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IT’S SUMMER SCHOOL TIME, and fr om coast-to-coast classes
like these are being held for UAW-CIO members who study ways
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of doing a better job for their local unions. This is a class im public
speaking at Region 4’s Union Center iin Ottawa, Illinois.
PAGE
6
UNITED
Ten
Mexican
Prove
Auto
AUTOMOBILE
Trade
WORKER
Workers
JULY, 1954
Unionists
Are
Pay
the
South of the border today 10 Mexican trade unionists, including eight from automobile plants in Mexico, are telling the
boys on the line that no matter what the newspapers say about
gringos, auto workers are the same the world over.
And well north of the border—in Solidarity House—UAWCIO staff members are still reconfirming to each other that long
known basic truth, “Those guys down there are just like our
guys.”
The mutual discovery teek place early this month when
the Mexican trade union delegation arrived in Detroit in
answer to a UAW-CIO invitation to the Confederation of
Mexican Workers.
“SENOR
THE
WAY?’
WRONG
POINTED
1S
BILL,SHE
THE
:
Baseball Geis
Complicated
After seeing the Detroit Tigers defeated on successive days
by
who
the
were
the
the
and
Yankees
guests
of
Senators,
the
Mexican
the
UAW,
acting
like
auto
workers
auto
workers
everywhere, framed up a story on one of their members which
they planned-to tell about him when they got to Mexico City.
Only one of the 10 admitted to speaking any English at all,
and even he had to rely on an interpreter. But that was no
handicap. Whether they’re Mexican auto workers or UAW-CIO
auto workers, when the auto workers take over, they take over.
The 10 moved around Detroit with as much ease as an Auto
Worker at an out-of-town convention. They rattled off Spanish
and offered pesos to startled store clerks, they held earnest conversations with police who didn’t understand a word they said,
they hurled insults at American League umpires (who probably
don’t understand their language) and they packed in more solid
information on trade union problems in a weels than a battalion
of college professors could have done in a month.
REALLY RUGGED SCHEDULE
They toured Dodge, Plymouth and Ford plants. They visited
several local union headquarters. They held discussion meetings
with UAW President Walter Reuther, Vice President John Livingston, Region 1A Co-Directors Edward Cote and Joseph McCusker, Region 2B Director, Charles Ballard, Ford Department
Director, Kenneth Bannon, and they asked at least 1,000 quesstaff
in meeting with literally scores of UAW-CIO
tions
members.
The Mexican Confederation is currently negotiating with
major industries for wage increases and improvements in work=ing conditions and living standards. That whetted their interest
in finding out exactly the way the UAW-CIO has secured major
contract gains.
con
Just as workers from GM planis in one part of the country
get together with GM workers from other sections, the Mexican
auto workers wanted to know about their companies. Most of
them work for the same corporations that own American plants.
A run down of the visitors makes the point. The delegation
was headed by Deputy Senator Vicente Garcia-Gonzalez, administrative director of the Conference, and Joaquin del Olmo,
international representative of the Confederation for the Federal
District of Mexico.
“Yes this is generally what I want. But I want one with the
peak in back. I’m 2 catcher.”
Other members were Marcario Zamorano Paralta, a metal
finisher in the Willys plant and secretary-general of his local
union; Jesus Becerra Cedillo, crane operator in General Motors,
administrative secretary of his local union; Samuel Reyes
Sanchez, Ford boiler room worker and chief shop steward;
It seemed this delegate went into a Detroit store and said
he wanted to buy a baseball cap to take home with him as 2
souvenir. The
salesman
brought him one. He examined
tried it on for size and then said to the salesman:
“Si, senor.
Esto
es que yo
quiero.
Pero
it carefully,
yo quiero
wno
el] pico atras. Yo soy un catcher.”
