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1956-04-01
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Vol. 19 No. 4
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VOL.
19—No.
4
Entered as 2nd Class Matter, Indianapolls, Indiana
EDITORIAL OF FICE—Detroit, Migh. 5c
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VAW Sets Precedents
In New Aircraft Pacts
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WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
2
April,
1956
ig
Wage Study Plan Won at NAA; Pensions at Douglas
New UAW Aircraft Pacts
Ratified by Local Unions
x
UAW negotiations with employers in the aircraft industry, rounding out the bargaining series
which opened last spring at Ford and GM, have resulted in precedent-setting new contracts covering
35,000 workers
UAW
aircraft
and
Aviation
American
at North
ee
some
28,000 at Douglas Aircraft, as well as about 10,000 other
UAW
of the
director
Woodeock,
Leonard
Viee-President
Sikorsky.
and
at Chance-Vought
workers
at both inte-?————____________
(IAM)
chinists
and local levels since
national
Jast autumn as a key factor in
the successful negotiations at
MEET UAW STANDARDS
The most tangible evidence of
what such cooperation can accomplish, he said, can be found
pension agreement at
both UAW and IAM
in the new
Dotiglas in
It meets the basic
jurisdiction.
UAW pension principles, non-contributory, funded, and jointly administered by the Union and the
Company.
The UAW Social Security Declosely with
partment, working
the Aircraft Department, assisted, not only in the UAW
talks,
but in the IAM negotiations for
IAM-organized
Et
Segundo
Douglas
and
plants
Santa
at
Monica,
California; the Lockheed plant in
Burbank,
California,
and
Convair
at San Diego, California.
Roy Brown, IAM regional
vice-president, termed-fthe cooperation
“extremely
valuable
and beneficial.”
the continuous
tween
IAM
Woodcock cited
and
consultation
UAW
be-
bargain-
ing committees in advance and
during negotiations as having
laid
the
greater
round
foundation
joint
action
of contract
industry.
for
in the
talks
even
in
next
the
The 1956 negotiations also saw
the first joint bargaining by all
three
Douglas
(148,
Long
UAW
Beach;
Local
1093,
Unions
Tulsa,
and 1291, Tucson) with Douglas
Aircraft Company.
For the first
time all three Locals had repre-
sentatives
at
management.
FIRST
all
sessions
with
BREAK-THROUGH
Perhaps
the
most
important
gain in the 1956 negotiations was
the initial break-througH
at
North American in the long UAW
struggle to establish a substitute
for the antiquated Southern Cali-
fornia Airframe Industry Wage
Plan (SCAT.
North» American
agreed to establish a joint Wage
Plan Committee to develop during the term of the contract a
new
wage
and
plan.
mutually
Here
satisfactory
are details of the various
settlements,
been
all
ratified
of
by
which
Local
have
LEADERS of the UAW bargaining team in the North American Aviation negotiations are shown here after winding up negotiations on a precedent-setting
three-year contract in California. Left to right: Paul Schrade, assistant to Region
6 Director Charles Bioletti; Vice-President Leonard Woodcock, director of the Aircraft Department; Jack Hurst, president of UAW Local 887, and Jack Conway,
administrative assistant te UAW President Walter Reuther.
Unions:
North American
Douglas.
and
American
North
ee
Aircraft Department, pointed to the coordination of effort
between the UAW and the International Association of Ma-
ee
general
ranged
cents
wage
from
an
increase
seven
hour
cents
to 15
immediately
with
an automatic raise of six cents or
three
greater,
The
per
cent,
contract
1958.
whichever
effective
March
expires
4,
is]
1957.
March
5,
The second shift premium
was increased from eight cents
to 12 cents an hour and
work-
ers are eligible for three weeks’
vacation
after
tinuous
service
cumulated
matic
12
years’
con-
The
auto-
or 15 years’
service.
wage
progression
ac-
was
improved to provide that at the
point
a worker
nine cents below
rate,
ment
is five
cents
for
the maximum
of having to
odd
pennies,
these
pennies
matically
to
raise.
,
Twenty-one
were adjusted
his
job.
are
added
Instead
wait for the few
as in the past,
the
final
auto-
groups.
in
job
classifications
upward
from one
A
certain
$300
other
accident
for workers and dependents
added at Company cost and
tain
improvements
hospital
were
coverage.
job
policy
made
was
cer-
in
While
the
joint
Wage
Plan
Committee endeavors to work out
a new wage plarf,
tract also sets up
permit
wage
the new conprocedures to
disputes
concerning
new jobs to be submitted
tration.
Union
security
to arbi-
is greatly
strengthened with the Company
agreeing to give each new hire
a copy of the UAW contract, a
Union membership application,
and a letter signed by Company
and Union
representatives ex-
pressing
tionship
and
the
nance of
continues
period.”
the
spirit
between
Union.
of
the
The
membership
but with no
the
rela-
Company
mainte-
clause
“escape
many
were
made
to
contract
improve
working conditions and strengthen workers’ rights in the plant in
the
area
iority,
of
working
grievance
arbitration.
Ratification
Inglewood,
Columbus,
Fresno,
hours,
sen-
procedure
votes
and
.
at Local
887,
California; Local 927,
Ohio, and Local 1151,
California,
carried
over 90 per cent.
by
general
wage
increase
av-
eraged between 10 and 11 cents
an hour, ranging from seven to
15 cents in the Production and
Maintenance Unit and from-seven
to 17 cents in the Technical and
fect March
18, 1957, and
the con-
tract expires March 15, 1958.
‘Second shift premium is raised
from
eight
to
-breaks
12
matic
improved
in
cents
an
Auto-
progression
so
that
odd
revised
vide
each
a one-cent increase for
.5 rise in the BLS Index.
and
both
Douglas
to
proved
lateral
umpire
and
im-
pro-
and 18 “B” classifications
eliminated and 12 classifi-
three
labor
upgraded
grades.
Vice-President
| termed
the
new
$4
one
to
Woodcock
Douglas
a
with
Sikorsky
40
more
service
is
benefits
“The
10
ed,
at age
or
giving
65 on a per-
in
package
money
value
plan study, the
earned
the
to
lic
will of the workers which
an expenditure might be
expected
in
pension
contract
1957,
expiring
1958.
in
The
UAW
has
New
York,
the IAM
Aviation
Leonard
donated
$10,000
strikers at RepubCorporation,
Long
Woodcock,
Vice-President
director
of
Region
9A,
settlements
in
these
ratification
votes
announced
to
employes
the
March,
meet
failure
its
in
the Union’s National Aircraft Department, and Charles H. Kerri-
dissatisfaction with
of
the
Island,
to achieve.”
Worker
coy-
UAW Contributes
$10,000 to IAM
Republic Strikers
made
in
Unfortu-
ment in failing to make progress
in the area of union security,
disability pensions and job eval-
good
such
effective
February,
nately, due to the shortsightedness of the Douglas manage-
not
insurance
erage also were incorporated_in
the new agreement. An additional wage increase ranging from
five cents to nine cents an hour
becomes
at
in
comment-
any settlement
ever
the aircraft industry.
has
increases
from
eight cents an
cents an hour, averag-
Improvements
with
Woodcock
“exceeds
years
provided,
economic
Douglas,”
by
Vesting for
Company at
with
wage
ing about 10 cents for all’ 4,000
Sikorsky workers
are provided.
to as high
miltiplied
older
ranging
hour to 14
10 years’
is $1.75
month,
or
[MEDIATE
30 years’ serv-
years of service.
workers leaving the
age
retire-
was
the
re-
gan,
Chance-Vought
tions
were
were
benefit
pro-
motion
clauses, and increased
representation and seniority protection.
Ten
learner
classificaeations
65,
ice, the
as
normal
which carried by an average of
only 65 per cént in Douglas, compared to the 90 per cent at NAA.
North
system,
transfer
age
maximum
flected
Contract changes also improved
grievance
procedure,
established
a permanent
at
service,
needs
pennies
was
American
tirement
Company’s
was
in the rate range are picked up
upon entering the classification.
The Cost-of-Living provision
at
of
benefits, the best in the airindustry.”
On normal re-
Company
hour
seniority.
wage
ment
craft
terms
uation and wage
and three weeks’ vacation is
provided after 12 years of accumulated’ service, regardless
of
“in
centage formula.’
Douglas Aircraft
a
plan
them
Office Unit. An automatic seven
cents an hour increase takes ef-
five-cent
to two labor grades and discussions will continue with regard to
inequities
changes
to
his last automatic increwill
bring
him
to the
maximum
~Jn addition,
director
industry,
highlight
“In
the
to
of
the
workers
view
refusal
meet
of
its workers
lenge
to
unions
for
of
the
throughout
struggle
equity,”
these
the
the
which
of
Republic
master
represents
aircraft
nation
demands
a
chal-
workers
and
to
represent
agreement
they
Aviation
the
these
UAW Negotiates on Contract
For New Allis-Chalmers Local
All UAW-Allis-Chalmers
Re-
settlements,
legitinfate
workers.”
insurance.
far exceed-
ing the inadequate
offer made
by Republic Aviation to the International Association of Machinsaid
effective
March
8, 1957.
Other
improvements were made in representation, seniority, and group
month.
wage
the aircraft
public
ers.
A
six-cent
automatic
improvement
factor
increase
is
UAW
this
“Recent
ists,
AGE
increases
ranged
from
six cents to 13 cents an hour
in the two-year agreement
covering 6,000 Chance-Vought work-
of
language,
ex-
Davis,
ad-
cept the Union Shop, already is agreed to for the former UE
Local at LaPorte, Indiana, which now is UAW Loeal 1319.
Negotiations are continuing between top executives of the
a UAW
and
chain
A-C
ministrative assistant
team
to Vicee-@—£-_______—_
Pat Greathouse, and
President
administra-
Fraser,
Douglas
tive assistant to President
Walter Reuther. Fraser con1955 negotiations with
the
ducted
Allis, Wis-
Allis-Chalmers in West
consin.
Agricultural
Newhoff,
Andy
repreDepartment
Implement
sentative,
and
are
Len Henderson, Dale Smith, Irene Rutledge, and Clarence Stinson, all Local 148.
assisting
Region
8,
iority
agreement.
cal in working
FOR THE first time representatives of all three UAW Local Unions in Rouglas
(148, Long Beach; 1093, Tulsa, and 1291, Tucson), bargained jointly with management. Shown here is part of the UAW team at Douglas. Seated (left to right):
Jerry Bale, Local 148; Ernest West, Region 6; Irv Bluestone, administrative assistant to Vice-President Leonard Woodcock; Carl Stevens and Glen Beck, Region 5.
Standing, L to r.: Larry Stachowski, Local 148; Vern Hodges, Local 1093; Ed Burrelson, Local 1093; Joe Cameliche, Local 1291; John Keck, Region 6; Oscar Cowart,
Gene
Barker,
Snouffer,
the
Lo-
Clarence
UAW
of
president
NLRB
to
The
set
an
former
has
not
election
UE
yet
date
local
has voted to go UAW
functioning as a UAW
of
Bert
the
Foster,
ment,
has
locals
that
notified
all
Allis-Chalmers
arbitrable
griev-
ances arising out of the 1950-55
agreement have been cleared up
and
the
ing on
Department
new
cases.
now
is work-
James
Broshears,
president
of
the A-C Council, reports the next
A-C Council meeting is scheduled
April 27-28 at West
Allis, Wis-
consin,
out a local senLo-
cal 1316, Allis-Chalmers at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, reports that
the
by Herschel
headed
assistant
Allis-Chalmers
moved
there.
already
and is
local.
director
Depart-
Boston
Site of Labor
Meet
BOSTON—A college in the Boston area will be the site of the
6th Annual
Labor
Institute on
Human Rights.
The Institute is
sponsored
AFL
and
by Massachusetts
CIO
organizations,
Boston CIO and
setts Committee
tolerance.
State
the
the Massachuto Combat In-
Spee
re
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WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
oe April, 1956
3
ry
st
du
In
to
Au
In
le
Id
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00
0,
10
an
Th
{More
|?
Spring has arrived without the hoped-for spring
|
)
su surge in automobile and agricultural implement
ome) production.
Z
Tn Detroit, 120,000 men and women, approximately eight
per cent of the work force, are out of work, This is nearly
==
double the unemployment igi
aig}
yob|}
em!
yi#!
40” |
im!
ure for the same time last year
when 4.3 per cent of Detroit’s
rolls.
000. or 6.6 per cent of the work
Heavy unemforce unemployed.
The
and
aréas.
Towa
|
tion of farm
once again
: alm
:
i
cent
of its workers
CARS
JAM
LOTS
All
|
are
cars,
new
exists
there
that
evidence
little chance of a real surge in
inThe automobile
production.
dustry admits to a 41-day supply
of passenger cars and a 60-day
supply of light trucks in the hands
of dealers.
Ward's Automotive Reports in-
dicate no improvement
entire
the
for
tion
19
of
1956 is expected to be almost
per cent below the first half
1955.
automocars on
At this time last year,
bile dealers had 640,000
the process of getting
for these cars, the auto
hand.
