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UNITED
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WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
January,
1956
UAW’s Executive Board Takes Firm, Clear Stand
On Vital Issues Facing U.S. Congress This Year
As the 84th Congress begins this session, the UAW International Executive Board submits for consideration and urges
enactment of a broad legislative program designed to—
Insure full employment, full production and equitable dis© tribution of goods and services in a dynamic, expanding
economy that provides an ever advancing standard of living;
Strengthen cooperation among the free nations of the
world through an immediate and substantial step-up in
international economic cooperation and economic aid to assist
freedom-loving peoples throughout the world and to turn back
the tide of Communist penetration and subversion of Communist imperialism;
Build more strongly military defense at home and to provide military aid to our allies among the free nations.
Ours is a program based firmly
upon the principle that what is
good
good
for
for the
cause
is good
mocracy
labor.
what
and
America
of world
for
is
de-
American
It is a practical program that
takes into account our ability to
meet its cost. It is a program that
reflects our faith and eonfidence in
the determination and patriotism
and resourcefulness of the American
people, our faith and confidence in
the unlimited opportunities for development and expansion inherent in
the American economy.
In foreign policy, while we recognize the essentiality of strengthened
military defense and military aid,
our accent is on the positive aspect
of international cooperation and economic aid so that we may do our
part in destroying the ugly blights
of hunger, poverty, sickness and illiteracy upon which Communism
feeds.
We believe that a 1956 national
legislative program requires:
° Military Defense
Policies,
plans
and
funds
to
strengthen our own and our allies’
military defenses, particularly in research and development of planes
and
missiles, until agreement
reached
on workable
armament.
can be
plans for dis-
We have seen the lead of our Air
Force and missile development whittled down, if indeed it has not been
lost altogether as alleged by some
qualified observers. In the name of
economy, we have risked the future
of our national security. Now we
must pay for the economies of the
past, the demands of the present and
the challenges of the future.
* Foreign Economic Aid
To supplement the essential military defense appropriation of adequate funds for a positive program
of international economic ecooper-
ation that will bring to fruition in
economic development and democratie freedoms the programs
launched by President Truman under Point IV and UN technical assistance and carried on by the Eisenhower Administration.
In addition to direct economic
assistance by loans and grants in
the Near, Middle and Far East,
Africa_and Latin America, more
assistance should be given to
multi-national agencies.
Here, as in military defense, we
have endangered our future during the past three years by allow-
ing the pipelines to. empty—just
as the Communist salesmen begin
an all-out campaign to woo and
win every under-developed area in
the world.
We wholeheartedly endorse the
proposed Special United Nations
Fund for Economie Development
(SUNFED), which has been blocked
to date by the ‘‘have’’ nations, ineluding the U. S. We again urge
President Eisenhower and the members of Congress to lift the U. S.
veto against SUNFED and thereby
permit its birth, now years overdue.
© Federal Aid to Education
Since the eost of constructing needed school rooms will rise to a total of
32 billion dollars during the next 10
years, the Federal Government should
spend not less than $1 billion a year
to supplement the $2 billion which
states now spend. The mere construction of school rooms, however, will
not solve the school crisis.
The desperate shortage of teachers
for example ean be met only through
the adoption of adequate teacher salary schedules in which there should
be established a national minimum
of $4 thousand a year for beginning
teachers. To do this, and to meet
other financial needs of the schools,
federal aid should be voted of not less
than $10 per student for next year,
and this amount should be increased
to $50 per year per student as rapidly as possible. We must take aggressive action to end the tragic situation
in which millions of American children are being robbed of their rightful educational opportunities.
© Highway Program
Federal aid for highways of at
least $12.5 billion over a five-year
period, financed by federal taxes
based on ability to pay, not by sales
taxes on
gas,
oil, tires, trucks,
:
© Housing
At least 250,000 low cost public
housing units a year, 50,000 of which
to be earmarked for aged persons.
At least 800,000 middle income housing units a year to be built with
government assistance, and slum
demolition and redevelopment which,
with private undertakings, will provide at least two million new housing units a year at prices and rents
that middle and low income families
ean afford to pay.
© Unemployment
Compensation
Federal unemployment compensation standards that will put a floor
under interstate competition which
now holds down benefit eligibility,
amounts and duration.
18 and to totally and permanently
disabled workers, not at age 50 as
provided in the bill passed by the
House, but at whatever age the insured worker becomes disabled, with
the schedule of increases in taxes to
be paid by employers and employes
adjusted to meet the increased cost.
Complete medical care for all persons receiving Federal Old Age Assistance.
© Farm Program
A farm program that will give
working farmers full equity with
We feel that
at least until the Administration and
Congress can get the drowning
American farmers into the life boats,
they should be given back the life
preservers of firm price supports at
not less than 90 per cent of parity.
Weekly
bene-
fits should be computed on the basis
of at least 65 per cent of the insured
worker’s full time weekly wage up to
the state maximum. The state maximum to be not less than two-thirds of
the average wage of workers in covered employment. Duration of benefits for all those eligible to be not
less than 39 weeks.
© Health Needs
Enact constructive health legislation to mect the health needs of the
American people; a national health
aid
Extension of Social Security to
pay Old Age and Survivors Insurance benefits to women at age 60, to
ineapacitated ehildren beyond age
cars,
parts, or by tolls.
insurance program;
© Social Security
other economie groups.
We urge Congress to proceed
quickly to develop programs of price
and income support, more school
lunches, food distribution, marketing and consumption through normal commercial channels, with farm
families sharing fully and surely in
a national standard of living that
must rise year after year or fall on
its face. We suggest that Congress
examine Agriculture Secretary Benson’s repeated attempts to transfer
blame for falling farm ptices and
shrinking farm income from himself
and his policies to wage earners.
medical
search
and
federal funds to
education,
health
medical
facilities;
re-
grants
to state and local public health
agencies for expanded programs; eneouragement of better organization
of medical care.
<r
se
° Civil Rights
We strongly urge enactment of a
new federal law and vigorous enforcement to end violence against
Negroes and members of other minority groups which has already
been allowed to spread until it today
amounts to a reign of systematic
terror in Mississippi and several
other southern states.
We shall continue to support
all efforts to persuade Congress to
break its 80-year do-nothing record on Civil Rights. We challenge
those who, in the name of party
unity, did not raise the issue of
the filibuster a year ago, now in
1956 to make good on their Civil
Rights promises, by wearing down
and breaking filibusters certain to
be used against any substantial
Civil Rights bill.
The offer of some of a constitu-
tional amendment
to outlaw the poll
tax as a requirement for voting is
worse than meaningless, measured
against the reality of unpunished
Mississippi murders of Negroes who
insisted on keeping their names on
the voting rolls. This is a time for
aetion on the Civil Rights front—not
for further study by congressional
committees.
© Minimum Wage
Extension of minimum wage coverage to millions of the nation’s
lowest paid workers.
Such extension, plus further inerease of the
minimum wage to at least $1.25 an
hour, will strengthen mass purchasing power in precisely those households where living standards are depressed and are far below the requirements of human decency.
© Immigration
.
es
Amendment of the MeCarran-Walter Immigration Act as proposed by
Senator Lehman and others to remove (1) national origins quota system which discriminates against
Jews, Catholics, Negroes and others;
(2)
the
exclusion
for
five
years
of
refugees fleeing from behind the
Iron Curtain, and (3) the secondelass citizenship given naturalized
Americans, replacing it with guarantees of first-class eitizenship, ineluding the rights of fair hearing
and trial.
° Taft-Hartley Act
We note the disinclination of leaders of both parties to undertake needed
amendment of the Taft-Hartley Act.
We shall not cease to demand its
extensive revision
in order to achieve
a fair and workable law based on the
principles of the Wagner Act. Meantime, we shall oppose miscalled
‘‘Right-to-Work”’ bills in state legislatures and cooperate in all eampaigns
to repeal
such
laws
in states
where
they are now in force,-having been
given supervening power by one of
the many anti-labor provisions of
the Taft-Hartley Act.
© Investigate Price Increases
We urge a congressional inyestigation, which we proposed last July
7, of unjustified inereases in prices
for steel, tractors, trucks, passenger
ears and other items, so that responsibility for the profiteering price
gouge of the American public can be
placed where it belongs, and an in-
flationary spiral checked.
© Public Power—Flood Relief
Resumption
of large scale public
power development starting with
Hell’s Canyon as part of integrated
valley and regional programs of
flood control, resouree conservation
and utilization. Cutbacks in power
development in recent years now
confront us with power deficits and
dangerous industrial bottlenecks in
the near future.
As an immediate necessity, made
greater by past failures to adapt the
lessons of TVA to other areas, the
Northeast and Pacifie Coast must be
given federal aid in grants, loans,
extended unemployment compensa(Continued on Page 4)
January,
UNITED
1956
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Page
3
UAW Starts Douglas, Sikorsky Talks;
North American, Chance-Vought Next
Negotiations
with
four big aircraft companies for!
new contracts to provide‘ ‘special solutions” to the
“special problems” of the aircraft industry began this
month.
These are the last major UAW negotiati ions in the
cycle that began with Ford and General Motors last
spring. Companies involved are Douglas, No rth American, Chance-Vought and Sikorsky.
As this issue of The United Automobile Worker went to|
press, the newly-formed UAW Douglas Aircraft Council had|
asked the Douglas management to begin negotiations on January
16. Negotiations with North American must begin no later than
February 12. A date has yet to be set for Chance-V ought talks,
and at Sikorsky negotiations are already underway.
North American local unions were to finalize their proposals|
at a council meeting January 19, 20 and 21 at Colu mbus, Ohio.
Locals represented are 927, Columbus; 887, Inglewood and
Downey, California, and 1151, Fresno, California.
Current UAW contracts with all four Companies expire this
spring.
SIX-POINT
PROGRAM
NEW UAW VEEP, Pat Greathouse, right, gets welcomed into
his new office at Solidarity House by Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey. Vice-President Greathouse began moving shortly after his election by the International Executive Board. (See story on page 5.)
Negotiations will proceed on the basis of a six-point program formulated
last November at the National UAW Aircraft Conference ir 1 Los Angeles,
UAW
Vice-President Leonard Woodcock, director of the Union’s Aircraft
*
Department, said.
Those points include:
oo Re
. Employment
Both
security
Union security
Wage improvements
Comprehensive Health-Medical Program
Retirement income
Other contract improvements as developed
by the local unions to meet the particular
problems arising with the various companies.
Woodcock
and
the
Conference
distinguish
it
from
other
UAW
“The aircraft industry is
clear that they did not seek the “‘mechanical
almost totally dependent on
of formulas
established
in agreements
in the automobile
the federal govertiment and
and agricultural implement industries. Noting, however, the
the
taxpayers,’”’
Vice-Presimaturity and stability achieved recently by the aircraft in- dent
Leonard
Woodcock,
dustry,
the
UAW
vice-president
INDUSTRY
HAS
BEEN
said:
STABILIZED
“Tt is our determination and eonyietion that the maturity and stability the industry now enjoys shall be trans-
mitted
to
the
collective
bargaining
relationship.”
Douglas
negotiations were preceded
by
the National UAW
Douglas Aircraft Council
earlier in January
Loeals
and
148,
Long
1291, Tucson,
general
program
at Tucson,
Beach,
Arizona.
California;
developed
adopted
by
detailed
the
There
1093,
formation
of
at a meeting
delegates
Tulsa,
proposals
national
chairman;
Hodges,
R.
1093,
J.
Atherton,
1291,
secretary-treasurer.
from
Oklahoma,
based
conference.
cers of the new Douglas Council, who will head
ing team from the Local Unions, are Clarence
on the
Offi-
UAW
aircraft director, said.
is the most heavily subsidized
dustry fn our nation.
and
“It
in-
TAILORED TO NEEDS
“Consequently it has a moral
obligation
—even greater
than
that
of
civilian
provide
working
wages, health and
tection,
will
a
of
the negotiatStinson, 148,
vice-chairman,
Vernon
and
living.”
It
is
eraft
gaining
lar
aircraft
and
workers
emphasized
program,
reference
security
benefits
healthful
workers’
to
program,
—to
conditions,
accident
pro-
other
assure
decent
employers
in
the
of
standard
the
collective
with
that
air-
bar-
particu-
economic
that the
UAW
United / Automobile
Worker,
on
anc 1 high schools in consumer
The
44-|economics
cour SES,
The Consumer’s Guide
year -old|to Better Buyi ng has gone through three
Margolius| editions and six printings in its original and
working
this field
in|
for
paper-b ound
present
of
400,000 copie 8.
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His column,
It’s
versions for a total sale
Your
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years. | monthly in Blu ebook magazine
He’s written}
‘‘My chief p rofessional and
over
200
ticles
for
tional
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books,
buying,
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facts
people
Two
of
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most
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to
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SIDNEY MARGOLIUS
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ment, ‘Social Security and other community | the subject.
bene ofits, housing, health eare and related
Margolius’ column will appear
subjects.
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their | yuying and finances to help
them make the most of their income,’’ Mar|golius writes in a note to The United Auto-
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and
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United
Con-|ice to UAW
Automobile
me mbers.
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in
and
other such
terms
of
ends
the
to the
employ-
the UAW’s
Conference
adjustments
items, the Union
special
conditions
or
move-
before
schools on
monthly
as a sery-
tended and participated in the
UAW'’s Douglas Council meeting in Tucson earlier this
in
industry.
is
our
that
a
the
vital
and
national
Woodcock
that this
essential
defense
and
on
part
of
program,”
in
manage- |
the
industry
IAM
theirs
is
in
a
well
men
peaceful
within
shall
gotiations
way.
the
conduct
ever
national
with
bargaining
agent
| collective
mindful
interest
and
our
ne-
of
the
of
earlier
this
month.
Numerous meetings between
UAW
representatives and
Vice-President
Brown, that Union’s
Coast
the
essentiality
of the aircraft
industry to the national interest.
“We are firm in our
determi
nation, however, to see to it that
the aircraft workers are not to be
treated as second-class economic
citizens, We believe and we know
negotiation
successful
the
that
of our program
in the
industry
will contribute
began
[AM
abili-
the aircraft
companies
t our program,” he add-
“We
negotiations
Douglas and Lockheed
for
new contracts covering plants
threaten
“but the } where the machinists are\the
THERE
“We
do not seek or
a strike,” he continued,
lesson is obvious that
free
ed.
In turn, the [AM invited
UAW representatives to
participate in its conference
in Fresno, California, January 12 to 14.
industry}
both
labor
MONEY'S
of
month.
said.
“We
recognize
imposes a tremendous
responsibility
ment
aircraft
National Aireraft
in November in
Angeles.
They also at-
Los
“Aircraft
workers
recognize
and
are
highly
sensitive
to the
fact
Assoeia-
craft industry.
Representatives of the IAM
attended and participated in
is prepared, where necessary, to
fit the means of achieving these
ties
to
universities
been
in
security, wage
“It
Guide to Better Buying, and, Your
11 of this issue, inaugurates a new column | Guide to Finan cial Security, published last
feature by Sidney Margolius on consumer|summer, are us' ed as texts by a number of
has
results
fully
Page|sumer’s
buying.
end
International
tion of Machinists—the closest
ever experienced in the air-
is not seeking
the mechanical
application of formulas already
negotiated in other UAW industries.
While
seeking the same
ment
the
and
industries.
must
be
prepared
to
fight
for
| what
is right
in order
to have}
a chance
to get what
is right-|
New Consumer Buying Column Starts
As Regular Feature of Au to Worker
The
UAW and IAM
Work Together
On Air Program
The approach of the UAW aircraft workers to negotiaA feature of the 1956 airtions for new contracts with the western aircraft companies
is one of calm, firm determination coupled with a practical| |} craft negotiations is the close
understanding of the peculiar features of the industry that) cooperation between the UAW
made it}
application’’|
Aireraft
Dependency on United States
Increases Moral Obligations
Unity in Action
director,
and
Roy
West
members
of his staff, have been held in
recent weeks to develop plans
for cooperative efforts in the
negotiations
Both sides have
found
these
meetings
extreme-
“To put it frankly,
Mr. Mor-
ly beneficial,
aircraft}
greatly |
to the morale of aircraft
workers and
that
in turn will be a
strengthening
defense
“It
program
is
in
the
approach
national
our
of
that
1956
irit
that
we
negotiations.”