Which
!
means:
Same
Vj
y
;
i
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ah
VY
Adrian Garduno Sanchif
\\/" 4
secretary; Nicolas Roget
steward; Jorge Echane
retary; Agustin Diaz Ri .
and general secretary,
general
secretary.
i}
WANT TO SEE ‘YONE
Though extremely p) »
desire to sleep as little F
possible. Joe and Art W 4
national representative
full energy to keeping 1
My
They confided (in?
they did at early UAW
And as has happen} (7
past, the Mexicans’ curip).;
violent conflict with ther’
game their last day, thi
representative to their t)
Senor, would it be jj
afternoon, he wanted %&
an overwhelming desiréf/«
was so arranged, and th}!
day afternoon, the Senap’
The
visit was
a pi
The
delegates
repeip:-
strengthen the ties betwy’.
cratic nations. No one }*
WANT TO BE HOSTS, 1
quez, secretary general ()’
from UAW-CIO membeij’!
been set yet.
Auto Workers maki
hand view of working @}~.
have
the
word
of the }*
problems auto workers /’
licked in the States year)
Tourists sometimes >*
siesta time, they point ¢
truth.
Some of their long }\\'
is poor by U.S. standard)
Even in cities with teller:
set shipped in from the \\\*
eliminated the Communi!
they have not been able"
which Communism ‘rocdah
Under the’ circumsti}?:
they might be a little di
from the truth. “‘Senors,?1)
already. And we’re just g}!
incite
3
Se
$
we
Boxe
AT LEAST AS GOOD AS A BULL FIGHT was the Mexican verdict on baseball. The UAW guests saw two games,
responding enthusistically to all the good plays. Visiting
with
them
here is Muddy
Ruel
(center), general manager
of the Detroit Tigers, who were taking a trouncing from
the Senators when
BS
Mics
OS
this picture was snapped. They weren’t
much impressed with hot dogs, though,. The delegation
also saw the Tiger-Yankee game. Incidentally, the Tigers
did not put up much in the way of an exhibition—they
lost both games.
a
&
AUTOWORKERS THE WORLD ji.
bers of the Mexican delegation
Senator Vicente Garcia-Gonzales,
4).
Workers; UAW-CIO President Wij!
representative of the Confederation
UNITED
1954
JULY,
AUTOMOBILE
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1 Both Sid
ey
inspector at Ford and grievance
Nash trim inspector, chief shop
idson painter, administrative sec-
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room
+4
,
ijano
stock
isT.
;
Quij
worker at
Chryaer sler
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7
repressing
difficulty
had
ible so they would see as much
ation.
Inanish-speaking
B
os
moe
and
ht on though
7A
), that they
mventions.
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UAW: CIO
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in th
two
mbout big league baseball came into
\dule, Booked at a Tigers-Senators
ide.
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the
te
4
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ki
; Bren
New
eee
before
day
the
icused
a
sent
and
little conference this
oe
York
play
confronted
“Yonkees
with
”
Tt
rsThurs
.
Detroit
Walter
P. Reuther
closer
personal
ties with
their
wrote:
brother
trade
unionists
’
industry. We have in recent years, as participants in the Interclose
national Metalworkers Trade Secretariat, established very
stry.
ties with our European counterparts in the automotive indu
“It is, therefore, somewhat in a dual capacity, not only as
President of the United Autormobile Workers
got less sleep than
member
President
automotive
the
in
employed
likewise
are
who
border
the
of
south
as
co
delegates.
the
establish
the
their
devoted
UAW-CIO
“For some time now the officers and members of the United
desire to
Automobile Workers, CIO, have expressed a very great
inter-
UAW-CIO
OF
ation,
The Mexican delegation came in response to this invit
yy-General of thé Confederetar
etar
secr
Plassquez, Secr
Vela
Fi
Sr. Fidel
addresse
essed to Sr.