In
customers
the
with
almost
900,000
unsold
cars
to
expand
credit
buying
$4 billion.
on cars by almost
owed
Now,
amount
increased
industry
there
on hand,
chance
them.
to absorb
enough
appears
little
More than $14 billion is owed on
the cars and trucks now on the
That is more
nation’s highways,
money
than
taxes
in
received
government
States
United
the
1942. Thousands of would-be
new
tomers can’t
consider
in
cus-
cars
Caterpillar Council
Set Up; Temporary)
Officers Selected
The
the
ized
newest
UAW
recently
by
Board
Executive
Council
the
International
Implement
Agricultural
ment.
Ray
Illinois,
cal 786,
porary
Affiliates
ing
Local
Belcher,
chairman
all
director
Greathouse,
four
elected
was
and
Art
of
Local
the
Caterpillar
off 500 in Toronto and also has
some workers off in the U. S.
claims
ministration
have
ty”
plights
rumbling
a phony
to
amount
“prosperi-
at
least
Their
ring.
recession.
of
Marshall
job
the
of
| ber
assistant.
ministrative
Hughes
staff from
Chalmers
4
Region
came
UAW
in
Greathouse
to
the
Local
has
tural
Implement
director
of
staffs,
the
of
ad4
Illinols.
appointed
assist-
Borg-Warner
Lo-
tem-
assigned
director
Morris
of
the
Field,
assistant
Agricultural
plement Department,
with the new Council,
to
Im-
work
ions
white
among
ben-
un-
those
southerners
speech
a
merger
un-
the nation.)
the
Convention,
state)
re-
your rights for you on the job!”
have
such
finance
ladies
UAW
teen-agers.
to sponsor
The
more
of
their
project,
the
for
local
~because
place
activities.
obtained
permission
run
to
Council
City
the
from
Wom-
dance
this
a
The first
day” in Canton.
day” held last month netted
“tag
“tag
enough to make the purchase of
a record player and records pos-
sible,
Councils,”
clared.
over
the
member
that
they
frame
are
there
which
to
Union
question
in
schools,
prompt
belongs.
in
tions.”
Nat King Cole Gets
Cheers From 3,500
After Stage Attack
deof
him
ORS
repudiate the actions of a handful
of white vigilantes who attacked
apprehended
the)all
ance
arrested
and
identified as
called White
men
in
climbing
Cole’s
him
knocking
Six
tions
to
in
movement
the
Dixie-
1948.
They
led
who
people
BHisenhower
the
1952,
in
their
“the
Demo-
are
They
the
Citizens’ Councils
concern,
real
clvil rights issue,
behind
screen
and
torlous
oil
lobby.
off,”
“They
union
gas
concentrate
members
signed
on
up
“he
the
his
That’s| tected
family
which|his
getting
in Citl-
finds
that
he
that
has
recent
In
has
de-|even
pro-|dice
has given|
rights and
and himselfa decent|
MceMath
on
the
paid
$3 a}
spoke,
same
Just
free,
and
in
and
night,
less}
the
mob
has
Alabama
months
symbol,
outstanding
an
stage
the
of
South,
violence
race
and
preju-
a dis.
embarrassment
and
grace
democracy,
American
to
It would appear from the reaction of this white audience to the
across|any
than 100 people turned out for a
“White America’ meeting, which
was
racist
the
to
assault.
the
after
plate at the dinner at which Gov-|attack
ernor
showed
attackers
the
returned
he
| when
empha-|become
governor
union
cools}
member
standard of living.”
More than 500 people
cans, to do the bidding of the no-|{own,
and
former
all-white
an
organize
the
of
attitudes.
They
up
their lawlessness by standing
membership;
circulating peti- | and cheering Cole for 15 minutes
“When this union
he said,|stroyed
Republl-|
Democrats
union,
sized,
to depress]
conditions
gress,
Negro
permit
then he starts
they
that
ground
stage
down,
of
thought
perform-
the
upon
on
they
Interna- | what
was
a so-
in
interrupted
by
was
of
chairman
Citizens Council
community.
a nearby
who
attackers
his
of
theater
a
of
stage
the
tional
the
to
musician,
Negro
Cole,
King
member | 294
his
from
withdrawing
locaques-
at two
to report
answer the same
required
tions to
White
so-called)
the
to
and
waste-
and
costly
Alabama —
white
AlaThirty-five
hundred
bamans
stood and cheered
Nat
employed
Negroes
benefits.
of
payment
pro-
to
a needless inconvenience and expense to the worker if he were
One
ne
minimize
and
costs
In
ful for the Company to duplicate
by the
the interviews conducted
It would also be
state agencies.
When
etre
sound
plan.
to
want
be
would
on
him
here,
remind
he
we
union
they
possible
with
the
of
dé-
of
BIRMINGHAM,
proper
the
union
the
Before
the
Negroes
have
‘plants
the
in’
is
mind,
of
MeMath
the
in
segregation
Mr.
inflame
“They
particular,
“Tt
spon-
no
consistent
to | ere seized by police.
is happening
knows what
audience
white
The
him, he is passing resolutions
and. to keep enough votes in Con-|
thing you have a union to assert
for
own
Mc-|that
S,
to
they hide their efforts
working
and
wages
It's a good
teen-agers
procedures
vide
point-
simplest
the
ferred specifically to the so-called|
Federation for Constitutional]
is not the
smoke
a
I can say is:
dances
these
of
members
victimize
Sidney
Ex-Governor
in
labor
and
throughout
consumers
But
“AIL
than 100
more
Auxiliary plans
who
as
the
make
to
desirous
are
“We
out,
administrative
box”
“juke
a
sored
zens’
feel-
anti-Negro
Mo-
American
Cushman
and
Matthews
administration
recently
338
Auxiliary
en’s
— A
southern
this
at
South
the
in
Arkansas
destroy
to
attempt
leaders of the
in 1956."
Missouri,
has
an
arouse
crats
751, Decatur,
York, and Lo-
Greathouse
ings
out
lashed
to
were
next meeting, July 21-22 at York:
Vice-President
seek
crat
represent-
the
the
state
of
governor
former
same
include
approved and
to
presented
an
made
Citizens’ \Councils,
said,
he
are,”
“They
Preliminary recommendations
on a draft of by-laws for the new
were
Council
be
draft will
ROCK,
LITTLE
Government
workers — Local
City,
supplemental
state has
decision.
AFL-CIO
delegates.
Unions
*
attempting
veloping
Unions Tabbed Real Target
For White Citizens’ Councils
Math,
temporary
Council
ed
Ilinois—UAW
CANTON,
To
compensation
unemployment
1027, Allis-
as
before
effective for
and
state
efits. No
favorable
Region
Springfield,
also
as
staff,
*
to wait
1957,
will become
grating
the
mem-
former
Hughes,
have
7,
September
work-
Arkansas this month
became
the 13th state to approve inte-
Greathouse
the appointment
has announced
will
*
Hughes as Assistant
Pat
Studebaker
in Indiana
them.”
Greathouse Appoints
Vice-President
ruling,
he
issue
to
fails
state
the
the SUB
For tens of thousands of UAW
members and their families, Adof
a
administrative
integration,”
permit
“If
until
Peoria,
974,
by
974, Peori
Local
Iinois;
Local 786,
cal 710, Kansas
has laid
Massey-Harris-Ferguson
to
ers
situation.
in the same
ers are
ruling
such
‘Depart-
Tomlinson,
secretary,
work-
300 Allis-Chalmers
least
at
a fayorable
said.
and
backs
call
their
awaiting
ers
prin-
the
on
agreement
The
‘Tag Day Finances
favorable
given
S-P workers in these states face
UAW-Sponsored
no further legal hurdles to SUB
benefits.
Teen-Age
Dances
“However, Indiana has not yet
issued
are
and
UAW
necessary arrangements with the
state unemployment compensation
|
information
the
Company
to the
the
and with
involved
agencies
supple- Bureau of Employment Security
to processing
necessary
in Washington.
mental benefits.
that
so
rulings
indus-
forward
will
agencies
state
away,
have}
California
and
Michigan
man, American
Motors
trial relations director.
| tors
that
out
pointed
He
said.
thews
the
of
Pennsylvania,
York,
of its fa-
some
J. I. Case has 550 work-
workers.
nt.
nt
Departme
a meeting called by Vice-Pre| side
Pat
implement,
farm
cilities for weeks at a stretch,
as has Minneapolis-Moline. Oliver still has 2,500 out of work,
while Minneapolis-Moline is still
only partial proundertaking
duction.
a strike
with
Deere,
John
of 4,000 UAW members in three
plants, has laid off another 2,500
at} ant
formed
and
laid off at
1,500 workers
is| tobert
of the
formerly
Brown,
tive
aut|hor
Agriculand
Shop
| Competi-
Council,
Caterpillar
Norman
Vice-President
UAW
Matthews announced.
“This means that the plan can
on
go into effect as scheduled
September 1 of this year,’ Mat-
has
pins,
king
Cush-
The
cleared
are
technicalities
If all
Corporation,
Studebaker-Packard
(SUB)
supplemental
and
ment
benefits.
the
and
UAW
the
between
ated
one
Harvester,
has closed_down
of
first half
industry's
exclusively
produc-
the
and
ago,
ter a year
sified their manufacturing so that
workers are kept busy on other
lines.
unemploy-
state
both
for
ifying
Unemployto the- Supplemental
ment Benefit Plan (SUB) negoti-
Edward
and
Matthews
qual-
stop” procedure
a pilot “one
ciple was announced jointly by
UAW
Vice-President Norman
American Moin principle on
The UAW and
tors have agreed
approval
official
given
have
bor
diver-
have
industry
in the
One-Stop SUB Interview Plan
The U. S. Treasury Department
and the U. S. Department of La-
press time, and its spokesmen
indicated additional layoffs are
Oliver, almost
expected soon.
quar-
spring
the
the farm implement industry continue to be those in companies
the manufacon
concentrating
Many
ture of farm machinery.
firms
UAW, American Motors Okay
Treasury Approves
Studebaker-Packard
SUB Pact With UAW
in
affected
most
workers
The
almost
quarter.
first
the
for
output
This is almost 20 per cent below
for
.
Oliver reportedly has 11,000 tractors stockpiled.
caee
HELPS
1315 Vice-President Gerald Fisher.
Local
>
The man at right center is UAW
yapher,
than]
wick
DIVERSIFICATION
of the
eral Motors, Ward’s predicts the
output for the spring quarter
will be 1.8 per cent below the
output
icayomrs
PART of the 2,900 tractors stored axle to axle in a field next to the Oliver plant
in Charles City, Iowa, are shown in this photo taken by a “Labor’s Daily” photog-
Motors
Packard-
more
shariee
International
in the job
situation for the second quarter of 1956. Largely because of
a change in scheduling by Gen-
the
*
al-
by
and failure to replace workers
leaving jobs for any reason mark
much of the supplier industry.
lots
unsold
with
crammed
7
unem-
dealers’
America
over
Chrys-
down
is
is down
Sea
is
employment
Ford
American
most 40,000.
has 6,750 laid off and
aa |
sizorchold,)
12 per
ployed.
can
,
Vi
ago.
Mo-
17,000
off
laid
employment
ler’s
is feeling the job pinch
atkstners
Bees
years
wo
then
sec-
General
down approximately 20,000.
facilities,
not to be ces
year,
month.
this
Quad-Cities section of
a concentraIllinois,
equipment
the
of
other
many
hit
has
ployment
nation.
hitting
of the
most
back
tors called
21,000 laid off the first five weeks
185,-|
with
ists for all of Michigan
aizi|
the
of
tions
i
many
in
workers
seniority
the
on
are
‘layoffs
Automobile
ex-
of work
shortage
A serious
a}
77,000
OFF
3G
BI
Commis-|
Security
Employment
off more
ay pay
RORRY
ee
SES
Michigan|
the
on
were
workers
sion
foi2)
ai
4
Unemployment figures indicate that more than 100,000
workers are idled in the automobile industry. This includes
both auto giants and supplier companies. Work is lacking
for well over 10,000 in the Agricultural Implement industry.
J
“10%
fjot
s0|
a.
,
ats
LU
Ya
2
with
on Cole that if there are
public
officials
the will and
law,
uphold
the
usually
silent
the
support
of
a
in
Alabama
the courage
to
they
would
get
law
abiding
but
majority,
Page
April, 1956.
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
4
20th Anniversary Observance Kickoff Set June 3
and the first week in May, 1936, is busy this
month planning its Bwentieth Anniversary celebration.
a
to
the
held
in
Washington
being
Anniversary
*
*
issues
Anniversary
month,
will
this
June
of
The
Worker and Ammunition
the
event.
be a Twentieth
The
celebration,
pictures
history.
Confer-
Edueation
UAW
International
Biennial
ence,
formal
prelude
editor
story
of
Automobile
will depict
in text and
the
Union’s
A special edition of the book,
the
March,’’
by
the
late
Edward
ties,
twenty-year
*
*
*
United
Automobile
Worker
pageants
and
from
enter-
the
fight
for
civil
rights
and
civil
liberties,
the total fight for a world of peace, prosperity
and human brotherhood—of:the program of the
men, women and children who make up the great
family of the UAW and who dared to build their
dreams into reality.