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bucks, | don't feel I'm getting
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1956
January,
WO RKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
Auto Industry
Hit By Layoffs
the automobile industry with
facing layoffs
several thousand workers eit her laid off or
and with overtime almost completely eliminated.
While most economists say the total value of goods and
,
services used in the U. S. will increase slightly over last year
many a¢ 3d that the automobile home construction industries
for
winter
is a chill
This
will lag behind 1955. Economists also are predicting a de-
economy.
American
the
While experts generally
agree the demand for new
quarter of this year.
ears will perk up in the
ONE MILLION FEWER
spring, early this month
725,000 new cars were
Industry estimates for ‘56
jammed on dealers’ lots.
range up to one million fewer
That is considered a 33-day
passenger cars than the almost
supply. Normally dealers
eight million produced in the
keep a 16- to 18-day supply
United States last year. That
on hand.
means a decline in hours and
One reason for the current
jobs for UAW members. This
affects workers in parts plants lag in sales is believed to be
as well as those engaged in that a record amount of money is owed on the cars now
the production.
on the road. Approximately
Trouble developed in Den
$14 billio
— more
than the
cember when new car invenU.S. national debt at the end
tories began piling up to
of World War I—is still to
about twice the size they
be paid to finance companies
were a year ago despite the
and banks for previous purintroduction of the new
chases of cars and trucks.
models.
Many motorists can’t buy
As The United Automobile new cars until they pay for
Worker went to press, approx- their old ones.
imately 16,000 workers in
automobile plants had been PRICE RISE HURTS
While profit figures showed
laid off—many in Big Three.
There were indications of ad- that industry could easily absorb the steel price gouge and
ditional layoffs ahead.
Most were probationary em- the costs of the new contract,
ployes, but some seniority it still raised prices on all
models. The eagerness to get
workers are involved.
every possible dollar of profit
GROWTH TOO SLOW
out of each car sold also acThe outlook for the indus- counts for some of the drag
try backs up the views of on car sales.
eline in the economy
the last
who believe}
is not grow-|
economists
™m
that the economy
to
make
The
the
have
the
for
UAW
40,000
been
is solidly
IUE
members
on
strike
urer
Mazey,
automobile
Union
cal
industry
their
is one of the first to be affected by changing tides in
to
tion.
retraining
age,
and
services
as
from
to repair
federal
protection
recent
disaster
against
2)
and
other
flood dam-
insurance
future
disas-
ters oceurring before real flood con-
tro] plans can be translated into fact,
asin TVA.
© Industrial Health and Safety
Uniform
federal
industrial
health
and safety laws, codes and standards of enforcement to end bloody
interstate
competition
down such standards,
in
holding
Defeat in the Senate of the HarrisFulbright gas gonge bill (S. 1853),
which by killing FPC regulation of
natural gas producers’ prices, would
big
oil
in
a
and
$30
gas
billion
windfall
companies,
an
to
in-
crease in gas rates of $800 million a
year to be extracted from consumers
at from $40 to $55 a year, equivalent
to a wage eut of two to 234 cents an
hour,
with
| bers,
the
have
support
and
by
demonstrated
financial
con-
picket-line duty.
consumers.
RAY ROSS, director of
UAW Region 2A, was elect-
ed president of the
State CIO Council
month in Cleveland and
will begin merger talks
the Ohio AFL Council.
We
call
upon
open
and
are standing
secret
pressures
the
out against
of the oil
and gas lobby. We urge redoubled
efforts by consumer groups and others to persnade Senators either
wavering or presently in favor of
the bill to declare themselves against
it. If the bill passes, the American
a hot issue on the front burner
the 1956 campaign.
in
° Tax Reforms
Tax reforms to provide the budget
essential to a dynamic, prosperous
and expanding economy; to translate social legislation into social
services,
and
to insure
survival
Ohio
this
soon
with
Facing
American people to rally quickly to
the support of the Senators in both
parties who
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to non-members,
cents;
matter
Workers
Implement
under
monthly.
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$1.00.
Yearly
Entered
of August
Act
7, Ind.
of America,
subscription
at
affiliated
to
Indianapolis,
mem-
Ind.,
24, 1912, as a monthly.
International Executiye Board Members
and
victory in the global contest between democratic performance and
Communist promises, All of the fore-
going
whole
vilian
of the
power.
WILLIAM McAULAY
JOSEPH McCUSKER
GEORGE MERRELLI
KENNETH MORRIS
PATRICK O'MALLEY
KENNETH W. ROBINSON
RAY ROSS
NORMAN B. SEATON
ROBERT CARTER
ED COTE
MARTIN GERBER
CHARLES H. KERRIGAN
HARVEY KITZMAN
FRANK
WINN,
Editor
CHARLES BAKER, Managing Editor
PHOTOS—James Yardley
d
STAFF—Russell Smith, Jerry Dale, Robert Treuer, Jim Richar
American Newspaper Guild, AFL-ClO
Members:
84th Congress
program
essential to
against the
catastrophic
American
is an interrelated
the survival of cithreat and danger
misuse of nuclear
citizens have
to af-
ford survival. We have no choice.
We can, and we must, close tax
loopholes through which $8 billion
of taxes due from high income
families and corporations are lost
to federal revenue every year. We
can reduce taxes on low and middle income families in order to increase purchasing power, restore
the ability-to-pay principle to the
federal tax structure, and still
maintain federal revenues at the
high levels required to meet our
national and international obligations and to raise the living standards of our people.
By generating the full productive
power
LETNER
RUSSELL
BALLARD
RAY BERNDT
GEORGE BURT
CHARLES BIOLETTI
Neither the Democratic nor Republican Party leadership is protecting the consumer in this fight.
We oppose this indefensible raid
upon
the
and
CHARLES
that
Westinghouse
E. Washington
EMIL MAZEY
WALTER P. REUTHER
Seeretary-Treasurer
President
RICHARD GOSSER, PATRICK GREATHOUSE
NORMAN MATTHEWS, LEONARD WOODCOCK
Vice-Presidents
against
reports
Office: 8000 E. Jefferson Ave., Detroit 14, Mich.
Send undeliverable copies to
RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED
Office: 2457 E. Washington St., Indianapolis 7, Indiana
PUBLICATION, International Union, United Automobile,
as second-class
consumer must make higher gas bills
* Stop Gas Gouge
result
Aircraft
Stand on Vital Issues
page
payments
unions
tributions
|
Board Takes
(Continued
Circulation
OFFICIAL
who
over $270,000 already has been
donated
by the International
in the U. S.}
Publication
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
2457
secretary-treas-
of the UAW,
UNITED
CIO
behind
work force and for persons| strikers and $50,000 a week
displaced from their old jobs | has been pledged every week
until the strike is settled.
by technological progress,
|
In addition, many UAW loThe
Ohio
Westinghouse Corporation
over three months.
Emil
enough jobs |
for new members
Heads
Support for IUE
ing fast enough to keep pace|
with the nation’s expanding |
population. While the dollar}
total of national goods and
services for ’56 likely will exeeced that of 55, the economy|
will not be growing fast}
enough
THE SOCIAL JUSTICE AWARD of the National Religion and Labor Foundation is presented to AFL- CIO President George Meany (center) and UAW President Walter P. Reuther, ri ght, by Rabbi Isidor B. Hoffman of Columbia University,
the Foundation’s co-chairman. The joint presentation in New York City was for
Reuther’s and Meany’s work on behalf of labor unity and civil liberties. More than
a thousand labor and chur rch leaders attended the presentation banquet.
of which
our country
is capa-
ble, we can do all these things and
pay the cost. The cost will be far
less than the cost of World War II.
It would be infinitesimal as compared
to the cost of World War III. To
the banker minds who would bal-
This Session
the
we
ance the budget at
national security,
warning
Bowles,
India:
given
former
recently
by
Chester
U. S. ambassador
“Let it not be said
historians that in the
ade after World War
throughout the world
balanced budget.”’
x
expense of
repeat the
kK
to
by future
second decII freedom
died of a
ek
We pledge our full support and cooperation to those forces in both the
Republican and Democratic Parties
who will work and vote for the en- |
actment of a constructive and practical program; to build more strongly our nation’s defenses; to strengthen
the free world in its positive effort
to resist and defeat the ugly forces of
world communism; to translate the
economic abundance made possible by
developing science and technology
into higher living standards and
greater economic security and human
happiness for all the American people.
UNITED
1956
January,
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
Executive Board Names Greathouse
To Succeed Jack Livingston as Veep
Pat Greathouse, director of UAW Region 4,
was elected a UAW International vice-president
this month to fill the vacancy created by John W.
i
Livingston’s resignation.
Livingston resigned to accept the post of director of organization of the AFL-CIO.
As provided in the UAW International Constitution, the
vacancy was filled by the International Executive Board.
The Board's choice of Greathouse was unanimous,
The Board also authorized the ealling of a special regional convention for Region 4 to be held in Chicago, March
16, to elect a new regional director to fill the vacancy creIn
ated by Greathouse’s elevation to the vice-presidency.
the meantime, Greathouse will serve as acting regional
director, as well as International vice-president.
STARTED IN FORD
Region 4, with headquarters in Chicago, includes the
states of Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska,
==, ee
The new UAW. vice:presi-*
dent, who is 40 years old, is nity Center, a UAW-CIOa descendant of a southern Ilowned camp at Ottawa, Ilinois pioneer farm family. He
linois,
where
summer
in search
to Chicago
came
of
work during the great depression.
He went to work in the
Ford assembly plant in
1935,
January,
where
a charter member
schools, worker education
classes and union institutes
are held the year around.
He is one of the leaders of
he is
ce
a eer
They ‘Merged,’ Too
BALTIMORE, Maryland — In
keeping with the spirit of unity
in ’55 in the labor movement,
Steward William B. Holtz and
Stewardess
members
Glenn
L.
Phyllis
of UAW
al director.
and officials in attendance,
the UAW’s
community
services program,
Greathouse is vice-president of the Illinois State CIO
Council;
advisory
Illinois;
formerly —and
Department,
Massey-Harris
Council, Deere & Company
Council and the J. I. Case
Council and Department,
As UAW vice-president,
he
will make his home in Detroit.
pp
.
er
en
aa
“Jake”
{|
treasurer
#|
Council
of
Ohio
Clayman,
the
for
a
accepted
ing
of
the
Workers.
been
a
at
(PAI)
State
number
a
— Ja-
secretary-
Ohio
years,
on
the
who
has
Amalgamated
Clayman,
the
CIO
of
position
practicing
located
lawyer,
ACWA
Cloth-
will
be
headquar-
ters in New York. In Ohio, Clay| man
was one of the state’s outstanding legislative leaders.
|
Working
Wives Increase
WASHINGTON.
(PAI) —The
Census
Bureau
reports that the
| number
of
working
wives
reached
}a new high during 1955 with 11,800,000 on payrolls.
This was an
increase
é
qt
region-
=
LE
mani
seine
id
to ‘Soothe Anguisl’
shift at GM's South Gate plant, left
last summer,
Barbara,
COLUMBUS,
staff
lieved to be unique in labor relations,
Johnson, employed on the swing
evening
a
Ss
~71| Clayman Takes ACW Job
has
California, filed the suit, charging
GM with invading his privacy and
temporarily disrupting his happy
marriage,
The legal action is be-
his wife,
JACK LIVINGSTON and his wife, Ruby, pose with
the silver service presented to them by the officers
of the UAW at a dinner honoring the veteran UAW
officer who resigned as vice-president to become Director of Organization for the AFL-CIO.
1\|cob
Johnny Johnson, a member of
Amalgamated Local 216, South Gate,
leaving
now
| |
LOS ANGELES—The giant General Motors Corporation has come
between a UAW
member and his
wife, and, as a result, is now faced
with a $3,000 damage suit.
one
of}
again—director of the UAWCIO’s Agricultural Implement
Vlei a
at home.
Later that night, a private ‘‘eye’’
hired by GM to check on absentees
showed up at the Johnson home and
asked Barbara where Johnny was.
Even as you and I, Johnny was
in trouble. The private detective's
question resulted in a marital quarrel, during which Barbara accused
her husband of ‘‘fooling around’’
and tearfully then and there left his
bed and board,
Further investigation showed that
Johnny had been at work that night
all along,
but
that somebody
.
tk IE
¥
stn ba
.
ae
| vious
year.
600,000
over
Meanwhile,
| ber of single women
force
rey al {|ing
OBES
SRT
of
dropped
the
year
the
the
pre-
num-
in the labor
some
300,000
dur-
to 5,100,000.
ror John W. Livingston
UAW officers gathered to pay tribute to
Jack Livingston. Left to right, above, Leon-
Sues GM
work
member
the Institute of Industrial Relations at the University of
HELPED END FE
Militantly anti-Communist,
ard Woodcock and Richard Gosser, vicehe has helped tens of thouWalter
President
Livingston,
sands of workers switch from presidents;
Matthews,
Norm
Vice-President
the Communist-dominated Reuther,
Farm Equipment Workers to and Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey. At the
the demoeratie UAW-CIO.
right is a reproduction of a special resoluIn the summer of 1953 the
tion commending Livingston. It was unanifour big remaining FE locals
started the swing to UAW, mously adopted by the International Execuwhich left FE as only a skele- tive Board in New York after Livingston
had submitted his resignation to the UAW
ton union.
in order to take his new post in the AILGreathouse established
cio.
the 14-acre Ottawa Commu-
for
have
and com-
him
4 elected
here,
738 at
They were married recently
with many Local 738 members
mitteeman of UAW Local
551. Laid off in 1942 because of the war-caused cessation of automobile production, he hired in at the
Press Steel Car Company’s
Plant. Three
Hegewisch
months later he was fired
for union activity. He was
later reinstated with full
back pay on order of the
National Labor Relations
In January, 1943,
Board.
he brought Local 166 into
the UAW-CIO by a 70 per
cent NLRB vote.
The following month he was
appointed as a UAW-CIO International Representative,
and in 1947, delegates from
Region
Local
Martin
“merged.”
Anderson,
e
Whereas
Vice President Joho W. Livingston
has given generously of bis time, his energy, his
devotion and his wisdom to the develupment of the
UAW-CLO International Union.
From the beginning, he has been active in the leadership
of the Union.
He has served with distinction as a Local
Union officer, International Representative, Interna
tional Executive Board Member, Vice President, and
as Director of major departments in the UAW-CLO,
During those long. desperate hours of the carly days,
when the very existence of our Union was so often
threatened,
he
was
always
steadfast
and
courageous,
His untiring efforts have helped bring to fruition
programs which have set the standard of wages and
working conditions wherever people labor in America.
His contributions to the welfare of working people
all over America include serving as a meinber of tho
Wage Stabilization Board during the resistance to the
Communist invasion of South Korea,
Whereas
Vice President John-W. Livingston
has devoted his entire life to the trade union movement.
He has responded vigorously to every
every
call to duty,
Because
of his outsta:
challenge and
ing qualifie
cations for the post he has been
nimously chosen
Director of Organization for the newly merged Amer
UNANIMOUSLY
meeting in New
ican Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial
Organizations. This choice gives real substance to
our determination that labor unity shall result in the
launching of an organizational crusade which will bring —
into the ranks of organized labor millions of American
workers who still are denied the benefits and protestion
of
being
a part
of the
trade
union
movement,
No firmly established union could, in good conscience,
ignore the opportunity of surrendering one of its
leaders to such a vital and important post.
Therefore
pride
and
CIO
most
International Union give
tned and trusted leaders
federation,
ization for
We regret
member of
regret
be it resolved
the
Executive
Board
tc
of
that with
the
of the
he new
UAW-
Union's
merged
We are proud that the irector of Organthe AFL-CIO comes from our ranks.
losing the services of this highly-respected
the leadership team of our Union,
We salute him for his tremendous contributions
to the
Union. We congratulate him on his new position. We ex«
tend to him our continued admiration and (ricadship,
His is a high challenge and a great responsibility,
On behalf of one and « hall million members of the
UAW-CLIO
Laternational
Uniow
we pledge our full
cooperation to him in this tremendous endeavor,
ADOPTE SD. by the faternational Executive Board
York City oa T
uesday, Decomber 6, 1955.
at the
plant had ‘‘goofed."’