addr
Studebaker
‘ ter and
pain
it
they
ME
REMINDS
Brothers
to Union
Invitation
PAGE.7
WORKER
Union, CIO, but as
ional MetalPresident of the Automotive Division of the Internat
you an
workers Federation, that I write you and extend through
:
‘
,
P
BS
workers
le
mobi
invitation for a representative delegation of auto
to visit with us at our union center here in Detroit as guests of
our organization and thereby afford us not only the pleasure of
establishing closer personal ties but also give us the much
opportunity to establish closer organizational bonds which
of routual benefit to your organization as well as ours,”
needed
will be
3
of the CIO
t”
or
pp
su
y
rt
ea
“h
the
z
ue
sq
la
Ve
d
re
wi
o
als
Reuther
ing stand-
in the Mexican
Confederation’s
efforts to defend
‘‘the liv
ards of Mexican workers against the reduction in purchasing
from the recent devaluation of the peso.”
resulting
power
the UAW and CIO program to
ie free labor movements of dernoelped with it doubted its success.
he invitation of Sr. Fidel Velas“© CMW for a return visit to Mexico
Mie is planned, but the date hasn't
e trip will get a chance for a first
“tons
in Mexican
auto
plants.
They
dates here that they have all the
in America plus some that -were
2 problems look immense. Mexico
le population is great and jobs, few.
, owning a second-hand 9-inch TV
States is a real luxury. They ve
fluence in their trade unions, but
ck the kind of economic plight on
;
i, it is not inconceivable to think
Sgiearted. Nothing could be further
ajsy say, ‘‘we have come a long way
o
Za
Z
—
forth with a Mexican tune
J
Li
(dlllipa
auto workers present decided that while they weren’t
sure exactly what the delegation was singing about, the
the Mexican auto
WON’T YOU JOIN US, SENORS,
workers asked through an interpreter before bursting
melody was spirited.
(sung in Spanish). American
Wy
yyy
4
XX SVXSQW
—
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.
g started.”
g
AVER, have similar problems and the same goals, memeee
Here,
getting
tter acquainted are, L. to r., Deputy
ministrative president of the Confederation of Mexican
ter P. Reather, and Joaquin del Olmo, an international
BG
rs with their friends from
GOOD FRIENDS GET TOGETHER for this picture. UAW-CIO membe
tive assistants to UAW Presi-
Mexico
are, I. to r., Jack
Conway
and
Roy
Reuther,
administra
dent Walter P. Reuther; Art Vega, international representative; Region 1A Co-Director Joseph
McCusker, Vico President John Livingston and Joe Vega, international representative.
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UNITED
JULY, 1954
PAGE———s
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WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
Kohler Strike Solid after 100 Days;
“You Disloyal American! You Communist!”
Drain
President’s Millions Go Down
SHEBOYGAN, Wisconsin — Some millionaires spend
their money on racing horses. Some take trips around the
world. But Herbert V. Kohler, the millionaire who makes
bathtubs, spends his money trying to break strikes.
As the Kohler strike passed the 100th day mark, over
3,000 workers refused to wor k until they won “a standard
American contract’ with se-#
niority, arbitration, company issues to arbitration was offered
|
paid pensions, full coverage by Wisconsin’s Governor Walter
nephew of the com-|
Kohler,
J.
her
hig
e,
hospital insuranc
Union|
pany’s
|gladly
wages, and union security.
EXPENSIVE TUBS
The Kohler Co. has
O9TS
THE
Wasanicron
UE Stronghold Topp les:
E
GE Schenectady NoawspectaIV
cular
quest
The
CIO@
over
.
its
[CIO
eal 301, in a National Labor
Relations Board election.
|ana
[tee
vote of 9005
By a top-heavy
Schenectady
workers
General
voted to
join TUE-CLO. It was a direct
repudiation of UE, for Local
as _ UE’s
known
was
301
|
local of UE Secretary Treasurer
|
local,”
the
was
source
major
support.
|
The IUE-CIO victory resulted|
from a rebellion against national}
US policy which swept through;
the leadership and rank-and-file|
of
Local
301,
as far back
and
as 1950.
which
dated|
|
|
into the CIO union.