Watch for the dates of special events and celebrations in your own locality.
‘‘Labor on
Levinson,
which is regarded as the most thorough and
authentic history of the beginnings of the
CIO, will be released this month at the time
of the Education Conference,
Governor G. Mennen Williams has proclaimed
June 410 as UAW Week in Michigan and the
governors of other states and mayors of cities
where there are concentrations of UAW members
The
tainments are all being planned for the celebration. The different events will touch on all aspects
—collective bargaining gains, community activi-
will be special Twentieth
editions and
the
United
of
1939 until his death in 1945.
Mass meetings, banquets,
way for their local celebrations.
e The official celebration will be kicked off
June 3, in South Bend, site of the founding
convention, and will be continued throughout
the rest of the year.
As
Brother Levinson, known to thousands of UAW
members, was UAW publie relations director and
are preparing similar proclamations
for other
dates during the year.
Regional Directors and Local Union officers in
various localities are getting their plans under-
April
in
week
last
the
Bend
in South
pioneers
of
band
hardy
that
by
launched
Union
The
*
*
*
*
From Clock Number to Human Dignity . . . That’s the Story of UAW
'WENTY
years
ago
this
month,
plants.
mistic
They
represented,
most
25,000
with
Committee
Industrial
officers,
to af-
Organization,
and
lived
of
anti-unionism
in
the
on
bunked
for
from
for
a
union.
convention,
they
hamburgers
five and
six
and
to a room.
Then
the average hourly rate
was 72 cents.
There was no job
security; no guarantee you would
get your job back when laid off;
no
pensions.
The
speed-up
exhausted workers.
At 40, it was
difficult to get rehired.
Beyond
planned to organize the automobile industry,
one
of the major
bastions
us
delegates
ambitions
During
workers.
voted
the
their
opti-
estimates,
elected
filiate
by
few
the
giant
corporations
represented so few that the management felt secure in scoffing at
a handful of auto workers met
in South Bend,
Indiana,
and
formed a Union—the UAW.
They
The
the
They came, for the most part,
from
a few
outlying,
isolated
the
a
aaa
unless
there
Skilled Apprentices
Vote to Join UAW
About—the
WATERBURY,
cut
—
A
unit
Connecti-
of
108
trades apprentices at the Seovill Manufacturing Company
in
President
rector
Trades
The
by UAW
Richard
of the
Union’s
Scovill
of
apprentices
di-
voted
64
to 42 for the UAW with two failing to vote. Last year, the same
group
turned
down
which
already
the
by a 98 to 12 vote.
will be members
of
than
3,700
represents
Scovill
production
workers.
Participating
preceded
the
Now
Local
skilled
Union
they
1604
election
members
of Region 9A
Charles Kerrigan's staff.
and
were
Publication
Local
Send
next
9
cents
year,
Division
Foundry
and
Punch
and
Foundry
undeliverable
of
Shear,
Fulton
Ave.,
Detroit
60
cents;
ond-class
to
copies to
St., Indianapolis
matter
International
Implement
under
$1.00.
the
Act
Members:
Union,
Workers
Entered
of
at
August
WINN,
BAKER,
chance of promotion.
Workers
were
not
treated
as
human
beings, but as clock-card
numbers,
agement
ginning
discarded
to
Today
rate
for
about
thought
wear
the
$2.20
a
when
they
out.
average
UAW
with
were
man-
be-
hourly
member
premium
is
pay
for overtime. Since 1937, workers have had seniority, insur-
The
UAW
today is
tion and
sickness
and by
ranging
Most of
the
of the work-
member
and
family
and
accident
benefits,
a life insurance policy
from
$3,200 to $7,500.
the costs are borne by
employer.
combined
man
$240
tired
and
a month.
UAW
pensions
A
with
social
wife
ranges
Almost
today.
or
minority group,
in the plant and
count
have a
which,
security
members
Negro,
ber—can
workers
pension
up
50,000
enjoy
member
has equal
as a union
on
the
for
of
to
re-
such
any
rights
mem-
UAW
to
Bend
today
bers.
the
in 1936,
delegates
Foundry.
24,
Editor
Yardley
of
United
7, Indiana
Automobile,
America,
affiliated
1912,
as
Ind., as sec-
a
monthly.
Editor
Smith, Jerry Dale, Robert Treuer, Jim Richard
Newspaper
as
have
become
than
$40 million,
includ-
of more
than
These
cold
a strike
fund
for emergencies
$27%
million.
statistics,
UAW
member
He
she
clock-card
or
today
number,
is
a
a
person,
retirement
without
He
fear
look
Guild, AFL-CIO
Watch
for it!
You'll be there at the. ys
7" UAW
Education
Conference
machine.
with
and
forward
misgiving.
sta-
to
for himself, though
and
confidence
the
the
status
of a human
and
in-
dependence
and
innate
dignity
that
that
status provides
in a
modern democracy.
is...
7th Edu-
Bishop Sheil blasted McCarthy and started that Senator on his way down... and the 1952
Education Conference when Senator Morse first
in news.
a
has won
his union,
being
to
The Conference was sure to be a historic event just like the Conference two years ago when
whole event in the next issue both in pictures and
not
early thirties, with
some
measure of protection for the health
and well-being of his family, a
issue of The United Automobile Worker went to press just as the UAW’s
ee
cation Conference was about to open in Washington.
Since everybody can’t attend the Conference and
watch history being made, we'll try to recreate the
is
tus in the community,
with a
far greater measure of security
than was thought possible in the
AND YOU ARE THERE
the Democratic.
however,
are
insignificant
in comparison
to the most important fact: The
as it was then...
indicated his switch from the Republican Party to
at
a union of 1,500,000 memThe
Union
has resources
of more
ing
manage-
covered by hospitalizasurgical insurance,
by
On retirement,
company-paid
a
deter-
between
ers on a job and the
ment of their plant.
Cuyahoga
7, Ind.
Indianapolis,
Managing
PHOTOS—James
American
dirtiest, hardest
jobs—if
got a job at all—and had
representatives
be
South
by
members,
Cleveland
—_—
STAFF—Russell
lowest-
to
of
25,000
CastCity
International Executive Board Members
CHARLES BALLARD
HARVEY KITZMAN
RAY BERNDT
RUSSELL LETNER
GEORGE BURT
WILLIAM McAULAY
CHARLES BIOLETTI
JOSEPH McCUSKER
ROBERT CARTER
GEORGE MERRELLI
ED COTE
KENNETH MORRIS
MARTIN GERBER
PATRICK O'MALLEY
ROBERT W. JOHNSTON
KENNETH W. ROBINSON
CHARLES H. KERRIGAN
RAY ROSS
NORMAN B. SEATON
CHARLES
the
negotiations
speed
represented
than
for
es-
WALTER P. REUTHER
EMIL MAZEY
President
Secretary-Treasurer
RICHARD GOSSER, NORMAN MATTHEWS,
LEONARD WOODCOCK, PATRICK GREATHOUSE
Vice-Presidents
FRANK
got
by
The
is a matter
mined
the
weeks.
less
care,
acci-
Published monthly. Yearly subscription to members,
non-members,
workers
14, Mich.
PUBLICATION,
with the AFL-CIO.
work
26
WORKER
OFFICIAL
Agricultural
violence.
to
The
covers|-
workers at Crucible Steel
Company,
Hill Acme
ing,
Circulation
and
physical
of up to 65
fight for civil rights and civil liberties throughout the nation.
complete
agreement
new
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Aircraft
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was.
time in any jobbing
The other was full
for
skilled
trades.
included
wage
inproduction
workers
AUTOMOBILE
8000
it
for the first
foundry here.
recognition
Other
gains
creases
for
The
(PAI)—AFL-
Office:
1260,
dent benefits of $35 per week
26 weeks and a cost-of-living
calator.
Director
CIO contributions to the California flood relief victims has gone
over
the $150,000 mark.
UNITED
UAW
members
hospitalization and medical
group insurance, sick and
Flood Gifts Top $150,000
SAN FRANCISCO
workers.are
found-
up
Work-
that the exercise of free speech
could
mean
firing and
often
assurance
members
per cent of their weekly wage,
when laid off, for a period of
of
ers feared to talk about the possibility of a union.
Labor espionage was so tough
UAW
Beginning
of 6 cents plus 6 cents next year,
skilled trades increase of 11 cents
more
in the drive which
Scovill
two-year
five major
guarantee
no
ported by Region 2 Director Patrick J. O'Malley.
Pensions
with complete
vesting after 10 years were obtained
Skilled
Department.
with
ries, whose
Vice-
Gosser,
recently-negotiated
agreement
Plant here voted for the UAW
in a representation election, it
Was announced
a
the mid-thirties
demand.
only
most
will have
demand
or services or a kick-back.
paid,
they
CLEVELAND,
Ohio—Two
“firsts” for this city were won
skilled
a great
re-employment.
this June,
being rehired was to curry favor
with youn foreman with presents
Negro
Skilled Recognition
was
for labor.
In
there was little
meant
Five Local Foundries
Win Pension Vesting,
ing
chances
of
going
back
layoff were non-existent,
Page
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
5
Member Wins
Toledo UAW
‘A Dollar a Member, Will Help in November’
That's Slogan Picked for ‘56 COPE Drive
The UAW’s election year buck drive to provide funds
for political action went into high gear in several regions
this month. Some local unions have already over-subseribed
their quota.
Sparking these drives was the UAW’s Political Action
Department’s nationwide -slogan contest. The winning
Political Action Pays Off;
slogan is being used in the
buck drive.
Elects 3 to School Board
OVER
February
the
in
announced
had
which
contest,
The
Union’s
the
over
er’ and
radio
national
Opener”
5,000
brought more than
within two weeks.
UAW
nator.
savings
ment
Ringler
cent
cers—John’
William
Second
a
of Highto Art Conway
went
land Park, Michigan, a member
of Local. 490, for the slogan,
legislation.”
good
$50 bond, went
Maple Heights,
prize, a
Biro ‘of
Third
to Bill
means
donation
dollar
“Your
Ohio, a member of Local 363, for
“Don’t trust to luck; invest a
buck.”
Six
bonds.
Pennsylvania,
burgh,
Pitts-
Petrulo,
A.
Peter
$25
received
1036;
Local
John Seubert, Baltimore, Local
738; Frederic T. Neumann, Lan-
Ourlicht,
Detroit.
“ss
*
dollar
voluntary
members
UAW
from
donations
who
secre-
treasurer, respec-
pledged
are
facilities that
will allow.”
was
in
to
“an
honest
deyoted effort to provide
best possible educational
and
the
kicked
available
funds
2,
2A,
3,
4,
5,
8,
and
within
the
In Regions 2B, 9, 9A, 6
of the Michigan regions,
10.
all
drive will be started
next few weeks.
and
the
IN WISCONSIN
TOP
Harvey
Director
10
Kitzman reported that two locals
in his area have already filled
their quota
cent,
They
a
buck
are
and
consin,
reported
its quota
is one
by subscribing
from
37,
Local
each
336,
Local
100 per
member.
Racine,
Wis-
Milwaukee.
3 Director Ray Berndt
Region
that
Indiana,
by
of the
cals which
Local
155
New
oversubscribed
per
Perfect
fought
370,
cent. This
Circle
lo-
a bitter strike
One Gas Probe Ends
—Oither Gets Ready
of two Senate committees formed
to “‘investigate’’ the gas bribe scandal performed its funetion this month while the other got ready to ease into action.
WASHINGTON—One
committee
special four-man
The
looking
gas lobbyists called the $2,500 campaign
M. Neff and Elmer Patjaan, atriot.’”
censured”
verely
to
act
as
Their
boss,
president of
company,
money
for their
criticized
offered.)
Senator
Francis
Dakota),
that
a $2,500
bership’s first-hand experience
with reacfionary public officials
the
gifts offered by John
incentive
achievement,
As most UAW
remember,
Local
370
for
this
members
will
pickets
were
shot at by armed scabs inside the
plant.
Several
strikers were
wounded. City officials (since defeated). joined with some state
officials
to help
breaking
(now
up
for
re-election)
the Company’s
efforts,
Commented
shots did more
strike-
Berndt:
“Those
than startle Per-
fect Circle workers. They aroused
the entire membership of this Region to the need for more politi-
eal
action.
echoing
Those
during
buck drive
follow.”
Berndt
lowing
‘shots
all
and
of
the
be
COPE
the election to
also
reported
the
Kentucky,
100
percentages:
Louisville,
will
fol-
Local
752,
per
cent; Local, 1201, Hammond,
Indiana,
104 per cent;
and. Local
461, Indianapolis,
DRIVE
GATHERS
Region
and
110 per cent.
2 Director
International
Emil
Pat
Mazey)
Secretary-
the need for increased political
activity and for voluntary dollar
made over the years by organized labor.
