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VOL.
17,
NO.
9
Entered as 2nd Class Matter, Indianapolis, Indiana
1953
SEPTEMBER,
Page Three
;
Board Studying New Plan
To Cope with Unemployment
Page Thies
EES 4
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Photo,
COSTLIEST FIRE in Michigan’s history is this $50 million | the structure where a third of all the automatic transmissions
conflagration at the General Motors plant in Livonia, Michigan. | used in the auto industry were produced. (See story and picFlames, fed by thousands of gallons of oil, completely destroyed | tures on page seven; unemployment story on page three.)
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UNITED
Page 2
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
September,
1953”
UAW and IAM Preparing Joint Strategy
For Fall Aircraft Contract Negotiations
WASHINGTON — Organized labor’s efforts to
bring security and equity to the wage levels of aircraft workers passed a significant milestone here late
last month as top officials of the UAW-CIO and the
IAM-AFL. met to put into operation the “mutual assistance” provisions of the recently-signed agreement
between the two unions.
With many major aircraft negotiations scheduled for this
fall, a major portion of the meeting was devoted to establishing
the procedures whereby the two unions ean best pool their collective bargaining efforts.
~ The UAW-IAM agreément was signed last June, and it calls
for coordinating collective bargaining relationships on the broadest possible basis. Since 95 per cent of the nation’s aircraft
workers are represented by the two unions, this meeting is considered to be the beginning of one of the most significant collective bargaining developments in the history of organized aireraft
labor.
MEMBERS of the independent union which has represented workers at the Detroit
Gasket and Manufacturing Company since 1936 this year bumped into the stark fact of
industrial life—that an unaffiliated union lacks bargaining power. They corrected that
last month by voting 588 to 84 for the UAW-CIO in an NLRB election. Shown at the first
meeting after the vote are, seated, 1. to r—Committeeman
A. L. Zwerdling, and the local’s president, secretary and
Andy
Szur
Anderson
and
Tony
and
Larry
Connole,
men and Al Burr,
Rairigh.
Welkenback.
Committeemen
Chief Steward
Homer
Catherine Thompson, Attorney
vice-president, Pete Sweeney,
Standing—International
Mary
Adams
Mitchell,
and
Katherine
International
Representatives
Millie
Representative
Vince
Bognar,
Herman
Ka-
4 FE Locals in Revolt:
Plan to Swing to UAW
QUAD
- CITIES,
Illinois—The
chain
reaction
of?
workers in revolt against their political dictators is
throbbing through this community as it did through
East Berlin.
Led by John T. Watkins, former district director under
the old FE-ClO, a grass-roots uprising -against the Red-dominated United Electrical Workers is sweeping through farm
©
equipment workers here.
sential action took less than three
With assurances of automony
weeks, The first open break with
and democracy as guaranteed
UE
came
August
2 when
the
by the UAW-CIO Constitution
executive board
of Local 106
unanimously
voted to give the
from UAW: Region 4 Director
boot to UE and to join with their
Pat Greathouse, the executive
brothers in the agricultural imMo(East
104
Local
of
boards
plement industry.
line Harvester Works), Local
Withi
106 (Skilled Trades, East Moline Harvester), Local 148
(John Deere Planter Works)
and Local 109 (Farmall Works,
Rock Island) have set up machinery to disaffiliate with UE
and join the UAW-CIO.
complaints
Oné& of the many
lodged against UE by the revolting
locals is that the United Electrical
Workers forced acceptance of inferior contracts much to the delight of Harvester and competing
corporations.
MEMBERSHIP
Petitions for
BACKS ACTION
NLRB elections in
Locals 104 and 106 already have
been filed. The membership of both
joining
approved
overwhelmingly
the UAW in referendum votes. The
Local 106 vote ran 20 to 1 in favor
of the UAW.
Local 148’s members voted 3
to 1 to disaffiliate, and at another
balloted enthusiasticalmeeting
ly to join the UAW. Local 109’s
vote to disaffiliate ran 9 to 1
against UE. Following a speech
from Greathouse late this month,
Local 109’s rank and file solidly
backed affiliating with the UAW.
UE’s
sole hope
of putting out
the fire fizzled when Circuit Judge
Leonard E. Telleen of Rock Island
County granted an injunction forbidding UE to remove the officers
of the four locals*6r to confiscate
their funds.
UNITY IN THE RANKS
The smouldering
dissension
against UE had been kept under
control
by
high
pressure
tactics,
members of the four locals indicated.
When
it flamed
forth,
it
Swept through the rank and file
like wildfire.
Months
oo ap
ren tee
let ad
in the
making,
SAP
the
es-
NITE OTERO
mendations
to
which endorsed
the membership
them.
In each instance, the members
stressed an awareness of the need
for unity in the struggle against
backward managements in the
farm implement field,
UE
ANTI-LABOR
UE
n
three weeks, all four executive boards had taken similar
action and presented their recom-
has poured
FIGHT
30 organizers
into
Quad-Cities in an effort to reverse
the tide. Seeking to capitalize on
the tense bargaining situation with
International Harvester,
it has
fought as Greathouse puts it, “by
spewing
forth
propaganda,
using
scab-run Quad Cities newspapers,
cutting deals with strikebreakers,
attempting to nuzzle closer to the
I-H Corporation.”
CIO Executive Board
Backs No-R aiding Pact
JOINT ACTION ON UNITED AIRCRAFT
Representing UAW-CIO at the meeting were Vice-President
John W. Livingston, director of the National Aircraft Department; Regional Directors C. V. O'Halloran, Russell Letner, and
Charles Kerrigan; Paul Russo, assistant director of the National
Aircralt Department, and Lawrence Gettlinger, administrative
assistant to President Reuther.
The IAM group consisted of General Vice-Presidents Roy M.
Brown, P. L. Siemiller, Jesse McGlon and Fred Coonley, and
Grand Lodge Representative Charles F. West.
Specific attention was paid to the coming negotiations
with the United Aircraft Corporation wherein both unions
have representation rights among the various plants of the
corporation, The four major divisions of the corporation are
Pratt and Whitney, Hartford, Southington, and North
Haven, Connecticut; Sikorsky, Bridgeport, Connecticut;
Chance Vought, Dallas, Texas, and Hamilton Standard Propellor, Windsor Lock, Connecticut.
“In previous years United Aircraft has endeavored to capitalize on the competition between the two unions in an effort
to resist collective bargaining advances that both unions have
been able to establish in other aircraft contracts,’’ stated VicePresident Livingston.
“This year both unions are determined to realize the gains
that characterize other of our aircraft contracts, and we’re going
to work together to do it,’’ Livingston added.
WORKING
OUT
DETAILS
NOW
Both groups met again in New York, September 3, to further develop*their plans for the United Aircraft negotiations,
Another meeting was to take place on the West Coast
September 10, to make similar plans with respect to major
aircraft negotiations in that area. Negotiations will take
place commencing in September and October in Douglas,
Lockheed, North American and Consolidated Vultee.
Following these meetings additional conferences will occur
for similar planning purposes in the South and Midwest.
In addition to bargaining and negotiation plans, the unions
are working jointly on programs to attract the few aircraft
workers who are unorganized as well as building to new high
levels the membership in plants already under contract.
UAW
WASHINGTON—At its regular meeting here last month, the
Members of Coordinating Committee
CIO Executive Board voted to recommend that the CIO Convention accept the recommendations of the Joint AFL-CIO Unity
Committee for a no-raiding agreement between the two federa-
tions.
The
Convention
will meet
November
16-20 in Cleveland.
The Joint Unity Committee, set up within the last year, took
as one of its first tasks the form ulation of the no-raiding agree-
ment. The AFL Executive®
Council has also voted to recommend its acceptance to the
AFL convention to be held this
month.
TO
AID
ALL
LABOR
The CIO Board statement said:
“We believe that raids between
unions endanger the welfare of the
workers as well as the public inter-
est.
Most
raids fail, creating
served
benefits
ATES
by
of
the
such
ENT
unions
extension
are
of
organization
SG
IEE AONE ae
ination
LETNER
of
raiding
between
unions
*A
BRIDGEPORT,
two-year
Connecticut — A
agreement
expiring
July
Committee.
authorize the officers of the Congress of Industrial Organizations to
execute, on behalf of the CIO, the
No-Raiding
Agreement
with
the
American Federation of Labor.”
A
E
joint committee
O'HALLORAN
AVCO Local Signs Two-Year Contract
UAW-CIO
at AVCO,
Local 1010.
The agreement provides a five-cent
wage increase and a four-cent wage
ing convention of the CIO, opening
in Cleveland, November 16, that it
and
LIVINGSTON
15,
“It recommends
to the forthcom-
the
half of six-man UAW-IAM
WITH NO RESERVATIONS
“The CIO Executive Board there-
fore fully accepts the recommendations of the Joint AFL-CIO Unity
best
A"
The UAW
affiliated with the CIO and AFL
would materially benefit the entire
nation by eliminating
a potent
source
of
industrial
unrest
and
conflict.
only
“The CIO believes that the interests of the millions of working men
and women
of America
who
are
into
The CIO believes that all unions,
whether affiliated with the CIO or
the AFL, would benefit if the energies devoted to raiding were instead devoted to the task of organizing those yet unorganized. The
CIO further believes that the elim-
a residue of unrest, dissatisfaction
and
disunity among
the workers
involved. Where raids are successful, they involve a drain of time
and money far disproportionate to
the number of employes involved;
they create unnecessary industrial
strain and conflict; and they do
nothing to add to the strength and
capabilities of the trade union
movement as a whole.
organized
collective bargaining to the other
millions of working men and women who
are as yet
unorganized.
1955,
with
a wage
reopener
on
that date in 1954 has been signed by
increase
able
on
October
a
deferred
basis,
pay-
5, 1953.
The “industry’s finest” automatic
progression
in the contract
was
further improved by shortening the
progression
period
from
two
80-
calendar day periods to two 60calendar day periods.
:
Pay for holidays falling on Saturday is guaranteed. The promotional and transfer provisions have
been
improved.
The Local Union
retains the right to strike at any
time during the life of the agreement on, issues that are not arbitrable.
The salaried employes, also members of Local
1010, have
been
brought
under
the
non-economic
portions of the new contract. They
receive a 9-cent general increase,
'
Farm
United
The UAW-CIO
implement
ricultural
has opened a yawning gap in the “united front” of the agwhich,
industry
resisted the Union’s efforts to establish
agreements.
Greathouse?—
More than 15,in
000 workers
will beneplants
are located in Du-
GREATHOUSE
Deere
seven
fit. The plants
buque, Des Moines,
Waterloo
and
Ottumwa, Iowa, with three in East
Moline, Llinois.
was
contract
present
The
in
signed
runs until
December,
December,
and
1950,
1955.
improvement
Both the annual
factor and the escalator clauses in
are applied on a
the agreement
piece
for both
basis
percentage
workers and hourly-rated workers.
Following are the terms of the
»
contract revisions:
The annual improvement
at
remains
increase
* factor
three per cent. Since these percentages are applied to average rates
as of 1950 which was $1.70 per
factor inhour, the improvement
creases will average 5.1 cents an
hour.
Of the 14 per cent current
2
* cost-of-living “float,” 10 per
cent has been frozen into the base
rates. Since the 1950 average rate
this means
$1.70 per hour,
was
of 17 cents an
that an average
hour is added to base pay.
On the conversion- of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics
*
new Consumers’ Price Index, the
new agreement calls for a one per
movefor each
adjustment
cent
ment of 1.018 points in the Index.
This formula is comparable to the
which
formula
Motors
General
adjustment
a one-cent
for
ealls
when the Index moves upward .6
points from a five-cent cost-of-living allowance level.
The agreement resulted in
4
*
the restoration of the one
per cent pay cut instituted June 1
of this year by establishing the Index figure of December of last year
as the transition point from the old
Agreement on
to the new Index.
this date will also result in an ad-
ditional
increase
effective the first
September 1.
RECORD
OF
of
pay
one
per
period
cent
after
PROGRESS
provision
that
said
Greathouse
for inclusion of retired workers under group insurance plans had already been established with Deere
and Company. He also pointed out
that a commitment from the Company had been secured which establishes all of the contract as a living document.
Not only did Deere recognize the
principle with regard to the issues
just negotiated, but the Company
also
agreed
to
meet
and
to
work
out “at any time” changes in any
part of the contract on a mutually
agreeable basis.
“From an average hourly pay
of $1.70 per hour in 1950, Deere
workers
have
progressed
to
an
average rate of about $2.18 an
hour
with
the
signing
of the
new contract revisions,’ Great-
house said, “and what was the
plant average in 1950 Is now the
rate for the lowest classification,
that of sweeper.
“Workers
in skilled trades classi-
fications have received a total average pay raise of 49 cents an hour
since 1950, an amount equal to the
total skilled trades increases in the
auto industry.”
that the
Greathouse declared
Deere agreement “should have an
immediate impact on the rest of
the agricultural implement industry. I am sure that they will come
to terms with the Union on these
overdue
long
contract
which they have
ably resisted.”
so
far
revisions
unreason-
Frank, Anyway
Not
doubts
that
about
principle in its
the “living document”
Greathouse and other UAW farm implement union leaders
hailed the Deere agreement and predicted new efforts to bring
similar benefits to the rest of the workers in the industry.
anyone
had
any
it, but Secretary
of
the Interior Douglas
McKay
summarized the criticism voiced
against the Eisenhower Administration recently when he told
a United
States
Chamber
of
Commerce
audience,
“We
are
here in the saddle as an administration
representing
business
and industry.”
McKay
has one of the key
roles in giving the business to
consumers through plans giving
public lands, power
sites and
rights and oil mineral bonanzas
to_ industry.
