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1955-11-01
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GUAR.
AFL and CIO Will Merge
_
‘Next
Month
See Page Three
MERGER R _ CONVENTION
nas
arn dnnenaoe ee
psa
The Clo-Glorious Rise of Industrial Unionist
See Pages
Six and
Seven
UNITED
Page é
AUTOMOBILE
November, 1955
WORKER
A few months short of 20 years ago, a handful of auto
who were delegates to the First Constitutional Convention of th
Automobile Workers, met in South Bend, Indiana, and formed
They represented, by the most optimistic estimates, no mij
25,000. They elected their officers, voted to affiliate with the
Committee for Industrial Organization, and formulated their | i+:
2
organize the automobile industry, which, along with the steip
try, was one of the major bastions of anti-unionism in the Unite}?
They
plants,
came,
some
for the most part, from
unimportant
parts plants,
a few
some
outlying and
independent
isolated aj
automobile
mj
turing plants. What few delegates there were from important key plant}
giant corporations of the industry, represented such a small union mem}
that the managements felt secure in scoffing
tention to organize the entire industry.
During
bunked
the
week
their
of
they lived
convention,
annout}
at their ambitious
four, five and even six in a single hotel
mostly
room.
on hamburgen}
|
What was happening in auto, was duplicated by other heroic workers}
neer unionists in rubber and steel and textile and many, many other indw}
STARTED
BY
Nevertheless,
THE
for their
CIO won the right of industrial workers to organize because workers stood up
rights
literally
in the face of gunfire.
This
is the
Memorial
Day
1937 when Chicago police killed 10 parading pickets in Little Steel strike.
Massacre
in
A DEDICATED
they
FEW
laid their plans for the organization of the workerg}
dustry into a democratic industrial union, whose membership would be ae}
wate
and
a courage,
informed—with
determination
and
confidence.
The average hourly rate in the auto industry at that time was 72 cents} !'
There was no job security. The speed at which you worked}
mined solely by the company. If you couldn’t maintain the pace}
sands faltered—you were fired. When you were laid off, there wal}
i
antee that you would get your job back. There was no oa
part of your employer to rehire you. And as you approached}
40, it became increasingly difficult to get rehired. Once you We}
40,
the
going
of
chances
back
point of being non-existent.
The best, and about the only
to curry
favor
with
your
to
foreman
work
after
guarantee
or higher
a layoff
you
had
were
rem}
!
of being rel}
supervisory
employ}
ing presents, such as a bottle of whiskey on appropriate occasid}
ing to their homes on weekends to help them paint the house, 6)
lawn, or, in many
cases, just kicking back a part of your wage.
FORD SERVICE DEPARTMENT
organizers in
men move in on UAW
1937. In the center of the picture: International Representative Robert Kanter and UAW President Walter P. Reu-
ther. This is the start of the famed
“Battle of the Overpass,’’ in which
beat up the
Ford's-hired musclemen
unionists. All over America, CIO members in many industrial unions came
right on back to organize the plants
despite such efforts.
BELOW—This
Be
as al t
wagp
ie
over™ aA picket. Notice the ‘blackjack
carried by» the one at right while the
officer on the left draws back his fist
to “punch "im again.”
S
oy
LEE eI
be one aint eee 278
: 1
ee re ae
ard i. Frankensteen, both o
Dre Bon
pice he
cope
oand
Ecccntyesi
them by Harry Bennett’s Ford servicemen on the over4
x
pass at Gate 4 of the Rouge plant.
ae tells the story of the UA}
nr THE SIGN IN THE PICKET LINE
struggle in the winter of 1945-46 to establish recognition of the 4}
prices and profits. GM workers got an 181% cents an hour increasi}.
by agreement witl})
their earlier efforts bore further fruit when GM,
GI
annual improyement factor and the cost-of-living escalator clause.
UNITED
November, 1955
Face 7
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
ing your
Furthermore, you didn't dare, if you wanted to be sure of keep
hood about
job, to talk to your friends in the plant or even in your neighbor
working conthe possibility of organizing a union in order to improve your
ditions and to win job security.
of your right
Labor espionage was well enough organized so that any assertion
result in physto free speech could put your job in jeopardy and could, and did,
ical violence upon your person.
OF LUCKIEST
SURVIVAL
Once
were
you
retired
from
industry,
pension
no
was
there
to
look
forward
the eyening of
to, to protect you and keep you in some dignity and decency in
your life,
dent, you
If you or a member of your family suffered a serious illness or acci
of your inhad to figure out some way to pay the hospital and medical bills out
medical care.
adequate and irregular and undependable income—or go without
You
machine
were
being,
not a human
number,
a clockcard
were
You
a person.
that could be and was discarded when management
J
a
thought it was
beginning to wear out.
if figured on
Today the average hourly rate for a UAW-CIO member is $2.20,
is included.
a straight-time, 40-hour-a-week basis, and even higher if overtime pay
—eyen to
CIO members today have the right to question production standards
strike over them. Most enjoy the right to let union time study specialists examine
jobs and rates, further protection against speedups.
i
GROWTH
OF
STATISTICS
Bend in
The less than 25,000 members represented by the delegates at South
our sister
May of 1936 have become by 1955 a union of 1,500,000 members. With
unions, we
Il
:
3
3
q
ie
now
number
6,000,000.