These gains must
be protected from the Big Busi-
ness Administration
saddle
in Washington
of the State
More
capitals,
than
3
now
in the
and
many
he said.
million
workers
are jobless, Mazey
pointed out,
and
he reminded
the delegates
that any gains for the workers
their
through
made
not through the Eis-
beeen
have
unions and
Secretary
McKay
lican
of the Interior Douglas
is running
primary
Eisenhower's
challenge
trat.
to
in the
with
approval
the
Repub-
President
as a direct
Oregon
Demo-
he
had
been
neys
blistering
with
suggesting
have been
concluded
Senate
that
the
some
iment
to look into “any other
sible violations
utes.”
of
federal
plete
action
investigation
Insiders
ties of
within
here
the
the
may
suspect
oll-gas
next
the
lobby
less attention than the efforts
citizen and consumer groups
defeat the gas steal.
by
to
in
the
Johnson-Knowland
with
and
ed.
of
eR BLOsK
One Te CARIASTON POTTS
“If
be
subverted,
ing
power
taken
one
yote
action
to eliminate
few
by ta
though
the
pointed
sponsors
it is aimed
ballots
assert-
principle
is not
must
through
indfviduals,”
Reuther
elec-
plural
the
exercised
contributions
claim
Reuther
democratit
the
citizen,
one
come
“Wait a Minute —They’re Still Watching”
money,”
with
both
in
out
at
high
that
of the
and
for
each
contribute
year.
.. . every
deduction
tax»
de-
tax
theoretical
a
get
could
er
duction of $20 for a $100 political
contribution ... a very rich man
put
not
bill does
the
those
the
in
conventions
being
as
PLOTTERS
FOR
on the expenditures in
Espeand conventions.
in
cess
as
contri-
his $100
for
.as $91
much
of
deduction
tax
a
get
might
states
primaries
influence
crowd
money
big
the
peddlers,
same
the
the
elected,
party
or
almost
is
suc-
where
would be in good position to control the selection of candidates.
groups
interested
other
and
committees
citizens’
consent,
or
knowledge
candidate’s
the
without
candidates
for
tures
expendi-
make
could
parties
cal
politi-
and
individuals
While
. .. like labor unions . . . would
ACTION
effectiveness
tions is exerted
to
letter
a
in
con-
for political
would be permitted
contributions. The ordinary work-
cially
weak-
to
income
any limit
primaries
a
wanted
children
$100
A
a
with
man
wife
his
Moreover,
citi-
to
attention
URGES
“Political
could
PRIMARY
almost
with
month
this
he
bucks
more,
bution.
politi-
interested
of
the
REUTHER
actlyi-
get
called
Congress.
stat-
will
hand.
a
of their
of political
limit
about
spread
Bill
pos-
month.
source
the
activities
nesses
may
into
spending.
adequate
ther
and
get
ceiling on campaign
It would provide no
on
If
$10,000-for
UAW President Walter P. Reu-
attor-
The larger committee which is
expected to make a more com-
effective
place
would
year.
of
bushel
The
contributions.
no
free
Depart-
that
urging
endar
bigger
even
make
to
that
to place in South Dakota and
Nebraska.”
Bill allows contributions
The
totalling up to $10,000 in any cal-
ing Senators of both parties, is
a result of the public pressure for
to
attempt
had been
made.
They
passed the buck to the Justice
Department,
bearing
attempted
Neff
two
of the
in
especially
committees,
zens’
while ’ giving
elections,
primary
individuals with influence money
the Senators
actual bribe
broken,
that no
contributions of the Neff type
(see story at lower left) instead
rank-
the
of
names
the
$2,500
four
make
to
of
member
every
permit
family
a
Bill,
Johnson-Knowland
The
eal
with
laws
would
It
contributions.
political
tribute
contributions.
The Bill would
offered
rhetoric
ited
unlim-
virtually
allow
actually
PHONY
check
(R.,
two
A
bill
the Gas Bill vote, was not
praised for making the matter
public,
After
BILL
campaign
“re-
gift in connection
‘‘clean
the Johnson-Knowland
about
a lot of questions
to raise
expected
are
here
ference
Education Con-
to the UAW
WASHINGTON—Delegates
interests
revela-
whose
So-Called ‘Clean Election’ Bill
Just Dirty Trick on Voters
It
The Bill is a fake.
reform.
would not stop any of the evils
which have aroused the public.
It would permit big money
failure
Case
©
ella, Ringler, and son, Joel. The bond will be salted
away for a nest egg for Victor, 14 (not shown), and
Joel.
elections’’ bill which is dirtyenhower Administration.
ing up the political debate.
The old problem of ethies
*"Buck-for-Morse’ Drive
and the undue influence of
(PAI)—
Oregon
PORTLAND,
money in campaigning became
The Portland Central Labor Couna matter of immediate concil has launched a “Buck-forin behalf of cern because of the sensationcampaign
Morse”
the deSenator Wayne Morse who is up al exposures during
for re-election this year. Former bate over the Gas Bill.
(eg‘‘se-
for
from Auto-Lite. Shown here as they look over the
$200 Savings Bond prize are (I. to r.) his wife, Lou-
donations
at a regional
conférence in New Castle, Pennsylvania,
attended by some 225 delegates.
«+
Mazey said a big job must be
done this year to ensure future
progress and protect the gains
IN NO-
12’s executive board
Local
of Toledo
also a member
stressed
HELP
won the UAW’s political action slogan
UAW steward Vincent “Benny” Ringler,
VEMBER”
contest for
O’Malley
WILL
A MEMBER
“A DOLLAR
SPEED
supervising
put up the!
in
(He
laxity”
they
tion
into activities of
mem-
Howard
B.
Keck,
the big oil and gas
activities.
South
it
the
citizens.
responsible
was
markable
their
were
attorneys
The
gave
Obviously,
the Superior Oil
‘‘irresponsibility
torneys for
Company,
run
year.
Treasurer
off earlier this month
Regions
Castle,
.
for
drive
The
Boris
and
Michigan.
tos, Saginaw,
San-
W.
Edward
Ohio;
Madeira,
Stein,
Mitchell
Michigan;
sing,
recording
and
Region
‘winners
other
director;
action
incumbents,
and replace them
with the progressive Union trio
OVER
WINNERS
OTHER
education
Ingram,
But, it took a late afternoon
write-in vote to whip the three
bond
$100
a
of
prize
offi-
three
elected
Nott,
members
will
in November.”
help
elec-
a municipal
tary; and Clement Kilby, financial secretary—as school board
to Vin-
is, “A dollar a member
political
little
tively.
member of the Auto-Lite Unit
of Local 12. The winning slo-~
gan
political
and
govern-
Toledo,
of
to win
They
tion.
entries
went
bond
a
1315,
action
Co-ordi-
of a $200
prize
First
takes
Local
“Eye
just
it
network,
Action
UAW
Oliver Corporation, proved that
Winners were announced earlier this month by Roy Reuther,
Political
of
issue
Work-
United Automobile
of The
members
been
lowa—The
CITY,
CHARLES
5,000 ENTRIES
last
to
~be
vot-
large
in-
al-
Bill
promoting
“cloan elections,” the Bill “weuld
backing
unless
be prohibited from
financially
didates
ing
urged
Reuther
offer
at
candidate,
the
from
Bill
on
the
the
evils
amendments
Bill
elections”
counter,
The
House
eation
to
next
of
or
breakfast
public
a
that
is
line
Senators
get
supposed
to
the
of defense
Representatives,
the
hear-
to actually
which
Conference
meet
permission
written
received
canthey
“clean
is the
delegates
Representatives
this month.
Edu-
were
at
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
April,
WORKER
1956
| April Torna
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan—''It sounded like 15 freight
trains running over our heads."
That's how Shirley Van Der Wal, wife of a UAW member, described fhe tornado which destroyed her home
earlier
of
this
the
month.
Midwest,
The
hit
the
twister,
Western
which
struck
Michigan
many
area
comir!
runnii}
“Whe
had trop
parts
our
hardest,
their Union was quick to come
7,
Shirley
were
rural
a
PS
=
-
fond
eS
Sten
ae
eet
THE SAD JOB OF TRYING to salvage a few odds and ends, all that is left of their earthly belongings, falls to Harry and Shirley Van Der Wal, of Hudsonville, Michigan, This shambles was once their home. Harry is #member of UAW Local 356.
See
home
in
Hudsonville,
children,
their
a Grand
Terry,
six-room
Rapids
9,
frame
suburb.
and
are a}
Mike,
house
Her
our dp
in
"The
hus-
Shirley
|
the stor|:
eyes ani
There wy
wires w¥
| ran ‘i
"| made them huddle in the only corner that was
_ empty, and threw myself on top of them. Then I
watched the tornado through the basement window
there, hi!
They hajr
hele
Her
home te}
and saw it coming, so | grabbed my kids and our
Bubbles, and took them down into the basement.
os
.
two
to their aid.
band, Harry, a member of UAW Local 356, was at
the Jervis Company plant, where he works the second shift as a metal polisher.
"It must have been around 7:30 at night,"' Shirley said,
“when | heard this terrible noise. | looked out the window
dog,
—*
Swed
at
her
“Wh
whichliiil\y
Then |r!
<—s
CET
Qoee
ee
;
1F
xh
'
! out thaip
Nor ¢
financiaPi on
three
mf
hold gow
surance.
Yeh
Edwinjiv
fellowye'!
fhree-Bev
law,
twiste
The \
ES
S
VOLUNTEER WORKERS like these woiked day and night
donated clothing which had been brought to Grand Rapids’ CIO
SHIRLEY VAN DER WAL shows her husband Harry,
who was at work when the tornado struck, how she and their
two boys crouched in the corner of the basement to protect
themselves from the twister. The basement is all that remained
of their home.
ac
i!
f
oa
i
wo
and
earj
seemed}
killing 18, wounding more than 300, and causing $I! million property damage. Nearly 800 homes and stores were
destroyed. Many of the victims were UAW members, and
:
a
sorting the mountain of
Hall. Left to right, Jane
Shafer, an office worker in theeHall; Ken Robinson, director of UAW Region 1D, with headquarters in Grand Rapids; Andy Brown of Detroit, assistant director of the UAW’s Community Services Department; Mrs.
Robinson; and three visiting French trade unionists and auto workers who
pitched right in to help, in the best tradition of the free world labor movement:
Andre Mielle, Paul Tyrant and Gaston Aschour,
NOT
ONLY
the wi
9
nado victims tell the sti:
4!
ifEeha
Gz
ws
MICHAEL
VAN
DER
their parents are happy
WAL,
Terry, 9, and
to pick up some good used clothes
donated by fellow union members.
Rapids’ CIO Hall.
8, his brother
Scene is in front of Grand
.
eet
fe
HUNDREDS
:
Se
OF HOMES
A
and cars in the Grand Rapids area and else-
where in the Midwest looked like this after the tornado struck. Many of the
victims lost belongings covered only partially, or not at all, by insurance.
ai
REGIONAL
by two UAW
DIREC) VU)
memberriir
dens: Carrol Davis (les!)
of Local 257,
a
UNITED
April, 1956
like 15 freight
trains
iS.
was full of mud and glass. We
»
bn#and seeing, and the pressure on
ig
awful.
The
whole
just
house
titp i right next to the clothes dryer,
se and whirled above our heads.
| six inches from us. | guess we
et ones. The only one injured was
“e’ose and hurt his toe.
Another hard-hit member was Joseph King of Local 330,
a resident of suburban Comstock Park. His Local had been
on
against
strike
Inc.,
Lear,
for
103
had
been
and non-union
mem-
days.
He
back at work for only about two months when the tornado
flattened his house and destroyed all his belongings. King
says he is only partly insured.
The UAW and the Kent County ClO Council lost no
time in setting up machinery to aid the disaster victims,
making
no distinction
between
union
bers. Martha Reynolds, local AFL-CIO Community Services representative, was named liaison officer to coordib viily lasted two or three minutes,”
nate Union and Red Cross activities. The Grand Rapids
ii) It the dead calm which followed CIO Hall's big basement gym became the principal de“pvr worse. | wiped the mud from my pot for used clothing donated by area residents for the
4 the children, who were screaming. tornado victims.
%j
<
‘tires all over. | didn't know if the
members who belong to the Civil Defense organUAW
and
put
stay
to
sjso | told the boys
their regular jobs to help regulate
from
leave
took
ization
’
or.
ghb
nei
oy! ao help my
devastated areas,» aid
the
in
blocks
road
man
traffic,
ed
rush
ers,
work
ow
fell
his
teaiost of
do other unpaid,
sisafety of his family. When he got State Police and National Guardsmen and
of their regular
» Ge non-existent and his family gone. volunteer work, with no thought to the loss
') up by a neighbor and taken: to pay check. Others volunteered their spare time to do
=, Wal refuses to say what thoughts clean-up work, removing rubble and debris from roads
tat terrible period before he found and homes.
‘a¥)$ were safe and sound.