IUE also won the GE Newark:
|
plant from UE.
tally was: IUEThe Newark
Red
Credentials
Lack Essentials
|
A letter from the General Secretary of the International Con-'
federation of Free Trade Union)
to the Director Gene(ICFTU)
ral of the International Labour
chaJenged |
(ILOY
Organization
credentials of “workers” delegates}
from the Soviet Union attending}
the International Labour Conference session in Geneva.
The ICFTU protest pointed out
that the constitution of the Sovthat
reveals
Unions
jet Trade
these bodies are subordinated to
“Communist
the
and
state
the
In
addition,
there
is
“The
but)
A statewide drive to raise funds
was
workers
Kohler
the
for
launched by Region 10 Director!
in|
Workers
Kitzman.
Harvey
buttons’
wore
plants
UAW-CIO
to the
“I donated
said:
which
Kohler strikers” and stuck bumper stickers ‘on their cars reading
|
“We Support Kohler Strike.” A
Kohler strikers defense commitby CIO, AFL,
tee was formed
and independent unions in She-|
boygan.
The $4 million spent trying
the strike is “twice
as the entire cost of
break
much
to
| as
last
negotiated
benefits
| the
and far more than it would cost
to reach
a settlement”
this year,
the resolution adopted by the
} Kohler workers pointed out.
| Solidarity in the Kohler strike
has been greatly helped by the
daily appearance of a strike bulcartoons
features
which
letin
-
262.
sf
eh
ents
J
r
"Your suggestion box is o
gubstture tor a union. I core
a
didnt
estion last week, but I
see it on my paycheck!”
officials.
which pan the company
A nightly radio strike report over
| the local station has the highest
popularity rating of any Sheboygan program.
visited the
When Emil Mazey
in
part
took
and
scene
strike
up
came
a picket
negotiations,
and
representative
to a Union
not to settle
said, “Tell Mazey
this strike before September. It’s
and
foundry
that
in
hot
too
enamel shop in the summer.”
Kohler workers are in this one
to win.
ts
fi
ne
Be
e
nc
ra
su
In
r
he
Ot
pay
No Bar fo Social Security
Sheboy-
ed to
ty people help
Electrical |gan Coungro
wth of Kohler Co.,
.
members
-
Some
of the UAW-CIO
have lost Social
Sec-
did not know what they
they
e
us
ca
be
ply
sim
ts
efi
ben
ty
Uri
n said.
challenged 13. A total of], ;jinionaire,” the resolutio
d by the
receive
reports
to
ing
accord
them
to
coming
|had
D
BBE
SNU
were eligible to vote, and| coy. KOHLER
ase
x
were
Director
The election united more than}
100,000 GE employes at 60 plants
Party.
products,
savings of many
Kohler’
cast.
strike \UAW-CIO.
Many people do not know that
apconfusion
of
area
One
|
provides
also
Security
pears to be between Workmen’s {Social
for
benefits
survivors
Unemploy- monthly
and
Compensation
ment Compensation benefits and widows with minor children, for
aged widows and other beneficicases,
many
In
Security.
Social
E
-U
FE
of
eat
The UAW-CIO def
worker
insured
an
when
aries
the
answer
to
the
question,
East Moline (Hlinois) International
do I get, Social Security dies.
\“Which
has inspired the workers of Inger‘or Compensation?” is “BOTH.”
A
request
to
take
the
CHICAGO —
last month at the
Harvester Works
soll Steel and Dise Company, a -division of BorgWarner Corporation here, to attempt fo escape the
yoke of the FE-UE.
According to Vice President Richard Gosser,
|
of financial
con-
ing
strike,
Anti-FE Revolt Brewing in Chicago
Julius Emspak, and has been |
UE’s
Ke,
arbitrator settle the
the company refused.
|
and
the
for
:
the the labor of many generations of
last big stronghold,
Sheboygan County families conskill |
and
at
swe
the
ed
but
tri
10,
on
uni
no
,
447, UE 258
which made Herbert V. Kohler
732 ballots
||
home
“mother
United
Communist-dominated
the
Workers this month, winning
huge Schenectady, N.Y., Lo-#
to 5137,
Electric Co.,
scored
Electrical Workers
Peir
spent over
$4 million trying to operate the
out
turning
plant,
strike-bound
but a tiny dribble of the comand
production
normal
pany’s
using high school boys and foremen to get that.
