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1954-08-01
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Vol. 17 No. 8
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Page Eleven
Utilities Back Atomic Steamroller Tactics
To Force History’s Biggest Power Giveaway
Page Two
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In This Issue
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NLRB
Gives
Employers
|
On
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by CIO
Unions Expelled
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Intimidating Union
Have
Lost
Go
Ahead
Workers
Page
Members
Half-Million
Page
Page
:
4,500 Union Oldtimers Turn Out
For Retired Workers’ Annual Picnic
U. S. Primary Election Results
Show Decisive Swing to Liberals
Goes
‘McCarthy
Into Juggling
Issue
Real
Hot
Years
9,000
Page
Ten
Nine
Seven
Page Eleven
Act;
Potato
Page
Can You Top This?
17
Twelve
in "49
Labor Day Begins 6th Month
Of Determined Strike at Kohler
Senate
Never
as
Steward
Grievances
See Page Five
Twelve
Darken
Our
Door
Again
AUGUST,
PAGE
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
1954
Big 3 Plan Tremendous
downs
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Lay Offs;
Start Soon
Auto Preduction
to Drop.
! To About Half May Level
During the last of this month—and all of September—laid-off automobile workers in the tens of
thousands will be added to the already horrifying
total of America’s unemployed.
Chrysler
|workers from
Corporation,
already down
its high of 115,000 in May
|shut down altogether for from
the last of this month.
jsions
In
to some
53,000
of last year, will
six to eight weeks
beginning
General Motors, Chevrolet, Fisher and Pontiac diviwill cease operations in August and September for
WWE
Big-scale lay-offs are also definitely in the picture for
workers, have been fairly
|\Ford workers who, like GM
|steadily at work up until this time. Of Ford’s present work
force of some 142,000, probably about 10 per cent are expected to be laid off by the end of next month. That figure will
grow to some 25 per cent of Ford’s work force before lay|offs are halted.
SSS
WLOGH
WE
As of the present, 4,000 Lincoln-Mercury workers
are laid off as the result of the elimination of the second
shift at two L-M plants. Other Ford manufacturing
plants have had minor layoffs, although a few are still
hiring and working some overtime.
;
Independent automobile manufacturers and the agricultural implement industry, in serious trouble all year, will
continue in the doldrums.
In September, passenger car production is expected to
fall to a low of 275,000. This would be a 44 per cent drop
from the May production of 494,000 units.
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AW-CIO Local
961, prefer this “open-air” chow line established by a caterer hired by the workers
to buying the poor food offered them in the plant by the company-appointed caterer
in the plant lunch station.
H
Hatch Act
Hatchet Job
Draws CIO Ire
:
‘
The National CIO has protested to Attorney-General Herbert
Brownell
against recent
Hatch
Act indictments of employees of
private
corporations
working
under contract at Atomic Energy
Commission installations.
RD.
PLANT
workers,
embers
of
In Washington,
the Administration’s
answer to the
economic problems of the Nation was a vague and undefined “plan” to “spend money faster” in an attempt to halt
a recession which it has steadfastly denied exists. The suspicion grows that even this gesture is dictated by the near-
Chrysler Diplomacy
Workers Rebel at Lousy Chow;
Now They're Eating Army Style
The road to a man’s heart is said to go through his
stomach, but the management at the Chrysler Lynch Rd.
plant in Detroit apparently has never heard of the the saying.
,
plant. The vote came only after
Company
indifference
to the
fruitless efforts by local union
kind of slop being served by the
officers to correct the food situthe
at
caterer
In a letter to
Brownell,
CIO company-picked
ation.
General Counsel Arthur J. Gold- plant has led to a rebellion by
According to the local, manberg related press reports that members of UAW-CIO Local 961
present
position
is
AFL
union
officials
at
Oak who work in the Lynch Rd. plant. agement’s
can get rid of the
Ridge, Tennessee,
had been in- The workers have not only re- this: “You
the alleged food Factory Catering Co. if you want,
dicted for soliciting political con- fused to buy
tributions for that state’s sena- being served them in the plant, but you won't be allowed to have
other
caterer
come
in to
they have also hired their own any
torial campaign.
serve you.
Goldberg said the indictments caterer who has set up shop in a}
plant.
“This type of stand.is a slap
were “presumably” based on the vacant lot near the
in the face to the Lynch Rd. emHatch
Act which
deals with MEN MUST EAT
ployees and means that they have
political activities by federal emChrysler Lynch
Rd,
workers
ployees. He pointed out that em- have long been dissatisfied with to spend their hard-earned money
ployees
of government
contrac- the quality of the food dished on food they believe not palatable,” the local’s newspaper comtors
are
not
government
em- out
Chrysler - blessed
the
by
ployees, and should not be subject eaterer, describing the coffee as mented.
to Hatch Act prohibitions.
being “worse than the foulest- NO FREE ENTERPRISE
tasting medicine,” the soup as
The local has come up with a
“looking and tasting like dirty solution — not yet accepted by
dishwater, and just as thin,” and} |Chrysler—which it stated in these
CHICAGO
— The Trainmen’s the sandwiches as stale and “just! terms:
big enough
for a small
Political
Education
League,
po- about
“Chrysler
Corp.
believes
and
litical arm of the Brotherhood of bird.”
preaches
Free Enterprise.
Why
Railroad Trainmen, has launched
The shot which touched off
not let the Factory Catering Co.
a drive to step up political acthe food war and resulted in a
back into the plant—it has promtivity for the primaries and the
full-scale boycott was fired by
ised better food — and also a
November elections. The League
the caterer
two
months
ago,
competitor of the union’s choice?”
plans
to
raise
an
educational
when he decided to raise the
fund for political education purprice of his so-called soup and
poses and to carry on educational
would-be coffee by two cents.
efforts
of
the,
Brotherhood
The decision was ill-timed, for
through TV, radio and newspaper the day picked by the caterer for
ads in support of BRT policies. a price increase was the day the
Chrysler workers took a one-cent
pay cut because of the decrease
in the cost-of-living index.
Pull PAC
Whistle
Having
*f don't understand these strikers.
One of them actually patted me
on the back when I went
through their picket line!”
received
a good
|ness of the November elections.
MORE ‘LABOR SURPLUS’ AREAS
In July, the “rolling readjustment” rolled over seven
more communities, as the Labor Department listed a new
total of 141 labor markets where more than six per cent of
work force had no work. In July of 1953, there were only
39 such communities.
In 45 of these labor surplus areas, 12 per cent or more
were unemployed, another increase of seven over May of
this year. In Detroit, preliminary estimates for July placed
unemployment at 150,000. In other words, one out every
iten
Detroit
workers
was
out
of work
as of mid-July.
In other major cities, latest unemployment figures
were: 155,000 in Chicago,
122,000 in Philadelphia,
56,000 in St. Louis, 32,000 in Buffalo, 20,000 in Milwaukee, 18,000 in South Bend. Quad-Cities, Kenosha and
Peoria were all in the more-than-twelve per cent unemployed group.
In almost every issue of The United Automobile Workers
this year, it has been possible to quote different Washingjton spokesmen as to the month and day when all would be
was
the President said that March
well. In February,
the month to watch. Defense Secretary Wilson said, ‘““Come
Spring, it is going to be all right’? On March 22, Treasury.
Secretary Humphrey said that he thought it might be as
late as May before the economy began to move upward.
Nine days later, Commerce Secretary Weeks said we
would “pull out of it by April.” But on June 8, Arthur Burns,
ichairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers,
postponed recovery until Autumn.
There are no more forecasts from
Washington to print
at this time. Meanwhile, to use a nasty word in GOP circles,
the nation’s economic picture was one of virtually unrelieved
gloom.
lesson
in free enterprise economics, the
workers
began
stayihg
away
from the lunch station in droves.
Instead,
they
hired
their
own
caterer, preferring
to eat good
food
in bigger
portions
under
Army-type
chow. line conditions
in an open field to the lunch station slop, comfort or no comfort.
NOT A SANDWICH
After awhile, Chrysler’s caterer
“wasn’t selling one lousy sandwich or cup of coffee in the whole
plant,” according to a report in|
The
Criterion,
official
monthly
publication of Local 961.
To
implement
this
action,
Local
961.
members
officially
voted, two to one, to keep. the
Factory Catering Co., the offending
caterer,
out
of
the
THESE ARE SOME of the UAW-CIO pensioners and guésts who attended a dinner
in their honor, sponsored by UAW locals in the Greater Cincinnati area. The pensioners
Peck
are
from
Locals
of the Court
863, and 1074. Region 2A Director Ray Ross and Judge
of Common Pleas were the principal speakers. Assistant Regional
392,
6 74,
Director Edward B. Hellkamp acted as toastmaster. Among the
area OIO leaders, manager nent representatives and clergymen,
invited
guests
were
UNIT
PAGE 4
Editorial...
:
ED
AUTOMOBILE
AUGUST, 1954
WORKER
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K Leaking Boat Sinks All Over
e
s
in Columbus,
—
Local 927, UAW-CIO,
NOTE:
(EDITOR’S
Ohio, has just completed a highly successful rebuilding drive. One
oj the editorials in the local’s paper, The Jet Planesman, written
specifically for the drive, hits a point which applies to all of us.
The
editorial
follows:)
For fifty-four days,
Atlantic in a lifeboat.
Time
after
time
the
eleven
waves
men
poured
battled
in;
the
and
stormy
time
after
time aljl eleven bent their backs to the scoops, and bailed.
The boat survived.
But emotions run high in a confined space and gradually little cliques and groups began to form. By the end of
the fifty-fourth day, they'd begun to separate. Eight men
stayed in the bow section, taking turns at the oars, keeping
the lifeboat pulling ahead . . . fighting for survival . . . survival... forthem ALL.
One man sat im the stern, refusing to row, criticizing,
jeering, calling names. And two others huddled near this
third man, half-convinced, half-persuaded. They didn’t bail,
either; they didn’t row.
Suddenly there was a jar, a jolt.
A piece of floating debris bashed against the bow, gashing a dangerous hole. The eight men shipped their oars and
began to bail Cke mad. By bailing hard they kept up with
the inpouring water, kept the lifeboat afloat. Swept along
by the currents and the wind, the boat crept near a shore,
nearer to safety for everyone.
It was
a race against time. If the boat stayed affoat,
they'd all be saved.
If it sank, they’d all be lost.
SEA.
The
enemy
was
not each
other ...