J. G. Van Der Myde, president of UAW Local 1231,
‘id en himself at that moment with his
said his membership turned out en masse to help sort
nit-ate-time of hard work wiped out in
the donated clothing at the CIO Hall. President Paul
\utigniture, the appliances, the houseKiel of Doehler-Jarvis Local 257 reported he coloritgothes . . . none was covered by inlected $1,500 at a meeting of his Local to help local
members hit by the disaster.
zlnWNals were lucky . . . luckier than
ID, Andy
Region
Ken Robinson, director of UAW
Local 730 and a
atirtamber of UAW
-bubHudsonville. DeKlein's
Brown,
his
wife,
assistant
director of the UAW's
Community
Sery-
ices Department, and International Representatives Florence Peterson, Ray Powell and Jacob Webber of the regional staff toured the disaster areas to determine how
much and what kind of help was needed by the victims
luckier than their next-door
How little some of the victims thought of themselves
neighbors, the
Stanley Chaffee only hours after the catastrophe is illustrated by a teleby Representative Peterson.
_ family, who had phone conversation reported
the UAW regional
- lived through the She said Brother Van Der Wal called
office the day after the tornado to say that the UAWFlint tornado
sponsored Junior Bowling banquet for Grand Rapids area
three years ago,
ed due to the tornado.
_ who had lost ev- children would have to be postpon
Wal is in charge of the affair.
then, Van Der
erything
yeuhter Yvonne, and his mother-inwan Dyke, were all killed by the
j
sa
|
were
_ had
moved
Hudsonville,
to
lose
to
only
every-
thing again.
After
several
minutes
of conversation,
he was
he personally had been affected by the twister.
"Yes,"'
| own.”
he answered
matter-of-factly,
asked
if
"I lost everything
Here’s the delivery end of the UAW’s “technical
aid program” overseas. These Kenya Dockworkers
union members are unloading a mimeograph machine
in Kenya. The mimeograph is a present from UAW
Local 153, Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey. The UAW
also is sending organizing kits (typewriter, mimeograph machine, and supplies) to other unions overseas.
Million Auto Workers Near
Annual Improvement Increase
The wages of more than a million UAW members will be
increased by six cents or more on or before June 1.
That is the date of the annual improvement. factor increases provided in most UAW contracts. Workers will receive six cents or 214 per cent of the hourly rate, whichever
is greater.
The increases will mean a
total boost of more than $60,-
chasing
such
an
power
increase
an
for
UAW
a $125 increase in annual straight
time earnings for the lowest paid
pay
for higher
more
workers,
and
classifications
trades.
skilled
got
fac-
who
workers,
Chrysler
their annual improvement
later
increases
tor
workers
first
were
pay
Their
in line this year.
raise went into effect April 1.
UAW
Matthews,
Vice-President
director
Department,
ler
of the
Norman
pointed
Chrys-
out:
“This
crease
inwage
UAW-negotiated
will assure Chrysler work-
living
and
a steadily
ers
will
rising
standard
their
increase
of
pur-
Quebee
(PAI)—The
is considering merger of its orwith the merged
ganization
Trades and Labor Congress and
the
Canadian
which
TLC
tion
Congress
of
Labor
will take place on April 23.
A CCCL
has been
and
unity
committee
labor
directed to approach the
the
of merger.
CCL-on
the
across-the-board basis,
terms of the contract.
inset shows what the Folkersma’s house looked like before the disaster,
needed.
under
the
“Only those white collar workers in the auto industry who belong to the UAW will receive in-
creases
Matthews
basis,’
that
on
UAW Begins
Talks on Contract
With Canadian Ford
TORONTO—For the first time
since the long Ford of Canada
strike of 1954-55, contract talks
are
being
now
between
held
the
Company and the UAW. The Une
ion’s negotiating team is headed
by George Burt, director of Rerepresents
UAW
The
7.
gion
Ford
11,000 Canadian
about
workers.
Burt
said
Union's
the
principal
plan, a
demands include a GAW
15-cent across-the-board wage inan
pensions,
improved
crease,
eighth
foundry
Ford
cated
holiday,
of
in
Etobicoke,
The
ques-|strike
Canada
Windsor,
was
plants
Ford
settled
are
Oakville
in Ontario.
all
recent
five cents for
and
workers.
of
lo-
and
Canada
January
28,
1955,
tt
LL
LI IC
Vit7 CGLL
DS
PRESIDENT PAUL KIEL of the UAW’s Dochler-Jarvis Local 257 is told
by one of his members, George Folkersma, of Leonard Heights (at right),
and his wife, Rose, what it was like to live through a tornado, Picture in
is badly
when
most
than
year,
last
“We
stated.
and
Canadian
100,000-member
Catholic Confederation of Labor
‘ISON gets filled in
/ivil Defense war1°4356 and Al Baker
time
a
mem-} because
It represents
basis.
annual
an
on
hour
QUEBEC,
Pi
at
pleased
particularly
are
factor
this improvement
bers. It brings a weekly rise| is going to white collar workers
of more
power
workers,
as production
in purchasing
as well
The increase| and is being applied without rethan $2%4 million.
amounts to well over $125 million gard to. wage brackets on an
000
Catholic Labor Group
Considers Merger
LD
7
Homes
Flattens
sounded
Page
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
ican
COPYRIGHT 1956 CARTOONS.OF- THE: MONTH
“Passing out peanut butter
to the fellows got me nowhere!
and jelly sandwiches
All I have in it today
is a portable radio tuned to the ball game!”
Page
April, 1956
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
8
Reuther Urges World Fund
To Raise Living Standards
such as Sunfed and the Colombo plan, pending the UN’s consideration of the creation
of the World Fund.
_ 8. Long-range economic commitments to deal
with long-range economic problems.
9. The United States to ‘‘speak out Clearly and
act courageously against all forms of colonialism.’”
10. Immediate and effective action to meet the
challenge of providing equal opportunity
of political and economic citizenship to all
Americans, regardless of race, creed or
UAW President Walter P. Reuther
proposes that the “have” nations help
ease world tensions by sharing some of
their economic advantages with the “have
nots.”
He suggested that for the next
the United States contribute two
of its gross national product into
Fund to provide economic and
aid to less developed nations.
.
25 years
per cent
a World
technical
The recommendation was part of a 10-point
program for ‘‘Peace, Prosperity and Progress”’
color.
sent by Reuther to U. S. Secretary of State John
In submitting the program to Secretary Dulles,
Renther said:
“Tt seems to me, as it does to many other Amer-
Foster Dulles:
THEMSELVES
HELP
CAN
THEY
SO
Reuther
of the program,
Purpose
said in a let-
icans,
ter to the Secretary of State, would be to “help
the people of tha economically less developed nations to help themselves in developing their own
duction
$8 billion.
the 10 points of the program
In outline
are:
The two per cent contribution over a 25-year
1.
period; contributions to be made without
qualifications.
Request that the USSR make a siniilar com-
2.
demonstrate
Program to be administered through UN
and multi-lateral agencies.
4. The sharing of America’s food abundance
under arrangements that would not dislocate the economy of any country that exports grains or foodstuffs.
5.. Creation of a federal scholarship program
to train a technical task force to be used
and
needed
“‘wherever
to
desired’’
and
CHILD LABOR, as represented by this
youngster in Indonesia who will know little
but toil, is one of the evils which could be
corrected by economic aid to underdevel-oped countries,
the proper amount
““We must never forget the long years of colonial exploitation and imperialism by which the
East judges the West,’’ the UAW president said.
“Tt would be convenient if we could just put that
of gratitude.
aside as if it had
so, nor
carry
not
the Asian
H-BOMB, SYMBOL
“Unfortunately,
happened,
and
but we cannot
African
do
countries
let
attitude
of
OF FAILURE
the
policies
and
our government have failed to reflect an understanding of the social dynamics of our changing
world, and have therefore continued to place an
undue reliance upon the purely negative approach
of military power
“The
in their foreign policies,’’ Mr. Reuther continued
**As you acknowledged (in a recent press conference) in. Jakarta, Indonesia, the young and
newly independent United States was itself eager
world
hungry
will respond
and alliances.
and
desperate
peoples
of
to a positive program
the
of mas-
sive retaliation against poverty, hunger and injus-
tice. . . . Because of* unfortunate phrases and
bellicose utterances on the part of certain Ameriean officials, the H-bomb has, in the minds of
millions of peoples throughout the world, become
the symbol most commonly associated with Ameri-
to devote its attention primarily to its own affairs
and to avoid what George Washington ealled in
his Farewell Address any ‘entangling alliances.’
aor
will
us if we try.
understandable, desire to cling to independence
United States aid to be made available at
once through existing multi-lateral agencies
7.
planned
been
““We have based our action on the recognition (if indeed recognition there has been) that
nations newly independent, free for the first
time in modern history from colonial domination, have a strong, reasonable and, I believe,
out the program for ‘‘peace, prosperity and
progress.’”
Economic aid from the World Fund to be
available to ‘‘unaligned’’ as well as to
“‘aligned’’ nations.
6.
have
‘“We have developed too much the attitude,
whether or not expressly stated in economic aid
legislation or in the language of formal agreements, that if a country is not for us, she is
against us.
.
os
mitment.
3.
programs
DESIRE TO BE FREE NO EVIL
“There has been too much caleulation,’’ Reuther continued, ‘‘as to whether or not a’ nation
receiving aid would submit to our leadership,
whether it wonld fit itself into our current pattern of military alliances and whether it would
gross national pro-
be approximately
would
aid
executed in a spirit of bargaining which has cost
us dearly, seriously damaging the fund of good
will which hadvexisted in most eases beforehand.
of living, standard of health and standard of edu-
cation.”’
Two per cent of the present
economic
too late and too little and have been
their standard
in raising
and
resourees
economic
that,our
ean foreign policy.’”’
First Master Contract at Champion
Brings 24-cent Package, Big Gains
A master contract providing for an economic package in
excess of 24 cents and for a union shop clause covering all
units has been negotiated with the Champion Spark Plug
Company, it was announced by UAW International Viceeee
President Richard Gosser.
The international agreement
covers about 4,500 workers in
five Champion plants in Ohio,
TWENTY
YEARS OF PROGRESS
mean the UAW needs more headquarters space. The steel girders are piled Michigan,
new
the
in
lot
parking
the
for
four
stories to be added to the center section
of Solidarity House this spring and
summer,
Technical GAW, Pension Items
Hold Up Two Borg-Warner Locals
Two Local Unions, 729 at Ingersoll Steel in New Castle, Indiana, and 363 at Pesco Products
:
in
Cleveland,
tions
not
and
pensions
yet
meeting
are
claded
ment
is
Chain
in
Warner
this month.
are
in
both
not
conagree-
Local 42, Morris
and
Muncie,
agreement.
terms
GAW
and
although
Detroit
Gear,
GAW
technical
Pesco
near.
on
Borg-Warner
pensions
at
negotiaquarterly
unresolved
and
in
the
the
Ingersoll
GAW
tract
at
in Chicago
points
are
completed
of
Council
At
reported
B-W
agreed upon earlier.
All
Local
287,
Indiana,
other
plants
con-
were
Vice-President
Pat
National GM Confab
To Be Held in Detroit
A
Great-
house, director
of the Borgreported
Department,
Warner
that
GAW
and
pension
com-
mittees will be organized soon
and that Region
1B Director
William
McAulay
has
an-
nounced
Products,
workers
at
Adrian,
Primor
Michigan,
a
new B-W Division, have voted
2 to 1 for the UAW in a recent NLRB election.
Delegates reported that Borg-
Warner,
like
all
parts
turers, has been hit
but that the concern
forward
and has
expansion
by layoffs
is carrying
its diversification plans
announced a $25 million
program,
the expenditure
including
manufac-
ar
nearly
last year and
$11
million
being built
in England
twice
National
UAW
General
24
and
25,
it
has
been
Mo-
an-
eral Motors Department.
In- addition to the regular National GM Council delegates, the
meeting will be attended by local
committeemen
who will handle
Supplemental
Benefits
plans
spective locals.
A meeting of
tioral
GM
Unemployment
(SUB)
in their re-
the
UAW’s
Negotiating
announced.
The.
‘
PATTERN BENEFITS
settlement,
the
first
one
plan
(SUB),
a
local
erential
products
Local
turned
issues,
hiring
clause.
272
to
gained
and
pref-
transfer
members,
work
a
March
who
1,
of
re-
also
boast inclusion of the UAW’s
model clause on discrimination in
their contract.
The new clause
covers
which
eyery
phase
is covered
Michigan.
except
by state
hiring,
law in*
six-cent
improvement factor, correction of
wage
inequities,
a union
shop
clause
for
all
plants,
uniformity
of grievance procedures, improvements in contract language and
other
The
“pattern”
benefits,
agreement
covers
mem-
bers of Detroit Local 272; the
Unit of Toledo’s
Champion
Local 12; CamAmalgamated
bridge, Ohio, Local 886; Heller-
town,
and
Pennsylvania,
Amalgamated
Windsor,
Ontario.
Local
Local
1238,
195,
The Windsor local also gained
the 40-hour week and improvehospital
ments in medical and
benefits, including a completely
non-contributory Blue Cross-Wind-
Na-
Commit-
in
not tee will be called a few days
plant advance of the Conference, Wood-
cock
GAW
Benefit
nounced by UAW
International
Vice-President
Leonard
Woodcock, director of the Union’s Gen-
the
Canada.
and
ever reached with Champion on
a multi-plant basis, includes a
Supplemental
Unemployment
tors Conference will be held in
Detroit's Fort Wayne Hotel on
May
Pennsylvania
over
sor Medical plan, paid for entirely
by the Company.
