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1956-08-01
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Vol. 19 No. 8
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Class
Matter,
Indianapolis, Indiana
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, Mich. 5c’ per
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1956
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UNITED
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AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
August, 1956
UAW Supports
Steel Strikers
Complete
workers has
support by the UAW for the striking steelbeen unanimously pledged by the UAW Inter-
national Executive
““We
have
know
been
Board.
that the members
forced
on
strike
attitude of the magnates of
the steel industry,’’ UAW
President Walter P. Reuther
and
Secretary-Treasurer
Mazey
wrote
early
Donald,
last
month
try
steel
with
the
United
indus-
settlement
terms
the Steelworkers
but to withhold
RECORD
In a statement issued by the
Industrial Union
Department
of
the AFL-CIO, it was pointed out:
“The steel industry is one of
prosperous.
In
of more than one billion dollars
after taxes.
In the first six
months
of
production
“The
ford
other
"Please,
workers, does a grave disservice to small businessthreatens the health of the state’s and nation’s]
economy.
“The DAW
will continue its fight for more adequate
unemployment compensation provisions.
We will do our
part in trying to prevent any Republican action, when finally
taken, from being too little and too late.’’
Mr. Gibbs,
I'm not
has
members
ended
year
cent
The
with
ratification
hourly
economic
agreement
Local
providing
585
a
a
package.
30-
gained
and
sa
EN
plan effective
The
pe
ON
in
have
New
excess
and
of
offered
to
York (PAI)
world’s
welterweight, is
the Internation-
in
in
the
Westing-
Paterson,
New
father, Anthony,
organizer.
CHICAGO—Workers
Mold
here
at
ABC
have selected the UAW
as collective
bargaining
representative by a vote of 21 to 10
for No Union, according to UAW
International
next July 2. | Greathouse,
Christmas,
increases
af-
Chicago Plant Goes UAW
fits, a hike in life insurance benefits from $1,300 to $1,500, a halfpension
plant
Jersey. His
once was an
two-
eight-cent increase effective July
2, 1957, improved vacation benebefore
they
can well
Martinez,
draftsman
house
immediate
wage
increases of 10
to 12 cents hourly, with another
holiday
which
far
a
company
ness
Vice-President
creative
which
Pat
pro-
Convention
gram.
The printer claims it received the approval of the Republican National Com-
mittee.
It’s been changed.
People began noticing right away that
something was lacking. Most claimed
it was clothing.
Researchers discovered the tag “Unity”
placed over the sad sunbathers was a
The
Rodin,
Auguste
sculptor,
had titled his group, “The Three
Shades.” He did it for a project called
“The Gate of Hell.”
The right legend for the statue reads:
z
-
“Abandon
Gleeful
nudes
Democrats
showed
what
was
claimed
the
doing
tion’s little people.
Republicans haven't
recently
an-
electronic computer
which
is
capable, among
other things,
of composing
1,000 popular
automa-
by
hour
every
songs
tion. The machine, called Datatron, also forecasts results of
song,
was
football games. Its first
“Pushbutton
Bertha,’’
played
last month
Coast TV
the
over
station.
Steelworkers’
a West
Union
prices.
The
without
steel
com-
panies’ concern about inflation is
phony—they are the inflationists.
an their five-year proposal to the
Union
was
fered
as
but as
jected.
an
phony—it
a
basis
not
of-
to
be
re-
agreement
ultimatum
SOLIDARITY
“The
for
was
URGED
IUD
and
its
72
affiliated
unions express their full solidarity with the United Steelworkers
of America
and
its members.
We
urge every union member to join
with us in this solidarity. We urge
all Americans
of
stand ‘firmly with
tually
who
locked
As
The
Worker
tions
out
United
went
were
to
good
will to
the 650,000
have
of
their
been
vir-
jobs.”
Automobile
press,
resumed
eral mediators sitting
progress was reported.
negotia-
with
fed-
—
How
in
but
no
No Union Label;
No Wear Pants
PUEBLO,
would
you
Colorado
like
to
be
312
out
stuck with
pairs of trousers, and withany union label, too? That’s
the
plight
manager
of
of
Russell
this
Rink,
city
community.
When it was learned that the
pants didn’t have the all-important label, members of City Employes Local
155 refused
point
blank to wear them. They pointed to a city ordinance passed in
1954
for
which
city
stated
employes
that
had
to
uniforms
ion-made. The shirts were
made, but not the pants!
be
un-
union-
eres
t
|
f
}
PEACE
PROGRESS
PosreniTy
Do
Big
to
that the
Business
the
Na-
answered,
but
they have altered the program cover.
cagry
busi-
all hope, ye who enter here.”
administration
will
A
an
unger gC
At right was the official cover for the
phony.
arts.
Up Followed
National
to
nounced it had built a $250,000
GOP ‘Nude Deal’ ee Frank?
Republican
makes
machines
Steelworkers
al Union of Electrical Workers (TUE), having worked as
five-
a
members
benefits
third-ranking
a member of
a_
of
wage
BUFFALO,
week strike against the Selas Corporation
of Dresher,
Pennsylvania,
grant
—Vince
Strikers at Selas
Gain 30-Cent Pact
UAW
upon the pocketAmerican.
Two-Fisted Union Man
part of your union hospitalization plan!"
ment. compensation.
of un-
to
those
THEY DISTORT THE FACTS
“To justify this cold-blooded political maneuver, VanPeursem continues to mouth the Republican falsehoods about
the adequacy of Michigan’s present unemployment compensation provisions, the so-called ‘stabilization’ of employment
in the last several weeks-and gross exaggerations about the
cost of Governor Williams’ proposals to liberalize unemploy“The facts are that Michigan’s unemployment compensation provisions rank low among the other states
and territories; unemployment continues to increase and
retail sales continue to decline; and the cost of Governor Williams’ proposals are negligible in comparison to
the benefits they would provide to unemployed workers,
to increased purchasing power and to the maintenance of
retail sales.
“The Republicans’ political juggling of the unemploy-
management
steel industry
the
beginning
IMA
“The Republican majority’s action in recessing until August 9 to await further developments in the unemployment
situation is a coldly calculated political move to withhold
relief to unemployed families indefinitely until and unless
their failure to act jeopardizes, in their judgment, the chances
of Republican candidates in the November elections. The distress and deprivation of the children of unemployed workers
who have exhausted and will yet exhaust their unemployment compensation has no effect on Republican legislators
so long as they think it does not cost them votes,
its
ex-
the effrontery to impose a shutdown of steel production in
order to increase its already ex-
orbitant drain
book of every
invade
is
NTU
free economy.
Yet, steel
Automation
Song
nc
gan workers does not constitute an emergency ranks close
to C. E. Wilson’s comparison of unemployed workers to
kennel dogs and White House spokesman Howard Pyle’s
extolling the ‘right to suffer’ as one of the ‘joys’ of a
year both
its profits
ceeded the record levels set last
year.
Automated
antisocial
ic
lican Chairman of the Michigan Legislature’s House Labor Committee, that the unemployment of 230,000 Michi-
this
and
irresponsible,
increasing
PROFITS
most
the
the picture
of a smiling
Eisenhower—fully clothed.
lM
ADA
It
Ike
Cbd?REPUBLICAN
GONYENTION, \
NATIONAL
gan francisco « august
gH
dahil
1956
HM
MAN
er E
in June for one month—to July 16. Despite the fact that
unemployment continued to mount during that period, VanPeursem said his Committee and the Legislature still needed
more time to get information.
Secretary-Treasurer Mazey’s statement said:
“For callous indifference to human suffering, the
statement of Representative George VanPeursem, Repub-
employed
men and
of
Mc-
1955 it piled up a gigantic profit
GOP STILL STALLING
The majority had previously recessed the special session
of the families
David
of the steel
strike left
no choice
America’s
press.
the distress
telegram
their labor until management
comes to its senses,” they added.
LANSING, Michigan—The Republican majority of the
Michigan State Legislature, continuing to play politics with
human misery, walked away from the state’s unemployment
problem again by recessing the Legislature’s special session
until August 9. UAW Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey
charged the Republicans with ‘‘callous indifference to human
suffering’’ and ‘‘coldly calculated’’ political maneuvering.
The 230,000 now unemployed im the state, according to
latest government figures, does not, in the opinion of the Republieans, constitute an ‘‘emergency,’’ Republican Chairman
George VanPeursem of the House Labor Committee, told the
aggravates
any
Emil
long the contract despite the longrange consequences of a major
Michigan Legislature
Ignores Unemployment
problem
make
by
retroactive even though steel industry profits are at record levels; their arrogant refusal to pro-
FIRST KENTUCKY APPRENTICES to complete the UAW Apprenticeship
Standards program get their certificates and letters from the U. S. Department of
Labor. The apprentices who became journeymen are Elwood Magee and Clarence
Sidebottom. Both are employed at American Air Filter Corporation, Louisville,
Kentucky. Shown here are (L to r.): Magee, Robert F. Kirk, U. S. Labor Department representative in charge of the Louisville area apprenticeship program;
George Jones, UAW Skilled Trades Representative, and Sidebottom.
ment
a
of America.
refusal
to
to
president
Steelworkers
“The
in
of the Steelworkers’ Union
5s
a
=
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een
en
eee
August, 1956
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AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
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Wo
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Fo
k
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rm
Fa
,
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yo
UAW, Ma
nt
me
oy
pl
em
Un
t
en
em
pl
Im
al
ur
lt
On Agricu
farmers in two
failing to give
trayed the
—first, by
A 12-man “task force” committee, composed of
community officials, representatives of two farmers’ organizations, and UAW officials was _beginning work on a program to bring about and maintain full employment in the agricultural implement
ership
adoption
the
in
program
ways
lead-
of
which
included
improved
immediate
seek
restoration
of
to
re-
state unemployment compensa-| farm price supports to 90 per cent
tion for laid-off workers with fed-| of parity along with effective use
na-
tional policies to strengthen the
and, secondly,
economy,
farm
ecoby using their dominant
the
extract
to
power
nomic
eral supplementation
where
states
of
surpluses
farm
existing
are unable to act promptly; mora- | lieve hunger at home
of
toriums on home mortgages and and development
debts of laid-off work-
installment
acceptable
program,
farm
sound
and abroad,
and
a new
profits from the
maximum
return to work, and} to farmers, to provide full protecindustry as The United Automobile Worker went to press.
they
until
ers
farmers with whom they deal.”
increased personal income tax ex-|tion for the living standards of
The committee was formed with the unanimous consent of
He pointed out that even now, emptions to stimulate consumer| family farmers, and a Congrest
emen
impl
al
ultur
agric
e
wher
ies
unit
comm
representatives of
sional investigation of the wagewhen the seriousness of the farm- purchasing power.
the
and
n
Unio
ers
Farm
onal
Nati
the
of
and
ed
locat
plants are
to exrelationships
price-profit
ers’ problem and the growing unHe also called for telescoping
National Farmers Organization who met with UAW Local employment in the industry can’t of production schedules on de- pose the real reasons for existing
high prices.
and International Union officials at a special conference on be denied and there is no prospect
fense contracts and letting of
the
vement,
contracts to distress areas; fedThe UAW program also recomunemployment at Rock Island@———___________.___ of immediatementimpro
presirn
conce
imple
farm
mended that the federal governeral aid to states and communiFurther substantial layoffs have
Illinois, July 12. More than
city
with
meet
to
dents refused
impleagricultural
ties for industrial rehabilitamake
ment
taken place since then.”
100 attended.
officials and’ the UAW to try to
can
they
where
tion; increased public works
available
ments
area
City
Quad
the
cited
He
find. means to alleviate the sufferThe mayors of Des Moines
for confunds
housing;
and
be used effectively as a part of a
Rock Island, Moline
(Davenport,
and East Moline)
Can-
City, Iowa;
and ‘Charles
Wisconsin,
Racine,
ton, Illinois;
and the city manager of Rock Island are on the committee along
a
with
Governor
UAW members on the committee include Vice President Pat
Agri-
the
of
director
Greathouse,
3 Director
Region
in the growth and
the total economy,”
prosperity of
he said, “the
ilies would have
homes and schools
meant
to be
and trade.”
em-
HURTING
FARMERS
ployment in the agricultural imindustry has been seriplement
ously declining,” Vice President
He
a long
pointed
also
of
period
during
Greathouse told the conference in} particularly
“From a peak of | years, the income
Rock Island.
worker
January,
1951,
June,
in
160,800
employment
to
1956,
had
fallen by
cline of over 22 per cent.
“Early this year new
de-
a
past
the
available
five
to
of re-
nies themselves,” he charged.
corporations have be“These
you be-
lieve that if the farm problem is
And
just ignored, it'll go away.
they insist that the policies of
Secretary of Agriculture Benson
are “right” for the farmer and
“just what the farmer needs.”
