National Agreement drafted with the
assistance of the Dana Department
which
is under. the direction of
Vice-President Richard Gosser.
The Council also requested Gosto
arrange
a
meeting
with
the
Dana Corporation to negotiate increased benefits for retired work-
January 16, 17, 18 to the first Illinois State CIO Convention to be
“I now pronounce you Labor and
Management!”
To Be Sought
By Dana Council
ser
as host
held outside Chicago since the first
convention ten years ago.
Pat Greathouse, Director of Region 4 and vice-pfesident of the
Illinois State CIO, served as chairman of the Resolutions Committee.
The 10th Constitutional Convention was held in the Pere Marquette hotel with Allan S. Haywood, CIO executive vice-president,
and Senator Paul Douglas of Iili-
Nav. Contract
aes
Pe
“Martha!
Where's the liverwurst?™ ,
ers. It took the position that all
in social security payincreases
ments should benefit the retired
workers;
that
such
increases
the Corporanot reduce
should
tion's share in the pension program.
President
Lloyd Bates
of the
Council announced that the Council’s next meeting would be held
at Auburn,
Indiana.
Bates is a
member
of Local
724, Lansing,
Michigan,
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
February, 1953
Big Business Riding High in
~ Government, Reuther Says
WASHINGTON—Washington would need a lot more electricians if instead of 13 millionaires and one plumber at the
millionaire,
one
and
13 plumbers
were
level, there
cabinet
To Each
CIO
sending
be
to
position
national
Aldrich
like Winthrop
bankers
we
when
as ambassadors
abroad
people
labor
sending
be
should
who'd have the confidence of popufor the better
lations struggling
things in life.
Reuther restated his over-all labor philosophy that unions must be
integrated with the community and
must be in the forefront of the
of abundance
economy
an
for
fight
as the best way to have peaceful
world
and
bargaining,
collective
peace,
to fight
Communism
and
extend democracy,
T-H MUST BE REPEALED
The Taft-Hartley Law, he said,
must be repealed because it is a
problem
the
to
approach
negative
that must be solved in satisfying
the needs and aspirations of workers without disruption.
It is wrong, he continued, because
it fails to recognize
what
table,
bargaining
a
at
happens
government interference minimizes
the chance of agreement.
Strife
can
be
avoided
by.
transferring
responsibility for settlement to negotiations and if labor and management are not willing to meet their
basic responsibilities, no legislation
will correct the evil, he stressed.
He
union
pointed
mands,
bargains
it wins
out
for
that
them
and
when
a
wins
de-
not only
for
itself, but for all workers.
When the UAW-CIO won a Company-paid pension plan from the
Ford Motor Company, he recited,
within
a few
days
the
Congress
in-
creased the benefits under the Social Security Old Age
Insurance
system to take part of the expense
off the
companies,
All workers
benefitted.
ANNUAL
WAGE
He
urged
achievement
of the
guaranteed
annual
wage
as a
means
of
correcting
standard”
now being
“What's
front
the
office
aiding
and
the
present
“double
with corporation heads
paid by the year,
good
assembly
Labor
production
for the
is good
is
line,”
not
for
he
man
the
said.
asking
in the
man
on
for
pay
see how
fast
while not working, he said, “but
put the cost of unemployment on
industry
and
THE
you'll
the
without
great
easier
strife,
it
is
to
do
he asserted.
as in
1929,
he
a round
table
of
expense
the
re-
his
with
question
during
speech.
at the
this
Senator
was
Alexander Smith (R., N. J.), new
Chairman of the Senate Labor
Committee.
read
by
the
The
question,
was a doublebarChairman,
relled one: “Even if you succeeded in placing a CIO man in
a@ policy-making
in
job
the
La-
bor Department, do you think
that the Department under Secany
will have
Durkin
retary
real influence in the Eisenhow-
so
of
the Taft-Hartley
reply:
Reuther’s
tell
you.
I like
to
Act?”
“Well,
share
Ill
But there isn’t any need to have
out.
he pointed
unemployment,
dividend.
These
divi-
dends followed stock dividends and
larger cash dividends during previous quarters of this fiscal year.)
Labor is worried, Reuther’ said,
about the proposed turning over
to private exploitation
of our
natural resources like the oil-rich
submerged marginal lands off the
U. S. coasts, the gutting of public
power, amd the farm situation.
Asked how he would balance the
and
has
January
no-
management
to “learn to take the
out of its vocabulary.”
of UAW-CIO, Local 833,
plumbing fixtures and
motors,
climax
voted
their
unanimously
lengthy
wage
and
contract talks with a strike referendum. A bitter strike scarred
by the death of two pickets ended
in defeat of an AFL Federal Labor Union in 1934 when the Wis-
consin
in
to
National
protect
“This
it’s 1953,
is
Guard
was
scabs.
not
and
1934
you
any
are
part
called
more—
of the
world’s largest Union,” Mazey
told
the
Kohler
membership,
pledging the Union’s full financial resources in the event of a
showdown.
Besides
natural
through
But
farm
it
resources
taxation,
should
not
be
done
up
with
equities,
automatic
wage
the
hike
rest
“just
of Amer-
wage
improvements
in
progres-
pensions,
insurance and hospitalization,
tration and a union shop.
and
by
funking
America’s
responsibilities
abroad
nor
by cutting
our own
health,
social security, school-aid
and
flood
control
programs,
to
name-a few,
to catch
sion,
budget, the CIO leader said that it
could be done by greatly-increased
production through the harnessing
the
a 26-cent
ican industry,” the Union is asking
correction
of numerous
wage
in-
“You can see why these anti-union
guys are always bragging that they
have open minds!”
of
Reuther
is pictured with
—=
Mazey©
Kohler’s
backward
Members
who make
electric
on
warned
it will have
word ‘never’
to
Emil
negotiations
toriously
Reuther expressed worry about
the hard dollar talk of Treasury
Seeretary Humphrey, which harks
and
tycoon
Pittsburgh
to
back
former Secretary Andrew Mellon’s
day.
He warned against the present
and
loopholes
tax
proposed
and
specifically against the millionaires’
quarterly
President
Union Nears Showdown
With Kohler Company
21
in the south.
tax amendment which would save
the corporations $14 billion in tax
moyey and to balance the budget
would require a 10 per cent federal
sales tax,
MILLIONAIRES’ LOBBYIST
And he noted that the administration is appointing as Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for domestic affairs a main leader to the
chief lobby
for the
millionaires’
amendment, Craig R. Sheaffer who
has resigned as president of the W.