These cold statistics, however,
important
machine,
The
fact:
He
are insignificant in comparison to the most
member
CIO
or she is a person,
today
not
is
a
clockcard
with status in the community,
number,
with
a
a far
greater measure of security than was thought possible in the early thirties
with some measure of protection for the health and well-being of his family,
out fear and ;misgiving. - ;
forward to withTea
a retirementone tofor look
A
s
himselt
He 1
for himself, through his Union, the status of a human being, and
e has won
the confidence and independence and
to provide in a modern democracy.
;
—_—
cH
rae coy See
SE ee
eee OV
eye future
elected president of the UAW-CIO
jtoric and
successful
hip between wages,
cand two years later
SAW, instituted the
in
South
Berd,
right,
along
with the Midland Steel and KelseyHayes workers in Detroit, blazed the
way in the fall and winter months of
late 1936 for the decisive GM and
Chrysler sitdowns.
PHIL
MURRAY
as the
in 1946.
THE EARLY SITDOWN STRIKES
had their grim moments, but there were
music and fun, too. The Bendix sit-
downers
an
Ne he
2c
ea
esr
takes over from John
L,
Lewis the gayel of the presidency of the ClO
in 1940 after CIO members had repudiated
Lewis’ endorsement of Wendell Willkie,
GOP presidential candidate, as against Pranklia D, Roosevelt,
latter is
Niue
a
pzey,-
oe
Emili
shakes
TRUMAN
the CIO announced
and
Ps
at
y moment
a happCLO
enson shareelect
nee Adlai e Stev
tial nomi
presidenCIO
president.
ed
Convention wher Reuther was
1952
PRESIDENT
MURRAY
—_
hen
a
dignity that that status is supposed
innate
Reuther
ee
A
it supported
eee
Rieve,y
him
ts
president
the
hand
of Phil
Murray
for re-election in 1948.
re teint
ot),
the
Sere a
yLExtuic
after
At the
ees
WWOrket sia
James Carey, lower left, president of the Electrical Workers.
November,
Page
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNIT ED
1955
9
s
r
e
k
r
o
W
rd
Fo
d
an
M
G
of
%
5
States with 6
W
A
n
G
o
to
i
t
a
s
n
e
p
m
o
g
C
n
i
r
a
e
G
K
y
O
ad
Alre
With less than six months gone by since the
UAW-CIO established the Guaranteed Annual Wage
principle in negotiations with General Motors and
65 per cent of
Ford, states where approximately
these workers live have appraved' Jinking state unemployment compensation payments with checks
from GAW funds.
New Jersey Attorney General Grover C. Rich-
lt added, “Failure by state officials to interpret the law to permit the integration of
supplemental
unemployment
benefits with
the simultaneous receipt of state unemployment compensation and supplemental bene-
fits."
The defeated amendment to the Ohio law
was drawn up and the initiative petition
in
drafted
1953, the UAW
pointed
state unemployment compensation will only
penalize the citizens of Ohio. Although be1, 1956, supplemental
-ginning with June
benefits will be paid to Ford and GM workers in. adjoining states, benefits would not
be paid to workers who become unemployed
in Ohio until June 1, 1957, when the provisions of a substitute formula would go into
operation,
"This substitute formula provides for integration of supplemental unemployment
benefits on an alternating basis rather than
a simultaneous basis as in all states where
approval is obtained. A negative ruling would
have the effect of withholding for this additional year purchasing power which would
otherwise be available to the workers and
therefore to the merchants in Ohio.”
out. "At
that time neither the Ford nor General Motors agreements had been negotiated, nor
could anyone anticipate the final form such
agreements would take," the statement said.
man, Jr., handed down the latest favorable state
ruling as The United Automobile Worker went to WELL-HEELED CAMPAIGN
press.
At the same time, the UAW viewed as
“unfortunate” that the “deliberate distor(Under the Ford and General Motors Plans, benence of
fits are payable beginning June |, 1956, if states tions fabricated by the unholy allia
employer groups and their paid lobbyists
covering two-thirds—67 per cent—of the Ford and
Ohio press”
the
by
lated
circu
were
which
ploy
unem
e
stat
of
ipt
GM workers permit the rece
referendum.
the
to
t
defea
ght
brou
ent
oym
mpl
une
ment compensation and supplemental
Increasing the amount and duration
benefits the same week.)
would have helped small buss
benefit
of
ined
obta
been
have
gs
rulin
e
rabl
favo
So far,
iness and farm groups as well as worksChry
of
ds
thir
twors
cove
ch
(whi
from Michigan
i
ers, the UAW said.
,
cut,
ecti
Conn
s,
sett
achu
ler workers), New York, Mass
Delaware and New Jersey.
and com-
No state has ruled against gearing GAW
pensation payments.
Approval from many combinations of states
the less than three per cent needed to put the
into operation.
MANY STATE POSSIBILITIES
Still to be heard from are 21 states with
and 12 states with GM employes.
can provide
GAW plans
Ford
workers
Ohio or Illinois alone can make both plans operative_
to
with a favorable administrative ruling. Reacting to an
intensive, Big Business-financed campaign against overhauling the state’s unemployment compensation system,
Ohio voters rejected a proposed new compensation law
°
in a referendum vote this month.
