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1954-10-01
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Vol. 17 No. 10
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INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED AUTOMOBILE, AIRCRAFT AND AGRICULTURAL
VOL.
17—NO.
10
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~ OCTOBER, 1954
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We Can
Even the
By Sending
Frank
M. Karsten
2nd
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Printed
in
U,8.4,
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Nime
District
5th District
Frank
M.
Karsten..... . Ist
District
Eugene H. Buder......2nd
Leonor Sullivan .......3rd
District
District
George
District
District
H. Christopher, 4th
Richard Bolling ..ees. 5th
William R. Hull........6th District
Page Few
ages Six and Seve?
Richard Bolling
Missouri Congressmen
For it
Page
79
a
Score in '54
ENDORSED CANDIDATES
Page Three
- Better Taxes Like Pay Boost
%
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"55. Contract Conference Set
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So This is. GOP Prosperity
foe
George H. Buder
In both factory and farm, the GOP version of "prosperity" is causing needless hardship
within the great mass of human beings that is the
majority of our population. The only way to
establish policies which will be aimed at reversing the downward trend in our economy is by a
substantial vote for Congressmen pledged to
these measure.
Have a Word
"
L berals to Con gress
Ist District
The Women
IMPLEMENT W
Kansas Congressman
|
™
Newell A. George
. . . 2nd District
Clip and Take This to the Polls With You
Missouri
is the home
state of one of our
great-presidents, Harry
S. Truman.
The finest
tribute we can pay him
is a huge Democratic
vote right here in his
home territory.
Other
News
About
CiO-Backed
Candidates on
Pages 2, 11 and 12
UNITED
OCTOBER, 1954
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
PAGE
McCarthy Political Ghost Haunts
iff \
Point of Order
Party That Once Embraced Him
The ghost of Senator Joe McCarthy ‘is peering over the shoulder of many
a Republican candidate today.
Two years ago Joe stumped the country for the GOP. Candidates clamor-'
ed for his help. He’s slipped-so far since then that the official GOP
¢
Carthy’s a dead issue.
—
The GOP should live so long.
Now that the hate and hysteria produced
by Joe has backfired, he appears sure to
become the first and probably only senasured
As
by the U. S. Senate.
knows, the committee headed by Senator
Watkins (R. Utah) has voted unanimously
to recommend his censure to the Senate on
two counts.
Some of the things for which Joe.is to
be chided now actually hapened BEFORE Ike was elected. The Senate com‘mittee investigating McCarthy then got
no support from the GOP.
Now the Watkins Committee, composed
of six senators from each party, urges that
McCafthy be censured for (1) incidents of
contempt, of the Senate and Senate committees, and (2 his mistreatment of Brigadier General Ralph W. Zwicker.
The “incidents” include McCarthy’s re-
fusal to testify before a committee which,
in 1951: and 1952, tried to find out where
McCarthy got some of the money which
cropped up mysteriously in his bank accounts. It was checking to see whether
money McCarthy received for his alleged-.
fight against Communism actually was diverted to his personal useHis personal accounts were sweetened up
after he worked to get war-rationed sugar
for Pepsi-Cola.
*
oF
Actually, the Watkins report is so conservative — three counts against McCarthy were dismissed — that it will be
difficult for a Senator not to vote to cen-
a headline
read
can
who
McCarthy’ s guilt or innocence on the old
charges. But it ruled that he was way off
~base when he refused to appear before a
committee checking into those matters:
*
%
everybody
Officially cen-
to be
of his generation
tor
*
made _ clear
The
Watkins
Committee
that it was not trying to pass judgment on
line is: Mc-
sure Low Blow Joe.
On November 8, right after elections, the
Senate will hold a special session for the
sole
purpose
of taking
that censure vote.
McCarthy, of course, will fight. A rat ina
corner fights wildly for his life. Joe’s political life is at stake.
For a long time other GOP senators ena Republican
-dured Joe’s insults. Then
-named Flanders got his dander up. Other
who had
joined Democrats
Republicans
long been trying to expose ee
for |.
what he was.
*&
5
&
A check of the districts in which Mc-
‘Carthy campaigned two years ago showed
the majority of the candidates for whom he
spoke were defeated.
That was indication that America was
catching on. Millions knew then that he
was using the nation’s natural fear of communism as a means of undermining basic
freedoms.
—
McCarthy could have been squashed two}
:
years
ago if the GOP
had been willing. But
é
=
tomes.
Herblec®
*
T-H: Union-Busting Recipe
Back in 1948, the conservative
magazine
the finger of history sometimes writes disgustingly slow- But even now it’s tracing |
out the words which mean the political end
of McCarthy—
CENSURE!
Week
Business
Is Ike to Right of Taft?
The late Senator Taft fought
noted|for funds to build 135,000 public
that “given a few million unem-|/housing
ployed in America, given an Ad-|posedly
units
more
a year.
liberal
The supPresident
ministration in Washington which| Eisenhower asked for only 35,000
|was not pro-union, the Taft-Hart-|units
ley Act
conceivably
would
the labor movement.”
wreckjfight
didn’t even
a year —~and
for that, though
Americans
are
millions of
ill-housed.
KReErYUOLILAIN
CAMPAIGN
HEADQUART
DECLINE
ES
AND FALL
End of McCarthyism
(EDITOR’S NOTE:
Even
many’ of
the
nation’s
traditionally
reactionary
news-
papers—whose Page One stories helped build up McCarthy—now show editorial
ness of the McCarthy menace. Here’s an example from the Detroit News.)