A, Sheaffer Pen Company.
(The -Sheaffer firm elected his
son as president and declared an
extra
30-cents
common
dividend
in addition to the regular 30-cent
UAW-CIO
Club President Ted Koop.
entered
needs for
There are tremendous
more homes, schools, roads, etc.,
of
the standard
for raising
and
living of many of our people, espe-
cially
month,
Secretary-Treasurer
things.
Vll take the first half of the
question and Senator Smith will
answer the second half of the
question.”
remarked,
Guest of the National Press Club in Washington early
SHEBOYGAN, Wisconsin—Kohler workers, now 27 months
without a wage increase, will take a strike vote to back up their
demands for a 26 cents an hour wage boost as negotiations
neared ‘‘the zero hour’’ and the Auto Worker went to press.
er Administration? Will Senator
Taft still control any rewriting
BUSINESSMEN FEARFUL
Many businessmen are fearful of
a recession when military production needs are met and Stalin and
his men in the Kremlin are counting on America making the same
mistakes
at
Reuther
P.
National Press Club
of the guests
One
speakers
industry achieves full production
in an expanding economy.”
He urged greatly expanded U. S.
of
atmosphere
in an
production
understanding
labor-management
for two main goals—to improve the
and
at home
of living
standard
Communism
to stop
and
abroad
dead in its tracks.
The bigger the pie that has to be
divided,
and
one
to
sponse
his
laugh
Republicans
the
©
He also pointed out that it’s bad
psychologically for America’s inter-
applause
of
the millionfuse,’’ Reubusiness is)
hearty
a
got
Own...
Walter
President
Press Club
President Walter P. Reuther told a packed National
auditorium February 5.
That’s because if the plumbers so out-numbered
aires, every NAM’er in town would ‘‘blow his main
ther said as he hammered home the point that big
®
very much in the saddle here.
His
Kohler
Company
arbi-
has stubborn-
ly refused to yield on any but
minor “fringe” issues, but is wal-
lowing
in
fantastic
profits.
The Union has won a
series of
court battles aimed at breaking up
the solidarity of Kohler workers.
Recently the National Labor Relations
Board
took
unprecedented
action
of
launching
prosecution
proceedings against
the Kohler
Is Taft a Senator?
COLUMBUS,
Ohio—Both
AFL
and CIO leaders raised a question
as to
whether
the
labor-hating
Senator Robert A. Taft is really a
Senator
as Ohio
approached
its
150th birthday on March 1, 1953.
The ticklish Constitutional queslion was
advanced by the labor
leaders when they learned that a
resolution will be offered in Congress next month to officially admit
Ohio
to the
Union.
After
Ohio
submitted its Constitution-to Congress
in
1803,
Congress
failed,
through an oversight, to adopt the
resolution
to
officially
statehood.
admitting
Ohio
Company for 15 separate anti-union acts.
The NLRB will begin prosecution
of Kohler Company
on February
24. Circuit Judge Henry A. Detling
earlier dismissed a suit against the
Local and gave his legal blessing
to Local 833 as a bona-fide organization.
Kohler
Company
has
turned
down a Union offer to invite the
press and radio to “sit in” on negotiations.
The
Company’s
chief
spokesman,
Herbert
V. Kohler,
president of the wealthy firm, has
so far stayed away from the bargaining table,
The Union has also challenged
the Company to “open its books”
and let a certified public accountant study its earnings and “ability
to pay” the Union’s demands.
UNION:
Is not a myth but a must.
Is not a farce but a force.
Is not a rabble rouser but-a refuge.
Is not a military agency but a militant army.
It thrives on the demands
of its enemies.
of its friends and the damns
It does not promise its members the pinnacle of society
but rather the top rung of social security.
It is the only organization in which leadership is recognized and promoted strictly on ability to get concessions
for the little man
rather than from
him,
It is the guiding spirit behind the battle to provide fair
and. equal employment for all men regardless of color, race
or creed,
It is concerned, not only with keeping the common
man’s hearth fires burning in his home but keeping his
healthy heart beating in his work,
In the final analysis its only reason for existence is its
crusade to elevate human rights above property rights,
—By John M, Wells,
Local 287, Muncie,
Ind.
Z
SOUTH
Mazey
BEND
EDUCATION
CONFERENCE
addressed some 200 delegates attending
— UAW-CIO
the Northern
Secretary-Treasurer Emil
Education
Conference
of Re-
gion 3 at a banquet held in Local 5 cafeteriain South Bend, Saturday, January 10, Reading from left to right are: Louis Horvath, president, Local 5; Mrs. Ray Berndt; Director
Ray Berndt of Region 3; Secretary-Treasurer Mazey; and Father Fitzgerald of Notre Dame
University,
UNITED AUTOMOBILE
CIO Sees Important Omissions
In State of Union Message
WASHINGTON
(LPA)—What
President
Eisenhower
ican labor force.
to
recognize
that
an
eco-
nomic program based on the absolute necessity for full employment
and
the
pacity
tial.”
utilization
of
our
of the
democracy
great
is
ca-
essen-
The CIO said it was concerned
because Eisenhower made no reference to insuring full employment; to improving the minimum
wage law; to a broad civil rights
program;
to any
need
for
stand-
by controls; to the need of a comprehensive
public housing
program; to a public works program
as a bulwark against recession;
Eisenhower’s
CIO,
“like
reveals
look
the
message,
the
Inaugural
a division
the
the
out-
Employment
allies
in
value, especially for male
non-institutional
population
Status
comprehension:
Number
women
of
Per cent
ofall
persons
110,198,000
57,990,000
52.6%
63,646,000
20,428,000
32.1
62,228,000
19,824,000
31.9
6,774,000
1,286,000
19.0
In non-agricultural industries
55,454,000
18,538,000
33.4
Unemployed
1,418,000
604,000
42.6
Almost one-third of the working population of America comes from the fair sex. This
makes more imperative than ever the CIO policy of equal pay for equal work. This underscores the meaningfulness of state minimum wage and hour laws, safety, health and
other protective female legislation.
It looks like women are here to stay.
