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United Automobile Worker
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1953-11-01
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Vol. 17 No. 11
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VOL.
NO.
17,
November,
1H
1953
UAW-CIO’s
Full Employment
Will Be Held
in Washington
GM Buys Willow Run Plant; —
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Printed
AZ
in
USA.
Conference
Next
Month
Page Three
| Presbyterian Church Opposes
Reneges on Rebuilding Livonia | McCarthy-Like Inquisitions
Page Five
Page Four
North Asiiiiichas Workers Strike in Three Cities
Page Two
Issue
In This
Scheduled
Conference
Aircraft
Next
For Washington
Month
Page Three
Chrysler
Buys
Promises
No
Briggs
Plants;
Production
Break
Page Five
Long
For
Strikes
Bring
Kingsford,
Success
Avco
Locals
Pages Eight and Ten
WISE—ORGANIZE
WORKERS
CHRYSLER
OFFICE
CREWS
SHOW
See Pages Six and Seven
EXCEPT for the picket signs, these VAW-CIO
strikers look like they're holding a hoe-down
in front of the North American Aviation plant.
The picture was snapped at Los Angeles, but
the morale was just as high in Fresno and
Columbus,
members
where
other
thousands
are on strike against
NAA,
of UAW
|
Movember,
ee
ee
ee
UNITED
1953
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Page 3
UAW-CIO Carries Its Fight for Jobs
To Washington, December 6 and 7
Ramet
Delegates from UAW-CIO local unions will meet in Washington December)
6 and 7 for a National UAW-CIO Conference to Fight for Full Employment
and against Unemployment.
The conference has been called by the International Executive Board so that.
and
ployment in our industries
for full employment.
in our
programs
and
policies
to advance
growing
the
vigorous action can be taken by the UAW-CIO to combat
unem-|
fight
~ The conference will consider, discuss and take action on a program to be)
submitted to the conference by the International Executive Board.
Local unions have been asked to send one delegate for 500 members or less;|
one additional delegate for the next 500 members ‘or major fraction thereof; one,
additional delegate for the next 4,000 members or major fraction thereof; one)
additional delegate for each additional 10,000 members or major fraction thereof.)
Details of the International Executive Board’s program were printed in the!
October issue of the United Automobile Worker and are reprinted here on this
.
same page.
The program is designed both to work through government agencies and ;
collective bargaining to provide expansion of purchasing power and maximum
job opportunities.
The conference will hear a number of speakers, representing government,
farmers and other groups.
Enough
Strong
Suggested Action
To Repel Recession
CHICAGO—A group of Czechoslovakian
trade unionists,
refugees from behind the Iron Curtain, heard a first hand report on
what Communism
has done
to
the once-famous Czech standards
of female
beauty.
The
report
came from a ‘former Czechoslo-
The National UAW Conference to fight for full employment and to fight against unemployment will consider and
act upon the following recommendations:
Urge the President of the United States and his Administrato
i tion to take immediate aggressive and effective steps
to
implement the purposes of the Employment Act of 1946 and
ms as
carry out such broad, long-range economic policies and progra
will assure full employment and full production in peace time.
Urge both President Eisenhower and Congressional leaders
2. to support and enact legislation which will:
Increase unemployment compensation benefits and extend the duration of such benefits so that workers displaced by layoffs can have their purchasing power
maintained.
Increase the minimum wage to $1.25 per hour and
thereby exparid the purchasing power of millions of
America’s lowest-income families.
Raise the Social Security retirement payments and expand coverage of Social Security benefits, thereby expanding the purchasing power base of the millions of
upon Social Security as the
old people who depend
means of sustaining themselves.
Passage of an equitable tax program based upon the
principle of ability to pay. This will include increasing
the personal exemption to $1,000, continuation of the
excess profits tax; and plugging the loopholes by which
corporations and wealthy families escape their tax responsibilities. Such a tax program, based upon cutting
the standard of luxuries of wealthy families who have
more than they need and reducing the tax burden of
low-income families who have too little, will do much
to shift the tax burden in the right direction and will
A.
to Make
Man Weep
vakian
béauty
queen,
Nikki
Ni-
colai, who was Miss Prague of
1946.
“The new beauty standards under
Communism,”
said
Miss
Nicolai, “are based on thé amount
of work
a
girl does
for the
Party. For example, perfect legs
or
bust
measurements.
don’t
count any more compared to distributing so many thousand
pamphlets
tion quota
or meeting a
in a factory.”
Gs,
p
LOS ANGELES — It’s chow
h American
picket line here as two strikers, mother and son, take a
sandwich break. The upside down picket signs are “legal
procedure.” When not walking the line, pickets in Los
Angeles County must turn ’em down, police called by the
company assert. Local 887 President Paul Schrade reports there has been no violence.
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produc-
Aircraft Workers
Conference
Set in Washington Next Month
With the Conference Call in the mail, plans are now|
being completed for a record representation from local
unions at the UAW-CIO National Aircraft Conference in
Washington, D.C., December 8-9.
Early returns indicate that
the conference will attract announced that the conference
will again be a “working conferrepresentation
from
every
place billions of high velocity purchasing power dollars
ence”
devoted
to~discussion
of
UAW
local
union
engaged
in the hands of low-income groups.
collective
bargaining
problems
substantially
in
aircraft
proE. Enact legislation for a national moratorium on debts
common to aircraft workers. He
and installment loans for people who have been laid off. duction.
stated that the conference will
The Conference will receive a report on the preparatory
« work done to date by the International Union on the guaranteed annual wage and will discuss plans for the implementation
of the guaranteed annual wage demand and its relation to labor’s
historic struggle for a shorter work week.
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WORK
MEETING
Vice President John W. Livingof
the union’s
ston,
Director
National . Aircraft
Department
devote
a major portion of the
two days to drafting and adopting resolutions which will serve
as the basis of the UAW’s
aireraft program in the coming year.
“Recent
trends
in aircraft
labor-management
situations
indicate that aircraft managements
are
anxious
to avail
themselves
fully
of the type
of support which a big-business
government administration of-
a
tries organized by our union,” he
added.
AIR FORCE OUT
“One thing which will be differ.
ent this year than in previous
conferences will be the probable
absence of officials from government, such as the Air Force, Defense Department, etc.” he said,
“In previous years we have
heard
from
the
governmengé |
people in our conferences because we felt that they were
anxious
to know the problem
of aircraft workers and also
that they were anxious to tell
aircraft local leadership some
of their problems.
“Recent
actions by Washingtion officials indicate that their
interest
is not in the Defense
program or in workers and their
problems
as
much
as
it
is
in
supporting aircraft managements
in their efforts to weaken unions
union,” Livingston
said.
“These. policies need to be given and resist their efforts to make
progress.”
bargaining
serious consideration by our air- collective
The
conference
headquarters
craft leadership,
and
plans for
meeting this new challenge must will be at the Willard Hotel. Inbe formulated at this time if we quiries should be directed to the
National Aircraft Deare to continue to build the kind UAW-CIO
of security for aircraft workers partment, 8000 E. Jefferson, De4
which characterizes other indus-|troit 14, Michigan .
fers
them
in
resisting
the
"Good Old Fight" in 1620
new
that
decided
Historians
—
Virginia
Jamestown,
ideas
théir previous
evidence would
force
them
to revise
labor history. The first
the first strike in American
about
strike, the new evidence indic ates, was staged in Jamestown
in 1620 by a group of five Polish workers who emigrated to
Y
Y
4
Z
2
THESE
tive
Wi
Vice
ila
PLAQUES,
President
the two men
House,
la
7
Uti
y
/
We
Hi
Gj dle
8.
Haywood,
were
Scotland
and
Haywood’s
Philip
dedicated
got their first union cards. Murray’s
Blantyre,
in
the
by
plaque
Murray
the
hangs
Yorkshire
ClO
(left)
in the
in the
Miners
and
towns
Miners’
execuwhere
Welfare
Association
‘head-
quarters in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England. UAW Vice President Richard T. Gosser and
Kegional Directors Charles Ballard, Pat Greathouse and Joseph McCusker, in Europe
on ICFTU
first manufactured articles in
was shipped back to England
CLE
honoring the late ClO P resident
Allan
the New World in 1608. To pay the cost of their passage the
as indentured
11 years
for
Poles
worked
in Jamestown
laborers.
workers
produced the
the Polish
glassmakers,
Skilled
affairs, took part in the ceremonies,
added
|
tion
|
}
of
the
manufacture
glassware.
After
the
for
of pitch,
11 years,
New
sale.
tar and
World, glassware
As time went by
soap
however,
the
that
they
to their producPolish
workers
decided they had paid off their passage
Unanimously they decided that as long as they were not
to vote they would halt all production of. glass,
permitted
tar, pitch and soap, The strike
actually a strike for citizenship
was completely successful.
Page 4
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Nationwide Protest Vote
Rocks [ke Administration
A
November, 1953
Sere
November
WASHINGTON (LPA)—The Democratic landslide that
bowled over Republicans all across the nation in the November 3 elections was seen by labor leaders as a sharp blow
at the record of the Eisenhower administration.
Jack
Kroll,
head
of the
CIO Political Action Commit-
tee, said
“are the
the election results
people’s answer to
the high-handed methods of
big business in taking over
and running the government
of the U.S. They have expres-
sed their anger and resentment in no. uncertain terms.