“According to reliable information we get from the inside
of the plant,” Local 333, UAWPresident Allan J. GrasCIO
kamp says, “It would take the
company over 100 weeks to fill
their back orders before starting on anything new. The most
expensive bathtubs in the world
right
Co.
Kohler
from
come
now.”
The Union membership passed
a resolution asking Herbert V.
Kohler to “negotiate, arbitrate,
or resign from the presidency so
that others*more adapted to modern times may come to terms
who
and women
with the men
have devoted their lives to mak-
The
president.
offered to let an impartial
of the
UAW-CIO
Competitive
Shop
and
have several
which
Departments,
Borg-Warner
staff members at the Chicago plant, interest in the
UAW organizing program by the workers of the
plant spurted to a new high following receipt of the
election results from Moline.
The UAW-CIO was narrowly nosed out by the
FE-UE several years ago in ary NLRB election. Since
‘then there has been wide dissatisfaction by the workers with FE-UE. It now appears that a majority of
them are thoroughly disgusted with the inept collective bargaining representation they have had and of
being used as political pawns.
to the UAW-CILO campaign indicates
The response
that a large number of workers now realize that they
need the services of a strong bona fide union and are
anxious
to come
into the fold of the UAW-CIO.
|
Se long
as a worker
does
than $75 per
| not earn more
month in covered employment
| he remains eligible for Social
| Security payments. Under the
| Social Security Act, Old Age
and Survivors Benefits are payable at the same time that a
person is receiving Workmen’s
Unemployment
| Compensation,
| Compensation or temporary dis| ability (sickness and accident)
| insurance
}
benefits.
Over 300 Attend
Local 770 Picnic
BROOKLYN, N. ¥.—More than
800 members of UAW Local 770,
their families and friends, attendAnnual
Second
Local’s
the
ed
Bus Ride and Picnic at Harmony
Island,
Staten,
Grasmere,
Park,
on Saturday, June 26th.
85
around
temperature
With
the picnickers enjoyed
pay-|degrees,
benefit
Application _for
ments for Social Security should|their lunch with beer, ice cream
be filed at the nearest Social|and soda pop on the side—under
Security Administration field of-\the park’s shade trees. The par-
‘fice. As many
as six months
of/ents
took
it easy,
but
the
chil-
back payments can be made when/dren had a hectic time under the
,an application is filed late, but| guidance of the Entertainment
to the
Prizes went
jno more than this.
{\Committee.
If you have any doubt about/winners, and every kid received
|
for
gift
consolation
going
\where you stand, check with your|a
home.
| local union.
COO MOM)
no
freedom of wage negotiations or
working conditions since both of|these are fixed by the State, nor
do the-Red unions ‘practice internal democracy.
National Write Up
The philosophy, “What’s good
for the community is good for
the Auto Workers,” is one of the
main reasons the UAW-CIO has
the respect of so many segments
of America, Mary Heaton Vorse,
veteran labor reporter, writes in
an article on the Union carried)
in the July issue of Haper’s magazine. It’s available on most
newsstands.
MRS. MARY V. HILTON, Chief of the Research Department, Women’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, was
a guest speaker at the annual two-day meeting of the
National Women’s Advisory Council to the UAW-CILO
Women’s Bureau. Pictured above are the appointed rep- ‘
Mary McNamara, Helen Frye, Haline Bonkowski, Loretta
Schillinger, Ann Mazzacaro, Grace Sturk, Henrietta Voss,
Agnes Loveland, Della Souriall, Vesta Elder, Susie Barabee, Zeta Bowers, Caroline Le Grande, Nora Shonk, Rose
International Representative Lillian Hatcher,
Bureau, Fair Practices Dep artment, UAW-CIO,
resentatives of the various regions. Seated L. to R. are:
Bessie
Burge,
Mildred Jeffrey,
International
Representa-
Marie Wild, Ann
tive, Radio Department, UAW-CIO,
Women’s
Office Secretary,
Louise Payne,
Pastuszka,
Bureau, Caroline Davis, Director, Mary V. Hilton, and
Women's
ie
2
tee
S
The
.