Representatives of the National
Farmers Union and the National
Farmers
at the
speaking
Organization,
conference
UAW-called
of
mayors on unemployment in the
agricultural implement industry
in Rock Island, Illinois, told a different story.
“Benson
said
gram,”
calls it a ‘flexible’ proCallahan,
C.
Joseph
chairman of the Illinois Farmers
Union executive board, and presiChester
dent of the National
Breeders AssociaWhite Swine
“I call it a fleecing protion.
gram.”
fleeced.
been
“We've
pointed out that the government
subsidies to manufacturers and
the
since
price
farm
the
dwarf
1933
interests
shipping
and
airline
MEMBERS of the “task force” committee present at the UAW-called Conference of Mayors from agricultural implement cities agreed immediately after the
Shown here, seated, left to
Rock Island meeting to convene July 20 in Chicago.
right: Robert Johnson, UAW Region 4 director; Vice-President Pat Greathouse;
Mayor Ray Mills, Des Moines; standing, left to right: Lucien A. File, Illinois Farmers Union director of education and information; Mayor Mike Micich, Charles City,
Iowa; Mayor Paul Woods, Canton, Illinois; City Manager Conny Bodine, Rock
Island; Mayor Jack Humble, Racine, Wisconsin, and Ed Glenn, National Farmers Organization director, Louisiana, Missouri. Members not pictured: UAW Region 10
Director Harvey Kitzman and Region 3 Director Ray Berndt and Burton Heaton,
secretary of the Minnesota Compensation Board, named by Governor Orville Freeman of Minnesota.
———
support expenditures.
up only
may make
“Farmers
13 per cent of the population,” he
added, “but you must remember
that another quarter of the popu-
elect people friendly to agriculture to insure a fair price for
in the
destitute, we all are in trouble.”
lives
lation
are
city.
actually
And
steel,
in small
farmers
you
then
rubber,
and
towns.
living
They
consider
other
the
materials
by the: farmers and you
consumed
know that when you cut off our
income, take us out of the mar-
ket, it has to cause distress to the
economy.”
entire
“We
farmers
must
and
work
workers.
together,
must
We
are
if farmers
because
farmers
Of Benson, Staley said, ‘There's
never been such inefficiency and
in
misconduct
inexcusable
such
government
Department
They
say
couldn't
couldn't
son can't
as
we
have
of Agriculture
George
in
the
today.
Washington
tell a lie and
tell the truth.
that
Stalin
Well, Ben-
tell the difference!”
are
gone.
farms
the
in the city, we pay
on it back, too.”
our
reached
say
82%
now
us,
per
they
around
them
so
cent
have
and
Washington
they
ask
to
some more!’
“We haven't
vantage of
Lee Staley,
tional
of
time,
the
the
can
us
vote
been
gall
to
go
to
us
And
taking
to
us
Organization,
lion
ad-
anybody,” said Oren
president of the Na-
Farmers
then
all-time
He
high
June
Two months ago the up
ward moyement of the BLS
Index gave more than a mil-
re-elect
against
up
care,
come
back
a
The increase in the Index
in both May and June was attributed mainly by the government to a rise in food
prices. In May, six of the
eight pricing groups measured
by the Bureau inereased,
while in June, additional increases were recorded in food,
housing, medical and personal
freight
against
voted
have
a
mark the
of 1154—a
figure promptly topped.
Callahan warned Congressmen
that farmers are aware of what
their elective representatives have
been doing to help, too. “The city
Our
for us,
vote
Congressmen
own people, who live right down
with
include
a penny an hour on the basis
of the May 15 Index which
fellows, after it’s processed
good
plants
engine
cost-of-living clause picked
we're
prove
to
And,
jet
contracts
where
we don’t sell anything. We just
take the price we're given—and
then we pay the freight on it to
Chicago.
and
eraft
savings
always
I
gone.
Some 30,000 UAW membe rs at Douglas Aircraft became
eligible for a two-cents an ho ur cost-of-living wage increase
the first pay period this month as soaring food prices bounced
the BLS Consumer Price In- should remain
the same
in
dex for June up to a record July, these workers would be-
More than 100,000 UAW
members working in other air-
We've
cases,
many
In
are
our
gone;
are
C-O-L Going Up Again;
So Are Aireraft Wages
116.2.
right out of the
been taken
market. We can't buy replacements for our equipment. Our
earnings
“The
government
Bays
we
don't
expert
says
produce
=
:
farmers must be borne by the
agricultural implement compa-
Administration
have
countries of the world.
most
but
time,
‘Benson's Given Us a Fleecing’
Farmers Tell UAW Delegates
would
underdevel-
over
sponsibility for the plight of the
waves
uary and April, employment
12,200.
fell by an additional
spokesmen
to
aid
economic
new
built,
that
out
“A substantial measure
of sharp layoffs hit the indus“Between Jantry,” he added.
Eisenhower
oped
also would|
program
UAW
The
UAW
a
of
program
constant
of
terms
in
farmers,
buying power, has been steadily
ard seriously falling.
production
125,300,
outlined
Greathouse
increased
substantially
industry
for local
customers
new
EMPLOYMENT DOWN
“Since the middle of 1951,
May,
in
108,000
to
pitals.
PROGRAM
hos-
and
schools
labor force of each should have
These 5,000
increased by. 5,000.
additional workers and their fam-
cultural Implement Department;
Region 4 Director Robert Johnston, Region 10 Director Harvey
Kitzman, and
Ray Berndt.
from 117,000
dropped
UAW
of
struction
1956. In the same period, he added, the labor force of Peoria declined from 115,000 to 110,000.
“Had these communities shared
the city of Minnestate of Minnesota.
for
the
including
force,
labor
mid-1953
in
to act
Orville Freeman
and speak
apolis and
unemployed,
by
named
representative
The-total
farmers,
and
ing of workers
example:
as an
we
small
surpluses
farmers
efficiently
gotta
go,
enough!
Lem!
«+ ”
,..
UAW
members
in
auto,
farm implement and other industries another cent an hour,
}1£
the
June
Index
of
116.2
come
eligible
for a three-cents
an hour increase.
most
auto
workers
will
based on the July Index
would be effective in the
pay period in September.
aircraft. workers, the next
justment will be based on
August Index and would
into effect in the first
period in Getober.
Whose
Secretary
be
and
first
For
adthe
go
pay
Fault?
of
Agriculture
too
much
co-president
of the
getting
is
Benson
for
adjustment
next
The
blame for the plight of the
farmer in the view of Robert
Lindshield,
“When
Union,
Farmers
Island
Rock
I tell a hired hand
to
do
it,
go slop the hogs,” he told delegates to the DAW mayors conference on agricultural implein Roelc
unemployment
ment
Island,
“and
better
he
just
he
doesn’t
down the road... .
“And
hand—he
the
Benson's
could
road, too,”
be
going
on
keep
just
told
a
hired
to hit
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
Page 4
August, 1956
i
Republicans Join Dixiecrats
To Defeat School Aid Bill
WASHINGTON—A coalition of Republieans amd Dixiecrats deprived the nation’s
children of the much-needed Federal School
Construction Bill. The measure lost in the
House of Representatives this past month by
just 30 votes, 224 against the bill to 194 for
it.
Republicans voted AGAINST the bill, 119
to 75.
Democrats
voted FOR
the bill, 119 to 105.
All but six Democrats in 36 states
yoted in favor of the bill. Ninety-nine
Democrats in 12 Southern states voted
against it. Eleven Democrats from
Southern states voted for the measure.
Responsible for the setback handed the
nation’s children were:
—Ninety-six Republicans, many of them
long-time
foes
of
civil
rights,
voted for the Powell Amendment
federal
showed
who
to prohibit
—The
Dixiecrats,
nounced
they
without
the
many
were
of
against
Powell
whom
an-
the
bill
Amendment.
(The
Dixiecrat caucus feared that a future admin-
istration might rule against “using federal
funds in segregated schools.)
epi
Administration, which did not go
to bat-for the bill\until it was too late.
Representative Samuel McConnell (R., Pa.)
told newsmen that if President Eisenhower
had spoken up in time, he could have swung
30 GOP votes for the School Bill,
DIXIEGOPS
The
THWART
GOP
and
LIBERALS
segregationists
fought
the bill for
months by throwing obstacles in the way of liberals who sought ways of getting around the Dixie-
crat
filibuster
lieved
threat
federal
from
reached
school
Supreme
schools,
aid
in the
could
districts
Court
and
Senate.
refusing
decision
might
outlawing
with
segregation
Instead,
for
when
votes,
not
the
withhold
Court;
ment
not
sion
do
funds
districts defying
was
unnecessary;
this,
such
should
struction bill.
be
Broken
an
(3)
in
Amend-
anti-segregation
included
in
the
school
sides
were
federal
funds
Administration
said
still
scrambling
that
from
it would
non-complying
the
GOP,
tion and
their liberal
Fifty
Southern
boycotting
an
against
their
Powell
Democrats
early
Amendment.
it,
friends for the bill’s defeat.
vote
helped
on
By
this
one
version
withholding
strategy
was
to
ment pass on the chance this would
along
of
their
let
the
by
the
votes
amend-
make
it easier
for them to help kill the entire bill.
Representative
Colmer
(D., Mississippi),
second-highest
House
the
Rules
view
ranking
Democrat
Committee,
that
meaningless
ministration
the
repeatedly
Powell
Representative Powell
offered to withdraw the
Congressmen
was
©
(D., New York) even|
amendment if the Adthe
Supreme
from both parties said the Admin-
could
make
refused.
POLITICAL
expressed
Amendment
ministration would agree to enforce
Court decision by this method.
tration
the
because even without it the Adcould deny funds to the defiant
states.
istration
on
this ruling, but
SEULLDUGGERY
the Adminis-
BACKSTAGE
In the confused voting on the final version of
the Powell Amendment, 148 Republicans, many
of
them
long-time
Northern
Democrats
foes
voted
of
civil
rights,
for the measure
and
77
while
146 Democrats, including many civil rights supporters, and 48 Republicans voted against it. The
amendment carrjed, 225 to 192. If only one-fifth
of the 96 Republicans who voted for the amendment and then switched had yoted both for the
amendment and for the bill itself, the bill would
have carried.
Both the GOP and the Dixiecrats used the same
against the McConnell
unanimously
almost
Amendment to give poorer states a larger share
of federal aid even though their states would
from
If Eisenhower
both
fedthe
the
the Supreme
(2) If he did this, the Powell
had
even though the majority of Republicans voted
against it, began blaming the victims of segrega-
of
skullduggery
against
the
Amendment
or school
act to withhold
bill
Eisenhower
ADMINISTRATION WOULDN'T ACT
As soon as the final count was in,
states
should
floor because
the
courts.
On January 26, UAW President Walter P.
Reuther sent a statement to House members
to the effect that (1) President Eisenhower
and
when
did
provi-
con-
to
been
line
school
up
bill as
the
bill itself.
Republican
to
line
possible.
chief
any
as
GOP
up
any
many
They
votes
voted
for
wavering
voted
did
against
the
this
the
Powell
Dixiecrat
votes and then joined with the Dixiecrats in killing the bill itself.
Because the Administration, the GOP and Dixie-
crats, in effect, refused to back up the Supreme
Court, the nation’s children took a licking.
1
Win Election at Foundry
Blower Blasts Workers;
|
CLEVELAND —The
jwon
an
Foundry
election
here,
at
with
UAW
the
a
The estimated $200,000 goes to 100 workers in back wages.
They also get their jobs back?
if they want them.
.
The trouble started in August of 1953 when
some
Knight Morley blowers went |
on the blink. Dust came sail-| §
ing into the buffing room. The} #
temperature rose to 110 degrees. Seventeen
buffers
walked out.
Although the contract cona no-strike
clause,
the Foundry
gion 2.
Department
“The AFL-CIO is committed to the basie principle of affording the educational opportunities for all persons regard~
less of race, ereed or status. It is, therefore, strongly ¢e%mmitted to help assure the fullest possible support for the
implementation of the Supreme Court decision in outlawing
segregation in the nation’s public schools.
Solon
vote
and
that no federal funds should be granted to any state which
takes action in defiance of the decision of the Supreme Court
of the United States, provided that funds should be made
available to such school districts as conform to the decision.”’
‘L-ClO RESOLUTION ON EDUCATION, December,
*
“Implement
Supreme
the court
LUTION
March,
in the pending
Court’s
school
that
the
and
“on
It
the
17
health
held
who
hazard
walked
were
out
over}
that
their
Fierce
resistance
on
the
helped bring about the strike at
the end of the contract, and that
the Company
had fired 100 illegally for “union activity.”