:
the enemy
was
the
VAW-CIO
Fite Neady tarlers ox
ORAL Gants
wowace
all Ntea Gunes
Gime
DOUBLE TAKE — Governor G. Mennen Williams found his own picture was the backdrop for his talk at the UAW-CIO Skiiled Trades Council meeting in Lansing last week.
Supreme Court to Decide
if Arthur Gets 90 Cents
With the members of UAW-CIO Local 1171 in Liverpool, N.Y., it isn’t the money, it’s the principle of the thing.
That’s the only conclusion the lawyers could draw after
: hearing that a test case claim*
for 90 cents in overtime pay ployer, but Williams appealed
What of the two men im the middle? Would they
will go all the way to the U.S. the case to the county court, and
bail, or would they throw in their lot (and throw away
lost again. He and the local then
their safety) with the sullen, uneooperative single man in Supreme Court.
The 90 cents is the amount took the case ot the Appellate
the stern? They turned to him for a sign. . . for guidance.
Local 1171 member “Arthur Wil- Division of the State Supreme
He said: “What a nasty leak . . . lucky it isn’t in OUR liams says his employer, Air- Court, which overruled the two
end of the boat!”
lower courts.
cooled Motors, Inc., owes him.
The dispute goes back to ElecThe company then appealed
Would these two, who still held out, remember that
tion .Day, 1952, when
Williams
when a boat sinks, it sinks all over?
that decision to the Court of
So does a labor union.
When it floats, everyone is safe. When it sinks, everyone is lost.
A union is built, fought fer, and protected not because it is an institution, but because it is a vehicle . ...
a vehicle to take the members where they want to go. A
vehicle for protecting the workers, for winning (for everybody) the kind of wages, the kind of dignity, the kind of
security Americans are entitled to have.
It is completely impossible for a minority to scuttle
a union, or even to break it up into little impotent cliques,
without endangering everyone, including the impotent clique
itself. When a ship goes down, they go down with it.
took two hours off to vote, which,
jaccording to New York law, he
is entitled to do without loss of
“usual wages.”
It is those twe words which
are the center of the current
contreversy. Williams says he
was working nine hours a day
1S A
ATTER OF
PRINCIPLE
helping to bail.
Let’s ALL
safely to shore.
bail.
:
Let's
ALL
row.
Let’s
ALL
come
Appeals, the state’s highest tribunal,
which
also
found
for
Williams.
But
management
ap-
pealed once again, this time to
the
U.S.
Supreme . Court,
which is slated to take up the
case this fall.
Officers
of Local
1171
say
that
by
the
time
the
high
court
decides the issue, the company
will have spent enough on legal
fees to provide every worker in
the plant with a substantial pay
:
Zeeae
That is why a loyal, stalwart majority in Local 927,
UAW-CIO, is working hard and with surprising good nature
to patch the leaks. These union people understand that they
eannot afford a weak union, a divided union. An obstrucduring the peried in question,
with one hour of overtime on
tion in a union is a leak in everybedy’s lifeboat.
top of his regular rate of $1.80
Disaster when it comes, fails on the “ins” and the
an hour.
“outs” alike. without selection.
Thg company, however, scheRebuilding Local 927 to 100% strength and mutual res- duled only seven hours work on
pect and trust is everybody’s job, because everybody benefits from unity and mutual trust. More and more of the
dwindling minority is beginning to understand this, too. . .
and more and more of this minority is beginning to ignore
the counsels of the clique, are jumping into the bow, and
(20 3)
Election. Day and paid Williams
for the two unworked hours at
his rehis regular rate. When
quest for the 90 cents overtime
Williams,
down,
turned
was
in
sued
by his local,
backed
in nearby
Court
Municipal
Syracuse.
The court found for the em-
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é
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OES 155
“Don't tell me oll these hours
go into the minutes
union meeting!”
GM
of your
Sub-Councils
To
Hold
On
Meetings
Contract
Plans
A second series of educational
conferences
has been scheduled
for ali General Motors sub-councils starting September 17, it was
announced
by UAW-CIO
Viceraise.
John
W.
Livingston,
If the principle involved is up- president
held
by
the
Supreme
Court, director of the GM department.
about 200 other UAW members
The purpose of these conferat the plant
will also
receive ences is to discuss with the shop
overtime payments on the same committees
of GM
local unions
grounds.
interpretations of various clauses
That's
in the
ment,
Why
TOKYO
— National
leaders
of the Japanese textile workers union began an investigation when
they learned that
one of their locals, faced with
mass
layoffs
in
a large
textile
plant,
had
disregarded
contract seniority clauses in favor
of drawing lots to determine
who would be laid off.
The
local
union
explained
that they decided on the lottery
idea to eliminate
complaints of favoritism “hecause
so
many
of
the
workers
relatives of company
are
officials.”
work
UAW-GM
National Agreeand
to lay
the
ground-
for
1955
negotiations,
held
last
fall.
A simliar series of conferences
was
Separate
two-day
sessions
are
scheduled
for each
sub-council
to permit all GM lacals covered
by the National Agreement the
opportunity to participate. Locals
are being
asked
to send
their
local unien
president
and their
entire shop committee.
To supplement the lectures on
various subject matters, printed
material will be distributed—to
each
cenference
participant
to
help him handle in-plant grievances,
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Secretary-Treasurer
RICHARD GOSSER and JOHN W. LIVINGSTON
Vice-Presidents
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ee
ee
display checks amounting to
TWO WOMEN MEMBERS of UAW-CIO Local 926 proudly
more than $1,100 awarded them by an arbitrator who ruled that the Ohio Steel Foundry Co. of Springfield, Ohio, had fired Clara O’Brien and Theresa Moorman because
of their sex. He ordered their reinstatement with back pay. Watching International Representative Austin L. Patton of Region 2A hand out the company checks are
James Moore, chairman of Local 926 bargaining committee; Oscar Heffner, Charles
Smith, and Lawrence Graham, comraitteemen; and Wallace Westmoreland, president of
Local’ 926.
si
Executive
CHARLES BALLARD
RAY BERNDT
GEORGE BURT
ROBERT CARTER
P. J..CLAMPA
ED COTE
MARTIN GERBER
PAT GREATHOUSE
CHARLES H. KERRIGAN
LEONARD
Board
Members
HARVEY KITZMAN
MICHAEL F. LACEY
RUSSELL LETNER
NORMAN MATTHEWS
WILLIAM McAULAY
JOSEPH McCUSKER
Cc. V. OHALLORAN
PATRICK O'MALLEY
RAY ROSS
WOODCOCK
FRANK WINN, Editor
EARNEY B. TAYLOR, Managing
BAKER, Assoc. Editor
CHARLES
CONTRIBUTORS—Russell Smith,
Members,
American
Editor
YARDLEY, Photos
JAMES
Frank Wallick, Jerry Dale
Newspaper
Guild, ClO
AUG SST,
o—_—
UNITED
1954
PAGE
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
5
Pint-Sized Steward Rounds Out
17 Years’ Service to Budd Local
records seem to be the fashion these days. (land, the son of a bricklayer.
“I hold a life membership card
,
the mile in z less than four ay minutes, : trans-|
.
in-the British bricklayer
Setting new
Track; stars run
continental planes fly from
hours,
and
military
every week.
Along
comes
a
ord.
UAW’s
in
Detroit
different
kind
With
id
bl
With
of
York
break
the
306
Local
jets
New
ee
to Los Angeles
through
the
ee
arms,
alrman
c
sound
ea
in eight
he revealed.
ne
educa
rec- |committee, member
of the
die
and
election
committees,
My father died when
|I was seven, and
n eee
ave
I never actually
as
:
ENGLAN
IN
ED
DI
JOT
union,”
“It’s sort of an hon
barrier | jrary card,
SRG
oO
s’
PAC!
His first job was as a printer’s
and|apprentice in the British Foreign
considerable pride, | <ecretary and long-time member| Office, but in 1909, he and his
workers there point to one of | of the local’s “flying squadron.”|family left England and settled
their charter members, Sid- |
He is also a charter member
|in Chatham, Ont., “where I work
ney Wigley,
who has been)
and assistant treasurer of the |ed in a buggy factory,” he says
Budd Employees Federal Cred- |“But Chatham was too quiet fo1
of his department]
steward
me,” so in 1911, he moved ta
it Union.
years.|
17
for
continuously
E
his fam-| Detroit.
rs of of his
membe
ers
SoS many , memb
stew-|_|
He isi the first and only stew‘
aa
UAW
Re
ene
ene
FAMILY,
2
;
nap
eye
ily
almost
says
four
TOO
own
daughters,
two
sons,
to
start
with
a
UAW,
the
smile.
Three
Local’s most active members. At/grandchildren, though.
Sid was born in London,
one time or another, he has been}
of
majority
of
the
producers
in
zine
Be
from
domestic
sutficiont:
of lead
mines
tomimest
§
;
i
1923.
Sid was in the thick of thing:
Eng-|
jwhen Budd
was
organized
in
UAW-CIO Local 306 believes
Sid Wigley’s 17 years of continuous service as steward is
a record that cannot be matched by any steward in any other
UAW local.
How about it?
Can any UAW
local
meet
this challenge?
HOW ARE THE BOYS DOING, Steward Sid Wigley wants to know as he turns in funddrive dollars from his department at Local 306’s office. A tireless worker, he makes
sure his department is one of the first heard from for any «union activity.
and! ¢ojjowed
must|
national | Workers
Victory
the universal
:
to ‘unite
urge
2
of
|
ie
aBE
i
‘WN
gress
and
signed
by
the
President
established
the
6 per
cent.
Cee
this bill with the income tax reduction,
of excess profits tax and increase in payroll tax, all of
effect on January 1, the net tax reductions are:
For corporations — $3,639 millions a year — 49
For individuals with over $5,000 income — $3,055
year — 42 per cent.
For individuals with less than $5,000 income—$669
a year — 9 per cent,
The figures prove, what most people already knew:
Business is in the saddle, it really pays to be rich,
|
|
]
ion
being
young
nowadays
went
meetings
in
fired
base-
“almost
UAW
he
fellows
don’t
has
done
complains
in the
un
appreciat
in
in_
a
the
voic:
through
to
get
the
kind
of conditions that we have in
the plant today.
For instance,
I was
always
getting
fired.
Once
I
was
out
for
four
months; that was in 1943, when
I was
fired
after
a one-day
Strike,
But
it was
the
last
time, too,” he added.
“Now
we
meet
in our
ows
union hall instead of a basement
and things are a lot better.
Bu
some
of the younger
members
of the Local don’t realize thai
all these
things
were
won
the
hard way—on the
picket
line,”
Sid continued.
