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1956-02-01
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Vol. 19 No. 2
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VOL.
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Indictment
Right to Voice Political Views
Upheld by Federal Judge Picard
See Page Three
U.S. Lags in Developing Peaceful Atom Uses
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Speakers at UAW
Fair Practices and
Civil Rights Conference examine the U. S.
constitutional amendment which gquaran-
tees everyone the right to vote. Left to
right: William H. Oliver, co-director of
the UAW Fair Practices Department;
Congressman Charles Diggs, Jr., Brendan
Sexton, UAW education director, and
Roy
Reuther,
ordinator.
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AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Layoffs, Short Work Weeks
Gripping Automobile Industry
Layoffs and short work weeks increased sharply
While
posed
idled among the auto producers alone.
Additional
pliers.
thousands
little pink
Start.
The
refiect
hav e
9e
ise
recalls
slips before
ployment.
Short
work
throughout the
eludmg &auto’s
weeks
industry—inBig Three—
mean ‘additional losses in the
incomes of UAW members.
The Packard Division of
Staudebaker-Packard was planning to shut down entirely for
two
full weeks
Automobile
as The United
Worker
went
first
farm equipment, too.
While General Motors, Ford
and Chrysler are boasting of
their pace-setting profits last
year, all three are setting a
slow pace in employment. All
have substantial numbers of
laid-off workers.
GM and Ford, which relied
more heavily on overtime than
Chrysler, have had to lay off
fewer workers, but Chrysler,
which had a high percentage
of new hires, is no deeper into
the seniority list.
The claims of ‘‘employment
stability’’ advanced so boldly
during negotiations for the
Guaranteed Annual Wage are
not being made now as the
necessity of stabilizing income
44,320 figure does not
the full drop in em-
to
press. This is a substitute for
short work weeks.
A continuation of the decline in farm income is havying a bad effect in the agricultural implement industry.
There is considerable unemployment in plants making
many
to
be
jobs
are
easier
sup-
and
less
hazardous in this age of automation, some work is headed in the other direction.
New York has become the
been laid off by parts supall indications, more workers will be getting the
From
| se,
Hold That Isotope!
in the automobile indust ry this month. Latest figures compiled by the U AW show 44,320 workers
.
state
to
pass
a
code
to
protect workers from on-thejob
hazards
of atomic
and
radiation.
other
beeomes so obvious.
Many of the auto industry’s current troubles stem
from the super promotions
of past years. Approximately $14 billion is owed on the
cars now on the road. Until
potential buyers own a bigger percentage of the cars
they’re driving, many will
be staying away from the
show rooms.
Automakers anticipate a
rise in sales—and employment
—early this spring. That is
scant comfort to workers haying a cold winter.
EYE-OPENER on the air! Guy Nunn, right, and
his assistant, Joe Walsh, are shown here over the
shoulder of engineer John O’Rourke in the Solidarity
House studio as they produce the UAW’s morning
radio show, Eye-Opener. The half-hour program of
news, records, and information for the worker now is
heard Monday through Friday on 38 radio stations.
U. 5. Lags in Developing Peacetime Use of Atomic Energy;
Action Needed Now fo Assure Safer Future, Reuther Warns
The United States is ‘‘not moving
with speed and determination to
convert atomic energy into an instrument of peaceful progress,’’
Walter P. Reuther, UAW president,
said this month.
“In
struggle
munist
speed,
man’s
cisive,’’
the
eold
war—in
against
the
freedom’s
forces of Com-
tyranny—speed, all possible
in harnessing the atom to
peacetime needs can be dehe said.
Reuther was a member of the
Panel on the Impact of the Peaceful
Uses of Atomic Energy, set up by
the Joint Congressional Committee
on Atomic Energy. Although he
joined in the report of the Panel, he
filed with Senator Clinton P. Anderson, chairman of the Committee, a
“*Separate Opinion.”’
Reuther advised the Panel that he
wished to exercise the usual privilege accorded to members of such
advisory groups in submitting on
his own behalf a separate statement
of views concurring with the Report
in general, but differing in conclusions and emphasis on particular
points.
REUTHER’S
cess to low-cost
REPORT stated that acnuclear power may prove
the key to the economic development of
backward
areas and make possible the
liberation of millions of people from poverty, hunger, ignorance and disease.
He
felt that
the
Panel,
while
headed
in the right direction, did not set its
sights high enough in terms either of
what
needs
to be done
or of what
can
be done to provide atomic power for
peacetime uses in the shortest possible
time.
“America’s leadership is essential if we
are to block the Communists
in their
efforts
said
to
forge
Reuther’s
ing
@
now
for
ideas:
The
to
the
nuclear
e
Our
opinion
United
give
poverty
leadership
energy;
interest
urgency of, and
tion of progre
peaceful
hind
@
uses
of
that of other
The
reflected
States
development
in,
into
is
of
power,”
the
failing
to
the
peaceful
awareness
he
followup
until
program
uses
of
of
the
actual concrete realizain the development
of
atomic
energy
countrie
development
of
nuclear
lags
be-
power
here in America is essential to keep pace
with the power requirements of our expanding economy;
@ We
all
need
to enlist the participation of
segments
the
free
of
capabilities
enterprise;
our
economy
of both
the
including
government
dissipation
and
of
our
strength in ideological warfare over the
Tespective roles of government and private enterprise is a sure-fire formula for
standing still here in the United States
while the rest of the world moves forward
in
atomic
practical
energy
e@ The
steps
the
to
once
human
government
to guard
have
needs;
is obligated
against
the practical
energy
application
been
to take
monopoly
possibilities
of
control,
of atomic
demonstrated,
and
to
make sure that consumers are protected
by effective competition in the sale of
nuclear
@
power
Steps
ment
must
gineering
A
be
other
be
taken
immediately
shortage
e
and
made
and
to
the
govern-
the
acute
trained
scientific,
thorough
study
technical
careful
by
to overcome
of highly
and
atomic services;
personnel;
determine
the
en-
must
safeguards
that need to be established to protect
workers in atomic energy installations
against the health and inheritance haz-
ards of radiation.
REUTHER
Soviet
Union
WARNED
capture
that
the
position
ership in the field of nuclear
potent
weapon
of
should
the
of lead-
power, “This
economic
penetration
would be used to further enslave millions
of people and could dangerously shift the
center
of
world
balance
to
of the free world.
“Only with the initiative
ship securely in the hands
and the free
that nuclear
world,
power
the
can we
will be
used
as an
instrument
of
economic liberation rather
than a weapon
of political
enslavement,” he said.
“We must make full use
of
the
capabilities
government
and
of
both
of
private
enterprise,’’ he said. “It
would be tragic to destroy
this great
opportunity
for
national
world
achieyement
leadership
and
by
dissi-
pating our strength in ideological
warfare
over
the
respective roles of government and private enterprise.
That
is a sure-fire
formula for standing still
here in the United States
while the rest of the world
moves
tical
forward
energy
application
to
Reuther
early
in the prac-
human
noted
research
of
atomic
needs,”
that
and
the
experi-
mental phases of the program
are primarily government responsibility.
“I SUGGEST
policy
liance
of placing
on
that the AEC
private
primary
re-
enterprise
jeopardy
and leaderof America
be
certain
at this stage of development be subjected to early review and reappraisal
by the Joint Committee,” he said.
Reuther pointed out that one year ago
“TOTAL POWER requirements in the
United States will expand at a tremendous rate over the next 25 years,” he
added. “We shall need nuclear power to
development of atomic reactors for
generation of electric power.
“But
no private power
reactors
tion of the public interest from monopoly
control as operation and testing of fullscale demonstration
reactors
begin
to
the AEC invited private enterprise to
submit proposals for participating in the
now
under
construction
completed
the
initial
and
none
stages
of
meet those requirements.”
The Reuther opinion called for protec-
the
are
have
show
duced
design,”
he declared.
While he supported the recommendation that the United States cooperate
with and lend assistance to other friend-
ly nations
in
atomic energy
their
efforts
for peacetime
The
is dangerously
at
are
not
home,”
he
understand
position
building
in a position
said.
how
of
der-developed
by
America
the
building
in America.”
power
countries
a
level
of
nuclear
at
a
that
to
leadership
in
can
plants
if we
our
be
have
United
source
States
economic
of
power
in order
growth.
for
un-
to keep
in
pace
deficit
shortage
engineers
is reflected
American
three
comparably
not
and
of
tech-
national
in the fact
universities
and
and
the
times
as
many
students
in
qualitative
job
of training.
“If these reports are true, this is a
frightening and dangerous situation, for
the struggle between freedom and tyranny is both real and for keeps.
industry
use
alarming
Opinion
the fields of engineering and physical
sciences enrolled in their higher schools
of learning than does the United States
and that the Soviet Union is doing a
The UAW president also stressed the
need to develop atomic energy as a prac-
tical
scientists,
1955
mately
technology
power
of the
Separate
Soviet Union graduated 34,000 in these
fields,” he said. “A reliable educator reports that the Soviet Union has approxi-
in a
in
in
be pro-
colleges graduated 27,000 engineers
scientists, while it is reported that
to ex-
loss
can
commercially competitive
president's
educational
of leadership
am
technological
nuclear
advanced
“I
power
nicians in the United States.
“THE SERIOUSNESS of our
pect America to achieve and maintain
@ position of leadership in the world if
we
notice
competent
to develdp
uses, Reu-
unrealistic
a
UAW
took
that
“such
a foreign
program
would
parallel and possibly exceed the capacity
installed during
the same
period at
“It
nuclear
on
basis.
ther took issue with the Panel conclusion
home.”
how
“As
our
the
a
practical
educational
shortage,
with
I
Congress
ation
would
step
in
deficit
and
like
to
give consideration
of
a
broad
overcoming
and
manpower
suggest
that
to the cre-
comprehensive
system
of federal scholarships
to be
awarded to students on a competitive
basis,” the Opinion said.
“Such scholarships would
on the condition that, upon
be granted
completion
of their education and training, students
would
be obligated
to serve wherever
their
If
training
their
overcome
skill
services
manpower
peacetime
be
and
the
were
teacher
needs
of
atomic
obligated
to
was
most
needed
to
rtage
AE
or
military
programs,
serve
needed.
they
help
the
or
would
wherever assigned
for a period of one year greater than,
and in lieu of, the period of the normal
military service.
“IF THEIR
implementation
gram,
abroad
they
services
could
for
a
of
our
period
be
were
needed
foreign
assigned
equal
to,
in the
aid
pro-
anywhere
and
in
lieu
to
de-
of, the period of normal military service.
Such
a program
would
expand
our
trained manpower base and enable tens
of
thousands
of
young
velop capabilities to
tively their country
human freedom.”
Reuther
tecting
also stressed
workers
stallations
against
itance hazards
in
the
Americans
serve more effecand the cause of
the
atomic
health
of radiation.
need
of pro-
energy
and
in-
inher-
February,
UNITED
1956+
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
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UAW’s Right to Political Expression
Upheld by Judge; Indictment Dropped
are legal, Fed-7
Political activities of the UAW
in
ruled this month
eral Judge Frank A. Picard
dismissing an indictment against the Union handed
up last summer by a Federal Grand Jury
rebuff
people
The decision was the fourth judicial
against. those who would deny to working
their democratic right to express their political
views and convictions through their unions.
It was a blow to the plans of people like John
Feikens, Republican political boss of Michigan; Arthur W. Summerfield, U.S. Postmaster-General
and one of the Republican Party’s national bosses,
of New Mexico,
and Senator Goldwater
chairman
of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee,
who had hoped and were already trying to make a}
smear of the UAW’s political activities an issue in
the 1956 campaign.