Total, 14 years and over
In labor force
Address,
of President Eisenhower and
Republican
Party
and
their
Dixiecrat
statistics should be of interest and
Givilian
pro4 in
said
between
Some
Congress.”
The CIO statement concluded
that “We reaffirm what we have
often said, that we can have both
liberty and
security in America.
We
know
that President
Eisenhower joins with us in this belief.
We call upon him to express these
beliefs in a practical program of
constructive
economic and social
policies.”
ail, BRE
come
in Industry
Mink Coats...
A Dime a Dozen
=
ie
will
“Tl bet if I was hurrying to a Chamber of Commerce meeting instead of
a Union meeting, you'd be clearing a
path for me!”
UAW
Wins Two
WAYNESBORO,
Pennsylvania—
The UAW won a run-off election
at the Frick Company on January
25. The score:
IAW ClO i re eeeanc 27
ENG TO mOM se. Gt
lek
necks 175
Earlier in the month, an AFL
union
was
eliminated
when
the
UAW-CIO was given 160 votes to
its 61. In the first election, there
were 222 votes for no union.
In the final election, the UAW-
CIO
attracted
both of
election.
its
votes
opponents
were
away
of
the
from
first
he
PHILADELPHIA,
Pennsylvania
—A one-sided NLRB election was
won by the UAW-CIO at the E. G.
Ellis Company
plant.
One
hundred and fifty-five workers voted
for the
UAW-CIO;
five for no
union.
@
short
mink
jacket...
Mrs. John Foster Dulles, wife of
the Secretary of State-designate,
wore a mink coat. Mrs. Charles
E. Wilson,
wife
of the Secretary
of Defense-designate,
also
wore mink. ... Most of the women in the (diplomatic) corps, as
well as many in the crowd, were
warmly garbed in either mink or
Persian lamb.”
CIO General Counsel
To Retain Position
WASHINGTON, D. C.—CIO General Counsel Arthur J. Goldberg
will continue in that capacity, according to a recent announcement
by CIO President Walter P. Reuther, but will be relieved of the
heavy burden of staff and administrative work which he has handied in the past. The change was
requested
by
Mr.
(ace
The much-maligned mink—a major campaign issue in 1952—made
a dramatic comeback in Washington
as Republican
officialdom
swarmed out for the inauguration
of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
as President of the United States.
“Mrs. Eisenhower ... wore a
mink coat ... Mrs. Clare Boothe
Luce, strikingly pretty ina...
mink jacket ... Mrs. Taft...
was Wearing a mink coat. Mrs.
Margaret Chase Smith, the Senate’s only woman member .. .
wore
Goldberg.
At the same time, Mr. Goldberg
announced that he is establishing
a law office in Washington outside
the CIO headquarters.
President Reuther
highly commended Mr. Goldberg for his past
services and advice, and expressed
pleasure
that the CIO
would still be available
sultation by the officers
of the CIO.
counsel
for conand staff
The Clerk of the Indiana State House of Representatives at Indianapolis is shown at the
left in the photo above explaining the operation of the electric voting mechanism to members of the State CIO Legislative conference held January 28. The conference was held
under the auspices of the State CIO Industrial Union Council, and is one of several to be
held during the current session of the legislature.
No 1952 Lynchings, Labor Spy
But Other Forms of Ban Asked
Mob Violence Rise
A
TUSKEGEE,
first such
was
year
without
Ala.
ever
(LPA)—The
recorded,
lynchings
1952
in the U. S.,
but there was a “resurgence
of mob
spirit” in other similar forms,
kegee Institute disclosed.
TusThe
school has been keeping records
since 1872, listing a peak of 231
known lynch killings in. 1892 and
an
average
of 60 a year
from_1913
to 1923.
“While
lynchings
seem
to be
steadily declining,” said. Tuskegee’s
president, F. D. Patterson, “other
similar forms of violence and lawlessness have not declined. Indeed,
there appears to be too many cases
of unnecessary brutality and killings by officers of the law of persons suspected or guilty of crimes,
and a resurgence of the mob spirit
as expressed in beatings, floggings,
incendiaries,
bombings
and
the
like.”
The report called attention especially to recent bombings, citing at
least 68 actual or attempted bombings with two deaths in the four
years from 1949 through 1952, with
49 against
Negroes,
10 against
whites and public institutions, eight
against Jewish synagogues, schools
and community
centers, and one
against a Catholic church.
Against Negroes, Dr. Patterson
noted, bombs have been used mainly “where
members
of the race
moved or attempted to move into
what were considered white neighborhoods,” but in a few instances
the victims have been Negro leaders “who were thought to be too
active in improving the status of
their people.”
Lincoln Re-elected
“Thanks loads for stopping—mind giving us a little push to get
It started?"
ay
It is hard for the ordinary male to appreciate the number of women workers in the
labor market or how definitely and how permanently they have become part of the Amer-
failed
to the foreign economic aid
gram in general and Point
particular,
February, 1953
Women
to mention in his State of the Union Message, and his ‘‘laissez
faire approach,”’ can bring ‘‘grave economic dislocations to our
country and its people,’’ the CIO believes.
The CIO Executive Board voiced
its hope that when Eisenhower recommends
specific
legislation
“he
WORKER
Sas ts
Page 8
Murray Lincoln, president of the
Ohio Farm Bureau Insurance Companies, was re-elected president of
the Cooperative League
of the
U.S. A., at a recent directors’ meeting in Chicago,
bill
to
outlaw
labor
spying—
an ancient
employer
method
of
fighting
unions—has
been
introduced
by
Senator
Murray
(D.,
Mont.)
with the support of Senators Douglas (D., Ill.), Humphrey
(D., Minn.), Lehman
(D., N. Y.),
and Morse (Ind., Ore.).
Murray, chairman of the Senate
Labor Committee in the last Congress, said that a subcommittee had
found “widespread evidence of labor espionage” and that the TaftHartley Act’s provisions for a ceaseand-desist order against the crime
aren’t strong enough to stop jit.
His measure provides maximum
penalties of two years in jail, a
$5,000 fine, or both.
“Just think, dear! We’H always have
a living reminder of your first three«
weeks vacation!”