Despite
personal
tragedies—
he lost a son in World War II—
Sid retains a ready smile and a
good sense of humor.
(He takes
a lot of kidding
about
his un
usual name).
This and his repu;jtation as a tough steward
who
has been firm with the company
for 17 years make him
one
of
the
most
popular
members
of
Budd Local 306.
by Con-
principle
elimination
which took
per cent.
millions a
millions
When
union
that has retained just the slight
est touch of a “limey” accent.
“They
don’t know
what
we
For the kind of people who formulate Eisenhower’s policies
this is a great victory, a fundamental achievement. With that
principle incorporated in the law, their drive will be to make further progress
so that, some day, the dividends which wealthy
families receive will not be taxed at all. If that causes the government to run short on revenue, it can be made up by slapping
heavier sales taxes on everybody.
When it becomes fully effective, this tax revision bill provides
tax savings as follows:
For corporations — $1,939 million a year — 57 per cent.
For individuals with over $5,000 income
—$1,242 million a
year — 37 per cent.
For individuals with less than $5,000 income —$195 million
—
“The
| Plants,”
that the unearned income which people receive in the form
of dividends on stock should be taxed at a lower rate than
the income people earn in wages and salaries.
a year
ments,
si|what
Soak-the-Poor Principle
Featured in New Tax Bill
tax bill finally approved
|
secret
| every day” for union activities,
and
denunciations
as a “rad| ical” by company
men.
collective
for
led the plant from the outside
while fellow strikers staged thr
sitdown.)
Later that year, Sid was electer
steward of the inspection depart
ment, a post he has held eve
since.
Sid believes that he has handlex
at least 9,000 grievances in his 1
years
.as steward,
although
hi
admits
that
that
figure
“is ;
pretty rough guess.”
PINT-SIZED
SCRAPPER
Sid hardly looks the part of :
union
militant.
A small,
thin
bespectacled man, he is less thai
five foot five and strictly in th
featherweight class.
“But I was a lot huskier in thi
lold days,” Sid explains.
|
“The old days” to Sid meant
|
Reuther|bargaining in an NLRB election
requirements,
defense
urged further
government pur-|this month. The
UAW-CIO
rechases for the
stockpile
at
alceived 174 votes to 148 for a comprice “that will
enable
needed | peting AFL union, Harvey Kitzdomestic lead and zine mines to|}man, director of Region 10, restay in productian.”
lBoxted:
WASHINGTON—The
has
he
Budd in 1928, where
worked for the past 26 years,
in
citizen
He became a US.
Can You Top This?
Universal
the supply
auto plants, before going on to
and|
the industry would, as a matter of
fact,
not
be aided. The
higher
prices
may
well result in substitution of other metals for lead
Universal
MILWAUKEE—The
and zinc.”
Pointing out that for security;Rundal Company workers
here
reasons,
a few
but
mention
to
Chrysler,
his
Shortsighted
The
ed
the Motor City, he workand
Packard
for Cadillac,
1937.
A veteran member of the
Local, he participated in the sit
down
strike
which
resulted
in
union recognition.
According t«
Pete Horwatt, another 1937 vet
}eran and now president of Local
306, Sid put in 35 hours on the
picket line without a break dur
ing
that
strike.
(He
was
1
member of a squad which patrol
SU)
UAW and CIO President Walter P.
Reuther has urged President
Eisenhower
to “reject the
U.S. Tariff Commission’s recommendation to raise the duty on
lead and zinc imports.”
At the same time, he urged the
President to set forth a program
that will permit the metal mining
industry to be preserved in the
United States.”
Reuther
said
a
study
by
the CIO, which represents many
workers
in the
mines,
showed
that the domestic lead and zine
industry is in “serious _ difficulties and needs aid.”
“
Reuther
declared
that
the
Tariff Commission’s
recommendations
would
hurt
the
free
nations of the world who supply
the U.S.
with
lead
and
zinc,
while at the same time domestic
miners ‘would not be the beneficiaries of any direct help.”
“The so-called panacea resulting from
higher tariffs would
not materialize,” Reuther said in
his letter’ to the President. “An
indirect subsidy would be
given
producers which would restlt in
higher prices to the consumers.
In
“T-
makes/three sons-in-law are in various|,
It’s easy to see what
No one has yet got-|
around| UAW locals.
so popular
Sid Wigley
Local 305. At*64, he is one of the|ten around to signing up his 16)
"The pay off is still on. the picket line’”’
Veteran steward Sid Wigley advises youngsters
Lead, Zinc
Tariff Plan
my
could}
local,”’ Sid)
belong
Big
'
LABOR’S
COME
A LONG
WAY,
but it still has a long
way to go, Steward Sid Wigley and Local 306 President
Pete Horwatt decide as they talk over the years they've
been working together toward common goals.
He plans to retire
when he reaches 65.
he do then?
“Move to Alabama,
pension,
replies.
and
take
next year
What will
enjoy my
life easy,” he
Budd workers say no one has
earned the pleasures of retirement more than Sid Wigley,
1954 _
N
NNR
A
RARER
N
ANANARANAR
O
NONEN
AUGUST,
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
was the youngest
LITTLE LADY
the UAW-CIO Old Timers Picnic on
THIS CHARMING
~ pienicker to attend
eae
amont
aes
vee
s, the See,
tired member o
on
a ies
is
+k
Wed
ee
aba,
*
alker, a
:
63-year-old
sa
7
re-
Ma
ZZ&y
:
ht)
rig
to
t
(lef
s
her
bat
”
ety
Nin
y
“Ga
se
the
are
ty
par
the
of
ACTING LIKE the life
W Local 154
_ x4.
Popeck;
Drop-In
Overcome
*
Charles
Center;
Mrs.
Hallman
Eleanor
by this glamor,
AFL, a union counselor at the UA
of the
Archie
Stock;
the cameraman
forgot
some
of Local
of the
15;
and
Mrs.
first names.
DeHaven.
tly tossed their
ligh
s,
tive
rela
and
nds
frie
r
thei
s,
ker
wor
red
reti
0
4,50
N
THA
RE
MO
Retired WorkO
-CI
UAW
ual
Ann
rd
Thi
the
e
mad
and
th
mon
last
y
awa
s
care
ers Picnic at Belle Isle the biggest and best one ever held.
onal departati
ern
Int
s
iou
var
the
of
on
ati
per
coo
ed
bin
com
the
by
e
sibl
-pos
e
Mad
the Reof
tee
mit
com
ring
stee
the
and
7,
and
1A,
1,
s
ion
Reg
in
ons
uni
l
ments, loca
s of all
cker
pici
the
by
d
oye
enj
as
m-w
gra
pro
ded
oun
l-r
wel
a
up,
Gro
s
ker
tired Wor
" ages,
lunches,
their
ate
prizes,
for
contests
in
participated
games,
played
timers
Old
pS
nding speakers.
sta
out
ral
seve
d
hear
and
s,
skit
edy
com
hed.
watc
c,
musi
to
ened
list
sy of the Detroit
rte
cou
the
h
oug
thr
hed
nis
fur
was
Trio
on
nst
Joh
Lou
the
by
Music
l 174 added
Loca
Side
t
Wes
of
ce
Van
iel
Dan
e
ire
Ret
.
AFL
,
ans
ici
Mus
of
n
tio
Federa
and actually made it a quartet.
higan, spoke
Mic
of
or
ern
gov
t
nan
ute
lie
for
ate
did
can
c
ati
ocr
Dem
,
Hart
Phil
for imed
hop
they
if
s
ker
wor
red
reti
by
on
acti
l
tica
poli
for
d
nee
the
briefly on
secretaryO
-CI
UAW
ey,
Maz
l
Emi
ion.
slat
legi
r
othe
and
rity
secu
al
proved soci
progn
pai
com
its
of
any
kept
not
had
GOP
the
that
rs
time
old
the
treasurer, told
iness.
mises to the people, but that it had kept all of its promises to Big Bus
ward
for
g
kin
loo
e
wer
and
time
fine
a
had
rees
reti
the
that
cate
indi
All reports
was
ir
affa
’54
the
k
thin
’t
didn
they
that
Not
.”
1955
in
ic
picn
er
to a “bigger and bett
a huge success, but these oldsters keep looking ahead—not back.
his vjolin
{
talents
to those
of the Trio,
DOIN’
WHAT
Kurzawa,
Edwards,
age
85,
HANDCLASP
a
retiree
oldest
COMES
married
NATURALLY,
couple
at
the
Martin
picnic,
and
show
they feel about each other after 57 years of married
Flora’s 74, Martin is 77 and a Local 400 retiree.
VO
A BROTHERLY
.
|
Baker
links the three oldest pienickers: From the left, George
from
UAW
Local
195,
Windsor,
Ont.;
Henry
Lafayette,
age 88, who retired from Local 600 at the age of 83; and Robert McKerchey, age 83.
The photo at right shows Philip A. Hart, Democratic candidate for lieutenant goyernor
:
of Michigan, addressing the crowd at the UAW-CIO Old Timers Picnic.
Fiora
how
life.
AUGUST,
1954
Thousands Mourn
Ex-Senator Moody
The flag at Solidarity House still hangs at halfmast. When Blair Moody, ex-Senator from Michigan,
died last month, the UAW-CIO declared a 30-day
period of mourning.
Working people lost a good friend, a staunch supporter of liberal causes.
His death came as a shock. From all reports,
Moody
was
almost
monia attack
for re-election.
recovered from the virus pneuwhich had interrupted his campaign
Thousands of working people, who had expected to vote
for him, passed by his bier in Detroit’s City Hall, the place
where
he first reported on*
political
affairs
during
his
early days as a newsman.
Many came dressed in their
working clothes. Friends observed that ex-Senator Moody
would have liked that.
OUTSTANDING
SENATOR
The flag will soon be
ack
2
Many prominent men called exat
the top of the pole, but for de- Senator
Blair Moody’s
death
a
cades people will remember Blair real tragedy.
Moody and the record he made
UAW-CIO President Walter P.
during the two brief years after Reuther said his death was
“a
he moved
from
the reporters’ tragedy to the state and nation,
gallery in the Senate to the Sen- He
was
a brilliant
newspaper
ate floor.
correspondent. As a U.S. senator,
Moody went to the senate to
he was a devoted public servant.
fill the
His career as a newspaper pubvacancy
left by
the
lisher, cut short by his death, had
death of Senator Arthur Vanalready been distinguished by his
denberg.
Although
a
freshman
honesty, impartiality and courage.