UAW officers welcomed the decision, stating they had
neyer had any ddubt as to its outcome. They said:
“Judge Frank A. Picard’s dismissal of the federal indictment against the UAW upholds the right of a democratic
union to present its views on candidates and issues to its
members and to the public through normal channels of come
munication.
UAW SINGLED OUT BY GOP
“His eminently fair and soberly deliberated judgment is
the fourth rebuff handed by federal courts to those who have
for partisan political reasons sought to hamstring the legitimate political activities of labor’ organizations and to deny
union members the right to express, through their unions, inf
fashion, their political convictions.
democratic
‘Although Judge Picard did not rule specifically on
the constitutionality of the section of the law invoked
against the UAW, he took judicial notice of the fact that
all the federal judges who have given final decisions in
the earlier cases have at least questioned the law’s constitutionality. This includes the nine justices of the
United States Supreme Court.
“The fact that the government undertook to prosecute
the UAW in the face of these three earlier decisions lends substance to our earlier charges that the Attorney General acted
under pressure from the Republican Party and, specifically,
Arthur E. Summerfield, U. S. Postmaster General, and John
Republican
Feikens,
boss in Michigan.
Party
“Although we deplore the fact that political desperation
led Feikens and Summerfield to make this attempted assault
on basie constitutional rights of working’ people, the UAW
made it clear from the beginning that it welcomed this opportunity again to test the law.”’
UNION
MET
The
UAW
ISSUES
ON
HEAD
to
to resort
on, disdaining
the issues head
met
legal technicalities. The Union did not dispute the facts alleged in the indictment. These were that the UAW had paid
for,
out
of
its
general
funds,
television
programs
on
which
candidates for U. S. Representative and U.S. Senator in the
1954 campaign appeared and on which the Union made
known its views with respect to candidates.
The Union's contention was that it not only had a
right but a responsibility to make known to the membership and to the general public the political views determined through the Union’s democratic processes, and
that it was violating no law in doing so. Or, if this was
a violation
Judge
enough
the
Picard
to
the
PLAYING
the
about
observers
the
he
it.
POLITICS
law
indictment
constitutionality,
doubts
Some
then
supported
dismiss
law’s
graye
of a law,
indicated
WITH
believed
YOUR
that
strongly
there
were
and
Summerfield
had little hope of winning the case but pressured the Attorney General into initiating the action in the hope of making
of
the
political
capital
tion that
the indictment
This
trial
action,
would
indictment
these observers
drag
through
said,
would
the
not
and
was
a
based
subsequent
on
be dismissed
campaign
with
no
trial
the assump
and
that
decision
the
be-
ing reached until after the 1956 elections, By then the damage to the Union and to democratic rights would have already
been done,
The dismissal of the indictment is a setback to any plans
they had to play polities with the judicial processes,
Wirephoto
Applesauce Makers
Know
UAW
negotiations
with
major
aircraft
companies
E
are
Canneries
center
that
when
‘
the ground’’ with talks already underway with Douglas As
craft Company, North American Aviation, Sikorsky, and the
Long Island, N. Y., Fairchild Aviation plant. Vice-President
Leonard
Aircraft Department, headed?
the Douglas Council negotiating committee when Union
proposals
were
presented
Douglas, January
Oklahoma.
conducted
Tulsa and
are
being
on alternate weeks in
Long Beach, California.
Representatives
eal
to
17, in Tulsa,
Meetings
Unions
at
of all three
Douglas
Lo-
plants—
148, Long Beach;
1093, Tulsa, and
Tulsa—are
participating
1291,
jointly for
talks with
in
time
the
first
the
Douglas
the
manage-
ment
North American received
UAW
demands, which include
proposals on employment and_
Union security,
ments,
and
a
month.
wage impr
compreher
program,
e
early
Vice-President
Jack
Conway,
director
Woodeock,
ad-
ministrative assistant to UAW
President Walter
P. Reuther,
and Joe Tuma, assistant director of the UAW
Aircraft De-
of the
UAW
ee
partment attended the opening
negotiations session February 13.
Chance-Vought
negotiations also
are scheduled to get underway
this month in Dallas, Texas.
Close
UAW
cooperation
and
between
the International
the
Asso-
ciation of Machinists, the nation’s
two main aircraft unions, marked
the start of West
Coast
talks.
Late last
delegates
month, more than 100
from
all West
Coast
locals of both Unions met in Hollywood, California, to familiarize
themselves with each other's de-
mands,
Roy
Brown,
that
much
vice-president,
gates
of
sion between
UAW
in the
IAM
told
of
regional
the
the
dele-
dissen-
the IAM and the
past was “delib-
erately fomented” by the “organized employe
to weaken
the Unions’ bargaining position
and pledged that the IAM and
here
Onions
it
the
America
comes
successful
Washington—
in
workers
are
know
learning
their
to
strike.
applesauce
onions
conducting
a
Settlements
this
month
place
the following on the list of “fair”
brands of applesauce: Apple Time,
Apple
Crest,
Stokely,
Skookum,
Monarch,
Case
Choice,
Tasti-Diet,
&
Swayne,
Maid
Rite,
Pratt
& Low,
Balboa,
Lady’s
Million
Star,
Ample and Apple City.
Most
other
brands
are
here,
too—but
bor.
still
with
made
scab
la-
Racine Local Ratifies
New J. 1. Case Pact
UAW
new
the
J.
cine,
Local
I.
Case
of
day-work
12
has
ratified
agreement
Company
Wisconsin,
increases
on
180
two-year
calling
cents
rates,
to
shift
premiums,
contract
Agreement
reached
tendorf
and
Rock
by
and
remains
cents
locals
Illinois.
of
timing
higher
improved
Illinois,
unsettled
Burlington,
Island,
Ra-
wage
18
previously
UAW
a
with
increases
pensions, and arbitration.
Only
the Rockford,
plant
in
for
10 cents
to 18 cents
in
rates
for
pieceworkers,
night
M.
Their
SEBASTOPOL,
Get ‘Off the Ground’
Woodcock,
RIGHTS
Feikens
Aircraft Negotiations
this
Union’s first contention
While he did not rule on
Press
LONG BEACH, California—Waist- deep i in oil slick and flood water, firemen (left
foreground) are shown battling flames at the Ford Motor Company plant here January 27 while fireboats join in the fight. The fire followed an explosion which occurred when oil-covered flood waters swept into the plant and short-circuited a
transformer. Four workers and three firemen were stightly burned and the Company estimated damage at about three million dollars. Production was resumed
February 6 after a week-long layoff of more than 1,750 workers.
health-medical
unconstitutional.
was
Associated
at
«was
Bet-
Iowa,
i
the UAW
will now cooperate
on a basis of friendship
and
trade union principles.
Newspapers in Same Boat
There was an implied warning in Judge Picard’s decision to anti-labor newspapers and corporations that unAmerican attempts to stifle the expression of political
views and convictions by working people might boomerang.
He said;
“
. it has been pointed out... that to interpret this
statute otherwise than has been done, is to jeopardize not
only the right of every newspaper to print any political
editorial during a campaign in which federal officers are
elected, advocating one adversary over another, but it may
also make remarks or speeches of any delegate or representative to a convention or gathering (other than a political meeting) subject to this Act, where the expenses of
that delegate are being paid for by a union or corporation,'’
“You know our rules,
Hank. I have the seniority,
so 'm bumping you out of
this job!”
‘Little Orphan Annie’
Maybe Needs Spanking?
ir 1 the
l-ey
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=
in
\
Deal
Vrite
first
kille
¢
more
at
gets
even
unst
out
spoke
rugged
od of}
honest-to-gosh,
had only the
‘‘interference’’ with the
sinessmen who really
sovernment
ist
indiy
New
Warbueks,’? who
is resurrected
and
regularity,
same
the
with
ngly
Daddy
regularity
mazing
itl
;
make
to
early
in
strip
this
into
her
and
career
ous.
way
its
de
e
us A
days
€
erises
enough
as
Ss
Polities
whose
Sur wavs
i
t
heart.
People who quit reading comics when they quit being
funny are quite shocked when they learn the depths the
art has sunken to in recent years. Monsignor George GHiggins, writing in Catholic newspapers recently, report-
|
ed on his discovery:
The
Annie
diact
humorless
PEGLER—WITH
Monsignor
Higgins
way
ze—or
rook
below
that
this
unions
gangster-ridden
]
bias.
anti-union
‘Little
It
else.
It
YET
cited
that
used
to
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come
was
like
be
an
broken
English
if any,
news
vers,”’
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which
said
a
free
country
YOUNGSTOWN,
the
until
the
by
Wes-| |
column
several
shades
hundreds
of
section, which
think
of looki
SOME
papers
e
the
Soon,
in
the
OF
of
of
actu
comies
perhaps,
we
a feature
appear
may
honest;
column.’ ,
would
gall of
NOT MY
agree with
newspapers,
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ms STILL
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McAULAY
Editor
PHOTOS—James Yardley
Smith, Jerry Dale, Robert Trever,
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sgregation
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GEOR
MERRELLI
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PATRICK O'MALLEY
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NORMAN
B. SEATON
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FRANK WINN, Editor
CHARLES BAKER, Managing
Members:
LETNER
WILLIAM
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LES BIOLETTI
ROBERT CARTER
ED COTE
MARTIN GERBER
CHARLES H KERRIGAN
HARVEY
KITZMAN
STALE—Russell
Members
Newspaper
Guild,
Jim
AFL-CIO
Richard
rally
“Only
public
President
Attorney
the
vital
The
a
rider
said.
clear
Mahon——
can
funds
to
lweltare
nae antage,”
must
be
placed
He
states
also
position
by
{9 any
in
conforms
funds
state
such
that
with
by
12.000
Retirees
Latest
figures released
National
Ford
Summary
Get
should
the
UAW-Ford
by Ken
workers
Retirement
-
Early
(between
age
*36
in
policy
the UAW
The
be
takes
no
granted
decision
action
of
the
reveal that almost 12,000
benefits
as of December
60-65) _____
a
process,
(on desegre-
director of the
pee
under
2 <1
ae
the
1, 1955, shows
Total and Permanent Disability-_...______
Total
-__new applications
the
UAW
Pensions
Bannon,
receive
Plan.
of retirements
the
Supreme
Court, provided
that
finds should be made available
to such school districts as con-
Department,
retired
partisan
hold s.r that
which
of
added.
Children
conyentions.
policyx
|
oppor-| jn defiance
to every American child)
regard to race, color or|
Ford-UAW
and|
0 660
95
1,131
-. 11,892
a
|
the
by the
remove
explained
for
-
above
AFL-CIO
federal
he
considerations.”
ary-c 10
AFL-C
opportuni-|
them
ofmoar
resolutions adopted
children, and, second,|
provide
“The
political
per-|
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t
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exploit
political
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unequivo-
and a ruling
General
can
confusion
we
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adopted}
will]
educational
a™yone
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Normal (age 65 or over)_-___
the At-
is unneces-|
and
:
Bill
1s
UAW-Ford
whic h|
clearly
statement
present
president,
secretary-treasurer, Ohio State
declare}
p1 inciples
we
:
can
UAW
emphatically that the anti-segre-|
$1.00.
Entered at Indianapolis, Ind.,
Act of August 24, 1912, as a monthly.
WALTER P. REUTHER
EMIL MAZEY
President
Secretary-Treasurer
RICHARD GOSSER, PATRICK GREATHOUSE
NORMAN
MATTHEWS, LEONARD WOODCOCK
Vice-Presidents
AFL-CIO
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that they are prepared
to direct|
Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, affiliated
the appropriate
federal
agencies
with the AFL-CIO.