Johnny and Barbara are back together again, but for that terrible
period before things got straightened
out, Johnny is now suing GM for
$3,000, which, he says, is the price
of his anguish,
2,
ete
Mead
Mormon Beam
—
Page
6
January,
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
1956
The Great Gas Gouge Bill Nears Senate Showdown
SCHEDULED
DEBATE
Douglas
industry,
Debate on the Harris-Fulbright Bill was scheduled to start in the Senate just after this issue of
The United Automobile Worker went to press. The
oil and gas interests have assembled one of the
most powerful lobbies in modern times to drive
the measure through.
The best chance to defeat the measure
appears to be by rallying enough consumer
pressure to offset the oil and gas lobby. Voters are urged to send letters or post cards
to both senators from their states immediately.
a
"Once
in appliances,
is
asserts that control of the natural gas
which
has
grown
Alexander
surprisingly
Rayburn
House
to
Wiley
the
sixth
largest
good
stand
on
the
in
to protect
(R., Wisc.),
(in
this
fight),"’
he
has taken
Bill.
"This
bill
added.
(D.,
Texas},
got
the
by a six-vyote margin
bill
through
the
last year. Senate
jority leader Lyndon Johnson
subtle. Instead
of lowering
(D.,
the
Texas),
boom,
ma-
is more
he an-
nounced he will not ‘'subvert'' the will of a senate
committee by bottling up the Bill.
Consumer awareness of what is going on should
be the best answer to leaders in both parties—
the pipelines and the gas mains are laid
and the consumers have invested
customers
The top GOP leadership has long been close
to the oil and gas industry, viewed by some as
a gusher of campaign contributions. Speaker Sam
levels.
distribution
or
Senator
honor
“Competition cannot be relied on to protect the
consumer against exorbitant prices for natural
gas. The industry is not really competitive at the
transmission
captive
roots of America will suffice to defeat this
legislation," Wiley said. “Neither of the
major political parties has covered itself with
Senator Paul Douglas (D., Ill.), one of the leaders in the fight to protect the consumer, explains,
production,
with
can have disastrous consequences on our economy
by skyrocketing inflationary pressures," he said
this month.
“lL want to emphasize that nothing short
of an avalanche reaction from the grass
INDUSTRY
LARGEST
SIXTH
monopoly
:
the nation, clearly must be maintained
the public interest.
NEITHER PARTY BLAMELESS
“Neither the Democratic nor the Republican
Party leadership is protecting the consumer in
this fight,"" the Board charged. "We call upon the
American people to rally quickly to the support
of the senators in both parties who are standing
out against the open and secret pressures of the
oil and gas lobby.”
While more Democrats than Republicans
appear certain to vote AGAINST the HarrisFulbright Bill, the. most liberal senators in
both parties are having difficulty lining up
enough men to vote their convictions.
It is an $800 million pocketpicking operation
which would take the money out of consumers’
purses and put in hands of a few multi-million
dollar oil and gas goliaths. The Harris-Fulbright
Bill would do this by removing federal controls
over rates charged for natural gas.
GAS
natural gas
created."
A two-cent post card sent now might save
consumers a gas gouge which would cost them
more than two cents an hour—for life.
In its statement, the UAW Executive Board said
passage of the Bill would result in a $30 billion
windfall for the oil and gas giants.
The UAW International Executive Board
this month called for prompt action fo prevent the "Great Gas Gouge™ now before
the U. S. Senate.
The “Gouge"—the Harris-Fulbright Bill
—would cost consumers heating and cooking with gas between $40 and $55 a year.
That is the same as taking a pay cut of
from two to 23% cents an hour.
a
in this election year.
GM of Canada Strike
Passes 115-Day Mark
At Auto
Worker presstime, first cracks were
beginning to show in the cold front General Motors of Can- |
ada had put up against its 17,000 striking workers. There
was no way yet of knowing just how big the cracks would
get and how fast they would develop.
TORONTO
©
But by mid-January, GM
appeared to be convinced that that GM meets the highest rate
there was no breaking its of its Canadian competitors in
workers.
It had
115
days
very
first
came
a mind
to
awakening.
not
was
There
the
For
change
enough
It was going
be too obvious.
salvage everything it could.
Veteran union observers were
to
beginning
the Ford
with
ed
January
ers
were
and
GM's
beginning
denial
that
to
they
mined
getting
by
the
pay
Company
out so long.
Likely
Company
sweetening
ties”
up a
being
$32.96
pot.
total
first
was
of
day
to
keeping
key
move
expected
the
“wage
to
asked
for an
date,
but
such
even
rates
those
most
competitors
high
the
flat
workers
was
rates
workers
GM
nearly
met
boost.
a
needed
BEHIND
against
under
GM’s
sweepers
at
would be getting
six cents an hour
the
a}
inequi-
already
had
GM
of $485 an hour,
as
straight-time
by
FAR
Even
them
be
for
rate
ferential
the
of
competitors;
their
were
In the skilled trades, there was
as much as 32 cents an hour dif-
deter-
for
as
GM
were
make
about
GM’s
holler,
more
there
whose
hollering began to sound as unconvincing as Ford's had. Picket
morale was getting higher with
workers
workers
Thus,
Deal-
year.
last
on “group inof production
ment
strike which end-
28
final as-
not. One of the demands of the
to} strikers called for elimination of
to “group incentive” and its replace-
similarities
notice
Oshawa
sembly plant being
centive,” earnings
hourly
course.
of
cosy,
in
table
classification.
Its 10,000-man
cause
the negotiating
to negotiate.
it
each
nearly
bargainers
their
time,
played
GM
to
strike
of
sad
GM’s
taken
put
was
additional|
to do the job of assuring|
sweepers,
less than
Part
GM
best
several
the
dilemma
GM was the 15 cents
demand of its workers
problem
inequities
In
straightened out.
of
George
Burt,
to
offer
plants
from three to
less than Ford
a still further
Chrysler.
of
workers.
six
cents
facing
an hour
once the
been
had
the words
Canadian
di-
Benefits
As the GM
which
started
Boosted
of Canada
strike,
September
19,
1955, went into January, Emil
Mazey, secretary-treasurer
of
the UAW, announced an increase in strike assistance to
Canadian
General
Motors
workers of $5.00
eligible striker.
a
ternational
made
Mazey
reported
donations
General
ada,
1955,
to
Union
the
Motors
week
that
per
the
In-
strike
five
striking
Locals
in Can-
through
December
of $2,075,696.75.
rector
General
of UAW,
Motors
“We
are
31,
asking
to first meet
| ff
its
competitors
and
then
step
ahead a little for a change.”
GAW
IS
The
AGREED
five cents an
Guaranteed
Annual
same as had been
hour
for
the} '
Wage,
won in
the
the
United States, was already agreed
to with
experts
from
both
the
Union
ing out
and
the Company
a couple
One
worry
da's
Unemployment
could
be
Act.
All
was
of minor
whether
integrated
signs
with
winters
ators
from
would
agree
boasted
be four
in
indicated
years,
Detroit
earlier that
feet of snow”
to
this
or
clauses.
the
plan
Cana-
Insurance
could.
In one of the “hardest”
an
still iron-
GM
that
it
Canadi-
negoti-
who
had
“there
before
will
they
that
item,
were able to look out their hotel
windows and watch the stuff piling
At
was
up
outside.
Auto
piling
Worker
real
presstime,
it
good.
|
os ee
os
THE LONG STRIKE by General Motors of Canada workers didn’t interfere with the Christmas celebration for the Tony Medati’s and son, Tony, 3, in
Oshawa, Ontario. The whole family shared in this
shipbuilding project by Brother Medati, a material
handler, and the U. S. Constitution sailed just fine
under the Christmas tree.
Ford, GM Office Workers
Top UAW Organizing Goal
FORT
General
|President
WAYNE,
Motors
are
Norman
key organizing
Facts to Blossom Along Potomac
seventh InternaIn a dramatic election year,will UAW’s
in
this spring
be held
tional Education Conference
Washington, D. C., Brendan Sexton, the Union’s educa-
Third Annual Office Workers’ Conference at the Van Orman Hotel
here last month,
“We hay
a nucleus of 7,000
office workers in Chrysler,” Matthews said, “and Ford and Gen-
|
|
eral Motors office workers are no
different
from those in Chrysler
tion director, has announced.
Set for April 21-24, the Conference program will include
important meetings between delegates and senators and
congressmen, Sexton said.
Approximately 3,500 delegates representing UAW local unions throughout the U. S. and Canada are expected
A detaile d call to the Conference soon
to attend, he said.
will be sent to each local, Sexton added.
Achievements of the Union’s Education Conferences
have been spotlighted by the New York Times which has
COPYRIGHT 1956 CARTOONS-OF THE MONTH
“After 15 years Parker finally came in late!”
described them
education.’’
as a ‘‘landmark
in the’ history
of adult
UAW’s
the
to
delegates
told
Matthews
Vice-
UAW,
for the
goals
and
Ford
at
workers
Indiana—Office
| well as
j workers
the other white
in the industries
within
come
|
bargaining
gains
ers
recent
in
the
collar
which
jurisdiction.”
our
reports
Detailed
|
as
—
them
organize
to
intend
We
son,
International
and
local
on
for
collective
work-
office
Chrysler,
Hud-
Harvester
and
who
had
Packard negotiations were heard
from international representatives
union
participated
in
officials
the
negotiations.
°
The best way to know what the 84th Congress may and
:
Members
W
UA
ll
A
To
|
Page
Supplement
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
1956
January,
may not want to do in 1956 is to know what its members
did, and did not do, in 1955. Equipped with this knowl-
The income, security and welfare of every UAW mem-_
edge, UAW
ber, the survival of our Union as a free and effective force
members, their families and their local unions
can act more intelligently and effectively in 1956 to
enactment of good laws and defeat bad
I. eee
in our democracy and the best interests of our nation require more, not less, legislative and political action in
1956. This in turn requires knowledge of facts and understanding of issues.
I urge all local union officers and UAW members to
equip themselves for full use of their rights of citizenship
by becoming familiar with the record of the First Session
of the 84th Congress and the worksheet for the Second
Session which is just getting underway.
aws, and
2. help re-elect good members of Congress and defeat
Badimembers
(ste
84th Congress
Did Poor Job
In 1st Session
As the 1955 Box Score, 1956 Worksheet and
Voting Record show, the nominally Democratic
84th Congress was short on performance, except
in foreign affairs and national defense, during
its First Session,
No action was taken on the Taft-Hartley Act, lest
opening it for amendment might result in floor
amendments making a bad law worse. Because of
the spectacle of employers like Kohler defying the
principles of collective bargaining, Congressional
action to take the anti-labor fangs and poison out of
the Taft-Hartley Act becomes more imperative. If
the 84th Congress fails to do this in its Second Session, Taft-Hartley repeal or drastic amendment will
be a hot issue in the 1956 political campaign.
10-POINT
PROGRESS
The Worksheet for 1956
(84th Congress, Second Session)
To Be Reopened—1
Income
1956.
PROGRAM
NEEDED
«America
to the price investigation, Reuther
In addition
federal
pansion
benefits,
working
highway
(8) tax
ment
FEPC
tion.
collective
of
encouragement
YW
a
3
eH
Yio
ey
}
Won—10
;
33% Increase
Ae Fae
cents
| 1956,
fy
8%
|
to $1
an
in Mini
: sey
hour),
Pay Increase
starting
Ww
ministration
guarantees
likely
age
March
starting
1,
for Postal Workers,
1, 1955.
March
T'/% Pay Increase for Other U. 8S.
Fr
aro
arting March
1, 1955.
a Workers, starting
50% Pay Increase for Senators and
a
| Representatives,
|
’ _|
i
¥
$30,000,000
starting
for Salk
March
Polio
1, 1955.
Shots
Mothers.
Children and Expectant
:
for
Increase in Public Power and Flood
Control Projects,
45,000 Low Cost Public Housing Units,
mn
dete LA a
away
Program,
and
the
Eisenhower
Dixon-Yates
and
for Alaska
,
many
measures.
balanced
tax cuts.
tn
Bion
Cut,
|
to
for Economic
in—
by
the
anti-civil
rights
more
in
the Senate. Besides the Senate filibus-
:
kept on
ice; see Worksheet for 1956, above.)
lf
power need-
B ||
@ Federal aid for schools, housing
and roads.
benefits
Security
Social Security
e@ Better
benefits,
etter Social
® More effective farm price supports and/or other means of
boosting farm income.
For many progressive measures,
They want & | liberals will need the votes of Sen
ators and Congressmen who opposed
budget with
But
they
don’t
5
them
dnethe’
Kirst
home,’’
‘Session
of
Con:
Cale hea sa ntian Te
STI
FIT
re
the $10
close loguboles
gress, With all Congress partic wartax
* | ly sensitive to the reactions of the
Beek
want
public
to mMmerease |
‘‘folks
back
veloped
aid
to
underde-
Nea
SAGA GRR TERE ATA
countries even | 46 reached
pressure
at the
Senate
They
or
aan
the
on
inio theal longi run | Fouse Office Buildings,
though
snington,
gS, Washingt
?
ec
aid will do
— | °°®nO™'
more than guns to turn
—
have a chance to get:
aan hal pesure the action you want
pact paneeraree to
need,
| and
a
.
>
noiseted Hai ceil ation
syiatbierus drivel
.
The price
perialism
to Sar Senawould be decreased eco- | voy want Paani
nomic
Hawaii.
vital issues were
to
want
:
|
‘They
Strengthening of Reciprocal Trade.
(But
too little
seem
ed for lasting prosperity.
Congress, the Eisenhower Cabinet and someY
not all — leaders in
are displayboth parties
ing election-year cravings for shoddy half-
Give-
Majority Rule in the House and Sen-
ate,
Congress
purchasing
Cancella-
Lost—4
$20-Per-Person Income Tax
have started January 1, 1956.
Statehood
84th
to be too late with
f
i
p
j
tion, ete.
Repudiation of Nixonism,
;
cial United Nations Fund
Development (SUNFED).
© Providing both the economic and military | ter threat, the measure must get past
strength the free world needs for a lasting peace. | the House Rules Committee beartrap.
Liberals in Congress think they
e Assuring the mass
eee
of the
Ce
Slowdown
Reversal of U. S. Opposition to Spe-
Unless the American people insist on | tion is possible. It’s likely to be a gesNovae
Eisenhower Ad- aa eet Ss eeg yore
the
1956,
in
n
actio
bold
Sons
efea
<
Are
ds, A
yp
GON *
4
ae aie) Session,
:
Wide
f
fe,
,
:
Continued Economic and Military Aid
16
(75
Jmmigration Act.
and other Civil Rights Legisla-
ee) eel ee
p
of the McCarran-Walter
Amendment
Bold Action by Congress Unlikely
Unless Informed Public Demands It
of a
of civil rights and civil liberties, and (10) an international program to fight poverty and hunger.
4
Crt
“i
Shelf of Ready Public Works Projects.
Election Year Outlook:
recommended
bargaining,
of Unemployment
of the 1954 Atomic Energy
Go
Farm Price Supports at 90 per cent of
legislation for (1) housing (2) aid to schools, (3) exof health facilities, (4) increases in Social Security
(5) $1.25 minimum wage, (6) a farm program to give
farmers full equity with other economic groups, (7)
construction, flood control and resources development,
relief for middle and low-income families, (9) improyve-
and
Codes.
High Power Dam at Hell’s Canyon.
Parity.
Standards
Compensation Payments.
Health Insurance and Medical Care.
Uniform Industrial Health and Safety
ane ee Women pee a
at nee
needs to take firm action now to get to the bottom
ground
aceFederal
Social Security Payments to Disabled
NOW
of any price gouging which could be the breeding
new inflationary spiral,’’ Reuther added.
Still Pending—7
The Big Gas Steal (a 2 to 234 cents an
hour wage cut for gas consumers).
School Construction.
Highway Construction.
Congressional output was so inadequate that UAW President Walter P. Reuther urged a 1956 10-point ‘‘bold, courageous, realistis program to meet America’s many pressing
problems, to achieve full production and full employment making the good things of life for people in peace time.
