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United Automobile Worker
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1955-05-01
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Vol. 18 No. 5
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lication Pending,
E.
Detroit, Mich.
Washington
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Two and Three
Issue
Demands
98.3%
Page Three
Costs Within Easy Reach
Page Two
Labor Unity Due This Year
Page
Four
Ford and GM Praise Benefits Won by Union
See Pages Six and Seven
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AUTOMOBILE
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WORKER
Union
by
Won
Benefits
Them)
Winning
for
Credit
6k
Once GM and Ford raised the same arguments
against the fringe benefits that spokesmen on
the fringe of the auto industry are now hurling
against the Guaranteed Annual Wage. Pensions,
for example, were supposed to stagnate the
economy. They even used to claim that unemployment compensation was just plain bad. And
why should a company pay any part of a worker's health insurance?
Solidarity in the ranks changed that. The most
powerful argument behind all the fringe gains was that
tens of thousands of UAW-CIO members believed so
strongly in them that they were willing to fight for
them.
Naturally, the UAW-CIO is pleased at the about
face. The Union hopes that Ford and GM are so sincere when they say that the Union-won gains are good
. . . that they'll make them even better.
Why in a couple of years GM and Ford will probably even run ads boasting that they are great places to
work because workers don't have to worry about the
industry having any annual layoffs.
SOLIDARITY WRITES HISTORY
Solidarity in the ranks will help write those state-|
ments,
too.
The copy on the future advertisements likely
won't mention the old seasonal layoff pattern.
The auto industry isn't likely to point out how
even recently it recruited workers in the South
only to dump them on the streets after a few
short months of rush production.
But the lions of auto just might say that they're
proud of the fact that their workers can plan ahead
knowing that the income is secure; can make
the
kids which
America.
is the finest way
kk
to make
When the Guaranteed Annual Wage is nailed down,
we really hope the industry's proud of it, too.
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Page 12
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GOP Starts Drive to End
Workers’ Voice in Politics
.
He
security
eans
their
Big
Business
mittee.
friends are now concentrating
on a campaign to outlaw all
political activities on the part
of organized labor.
ident
WISCONSIN
Woodcock.
SETBACK
far, this campaign
only
where
GOP-dominated
the
in
has
successful
OHIO
governor
appears
it.
veto
CIO
bill are State
August
Vice-President
Chief
John
Scholle
proponent
Feikens,
GOP
of
and
bers
right
of
tivity.
A
duced
to
it deprives
In
have
their
engage
z
similar
in
bill
the
has
been
ac-
intro-
Michigan
State
chair-
Ohio,
gone
a bill
which
even
further
would
than
tires
of
Michigan,
(PAI)—Oscar
president
Industrial
Union
of-the
St.
Council,
Everybod
show
that
tory
Ehr-
Louis
CIO,
labor-en-
in
Wins
,s
Y i
pension
1949,
Social
UAW-CIO
61% million Americans are
living better today because
the UAW-CIO made the basic fight for pensions.
That's the number who
were receiving Social Security benefits according to
the most recent count.
As a direct result of the
has been elected a member of the
St. Louis Board of Education
along with four other
dorsed candidates,
Win
|
. State
i
vicSecu-
rity benefits were increased.
That laid the base for the
most recent Social Security
increase brought about by
labor and voter concern,
When UAW members win
a basis demand, everybody
benefits.
Clo
Goes
to College
NE WEBER States
UNS
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State
CIO
Onn
oer
entire Nant
‘72:meniExecutive
Board
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to college, President Paul
Krebs reported.
The Board held
its
regular
the
monthly
campus
sity here,
The
| quiz
| show,
Rutgers
as guests
unionists
were
khown
to TV
of the
expert
on
the
school.
Mason
fans
Herb
as
by
W.
the
Shriner
for the Money.”
“Two
To get it, check
union.
below
you.
nearest
for the stations
Windsor,
Ontario
800 on your dial
(Also hear
:
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5
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820 on your
dial
of
half
of Ulinvis, Indianasoubern
much northern
(Covers
and south.
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tern tip
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of Michigan)
2
1010 on your dial
6a. m.
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Massachusetts, northern New Jersey)
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KEWB
980.0n your dial 1:15 a, m. and 6a. m.
2
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shox
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the early
morning)
WPIT
6:15 a. m.
Pittsburgh
730 on your dial
Cincinnati
1360 on your dial
Louisville, Ky.
790 on your dial
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Evansville, Ind.