Senator,
Moody
moved
quickly into a leadership role
“In every field in which he
for the liberal bloc in the upwas active, he was a peerless
per chamber.
fighter for the ideals in which
he believed and those were the
He led the fight on such pro-
te
THOUSANDS OF LITTLE PEOPLE, like these women who likely never met ex-Senator Blair Moody, passed by his bier to pay their last respects to a man they know was
fighting for them. As this picture tells so eloquently, many showed a deep, personal
sorrow at his untimely death.
Prejudice Against Women Costly,
Ohio Foundry Company Discovers
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio—Two members
cal 926, who were fired by their employer
are women, have won reinstatement with
result of an arbitrator’s de-%
cision.
Each
$1,100.41.
:
The
arbitrator,
Dana Council Seeks
Setter National Pact
BUFFAL
— Delega
O
tes to the
Dana
Council, representing
of UAW-CIO Lo- | Locals 12, Toledo, 164, Auburn,
just because they |Indiana; 566, Buffalo, 644, Potts-
back
pay as the
town,
Pennsylvania;
and
724,
\Lansing, Michigan, met here last
is directed
received|At their present ages of 51 and |month. The council
Vice-President Richard Gosto perform by
56 to expect them
work of the nature in question ser.
ruled
that|on-a
basis comparable
with
the
Proposals for making the Natthe Ohio Steel Foundry Co.|male employees in this unit
:
would not be in the best interest ional Agreement more inclusive
discharged
Theresa
Moor-|o¢ cither the women or the com- jand other demands on the Cor|
man
and
Clara
O’Brien
sole-|pany.”
ly because of their sex in vio-|
lation of the seniority
in the union contract.
FULL
BACK
clause
PAY
He ordered that they be reinStated to their old, or equivalent
jobs, with full compensation for
the time lost between their date
of
discharge
and
the
date
of
reinstatement.
The two women were laid off
On October
2, 1953, and the
company
refused to let them
exercise their seniority rights.
The local then filed a grievance, which was taken to arbitration.
Charging discrimination, Local
926 told the arbitrator that the
two members had been working
for the company since 1943 and
that, at the time of their discharge, there were jobs in the
plant which they could perform.
The union asked for their reinStatement with back pay.
The
arbitrator
must
have
|heard that old song before. He
upheld the Union argument in
EXE eeeeene
|poration for 1955, were discussed.
|The present National Agreement
jis restricted to the cost-of-living
escalator and
annual
improvement factors.
with CARE
UAW-CIO President Walter P.
Reuther
this
month
accepted
membership on the CARE Committee for Austrian Flood Relief
and
Rehabilitation,
formed
to
help victims of the recent Danube
River flood, He said CIO members were
eager to
assist
“in
every way possible
to
provide
aid and succor” for the disaster
Victims.
posals
as
federal
supplements
for state unemployment compen-
sation
benefits,
streamlining
government
operations,
support
of free trade union groups
in
countries receiving U. S. aid, direct loans for veterans for housing, anti-inflation laws, St. Lawrence Seaway and use of royalties from
submerged
oil lands
for education.
SAVED MICHIGAN JOBS
It was Senator Moody’s hardhitting
campaign
which
saved
the jobs of thousands of Michigan
workers
and
workers
in
other states. He fought a plan
which would have cut auto production to 800,000 during the second quarter of 1952. This action
saved the jobs of thousands of
workers
who
would
have
been
laid off had the cut back been
allowed to go through.
Moody promoted a task force
assigned
to
channel
defense
orders
to
labor-surplus
areas.
He
also
promoted
the
manpower directive which gave businesses in labor-distress areas the
right to meet lower bids on military
conrtacts
submitted
by
other areas.
While helping the industrial
worker, Moody was also helping the farmer. He pushed for
a program which called for the
emergency purchase of Michigan
surplus
crops
for the
school lunch program, military
ideals
which,
when
realized,
would bring the greatest benefit, spiritually and materially,
to the greatest number of people.
“We in the labor movement,
along with countless others, with
whom we share our hopes for a
better world, feel the loss of an
intelligent, articulate and gaNant
champion
of the cause
dom, social justice and
hood.”
*
*
of freebrother-
*
Governor G. Mennen Williams
said news of the death “comes as
a tremendous shock to the people
of Michigan and to me. In Blair
Moody’s
passing the people
of
Michigan lose one of their outstanding and devoted public seryants.
“Blair Moody
gave
unselfish-
ly of his talents and devoted
himself to public service all of
his life, both as a newspaper:
man and as a public official.
“He
literally
sacrificed
himself
in the cause in which he passionately believed. It can be truly
said of him that he died doing
his best to serve his country.”
Williams proclaimed a 30-day
period of mourning for the former-senator, ordering all government flags to fly at half mast.
Automobile
Worker
and
the
Michigan CIO News.
9-LETTER ATHLETE
A graduate of Brown Universiuse and other purposes,
ty, where he won nine athletic
In 1953 Moody and a group of letters, Moody began writing for
associates bought
the Michigan the Detroit News in 1923 at the
Rotary Press. The purchase -was age of 21. He covered sports and
looked upon as the starting point Detroit’s City Hall until he went
for
the
eventual
launching
in to Washington as a correspondDetroit of a liberal daily news- ent in 1933. Moody covered the
paper. The print shop was soon Washington
scene for 18 years
publishing
a number
of labor until Governor Williams appointpapers including
The
United ed him to the Senate in 1951.
;
Borg-Warner
Demand
SAME OLD SONG
Management
contended
that
“these female employees are not
qualified
and
capable
of performing the work of these jobs.
Reuther
Liberal Cause
Loses Fearless,
Gallant Fighter
for
ROCKFORD,
E
SYDNEY HORTON (center) is the first Negro
member
of Local 659, UAW-CIO, to take his place as a tool and
die maker at Flint Chevrolet. Horton was enrolled in GM
Tech four years ago and completed his training to become
eligible for his skilled trades assignment last April. With
him in the picture are two union representatives who gave
him 2 hand in his historic 4-year struggle for the job.
Dean Eagan (left) present shop committeeman, and Earl
Crompton, International representative on the Region 1-C
staff.
Council
Renews
Nation-wide
Mlinois—Delegates
Contract
to the Borg-Warner
Council last month unanimously supported seeking a national agreement with the Corporation. They also pledged
to urge their respective local unions to make the national
agreement a major issue in®
negotiations for a new con-|tivities of their local unions and
tract.
several
stated
that production
The action was taken at the|cutbacks had reached a critical
regular council meeting here.
stage at their particular plants.
Officers for the coming year}
The new officers are: Joseph
were elected by the Council and|Greulich,
president, Local 363;
installed by Joseph Mooney, ad-|Joseph Kolomay, vice president,
ministrative
assistant
to
Vice|Local
42;
Paul
Cooley,
financial
President
Richard
Gosser,
di-|secretary,
Local
287;
Kenneth
rector of the Borg-Warner De-|Kingsbury, recording secretary;
partment.
Walter Andrejewski, Board MemDelegates reported on the ac-/ber at Large, Local 484.
:
UNITED
,
1954
AUGUST,
PAGES
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
-
Kohler Strike to Enter
y
a
D
r
o
b
a
L
on
h
t
n
o
M
h
6t
SHEBOYGAN,
will
start|
Here, where the welfare of the
on
depends
community
|Whole
the
with ag
fareLabo
workers the
|how wellcavi
yec
s
eathi
|\turnout
|
|
}
this
in
private arsenal and because the}
village which is virtually a part}
state.
| of the Company has tear gas and|
EVERYEODY’S BATTLE
6, 4| because the company has rejected}
September
Monday,
On
Kohler Co.
groups)
from
local so many
appeals
determined
strong,
proud,
traditional outside labor who sought to help}
the
in
march
will
this
a settlement,
about
parade. So will the bring
Day
Labor
other unions here. They’ve united community has a new awareness}
of the problems labor faces, and,
here
workers
important,
more
esenting have a new awareness of their
repr
tion
niza
orga
r
|;,po
day
Sun
r
the
ano
just
was
—It
sin
con
Wis
N,
GA
OY
SHEB
in a county of strength.
|
ers
work
000
}49,.
ze
bree
cool
a
with
,
nice
was
r
the
wea
The
.
gan
night in Sheboy
le.
is becoming aware
peop
Co.
00
ler
50,0
Koh
than
more
e
/littl
e
Wer
ets
stre
wn
nto
dow
The
coming in from Lake Michigan.
could | of the latter. It has been rethis
ago,
ths
mon
Five
#
quiet; just as quiet as the picsurthe
from
seabs
cruiting
abor
prol
a
ed
call
been
have
not
of)
er
mm
Su
ket lines in front of the Koh-|their folks — a
rounding area in a desperate
q| area. On Labor Day dozens of
se.
‘Junior Strikers’ Help
gates, where
of
.
c
UAW-CIO
T
Local
AMe, family
ane
dst
Roc
s=)
for
e)
gee
sir
)
have {they know of the need for
been
on strike since April 5.
from
the
But
if
you
drove
picket
lines,
and
|
ay
833
back
cau
4.
:
members | str
to
town!
|cooperation
passed|
all the
among
Kohler
The
and
for
strikers.
strike
na
ier ina
Parents in Kohler Fight
ler Co.
county
pay
lowest
friendship]
may
a|
be,
| effort to break
nts and scores hepof
local merchacitize
will
ns
jnterested
jabor
They've
in
any
been
way
doing
they
it
the strike. It
has achieved only token
i tion.
can.
|
right
along.
produc-
This community showed how it
felt about labor when nearly 10,out to hear Victor
000 turned
will
|——____—
igroups here had seldom co-| they fear retaliation from Kohler. |
|
operated on major projects. NEW AWARENESS
County was the |
Because Kohler Co. still has a}
Sheboygan
talk over ways of helping their father win the st rike
against Kohler Co. They’re part of a group of 200 teenagers who have banded together to help their parents in
the struggle against Wisconsin’s leading labor-hater—
t>
workers
or Day— unless
of their strike here on Lab
the. sixth month
«4,
.
.
gees
.
faith
good
in
iates
the Kohler Co. reverses itself and negot
before then.
Perhaps nowhere in Amexica will the day have greater
ed
significance. On April 5, when Local 833; UAW-CIO, pull
the plug on Kohler Co., even some of the Local’s secondary
uncertain ~_
were
HNeadership
workers. Townser
Kohl
help
to
s
er
mb
me
the
l
labout how wel
people are taking part, too. Some!
r
bo
La
.
out
it
stick
iwould
because}
contribute anonymously
Guetschow
Judy
and
left,
Shirley,
STRIKERS,
JUNIOR
Wisconsin—Kohler
tremendous
be
rlow About
Real Shove?