The decision:
with
back
pay.
Everybody back—
decision
and
the
legislation
decrees
the
that
RESO-
LOCAL,
part
of the
management
of the
of
Re-
hours before the deadline in the face of a solid strike vote
and 2,600 UAW workers in Local 506 won a new contract
last month,
The new agreement, repre- aireraft workers, was ratified
senting important progress for unanimously by the membership, UAW Vice-President
Leonard
Woodcock,
the Aircraft
gion
6
director
Department,
Director
Immediate
and
Charles
reported.
wage
of
Re-
Bioletti
increases
rang-
ing from seyen cents to 15 cents
an hour were won at Ryan with
an automatic seven cents an hour
increase
next
July.
The
night
shift premium was increased and
the vacation
schedule and sick
leaye
pay
The
provisions
agreement
the best pension
improved.
also
plan
includes
negotiated
in aircraft on the West Coast
with provisions for vesting, disability
fits
benefits,
along
The
in
ion and
lels the
| UAW
Women’s Conference
Southern Area Region 6 Women’s Advisory
Betty Elder, Local 805; Mildred Fink, Local
Nichols, Local 805; Hazel Blakey, Local 887,
Gartigan.
ON KITS for the first UAW
these members of the
r., Betty Plunkett and
ey, Local 148; Mildred
al Representative Cele
in California are
Committee, I. to
230; Ethel Rainand Internation-
OAK
standard
UAW-negotiated
of
bargained
the
Local
aircraft
negotiations
Local
157
on the West
PARK,
Local
157
pany
here
the
bene-
by
Un-
the International, paralstandards established in
this year
WORKING
death
the
agreement,
representatives
|
and
with
provisions
plans.
justified,|
discharge
aid to education
Ryan Signs New
UAW Agreement
further that they were not
strike” in the legal sense.
held
federal
1955,
the}
the past month
*
probably will issue in the next few months.”—UAW
ON
LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, STATE AND
Knight Morley’s management chuckled, but it isn’t
laughing now.
NLRB
xk
desegregation
17 figured they were justified.| B=
When the UAW local struck} §
at the end of the contract a
month later, Knight Morley
fired 100 people.
The
It, therefore, holds
has Ryan Aeronautical Company in San Diego melted in the final
RICHMOND, Michigan—The whole town’s celebrating a 56 to 40 for No Union. The drive
$200,000 NLRB decision against the Knight Morley Corpora- was conducted by the staffs of
tion.
AFL-CIO and UAW Resolutions
On Aid to Education Measures
votes
Dixiecrats
beneficiaries.
wavering
line
up
The
Congressmen
to
$200,000 Award Blasts Company
tained
f
schools unless it received a mandate from Congress. The Administration also ducked the issue
by saying it would leave this decision up to the
have
could
position
kind
withheld
to comply
House
his
be-
Liberals
be
the
repeated
repeatedly refused to say he would withhold
eral funds
from segregated schools under
school construction bill.
aid to segregated schools—and then
their bad faith by voting against the
bill itse
plus 22 Republicans who voted
against both the amendment and the bill and
another who just voted against the bill.
even
Reuther
W/
/ Sal
Quality
earlier
Coast.
Wins
Michigan — UAW
has won
Steel
an etection
Treating
at
Com-
by a vote of 13 to 7,
i|
—-
August,
UNITED
1956
Page
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
5
Forward With Our Dreams
With these UAW 20th Anniversary Features, we
ED. NOTE:
hope to capture the flavor of the past and the vision of the fuWe couldn't possibly state this better than to quote the
ture.
Anniversary
20th
UAW
the
at
Coxhill
(Bert)
Arnold
of
remarks
Brother Coxrhill, former direcParty in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
He was a
tor of UAW Region 1D, helped get the UAW started.
in South Bend, representing
delegate to that first Convention
and
timers
older
the
to
said
He
Motors.
Local 113, Continental
new members present:
“Tt has been my privilege and pleasure to have worked
with these brothers over the past 20 years. We were fortunate to have had good and wise leadership and a militant
But I ean remember when labor unions were
rank and file.
considered unAmerican by some indiyiduals in our land,
when it was common practice to discharge any worker who
joined a union.
“‘T just mention these in passing, for I am more interested
in where do we go from here. You ean provide the answer.
We need unity of action and unity of purpose. We need to
work together to develop a solid organization between AFL
and CIO. We cannot hope to serve the interests of this
mighty labor movement or the interests of this great nation
and all of its people if we create discord and disunity within
our own ranks.
‘over a
OLIVER KERSHAW, left, president of UAW Local 263 since 1936, looks
of the UAW
copy of the June edition of Ammunition which was deyoted to a history
, Edu—a history he has lived through and played a part in. With him is Jack Wilse
cation-PAC representative in Region 2.
since 1934.
Dill Man-
The
ufacturing
Employees’ Associ-
ation represented Dill workers
FEATURE
until-1936 when
===
oe
the UAW-CIO defeated the AFL
a
in
representation
local
150-member
elect-
promptly
ed Kershaw president.
Twice in the early
Lo-
years
sitdown
in 1937.
1940
in
10
weeks
He
is chairman
They
but
were
lost time since, Kershaw
Council
have
include
of GM
of the
man
ber
years.
52
to
has
other
ac-
Motors
His
“ELMER YENN
chair-
as
service
for
in 1948, and
every
UAW
first one.
dele-
asa
convention,
Win 3 to 1
reports.
of the
O
Employes
— AG
CHIC
Wire
Supreme
Prod-
Metal
and
ucts Company have voted 33 for
UAW to 11 for No Union in a
representation election,
the
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Office:
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PUBLICATION,
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second-class
to non-members,
matter
the
under
Entered
$1.00,
at Indianapolis,
the
shop
signed
Local
1345.
unit
will
charter.
dissent-
one
next
the
day
UAW
cards.
be chartered
Director Ray Berndt and
Agricultural Implement
Automobile,
of America,
subscription
only
was
and
vote
entire
for a UAW
145
Local
as
Organizational work was
done by the Region 3 staff of
affiliated
to mem-
Ind., as
24, 1912, as a monthly.
of August
Act
United
apply
There
ing
in
Foun-
Iron
UE
quit
to
voted
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Indiana
7,
Indianapolis
St.,
Washington
and
Grey
Indiana,
The
Publication Office: 8000 E, Jefferson Aye., Detroit 14, Mich.
Send undeliverable copies to
2457 E. Washington St., Indianapolis 7, Ind.
RETURN
dry
plant
switched to UAW last
Workers at the Bre-
Indiana
month.
men,
UE
former
Another
no
of
member
Auxiliary.
Y
President of UAW Local 121
Another For UAW
out
in his duties as local
UNITED
and
the
De-
partment staff of Vice President Pat Greathouse, The plant
makes castings for Allis-Chalmers,
LaPorte,
with
the
where
workers
UAW
Indiana,
also
plant
affiliated
earlier
this
EMIL MAZEY
P. REUTHER
Secretary-Treasurer
President
RICHARD GOSSER, NORMAN MATTHEWS,
LEONARD WOODCOCK, PAT GREATHOUSE
Vice-Presidents
International
Executive
FRANK WINN, Editor
CHARLES BAKER, Managing
PHOTOS—James
STAVE —Kussell
Haener
Smith,
Members:
Yardley,
Jerry
Ameritan
Dale,
ank
Editor
Wallick,
Robert
Newspaper
Ken
Treuer,
“Tf you believe that poverty can be greatly lessened, that
ean be wiped out, that class
involuntary unemployment
hatreds can be done: away with, that peace at home and
peace abroad can be maintained, and that one day a generation may possess this land blessed beyond anything we now
know, blessed with those things material and spiritual that
make man’s life more abundant—if that is the fashion of
your dreaming, then I say hold fast to your dreams. America
in numbers
only
Guild, APL-C1O
Richard,
but
in greater service
Changes in
UAW-approved
MG
.
i
apprenticeship
to in-
to its members,
in
are
requirements | 599 hours.
originally
the
by
Apprenticeship
International]
Committee
Vice-Presidents
of
Norman
1A
gion
McCusker
fect
the
of}
by}
Skilled
oe
standards
total
Gosser
and)
hours
do
of
not
have
of time allotted
Instruction,
of
250
been
hours
added
to
of 44 hours
requirement
Four
new
have
been
total
of
former
the
of
lieu
in
nomics
study
in
the
chanic,
apprenticeable
to
added
trades
previous
Industrial
are
They
21.
the
and
Diese!
Mechanic,
Pyrometer
dustrial
ment Repair
=
in
Win
af-
training, but they do involve the|
ample;
pro-
Consisting) muck Mechanic, Powerhouse Me-
Re-|
and
Matthews,
Joseph |
Co-Director
new
The
eco-
schedule
new
The
last | nomics.
amount
social
of
instead
hours
the
in
added
been
phys-
draited 1aS¥) Vides for 24 hours of social eco-
COTTA ULEE
Trades
20
of elementary
study
pro-
training
the
of
many
has
ics
and|of
drafted
Shit
(
Trades
eur-}
trends,
International
the
The} grams,
approved
and
Union
the
Jn
by Vice-|
with
line
ipinally
October
Added
some of the| this possible, tool crib hours have
150, and opskilled trades} been cut from 300cut to from
600 to
_| tional subjects
<
Richard Gosser.
industrial
ere
himself!”
not
to year
year
from
Courses
Four New
ard
“The boss wanted me to work late
tonight, but I told him to go chase
grow
organization
Apprentice Rules Changed;
rent
Nitsche
Jim
our
dustry and to the nation.”
amount
phases
Al
May
it.
needs
changes
HARVEY KITZMAN
RUSSELL LETNER
WILLIAM McAULAY
JOSEPH McCUSKER
GEORGE MERRELLI
KENNETH MORRIS
PATRICK O'MALLEY
KENNETH W. ROBINSON
RAY ROSS
B, SEATON
CHARLES BALLARD
RAY BERNDT
GEORGE BURT
CHARLES BIOLETTI
ROBERT CARTER
ED COTE
MARTIN GERBER
ROBERT W. JOHNSTON
CHARLES H, KERRIGAN
NORMAN
VISION
TO YOUR
ON
HOLD
President
Members
Board
To
of progress.
side
the
on
hold to progress today, however, is more difficult. We must
not retreat. We must not be content to stand still. But we
must go forward with our dreams and visions about a greater and finer America that is to be.
haye been announced
WALTER
were
The'times
circumstances.
Subcouncil 5, memnegotiating
top GM
the
including
of the area Auto
president, is a
UAW Women’s
tivities
gate
and his wife, Sarah, who
helps him
of his
31
committee
cal 263 members, who now number 400, had to take strike action. The first was a five-week
plant
General
for
worked
The
election.
“Shall we pause now and turn our back upon the road
that lies ahead?
“Shall we call this the promised land? Or, shall we
continue on our way?
“Tre we have come far from the days of stagnation and
despair. Courage and confidence have been restored. But our
gains were won under the pressure of more than ordinary
1951 and has served in that office
since that date.
He is now a crib attendant at
Chevrolet
not
make the agreement and I don’t have to follow it,’ if he is included in the bargaining unit. Such an attitude would be
pure fraud and dishonest. For a successful operation of the
Union, we must have not only the hand and back of every
worker but also his heart and conscience.
until 1948.
committee
shop
in
president
re-elected
was
the
Ze
‘I did
say
can
worker
No
management.
with
agreement
ternational Union staff.
After his return to the Local
in 1945, he served as chairman of
the
He
pi)ne
MAAC
ER
ry
y: AL
UG
L LA
UO YUPA
OU
Ae
ap WM SAV
V/V
because they make the leaders and they can claim credit
when conditions are good and must assume responsibility
when they are_not.
“From this fact follows a very important conclusion. An
agreement that is-negotiated by our Union officials and ratified in the usual way binds every worker covered by their
Joining wholeheartedly in UAW 20th Anniversary celebrations this year has a particular personal appeal for UAW
members Oliver Kershaw, Cleveland, Ohio, and Elmer Yenny,
Janesville, Wisconsin.