“‘When advancing technology and greater productivity
should be matched by lower prices and greater purchasing
power, they are being matched instead by higher prices
and higher profits,’’ he said.
Reuther again emphasized the UAW International Executive
Board’s July 7 demand for a Congressional investigation of the
inerease in steel prices and increases in 1956 automobile prices.
ACTION
Revision of the Taft-Hartley Act.
Restoration of the Public Contracts
1,
Cut, starting January
Tax
Ducked, Stalled or Frozen—9
back
the Communist
for power.
Some civil rights
|) G
he
bid | ters they
get
more postcards and letfrom liberals the more
likely they will be to support liberal
ac- | legislation.
UNITED
Page 2 Supplement
PEACE
Sometimes
Treaty.
to limit U. S. defense
But floor debate over Lehman amendment
commitments to the defense of Formosa itself, got President Eisenhower’s pledge that no action would be taken except upon his own personal
strengthened the President’s
Senate Minority Leader Knowland
by
mands
had
been
in
slow
and
732
per
and
to boost
While
operating
8
cent
per
March
i, 19:
March
1,
19;
pay
50
own
Walsh-Healey
Publie
ing
wage
Fulbright
Amendment
minimum
The
U.
S.
TAX CUTS
Tax
relief
Southern
1955
for
Democratic
Robertson)
ment
in
voted
Senators
with
by Johnson
individual
45
taxpayers
(George,
Byrd,
Republicans
(D., Tex.)
was
Holland,
against
to give each
killed
a
when
five
Ellender,
and
compromise
taxpayer
a $20 cut
amend-
for himself
and $10 for each dependent.
Under
viously
Speaker
adopted
1, 1956.
sponsible”
Sam
a
$20
Eisenhower
although
try for tax
cuts
Rayburn’s
per
leadership
person
tax
Administration
President
in 1956—an
cut,
to
be
leaders called
Eisenhower
election
the
House
effective
a tax
himself
had
had
pre-
January
cut
international
appropriations
Of course,
economic
aid,
situation
makes
promised
closing loopholes
and
increased
now
farm
military
revenue
voting
down,
World
War
tions to disapprove
during
rubber companies
legislation
283-132
could
be
56-31,
the
and
Senate
sale of 24 U. S.-owned
I,
the
and
House
Patman
top-ranking
Reed
raised
three large oil companies
Republican
(R.,
N.
dictionary,
simply
by
to
Morse
over
to
Resolu-
plants built
four
large
88 per cent of the butyl
that
spells
monopoly,”
said
An Early Victory
Was Washed Out
member
Y.),
and
turned
Early in the First Session, House Democrats
hower a smashing victory by winning a 206-199
Committee,
aid
for military and
synthetic rubber
RECIPROCAL TRADE
the
economic
This Vote Helped
Extend Monopoly
and
send
program back to Committee.
But three months later President
of the
renewal
67-21,
all
21
Douglas’
RIGHT
votes
being
cast
by
House
of
the
Ways
and
The
Labor
minimum
Democrats.
amendment
that
proposed
to
slapped
evade
the
down
away
was
a “bundles
federal
debt
limit
the
beaten
221-193.
oil,
the
Then
gasoline,
feated
292-123,
icderal
income
Bill
in
the
House
the
big
rejected
House
truck
leaving
Second
and
the
bill, which
tires,
the
Session,
same
and
decks
camel-back
clear
permitting
corporation
“bundles
carried
for
down
taxes based
for
by
for
bank
’ gimmick
to
recapping,
passage
be
met
float-
Senator Byrd
pay $1.55 for
stiff sales taxes on
House
costs
Labor
on
continues
public
contracts
enforcement
nominal
by
the
of prevail-
until
administration
of
lawyers drag a three-year-old precotton textile industry through the
wage
hearings.
turn, can
They may
be delayed
in
recently
the
finished
battery
Kennedy
hearings
industry
and
on
the
a
proposed
UAW-CIO,
eontract, participated in these
result in a year or two in a wage order, that, in
for as long as four years by employer lawsuits.
(D.,
Mass.)
and
others
have
introduced
and
in
1956
will press for hearings on a bill to restore the effectiveness of the Public
Contracts Act. by doing away with the Fulbright Amendment.
It would
make prevailing minimum
wage orders effective pending final court de-
termination.
In the absence
of effective
prevailing
minimum
wages
for work
under
public contracts, the federal requirement for competitive bidding for government work throws the advantage to sweatshop operators.
By operat-
ing
non-union
employers
plants
operating
in anti-labor
under
union
If the 84th Congress does not
Public Contracts Act, it is bound
1956 campaign.
locations,
they
contracts,
can
often
underbid
fair
of the
in the
act to restore the effectiveness
to be an important labor issue
These Workers Need Your Help
In the 1956 Labor Committee hearings and later floor debate
over bills to extend minimum wage protection to millions of
sweated workers and to raise the minimums in Puerto Rico, labor
and allied groups will be fought tooth and nail by a coalition of
lobbies representing sweatshop employers, notably southern sawmills and the lumber industry generally. The law as amended in
1949 exempts sawmills employing less than 12 and, in order to get
out from under the law, many operations have been broken up
into small units.
Employes in such operations stand in the most dire need of
the law’s protection. Similarly, employes in large plants competing with so-called ‘‘peckerwood’’ mills are hampered in collective bargaining by employer use of such sweatshop competition as an argument against higher wages. The same pattern
exists in other industries, including large retail establishments,
processing and packing of farm products, independent telephone
exchanges and maintenance services connected with production of
goods moving in interstate commerce.
“And now, to win the jac)
a private utilities tycoon?”
"
—
was
of the
out
on ability to pay,
Diesel
of
de-
Senate
general
The
Coalitions Kept
vic-
for bankers”
law
ing government
corporation bonds—$21
billion worth.
showed that the bond gimmick would make taxpayers
every $1 spent on building roads.
Later,
work
in 1952
trade
“Bundles for Bankers"
Finally Were Rejected
the Senate
for
which has several battery plants under
Foreign Aid Going
On
22 Democrats and 85
Hoffman’s (R., Mich.)
Technical
the
Assistance
Senate
eight
June
2, 32
Democrats
voted
Ellender
economie
(D.,
aid
erats and 113
licans to pass,
Senate
and
47 Republicans
nine
Fund.
The
vote
put
$8 million
and
a $6.5
Democrats
and
31
Republicans
to
back
a
$4
million;
compromise
Republicans
an
slap down
subse-
figure
voted
was
against
amendment
by
La.) to kill a President's special fund of $200 million for
for free nations in Asia; 28 days later 160 House Demo-
Republicans voted against 51 Democrats and 77 Repub273-128, a $2.7 billion Mutual Security authorization bill.
—ew
HOUSING
In
voted against
Republicans to defeat, 175-107, isolationist Clare
attempt to kill an $8 million contribution to the
signed into law April 22.
On
and
18, 128 House Democrats
March
quently,
a vote of 60-31
Department
prevailing
UN
By
postponed
repealed
Means
reciprocal
threw
amendments
ROADS
was
gave President Eisenyote, killing a motion
Eisenhower
fight to strike these
Act
is concerned, the
courts.
tory by agreeing to amendments exposing the Tariff Commission and
the President to pressure for tariff boosts if only one of many products
of a firm or industry is being hurt, despite profits-on other products.
Senator
of
to workers
KKK
in the tax law.
and copolymer capacity. “In my
Senator Morse during debate.
by
and
needed
RUBBER GIVEAWAY
By
Departnient
year.
billions of additional
welfare
orders
to
necessary.
$10
which
“irre-
In Second Session, starting January 3, 1956, Democrats and Republicans may compete for credit in making some tax cuts, unless worsen-
ing
Contracts
the law while Department of Justice
vailing minimum wage order for the
Senator
Dems and GOP Both
Talk Cuts for 1956
protection
after final court approval.
in-
the
for others,
a year;
As far as giving real
pay.
severance
be considered
erease may
$22,500
worth
are
Sweatshop Employers Get Edge
In Bidding for U. S. Contracts
good Sen-
the 50 per cent increase because
favored
UAW
bill
the
before
day
the
1, 1955,
March
effective
cent,
per
their
increase
to
speed
supersonic
with
cent, starting
by 33 per
wage
to
retroactive
U. S. workers
minimum
the
workers
postal
for
pay
increase
for other
moved
members
Good Representatives
Worth Pay Increase
to
motion
cent
Representatives
and
ators
5,
law.
became
its purpose
la
CONGRESSIONAL PAY
by
it.
FOR
Senators |
kk
Mur-
Kilgore.
o:
tote
(
Complete |
Your
of
Lehman
and
but
amendment,
the
killed
13
to
of 74
vote
bipartisan
A
mainland.
Mansfield,
paired
was
wounds,
war
ill of
though
Mass.),
(D.,
Kennedy
possible
the
Kefauver,
Byrd,
Neuberger,
Morse,
Langer,
Lehman,
ray,
de-
FOR
Humphrey,
McNamara,
Long,
Fulbright,
amendment,
for all-out
Chinese
voted
Republican
one
and
Democrats
Twelve
de-
involving
Quemoy,
on the nearby
weapons
atomic
with
war”
“preventive
and
Matsu
of
islands
inshore
the
of
fense
others
and
aside
setting
in
hand
debate
The
tension.
world
eased
Eisenhower
President
by
pledge
This
approval.
1956
Performance
The
of
Assistance
Mutual
Nationalist
S-Chinese
U.
to
pursu
Formosa,
“blank
defense
the
in
enhower
President
supporting
Lose
a
January,
on
Win
You
of
adoption
was
Congress
S4th
the
in
act
resolution
check”
You
Even When
Senate
First
WORKER
Report
Capsule
A
AUTOMOBILE
hard-fought
Only a Skeleton
Program
battle
lasting
until
four
days
before
the 84th Congress saved a skeleton 45,000-unit public
despite Republican attempts to gut or kill it outright.
Survived
adjournment,
housing
program,
Senate
135,000
bill's
man
Wolcott
the
defeated,
44-38,
municipal hop?
guaranteed nj)
of the tay
conferees forced acceptance
>:
puluy
killing
amendment
i
to @
a year
units
college, farm, GIs and
a new $6 billion FHA
Cape)
9)
>:
DEFENSE GIVEAWAY’:
By
48-33
force
a vote
of 202-184
the House
COM.
killed a U. S, Chamber
the
tuy?
Department
Defense
¢)
traditionally done by Defense Depar§
Congress finally required 90 daysy®
and transfer of work; in signing thi
defied Congress on this requirement}/tr
%
x
But the Comptroller General uphiiu
Wilson
mittee
Boston
gave
may
Rope
in—until
put
him
Walk
January,
over
and
the
whiw
barrey™s
45 other
play'y
a
UNITED
January, 1956
84th
‘
AUTOMOBILE
Congress
in
WORKER
Supplement
its
First
Woting
sand
Record
ballot
elections
in
during
licans
voted
and
Chairman
United
10-year
In
Worker,
Washington
Office,
734 Fifteenth
Street,
Washington
5, D. C.
in
1956,
disastrous floods in the Northeast
focused
attention
on
be
others
for
D.C. HOME RULE
from
own
4
Wilson
May
U.
Do
"Boston Rope Walk’
4
hed and the Senate by a vote
ce-Hoover Commission drive
(eiver
to
private
Mit civilian
employes.
itice of such
joey
bill,
contractors
proposed
President
hess ordered
by the
of
ta
work
shutdown
Eisenhower
Courts,
© @ongress and Defense Seeretary
the House Appropriations Com-
stout
;
proposals
to shut
down
the
S.
third-class
mayor,
House
city
of
to
in
In
hours
Congress
before
had
repealed
adjournment
in
(1)
pleaded
national
GIs’
statu-
from
for
pay-
adoption
59-15
for
second-class
council,
the
bill
Representatives.
the
to raise
citizenship
board
But
and
the
Washington,
by
letting
non-voting
lop-sided
“WOC's”
attempt
compensation")
agencies
while
and
send
and
by
department
a comprehensive
on
WRONG,
will
enactment,
wearing
in
this
out
and
statement
FEPC
forces
to final
and
while
agency
only
urge
civil
Congress
if necessary
year.
so,
the political weight
to
House
185
halt
were
and
by
discharge
177
12 Democrats
Democrats
Bank’s
to
the
substance
of
elect
delegates
Senate
voted
against
Success
to
the
49-29
28
vote
means
to
making
staying
prevent
WOCs
or law
of
the
(37
the
voted
Federal
Republicans
Democrats
and
firms servicing
drive
compromise
1956,
one
and
and
“bundles
of
hinged
to
one
investigate
Market
Com-
12 Democrats
of farm
price
minimum
wage
90°
the
date
enough
supports
minimum
of
$1
non-farm
an
at 90 per cent
bill was
was
supplied
on
have
then
On
May
dropped
supplied
this
for
the
$1
by
passed
hour,
pivotal
city
from
votes
vote
185
the
for
from
effective
in
the
of parity.
vote
in the
farm
cents
March
for
Senate
and
a trick
amendment
of
basic
90
per
farm
cent
farm
and
21
that
commodities.
price
Republicans
support
voted
the
wage
final
bill.
House
vote
for
the
$1
minimum
wage
was
bipartisan bandwagon total of 362-54, 54 Representatives voted age
passage, 24 of them doing so after they had voted themselves a 50
little,
pay
(business
policy in defense moon company
payrolls.
increase
to
$22,500
a
year
($11.25
an
hour).
GAS GOUGE
If in
1,
House
districts.
list
Democrats
75
defeated by a margin of
House.
The margin for
defeated
the
Passed
29 Democrats
and
172
Republicans
voted WRONG,
the
a margin of five the same as the later margin of victory
minimum
Although
Democrats
peanuts
70
from
Wage,
Parity
wage
support
by a voice
representatives
5, city
RIGHT)
the Securities and Ex
all drawn from inyest-
Minimum
and
getting
voting
voting
same.
increase
amount
upon
RIGHT,
while
bill passing by
the
29
against
to
Open
Republican
Eisenhower 90-cent-an-hour substitute was
votes in an unrecorded
teller
yote in the
bill.
their
to
and
Morse
desertion
proposal
PRICE SUPPORTS
They
D. C., residents
them
the
Democrats
Patman’s
associate,
Some
Bankers
Lehman,
in the Senate.
29
kill
peti-
Senate.
Administration’s
because
and
bills
of the pro-civil rights
and
Eisenhower
Republicans
legis-
push
With
(Tex.)
defeated,
the
SEC Is Packed
Patman
the
rights
to
in the
If
spokesmen
summarizing
other
filibusters
election
Democrats
Heserve
banks
would
Liberals Couldn't
Legislate» Ethics
men
serving “without
bilization
government
105
income, jobs, taxes and profits.
Gas
by
a
per
Consumers
Would Be Clipped
1956
the
holdings
in
known
Johnson
gas
(D,,
reseryes
Tex.)
has
listed
Senate
passes
the
Harris-Fulbright
gas
gouge
bill
voted
by the House, 209.
five days before adjqirnment, gas consumers will
have their pockets picked of $800,000,000 a year in higher rates, equal to
a wage cut of 2 to 2% cents an hour. This would increase the value of
point
legislative
“program
with
by
some
Senate
$30
passage
a heart,”
billion.
of
the
SOCIAL SECURITY
By
in
to
rights
program
House,
Earlier,
of D. ©, Negroes,
46-45,
and
mittee, which controls a $24 billion kitty used for buying and selling
$10 billion “a year in bonds with pushbutton effects on business, farm
victory
persuade House leadership to bring the bill to the floor, by
petition if necessary.
Motive for blocking bill is to prevent even partial enf.
chisement
defeated,
RIGHT
run-around
Senate
Federal
live
Bid to Enfranchise
Citizens in D. of C.
school
for the amendment.
voted
presented
in the
Republican
the
can vote
discharge
were
24
liberal
the
Democrats
The
House District Committees, chaired by Southern Democrats, have killed
such bills before and will do so again in 1956—unless Americans who
Liberals
exemption
1942,
will depend upon
bankers”
cent
yoted
(2)
offered
by
enactment
Eisenhower Budget submitted January, 1955, requested $359
million,
Democratic Congress increased this to $385 million.