I hope
the Administration
will take heed and change its
course.”
strongly
supported
by
labor,
de-
feated
Republican
William
J.
McDermott
for mayor.
Another
labor-backed
mayor,
Democrat
David Lawrence, easily defeated
Leonard P. Kane to become the
first mayor of Pittsburgh to win
a third four-year term. In a third
try for the post, Democrat Rich-
ard
C. Lee
unseated
Republican
Mayor William C. Celentano of
New Haven, Connecticut.
DAVENPORT,
Iowa,
elected
Walter Beuse its first Demotratic
American people cannot be fool- mayor in 20 years. Maynard E.
took the Columed by promises without perform- Sensenbrenner
ance,”
AFL
President
George bus, Ohio mayor’s office for the
Democrats for the first time in
Meany commented.
Key races where the Republi- 12 years and Steven Pankow became the first Democrat to get
cans lost out were:
,
IN NEW
JERSEY, Robert B. the Buffalo mayor’s post in nine
Pankow
did
not
Meyner defeated Paul L. Troast years, though
to become the state’s first Demo- have labor support.
cratic governor
in 10 years.
LOUISVILLE,
Kentucky,
Democrat Harrison A. Williams, which went for Eisenhower last
Jr., won over George F. Hetfield year, elected Democrat
Andrew
for
the Sixth District Congres- Broaddus as its mayor. Democrat
sional seat never before taken by Dominick
de Lucco
scored
an
a Democrat.
upset victory over his GOP opIN
NEW
YORK,
Robert
F. ponent to become mayor of HartWagner,
Jr., son
of the
late ford, Connecticut. Leo A: Berg
Senator who sponsored the Wag- took
the Akron
mayor’s
post
ner Labor Relations Act, was a away from the Republicans.
landslide victor over Republican
The Republicans took a few
Harold
Riegelman
and
Liberal mayoralties and judgeships along
Rudolph Halley in the race for the way, but they found it imposmayor.
sible to make these look like anyIN CLEVELAND,
State Sena- thing in the face of the DemotAnthony
J.
Celebreeze, crats’ overwhelming triumphs.
“The
election
results
prove
the
Reuther Seeks Expansion
Of Aid to Foreign Lands
NEW YORK—The United States’ key weapon against
Communism
is the aid it sends to the war-battered and
underdeveloped countries abroad, CIO President Walter -P.
Reuther asserted at the Crusade for Freedom banquet of
the American Heritage Foundation.
He
said
a
sound
start
in
com-&
batting
the Soviet menace
has
been” made.
with
the
Marshall
Plan and Point Four. These efforts, he asserted, must be continued
and
‘strengthened;
not
pared away.
*—T am
convinced
that
the
more technicians we send overSeas with slide rules and American
know-how,
the
fewer
Soldiers
overseas
fixed
we
will
with
bayonets,”
have
battle
to
kits
Europe which he said “is daily
bringing the message of democracy and the hope of freedom
to millions behind the Iron Curtain.” He asked for increased
donations to the Crusade
for
Freedom to “enable it to provide more of the tools which it
send
and
he added.
Reuther pointed
out that “it
might be called self-preservation,
but we in the trade union movement know that unless we fight
for, defend
and
maintain
freedom,
then our unions, of which
we are proud, will be just memories.”
He recalled that the history- of
totalitarian movements, “both of
the far left and the far right,
has always shown one common
face—a
hatred
of free;
democratic trade unions, and a deterMination to smash them.”
Reuther praised Radio Free
needs to deliver the message of
truth through a free, voluntary
organization of freedom-loving
citizens.”
Warning that the Crusade for
Freedom
cannot
be
our
only
weapon in the battle for freedom,
Reuther said that the free trade
unjons of the United States, “as
active partners in the International
Confederation
of
Free
Trade Unions, are striving to increase the living standards of all
workers.”
“We in the CIO know,” Reuther
said,
“that
the
shortest
march
for
Communism
is
through the empty bellies of hungry, desperate people.”
UNITED AUTOMOBILE
Publication
OFFICIAL
Office:
8000
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PUBLICATION,
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Ave.,
International
PRAWN POR THE:
RATE CLO Hew,
Presbyterians Take Firm Stand
Against McGarthy-like Tactics
NEW YORK—tThe governing body of the Presbyterian
Church warned the nation against Congression “inquisitions”
and the! “the demagogue who lives by propaganda,” this
month
in a_ soberly-worded *
letter to its 8,000 pastors and |to constitute a*threat to freedom
214 million members.
of thought in this country.”
Without mentioning McCarthy
by name, the Church branded the]
tactics most
frequently
associ-|
ated with the Wisconsin Senator]
“a
subtle,
but
potent
assault]
The
“terrifying moral consequences” of this, the letter
said, are illustrated by the way
private citizens can be “publicly condemned
upon
the
un-
DARK
Communists.”
upon
basic
human
AGES
rights.”
HEARINGS
The Church objected specific.)
ally to Congressional inquiries|
which
have
tended
“inguisitions.”
It
inquisitions,
which
historic
pattern
Spain and in the
modern totalitarian
corroborated
word
McCarthy stunt
Ȣ#dlines.)
(A
of
favorite
for
Union,
Circulation
Office:
2457
E.
No.
Washington
3579
St.,
to 2457
East
Indianapolis
Executive
LEONARD
Board
WOODCOCK
WINN,
the
case
of
national
in the
high-sounding name of security,
be occupied with ease by a fascist
tyranny.”
BROADEST IN YEARS
In
releasing
the
letter, Dr,
John A. MacKay, church moderator and president of Princeton
Theological Seminary, said that
not in “many, many years” had
the
General
Council
(of
the
Washing-
7, Indiana
church)
of such
Members
issued a pronouncement
broad scope.
Expensive Grudge
HARVEY KITZMAN
MICHAEL F. LACEY
RUSSELL LETNER
NORMAN
MATTHEWS
WILLIAM McAULAY
JOSEPH McCUSKER
Cc. V. O'HALLORAN
PATRICK O'MALLEY
RAY ROSS
DOVER,
(LPA)—When
New
the
Hampshire
26-day
strike
of CIO Electrical Workers ended, the Clarostat Company,
refused to take back the six strike
leaders. The union went to bat,
won
reinstatement
and_
full
seniority rights.
refused to make
But
up
tration
six,
$4,685
ings,
Editor
BARNEY B, TAYLOR, Managing Editor
Members, American Newspaper Guild, C1O
In
crisis this emptiness could,
Automo-
rm
FRANK
fears and suspicions, to supress
good
smear
to
and
dissent,
uum.
WALTER P. REUTHER
EMIL MAZEY
-President
Secretary-Treasurer
RICHARD: GOSSER and JOHN W. LIVINGSTON
Vice-Presidents
International
CHARLES BALLARD
RAY BERNDT
GEORGE BURT
ROBERT CARTER
P. J. CIAMPA
ED COTE
MARTIN GERBER
PAT GREATHOUSE
CHARLES H. KERRIGAN
Admitting
“the
menace
of
Communism
is serious,’
the
letter expressed grave concern
over the way
the
threat
is
being used to incite unhealthy
“This fanatical negativism is
in danger of leading the Ameris
can mind
into a spiritual
vace
bile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, affiliated
with
the
CIO.
Published
monthly,
Yearly
subscription
to
members,
60 cents;
to non-members,
$1.00.
Entered at Indianapolis,
Ind.,
November
19, 1945, as second-class
matter
under
the Act of
“August 24, 1912, as a monthly.
Send copies returned under labels
ton Street, Indianapolis 7, Indiana,
FEAR FASCISM
Declaring that the Church is
duty bound to “draw attention to
violations of those spiritual bases
of
human
relationship
which
have been established by God,”
the letters said that truth itself
is under attack.
citizens.
“More serious,” the letter said,
is that many people, in and out
of government,
deal with Come
munism
in a “purely
negative
way,” as a “police problem,” with
no
“constructive
program
of
action.”
i
14, Mich,
United
grabbing
to become|
“The demagogue who lives by
said,
“These|propaganda
is coming
into his
find
theirj;own on
a national scale,” the
in
medieval|letter asserted. “According to the
tribunals of|new philosophy, if what is true
states, begin'gives ‘aid and comfort’ to our
WORKER
Detroit
former
enemy,
it ‘must be suppressed.
Truth is thus a captive in the
land of; the free.”
It warned, “The shrine of cons
science
and
private
judgment,
which God alone has the right to
ener, is being-invaded.”
‘
“Do you get overtime for this, Miss Woods?”
so
the
and
union
won
the
lost
went
to
for
firm
earne
arbie
the
Page 6
___November,
1953
‘UNITED
A
=
White Collar No Yoke to Chrysler Offie
They're Strong for the UAW (Their Pay
Many
Triple
Salaries
afte
Joining
The late Maurice Tobin called the white eg i,
Union
man's
The UAW-CIO organizing drive for Chrysler Office Workers, led by Regional Director
Norman Matthews, Director of the Chrysler Department, and the UAW-CIO Office Workers Department, began to show results in 1943. Below is a comparision between salaries
existing just before that time and present scales.