Published monthly.
Yearly subscription to memaccordingly,
then
obviously
the}
to non-members,
matter under the
an
Jacobson,
Presi-|
to
amendment
j adequate
the House |
STATEMENT NEEDED
“If the President and
torney
*
fndamental
com-|
desperately-needed|
the
kill
~
to Education
on
on?—————————
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prohibit use of
states or school
to
legislation.
W ORKER
before
called
educational
a tates || how
“hte
York) has
will amend
An amendment
probably
AUT: OMOBILE
at
= -
Brownell
1
how
comes
which doesn’t
eral‘
funds in
—
has
desegregation | ties for our
Powell
(D.,New
nounced that he
FREE COUNTRY—YOUD
Jom
Send
Attorney
Congress is expected to act on) tunities
a Federal Aid to Education bill| without
in this
session.
Re resentative] creed?
has
Office: 8000
that
Court
+
| decision.
Council; Hyman
—
an anti-segregation
districts
the
J
CIO
president,
a Federal
government
with
‘
2
belieye
school
Ohio
————
UAW
and
without
the
Supreme
nny again
Publication
}
tricts
2 Societ
er
they
miti
ply
|) “Qigut ro WorK AT a Goo
Wanna
raised
Segregation?
Reuther,
tak
whether
and
fun-
UNITED
dent
by Congress
How
about
WWLS?
The
“*“We
was
Demands Administration
Position on Aid to Schools
Walter P.
Mary Worth and Alley Oop
plugging right-wing politieal candidates, or Rex Mor
gan, M. D., spouting the
AMA
$9,000
Council, and Phil Hannah,
—
About
UAW
State
never
you GOT
[a eree Coury! WE GOT
or
or
secretary-treasurer,
ing County United Labor
Federation of Labor.
GALL
course,
(a) the
who
or
find Dixie Dugan and Joe | 48a
=
THe
Palooka trying to make | ,2
seabs
it
LOTS
at an editorial
of people
read
running
by millions of people who would
Not
everyone,
Higgins’ estimate
ally
blandly
is read
HAVE
number
:
Rooney,
of color.
States would have the gall to m in this sort of propaganda_in |
their editorial columns, and oyly a small minority would
permit a columnist to get away with it over his ees
Yet
estimated
26, United Steelworkers; Michael Lyden, president, Ohio State Federation of Labor;
Ray Ross, president Ohio CIO Council and Director of UAW Region 2A; John R.
“* in the United |
he continued,
Ohio—An
here late last month for Westinghouse strikers at Sharon, Pennsylvania.
Getting
ready to enjoy box lunches are: Left to right, James P. Griffin, Director of District
crudest
the workers*to|
foreed
and
and}
racket
18 episode
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illustrated
to]
be-|
of children,
December
along-and
er—in
P.
the
political}
is caleulated
-
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a
into
millions
umpteen
with
is,
degenerated
PICTURES
(excerpt
possible
matter
ages of 5 and 65, that all unions are a
is threat to our American way of life.’’
re
Annie
the
not—has
or
impression
the
tween
or
of
lemonstrably
w
leay
of
fact
it
elieve
WORKER
the
Annie,”’
Or;
AUTOMOBILE
clad
lion
streets—a
l
skirts
nv
ED
UNIT
4
Page
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|
(his
,
@oaeo
t
ots
cascoun/
area of pending legislation.
President
is morally
obli-
gated to make a statement and
the Attorney
General is likewise
obligated
In
fying
to make
the absence
statement,
a ruling.
of me ha clari-|
the UAW
will |
urge the enactment of legislation
providing
specific
safeguards
against
federal
tion being used
Supreme
stated,
Court
funds for educain violation of the
decision,” Reuther
TWO PRINCIPLES
President Reuther pointed out
that
Federal
Aid
to Education
must
be
approached
with
two
COPYRIGHT 1955 CARTOONS OF: THE MONTH
“You serious about wantin’ a couple of days off?’’
|
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UNITED
‘February, 1956
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
|
Page
GM of Canada
Strike Settled
;|
BULLETIN—TORONTO,
Ontario—The
5
17,000
striking UAW General Motors workers won a resounding victory here at mid-month when negotiators agreed to contract terms after 148 days of
the walkout.
““We have accomplished what we set out to do,’”’ George
3urt, Director of UAW Region 7, said in announcing the
pact. ‘‘We have brought General Motors up to the level of
the
wages
and
working
conditions
tors—and beyond.”’
The settlement established
Canadian
THE HISTORIC first meeting of the UAW-Ford Joint Board of Administration
for the Supplemental Unemployment Benefit plan gets underway in the Guardian
Building, Detroit. Attending are, I. to r., Company members and alternates, NeeAs
O'Reilly, Richard Johnston, Richard Leutheuser, William Hampton, Jim Osborne,
and Malcolm L. Denise; Bob Moran, of Local 600, and UAW Joint Board members,
John Orr, vice-president of Local 600; International Representative George Nixon,
and Ken Bannon, director of the National Ford Department, and technical advisers
Nat Weinberg, UAW research director, and Leonard Lesser, legal consultant to the
Social Security Department. The board is making plans for putting the UAW-Ford
plan into operation June 1.
Florida Gives Friendly GAW
MIAMI, Florida—AFL-CIO
board members meeting here
got a present in the form of a
favorable ruling on the Guar-
anteed Annual Wage from the
attorney general of this state.
in
eighth
the
was
ruling
The
states where UAW -members protected by contracts with GAW provisions reside. Florida has 42 Ford
parts depot workers and approxi-
by other
Key
officials
states
following
the
in
pay-
Michigan, New York, Mass-
ments:
Delaware,
achusetts, Connecticut,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
No
unfavorable
been
rulings
received.
have
Similar rulings are being studied in other states. In Ohio, where
reactionary
tort
state’s
a
failure
plemental
Three
to
overhaul
system
conducting
feasibility
ment
tried
dis-
the
into
failure, a state commission
now
the
to
compensation
a GAW
is
groups
and
of
integrating
state
Supplemental
Benefit
go
into
hearings
plans
effect
benefits.
on
sup-
auto’s
June
1
SUP
Big
pro-
and
be geared
state
benefits
can
reside.
was
The
enough
Michigan
for
ruling alone
Chrysler.
Ford
and General Motors workers are
close to having the necessary percentage
hensive
together in states where
two-thirds of the covered workers
of
coverage.
the
maximum
a
worker
of
22
is
additional
recalled,
he
starts regaining benefit credits at
the rate of one for each two weeks
worked.
The Union finally
ing workers.
was able to wring an honorable
settlement out of the monopolistic
company.
“The writing off of this money
as a strike contribution concretely
all
solidarity
the
demonstrates
of
commented
workers,”
union
secretary-treasurer
Mazey,
Emil
“We recognize that
of the UAW.
a strike anywhere against intol-
strike,
our
is
conditions
erable
too.”
Inside Information
On ‘Inside Detroit’
in
Auto
motion
a
is
Hollywood
trying
Workers
and
called,
“Inside,
troit.”
Clover
other
with
viewers
picture
picture
take
to
De-
Productions,
Leaf
which makes low-budget films,
to get this
tried for a month
Union
UAW
which
film, is trying
and
lieving the
with UAW
Since
economic
increases
Burt and E. S. (Pat)
Vice-President: Leonard
dozens’’
package
ranging
is 25.7
up
an
cents
an
to 40 cents
hour,
hour.
Patterson, administrative assistant to
Woodcock, said, there are “‘literally
agreement.
in the working
of improvements
These
UAW skilled trades apprenticeship program.
Local Union contract ratification meetings were being
scheduled as The United Automobile Worker went to press.
D.
Ham
C., at
which
and
eggs will achieve historic status in Washington,
the
7th
April
begins
education director.
International
UAW
21, according
Education
to Brendan
Conference
Sexton,
UAW
act, according to Education
Director Sexton, through
a breakfast with Congressmen
Plans now nearly comwhich will feature the Conference.
pleted provide for breakfast table conferences between the
3,000 UAW delegates expected to attend the Conference and
their Congressmen and Senators.
In most cases, the UAW education director declared,
the breakfasts will be relatively small affairs with the
delegates from a particular congressional district sitting
down for a face-to-face breakfast and discussion with
their own Representative and Senator over ham, eggs,
toast and coffee.
This will be one. of the largest lobbying operations eyer
Ham
undertaken
it will
signed
eggs
and
in
get
into
Washington,
members to be better citizens and
acquainted with their constituents.
The ‘‘breakfast lobby,’’ Sexton indicated, will only
be one aspect of the Conference which is one of a series
of events to commemorate
the
Sexton
said,
but
more
to be better
Congressmen
An
the
open
air
Washington
Sunday
morning
Monument,
20th anniversary.
the UAW’s
meeting
speeches
by
in the
world
shadow
famous
tifie and political leaders, a historical pageant
>
music festival and a ‘‘Hall of the Future’? will
the Conference program.
it’s
the
distributes
the
into
be-
to mislead
public
was
movie
sanction.
and labor
round out
important
be a ‘‘disinterested’’ lobby in the sense that it is denot to put over a particular bill, but to enable UAW
UAW
made
your
dollar
the
inside information
side Detroit,”
about
“In-
boys
for a Buck”
“Anything
hope
to get, we
trying
are
you'll be guided by the above
of
scien-
to endorse the film. The
refused. Now Columbia
Pictures,
locals
for the
care
OV)Va Vat ey)
SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 1956
ey
PY VA
TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1956
CWA paid out over $8 million in
strike benefits to the 50,000 strik-
telephone
doctor)
to the
the
strike,
72-day
the
During
the
trades
Inter-
contribution by the UAW
national Executive Board.
The contract:
include job transfer rights, a form of job posting, and the full
a
skilled
of
strike
outright
an
as
off
written
benefit
weeks.
to
cost
been
has
last year
will
with
The
Workers of America during that
Union’s strike against Southern
Bell Telephone
which
@ Pensions are improved to $2.65 a month in payment
for each of the first 25 years of service. The extra 40
cents is to compensate for weaknesses in the Canadian
Social Security system. After 25 years, the rate is the
same as in the States—$2.25 a month.
to the Communications
UAW
visits
whole family.
by
made
loan
of a $500,000
for years to come.
(including
UAW Writes Off
Half of CWA Loan
Half
principles
competi-
The plans provide 65 per cent
of take-home
pay
for the
first
four
weeks
of eligibility
(state
benefits plus SUB
benefits)
and
60 per cent of take home for the
rest of the eligibility period up
Once
Unemploy-
in
vided
its Canadian
@ Firmly launches the Guaranteed Annual Wage in Canada under the same terms as UAW’s pace-setting
contract in the United States.
® Brings the General Motors improvement factor in Canada up to the same level as in the United States for
the first time. It is six cents, effective immediately and
additional six-cent increases on August 1, 1956, and
August 1, 1957.
® Begins to catch up with U. 8; wages through special
inequities increases.
@ The 5 per cent and 10 per cent shift differentials are
established in GM of Canada for the first time.
© It contains an eighth paid holiday.
® The health-medical plan is vastly improved with GM
paying one-half the costs of semi-private, compre-
Bene-
Unemployment
plemental
Sup-
that
ruled
now
compensation
unemployment
The
unions.
tiated
have
nego-
contracts
similar
by
ered
cov-
workers
other
1,800
mately
state
with
in conflict
not
fits are
Ruling
workers
of
The seventh and most-significant UAW International Education Conference
Page
UNITED
6
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Does
the
Constituti:
mean what the words
in all states, to all citi
and enforced?