WASHINGTON — Secretary
Sinclair Weeks
of Commerce
says that while the economic
future looks bright, the -Eisen
hower
Administration
economy
there.”
One policy
the
and
procurement
of
is giving
a
“nudge
is
to
things
here
speed
that
up
the
government intends to buy. Instead of waiting six months it
is trying to buy in a month or
is
department
own
His
so.
pushiag shipbuilding, road construction and airport construction.
Week’s statement is the first
governby a high
admission
ment official that the economy
needs such “nudging.”
CiO's Golfers
Will Tee Off
At Purdue
every
lly
tica
prac
in
s
ker
Wor
|
ng
ngi
bri
is
it
but
est,
cont
er
Hitt
find
Standard Hall, you wouldn't
| Reuther, ClO administrative ascone
hav
nty
cou
the
in
ant
|pl
the
in
More than 400 CIO members
ies
lit
qua
best
the
out
'
it quiet at all. There, some 200
t}
sistant to Walter Reuther, speak are expected to participate in the
por
sup
r
othe
and
ey
mon
ted
ibu
|tr
You
.
lies
fami
r
thei
and
kers
teen-age sons and. daughters Of) stri
e. All over Wisconsin at a Sunday afternoon rally last
ational
Kohler strikers
wonderful time.
having
were
4)can visit Sheboygan
yourself.
and
PLENTY OF ACTIVITY
A stranger to Sheboygan
would have been a little bewild-|
see for|to the caus
\a fund-raising drive is in progress
intern
annual
6th
CIO’s
to be held
golf championships,
| September 11 and 12 at Purdue
University Golf Course. West Lafayette, Indiana, it was announced
of
director
by Olga M. Madar,
the UAW-CIO Recreation Depart-
month.
of polkas,
ered by the mixture
and _ jitschottische
bunny-hops,
terbugging, but it was all in the
and the
repertoire of the bamd
dancers.
the Sum—
This Summer
mer
of
the
Big
Strike,
as
ment.
The
is
sponsored
jointly by the Recreation Department and UAW Region 3. and is
CIO
of-all
members
to
open
unions.
5,
Local
of UAW
Shaw
Jim
will be the
South Bend, Indiana,
defending champion. Local 5 will
also provide the defending team
woman
defending
4champs.
The
Bruzewski
is Virginia
champion
far
as this town of 40,000 is coneerned—has seen a number of
these dances, sponsored by the
a teen-age
Strikers,”
“Junior
group made up of the children
The
members..
833
Local
of
also
have
Strikers’
“Junior
Flint,
599,
Local
of UAW-CIO
held talent shows, picnics, and
Michigan.
enof organized
forms
other
Competition will be at 36 holes
tertainment.
be
to
titles
with
play,
medal
the
and
fun
the
in team,
Underneath
to winners
awarded
of
is a current
there
indiwomen’s
dancing,
individual,
men’s
vidual and mixed divisions.
seriousness. These teen-agers are
really in earnest about helping}
Entry blanks can be obtained
strike.
this
win
parents
their
by writing or calling the UAWat
Department
Recreation
Many of them have tried to get
CIO
some kind of work to help out at
Solidarity House, 8000 East JefferMichigan.
14,
Detroit
home. And that’s no easy task in
Ave.,
son
The deadline for entries is AuSheboygan this Summer.
gust 23.
Take Margaret Hemschemeyer,
Whe
for instance — a pretty, darkhaired 13-year-old who knows
the Kohler worker reading it wonders if
but
,
OLD
RS
YEA
20
IS
PER
SPA
NEW
THE
what the strike is all about. Her)
now just as it
le
peop
on
s
club
and
guns
gas,
tear
use
to
ing
will
isn’t
still
Co.
er
Kohl
father has worked at Kohler for
ect workers
prot
to
in
ght
brou
were
ps
troo
e
stat
ty,
rari
real
a
in
,
when
ago
n.
s
bega
year
ke
20
stri
did
the
25 years. Since
company
ate
priv
a
of
ted
boas
who
t,
iden
pres
er,
Kohl
V.
ert
Herb
y.
pan
com
the
he has picked up a few odd jobs
nst
agai
gives
around the neighborhood, but no-| arsenal and a tear gas supply in a court hearing early in the current strike, still
AnMo.—
CARUTHERSVILLE,
s
ker
wor
club
to
hed
ng
pitc
tryi
et
g
gar
to
nin
Mar
gai
So
bar
.
thing more
no indication that he prefers honest collective
has
ufacturer
man
other
pick
ds,
fiel
the
in
g
in by workin
.
ract
cont
rior
infe
an
g
ptin
acce
into
Southern
learned that informed
not exactly an easy}
ing beans
workers are as anxious as their
|
job for a petite young lady.
to
in the North
workers
fellow
|
THEIR FIGHT, TOO
sented by the UAW-CIO.
repre
be
—The
(PAI)
Texas
ON,
HOUST
“I'm glad to help out,” she rethe
by
was given
lesson
The
who
ers,
Engine
nary
Statio
AFL
marked between dances. “I know}
at the Chris-Craft CorporUnion
ioning
condit
air
the
e
operat
it}
this strike is won,
that when
NLRB
in an
here
plant
ation
in
ngs
buildi
office
in
ent
equipm
a better job for my
will mean
by
won
The UAW-CIO
on.
electi
of
capital
ioned
condit
“air
this
father at the plant . And you|
JOE
a score of 52 to 41 for the union.
day
ideal
an
picked
”
world,
the
A
'
t
our
ugh
bro
know, this thing has
ration which had moved
corpo
The
105
was
It
strike.
their
start
to
”
er.
whole family closer togeth
its Michigan operations
of
some
years.
45
in
e
hottest
es—th
degre
Like Margaret, young Lowell |
reornly
stubb
plant
local
the
to
de25
d
droppe
iMich
y
of
mercur
The
uson
Ferg
er
Hom
Republican Senator
Ostermann, another “Junior
by
activities
organization
d
iste
i-|s
hurr
a
with
days
two
in
grees
to
job
a
Striker,” got himself
ters cane named “Barbara” in the representatives of the UAW cio
boos
rthy
MeCa
the
g
amon
ly
rent
appa
is
gan
For three
help out at home.
Department
Shop
Competitive
.
|
vicinity
Local
707
is
now
fightery;
groc
a
in
ed
weeks he work
again.
the staff of Region 5 Director
and
the
and
employers
the
both
ling
r,
fathe
His
off.
then he was laid
'Russell Letner.
Recently Ferguson let it be known that he would | weather.
on strike for better eonditions
after 21 years with Kohler, has
igan visit from the junior
Mich
a
to
ly
kind
look
inot
had exactly one odd job since
a
painting
strike began,
the
senator from Wisconsin. But in a letter printed in a
p
Ge
ae
|
||
tournament
Putt-Putt-Putt,
Runaway
‘Rough
barn.
Shirley
and
Judy
Guetschow
|
3
Detroit
’t
wasn
been)
has
y
famil
their
feel
also
the
by~
together
closer
drawn
strike.
taken
The sisters, who are often|
15.)
for twins, are 16 and
Surprisingly
mature,
both
have}
sparkling personalities and are in
as dance part-|
constant demand
ners, Both talk to scabs’ kids-trying to persuade them to persuade}
their pops “to stay out.”
NEW OUTLOOK
The kids know that this Summer is different. They have fun
joke, they
they
at the dances,
meet old friends and make new
ones; but they also realize that
this is a Summer of hardship for
newspaper
7
month,
this
against Joe after all.
=
Ferguson
;
he
said
“I have not taken sides with President Eisenhower against Senator McCarthy,” Ferguson
wrote. “In fact, | have stated that both Stevens
and Adams should have been fired.” The reference
was to Army Secretary Robert Stevens and
Army Counselor John Adams, two of the principals in the lengthy Senate hearing.
Ferguson
Francis
staff
made
P. Carr and
menvbers
principals
on
no
Roy
the
mention
Cohn,
senate
in the hearings.
of similar
McCarthy’s
committee,
firings
of
personal
and
also
in Fold
Weather
No Place to Go with Low Blow Joe
the
that
admitting
now
are
McCarthyites
the
Even
is at an all
“popularity”
from Wisconsin's
junior senator
time low.
a candidate for
Ralph F. Amoth of Madison, Wisconsin,
on a pro
for governor of Wisconsin
nomination
the GOP
with this ex
from the race
platform, withdrew
McCarthy
sentiment.”
anti McCarthy
“There's too much
planation:
Sup
Amoth, who had announced his “100 per cent
stite,
port of McCarthy,” now says that throughout his
much
of all faiths and religions have shown
“people
hatred, disgust and prejudice” toward the senator.
include farmers
McCarthy
“Factions lining up against
and the coopera
the REA
housewives,
labor, businessmen,
Leroy
of
movement.
recent
“The
declared.
Amoth
tives,’
terrific
Gore's hurt McCarthy and he is losing ground at a
rate, People are. talking about his past record ”
Amoth said he had sent nomination papers to 36 coun
idate
ties, and only two were returned, But, says the ex cand
“I'm still a McCarthy man.”
|
Z PAGE
10
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
AUGUST, 1954
WORKER
CIO Shows Nation How to Fight Communism:
Expelled Unions
L ose Half-Million Members
In convention,
at Cleveland’s massive public auditorium*
on a blustery November day in 1949, the CIO charged 11
of its international unions with Communist domination and
*Slavishly”’ following the Communist party line.
Hearings were held during the following months and the
charges were presented in detail. The United Furniture
Workers were kept in CIO on assurances of president Morris
Pizer that there would be a Fa
housecleaning- in his union. has iess than ‘3,000 dues-paying
members.
Th?
UAW-CIO
have
There was.
taken mest of these members.
The
remaining
10
international
unions, with a total membership
in excess of 800,000, were finally
expelled from or, in several in-}
stances, walked out of the CIO.
Today, over four years later, the
membership of these unions hive
dropped below 300,000 members,
according to an independent survey by Press Associates.
NONE SHOW
GAIN
Only one of the left-wing “nions has kept its membdersrip intact
to
any
degree—the
Interna-
tional Longshoremen and Warehousemen’s
Union — and none
have
smal
The ILWU,
Bridges, still
ough
control
docks
and
ship
in
headed by Harry
has pretty thorof
West
scattered
Midwest
Coast
memberand
West
Coast warehouses, Total membership claimed is 100,000. The
PAI survey puts it closer to
75,000.
