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United Automobile Worker
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1954-06-01
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Vol. 17 No. 6
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AMERICA — U.A.W.-C.I.0.
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For Wealthy and Corporations
Page Three
;
Having
Adinits
Kohler
Gas, Club, Gun Arsenal
Base Nine
Reuther Calls
Economically
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Issue
Eats Sis
sand Seven
CIO and AFL Sign No-Raiding
Pact Covering Ten Million
Page Eight
Board Lifts Jersey Local Union
Charter, Vows to Keep Union Clean
Page Nine
ClO Hails Supreme Court Decision
Banning Segregation in Schools
Page Ten
Michigan Unemployed Workers Ask:
“What's Homer Ferguson Doing?”
Page Four
Spurn
FE-VE;
Harvester
Workers
Page Three
Vote for UAW-CIO
“Take a good look at.
that man... he's blind!"
,
fab osAN Rib
Page Ten
Lecce i ie dai
Wage Boost to Million
Page Five
Page
And Grows, Two Pages of Pictures
Moline
1 Brings Fifth Real
Continued Unemployment
Insane, Morally Wrong
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Old Timers’ Organization Grows
East
.
This
June
Look Who's Coming From the “Bull” Pen
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Two
1954
JUNE,
Retired Worke
Grows; Expani
Today, there
pensions
monthly
bers have retired
April 30, 1954.
It is estimated
will be more than
i?
’
h i
4
are approximatel# )’
negotiated by th
and since died. T
by the UAW Soe
60,000 retired UA)
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until the end of 1957 estimates more
7
member Pf
Since the first UAW
ber of members covered by UAW-V,
})
til there are more than one million
ments.
First pensioners to retire receivé
sion and Social Security payments. Sj
mula, this monthly amount has beenjy:
of the UAW-CIO to build this combi
DETROIT
TIMERS
OLD
| October of 1952
members. They
from their union
at Solidarity House in
RALLY
PAC
had a turnout of more than 1,000 UAW
came to hear the political facts of life
leaders, and from several labor-sponsor-
Les
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‘ed candidates who pointed out to them the fact that retired workers would become an increasingly important
factor in American political activities.
re
P}
¥,
the number of retired UAW
plain that a program for the retir
their years of active UAW members
gram for union members. So, the Dif
UAW retired workers, it was decidec
gram would be in the nature of a pil.
During the sumer of 1951, a
As
workers
from
the
various
Detroit
@
a Staff Advisory Committee made up
tion, PAC, Education, Community §}
Regional Offices, etc., was establishei}:
Recreation Department served as cool
A number of meetings between |
during the 1951 summer began to dey
sulted in the first city-wide picnic an
and
December,
1951,
respectively.
|)
FIRST DR!”
Then, in February, 1953, a real 1)!
Center at Hudson Local 154 was est}
pool, books, radio, television and 9}
part-time staff director was hired tof
up a~well-rounded plan.
the
typical
Some
of
Other
cities which
programs
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provided special interest films and
card and checker tournaments, visits?’
radio shows, trips to interest point}:
Party,” films and talks by Union stafff
ill was also set up, and a monthly pag
In February, 1954, the second of }:
was opened at the Lincoln Local 900[)
five-day basis, with a staff director, }
Since the. success of the Detroit }
tration of UAW retired members haji!
programs. Among the first to actively)
area, was the retired workers grouyit
tioning program, and have just celebi®
RAISING
BOSTON
TERRIERS
is
the
full
time.
hobby
, Local 953,
Loeffler
G.
Fred
worker
IO
UAW-C
retired
of
83-year old retired worker from
DOUGLAS,
CHARLES
in one shop
years
33
over
worked
Fred
n.
Michiga
,
Jackson
Muncie Gear Local 495, UAW-CIO, receives prize from PreSpecialty—and retired in 1953. He’s
Motor
gon
—Muske
est
old
ng
the
bei
sident Orville Grandstaff of Local 489 for
g, raising and showing
breedin
to
years
27
past
the
devoted
,
cie
g
of Mun
retiree in attendance at the monthly meetin
Boston Terriers.
red
registe
AKC
Indiana, retired UAW members.
have made
s¢i
for their retired workers are the i
falo, Jackson, Muncie, Anderson, Wi)
and Lansing.
In addition, some otherii*
moving shortly.
Yes, in four years much
on.