Those,
700
Fair
ata eigenes
Grand
basically,
delegates
Practices
Rapids,
welw
to the ¥ a:
and Civis
Michigait
with a resounding,
"YES
UAW President
r
}
for better federal leq?)
crimination, educatioin\¢r
commission on civil rij"
out the letter of the ):1
"So long as Ameri} qt
ship, we give the Coy)
in the struggle for thi!
In reply to those who piw
President Reuther compela
rights. He declared th
effect on careless drive}
so far.”
}
ine
SPEAKERS DECRY LAW
Emil Mazey, secretariy
President Leonard Woop<
in
PRESIDENT
REUTHER
ae
ba
eer
,
tells delegates of need for better federal legislation
covering
segregation,
discrimination,
and for a permanent commission on civil rights to act on problems and to carry out’ the letter of the law
recent Michigan Fair Practices and Civil Rights Conference at Grand Rapids, Michigan.
UAW
of UAW
VICE-PRESIDENT
Region
1D, and
a booklet showing Negro
IN ADDITION
Roy
se
nee
Leonard Woodcock; Kenneth
Wilkins,
progress.
executive
secretary
Robinson,
of NAACP,
director
discuss
S
education,
in the opening
housing,
session of the
Mississippi
where
Neji”
justice protects the guill}
Mazey demanded thabi
be removed from the Sei@
placed “under a Congipr
continue “until the righitr
established and maintaiti
“What we need is (i |
MARY KASTEAD, Det roit Federation o f Labor board
member; Bill Oliver, UAW Fair Practices Department codirector, and President Reuther take a break.
to listening to featured speakers which included top officers of the UAW,
ik.
the delegates to the Third Bi
igan Fair Practices and Civil Rights Conference participated in workshops like this where they could thoroughly discuss the problems they
face in their shops and communities.
APPROXIMATE? 1
ference which was jo);
nation Department. }) |
February,
UNITED
1956
Ey.
—
States
of
Bla#ting
dent
the
fgsing, and a permanent
») on problems and’ carry
“fed out:
es second-class citizen_ 1 psychological weapon
id minds of men.”
alone is the answer,
in
wa ghway death rate and civil
ti
with a badge has more
>
©
éetails
Ed
Crow”
should
executive
Rights
of the Emmett
a discouraging
Mississippi
fo vote,
mute...
stand
is as clear
the theme of the Conference—and
by other speakers—Brendan Sexton,
Roy
Reuther,
Lieut.
Governor
Phil
Hart,
That
political
and
Fair Practices
the
secretary
of
the
Conference,
went into
Till murder
picture
of
Senator
and
political
paint-
dis-
Eastland
is
‘'not
the
not
in
the
Sen-
dataphoice of 497,000 Negroes of voting age in
i22\2ciMississippi,” he said. "lf they had the chance
ate
to
as
Eastland
would
back
any
in
po-
action
it was reUAW edu-
coordinator;
ADOPTED
and
William
U.S.
Oliver,
Anti-Discrimination
BY DELEGATES
Justice
go-director
a four-point
Department,
through
Depart-
resolution,
the
Eastland Not Their Choice
ufatinfranchisement in Mississippi.
211M)
issue
a time
Vice-Presi-
can be. And its solution is simple. It is that the
of the United States shall go to all corners of
director;
italational Association for the Advancement
» if Colored People, speaking at the banquet
wer delegates to the Michigan Fair Prac2egices and Civil
unity. This
is not
Eastland,’’
Attor-
ney General take immediate and appropriate action in the
admitted kidnapping of Emmett Till;
@ That the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate deny the seating of the entire Mississippi delegation;
@ That the entire Michigan delegation be called upon
to support such action;
@ And requesting President Reuther to issue a call to all
local unions to join the forthcoming Civil Rights Mobilization
in Washington, D. C.
ton) not study committees,”
16
"1956
cation
@
ly citizen in that state are
Wilkins,
unspeakable
And the delegates responded with
unanimously adopted, demanding—
‘fosiond (D., Mississippi)
ithe State of Mississippi be
Roy
said,
of false
RESOLUTION
of the UAW, and Vicein decried the lawlessness
31}
name
ment.
5
which
Woodcock
of the UAW
|
wrusteeship,”
at ''the
Congressman Charles Diggs, Jr.; Michigan FEPC Chairman
Sidney M. Shevitz; Mayor George Veldman of Grand Rapids;
put forth
"Jim
away
litical issue
Constitution
our land.”
That was
flected, too,
oMieuther, citing the need
wering segregation, dis-
is spilt and
7
can to mobilize the forces of our country to make certain that these blemishes on our democratic way of life
are erased."
‘iapstions confronting some
tolhial Michigan State-wide
wefeonference last month at
b .
answered all three
| the education
Page
Mazey declared in answering President Eisenhower's
State of the Union message, which called for such a committee. "We have to do everything in Mississippi we
America
e law of the land apply
1 the law be implemented
D9
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WORKER
for Ali?
Rights
botdlnited
AUTOMOBILE
be
4:0)
Out of those 497,000 Negroes of voting
19 (3. ge, only 22,000 were permitted to register
to
vote
in
1954,
Wilkins
down
to 8,000."
Wilkins told how
Negroes
in
the
reported,
1954
adding,
total of voting
Mississippi—22,104
(less
than
five per cent of the ahigibles | aves divided—
Thirteen
counties
had
9 counties had less than
no
STRIKERS
GET
REINFORCEMENTS
the picket line in the person of UAW
on
President Walter
P. Reuther. The strike, by Local 330, Grand Rapids,
Michigan, against the aircraft instrument firm, was
settled a few days after this photo was taken. Reuther was in town for a state FEPC conference and
marched on the picket line during a conference recess.
The face in the rear peeking over picket with hat belongs to Region 1D Director Ken Robinson.
103-Day Strike Ends in Victory
"And in 1955 it is estimated that this figure
was
LEAR
Negro
voters;
10; 28 counties
had
more than 10 but less than 100; 16 counties
had more than 100 but less than 500; 5 counties had more than 500 but less than 1,000;
7 counties had more than 1,000, with Hinds
County, where the state capital, Jackson,
is located, where 63,888 Negroes of voting
age live, having 4,014 Negro votes,
New Lear Contract Provides
‘Best Pension in Aircraft’
GRAND
against
RAPIDS,
Lear
Michigan —
Ine. ended
early
UAW
Local 330’s strike
this month
with a resounding
union victory. The strike, which had lasted 103 days, resulted
in a contract containing the best pension in the aircraft industry, according to UAW International Vice-President Leonard Woodcock, director of the@—
Union’s Aireraft Department.| worked for 1956 vacation
:
i
Region 1D Director Ken- credits.
cay
:
The pension plan, paid for
the
neth Robinson estimated
z
=
| entirely
by the Company,
pro-
cost of the contract’s econom-| vides for benefits of $2.25 a
ie package at “‘more than 22|month
per year of service,
cents.’? He said this was aj|fully vested for all workers
10 years’ seniority or
very conservative estimate, | With
=
more, regardless of age.
had
any
Comp
the
and that
placed
the
MONEE
.
97
ee
Lear
5
_ |Hebrew School Sponsors
Inc, makes electrome)
equipment
Contract
for
aireratt,
.
gains
Named
Woll
and
to} Reuther
closer
at
cost
.
obtained
NEW YORK, N. ¥—Daniel G.
Ross,
president
sity,
announced
Friends
of
the
of
the
Hebrew
the
American
Univer-
appointment
for the Local’s 1,800 mem- | recently of Walter P. Reuther,
and
president i of the UAW
‘i
=
hehead
and
r0
of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union
Gene
bers include a full
al Motors type’’
pension, | Department, and Matthew Woll,
includes
a
which
si
also
ately;
15-cent-an-hour
z
new
AFL-CIO,
the
of
vice-president
as national labor sponsors of the
straight 10-year vesting fea- | Hebrew University,
icanas naminaae
declan
tire the six-Cene im prove=it | purrmnoe
ment factor} seventh holiday; cost-of-living increase,
including an extra one-cent
increase effective immedishift
premium for second and
third shifts; an extra 10
cents an hour for the skilled
trades; wage adjustments
for individual classifications; $3,000 life insurance
and other benefits,
Lear
'ap’ lelegates, observers, resource experts
vscwsored by the Michigan
'y(ortion of them,
and
staff personnel
regions of the UAW
took
an active part in the three-day Con-
and the Union's
Fair Practices and
Anti-Discrimi-
ceive
workers
pay
for
will
one
also
@
re
holiday
spent on strike, Time spent on|
,
*
time!
as
d
counte
be
will
strike
“T'l] show these
union pickets
they can't hamper
‘
me!
Get
1*
a longer chart, Simpson!
Page
AUTOMOBILE.
UNITED
8
Wins
Coalition
WASHINGTON—The great body-snatch of Senator Francis Case (R., South Dakota) on February
7, the day after the Senate voted, 53 to 38, for the
Big Gas Gouge, proved how right had been the
UAW International Executive Board’s prediction,
February, 1956
WORKER
Probe
Trips
Gouge,
Gas
How Parties Voted
Here’s the political break down on
final passage of the Great Gas Gouge:
For
Against
January 11, at the start of the Senate debate:
“Tf the (Gas) Bill passes, higher gas*bills will be a hot
issue on the front burner in the 1956 campaign."’
The bipartisan coalition headed by Majority Leader Johnson (D., Texas), and Minority Leader Knowland (R., California), that had rammed through the bill without any
amendments to protect gas consumers wanted a full investigation of all, repeat all, lobbies and influences in the fight
over the bill about as much as they wanted another hole in
their heads.
Instead of thanking Case for making public John M.
Neff’s offer of $2,500 in $100 bills for Case’s 1956 campaign,
Johnson, Knowland and Senator Fulbright took out after
Case as if he, not Neff—or Neff’s former employer, the Superior Oil Company of California—were an offender against
the honor of the Senate.
Case shared with the UAW the brunt of the counter-
Republicans
__--
Democrats
31
14
24
38
The heavy GOP
ried the bill.
vote in favor car-
attack by the bill’s supporters, the UAW being damned
for full page ads denouncing the bill as robbery of consumers and for radio announcements urging consumers to
write their Senators.
When Senator Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. (D., Missouri),
tried to broaden the Johnson-Knowland resolution to investigate not only the Neff offer—they called it the Case incident
to cover all activity over the Gas Bill, Johnson’s tongue
—bnt
Hennings
amendment
But the harder Johnson, Knowland and
their allies try to drive the cork into the
Hennings investigation, the greater the pressure under the lid of a possible new and
greater Teapot Dome scandal.
to his
slipped. Speaking against the
resolution, Johnson said:
“T am of the opinion that the attempt to investigate every
Senator would be denounced by every thoughtful observer.”’
Hennings nailed this statement, denying he intended
to do that, but asked, ‘‘Why should we investigate the
Senator from South Dakota who stood upon the floor and
related the circumstances of his ordeal, and not inquire
into every phase of this unseemly effort to bring influence to bear upon legislation in this body? I see no
reason to single out one Senator in the resolution. We
should investigate the entire background. I think it is a
and others, Johnson and Knowland drove
through their narrowly-limited resolution by
a vote of 90 to 0.
Ina neck-and-neck race with Hennings,
who overnight had got his Standing Committee on Elections and Privileges into a
challenge to the integrity of this body. I believe we are
on trial today as to whether we desire the matter fully
explored or whether we wish to confine it to the Senator
from South Dakota.’’
Johnson then denied any intention to investigate the Senator from South Dakota.