While daily papers quickly viewed this as a serious rebuff
the
GAW
principle,
the
pointed
UAW
believe
"We
out,
the Ohio law as it now stands is no different from those
state laws under which favorable rulings have been issued.
The Ohio law still can be and should be interpreted to permit|
Hope College Has No Faith
Compensation’s Not Charity
A survey to study the adequacy of unemployment com-|
pensation benefits, ordered by the Michigan State Legislature,
is being distorted by those in charge of the study, the UAWCIO charged this month,
Clayton E. Johnson, director of the Union’s Compensation
and Safety Department, declared that Hope College, which
was authorized to conduct the study, had drawn up a ques-
tionnaire which does not reflect the intent of the legislators.
—
He said the questions, instead@
the adequacy of benefits
lish
tive
rela
s
onse
resp
g
of evokin
and, in fact, should be no
ent
pres
of
cy
qua
to the ade
of anyone except
concern
the
und
aro
lve
benefits. revo
individual concerned.”’
the
seek
to
es
ntiv
ince
d
so-calle
Johnson also told the locals
t.
men
loy
other emp
that ‘‘questions dealing with
Johnson advised UAW-CIO what savings a person may
members in Michigan who have, income from other
may be asked to answer the sources, and whether other
questionnaire not to cooperate members of his family have
with the interviewers, since an income can only lead us to
the survey does not serve the conclude that this study is depurpose for which it was or- signed to further the position
dered. In a letter to all local of the National Association of
unions in the state, Johnson Manufacturers which holds
declared:
that benefits must be kept at
‘Many of the questions
a-bare subsistence level, and
that a person should be rehave to do with personal
required to dissipate his savproblems of the claimant
ings.”’
which do nothing to estab-
’
PETER ROBERTSON, an Oberlin College student from Clayton, Missouri,
makes a point for the affirmative during a college debate on the Guaranteed Annual
Wage. Bradley Reardon of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, presides.
U.S. College Students Debate GAW
They tackled this year’s standard debate
From coast to coast and border to border,
college students all over America are debating
the Guaranteed Wage. Sometimes the discussion gets quite heated.
While some of the pro and con arguments
concerning the UAW-CIO’s latest achievement in the field of collective bargaining are
heard only in economies classrooms, others
have found their way into the college student
union and the university auditorium.
The reason? GAW is this year’s official topic
of the nation’s leading college debate groups.
For example, a recent debate held on the campus of Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, saw an
Oberlin debate team pitted against a team
from England’s famed Cambridge University.
topic:
“Resolved, that the non-agricultural industries of the United States should guarantee their workers an annual wage.’’
Speaking for the motion were Peter Robertson of Clayton, Missouri, an Oberlin junior,
and Kenneth W. J. Post of Cambridge. Opposing the motion were Marlene Haynie, an Oberlin junior
from
PERFECT CIRCLE TOWNS
Use of the National Guard
in the Perfect Cirele strike
figured
prominently
in the results,
in New Castle, Paul McCormack—
who called for and directed guard
This touched
Baker.
by Sidney
off an enthusiastic demonstration
in the strikebound town,
fn
Richmond,
Capehart
ocratic
the
city
where
had
threatened
victory
“means
over
to
the
Senator
a Dem-
handing
CLO”
Ro-
land Outter was chosen the first
mayor
.Democratic
The
same
in
35
week, however,
years,
a scab-
loaded vote in the two Richmond
and the Hagerstown Perfect Circle
decertification of
plants brought
these UAW locals although in one
was
the result
plant
Richmond
challenged.
some votes
only
ties,
UAW
13
with
Even
of doubtful
votes
separated
MEMBERS
scabs and
eligibility,
the
par-
WIN
ShowIng the political tide in Indiana, in Indianapolis new Demo-
550,
negotiators.
No matter
Local
971,
“Al”
both sides learned more about the problems of
working people.
Testimonial Banquet
M, Francis, recordLocal
of UAW-CIO
bent
mayor
Totter,
were
council,
A Democrat
of
elected
defeated
Paterson,
both
to
of
city
the incumNew
Jer-
sey's third largest city,
Significant Democratic gains also
registered In Pennsylvania,
were
New
York
thing
a sure
it’s
‘‘won,’’
who
In Elyria, Ohio, two DAW-CIO
members, Charles V. Neeson and
Aloysius
G,
We were not informed who won the debate,
but we’re willing to bet the ‘‘pfo’’ side had
all the best arguments, just like the UAW
will
Bayt
Phillip
mayor
eratic
have a Democratic council which
includes Mary
ing secretary
and John
Texas,
Amarillo,
York of Cambridge.
Indiana Towns Set Pace Of Swing to Democrats
Democrats made tremendous gains in key states in municipal elections this month with Indiana—previously regarded
as ‘‘safe’’ by the Republicans—blazing the way.
Forty GOP mayoralty candidates in Indiana towns were
defeated as the Democrats won 72 of 102 contests. (Previously
the GOP led in mayors 70 to
— was soundly defeated
activities
82.)