Kershaw has been president of UAW Local 263, at ‘the
Dill Manufacturing Compan
Brother Yenny became the first
plant in Cleveland, continupresident of UAW Local 121 after
who
y,
Yenn
1936.
since
ously
its charter was received in 1934.
works at the Chevrolet plant He served continuously until 1944
in Janesville, has been presi- when he was appointed to the In-
years
of a union rests with its rank and file membership,
formance
Vp
per-
the
for
blame
or
eredit
ultimate
the
“« Accordingly,
20th Anniversary Is Extra Special
For These 2 Veteran Local Officers
dent of UAW
Local 121 for
of the
most
RESPONSIBILITY
FILE
AND
RANK
and
Cleveland
here
Ohlo Molding Company
| ic
to specif
representation
a
in
voted
exFor
schedule |rector
for
the UAW,
Pat
Machine} vote was 19
for Industrial
of work
Repairman apprentices, To make| No Union,
Instru-
Ma ae
CLEVELAND—Workers
hydraulics|tion
In-
and
O'Malley
for
Region
UAW
reports,
and
at the
have
elec-
2 Di
4
The
tor
Tec THEIS XSACHMOOLS’
GANIZED
OF
WILL
'
NEXT
YOUR
BE
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
Page d
August,
1956
Associate Justice Frank Murphy, speaking for
the U. S. Supreme Court in one of the portal-toportal
cases,
stated
that
the
issue
‘can
be
re-
solved only by discarding formalities and adopt-
ing a realistic attitude, recognizing that we are
dealing with human beings. . . . We are not here
dealing with mere chattels or articles of trade but
with the rights of those who toil. . . ."
That was what might be called Frank Murphy's
creed. As an assistant district attorney prose-
Shop
Competitive
UAW VEEP GOSSER emphasizes a point during the annual
summer school at Local 12’s Sand Lake Camp in Michigan.
cuting World War | profiteers, as a judge of Recorders Court, as depression mayor of Detroit, as
Governor Murphy during the great sitdowns, and
as Mr. Justice Murphy of the nation’s supreme
tribunal, the red-haired Irishman from Harbor
Beach, “an emotional man who was also a lawyer,’ never let the letter of the law throttle its
spirit, never forgot the lines from Lincoln's GettysHollister's oratory class at the U. of M.
Organizers ‘Learn by Doing'
At UAW Staff Summer School
To be successful, the Union organizers
learned, they had to be on their toes at all
Organizers have to know how to
times.
combat the wily tricks and honeyed words
of the employer. They have to be adept at
persuasion. They have to be able not only to
talk well, but to write well, too. Often,
their only means of contact with many workers is through bulletins and pamphlets.
Top UAW officers, regional directors and
department heads discussed UAW policies
and current economie and political issues
during the Institute. Among these, in addition to Gosser, were Secretary-Treasurer
Emil Mazey, Vice-Presidents Leonard Woodcock and Pat Greathouse. President Walter
Reuther was represented ably by Administrative Assistant Jack Conway.
the staffers from Competitive
Besic
Shop, Skilled Trades, Die Cast, Auto-Lite,
Dana, Spicer and Doehler-Jarvis Departments (all under the direction of Vice-President Gosser), representatives from other
departments and regional staffs attended.
Under the direction of Vice-President
Richard Gosser, approximately 100 UAW
staff members took part in the Sixth Annual
Competitive Shop Institute held at Local 12’s
summer eamp on the shores of beautiful
Sand
Lake
in the heart
of Michigan’s
Irish
}
They utilized a ‘‘learn by doing’’
technique which applied lessons learned in
the classroom to actual field conditions and
situations.
To the theme of ‘*The exams of this school
il be your next NLRB election,’’ the Un-
ion organizers reviewed old organizational
techniques and learned some new ones. One
of the new ones was simulated ‘‘house calls’’
vhich
provided
a means
whereby
the organ-
zers could test and improve their persuasive
skills, and the lessons learned, against some
tough opposition in the form oi ‘‘unorganized’’ workers and their wives.
Some participants went all out in their
wives by donning
yortrayal of workers’
eminine attire and the latest ‘‘mop hairlo’s.’?
At the right »
that he used to recite in Professor
burg Address
When Frank Murphy was sworn in at Lansing on January 3, 1937, the big strike against General Motors was
only a few days old. His predecessor, Governor Fitzgerald,
was heard to remark, “This is the sort of thing Murphy
likes. I'm going to Florida.”
IN A COLD, BITTER WINTER
Fitzgerald went to Florida.
Detroit,
weeks
Murphy, in Lansing, Flint,
during those-cold and bitter
Washington,
and
of '37, kept his rendezvous
with destiny.
The Frank
Murphy most auto workers remember is the Frank Murphy
of those
few crucial
Levinson
wrote
weeks,
when
all the auto towns
were
blg with the future and when the city of Flint, as Edward
in ‘Labor
‘held the key to
on the March,"
peace as well as to the strength of the strike.”
Yet the Governor Murphy of those weéks when
history hung in the balance, however emotional a
man, was also a democratic politician and a lawyer
with a long schooling in the human meanings of the
law and of recent American history.
Murphy's
row Wilson's
public career began under President Wood-
New
Freedom,
when
he came
home
after the
first world war to win the only convictions in the big war
fraud cases in Detroit.
As Judge of Recorders Court beginning in 1922, he
arrang
|
ere
is one of these
sesmpromptu
Eric
with
sions
Zeeb playing
the ‘‘wife’s’’
role. With him
right)
to
left
ire Jack MeGuire, Al Granakis with back
to camera, and
Frank
Gagliar-
sold
UAW,
on the
inciden-
di. The wife was
tally.
Eye Opener Gets Big Ear
Auto workers’ eyes in Detroit
are opening to “Eye-Opener,” the
radio
Nunn
morning
half-hour
UAW’s
program conducted by Guy
and
Joe Walsh,
6:15 to 6:45 a. m,
Monday through Friday, over staaccording
Windsor,
tion CKLW,
to a recent survey.
The
survey
pervision
was
of
Dr.
under
Edgar
su-
Schuler,
Students
University.
Wayne
the
checked 31 parking lots at plants
well distributed over the Detroit]
area,
conducted
téerviews
ample
of
and
1,889
made
workers.
personal
In-
posteard
a
From the interviews, it was
apparent that CKLW’s audience
prior
to
Opener”
rises
day,
is
sharply
Opener”
For
and
relatively
sampled
to CKLW
during
half-hour.
example,
the
following
on
percentage
who
had
“Eye-
low—and
the
“Eye-
a sample
of
been
Fri-
workers
listening
from 6 to 6:15 was 11.1.
In
first
the
half
quarter
next
of
the
half
6:30
to
6:45
to
workers
enter
cars,
that
fact
refiects the
the
before
audience
CKLW
from 30 per
tween seven
(second
probably
many
a good
shop,
6:45.
leave
or
“Eye-Opener,”
Following
cent
and
In
percentage
the
30—which
dropped
their
period
“Eye”),
of
to 35.3.
the
drops off rapidly
at
10
6:45 to becent in
per
the following 45 minutes, down to
2.6 per cent, wnich is the average
rating
Monday-through-Friday
between
7:45
8 a. m.
and
In an NLRB-conducted
plant
guards
the Chrysler
and
fire
Guard
Workers
of
held
at
courses,
yette,
it
Olga
election,
plant
United
at
Detroit
America.
voted
Plant |
annual Internationtournament will be
the
Purdue
located
Indiana,
Sunday,
on
August
was
in
25
director
tournament
to members
unions,
honorary
and
locals
some
400
pared
past
and
Lafaand
26,
recently
of
be
will
also
participants
are
will
participants
be
as
from
eligible
entry
to
of
being
mailed
well
to
as
pre-
all
all
Department,
ferson,
Detroit
14,
8000
East
Michigan.
Jef-
ae
ra
is expected
local unions in the United States
and Canada.
For further information, write the UAW
Recreation
ys
hold
cards
anticipated
blanks
local
who
be
by
open
of all AFL-CIO
persons
1956,
recrea-
will
withdrawal
their
An
West
and
tion for the UAW.
The
University
Saturday
announced
Madar,
play.
marshals
Corporation's
Universal
Division
unanimously for the
The eighth
al UAW
golf
Entry
Vote for UPGWA
to Hold
1956 Golf Meet
At Purdue Links
(the
hour
program),
UAW
the percentage jumped
the
UAW
HERE'S part of the-crowd of 50 newspaper men who crowded aro}
troit, Michigan,
in February,
1937, as he passed out statements
annour)
reached agreement and that the sitdown strikes would be ended wit
largely through the efforts of Murphy that General Motors was madi
ignore
Thanks
the demands
of the workers
to the determination
for justice.
of Murphy,
It was a historic d
serious bloodshed was avoidh (
i
i
August,
Strikers
to Shoot
took
sau,
relatively
© fn a
psychiatry
jail-house
scientific
basis,
matem for probation officers.
out
and
of
de-
He created
«Mica, ealling in a sociologist and a psycholgach convicted man's record before he
Hetroit during the depression years, he
igoaaemployment Committee that made the
': 1f the unemployed in the nation. He
comment responsibility as against private
Work
a Wage
iedished
Plan, forerunner of
tuliftitute for mere relief, and obtained the
4+ otfom the RFC.
Uj
Wa
1,
fist was issued and food prices shot up,
2 Detroit grocers on notice that if their
1: down he would have police stop all
iig city lines.
e Ed as Detroit mayor won him appointwo fl). Roosevelt as the last governor-general
too
Hjh-commissioner of the Philippines. He
he islands in 1936 to win endorsement
ts Democratic candidate for governor of
lgelected in the great Roosevelt landslide
ko ordered the National Guardsmen
{) Hf the Battle of the Running Bulls on
j1, 1937, knew a thing or two about
ty and order and was not making his
4 the rights and aspirations of "those
into
the
the
first
who
imming after the night of January 11,
wrs were in the hospital with bullet
4et line was still in front of Fisher Body
uj)
).oajhad thrown guards around union headang'engelly Building.
jp Worker
gitogpolice
were
reported,
in town.
is ping at the armory.
‘
'
iohy
idHis
had
been
‘Tuesday
National
morning
Guards-
People are wondering
working
efforts to reach
night
and
day
an agreement
"General
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
1956
to
had
been interrupted by the struggle at Fisher
No. 2, when heat had™been shut off in the
plant and Flint police announced there would
be no further shipments of food.
The auto workers had repulsed this drive
to force them into submission on corporation
terms.. Murphy resumed his efforts. He announced the truce of January 15. Strikers
complied with the terms, began evacuating
the plants. When GM was caught making
to the Flint Alliance, the
promises
backstairs
local vigilante group, whose prime objective
was "'shoot them out of the plants,’ the truce
failed and the strike continued.
Corporate pressures mounted against the
Governor. A delegation from the Flint Alliance,
by
headed
a
Rasbach,
Sanford
Buick
superintendent and large GM _ stockholder,
sought assurances from Murphy that he
would protect strikebreakers going to and
from work.
PRESSURES
Murphy
ON GOVERNOR
MOUNT
held
his ground,
repeated
his de-
clared intention to prevent bloodshed. He
told the committee, "You know I helped to
arrange peaceful negotiations between General Motors and the strikers. Unfortunately,
those negotiations were disturbed in part by
the Flint Alliance. If that had not happened,
you might all have been at work now."
MAYOR
fare experts
Wage
FRANK
made
Plan,
Work
the
Michigan
air
and violence.
Motors officials,’ Murphy
became
said,
overcharged
“have
stated
is shown
for the city of Detroit in
forerunner
here
defending
1932. As mayor
he established a
for mere
as a substitute
of the WPA,
a study wel-
relief
and obtained the first welfare loan from the RFC.
he would permit no violence. The strikers of plant No. I
thanked him for his “excellent attitude" and for his efforts
in their behalf. Those of plant No. 2 said, "We fully ex-
Murphy understood the intent of the vigilantes to
involve the National Guard in active conflict with
the strikers.
"There are plans in Flint for sham mobs to be
turned loose on the streets, merely to involve the
militia actively,”” he said.
"Yesterday, representatives of the Flint Alliance came
here for no good purpose. ... Today you come here
threatening to sit down in my office until | evict the sitdown strikers. Picture it all together and you see the sinister work of agents proyocateurs."
When the Lansing truce failed, Murphy turned to
Washington, General Motors renewed its efforts to evict
the strikers by court order. As corporate pressure mounted,
MURPHY
with
to me
pect that if violent effort is made to oust us many of us
will be killed, and we take this means of making it known
Michigan
the
and
attempt
of the state of
to our children, to the people
to our wives,
the country
to eject us, you
that if this result follows from
are the one
who
must
be held
responsible for our deaths.”
The deadline passed. Sheriff Wolcott was under orders
from Murphy to take no action. Murphy, in Detroit, had
already taken the action that was to turn the prospect of
death envisaged by the strikers into a promise of victory
and life. While Sheriff Wolcott in Flint shadowboxed with
an angry Judge Gadola and shouldered the abuse of the
Alliance crowd and angry local GM lawyers, Murphy
moved into the final week of peacemaking in Detroit.
hysteria
On February 11, 1937, the Governor announced
the settlement, and thereby hangs a 20-year tale of
union growing pains and achievements that auto
workers were telling each other with a certain nostalgia but unmistakable satisfaction in the course of
anniversary celebrations in 1956.