But the next day, February 7, after the bill had been
passed and sent to President Eisenhower for signature, and
after demands for veto had begun to pour in from the AFLCIO, Governor Williams of Michigan, the ADA, newspapers
Ke
full investigation, the Johnson-Knowland
forces, backed by Vice-President Nixon’s
opinion
that
their
four-Senator Committee
had exclusive jurisdiction, snatched Case
away from the Hennings Committee’s first
open hearing and sealed Case’s lips for the
time being.
Kk
KK
a Senate
coalition voted down all consumer amendments and put through the Big Gas Gouge
of 1956 and the vote on each:
(1) The Potter motion to recommit the
bill, lost, 30-64.
(2) The Pastore Amendment to provide
that due regard should be given ‘‘to the
xk
*
Barkley, six
four right
(wrong
right;
on Nos.
Maine,
Smith,
1 and 4); Massa-
chusetts, Kennedy, six right; Michigan, Potter and McNamara, both six right; Minnesota, Humphrey, six right; Thye, five right
(wrong on No. 1); Missouri, Hennings, six
right; Symington, five right (paired right on
No. 4); New Jersey, Case, six right; New
York, Ives and Lehman, both six right.
North
Dakota,
Langer,
six right;
Ohio,
Bender,
six right; Oregon, Morse and Neuberger, both six
right; Pennsylvania, Duff, six right; Rhode Island,
Green and Pastore, both six right; South Dakota,
Case, six right; Tennessee, Kefauver, six right;
Gore, five right (wrong on No. 5); Vermont,
Aiken, six right; Washington, Jackson, six right;
Magnuson, five right (wrong on No. 1); West Vir-
ginia,
Kilgore and
sin, Wiley, six right.
Neely,
both six right;
(5)
ing
Here is the gas consumers’ Roll of Honor,
34 Senators who voted right four or more
times on the six roll calls in the fight to stop
the big Gas Gouge of 1956:
Alabama, Hill and Sparkman, both six
right; Connecticut, Bush, six right; Purtell,
five right (wrong on No. 5); Illinois, Douglas, six right; Indiana, Jenner, four right
(wrong on No. 1, absent on No. 3); Ken-
Wiscon-
be
‘‘fair
and
equitable,’’
lost,
33-59.
(4) The Humphrey Amendment to bar
price gouging by escalation, lost, 33-59.
The
more than
regulation
Roll of Honor
tucky,
prices
90
per
Douglas
Amendment
to
exempt
5,000 small companies, retaining
over 200 big companies produccent
of
35-58.
(6) Final passage
itself, carried, 53-38,
the
natural
of the Big
gas,
Gas
lost,
Gouge
in the
week
before
Hampshire,
final
Senate
*
vote
on
Bridges
and
Cotton;
New
Mex-
ico, Anderson; North Carolina, Scott; North
Dakota,
Young;
Ohio,
Bricker;
Oklahoma,
Kerr and Monroney; Pennsylvania, Martin;
South Carolina, Johnston and Thurmond;
price of Superior Oil stock rose 120
the
wk
Here is the gas consumers’ roll of 61 Senators who voted
wrong three or more times in the fight against the big Gas
Gouge of 1956:
Wrong Six Times—Arizona, Hayden and Goldwater;
Arkansas, McClelland and Fulbright; California, Knowland
and Kuchel; Colorado, Allott; Delaware, Frear; Florida, Holland and Smathers; Idaho, Dworshak and Welker; Illinois,
Dirksen; Indiana, Capehart; Iowa, Hickenlooper and Martin;
Kansas, Schoeppel and Carlson; Louisiana, Ellender and
Long; Maine, Payne; Maryland, Beall and Butler; Massachusetts, Saltonstall; Mississippi, Eastland and Stennis; Nebraska, Hruska and Curtis; Nevada, Malone and Bible; New
Ticker Tape Tells Tale
points
against the bill. The list of speakers was
exhausted days before February 6, the date
set for final vote.
61 Voted Wrong
2 or More Times
Kak ik
WASHINGTON—The
motion to limit regulation to big companies, and the final vote on passage.
Although 38 Senators voted against the
bill and 34 Senators voted right on four or
more of the six roll calls, Senators Douglas
and Pastore could persuade only about half
of them to take the floor with speeches
kx
consumer interest’’ in determining the ‘‘reasonable price’’ of gas, lost, 40-53.
(3) The Potter Amendment to require
that
the Neff money, three motions to amend
‘the bill to protect the consumer, one
ok
This Was Route to Big Gas Gouge
Here are six roll ealls by which
The Johnson-Knowland coalition’s
earth-moving machinery was impressive
in the February 6 passage of the Gas
Gouge as its big wheels and shining
blades pushed aside a motion to recommit the bill pending an investigation of
the
big
Gas Gouge Bill, Senator Douglas told the Senate.
This Company had hired John M. Neff, who made the
$2,500 contribution to Senator Case’s campaign fund, in
1955 as its lobbyist in Nebraska.
The Senate knew both these facts before it voted, 53 to
38, for the Gas Bill. It also knew, because Douglas told it,
that Wall Street ‘‘had the word”? the week before and had
bid up oil and gas stocks by the number of points shown:
Cities Service, 414; Continental Oil, 7; Gulf Oil, 6; Northern Natural Gas, 354; Panhandle Eastern Pipeline, 414;
Phillips Petroleum, 534; Pure Oil, 344; Sinclair, 2; Skelly
Oil, 3; Socony, 454; Standard of Indiana, 274; Standard of
California, 274; Standard of New Jersey, 1044; Texas Company, 734; Sunray Oil Company, 174; Superior Oil, 120; Sun
Oil Company, 214, and Warren Petroleum, 6,
Texas,
Johnson
and
Daniel;
Utah,
Watkins
and Bennett; Vermont, Flanders; Wisconsin,
McCarthy.
Wrong Five Times—Colorado, Milliken
(ill and paired); Delaware, Williams, right
on No. 2; Georgia, Russell, right on No. 6;
Montana,
Murray
and
Mansfield,
right
on
No. 2; New Mexico, Chavez, paired wrong
on No. 6; Virginia, Byrd, right on No. 6;
Wyoming, O’Mahoney, right on No. 5.
Wrong Four Times—Georgia, George not
voting on No. 2, paired right on No. 6; Kentucky, Clements, right on Nos. 2 and 6;
South Dakota, Mundt, right on Nos. 4 and
5; Virginia, Robertson, right on Nos. 2 and
6; Wyoming, Barrett, paired wrong on Nos.
5 and 6,
Wrong Three Times—North
Carolina, Ervin,
right on Nos. 2 and 5; paired right on No. 6,
Smith, New Jersey, was absent in Brazil,
*
|
i
ic
a
ikl
Dec
February,
UNITED
1956
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
By UAW at Borg-Warner
,
Lieutenant
Michigan
Sides;
Everett
President
Lo-
James Collins, retired member;
Left to right are:
cal
this month._
hall in Flint, Michigan,
$200,000
Governor Phil Hart; UAW Vice-President Léonard
Woodcock, and UAW Political Action Coordinator Roy
Reuther, himself a member of the Local. The hall
stands directly across the road from the new Chevrolet plant opened by GM last year.
More
than
10,000
UAW
members
GM
plants iow are covered by F
President
Pat Greathouse, ne
Warner Department.
and Wise
guage
must
4 | Morris
{ | cal)
on
be
at
all
287,
plants,
pensions
out
Warner
Gear
unit
but
and
worked
Chain
Indiana;
| Broducts
at
in
Stone
GAW
Local
-in
were:
Lo-
225,
Muncie,
phis,
Local 729, Ingersoll Steel
at New Castle, Indiana,
All
fits.
| full
Union
| sion
plan
| were
contracts
Shop
made
in
ing
Ce
4
Woodcock R ips Dual Unionism’
At Local 659 Hall Dedication
Society
North
calling
itself
of Skilled
America,
the
Trades
can stand together
'
into
fields,
and
the
have
now
of
he
is
a
comes
has attempted
corporations.”
offered
poor
great
standardizing
strides
pen-
to calling
diversification,
aircraft
also
was
and
by
when
collecRve
bargaining.
Woodcock branded
as false the
__claims that UAW’s bargaining has
“closed the gap between production workers and skilled trades-
GAINS
the director
General
Motors
you
1
the
between
assembler
increases
hour;
the
$143
every
it
enjoyed
$1.10
wages
the
an
have
hour;
the
elec-
an
hour;
the
pat-
an
hour.
another
way,
dollar—inyvested
dues,
and
an
$1.77
“Putting
I can
1936
totaling
$1.44
fernmaker’s
Union's
Nas
diémaker’s
increased
trician’s
of our
Department,
that
“wage
production
in
for
UAW
worker
received $56 in wage
incre
the skilled tradesman has rec
for every
one
dues.”
dollar
has
in UAW
Woodcock referred Auto Workers to history for proof that the
eraft-union
method
of
bargaining
fails to do the job for industrial
workers,
“An industrial union is
made
up
“We
to
prophesied
must
the
of
minorit
give
problems
For
of
equal
* he
each.
said.
attention
Only
that by
and
other
along
with
pensions
collective
had
|GM
cited
Harlow
President
before
the
which
Curtice
committee
Senate
listed
the
2, 1
Woodcock.
“And
want
them
the shorter
purposes,
|.
Executive
Board
\.
America (UAW),
@
In
held
up
move-
to
to
scorn
cripple
history,
the
pointed
1903,
federal
| right
he
}if
= | Act,
}the
FOREST
PARK, Georgia—Thousands
of members,
friends and families, and area citizens turned out for
an open house as UAW Local 34 (Chevrolet) startéd
the New Year in a modernistic new building. W. A.
(Slim) Henslee, Local 34 president, announced that
because of the success of the open house, the Local
plans to make it an annual event.
|
“adyan-|
one we}
it
) the
AFL-
out,
@
the
of
day
would
a
man
to
the
Social
In
of
1933,
Emergency
is
Meany
the
against
the
the
fighting
longer
Acts,
Labor
“freedom
an
with
Public
Security
for
ex-
ground
work
Standards
Child
the
setting
interfere
new Chevrolet
Contracts
Act
Act,
for
NAM
all
and
in
work5
opposed
Work
Relief
for
extension
pointed
the
out,
Act.
the
retived
hall includes
workers,
offices
of
| Employes
Federal
Credit
and a family lounge.
Local
asked
to
President
that
the
further
the
Everett
building
principles
the
Union
be
Sides
used
of
in-
dustrial
unionism
in the memory
of the
late Tom
Brown,
former
financial secretary and: trustee of
Local
659, and
of
the
late Terrell Thompson, an early
president
by! of
the
we'l 1 just
Local.
call ourselves
decided,
therefore,
to
‘‘The
affix
to our na me
Agricultural
only
when
Implement
legally neces-
c
Workers
of
of
laws on equally
“right-to-work”
false grounds that it is defend‘ing the workers’ freedom.
an ‘auditorium seating a thousand
persons, a plush recreation
room
for
.
opposed
on_the
wanted to
The NAM fought
Now,
NAM
NAM
legislation
name
| ers.
the
la-
AUDITORIUM
oye
|i
and
ef-
“tirade
union
designed
Walsh-Healey
sary. In all other matters our Union will be known as
“The UAW.”
The full name then: International Union, United AutoAircraft,
Meany
Labor
|}
mobile,
recent
NAM
trade
president
| that
the
affiliation AFL-CIO
by an
the
eight-hour
UAW.”’
That's the decisiog of the International Executive
Board—a decision prompted by the need to avoid confusion with the UAW-AFL due to the AFL-CIO merger.
Recent news stories have referred to that organization as
the UAW-AFL.-CIO.
The
own
claiming credit
for is
work week,” he said
INCLUDES
The
the next
Americar
NAM
has
fought
progress
working people. He cited as
| amples:
tages’
GM
“gave”
its
workers.