¢
2
ee
_
ete
and Connecticut,
Honors Pat Greathouse
Pat
ored
The
Region
—
CHICAGO
was
Greathouse
at a testimonial
Auto
1,200
honbeing
banquet as
to
went
Worker
than
More
4 Director
press,
were
guests
ex-
pected,
speaker
Principal
P,
Walter
President
others
many
Among
ator
mayor
Paul
Douglas
Richard
organizations,
UAW
Reuther,
were Sen-
and
J, Daley,
timonial was sponsored
human
and
civic
bor,
was
Chicago
The
tes-
by 15 larelations
ss
P. lage
a
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
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November, 1955
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ee
GOOD HOT F@OD FOR COLD MAYTAG PICKETS was provided by
this strike kitchen in Local 997’s new union hall. The kitchen, open 24
hours a day, was manned by women members of the Local.
A Priest’s Tribute
The ClO—
A Great Force
For Human Progress
By Msgr. George C. Higgins
Drrector, Soctat Action Department,
Conference
Welfare
Catholic
Natronal
In view of the pending merger of the AFL and the CIO,
it may be appropriate to summarize some of our impressions
of the CIO and its place in the American scene during the two
brief but exciting decades of its existence.
In our opinion. the establishment of the CIO in the middle ’30s was one of the most important landmarks in the history of the United States. It was truly a great step forward
in the development of human progress—not only in the United
States but. by force of example and moral influence, in other
countries as well
com-
to
is
democracy
American
of
strengthening
the
to
and
justice
social
of
cause
the
to
contribution
CIO’s
measuring
of
way
One
pare the statistics on wages. hours and working conditions of millions
after
of men and women in the mass production industries before and
measure to the efforts of the CIO and ts affiliates.
CIO BROUGHT ORGANIZATION FASTER
large
in
credited
be
must
it
and
itself,
for
speaks
record
The
1935.
Academic theories to the-contrary notwithstanding, the phenomhave been
in these statistics never would
reflected
enal progress
It is now genachieved in the absence of militant industrial unions.
rial
erally agreed, 1 think, that the establishment of militant indust
unions would have been postponed, perhaps for many years, in the
Maytag Tagged for 272 Cents
After Anti-Union Campaign
NEWTON, Iowa—A bitter 67-day strike against the MayO
tag Appliance Company-has ended in a victory for UAW-CI
Amalgamated Loeal 997.
the
Region 4 Director Pat Greathouse, who announced
the’
settlement éarlier this month, said the determination of
strikers resulted in a one-year
time was affiliated with the United
the
cost
will
h
whic
agreement
Electrical Workers (UE).
firm 2714 cents an hour. The
NEWTON
absence of the CIO.
in
In the final analysis, however, this remarkable improvement
rs
the material standard of living of millions of industrial worke
the spiritual
brotherhood.
might call
and human
racial
to
tion
for
done,
bas
CIO
the
than
important
less
is
be
To
justice.
on The Philosophy
“as the labor union
Sk
a
PRESIDENT
AFL
first
the
For
Medal
Lactare
Dame’s
Notre
time,
AWARD
a “Ford-type” pena
program,
insurance
sion and
seniority clause, several
better
been
awarded to a labor leader. This annual award to a distinguished
Catholic layman was presented to AFL President George Meany
in special ceremonies at the nation’s capital.
proved vacations, and many othThe pension and iner benefits.
unions,
production
millions
the
For
seem
would
it
years
cent
most
of
to
which
semi-skilled
ot
workers
these
federation,
been
have
would
together
banded
unions,
at worst,
victims,
community;
industrial
the
of strong
absence
means
effective
these unions were the very people most in need of an
of achieving self-government in their working lives.
In the
into
organized
workers
unskilled
or
CIO.
the
with
affiliated
been
have
mass
the
of
true
particularly
been
have
in re-
But
name.
the
of
worthy
union
labor
ot every
is true
This
News.
NECESSARY
UNIONS
PRODUCTION
MASS
by
voteless
by
the Maytag
aided and
Daily
Newton
the
for
cam-
anti-union
intensive
abetted
of autonomy.”
meaning
run
marked
was
paign sparked by
and
management,
and of giving such discipline the higher
of men
masses
cipline among
dis-
to establish
helping
of
feat
double
the
accomplished
have
years.
The strike
three
an
will
agreement
surance
tutes a unique means to train masses of men in seli-government. .
Over and above resistance to unfair management, labor organizations
im-
worked,
holidays
for
time
it consti-
bureaucracy,
state
or
ambition
party
to
subservience
from
basic changes in the incentive
triple
holiday,
rules, a seyenth
free
practices,
monopolistic
from
free
power,
by economic
corruption
obtained
also
has
15
local
The
average.
the
as
with
hour,
to 40 cents an
six
from
ranged
increases
Wage
cents
CATHOLIC
GETS
CAMPAIGN
ANTI-UNION
“So long,” he says,
of Democratic Government.
remains faithful to its idea and keeps itself from
in
and
three plants here
Hampton, Iowa.
by the CIO to the cause of self-government in industry.
A well-known Catholic philosopher, Professor Yves Simon of Chicago University, makes this point very forcefully in a recent book
in
workers
3,000
covers
pact
made
contribution
is the broader
we
what
but
democracy,
American
of
contribu-
important
very
a
was
that
sure,
inter-
of
cause
the
promote
to
example,
in particular
to emphasize
wish
level, to the cause of human freedom
We are not refefring specifically to what
strengthening
the
we
what
at
contribution,
historic
CIO's
The Company and its president,
Fred Maytag, have a long record
In
of open opposition to unions.
management
1938,
with
Guard.
the
help
The
of
Local
broke
the
Union
a strike
National
at that
Iowa State Senate. just so he
could push a “right-to-work” law
through the Legislature. The law
was passed
the books.