Governor Murphy ran for re-election in 1938 and was
defeated because the Dies Committee came into the state
during the campaign and did a characteristic smear job
on him.
He went on to Washington as Attorney General of the
privately
they do not want the strikers evicted by force. | believe the time has come
for them to make such a statement publicly if they mean it.”’
TWO PLANTS ADDED TO TOTAL
Such a statement never came. The legal mill began to grind out the injunction GM wanted and the auto workers extended the strike to Chevvy 4.
Murphy's temper flared at this point, but he continued to resist demands that
the troops be used. Instead he persisted, in Detroit, in efforts to bring GM
Vice President Knudsen into talks with CIO leaders, even as Judge Gadola
gave GM its injunction and auto workers jammed the roads into Flint for the
final showdown around Fisher | and Fisher 2.
On the eve of the expected struggle, the strikers of rhese two plants sent
telegrams to the Governor, reminding him of his repeated declarations that
United
States,
where
he
went
after
the
remnants
of the
Huey Long machine and started Tom Pendergast along the
road to prison. Murphy took with him as an assistant in
Washington a young man from a Republican family who
later would achieve some fame in Michigan as a Democratic Governor, one G. Mennen Williams.
Murphy found his natural place among the liberal justices of the Court. Justice Murphy remained an emotional
man who was also a lawyer. And his emotions continued
to be enlisted largely on behalf of those who toil, of minorities, of the foreign-born, citizen and alien alike, of the
underdog.
Justice Murphy believed in the fair shake for all thase
who traditionally had not received a fair shake. In one
of his opinions he wrote:
"The significant question . . . is whether law enforcement officers and those entrusted with authority shall be
allowed to violate with impunity the clear constitutional
rights of the inarticulate and the friendless."
His critics joked about "justice tempered with Murphy." They said he ran too fast, that he never slowed to
a walk. He was flayed by the conservative press for not
being ‘firm’ enough during the sitdowns. He has been attacked from the other side of the spectrum for his ‘moral
hesitations'’ during the same time of troubles.
gor Frank Murphy in De(43M and the UAW had
ss UAW
victory.
It was
fi that it could no longer
UAW and for all labor.
But when
GOVERNOR
FRANK
MURPHY,
left,
and
William
S$. Koudsen,
who
a
chips
were
down,
and
a lot of the best
and most articulate people were after him te "shoot ‘em
out," Frank Murphy was working overtime in search of the
saving compromise that would let the future be born.
was
then executive vice-president of the General Motors Corporation, are shown in
thig picture as they left the General Motors Building in Detroit after conferring
until 2:30 a, m. early in January, 1937, while members of the fledgling UAW
sitting down in plants in Flint.
the
And that, as the Justice would say, was—and is—the
significant question,
were
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Page
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
8
August, 1956
“Don't Be Naive—That Was When I Was Sick”
UAW Proposes $5 Limit
On Campaign Contributions
WASHINGTON—UAW President Walter P. Reuther urged a $5 ceiling
on political contributions in a statement to the Senate Special Committee Inyestigating Lobbying.
As a part of a plan to keep money from having too great an influence on
to election laws includelections, Reuther also proposed five amendmentsee
ing providing free TV and radio time and mailing embodying this plan should make
it crystal clear: that the $5 (for
privileges for candidates.
to
adjournment.
before
act
to
Congress
urged
Reuther
each campaign) is an overall limitation.” A person should not be
strengthen American democracy ‘‘by broadening the base of able to contribute both to the
political action through the small contributions of a large candidate and to political comeD s mittees campaigning for the caneT
number of people in place an ae
didate.
the present systems of cam-} ®@ Inclusion
Under the UAW proposal, only
of contributions
paign funds which relies upon in connection with primaries persons of voting age would be
allowed> to contribute.
wealthy families, individuals and conventions;
JUNIOR'S $5,000
and special interests to meet
ution
contrib
frequent
More
®@
Reuther pointed out that in one
the greater part of the cost.”
STOP CORRUPTION
He explained, ““we believe}
it is of vital importance in|
this election year, as well as
for the future of free elections
for America, that we make
TO
@ Real enforcement machinery, including a non-partisan
investigating
body
to
of
tion.
CITIZEN,
ONE
wealthy.
for
VOTE
GOP
er
@ A requirement that every
eandidate
for federal office
designate a fiscal agent authorized to accept and solicit
contributions, as recommended by the Senate Select Committee investigating the Neff
ease, and to be responsible for
authorizing and reporting expenditures, as has long been
the successful practice in Eng-
plural
exercised
tributions
pow-
large
con-
through
by high
uals and
voting
income
to
Congressional,
an
$5
Senatorial and Presidential
with
paigns,
additional
in
$15
make
a maximum
in a Congressional
year and $5 in off years.
land;
Reuther
said,
“The
1952
70
every
including
the
cent
of the
were
or more.
total
Ford
campaign,
per
of $1,000
of
made
butions
Only
contributions
total
party.
of $1,800,000.
The
average
With
was
almost
dona-
$2,000.
politicking increasingly de-
pendent on expensive methods of
communicating
with people—like
newspaper advertisements and TV
programs—the future of democ-
year,
election
racy
ure,
will depend, in great meason broadening the base for
financing
legislation
political
Local 600
in Detroit, after he lost all his hair, including eyebrows
and eyelashes, in a plant accident two years ago.
Davis was using a chemical solution on car hoods while
working in the Ford Rouge plant. The chemical sprayed
over his head and face. The loss of hair followed.
He said his altered appearance resulted in his being
ridiculed by others, which in turn made him so nervous
he couldn’t work any more. Davis also developed ulcers.
The workmen’s compensation referee recently ruled
that the loss of hair and the neurosis which followed was
worth $5,000, and Davis got that from Ford.
dollar a member, this represents
1,800,000 families. Only 982 families contributed the same amount
in donations of $1,000 or more.
cam
in His Hair
awarded to Lingar Davis, a member of UAW
contri-
Since
Got
How much is your hair worth?
According to the Michigan Workmen’s Compensation
Commission, it’s worth at least $5,000. That’s the amount
in
tions were asked on the basis of a
of $20
election
a Presidential
family
contributions
unions
annually to a political party or
to a political committee.
This
would
of
to the Democratic Committee.
In the same
campaign,
labor
“Under the UAW proposal,
the $5 limitation would apply to
contributions
the
example,
half
individ-
corporations,”
name
In the
amounts
citizen one vote,” it can be added,
the
of
the
Permitting huge contributions
works to the advantage of the
party
most
interested
in the
Reuther said a $5 ceiling on
contributions needed to implement
“the democratic principle of one
“eliminate
in
the smallest infant..
*
ONE
money
member
report
alleged violations to Congress
or the Department of Justice
for prompt and vigorous ac-
contributions;
$5
year alone
(1936),
the duPonts
and Pews together gave a million
dollars in campaign contributions.
He blasted existing and proposed
legislation enabling wealthy families to contribute huge amounts
media;
dated statutory provision for
the prevention of corruption
and disproportionate influence
in federal eléctions.’’
The other recommended
amendments are:
@ A tax credit—not a deduc-
tion—for
reports, cop-
ies to be made available to the
press, TV, radio and other
and even radical,
in the present out-
major,
changes
expenditure
and
campaigns.
Executive Bourd Modifies Citizenship Fund Policy
The UAW International Executive Board has
voted to give members the privilege of having the
portions of their dues earmarked for Local Union
and International Good Citizenship funds diverted
to a non-partisan organization or organizations,
de-
Foundation,
Heritage
American
as the
such
voted to promoting greater citizenship activity in
politica] affairs.
This is in line with the purpose of the funds.
15th Constitutional Convention in Cleveland,
unanimously reaffirmed their approval of the
At the
delegates
including
Constitution
UAW
good
to be used for promoting
Funds
Special Citizenship
UAW
up
setting
provisions
citizenship and political education.
A LITTLE
Under
monthly
FROM
MANY
the Constitution, five cents of each member’s
dues goes into a Local Union Citizenship Fund
and five cents goes to the Citizenship
by the International Union.
of a little money
people,
through
“Only by such pooling
members
can
working
unions
and
citizenship
the
International
activities,”
Fund
UAW
Union
carry
President
maintained
from
their
many
local
out
these
Walter
Reuther
pointed out in an Administrative Letter advising
unions of the Executive Board actions.
“The
consists
at
large
main
part of
of acguainting
with
candidates, and
vote,” Reuther
uted
Ts
sands
of
of
the
basis
to
the
same
families
partisan
evil
the
in
voting
records
anti-labor
contributing
political
groups
tens
campaigns
workers’
of
of
the
who
Reuther
pointed
as the
UAW
citizenship
fund
endorse-
qualifications
and
jority
opinions,”
out
there
that
may
in
any
organization
be members
who
as
dissent
PRIVILEGE
the
“The
big
for the
views of the majority.
“It is their democratic right to
dissent and to fight for their opinions to become mahe
said.
“Nevertheless,
the
very
foun-
dation of our democratic society rests on the concept
of majority rule; otherwise a tiny minority could block
all action by the majority.”
He
observed
American
that
Medical
doctors,
forced
Association
to
belong
as a practical
tothe
matter
in
order to practice, have their dues money used to support political efforts to which many are opposed. “For
example, the AMA is lobbying against free distribution
of
polio
doctors
vaccine,”
licize
lists
he
oriented
WANT
“The
ing,
of
bar
endorsed
nities, are
“It
is
security
all
for the nation’s children.”
in order
who
to
whom
many
of
to practice.”
consistently
oppose
labor-sup-
improvements,
higher
minimum
such
legislation
as
for
in the forefront
these
cerned,” he said.
is a smokescreen
that
PROGRESS
people
with
inconceivable
In many states the laws
opposed.
must
belong
to these
politically-
BLOCK
same
is
candidates
associations
TO
social
“It
“Bar associations regularly take stands
public issues and circulate and pub-
members are
that
lawyers
their
state
said.
so little concern
have
Reuther added,
on controversial
thou-
pretend
of candidates’
In order to end this confusion, the Executive
reviewed the operation of Citizénship Funds.
elect
records, the platforms on which they stand, and
zeal they show in supporting these platforms.”
citizenship activities.
wealthy
issues
slum
decent
clearance,
educational
of the attacks
that
public
they
hous-
opportu-
on the UAW’s
are
really
con-
Their drive against union activities
masking
their efforts to block the
people’s drive for a better America.”
DISTORT
ISSUE
of an over-all anti-union program, the
are issuing a barrage of half-truths
and
misreprésentations
about
the UAW’s
Citizenship
activities in a continuing effort to outlaw effective
participation
Reuther
on
that
But “as a part
enemies of labor
nation,”
ments
and
and
democratically
representatives from their own shops to make
wages,
nickles,” he added.
worker
file members
in encouraging citizens to register and
said. (No Citizenship money is contrib-
issues
something,
ENEMIES
and
legislation,
dollars
see
rank
ported
the
ironic
approve
to
the UAW’s Citizenship activities
both our members and the public
to federal candidates.)
“It
local
“UAW
in
the
declared.
d@mocratic
Reuther pointed out that the
recommendations to the platform
processes
of our
UAW
makes identical
of both major parties.
the
Union’s
unquestionable
legal
right to use Citizenship Funds in support of
and policies approved by the majority of the
the
UAW
Executive
Board
conceded
that
confusion has been created by malicious
directed against UAW Citizenship Funds,
and
moral
programs
members,
much
public
propaganda
DISSENTERS
Executive
of
the
Board
vast
decided
majority
of
that,
UAW
despite
the
members
to
clear
estab-
lish Citizenship Funds any member would be allowed the
privilege of having the Citizenship Fund portion of his
dues diverted to a non-partisan organization or organizations solely concerned with promoting greater citizenship activity in political affairs by encouraging registering and voting, etc.,” Reuther reported.
Any member desiring to have his dues nickels diverted to such organizations, instead of UAW Citizen-
ship
the
Funds, may do so by individually so informing
UAW
International Secretary-Treasurer’s office
by registered mail.
~
The Secretary-Treasurer’s office will inform any local
union involved. Local union financial secretaries are to
forward
Union
ner
as
any
where
any
such
dues
they
will
nickels
so
Citizenship Fund.
Local unions have
International
quests is laid
paying dues.