Ford Pensioners
Get Health Break
UAW-CIO
ment
Depart-
National
Ford
the
following
issued
ment,
the
of
director
Bannon,
Ken
®
steadfastly
I, had
up until September
On September 1, UAW-CIO Agricultural Implement Department Director Pat Greathouse announced in Moline, Illinois, that John Deere and Company had come to terms with the UAW on the same
principles as had the auto and allied industries earlier.
’ said the Deere
pact would
“Have an immediate impact on the
stubborn hold‘ outs of the
farm implement manufacturers.”
Front Cracks
Implement
KHHNOOVlHAHHAARNNABWH
“ UAW-CIO
at Deere;
Through
Breaks
S
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1953
September,
Page3
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
state-
month:
this
“Negotiations
the
with
Ford
Mo-
tor Company and Blue Cross-Blue
Shield representatives have resulted in a number of Blue Cross-Blue
certain
for
improvements
Shield
workers.
retired
with
retirees
Ford
“Formerly,
10 years or more of service paid
coverhospital-medical
their
for
basis.
plan
individual
an
on
age
plan,
improved
the
under
Now,
retirees will pay apthese same
10 per cent less for
proximately
coverage.
hospital-medical
group
a
receive
will
they
addition,
In
maximum of 120 days’ hospital care
instead of the previous maximum
of 30 days’ hospital care.
“First deductions under the implan will be made
proved group
from November pensions, that is,
for those pensioners who have reauthorization
their signed
turned
cards. Then, the new hospital-medical group plan will become fully
effective as of December 1, 1953.
worker was when E. L. McDonald, Bargaining Committee
chairman of UAW Chrysler Local 1226, Indianapolis, was
arrested on the Communications Workers’ picket line and
escorted to a police car by two uniformed patrolmen and a
plain-clothes man. The reason the Bell Telephone system is
unhappy about such instances is that they show that all over
the country UAW-CIO locals are helping their CWA broth-
“Those retirees with more than
one year but less than 10 years of
service will eventually be covered
hospitalgroup
by the improved
medical plan. It is expected that
they will be covered by February
1 or March 1, 1954, at the latest.”
ers and sisters in their efforts to make Bell ring right for
labor. McDonald was charged with disorderly conduct and
released on his own recognition 50 minutes after his arrest.
Executive Board Studies New Plan
For Meeting Unemployment Problem
Officers of the UAW-CIO will submit to the International Ex-%
ecutive Board this month a specific plan of action to meet the
threat of unemployment in the industry, growing out of management’s production scheduling policies, defense entbacks and
the fire that destroyed the GM transmission plant at Livonia,
Michigan.
The program which the Board, meeting at Solidarity House
Sept. 8-12, will be asked to consider is another step in the continuous campaign against un-%
employment carried on by the industry to schedule their producUnion ever since the end of tion so as to avoid crowding a disWorld
War
II.
GOP’S SAY “NO”
Two
weeks
before
the
UAW
Board was scheduled to meet, the
Republican majority in the Michigan legislature spiked, for the time
being, an attempt to increase the
amount and extent of unemployment
compensation
benefits to
bring immediate relief to workers
laid off as a result of the Livonia
fire and for other reasons.
President Walter
P. Reuther
last month asked Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams to call
a special session of the Legislature for the purpose of enacting
legislation to increase the benefits and extend their duration.
Similar
moves
are
planned
in
other states.
Although Williams was prepared
to call a special session, the Republican
leadership
served
notice
in
advance that they would block any
amendments to the law that would
provide more nearly adequate benefits over a longer period of time
than the present 20 weeks,
UNEMPLOYMENT ON RISE
“The UAW-CIO
some _ months
back expressed grave concern at
the course that production scheduling was taking in the auto indus-
try,’ Reuther said in his letter to
the Governor. “You will recall that
we urged management in the auto
$78.87
were
ments
of total
benefits
roughly,
benefit
while
averaged
Another Ci0 Union
Signs No-Raid Pact
$26.93
for
The CIO Rubber Workers have
signed a broad no-raiding agreement with the AFL International
much
Machinists,
of
Association
along the lines of the pact between
pay-
the
IAM-AFL.
With the hope “eventual unity
between
the AFL
and CIO”
will
take place, a statement by URW
President L. S. Buckmaster
and
IAM President Al Hayes said:
weeks
Average
unemployment.
to,
in 1952 amounted
a third
of average
ings as compared with
average
earnings
of
earlier.
earn-
about half
14
years
“The workers who will be directly affected by the Livonia fire earn
above-average wages and will- receive
an
even
smaller
proportion
of
their lost earnings because of the
proportionate share of their pro- low level of the maximum benefit
duction in the first half of the year, jrates presently provided.
thus
making
lay-offs and
unem“This low level of benefits in
ployment
inevitable in the latter
relation to the wage loss suffered
part of the year.
by unemployed Michigan workers
“The full impact and resulting
presents a serious threat to the
unemployment
from manageof the state in
entire economy
ment’s refusal to plan their proview of the reductions in auto
duction schedules in order to staproduction which all authorities
bilize employment
over the full
have foreseen for some time.
year
itself
tion,
was just
beginning
to reflect
in the employment
Now, however, the
situatragic
and disastrous fire at the General
Motors Livonia Plant this week
confronts
the
Michigan
mediate
workers
of
many
communities with imand
extended
loss
of
employment,
“The
benefit
provisions
of the
Michigan Unemployment
Compenfor
sation Law
are long overdue
Benefits which
drastic
revision.
were much too low to begin with
inadehave
become
increasingly
quate in the face of increase. in
living
they
costs
are
LIVONIA
and
in the
supposed
to
WORKERS
wages
insure.
when
unemployment
$28.35
a week.
benefits
were
Michigan
in
1938—
compensation
first
paid
The
average
a
downward
spiral
from
gathering}
Its efspreading
and
momentum
fects disastrously through the entire economy of the state,” Reuther
said,
the officers
The program which
will present to the Board will take
into consideration the most recent
employment
in the
developments
situation, including the Livonia disaster and the attitude of the Mich-
and
“We are convinced that labor
unity must be attained in order
to safeguard the advances that
have been made by union members and to bring about greater
results in the future.”
The agreement binds URW
and
IAM to: (1) refrain from soliciting
memberships
in any plant where
the other union
has a contract;
(2)
refrain
from
aiding
or
en-
couraging other AFL or CIO unions
in jurisdictional
raids
upon
plants which
either party to the
agreement has organized; (3) conduct
organizing
campaigns
where
the two unions are competing in
such a way as to build trade union
loyalty rather than hurt the labor
movement;
tiations
(4)
where
conduct
such
joint
a course
nego-
prom-
ises to bring the best possible results
for
the
members
of
both
unions,
igan
ing
Republicans
unemployment
toward
liberaliz-
compensation,
Full details of the program will
be printed in the next issue of The
United Automobile Worker,
which
SUFFER
“Weekly
earnings
in
manufacturing industries
compensation is}
“Unemployment
upon
cushions
main
of the
one
rely to maintain
which we must
purchasing power and thus prevent
UAW-CIO
averaged
benefit
check in that year for a week of
total unemployment was $13.49, or
49 per cent of average earnings.
“Last
year, average
earnings
Oil Companies
Dra in Motorist
He
noted
that
gasoline
prices
were
raised a week
before crude
vestigation by the Justice Depart-|
oil prices were raised, and this was
er
wheth
ment of oil prices to see
price increases
followed by more
the anti-trust laws have been vio- in all grades of refined petroleum
products. That, he said, “indicates
lated was asked recently by Paul
clearly
that
there
is collusion
B. Hadlick, He is general counsel
of the National Oil Marketers As- among the larger oll companies controlling the oll markets.”
sociation,
WASHINGTON
(LPA)
An
in-|
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UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Living Costs Hit All-Time High;
New
Pay checks of approximately one million UAW-CIO members
protected by escalator clauses are reflecting a-cent-an-hour inerease, the result of another climb in the cost of living.
The raise went into effect September 1 after the Bureau of
Labor Statisties announced that the Consumer Price Index figare for July 15 was 114.7, the
Had
it been only
and
the
latest
BLS
figure:
contract.
Contract
Region
4 Director
Pat
Greathouse reported,
Gains included an 1l-cent
across-the-board incre#sé>- full
union shop, Company-paid Blue
Cross and Blue Shield.
indirect
military
defense
de-
mands are starting to taper off. It
makes even greater the danger of
a snowballing. deflation when the
full impact of reduced defense ex-
UAW-CIO
President Walter P.
Reuther issued the following comon
Model
1953
crease day-to-day living costs of
the average American family,
“The
latest
inflationary
surge
comes at a time when the direct
a tenth of a point higher, Auto
Workers would have received
another penny.
ment
Local Wins
CHIGAGO—The ILG Ventilating Company tried to outbattle
newly organized UAW Local 290,
and the new Union stuck to its
guns during an 11-week strike to
emerge with a model first-time
Million Members Get Cent Raise
highest yet.
September,
“
“The Consumer Price Index figure released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals—what every
housewife already knows—that the
cost of living has climbed to an
all-time high.
penditures is felt.
“We need a substantial increase
in consumer buying power in the
pockets of millions of families who
have unfilled needs if we are to
absorb the*growing output of our
rapidly-expanding productive capacity and to take up the ‘slack
that will result from reduced defense production.
Sound tax and
wage
policies designed
to maxi‘mize mass consumption by low-income families must be developed
without delay if the present inflationary spiral is not to be replaced
by a disastrous deflationary spiral.”
“Tt is significant that at the
very time when the failure of the
party in power to fulfill its campaign pledge to control inflation
is so evident, the Chamber
of
Commerce and National Association of Manufacturers are gaining friendly ears in Congress in
their drive to secure a national
sales tax which would further in-
“Had ad Enough?”
Enough?
ax
.
k
se
My
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WATCHING THE CHAMP come home, these fellow Local 5 teammates see Jim Shaw
wrap up the individual title and the team title with his final putt. Left 0 right are: Allan
Holmes, who finished second; Alex Garbacz and Sid Crothers.
Local 5 Golfers Steal Show
At 5th Annual UAW Tourney
LAFAYETTE, Indiana—UAW-CIO Local 5 of South Bend,
grabbed most of the honors at the fifth annual CIO and UAW
International Golf Tournament®
-
held on the two Purdue Univer- | ¢#! 57, which had a 608. The Ford
sity courses here last month.
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Mazey Calls for Hearing
On TV License Extension
Emil Mazey, UAW-CIO
Secretary-Treasurer, asked the Fed-
eral Communications Commission this month to hold a public
hearing on its proposed rule extending television licenses from
one to three years.
Charging that unilateral action of the Commission on a matter
of such great public importance was “< undemocratic,’’ Mazey
asked that individuals and organizations be given an opportunayer
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Team captain Jim Shaw won the
individual
championship
by
coupling a one-over-par 72 with a fiveunder-par 67 for 139 total. His parsmashing second round eclipsed
teammate Allan Holmes who toured
course
in 70
the 72-par north
strokes to finish second with a 144
total.
TEAM TITLE, TOO
The Studebaker local’s top quartet took team honors with a
total, 22 strokes better than
runner-up,
Fort
Wayne
UAW
586
the
Lo-
CIO Leaders Mourn
Bishop Haas’ Death
The Most Reverend Francis
J. Haas, Bishop of Grand Rapids, Michigan,
one of the
clergymen
who
early
spoke
out on behalf of the just needs
of labor, died last month.
Executive
officers of the
ClO—President
Walter P.
only on the time extension of and hear, will help insure that all
Reuther, Executive Vice-PresTV license holders but also on types of programs are available to
the television audience rather than
ident John V. Riffe and Secrethe responsibility of the Com- just
what a very few may want the
tary-Treasurer James B. Carey
mission to assess program qual- public to see and hear, Far from
—issued
the following
stateity of television stations.
suggesting the negative censorship
ment:
of taking things off the air, we ad“The untimely death of the
TREND IS BAD
vocate the positive provision of proMost Reverend
Francis J.
“We believe,” Mazey said, “that grams which will stimulate public
Haas, Bishop of Grand Rapthere is a trend away from even discussion and public education on
ids, Michigan, and a member
the limited review of programming all issues and thus serve the public
of the Public Advisory Board
by television stations
that has interest.
of the Philip Murray Memoriexisted in the past, and we further
al
Foundation,
comes
as
a
LABOR
BLOCKED
believe that this trend is not in the
great shock to the officers and
“There
are
times,
as
the
Com-f
“ public interest.
members
of the Congress
of
mission
well
knows,
when
labor jj
“The UAW-CIO recognizes the
Industrial
Organizations.
We
organizations
are
unable even to {j
grave
dangers
in government
knew him well; we admired
buy
time
and
when
Communism
incensorship of television programs.
-him
tremendously;
we loved
tercession has been necessary in orWe would oppose any such cenhim as a brother; and we owe
der
that
the
views
of
labor
can be
sorship by the government,
We
him much,
made known to the inhabitants of 1
believe, however, that a periodic
“Bishop
Haas
had
a deep
a
given
area.
review of programming to deand abiding faith in the little
termine whether the licensee has
“We believe that the lessening
fellow; a sincere trust of his
available
time
adequate
made
of FCC review of television profellow man and a perfect apfor the presentation of controver- *
gramming
will
accentuate
preciation
of the dignity of
the
Sial issues, whether both sides of
difficulties of the labor movement
the individual.
controversial
issues have
been
in
presenting
many
important
“*This eowntry is too big for
fully presented, whether
adeissues to the American people,
discrimination,
Bishop Haas
quate
time has
been
given
ta
said repeatedly. The
finest
“In conclusion, we feel that it
of all
programs
educational
tribute we of labor can pay
is undemocratic to take action of
types, is the antithesis of censorour great and good friend is
this kind, with its great importance
ship.
to translate that belief into
to the people of this country, withreality,”
“Such a periodic review, far from out a public hearing on the funda-
limiting
erree
g
oe * rma
what
AP
the
Ts 1
public
ge
may
see
FT
mental issues involved.”