The Spirit of Liberty
What then is the spirit of liberty? I cannot define it;
I can only tell you my own faith. The spirit of liberty is
the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of
liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of
other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit
which weighs their interests alongside its own without
bias; the spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded; the spirit of liberty is the
spirit of Him who, near two thousand years ago, taught
mankind that lesson it has never learned, but has never
quite forgotten; that there may be a kingdom where the
least shall be heard and considered side by side with the
greatest. And now in that spirit, that spirit of an America
which has never been, and which may never be; nay, which
never will be except as the conscience and courage of Americans create it; yet in the spirit of that America which lies
hidden in some form in the aspirations of us all; in the
spirit of that America for which our young men are at this
moment fighting and dying; in that spirit of liberty and of
America I ask you to rise and with me pledge our faith in
the glorious destiny of our beloved country.
—/(Judge
delivered
1944.)
Learned Hand in an address
on “I Am An American Day,”
eee
Page Dd
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
February, 1933
epee
The TVA Story Has Many
kwh during the .year, compare ‘ with the
national average of 2,091 kwh, A ie average
cost per kwh for residential service was 1.35
cents—less than half the national average of
Opponents of the Tennessee Valley Authority continually protest that private utili-
ties, given the advantage of TVA’s tax-exemptions and lower interest rates, could °
a better job of producing electricity th
fit
the river-valley agency has done. The
is hardly worth arguing. And as the 1953
report of. the TVA shows, the argument over
power ignores the real function of TVA.
Anyone familiar with power production
2.78 cents. Twenty thousand new farm customers were added, so that seven out of
eight farms now receive electricity, com-
pared with one out of 28 that received electricity in 1933. Total farm use in the region
was one billion kwh, more than 100 times the
farm consumption of 1933,
These facts help tell the real accomplishments of TVA, as do the booming industries,
the atomic-energy plants and aluminum factories. But they tell only part of the story.
Fifty state, county and municipal parks
knows that TVA has no magic formula for
making electricity. It uses the same ma-
chines, the same techniques and the same
manpower as do private utilities to produce
electricity. It transmits power over the same
UAW-CIO President Reuther was ‘‘fall guy’’ at
uary 30 luncheon of the Circus Saints and Sinners
York. He is being presented above with a giant
plug’’ by Harold Hoffman, former Governor of New
—
4
UAW Jointly
Sponsors FEPC
Lansing Meet
ov similar facilities. If anything, it may cost
TVA slightly more to produce its power,
since much of it is generated at relativelyexpensive hydro plants. Cost of these would
not be justifiable were it not that the dams
are used also for flood-contro? and the improvement of river navigation.
3ut the important fact is that TVA came
into an impoverished area and made an investment in power that private utilities could
not or would not make. Whether or not the
private utilities could have done the job better, the fact is that they hadn’t done it. TVA
supplied. the tremendous need for electricity,
gambling that its effect on valley economy
would justify the investment. Time has
proved the venture sound.
The full, dramatie impact of TVA is not
revealed by the cotd statistics of its annual
report. The comment that ‘‘since 1929 the
valley has shifted from a predominantly
agricultural to an Im pOMAnt and rapidly ex-panding industrial region,’’ only hints at the
story of changed lives, of better incomes, better schools, cleaner towns, healthier business
and happier living that followed TVA into
the valley. For power-production is not the
sole function of TVA.
It is, of course, an important function. Val-
the Janin New~
‘‘spark
Jersey.
’
The UAW-CIO is joining with the
National Association for the Advancement
of Colored
Methodist
can
Episcopal
Committee
Michigan
Rights
and
Afri-
Church,
on
groups
other
Civil
in
spon-
mobilization
a Michigan
soring
People,
con-
ferefice to be held at the Olds Hotel,
Lansing,
February
19 at 9:00
to press for the passage
gan
of a Michi-
Employment
Fair
a. m.
Practices
law.
Registration
ence
is
fee
$1.00,
(optional)
for
dinner
and
the
be
$3.50.
will
Confer-
the
fee
Owing
to
the limited space of the Olds Hotel, the UAW-CIO
fair Practices
Department announces that tickets
will be distributed to early registrants,
members
Guild
—
the
CIO
of
were
new
Mass.
law
Sumner
Whittier
and
Newspaper
amused
proposed
by
to the
at
a
Governor
state
The
impose
stiff fines and jail sentences
anyone
reporter
ment
would
local
cording
which
newS
to
been
poli¢ée
past
Guild
at
unpleasant
after-taste”
Chesterfield
cigarette
ads
have
left
a bad
Trade
after-taste, with the Federal
Commission.
So bad, in fact, that the FTC
has just begun its second complaint
action against Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company.
All ,of
the
advertising
claims
whether
the
and
plaint,
to state
six
years,
officers,
acthere
least 50 cases- in
have pushed around
photographers
- » No
smoking
CIO
applied
the
milder...
the
Amuse-
police.
During
have’
be
would
newspaper
because
wondered
“always
who
were
try-
ing to ‘take pictures of visiting
celebrities or state legislators sleeping on the job.
in
fact,
calls
them
“false,
misleading and deceptive.”
The
FTC
has another
action
pending against Liggett & Myers,
charging some
of its earlier ads
verged too much on the medical.
The
makers
of
Camels,
Old
Golds and Philip Morris also figure
in other
FTC
complaints against
high-wide-and-handsome
cigarette
ads.
20
use
today
to
lakes,
at the
end
of 1951.
Com-
mercial businesses along the lakes, independently operated, took in $4,350,000 in 1951,
Over 750 chemical engineers, chemists and
other technicians visited TVA laboratories
and plants during the past year for technical assistance. Co-ops and private dealers
sold 353,600 tons of TVA fertilizers. A total
of 2,451 farms in 21 states received TVA
fertilizers for farm test-demonstrations.
Thousands of farmers received advice and
assistance in their forestry programs, as part
of the reforestation program. Land-owners
planted 15,000,000 seedlings from TVA nurseries, bringing the total used for reforestation and erosion control to 236,000,000.
For TVA is more than a power plant.
Through its programs aimed at preventing
floods, improving navigation, providing recreational opportunities and. tourist-buildmg
facilities, controlling erosion, conserving the
soil, improving farm techniques, revitalizing
town life and rebuilding forests, it has become a model for area development throughout the world. As an agency, part of and
responsive to the people of its region, it
has become accepted in Congress as an essential part of America, and a pattern for
the control and development of other river
valleys.