WILL
As
Union
an
additional
to
the
be distributed-in
diverted
the
when
off, quits
CONTINUE
nickels
from
the
obligation
of
any
member
or is otherwise
OUR
International
the same
man-
International's
informing
making
such
exonerated
the
re-
from
FIGHT
check
on
continuity
of
employment,
any member desiring to have his dues nickels diverted
from the Citizenship Funds must so inform the International Secretary-Treasurer’s office once a year.
The privilege to divert dues monies to non-partisan
good
all,
the
If
ignore the
that they conveniently
charged
Reuther
huge contributions from corporations and reactionary
groups because they are used on their behalf.
Despite
right
TO
Board
they
their
citizenship organizations
and for
the campaign of distortion and confusion about
uses of UAW Citizenship Funds, Reuther asserted.
the
people
claim
fire
groups, he
proof that
progressive
“Despite
voice
should end, once
attacking
a principle
to
the
said.
what
the
UAW are
is at stake,
AMA,
bar
sincere
can
they
associations
now
and
when
direct
similar
Failure to do so will only be further
they are really trying to do is block
legislation.
all
the
of working
efforts
people,”
of
he
reactionaries
said,
“the
to silence
UAW
pledges
the
to
continue to work with all groups dedicated to fight for
legislative programs which will benefit all Americans.”
August,
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
“UNITED
1956
Outspent, 45 to 1,
UAW
In Battling Gas Gouge
WASHINGTON—If you wanted to find chicken thieves
you would start out looking for foxes instead of chickens.
Not so the special Senate committee investigating lobbying which was formed as the direct result of the scandal over
efforts by oil interests to offer
alerting consumers to the intent
a $2,500 “contribution”? to of the Gas Gouge Bill so that they
Senator Case (R., S. D.) just could counteract efforts by the
oil-gas lobby, termed by Washbefore the vote of the Gas Bill. ington
insiders, “the most power_ There were wide reports of ful ever assembled.”
millions backing the oil-gas
lobby efforts to get the Bill
Senators Seek
passed.
Easy Target;
The Senate committee began
by concentrating its investigation
consumers by fighting against the
Bill,
CONSUMERS
FOR
LOBBYING
President Walter P. Reu-
UAW
Meet Nunn
represented
who
on organizations
WASHINGTON—Senator Barry
Goldwater (R., Ariz.), anti-union
fanatic,
tangled
was dry gulched when he
with UAW
Commentator
ther, one of the first to appear
quickly
before the committee,
Guy Nunn
tion.
anti-union sounding board.
“In contrast to the testimony
of supporters of this legislation,
I wish to state clearly and em-
tee Chairman John McClellan
riddled efforts by some’ Senators
to turn the proceedings into an
phatically
to influence
votes,” he said.
lobbying
were
purpose
the
we
work
did
against
of
was
the
bushel.”
Both Goldwater
re-
only
the
consumer
of the American
battle
and
fighting
were
we
gret is that
“We
education
“Our
added,
with a pea shooter and the people
we were fighting against, the oil
and
gas
inch
the
lobby,
guns.
same
had
were
We
some
big 16not
just
in
league.”
OUTSPENT,
45 TO
got
its from
want
of
its money
consumers
MeCARTHY
who
in
had
the
1,154
more
UAW
minute
paign.
papers:
TV
than
ran
was written
committee
TV
one
programs
programs;
of
to the
its
15-
cam-
Reuther observed the Oil and
Gas Committee outspent the UAW
45 to one.
Reuther
UAW’s
pointed
McClellan
To
this
Nunn
re-
OIL
made more judicious
in my time, sir; this
within
out
that
effort was concentrated
heat
that
some
and
in
such
minutes
a
would
of
Morris
George
mittee,
I
counsel
chief
The
for some
asked Nunn
charges.
way
the
Fay,
and
not
now.”
comthen
facts on his
replied, “that. persons
Sen. McCarthy had had
of an airplane provided
(an oil lobbyist) . . .
difficult to disentangle
from
the
dence,
“I
added:
consider
language
CIO
by
some
Nunn
the Senate.
JUST
WON’T
Goldwater
then
no
rather
compared
I have
McClellan
thought
that
as
such as
the use
by Keck
I find it
the gift
vote.”
offered
he
but
language
the
Senator’s
that
yond
heard
to
Be-
gentle
some
applied
Senators.”
said
should
that
apologize
to
he
to
SWAP
joined
in
and
Robinson Returns
Following Illness
of
Kenneth
UAW
said:
director
Robinson,
W.
back
is
1D,
Region
on
a short illness. He
a
attending
while
the job after
stricken
was
summer school at the FDR-CIO
Labor Center near Port Huron,
Michigan.
The attack was first diagnosed
as a heart attack but a heart spehas
in Grand
him
told
a gall
indicate
organization
Nunn:
Rapids,
the
that
Michigan,
symptoms
bladder
attack.
the
Senate
owes
your
remarks.”
“Senator,
I will
for
apology
a deal
evi-
“I want to join my chairman in
on | suggesting that someone in your
the
third.
cialist
“J have been informed,” Nunn
do not
or ads
some
phrase
in prof-
ad
This
200
devoted
an
“BEAUTY CONTEST” WINNERS congratulate each other after results of contest at Local 212 Drop-In Center became known. Paul Vanden Abeele, a youngster
of 73 from Hudson Local 154, copped the prize as “Mr. Humdinger of 1956” based
on a photo of himself taken in Ghent, Belgium, back in 1907. Left to right: Archie
Baker, 74; Abeele, and George Boyer, 77. Baker was runner-up, and Boyer came in
on the integrity
AND
“I have
statements
their gas bills raised.
Committee
Senate.
plied:
* The UAW placed one advertisement in 27 papers. The Gas and
Oil
the
in
1
es Committee spent $1,753,513 to
fight for the gas gouge, while the
UAW spent $38,762.
The UAW effort was in line
with a UAW convention resolution opposed to lifting controls
over gas prices. The oil induslobby
said this reflected
and
after reading the Case speech
Reuther pointed out that just
the Natural Gas and Oil Resourc-
try
declared:
3
“The Case revelation is surprising only in that it comes so late.
It has been known for months
that the oil and gas lobby have
by the
Senators
buying
been
persuade
to
(D.,
February
a
berating
in
newscast in which Nunn
against it.”
others to lobby
Reuther
it,
Goldwater,
who
admitted
receiving oil money, joined Commit-
Ark.)
trying
were
we
that
at the lobby investiga-
with
you.
will
I
Here’s Toasting a Winner:
‘Mr. Humdinger of 1956’
The
gals have
contests,
as unflattering
not the ‘‘stronger’’ sex?
That’s the way some of the
youngsters oyer at the Local
212 Drop-In-Center for retirees reasoned after the talk
got heated over who was the
5 best looking
guy
back
an
‘
make
swap
proof
of his
Nunn:
charges.
“Twice
we
have
offer
extend-
ed you invitations to appear beand you
fore the membership
have turned down each invyitation.”
So, Goldwater refused to “swap”
and there was no apology
coming from Nunn,
forth-
WE DVO
states
must
have
when
some
| Guess
|
as this.”
Goldwater said he could
So, why
don’t they?
apologies. You have made comthree
the UAW
about
ments
times
their beauty
Mr. Humdinger
been
it
back
of them had
plenty of
fuzz
atop
their shiny domes, when they
had plenty of zip in their
step, and mebbe a little wolfish gleam in eyes partially
dimmed by years.
The UAW senior citizens at
the Loeal 212 Center finally
resolved their differences by
deciding
the
year.
to
gayest
These
they set
up:
have
blade
were
a
of
vote
the
for
yester-
rules
1, You must be over 21 to
enter,
2. You
ture
must enter a picof yourself, not
Robert
Taylor.
3. You must accept the decision of the ladies as
final,
Came the big day, after the
bulletin board had been filled
with 15 pictures of entrants
who were strangely reminiseent of Rudolph Valentino
and other heart
eration or two
argument
big
Clark.
Beryl
Vanden
Paul
73,
Local
Hudson
the
1956”
a youngster
Abeele
who
154,
loving
a silver
plus
from
of
old
copped
of
Humdinger
“Mr.
of
title
Director
Center
‘BEAUTY’ OF 73
The winner was
much
settled
was
of
relief
the
to
throbs of a genthe
Then,
ago.
and
cup
Incidentally,
tie clasp.
a silver
the picture—of which a head shot
74,
Local
Archie
15,
Gay
his
90’s
Isle.
bathing
check.
Firmly ensconced
was a chipper guy
Boyer of Chrysler
for
attire
retirees
merchandise
when
at
Belle
at
a
got
Archie
in third place
of 77, George
Local 7, who
check
prize,
his consolation
for
Mack
merchandise
a $1
received
known
yesterday
of
consolation,
As
of
Fleetwood
other
with
for
picnics
past
is well
beauties
Sennett
$2
who
appeared
he
of
Baker
1907.
Romeo
coy
was
Runner-up
taken
in
back
Belgium,
Ghent,
in
this story—was
with
appears
Well, it’s all settled now as to
who was the best looking killerin 1907
diller back
or thereabouts
soon?
there
. . + or did we talk too
What’s that? Who's back
I
“Why,
arguing,
day that schnook
a
candle
When
I
etc... se”
to
was
me
never
the
saw
Paul could touch
for
looks...
young...
»
etc,
‘All | Have | Owe to My Union,’
So He Leaves It $75,000 in Will
ESCANABA, Michigan—A railroad worker who died
last month left his life's savings to his union, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, a Detroit newspaper re| ported recently.
Frank P, Greene, who died at 86, willed the union
$75,000. because ‘‘all that I have I owe to the Brother-
UAW
RETIREE
FRANK
TUTTLE
is presented with the Union’s 20th Anniver-
sary Freedom Award by UAW President Walter P. Reuther, as Vice-President Norman Matthews (at left), director of the Union’s Chrysler Department, and SeeretaryTreasurer Emil Mazey (at right) look on, in a ceremony at Solidarity House.
Tuttle was the first UAW member to retire from Chrysler Corporation under the
Union-negotiated pension plan. The Freedom Awards were made at the UAW Education Conference in Washington last April, but Tuttle was unable to attend because of illness so the special ceremony was held.
hood,’’ Greene retired as an engineer on the Soo Line in
1940.
His will provides that the money be used to establish
educational scholarships for the children of BLE members. It is to be loaned without security, but with the hope
that needy students will repay the fund when they begin
to earn a living, so that future generations also may profit
from the fund,
Greene was a union member for 50 years,
é
Page
August,
1956
Scientists:
Scares
Radiation
Atomie
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
10
Peaceful Atom Perils Next Generation
proposed nuclear power plants—is harmful,
and the potential danger is great.
“The sins of the father shall be laid upon
his children."
This quotation from the Middle Ages
sums up. the situation facing 20th Century
man unless something is done to curb the
harmful effects of excessive atomic radia-
The report recommended further that the
general public be
protected—by whatever
means necessary—from receiving more than
a specified dose of atomic rays up to the
age
tion.
cording to a distinguished group of American scientists who made a special study and
report on radiation for the National Academy of Science.
(each
amount
bit
you
you
receive
carry),
adds
inevitable
the
to
and
on from one generation to the next.
consistent
with
medical
passed
defects,
from
X-rays,
etc.—and
nuclear
and
entirely
Every
30-40,
or
severely
person,
the
and
restrict
the
individuals or
scientists
said,
UAW PRESIDENT Walter P. Reuther, left, re-
is con-
ceives an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the
University of Michigan Commencement from U-M
President Harlen Hatcher.
stantly bombarded with either natural or
man-made rays. Once a certain total dosage is attained, then an additional minor
dose of radiation doubles the effect of the
previously accumulated rays.
We need to know more, a great deal
more about radiation and the effects of
set-
from
than
malformations,
reproductive power of both
the entire human race.
radiation
on reproduction
and
Start Planning Now for Automation
Nation's Rabbis Urge U. S. Government
heredity, the
committee emphasized in its final recommendation. To prove its point, the committee plans to continue on its own, as well as
calling upon the-government to do everything possible to speed up the study of the
effects of radiation upon the human race
and upon the generations yet unborn.
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey—A group of Jewish religious leaders has urged the U. S. Government to take immediate steps to form a long-range program to cushion the
shock
as
For additional information
on the , National
Academy of Science report on radiation write
‘'man-made,"
fission,
congenital
eliminate
his total amount of personal exposure to
atomic radiation. They asked for immediate
studies to further explore this uncharted
field.
Although the six-man committee of geneticists did not agree in every
particular
detail, they did agree that Sat Ron both
from natural causes—from cosmic rays,
chemicals,
more
of radiation on the reproductive organs.