The
Mine,
Mill
and
Smelter
Workers suffered losses in 1949
and
1950
in
Connecticut
and
Massachusetts
copper
industry
|but later held its own. They may|
seen any growth. All put 4 lose additional members to either|
proportion of the 5C,000 the UAW-CIO or the United Steel-
members
lost
by
these
unions
have been
picked
up by other
univns in the CIO or AFL. ‘fhe
C!O Electrical Workers, foui ded
afier the United Electrical Workers were ousted from
CIO,
already has a membership of some
450.000.
What has happened to those
left-wing
unions
offers
the
most
revealing
demonstration
of. the fact that labor, better
than the government
or any
other group, can clean labor’s
house.
At its peak in 1944, UE had
577.000 memters
At the time of
its expulsion
it numbered
500,000.
UE immediately lost the majJcrity of the
members
in the
Westinghouse
chain, General
Motors
electrical
division,
Sylvania,
RCA,
Philco
and
then
General Electric to IUE.
workers in this area, however.
them.
MMSW
membership
in 1949
was about 70,000. Today it is less
|than 50,000.
ONLY
SHELL
UNIONS
Two unions which had considerable
strength
in the
federal
government and offices, the United Public Workers and the Unit-|
ed Office and Professional WorkWICHITA, Kansas—After three previously unsucceéssers, have become almost shell or-|
ganizations. They formerly num- ful attempts to organize’'the workers at the Coleman Manubered in excess of 75,000 mem- facturing Company plant here, the UAW-CIO fired the Coleman lamp and stove workers with that good old UAW spirit
bers.
UAW-CIO Cracks Wichita Wall:
Coleman Lamp Workers See Light
The Fur and Leather Workers on the fourth try. They voted*
by an almost two-toUnion has dropped from
about UAW
80,000 to less than 50,000 mém- one margin.
bers during the four year period.
In the recent NLRB-conIt still remains strong in the industry
in New
York
City but ducted election the Coleman
voted
as_ follows:
outside has been losing members workers
UAW-CIO—699,
IA
steadily.
—M
357,
One of the 10 unions, the Distributivé, Processing and Office
MANY TURN TO UAW
Workers,
which
had
absorbed
Shortly after its ouster from the Food, Tobacco and AgriculCIO, UE merged with another tural Workers, cleaned house sufexpellea union, the Farm Equip- ficiently to be taken back into
ment Workers, with some 70,000 the CIO early this year.
membe:s. Today, JF and ¥E toSo runs the story of what has
gether have dropped from 570.- happened to the left-wing unions
000 i9 about 100,000. FE alone ousted by the CIO.
Since Joe’s Gotta Go—
Tardy Clardy Ain’t:Hardy
In
EVERYBODY’S SMILING, and no wonder. These are the Coleman Lamp workers who
helped their brothers and sisters see the Union light. The result of course: a UAWCIO NLRB victory. UAW-CIO Region 5 Director Russell Letner (center) congratulates
By RUBY McDONALD
politicks there’s jest three kinds
Who never see the light...
There’s them that’s mean ’n them that’s green
’"N them that ain’t quite bright.
Uncle Eightball’s Diary.
Ii I weren’t so used to reaching
for a rose and grabbing poison Plague
spoken of with more tenivy, I'd be downright disillusioned derness.
with Mister Kit Clardy (Michigan
Then, after leaving the state of|
Congressman).
The Kit has the benevolent ex- hardened fists for the state of
pression of a Saint Bernard, the hardened arteries, our little man
mellifluous
voice of a country threw himself at big brother Joe
parson just before Sunday din- with all the affection of a lovener, and the reasoning of a village lorn spinster.
And he made a speech.
idiot. Either that, or he’s as twoLIKES JOE
faced as a Siamese calf.
Indignant over the slings and
Mister Clardy took his minstrel
show on the road a short time arrows aimed at his pokerfaced
the
Kit
called
his
critics
ago
and
played
end
man
to pal,
packed houses all along the route. “an evil cabal of individual enSurrounded by a hail-fellow-well- gaged in an insidious effort to
congress
for
motives}
met atmosphere, the Kit present- control
ed a touching picture of Christian which are highly suspect.”
charity and loving forbearance,
This not only sounds like the
synopsis of a cloak ’n dagger
while sundry unsavory characters
used the witness chair as an opmellerdrammer,
but,
when
portunity to describe his patertranslated, means
simply:
“’f
nity, habits and future.
you jerks think you’re gonna
Our Nero took it all with the
get in by using this crud for a
patience of a Job who expects
target, you’re nuts.”
his boils to bust sooner or later.
The only way I can figure it is
DELICATE APPROACH
that
our lad
loves
his job
of
In his Flint appearance, some separating the creeps from the
thoughtless
individual
likened lambs and doesn’t dare offend the
him to Swear
Word
McCarthy, big cheese from Wisconsin who
and Kit almost blew a fuse. He passes out executions and paywas as offended as an old maid checks with equal regularity.
in a marriage poll and the tremMebbe no one has told him that
ble in his voice brought tears to he's booked passage on a sinking
the eyes of wife beaters.
ship and the life preservers have
| _ “This committee...” said Kit all trundled to another port.
| delicately ... “has nothing to
His political epitaph may well
do with the other one.”
be these simple words:
Frankly, I have heard Bubonic
“CLARDY WUZ TARDY”
t
Another
helped
sister Union
was
the
CWA,
which
They
really
vided
pro-
manpower
whenever
requested,
particularly
for
.hand-
bill
distribution.
of the nation! with high living
Negotiations
have
begun
at
costs, Wichita is one of the low- Cole
man, and an interim agreeest wage areas in. the country.
ment containing many standard
Organized groups long have been
UAW
sections has already been
able
to maintain
an
economic signed.
Thus concludes the first
wall around Wichita which resischapter
of
the
Wichita
story.
ted
previous
UAW-CIO
organ- Completion
of the second chapNIUC (independent union)— izing attempts.
ter will come with the signing
43,
No
Union—1l.
Russell OTHER UNIONS HELPED
of an agreement at Coleman and
Letner, UAW-CIO
Region 5 dirA wholesome
aspect
of
the establishment of a well-functionector, reported neither the marColeman drive was the solid co- ing Local Union.
gin of victory nor the size of the
operation
of other CIO -Unions
Better still, the UAW-CIO has
plant
which
was
of particular in the area.
The Packinghouse succeeded in shoving an opening
significance.
Workers donated their hall, and wedge into the, Wichita wall.
WORKERS WOKE UP
contributed their time by holding
meetings
and
making
personal
Clearly the Coleman workers
were disgusted with the ineffec- contacts with Coleman workers.
tiveness of company unionism on
the collective bargaining front.
They realized that something was
WASHINGTON
— Senator
wrong when other workers across
Welker (R., Idaho) in arguing
the country
achieved
economic
against Senate
censure
of
gains and contract improvements
KENOSHA,
Wisconsin—Harvey
Senator McCarthy
(R., Wi.)
while Coleman stayed almost at
Kitzman,
Director of UAW-CIO
added this pearl to the “Shirt
a standstill, Letner said.
Region
10,
announced
recently
off the Back” department:
the
signing
of a new
pension
Even
the desperate
efforts
“No man can tell me that
agreement between UAW
Local
of special interest groups in
the Irishman would not give
960 and the MacWhyte Company
Wichita who developed a scare
which union officials estimate is
the shirt off his back to anypsychology
with
the
slogan
worth 8% cents an hour.
one who needs it, except a-.dir“Leave
Kansas
to
Kansans”
ty, lying, stinking Communist
The MacWhyte pension agreedid not deter the workers in
who is dedicated to the overment is retroactive to January 1,
the face of rising prices and
throw of this country by force
1954, and runs for two years. At
stagnant wages.
and violence.”
termination, December 31, 1955,
Ranking among the top cities
it may be opened for subsequent
changes and/or amendments.
The One That Get Away
Provisions are made
for disability pensions of $50 monthly,
less workmen’s compensation, for
a $1,000 death benefit, and for
Cold
Wee. Rencaha
Plant Grants
Pension Plan
Logic
partial
benefits
accumulated
after
seniority.
10
years
of
Adminis-
tration of the plan will be by a
joint board.
According to Director Kitzman,
the
significance
of
the
Mac-
Whyte
Pension
Plan is that it
covers a plant employing
only
200 workers, thus proving that
pension agreements can be worked
out
with
the
smaller
employers.
Win Another Foundry
BOSTON—UAW-CIO
94.
Re-
gional Director Charles Kerrigan
reports that the UAW-CIO won
an important NLRB election at
the American
Machine
and
Foundry Company
plant in this
city.
Claims Bald, Too
CHrK-
Peace Fon Yat
“POCO MeNe
NORWALK, California (LPA)
— “Bash’s
Formula
Bight”
doesn’t prevent or cure baldness
and
an
initial
Federal
Trade
Commission
decision
prohibits
such claims in advertising.
2 ete ee ne
1954
AUGUST,
for Farmers
for Congress
Parity Pay
Hot Potato
— The decision by both houses of?
WASHINGTON
a
t
por
sup
m
far
e
mis
pro
com
led
cal
soa
s
pas
to
ss
gre
Con
allowing flexible supports pegged at 82.5 to 90 per cent of
issue | |
parity, presents to the American people a political
which will have deep and far--reaching effects.
between
}
differences
The
voted
who
those
and those who
promise
are
it
against
On
significant.
sharp
voted
lions, of family farms.
surface,
the
parity, and the proponents
more flexible supports.
BASIC QUESTION
But basically, the
national
our
of
question
Like
are
ducts
the same
prices
for
bear
prices which
relationship to the
other
groups
seek
its|
On
Administration put into effect the}
is tight-monéy
squeeze designed by|
who are the economit}
the bankers
brains for the man from Abilene,|
to}
Kansas. Their purpose was
exert economic pressure against)
the
all
economy
elements
elements
weaker
so that the
they
which
in
the}
powerful|
represent)
—
Facts
Argentina—
CUARTO,
Union workers employed by a
up
touring circus can’t make
profeswhether
minds
their
sional wrestler Francisco Es-
cribano is a hero or a heel.
a circus
accepted
Escribano
challenge
to
all
comers
to
bear for
wrestle a 500-pound
the
won
He
prize.
$725
a
but the management
“bout.”
refused to pay off.
When the incensed audience
the tent
to burn
threatened
talked
wrestler
the
down,
them out of it. The next day,
however,
Escribano
hired
a
lawyer who attached the circus’ assets,
stopping
further
performances here and throwing the employes out of work.
might write the ticket from then} labor
through
amendments
ld}
wou
en
ssm
ine
bus
ll
Sma
| on.
state and federal labor laws.