CLASSIFICATION
109
Clerk
Minimum
1942
Maximum
Minimum
face
$ 75.00
$ 90.00
$245.24
$277.74
110 Clerk Junior
II
80.00
94.50
265.24
302.74
of Labor,
which
said
stands
conditions.
too offen
in the
way
Wages
joined
have
the
tripled
Union.
for
And
many —
they’ve
won
since
the
they
Ch
that
All 9
same
General
Clerk
|
140.00
145.00
287.74
340.74
112
General
Clerk
Il
145.00
165.00
307.74
369.92
113
Senior
154.50
182.00
340.74
407.40
NOT
116
Comptometer
90.50
117.50
272.74
329.08
121
File Clerk
75.00
95.00
245.24
307.74
122
Key Punch Operator
88.00
90.00
265.24
320.82
New hires report startling contrasts between
working in Chrysler offices and laboring in unorganized offices. While many non-union white
collar workers wear clean clothes — and skimp
144
Typist
75.60
97.50
260.24
307.74
222
Follow-Up
170.00
175.00
358.24
474.22
101.00
106.50
265.24
307.74
140 Telephone
I
Operator
Operator
the
While thousands of other office workers still Gah
aries and lower security, Chrysler workers started
than a decade ago. That was when they startedjg
many other office workers have w atched their pay
tion workers’ wages, Chrysler office crews :;
3
have caught up and held the pace.
Ch
111
Clerk
of
the wr
But that isn't true of Chrysler Corporatio,
Maximum
I
dignity
~ working
1953
Junior
Secretary
seniority,
insurance
and
pension
protect production workers.
LIKE
to pay
‘THOSE
for ‘them,
OTHER’
Chrysler
programs
:
i
When}
OFFICES
workers
both
dress
AND
eat well.. They’ve traded the drug store
sandwich for a square meal. While joining the
same club as the office manager and stabbing
fellow workers in the back are still standard
methods of advancement in many other offices,
at Chrysler seniority serenely prevails.
Older hands quickly inform the new hire it
wasn’t always that way. Chrysler Corporation,
too, once assumed that office and technical
workers are more timid than their brothers
and
sisters
on
the
production
lines.
In
fact,
back in 1938 when the UAW-CIO was making
great headway in the auto industry, Chrysler
even cut office wages 10 per cent. Then it heard
reports that somebody
was talking to the
Union, and Chrysler restored the cut.
Late in 1940, the Corporation started getting
a little concerned.
It gave its lower-paid white
collar workers a $3.50 MONTHLY increase, and,
when UAW-CIO opened its organizing drive the
next June,
and
the Corporation
immediately
countered with a general 8 per cent increase.
Workers at the Marysville Plant weren’t' much
impressed. There, the UAW-CIO broke through
the
white
collar
barrier
in
November
of
1941
with a smashing NLRB victory.
Chrysler fought back furiously. It stalled in
negotiations. It balked at the idea that a man
who wore a necktie (but who didn’t happen to be
an executive) should earn as much money as one
who wore coveralls.
Dodge Truck and Forge
office workers showed how they felt about that
by voting for the UAW in an NLRB election in
March, 1942.
Chrysler still wouldn’t vield.
In
May, a federal conciliator was sent in. He got no
place.
In June, the deadlock went to the War
Labor Board.
For another year, the UAW-CIO
and Chrysler battled it out before government
agencies. At each step, the facts favored the
Union,
findings.
workers
soon.
Now
at Chrysler,
she
remembers
missal notice. As soon as their hair started
it’s only
LOCAL 889, represent
ing Chrysler office work
ers,
ji
now
has
headquarters
building near
House.
its
own
in thi
Solidarity
a sign
of security
back when
to
turn,
white
workers
through seniority.
hair was considered
knew
they’d
be
Chrysler
ducked
the
government
WON CONTRACT 10 YEARS AGO
Finally, in August of 1943, the pressure became too great. Chrysler signed a contract covering the three office units. It provided-for a
minimum $10 a month increase. More important,
for the first time it gave office workers status as__
human beings. They had rights, and a contract
to protect them.
During the 20 months between the first NLRB
victory and the first contract, workers in other
THE BIG GRIN comes from the big gains made for of fie e workers by the UAW-CIO
Virginia Hackett, of Local 889’s Mopar Unit, explains. Like many other veteran white
collar
and
as dis- +
replaced
|
office)”
the Uy
MATIPl"
1)
|
mat
Since
some
i
receipt:
paymnfin
and ‘ftwy
Tr
for i tee
creashoy
UAW).
merilfe;
that Bhi
havehiv
prov,
1
anyn
OFFICE PAY
when
Chrysler
June,
they
1941
cut
did,
June, 1941
January 1, 1943
January, 1946
April, 1947
May 28, 1948
August 28, 1950
1951-52-53
salaries
here’s
what
before
UAW-CIO
salaried
happened:
organization
workers
drive
started
started.
organiz®
Chrysler upped salaries 8 per cent.
(First contract) 5 per cent increase with $10 mi
$32.50 monthly
increase across-the-board.
$26 minimum
increase. General 9 per cent incre?:}
$20 minimum increase. General 9 per cent incre? |
$17.50 minimum increase. General 7 per cent i” |
Regular cost-of-living and annual improvement fi}
creases. C-O-L checks alone have totalled $580.
\
)\
pieeA
November, 1953 _
(\, \WWORKER
a
Workers;
‘Proves It)
iyo
yoke."
s
collar
Tru-
President
Tobin,
\te@sollar is the symbol of a sureser dignity of union pay and
4e white
workers.
sal-
of low
burden
collar
viz off that white collar yoke more
while
Asa result,
sehe UAW-CIO.
irther and further behind produc-
aa
z
-_—
While
results.
on
tabs
kept
wices
led, the doubters had their day, but
ditract came through, the lid was off.
began
workers
chain,
te Chrysler
@se mythical white collar yokes out
Chrysler tried to stave off
pandows.
out
§ 35
the
NLRB
Chrysler
victories
and
offices.
in.
poured
technical
weby this time—chosen the UAW-CIO
‘ayaining agent.
ubludes engineers and other technical
wisional
Dodge
at
Workers
workers.
#trson-Kercheval, DeSoto and Highi)Central Engineering voted to form
epers’” unit right after that 1943
mards
of organizing
started
in
coming
in 1946. Greatly strengthened by the
‘eries, the UAW-CIO won $32.50 across
@for all Chrysler office workers. The
mar the gain
a $26
was 9-per cent with
the
off
w
thre
they
way
the
ting
esen
repr
eau
tabl
a
on
put
ers
work
ER
YSL
CHR
THESE PRETTY
Left to right
white collar yoke of inferior wages and working conditions by joing the UAW-CIO.
tative Robert
are: Virginia Tinsley, chairman of the John R Unit of Local 839; International Represen
e Truck Unit.
Taylor, Donna Kingery, Mopar Unit, and Shirley Erickson, recording secretary, Dodg
nd the next year it was another 9 per
4°20 minimum.
itthis time—Chrysler had any doubts
lignilitant spirit of its office crews, the
‘office workers removed them in 1950.
ifth day of the record 104-day producstrike, MoPar
workers
4mmaintenance
mers voted nearly two-to-one to join
WIO.
WORKERS
NRODUCTION
@ey caught up, Chrysler office workers
@e gains made by production workers.
sjiare salaried instead of hourly-rated,
izations had to be made. Cost-of-living
re computed on a quarterly basis. As
"js year, they get annual improvement
ses ranging from $9.74 a month to
juonth according to base salary.
dle their special problems better, they
© delished their own locals and units. In
# area, the Chrysler white collar work8 to Amalgamated Local 889. The con‘itly parallels the national UAW-CIO@greement. They get the same $137.50
snd Corporation-supported health and
gnce programs as their brothers and
skilled trades and on the lines. They
#ertime, vacation, illness and disability
steward body
} The contract sets up
aaince procedure just like in the shop.
gw hire finds the Union even goes to bat
ujhen she feels she deserves a merit in.; a substitute for apple polishing, the
assistant
Shebal,
ABOVE — Robert
director of the UAW Office Workers
Department, left, and Bill Archer, president of the Professional and Technical
Unit of Local 889, enjoy developments
at a meeting of the recently organized
“engineers” unit.
RIGHT—The
first and
the most
recent
presidents of Local 889 discuss its rapid
growth with Regional Director Norman
Matthews, director of the Chrysler Department. Left to right are: Don Earl,
current president; union veteran Maurice Cain and Matthews.
eS
{ has the right to propose and argue for
White Collar a yoke?
UAW-CIO
Amplex
Jefferson
John R
Detroit
OFFICE
Not
Dodge
AND
Truck
aie
Highland
: k
Par
Lynch Road
PROFESSIONAL
Highland Park
Technical
Jefferson-Kercheval
De Soto
Highland
Park
Central Eng.
Dodge
Truck
Jet Plant
Highland Park
Central Eng.
Hr. Rated
Highland
ichta
ha
ve
Ont: hrs.
d
at Chrysler’s
UNITS
CHRYSLER
Tank Arsenal
Dodge Main
Dodge Forge
‘ag
vi q | |
How well does
-#eases for individuals.
{? In Local 889, alone, 4,000 members
4ved merit increases under that contract
1
TE
CLERICAL
Mo Par
Nine Mile Press
Plymouth
De Soto Warren
De Soto Wyoming
Marysville
Los Angeles,
California
La,
eans,
Orl
New
re
awa
Del
Tank Arsenal
AND TECHNICAL
Dodge Main
Trenton
Nine Mile Press
Highland
Master
Detroit
Mo
Tank
Par
New
Park
Mechanics
Arsenal
Orleans Tech.