Atomic radiation, they said, can Shorten
a life span, cause such things as epilepsy,
defects in hearing or vision, neuromuscular
ting up a national system of personal records whereby every American would know
heat,
receiving
came from their alarm at viewing the effects
total
necessity,
from
Their insistence on these, the ages
The scientists" report is this country's first
really comprehensive effort to ferret out the
effects of unleashing nuclear energy. They
concluded: nuclear war could conceivably
make the earth uninhabitable. The cumulative effects of exposure to radiation could
cause untold damage to the human race in
future years by its effect on reproductive
organs.
They recommended restricting medical
and dental X-rays to the lowest limit possi-
ble
and
more than 90 per cent will have base born.
cumulative
is
found,
they
30,
another specified dose up to the age of 40.
At age 30 of the parents, said the scientists, more than half the babies due in a
generation will*be born, and by age 40,
The whole future of man is at stake, ac-
Radiation,
of
to:
the
UAW
Detroit
Public
Relations,
14, Mich.
8,000-E.
the
June
28
demonstration
been answered.
The UAW previously had
rejected such an invitation
from
Stanislaw
of
Wozniak,
Chairman of the Voivodship
Trade Union Council in Warsaw, on the basis that the inyitation was but another part
of the new propaganda campaign
of
the
Communist-con-
trolled government
REJECTED
“The
tation,”
PROPAGANDA
BID
UAW
rejected your invicabled President Walter
P. Reuther,
controlled
lieved
would
in Poland.
“for a conducted
tour
because
we
and
be-
that such an arranged tour
not permit a delegation of
American trade unionist to learn
of the real conditions of Polish
workers
and
that
your
invitation
Polish
was
workers,
a part
the
lish
not
yet
of a propaganda
paign
of
strategy.”
After
has
the
the
streets
new
cam-
Communists’
demonstration
by
thousands
workers,
however,
in
of Po-
view
the
demonstrators
freely inquire
leading
up to
into
the
tion,
Specifically,
Jefferson,
Trade
to
doing
lems,
about
whether
Council
the
the
has
workers’
been
prob-
demonstration
plea
report
67th
annual
rabbinical
or
demonstration,
following
to
Reports
suppress
in
the
the
workers’
American
press,
cabled President Reuther,
indicated that the “Government has
suppressed
this
OF
workers’
UAW
asked
tinued
your
President
cable to Wozniak,
inquiry
into
what
reply,”
Reuther
in
phases
of
con-
his
about “this free
other
life
and work of Polish workers that
would enable an American trade
union
truth
to
on
the
delegation
to
American
American
their return
to
The
House
clude
ment
cation,
report
workers
people
the
and
generally
to the USA.”
of
called
on
Labor
pared
for
the
American
largest
in
such
that
a
a
White
manage-
government,
Jacob
J. Weinstein
a former
in-
meeting
labor,
and
social
regional
edu-
work.
of
War
Board member who prethe report, urged indus-
try and
labor
to cooperate
with
in imposing
government
the
voluntary restraints on the in“to
of automation
troduction
avoid undue
tion.”
“Millions of
displaced
for
automation,”
human
workers
a period
Rabbi
force.
ee
ployment
compensation
“Allotments
gram,”
he
cover
under
benefits.
such
reported,
“would
a
pro-
help
the costs of retraining;
the
expense of changing to another
company, if this were necessary,
plus
the
ing
minimum
until
the
menced.”
lar
The
rabbi’s
to
for
the
those
past
expense
new
work
proposals
urged
by
year.
of liv-
com-
are
simi-
the
UAW
West Coast Women
elections.
of
labor
the
automation
the November
religion
Rabbi
of
and
representatives
and
the
CONFERENCE
conference
It urged
Jewish
association
report
Chicago,
LEADERS
addition,
FOR
600
conference
a
special
attending
oldest
S.
the result of outside provocation,
and the action taken by the government
the
of a
to
Conference
Rabbis,
injustice
to
becomes
part
leaders
Central
U.
was
submitted
spiritual
against
monstration.
“We
await
conditions of the Polish
what
the Voivodship
Union
revolt
described
necessary
automation
The
has been the fate of the leaders
ar? workers involved in the de-
the events
demonstra-
‘‘urgently
ASK
In
pay expenses involved—asked for
an
inquiry
into the wages
and
working
workers,
a
FATE
and
UAW
— offering
was
was
reality.’’
demonstration.
dent
Reuther
immediately
cabled a request from the Polish-speaking American
trade
unionists be allowed to inter-
a move
when
brutally
Presi-
Such
on the nation’s
avoid complete economic and
social chaos 10 years hence
UAW Asks to Send Delegation
To Get Facets on Poznan Uprising
A UAW request that Polish-speaking American trade unionists be allowed to visit Poznan, Poland, to check first-hand
of automation
dislocamay
of time
be
by
Weinstein
pointed out. For those whose jobs
would disappear,
he proposed a
system
of “displacement
insurance” similar to current unem-
Hold First Confabs
UAW women members on ‘the
West Coast held their first Con-
ferences sponsored by the UAW
Women’s Department in separate
sessions in Los Angeles the weekend of July 12-13, and in Oak-
land
the weekend
with
UAW
Prominent
delegates
of
women
to
of July
civic
20-21.
leaders
staff
and
both
at
discuss
joined
Local
the
work
Union
problems
in
the
shop and at home. Panel discussions on juvenile
problems
and
on shop and legislative problems
keynoted
ferences.
the
Caroline
two
Davis,
UAW
Women’s
rector
Charles
joined
ting
up
work
these
Conferences
West Coast.
with
E.
first
ever
Women’s
Con-
director
of
the
Region
6
Di-
Department,
Bioletti
in
set-
held
on
the
UAW
Women's
Priekont.cag)
e
Sarees
3
3
2
ee
THE FIRST DOLLAR of the first SUB check arriying under the contract between the UAW and GM
Fred Anderson, right, UAW
was donated to COPE.
Local 659, presented it on the Union’s Flint radio program to Everett Sides, president Local 659.
FORD WORKERS REGISTER to receive
plant in Minnesota. The workers, members of
Al Johnson, waiting. Standing are, left, Ray
Killeen, building chairman. Seated are John
plant, and Ruth Anderson of the employment
their first SUB checks at the Twin Cities
Loeal 879, are Charles Koehn, signing, and
Busch, president of Local 879, and Robert
Niles, supervisor of labor relations at the
office.
ai
aa
August,
Page
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
1956
II
ss
P ra
aT
a)
teh
cd
aati ts
Fa
aa
The cost of living has reached a record level, as this department forecast at the beginning of the year. More price
rises are in Sight, and moderate-income families will have to
buy carefully to maintain their living standards in this present upsurge. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which had been
repeatedly stating we were having a period of ‘‘remarkable
price stability,’’ has called the jump in prices ‘‘unexpectedly”’ large. What’s really remarkable is that this government
agency with all its resources did not notice the pressures obviously building up to a new boost in living costs, especially
since some of the causes of the jump were made right in
=
Washington.
MORE PRICE HIKES PLANNED
August is the month of cut-price
ONE OF THE LARGEST ARBITRATION AWARDS of recent times, amounting
to $560,000 for 700 maintenance employes of the Wright Aeronautical Company,
Woodridge, N. J., was greeted with joy as the workers learned what each would get
under the arbitrator’s decision. Individual checks ranged up to $1,200 under the
large award of Arbitrator Saul Wallen which ended a five-year dispute between
floor cover-
sales on furniture,
ings and furs. The furniture and rug sales are especially worthy of
attention because of recent price increases on these items, and because another price hike on rugs of three per cent is scheduled for
fall as the
result
of recent
increases
manufacturers.
by
The
would-be home buyers, is the steady increase in rents, the sharp
jump in the price of homes, and the rise in interest rates on
In the past year the price of new homes jumped
mortgages.
$1,500, the National Association of Home Builders reports. The
NEW
building
since
higher-priced homes. The NAHB estimates that this year there
will be a 40 per cent drop in the number of homes built to sell
for $10,000 and $12,500, and a 30 per cent cut in the number
tagged under $10,000, which is the most the average wage earner
can afford to carry.
To
jook
a
find
he
home
further and
further
report that land prices have gone up an average of 17 per cent in
the past year, and the cost.of a lot now represents, on the average,
10 per cent six years ago.
ago, and
TIPS
ON
AUGUST
Here are tips
sales:
FURNITURE:
to 15 per cent a year
compared
18 per cent of the price of the home
BUYING
price
offer
sales
furnishings
home
August
The
August
from
money
for your
most
the
getting
on
reductions of 10 to 25 per cent on furniture, but the biggest price
cuts are often on the more overpriced items. On the more moderatepriced standard lines (likely the cleanly-designed Paul McCobb fur-
niture), you get only 10 per cent off, and that only in the August
and February sales. Avoid so-called “suites,” often featured by high-
In shopping
ad-
find the stores have—in
often
you
for sofas,
furnot
Your best buys in upholstered
chairs and sofas which need
markup credit stores especially.
niture are generally individual
match as long as they harmonize.
dition to some very cheap sofas—a good-quality group priced
around $200, and another group in the $300 bracket. Some fur-
frequently
have
so-called
more
even
But
bireh
curved
frames,
furniture
or hard
should
maple.
The
have
frame,
hardwood
tex-
be put
should
frame
dowels
with
together
ash,
in
preferably
par-
completed.
The
last
Barbers,
Decem-
Beauty
Hairdressers,
are
Cosmotologists and Proprietors
Union.
Members of the CIO union
voted to reaffiliate with the
was formed in 1939
members of the AFL
A
merger
by rebel
union.
between
the
S
are
the
Later,
position
6 Director
West
the
E.
Better-quality upholstered
rather than merely nailed and glued.
pieces have interlaced webbing as the base for the springs.
for the
which
Separate
California.
union
and grievance
Bio~
springs,
and
not
foam
is
padding
the
If
stapled.
merely
it
should be attached to the covering by a welt around the edges and
preferably also by button tufts, The covering itself should be closely-woven,
firm material.
Copyright
1956
by Sidney
Margolius.
representation
procedure has been
the
chance
spokesman
to
buy
demanded
health
ing from health insurance profor
the
same
Aging
at
the
consideration
requesting
anteed
at
addr
an
in
insurance
ninth annual Conference on
Michigan,
Jerry Pollack, member of
the UAW Social Security Department, proposed an ‘‘assigned risk’’ plan of health
insurance to enable non-coyered older people to buy indi-}
vidual health insurance policies from commercial insurance
companies, Now older people
are often cut off without warntection, he said.
Pollack asked
that older people be given?
University
for older
of
people—in
non-cancellable,
renewable
the
policies—
guar-
that
insurance companies have worked
out for “poor risk” automobile
drivers,
He
charged
that
“96
per cent
of the companies ordinarily do
not sell health insurance to peo-
ple
who
usually
are
59
or
past
60.”
a stated
Even
age,
those
who are able to buy insurance,
often at a triple premium rate,
are subjected
to sudden
lation or non-renewing
isting policies,
cancel-
of
ex-
recently
members
when
heard
the
terms
was
took
Cen-
ters for retirees in Detroit moved
un-
com-|to a new location last month.
Formerly in the Local 900 Hall,
the|it
was|49
agreement
is now
and|14th,
effect,
into
Drop-In
UAW’s
the
Hall,
by| Madar,
quartered
at
1271
Olga
by
Union's
the
of
director
near
Oakman,
announced
it was
Local
the
in
and
involved,
workers
Wallen
the
July,
from
arbiter
pany
cut
sought
down
ruled
arbitrable,
was
case
by various
liability.
its
The
to May,| retirees
1955,
existed
agreement
of|
in a series
affiliation.
that
a]
Com-|
the
un-
Centers
for
Madar
Miss
for
cards
permit
previously
reduced-fare
DSR
Detroit
for
pension-
handled
at the
Lo-
new
Local
49
the
at
that
also announced
Finally,|cal 900 Center,
of
conceded|care
however, the Company
its responsibility, and the dispute | Center.
Lo-
the
at
}eal 3 and Local 212 Halls.
to| ers,
means
are
in Detroit
that | re®&tration
and
other
UAW’s
of
regardless
wives,
their
will now
be taken
13 State Bodies Merged
WASHINGTON,
states
have
and AFL
achieved
D.