Curtice included “supplemental
unemployment
benefits,”
said
Just Spell It-UAW
most
CIO
it.
, in
the rights
of
| bor unions
|
Throughout
Curtice
on December
Manufacturers
his
met
legislation
and
sub-
Meany,
the claims of the NAM
that it
was defending workers through
“right-to-work” laws and similar
by}
.Monopoly
ChiIli-
Indiana.
George
of
how
been
ment,”
it|
testimony
447,
(PAI)—AFL-
freedoms
against
gains
‘
Mem-
forts to achieve
cooperation
between
management
and
labor
the
bargaining
Detroit;
it is defending
Telling
1958,
and
237,
Auburn,
YORK
workers.
GM
would be claiming credit for
supplemental unemployment
bene-
fits
unit;
Michigan;
484,
803, Rockford,
President
that
for the}
to do, with
then
Woodcock
REPORTED
“As
$79
nothing
of our Union.”
men.”
tell
I
have
8
314,
Association
GM management.
“When we pro-|
posed supplemental unemployment
benefits, this Corporation
said it
= would
and
Mlinois;
Gear
in 4 biting speech here, lashed
jout at claims of the National
the
that|
to sow dissatisfaction with
the industrial union method } didn't believe in our program
:
ene
|
of
to
Unions
renegotiations
42, Detroit
Tennes:
CIO
electronics
discussed
Local
NEW
moy-
|
evidence
the shots
delegates
Of Worker Aid
|
forecaster
to
Berg-
NAM’s Claim
have |
CREDIT
Woodcock
UAW
Meany Rips
tly:¢a—
=u...
workers.in the auto: induUs
outfit that creating a union in which these}
A maverick
Michigan,
Vice-
Local
Rockford,
nois,
FLINT, Michigan—The st1 rength of industrial unionism|
was symbolized in the dedication February 5 of a new hall to
serve the 15,000 members of C heyrolet Loeal 659, and UAW
Vice-President Leonard Woodcock used the occasion to strike
back at attempts to split skille d tradesmen from their fellow
TAKES
the
completed
Kalamazoo,
cago, Mlino
settlements,
language.
Company
GM
o
plans,
363.
porting
42.
jare equal
to or be\ter
than
the
| Big Three pattern im wages, pensions, GAW,
and insurance
bene-
these
Borg-Warner
GAW
Borg-Warner
still
| although negotiated separately, all
licked
12
reported
Local
Jan
Detroit;
Cleveland, Ohio.
The
Borg-Warner
we
type
director
| and Local 363, Pesco Products in
sprang
up in Flint
and|
cropped out elsewhere in
in
the quarterly Borg-Warner Council nieeting in Detroit last
month.
%
delegates and Chicago
was seStone, assistant director of
lected as site for the next Counlthe Council, reported that concil meeting, April 7-8, according
to
Chairman
Joseph
Greulich,
jtract negotiations are con-
j¢luded
minorities
9
GAW, Pattern-Plus Won
UAW LOCAL 659, Chevrolet, reviewed its role in
helping found the UAW at dedication ceremonies of
its new
Page
UAW and IAM representatives, currently bargaining with airevaft concerns on
the West Coas , got together to compare notes and bargaining goals in the first
More are
joint meeting of negotiating committees in Los Angeles last month,
planned. Shown here ave: Left to right, Roy Brown, IAM Regional vice-president;
Tommy Aycock, IAM Grand Lodge representative; Al Hopkins, president of UAW
Local 1151 at North American; Irv Bluestone, administrative assistant to ViceAirevaft) Depariment, and
President Leonard Woodcock, director of the UAW
Charles Bioletti, divector of UAW Region 6, (See story on Page 3.)
'
Page
10
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
February,
1956
|
Who's Embarrassed?
Late in 1955, a top-notch syndicated columnist put the
“Tell me—just how
bug on a number of businessmen
is business?”’
good
good, it’s downright
it
that
admitted
Motors
“General
November
in
Early
so darn
;
are
figures
“The
embarras8ing!”’
reported
she
replied,
One
likely would be the first corporation anywhere (of course,
we haven't heard from outlying planets) to make a billion
dollars in net profits
The bucks are all in and accounted for now—and GM
was right. Net profits—S$1, 189,000,000, some 48 per cent
more than 1954. Sales were up 27 per cent and earnings
per share on common stock were $4.30. That figure would
have been higher but shares were split 3-for-1 last Sep-
tember
But GM wasn't in the least embarrassed. Even with
the $1,189,000,000 record ne + income, 1956 model GM cars
are priced HIGHER.
Don’t call it ‘‘gouging”’ the public, though. That’s not
polite
Look at it this way—GM has answered the $1,189,000,000 question and_is willing to try for the $2,000,000,000
question—even if it hurts.
~ National Malleable Moves
Towards Mast er Agreement
s-cent.package
identical
but
rate
fhe long-sought
with
contract
all economic
on
agreement
master
language
which
is sepa-
a big step towards
matters,
&
Malleable
National
with
HURST, Texas—UAW President Walter P. Reuther had to don Texas-type
gear during a visit to UAW Local 218 at the Bell Aircraft plant here. In the picture examining cowboy boots are, left to right: Glenn Culwell, Local 218 president;
Noy L. Sparks, Bargaining Committee chairman; Jim Finley (behind Reuther),
president of Local 317; President Reuther, and H. A. Moon, International Representative. The Bell helicopter which delivered Reuther to the plant is in the background.
Steel Castings Company, has been announced by Vice-President Pat Greathouse, director of the National Foundry Deeo
partment.
Health Plans Inadequate
Contracts covering UAW
workers in four National
plants—Local 1210, Indianap-
olis;
350,
Park,
Illinois—all
units of
Chicago
Cleveland,
Local 453,
and
Steel
and
FORD
two
Malleable in
in
Melrose
expired
late
“Success
in
1955.
The
arate-but-identical
formula on
economic matters was
worked
out
in a memorandum
December 13.
Pensions were brought up to
the
Ford-GM
pattern,
wages
for
skilled
trades,
The
added
with
insur-
workers
plan
cost
amounts
to
public.
10.4
proved
pension
coverage,
the
Locals
benefits
have
Oliver
featuring
been
and
Certain
1095,
1096
and
shares
City,
plant
workers
Iowa,
affiliation
have
voted
from
the
|
UAW,
Vice-President
house,
director
of
Pat
Great-
ricultural
Implement
ment,
announced
has
The
new
pension
for $2.25 per month
service
and
$450
per
UAW
an hour for
Local
and 884 where the
failed to make-the
month
pension
ir
Workers
at
plant
Oliver
Comp
1953
ents
the
shares
back
to
$7,272,750
the
were
from
a share
ahead
Keak
ox
figure
isn’t
to $7,177,750.
quite
it up
at
by
$60.16%4
atives had worked
during
right.
negotiations.
with
the }
Department
UAW
selling
a
at
$21
can use
back to
which
at the current
Department
the
the
to
15,000
share.
O.
of his
That
cuts
public
Director
Ken
an additional total
and 1958, a special
Bannon
shows.
Mr.
money he made ($39.16% a share) selling
Company at $60.16% a share to buy more
immediately
makes
rate!
the
there
very
likely
program
near
future,
is going
to
be a round of collective bargaining negotiations in which improved
health
the major
sure that
protection
target.
one of
may
be
You can be
the first im-
ment.”
DISABILITY COSTLY
Some one and one-half
him
another
profit
million
American workers under 65 are
disabled because of illness or inon
almost
any
given
day
and the loss to the economy has
been estimated to be as great as
one-eighth
to one-fifth
of the en-
tire national income, he said.
Pointing
out that unions
know
These officials can purchase
$21 each during 1956, 1957,
Ford
‘‘In
element
that
productivity
is
in the determination
an
of
wages,
Pollack
reported that
some unions have established
their
own
medical
care
centers
but
to
that
health insurance plans
of preventive and*diag-
provide
most
are
Pollack, UAW
consultant,
Health
in
at the
Detroit
16th
late
last
today involved in wholesale
purchase of prepaid health services and are vitally #hterested
in seeing
to it that
these
bene-
fits do the utmost to prevent
well as to treat disability.
as
“These health insurance plans,
in striving for an insurable risk,
incorrectly
modelled
after life
and casualty insurance, overemphasize the more readily demon-
strable
medical
services
such
Ernest
return
couraged
by
deferring
compen-
sable
doctor
visits. The \ typical
health insurance plan pays benefits only for conditions requiring
hospitalization
tions,”
he
or
surgical
explained.
DISCOURAGES
opera-
EXAMS
“Thus, at the very time when
occupational health programs are
actively seeking to encourage as
many
employes
as
possible
to
come
for screening
and
diagnostic
the prepayment
examinations,
plans are preoccupied with measures to keep them away.”
of $43.50
THORNDYKE
R. Breech, chairman of the board, bought
of $1,174,500; Lewis D. Crusoe, William T.
27,000 for a
Gossett, and
Delmar, S. Harder picked up 22,500 each for a boodle of $978,750
each; John S. Bugas, John R. Davis, and Irving A. Duffy bought
18,000
each
and
bought
18,000 but
money one day.
per
quickly
sold
made
$783,000
15,000
back.
He
each.
Mr.
needed
a
Yntema
little
also
ME Keo ries ©
1096 |
The
Ford
family
wasn’t
left
out
of
this
multiplication
had | stock sold to the public came from the Ford Foundation and
its from the sale go to the Foundation,
But, in connection
pattern
per cent of all outstanding shares before
In dollars, the family gained $32 million
represent- |
:
x
You
can’t hardly get those kind
&
plan.
The
the prof-
with the
the family,
from
10.4
the split to 12.1 per cent.
in equity, on the basis of
remain
*
of deals no more!
in
1956
as
surgical operations.
Diagnostic
care
usually
is specifically
excluded.
Early
treatment
is dis-
If you don’t mind wading through the long green, perhaps we
can list what a few of the directors made on 1955 stock purchases.
Ag-
the Local
1955
Theodore
sale, the stock was split. The old voting sfock, all held by
the
Charles
City | was split 21-for-one; the rest, 15-for-one.
As a result, the family's equity in the Company
rose
overwhelmvoted
UAW
Security
said.
jury
fouled
Company
in
the public $64.50
warning, 166,500
$7,272,750.
ed there under UE but the con- September 30, 1955, figures, and, if dividends
tract closely patterns the UAW | they were in 1955, it means an extra $3 million.
since
pardon
xk *®
ingly to affiliate with the UAW.
Negotiations
had
been
complet-
contracts
will
permitted
The shares cost
spite of Henry’s
are
directors,
the profit total
shares
calling
year of
10
of
one
Yntema, then,
his $21 shares
year
for
disability
pensions,
brought
the total
package
to 27
cents
that
report
Depart-
plan,
per
Social
Bills
pointed up by Jerome
provements will be the inclusion
of preventive care under prepay-
example,
a group
workers
k
for
switch
to
the
as
Hold it a minute!
of 388,500 shares at
in
UE
if Ford
KK,
Charles
to
a PIP,
executives,
No-o-o0,
down
UAW
296
in
was
x
at $21—and
$21
with
*
buy 647,100 shares at $21 a share.
apiece.
Eight directors bought, in
South Bend, Indiana, and, Local
884 at Springfield, Ohio, and the
Oliver
key
Yntema,
GAW
and
it
im-
signed
Company
fact,
5
agreement.
agreements,
In
the abbreviation.