During
members
and
CIO
Iowa,
and
and
internationals,
the
is still
There
of
problem
this
but
is
ClO
the
as
far
so
rank-and-file
is not
problem
concerned
apathy
no
tive
ing
Maytag
the
TO GREATEK HEIGHTS
To the extent that the AFL
ON
the unified
into
vigorous
a
repeat,
in which
movement
of
reason,
as
jeopardize
stitution
Workers
The
danger
in
For,
to
in their debt.
further
movement—which
labor
to come
is about
a labor
means
bulwarks
has
Simon
iabor
of
the
to arouse
of
such
political
of
written,
unions
suspicion
“reforms”
reform
“any
or
alter
of the
is
always
the
years
For
democracy.
their
which
essential
democratic
present
that
would
con-
mind”
in
but,
our
All
opinion, it should not be exaggerated at the present time,
, in
things considered, we would expect the anified labor movement
but
cooperation with enlightened management, to make gradual
steady
small
and
substantial
measure,
to the
20 years by the CIO.
progress
solid
in
foundation
ahead—thanks,
established
during
the
at
was
to organ-
able
Newton plant while
strike was going on.
the
Newton
and die shop in West
during this period.
Foundry
Des
Moines
allow-
my
in
active increase
ance?"
Maytag's Sister
Sends $500 Check
To Support Pickets
tional
publicity
when
the
Company
the
of
month
last
late
sister
na-
received
strike
Maytag
The
president donated $500 to Local
997’s strike fund.
Announcing her gift in teleLocal 997
and
P. Reuther
Walter
President
UAW-CIO
to
grams
Dye, Mrs. MiBryan
President
chael Revyuk, sister of Fred Maydeclared:
tag,
“I
am
sending
tribution
to your
cost of
of
this
five
Local
your
justice
of
indication
of
Fred
always
fair
not
that
Maytag
have
my
your
annual
I do
had
wage,
the
a
even
I think
protection
in
Daily
the
Since
when
he
it only
should
against
the
guaran-
employes
Company
the
the
this as an
demands.
working,
Newton
dollars
belief
Characteristically,
ion
con-
to help meet
fight against
Company.
has
token
hundred
Maytag
was
of
the
also
layoffs.”
News
anti-un-
buried
the story which made
headlines
in papers all over the country.
Automation of Future
May Produce Ulcers
NEW
YORK,
N.
¥.—During
a
recent meeting of the American
Management
Association,
Dr. C.
ee
R.
Walker,
director
of
burgh’s Industrial Hygiene
—
———
(I I nS
es
Hl
PittsFoun-
dation, predicted that automation
may produce ulcers among work-
ers of the
NA
future.
“Automation,” said Dr. Walker,
“will relieve human beings of the
the
jobs and
unpleasant
dirty,
SeBut,
labor.
backbreaking
incihighest
“The
he warned,
dence of gastric ulcers today is
and
group
hourly-wage
the
in
in no
past
The CIO is not going out of existence as of December. Rather It
is going on to even greater heights as an integral part of what promises to be the best and the strongest labor movement in the history
of the modern world.
representa-
voted overwhelmingly in favor of
Regional repjoining the UAW.
resentatives also organized a tool
the
solve this problem
be to God,
UAW
“You just got a retroactive
raise, so how about a retro-
teed
there is active rank-and-file participation—is one
operation
is bound
all of us even
democratic
Professor
the
put
possible
strongest
the
will
they
thanks
which,
labor movement
existence,
and the CIO.can
a
In Grinnot far
strike.
ize another
the Maytag
get free
for their
good of
to
It is the everlasting problem of democracy—how
ClO.
men voluntarily to assume responsibility, day in and day out,
political welfare and for the common
and
economic
own
society as a whole.
activities were not
UAW-CIO
of
to
exclusively
contined
reported.
over
Despite these activities and the
fact that the Maytag family controls the small city of Newton,
locals
CIO
in many
here,
all
unions
from
was arrested for distributliterature concerning the
exists.
longer
AFL
Local .997
support
received
confined to Newton.
nell, a college town
turn,
ture citizens of a developing economie democracy which, in
is an indispensable bulwark or support of political democracy.
The CIO has had its problems during the past two decades, notably
was
the problem of Communist infiltration. Fortunately thdt problem
head-on
strike,
the
Anti-union
from
is still on
in 1947 and
Greathouse
or, at best, beneficiaries of a degrading type of paternalism. {nstead of that, they are now able to stand on their own feet as ma-
met
Fred
got himself elected to the
Maytag
serfdom;
of industrial
ago,
years
10
than
Less
in a strong
citizens
IN
DEAL
NEW:
among
exert
90H SURE, YOU
THEY EVEN
GET
A PENSION
mill
machinists
who
probably
less physical effort than
workers”
controlling
finger tips,
just watching
machines
with
most
and
their
November,
Page
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
1955
UAW Skilled Tradesmen
Expose Splinter Groups
LLED
COUNCIL
skilled
Skilled
UAW-CIO
International
attending
trades leaders
Trades Council meeting
I}
the Union’s
held in De-
troit’s Fort Shelby Hotel unanimously condemned so-called
“societies’’? and other splinter groups who ‘‘would destroy
the strength and solidarity of our Union by separating’’
skilled and production workVice-President Richard Gosser,
ers ‘‘and attempting to pit
director of the UAW
Skilled
| one group against another.”’