STRIKE SETTLED
The Detroit local, which was
on strike for nearly two months
“About that raise I promised
you, Miss Willow—I assume you
realize that oral agreements are
not binding.”
Page
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
U NITED
9
|
| Truck Firm Changes Site, Name;
Bargaining Rights Remain Same
Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS,
learned that you can’t get away
e1
Another
has
ployer
from the UAW.
a significant victory in a representation election conducted by the NLRB at the new Napco Industries, Inc., plant here. The Company is the successor to
Truck?
Federal
defunct
the
won
has
Union
The
of Detroit.
firm
won
at
first
The UAW had held a contract with Federal Truck at
56
of
Union
1956.
other
the
plants
off
year,
to
a
since
the
getting
good
the
start
in
The newly organized plants are
the time
in Michigan, Ohio,
York,
The new firm, instead of} Pennsylvania, h
Napco.
Minnesota
reopening the shut plant in De- chusetts, Connecticut,
ently
get
in“the
away
UAW
dent
that
belief
from
the
drive
izing
at
could
\UAW Urges
Court
of} Supreme
director
Shop Depart-|
conducted
ment, which
the
the organ-
new
plant,
an-
nounced
the NLRB
results: 148
for UAW, 91 for no union, and
five for the IAM.
Gosser pointed out that although the plant currently em-
tee
|
i
INDUSTRIAL
AFL-CIO
THE
Carey,
B.
James
Secretary-Treasurer
Left to right are:
Union Department gets down to business.
Walter P, Reuther and Director Al Whitehouse.
President
IUD Board Outlines Program:
Membership Now at 7 Million
Union Department of
of its Executive Board |
WASHINGTON—The Industrial
the AFL-CIO held the first meeting
here last month and outlined a program covering legislation,|
collective bargaining problems, automation and jurisdiction.|
UAW President Walter P. Reuther is president of the In-}
dustrial Union Department
which has 72 affiliated unions
represents
and
7,000,000
about
workers.
The Department’s Executive
naming
group,
the
of
structure
the
completed
meeting
Board
four vice-presidents, approving
membership for three more affiliates and initiating the creation
industry
of
partment.
chinists.
IUD President
Ma-
an-
the
De-
establish-
within
committees
ing
partment to provide a “common
with
for unions
denominator”
common interests and problems.
As an example, he cited a metal
and
manufacturing
fabricating
also
and
industries
be
established
a dozen
others
as
Workers,
who
members;
the
and
for 10,000;
ers,
4,500.
MORE
later
would
affiliated
for 80,000
Hosiery
Stove
the
that
not
a
two
ity with
press
Mount-
unions,
identify,
conferwhich
had
ap-
Department.
the
“We
clean,”
he
standards”
the ethical
He
are going to keep
Reuther
told
regarded
the
said.
same
morally
wrong.”
the
of
IUD
conference
jurisdictional
as “anti-labor and
Rapids,
Local
Michigan,
clared.
The
Local 330 members work at
Lear, Inc., which makes elec-
trucks,
safety
ropean
sales
firm.
is the new
manager
mated
Eu-
for
strikes
anti-social and
highway
and
construction
Napco
The
equipment.
at their first meeting
workers,
following the election, voted to
become a unit of UAW Amalga-
tronic equipment for aircraft.
last
announced
Company
The
month that former King Mich-
ael of Rumania
Federal
produces
firm
de-
Gosser
year,”
past
in the
area
surprised
to
learn
recently
that a European king is selling
the products they make.
in this
membership
in UAW
boost
were
substantial
a
represents
summer,
330,
last
the UAW
with
affiliated
who
Gosser
the
125.
Local
bargaining
that
announced
also
been
have
rights
Ki
Workers,
APPLY
told
Grand
of UAW
to induce a “no union” vote.
the
with
along
plant,
“This
3,500 Minneapolis-Moline workers
mended
the
Illinois—Young Ra-
MATTOON,
diator
cine,
UAW
Company
Wisconsin,
Local
37.
are
Ra-
in
workers
members
When
the
of
Com-
pany decided to expand a number of years ago, it looked around
for a way to avoid UAW representation for new employ:
Rather
cine,
than
it picked
expand
Mattoon,
in
Ra-
Illinois,
a
ion
successful
early
averaging
a
including
given
when
the average
$2.59.
year
a
the
10-cent
UAW
drive.
so
were
an
$1.50
scant
hour,
organizing
this
was
workers
Young
that
in Mattoon
an
device
The
climate.
anti-un-
an
with
community
In
hourly
raise
started
Racine,
rate
un-
“I see less
movement
on
penand
union,
for
reasons
best
known to them,” had not signed
the AFL-CIO no-raiding agree-
ment,
All
those
recommended,
the
District
de-
Judge
of
out
throwing
court an attempt by the Republican Party to deny to UAW mem-
of political activity
Union.
their
U.
S.
Department
tice appealed
cision which
Judge
8.
Since
February
“motion
to
of
Jus-
Picard’s dehanded down
was
Union’s
the
affirm”
was filed, the
Justice Department has urged the
highest court to “act with almost
have
a decision
fore
the
be-
down
handed
begins.
campaign
1956
to
order
in
haste”
unprecedented
UAW officers are confident that
will uphold
Court
the Supreme
the lower court and also would
decision.
early
an
welcome
Su-
with
acquainted
Those
preme Court routine doubt, howwill be
that a decision
ever,
before
forthcoming
ad-
court
the
summer.
the
for
is
The Mattoon workers voted an
end to their second-class citizenship status in a recent NLRB eleccess
Departof Vice-
Competitive Shop
under the direction
UAW
ment
Gosser.
Richard
President
the
by
drive
organizing
an
suc-
with
cap
to
however,
tion,
The vote was: 144 UAW, 43 no
union. Since the election, all but
10 of the 220 workers in the barhave signed UAW
gaining unit
cards.
further
gave
Company
the
cam-
organizing
the
counts,
seyen
on
the
election.
tle
the
permit
to
order
in
prejudice
come
charges
The
up for a hearing May 8 but the
vicCompany, since the UAW
a willingtory, has indicated
ness to pay lost time and set-
case.
in
climate
The
changed a lot. The
more drives under
involves a runoff
and
Knox
Keporting on the recommendations of the IUD Executive
Committee for the vacant vice-
whose
Picard
S.
action, the
In an unusual
NLRB permitted the Union to
without
the charges
waive
reported.
anyone
A.
pany
friendship
for our
Capitol
Hill than
support
Frank
affirm
U.
practice charge and, after inyestiRB cited the Comgation, the
A conference on legislation will
be conducted by the IUD in Washington
in about
six weeks,
Argeneral
IUD
J. Goldberg,
thur
conselence
Federal
the
increases of 10 to 20 cents to
many workers to try to buy their
votes. Last October it fired an acUAW
supporter
The
tive UAW
labor
unfair
filed a four-point
as
the
“in
of
paign,
will
program.
presidencies,
Reuther
said
group decided it could not
to
cision
During
I have for a long time,” Meany
that before
noted and asserted
unions can right this situation,
“We must put our own house in
order,”
counsel,
Court
membership
s
to jufinding solution
comproblems and
IUD
Supreme
urging
has
Another Runaway That Didn't Work
George
President
AFL-CIO
Meany told the IUD that a major
task of the Department should be
to assist in
risdictional
motion
UAW
Victory at Mattoon, Illinois
MEANY
FROM
a
journs
kK:
comsoft
well
groups to study automation,
wage
sions, the guaranteed
related subjects,
PRAISE
The three new unions admitted
are the Transport
to the IUD
Members
a vicious propaby the Company
achieved despite
ganda campaign
filed
The
was
victory
election
The
next
the
within
which
committee
ions in its makeup. Similar
mittees in the consumer
goods
of a committo work with
Salesman
to about 1,000
few months.
WASHINGTON—The
through
increased
be
will
To Affirm Decision
bers the right
machining
and
least
at
have
would
pact.
investigation
pending
abeyance”
“to be sure they are in conform-
Reuther
for
plan
the
nounced
and
the
of
Hayes
Al
President
Bakers
the
of
Cross
G.
to the
that
plied for membership, but the
applications were being “held in
James
President
Pipefitters;
&
signatories
unions
a group from the Building Trades
Department was announced.
he
Plumbers
of the
T. Schoemann
from
The membership
tee from the IUD
ence
Peter
President
Workers;
ing
are
were
Reuther
of the Cloth-
Rosenblum
said,
TWO
Secretary-Treasurer
presidents:
Frank
vice-
as
elected
Board
The
De-
the
within
groups
he
Royal
Comthat
ploys only about 250, the
announced
has
pany
employment
Wisconsin.
Vice-Presi-|
Gosser,
Competitive
the
it
UAW.
International
Richard
and
appar-
Minnesota,
to
moved
troit,
by|
purchased
it was
Hose
Metal
Brass.
SPECIAL PROBLEMS of white-collar workers receive some special «consideration during
this breather at the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department meeting. Emil Mazey, UAW
secretary-treasurer, left, chats with Howard Coughlin, president of the Office Employes; James
Suffridge, president of the Retail Clerks, and Russell Stephens, president of the Technical Engineers,
Mattoon
has
UAW
way here,
election
the other
Division
two
One
at Blaw-
is at the new
of
American
suc
In addition to UAW
by
made
inroads are being
IUE,
Workers,
Furniture
February saw
Steelworkers.
first
issue
tabloid
of
paper
the UAW
and
has
Mattoon
sponsored
Labor,
jointly
aS, ;
the
and
the
a
by
those three Unions.
Page
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
10
April, 1956
Kohler Strike No Bar
To Organizational Drive
SHEBOYGAN, Wisconsin—The workers of this city
know the value of a UAW contract and what it means in
terms of support from a great international union.
This was proved once again last month when Region
10 and the Competitive Shop Department announced a
victory in an NLRB-conducted election at the Optenberg
Iron
Works
here,
manufacturer
of
heavy
employes eligible to vote, 24 chose
no union, and one man was absent,
There
it took
strike
is nothing
place
by
in a city
UAW
Company.
remarkable
which
Local
Despite
a
833
Company
Vinyl
Robert
nephew
of furnishing comprehensive prepaid health services of high
quality at a price workers can afford, James Brindle, director of the UAW Social Security Department, told’members of
Williams’ Study
nen
Men-
G.
Governor
Michigan
tem
Commis-
“which
any
sion on Prepaid Hospital Care
Plans on behalf of the UAW
last month.
could
County
rate
strued
“Blue Cross alone cannot provide comprehensive health serv-
imitated
Medical
Michigan.
“Our
be
opposition
should
increase
by
Society
to
the
be
not
as unwillingness
in
recent
to pay
con-
the
proper cost of prepaid care,” he
added. “We want a high standard
of prepaid hospital and medical
ices. The
hospitals,
the medical
profession
and
medical
prepaycare and are willing to pay a reament plans, such as Blue Shield,
also are involved,” he said, point- | sonable and appropriate price for
ing out
that
the
physicians
in it.
Windsor,
Ontario,
developed
a
Canada,
have
comprehensive
is
“Part
of
the
increasing
cost
305,
bowler in
200-average
Wayne,
Indiana.
He fired
(27
pins
a
game
over
his
is
ahead
of
events.
highest
in
history
noro’s
C
3018;
MEN’S
No.
Antuck,
196,
Bat
863,
Cinci
ti,
1313;
1290;
Pawlak,
Larry
Local
735,
Wag-
De-
Schmidt,
(scratch
John
Herzer,
678;
Richard
Battle
MEN’S
West,
TEAMS
Bendix Lassies, Local 9, South
Bend, 2882; Strikers, Local 941,
| Elkhart, 2838; Paint Spots, Local
|
941, Elkhart,
WOMEN’S
Lucille
Local
2830.
DOUBLES
Davis,
941,
Creek,
ALL
Local
Grasty,
Harriette
Elkhart,
Floyselle
cal 261; Detroit,
| WOMEN'S
SINGLES
Gerry
South Bend, 1898; Charles
Local 212, Detroit, 1887.
Local| by,
1270.
MEN’S
Wayne
Payne,
SCHMIDT
Bowl-
12087
Do-
Washington,
Lo-
Bernard| lores Crudup, Drucilla Pace, Lor Sauerweine, Local cal 261,
Detroit, 1180;
Mahala
Stan
troit,
Ray
Creek,
Cordes,
ner,
486,|
DOUBLES
Gene
GERRY
Ande-
1, Local
Local
305,
bowler)
9, South
Haan,
678.
Local
Fort
681; |
South
Local
De-|
489,
1179.
SINGLES
Turbeville,
Bend,
9,
668;
South
Local
WOMEN’S
Betty
EVENTS
Bob Schéeuher, Local 314,
troit, 1898; Ed Winder, Local
Esther
Bend,| Mock,
196,|
how-
because
ter.
mary
Reuther
of
President
released
a UAW
doctor’s
in
mechanism.”