Te
= en
Local 600 entry finished third with
615.
Flint, Michigan, golferettes had
& near-monopoly on the women’s
competition. Defending champion
Virginia Bruzewski, UAW Local
599, edged Gennie Kilbury, UAW
Local 651, by one stroke, 194 to
193, to retain her title.
Emmiline
Ginger,
also
of
Flint
Local 651, was the handicap winner with a 151 corrected score, followed by Agnes Eldredge, Packard
Local 190, with 154.
CLEVELAND GOLFERS HIGH
Two Cleveland UAW locals won
the handicap team honors.
Local
486’s No, 1 entry had a 551:total,
shading
the local’s second
three strokes. The
followed with 556.
entry
by
Local 860 team
Joe Kover of Cleveland Local
91, won the handicap men’s title
with 137, followed
by James
Slaughter, Local 1222, Bucyrus,
Ohio,
with 138,
Shaw had the
of knowing
extra
the courses.
advantage
In winning
ROBERT
HILL,
Local
941;
Elkhart, Indiana, kisses the
five iron that brought him a
hole-in-one on the 120-yard 13th
on Purdue University’s south
course. It happened in the Re-
gion 3 tourney. He wasn’t able
to duplicate the feat in the International tourney.
the Region 3 tourney on the same
grounds
recently,
he
sliced
two
strokes off par for the highly-regarded 71-par south 18.
The event was sponsored by the
UAW Recreation Department.
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Aircraft and Agricultural
Implement
Workers of America, affiliated
with the CIO, Published monthly.
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WALTER P. REUTHER
EMIL MAZEY
President
Secretary-Treasurer
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Vice-Presidents
International
Executive
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RAY BERNDT
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AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
1953
Page5
WORKER
Truman Ends Long Silence
‘At Detroit Labor Day Rally
They
Win Pension Vesting
Ex-President Harry Truman was to make his first major
speech, since leaving the White House, at the Detroit Labor Day
celebration,
¢
Center at Ottawa,
OWES
Although The Auto Worker|
went to press just hefore Labor|
Day, indications were that Truman would haye some sharp
things to say about the Administration, and especially about
Congress.
Many
notables
other
trade union folks
around the nation,
1
n
addressed
in celebrations
UAW President
bua
eyier aid ae
wot
‘Ss.
UAW.
Board
and
officers
least
one
talk
members
had
at
scheduled, But the speech that was
slated for headlines—in advance—
was Truman’s.
The fighting little guy from Missouri has been getting a lot of attention since he retired. Even the
nation’s press sometimes takes the
attitude, “We done him wrong.”
Truman’s choice of Detroit for
pa
A
ai
THE BIG GRINS on the faces of these Local 189 bargaining committeemen are for the
pension agreement they reached with Udylite Parker-Wolverine. It’s the first major contract in the Detroit area providing for vesting after 10 years’ service. They are, front row,
ae
lh
i
Waker
mq4
soft spot in its heart
scheduled
rally there. to fly to Akron’ for the) has
1m,a rare
id
1, to r.: Edward Dzialo, Harry Picke, John Goga, Sam Chmielewski, Udylite labor relations
ih | @ After speaking in Detroit, he was) 7141 about the city, and the city|
director; Frank Gosinski, Local 189 president; Michael F. Lacey, co-director of UAW
for him.
es eee
esting
lone eae ne
a
ee els
ers
Day celebration held in the UAW- | Presidency.
1, and International Representative Pete Petrucci.
Back row, 1. to r.: Claude Tuttle, Charles
Stefani, John Morgan, Arnold Strand, Richard Cichewicz, Steve Dziefzawski,
Moore, Art Vega, international representative, Markes Bruce and Jesse Gibson.
to the}
him
Region
Bob
Text of Reuther’s 1953 Labor Day Message
I
G
all groups to preserve our common civil liberties and rights, to
promote tolerance and respect for
of the free
ship between governments
nations, but what is of greater im-
trade unions of America, can take
pride in the strength, the responsibility and the patriotism of our or-
we shall
values are indivisible—
join with people of good will from
ganizations.
The past 12 months have not been
minorities, to extend and strengthos democratic system, and to
We must mobilize the spiritual
forces of free people everywhere and
Total mobilization of the free
people of the world for peace, free-
On this 1953 Labor Day, we, the
men and women who make up the
a
easy for our unions, or for the nation. Great leaders like Philip Murray and Allan 8S. Haywood and Wil-
sy
liam Green—whose toil and sacrifice
helped build our labor movement—
American Labor is determined that
there shall be no peace-time depres-
D
A
if
Our young men have continued to
sacrifice their promising lives on the
battlefields of Korea. At home, following the election of a distinguished
general to the Presidency, a host of
special interest groups have moved
into Washington with a bitter zeal to
reverse a 20-year trend of government for the people.
how and the economic resources to
provide full and continuous employment for every citizen able and willing to work making the good things
of life for people to satisfy the unlimited needs of people in peace.
have
gone
their
on-to
great
reward.
The turn of political fortunes
has unleashed powerful reactionary forces represented by men of
restricted vision and small faith
who have gained access to high
places in political counsels. They
would re-shape our future in the
image
of
an
outlived
and
dis-
credited past. They hold out false
promises of easy security and isolated prosperity within our
national borders in order to sepa-
rate us from the world-wide strug-
gle for human
freedom.
These seekers after power are
taking every advantage of the opportunity that has come to them to
sell their false goals to the American people. They plan to convert
our great national resources to quick
exploitation for their private gain
instead of devoting them to the common good and conserving them for
those who will come after us.
*
*
*
In this crucial stage of history,
American Labor has confidence in its
strength, faith in its ideals, and I am
certain it will honor its great heritage.
On this Labor Day, 1953, American -Labor draws inspiration from
the struggles and achievements of
the past, and we rededicate ourselves to the ideal of service to the
working people of our nation and to
a
continuing
program
of
In
basic
full
recognition
human
and
that
all
democratic.
dom, and justice will create a moral
sion for we have the technical know-
*
*
*
We, of Labor, are determined to
win a guaranteed annual wage that
will help remove the fear of insecurity from the life of every worker’s
family. This is more than a matter
of economic justice; it is a matter
of economic necessity if we are to
provide the democratic tools for the
achievement and maintenance of full
employment and full production in
peacetime.
We, of Labor, shall strive to make
a better America—an America with
better schools, better homes, better
health, greater security, greater happiness, and greater dignity for all.
Through such a positive program,
we can best fight Communism in
our land. Labor, deeply devoted to
democracy, knows from practical
experience that we cannot out-run,
out-maneuver, or out-fight the
Kremlin with guns alone.
American Labor salutes the workers in East Berlin and other satellite
nations for their historie resistance
to Communist oppression. Their courage and determination—despite all
the brutality of Communist dictatorship—prove that the quest for freedom and justice burns strong and
bright even behind the Iron Curtain.
American Labor, in solidarity with
free labor throughout the world, is
freedom’s
greatest
bulwark
Wherever free labor is strongly or-
ganized and the hopes and aspirations of working people are realized
by providing the average family with
é measure of economic and social jus-
there
Communism
P. REUTHER
without influence. On the other hand,
wherever free labor is weak and
ineffectively organized, there great
social injustice exists and the Communists are able to forge poyerty into power.
An intelligent and realistic evaluation of the world situation should
compel us to abandon the false idea
that peace and freedom can be made
secure by a program of negative anticommunism. The free world must
develop its strategy based upon a
positive program.
We must build
and fight for the positive values we
believe in as hard as we fight against
the things we oppose.
The strategy of the Kremlin is
to pin down the forces of freedom
and keep them on the defensive.
Our task is to mobilize the forces
.of freedom and to recapture the
initiative and move from the defensive to the offensive in the
world struggle for men’s minds,
their hearts and their loyalties.
While building adequate military
strength, America must give leadership in mobilizing the free world to
regain the initiative by an all-out
waging of the peace. We cannot permit the Politburo to continue to exploit the universal desire of people
everywhere for peace.
against
the forces of Communist tyranny and
all forms of totalitarianism.
tice,
force that will be as devastating to
Communist propaganda as a stockpile of H-bombs.
WALTER
*
progress
for all of the people. We renew our
belief in the proposition that the
common good and the well-being of
all the people transcends the question of special’privileges for the few,
draw them together in a total unselfish common effort at waging the
peace.
assure a constant improvement in
the living standards and material
well-being of all the people.
i
id
i
and
must build
we
portance,
behen
a working relationship
strengt
tween free people of the world.
is weak
and
We who really believe in peace,
freedom, and justice must strip the
mask of hypocrisy from the Communists by launching an all-out effective peace offensive, The forces of
freedom
must
out-work,
out-organ-
ize, and out-maneuver the Communists on the peace front. We must
not only build a working relation-
In the practical fight to translate
the hopes and aspirations of people
into tangible moral and human
values, the free nations of the world
possess a margin of superiority
which will overwhelm the forces of
Communism.
Only the United States has the
material resources for the bold, constructive action needed to banish the
fear that holds the world paralyzed
on dead center, hypnotized by negative values based on men’s fears and
hatreds. The compelling necessity for
quick, positive, daring action is more
than a matter of high purpose; it is
a matter of democratic survival.
*
*
*
*
If fully mobilized, the American
economy is capable of producing
enough to meet our defense needs
while
at the same
time
devoting
bil-
lions a year to the carrying out of
a positive peace offensive in the
struggle against man’s ancient enemies—poverty, hunger, ignorance,
and disease.
In the struggle between freedom
and tyranny, America will be
judged not by our technical progress but rather by our ability to
translate technical progress into
human progress, human security,
and human
dignity.
American Labor has unlimited
faith in the ability of America and
the free world to win the struggle
over all forms of tyranny.
We believe that the future holds unlimited
possibilities for human betterment,
On this Labor Day, 1953, American
Labor renews its faith in the principles of the brotherhood of man and
rededicates itself to the proposition
that free people everywhere, of
every race, creed and color, working
together can ereate a world of peace,
of freedom, of justice for all man-
kind,
This is our pledge. This is our goal.
UNITED
Page 6
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
CIO Starts Daily News Program
Over Nationwide Radio Network
The CIO started its long-awaited daily news broadcasts
Labor Day over a 150-station American Broadcasting Company
network.
John W. Vandercook, noted
radio commentator and author,
will be heard nightly, Monday
through Friday, in the CIOsponsored year-long series.
the ClO public relations program,
Reuther said:
“The CIO is sincerely pleased at
the
opportunity
of bringing
the
nightly news commentary of John
W. Vandercook to the American
public over the radio facilities of
the American
Broadcasting Company,
TV SHOW
PLANNED
TO
be carried
at 7 p.m.
The
quarter-hour
program
local time
will
on
most ABC stations in the East and
at 6 p.m. local time in the Midwest,
Mountain and Pacific Coast time
zones. In some cities, the program
will be transcribed for later broadcast. UAW members are urged to
check their local ABC stations for
the time in their city. (In Detroit,
Vandercook
will be carried over
Station WXYZ at 8:45 p.m.)
In addition, plans are being
made for a regularly appearing
CIO television show, to appear
in approximately 30 major cities
throughout the country.
In announcing the CIO’s enlarged
public relations program, Presiderit
Walter
P. Reuther
stressed the
fact that Vandercook will not act
“as a “propaganda agent”
clo,
THOROUGH COVERAGE
He will view
the news
for
the
as he sees
it, as a public service to the Ameri-
ean people provided by the CIO.
The CIO will have commercial announcements on the program, how-|
ever.
Vandercook,
whose
family
came to this country in the 17th
Borg-Warner
GET ACQUAINTED
“We in the CIO took upon this
program as an opportunity to serve
the public, by keeping it acquainted
with the fast-breaking news of the
day and how it affects the daily
lives of each and every one of us.
JOHN W. VANDERCOOK
century,
is the
son
of one
founding officials of the
Press. He has traveled
sively
knows
of the
United
exten-
throughout
the
world;
many
of the leaders of
world
political and economic
life; and has served many years
as a news commentator on sev-
eral major U. S. radio networks.
His comments will be heard in
just about every major city and in
a large proportion
of the rural
areas of the nation,
Commenting about the plans for
Plants Agree
Two Borg-Warner plants have agreed to revise their existing
contracts with the UAW-CIO in line with the pattern established in the auto industry’s ‘‘Big Three.’’
44
7
found
STORMY PAST
“In the past,
we
have
the Borg-Warner chain a difficult
corporation to deal with. On numerous
adamant
with
occasions,
and
respect
to
it
untenable
the
has
needs
taken
positions
of
our
members.
“Its arbitrary
actions
have
frequently
forced
its workers
to call strikes in order to get
objective consideration by the
Corporation of their grievances.
I sincerely hope that the rela-
tively
quick
and
satisfactory
conclusion of these negotiations
with Morse Chain and Rockford
Clutch signals a new approach by
the Corporation in its relationship
with our Union, and that equall
speedy and objective results wi
transpire at the other Borg-Warner plants with which the UAWCIO holds contracts.”
medical-hospital
regular
group
WARNER
program
at
cost.
GEAR
the
SIGNS
Earlier last month, the UAW-CIO
reached an agr@éement with the
Warner Gear Division, located at
Muncie, Indiana, whose workers
are
represented
by Local
287.
The latter agreement is very
similar to the “Big Three” pattern. It provides for maximum
benefits of $137.50 monthly, but
the schedule of payments to retirees with less than 30 years’
service varies from the pattern.
Negotiations are scheduled between the UAW-CIO and Detroit
Gear,
Long
pany, both
Products,
respectfully
363.