As the Republicans, historically less friendly to the TVA concept, move into power in
Washington, the future of TVA becomes uncertain. It has only its record for defense.
But that record should be defense enough.
—from
the Louisville
Courier-Journal.
lect
Republican
the
wives
things
Eisenhow-
outlined
Hobby
er—Mrs.
high-ranking
President
of
appointees
the
se-
Cdbinet
of the
other
and
1,500
of
women—including
of most
members
as
Administrator.
audience
an
Before
GOP is
some
ggoing
to
of
do
legislation.
social
For
ingly
New
Star.)
example;
declared
Mrs.
Hobby
that
some
Deal-Fair
Deal
social
programs
“may
have
been
sweepof
the
welfare
needed
at the time but are now obsolescent.” The GOP, she said, is trying
to figure out “what
to save, what
what, to change
and
modify
to
radically.”
The new FSA chief also ayowed|
that, while it would be unfair
“to
junk at once all that came
to us
from
tion,”
i
the
it
preceding
would
be
“as
Administra-
unfair
to
the
nation to make permanent all past
legislation whieh was intended for
emergency
Union.”
$31,333,000
TVA
ladies
Washington
Security
Federal
the
the
to
returned
has
Washington
the Painter's
was
along
some of them will spill the beans
almost every time, Take the case of Oveta Culp Hobby, the
wartime WAC director and anti-labor Houston publisher who
it
Leave
Mrs. Hobby didn’t spell it out,
but she made plain the ax is ahout
to swing.
(Her views.~were aired
way back in the social pages of the
you've got a card from
operation
Oveta Steps in Where
GOP Fears to Tread
to
“Maybe
in
where none existed 20 years ago. The value
of recreation equipment and improvements
much
as
times
today
electricity as they did in 1933. Some idea of
the impact of plentiful electricity on the
valley can be gained by these facts, as outlined imthe 1953 report:
The 50 cooperative and 96 municipal distributors of TVA power sold nearly nine
billion kwh to 1,226,000 customers during
the year for $103,000,000. Almost 60,000 new
customers were added. The average residential consumer in the TVA area used 3,907
Chesterfield Ads
Arouse FTC's Ire
big
customers
ley
that Chesterfields are milder, cooler, will calm the nerves and leave
no unpleasant
after-taste
just
aren’t so, the FTC says. Its com-
a
photographer.
caused
newsmen
law
assaulting
or
was
statute
legis-
lature,
on
proposed
‘Always Milder’
better tasting . . . cooler
Officers
highly
me!” |
your Union will so inform
Those
Proposed Law Gets
ClO Guild Laugh
BOSTON,
“When you're worth a raise, Potter,
are
action,”
At campaign times, Republicans
don't mention the words, but Mrs,
Hobby also said the GOP
is engaged in what she called thought-
Sharp Curb on
Welfare
The
Urged
business-supported
Foundation
last
month
with
proposals
to
fare
grants
and
turn
such
service
Tax
came
out
federal
wel-
legislation
and
cut
over
the
to
states.
The
of
tax
outfit
various
whom
state
were
present
a
survey
all
officials,
in-favor
U.
Powers
quoted
of taking
of
over
S. functions.
of
the
Agency
to
set
welfare
programs
Federal
“floors”
Security
under.
using
state
U, S. funds
would be restricted, for example.
Another
proposal
was
to extend
relative
responsibility
are
used
for
public
other
to
welfare
planning
tle
and
sitting
disqualify
assistance,
ful
Mrs.
laws
which
applicants
old
age
payments,
on
where
where
it
will
will
whack.
Hobby
as
FSA
chief
in
Elsenhower
on
whit-
now
is
Cabinet
There have been reports
to strip the Labor De-
partment
of
functions
and
some
perhaps
even
agency Into a
Department,
shift
of
its
them
union employees, boss—Your busi-+
ness has zoomed since you quit intere
fering!”
"Right to Work’
Bills Presented
measures, @uthored by Assemblyman Harold K,
Levering, have been introduced in
the California Le gislature,
Two
anti-labor
Levering,
“loyalty
who
oath’
wrote
remaining
to
FSA,
transforming
that
Health and Welfare
said
A
the
bills
nied
“right
that
no
employment
bership
or
adopted
two
to
last
the
year,
were:
so-called
providing
the
amendments
state constitution
it
meetings,
of moves
and
of haviag
advantage
ene
“That’s
to
one
work”
shall
because
of
non-membership
bill
be
de-
memin
@
unton,
Another
“right
to work”
measure
providing
college
students
working during their school careers
Shall
union,
not
be
required
to
join
a
UNITED AUTOMOBILE
McCarran Smears
WORKER
“Paper Version”
Religious Leaders
the
report
made
by
Commission .. . is itself a
the
graphic illustration of what is
Act,
the McCarran
with”
wrong
S.
U.
former
Perlman,
declared
Solicitor General, in reply to McCarran’s blast. “The Senator cannot make a reasoned defense of an
act which embodies so much discrimination and prejudice. So he
ignores
founded
against
him.”
the facts and makes unsmears
and
insinuations
those who
disagree with
“RACIST”
The
leased
ACT
Commission’s
report,
reJanuary 1 after months of
study, had described the new measure
as promoting
a “racist”
theory
of “superior” and “inferior” peoples and as making “second-class
citizens” of naturalized Americans
by applying against them special
rules that do not affect the nativeborn. It called the act “an arrogant,
brazen instrument,” full of racial,
religious and national diiscrimination.
Organized
labor
testified
egainst the legislation,
McCarran had replied that the
Commission’s report was “a re-
hash
of
roted by
clique.”
the
the
line
that
radical,
was
par-
left-wing
Perlman pointed out that, during
the Commission's hearings on the
act, 634 oraland written statements
were received, of which 128 con-
demned the McCarran Act in its
entirety and 366 more advocated
important
revisions
to overcome
serious shortcomings
of elements
of hatred in it. Only 87 statements
favored the act—and of these, 50
were an identical form letter.
ate committee
TRUMAN CONGRATULATIONS
In receiving the Commission’s re-
port, President Truman congratulated the group for its “impartial,
nonpartisan and thorough report,”
and, without mentioning McCarran
by name, he described the “‘politically
motivated
attacks”
on
the
report
and
on
the
Commission
members as “unwarranted and rep-
rehensible.”
He described McCarran’s behavior as resorting “to personal vituperation and slander.”