UAW
survey
charges
Michigan
of
statement:
“The
Wal-
the
sum-
of actual
for surgical
with
the
survey
care
following
demonstrates
that Blue Shield has failed miserably in its obligation to eneither
of
the
the
spirit
full
or
the
payment
conhave
advantage of Blue Shield
to
gouge
unfortunate
mediate
payment
tracts
Shield
steps
and
to
should
enforce
provisions
urge
of
the
take
the
its
anti-labor
workers
which
a brother
of Bathtub
The
makes
Baron
Company
plastic
floor
of Wisconsin’s
Herbert
employs
Kohler,
about
tiles,
Governor
the
120
Kohler
prop-
voted
833.
is
three
owned
Kohler
Kohler
of
workers.
im-
full
con-
Michigan
State Medical
Society
and
the
Wayne
County
Medical
Society
to give full cooperation to put
an end to this evil practice of
overcharging
for surgical
serv-
Unionists
Serve
hound
Lines moved into a new
garage which failed to meet
health and safety standards.
The strike was settled when
the Company,
admitting
the
merit
in the UAW demands, spent $74,000 to eliminate the hazardous
conditions. When the strike started, however, the Company
went
before. Judge
Ferguson
and
sought an injunction prohibiting
picketing.
The judge
a
temporary
iting
there
by
and a
Kohler
Terms
all picketing
and
gested
hearing,
the
parties
their dispute
hearing
the
to
drop
“contempt”
and
until the
next
morning.
postponed
the
At
the
same
time,
however,
Judge
Ferguson
also cited 10
UAW members, three UAW Local Unions, and the International
for “contempt of court” for violating the injunction—even though
to
have
the
injunction
Ferguson
citations.
refused
in
the
cases of three of the individuals.
The UAW
carried the cases
to the Michigan Supreme Court.
The
Court
dropped
one
of
the
three defendants but upheld in
the cases of Nolan and Doddie.
Last month the U, S. Supreme
Court refused to hear the case
because “no constitutional issue
is involved.”
Joseph McCusker, co-director of
sug-
to settle
the
Judge
demand-
try
time
dropped. Both the Company and
the Union
asked
the judge
to
prohib-
judge
been
Ferguson
ed that the UAW show cause in
three hours why it shouldn't be
made permanent. At the showcause
had
notify pickets of the injunction.
The
Company
and the Union
reached agreement.early the next
morning and went before Judge
obliged—granting
injunction
hardly
UAW Region 1A, one of the original defendants, summed it up in
a
Doddie
court:
surrendered
jail
Doddie
and
terms
to
today
to
satisfy,
but a judge.”
and
Nolan
surrendered
were
“Nolan
as
issued
statement
before
the
Union-won
increase
of
June,
worth $450. The worker who held that job 15 years ago likely has made
gress than that through Union-won chances for advancement.
115
»eal 1005, Cleve-
Earlier
of a two-year-old
Kohler-inspired
these
that
Detroit Circuit Judge Frank -Ferguson, a brother of Homer Ferguson, ex-GOP senator from Michigan, retired from
the U. S. Senate in 1954 by the people of Michigan, gained a
measure of revenge late last month.
Two years ago members of UAW Local 656 went on strike
when the Great Lakes Grey-
Department reveals.
The job worth $200 a month
In-
WOMEN’S
, 3057;
prepayment
to
except
for
are
the
to
being
serve 10-day
not
justice,
Salaries for white collar workers at Chrysler Corporation have more than doubled in
the past 15 years, a survey of gains prepared by the UAW Office and Technical Workers
locals from 52 cities in nine
states and Ontario represented.
Here
are the top three finishers
in each
division
MEN’S TEAMS
Local 189,
up
scene
vicious
exposure
UAW,
election
voted
33
Are More Than Doubled by UAW
a
John
with
of-
prepayment,
is going
the
eight
of
Chrysler Office Worker Wages
Herzer, Local 9,
diana.
The UAW
men and women
divided $11,350 in prizes, plus
trophies, and the entries were
the
more
before.
of
are
wasteful practices that now exist
and because of deficiencies in the
ices.”
aver-
Bend,
South
cost
“Blue
Fort
a 681
runnerup
also
“The
hospital
work
patients.
age)
in the singles division and
wound
up
as
champion,
three
pins
ever,
the
to
taken
laxity
The UAW’s fifth annual
tourney which recently closed
a seven-week stand in Columbus, Ohio, provided evidence
that scratch bowlers win in
handicap events, too.
Gerry Schmidt, Local
than
people
More
of
terms of the Blue Shield
tract and that doctors
he re ason for handicap bowling tournaments is to give
and low average bowlers a better chance to comthe aoe
pete with high average bowlers. Most high average bowlers
feel that the handicaps are too big and few of them will comin “*seratch’’ (no handicap)
ten
cut.
going
letter
Handicaps Don't Hinder
nay Bowling Champion
pete except
being
force
em-
Hospital
inescapable.
are
and other
hours
Plastics,
Two
increases
Their
this
Out
Judge Ferguson Has Way—
ployes are receiving badly needbenefits.
the
UAW,
still refuses to grant to the striking Local
Kohler,
overlord.
UAW Urges Doctors and Hospitals to Help
Develop Fair Prepaid Health Service Plan
wage
been
parts.
Last September, more than 63 per cent of the employes of
Vinyl Plastics voted for the UAW in another representation election. These workers are now members of Local 1332 and have a
good contract which includes a pension, full seniority, arbitration
of grievances and many of the other demands which the Kohler
DELEGATES FROM 14 UAW LOCALS braved a typical wintry blast in Buffalo to participate in the annual UAW Regions 8, 9 and 9A Office and Technical
Conference at the Statler Hotel. After discussing contracts, grievances, arbitration
methods, automation and related subjects, the delegates heard UAW Vice-President Norman Matthews, director of the Union’s Office and Technical Department,
reiterate the goal of organizing all unorganized office and technical workers under
= the Union’s jurisdiction.
ed
the
the
about
against
two-year
aganda directed against
to one for the Union.
It is not too much to expect the doctors, the hospitals and
prepayment plans to work out together a satisfactory method
has
iron
941,
ALL
Mock,
1886;
Lucille
Elkhart, 1880;
Joan
Bend,
EVENTS
Davis,
Esther
cal 941, Elkhart,
1816,
941,
9,
Badur,
653;
Elkhart,
Local
Local
Betty
635.
Elkhart,
Local
Koppy,
941,
Lo-
1941,
is
now
a lot more prog-
Here’s what happened to that $200-a-month job when Chrysler white collar
workers formed themselves a Union:
June, 1941—8 per cent (8%) increase for all employes____--_~- $216.00
January, 1943—$10 per month increase up to $200; 5 per cent
(5%) increase between $200 and $350 per month___________ 226.80
259.30
January, 1946—$32.50 per month increase for all employes__
April, 1947—9 per cent (9%) with $26 minimum per month in285,30
crease for all employes
May, 1948—9 per cent (9%) with a $20 minimum increase for
310,98
all employes
September, 1950—7 per cent (7%) with $17.50 minimum increase
332.75
for all employes
342.75
June, 1951—$10 a month Improvement Factor increase__
June, 1952—$10 a month Improvement Factor increase_____-_~- 352.75
June, 1953—$31.66 Cost of Living factored into monthly salary__ 384.41
June, 1953—$14.24 a month Improvement Factor increase______ 398.65
June, 1954—$14.24 a month Improvement Factor increase______ 412.89
June, 1955—$10,98 or 3 per cent (3%) whichever is greater a
425.28
month Improvement Factor increase
December, 1955—Quarterly Cost of Living in the amount of $35
or the equivalent of $11.66 per month
April, 1956—$10.98 or 3 per cent (3%) whichever is greater a
450,05
month Improvement Factor increase
)ae
.
Page
Kohler Strike Enters Its Third Year;
Boycott Is Boomed as ‘Best Weapon’
Macume Gas C.
“Trae
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
April, 1956
Cis
KOWLERS DADISTRIAL POLICY’
(hy Bowrmeron Emevorens
more
for many
ers prepared
designed to justify
and perk up sales.
work-
Wisconsin—Kohler
SHEBOYGAN,
of their
months
effort to win a decent contract from the
| Kohler Co. as their strike entered its third
UAW
After two years on the picket line, the collective bargaining situation was still at a
stalemate. Local 833, almost as strong in
spirit
in
stronger
certainly
and
© Kohler Company spokesmen say their first
_competitors
obligation is to the scabs recruited from a
area,
They
refuse
to consider
a con-
the
held in the various UAW regions, classes in numerous lolocalities, plus
and
cal unions
conferactivat-
family participation
ences for politically
members,
women
ing
hobby
and
shows.
and
they
took
in
part
ranging
subjects~
on
workshops
fashion
groups,
addition,
In
recreation
from automation to political action.
2A held its women’s
Region
conference in Columbus early this
month with UAW Regional Director Ray Ross as leadoff speaker.
Vice-President
Pat
Gredat-
in the COPE dollar drive.
stressed the importante of
litical
gains
in
ments
workmen’s
taxes,
and
past
of
series
unemployment
handled
workshops
topics of interest to wom-
special
en
workers,
up
with
’
On the west coast, the gals in
UAW Local 179, Bendix Aviation
in Van Nuys, California, got fed
paying
the
jobs\they
were
investigated
They
do,
routine
and
lower
the
possi-
forced
to
Find-
bility of a training program,
ing commercial schools were too
high, they got together with their
local
president,
Board, Women’s
resentative,
and
local
Executive
Department rep-
their
Job
Result:
Committee.
Women's
training.
classes are now being set up.
At Local 805, Grayson Controls,
chose
management
a bighearted
a few
gals to learn
the
intricacies
of time
studys
The
Women’s
Committee thought this over, and
decided if time study was going
to
why
be
taught
not
4
Roosevelt
to
be
of
qualified
trade union
presented
union
union
members,
time
study
(PAI)—A
used
In
grant
the
to Roosevelt
by the Mary N,
rial Foundation
of
training
young
women
leadership has
study
in
class-
their
for
been
University
Winslow Memoof Washington,
Secretary-Treasurer
Emil
Mazey
years
pressure
necessary
for a settlement.
own
as
are
required
to
win
a decent
con-
pany sales prospects remains.
BOYCOTTING
A BATHTUB
BARON
With this impasse, considerable attention
focused on Herbert V. Kohler who has almost single-handed control of the Company.
Called to trial in the NLRB hearings this
month, Kohler said that he was responsible
for firing all of the strike leaders. He took
personal responsibility for all the Company’s
A
strike strategy.
He also admitted, under oath, that he did
not know the status of Union demands.
While the Bathtub Baron growled his
defiance from the witness stand, another
~ Kohler Company official quietly asked a
newspaper reporter, ‘‘Has the Union said
how it expects to turn off this boycott?”’
the
On
summed
boycott
this
a veteran
picketline,
grinder
up the situation: ‘‘We just have to
until we boycott some sense into
head.’’
management’s
A Newsy Query
r
How Does a Michigan Democrat
Get to Be Connecticut GOPer?
The Detroit
which
has
has
News, a
daily
misrepresented
been
caught
with
paper
before,
its photo-
of
L.
Jones,
UAW
long-time
Local
22 and
tained
a
“Fortsee
sub-heading
GOP
reading,
Victory.”
Under the picture this time the
eaption read:
“MUSIC TO THE
GOP:
busy
the
ber.”
Connecticut
and
deciding
UAW
gan
prosperous;
workers
this may
factor
member
Democrat,
in
Jones,
are
be
Novem-
a Michi-
wants
it
known
hé's not now (nor was he in 1938)
a
Connecticut
talked
written
ing
to
an
to The
notice
So
far,
Republican.
He’
Detroit
giv-
attorney
to publish
neither
reprinted
—
a
a retraction.
nor
the
The
a reply.
picture hasn't
(recently)
rn
has
News
Jones
attorney
has
had
nearly 18-year-old
been
who
0 TT
either.
AE
worker at Cadillac, had a good
reason for the happy smile a Detroit News photographer caught
on
his
face
in
the
late
summer
was
taken
of 1938.
Jones
had
just
been
called back to work after a long
layoff due to a model changeover.
The
picture
as
he
clocked in’ Also in the picture
were two other UAW
Cadillac
workers,
Frank
Colovich
and
Ernie Smith.
None of them objected when
The
used the photo on
Rotogravure
ber 4, 1938,
ONLY
got
reading
of
there
the
later,
he
that
facts
were
“Grass
same
the
nearly
while
edition
Right
rather,
picture,
19
same—only
in
years
the
changed!
time
panied
9, 1956,
again—or
paper,,
It was
jolt
however,
was
same
a
March
paper,
was
p
CHANGE
quite
the
the
there
to Work!”
FACTS
Jones
Detroit News
page one of its
section on Septemwith a caption read-
ing: “Back
This
U Gets $7,700
CHICAGO
$7,700
to
started
Local Union.
member
compensation.
A
be
Robert
security,
social
will
time
who objects to being misplaced
in Connecticut by the publieation
with an inference yet that he’s a
Republican!