Senate
and
House
may
ment
quested.
The
elections
since
to permit the completion of the packing of
change Commission with five Commissioners
a
figure.
national
Houses
the
Efforts
k
Truman Budget submitted January, 1953, requested $534
million.
Eisenhower Budget, same month, reduced this to $374 million.
Republican Congress cut this to $340 million.
Eisenhower Budget submitted January, 1954 requested $332
million.
Republican Congress appropriated substantially what he re-
45,000-unit
in
pro-civil
both
WRONG
another easualty of the economy kings in this Administration.
Here is the Eisenhower score on federal funds for flood control
projects:
for the aged,
off a vote for
Senate-House
have
Congressional
Jation.
The Record on Flood Control
housing, housing
aid. By holding
‘egage gravy train,
GIs
BUNDLES FOR BANKERS
Automobile
xk
4's attempt to reduce the Spark10; the House voted 217-188 for
that
invitation
UAW
The
-s4
elections
Democrats
Celler’s
to testify.
Or Write:
chance
action in the First Session combined
step backward.
While urging states
abroad the same rights to vote by
local
15 Democrats
107
final passage
forces.
by any
and
Back
63 Republicans voted RIGHT and 113 WRONG.
When a House Judiciary Subcommittee held three days of hearings
on some 52 civil fights bills, the Eisenhower Administration boycotted
the hearings by refusing to comply with House Judiciary Committee
action
{, are you
Forward,
But a Step
wartime
with
Hawaii;
tions
The Nashville Tennessean
Gesture
and
and
The House repudiated both Democratic and Republican party platforms by voting 218-170 to kill a bill conferring Statehood on Alaska
through
taser
Democrats
Democrats
of the Hennings-Morse amendment preserving the 1942 GI rights, pointing out that
repeal would embarrass pro-civil rights Senators who,
listening to pleas for party unity, had been “considerate” in not pushing for civil rights legislation in 1955, only to find this backward step
in an otherwise toothless bill. But 32 Republicans ganged up with 24
Democrats to
kill the Hennings-Morse amendment; only seven Repub-
REPRESENTATIVE
Recent
state
tory right to vote
ment of poll tax.
Senate
liberals
UAW-PAC
NATIONAL
for it.
The only completed civil rights
a gesture forward with a definite
to give Gls and civilian employes
Is Available From:
TEGIONAL
Forty-four
joker; two
CIVIL RIGHTS
Congressman
|
WOCs as heads
of bureaus
said that
may advise full-time salaried employ-
es who
are their subordinates
on policy.
one Republican voted against the Capehart
voted
3
Session
Capehart’s amendment
legalizing
WOCs must not make policy but
44 Republicans
Page
requiring
House
Majority
gas
bill
Extended
Leader
in
his
18-
Benefits
Now Up to Senate
Members
to
vote
simultaneously
to suspend
the
rules and for passage of the bill, Democrats dragged Republicans “screaming and
kicking”
into voting with
them 872-81
to:
(1)
Make“ women
eligible for old-age benefits at age 62 instead of 65; (2) Provide benetits
for
(3)
(4)
disabled workers at age 50 instead of making them wait until 65;
Continue benefits for incapacitated dependent children past age 18;
Cover certain professionals, and (5) Advance the date of increase in
Social
Security
Bill Is now
tax
before
rate
to
finance
the Senate
the
new
benefits,
Finance Committee,
4
Page
1956
ee
January,
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
Supplement
Will Tax Load Be Divi ded Fairly? Congress Will Decide
New Federal Aid Can Halt
rkers E
ad to Wo
Shift ofN—TLo
ax, tax—who’s going to rey MOR
GTO
Benson Blames
Ten-Cent Hogs
On Labor Now
WASHIN
of the tax dollar? AND WHO is going to pay LE
These are the key issues behind nearly every neous
that will hit the two floors of C ongress this year.
Since 1940, a quiet shift of taxes from federal to state and
local communities has been goThe states have had to pick up
ing on. Why?
the tab for this $40 and for the
Well, for one thing, it’s one increased services demanded by
way of shifting the tax bur- the people. State expenditures
constant dollars)
den from high income individ-| per capita (in
$57.
income
income
stiffer rates in federal
taxes—to middle and low
people
nearly
taxes
every
—
spend a dime
even on food.
places
money
and
sales
those
and
Or by state and local
taxes that hit hardest at
least able to pay.
Since
the
their
cent
of
come
families
trend
year
Uncle
from
the hardest,
toward
less
more
and
Sam
pay
dollar
15-
culture
Year
for each
this
in
for
each
federal
taxes.
in federal
they
pay
from
state
costing
slice of
and
dollar
they
of
the
| whose
per
THIS
of
pay
taxes
for
in federal
tax
burden
incomes
to
are
the
are
below
COVERED
from
above
families
wage
dollar
still
state
At
the
cent
is
The
and
local
dollar
present
time,
being
share,
paid
then,
by
Commerce
and other
80 per} for high incomes.
about
the
states.
supplied
by the
dropped |
federal
vernment
has
from about 40
cent to about
20 per cent.
This fact has been hidden by
the big increase in the amount
of
money
Of
course,
the
past
spent
the
increase
wars
by
largest
goes
and
Uncle
to
pay
insuring
Sam.
part
of
costs
of
against
up
wars
during
—
the
military
++eRBtoce
taxes.
such
action,
charging
not
low
prices,
and
are
the
imple-
farm
for
were
and-cars
1955
wage
increases.
have
already
govgovypart
GIs who
those
$7,500
whose
larly
to
has
halt
such
occurred
violence
sons
as
in Mississippi,
the
race,
origin,
civil rights issue will be taken
into 1956 Congressional and Senate campaigns,
Over
the
Lehman
reports,
rights
rule
(D.-Lib.,
N.
supporters
passed
uary,
protests
of
Y.)
in
up the opportunity
by
1955,
doing
to
establish
away
with
@
Senator
Congress
in Jan-
majority
veto
democratic
and
them
kill
power
bills.
to
get
1.
In
the
2.
In
duwn
and
to
Now
action
the
Senate,
signatures
necessary
House,
on
it
is
hard
by
breaking
the
pigeon
torney
push
to
way:
getting
218
petitions
bills
past
The
Conference,
composed
of
52 national
labor, religious, civi
|
cluding
UAW,
|
to insist that Congress adopt at
this session a
il Rights program to end violence and guar-
and
fraternal
the
organizations
| vene in Washington
antee
the
|@
|
An
@ Make
tion,
plans
to
in-
con-
next March
rights of all Americans,
Heré
is the
work sheet:
effective
1956
federal
federal
housing,
funds
civil
rights
FEPC,
for educa-
and welfare
avail-
able
only
to those
programs
and projects that comply with}
Constitutional
regation
and
discrimination.
@
«
@
the
bipartisan anti-civil rights coalition in the Rules Committee,
bars against segother
forms
of
Make lynching and other assaults by public officials or private citizens, acting either in
concert or individually, on per-
out
to
with
a
Commission
on
Civil
Establish
Senate
atives.
and
prices
own land
others or
town.
BETTER
KNOW
and GOP
Chair-
to
compared
and $16.7 bil-
Benson
from
cut
90
to
know
farmers
But
1948.
in
lion
$11
than
less
income,
billion in 1955 as
$14.3 billion in 1952
prices
down
grains
wheat
of
national
with the
vote
in
authority
Federal
Rights
to
rule
travel.
in
the
and House of Represent-
from
from
from
in interstate
majority
themselves for
man Hall tried to peddle the lie
that the sliding scale program was
not yet in effect and therefore
was not to blame for falling farm
make continuous appraisals and
to recommend action with respect to civil rights problems.
Eliminate remaining segregation and other forms of dis-
crimination
@
permanent
including
price
82
per
90
to
cent
sup-
of
parity, milk and butter fat support
or
interference
register
or
in
At first Benson
ports
crime.
General,
@ Establish
filibusters;
by
a federal
mortgaged
jobs
that
because
religion
size.
families,
farm
FARMERS
to protect civil rights in all sections of the country.
wearing
discharge
to
up
hole
color,
hunt
@ Create a Civil Rights Division
within the Department of Justice, headed by an Assistant At-
power of the Senate filibuster and
the House Rules Committee's anti-
particu-
Wipe
right
property
average
“Bensonized” off their
to work the land of
primary or general federal elections, and abolish the poll tax.
civil
the
or
their
expecting
equipment
and
farms
price supfirm farm
continued
ports, have been among the first
W ASHINGTON—House Speaker Sam Rayburn
has put federal aid for school construction first on
the House list for 1956. The Eisenhower Administration has been forced by public demand to come round
to support of federal aid, but may try to tuck in
some “funny money” provisions for buying local
school bonds, etc. Bill must run gauntlet of Southern
opposition to requirement that aid be given in compliance with U. S. Supreme Court decision requiring
action to end segregation in public schools.
S
achieved
ily farmers off the land, shrinking the number of farms while
School Aid Up First in House
taxes.
“Mind if I tack up a few of these around the office?”
by
Young
each
The Atlanta Journal
farm
increasing
Liberal members of Congress in both parties are be-
Lacking
to
one Benson objective of driving
many so-called “marginal” fam-
“It breaks my heart to see those sad little tykes.”
and floor disTaking
into account
the
in- |recommendations
crease in prices and in population, |cussion to get final votes and enall other expenditures by the fed- actment of substantial civil rights
eral government
have dropped | legislation before adjournment for
the 1956 political conventions,
about $40 for each man, woman
and child in the country since 1940.
set
switched
falsely
trucks
pals
er”
Qt) wes wasnsres Fase eo
spokesmen
hearings,
to
New
Benson and his “master farm-
Civil Rights Defenders to Seek Action,
Not Just Words, From Congress in 1956
| Congressional
the
attempt
Benson
increases
| caused
expense,
war.
new
wages,”
falling
ments,
jing challenged by the Leadveterans’ benefits, international
jership Conference on Civil
military and economic aid, and
to go beyond mere
interest on the debt which piled| |Rights
new
“high
price
SHIFT
governments.
started
IT’S AN OLD REFRAIN
This is a re-play of Benson’s
September, 1955 false charge that
The shift has been covered up
of
the cost
by the cries of “creeping socialservices—exclusive of the costs of | ism” and “states’ rights” which
defending
the country—was
paid have come from the Chamber of
by
a
of Agri-
cause of falling farm income.
government
normal
Christmas,
Secretary
increases,
that
amount.
that
Benson
farmers.
under
shifting the cost of
from
the
federal
to the states shifts
year
incomes
_ enue.
local
to
trying to stir up farmer resentment against city workers’
1955
of
taxes.
in federal
for
fact,
with
for
in state
taxes.
a pound
farmers at city workers’ throats.
After trying in vain for three
years to stir up city workers to
help him fight firm price supports
Families with income of over
$10,000—are taxed 55 cents in
service
cent
economic
Families
in the $7,500-$10,000 bracket—are taxed 90 cents
in state and local taxes for each
in-|
are hit hardest by the income tax
from which
Uncle Sam
gets 50
per cent of all federal tax rev-
taxes
pay
Thus,
their weekly pay checks. The peoernment
by this shift
ple who make money
.
one
|
are the big income families who} ernment
STATE SHARE RAISED
In 1940, about 60 per
taxes
$1.90
in federal
local
they
from
the
taxed
income
sold
Trying to escape the 1956
political consequences of this
Families in the $5,000-$7,500
bracket—are taxed $1.10 in state
and local taxes for each dollar
per
low
the
hit
state governments is
income families a big
the
low
60
revenue
tax
which
taxes,
sales
collect
states
pay
they
It depends on whether or not}
federal aid is voted by the 84th}
Congress.
with
money
1955.
to
amount
for 10 cents
get
Families in the $3,000-$5,000
bracket—are taxed $1.45 in state
be
can
local
they
same
in taxes—
$3,000—are
lic assistance, etc., will be raised
either—
By federal taxes which
based on ability to pay;
the
Families
pub-
housing,
roads,
schools,
to
comparison:
To raise
they
in
shown
is
taxpayers
the
sales
for aid
dollars
of tax
Billions
time
some
in
are—
local
and
state
for
clipped
be—and
can
who
IT MAKES DIFFERENCE
The difference this. makes
farmers
80
70,
to
90 to 65.per
cent,
75,
feed
cotton
seed
Rayburn Still Firm
On Tax Relief Policy
Whether or not 1956 will see
any federal tax cut depends not
only on the strength of the budget
Cabi-
balancers in the Eisenhower
net and
such
in Congress, but upon
Speaker Sam
leaders as House
He is sticking to his
Rayburn.
story that:
The
(a)
afford
the
phase
(b)
for
costs
“competitive
income
up
the
American
by
of
people
survival
can
in
co-existence”
of the cold war;
Any tax relief
low-
for
individuals must be made
closing
example,
tax
taxing
loopholes—
corporation
dividends.
If there is a cut, Democrats will
go for $20 per person, The GOP
favors a 6.4 percentage cut—$20
up to $4,500 income, with a $25,800
tax cut
for $500,000
incomes.
Who Gets Most ‘Prosperity?’
Here is what government reports for the latest available
date in 1955 compared with the same period in 1954 show:
Corporations’ profit before taxes ____---------- UP 26%
Corporations’ take-home pay, profits after taxes UP
UP
Stockholders’ dividends
Stock market prices _____-_Food processors’ profits
Business failures among large corporations__DOWN
Weekly wages in manufacturing, construction
__ UP
and trade
Average person's take-home Pay ee
Farmers’
Farm
income
prices
—__
—-
erences
UP
Farmer's share of consumer food ‘dollar simi DOWN
Business failures among small corporations-
26%
10%
15%
™%
3%
6%
—s
uals
hogs
about
by
up
gone
have
pay
— who
and corporations
Middlewest
January,
UNITED
1956
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
96 Receive Political Education
At Women’s Leadership Meet
Representing some 29 communities scattered throughout the
LANSING, Michigan
‘onference on Family Partiestate, 96 union women attended the Leadership Training
ipation
hub
in
of
by
Political
Michigan
Education
State
held
early
University.
this
It was
month
sponsored
participating international unions.
Other conferences of this type have been
Participation
These
high
its
to
meet—due
igan
was
started
coming
from
program
union
gals,
CIO
county
Center,
Michigan
the
the
was
CLO
adult
edueation
Council, aided
« lifferent states, but the Mich-
la rgest
a year
ago.
councils,
local
over
by ClO
by
in several
held
enrollment
of
rate
Kel logg
at
held
since
the
Family
f
unions in six different
t
internationals, lo¢al industrial unions and women’s auxiliarie 2s, showed by their enthusiastie participation that they were eager to learn how to become better citizens,
better union members and better members of their home communities.
POLITICAL ISSUES
One workshop,
‘‘Does
Another
onstrated
the
with
day
issues of the
maker.
Politics
bfead
workshop—‘How
various simple
to
Affect
Our
Family
Encourage
techniques used
‘faci ng
problems
butter
and
Life?’ ’ tied
Discussion
by conference
in the
the
average
i
|
'
F
political
home-
and
Participation’’—demleaders. They learned from
sion how to carry on a group discussion with everyone taking an active part.
Getting down to ne real meat of the Conference, a thirc 1 workshop dealt with
“How to Set Up a Local Family Participation Conference.’ ’ Here, 'the gals set up
their own model conference, and worked out all the necessary details.
And a fourth worshop, ‘‘Political Education Techniques,’ ? spelled out ways and
means of developing political know-how among newcomers.
This session worked
this sé
out
various
ways-of
educating
Tives.