GAW, Pensions Won
In Oliver Contracts;
New Local Is Added
New
exec-
Henry Ford, HI, told the publie at one stage that they
shouldn’t consider buying Ford stock as a ‘‘get-rich-quick”’
scheme, but Ford directors went right ahead and bought, anyway. Of course, they did have a bit better deal than the
Humphreys and Leon Bates, who
assisted in the negotiations on the
three-year
Hospital
Weaknesses in current prepaid
covering workers, particularly lack
the Ford Motor Company
xk
cents an hour, according to International
Representatives
Bill
new
green hue smothering
to
get their actual rate for holidays instead of their guaranteed base, Paul Russo, assistant
director of the Foundry
Department, said.
Since the Company
failed to
make the 1953 pension improvements at that time, the new pension
Story"
Reduce
utive offices is merely a reflection from the mountains of annual Congress on Industrial
greenbacks (paper money, that is) which has engulfed top month.
executives as a result of the recent Ford stock issue to John
“Health security is very
Q. Public.
high on labor’s agenda,” he
in-
ance
and
shift
differentials
raised, and the seventh
paid
holiday
Can
nostic protection, were
creased six cents an hour, seven
cents
Advance Diagnosis of [ls
STOCK
what
COPYRIGHT 1956 CARTOONS-OF THE MONTH
“What this house needs is automation!”
February,
UNITED
1956
s
z
Pa
WORKER
Page
Oy
§ Sidney Margolius
SHEBOYGAN, Wisconsin—The cracks are be-@——_______
ginning to show in the stone wall of Kohler Com-|
as
pany’s resistance to the strike of its workers.
With
the second
spring
buying
Easy to Back
Kohler Boycott
|
of the strike inal
ahead, Kohler Co. is disecovering—the hard wa
—that reerniting seabs won’t settle industrial disputes. Its sales have
been headed steadily downward.
season
With many recent buyers of ears still paying for them,
the 1956 models aren’t moving out as fast as cars did last
year. Trade experts tend to blame the fact-that 1956 cars
are basically the same as the °55’s, and changes are expected
3athtubs are stacked three
in ’57. They believe people are afraid the 1956 cars won’t deep in parts of the plant | stands. The response has been|
terrific.
|
never stored |
were
tubs
where
have as much resale value if drastic changes appear.
Kohler workers have- received|
But while this may be one factor, another is that family before. A steady decline in letters—and
donations—from
all|
the
at
And
peak.
new
a
reached
have
cars,
nt
for
rise}
gradual
a
and
shipme
chiefly
debts,
over the country. All have prom-|
average
The
in returned ware shows the} ised increased support. Donations |
same time car prices were jacked up for 1956.
wage earner is now paying out 12 cents of every take-home nationwide ‘‘Don’t Buy Koh- range from those in four figures
dollar on installment debts (not including mortgages). The ler’? campaign is having a to one for $5 from a Texas plumb- |
er who
wrote, “I'd like to send|
effect. Almost more, but I’m temporarily out of
average family’s installment debts jumped 18 per cent in devastating
three years and it now owes $700. But since 57 per cent of daily, Local 833’s boycott work.”
here receives KOHLER PRESTIGE SLIPS
the families have all the debts, the average family that does headquarters
generally buy on time, now is in hock for $1,240, or about 30 additional evidence that in-|
The
Kohler
workers
youth}
creasing numbers of people chorus, formed since the strike,|
per cent of its annual income.
view the name ‘‘Kohler’”’ on has traveled over much of the}
INDUSTRY MORTGAGED FUTURE
plumbing ware as a dirty Midwest in response to requests
By reducing down payments and stretching out payments word.
from
state
councils.
In
every
SHEBOYGAN,
It’s
bor-
industry
auto
the
months,
42
even
as 36 and
rowed business ahead. The only real winner turns out to be
the finance companies, now collecting their money plus 12-18
per cent and sometimes much more.
But for the family that is in position to buy, needs a
car now, and plans to buy for a long term and thus is not
primarily concerned about next year’s trade-in value, the
opportunity to secure substantial discounts has come
earlier in the year than usual. Ordinarily the biggest
discounts are availablé in June and July when dealers
get worried that next year’s models will soon be breathing down their backs. As a matter of fact, because the
factory’s
dealers
Since
even
now
so-called
the
compare
their
add
prices
“list”
net
actual
cost
(after
trade-in
no
price
longer
Make sure
model and accessories you select among several dealers.
this net or final price includes all charges (handling, delivery, finance,
preparation or conditioning, excise and sales taxes, and accessories).
LIST
PRICES
JUST
STARTER
©
Even the list prices in the table with this article, reluctantly released by factory representatives, are not an exact guide because
some factories include the conditioning or preparation charge, while
others bill it separately.
for ’56, aside from safety gimmicks, is a further
Chief change
horsepower.
in
increase
compression
The
has
engines
of most
ratio
raised
has noticeably
Plymouth
this year.
again
increased
been
its torque so that it is now in the Chevrolet and Ford fast-start class,
and the Plymouth six, at least, achieves its high torque at comparatively low rpm’s. The high torque of the 1956 cars would be a great
help in making a getaway from a bank holdup, or in just being first
from
some
'56 models
dimensions
Body
though
even
compact
most
the
pop-priced
the
of
all
big
but
level.
UAW
is
convinced
showing
what
pany
unity
can
members
trade
unionists and
friends,
ing
to “request
your
ac-
which
buying
public
not
the
to
its
councils
have
taken
similar
first
district
in
left
sales
six
ture
the
of
switched
TO
to
straight
SUPREME
Frustrating
efforts
manner
to
the
Koh-
Kohler”
available
at
the
litera-
Local
plumbingware
distributors
on
and
outlets to push other brands.
Kohler Company faces troubles
other
fronts.
The
United
States Supreme Court this month
agreed to hear the UAW’s court
jurisdicthe
challenging
action
tion
ment
Relations
decides
court
‘Employ-
Wisconsin
the
of
Board.
Union,
the
for
If the
top
the
WERB injunction limiting picketing will no longer be in force.
As THE
BILE
the
Board
WORKER
National
resumed
unfair
against
managers’
UNITED
One
labor
Kohler
of
the
AUTOMO-
went
Labor
its
practice
Company.
longest
this
approach
court
pressure
on
of
action
the
Relations
year-long
detailed cases in NLRB
the
to press,
the
is
and
case
most
history,
end
of
another
Company.
commission.
COURT
Kohler
Company
growing
tendency
ramrod
is
is
Buy
sales
for in
tow-
formula
sin.
En-
executive
is the
833 Boycott Headquarters, 729
Center St.,,"Sheboygan, Wiscon-
as
The
Kohler
a dealer handling
projects.
“Don’t
the
years.
of
lerware, advise him that it is
seab made.
Urge councilmen and school
board members not to install
seab-made goods in municipal
er grim faced. Instead of being
on salary and commission as in
the
past,
they
were
reportedly
plumbingware and products.”
Other building trades unions as
well
as
industrial
unions
and
state
to look
plumbingware.
managers
other
Kohler
increase.
tells what
conference
purchas-
buy
sales
at
goods.
following
discover
Kohler
Company
is trying to
stem the rising tide of opposition
by sending its top executives on
speaking tours. Recently it held
your
employers,
laughed
boycott
UAW
deVeloped here:
Just tell your
friends
not to buy
plumbingware or engines with the Kohler of Kohler
label.
If you
joying a wide circulation
is a
Local
833
leaflet,
“Beware
of
Perpetual
Bathtub
Ring,’”’
to the United
Association
of
Plumber and Pipe Fitters, Union
President Peter T. Schoemann
urged
being
competitors’
here that we're
labor
is
the
sales
in
this
Revere
Contract
value
settlements
from
15.1
to
Strike
with
15.3
cents
economic
an
hour
Settled
packages
have
ended
ranging
strikes
in
by
more
than 2,000 UAW
members in four plants of the Revere
Copper & Brass Company, Charles Kerrigan, director of UAW
Region 9A and the Union’s Copper & Brass Council, reports.
All
eight
workers
cents
vacations,
receive
for
sick
an
skilled
and
11-cent
tradesmen.
accident
and
across-the-board
Improvements
life
other contract provisions. Automatic
included in October, 1956 and 1957 in
The
plants are
Chicago
and
vember
9.
27
while
the
located
Lockport,
strike
in Detroit;
Illinois.
started
in
were
won
plus
in
insurance,
pensions,
and
increases of six cents are
the three-year agreements.
New
Detroit
New
increase
Bedford,
workers
Bedford
and
Drawing by Hank Weber, a Kohler striker
Massachusetts;
went
out
Chicago
“That’s been standing here
October
on
No-
'
since April 5, 1954. Nobody
wants it until the strike is
won.”
of
Chey-
and
four,
high
strike,
for
The
back
again
Plymouth
with
changed,
little
are
length
over-all
in
longest
rolet
bear this out.
traffic
in city
consumption
gas
high
of
Reports
it unrestrainedly.
a
the
spokesmen
833
of Kohler
Union
have been
called on to
discuss
the
strike
issues
with
other unions.
In the industry, Kohler Com-
use
if you
eater
gas
be a big
it will
But
light.
a traffic
away
“We're
the
for
allowance)
at
of
during
International Representative Don
Rand sums up the optimism:
you
that
it’s vital
reliable,
are
running
cars.
of
prices
list
to
advertising
months
low
region,
to
Wisconsin—
its
that
writer
this
to
admitted
representative
zone
22
never
tions, labor
unity
here
takes
the concrete
form
of help in
the “Don’t Buy Kohler” campaign. In a complete
mailing
chanics are more familiar with them.
However, it’s become difficult to know how much discount
you actually get. Many dealers now ‘‘pack’’ the list price
before granting an alleged discount or overallowance on your
old car. They do this in various ways; by exaggerating the
list price of the car itself; by adding fake charges to your
bill, such as the ‘‘handling fee’’ of up to $125 some dealers
are charging; by inflating prices of optional equipment; by
charging exorbitant finance fees.
One
the
here,
In addition to tens of thousands of dollars in cash dona-
and me-
have fewer ‘‘bugs’’
experts believe they may
Morale
HELPFUL
complish.”
car
some
changed,
drastically
not been
have
models
56
PLUMBERS
UAW
easy
Local
be
to as long
II
Cracks Begin To Show
In Kohler Co. Cold Fron
a
as
4
AUTOMOBILE
Studebaker
have
about the same 115-inch wheelbase, Studebaker is 116.5.
As the specifications table with this article shows, Studebaker has
lower horsepower than Chevvy, Ford and Plymouth. But its compensation
Ford
to save
In
short-stroke
A
eights.
piston
selecting
and
engine
wear.
engine
your
and
sixes,
of the
piston
scrutinize
itself
by
a class
reduces
car,
own
in
engine
stroke
shortest
the
has
practically
now
it’s
is that
its
is considered
of
light
in the
features
of the
Chevyvy
and
travel
economy
gas
in
your own needs. Try out and examine the various makes for maneuverability; preciseness of steering; stability at high speed, on curves
and in winds; visibility to front and rear; power and smoothness of
and
braking,
HOW
accessibility
THE
Price*
1956
engine
of
components
POPULAR-PRICED
WheelBase
Inches
Over-all
Length
Inches
Over-all
Width
Chevrolet6
$1,835
115
197.5
74
Ford 6
$1,820
115.5
198.5
75.9
Plymouth
$1,867
115
204.8
74.6
$1,969
1165
200.75
71.31
V-8
V-8
V-8
Studebaker
6
'
repairs.
for
CARS
HorsePower**
LINE
Comp,
Ratio
140
8tol
137
Btol
170
173
Maximum
T
ue
210 at
2400
8tol
257 at 2200
Bto1
260 at 2400
125
7.6to1l
101
7.8to1
180
UP
202 at 2400
8tol
200 at
1600
152 at
1800
260 at 2400
*Factory-delivered price of lowest-cost 4-door sixes with standard
transmission
including
federal
excise but not
state or local taxes,
transportation nor optional
make are about $100 more.