]
ong
str
the
to
ket
mar
abandon the
pro-
farm
index of prices that farmers
pay for the things they buy
earlier
some
in
existed
as
period defined in the law. It
is the farmer’s escalator.
and
|
Eisenhower}
the
in office
first day
economy
C-O-L
philosophy.
in underlying
can be strengthened by providing
farmers with the kind of economic protection against deflation
organized)
corporations,
which
labor and organized merchants,
Parity
mil-
perhaps
of thousands,
and | nation
between 82.5 per
difference
The
between the supcent and 90 per cent of parity
rigid supports, price supports is only the superof) ficial symbol of a basic conflict}
90 per cent
the fight is
porters of
at
pegged
whether
gram for liquidation of the agri-|
cultural economy and the elimi-
for the com-
RIO
Bear
|
and
powerful.
of Teamwork
Speaking
}
MS
FAR
NG
SAVI
]}
Things are getting so confused
y}
mone
tight
of
t
resul
a
As
}}|
these days that)
Washington
in
the}
by
that
doing
been
they have
are demanding air|
s
lican
Repub
res)
failu
ess
pusin
s
sand
thou
|
Republicans.
beyond time to answer
| this year have gone far
any
to achieve, |
year
1941,
since
those
and
who have failed have been small.)
Labor, too, can be brought to its
knees under the whip of tight,
money. There’s nothing like ris-|
to take the}
ing unemployment
PAGEti
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNIT ED
|”
HO
Iv’s
her sister Jane.
delegates to a ClO-sponsored farm-labor meeting in
GWA
their city, in which UAW
epuiees ae a ae Pes
were
operators,
phone
girls, Wichita
The
locals also participated. It’s
heat like this that has burned up Midwestern crops, creating problems for farmers and city workers alike. Russell
Letner, UAW Regionr 5 director, was one of the principal
speakers at the meeting.
recently was given time to reply}
to Vice President Nixon’s broad-
or, on the other hand, whether|
we will all be better off if we let
east defending the Administra-|
the|
put
recession
business
the
tion’s farm program!
economic|
the
through
farmers
| drive out of wage demands.
wringer.
Now comes the farmer’s turn. |
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the
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sent the |
ministration has been busy for | Flexible supports repre
for |
design
a half trying to | Administration’s
a year and
farmers. Shove their prices
revolt
consumer
a
stimulate
force them to produce
down;
against firm price supports for
less; drive the small farmers
its issue is as false
farmers,
them into |
as the figures it has used to | off the land; send
|
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r
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|
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try to prove its case. Consum- |
tions.
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only
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will
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year has the|
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y
man
for
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price
the
of
GOP wooed voters with the slogan, |vote by which the senators stood
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‘YES’ or ‘NO’
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ls
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c}|man
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ee est
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George H. Christopher, who}
states, the Democrati
investigators often
al
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nat
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in|
seat
his
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out
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stri
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s
|wa
ely
nat
proportio
was
turnout.
answers from
no
or
yes
and
dem
el-’
Hill
e
leav
to
ly
like
s
look
,
1950
|
for an offusual
than
higher
alc
tivens maermaned to testify.
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gam
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the
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ng
ndi
sta
n
|so
ge,
lar
and
by
year election, and,
rs.
chai
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mus
l
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Con
the
d
love
and
every
the electorate simply
| day the Senate itself
:
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MICHIGAN—Governor G. Men-}.
liberals.
is
being
reSenator—
the
of
Some
highlights:
Democratic
lev-
GOP.
— The
TENNESSEE
Williams,
nen
the individual
for
unopposed
got
nomination,
simple
few
a
answer
to
a| quired
any-| questions:
eled its big guns on Senator Estes landslide complimentary vote State
face former
1. “Are you responsible for the
Kefauver. The conservatives of Way.ce He'll
Commissioner Donald S. actions of committees authorized
both parties rallied behind Con- Poli
sc?
P
;
;
;
‘
r
gressman Sutton (D. as in “pjx.|Leonard who has received a long
ee
:
CSU
MNES
k:
Ana
YR.
°Y
|
.
apers
newsp
it
Detro
by
ld-up
t|bui
jecrat’”). Kefauver won by almos
nrespo
that
fulfill
you
“Will
2:
was|
ls
libera
for
test
real
The
n-|
13 to 1. Ray Jenkins, special cou
goy-|
sel in the recent Army-McCarthy|the race for the lieutenant
hearings was entered by the Re-|ernor nomination. Philip A. Hart
1 over
2 to
than
better
he won’t)ran
He. insists
publicans.
even run this Fall. Sutton cam-|George S. Fitzgerald, a bitter foe
|of Williams.
paigned, sometimes by helicopter,
Sibliity by reprimanding abuse of
such authority?
3. “Will you apply to your own
Members the same rules of conltempt—for refusing to answer a
Homer|
4. “Should these acts be cen-
you do to ordin-
that
tee—
mmit
-|co
offi
an
ra,
ama
McN
V.
ick
patr
ed)
term
He
ist.”
ation
‘isol
an
as
Kefauver a “left winger.” The Te-|cjal of the AFL Plumbers Union, ary citizens?
hammering
|will oppose
sults left Sutton isolated.
the breakEncouraging
law; exploiting senatorial
KENTUCKY—The Veep is back| Ferguson for Senator. Ex-Senator|sured:
in the big picture. Former Vice|Blair Moody got well over a hun-ling of
|
President
Barkley
Alben
epiclaselv
s —|office for private gain;
vote
rial
memo
sand
thou
ed
(D.), a\dr
|
to| blackening the reputations of inFall
this
used
be
to
y
likel
tes
100-proof candidates in the bour-|vo
|
Moody’s ambi-|nocent citizens and hiding behind
of
one
ll
fulfi
bon country, will face Senator|help
|
immunity; attempting
ial
ator
|sen
.
home
er
Hom
ing
send
—
s
tion
the|
in
(R)
er
Coop
n
pe
oon
Johnjto purge Members i who dare to
— Senator
all finals.
ALABAMA
Representa-| differ on methods; repeatedly redefeated
TEXAS — The Dixiecrats who|\Sparkman
epresentation and
misr
to
ting
|sor
000.
100,
by
le
Batt
C.
ie
Laur
tive
ers)
Shiv
Alan
rnor
Goye
ght
thou
“Remember
those farmers
we had ‘eating out of our hands’! ..."
we thought
Des
—Courtesy
Moines
Registor
was invincible are shivering in|The Battle cry was that Spark-' slander?
you
5 “Have
their boots. Shivers is still likely|man was too close to the Negroes.|
to win the nomination, but Ralph|Here in the Deep South that used! stand up and be
W. Yarborough,
A
The
Steelworkers
CIO
Steelworkers
election battles with
munist-dominated.
unions
have
Rout
come
expelled
out
by
Reds
on
the
top
CIO
Co.
of Kellogg.
The
area
had
long
been
D
is
in
as
three
Com-
regarded
as
stronghold.
a MMSW
Products
workers at the Cold Metal
In Los Angeles,
plant voted unanimously to get rid of Harry Bridges’ leftWarehousemen’s
and
Longshoremen’s
independent
wing,
Union and to replace it with the USA-CIO.
In a three-way battle at the American Gear and Manufacturing Co, plant at Lemont, IIL, the Steelworkers routed
both the left-wing United Elec trical Workers and the AFL
Machinists. The vote was: USA-CIO, 101; UE, 12; IAM-AFL,
10.
ree
ere
mary,
sore
AU.
<0.
NORTH
W.
led the Dixiecrat|®™"°T
Shivers, who
In the Coeur D’Alene metal mining area of Northern
the
rights from
Idaho, the Steelworkers took bargaining
independent Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers at the Sunshine
Mining
ney
attorney,|to be enough to sink a candidate.!jssue
Austin
CAROLINA
er
Kerr
Scott.
—
,
who
|the
sup-|'Me
sup-
“a
CIO
The
captive.”
is attracting
fight
a lot
of bent,
from
Alton
conservative
A. Lennon.
The
Yes or no?
who
“Senators
incum-|questions
Dixie-|not
try
Sen
€ ate?
Stat
5 es
United
to
in
moral
the honor.
responsibility
and
Gov-jintegrity,
revolt that gave Texas votes to| ported Stevenson all the way two
Ike, has been calling Yarborough,| Years ago, wrested a Senate nomi
nation
involving
to
the courage
counted on this
the
shelve
answer
affirmative
the
of
those
will
Flanders
excuses
filmsy
h
wit
n
tio
olu
res
b-|
“li
a
was
tt
Sco
d
ime
cla
ts
cra
if|
because
attention
national
it is untimely, that any vote
hat
-|t
Dix
of
lot
A
t.
Scot
did
So
.”
eral
e|
abl
be
't
won
he
loses
Shivers
politicdamage them
may
it
n
-jo
dis
the
h
wit
ted
jol
e
wer
ts
cra
n
|ie
tio
ega
del
ive
vat
to take a conser
issue is not clear.
the
that
or
ly,
|al
ers
vot
of
nds
usa
tho
t
tha
ry
OVe
-|C
ven
con
to the 1956 Democratic
eralism. |The issue is very clear. It does
lib
like
th
Sou
p
Dee
the
in
tion,
MISSOURI—All
men
won
11
renomination
tepresentative Short
Congress-|
SIGNS
including|enty-four
OF
THE
TIMES—Sev-|not
Democratic
candidates|°F
(R.), chair-|for Congress will have no Repub-
man of the House Armed Serv-|lican
ices Committee. Short is expected|have
involve
4 man’s
munism,
is
Former
Congress-\the
toward
attitude
Nor does it require
com-
ani-
opponent. ‘The Democrats mosity toward any person; it is
a candidate for every one)4 simple matter of censuring Ac-
s. In 1952,|tions which
seat
se
Hou
435
the
|of
on.
iti
pet
com
on
t
ges
lon
the
be
to
Another Republican in trouble|the GOP conceded 64 seats and disrepute.
Hillelson,
partisanship
either
Democrats,
1),
“Let
the
bring
Senate
the
Senate
answet
into
7 UN
‘PAGE 12
Wary U.S. Senators Duck Issue
Of What to Do About McCarthy
WASHINGTON—Only 12 United States Senators voted?
against referring the McCarthy censure motion to committee.