Manufacturing
Kaiser Won't Bid
On C-123 Contract
—
To Meet ‘Big Three’ Pattern
Morse Chain, Detroit, and
Rockford Clutch, Rockford,
Tlinois, have yielded the entire
“‘Big Three’? package, VicePresident Richard T. Gosser,
director of the Borg-Warner
Division, reported. Gosser commented:
“We hope, through the commercial
announcements
on the
broadcast, to better acquaint the
public with the CIO and its role
in the community. We have often
pointed out that CIO members
make progress only as the community progresses, and not at the
community’s
expense;
and this
program
will demonstrate
that
fact.
“This radio series, the latest step
in the CIO’s continuing program of
public relations,
will shortly be
followed by a regular
television
program,
It is our hope that we
will be able to announce details
on this TV series in the near future.”
Plans for the radio-television
series, which will cost seyeral hundred thousand dollars, have been
under study for several months.
Com-
of Detroit, and Pesco
Cleveland, represented
by Locals 42, 314 and
The
UAW-CIO
has been
informed by the management of Kaiser Motors that the Company will
not bid on the contract to build
C-123 planes for the Army, although
the Air Force has decided to proceed with the job and offered Kaiser, among
other companies,
an
opportunity to bid, UAW-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey said.
“Kaiser
made
its decision
not
to bid, we were informed, after it
had worked
out an arrangement
to lease a part of its Willow Run
plant to General Motors for the
purpose of producing Hydra-Matic
transmissions,” Mazey
reported.
“The
Air
Force
cancelled
an
earlier contract with Kaiser to produce C-123’s before the first plane
had been completed. The Air Force
stated at the time that there was
some doubt as to the need of the
plane (a new type of cargo plane)
by the Armed Forces. As a result
of UAW-CIO intervention, Air Secretary Harold
E. Talbott
agreed
that if and when a decision was
made
to build
C-123’s,
Kaiser
would
be given an equal opportunity along with other manufacturers to submit a proposition to
supply
our requirements.”
“Blame the cost of living, Mr. Henley.
My wife has to work too.”*
ALCOA BACKS WATER;
SIGNS TO AVOID STRIKE
In a precedent-smashing victory for the UAW-CIO, the giant
Aluminum Corporation of America (Alcoa) was compelled to
depart from its publicly-flaunted determination not to make
changes in its contract with the UAW-CIO. ‘‘A -pattern has
been set,’? spokesmen for the ©
Company said, ‘‘we have con- clear to the Company and to the
Conciliation Panel.
cluded negotiations this year
REMEMBER BACK WHEN?
with the other unions that repThe Union reminded
the Comresent the vast majority of our pany of the statement of UAWCIO President Walter
r in
employes. You can have what 1951 to the Company andReuthe
high offithey accepted,’’ they continued. cials of the Defense Department,
CONTRACT
The
SACRED
“package”
offered
consisted
of an 844-cent-an-hour increase and
the removal of certain -restrictions
on pay for holidays.
offer
was
agreeing
in
the
The Company’s
contingent
not
to make
on
the
any
Union
changes
contract.
UAW-CIO
spokesmen
repre-
senting four local unions located
at Los Angeles, Cleveland, Chicago and Garwood,
N. J., told
the Company that, “We are demanding
the
a number
contract
to
of changes
correct
in
working
conditions
that
are
sub-standard. Above all,” they said, “we
will not longer work under the
‘Aleoa Gyp’, so-called incentive
system, Unless it is changed we
will not sign a contract.”
That
was
July
20
when
the
Un-
ion presented its case to the Company
at the negotiating
sessions
held
in Alcoa’s
glittering
new
building in Pittsburgh. It was five
weeks
later before
negotiations
were concluded—three solid weeks
of negotiagfions with time out for
the local unions to go back home
to reinforce their demands
with
a vote authorizing a strike “if Alcoa will not bargain on the reasonable demands of the Union.”
A
special
three-man
panel
of
the U. S. Bureau of Mediation and
Conciliation entered the picture
during the last few days of the
negotiations when it became apparent that a strike was imminent.
That the Union would strike if its
demands were not met was made
Army and Navy,
the Pentagon.
at
a
meeting
The meeting had been called
by the Defense
Department
to
try
to
effect a settlement
of
the strike then in progress at
the Cleveland and Chicago plants
of Alcoa in which Defense Department officials stated, “items
of extreme
importance to defense are being produced.”
President Reuther told the Company that “Alcoa labo relations
are in the horse and buggy stage.
You have working conditions that
were wiped out in industry 20 years
ago. We promise you that while
only two UAW-CIO loéals are presently involved in a struggle to obtain
decent
wages
and
working
conditions we will see to it in the
future that all of the collective
bargaining power of our Union in
Alcoa is mobilized to bring wages
and working
conditions
at Alcoa
into line with the rest of industry.”
RETREAT
SOUNDED
At 9:00 p. m., Saturday
August 29, on the eve of the
night,
strike
deadline,
Alcoa
finally
retreated
from
its position and
agreed
to
make changes in the contract. The
settlement provided: Anr 8%-centan-hour
increase
in wages.
All
bonus classes raised three cents.
Fourteen
other
contract
changes were made. Among the
more important were removal of
restrictions on holiday pay; elimination of the wage differential
between
male
and
female
employes; a provision for adequate
wash-up
time in plants which
did not have it.
These revisions were agreed to
in principle between the Company
and the Union:
1, Ten
cents an hour increase
for skilled workers, retroactive to
June 29, 1953.
2. Annual
improvement~
factor
increased from four cents to five
cents,
effective
September
1,
3. All but five cents an hour of
‘the cost-of-living allowance will be
added to the base rates. This means
that the amount of wages subject
to downward adjustment from current levels is now limited to five
cents an hour, no matter how much
the cost of living goes down. The
new BLS index will govern future
cost-of-living changes.
4, Maximum monthly retirement
benefits,
including social security
payments, have been increased to
$137.50. This provision is retroactive to June 1, 1953.
5. Retiréd workers are given option for family participation in the
WILLOW RUN—and only Willow Run—had enough
unused floor space under one roof to house the machinery
of the’General Motors Livonia Plant. After the fire, GM
leased the circled portion of the edifice from Kaiser Motors,
As quickly as the fire-damaged Detroit Transmission and
in
Ternstedt machines can be repaired, they will be installed
there, From airplanes to automobiles, back to airplanes to
automobiles and now to automatic transmissions, the huge
World War II baby manages to keep precariously in at
least partial operation,
.
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LL
wh?
Page T
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
September, 1953
‘| Thousands of Jobs Go Up in Smoke at Livonia
|
Rush On to Restore Output
After $50 Million GM Blaze
-
apeipalah as rapidly as enemy bombs might destroy, fire gutted
the mammoth General Motors transmission plant in LivoAt 3:40 p.m, last August 12, the sprawling structure—where
a third of all the automatic transmissions used in American cars
were made—hummed at a normal pace. A half hour later, fire
was raging over nearly all of the 114 million feet of floor space
in the modern, four-year-old plant.
f
Starting as a small blaze in an oil drip pan, fingers of flame ate
their way to an oil drum, and then spread in mounting fury in all directions fed by the thousands of gallons of oil essential to the plant’s
|
operation.
LOSE LIVES FROM FIRE
Thick, mushrooming clouds of black smoke poured from the building
reducing
was to claim six lives—began
as the conflagration—which
bricks and steel and concrete to rubble, It damaged or destroyed practically all of the 6,000 machines inside—and the jobs that go with them.
State Fire Marshal Arnold Renner estimated the loss to the
building and contents at $50 million. As in a bombing attack, the
SIX
No one knows for sure just
greater loss was to laboring people.
how many jobs were consumed by the greedy flames. The latest
in the auto
industry
Bubsalmeet.oe sramate ae tne fire itself ie tte
rg
is 40,000.
estimate
optimists
Even
production won’t be restored for three months.
down.
pared
GM’s
more
first
jobs.)
e
published
had
first guess
estimate
more
that
was
men
the
off—and
fire
,
figure full
bee
loss
longer.
off
edt
would
THOUSANDS
60,000
ven
or
ci
cut across fields to get as close as they could to the fire. Many were wor-
ried about members
‘
of their families who, they
:
the
watches
family
vAW
gc
les
Uhl
breadwinner’s
ranig
job
feared,
were
.
temporarily
trapped
burned
inside.
INSET—A
away.
The Detroit Transmission Division of the plant produced the HydraMatic transmissions used as standard equipment on Cadillacs and Lincolns and on many models of Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Hudson, Kaiser Motors and Nash products.
The impact hit wide. In GM alone, assembly lines in Texas, Georgia,
New Jersey, Massachusetts, Kansas, California and Delaware are affected. Hundreds of suppliers have felt—or will feel—the loss.
QUICK CHANGES TAKE PLACE
of using
figured ways
GM
of hand-wringing,
After a minimum
Buick’s Dynaflo on Oldsmobiles and Cadillacs and Chevrolet’s Powerglide on Pontiacs. Ford placed greater stress on the Mercury production
bf its Lincoln-Mercury Division. Hudson, Kaiser and Nash hope for the
best with standard-shift models.
In these plants and elsewhere, a substantial part of the shock will be
reduced by eliminating overtime instead of jobs.
GM
‘
leased
space
Kaiser
from
Run.
at Willow
Today
the
dam-
aged machines of Livonia are being repaired—on rush orders—
all over the country. Even before the embers cooled, an army of
salvage workérs began clearing away the wreckage to get at the
Production will be restored as quickly as possible,
equipment.
first by placing machines at Willow Run as they become available
—and then back at Livonia when it’s rebuilt.
The rush to get things done even extended to industrial relations.
W. Livingston, director of the Union’s
Vice-President John
UAW
has agreed to let the same contract
reports, “GM
Department,
GM
apply at Willow Run that was in effect in Livonia. The Livonia seniority
list will be used on recalls.”
MIRACLE
TO BE ALIVE
For thousands of UAW
members
and their families, the real miracle
is not in the speed of the flames onthe eigen
iffe : Slgnstey TU
ae
ene ae
ee
Buia
the
plant
Fe
Scores report their departments had no loss beeause UAW Local 735’s committeemen and stewards did a tremendous job of getting people out of
the plants. The 3,500 afternoon-shift workers got
36, father of
Urban,
Frank
Only
out quickly.
three, didn’t make it. Urban, a job setter, was
found pinned in the ruins.
William
Degner,
lieutenant
in
nee
ae peers
member
lost
his)
il
Y
stil
a,
Z
Ni
d
TS
er
eae
Mi
Gaels!
BS
d
%
Fo.X%
are all that’s left of what was a huge industrial establishment
red
resto
being
now
are
which
ines
mach
gauge
finethe
lay
th
rnea
Unde
the previous day.
—Detrolt News Photo.
or replaced as fast as industry can turn out the necessary work.
ACRES
OF
RUINS
protec-
tion force, went back once too often to search for
His body was found
people trapped in the flames.
100 feet away from that of Daniel Staley, 20, a blueprint machine operator who had been at the plant
a month.
only
A fireman died of a heart attack and two salvage
company workers were electrocuted when a crane
a high-voltage
wire
in
the
cleanup
operation.
e
struck
MHA
'
last month.
Michigan,
nia,
YUM Midlitis/ WY)
)
lla,
AROUND THE CLOCK cranes worked
pulling i away the mountains of metal 1 from
fro
the still-smoking rubble at Livonia.
The debris contained enough scrap to build
a small town,
—Detrolt News Photo,
STEEL
I
GIRDERS
ERS
twist and walls crumble as
the inferno of Livonia rages out of control. More
than 300 firemen battled the flames at their peak
and the fire lasted more
than
14 hours,
.
Many
workers
got out just before the roof fell wher
they had stood, aoa had to be helped out by fel.
low workers as the acrid smoke filled their lungs
and obscured the ways of escape. —petroit News Photo.
Page 8
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
ICFTU Expands Scope of Work
September,
.
In Worldwide Battle for Freedom
1953
Ta
Convened in Stockholm, Sweden, the third biennial Congress®
reopening period, the conference
of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions made
adopted them as future objectives
its first order of business a stirring declaration of support for
for its affiliated unions.
the workersof the Iron Curtain countries.
A common difficulty in several of
the West European countries has
On the initiative of CIO
international unions will be asked been the slowness with which the
givPresident Walter Reuther,
to contribute, The fund will be used benefits of improvements in proen unanimous support by the to aid the work of the ICFTU and duction technology are passed
along
Congress, a special internation- in particular the new free labor to workers, in the form of improved
al labor fund was created in unions in those countries now wages, or to.consumers in general
in the form of reduced prices. Alaid of the rebelling workers of emerging from colonial status.
Following
the
week-long
though Marshall aid has at times
the occupied countries.
ICFTU
congress
in Stockholm,
labor
ICFTU
either have or will contribute into
the fund,
disbursements
from
it
will be handled by the West German Trade Union Federation, which
has constant contact through its
various branches with the workers
of East Germany and beyond. The
fund will be used primarily to assist those workers and their families forced to flee into the West
for their
part
in the
summer's
strikes and demonstrations against
Communist dictatorships.
60 MILLION
MEMBERS
At the same time, the ICFTU
moved to establish an international
investigation committee, to be made
up of distinguished jurists, to probe
the causes of the worker uprisings
in the occupied East, and to publish its findings.
Although founded barely
years
ago,
the ICFTU
is
moving
rapidly
toward
a
four
now
mem-
bership of 60 million, from nearly 80 different nations. Since the
1951 Congress, in Milan, substan-
tial
the
and
progress has been made in
expansion of labor colleges
training institutes, particu-
larly in Asia and Africa,
trade
unionism
remains
where
in es-
sentially
embryonic
form,
but
where great development is possible if sufficient native leadership can be trained.