The Senate Select Committee unanimously recommending the censure of Senator McCarthy has done what was expected
of it, and done it judiciously without heat
or drama. There is reason to believe that
when the Senate meets a week after elec‘tions it will accept the committee verdict
and resolve that Senator McCarthy . has
been guilty of conduct unbecoming a sena-
“Good news, chief! Johnson here can now prove we're in a Republican boom with his new way of figuring the cost-of-living index.”
Lacey's Post
600
Will Be Filled
At Convention
The
UCAW-CIO International
Executive Board voted to defer
action on filling the vacancy on
the Board created by the untimely death of Michael F. Lacey,
until the International
“Jnion’s
regular Convention next March.
The Board’s action followed
the unanimous
recommendation
of a meeting
of Local
Union
officers on the East Side of Detroit. Region 1-of the UAW-CIO
covers the East Side,of Detroit.
All but one of the Local
in
at
the
the
Unions
Region were represented
meeting which was held
late .last month.
Both the Loca: Union officers
and the international Executive
Board took
into consideration
that by the time a special region-
al convention and election could
be held, the newly-elected Regional Director would serve only two
months
before
coming
up for
re-election at the regular convention.
:
Norman Matthews, Co-Director
of Region 1 with
Lacey,
will
assume
the
responsibilities of
supervising the Region until the
next Convention. George Merrelli, Assistant
Co-Director
under
Lacey, will continue in that position to assist Matthews.
Students
Attend Pilot
Pact Classes
tion classes just completed under
the direction of the UAW-CIO Na-
tional GM Department.
The classes were held through-
out the nation in the
Sub-Council
areas.
lasted two days with
tions of the contract
Special sessions were
ing
Guaranteed
various GM
Each
series
the key poras subjects.
held cover-
Annual
him,
comes,
slow,
sure
process.
participated in the contract educa-
Wage,
unsparing criticism of those who Soasvent
with him. While the criticism often appeared unavailing, it forced him at last
Into a position where he had to deliver or
shut up.
McCarthyism as elie’ not by critics,
but by the senator himself particularly in
the televised hearings last spring was
shown
to
be
a
mixtu
re
of
wholl
y
negat
ive
tor.
j
ideals and methods which had no other
A resolution of censure is a sentence
results than to aggrandize the
of political death, but in McCarthy’s case certain
power of the junior senator from Wisconthe. sentence is already redundant: Through
his own excesses he has made himself an sin. When this became clear, as the senator
outcast from the Senate, a liability to his day after day wriggled nowhere through.
party, anathema to decent \citizens, and a. endless irrelevancies and personal slander,
political bore. The formal verdict against ‘McCarthy no longer looked either like a
That
Over 600 top General Motors local union bargaining leaders have}
aware-
then,
very
as an
fact,
workings
anticlimax.
however,
of
the
marks
the
democratic
From the beginning McCarthy has
enjoyed free rein to exploit his political
techniques, define and pursue his “crusade,”
and further his own ambitions. But in a
free country Be acted always under .the
national
savior
a few
UAW
members
were
seen
running
for the
nearest dictionary when
the
Select Committee of the U.S.
Senate looking into Joe MceCarthy’s activities called the
Because
of
junior senator from Wisconsin
stroyed
by
taken his
wanting.
his
true
five-year effort bore fruit
workers at
month when
for
voted
Goddard
and
Goddard
the UAW-CIO
as” bargaining
is
The Detroit company
|agent.
‘one of the country’s oldest cutting tool manufacturers.
| The victory was announced by
‘Region
1A
Co-Director
Joseph
‘McCusker. The workers will join
“contemptuous,
contumacious
Pension administrative problems,
and denunciatory.”
and PAC.
According to Webstér’s, conVice-President John
W..
Livtumacious — for example —
ingston, Director of the GM Demeans “perverse in_ resisting
partment, was present at all of j authority;
stubbornly disobe- |
|Amalgamated
Local
‘985.
the various meetings and spokej
dient;
rebellious;
insubordiUAW
organizers
first
tried
to
on the state of the union and the
nate; defiant; unruly.”
orgfianize the plant in 1949, withtask facing auto workers on the
out success. -In 1952 and 1953,
political action and collective barMESA also tried, but was defeatgaining fronts with the approach
problems and decisions.
ed in representation elections by
of 1955 negotiations.
The department prepared in ad-|the company union.
The classes, instituted last year vance complete discussion guides
‘This year, however, the workby the National GM Department,|around which the class work wasjers decided they had had enough
have been widely acclaimed. The|geared.
sessions are conducted by top GM|printed
These
guides
form and will
are
now
injof the company
be/125 to 112 for
this
long
menace.
prelude
He
|
of
self-
nation
has
revelation we come to the last act without
bitterness.
McCarthy has not been de-
Cut Down fo Size
In Organizing Drive
| <A
last
a national
was a public nuisance.
Webster on McCarthy | C¥tting Tool Co.
Quite
or
union and voted
the UAW.
The
employs
normally
assign-jused by the top local leaders to;plant
whose
representatives
ments keep them in constant con-|conduct similar classes in their'380
workers,
but
layoffs
tact with contract and umpire|particular local unions.
l reduced the work force.
about
have
enemies.
The
measure
and
found
him
CiO Board Backs
Reuther's Action
The CIO Execitive Board,
meeting
in Washington,
has
established a special standing
.
‘
‘
committee “to investigate any
charges or allegations of maladministration
of- welfare.
or
other -funds within the CIO.”
At the same time, the Board
praised and supported the’ action of CIO President. Walter
P. Reuther
in demanding
and
securing prompt remedial action in New York where abuses
of local union welfare funds
were
uncovered.
“The
the
“will
CIO
official
powers,
tution,
Executive
statement . said,
unhesitatingly
under
te
Board,”
the
preserve
CIO
use _
the
consti-
integ:
rity of our movement and
keep it free from any taint
corruption.”
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