Chase
their dialogue
Bar Room Floor
This
month
te
Nati
(the Carrie
another
bs
On the
Mrs.
£
Glenn
the
Hays}
WCTU)
Nation of the
swing
from
gimmick.
~
think
that
a
took
u
at our damp and battered brew-|gether, let 'em absorb
of mountain
ers, topping it off with a state-;|amount
;
;
i
honor
ciety.
Mrs.
that “alcoholic bever-
advertisers
coholism
the right
sub-
told a Senate
Hays
have
al-
spread
from the wrong side to
side of the tracks." The
Voluble femme also Charged’ that
i
Said brewers were brewing more
than hop juice. That they were,
in fact, planning to further home|
drinking by depicting “nice ..."|
(that’s
the
word,
buster)
nice people drinking.”
Hays
Miz
much
anymore.
don’t
get
“
..
around
Somebody
oughtta tell her
that Mister and Miz Gotrocks
were tossing off slugs of ol’
banker
The
ters
as
acceping
these
policy,
company
“wrong”
on
or before
good,
New
of
employees
lappers.’Far
as tioned
Process
as
open
an
Ss
Region 9.
shop
¥
«hs
Michigan
D
exercises.
Republicans
‘
like
(Moral Leadership
President
-
e
G
7
of
degree
Doctor of Humanities at the University’s commencement
in|
Bohn Aluminum
k
:
an honorary
receiving
after
University,
foree
e
Sh
susan
SS
congrareceives
Reuther
P.
Walter
President
UAW
*
.
.
‘
Wilberof
tulations from Dr. Charles L. Hill, President
After that it is unlikely Chrys-|
ler will haye
.
ce
E
report to
Chrysler
in the
oe ere ove ee Bune
pee
to the polls to choose a bargaining agent.
.
that the mon-
the sermon
reach
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Essential for Peace
states,
Reuther Tells Grads
are
As I said before, the “nice”
It sounds friendly, until you
people
were
dribbling
corn read between the lines, and
squeezins’ on their dinner jackets
ly,
familiar
signed
even
it’s
that
oughtta, for,her own|before the hoi polloi knew
“Denny.”
could
Drought.
the bums lapped gingerale spiked|stuff,
be
used
preserving
oughta
for
any-
defunct
abolish
the
but leave us not get class
it was|/conscious about it.
with
hot
sauce.
When
Anyway, the sub - committee
more important to know a bootlegger than it was to be on speak- listened to her and a few other
hitch hikers on the water wagon.
ing terms with the President.
I bet that was a long, dry session.
you
are
truly
O
Miz
Hays,
I'd give my Stevenson button to
firschimmled!
know what the Senators did the
got nothing against the|}moment
except that they're lifting! goodbye
they
....
kissed
Miz
Hays
The letter is dated June 22, and
it starts out:
Dear
.vcccecce
Last year I asked the members of the management team
for financial support for the
resThe
Party.
Republican
ponse was gratifying. (Ed. Note
And no wonder. Denny’s the
boss, isn’t he?) We need your
Foundry Department Leaflet
Combats ‘That Creeping Death’
FACTS ABOUT...
Foundry Department
The UAW-CIO
and the Health Institute have their sights
A
set on the creeping death—-silicosis.
-jeaflet to be distributed-to foundry workers, and any others who must labor in
dust, exposes the disease in language anybody can understand.
The leaflet may frighten some. The
frightening.