Trades Department and chairman
More than 150 delegates and of the IEB Skilled Trades Comfraternal delegates from all mittee, was unable to be present
over America took an active part
in the two-day quarterly conferThey represented approxience,
due to an illness.
WHAT
UAW
HAS
WON
The meat of the resolution on
mately 250,000 skilled workers in
splinter groups spelled out gains
the UAW-CIO.
by
the
Union
for skilled
Expressing complete loyalty to |won
the UAW-CIO and the principles workers. They include:
e the highest wages in the
of industrial unionism for which
world for comparable work
it stands, the skilled tradesmen
unanimously adopted a resolution
which pointed out, “As a strong
gains
many
won
has
the
Union,
industrial
skilled workers.”
CONDEMN
TRADESMEN
SKILLED
“SOCIETIES,”
loyalty
pledge
MATTHEWS
to UAW-
UAW
CIO and industrial union principles in resolution unanimously adopted during twoday conference of International Skilled Trades Council held at Detroit’s Fort Shelby
Hotel. Here are (seated, L. to r.) Robert Wortz, Local 1183, Newark, Delaware;
UAW Vice-President Norman Matthews, member of IEB three-man Skilled Trades
Committee; James Steward, Local 662, Anderson, Ind.; (standing) : Arthur Schmidt,
Local 75, Milwaukee; Louis Budnik, Local 59, Chicago; Council Vice-President Roy
Hartzell, Local 25, St. Louis; and John Skidmore, Local 200, Windsor, Canada.
UAW Demands U.S. Action
To Back Civil Rights in South
Louis
Emmett
of kidnaping
white
to indict two
refused
this month
jury
Leflore
Mississippi—A
GREENWOOD,
grand
County
men
Till, a 14-year-old
on charges
Negro
from
Chicago. The men, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, had previ>
ously been acquitted of mur-
der charges in the same case.
They had been accused of
the kidnap-murder after they
had admitted taking Till from
the farm home of his uncle bewolf-
allegedly
had
he
cause
the 21-member,
when
around
all-
jury
grand
bill” verdict.
all-male
white,
brought in its “no
The Till case has shocked
UAW-CIO members all over the
country.
of the
Inter-
the feeling
the UAW’s
Reflecting
membership,
national Executive Board issued
a statement calling on the federal
government
civil
liberties.
civil
of
violations
these
stop
and
rights
prompt
for
called
Board
The
to
enactment of legislation at the
opening of the second session of
the 84th Congress to provide for
the immediate intervention of the
Division of the U. S.
Criminal
Department
cases.
of
Board
The
and
murder
Justice
denounced
other
two
the
“crimes
human-
ity.”
$5,000 CONTRIBUTION
In addition to calling
write
to
to
Till
recent
as
of Negroes
murders
and
democracy
against
mémbers
such
in
UAW
on
People’s
Freedom
for
“Fight
Fund.” This is in addition to the
Union's annual $3,500 contributo the
tion
The
and
ing
NAACP.
blasted
UAW
the Administration
to
act
announced
on
civil
that
the
Congress
for failand
rights
Interna-
tional Union is taking steps to
broaden its own program in the
fight for civil rights by expanding
of
and
enlarging
it# Pair
the
Practices
Discrimination
field
and
staff
Anti-
Department,
making
false
he observed,
doesn’t
plans
promises.
think
to
Last
workers over the years.
San
Soundly
the
stop
month
it'll
come out,
ace,””
be
the
When
‘Bull
Matthews
uals
they
Pal-
come
didn’t
from
“know
and
where
where
we're
going to.”
Others who addressed the
skilled trades delegates were Joe
McCusker, co-director of Region
1A and a member of the IEB
Skilled Trades Committee; Sena(D.) of
tor Pat MacNamara
vacations,
insurance
any
craft
skilled
conditions
union
and
unmatched
wages
and
program
apprenticeship
journeyman card accepted by
hundreds of corporations ineluding the Big Three
*e and a program
protecting
skilled workers’ gains if they
move to another shop.
In
we’ve
and
working
guaranteed
who
criticizing those
holidays
plus
by
belittled the skilled workers’
gains in-the UAW, the UAW
veep stated that these individ-
Tru-
paid
for
anywhere
health
well as director of the Chrysler
and Office Workers Departments.
“I notice the Repub-
Francisco.
e
is a member of the IEB threeman Skilled Trades Committee as
licans are holding their nominating convention at the Cow Palace
in
workers
annual
tion
and
its final
any
and
provisions
all
Local
Union
bat
those
individuals
International
are
of
and the
By-Laws
the
Constitution to com=
intent
and
all it stands
splinter
for, by sponsoring
groups
destruction
upon
of the UAW-CIO and
Michigan.
resolu-
called upon affiliated locals
the International Union “to
invoke
who
the
resolve,
groups,
—;
4
oe
Her Hand
LONG BEACH, California— |
Some young men whistle at
pretty girls—and get ignored.