Highland
Tech,
Central
Eigulend
torhl-
mealies
Park
Eng.
hohe
Fe
Bs
Tech.
ue
MORE
7
¥
y
RECENTLY
*
organized
the brightest spots in the Labor
This
year’s
float, above,
won
than
most
other
Day parade.
a lot of applause.
workers
Last year
«
.
in Detroit,
the office
their float won
workers
provide
one
of
the prize for their division.
7
ade
UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKER
Page 9
Governor Williams Pledges
Support for Michigan FEPC
Michigan’s Governor G. Mennen Williams received @
long ovation when he promised the 450 delegates attending
the recent Second Annual Michigan Fair Practices Conference at Masonic Temple, Detroit, that he would sponsor and
law before the next session of
fight for an adequate FEPC
the Michigan State Legislature.
without
World
by
sponsored
and
a
in
Security
and
Peace
dom,
“Free-4
of
theme
a
to
Tuned
.
d of race relations
from the fieling
Discrimination”
resolutions and
The follow
WUA
five
the
ions were adopted
CIO Michigan Regions in cooper: |recommendatfer
e delegalesa®=
ation with the UAW Fair Prac |»s the Con teencsup
for the
t
por
ple
Com
@
Den
tio
ina
rim
isc
i-D
Ant
and
s
tice
had
lfab
Supreme
and|
resource
50
over
NA
* ACP
ccn-)
Practices
Fair
the
partment,
At
WY
day
4
drafted an ambitious program
for widening the scope of fair
in the
job,
the
on
practices
to fight for
and
community,
passage of municipal, state and
federal FEPC legislation.
econd
*S
is
th
ed
nd
te
at
O
WCI
UA
the
of
als
loc
an
ig
ch
SOME 450 DELEGATES from Mi
l
ta
ys
Cr
the
in
ly
ent
rec
d
hel
ce
en
er
nf
Co
ts
gh
Ri
State-Wide Fair Practices and Civil
Ballroom of Detroit’s Masonic Temple.
Skilled Trades
ingston,
gions,
of
st
CIO
National
confer with
responsible Michigan officials
to work out uniform application of Michigan’s civil rights
BIG
Com-|OF
Rights
assistant
Turner,
mittee;_James
EFFECT
GAINS
3
MARKET
TRUCK
Rubber IN
CIO
the
of
Director
loss of
~*— The
YORK
NEW
Workers Fair Practices Depart-|
truck
by independent
ment; UAW Education Director|business
Sexton;
Brendan
Three
Big
the
to
Shane, |manufacturers,
Frank
Civil Rights}may mean the elimination of a
Steelworkers
CIO
independent truck
of
UAW|number
Paul Sifton,
Committee;
Washington legislative represen-|Plants and a loss of employment+
Field Director Emanual | for UAW-CIO members.
tative;
That possibility was the major
Muravchik of the Jewish Labor!
and
Committee,
b
Pennies Saved
To Earn Dollars
iv
y
t
i
r
a
P
s
e
g
r
U
r
e
h
t
u
Re
p
m
u
l
S
m
r
a
F
t
l
a
H
o
T
Chicago in January, provided the
stimulus to the drive for wage
skilled
out.
Nation-
at the
of discussion
topic
others
several
al Truck, Bus, Trailer and TrackHour
and
Wage
Trolley
less
Council meeting here last month.
To take a good look at all the
inindustry,
the
in
problems
differentials,
rate
wage
ing
clud
s,
sion
—Pen
Michigan
ALBION,
job classifications and speed-up,
won by the UAW-CIO in 1950, are
established a comcil
Coun
the
y
nearl
better
ng
getti
ngly
seemi
by
headed
delegates
of
ee
mitt
every day.
Region 9
UAW
er,
Gerb
in
Mart
edoubl
a
is
le
The newest wrink
sys- director.
savings-retirement
barreled
tem just developed by UAW-CIO
ond
REGISTER HERE, PLEASE, delegates to the Sec
d as
tol
e
wer
e
enc
fer
Con
ces
cti
Pra
r
Fai
an
hig
Mic
ual
Ann
their
ing
eiv
rec
ore
bef
el
Hot
ter
roi
Det
the
in
up
ed
lin
they
credentials.
for exchange of information between the local unions and the
International Executive Board on
skilled trade affairs.”
held in
The last conference,
England — The
LONDON,
Research
Medical
British
Council handed the surprised
one of the
movement
labor
strongest arguments it’s ever
had for demanding substantial
shift
night
for
differentials
@® UAW-CIO to
in all apprenticeship
| law.
President Gus Scholle.
experts included
Resource
{\/George Weaver, Director of the PONDER
of skilled
prohlems
the mutual
They
workers.
production
and
have also provided a closer link
Tough on Wives
co-director
Oliver,
opportunity
Probrams.
the five Michigan Re-|
William
of
provisions
mem-
Board
seek-
continue
to
equality
ing
Roy
of the Fair Practices Department, the entire Fair Practices
staff, and Michigan CIO Council
conferences
annual
“These
have served a very useful purcocloser
developing
in
pose
operation and understanding of
within
adjustments
trades, Gosser pointed
Coordinator
artment ,
Dep
-
Liv-|
John
President
Executive
bers from
de-
recent
PAC
Reuther,
“This meeting will be of the
importance to the memutmost
bers of our. Union, both skilled
and production workers,” Gosser
our
will re-evaluate
said. “We
skilled trades and apprenticeship
light
Vice
Mazey,
All local unions which repreare urged
sent skilled workers
T.
Richard
President
Vice
by
Gosser to send delegates to the
NaUAW-CIO
Annual
Third
tional Skilled Trades Conference
to be held December 10, 11 and
12 in Cleveland.
in
program
velopments.
industrial community in
the state ofJ Michig
mee an.
Skilled Trades
® UAW-CIO
©VeTY
Besides Williams, the list of|
speakers and panel leaders included Secretary Treasurer Emil
Conference Set
For Next Month
race,
to
creed or color.
the
in
support
® Continued
battle to end filibustering in
| the U. S. Senate by killing the
notorious Rule 22.
to
of efforts
© Redoubling
in
legislation
obtain : FEPC
delegates
the
Conference,
segre-
end
to
regard
without
3- | all
of the
conclusion
Court
the
before
fight
gation in public schools.
@ Increased construction of
low-rent public housing open to
staff experts fully participating
in the various panels and workshops.
the
legBal
Local
hard
pany.
the hitherto-die-| Borg-Warner
474 and
Malleable
Albion
Com-|
Stress
Puts
MUNCIE,
pension
a standard
with
Along
Iron
Council
.
Unity
on
Indiana—Jack Reed,
for
es
vid
pro
m
ra
og
pr
287, UAW-CIO,
the
al
up,
Loc
set
of
-|
ent
SUP
sid
pre
ice
“pr
for
led
cal
r
he
ut
Re
CIO President Walter P.
Council
r
ne
ar
-W
rg
Bo
the
to
st
ho
m|
ra
og
pr
s
ing
sav
ary
unt
vol
parity|a
l
ful
n
me
le
tt
ca
and
s
er
rm
fa
e
giv
l
wil
h
ic
wh
iports
ker |meeting here, urged all members
‘return
|
| WABES
sal:
present
in
increase
an
and
inadequate
minimum
a ae
se
eas
critical of the Administration's
in a statement
s the wor
which, in effect,erepay
st. The worker
hand-
25 per cent int
can invest up to three
asserted:|of
Reuther
his pay
per
in a trust fund.
he a
ee putss in, * the
|to think in terms of mutual-effort against the corporation in
cent}
For|the key note talk.
the
apresentedSe at
é
Re
com
eee
oe
and
88
7,
eh
Ht,
6G
Sa,
s
scee
e
h
G
T
S
es
Mt
RNY
ecom
the
t
ghou
tron
and
Blants
n
t
ene
[ot
)
ma
nt
exte
am
g
vin
1239.
com-)
the
in,
put
he
thing
every
TS
STAR
E
CYCL
WN.
a
l
contro
who
,
ngton
ee cea wiik |men“in Washi
Be
abe
work.
searc
1
ayn
&
hifis
5
only
mot
ony,
Bo
S
their
h tendbut to also
healt
.
suffer
ages
Reported the
a
marri-
Council, after
that
ng inat
mendi
recom
ed
elim
be
s
shift
possible,
inability
their
night
wherever™
meals,
“Irregular
to sleep during the
day and loss of energy—these
generally result in slipshod
work, upset stomach and bad
in
tempers
the
Recreation
Booked
home.”
Meeting
in Michigan
MichiganAnnual
Fifth
The
and
CIO
Ontario
Southwestern
UAW Recreation Conference is to
be held November 21-22, at the
Pantlind Hotel in Grand Rapids,
UAW
Olga ~ Madar,
Michigan,
announced.
Recreation. Director,
UAW-CIO
the
by
Sponsored
coin
Department
Recreation
Michithe UAW
operation with
gan Regional Directors (Regions
the
7),
and
for the Fifth Conference
hosts
will be UAW Regions 1D and the
1,
1A,
1B,
1C,
1D
(Kent - Montcalm - Ottawa
K-M-O
Recreation
Counties) UAW
Council,
Madar.
according
to
Director
b-|
||{cderal farm policies, are attri
ills to
luting
|)
current
most
°
g
affairs.
farr2
Ait
OWN.