1330 on your dial
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KCMO
6 a.m.
HOMO e
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Kokomo,
6 a. m.
Fort Wayne, Ind.
WGRC
1380 on your
m.
LAW
dial
Bedford, Ind.
1340 on your dial
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1460 on your dial
South Bend, Ind.
WFBM
6a. m.
a
5
1580 on your dial
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Cadillac,
1240 on your dial
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WJPS
6 a, m.
WIUO
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Traverse City
6:15 a. m.
m.
WKJG
6:15
WJVA
6:15 a. m.
WATT
6:15 a. m.
WTCM
Gaylord, Mich.
WATC
6:15 a. m.
Mich.
Alpena,
1450on your dial
WATZ
6:15 a. m.
Petoskey, Mich.
WMBN
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ci
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6:15 a. m.
WHAK
Rogers City, Mich.
960 on your dial 6:15 a, m.
WBIW
6:15 a, m.
ie
1:15 p. m.
6:15 a, m.
1340 on your dial
a. m.
WPON
1400 on your dial
900 on your dial
‘
1340
6:15 a. m.
m.)
Pontiac, Mich.
6:15 a. m.
WLBC
Ind.
Muncie,
6:15 a.
on your dial
WSAI
at 7:15 p.
WHBU
ry
WRFD
6a.
Ind.
1350 on your dial
KGKO
Dallas, Texas
1480 on your dial © 7:15 a. m.
Menta
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1260 on vee dial
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6 10 6:15 a. m.; 6:30 to 6:45 a, m.)
880 on your dial
Los Angeles
(Two
810 on your dial
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Columbus, Ohio
pres
Indianapolis
St. Louis
KXLW
1320 on your dial 6 a. m.
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6:15 a. m.
1240 on your dial
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Kansas City
WINS
New York City
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aoe
6:15 a. m.
on “Labor
ae
CKLW
Anderson, Ind.
6:15 a. m.
1270 on your dial
6:15 a. m.
920 on your dial
Nunn
WHLD
Niagara Falls
WGST
Atlanta, Georgia
Guy
=
Stations
Opener
Here’s List of Eye
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confusion
To avoid
between Eastern Central and Daylight Savings Time, we've just listed the hour the
show is carried in the various stations on the prevailing time in those cities.
=
on
Univer-
greeted
Provost
University
Gross,
of
meeting
More than 90 per cent of the UAW's membership can keep posted on negotiations
every day on the new 28-station "Eye Opener" radio hook-up.
The half-hour UAW morning show, featuring the UAW-CIO's noted newscaster
Guy Nunn, and his partner, Joe Walsh, originates in Solidarity House. It's timed to
catch workers going to or coming from the job on the morning shift break.
The "Eye Opener'' is a fast-moving show with the best in news, sports, music and
information on the Union's current bargaining program.
Radio waves travel far in the early morning, and many workers report they're
getting the show on stations they never knew they could tune in clearly.
It's the biggest radio hook-up ever to carry a weekday program sponsored by
one
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5
Keep Posted Every Day
On UAW’s “Eye Opener’
’
ms
official figures
Colorado all died in committee.
ST. LOUIS
We
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They may not know it,
but
(Missourivand
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| Oar
canehile au “rishi
toadjestbile
Pereeiaeed
Gaeta
mem-
in political
is
litical activities died in commit-
government.”
constitutional
bill
the Wisconsin and Michigan
versions in curtailing union po-
to Sign]
union
Leonard
man,
state
hardt,
said
free
UAW-
state
He
at
sure.
Pres-
the
Victory in St. Louis
blow
is
CIO
The Catlin Bill was denounced
by UAW
and CIO President
Walter P. Reuther as “a serious
Para oes as Ear
certain
a
BILL DIES
muzzle”
been
TheOE GV:
SOE
passed,
Leading the fight against the
Michigan version of the “right-to-
Wisconsin,
ee
ete Kohler.
temas
—— ae
j
If
ncConS
vis GWE
Rnd
Republi-fy Saaature
litical campaigns. The bill is now]
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a
the
Jegislature passed the infamous
Catlin Bill, which
prevents unions
piey
from
contributing to state po-|
;
;
clauses,
and
So
:
drive to enact anti-labor
labor haters one success
few weeks.
to pass ‘‘right-to-scab”’
shop and similar union
The NAM-inspired, GOP-sparked
laws on the state leyel brought the
and several failures during the past
Aside from continued attempts
laws, which would outlaw the union
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