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progress}
Be
FOUR
their
RETIRED
new
Drop-In
UAW
Center
MEMBERS
help
at the Lincoln
to fix up
Local
900
on
Livernois near W. Warren, Detroit. Shortly after the four
mnidentified workers got through with their painting and
refinishing, Detroit’s second Drop-In center was ready and
waiting for occupancy by pensioners living on the West
Side of Detroit. Three more Centers are planned for the
Detroit area.
KIBITZING IS POPULAR PAST}.
Shown here as he plays them to kil}.
lending encouragement to Joe are (I),
740; Barney Gagle, 71: and Walter S)
1954
JUNE,
Organization
Hts Activities
hion.
the
re
In
some
addition,
available
latest
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mem-
4,500
as
figures
of
ial Security.Department that there
mbers by 1955. A further projection
10,000 by then.
ion pension in March, 1950, the nummsion agreements has increased unid members in all UAW-CIO agree-
total
os
nthly
en
the
under
combined
of $100
Three
Big
revised
pen-
for-
Gised to $137.50. It is the current goal
of $200.
to a minimum
total
jonthly
‘(PROGRAM
‘Hers increased, it became only too
uld have to be established. After
ese old timers wanted a union proarea having a large concentration of
A ' the Detroit retired workers proam.
: Committee composed of retired
“cals
"HAW
set
was
John Hanly, Rudolph Allard, Thomas Birtles, Wally Wisnieswski (rear), Fred Jackson, Sr., Archie Baker (rear),
representatives from the Recrea-
ss and Social Security Departments,
Reuther’s direction, the
Sf President
program.
workers
retired
or of the
‘Hone was
ied.
The
achieved.
Facilities
‘| pastimes were provided.
‘erate with the pensioners
ir the
sports
Center,
A
Honnel.
TV
Yy
and
for the
iS now published.
joit’s five planned Drop-In Centers
| This Center is now operating on a
“dlar to the one at Local 154.
program, other cities with a conceneen gradualky developing their own
up a program, outside the Detroit
olZoledo. They now have a well-funci their Third Anniversary.
Histeps toward setting up a program
“iwing: Pontiac, Flint, South Bend, Buf¢ (Canada), Muskegon, Grand Rapids
4es have indicated that they will start
been
made.
it grow from now
Watch
presented over Detroit
TYPICAL DROP-IN CENTER
WW45J-TV on the “Life in Detroit” program showed some
of the activities carried on by UAW-CIO retirees. UAW
retirees and their special hobbies are (left to right), Walter McCandless, copper tooling; Bill Ward, leather work;
Archie Baker, rope mat making; Ed Moore, drawing; Mrs.
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e
e
at the Local 154 Drop -In Center.
4 Joe Rop, 70. Other retirees who are
ȴr.) Tom
in, 76.
Birtles,
72;
George
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Brown,
Thomas Birtles, knitting; Mrs. E. E. Birchall, crocheting
and John Blue, reading. Standing in rear are Olga Madar,
director of UAW Recreation Department and in charge
of retired workers activities, and WWJ-T'V commentator
Harry Stone.
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Dini eeies
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Center.
Elephant
Committee
visiting
first Drop-In
Later, a
in setting
authorities,
“White
at the UAW’s
checkers,
‘zed for the Local 154 Drop-In Center
“#fers, counseling and hobby classes,
various
rects the program
first Drop-In
cards,
for
G. B. Dwelle, Jean Chave, Walter McCandless, Bill Ward
(rear), Frank Heath,
(rear), Robert Reid, Louis Baer
John Barclay (rear) and Henry Park. Elaine Stinson di-
—
Steering Committees
and
Advisory
the needs of the retirees. It also recity-wide holiday party, in August
‘WT CENTER
Te
of retired workers
CLASS
COUNSELING
UNION
holds class session in the comfy Drop-In Center located
at UAW-CIO Hudson Local 154, Detroit. Left to right are
time,
same
the
At
up.
Vb
Second
celebrates
CLUB
PENSIONERS
TOLEDO
Anniversary with Chairman Jake Burtchin of the Region
2B Pensioners Club, UAW-CIO, cutting the cakes furnished gratis by pensioners’ wives. A buffet luncheon is one
sickle
of the features of the Club’s monthly meetings at Local
12 hall. Physically handicapped members are picked up
and returned to their homes by UAW staff members. O@
the average, 200 or more retirees attend every meetings
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