“As
lthey
pany’s
CYCLE STASS
city
workers’
must—due
to
fall, | share
incomes
inadequate|the
\farm economy
}|though falling
talk
they
bankruptcies,
of|chase
eee
og
nanan ie
Z
;
istic and heartlessly negligent
increasingly
farmer’s
the
of
the
Since
plight.
hazardous
and
farmers
of
prosperity
workers is closely inter-related,
Conunless
that
believe
we
misrepudiates — this
gress
guided approach, America will
economic
general
a
witness
which can only redownturn
sult in widespread depression.
P
“Already,
the 13%
drop in farm
prices since the last election has
forced farmers drastically to curtail purchase of farm implements
In some
by city workers.
made
states, employment of CIO mem-
bers
in
farm
Farm
ee Bader
eat oaae se pee
‘readjustment’
farm -prices were|;ather than a reduced need for
necessary and even desirable.
“The CIO
sae repudiates both
en
| Ada
of farm
products.
equipment
plants
In Iowa
in half.
cut
has been
work
short
and
layoffs
alone,
more
workers
have cost
weeks
than a million dollars a week.
Corresponding cutbacks have folfabricating
in steel and
lowed
| food
\farm
|farm
jnomic
\eral
— develop. These unsold
products tend to depress
prices further and an ecocycle
economic
is started
that,
un-
collapse.
present bad times on
“The
the farm result from man-made
policies. Since we now have the
know-how to prevent such ecopresent
the
disasters,
nomic
situation is unnecessary and inexcusable and could be promptly remedied by proper govern.
aid programs.
ment economic
all in our
intend to-do
We
in
farmers
the
to back
|power
\their fight for economic equity.
“We believe the first check to
the present farm recession must
to boost
action
be government
|both farmer and worker purchasing power. We call for price supfarmers
give
will
ports which
and cattlemen full parity return
and for an increase in the present inadequate minimum wages
workers with
to provide many
increased purchasing power.”
of
trust
,
:
\
‘over production.’ In the face of| savings and low unemployment
pur|mounting farm debt and increas-| compensation—reduce their
]/i,,
dollar
each
BE
omy.
°
dis
41
3
natidn’s economic
x
spectre of hunger;
‘ling of the
.
‘
e the
“whil
contributions
the
interest
fund.
and
earned
his}
The
by|will
,
7
;
s
he
be
next
held
in Memphis,
484,
8
729,
Council
January
meeti
ing
Ss
;
30
Tennessee.
“Depends on how you look at it!”
meeting
and
31
:
Page 10
UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKER
Pyle, Power and Congressman |
Fail to Move Iron Mo untain
|
IRON MOUNTAIN,
Michigan—Workers in this tiny
industrial community—abandoned by the Ford Motor Company when it closed down the only major plant here and
then victims of a flinthearted attempt at union busting by
eastern financiers — are back at work in the Kingsford
Chemical Company after a&
113-day strike.
efforts failed to develop any sigThey came out of it with nificant crack in the strike. Hofftheir heads high, their ranks man sulked out of town and Pyle
intact and with the protec- sat down with the Union and
started bargaining.
tion ef a union contract.
PLANNED SCAB SHOP
A
management
insider
who
quit in disgust reports that Pyle
announced
his intention of running a scab shop at scab wages
before Kingsford Chemical actually started production in the formec Ford plant.
But when Pyle tried to snub
the Union, the workers struck,
Good
‘IRON
Citizen
MOUNTAIN, Michi-
gan — Sixty-seven per cent of
the taxes in this village are
delinquent. Nearly all of this
is owed
by
the
Kingsford
Chemical Company
which
simply
refuses
to
pay
its
taxes.
and held their ground for one of
the longest strikes in UAW history.
Pyle
also
snubbed
federal
and
state
conciliators’
attempts to settle the dispute on
its merits;
flatly refused to
submit the case to arbitration.
The
community
was
tremenGously disappointed. Hopeful that
Kingsford would fill the void left
by Ford, a gap which threatened
to destroy the town, people realized
that—with
Kingsford—
Fate had dealt them another low
blow.
They decided the only way to
make the best of that bad bargain was to continue the strike.
Tension mounted as the weeks
dragged’
on.
Once
Pyle
summoned a deputy sheriff to his
home. When the deputy arrived
in plain clothes, he found himSelf looking down the barrel of
a .30-.30.
RUNS TO CAPITOL
Near the end, Pyle decided a
more
lethal
weapon
could
be
found in Washington. He tried
a back-to-work movement. It split
a few
homes;
a woman
was
package
had
some
to the membership.
et .2, ob nie nel
marta
rsasraes:
a
withdrawn
strike
his
demand
leaders
be
ee
in profits in 1954
and still have $600 million left
for the stockholders or for reinvestment. And $600 million
is what U. S. News estimates
will be left for the ‘stockholders in 1953.
that
fired.
Everybody was to return in line
of seniority. Pyle agreed to the
badly needed arbitration clause,
and the whole grievance
procedure was rewritten. The Company granted six paid holidays.
Woodcock
commended
them
for their valor; urged them to
look forward not back.
But
scars
are
deep
here.
Pyle refused to pose with the
Local’s
bargaining
committee
when requested to do so by the
local newspaper. That way he
dismissed the best chance he
had to make some friends in
the town.
sure.
He
returned
to work
and
ds
One family is still in mourning.
A family man yielded to pres-
so
did his son. The father thought
better of it and returned to the
line. The son stayed on. He was|
killed in a production line accident. Two hours passed before
the accident was discovered because no one else was near him
CONGRESSMAN CLARE HOFFMAN (under arrow) turns
his back on pickets to talk
to a newsman covering UAW-CIO Local 952’s bitter str
ike against the Kingsford
Chemical Company. The Michigan Republi can, acting
without permission from the
chairman of the House Labor subcommitte e which he
pretended to represent, turned
the Kingsford plant office into a Congressional agency
for taking pot shots at labor.
on the line. The next day his wife
Industrial Poker
Kingsford’s Style
Brings Fat Profits
Miles away from his district, he hurried to the strike
scene as soon as he smelled trouble.
One of his first acts was demanding that the State Tro ope
rs (right) be sent in.
Paula's
IRON MOUNTAIN,
Michigan
—This isolated community is getting a large dose of free enterprice—eastern syndicate style.
The syndicate which purchased
the abandoned Ford facilities a
year ago may
soon have back
every dime of its original investment
PLUS
approximately
$250,000. The figure will include
Kingsford
Chemical
Company
profits to date.
If two options to purchase unused facilities are taken up, the
syndicate will have gotten back
all of its investment plus that fat
profit.
It will still own the chemical
company and saw mill and another
vacant
building.
In
the
game of industrial poker, it will
have these blue chips representing other people’s money with
which to play.
To illustrate the high regard
with which it holds the community it is using in this game of
high finance, Kingsford Chemical
refuses to pay its village taxes.
Perils
INDIANAPOLIS — International
Representatives
Frank Wallick was communing with his morning coffee
at the Claypool Hotel when he
was
asked
to
appear
on
the
“Breakfast with Paula” interview radio show.
Just before air time, Paula
asked Wallick for whom
he
worked.
“The UAW-CIO,” he proudly
replied.
Perhaps
because
she
was
thinking
of
her _ sponsor’s>
views on unions, Paula quickly
shuffled Wallick to the end of
the program behind the doctor
with a cold and tke nail polish
salesman,
With only a “safe” 30 seconds air time to fill, Paula
finally introduced Wallick
without mentioning his occupation.
Instead,
she
asked
“Which team did you favor in
the World Series?”
“The Dodgers.”
“Oh ... why’s that?”
“Because I’m always for the
underdog.
Ilike my
cio.”
In
work
fact
that’s
why
with the UAW-
Region ! Confah
Attracts 62 Locals
Region 1 Co-Directors Michael
Lacey
and
Norman Matthews
have
the
a right
to
well-attended
cation—PAC
feel
proud
Region
1
over
Edu-
Conference held in
Detroit. Out of a total of 66 locals in the Region, 231 delegates
from 62 locals attended!
Hoffman,
MichiRepublican labor-
er
million drop
the
$800
Pyle
run
hater, completed the thousandmile trip to Iron Mountain. He
Set up offices in the Company
office. He started howling for
State Troopers.
When
local law enforcement
Officers finally yielded to presSure and requested State Troopers,
Pyle
howled
because
the
State Troopers refused to ‘act as
Strike breakers.
Then Hoffman and Pyle both
@roaned because their combined
Says the magazine.
General
Motors,
Says
magazine, can take an
NOBODY FIRED
UAW Region 1D Director Leonard
-Woodcock
explained
the
down by a scab’s
car; another
€@ar was overturned, but even ineluding newly-hired scabs, only a
handful of people ever entered
the plant. So Pyle flew to Washington.
Four
days later, Congressman
Clare
gan’s ancient
World
Report
magazine,
for
the giants can take a drop in
profits
of as
much
as 37.5
percent, and still have as mutch
left for the stockholders
as
they do today. In fact, these
stockholders can look forward
to-a
“profitable
recession,”
asses Neale
an
eastern syndicate (whose backers
include the du Ponts) bought the
Ford
buildings.
The
syndicate,
Specializing
in
buying
defunct
firms
and squeezing every possible cent
of profit out- of the
transaction, sent in Owen Pyle
as president and treasurer.
Pyle, who, like the du Ponts,
hails from Wilmington, Delaware, figured he was going out
to the “sticks” to show the
jocal folks some Big City operation.