Workers
dries in the
in the nearly 6,000 founUnited States and Canada
little bit of the creeping
may take in a
death with each breath they draw. No
one breath contains enough of the_invisible dust which causes silico Sis to do any
harm. The trouble is, it piles up. The silica
dust enters the tiny air cells of the lungs
and, over a long period of time causes—
normal lung cells to thicken and change
so that they do not let oxygen pass easily
into the blood.
The change comes about so slowly
that the worker who has silicosis may
not know it for years. The time to combat
it, of course, is early, and the way to detect it is with X-ray.
Silicosis is a sly killer, the leaflet
by writing to the UAW-CIO Foundry De-
the|com
to ask
on
96th
school’sstrongg nt,
at theReuther
Speakin
menceme
“team” man-to cough up 1 per
cent of what he paid in income
taxes. For a man making only
$5,000 a year, that works out to
$11. After all, Denny points out,
he’s just asking his underlings
‘to invest’ that amount
in the
GOP program.
ly criticized this country’s civil
rights record and said “there is
a serious
moral
gap
between
America's noble promises and its
ugly practices in the field of
civil rights.”
Reuther, who received an honorary degree of doctor of hu-
manities, told the commencement
audience estimated at 1,200:
“Peace
is the only adequate
defense against the H-bomb and
to win the peace we've got to
dedicate ourselves to making the
better things of life available to
people all over the world,” ReuIn other words, Denny is going
ther said.
to keep tabs on who kicks in.
ave, ve got to provide more
Along with the letter, Denny
leadership
in
the
world,"
he
sent a form letter on the “Readded. “What good are all our
material resources unless these
publican Party of Michigan—
material
resources
are devoted
Wayne County Republican Finto a moral purpose?”
ance Committee” letterhead.
Reuther said “our task is not
The GOP memo warns, “A net only to stand before the world
Hoss by the Republican Party of as a great and rich country but
but three seats in the House, and we must
also stand before the
of but one seat in the Senate, world as a great and moral power
and the Democrats will OFEanize and use that moral power in the
Congress’. . ..”
interest
of
the
whole
human
It points
out, “Your
(GOP) race.”
After urging the reader of his
memo
(to)
“act
upon
it
promptly,’ Denny closes with a
friendly, “after filling out the attached pledge form, please put it
in the envelope provided and return it to me.”
contribution . . . will assure that
the Senate seat now occupied by
CUTTING TOOL
--|\COMPANY CUT
DOWN TO SIZE
Ferguson (R., Mich.) will-not be
lost to the Democratic Party .
and that one might spell control
of the Senate.”
The people putting on the presPLYMOUTH, Michigan — Ane
sure to raise the big GOP war other victory was chalked
up for
chest
are the same
ones
who the UAW-C
IO
in a closely conthink it’s terrible when a labor tested National
Labor Relations
union asks its members to con- Board election
at the Whitmantribute a mere buck to PAC,
Barnes plant here.
Election results announced by
Vice-President
Richard
Gosser
and
Regional
Co-Director
Ed
Cote,
were
UAW-CIO;
239;
no
union, 231; and 7 challenged votes
out of a total of 515 eligible
cover (right) has death on it. Physicians who cleared the contents of the
leaflet said that the disease itself is
points out. It often weakens a worker’s
_ resistance so that the actual fatal ail-ment may be another lung disease.
More than a third of all deathS among
foundry workers are caused by some
respiratory diseases.
Anyone can get a copy of the leaflet
:
.
”
‘
year:
Simon] ©Theit Ist
letter goes
with
When
the|thing except
“nice’ people stashed away gig-|Pedestrians.