Seven
of them were senators who regularly are found
fighting on the liberal side of issues—Douglas of Illinois,
Hennings of Missouri, Hill of
Alabama, Humphrey ef Min- stitution is known out of his own
nesota, Lehman of New York, mouth. What can a committee
Magnuson of Washington and add or subtract with respect to
these charges?
Monroney of Oklahoma.
Before the vote was taken,
Repubwere
Three of them
McCarthy
stated how
pleased
licans—Cooper of Kentucky,
he was by the proposal to refer
and
Pennsylvania
of
Duff
the censure motion to committhat rock-ribbed conservative
tee. He, too, knew that if the
and strong-minded character
senators were forced to vote,
who started the whole thing.
8 majority probably would have
Flanders of Vermont.
The 75 who voted to push the
issue aside temporarily, and per-
haps permanently, fall into three
groups. A few of them honestly
of Mca censure
that
believe
Carthy would carry more weight
if the
charges
against
him
were
given formal trial in a committee.
Another group of perhaps 20
senators are definitely pro-Mc-
Carthy. They accepted
tion because they did
this solunot have
the votes to assure a verdict
for him if the censure resolution had been put to test there
and then.
Most of the 75, however, voted
to duck the issue, hoping that the
might white-wash it,
committee
it down, or perhaps just
water
fail to bring it back to the Senate before Election Day.
The special
committee
of 3
Republicans and 3 Democrats to
whom the Senate passed the buck
on censure of McCarthy will not
start work until August 30 and
will let McCarthy cross-examine
witnesses, dimming the prospect
decision on censure
for Senate
before election day. Hearings will
cent,
special
committee’s
assignment
remains in some doubt. It is
authorized
to
hold
hearings,
hear witnesses on the charges
referred to it and the motion of
censure, and is “instructed to
act and to make a report” to
_ There’s more than one way to skin a cat, as union workthe Senate before it adjourns.
CONTEMPT OF SENATE
ers in a Philadelphia electronics plant found out recently
Is it to report its conclusions when the company
“T assure the American people
tried to inaugurate a spedup and hired
that the senators who have made on the charges only, or to recom- a “‘time-study expert”
to do#
mend
for
or
agains
t
censur
e,
or
the charges will either indict
the job.
Union President had met Mrs.
to
recom
mend
some
softer
action
themselves for perjury, or will
The local union president, Time Study Expert at a Civior a proprove what
consummate
liars such as a reprimand
they are, by showing the differ- posal for revision of rules govern- very.
upset when
he heard lian Defense meeting only the
procedures?
No
ence between their statements on ing committee
day before.
:
about
the
plan,
told
his
wife
the floor of the Senate and their one seems to know. In their haste
“She was all broken up beabout
it
that
evening
and
to
get
the
nasty
issue
off
the
testimony in the hearing.”
cause they couldn’t go to their
Senate floor, no one among the mentioned
the
‘‘expert’s”
cottage
for their vacation
That the majority leader and
this
75 senators seemed to care.
name. By coincidence, Mrs. year,” the union president’s wife
the minority leader of the United
recalled. “Seems her susband is
State Senate could sit still for
allergic to garlic, and their cotthis blatant contempt of the body
tage this year is overrun with
they head and ofall that it stands
|for bears witness to how far this
wild garlic.”
reckless
amateur
has
degraded
Later that evening, the union
Stop Watch Expert Stopped Cold
Because Union Man Knows Onions
NLRB Gives Employers
Right to Grill Workers
the institutions of our country. A
motion to censure on the spot,
based
on
that
evidence
alone,
could not have been ducked by
be public but not televised.
WASHINGTON
(PAI)—The NLRB has stirred up a
any senator. But no senator so
The argument that McCarthy moved.
hornet’s
nest
of
labor
resentme
with
its
latest
decision
nt
should have opportunity before a
How orderly the orderly prothat employers may question workers about their union aflicommittee to answer the charges
cedure which 75 per cent said
carries little weight with respect
liation without violating the®
they were voting for turns out
to at least six of those charges.
unfair labor provisions of the
Herbert S. Thatcher, legal counHis attack upon General Marshto be is a wide open guess. The
sel for the AFL,
told Press
Taft-Hartley Act.
all was made on the Senate floor.
Associates:
Both
CIO
and
AFL
legal
counHis refusal to appear before a
“We think it is a bad decision
sels flatly declared that the desubcommittee
directed
by
the
cision opened the door, especially and pro-employer. The mere quesSenate to investigate his personal
in the South, to veiled and indi- tioning of employes
on their
finances is a matter of official
affiliation
is a-form
rect
intimidation
of employees union
of
record.
and was entirely “unrealistic” in intimidation. There are all sorts
|
RECORD ON RECORD
William H. “Oliver,
co-director the face of actual conditions in of ways
to intimidate
an
emHis invitation to government/Of the UAW Fair Practice
and the relations between employer ployee without doing it directly.
employees to violate the law by/Anti-Discrimination Department, and employee.
What this decision does is to give
bringing him classified informa-|was one of the delegates to the| BACK TO SPIES
employers a big opening wedge
tion was made repeatedly before|World Assembly of Youth
con-|
Thomas
E.. Harris,
assistant for some bad practices, especially
a nation-wide TV audience. His|ference held in Singapore earlier|general counsel for the CIO, de- in company towns in the South.”
faked J. Edgar Hoover letter was/this month.
clared:
IGNORES REALITIES
Similarly
exhibited
and
broad-|
The World Assembly of Youth
‘This
is an
outrageous
backIn its decision — it was a 3 to
cast. His attack on Generaljis a world-wide
Oliver to Meet
'Malaya Unions
Zwicker as
uniform is
Script of his
ation with
in violation
group with repre-|ward step. The decision opens
one unfit to wear the|sentation from 44 anti-commun-|the door to intimidation of workin the official tran-|ist countries.
jers and the employer
use of
hearings. His negoti-|_
Before. returning to the United|espionage against unions — proforeign ship owners|States, Oliver.
will
meet
with|viding they wink as required by
of law and the Con-/trade union leaders in Malaya.
the Labor Board.”
-
president
ator
look,
idea.
went
for
and
some
to the
came
refriger-
beer,
took
up
one
with
an
The next day seemed just like
any other ordinary work day. At
10 A.M., the speedup expert appeared, stop-watch in hand, and
parked himself behind a group of
workers on the assembly line. In
less than a minute, the expert’s
eyes started to glaze, his face
turned green and his knees became wobbly. He moved 50 feet
down the line and stood behind
another
thing
group,
happened.
but
the
Stumbling
same
away,
he took up a third position, but
nearly fell flat on his face less
than 20 seconds later.
That was too much for the
expert, so he staggered back to
the boss’ office, never to be
seen again.
The plant manager screamed
2 vote — the NLRB held the fact
that the questioning was system- jat the union president for over
atic did not in itself imply any
threat and that “the surrounding
circumstances together with the
nature of the interrogation itself”
should be taken into account in
deciding whether the questioning
>|was in a form that implied intimidation.
Despite this claim, the two dissenting members
on the board
declared that the majority ‘“de-
an hour, but finally had to admit
that there was nothing in the
contract that said the workers
}couldn't eat garlic for breakfast.
pretation of the Act founded on
long
administrative
experience
and
supported
by
court
authority.”
“In our opinion,” the dissent
said, “this departure is unsound
and ignores the realities of industrial life. It fails to insure
to employees the full protection
of the Act in the exercise of the
‘{rights given them under Section
'|7 and fails to effectuate the declared policy of the Act to en: }courage collective bargaining.”
IKE’S BOYS ACT
The
three
members
of
the
NLRB who voted for the decision
were
Chairman
Guy
Farmer,
Philip R. Rodgers and Albert C.
tion at the Union Center to burn
the mortgage on the Union-owned-and-operated
property.
Pur-
Labor Center
Mortgage Clear
OTTAWA,
Illinois
—
Members
parts. without convincing expla-/of UAW-CIO Locals in Region 4
nation from an established inter-|plan a huge Labor Day celebra-
MAKING
LIKE
THE
Springfield, Ohio, show
ment.
CHAMPIONS
they are, these
off the trophies they
won
members
in the
Region
Left to right: Stanley Shelton, Cordelia Jenkins, Odessa
lian Hesson,
tournament
co-director, Dorothy
Ray Ross, Region 2A director.
Peachy,
of UAW-CIO
2A
bowling
Sanger, team
Gladys
Clay,
Local
402,
tourna-
captain, Lil-
Jack Floss and
ee
PRO-McCARTHY
18.2 per cent; Phillips Petroleum Co. earnings up 11 per
chased
for
$30,000
in
1949
at
~
also.
i
20
this way
voted to censure him. He also
knew that most of them shared
his feelings that it would be
better if they didn’t have t
declare themselves.
7
If any
senators
really felt
doubtful about the basis for censuring this man, they heard him
provide ample grounds then and
there on the Senate floor. Violating the invariable Senate rule not
to
address
senators
by
‘heir
names, he named the seven who
brought charges against him, addressed
Senator
Fulbright
as
“Halfbright,” called Senator Flanders “inspired,” and described the
seven as perjurers and consummate liars.
ait
voted
the DuPont Company, the nation’s largest chemical manufacturer,
were
33
per
cent
higher the first half of this
year than for the same period
last year.
The company attributed the
increase in earnings to the expiration of the excess profits
tax law, which went out the
window last December 31.
Here
are
some
other
figures:
General
Electric
Co.’s
net
income up 24 per cent; Armco
Steel Corporation earnings up
Oriseel Bae
ing conviction ‘that McCarthy is
the greatest living peril to our
of
Chavez
traditions.
American
New Mexico, another Democrat,
corporations
are
doing
very
well, thank you.
Latest
statistics
show,
for
example, that the earnings of
har aati
Another was Fulbright of Arkansas, a Democrat who shares
with Republican Flanders a burn-
Workers may be hard hit by
the recession, but the giant
the
direction of the UAW delegates
attending
the
Milwaukee
Convention,
the
14-acre
Region
4
Center wil. be completely paid
for
then,
and
many
improvements added, including a large,
new Assembly Hall.
During its 4-year existence, the
Region 4 UAW-CIO
Union Center has acquired the reputation
of being one of the finest labor
installations in ‘the country. For
that
reason,
the
100,000 UAW-
members belonging to the more
than 100 Local Unions compris-.
Beeson, all Eisenhower appoint- ing Region 4 have every right to
ees. The two dissenters were Abe feel proud about their Center—
Murdock and Ivar H. Peterson, outdoor pool and all—and their
Truman-appointed members.
jamboree, September 4, 5 and 6.
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