He started
out by criticizing
the town
and refusing to bargain with Local 952, UAW-CIO.
Those were his first two mistakes.
His
bigger
errors
were
overestimating
the
power
of
Pyle
and_
underestimating
the
courage of workers.
Because
most
workers
lost
their jobs when Ford) pulled out
of
IronMountain,
Pyle - must
have reasoned they also lost the
willingness to fight for the principles.
WASHINGTON
(LPA) —
The stockholders in the nation’s giant corporations need
not worry about a recession,
according
to
U.S.
News
&
Wages?
err
DRIVER
started when
Some
shamefaced
and silent!
brothers know other members. of
their families held up under pressure better than they did.
Still, wounds are healing, and
the Local, stronger than ever, ‘is
hard at work building that better
bore their child.
About
Speakers included Co-Director
Matthews
and
Lacey,
Winston
Livingston, UAW-CIO Legal Department; Leonard Lesser, UAW
Social Security Department; Research
Director Nat Weinberg,
“She
always forgets something
No cranberry saucel'’
Hoffman Has Trouble
Explaining Strike Role
When Congressman Clare Hoffman (R.-Mich.) butted
into this strike at Iron Mountains, the old labor-hat
er even
incurred the wrath of some members of his own par
ty. And
some even chuckled at his
discomfort.
While reporters. were busy on
Hoffman
first
explained
his
presence
in Iron
Mountain
by
Saying that he was gathering evidence for a possible investigation
by the House Labor Subcommit-
tee of which he is a member.
Republican Congressman
Wint Smith, chairman of the
Subcommittee, and McConnell,
chairman of Labor Committee
proper, both stated categorically that Hoffman had no business there and that they disapproved of his being there.
While that was developing, reporters discovered that a secretary also made the junket with
Hoffman. Her name, they found,
was
Annabelle
Zue.
A
check
showed she is a clerk for the
Committee
on Government
Operations, which Hoffman heads.
On the surface at least, it appeared that if the government
was paying for her expenses, the
operation was illegal because the
committee for which she works
had no possible reason for being
represented in Iron Mountain.
Hoffman
changed his tune. His
committee, he said, had jurisdiction
wherever.
Government
money was spent. A federal concilliator was on the case wasn’t
he? He was paid with government
money
wasn’t he? Well,
then, Hoffman and his Committee had the right to check into
that didn’t they?
Picks Labor Aide
WASHINGTON
(LPA)—Representative Lester Johnson, Democrat elected from a Wisconsin
and Roy Reuther, PAC coordina- district that had never chosen a
Democrat
before,
will
have
a
tor.
union man as his secretary.
He
Concluding the Conference, the is Harry Miller, former
president
Region
1
delegates
were
in- of the Wisconsin Teachers Union,
formed that a well-rounded series an instructor at the
University of
of educational
classes
will be Wisconsin
School
for Workers
scheduled for all Local Unions in and
editor
of
the
Wisconsin
the Region starting soon.
Farmer Union News.
that bit of Hoffman
logic, the
Congressman and Annabelle Zue
left town.
a
Se
Readin’, Writin'
—and Strikin‘
WASHINGTON
(LPA) —
Union members have a higher
level of education than nonunion
members according to
2%
Census’
Bureau
survey.
Those in the labor force as a
whole are better educated than
non-workers, but more than a
million in the labor force are
still unable to read and write.
King Paul Praises
Labor's
Contribution
TOLEDO,
Ohio
(LPA)—King
Paul of Greece told a group
of
UAW-CIO
members
that
the
American workingman has been
a major factor in raising living
standards through the world.
Speaking
at the Willys-Overland plant, he said: “It is mainly
thanks to you men that the great
human gesture of American aid
to Greece was possible” and that
when Greece was threatened by
Communists such aid “helped to
keep my country from disaster.’
“It is a very moving experience to meet a group of American
workers,”
the
King
said.
“You
have
made
friends
in
Greece who will never fail you.”
Get Illinois Certificates
CHAMPAIGN,
IMIlinois—Three
members
of
UAW-CIO
Local
1027 in nearby Springfield, Francis Smith, Ray R. Robertson and
Bessie
Burge,
this
month
re-
ceived certificates from the University of Illinois signifying that
they had Successfully taken part
in an 8-week discussion program
on labor legislation.
a cate eee
ENTER PYLE
The trouble
tomorrow.
What
November,
1 953
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
Boosting Federal Sales Tax
ey
hr
mp
Hu
ry
su
ea
Tr
the
of
ry
ta
re
ec
—S
ON
GT
WASHIN
w Adne
the
t
ha
—t
ed
ct
pe
ex
ne
yo
er
ev
at
wh
d
confirme
has
ministration
in
is seriously considering asking Congress
January 40 impose a federal sales tax.
the
if
y
onl
ne
do
be
l
wil
s
thi
s
say
ey
hr
While Hump
bomb
other
asked
next
Hures,
it
nd
pe
ex
e
ns
fe
de
in
on
isi
rev
rd
wa
up
an
causes
tax may be
es
sal
a
t
tha
t
mi
ad
”
ts
an
rm
fo
in
“reliable
to go down
due
are
h
ic
wh
es
tax
r
he
ot
e
ac
for to repl
year.
BILLIONS IN TAXES
The excess profits
TO BE CUT
tax on cor porations
ends
December
31. This
Other corporation
r.
yea
a
will reduce
ich will lose
wh
:
,
54
19
1,
l
ri
on
Ap
n
io
ct
du
re
a
profit taxes are due for
income taxes go
al
on
rs
Pe
e.
nu
ve
re
al
nu
an
in
another $2 billion
lion in revenue.
bil
$3
us
g
in
st
co
1,
y
ar
nu
Ja
nt
ce
down 11 per
s and the U. Ss.
er
ur
ct
fa
nu
Ma
of
n
io
at
ci
so
As
-The National
s tax is
federal
7h
revenues
$2%%
pillio n
that a sale
d
ie
if
st
te
th
bo
ve
ha
ce
er
mm
Co
of
Chamber
loss in revenue
s
thi
up
ke
ma
to
s
ed
ne
y
tr
un
co
exactly what the
;
from other sources.
less than
g
in
th
me
so
is
s
thi
on
e
re
ag
s
it
tf
ou
That these two
long time. Now}
a
g
in
ay
pl
en
be
th
bo
ve
ha
ey
th
ne
news. It’s a tu
l will|
Hil
l
to
pi
Ca
on
ce
en
di
au
the
at
th
pe
they have reason to ho
|
.
dance to their tune.
s
xe
ent excise (sales) ta
es
pr
t
ou
ab
e
ik
sl
di
m
the
of
th
bo
What
ral tax structure.
de
fe
e
th
in
em
th
of
gh
ou
en
t
no
is that there are
are not, the result
rs
he
ot
d
an
d
xe
ta
s
are
ie
it
od
mm
co
me
so
Because
is discriminatory.
discrimination line
e
sam
s
thi
d
use
e
has
ow
r
nh
se
Ei
t
en
id
es
Pr
s makes it
Thi
20.
y
Ma
on
ss
re
ng
Co
to
nt
se
he
e
ag
in the tax mess
w those votes line
.
Ho
ss
re
ng
Co
in
s
te
vo
the
for
pt
ce
ex
s,
ou
im
unan
on what the
y
el
rg
la
ry
ve
s
nd
pe
de
It
.
st
ca
re
fo
be
up cannot yet
home again.
Congressmen hear from voters now that they are
© OF C ADMITS BIG SQUEEZE
the NAM.
an
th
ch
oa
pr
ap
its
in
ed
il
bo
rd
ha
re
mo
is
C
of
C
The
, hard on the|
It says, in effect, that yes, a sales tax is regressive
money
the
of
st
mo
ve
ha
ys
gu
tle
lit
e
Th
?
at
wh
so
t
bu
little guy,
place to go for)
because there are so many of them, and that’s the
|
is.
y
ne
mo
e
the
er
wh
taxes—
e rs,
isn’t so tough. It tries to talk itself, and the taxpay
NAM
y eG |
into believing that a sales tax is not harder on the little e gu hich|
te
w
attempt to prove this it presented a table to the Commit
proved exactly the opposite.
4\,% NAM
Income
Amount Left
Income of
Sales Tax
Tax
Family of Four After Income Tax
of 414%
none
$ 55
$2.000
$ 2,000
96
$ 271
3,729
4,000
143
666
5.334
6,000
182
1.034
6.916
8,000
213
1,528
8,472
10,000
prove the case against itse lf, we add two
To help the, NAM
el
more columns to its table and, for good measure, one more lev
on
id!
(shy
ai
in
af
i
:
Wild
it stands behind
as
Jr.,
ss,
Cro
R.
old
Har
nt
gea
Ser
ors
hon
D
AR
GU
UNION COLOR
ss, who worked
Cro
nt
gea
Ser
t.
roi
Det
ng,
ldi
Bui
al
ori
Mem
n’s
era
Vet
his bier at the
an GI to lay
ric
Ame
last
the
was
t,
men
ist
enl
his
ore
bef
nt
pla
ge
Dod
briefly at the
O Locals repreCI
WUA
the
g
on
Am
ce.
tru
ean
Kor
t
ren
cur
the
to
or
down his life pri
Local 78, Ford
sey
Kel
22,
al
Loc
ac
ill
Cad
3,
al
Loc
ge
Dod
e
wer
rd
gua
sented by the honor
142, Lincoln Local
al
Loc
r
ase
-Fr
ser
Kai
,
163
al
Loc
sel
Die
GM
2,
al
Loc
Local 600, Murray
235.
al
Loc
let
vro
Che
and
42
—
al
Loc
d
te
ma
ga
al
Am
,
909
Administration Sets Up Rules
of
income:
Income of
Family of Four
‘
A
$ 2,000
4,000
_ 6,000
3,000
10.000
50,000
Per Cent of Income
Taken by NAM Sales Tax
Per Cent of Income
Taken by Income Tax
2.75
2.