Mebbe we
gle water by the gallon while
_I've
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WILBERFORCE, Ohio — The
I’m concerned, I'd rather spend a|Shaking their financial trees for a big crop of cash to back
United States must -capture the
octopussy their candidates in the 1954 campaign. One of the techniques
a beserk
with
week
moral leadership of the world to
than a half hour with a drunk.
came out in the open when a management man in the Bohn|win the peace. UAW and CIO
But it riles me te have some
President Walter P. Reuther told
a
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Corporation:
Aluminum:
dehydrated
female
divide
the
the graduating class_of Wilberhelp
evén
more
than we needworld into two parts and then ed over the letter he received
force University here. ~
tell her tales of the Great|alcohol
American
ruled
August
side of the
were still experimenting
canned heat.
Somebody
Jet-
the same|Gear,
which
is
probably
the
and “wholly owned subsidiary’ mendew
8nd the other curls his toes.
I hold no brief for suds swiland likker
So,
vote.
its president,
are teaching the pedigreea|from
Tennishue when the peopletrackson |atels
Den Uyl.
|PUPS dirty tricks.
the
re-
empleyment”
of
Board,
could
to-|1,206
as
any
fool
knows, is not a matter of case
but of pocketbook. The more
flush the lush the finer the firewater. You find ’em in penthouses and alleys. The only difference in the way they guzzle
is that one curls his little
finger
<
./lers
letter.
andlers
as strong
just
will smell
other.
in my Foot-in-Mouth So-|*he Alcoholism
eee
committee
age
place of|0ne
her
earns
which
ment
vice
a
and
bum
5
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Nights}
live on different floors?
Put
laid off worker
“termination
:
Ten
Each
I keep asking myself, do/that none of these laid off work-
crusaders
~?\virtue
roundhouse
:
in. A Bar Room.”
Why,
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Drink
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maintenance bargaining unit. The
rest had been laid off, with a new
Juice
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Some say it’s a Chrysler plant.|Company of Syracuse, New York. {NLRS hearing was finally held,
had more signed
|the UAW-CIO
The UAW-CIO began an orSome say it's an independent
|members than the company had
ganizing drive the first week of
gear plant.
jemployees working.
three workers
with
January,
But everybody says it hasn't|
with Franin secret
huddling
had a union in 40 years of operauddl
5
At its 1935 peak, the company
tion, from the time it was three
cis X. O’Mealia of Martin Ger- |employed 2,800. On the first. of
(as
other places until it became
ber's Region 9 staff.
the year, there were 2,700. By
Gear
Process
New
it is now)
By the end of May, when an|May, the company was declaring
that there were 1,206 currently
Chrysler Absorbs
Briggs Pension
Representatives of the UAWCIO and the Automotive Body
voters.
This
Briggs. Body)
pany,
ment
Briggs
reached
an
recently, combining
Pension
a
division
of
(formerly|United Twist Drill & Tool Com-
of Chrysler
Division
company,
-»
Plan
agree-
and
considered
the old|Manufacturer
with
the
the
country,
the
of cutting
has
resisted
largest
tools in
union
°rganization for many years,
of UAW-CIO Locals 212 and 265;
It
has
many
paternalistic
are covered by the integration of|practices such “as foreman and
worker bowling teams, baseball
the two plans.
Chrysler
Pension
Plan.
Members]
A Union negotiating team com-|4nd
golf. A seniority
program,
posed of Jess Ferrazza, Adminis-|Which always worked to the bene
trative Assistant to Financial|fit of the company, finally be
Secretary
Art
Mazey;
Hughes,
came
one
of
the
Assistant Chrysler Director; Ken|for the UAW-CIO
Morris,
partment at Solidarity House. It is not
necessary to be a member of the UAW.
‘Death doesn’t wear a union
Be
Local
212
President;
Bartelbort, Chrysler
Representative; and
Ed
main
reasons
victory.
The UAW-CIO is also conduct:
Department}ing an organizational drive in the
Pat Caruso,|Lathrobe Tool Company plant in
Local 212 Vice-President carried|Chicago, Illinois, also a division
- Tool
on the successful negotiations}of United’ Twist Drill
>
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Company.
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ihn
pay hai
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3°
et
Chrysler S ‘Secret’ Sree Eien:
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Won't Be Non-Union Much Longer
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