The teaching of organizing techniques, economics,
labor history
and the most effective methods of
collective bargaining have been the
special objectives, these past two
years, of the ICFTU
Secretariat.
Charged with conducting the dayto-day business of the Confederation, the Secretariat has its headquarters in Brussels.
BECU
BATTLED
ICFTU
broek,
of
REDS
nS
Secretary-General
Holland,
was
Olden-
elected
to
a third two-year term, but the organization will have a new president
for the coming
two
years.
Elected unanimously,
Omer Becu,
secretary-general
of the International Transport
Federation,
is
well known to many American la-
bor leaders for his work with
anti-Nazi underground during
the
the
war,
the
and
for
his
leadership
in
ITF, one of the strongest affiliates
of the ICFTU. Becu is a Belgian.
Since the war he has been agtive
in preventing
Communist
groups
the International Metal Workers
Federation (of which the UAWCIO is the largest affiliate) held
a three-day economic conference
in the same city, Discussion here
was devoted largely to questions
affecting full employment in the
metal-working
industries. After
hearing
an
exposition
of
the
cost-of-living escalator principle,
the automatic productivity wage
increase and the UAW’s plan to
negotiate
a -guaranteed
annual
wage in the next major contract
McCarthy?”
First Question in Europe
"What
EAS
About
Questioned frequently concerning his estimate of the influence of McCarthy in press conferences in the course of his recent conference trip through the trade union centers of Wéstern
Europe (a trip which brought him into close contact with the
labor leadership of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, England, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Austri a and France), CIO President
Walter Reuther declared flatly t hat McCarthy has been the single most effective aide to Communism in the West.
In every country visited, the?
damage done by the Wisconsin nism and democracy remains preSenator to European confidence carious in both France and Italy.
in America was immediately STATUS QUO HURTS
visible.
One of the strongest assets in the
e
Although
all national
groups represented in the
resulted in substantial increases in
productivity in various industries,
European employers have by and
large refused to cut workers and
consumers in on the savings which
have resulted—with the result that
unemployment
and reduced
purchasing power have at times accompanied
productivity
improvements,
This fall the Automotive Division
of the IMF will hold its second
international conference in Europe,
presided over by UAW Vice-President Richard Gosser.
NEEDS
CUTTING
DOWN
So great is the fear in Western Europe that McCarthyism
is in the saddle in the United
States that the CIO president
was repeatedly obliged to explain that McCarthy is largely
an inflated
press
phenomenon;
that
he is in actuality supported by only
a tiny fraction of American opinion, and that his influence could be
promptly destroyed if the national
administration would find the courage to speak out boldly against him.
“If President Eisenhower,” he
said, “would express himself with
the courage of his older brother,
Arthur,
the McCarthy
problem
could be quickly
cut down
to
size.”
While
finding
many
encouraging evidences
of West
European
economic recovery, particularly in
Scandinavia, Great Britain, and
West Germany,
Reuther reported
that the struggle between Commu-
hands of the Communist Party in
both countries, he observed, is the
continuing’ refusal of employers to
sit down and work out sound collective
bargaining
agreements
with
the free labor groups.
“The
maintenance
of a disastrous
status
quo by French
and Italian employers,”
he declared, “plays directly into the
hands of their own worst enemies, the Communists. Until the
employers
and
governments
of
these two countries are willing
to yield up a greater share of
the profits derived from higher
productivity
to the
workers,
Communism
will continue
to
forge political power
from
social injustice and discontent.”
Reuther said that European employers, and our own State Department, might find a fruitful lesson
in a comparison of Austria and
Italy.
AUSTRIA
Austria,
GOOD
he
EXAMPLE
pointed
out,
is
also
FIRST HAND REPORT on the East German uprisings
was given to ICFTU delegates in Stockholm by Gunther
Eckstein who escaped from the East sector of Berlin to attend the conference. ‘‘We were surprised at our own
power,’’ he reported.
East German Workers Report
Youth Won't Buy Soviet Line
Reaching Berlin while the East German Communist regime
still shook from the explosions of June, CIO President Walter
Reuther
was
among
the first Americans
table distribution of such national
wealth as there is, and can hold
out the hope to workers of even
greater improvements,
Over the past two years, considerable progress has been made in
France and Italy toward strengthening the attempt by anti-Communist trade union groups to break
the hold of the Communist Party
on the old trade union structures,
but this progress
has been
persistently
hampered
by the blind
unwillingness of important employ-
er cartels to enter
lective bargaining.
into
real
Largest of the national labor
federations
to
affiliate
with
ICFTU
since the last Congress
is Histadrut,.the Israel federation, which represents more than
650 thousand workers.
members
of all affiliated
col-
PROPAGANDA
FAILURE
“It is significant,” he said, “that
the leadership of the worker revolt
against
totalitarianism
was
taken
by precisely
those young
people
whom the Soviets hoped to use to
make
tyranny
permanent
in the
East.
It
is
significant,
too,
that
today, as in the period of struggle
against Fascism, it is the workers
who have been most willing to risk
their
lives
liberty.”
to
restore
individual
After extensive inspections of
West Berlin’s refugee-settlement
program, Reuther declared that
the single most important contri+
bution which the United States
and the West could make to the
cause of freedom in the cold war
quickly and
would be to move
energetically to make if possible
for West Berlin to eliminate its
tremendous
ment,
West
burden
Berlin,
he
°
of unemploy~
pointed
out,
is
the only window through which the
peoples of the East can see West-
President Reuther was re-elected
to membership in the ICFTU Executive Board, as was AFL President George Meany. Reuther was
accompanied by a seven-man CIO
delegation, made up of Jack Potofsky, president of Amalgamated
and chairman of the CIO International Committee;
James
Carey,
CIO secretary-treasurer,.and president of the IUE; James Thimmes,
vice-president of the CIO and the
Steelworkers;
CIO
vice-presidents
L. S. Buckmaster, president of the
Rubber Workers, and Jack Knight,
president of the Oil Workers; Harry
Sayre,
president
of the
Paper
Workers,
and
CIO
vice-president
Michael
Quill, president
of the
Transport Workers.
to which
sec-
tor of the island city behind the curtain on the day traffie between East and West was restored.
Following numerous personal interviews with workers who
led-the desperate uprisings against the East German puppet
administration and its political company unions, Reuther reported that one of the most
a poor country, built upon a fragile
encouraging conclusions to be
industrial
base
and
heavily
burdened with Soviet occupation and drawn from the rebellions was
that the Communist attempt to
reparation costs. Yet a strong and
democratic
Austrian
labor moveindoctrinate the youth of Hast
ment,
through
its economic
and Germany
was a manifest failpolitical influence, has helped to
ure.
achieve
there
a reasonably
equi-
in Western
Europe
from
seizing
control
of
major
harbors
as
a
means of throttling Marshall Plan
assistance
and
other
forms
of
American aid to Europe.
BACK GUARANTEED WAGE
Since the ICFTU Congress, thé
CIO
Executive Board
has estab. lished a Free World Labor Fund,
to enter the Soviet
ern democracy clearly. “Eliminating West Rerlin’s unemployment,”
he said, “and demonstrating that
democracy offers both economic security and human liberty, would
deprive
Communism
of its most
powerful
propaganda
weapon
against the West.”
PUBLIC
HOUSING
HELPS
After conferences with West
Berlin’s Mayor Ernst Reuter (who
addressed the last UAW-CIO con-
WALTER FREITAG,
gratulates CIO President
ICFTU
conference.
president of the DGB, German trade union federation, conWalter P. Reuther on his keynote speech to delegates of the
At left is CIO Secretary-Treasurer James Carey,
)
vention and who
is regarded
by
most Western observers as democracy’s most eloquent and effective
voice against the dictatorship which
faces him across the sector boundaries), Reuther met with executives of the Berlin branch of the
German Trade Union Federation,
and visited several of the huge new
housing
projects
which
the
city
administration and the Federation
are jointly sponsoring.
UNITED
1953
September,
Page 9
a
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
General Bradley Warns Nation
Against Lowering Military Guard
President Eisenhower and his
WASHINGTON—Whether
first Congress made adequate plans against possible attack by
Soviet Russia remains a lively topic of debate here, although
JOOH ONIOIY i
§
2x 371LL17
Congress has quit and gone home.
Most calm but most impressive voice in the debate is that AGAINST AIR CUTS
of General “of the Army Omar N, Bradley, recently retired
Of the President’s desire to cut
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of?
air defense by $5 billion, Bradley
Staff, What the Saturday Eve- funds, the late Senator Taft ex- notes that this will either delay
pressed the hope that the Truman
the date when we will reach the
canand
full
ning Post calls ‘‘a
be cut by goals of relative safety or will recould
budget
defense
did evaluation of the status of $4 billion.
sult in a reduction of those goals.
in
our defeuses’’ is contained
Taft usually permitted no one He says he personally would be intwo long pieces by Bradley in to outrank him in proposals to slash clined to keep the pressure on
the August 22 and 29 issues of government expenditures. And on until we reach a higher level of
the subject of war and the dangers
readiness and security,
that magazine.
TRUMAN BUDGET IGNORED
President Truman, it will be remembered,
as the law
January,
proposed
submitted in
requires, his
expenditure budget for the’ fiscal
year that began July 1, He asked
Congress to appropriate $40.7 billion of new money for the Armed
Services.
President Eisenhower cut that
request by $5 billion, taking it
Congress
out of the Air Force.
on econsurpassed Eisenhower
omy and appropriated only $34.4
billion of new money.
Against
made
had
it
performance
this
recording
while
21, before the new
worth
March
request
his
for
is
on
that
President
defense
McCarthy ‘Biggest’ Help to Reds,
Reuther Charges at CIO-PAC Rally
WASHINGTON—‘‘McCarthy has done more to strengthen
the Communist movement in Europe than any other American
in history,’’
CIO-PAC
President
CIO
Walter
time low.’’
Senator has
and demorThe impreshas ‘‘taken
American
to an ‘‘all-
RAPS CONGRESS
Key officials of the CIO Political
Action Committee took part in the
rally in which detailed plans for
the
next
months
were
outlined.
Speakers included CIO SecretaryTreasurer
James
B.
Carey
ind
Steelworkers
President
David
J.
McDonald.
All the speakers criticized the
record of the 83rd Congress.
Reuther selected McCarthy as his
special target.
Discussing
what
he had
encountered on his recent tour of
Europe,
Reuther
“I found
not
would not admit
said,
one
person
who
privately that Joe
McCarthy
is one of the biggest
allies the Kremlin has there.”
Reuther pointed out that Europeans take McCarthy much more
seriously than do most Americans
and seem more acutely aware of
the way McCarthy undermines civil
liberties at home and the morale
of U. S. representatives abroad,
CRITICIZES IKE’S LEADERSHIP
Reuther
said
democracy
faces
two
big
threats
in the
world
today
—communism
“on the extreme
left” and “Reaction, as typified by
McCarthy, on the extreme right.”
His main fire, however, was
directed at the lack of accomplishment
by
the
83rd
Congress
and the failure of Eisenhower to
provide the “strong leadership”
which had caused people to vote
for him, “Leadership means that
you stand up and fight for the
things that are right,” Reuther
said,
“not
that
everybody
loves
you no matter what his point of
view.”
“To say that the present fight is
between free enterprise and socialism
is
unadulterated
hogwash,”
our
charged
P. Reuther
kickoff rally here last month.
The Wisconsin
‘divided, confused
alized,’’ he said.
sion that McCarthy
over”’ has brought
prestige in Europe
Evening Post must be interpreted,
therefore, as reflecting a burning
conviction that it is time we other
citizens get into the act.
friends
and
allies
at the
abroad
400 Delegates
To Attend State
FEPC Conference
Plans for a state-wide UAW-CIO
conference on Fair Practices and
Civil Rights to be held in Detroit
October 14-16 have been completed,
William H. Oliver, Co-Director of
the UAW-CIO Fair Practices and
Anti-Discrimination Department,
reports,
The Conference, to be held at the
Masonic Temple, is expected to attract more
than
400 delegates
from the 328 local unions in Michigan,
Oliver said the Conference would
deal with fair employment practices and
equal
accommodations,
with emphasis on the following subjects:
1. Hotels, motels, restaurants and
other places of public accommodation.
2. Fair practices in collective
bargaining.
8. Integration
of Negroes
and
other minority groups
into
skilled trades job classifications.
4, Health and medical facilities
for minority groups.
5. The recent government order
on non-discrimination
in defense contracts,
Speakers invited to address and
take part in the Conference are:
UAW and CIO President Walter P.
Reuther, UAW Secretary-Treasurer
Emil Mazey, UAW Vice-Presidents
John W,
Livingston
and Richard
Gosser,
NAACP
National
10 cents,
tials of six cents,
and
14
cents an hour respectively for the
second, third and swing shifts; $125
per
maximum
to $150
minimum
grievance
years,
woe
Y Mice
and
pehsion,
procedure,
2
Cee
expenditures and put
struggle as Congress
undercut him,
on defense
up no visible
proceeded to
In a Senate vote te restore only
$400 million to the Air Force, Republicans voted unanimously
against the proposal and killed it.
House
Republicans
voted
196
against a proposal to restore
billion to Air Force funds.
BRADLEY
ISSUES
to 5
$1.2
WARNING
Bradley’s protest against the
course which Eisenhower and Congress are following is restrained
but powerfully persuasive, In a national atmosphere that is periodically shattered by McCarthy's bombast and the balmy blatherings of
Bricker, Bradley’s strong, low voice
runs the risk of not being heard at
an
It
excellent
runs
two
their
people about
American
chance of survival in the atomic
age and is appealing to them to
consider it well and to speak up
before too late.
After describing how much our
sacrifices in Korea have contributed along the hard road to security, he says the question now is
whether we will improve our position or, bit by bit, begin to let
down our guard.