24
23
21
13
0.0
6.3
11
13.5
15.3
ABS
income
to
Congress
Eisenhower
the
to private utilities.
The Department’s
p olicy
with
issued
was
statement
DuPont
:
;
Get Richer
WILMINGTON, De-aware—
de
E. I. duPont
(LPA)
Nemours & Company, had net
profits of $172,829,089 for the
of
1953,
months
nine’
first
compared with $155,754,M1 in
the same period in 1952. The
as
million
$60
included
net
General
from
dividends
Motors.
sales were $1,334,369,Net
909, up $167,678,499 from the
Net
same period last year.
profits were exceeded only in
1950.
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roval
it
-
in
1
the
The
'
the|
for
as dem-|
the}
in
| Northwest,
policy:
new
areas
will|other
federal government
be
will
and
no} /
in
realized
be};
even
may
oe
ve
G
have
* allow local and private inter-| taken gway from those that
on low-cost
red
spe
pro
and
own
|8r
deat
shot
t
firs
e
ests to hav
hydro-electric | POWErnew
veloping
Municipally-owned _ efectric
I3
power projects.
systems and rural electric
The federal government will|J>
d sled+ build lines to transmit public cooperatives will have har
|
if local or private in-| dintg as the new policy turns the
power only
control of more and more lowterests fail to build such lines.
to priThe long fixed policy of giv-|cost power sources over
or
+ publicly
cooperatively- | vate hands.
PROGRESS
ON
power systems prior claim | copy InG
3
E
|
lic
pub
at
ed
duc
pro
er
pow
the
or.
falling
the
y
awa
ing
giv
In
|
ly
app
ure
fut
projects will in the
nation’s rivers to
the
of
er
wat
-|
sys
se
the
as
er
pow
h
only to suc
the Eisens,
lie
opo
mon
e
vat
pri
n|
whe
buy
to
ed
par
pre
tems are
the
| owned
BALTIMORE
(LPA) — C. S.
Bernstein, publisher, and his representatives
have been ordered
by a hearing examiner for the
Federal]
Trade
Commission
to
discontinue misrepresentations in}
soliciting advertisements for the
Labor
“American
publication,
Digest.” Among other claims that
must be dropped is that the publabor or is|
lication represents
“The Third Man”
LED
|higher rates for consumers of | 7
benefit of low-} 7
electricity. The
markets
new
lcreating
i
Pp
| products of all industry,
UTILITIES GET PRIORITY
and
at TVA
jonstrated
nts
poi
jor
-ma
ee
thr
are
There
Claims
supported or recognized by labor
or
organization
labor
any
lor
| labor union.
’
over | 7
resources
rich
these
turn
Lower income taxes on big incomes, they say, will increase
:
at
is
incentive of the wealthy to save their money and invest it in new
on
ati
str
ini
Adm
er
how
|
l
wil
y
The
are built.
future
enterprise. It will also increase their incentive to spend money to} the projects
ng
ni
em
nd
co
e
tim
me
|S@
w
gro
y
the
elect the kind of a Congress that would levy sales taxes and reduce| not be protected as
to artificial curtailns
tio
ula
pep
l|
ona
iti
add
c
nee
and
and expand
high income taxes.
opportunities
job
ir
the
of
nt
|me
ts.
jec
pro
lic
power from pub
their living
Digest
OS MY:
s-| 7
g induand
elopinjobs
In dev
er ting
Cost Powcrea
ap-| jtri
new
es,
express
President’s
the
taxes.
Can't
mocrat
ment by the Department)
ceN
unO
T
Gno
— An
WASHIN
power}
lic
pub
to
t
pec
res
h
wit
icy
pol
new
a
of
or
eri
Int
of
and | 7
reduces to writing the intent of the new Administration
;
This ought to make clear why NAM and C of C prefer a sales
tax to an income tax. And both of them make clear in their state-|
ments to the Committee that:once they get the sales tax installed
at_a rate of four or five per cent, it will be easy after that to keep|
raising the rate of the sales tax and lowering the rate on the upper
OE
Public Power
‘For Giving Away
')
p De
To
TO STIFLE DEVELOPMENT
major
Three
results
from this new policy.
private
Neither
1
flow|
will
of
reduction
4
|| 21
standards.
;
this
of
growth
normal
The
KITZMAN,
HARVEY
(above) director of UAWClO Region 10, was elected
to the Wisconsin Democratic State Advisory Committee at the party’s convention Wisconsin Rapids. The
committee now has both
labor and farmer representation.
‘a
country will require all the power
It will
can be developed.
companies|that
development of the
full
e
uir
req
)
will
ies
bod
lic
pub
al
loc
» nor
rivers,
our
of
ial
ent
pot
er
pow
}
ial
ent
pot
er
pow
develop the full
only public projects can
ch
whi
|
rohyd
ing
ain
rem
big
the
of
will require at the
it
and
,
ure
ason!
yon
Can
l’s
Hel
s.
site
electric
power
the new
all
e
tim
me
/sa
e,|
mpl
exa
an
is
er
the Snake Riv
companies |
e
vat
pri
t
tha
nts
pla
|
y
an
mp
Co
er
Pow
where the Idaho
ld. A ceil-|
bui
to
ed
ect
exp
be
can
}
the
f
hal
y
onl
p
proposes to develo
the}
on
placed
n
bee
has
ing
e.|
sit
t
tha
of
er
pow
sepotential hor
supply by
er
pow
ure
fut
’s
on
ti
na
r|
we
po
of
control
Private
this Administration.
of
s
act
the
|
ion
. projects and of transmiss
pri-
lines
result
inevitably
will
in|
over the rivers
Turning
companies
| vate
one . purpose.
serve
will
permit
will
It
to
‘T-H Tricks Make
‘Brown Local Boil
Brown
Ohio
SANDUSHY,
negotiaIndustries has resumed
tions with Local 393, UAW-CIO,
of Taftbarrage
after a 3-year
Local.
the
that
In
only],
4.
nang
a
S
ure
fut
ce
for
to
ies
lit
uti
ic
ctr
ele
|
es
rn
Burned Over By
enables
which.
—
(LPA)
WASHINGTON
or
The appointment of Govern
:
th
Sou
of
es
rn
By
F.
James
as a representative
Carolina
of the U.S. to the eighth session of the General Assembly
was
Nations
United
of the
blasted as the “payment of a
by
debt”
political
shoddy
interDelaney,
P.
George
national representative of the
AFL and its spokesman in the
councils of the International
of
one
Organization,
Labor
the agencies of the UN. This
AFL
official
first
the
was
5
es’
rrn
te
sta
t
in
po
ap
’
nes
on Byr
pie
acd
Sanaee Fee ae CEE
“,
Eanes
ed
p
oP
h
bot
s,
ustrie
th of allin ind
the grow
to
r
nea
areas
. that are
tk
fnes
nd
ae
‘i
el ah or
ean
Et
OC
yO
to the people in
l
sel
d
that woul
\those areas if they were expand-|
ing and developing with the help
of low-cost power.
MUSKEGON, Michigan, (LPA)
Five years ago General Motors~
|) and its followers managed to kill
Workers
| thee
F ICAGO
CH
months
of
Talk
Won’t
—
(LPA)
stalling
on
Education
For Worker
After
demands}.
University
the
Now
gram
a
Extension
a
has
Worker
been
Michigan
of
Service
:
established
“add i
eee
oOrcec
a
n
The appointment of Gwendoly
Youth
the
to
Pontiae,
| Welsh,
l of. Governor
Counci
RaGieie
| Williams’
Michigan
was
Youth
aot
me
|
¢
Miss
the
In
Pontiac
her
new
Local
Com-
by
announced
ga
Direc tor Ol
Pro-| Recreation
1s a
22,
Welsh,
again|
tate GUNES
ton
i
Youthful ‘Unionist ;
Gets Advisory Post
Michigan. | mission,
Education
os
lates
NLRB
to
company
it
|bring an : electi; on even though
a
5
.
disworke!
of
evidence
lacks
union-——-was
a
with
satisfaction
won,
jheld last month. The UAW
45 to 19.
force was obSince its work
viously disgusted with the company, Brown decided it had better
bargain for a change.