Others, like Ted Lake, a member of UAW-C1IO Local 148,
trust in fate and good fortune
KATO
falls in their lap.
Beeause Lake, who works in the Douglas Aircraft plant
here, strolled hand-in-hand with his pet gibbon, Kato, into a
Long Beach hotel he’s going to marry Miss Belgium, one of
the prettiest lovelies in the Miss Universe contest here last
year.
Miss Belgium, who is Nicole DeMeyer of Ghent, likes animals, Kato instantly liked Miss Belgium. In less time than
it takes to say ‘Golly,’ Miss Belgium crossed the lobby and
began shaking hands with Kato. A Hollywood photographer
instantly moved in for a ‘‘Beauty and the Beast”’ shot.
BEAUTY, BEAUTY EVERYWHERE
In less time than it takes to cateh your breath, Lake was
surrounded by beauty queens from around the world, press
1 agents, photographers, Miss DeMeyer,
$
;
Miss DeMeyer’s uncle, and Kato.
Miss DeMeyer speaks only French
and Dutch and Lake speaks only Eng-
”
to urge Immediate acgressmen
legislation,
rights
clvil
on
tion
the Board authorized donation of
$5,000 to the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
Party
apparently
Wins
Con-
their
Republican
man
Harry
UAW-CIO
by
pensions
rising
Miss Belgium—
ACT
About 30 newsmen and photographers were the only spectators
President
skilled
made
gains
boosts
« highest
of
the history
against
» UAW Man Finds
River.
SHOULD
Former
Vice-President
Norman
reviewed
wage
the
for
imsurance
prices plus automatic
UAW-CIO
PROGRESS
CITES
pay
.
Beauty Sees Beast;
Beast Spies Beauty—
whistled at Bryant’s wife.
Till’s body was found later at
the bottom of the Tallahatchie
CONGRESS
Out West, Anyway
Matthews
*
fs
lish (and Kato speaks only gibbon), but
the camera and, as it turns out, love
A
“a
at
\
Wael
speak a universal language so in practically no time at all, Lake and his pet
monkey were on the beach surrounded
“”
by the world’s loveliest women
while
the Miss Universe photography cult
TED LAKE
snapped away.
Naturally, Lake, a bachelor, found no serious reason to
object to these goings on.
Miss
'
.
Belgium,
naturally,
for permitting the pictures,
guage, but he got the idea,
He
sent
Miss
DeMeyer
wanted
to thank
Lake didn’t
a postcard
Kato’s
understand
thanking
owner
the lan-
her for her
as
courteous
attention
and
with a thank you note.
Now Nicole is 20. She
and
thank
has
the
36-24-36
She replied
sent her a little corsage.
is 5 feet 4 and
qualifications
for
115
weighs
pounds
Universe.
Miss
Her
you note was nothing to be ignored.
When she returned to Long Beach, Lake and Kato be-
gan showing
her about Southern
California.
Then
Lake
began escorting her without Kato, Two months later they
were engaged.
Now Miss DeMeyer is back in Belgium shopping for her
trousseau.
She
plans to return
to California
early
next year,
Her mother plans to come with her if enough money is found
to finance both passages.
Before she left, Nicole explained, in Fyench, that she was
attracted to Lake because he was a gentleman ,.. ‘‘not what
you call a wolf,”’
However, she is not so sure about Kato.
Page
UNITED
Ii
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
November,
1955
UAW Asks Dismissal
Of PAC Indictment
Attor neys
filed a motion
ing
for the International Union, UAW-CIO, hay e
in United States District Court in Detroit, ask-|}
for a dismissal
Taft-Hartley
Harold
Law
Jro
dismissal
Pais
;
the
penditure-of
dates
They
on
the
AGAINST BASIC
They
told the
ied
Fifth,
Sixth,
Seventeen
and
United
the
the
indefinite.
to petition
th
of grievances.
Abridge
its
the
Tenth
union
members
1
arbitrary
tion.
@
of lit
out du
arbitra ry
to
fail
tainable
of
of
spec
federal
LABOR
the
which
under
} procured,
ions but
| unincorp'
to
to
rs
govern-
be
or
act
out
motio
ane-
a § ea
that
fie
ane
2 fs provi-
id|
of
and
the
Union|
to-choose
indictment
UNIONS
was
specifically
attack
unnot
other
voluntary
or
rated associations which
spending
millions
electioneering.
made
unions,
unions
because
for
it
and
legal
is
for
for
He
all
therefore
ng
the
candidacy
k V. MeN.of
min
Union
U.
said|
ex-|
PROBABLE CAMPAIGN ISSUES FOR °56 got a thorough airing at this Region
4 political education institute held recently at the Union Center in Ottawa, Illinois.
Speakers are, I. to r., Roy Reuther, the UAW’s PAC coordinator; Education and
PAC Representatives Charles Johnston and Willoughby Abner and Paul Sifton of
the UAW-CIO Washington office. More than 100 local union leaders attended.
dis-
What's
broadcasts
supported
|
S. Michi
Senator}
cNamara,
githese oss
Michigan }recent
mney
and
classifica-
BRISTOL,
2 Union and its mem-| Merlin
D.