“This depends,” he says, “first
on the President and Congress,
on the
finally
but it depends
American people themselves, inare
cluding those of you who
reading this article.”
Bradley
has proven
himself
a
great
citizen
as
well
as
a
military
leader. As different from MacArthur as two former classmates can
respects the
be, he profoundly
principle that the military is subordinate to civilian leadership in matters of national policy. His appeal
to the people through the Saturday
Others
taking
part
in the
Plenty
of Bull
MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN (LPA)
—Nearly a ton of the best grade
beef was ordered for the ox roast
that featured the Muskegon CIO's
Labor Day celebration,
George
Marshall
and
America,
The
Robert
Lovett,
to broadly
distribute defense production among
the
factories
narrower
of
base
of
production,
Bradley says, “is extremely dangerous because it is more vulner-
able
to attack.”
not
says
qualiffed
curity
a
to
we.can
military
say
how
afford
man
much
to
pay
is
se-
for,
but he leaves no doubt that he
thinks security needs come
first.
“In my opinion,” he says, “we must
maintain as long as the need exists whatever forces are necessary
to preserve our country and our
freedom,” and the italics in that
sentence are his.
POLITICS
ON
DEFENSE
President
Eisenhower’s
public
statements reveal that his Administration is balancing security
against economy. The question he
puts to the public is whether we
will bankrupt ourselves by defense
spending and thereby create an internal danger to our security.
Reduced
to simple
terms
this
means whether the people of this
country are living on such short rations that, if asked to tighten their
belts in order to spend more on defense, our economic and political
system would fall apart,
Reduced to political terms the
Eisenhower question is whether
those who voted for him will
change their minds if large defense
expenditures
from
getting
promised
them
Bradley
puts
what
safety.
we
are
He
keep
the
tax
in the
it
says,
up
“No
cuts
he
us
say
campaign.
to
prepared
them
to
to
pay
government
for
in
a democracy can insure its people
more safety than they are willing
to pay for in service and in taxes.”
Some
Z
have
BEFORE
SECURITY
Washington
come
up
with
columnists
illuminating
items on this tug of war between
the needs of national security and
the promise of tax reductions. One
quoted
from a letter written
by
“sll
the Director of the Budget at the
White
House ordering the figure
that the Secretary of Defense was
to use in preparing his request for
Congressional appropriations. It
strongly
indicated
that
economy
was being placed ahead of security.
Another columnist tells us that
a new committee to advise on air
defense has just been set up
(three prior committees all asked
for
more
defense
regardless
of
economy), and that this new committee contains one of the seven
men who earlier had advised the
Budget
Director
that
(quoting
the
columnist)
“balancing
the
budget
than
was
the
far
more
defense
of
important
the
United
States.”
Con-
ference will include a number of
department heads and staff members of the UAW-CIO,
cessors,
ECONOMY
Thurgood Marshall and Dr, Robert
C. Weaver of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing.
On the contracted mobilization
program
under
which
“Engine
Charlie”
Wilson,
Secretary
of
Defense, is concentrating military
production in a few large companies, Bradley pays tribute to the
decision of Wilson’s two prede-
Bradley
Counsel
he
said. “There’s a lot of difference
between
free enterprise
and
big
business robbing the people.” While
crediting President Eisenhower as
“basically a decent person,” Reuther attacked those “surrounding”
him,
bargaining
collective
agent, and then for a contract,
of Local
here, members
workers
474, ratified their first UAW-CIO
(a fine. one)
contract
negotiated
Vice-Presilate Jast month, UAW
dent Richard Gosser, Director of
anthe Foundry ‘Department,
nounced,
The contract gives the employes
wage increases of from seven cents
to 23 cents an hour; shift differen-
month
Taft’s economy
Bradley leaves no doubt, however, that he is trying to tell the
ALBION, Michigan—After nearly
a full year of struggle with the
Company,
Iron
Malleable
Albion
first for recognition of the UAW-
as their
undercut
all.
Albion Iron Struggle
Pays Off in Blue Chips
CIO
of war, no top-ranking politician
was ever more consistently wrong
than Taft about the international
facts of life or more unprepared
to cope with them. Yet, Eisenhower
is
DS
i
we
WOODRUFF RANDOLPH, president of the International Typographical Union (above), won his point at the
-union’s 95th convention in Detroit when delegates voted
overwhelmingly to continue Unitypo, Inc, That's the organization which publishes newspapers in cities where printers
are on strike or locked out, UAW President Walter
Reuther was the featured speaker of the convention,
P.
Average citizens most of the time
live in the dark on questions of
military requirements and defense
expenditures.
Competing
generals
and
admirals
and
rival
seldom
give
them
they can chew on
politicians
such
facts
without fear
as
of
biting a rock, Bradley’s two articles, however, give food for long,
hard thought and carry the conviction of total honesty, profound ex-
perience and an
love of country.
intense
and
sobei
Page 10
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
- AUDIT REPORT
CLARENCE
September,
(Gibizenship und ys ee
Fair Practice and Anti-Diserimination
International
Strike
Fund
....
ssecsse
re
Fund..........—
HL ee oe
TOTAL
LIABILITIES
AND
30, 1953
NET
I}
WORTH
EXHIBIT
H. JoHNSON
1953
36,472.37
53,331.04
Total Represented by Liquid ASSetS..-—...---e-eececsenens-- $13,966, 983.14
Represented: by Other: Assets.2
2
..
3,484,674.93
INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED AUTOMOBILE, AIRCRAFT AND
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS OF AMERICA—CIO
DETROIT, MICHIGAN—JUNE
_
17,451,658.07
$17,995,228.09
Se
“B”
Certified Public Accountant
DETROIT,
MICHIGAN
Member
American Institute of Accountants
Michigan Association of
Certified
CASH
Public Accountants
Trustees, International Executive Board,
International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft
and
Implement Workers of America—CIO,
8000 E. Jefferson Avenue,
Detroit 14, Michigan.
Gentlemen:
In accordance with your instructions, a detailed
Cash Receipts and Disbursements of the
August
EXHIBIT
examination
has
been
made
Educational Fund
Recreational Fund
of the
IMPLEMENT
Dogether
for
the
General
and
month
of
December,
1952,
and
the
six
months
ended
June
30,
six months ended June 30, 1953, have reviewed the system of internal
accounting procedures of the International Union and, without making
examined
Fund
TOTAL
IMPLEMENT
1953,
and
the
Statement of Cash Receipts and Disbursements for the month of December, 1952, and the
of all the transactions, have
.............
control and the
a detailed audit
IMPLEMENT
as of June 30, 1953, and the results of its operations for the month of December, 1952,
and the six months ended June 30, 1953, in conformity with generally-accepted accounting principles applied on a basis consistent with that of the preceding year.
Very truly yours,
CLARENCE H. JOHNSON, ~
Certified Public Accountant.
“EXHIBIT “A”
OF RESOURCES
June 30, 1953
RESOURCES
AND
LIABILITIES,
$ 2,143,922.22
6,000.00
DEPOSEMIN CREDIT UNION 1.00
=e
INVESTMENT SECURITIES—(Cost):
U. S. Government Bonds and Certificates of Indebtedness....$10,212,439.33
Wominian /of (Wannda vRonds
42: see a
x
General Motors Acceptance Corp, Bomds...---.cc--2--so-eweo-eoee 3
:
TOTAL
ACCOUNTS
858,073.11
746,548.48
i
LIQUID:
ASSETS:
222s
os peo
7
ii
—————
11, 817,060.92
cae 27
$13,966,983.14
RECEIVABLE:
Salary Advances—EmMployes
Miscellaneous Advances .
.u.u.ncscsc-ccececeeseoceeececeeeseseeateveceseceeees $
fee
Hotetine deymds oo. ee ee ae
Local Unions for Supplies and Literature
INVENTORIES:
pinpliesMfor Resale o
FIXED ASSETS:
Furniture
Vehicles
and
25.250). 8. oe 2
CASH
ON
December
Lo
ee eee
tee
73,590.00
14,246.52
297,683.63
ne
63,162.28
UAW-CIO
RSA
ress
DOD AI
._...-.-.--:--cecccce--ce-ceneceseesenasesee
$
CURRENT
Accounts and Bills Unpaid
CIO Per Capita Tax.......
Payroll Deductions and
LIABILITIES
ie
<n
Pe ee
ee
719,123.63
303,547.64
;
415,575.99
°
252,878.26
-211,000/00
8,690.23
a
3,251,823.05
$17,995,228.09
-
Let
tS
a ee
NS)
sere onencsoeeeeseeigetenactoigiae ees
Exchanges...
eal SE
June
127,080.70
84,308.78
NET WORTH REPRESENTED BY EXCESS OF RESOURCES
OVER LIABILITIES ALLOCATED AS FOLLOWS:
Represented by Liquid Assets:
:
General SHU)
acai coecceaceecennceoe
-$ 4,961,323.38
Educational Fund
201,412.02
Recreational Fund «sess
170,694.01
32,828.12
5,723.10
12,802.60
543,570.02
312,343.90
1,336,294.67
30, 1953
SCHEDULE
SUMMARY
GENERAL
FUND:
Umpire
Tax......
Charter ‘and Supplies ...
OF RECEIPTS
60.00
General Motors Umpire and
Council Per Capita Tax...
6,969.33
Chrysler Umpire ...................- zs
GENERAL
TOTAL
Six Months Ended
June 30, 1953
$ 7,630,588.29
270,518.00
5,166.75
10,239.14
41,777.02
~ $95.00
56,745.56
178,64
543.00
\
41,918.65
303.75
Ford Council Committee Per
Capita Tax
ase
Miscellaneous
Jef
Interest on Bonds and Dividends on Stocks.............. Interest on Investment Certifleates: =e hs tie te
TOTAL
$ 2,143,922.22
“B-1”
Per Capita Tax ..
$1,211,638.24
Initiation Fees ....
35,522.00
Readmission Fees .
848.25
Work Permits - 2.
2,409.97
Supplies
.....
6,341.71
Previous
International
Aspesgmrenty 22
Se 8 eo x
41.00
Bonds and Burglary
and
°
Holdup Insurance ...........
574.55
Briggs
12,300,836.30
Month of
December, 1952
3,661.25
5,876.00
36,079.53
29;722.94
112,600.11
325.00
14,955.31
4,489.45
FUND
8,387.41
$1,305,122.19
$ 8,233,953.68
FUND:
--$
40,343.52
EDUCATIONAL
RECREATIONAL
254,654.64
254,654.64
FUND:
13,441.03
473.65
TOTAL RECREATIONAL
ROTI ona
—
$
84,871.62
20,748.85
13,914.68
FAIR PRACTICE AND ANTIDISCRIMINATION FUND:
ReriCanitay. axe
et $
Miscellaneous
...........--...-..-.000--
13,460.72
TOTAL FAIR PRACTICE
AND ANTI-DISCRIMINATION FUND .....
INTERNATIONAL
FUND:
$
40,343.52
105,620.47
$
84,911.53
13,460.72
84,911.53
STRIKE
Nhe
335,718.00
$ 2,120,990.84
5,248.20
40,043:29
TOTAL INTERNATIONAL STRIKE FUND...
$
230,846.70
79,891.23
$3,124,598.84
BESSINGN
(Sait ree
oes OU
__..............Son cases ee eee oes
NET WORTH
$14,444,758.52
5,000:00
120,508.98
700,539.36
Per Capita Tax .......................$
1950 Emergency
Strike As-
LIABILITIES
LIABILITIES:
TOTAL
. 20002 2...eeeeenseeseceecieneeeneneee —
Broadcasting Corp, of Michigan.
etre
hese
aa
SO UGH
$4,460,893.51
50,873.78
18,805.03
104,136.48
Per Capita Tax
Miscellaneous
INVESTMENTS:
j
Union Building Corporation—U. S. A.n.u.encceeceeceneceecenseneenenens $ 2,680,324.45
Union Building Corporation—Canada...----1e---neeeeeeeo-e
98,930.11
Health Institute of the WA W-CIO
11,264,285.90
$10,856,706.13
31, 1952...
Per Capita Tax .....
Literature and Supplies.
696,379.37
22,744.26
for Depreciation
1,780,910.91
.
45,096.34
‘
HAND—
EDUCATIONAL
1,149.48
208,697.63
Fixtures
Less—Reserves
84,911.53
2,161,034.13
424,111.45
.-$1,161,999.34
or tested accounting records of the International
INTERNATIONAL UNION
AUTOMOBILE, AIRCRAFT AND AGRICULTURAL
WORKERS OF AMERICA—CIO
STATEMENT
~ 13,460.72
340,966.20
67,103.60
DISBURSEMENTS
Union and other supporting evidence by methods and to the extent deemed appropriate.
In my opinion, the accompanying Statement of Resources and Liabilities and related
Statement of Cash Receipts and Disbursements present fairly thé position of the
UNITED
254,654.64
105,620.47
2.20
Educational Fund ..
Recreational Fund ..
Fair Practice and An
crimination Fund ..............
International Strike Fund...
Citizenship Fund
0...
Liabilities of the
INTERNATIONAL UNION
AUTOMOBILE, AIRCRAFT AND AGRICULTURAL
WORKERS OF AMERICA—CIO
UNITED
40,343.52
13,914.68
DEDUCT—DISBURSEMENTS:
Certificate
of Resources
$ 3,124,598.84
$ 8,233,953.68
TOTAL RECEIPTS ......
Miscellaneous Advances and
Exchanges
Return of Funds
Union Deposit Account ....
“B-1"—Summary of Receipts—
Month of December, 1952.
Six Months ended June 30, 1953.
“B-2"”—Summary of Disbursements—
Month of December, 1952.
Six Months ended June 30, 1953.
the Statement
=i
Fair Practice and Anticrimination Fund ............
International Strike~Fund....