The Commission
sent copies of
the 2089-page report to every member of the 83rd Congress.
Representative William A. Batrett (D.,
Pa.) introduced in the House on
opening day a measure to repeal
the McCarran Act and restore the
previous status quo.
Representative Jacob Javits (R., N. Y.) offered
a@ resolution to rewrite the law,
LEADERS
LISTED
Among Catholic leaders smeared
by McCarran as “leftist,” Perlman
listed Cardinals Mooney of Detroit
and McIntyre of Los Angeles, Archbishop Cushing of Boston, Bishop
McVinney of Providence, six monsigneurs,
five
priests
and
four
prominent laymen.
Among the Protestants were lead-
give
tion
this
and
of the
measure
favorable
early
Senate
considera-
action:?
Swedes Say Labor
Against U. S. Women
Locals Urged
ers of the National
Council
of
Churches of Christ, Dean Francis
B. Sayre of the Washington Cathedral and leaders of the Presbyterian, Brethren, Serbian-American
Orthodox, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist and other churches.
Among the Jewish leaders were
In arecent Administrative Letter,
Rabbi Simon G. Kramer of New
dated January 27,. 1953, UAW-CIO
York, President of the Synagogue
| Secretary-Treasurer
Emil
Mazey
Council of America and of the Naemphasized the importance of all
tional Community Relations Council; Irving Engel and Lester Gut- local unions complying with Taftterman
of the American Jewish Hartley Act requirements regardCommittee and the Anti-Defama- ing the NLRB filing of non-Comtion League of B’nai B’rith; Rabbis
munist affidavits and “Distribution
Nadich of Boston, Silver of Cleveland, Adler of Detroit, Fine of San of Financial Data Certificates.”
Francisco and Plaut of St. Paul
The Mazey letter stressed the
and Judge Louis E. Levinthal of fact that the deadline for filing
the Hebrew Sheltering and Immifinancial data is March
1, 1953,
grant Aid Society and the United while the deadline for the nonService for New Americans at Phil- Communist affidavits is within one
adelphia,
’
year of the’ previous filing date.
To Beat March
T-H Deadline
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—A Swedish trade union team which visited
the U. S. to study American labor
organizations
and
their
methods
praised almost every aspect of U,
S.
unionism
except
its
attitude
toward
women.
The Swedes say
American unions seem not to trust
the ladies either in union positions
or in Congress.
Far fewer women, proportionately, hold office in American unions,
the
Swedish
visitors
found,
and
American unions seem not to trust
women
for government
positions.
For
example,
there
have
never
been a dozen women in Congress
at the same time, but in Sweden
there are six women
among
the
150 members
of the upper house
of Parliament
and 27 women
jn
the lower house.
American unionists are almost as
bad as the French in their belief
that a woman’s
place is in the
home, the Swedes concluded.
Second Annual CIO - UAW Bowling Tourney
BOWLING
~
will
as
Pour hs hae
__WENISH YOU THE RIBI
BEST
OF
LUCK’
ESSS So BEL AR
Bowlers participating on February 7, roll in initial matches at Key Lanes.
Upper left: James McNeal, Local 226, Harvester, Indianapolis. Upper right:
Myrl Knote, Local 292, Deleo Radio, Kokomo.
Lower left: Regina Lohrke,
Local 369, Bundy Tubing, Detroit, and lower right, August Breckel, Local
767, Stubmitz-Green, Adrian, Mich.
Center, left to right: Jay Bachelor,
owner of Key Lanes, Wm, Belanger, tourney director, and UAW Region 3
Director Raymond H. Berndt, inspect trophies and score sheets just before
the start of the tournament, Ken Henderson, director of recreation for Regions 3, 4 and 10, represented UAW Recreational Department Director Olga
Madar at the opening ceremonies. The tournament continues through February and ends on March 1,
raze
on
eomment
intemperate @————_——_—__
las Dialer lle
McCarran’s
Senator Lehman
Calls For FDR
Jan. 30 Holiday
WASHINGTON,
D. C.—Senator
Herbert H. Lehman, Democrat of
New York, introduced a joint resolution on January 29, 1953, calling
for the annual observation of \January 30, birthday anniversary of
Franklin
Delano
Roosevelt, as a
legal public holiday in commemoration of the late great and beloved President.
:
In his remarks, Senator Lehman
said in part:
“I might hope that
‘members of the Senate, irrespective of party, will join in paying.
this richly deserved tribute to this
historic man who already hag become in the view of history and
in the eyes of all mankind
the
greatest single figure of this generation. I hope that the appropri-
WASHINGTON (LPA)—Twenty Catholic, 16 Protestant and
mine Jewish leaders smeared by Senator Pat McCarran (D.,
Ney.) for criticizing his McCarran-Walter Immigration Act were
listed January 4 by Philip B. Perlman, chairman of the President’s Commission on Immigration and Naturalization.
“Senator
February, 1953:
ite
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UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKER
Page 11
Y
UAW-CIO Directors in Ohio are pictured above with the newly-elected President of the
State CIO Council. From left, Ray Ross, Director of Region 2A, Region 2B Director Charles
Ballard,
State CIO
President James
"Clean Up or Get Out,’
AFL Tells Longshoremen
\Charlie Ervin,
Labor Press Dean,
Is Dead at 87
ClO Board Condemns
Soviet Anti-Semitism
WASHINGTON—The CIO Executive Board on February 5
denounced the ‘‘reyival of flagrant anti-Semitism in the Soviet
Union and the satellite world’’ and urged the State Department
to protest formally against per secution of Jews in Iron Curtain
&
countries.
policy
“No
government
of
any
totalitarian
ever comes as a com-
suffered
the
and
been
Communist
persecuted
by
regimes,
“Because
of the Iron
Curtain
plete surprise however
brutal it | censorship around the Soviet world,
may be, however it may reverse a we
cannot
yet
tell
what
inner
previous
policy,”
the
Board
de- | struggles, what
decisions, what
clared.
of
“In
the
years
Soviet
Union
leaders | Political
the
boasted | about
have
against
fight
alleged
of their
past,
discrimination,
“But
in
mocracy
the
no
rights
and
other
full
The
of
of
acceptance
is safe
programs
torture.
the
absence
of the common
minority
and
—
the
from
deof
people,
policies
oppression
this
racial |tism in
Eastern
and
Jews, the Catholics,
Protestants
and
people
of
religious
faiths
have
all
“We
conflicts,
new
wave
to
these
outrageous
our
of
brought
anti-Semi-
Communist-dominated
Europe.
call upon free people every-
where
hope
have
that
cries
raise
their
Soviet
and
end
voices
policies
leaders
against
in
will
the
heed
this anti-Semitic
program before it endangers the
lives of the millions of Jews in the
Soviet Union
and
the satellite
nations.”