Bishop
has
|
Few
YORK
heart
hearing
fore
the
American
tion,
multi-millionaire
Texas
Bar
oil
union-hater
de luxe,
millions
his
of
been reap-| Murchison
testified
‘Eye Opener’ Stays
as
tycoon
forgot
Bre
In Tune With Times be)
"Eye Opener,”
now
heard
over a 36-station
network,
coast-to-
coast, is a fast-moving 30-minute morning show which brings you
the best in news, sports, music, weather and shop talk. It's sponraion Guy
sored by the UAW-CIO and features the noted
Nunn, and his partner, Joe Walsh. They broadcast directly from
Solidarity House.
Latest station to join the ‘Eye Opener" network was Chicago's
powerful 50,000-watter, WCFL, which can be heard throug att
the Midwest. WCFL, the Voice of Labor, is owned and Bherkied
by the Chicago Federation of Labor.
Listeners
Ont
One
he was
Your local or area radio station probably carries the UAW-CIO's
popular early-morning program, ‘Eye Opener.”
During the past few months, many new stations have been added to the nationwide "Eye Opener’ network, and several of the
“old” stations have changed the time during which the program
can be heard.
Now that almost everyone is back on Standard Time, you can
“stay on the beam" by checking the up-to-date list at right for correct time and station in your area and state.
c
big
companies
a|where
the
shoe
be-:
Associa-
Clinton
fortune.
Two
W.
26,000
| the
pinches
workers
support
of
latest
found out
walked
contract
display
when|
out
demands.
of
| pany
and
the
AFL
Shoe
Company.
The
in
In} in
the
labor unitys| bined
firms
are
industry,
strike
and| the workers, members of the CIO| industry's
and the | spokesmen
a few United Shoe Workers
day|
International
the
two of the largest
making
biggest
history,
com-
in
that
management
conceded.
Boot
the
The
walk-
Shoe
Workers, Jouts shut 41 International
Shoe
and
the
Brown
Shoe
Com-| plants and 20 Brown
plants.
w orth | | struck
|
Officers
of
the
two
striking
un-
y and property with-| po inted
to a new
term
on thejabout
“$5 mao
$6 million .or
| ons
said
the
average
wage
of
ess of law, and are} board
of governors
of the Uni-| §7 million.”
Next day, on being} who's so busy with labor-hating,
Yorkers in these plants is $1.20
and capricious
| versity of Connecticut.
Bishop,
‘
|called back he confessed to gains|<aid a CIO Oil Workers official,
} an hour. The Unions seek a twoie and
indefinite
and|}who
heads the Region
9A sub-}
ee
million.
$30
than
more
lof
to be concerned with such trivial year contract with a 12 per cent
> a reasonably asi ker |meesonal
office here, was the
|
ndard of guilt.
“You
can’t expect
UAW’s first director of education. |
a big man | details as $30 million.”
| wage increase.
A
and
United Labor Pinches Buster Brown's Shoes
CITY—During
“
are
stockholders’
| Murchison,
Connecticut—UAW-
International Representative
a
;
Million
. .. More.or Less?
NEW
creating an| Renamed to College Post
unlawful
SECOND BARGAINING
FRONT
lob-| |
general elections.
|CIO
tt
television
by
atgic
Deniberat
their}
in Congress
ers, by
jthe
P
PAC.
Law,
that no one knows what it forbids and what i it allows.
The
indictment,
handed
down
July 20, charged
the UAW-CIO}
with
violating
the Taft-Hartley
for| | paid
ae
provi
Taft-Hartley
the
as
24
the | Criminatory.
to assemble| 4¢ct
inate against
Deprive
bers
Pomted
sions
and|CePt
over nment
right
representatives
®@ Disc
U©@
First, | the
the
the
reserve
not
the
Discussir
e
Si inte
¥ a pe
fi ° a
Adminis-|>ying
attorneys
Act
provis
. the right
of the pre
and
to
by
Amendments
powers
states
1ay
involved, as construed by the g
ernment:
@ Abridge freedom of speech and
@
Tenth
guaranteed
i
law
that
nts
Specifically, the
the
Taft-Hartley
redress
of
es Gon titution, as well}
Cranefield also charged that the
One of the Constitution | law.
was
“so
broad
and
vague”
as Article
and
and
for | ment.
govern-|
the
1€
| Ninth
rights
delegated
RIGHTS
Court
that
Ninth,
Invade
candi-|
of
e and
by
@
dismissal
the
violate
would
tration,
charges
Counsel, and Joseph}
}HIESIONLY
for
that
is vy
as
General
ex-|the
funds
moveti
-
unconstitutional
Jaw.
the
office.
interpretation
indictment
on
that} the Constitution, which
endorse
grounds
ment’s
is
union
federal
also
for
prohibit
which
for
UAW
grounds
not
does
broadcasts
indictment
violations.
asked
on
law
Union’s
UA Wayashiny-o_,
._ >
attorney,
the
the
A. Cranefield,
ieRanh
ton
of
in
in
Detroit,
parts
d Ohio
Windsor,
of
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Pittsburgh, Pa,
Bueal:)
_
Alpena, Mich.
Grand
can
Ind.
WBBC
1330ke
2:00-2:15 p.m. &
WPON
1460 ke
215-1:45 p.m,
WPIT
730ke
2:45-4:00
p.m.
3:30-4.00 p.m,
Mich.
Baltimore, Md.
Hagerstown,
Md,
‘
1:15-1:30 a.m.
a.m.
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