Citizenship Fund ..................
SCHEDULE
examined
..
.....
Six Months Ended
June 30, 1953
$2,634,886.26
ADD—RECEIPTS:
General Fund ............__.. $1,305,122.19
“A”—Statement of Resources and Liabilities—June 30, 1953.
“B”—Statement of Cash Receipts and Disbursements—
Month of December, 1952.
Six Months ended June 30, 1953.
I have
HAND—
November 30, 1952... _
December 31, 1952... es
Agricultural
INTERNATIONAL UNION
AUTOMOBILE, AIRCRAFT AND AGRICULTURAL
WORKERS OF AMERICA—CIO
UNITED
17, 1953.
ON
Month of
December, 1952
CITIZENSHIP FUND:
Per Capita Tax
Miscellaneous
$40,966.20
$
67,103.60
2,161,034.13
$
424,111.45
67,103,60
424,111.45
$1,780,910.91
$11,264,285.90
AUTOMOBILE
Page 11
WORKER
s
rt
po
Re
y
e
z
a
M
d,
un
So
es
_ Financ
The audit by Certified Publie Accountant Clarence H. John-
son for the seven-month period ending June 30, 1953, establishes
erepr
s
Thi
07.
58.
1,6
,45
$17
at
O
CI
WUA
the
of
th
Wor
Net
the
sents a gain of $5,412,360.78 over our Net Worth as of May 31,
1952,
The Total Liquid Assets of the International Union on June
,817.87.
951
$4,
of
gain
a
or
14,
83.
6,9
,96
$13
to
ed
unt
amo
,
1953
30,
over May 31,1952. These Liquid?
Assets include our Cash in MEMBERSHIP
Our average dues-paying memBanks; United States Certificates of Indebtedness (Govern- bership for the first eight months
1,429,827, or a gain of
was
1953
of
of
on
ni
mi
Do
;
s)
nd
Bo
ment
bers over the average
mem
543
249,
in
ts
si
po
Canada Bonds; De
for the
bership
mem
dues-paying
31, 1953,
fiscal-year ending May
membership
average
our
when
\
was 1,180,284.
Our increased membership has
been due to extensive work on
the part of our various organizing departments and Regional
staffs, and increased employment
during the past year in plants
engaged in defense~production.
We can expect a reduction in the
number of dues-paying’members as
a result of curtailment of production in plants of the Chrysler Corporation, Nash, Kaiser, Willys, and
in reduction of production in the
entire Agricultural Implement InOur dues-paying memberdustry.
ship will be affected by a curtail-
(Credit Unions; and General MoCorporation
Acceptance
tors
3onds.
Other
vestment
which
Assets,
Resale,
for
Supplies
in
In-
include
Fixtures, Vehicles,
Furniture and
Investments in Union Building Cor-
Broadcasting
CIO
poration,
Receivable
Accounts
These
$3,484,674.93.
$460,542.91
31,
May
on
1952.
to
amount
are
Assets
they
were
on
June
Liabilities
Current
Our
than
greater
and
Stocks
Michigan,
of
poration
Cor-
30, 1953, totalled $543,570.02. These
Liabilities represent Accounts and
Unpaid Bills, CIO Per Capita, Tax
and’ ExDeductions
Payroll
and
changes.
NET
ment
WORTH
the
Our Net Worth is represented by
excess of Resources over Liabilities, and is allocated in the following
13,966,983.14
Assets.
vscseneees
8,484,674.93
Represented by Other
=
|General Fund
| Bdueational
reduc-
Strike
WORTH
Fund
Total
COMMENTS
has a right to be
Our Union
elated in the steady progress that
we are making in improving our
financial position. Our Union is in
the best financial position in its
history.
We must, however, realistically
in
status
financial
our
examine
it represents per
terms of what
member, and in full recognition of
the economic and political climate
in which we are living.
Our General Fund of $4,961,323.38 represents only $3.46 per
dues-paying member.
of $8,543,Fund
Strike
Our
750.32 represents only $5.97 per
dues-paying member.
May 31, 1952
132,802.28
$2,047,393.50
Fund
...., 7
170,694.01
130,646.06
+
40,047.95 | Union.
53,331.04
141,142.20
—
87,811.16
Fund
6,038,404.37
474,776.86
a
$9,015,165.27
3,583.07
3,274.18
ivingston
Accounting ..........
Agricultural Implement
Air Line —..
|
}
Allis-Chalmers
6,835.67
3,209.71
824.07
32,882.58
19,378.16
6,287.93
168.2
900.61
7,496.52
|
Borg-Warner
2,507.69
Briggs
Midwestern
Chrysl5er
Chrysler
Se
Umpire
Corp.
Dana
.
Shop
-.
Council
Die Casting —
-.
=
—..and Meck neale+,
Editor
erinig
engineial
Ford
eae
.
a
Ford Umpire and Council...
28sec
Foundry.
General and Administrative
General Motors .......-.----.c0----«
GM Board of Review ........-...
GM Umpire and Council...
PIOUS pee eects
International Harvester ......
J. I. Case
Organization
Com.
JON Deere eenccenseceoceeneyemeseoe
Legal
Mack
Truck
...
Nash-Kelvinator and
daille-Hershey
National Aircraft
Office Workers
Hou-
PULCHASING ceeccsseesescecveecoeerseeese
Research and Engineering...
Pkilled "TrAadee: sexicpsconssonpessees
Social Security ..
Spring Council
a
......
Studebaker
CompensaUnemployment
cae catraedls cadnneaculles ”
PN
with six months’ service gets three
days’ vacation; nine months, four
days;
and
a
full
days. Workers with 15 years’ service and greater receive 15 work
days’ vacation.
2,355.84
6,472.02
244.24
42,961.38
3,460.90
1,333.14
$0 ete
Six Months Ended
June 30, 1958
;
23
93 169.30
1,249.98
No.5.
21510.14
134 398.29
17.608 97
151 866.84
18.195.71
111.677.30
7,194.31
35,691.84
No.
5,528.85
'50
| $28128
795.00
4.157
293,06
4,970.3
11,999.35
68,027.70
29,977.54
7,460.36
1,049.54
29,476.98
5,315.59
102.84
27,465.10
6,158.85
5,387.84
159,562.54
40,251.63
11,405.41
12,201.62
9,434.02
911.65
76,436.67
80,003.85
60,742.50
4,923.64
5,998.34
24,666.44
$
9
NS
Asi
Ks
;
$ 3,036,623.08
343,643.84
TOTAL RECREATIONAL
$
160,326.57
——_—_—_—__—-
.essceccccesecseeeos--+
ANTI-DISAND
PRACTICE
FAIR
TOTAL
=
:
.
FUND
CRIMINATION
TOTAL INTERNATIONAL STRIKE FUND
TOTAL CITIZENSHIP FUND
TOTAL
EXPENDITURES
.
ee
ee
FUND.
.
388,820.98
160,326.57
EXFUND
GENERAL
TOTAL
GRAND
tata torres $1,161,999.34
Sete ustenaescass
jicccoeccssceces
PENDITURES
32,828,12
aioe
TOTAL EDUCATIONAL FUND.
GRAND
1,980,269.44
$
302,752.83
746,548.48
pocseeceeataeccs ecernenes $
EXPENASSET
TOTAL
DITU RDS ecient
’
eat
’
Canada Bonds .................-..
Purchase of General Motors
Acceptance Corp. Bonds..
Union Building Corporation
5,875.80
11,780.92
116 445.13
Purchase of U.S, Certificates
;
of Indebtedness ...........
-of
of Dominion
Purchase
2,083.00
26,821.59
317.11
9,905.38
é
FROM
GENERAL FUND:
61,505.39
2,129,724.42
101,578.56
.
15539899
144 842 86
............
ASSET EXPENDITURES
.
2.75
117,05ean
a
REGIONS
‘
130,316.79
15 540.38
"
TOTAL
31,754.12
4,719.48
10....
;
aoe
114 189.41
73.117.04
86.367
14,634.02
27 641.91
21 010.74
1
2985
89,398.58
13. 666.86
Nir dee
ARON
y
105.772.73
17.660 26
20790
,790.17
work
five
year,
2,112.54
11,930.14
No.7
On
the
first year of employment. A worker
Month of
December, 1952
No. 4...
in
starts
139 948.43
10,565.55
593,002.60
1,037.30
e
4,248.05
feature
progressive
our|
of
25,499.35
1,818.83
98,595.67
2,346.33
resources
3
No.8
of vaca-
increases in length
No.
3,500.00
provides
it
that
9,047.18
40,755.25
994.01
in
plan
#.606,010-26
ee ARTE NTS
i
No.6
2,484.36
65.79
1,546.80
yearly
staff mem-|
688..21
14,688
28,025.07
10,756.35
345,172.42
14,833,54
vacation
rep-|
12 387.60
6,544.57
9,320.84
organized.
The contract establishes a unique
ees
15 354.82
11 297.36
8,590.32
375.00
were
123.53
—
GENERAL FUND:
REGIONS:
38,638.84
6,330.61
,
....
Stabilization
Washington Office —
Women's Auxiliary —
837.50
416.66
Briggs Umpire
the
5,973.29
1,032.63
6,753.03
fulfills
concerned
of the
$198,000
Approximately
total inerease was granted by the
companies during the final week,
and came in time to avert strike
shutdowns in some of the foundries.
International
Secretary-Treasurer.
TORT
13,704.99
on bees
oees
Betidix (ass
eee
=.=
Circulation
Competitive
|
|
Saarye
120,15
, 1.89
CIO
|
pater
18,648
, .17
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|
18,290.51
16,865.90
other
dries
ayy,
438,304.49
—
———
+$4,951,817.87
Wage
International
power
promises made by UAW-CIO
orof
under the direction
ganizers,
Richard Gosser,
Vice-President
early last spring when the foun-
Respectfully submitted,
2,455,345.95
UAW Trustees .
Veterans _........
Six Months Ended
June 30, 1953
..
Auditing g
i
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$
+
and
improving
201,412.02
Month of
December, 1952
President’s Office -.........-. $
Secretary-Treasurer’s Office
Vice-Presidents’ Office—
we
See
|in
68,609.74
-.....
8,543,750.32
members,
purchasing
workers
the
of
and|
officers
fellow
increased
bers for their continued cooperation | tion up to 15 years of service. This
‘Fund
...... escee
The
contractual demands that we will
in 1955.
on industry
be making
Our Union, at its last convention in
March,
1953, by unanimous vote,
resolved
to secure
a guaranteed
annual wage in 1955.
We
must
build adequate
resources to achieve our 1955 program
with
the least amount
of
sacrifice on the part of our members.
I wish to take this opportunity of
“my
Business
CLEVELAND—Cleveland mertheir sales potential
had
chants
for the coming year increased an
month
last
$506,000
additional
in 10
members
UAW-CIO
when
Cleveland foundries of the Foundry
Manufacturers Association ratified
a contract proposal containing a
23
averaging
increase
package
cents per hour for 1,100 workers.
order to successfully cope with the
|resentatives,
+$2,913,929.88
+
To Cleveland
pro-business
administration
in
Washington.
The leadership and the membership of our Union must begin to
give consideration to increasing the
resources
of our organization
in
—Decrease over | Board
May 31,1952
Foundry Contract
$1, Million Present
BUFFALO
(LPA)—Suggesting a
use for glass previously scrapped
won
inspection
pre-assembly
by
$1,310.73 for Frank Scaruto, UAWCIO member at the Ford assembly
plant.
thanking
+Increase
SCHEDULE “B-2”
DISBURSEMENTS
OF
SUMMARY
GENERAL FUND:
DEPARTMENTS:
Sees Through Problem
membership
of our
bulk
The
contracts,
long-term
by
covered
expire in 1955, made subwhich
stantial progress this year under
the provisions of these agreements.
of our Union that are
Members
agreeterm
shorter
by
covered
ments are facing greater difficulthis
settlements
ties in reaching
year than they have in the past.
The greater resistance to the aspirations of our membership can
be attributed, in great part, to the
June 30,1953
the
started
trouble
childhood—thls
“! had a perfectly normal
day | quit the union.”
N
There are grave signs of growing
economic difficulty in our country,
with which the pro-business administration in Washington is totally
unprepared to’ cope. Worsened economic conditions will create serious
of
problems for the membership
«
our Union.
36,472.37
...0...
—
;
......+.0e+e++--$13,966,9383.14
Citizenship
Our Total Liabilities and Net)
Worth on June 30, 1953, amounted
to $17,995,228.09.
lion,
..........$ 4,961,323.38
Fair Practices and A. D.
=. 57: Soe
Bundes)
AND
LIABILITIES.
TOTAL
a steady
ww
membership
dues-paying
one and one-quarter mil-
average
of about
COMPARISON
sc ccc sie sweets $17,451,658.07 | Recreational
Moatal>
NET
expect
FUND
8,543,750.32
54. oe
of 1953.
in
of the curtailment of aircraft and
tank production.
I believe, however, that with the
camorganizational
extensive
paigns currently under way, our
Union will be able to maintain an
53,331.04
Agsetsis.
production
tion of employment in plants engaged in defense work as a result
....... $ 4,961,323.38
General Fund
201,412.02
...
Educational Fund
170,694.01
Recreational Fund ...
86,472.37
....
Citizenship Fund
Represented by Liquid
last quarter
We can
manner:
Fair Practice and A. D.
5 02 Weel ates
Bun
International Strike
Fmd
isieei
aoe sco
of automobile
rc
5,723.10
18,805.03
104,136.48
12,802.60
aos
aan
......$1,336,294,67
ee
—
$
4,515,636.36
+>
$10,856,706.13
230,846.70
79,891,23
¢
P
f
j
120,508.98
700,539.36
312,343.90
=
$12,300,836.30
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UNITED. AUTOMOBILE WORKER
September, 1959
Poll Tax
Deadlines
a
PRRRLARARAEK
The UAW-CIO
is opposed to
all Poll Taxes.
