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United Automobile Worker
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1955-04-01
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Vol. 18 No. 4
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VOL.
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18—No. 4
2nd Class Re-entry
UAW
To
Application Pending,
Indpls., Ind.
EDITORIAL OF: PICK Detrolt, Miche Se, per co]
Publepid Monty at 2497 E, Washington St. indpls. 4, Ind.
in High
Make
Your
APRIL,
1955
Gear
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Prin
CZ %0 a. Printed
in. U, S. A-
for Drive
Future
Secure
See Pages Two and Three
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| Motors Corporation made, after all taxes were paid, $806
figures
[The Ford
are not available,
but they don't need to
stthe Ford workers and Ford committee to know that the Ford
vifinancially has been doing just as well as the General Motors
oftte nodded. “Funny thing about our layoff," he said. “I
‘¥official in my company, and he got paid by the year. They
They paid the overhead. They paid the stockholders.
py for everything but the workers.
fil buljust like Reuther said. We haye a choice of two roads, one
= personally downhill, and the other heads up. Me, I'll take
{what
I've been telling the guys. Check me to see if | got it
Annual
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wants
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‘uj husband,
agrat Amer-
certainly
ining de-
Wage
means
you're guaranteed
pay
52 _
His companion nodded.
"And any week you're called in, you're
guaranteed 40 hours’ pay no matter how
little you actually work ... and this
doesn't
tee."
count
against
your
basic
guaran-
"That's it,” his companion said.
“And you build up one week's guarantee for each two weeks you work up to the
maximum of 52?"
"Right."
"Brother, in my Company, we're going to
that ever lastin’ Guaranteed Wage
pin down
because that way we can all get those worry
wrinkles out of our foreheads and really plan
for our futures.”
If you’ve
Answers
can get
lost your
copy
of “60
Questions
and
on the Guaranteed Annual Wage,” you
another by writing to the: UAW-CIO
Education Department,
Detroit 14, Michigan.
8000 EB. Jefferson Avenue,
.
THE BIGGEST CONVENTION in the history of the American labor
movement gets down to work on ways of supporting one of the most important demands working people anywhere could make of an employer—the
Guaranteed Annual Wage.
Nearly 3,000 delegates are pictured below in Cleve-
land’s huge, city-block-long Public Auditorium.
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