MSC Strikes Blow
of
Railroads
g
workers
the
period,
ee
The
the | Rave
destroy
to
failed
tricks
Hartley
596
capacity,
UAW
Madar,
member
Gwen
yn Welsh will serve with Don
do
‘9!
y
ts
ie
eD
WE
OS
a
re
po
:|
non
15
in
s
er
of 1,000,000 work
(DeLocal
dge
Do
of
ndt
gra
se
Te
a
;
na
the
unions,
rail
operating
planning
in
others
and
on
le
»
*
S
tion’s major railroads refused to|
ograms and aetivihes
pr
s
iou
var
|
APL
e
of
te
it
mm
co
ry
so
vi
ad
An
e,|
far
wel
bergain on health and
Council,
isory
Adv
h
ut
Yo
the
r
}fo
t
mee
n
bee
has
rs
ice
off
O
d
CI
an
t|
en
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AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
November,
Guaranteed Wage Foes
Use Same Old Arguments
1953
WASHINGTON
(LPA)—“The
evils of mass unemployment have become intolerable and they must be over- for action, the Out
look said the
come, not with statements of good intentions, but by prac- demand for the guaranteed wage
tical plans that will force balance sheets to reflect human today can be realized. “Much has
costs,” so declared the current CIO Economic Outlook in been learned and accomplished
since 1929, and the gigantic coran issue devoted to the guaranteed annual wage.
porations in auto, steel, and other
All the arguments now beare
confronted
ing used against the proposal strength or usefulness was gone,” industries who
with
our
guaranteed
wage
dethe
CIO said that in each case
“were being used only five
mands are not the helpless play“we
hav
e
bee
n
told
that we were thi
years
ago
against
our
dengs of uncontrollable forces.’
ask
ing
for
the
impossible, that
mands for pension clauses in
The CIO called for “responwe were going to ruin business,
union agreements,” said the
sible and thoughtful considerathat we were interfering with the
tion
of
GI,
our
proposals,”
adrights of man
DEMOCRATIC
SWEEP—
Three
of the candidates
who figured prominently in
the Democratic victories in
the November 3 elections
were: Robert B. Meyner
(top
to
left),
win
the
first
Democrat
New
Jersey
governor’s office in 10
years; H. A. Williams (top
right), first Democrat ever
elected to Congress from
New
Jersey’s Sixth District; and Robert F. Wagner
Jr.
(lower
left),
who
won a land-slide victory in
the
three-way
race
for
mayor
(LPA)
of
New
They Gave
UE Forgot
Idle Workers
York.
JUST SEE COST
"Business spokesmen, in erying
‘impossible,’ said the CIO, “are
again looking at cost, not human
welfare.
They
forget or never
knew
the
dreadful
anxiety
and
the
suffering that result from
lay-offs and inabilty
to find a
job. To them,
the measures
of
success are sales and profit figures.”
The
Outlook
recalled
that
‘from the start of the industrial
revolution
the
workers,
aided by humanitarian
allies,
have had to battle against the
inhuman nature of modern industry,
its callous
unconcern
with the people who serve its
machines and buy its products.
Stunted lives, maimed
bodies,
and ruined hopes have never
appeared on corporate balance
sheets.”
Reciting
the
earlier
battles
against child labor, unsafe machines, the
speed-up,
unhealthy
working conditions “and the entire approach of driving a man
to the utmost and then dropping
him on the scrap heap when his
WASHINGTON,
D.C. — The
Communist-controlled
United
Electrical Workers sent a delegation
to the Nation’s Capital
presumably
ers
laid
off
to
in
appear
UE
for
farm
delegation
ing
to
workers
had
say
about
but argued,
work-
equip-
Poland.
needs can be met without any of
these disastrous results, the CIO
Outlook argued.
SAME STRUGGLE
The
Outlook
continued
that
“We know that right is on our
side, that human needs and wel“Now
the same
struggle
must
to fare
come
foremost
in
force human
needs to count in judging a nation’s way of doing
the balance sheet is focusing on things. We are trying to save
a new
area—steady
jobs,
and|business from itself, to improve
steady
incomes,”
declared
the|the policies of American industry
Outlook.
so it will not stumble
blindly
Asserting that the time is ripe into the abyss of depression.”
Wise Spending Now
Can Bring Tax Saving
By SIDNEY MARGOLIUS
For Labor Press Associated
Federal tax returns on 1953 income aren’t due until
Mar. 15, of course, but already the tax experts are busy
advising higher-income taxpayers on what they can do
before the end of 1953 to minimize their tax payments.
One of the chief bits of advice is to delay the receipt of income until the beginning of 1954, because next year income
i
tax rates are scheduled to drop ten percent.
Some of the corporations are helping out their stockholders too. According to the business papers, many corporations are postponing payments of dividends until early
1954 as stockholders can save some taxes.
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A wage-earner is generally not able to postpone income
1954. For one thing, his family can’t postpone eating that
opportunities
Your
taxable
of your
amount
for reducing the
until
long.
income
in this year of higher rates, lie chiefly in paying off before the
end of the year certain tax-deductible expenditures, providing you
itemize deductions instead of taking the standard ten percent allowance for them.
Among tax-deductible items you may be able to pay off by
the end of this year are:
other goods
your house,
Interest fees on cars, appliances,
bought on installments, or cash loans. (But if you prepay interest,
see that the lender or finance company rebates to you a proportionate amount of the interest fee.)
little or noth-
unemployed
instead, that
all the
world’s
economic
itls
would be cured if the U. S. recognized Red China and started
trading with the Chinese Communists.
Next day the Communist Daily
Worker praised the UE. delegation and disclosed that the delegation had climaxed its Washington visit by “taking their program” to the Russian Embassy
and the Embassy of Communist
mitted
there
is
no
“perfect
blueprint,’
and said “we welcome
open-minded
discussion
of alternatives.”
It’s tougher for a wage-earner to get into the game of tax
avoidance, which has become a national pastime second only to
baseball. (Not there’s anything new or illegal about it: One tax
expert points out that back in the ’30’s the public was startled to
learn ‘that J. P. Morgan had paid no income’ tax for three years
straight.)
e
ment plants. Somehow they finagled appointments with officials
of the Department of Agriculture
and other agencies. No sooner
had they arrived for their appointments,
however,
than
the
UE leaders
made it clear that
they had come not to find help
for their unemployed
members
but simply to push the Communist Party line and Soviet RusSia’s foreign policy.
At each government office the
UE
agement.”
But the unions
have proved,
through the decades, that human
Property
SSS
ALL
OUT
FOR
COMMUNITY
FUND
— East Chicago,
Ind., Red Feather Kids for 1953, Jim O’Donnell and Beverly Logan, are children of members of CIO Steelwork-
ers’ Local 1010. Behind them are promoters of the
Community Chest drive (left te right): Don Lutes, Local
1010 president; Chub Rich, general superintendent of the
Inland Steel plant, and Joe Jeneske, Steelworkers representative for Sub-District 2. (LPA)
or
use
taxes
you
may
the
end
of
owe,
as
on
your
house.
Medical expenses. If you find medical expenses so far are approaching five percent of this year’s income, it may be wise to pay
any
owed
bills
before
year,
the
or
undertake
needed
dental or medical work before then. Only that part of your medical
expense in excess of five percent of your income is deductible. If
this year’s medical costs won’t come to five-percent of your income,
then it may be wiser to postpone payments until the new year.
Under “medical” you can deduct for eyeglasses, arch supports and
other appliances; medicines, including patent medicines whether or
not prescribed by a doctor as long as a condition existed pequiring
them, like cold and cough preparations. You can also deduct premiums, on accident and health insurance, including Blue Cross, private insurance and medical cooperatives.
Work Clothes, Tools: You may also be able to advance the purchase of work uniforms and tools. Only such work uniforms that
are generally not wearable away from work are tax deductible.
Ordinary dungarees are generally not deductible, although some tax
offices seem more lenient than others about permitting a reasonable deduction. If your work clothes meet the test of deductibility,
then any costs of upkeep and repair are also deductible.
Also deductible is any special safety clothing you may have to
buy for your job, such as helmets, goggles, safety shoes, protective aprons, etc.
*
You
can
also- deduct
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for instruments,
patterns,
technical books,
manuals and journals and similar supplies you may have to buy
to earn your own living. On small tools or supplies that have a short
useful life, deduct the entire cost at one time, but “depreciate” expensive tools; that is, take off a proportionate amount for each
year of the tool’s estimated usefulness. You can also deduct for
repairs and other costs of keeping equipment in operating condition.
Following are typical depreciation rates of tools wage-earners
frequently buy for work use, as taken from the Treasury Department’s Bulletin F. If because of hard use or other.reason, you find
tools depreciate faster than shown in this list, you can use a faster
rate as long as it is reasonable and consistent (that is, you deduct
the same rate each year).
Estimated
Yearly
Life in Years
Depreciation
Mand: Wools: aeins cee iisiston e/sinisq nO
25-20
Scientific Equipment
Machine shop:
............
10
Grinder
ticpescvescoccdcesc) SO
Lathe ...... sis
ca ini
nie piceg
oun
Saws: Hand and Electric .......... 3
Welding outfits ............ athigs ee
DIDN'T GIVE UP—Right hand lost in a mill accident, George Johnson
learns to write
with his left hand so he can continue as recording secretary of CIO Textile
Workers
Local 304 in Draper, North Carolina. Checking his progress are (from
left): Charles
Galloway, local treasurer; Frank Williams, president, and Gordon Whi
ttaker, TWUA
representative.
10
5
4
33 1/3
10
If you use a car in your work, the typical depreciation rate is
331/3 percent. If you use- the car partly for work and partly for
personal transportation, you would depreciate a corresponding pro-
portion
of
the
car’s
value
(as
well
as
its expenses),
These are the major items a wage-earner can shift to this
year’s tax deductions, but by no means all the possible deductions
you might take to cut down your income tax. This department will
provide a more complete list of deductions for wage earners before
the time comes for you to file your return due March 15,
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