Charles W. Ervin, dean of
American labor journalists, died
February 5 at his home in
Bronxville, New York. He was
87,
Ervin
was
viser
of the
since
1924
the
CIO
and
union’s
vance,
public
official
since
1944.
ber of the CIO
When
word
Ervin’s
death,
Board
in
adopted
silent
was
The
was
of
Ad-
a mem-
Newspaper Guild.
was
received
of
the
CIO
at
for
Executive
Washington
resolution
tribute
Ervin
He
session
a
editor
organ,
and
stood
in
a minute,
eulogized
by
ACWA
President Jacob S. Potofsky, CIO
President Walter P, Reuther, CIO}
Executive Vice-President Allan S.
Haywood, and Executive Vice-President William Pollack of the Textile Workers.
“During his more than four score
years, Charlie Ervin gave to the
workers of America his great journalistic
tality,
sense,”
talents,
and
the
his
his
warm
Board
tremendous
yvi-
humanitarian
resolution
said in a iwo-naae| OETIKE Saves Bulls
winter snocting,
The
C
ad-| tary
Workers
associate
MIAMI BEACH, Florida — Get rid of ‘‘all racketeering,
crime, corruption and other irregular activities’’ or get out, the
AFL Executive Council told the International Longshoremen’s
©
Association February 3.
il,
statement
relations
Clothing
Griffin, and Region 2 Director Patrick J. O’Malley.
said.
at its
regul
Waitirotoe
the
TU A.
Anditts
MEXICO CITY (LPA)—The six
officers! bulls were well fed and the bravest
“exem-
to protect its members from
by
ploitation and oppression
thugs
y
as
well
as
ployers
or defended
be justified
No
grounds of autonomy.
of
has
AFL
the
°
to ILA
Secrethe
Hasselgren
that
handed
Harry
1id- |
right
any
cannot
the
on
affiliate
to
ex-
to be
found,
cluded
er,
but
the
the
three
country’s
there
February
wages
no
in-
perform-
bullfights
50,000-seat
Mexico. Members
Banderilleros and
for
star
were
1 in the
matadors
Plaza
of the Union of
Picadors struck
due
them
and
refused
fights
were
cancelled.
to
pect to remain an affiliate ‘on the
appear in Mexico’s top arena.
autonof organizational
grounds
Five weeks hefore, the bulls
|
bring
to
is
...
omy’ if its conduct
gathered for a Sunday corrida—as
into disre-|
movement
the entire
a bullfighting session
is called—
pute.
were Truled by the government to
“The Executive Council will ex- be underweight and thus unable to
pect a report from you, advising give the spectators a good show
the
that
been
have
with on or
it said.
above
recommendations| and
and will be complied
before April 30, 1953,”
President
AFL
action
said
the
will
depend
dented” within the
the ILA
whether
on
George
was
Meany
“unprece-
AFL and that
is suspended
its
answer
by
April 30. He said the statement
covered general AFL policy but
applied specifieally to the ILA.
In a speech before the National
CIO}
Washington,
in
Club
Press
President Walter P. Reuther called
the
AFL’s
In discussing
Reuther said:
action
“encouraging.”
possible
labor
unity,
nally,
the
when
adequate
animals
Fi-
were
obtained, the picadors and banderilleros demanded their pay of 500,000 pesos, about $6,000, contending
they
had
been
ready
to appear
and it was not their fault that the
bulls were too scrawny. The fights’
promoter insisted that he was not
to blame for the cancellations.
An end to the season appeared
likely with
the
promoter
paying
off the matadors under contract to
him.
Matadors,
elaborately
costumed
and swinging. their capes,
get
star
top
pay
baseball
and
the
and
fame
football
accorded
players
in the United States.
But it’s the
banderilleros and picadors who do
worried
very
been
have
“We
work
and
take
great
about the fact that certain unions | the heavy
risks in preparing the bull for the
in the American Federation of Lamatador’s final swordplay.
of questionable
people
bor have
character, known racketeers in position of power and influence. We} problem. We met it and we kicked
out of the CIO nine unions. We
are
very
encouraged
that
the
said to the membership
of those
American
Federation
of
Labor’s
Executive
Council
has
taken
the
unions,
put your
house
in order,
and when they didn’t because the
first step
because
I can
say
to
Communists controlled the machinthem and to the people in the CIO
and to the public generally that in| ery, we expelled those unions from
the
HONORED BY FORD MEMBERS—Juanita
bowling ball and bag from Shelton Tappes (acting for UAW Ford Director Ken Bannon),
was so honored by fellow workers in District 4 of the Dearborn Assembly plant, fellow
bowlers from UAW-CIO Local 600, and Ken Bannon, Director of the National Ford Department, The award to Sister Cunningham was a small token of appreciation for her leadership as ‘‘Pioneer Acting Committeewoman’’ of the Dearborn Assembly Unit, and her
efforts toward democratic bowling in Local 600 and throughout the UAW-CIO,
CIO
we
met
the CIO.”
the Communist!
“Aren't they carrying this victory a little too far... ns
UNITED
Speaking
Of "GOP
Cloth
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
February, 1953
Coats’...
- as Vice President Nixon did during his famous campaign telecast
last fall, the following fashion note was revealed in the Washington
Evening Star’s society page report on President Eisenhower’s message
to Congress.
laa tna
Society News
(LPA)
— The
protection
of
Fortune
Magazine,
the $1.25 @
copy organ for big business, had
the following to say about “Repub«
lican corruption”
in its January
issue:
consumers
against impure, adulterated, contaminated and misbranded foods
and drugs has received two stunning blows.
The Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1©
that manufacturers could bar federal inspectors from their plants,
and Republican and Dixiecrat members of the House Commerce Committee indicated they were in no
mood to amend the Food and Drug
Act to correct the weaknesses that
the Supreme Court found
in it.
Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin and CIO President
Walter P. Reuther are shown at their meeting in Washington last month where they discussed CIO representation in
the Labor Department.
The ruling was in the case of
Ira D. Cardiff, president of the
Washington Dehydrated Food Co.
of Yakima County, Washington.,
who in 1950 refused permission
te two FDA inspectors to enter
his plant,
although
there
was
WASHINGTON
197, “Sip SEES Oess Ger Samuirs
Cardiff was
fined
$300,
but
a
federal circuit court overturned the
verdict. The FDA appealed to the
Supreme
arguing
Court,
that,
even
though the law required FDA inspectors to ask permission.to enter
the plant the first time, they were
entitled to enter anyway if such
permission
were
not
granted
in
a
reasonable time. Otherwise, it said,
it would leave to a criminal the
decision whether a law should be
invoked against him. The law provides fines up to $1,000 and/or a
year in jail for refusing to allow
an inspector to enter.
Speaking
ity,
for the
Justice
Court
William
held
that
“vague.”
the
law
O.
majortoo
they
conceal
either
in
notices
of
determining what persons are included or what acts are prohibited.
We cannot sanction taking a man
by the heels for refusing to grant
the permission which this act on
its face apparently gave him the
right to withhold.”
Justice Harold
H. Burton
dissented without an opinion.
FDA
was jolted.
Some
80 per
cent of all cases of food and drug
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Given
to
Scouts
KENOSHA, Wisconsin (LPA) —
The membership of Local 72, UA‘W-
CIO, has voted to buy and furnish
a truck for the Kenosha Boy Scout
safety squad.
The
truck
will be
dedicated’to the memory of Philip
Murray, late Pfesident of the CIO.
Jack
Milward,
Local
President,
estimated
it would
take
four
months
to
before
the
over to the
polution,
“The vice of vagueness in criminal statutes,’’ he said, “is the
treachery
“Is that a promise, Senator; or will
you really do something about it?”
Douglas
was
failed
complete
arrangements
gift could
Boy Scouts.
it said,
are
be
turned
discovered
to
(LPA)
change
when
the
vened,
the
the
83rd
— Having
Senate
rules
Congress
Democrats
con-
tried
anew
February 4 to shut off filibusters
which have blocked all civil rights
legislation.
Sen. Herbert
Y.)
introduced
would
Senators
“national
and
bate
H. Lehman (D., N.
‘a proposal which
permit
a
to
end
emergency
simple
on
two-thirds
voting
other
majority
issues.
of
the
debate
on
legislation”
to
“There
will
be
so—me
maybe
quite a lot. The Republicans have
never run the Big Government before.
Furthermore—let’s face it—
the fact that a great many middlesection bureaucrats
of the News
Fair Deal era regarded the businessmen
as an enemy
of the
people
made
end
Under
de-
pres-
ent rules it takes the vote of 64
Senators to shut off debate. And on
a motion to change the rules, there
is no limit to debate.
Joining
in
the
proposal
were
Senators Douglas
(Ill.), Hennings
(Mo.),
Humphrey
(Minn.),
Kilgore
(W. Va.), Neely (W.Va.), Pastore
(R.1.), and Magnuson
(Wash.)
Said Lehman:
“I am interested
in providing a reasonable and effective method by which the basic
right of the Senate to vote and
the basic right of the Senate to
debate can be protected. I believe
the
Senate
must
have
effective
rules which protect not only the
majority’s right to full and free
debate, but also protect the majority in its right to vote on matters
which affect the welfare of our
country and the world.”
—
them
(among
other
things) less susceptible to money
corruption than some of their replacements probably will be.
“Actually,
ingly
little
Lehman Leads New Move
: Against Filibusters
reason to believe that he was
shipping dehydrated apples containing quantities of insecticide
“deleterious to the health of the
consumer.”
a
Business Organ
Sees Increase
In Corruption
US. Right to Inspect
Dirty Food Plants
WASHINGTON
ee
Mrs. Charles E. Wilson, wife of
the Defense Secretary, was in the
second row and aiter SUES
Ss
Worker that the Union fights for the individual, we
the hundreds of checks won through representation of
won by the UAW for Sister Hester G. Hiar, a worker
Colorado. She was unjustly discharged, and the back
Truman—per
federal
there was surpriscorruption
under
billion
spending,
stench was
campaign,
but
dollars
of
a
great
be
badly
raised about it in the
and
the
Republican
Administration
could
hurt
if it considered
that
its
mandate on this issue was merely a mandate
to rummage
through
the files and turn up
more peccadiloes of the Truman
Administration.
“When
the first Republican
is
caught with his hand in the till,
the Republican
Administration
should move so fast and hard and
loud that the Democrats are left
with their mouths hanging open.”
Favor
UAW
MUSKEGON, Michigan—Production and maintenance workers at
the Centrifugal Foundry Company
voted 55 to 6 in favor of the UAWCIO in a collective bargaining election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB),
—
in
plant checks.
Now, ‘‘protection
from
the activities of the shady
fringe (of manufacturers) will be
substantially reduced.”
It planned
to ask the new Congress to revise
the law, passed in 1938, so as to
clear up the confusion and again
protect the consumer,
FDA also conducts spot checks
of merchandise in shipment, but it
finds this method less satisfactory
than factory inspections. “You can’t
tell bug fat from
butterfat in a
package of cheese,” said one official.
change
Form
labels
to 2457
7, Ind.
Intense interest is shown in the keys to the 1953 Chevrolet in the background which
was one of the automobiles given away in the 1952 Political Action Fund Drive in Regions 1, 1A, and 1B, Taking part in the presentation in front of Solidarity House are
Roy L. Reuther, co-ordinator of the UAW-CIO
Parker, the winner and member of Loca] 38;
Political Action Department; Alexander
William McAulay, director of Region 1B,
who made the presentation; Art Wood, financial secretary of Local 38; and John L. Young,
president of Local 38,
wr a
Just to remind readers of the Auto
like to print reproductions of a few of
single workers. The above check was
at the Air Cleaner Service in Denver,
pay check was won in arbitration.
pad Over her suit.
ee
her hat and she wore a brown fur ;
nea
Richard Nixon, pretty wife
Vice President, sat alone
the aisle from Mrs. EisenHer blouse was white like
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Mrs.
of the
across
hower.
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