However, they
still exist in several Southern
states.
All UAW-CIO members
who
live in these
states are
urged to pay their Poll Taxes,
and use their votes wisely, Check
for your state below.
ALABAMA: $1.50 annual Poll
Tax
payable
from
October
1,
1953, to February
1, 1954, for
elections in 1954, (All delinquent
ae
Poll Taxes since 1901 must be
paid.)
ARKANSAS: $1.00 annual Poll
Tax payable before September
80, 1953, for elections in 1954,
MISSISSIPPI:
$2.00 annual
Poll Tax payable before February 1, 1954, for citizens between
21-60 years. Must present Poll
Tax
receipts for two previous
years.
TEXAS:
$1.50 annual Poll
Tax payable
by January
30,
1954, for elections in 1954 for
citizens between 21-60 years,
VIRGINIA:
$1.50 annual Poll
Tax payable by May 1, 1954, for
elections in 1954, Poll Taxes for
last three years must be paid.
Reuther Key Speaker
At Litho’s Convention
TORONTO, ONTARIO
— UAW
and CIO President Walter P. Reu-
ther
GROWTH IN ATLANTA
placing
19-cents
of
the 24-cent cost-of-living float in
the base rate; improvements in the
pension plan; increasing total permanent disability payments from|
LANSING,
linea
UAW-CIO
Local
435,
Something New
Joe Mc-
Carthy wangled his way to the platform at the Veterans of
Foreign Wars national encampment in Milwaukee recently.
The rank-and-file vets got the jump on Jumping Joe after
the eager-beaver senator from Wisconsin stiff-armed his way
onto the speakers’ schedule. While Joe ranted, thousands of
delegates trooped to the baseball game or went shopping or
spent the time consuming some of the stuff that made Milwaukee famous. Think McCarthy impresses most people?
Look at the bored expressions on the faces of the few vets
who stayed for the speech.
speaker
at
the
12th
Biennial
Convention
of the
CIO
Amalgamated
Lithographers
meeting here last month,
Reuther
spoke after welcoming speeches by
local officials. and. labor leaders,
CCL President. A. R. Mosher and
Litho’s President John Blackburn,
Other featured speakers were Sen«
ator Wayne Morse (Ind., Oregon),
Mrs. Esther Murray of CIO-PAC,
and President Edward J. Volz of
the
AFL
The
Photoengravers,
Lithographers
expressed
ap-
proval of the CIO’s political goals
both in Canada and the “States.”
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Members
rector William McAulay and co-workers
check progress in the construction of UAW
Local 653’s new $157,000 union hall. Left
to right are Newman Jeffrey, international
representative; Charles §. Curry, Local
653’s president; McAulay, and Bob Boyer,
financial secretary of the local. The building, scheduled for completion November 1,
will include a banquet room and assembly
hall, union offices, kitchen and five committee rooms in the basement. Below is the
and the News”
employed
at the Strick Trailer Manufacturing Company,
will receive a
seventh paid holiday — Lincoln’s
Birthday, February 12—as the result of a recently signed agreement.
Local 435 believes this is the first
UAW-CIO
agreement
to include
Lincoln’s Birthday as a holiday.
when
key
1
CIO is
on the air!
Check Your
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Starting Sept. 7
Win Lincoln’s Birthday
ILLINOIS—
IN DROVES,
the
CIO Auto Workers here, and his
wife is not far behind him.
His
2378 points led the Expert
Bowmen Division of Class A, top rank
at the
National
Field
Archery
Tournament.
Mrs, White won the
title-in the Bowmen’s Division for
Women with 1318 points,
July, 1952.
CHICAGO,
(LPA)—
Champion
arrow
shooter
of the
U.S. is Jack White, member of the
$50 to a maximum of $90 a month |
aiter the age of 50; full vacation|
credit fer retirees
retroactive
to|
This affects UAW-CIO Local 9 in
South Bend; Local 604 in Elmira,
New
York;
Local
179
in North}
Hollywood, California; Local 104 in
Detroit, and Local 153 in Teterboro, New Jersey.
It was underStood that the same contract improvements would be made in the
Bendix plant in St. Joseph, Michigan, and in the Bendix Westinghouse Plant in Elyria, Ohio.
Approximately 40,000 workers are
covered by these agreements.
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The UAW-CIO
and the Bendix
Aviation Corporation have reached
agreement on modifying the master
contract between the Union and the
Corporation under the same general terms agreed to between the
UAW-CIO and' the major automobile companies, it was announced
by Martin Gerber, Director of
UAW-CIO Region 9 and the UAW
National Bendix Department.
The contract revision includes increasing the annual improvement
factor from four to five cents; conversion to the new BLS formula
for determining cost-of-living wage
ATLANTA, Georgia—UAW-CIO
Amalgamated Local 472 continued
its rapid expansion here as workers
of the Meadows Manufacturing
Company rebelled against the Company’s vicious anti-union activities
and yoted four to one in favor of
joining the Local.
STAYED
SR
BENDIX ACCEPTS
IMPROVEMENTS IN
MASTER CONTRACT
THEY
was
architect’s drawing of how the Local 653’s
new home will look when completed.
Page 12
UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKER
September, 1953
CIO Unions Back Wagner Slate
Gerosa the Man
For Comptroller
CIO Unions in New York City have rallied behind
happy
to. vote
“So remember
for.
Primary
Day
far away. It’s September 15.
Democrats
vote
all enrolled
real Democratic ticket.”
isn’t
Let
the
Veterans’ Group
Bolts to Wagner
Louis
man
of
Party,
Tangredi,
general chairthe Fighting Veterans
Inc.,
who
has
headed
the
Committee
on Veterans
which
worked
for Mayor
Impellitteri’s
election
in 1950,
recently
announced that he and a majority
of the Committee were supporting
Robert F. Wagner,
Jr., Lawrence
E- Gerosa and Abe Stark in the
Democratic Primary Election, September 15.
—
“Our feeling is that Mayor Impellitteri cynically used us in order to get elected,” declared Tangredi. “Once he got what he was
after, he no longer took any interest in the welfare of the veterans, and we feel that he is undeserving of the support of any
recognized veterans organization or
individual veteran. .. .”
Mr. Tangredi
is assistant chief
of staff of the New York County
American Legion, a member of the
Veterans
of
Foreign
Wars
and
Father Duffy Post of the Catholic
War
Veterans.
He
is also Past
Commander of the Francis Vego
Post of the Legion.
“IT urge all honorably discharged
veterans, both men and women, to
go
out and
do their
utmost
to
nominate Robert F, Wagner, Jr.,
as the Democratic
candidate
for
mayor,
Lawrence
E. Gerosa
for
Comptroller,
and Abe
Stark
for
president of the City Council in
the September 15 Primary,” Tangredi said, adding further, “Wagner is a real veteran, and Gerosa
and Stark are more than friendly
to veterans.”
Milton Rosenberg is vice-president of the CIO Textile Workers’ Union and chairman of the New York City PAC, while
Charles H. Kerrigan is New?
dent of the Borough of ManhatYork regional director of the
tan where he established a brilUAW-CIO.
liant record fighti
The name of Wagner is not a
new one to the forces of organized labor. In fact, any history
of the U. S. labor movement
could not be written without devoting several
chapters
to the
contributions
made
by
young
Wagner’s father, the late Senator Wagner, to the labor movement and to social progress generally.
In his campaign
for the New
York Mayoralty nomination, young
Bob
ROBERT F. WAGNER, JR.
Hulan Jack’s on Right Track:
He’s
Backed
for
Manhattan
Post
Democrat Hulan E. Jack, Assemblyman from the 14th Assembly District of New York County and candidate: for Borough President of Manhattan on the Wagner ticket, bears the
endorsement of the New York CIO Council; New York AFL
Central Trades Council, Civil?
Servite Forum, Liberal Party,
Uniformed Firemen’s Association, New York District Council of Carpenters, Citizens’
Union, Affiliated Young Demoerats and other progressive
groups.
As
an
assemblyman,
Jack
intro-
duced legislation
for child-care
centers, to curb Communism
and
Wagner
is
not
relying
upon
his dad’s reputation
and
accomplishments. He is standing firmly
upon his own record as a vigorous
fighter for causes which are near
and dear to everyone interested in
the labor movement.
Young Bob Wagner started his
public career in 1937 as a member
of the New York State Assembly.
His record as an Assemblyman
marked him as a rising leader in
the fight for decent
government
and social legislation,
He introduced the first housing bill in the New York Legis-
lature,
and
was
active
in
win-
ning
substantial
victories
to
increase the benefits and extend
the coverage of both unemployment and workmen’s compensation. He fought for FEPC legislation and for improved
health
services
for
the
people
of New
York State.
au
When? World
War
II rolled
around, Bob resigned from the As.| sembly and joined the Army where
he served in the’ European theater
under General Patton. After more
than
four
years
in
the
Army
young
Wagner
emerged
in 1945
as a lieutenant colonel,
Resuming
his
political
career,
Bob Wagner became Commissioner of the Dept.
of Housing
and
Building in New York City,
He
promptly instituted a program of
enforcing the city’s housing laws,
HULAN E. JACK
and initiated a program for pubtypes of legislation leading to bet- lic housing which accomplished the
ter or expanded
housing,
health,
building of more than 20,000 new
schools and civil rights. He de- dwelling units.
serves support in the September
During the past four years,
15 primaries.
Robert Wagner has been presi-
subversive
activities, to end discrimination
in employment,
also
numerous labor: bills in the interests of the workers. He fought
against the three per cent sales
tax, the 15 per cent: rent increase
and the Transit Authority.
Jack graduated from New York
Evening High School, and attended New York University, majoring in Business Administration.
He is a member of the Grand
Street Boys’ Association, Local
299 of the AFL Paper Box Makers’ Union, Paper Box Makers’a
Association,
St. Thomas
the
Apostle Roman Catholic Church,
and president of the Apostle
Holy Name Society.
Assemblyman
Jack
has
steadfastly initiated and -supported all
a
ng
for better
schools, for decent salaries and
better working conditions for the
city’s 250,000 employes.
On the national scene, Wagner
also established a fine record as
a vigorous liberal. He has been an
outspoken critic of the Taft-Hartley Act. As chairman of the National Committee on Housing for
both
the Catholic War
Veterans
and Americans for Democratic Action, he has appeared before Congressional Committees, leading the
fight for decent housing,
In his campaign
for the
New
York
Mayoralty,
Borough President Wagner has the wholehearted support of numerous nationallyknown
liberals. Among
these are
Senator Herbert H. Lehman,
W.
Averill
Harriman
and
Congressman Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.
Stark's Support
To Help Wagner
Experienced
political
observers
are firmly convinced that Robert
F. Wagner, Jr., made a very sound
choice in designating
Abe
Stark
as his running mate for president
of the New York City Council in
the Democratic Primary of Tuesday, September 15,
Long
identified
philanthropic
with
activities
civic
in
Brook-
lyn, Stark’s popularity. is expected
to result in a tremendous vote for
the
-Wagner
slate
in
the
city’s
largest borough,
In 1949, as candidate for bor« _
ough
president
of Brooklyn,
Stark
received
350,000
votes,
more than some candidates for
mayor
have
obtained
in
city-~
wide elections. He has always
been an enrolled: Democrat.
While active as New York City
Commissioner of Commerce, Stark
held a number of conferences with
business and labor leaders from
every industry in order to prevent
a business exodus
which
threate
ened-the entire city and its economy.
And Impy Sputtered
In a scathing statement,
New
York Mayoralty Candidate Robert
F, Wagner accused Mayor Impellitteri of surrendering to political
blackmail, inflammatory appeals on
racial grounds, hasty decisions and
other “floundering acts of a desperate man
grasping
at every,
| straw.”
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and
NEW YORK CIO LEADERS ATTEND WAGNER PARTY—Over 200 CIO union leaders in New York City attended a reception tendered Democratic Candidates Wagner,
Gerosa and Stark. Among those present were, 1. to r., Leonard Schiller, UAW-CIO Region 9 representative; William Sherer, president UAW Local 770; Hugh Hallinan, president UAW Local 671; Robert F, Wagner, Jr., candidate for Mayor; Abe Stark, candidate for Council President; Averill Harriman, Lawrence Gerosa, candidate for City Comptroller; Patrick Gibbons, president UAW Local 188, and Director Charles H. Kerrigan,
UAW-CIO Region 9.
at
very
one the people will be
by the Labor-For-Wagner Committee under the
active leadership of Milton Rosenberg and Charles H. '
Kerrigan, chairman and secretary, respectively.
lla
people—and
of September 15. This CIO drive has been sparked
aimee
“Once the right men are given
the right jobs, the city will go
forward as it should to its rightful place as the most progressive
and most industrious city in the
world.” That’s what Lawrence E.
Gerosa, Democratic candidate for
* Comptroller in the September 15
New York City Primary Election,
declared in a campaign speech.
Said Gerosa,
“With Bob Wagner’s knowledge of city affairs, his
wholesome outlook and his honest
purpose, he will carry on the Democratic tradition
of progressive
government in its broadest sense.
“With
Abe
Stark’s
knowledge
of business and his experience as
a community leader and a Department of Commerce official, he will
sound
balance
this ideal
with
thinking.
“To this I shall contribute whatever I can in applying the latest
business methods to my fiscal responsibility as comptroller. I:think
we'll have a good team, a government that will stand for business,
labor and community betterment.
“I am convinced that we have a
a
good
ticket,
a strong
ticket,
clean ticket, and one that the average American voter will recognize
as in the best interests of all the
the candidacy of Robert F. Wagner, Jr., for Mayor of
New York in the Democratic Party Primary Election
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