Gus
igan
Scholle,
CIO
gave
part
will
under
of
continue
the
united
the
mittee
that
on
labor
stated
two
CIO
program.
an integral
movement
state
Com-
pointed
bodies
of
of
their
same’’
and
organized
labor
become
better
families
the
Family
Participation
delegates,
AFL
en
concentrating
workshops in
at one of
Lansing.
the
comfort-
Participation
Confer-
grams
PROGRAM
heard
Conference
administrative
program
fruit’?
to
is
Roy
assistant
sound
..<
and
holding
type
to
and
is
other
in
of
bear
‘‘a starting
point
conferences
political
an
important
fight
role
in 1956.’’
helped
who
Jeffrey
Mildred
staffer
it and chaired the general sessions. They were ably assisted by
a staff of some 30 union and MSU
resource people. All contributed to
plan
of this
in your community.”’
play
Michigan CIO Secretary-Treasurer Barney Hopkins took an active
part in the Conference, as did UAW
the
will
will
in the
Reu-
He put it squarely up to the gals,
‘‘You are being asked to go back
‘‘should
Family
some
SOUND
UAW president, and a specialist
political action, state ‘‘this type
Program
was doing
into your community and involve
other women in this program. ...
These Family Participation pro-
ther,
offer union womopportunity to learn about
an
shoes loose, this woman
their own communities — how they
are operated and what the problems
The
— ‘What It Is and How It Works.”’
Such a program, she told the women
out
UP,
are.”’
COPE field staffer Esther Murray
laid down a few simple rules about
Education
head
the
and
their
citizens.’’
described
Scholle.
integ ration
the
has a duty to see that ‘‘ its members
some
of the
Political
state
the
be
sponsorship
(COPE),’’
The
to
them
not yet
He added “our purin the area of political activity
pose
is
“have
in Michigan
organization. ””
president of the Mich-
Council,
CIO
effectuated
SCORE
political facts of life, and
the Family Participation
‘It
and
z
GIVES
able
ence
those
who know little about the political
scene and how it, affects their daily
SCHOLLE
FEET
its
success.
UAW Bats Fat .677
In Organizing League
organizing
251
In
|lected
as bargaining
employes
| paigns,
Department.
| Shop
GROWS
|OPPOSITION
Dick
Vice-President
|the
Republican
of
Board
interests
to
Gosser,
HERE’S JUST A PORTION of the 96 women who
decided
to
learn
to
how
do|
Labor
National
Shop
tive
of
favor
director
protect
the
of
Department,
1955,
it
is
er
the
Lansing
U.rs. OK's | GAW
GAW
UAW
legal
plans
by
in
1955
cleared
hurdle
last month
Treasury
Ford
negotiated
General
the}
another |
as the
Department
and
lax Deductions
notified
that
Motors
the
of the Ford and
Besides Michigan,
York,
New
Jersey,
Massachusetts
|
workers.
are New
Delaware,
and
along
where
a
ruling
with
was
approval
two-thirds
required,
from
of
the
states
workers
for each concern are employed for
integration of benefits
with state
unemployment
compensation,
Six
where
states,
more
Ohrysler
including
than
workers
Michigan
two-thirds
are
of
employed,
have handed down favorable rulings. They include 65 per cent
| long
line
before
Besides
the
Connecticut,
Ford
has negotiated
with
Chrysler,
concerns,
out the
dustry.
June
1,
and GM,
similar
other
suppliers,
agricultural
Now
more
desire
at
conference.
the
tors,
| staff
department
of our
Union
in
000.
says,
“In
to
heads
made
yrogress
and
the
tural
erating
Arizona)
1956,
dead-
the UAW
|
GAW
plans
automotive
and
through-|
implement in- |
than one mil-
lion UAW members—two-thirds of
the
total
membership—are
coyered by GAW plans,
made
when he asserted that
no right to endorse a
election.
A reporter for one
newspapers phoned one
‘My editors are quite
ment,
but,
personally,
headlines
from
in
agricul-
op-
not
were
implements,
while
1955.
during
capacity
of In-
of a number
the
plants,
Harvester
ternational
| victory
at
the
huge
Caterpillar
in Decaplant
| Corporation's new
about
3,500,
the
and
employ
will
which
Illinois,
}tur,
|
the
triumphs
Minneapolis-Moline
|
mean
that the NAM and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and
other groups like that couldn't endorse a presidential can-
didate either?'’
There was a pause at the other end—then the voice blurted, ‘‘My Heavens! ,,, the Senator never thought of that!’’
LION
Other
the
Budd
at
plants
the
of
growth
the
jmarked
UAW
field.
WIN
important
Red
Lion
gains
included;
plant
in Phila-
previous
delphia where
several
a
drives had been unsuccéssful;
number
of
foundries,
Farrell-Creek
coast-to-coast
this could
plants are new
particularly
at
40,-
to
38,000
the rec- hin the agricultural implement
of the country’s most reactionary
of Goldwater's assistants and said,
happy about the Senator's statewhether
plants
|
dusky,
the newly established AFL-CIO has
presidential candidate in the 1956
I wonder
membership
strength
full
addition
The
(PAI)—Senator Barry Goldwater (R.,
newspaper
be
of the
at
not
others,
Oh! My Goodness, No!
WASHINGTON
potential
Many
esti-
conservative
a
would
1955
and
victorious
newly-organized
the
in
Competi-
gratifying
te
for-
impressive
170
in the
of
RED
state has ruled against gear-|
federal
government
has
okayed
ing GAW
and compensation
paytax deductions on payments
into ments,
Still to be heard from are}
funds
which
provide
supplemen
21 states with Ford workers and
tary unemployment
compen. ation| 12 with GM
workers.
UAW
offibenefits to workers
cials expect well over 67 per cent
Such
No
GM
th
heart’s
mate
the |
the satisfactory progre
more to mold the world near- | NOW
made. The officers, regional direcati
cnc
work
looking
more
1956.”
campaigns,
to} j
reviewing the organizational work
and accomplishments of our Union
during
I am
even
UAW
the
Gosser
Relations
employers.
“in
diligent
61 per
(about
28,519
While
cent of those eligible) voted for
appointees
and
to an
record
organizathese
that
out
}points
| tional victories were won in spite
| of growing
resistance of employinclinathe
and
ers everywhere
| tion
through
cooperation.
ward
Competitive
the
by
possible
and
to statistics
according
Jreleased
ord
-cam-
the
of
170
in
by?
se-
was
UAW
the
1955,
drives-during
agent
in the
of the time.
most
as umpire
was doubling
average
respectable average in any
when you figure that the
| Organizing League during 1955 j—a
leireuit and even more impressive
opposition
batting
a .677
with
up
wound
UAW
The
Ohio,
tool
of
jobbing
|
die
and
Cleveland
as
shops,
area,
Company
well
as
including
San-
in
a
number
plants,
particularly
in
Detroit
the
and
ss Cost
Billion
WASHINGTON, D. ©. Despite
ati
United
j ity”
still
than
during
cost
one
state
Prosper:
“record
States
1955,
unemployment
Jobless
billion
funds
dollars.
more
Actual
figures compiled by the Labor Department
showed
payments
of
$1,340,000,000,
|
Page
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
8
January,
WORKER
y
rt
Pa
y
da
li
Ho
W
UA
nd
te
At
es
re
ti
Re
11,000
UAW
1956
Brief Holds:
Political Expression
Labor Union's Right
Amendments to the Federal Corrupt Practices Act do not
“‘prevent a democratic trade u union from continuing its historic rule of presenting its views on candidates to its members and the public through normal channels of communication.””
clusions
drawn
and
solidly subFurthermore, the provision stantiated in the UAW’s brief in
of the law which the Depart- support of a motion to dismiss a
‘Invest
a buck
.
apply
to the
“impairs
UAW
the rights of
defendant and
its members
under the First
Amendment,
arbitrary
dis-
against
labor
ORAL
Worker
lation
of
date
and
Sixth
These
are
Amendments,”
the
two
major
con-
prepaid
adequate
providing
and medical care in
working
at a cost
pital
gan
can
in
involved
problems
the
gate
investi-
to
commission
a
point
hos-
Michipeople
afford.
“The
Mic
an
will
Reuther
said.
of
premiums,”
their
of
part
or
all
pay
who
cc
GIVES
in
unnecessary hardship on
of Michigan
thousands
families
the
rates
Cross
Blue
an
of
work
tens
increase
forthcoming
of
INCENTIVE
NO
Blue
present
that
“Granting
Cross reserves are too small, perina substantial
such
mitting
the increase
causing
little incentive
Cross
the factors
gives Blue
costs.
hospital
rising
over
of control
meas-
some
to exercise
to attempt
ure
correcting
without
rates
in
crease
has advocated
“The UAW
that Blue Cross assume the re-
AFL-CIO Sponsors
2 News Programs
The AFL-CIO is sponsoring two}
radio n
programs in 1956 over
the
natio:
network
American
Edward
from
7
Broadcasting
to
of
the
Company. |
P. Morgan will be heard}
7
p.
m.
(Eastern}
Standard Time)
Monday
through
Friday
from
Washington
while}
John
from
W. Vandercook will be heard
10 to 10:05 p. m. Monday}
through
Friday,
“Both
Mr.
Morgan
and
Mr.|
Vandercook have distinguished}
themselves
tors,”
the
views
entirely
will
trol
liberal
commented
president
ing
as
on
of the
George
Meany, |
AFL-CIO,
in mak-
announcement,
these
their
programs
own.
The
“Their
will
Today
Labor
in
West
are
35
trade
tion
of
about
periodicals
publications
owned
by
Labor.
are
or con-|
Press
Germany,
union
with
13
be}
AFL-CIO|
not attempt to censor
their opinions.”
German
of
commenta-|
papers
a total
million.
printed
the German
in
there
and|
circula-|
These
plants
Federation
has
a study
endorsed
and
sion
a
we
be
thorough
programs
Blue
under
and medical care
in this state.”
Cross
which
are
SOUTH BEND,
erage, plus the full
10,000
matters
UAW
plan
workers,
against
“3
in the industry,
enjoy
U.
sec-
each
case,
respected
the CIO.
It
of the three
General
S. Supreme
car-
Court.
TESTIMONY
brief
points
case.
Murray-CIO
out
THE
CROWD
to
in
was so big that no auditorium could
is
all the judges...
have serious doubts
and
—
really
the
to
September
Studebaker
1,
1955,
to
Corporation
receive
the
most
liberal
the 6 cent or 21%
seniority
per cent
wage boost, retroactive to September 1, with automatic increases in 1956 and 1957.
An additional holiday, time and one-half on Saturdays and double-time on Sundays for seven-day operations, the 8 cents an hour pattern plus other ads
justments ranging from 8 cents to 17 cents an hour
for skilled trades, improved vacations, and 2 cents
to 18 cents an hour increases in 75 non-skilled classifications also are provided.
Insurance benefits also are improved with life benefits raised from $3,000 to $4,000 and weekly disability
from $35 to $45 plus improvements in the hospitalmedical-surgical plan.
NEW
a
YORK—Labor
shorter
work
tension
of
the
| guaranteed
P,
current
wage,
Workers
Reuther
of
labor and his faith
| ideals of democracy,
every
that
guarantees
the
by
whether
or
not
he
that
First
ucts
and
of
a
instead
which
industry
“steady
of
the
have
“The
and
seek
ex-
of
the
in the
in
worker,
a un-
to
“sufligive him
the prod-
agriculture”
year-round
ups
income
and
created
downs
insecurity.
true measure of the great-
ness of our civilization,” he says,
is “our ability to translate material wealth into human values
and
technical
progress
into
hu-
man dignity.”
“A shorter work week will continue to be one of the long-standing
goals
of
labor,
technology”
ments
in
hours,
he predicts,
possible
a
and
reduction
improve-
will
of
a
be
Amendment
the
of
doubts about it,
it,”
under
make
weekly
of
Congressional
UAW.
the
against
face
the
case
in American
Reuther says
ion
card,
is entitled
ciently high wages to
the means of enjoying
it may
freedom
his
UAW,
the
of
prosecution
His
he
United
carries
indicate
in
press and of speech. ...
“They (meaning the nine justices of the Supreme Court) ex-
received
has
and
Committee
rebuffs
every
on
under
prosecuted
has
he
to
statement
face of the judicial
in the
President
American
fi-
as
far
They
activity.
reservation
the
experiences
means
that
concerned—engage
are
prosecution
Magazine.
his
campaign
a
Olney has direct responsibility
for enforcement of the statute involved and he is directing the
an
predicts
American
Writing
jthat
and
principle
annual
Automobile
Walter
week
as
restrictions
clear
in
will
a
in
people
of
that
says
which
law
a
practical, to prosecute
Olney concluded.
is in charge of the retired workers program.
New Machines
Must Produce
Shorter Week
lan-
the
all of them did, that it made it
almost impossible, certainly im-
handle meals for everybody so the retired workers’
party was held on two days. It was a major planning
project for Olga Madar, UAW recreation director, who
|
...
of
implication
pressed so many
retroactive
who
this
and
and
one
Union's
affected
covIndiana—Fxtension of GAW
pattern economic package, with all
at
late
OLNEY
nances
hospital
workers
in
Attorney
to the
without
other
furnished
have
unions were
And
the
the
cannot
commisevaluate
and
case
cases
violating
law.
group
here has been announced by Norman Matthews, UAW
vice-president, and Ray Berndt, director of UAW Region 3.
Under terms of the new three-year contract, Studebaker
the
about
New Studebaker Contract
Meets Economic Package
economic
of
of
guage
that they
investigation
urge that this
empowered
to
thoroughly
with
“The
“We
urge
Governor
Williams
to appoint such a commission to
make
The
tion of the law, In all three
cases, the unions were vindicated
and held not to be in violation
the
proposal
commission.
motion to
on a later
sional Committee with respect
decision
Court
Supreme
the
President
our
argu-
that Assistant Attorney General
Warren Olney, III, told a Congres-
Reuther said, “that Michigan Insurance Commissioner Joseph Na-
varre
charged
political
gratified,”
previous
tried in which
The
by more effective use
facilities,” he added.
are
been
CITES
ENDORSED
“We
Three
ried
reluctant to give leadership in
finding ways to offset higher hos-
PROBE
in Detroit.
which
cilities. To date Blue Cross has
been too willing to pass on added costs to subscribers and too
pital costs
of hospital
Oral
yet announced.
Philip Murray
was the only
Following state approval of a} sponsibility of providing leaderin Michiincrease
15 per cent
ship in finding new ways to make
gan Blué Cross rates, UAW Presmore efficient use of hospital faagain
to ap-
nat
was
UAW Seeks Full Investigation
Of High Health-Medical Costs
Reuther
P:
Walter
Governor Williams
to press.
the Union's brief points out, the
court’s decision not only vindicated the union but cast doubts
on the law's constitutionality.
The first of these earlier cases
A HAPPY GET TOGETHER with a chicken dinner
and entertainment like this clown was the fifth annual retired- workers holiday party held in Detroit’s
State Fairgrounds Coliseum. It attracted 11,000 retired workers and their spouses.
ident
urged
goes
Court
due process clause of the Fifth
Amendment, and fails to provide
a reasonably ascertainable standard of guilt in violation of the
Fifth
will file a suppleshortly after this
United Automobile
has been assigned to Judge Frank
A. Picard of the Federal District
. Action,
the
DUE
ments on the Union’s
dismiss will be heard
Political
vio-
in
ARGUMENTS
The Union
mental
brief
issue of The
crimination
unions
Grand
Jury
indictment
the Union handed up last
summer,
in
an
constitutes
Federal
against
other
the
to the
statute, lend substance
charge by Emil Mazey, UAW secAttor-
the
that
retary-treasurer,
ney General is acting under pressure from the Republican Party,
and
specifically
and
Michigan
Arthur
General
Feikens.
John
[INSPIRED
“In
Postmaster
from
Summerfield
W.
Republican
BY GOP
their
desperation
to
Boss
recap-
ture political power in Michigan,
Feikens and Summerfield have
launched an un-American assault
upon our basic Constitutional
rights,” Mazey said.
In entering the Union's plea of
“not
guilty,”
Reuther
President
Walter
P,
told the court...
“Any action which threatens
the right of any group of citi-
zens
view
of
to
in
ideas,
express their point of
the free market place
threatens
foundation
ideals
basic
of our
and
puts
in
Cranefield,
Joseph
ington
the
of
in jeopardy
record
case
UAW
L, Rauh,
Counsel;
very
democratic
civil liberties.”
Attorneys
UAW
the
are
general
Jr., UAW
Norman
our
for
the
Harold
counsel;
WashZarky,
John Silard, Kurt Hanslowe
Redmond H. Roche, Jr.
and
January,
UNITED
1956
Page9
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
New Department for UAW’s 175,000 Women
The UAW has set up a new Women's Department to handle
the many and sometimes complex problems of the nearly 175,000
women members in the Union.