**Manufacturer's
transmission,
equipment,
advertised
Copyright
rating
Generally
for
engine
1956 by Sidney Margoliua
8's
of
with
the
same
standard
A BRIGHT FUTURE
a Kohler striker’s family
lies ahead for Linda Katherine Kattreh, first child born to
in 1956, Sharing the general optimism are Mr, and Mrs,
Orville Kattreh and daughters,
Diane, 5; Kathy, 3, and Christine, 6.
Page
February,
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
12
t
1956
Civil Rights Demonstration
Set for W ashington, March 4-6
month
next
ton
director
Reuther.
rector.
=
with.
the
nority
Nati
e
sponsoring
discrimination
ele
Assem-|
ESS
Marva.
£Or,
mune
4, 5, 6.
“the
Condemning
Congress and
to act on vit
civil rights 1
cited
“th
groes
M
in
Con
rights
EIGHT
cent
y
Rights
the
islative program
an
conference
eigt
any
institution
Constitutional
against
leg-|
facilities;
Lynching
inspired
and
acts
other
of
to
tax, and
protection
to
@
of
the
right
Establishment
Rights Division
ment of Justice
to
protect
vote;
a
Civil
in the Departwith authority
civil
rights
in
country;
the
of
eee
of
“The
influence
individual
than
upon
the
all
|
j
PAUL,
Wil-
of
land,
could
Mlinois,
forced to testify
Communists
pose is to ‘
Watkins,
about
the
if
who
ed
being
gress
in
when
he
pur-
them.
flatly
a Communist,
be
former
only
‘expose”’
being
of
not
denied
was
refused
|
$$$
ever
convict-
contempt
of
Con-
to discuss
political views of people he
knew.
He rejected efforts by the
eric an
House
UnAr
Activities
the
in
Committee
tell
wh
tain
pe
19.
» get
own
ons
The
Court
to convict,
“must
plead
held:
number
jon
not
tinent
to
dis-
ized.”
The decision
sure
tempt
inquiry
individuals
or
hostility
per-
author-
continued,
questionable
of
not
“It is} |
whether
expo-|
is a valid
legis-
to
public
con-
lative purpose.’’
The House
Committee, the decision pointed |
out, does claim “an
power of exposure.”
independent
2,500
with
two
Lo-
workers,
the
20,000
other
Allis-Chalmers
In-
in January
ex-
Council
met
STILL A GOOD CAP despite the fact that Walter
Farmer, now a UAW retiree and a veteran of 49 years’
service with Ford, will no longer wear it on his daily
in
and
stint as a machine repairman at the Rouge plant. He
grinned as he confided that it might come in handy
doing some painting and decorating around his Livonia home.
Barker
UAW
is president
Local
1316
of
at Ce-
at
LaPorte.
sold
Ford Veteran of 49 Years
Gets Top Pension Benefits
Walter Farmer just turned 68. He retired from
after 49 years of accredited employment—the oldest
at
recently
Right-to-Work
Add
North
(PAI)—Father Robert Wilken of
St. Benedicts Church in a talk at
a communion breakfast here said
so-called
“right
to work”
laws
“undue
state.”
bor
all
The
unions
but
rect
cleric
have
by
the
that
“la-
proven
an
added
been
necessary
the
family
interference
problem
agency
of
to
cor-
inadequate
income.”
Walter
is a widower
$52.50
additional
a
as
curity
husband’s
ble
wife's
monthly
grand
Se-
monthly
Buck
Drive.
15 CENTS
total
AN
press
operator.
although
He
he’s
was
Bond
$100.00
Savings
Bond
$ 50.00
Savings
Bond
acre
a
as
of
sel,
not
dvenue,
Detroit
to UAW
14,
Michigan.
Entries
Department,
must
be
YOUR
machine
repair-
Rouge
plant.
times
his
some
That’s
starting
49
years
—in
a
trim,
cement
block
a suburb
land
with
spic-and-span
and
it’s
all
home
of Detroit.
surrounded
of
white-
by
as
of
a
an
trees,
navy
ves-
for.
Farmer’s
UAW
The
almost
lots
paid
in
advice
members,
to
based
on
from
like
good,
aman
who
sound
should
advice
know.
Crusade for Freedom
‘Headed by Matthews
|
UAW
Vice-President
Matthews,
co-chairman
Michigan
| Campaign
| to
; bers
organizations
the state,
to
| drive
urged
support
to
jigan’s
|
Crusade
for Freedom
Committee, in a letter
labor
|out
Norman
of
the
raise
1956
through-
union
the
$600,000
Crusade’s
as
quota.
Matthews
pointed
|“Radio-Free
Europe
| governmental
mem-
is
Mich-
out
organization
a
that
non-
broad-
casting
the truth about
democjracy to the satellite nations of
the Soviet world through a num-
ber of transmitters in Western
Europe.” The Crusade for Free|dom
campaign
is so efficiently
|run,
tically
no
later than
midnight, March 4, 1956. Yn vase of duplicate prize slogans, the entry with
the earliest postmark will be awarded a prize.
WIN A PRIZE—MAIL
$2.64%4
Ford’s
Seems
absolutely
8000 East Jefferson
postmarked
paid
member, is “Stick by your Union,
and your Union will stick by you.”
Bond for each of the six next best slogans,
Political Action
a
Walter
his 49 years of work at Ford's
and some
15 years as a UAW
|
Send your slogan
at
as
18
home's
her
then earn-
or less for our UAW
Savings
Savings
rate
being
the
Livonia,
in 1888,
remem-
PRIZES
Ist Prize ____-____--..-$200.00
Plus a $25.00
at
painted,
bers when he first started at the
Ford Piquette plant as a drill
Your slogan may be used on the official button for
_......
man
young
1956 Political Action Dollar Drive.
3rd Prize
hour
daughters
HOUR
Born in Texas, back
the UAW senior citizen
ing,
2nd Prize
or
was
retired,
Farmer
lives with his oldest
son—he has two sons and four
Social
benefit,
Farmer
before!
entitled
of
he
per
rate of approx-
cents.
When
almost
last
half
15
Walter
have to do is write a catchy slogan of 10 words
Political Action
imately
since
be
he'd
Otherwise,
to an
Carolina
certain, an hourly
a monthly Social Security.
payment. of approximately
$105, which he’ll be paid
under the new schedule, and
you'll see that his dream of
Florida and California in
the wintertime can become
a reality on a monthly income of $215.
year.
Bad
to his pension check
$500.00 IN SAVINGS BONDS
UAW SLOGAN CONTEST
All you
the
Laws
BURLINGTON,
were
Ford's
worker
in terms of service who has yet retired under the Ford-UAW
Retirement Plan. And, through the UAW-negotiated pension
plan, Walter Farmer will get a monthly check of $110.25.
PRIZES...$$$
witness
were perti-
are
Rapids
1319
International
the
answer
the
UAW
“In
inquiry
authorized. . . - In our opinthe questions
Watkins
would
very
cer-
the
to
these
have
dar Rapids and William Walden
is president of new
UAW
Local
circuit here
the
governand
prove
that the questions
would
not answer
had
to}
unists
to be
Appeal
order
ment
nent
him
UAW
the new
in at-
S.
Rock Ts-4
from
united
Clarence
Minnesota—Hogs
on the banquet
The court ruled that - John T. Watkins,
representative
Depart-
tended a welcome to representatives of the Cedar
Rapids
and
LaPorte Locals who were guests
at the meeting.
Court of Appeals here this
month handed down a decisic mn Which—had
it been made
earlier—could have trimmed tl ie wings of Senator MeCarthy
hefore he started grabbing Page 1 headlines.
U.
be
representing
Cedar
U.S. Court Supports Right .
Not to Become Stool Pigeon
WASHINGTON—The
will
with,
tra-Corporation
Congress
the num-
delegates
complied
The
Civil
attendance,
the
even though they wouldn't bring that on
the market.
The Democratic Farmer-Labor Party here, at a $25-aplate testimonial dinner for Governor Freeman, agreed to
give one $25 dinner ticket to farmers for a hog. Some 530
farmers turned up to swap hogs for tickets to hear exPresident Harry Truman blast the GOP farm program.
Many of the farmers came into town bringing their
“In Ike We
hogs in trucks which bore signs reading:
Trusted—Now We're Busted.’’
|
be
made federal offenses;
@ Abolition of the poll
$25
|
race-
violence
of
ST.
public
the
UAW
the
of
Implement
been
On Banquet Circuit
|
defying
in
to
director
Hogs Hit $25 High
have|
prohibition
segregation
the
Indiana,
by
of executive
UAW
members
in
eight
Allis-Chalmers plants.
People
of states and Congressional
tricts represented.”
lishment
of an effective
fed©
eral FEPC;
@ Withholding of federal funds
from
call
with
Greathouse,
cals,
of
for
Colored
assembly
on
the
depend
less upon
ber
estab-
through
equality
Job
to
a
asserted,
the
will
the three-|
seek
of
wide
tendance
pint
which
will
enacted
@
kins
secretary
Rapids,
ment, announced.
After legal formalities
of
House
Allis-Chalmers
plants at Cedar
Agricultural
rule
majority
and
Pat
Assembly.
Urging
“the
has}
unions to
delegates;
all UAW local
one to three
.
Association
joined
issuing
Rights
is now.”
yn
National
in
years.
75
interstate
executive
(NAACP),
crimes
human-
piece of civil
in over
and
Advancement
of Ne-
fact that.
United States
in
two
boards and the membership have
switched affiliation to the UAW
from the old UE, Vice-President
of
forms
in
Iowa, and LaPorte,
overwhelming
vote
Roy Wilkins, chairman of the
Leadership
Conference
on
Civil
POINTS
Reuther
@
of]
Reuther
and
Company
ISSUES CALL
WILKINS
federal
murders
I T as
for
Urging
send fi
day
needed
legislation
need
Representatives.
Administration
lation,”
ss of the
acted as
not e
The
the
failure
Senate
the
in
March|
in the nation’s capital,
for
Provision.
@
remaining
other
and
*ravels
be held
t
a oa
au
aa, =
phy
in
groups,
segregation
mi-|
and
civic
of
Two Ex- UE ipeale
At Allis-Chalmers
Vote to Join UAW
Workers
:
Rights.
@ Elimination
national
fraternal,
labor.
of a permanen
Creation
@
on Civil
Federal Commission
church,|
50
of
posed
ee
com-
Rights,
Civil
on
ence
o———
is cooperating’
ConferLeadership
L cs Ie = eet
»
co-di-
Oliver,
Tl.
William
and
.
:
UAW
The
of
President Walter P.
Practices and Anti-
UAW
Fair
g urged by
the Union’s
is bei
Department,
Discrimination
1,200 locals
more than
to be held in ae ashing-
by the UAW’s
rights assembly
tion
civil
Full partici
unions in a huge
SLOGAN TODAY!
he
said,
no
that
there
administrative
Robots Want
are
prac-
costs.
Union
CLEVELAND,
the advantages
Ohio—Explaining
of his Company’s
clared,
“Their
electronic
brains
checks.
They
can
correct
}new
can
the
machines,
a
salesman
de-
do everything. They can work
machines.
They can add up
the pay
They
their own mistakes.
even think.”
“That's
torted
the
no
good
for
businessman,
me,”
soon be joining the union,”
can
re-
“They'd
- Item sets