He
po-
improve-
future
win
and
protect
to
action
es
Shortly,
500’’ jobs are
The battleground of the strike is shifting
from Sheboygan to wherever Kohler plumbingware is sold, Kohler Company’s top
brass, from the president, Herbert V. Kohler,
down to vice-presidents virtually retired, are
scooting about the country making speeches
captions down by a Detroit UAW
member, a life-long Democrat
the confercooperation
house called upon
ence for complete
course?
than
declining number of railroad shipments and
growing stockpiles of unsold plumbingware
show that this boycott is becoming increasingly effective.
NATIONWIDE BATTLEGROUND
UAW women members, who proved during World War]
II and the Korean conflict that they could hold down key
jobs in both Union and plant, are taking an increasingly active role in the Union.
Proof of this is the number of women’s conferences being
is
the jobs.
‘‘fewer
@ The National Labor Relations Board is
winding up hearings ona dozen unfair labor
practice charges against the Kohler Co. The
Union is confident the NLRB will order
workers restored to their jobs, but this decision is probably two or three years away.
@ Kohler workers enthusiastically support
the primary boycott of Kohler plumbingware as the “‘best weapon’’ to bring about
UAW Women Buckle Down
To Union Building Tasks
Company
are steadily draining its sales prospects.
negotiate for scabs or seek a contract which
will leave the majority of Kohler workers
outside the plant while strikebreakers hold
At left:
Building
Kohler
tract, they also prepared to work elsewhere
should the Kohler Co. prefer to prolong the
strike until little in the way-of jobs, or Com-
@ UAW
ing committeeman, carried the large sign.
Tom Treharne, president of the Burlington
Trades Council.
the
states quite clearly the Union is unwilling to
It claims
available.
Ray Beetner, Local 807 bargain-
a lift,
Kohler workers this month began a widespread search for jobs as the Kehler Co. continued to act like the wrestler who would
rather have his back broken than say “‘Uncle.’’ Clearly willing to strike for as.many
jobs.
“truth” picket line.
lo-
cutting off its profit nose to-spite its antiunion face. Its efforts to destroy the Union
tract which ealls for turning out scabs and
restoring veteran workers to their regular
TYPICAL of the support being received by Kohler
workers is this picket line in Burlington, lowa. Kohler
Co. Vice-President L. ‘L. Smith came to Burlington to
give the Kohler pitch at a personnel conference. UAW
Local 807, the J. I. Case works, arranged a 20-man
representatives,
ing and propaganda to quiet conversations
urging people ‘‘Don’t Buy Kohler Products!’’
;
With the spring building surge giving its
than the day the strike started, still faces a
Company willing to go to insane lengths to
break the Union. The tactical situation:
wide
International
position
cal union members and members of other
unions continue to dry up Kohler’s sources
of sales. Activities range from picketline
established in Newark, N. J., and Burlington, Iowa, to counter Company advertis-
year on April 5.
numbers
the Company’s
II
an
the
Koots
artic
picture
accom-
entitled:
Voice
The
ar-
ticle had a Hartford, Connecticut, dateline and spoke of “the
overriding
Connecticut
high
levels
income
in
political
today”
as
factor
“present
of employment
the
state,”
in
and
and
con-
We
Yoeag 2: 2
Mr. and Mrs. Jones are pictured here in their home
with a framed copy of the
1938 printing of the Cadillac worker’s picture as he clocked in after a layoff due to
a model change. The home’s in Dearborn, Michigan—not Connecticut!
Pin Meet Scheduled
Entries
UAW
bowling
close
Region
1C
April
tournament
24
mixed
for
at the
doubles
Down-
Harrison
643
Recreation,
town
St.,
Pilnt,
Michigan,
Art
Pratt
and Earl Crompton,
rectors, report, All
bers
are
event.
at the
uled
eligible
Entry
alleys
April
for
tourney diUAW
mem-
the
handicap
blanks are available
with bowling sched-
28-29,
Three Straight Victories!
the
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota
Shop
The
UAW
Competitive
Department won its third con-
secutive
NLRB
election
here
as
bargaining
Metallurgical workers will affiliate with UAW Amalgamated
125,
Local
he
this year
when
workers
at
Incorporated,
Metallurgical,
year
auto
pany.
which
does
parts,
heat-treating
voted
for the
of
UAW
representative.
other
were
tion and
at
victories
Napeo
Federal
here
this
Corpora
Alreraft
Com-
April, 1956
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE’
UNITED
Page
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sf Sidney Margolius
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Shoes Up; Washers Down
This spring for the first time you can buy a fairly good
antomatie washer for as little as $150 and a large automaticdefrost refrigerator for about $275. But moderate-income
families have a new problem in inereasing cost of shoes,
which were raised for spring and are going to go up again
this fall.
In announcing the latest hike on shoes, the manufacturers followed
the now-familiar pattern of the food, steel and auto industries of
blaming the increase on higher labor and material costs, but at the
profits and dividends.
this
In
higher
hikes:
price
the
behind
reason
real
the
disclosed
time
same
revealing that retail prices will go up 50 cents to $1 again
fall, Gerteral Shoe Corporation, for example, one of the larg-
the boost “to increased costs of raw
attributed
est manufacturers,
necessities:
other
and
these
buying
when
costs
down
hold
to
tips
are
Here
We advise
Next semi-annual shoe sales are the July clearances.
adults to fill in their needs at that time. But the real problem is chil-
dren’s
When
shoes.
next
to $9
$7.50
(and
pay
to
have
you
fall), families
$7-$8
for
several
with
for
shoes
children
a youngster
a real
have
The
solution is to comparison-shop more widely.
The only
burden.
lower-price chains offer good quality at a more reasonable charge,
but generally don’t take as much time and care in fitting as the
snugly
fit
uncomfortably
not
but
shoes
heels early to save
out prematurely.
APPLIANCE
from
being
ON
WAY
WAR
sounded
has
gun
One
manufacturers.
largest
the
COLD
opening
The
to exercise care yourself, making
half-inch longer than the toes, and
have
are a
So you
bought
higher-price stores.
sure the shoes when
against
thrown
child's
the
of shape
out
PHIL HART, lieutenant governor of Michigan, right, is shown here discussing
highlights of the 1956 UAW Michigan Recreation Conference in the Kellogg Center
at Michigan State University in East Lansing with UAW Region 1C Director Robert Carter, left, and Olga Madar, director of the UAW Recreation Department.
it is in-
materials, labor and other expenses,” but also announced
ereasing dividends paid to stockholders by 20 per cent.
UAW Recreation Conference Delegates
Urge More Parks, Planning for Leisure
Why Not Use Tribune
To Wrap the Smelt?
Replace
heel.
wearing
and
CHICAGO —The
price
in a
just
has
(Hotpoint)
manufacturer
tioning
among
appliances
on
war
Tribune
recently
clogged
an-
nounced a special on its standard-quality automatie washer of about
$170, which means you can buy it at discounts, now given by most
This is the first time fully-automatic washers have been offered
this
Company’s
deluxe
is the
model
standard
The
machine
with
the
same
chief
lacks the five-minute washing cycle for delicate
thetics, and the rubber _fins on the agitator for
against
basic
machine
difference
that
as
it
fabrics like synextra protection
list
of about
is an
unusually
large
$290,
less
any
discounts
given
by
retailers.
This
than
a refrigeraton,
trick
features.
invest
Look
your
money
in good
for shelves at least
basic quality
convenience,
but
Pastel-colored
fic
and
dealers
they
sacrifice
appliances
as
they
did
shelf space.
aren’t
with
proving
the
as
popular
commercial
with
women’s
the
pub-
magazines,
as more
counter
and
merit
more
on what
do.
for
families
It provides
is otherwise
Copyright
that
usually
1956
by
keep
an extra
waste
Sidney
the
washer
four square
space.
Margolius.
in the
feet
kitchen
of work
the
floor?
Tribune’s
ground
BARNESLEY,
have
around
the
Wharncliffe Colliery here.
hours are being arranged
into
the
After
ficials
shift
men
a
local
one
get
of
hour
demand,
to
home
beer,
and see their
go to bed.”
Work
to fit
television schedule.
agreed
can
glass
a union
big
start
earlier
mine
the
“so
of-
late
the
in time to have
watch
children
television
before
they
step
one
towards
Pp
.
ing the immediate
more facilities, the
meet-
fg
Sar
ommendation
Council
tion
liams’
urging
current
Problems
department
officials
of
provisions|ment of Conservation
Mennen
lighted
Wil-|
“The shortage
fits
of
this
increaSes
leisure
Michigan
by
Depart-
and facul-
the
and
effect automation is
will have in giving
concluded: | workers additional leisure time.
results
week.
the
delegates
high-
ministrative assistant to UAW
President Walter P. Reuther, de-
Charging
purposes will become]
acute in the next dec-|
or 30-hour
the
conser-
|ty members of Michigan State
University. Douglas Fraser, ad-
of land space for}
automation
for
were
budget
G.
recommendation
and
of the state
vation
terest and participation on the|scribed
part of the increased population, | having
ductivity
appropriate
for adop-|
ment of state parks has not kept|
pace with increased leisure, in-|
as
to
support
for land acquisition in Michigan.
Pointing out that the develop-|
the
officials
the niecossary ifandelwhileteiit:
able land is still available.”
to the Michigan CIO}
of Governor
hae, AS
elected
need for}
delegates]
unanimously passed a special rec-}
ade
England—Times
changed
As one
:
recreation
even more
Time to Go Home, Boys
16 inches deep, an effi-
who got very excited over this idea.
You run into problems of matching or mixing colors
But one new washing
machine
(Bendix)
is
le with Formica work-surface tops in different colors. This feaspecial
occupy
rather
cient door iatch that will open at the touch of your elbow and deep
doors for adequate in-the-door storage. Round shelves may offer some
building broke down
when a school of fish
openings in the sys-
Or did the stench come from
the Kohler showrooms, which
freezer compartment.
KEEP YOUR EYE ON QUALITY
You can expect additional price cuts on refrigerators in June, traditional month for special sales and clearances on this item. But in
buying
Chicago
day was 79. The reports don’t
say whether the smelt smelled,
buf at any rate, UAW
members in this area have always
known that there’s something
fishy about the Tribune.
The same Company has also slashed the price of its 11-foot automatic defrost refrigerator with a 75-pound freezer compartment, to a
low
the
River.
The culprits were smelf, and
the Chicago temperature that
prear.
new
in
condi-
tem’s water intake tubes. The
building
is on the Chicago
retailers for $150 and sometimes less.
at this level.
system
air
The need for immediate and long-range acquisition of land
for recreational use and for comprehensive planning for increased leisure time brought about by automation were the
key topies for more than 200 delegates to the 1956 Michigan
UAW Recreation Conference at Michigan State, University
last month.
in
The
can
the
full
be
been
city,
pro-|
ment
that recreation
accorded its rightful
state,
or
federal
35]|rector
planning,
of
bene-|Department,
the
par-|tablishment
Olga
UAW
called
of a
hasn't
place in
govern-
Madar,
di-
Recreation
for
the
government
es-
de-
tially realized only as we de-|partment to study the needs of
velop our natural resources and/the people, train recreational
acquire additional park faciljties.|jeaders,
develop
facilities,
and
“There is a need
ate action on the
for immedipart of our
| provide
for
!of the entire
adequate
program.
financing
Region 4 Delegates
Elect Bob Johnston
CHICAGO—A special convention of Region 4 delegates
called expressly for the purpose of electing a new regional
director to replace Pat Greathouse, who was recently named
a UAW vice-president, was unanimous jn choosing staff mem
ber Robert W. Johnston to serve as director until the 1957
y
UAW Convention.
man for the Iowa State GIO CounImmediately after the elec- cil. He served also as Community
tion, Johnston
office by UAW
Treasurer Emil
presided
over
was sworn
into
Services
Secretary- group.
Mazey who}
the
special
chairman
for
the
state
conven-
tion in the Morrison Hotel VicePresident Pat Greathouse, former
Region
ent.
4 director,
Johnston,
Local
er
79,
Works
also
was
a member
John
at
Deere
East
pres-
of UAW
Spread-
Moline,
Illi-
nois, has been
on the Region
4 staff since
April,
1948.
He
was formerly president of Lo-
cal
79.
Born
in Hiteman,
Iowa,
some
41
years
ago,
the new
regional
director
ther
VINCE DONIERO (far right), a member of the Spicer Unit, UAW Local 12, Toledo, Ohio, is shown here being congratulated after winning the national bantamweight boxing championship in the Golden Gloves finals in Chicago. He won the open
division bantam title in the Toledo tourney to qualify for the Chicago tourney. With
him here, left to right: Bill Borden; Clem Holewinski, president of Local 12; Don
Pinciotti, and Pat Doniero, Sr., Vince’s father. Borden and Pinciotti are UAW International representatives,
and
labor
coal
of
married
three
two
where
start,
is
girls.
family:
miner
John
and
and
the
children—one
He
comes
fa-}-
from
boy
his father
being
L.
got
from
Southern
Lewis
his mother
a
a
Iowa
his
a pensioner
from UAW Local! 856, East Moline, Illinois.
While on the Region 4 staff,
Johnston served as PAC chnair-
ROBERT
W. JOHNSTON
Director, UAW
Region 4
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