For many years in the business and industrial worlds, women
have fought hard to achieve recognition of their ability, equality
in their rights, and consideration of the problems peculiar to their
sex. They have not asked for special consideration or treatment.
It has
recognized
were
been
a long
and,
at times,
difficult struggle.
in the early days of the UAW
entitled
to equality,
and
that women
that they had
certain
Fortunately,
it was
had ability, that they
problems
which
required
special consideration.
UAW
women members proved in World War II that they could do most
jobs in the plant with the exception of heavy manual labor. Women proved
that they could hold down positions on the bargaining committee and as
local union officers. There are presently over 700 women holding top leadership offices in UAW locals,
As
ABOVE (I. to r.): WOMEN’S DEPARTMENT staff members Mary Francis, Caroline Davis (Dept. head), and Gwen Thompson. Cele Carrigan (at left), also on staff,
was on West Coast when above was snapped.
pg
BELOW: REGION 4 GALS discuss problems in a buzz session with resource people
during recent Chicago Women’s Conference.
early
as
1942,
UAW
convention
delegates
passed
their
first
resolu-
tion on women workers.
Succeeding conventions approved other resolutions pertaining to women and their rights. In 1944 é the first Women's Bue
A
"e@¥ wes established as part of the UAW Fair Practices Department.
.
%
A
It has now achieved full departmental status. International Executive
Beard action late in 1955 created the new Women's Department, and authorized an expanded staff to handle the large job load which had developed.
The new Women's Department, as was the old Bureau, is directed by
Caroline Davis, assisted by a field staff of three. These are Cecelia ‘'Cele”
Carrigan (Los Angeles), Mary Francis (Indianapolis), and Gwen Thompson
(Detroit).
They stand ready, willing and able to assist any UAW local unions, any
regions, or any individual UAW members to iron out their problems within
the framework of the Union Constitution and convention action,
eK
JP
RIGHT: KOKOMO CLASS at Local 292, UAW Region 3, takes
up Leadership Training. Left to right are Bea Stewart, Lorraine
Alesky, Mary Scott, Caroline Rupley, Louise Green, Local Veep
Wilma Meacham, Mable Sweeten and Lu Anne Florence.
xk
wk
*
Ke
ka
Kk
BELOW (left): FASHION MODELS Pat Ortiz (left) and Caroline Del Rio demonstrate dresses at.Local 811 Fashion Show in Los
Angeles. Douglas Local 148 has asked them to do a repeat show.
BELOW
at Regions
Tuller Hotel.
educational
(right): DETROIT WOMEN get together
1 and 1A Women’s Conference held in
Here they are showing one of the UAW
pamphlets discussed during the confab.
‘eagers
|
Me.
Page
10
January,
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
| 956
g
in
th
No
d
e
r
e
f
f
O
n
a
l
P
k
c
o
t
Ford S
ty
ri
cu
Se
g
n
i
d
e
e
N
t
s
o
M
s
r
To Worke
were
plan
stock
was announced—to
stock
incorporated | make it appear that the Comon the}
statements
Rannon’s
for
substitute
a
ic.
negotiations
security
summer’s
in last
pub-
reached*the
stock
to the U IAW} Ford
offeved
proposal
as
stock
Ford
The
and columnists who
been trying in recent
have
weeks
since the sale of Ford
writers
as the,
month
this
said
purchase] ment,
all’ Ford UAW) pany proposal was better than
against layoffs and unemploy-| in a letter to
reviewing the ben- || the settlement reached in the
nothing for! iembers,
provided
ment
.
wae
"
|
s
wres
ma
>}
ek
1955 negotiations.
s memon’
Uni
the
by
won
ts
jefi
e
ro
ere
the
worke a with
5.
se)) chip duringLL 195TRY
security—thobili
gs STI
=|
need
for
Ken
Bannon,
responsi
financial
whose
ties left them unable to save,
Bs
and
even fewer could expect to
obtain the full benefits,’’ Bannon asserted,
= oo i
od
alae
rr aa
plan);
Company
(the
it
editorial
newspaper
to
National Pord Depart-| reply
UAW’s
Ford workers could hope to
derive any benefit at all from
to
occasion
this
used
He
the}
of
director
s
of
minority
a small
*‘Only
have been con-
‘Tt would
trary to elementary trade
union solidarity to sacrifice
their interests (those of
workers unable to afford
the plan) and their equity
in the total collective barto
d
trie
y
pan
Com
Last summer the Ford Motor
gaining package.’’
sell its stock plan to the UAW as a part of its
Bannon pointed out that
“Partnership in Prosperity (PIP)” package. This| the UAW had proposed to the ||
month Ken Bannon, director of the Union’s Nation- Company that the choice be-|
tween the Company’s proposal and the Union’s: proposal
be submitted to a yote of the
Ford workers, to be conduct-
al Ford Department, listed nine of the reasons why
the stock purchase plan quickly became a dead
issue. They are:
*
ily
heaviest
the
with
workers
end
the
after
years
full
and
week
every
regularly
to leave it undisturbed
of
a Ford worker |
cent of his pay
benefit of the plan,
to put aside 10 per
obtain the full
had to be able
In order to
would have
1
obligations
financial
responsibilities—those
who
have
of
their
pay
which
in
year
the
the greatest
down.
fam-
greatest
the
and
had
The
aside.
it
put
obviously
need—are
They would have gotten
unable to save anything out of their pay.
The great majority of those with lighter
nothing out of the plan.
responsibilities probably would not haye been able to put aside anycent
per
10
like
thing
regular
a
on
week.|
by
week
basis,
Even those who were able to save a smaller part of their pay could
not be sure of being able to leave it in the plan for over five years.
General Motors had a similar plan in effect during the 1920s and
early 1930s. About 75 to 80 per cent of GM’s workers, both hourly
and salaried, put savings into the plan in typical years; but only 15
per eent, on the average, were able to leave their money in long
oF
interest.
*
posal
a
have
been
went
Company
The
6
or was
proposed
the
as
plan
the
at
a
or sick
end
year—even
during
if
it
and
want to participate in it.
decision
pany.”’
is
and
Hour Administrator ‘‘to establish
the principle of the annual improvement factor in government
regulations to automatically set minimum salary standards to
of pro-?
delayed |
avoid the necessity
longed hearings and
mally perform if the current loose
this
permit
not
did
regulations
P
:
eta
92
ing
here
last
in testimony at 4) army of employes who are exempt
Justice’”
| Wage and Hour Division hear- | from overtime.”
3
month.
rae.
“un-|
In asking elimination of
realistic salary floors,’ Matthews)
up
to
the
who
The
Com-
/status
or
are
between
non-exempt
depriving
workers
of
employes
from
office
work
exempt
match
v
and
*
certain
8
right
the
reserved
they
would
nor-|
he
the
Company's
proposal,
course
normal
the
no Ford
worker
would
market,
is
plus
same
the
his money
In
addition,
* ed to charge
that
into
the
the
worker
interest
he
government
would
bonds.
purchase
stock
off against
ing package, could have
ation for the Company.
would
get
have
plan,
his
gotten
which
the cost of the entire
the
own
if he
collective
in wage structures
would-be enginee
to frown
such
stock
nothing,
for
tax
yet
purposes.
be able
Despite
to charge
this
off the
put
possibility
for
have,
in
differentials
scientific
careers,”
of
Com-
pany to make a profit out of the plan, it wanted the Ford workers
to give up some of their legitimate demands in return for the plan.
per
$100
week
to
for
administrative
from
for
$75 to $125
workers.
and
execu-
a week
profes-
National Health Plan
bargain-
the
enough
which prompt
chemists, etc.,
$55
sional
want-
value
upon
tives and
turned out to be a highly profitable operThis would be the case if the Company
it would
“If
The UAW also petitioned for a
change in minimum salaries from
used newly created stock for that purpose—as General Motors is doing for its salaried workers’ stock purchase plan. Issuing such stock
to the workers participating in the plan would actually cost the
Company
caused
measure,
some
which
practices
halt
to
bold
be
should
we
fields
of
money
Company
out,
pointed
staff
we sincerely are concerned about
our nation’s plight in the scientific
have
had
pro-
from
eliminates
partment
All the Company
was
a decline on the stock
back
in fact, ef-
and,
tection of the Fair Labor Standards Act white collar workers
in all industries where labor unions do not have contracts.”
Edward G. Wilms of the UAW
Office and Technical Workers De-
been sure of getting any real benefit out of the Company's
contribution.
Half the workers’ deposits and all of the Company’s contribution would have gone into Ford stock. Stocks
ean decline as well as rise in value.
willing to guarantee, in the event of
exemptminimum
from overtime has
useless
fectively
period,
event
$75 pers
the “current
become
testi-
Jersey,
New
Paterson,
salary
week
ing employes
of
P.
of
president
Lazzio,
a
representing
300,
Local
than 4,000 office and techworkers at Curtiss-Wright
fied that
business.”
with
the
Matthews.
and
| Reuther
Walter
President
UAW
from
Department
Labor
the
to
from
resulted
hearing
The
in
of
discontinue
“in
contributions
its
law.
the
UAW
more
nical
it
which
all. Ford
when
1950
in
Thomas
included one big loophole
making any contributions at
interfering
emergencies
Under
%
to
proposal
to escape
Would correct inequities resulting
from the manner in which the
technical | petition
savings.
The Company’s
could have used
7
[2-
kers’
improvement
of the
Adoption
said,
MattHews
proposal,
}factor
overtime and |
the worker would have gotten no matching Company dollars on the
last three years of -his savings because, by so terminating the plan,
would be free of its obligation to make contributions
the Company
to
Department,
Workers
Technical
plan to be made charged that “managements are} law was amended
1946-47 salaries was
hiding behind the current low sal-|# Survey ofmeas
those workers lary
urement to modify
criteria used in measuring the used as a
afford
ean
the Wage
lealled upon
and
contract.
five-year
this
of
the Company a letter
leaves the way open
Office
UAW
of the
quarter.|
the
five-year
a
of
part
who
has
tor
pro-
rate
his
suspend
of
quarter
a
request,
Norman Matthews, direc-
WASHINGTON— Vice-President
would
he
Company's
The
or
vary
laid off
terminated
were
plan
If the
*
weeks
work
on short
within
plan
the
to
contributions
not
(see story at left).
was
plus
money
plan,
the
into
months.
three
could
a worker
that
put
money
full
a
for
stuck
provided
to
agreed
worker
Once
back
own
his
only
get
would
worker
discharged
proposal
discovered that
provided that a
have
in the Company's contribution would
they did not, after all. The Company's plan
P,
Company’s
Norm Matthews Testifies
At Wage-Hour Pay Hearing
equity
an
had
they
thought
have
might
who
workers
Some
4
the
for the stock
available to
on
contribution
tor in federal minimum salary standards for office and
technical workers. Assistant Wage and Hour Administrator Weiss is in the background.
proposition
UP TO COMPANY
The UAW Ford director
listed nine instances in which
given
which
worker wanted to
to take out a full
a year and needed
Thus,
entire $400.
Company
matching
$200
he would lose the entire
this full year’s savings.
this
management’s
tion.
The Company’s proposal provided that if a
* withdraw any of his savings, he would have
year’s savings all at once. If he had saved $400 in
$50 in a hurry, he would have to withdraw the
turned
improvement fac-
of the principle of annual
poration
impartial
“The agreement finally negotiated does not in any way
depriye individual workers of
the right to buy Ford stock
when the stock is put on the
Bannon said. ‘To
market,’’
buy or not to buy the stock
is a matter of individual
choice which every worker
remains free to make for himIn fact, the Union, at
self.
Most Ford workers probably would not have been able to keep
* their savings in the plan long enough to get any substantial
equity in the Company's contribution.
For example, suppose the plan had gone into effect and a worker
put $10 of his money into it in January, 1956. Three years later, at
the end of January, 1959, his equity in the Company’s matching $5.00
would amount to exactly 2% per cent of $5.00, or 13% cents, plus
not quite a penny in interest.
If illness, or injury, or layoff, or some family emergency forced
before the end of January, 1959, he
him to take out his money
would not be entitled to a single penny of the Company’s contribu3
outside
deficient
contribution.
full Company
the
to get
enough
an
by
is shown
Matthews
Norman
testifying at a Labor Department Wage and Hour
Division hearing in Washington. He called for incor-
agency, and that the Company
for five
in the plan
he
ed
VICE-PRESIDENT
OTTAWA,
\
“He thinks he has us buffaloed—them guns are just loaded
with grease!”
Canada
(PAI)—The
and Catholic ConfedCanadian
eration of Labor has added its
voice to the demands of the TLC
and
CCL
for
implementation
of
a national health plan, making
organized labor in Canada solid
for such a program.
January,
1956
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
ya
Pa
Rs
Pu
oy
LS
PRT ae la-( tts
roe
You
plianee
ral
better be on guard yourself when you buy a car, apor home-improyement job on time payments.
The
publie agencies like the Federal Trade Commission, FHA,
state and voluntary agencies have not been able to get dealers and finance companies to yoluntarily stop finance and
other gouges.
The
auto
become
not
dustry,
up
“price
merely
and
the
“And
all
(inflated
evil,
of
the
are
is now
still
publicity
AT
but
charging
“discounts”
CUSTOMERS
One
charges
charges
charge
and the
fringe
homeowners
eo
after
HA.
SOCK
a
practice
for purported
ers.
pack”
being
finance
the
and
No.
about
finance
spreading
gouged
repair
charges)
1 problem
excessive
even
other
on
in
that
fees
to
rackets
in-
make
to appliance
home
has
deal-
improvements
financed
through
WILL
reason why people get tricked is that they assume finance
are interest and therefore regulated.
In most states finance
are not considered interest and are not regulated. A finance
is simply the difference between the cash price of an article
price on the installment plan, and in most states it_can be
Right
in
the
Federal
C.,
D.
Washington,
it.
to make
anything the dealer wants
Trade
E.
Mr.
Commission's
ballpark
a
bought
recently
M.
home
of
for
car
used
$1,295. He was allowed $325 for his old car and paid $175 additional in cash. That left a balance of $795 to be financed. Mr. M.
did not get a copy of the contract, but only a payment book.
began to suspect they were
financed was only $795 plus
the book, she
balance to be
his wife saw
Although the
When
stung.
STREETCARS WILL SOON be a thing of the past in Detroit.
They are to be
replaced by buses by the Detroit Street Railway system.
If the DSR follows the
UAW’s plan, it will also institute reduced fares for pensioners during non-rush
hours, thus providing cheaper, faster transportation for retired workers like these.
$55 for insurance, the book indicated that the total balance fo be
paid
to the
Washington
motor
credit
company
ear for the dealer, was $1,299.69.
This meant the M.’s were being soaked
(a
copy
true
annual
of the
interest
contract
rate
itself
of
105
until
the credit company and threatened
M. never read the contract before
get a copy, just didn’t realize the
was
Better
nothing
STATIC
Business
it could
IN
THE
Bureau
do since
in
Mr. M.
APPLIANCE
cent).
had
financed
charge
They
written
the
Washington
did
not
several
had
told
signed
get
a
letters
to
Mrs.
M.
there
the contract.
of their
discounts
and
over-allowances
on
trade-ins
by
exaggerat-
ing list prices of cars or optional equipment, or by billing fake charges
such as additional handling fees, and by exorbitant finance charges in
collaboration
with
Hundreds of letters from individuals and organizations
have been sent to UAW President Walter P. Reuther in the
last few weeks announcing support of his suggestion that
out support of this plan to help
memOther
workers.
retired
Council
bers of the Common
to ride city buses at reduced fares during non-rush
Reuther first announced his?
letters on the same subject.
Last month, the Council passed
Detroit’s
FIELD
The practice of packing prices has been on the increase in this
period of keen competition and discounts on cars. A Federal Reserve
Board economist recently said the “pack” is the greatest single problem in the auto industry today. Many dealers now take back at least
part
Flood of Letters Supports Proposal
By UAW to Cut Retirees’ Bus Fare
of $499.69
to get a lawyer. Apparently Mr.
he signed it, and since he didn’t
fantastic finance charge he had
obligated himself for.
The
a finance
per
they
that
finance companies.
old-age
pensioners
finance
A
charge
customer
washer is
stallation
according
who
insists
billed $240
and $50.40
to
the
on
a
20
per
price
cent
of
the
+
and
.
a
discount
on
a
for the washer, $20.50 for delivery and
for finance charge,
for a total ‘price
and
$300
of $313.50.
This
practice
is
becoming
“an
increasingly
common
Its
roof
reshingled
there hasn't been a
no $75 checks.
The
month
HOW
for
three
TO
at
a
cost
of
$1,000.
Since
fare
method
then,
of
however,
sign of anyone showing the roof, and of course,
family is now paying off at the rate of $32.27 a
years—a
DEFEND
total
of $1,161
including
interest.
you
out
can
to
buy
are
YOURSELF
rely
only
self-defense:
@ Compare
@
on
weak
and
yourself.
inadequately
Here's
prices and estimates
Borrow
and
both
from
the
commercial
among
lower-cost,
banks,
and
a simple
sources
buy
the
with
it with
you
insist you
®
if you
sign
Don't believe
ises or claims
are
uncertain.
right away.
a salesman’s verbal
be put in writing.
Copyright 1955
Only
this
time,
program
of
cash
credit
unions
hand,
rather
in
you
unscrupulous
statements.
by
like
someone
an
the
on
idea|
Insist
trust
plan
The
BACKING
are:
Volunteers
of
that
any
America,
of Archdiocese of
ropolitan
Detroit
and
in
labor’s
composer,
1915
on
charge,
a
is
the
martyred
executed
trumped
subject
book, “The Man Who
by Barrie Stavis.
The
years
and
author
in
re
tells the
Hill's own
which.
before,
have
spent
reh
story
prison
never
up
in
tional Association of Social
Workers,
Franklin
Settlement,
The
Presbyterian
erhood
of
Maintenance
Employes
Union
Village,
(AFL-CIO),
Broth-
of
Way
Teamsters
(AFL-CIO), Amalgamated
Clothing
Workers
(AFL-CIO),
Veterans
of
Wars,
Foreign
Alli-
ance of Poles in America, and
American-Polish Citizens Club.
(It has been pointed out that
if the reduced fare proposal works
of
a
nearly
of Hill
letters,
been
Utah
American
labor
the_
new
Died,”
five
book
through
many
of
published
sonal
for
comforts,
its
cause,”
President
the book.
even
together
in an
groups
and
of
plan.
the
that
Council,
book,”
the
There
has|
representatives
Commission
and
outside
in
were
support
no
the
they
too
com-
plan,
letters
had
been
urging
Benson
all-
trying
day!
Do
YOU'VE
;
you
nalts
had a
realize
our!
TV set has been on the blink?!”
will
de
submit
|,tails of the plan to the three DSR
pointed
tion
ple at
empty
out
costs
that
transporta-
many
elderly
peo-
home while buses
during non-rush
run halfhours,
is
those
a round-trip bus
cents per person,
too
much
for
budgets.)
tight
on
Jing
high
keep
(In Detroit,
|ride costs
40
|which
proposal, Reuther
liv-
Directive Trims
UAW International Secretary ny asurer Emil Mazey has
vigorously, protested a recent directive issued by Ezra Taft
Benson’s Agriculture Department, which sharply restricts the
distribution of surplus foods. Organ ion
Aenean,
Department
those
on
relief
receive
now
says
or
certain
those
problem
to
of
sick
eral
ward
hower's
or
with
veterans’
pensions
dire
pe
sald
}huge
with
farm
that
food
the
must
current
has
thus
position
while
needy
of
be overcome
farm
recession.
put
government
ment
acei-|f0F
or
seryallot
disability
needs
longer be
foods, de
of
such
Benson's action is in direct con-
tradic tlon
end
Benson
other
and
benefits, those
the’
which
into
the
the
of approving
food
to
needy
fed-
awk-
ship-
abroad
refusing distribution to the
at
home,
compensation,
“It seems that the Department
compensation or}of Agriculture has little regard
forms
people.
SLM
ClO
/County
Surplus Food Eligibles
spite
UAW
!
obile
AM LOO
IE
a tentative
Wayne
Railway,
allowances will no
eligible for surplus
i
Aut
Mazey Protests
ments,
lives
and
UAW.
opposing
with
jicemen’s
think
J
De-
individuals
said
flooded
dent
"So you
Th
Detroit’s
unions
munications
other
P, Reuther
on
Stavis has per-
exciting
s
a
esU
Ni Cede
Worker went to pr
get surplus
food.
Retired
workers, workers getting un-
movement
formed
an important
service by
gathering
facts about
Joe
Hill's
life and death and putting them
for
Street
employment
workmen’s
their
DSR Consnlas
to ion
initiate
forms of publie assistance may
will
prom-
commented
Walter
“Barrie
local
only
who
Sidney Margolius
“The
tirees,
The
was built by men who were willmurder | ing to sacrifice material
gain, per-
Never
for
poet
"|
received, at last count, about Commissioners.
letters and post cards from re-|
In his original
jad
500
Detroit, MetChapter,
New Book Reports Career of Joe Hill
Hill,
hours.
Detroit Council of Churches, SalEd Connor and Jim Lincoln,
vation Army, Catholic Charities | Members of Detroit's Common
.
Joe
of
announced
go over
dealer
allowed
BACKING
j
body
icy-making
beganj|partment
support
dealers.
scrupulous
then
At
four-point
several
than through dealers’ finance companies.
Read any contract before you sign. Have
@
enforced.
the} UNANIMOUS
ted|
F
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (independent), Detroit Post,
Government officials and yoluntary agencies apparently are unable
to halt the gouges.
Know, too, that the laws protecting you when you
go
OF
in
Among the larger groups which}
have endorsed
bus
reduced
the
combatting the discount shopper,” says Electrical Merchandising
Despite FHA’s promises to clean up the home-improvement rackets,
and the efforts the agency has made, homeowners
are still being
gouged.
A Portland,
Oregon,
family
recently got
caught
by the
“model home” deal.
A salesman for an aluminum shingle company
promised its reshingled roof would be shown to builders and people
needing roof repairs, and the family would get $75 for each sale made
as the result of using its home as a model. So the family agreed to
have
his desk.
PLENTY
$310.90.
A customer who doesn’t know that many stores nowadays do give honest discounts, and is willing to pay the full $300
list price, gets charged only $13.50 for financing, and pays a total
be
Se
EEK |
William
Fitzgerald, secretary | hearing date was being set up for
lettersUTEcon-|of
the DSR B. Commission,
the pol-|jater this month, at which time
Reuther
promising
flooding
inof
S
detailed
story
tae
f Th
gratulating
appliance.
workers
in the local) jes, especially in those where the|the plan on a trial basis. Mayor
press and on radio and tele-| local transportation system is city- | Cobo has also indicated his supvision. Following this public-| Wed, as it is in Detroit.)
pore
ity
D
selling
retired
plans last-Noveniber. Ip: was| SACre
any 10 er
Detrolt
Ae
cond
widely publicized
The practice of padding finance fees now is spreading to electrib
cal appliances.
The
trade magazine
Electrical Merchandising
re- {crea
Dey ENC
y OR
Worker,
ports that one large Chicago retailer frankly admits that he fixes | Automobile
the
and
and Detroit’s Mayor Albert E.
Cobo have also received many
President
message,
the
in
disposal
surpluses
Eisen
which
of
our
Is the main
- +.
Mazey
concern
of
the
problems
said.
about
surplus
“It
also
of people,”
has
little
reducing the supply
food,”
he
continued.
“At a time when this country
has over $7'4 billion of surplus
food available, and at a time
when ,.. there are many Americans who cannot now afford an
adequate
diet,
sible
to
us
Agriculture
measures
bution
stated,
of
to
it is Incomprehen-
that
Secretary
of
Benson
Its taking
restrict
surplus
the
food,”
distri-
Mazey
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
January,
WORKER
1956
Westinghouse Responsibility
Beating by Company Goons
Results in Picket’s Death
Next time you look at one of those gleaming white Westinghouse home appliances, step a little closer and take a seeond look—there’s blood on it... the blood of union pickets
~—a
like Troy Tadloch who was beaten unmercifully until he died
after being injured-in front of the Westinghouse plant at
Columbus, Ohio.
The newspapers said Tadloch died of ‘‘a heart attack.”’
But his fellow strikers, members of the International Union
of
Electrical,
chine
tion,
two
vice-presidential
this
month
tive assistants
ea
Leonard
for
ere
announced}
a
by
ela
as
Vice-President}
Woodcock
and
newly-
Pat
pee
Great-|
Kohler,
notorious
.
|
jin
president
Rae,
nation
and
for
Department
of
tified
an
with
W. Livingston
latter's resig-|
many
the
Motors]
Union,
becomes
the
In
iden-|
General
administrative
Woodcock.
years
assistant
to
capacity
he
that
will continue his relationship with
the General Motors Department,
of which Woodcock is director.
or
any
.
place
“ea
| i
5
of
assistant
y
Seth
Davis,
US
AUS
tion, becomes
INES
ESN
an administrative|
Although|
assistant to Greathouse.
ments
be
ment
on
in
be
will
transfer
the
to
the
imediate
of
assign-
through|
Agricul-|
the
Walter
P.
=
Reuther,)against'
with
my
~
gift
wife
to
and
so
many}
ie
to recognize
dealing
ploye
judgment
WATERBURY,
The
Lux
it makes
spite its soapy
UAW
but not Herbert
the
:
Clean
Company
clocks
parts—wouldn’t
and
come
name.
organizers
Company
here—
airplane
clean
warned
would
de-
work-
use
“strike
scare
talk”
instead
of
arguments before the NLRB election. Lux did just that, and the
for
of | Workers voted overwhelming
Kerrigan,ly Re-
ity
his em- | gion
this
20
Connecticut—
Clock
car
on
Come
the necessity of | 4,2 UAW, Charles
fairly with
during
moved |
pass
Wouldn't
thousands of children of strik-]@2s the
:
over
season,
9A
director,
reported.
that
of
three
assert.
being
His
on
the
months.
tary-treasurer,
Company
inghouse,
hour and
ize
has
actually
goons hired by Westpaid three dollars an
“deputized” to legal-
whatever
commit
fre
on the
crimes
picket
Company-inspired
Kohler) months, Kohler arrogantly refused to let an impartial arbi-
two daughters, | am willing to|
make this personal sacrifice if
this nieans there is a chance
to work out a contract which
would be such a priceless]
Christmas
for
spokesmen
Eye witnesses said Tadloch
was beaten to a pulp by “deputies.’ These “deputies,” according to Al Hartnett, TUE secre-
.
Kohler
know
occurred
at
they
line,
latter's election)
the
cock after
to the vice-presidency at the 1955|
Board at its Janualso approved
the
meeting
nent
I
of
of
Greathouse
the
might
violence
Mansfield,
Ohio,
Springfield, Massachusetts, and
Buffalo, New York, to mention but
a few
house
of
the
first
history
Most
Hartnett
Westing-
points
out.
FATALITY
Tadloch,
the
strikebound
plants,
FIRST
is
the
of
the
of
Union
picketline
the
the
IUE.
has
noted,
fatality
trouble
began
Reuther
of
will
power
be willing
ood
relations in your
a
c
in
again,
Once
the
to
who
have
UAW
been
ternational
Ex-| industry
ionth pledge
three
peel
mem-|
of
Aa
vill
ment,
and
gain
that
Charles
H:.
The}
yurces’
er
and
Brass
to
Region
however, been
much success.
“The
Company
and
crowned
with
obviously
prefers
al
con-
“Tn
[ot
can
fern
Council.
vie
of Revere's
tion
<errigan
a
U.
afford to meet
easily
established
panies
in
related
in
other
the
industries.
Board
acted
dispute
hearing|and
the
after
the
rest
of
the
brass} Local
Detroit,
are
on
the dispute made
S.
proposal
Senators,
of
three
states,
made
and
a
by
ten
suggestion
that a fact-finding panel be estab-
Who's Surprised?
CHICAGO
(PAI)—Tests
conducted
in
Chicago
prove
that you should never sell union leadership short.
Union
shop
stewards
are
foremen
test
in
conducted
nearly
by
Engineers,
Man-
Inc.
The
tests are based on leadership
qualities,
vocabulary,
practical judgment,
mathematics,
etc. In some tests union officials came out as much as 36
per
cent
ahead
of
supervisors.
Herbie’s Hide
Dare Not Rub
Competitor’s Tub
When
you
can’t
sell-your
bath-
tubs, take them with you. That
seems to be Herbert V. Kohler’s
answer
to
against.
his
the
“it
growing
scab-made
boycott
plumbing
from
the
Spartanburg,
Carolina,
Herald
as follows:
“Three
complete
recently
bathrooms
on
the fourth floor of the Cleveland
Hotel
are
being
torn out by
plumbers
so that the president
of Kohler Co. won't have
to bathe
-
pat-
in
com-|
The
strike.
report
South
reads
of
include
wages,
pensions
guaranteed
wage.
More
174,
out, a recommenda-
governors
similar
A
@ report on the Revere
Copper|
than 5,000 workers, members of
and
Brass
Company
strike andj Local
168, New
Bedford, Massaon the status of collective bar- | chusetts; Local 477, Chicago, and
in
accepted
and
turned down,
products.
} Union
regards
Revere's
refusal
tinued all-out moral and financial} | to do so as an act of -bad faith.’
assistance
in
be
given
to the
Major
contract
issues still in
L
the
agement
strike
newsmen,
told
had
had
to arbitrate
every
mem-
la
Company's
pointed
outscoring
we
director
the
most
Carey
The Union
the Company
violence to arbitration,” Hartnett
“It is apparently
told newsmen.
Council,
ac9A
Director
Kerrigan,
for
bear
lished,
made
by Chief
Federal
Mediator Joseph Finnegan.
movement
members
of the UAW
Copper
re
et lines| the
ths.
by
blame
must
by organizing goon squads. Management’s scab herding has not,
“back-to-work”
manner
on
the
who
by
plant.”’
a
man
when the Company issued what
amounted to an open invitation
to violence by sponsoring
a
to do all in our
foster a new era of
to
union-busting
told a meeting of mayors
cities where Westinghouse
are located.
Eve,
part
in
Carey
of 14
plants
relations with your employes
on the New Year by agreemg
to arbitration, for ou:
Westinghouse
attitude is its president, Gwilym
A. Price, IUE
President
James
tried
Year’s
by
interested
The
V. Kohler.
New
on
sain
Council. | bers
e
gaining
in
TADLOCH
than in a contract.”
to bargain.
the|familiar
and
Caterpillar
The
The
more
also
Revere Silas V oted
Full Support by Board
striking
Death
He rejected Reuther’s offer
McQuay-|
and
Departments
newly-formed
51
Borg-Warner,
Houdaille-Hershey
x
TROY
“If you will
ring Kohlér:
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Good WillWil of of Holid
Holidays
AIDES
Ma-
They
know
that Tadloch, age
27, with a wife and child and another on the way, was murdered
by that giant of the electrical industry, the Westinghouse Corpora-
attended Christmas parties held in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, theaters. All the toys in the picture are handmade—by retired Ford workers at a Drop-In-Center.
NEW
and
better.
THESE YOUNGSTERS took their second consecutive Christmas on strike in stride. They are some of
the 2,900 sons
and daughters of Kohler strikers who
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Workers
Radio
MASS
ARRES STS OF
PICKETS
BY
POLICE
anxious to please the powerful Westinghouse Corporation are taking place daily in front of many Westinghouse plants. This photo shows arrest of IUE picket
by East Springfield, Massachusetts, cops. Strike is
now three months old. At Columbus, Ohio, plant, one
striker died after being beaten by “deputies,”
a
tu
a competitor's
“The
s
of
Kohler
tub,
Co.,
bathroom
manufac-
fixtures,
refurnishing the bathrooms
their own products.
is
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expected
room
suite
to
Herbert
occupy
while
K,
the
visiting
are
with
Kohler
three-
the
city
in connection with the construction of the new Kohler plant (a
pottery only) near Camp Croft.”
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