C.—More
successful
than
merger
one-fourth
of the
of their state ClO
industrial union councils and central
federations,
spelled out, by the latest contract
negotiated, for the UAW reactor
according
iean’'s Atomics International Division, They are also building
states since Arkansas led off the parade in March. Provisions of the AFL-CIO Constitution allow two years for
several
for
reactors
ernment,
agencies.
research
gov-
other
and _ school
ble
are
extended
known
yisks,”
as
cover
even
drivers,
“poor
to
the
eligi-
though
some
what
‘‘assigned
is
risk
plan.” These plans were
originated by the insurance companies, he emphasized, and the same
consideration
should
be shown
older workers in need of insur-
ance,
“A
vast
expansion
of health
insurance
for the aged is need-
ed,”
Pollack
often
neglect
surance
drain
turn
falls
limited
stated,
them,
thelr
family
to charity,”
“When
older
medical
the
state
AFL-CIO
organizations
organizations
to
announcement.
have
complete
been
formed
their
merger
ments,
in
13
agree-
:
name
for
newly-merged
all
through
Newly-merged
new
Pollack pointed out that automobile
lability
Thsurance
has
been
to a recent
In many cases, unity on the state level between former
industrial councils and state federations has resulted in a
UAW Asks Health Insurance for Old Folks
A UAW
put
the
After
reactor
is top
If crimped wire is used, as it often is on moderate-priced furniture, the webbing should be attached to the frame by round helical builders ‘who work in North Amerrubber,
the
that
hearings
rate for UAW represented workers at the company
plants in
Southern
week
Company
trator Saul
members of UAW
North American
Aviation. Top rate
builders is $2.68,
669
me of
and the case was heard by Arbi-|ion
for
Charles
wee
maintenance
valid
one
av
end
Company action. UAW Local 669| Recreation Department. The Cenfiled a grievance om behalf of the | tet is open to all retired workers
government—declared
latest
+
to an
I ical
could therefore be withdrawn
1956.
building
pee
the
unilaterally
atomic
now
the
conversion
til the
pleted.
CIO
UAW Members
Now Assembling
Atomic Reactors
on
paid
day, six-day
10-hour
Packinghouse
Workers and
AFT Meat Cutters and Butchers is also nearing finalization.
members
being
came
nance workers for the Com-| o¢ the award.
pany’s violation of an agreement reached quring the plant UAW, Local 49 Open
conversion of 1951-52. It guarNew
Center é
eae Drop-In oars
anteed the UAW members a
rival AFL group by a margin
of 93 per cent. The CIO union
makers,” are
Local 887 at
fabrics and larger dimensions that might overcrowd a small
Good upholroom, be sure you do get good basic quality.
tured
living
stered
worth
the
letti recently.
The
“Reactor
Assembly
Mechanics,” once known
as “Tool-
by
it’s really
for
paying
worthwhile
if it is not
than
like more
neymen
Region
is especially important at this time to avoid pieces with a lot of
“design” because of the recent trend among manufacturers to
try to make furniture look
making it look fancier. -
of
WOODRIDGE, N. J.—An arbitration award, one of the
largest in recent years, amounting to $560,000 in back pay
for 700 UAW maintenance workers employed by the Wright
Aeronautical Company in their plant here, has ended a fiveyear long dispute between UAW Local 669 and the Company.
Checks ranging up to $1,200)
into the AFL-CIO Jour-
Japanese
It
etc.
frames,
curved
tufting,
is,
that
"design,”
To 700 Maintenance Workers
The
Union and the forBarbers Union have
reactors—the
The chief differences are that the costlier sofas have heavier
textured fabrics, larger frames that require more fabric and
—
CIO Barbers and
merged
Coast
wearability.
and
construction
inner
same
been
Culturists
mer AFL
UAW
niture experts consider that the medium-priced $200 group generally provide as good service as the $300 sofas. Both groups
the
has
former
to
merger
organizations
ber
Builders
centers.
the large population
from
the
ent
have
will
now
earner
a wage
afford,
can
(PAI)
consolidation of former
and CIO national unions
first
AFL
on
concentrate
to
builders
of
tendency
the
and
YORK
$560,000
Arbitrator Awards
First to Merge
typical price tag on a house rose from $13,000 to $14,500. The
two chief reasons for this drastic jump were the soaring price of
lots
Local 669 and the Company.
UAW
for renters and
especially
real threat to living standards,
in-
people
needs,
resources
or
the
merged
orgamzation.
These
organizations and their presidents:
are
the
Arkansas Federated Labor Council, Pres. Odell
Smith
Missouri State Labor Council, Pres. John I. Rollings
Louisiana State Labor Council, Pres. Victor Bussie
Tennessee
State
Labor
Council,
Pres.
Stanton
E.
Smith
Arizona State AFL-CIO, Pres. E. F, Vickers
Montana State AFL-CIO, Pres. James S. Umber
Vermont Federation of Labor Unions, Pres, Fred
Dikeman
Colorado Labor Council, Pres, George Cavender
Virginia State AFL-CIO, Pres. Harold B, Boyd
Wyoming State AFL-CIO, Pres, Paul Shafto
Oregon State Labor Council, Pres, J. D, McDonald
Iowa Federation of Labor, Pres, Ray Mills
South Dakota Federation of Labor, Pres, Albert J,
Maag
Page
UNITED
12
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
August,
Kohler Closes Plant
For First Vacation
were producing at capacity, and expending facilKohler officials lamely announced that the shutdown
ities,
nothing
ifs
products.
.
+
5
cuts in the work
Two
or
he
the
zones
ers shortly
down ‘‘also
o}
y
=
kk-
Stieoun
before the
had nothing
the
nee
have
in
an
wer,
at
Kohler
1,
7
non-|
encroaching
?
on
to
With
faced
overtime eliminated, and
by
has
five-}]
a
in
earn
the
been
a
where
we
lages,
and
marginal
shutdown,
trend
to
came
the
noted
the
at
states
-up
their
line,
Company.
brave
strikers
tall smoke
stacks—
was
not
even
picket line from doing,
is accomplishing,” they
Breirather,
Local
833
that
knows
Company
Kohler
one
x
The
city
Kk,
councils
and
Ansonia,
have
1,100 | ley scab
of
voted
Woodbury,
all
in
to
Con-
ban
Koh-
products.
The Ansonia and Bristol resolution “
ive notice to all connateda oeby} | tractors
stnre doing business
Sessa)with the
:
tubs
1
Ty.
valued
a
>
valued
city
oh]
kohler
at!
that
products.
they
... ”
cannot
use
Herbert. V. }
type
off
his
the
a
permanent
years.
had
employe
not
in|
in
Strikebreak
Kohler has
nent”).
UNPRECEDENTED
UAW
cribed
Local
18
officials
even
cutting
and
is
no
J,
then,
126
down
did
not
on
question
shut
but
U.
S.
District
a “no”
cannot
UAW
a
year
voters
represented
jointly
Richard
"Well,
known
down.|through
‘that’et
line!"
you
should
better
than
have
the bricklayers’
to
go
pick-
adding
to
by
the
WASHINGTON,
the
{the
AFL
jiliaries
of
| ated
CIO
the
ranks
director
groups
reached
by
committee
of
for
the
Aux-
merger
into a single
auxiliary
group
trade
to be af_ili-
with the AFL-CIO.
The
agreement,
which
has been
| signed by members of the negotiating committee,
is subject to ap-
Four pamphlets and-one book feature the UAW Education Department's significant five selections for this month.
LABOR
ON THE MARCH—by
Edward Levinson—A
reprint of
the brilliant history and
witness story of the beginnings of the
Ine exploits have become legendary.
CIO by a labor reporter
troduction by UAW
President Walter Reuther tells what the CIO
years.
Foreword by James T. Farrell, famplis. hed in its many
Price to UAW members only $1.50.
mous novelist
TEN
bered
them
Single
The
a
POINTS
FOR
MEETINGS—The
parliamentary law
in the blink of an
copies
POLITICAL
UAW
period
kept
of
MISUSE
time
a
record
during
basic, simple, easily remem-
facts, boiled down so that you can master
eye (maybe two
blinks, but very quickly).
10 cents—$3.00
OF
of
a
per
100.
HEADLINES
what
the
controversy
AND
Detroit
with
NEWS
CAPTION—
newspapers
the
Union.
said
over
Here
two
newspapers convict themselyes of lying, propagandizing, sloppy reporting and dishonesty with their own news columns. A remarkable
candid camera shot of newspaper distortion in action, now used in
more than a dozen schools of journalism. 25 cents each.
IMPACT
OF
AUTOMATION—President
fore a joint committee
plete statement yet on
fiction
combined.
A-B-C
the basic
Free.
Reuther’s
testimony
be-
of the U. S. Congress.
Still the most comautomation.
Reads like history and science
OF TIME STUDY—Here is time study stripped
claims and pretensions—with the key falsehoods
10 cents each.
The names of 2,757 Kohler strikers and their wives
appear in the company’s Gestapo Records. People were
put down for such “crimes’ » as working on the union’s
July 4th parade float, appearing on radio broadcasts,
holding office in PAC organizations, doing election
work. Records came to light in course of NLRB hearing after company first denied their existence.
of
C.—An
Women’s
providing
both
union
unity
and
down to
exposed.
proval by the executive board of
the American
Federation of
Women's Auxiliaries of Labor, the
executive
CIO
CIO
will
d
bose
of
the
National
Auxiliaries, and
the AFLExecutive Council. Later, it
be submitted to the conven-
tions of both
finally
to
women’s
the
merger
RDS
f
Vice-Presi-
D.
been
10-woman
RE
workers, was
Gosser,
has
R CO
the
not
AFL-CIO Auxiliaries
Draft Merger Pact
agreement
KQHLE
appear
the Competitive Shops Department, and Martin Gerber, director of UAW Region 9.
de-
by shutdown.
ago.
victory,
eligible
was capped
GESTAPO
Steel
ballot because
Workers
has
opened
dent
wosk
the
of
50, which
announced
Company
plant
NLRB
Mine
of UAW
Graskamp.
the
Wilkes-Barre,
and Wire Corporation voted 70-39
for UAW representation after an
organizational campaign in which
The
like this since
the worg
of the depression,”’ said
Allan
the
Pennsylvania,
plant
the shutdown
as unprece. “There hasn't been any-
dent
at
complied
with
the
Taft-Hartley
Act,
had
signed
an
agreement
with the Company at the time the
CLOSING
833
Workers
on an
United
laid
production
force
of
and scabs
(whom
described as “perma-
Company
UAW Is Victor
In Wilkes-Barre
Steel, Wire Plant
District
The book
came
out just
the
‘boycott shutdown,”’
ents a layoff to the
which
for scabs during past month,
vote.
oft-repeated|
firm
cuts in work-week
the United Mine Workers
50 urged workers to cast
hard when}
eech were]
locally—contained
ON THE KOHLER picket lines, Wilbert Moenning, Albert Mauer and George
Buss paste a sign over the Company’s parking lot marker: Shut Down Due to Boycott. For two weeks during the plumbingware season’s peak production period
Kohler had to shut down because unsold plumbingware piled up, stockpiled in production areas in the plant. Growing effectiveness of boycott has also caused two
of these days they’ll have to settle, or lock those gates for good.”
vil- | necticut,
to
said.
that
said
coordinator,
boycott
“this thing is really rolling now.
We get support from all parts of
the country, from just about every
is. There’s no
union group there
holding
back
anywhere,
and
the
“back
up-state
the
J.
from’—small | Bristol
farms,
he
tarpaper during the shut“What the laws have pre-
Leo
there
go
and
picket
vented our
the boycott
be
pickets]
and
—
production
takin;
a daily count of the strike-|
breakers
report
the
Conipany’s}
mployment
ing down.
Koh-|
to work]
had
kebre
le
a six-day
week to make what or-|
ganized workers
day
week
On
plant, | said.
sed
strikers
burning
down.
are
b
in all ma-
areas,’’
wives and families.”
snarled | looked
chief
hurting.
Se
have already done such a wonderful
job, we
can
speed
the
day
of victory and justice for
imbal-
tion.’’
really
“vith the continued support of
all the good union people who
the peak of the construction}
season
is
=
jor market
shut-|
to do!
announcement
boycott
“Sales are dropping
with the boyeott.”’ It’s all Just
seasonal, the Company said in}
<ing
ee
the
week
of}
boycott
the nationwide
to do with
whatever
had
far.
competitors
Pas
ON, oT
organized}
While
month.
this past
weeks
for two
operations
LOCAL833
down
shut
Company
Kohler
to buy,
wants
nobody
ing ware
KOHLER WORKERS
the plumb-
with
bulging
space
production
and
Stockrooms
1956
groups,
and
convention.
It is expected that the
tions
to approve
the
convenmerger
Treasury OK's S-P Pension Plan;
Higher Benefit Level Retroactive
The U. S. Treasury Department has approved the Studebaker-Packard pension plan
which was negotiated by the
International
year,
UAW
last
thews,
director
of the UAW’s
Studebaker-Packard
anneunced.
has
ment,
Mat-
Norman
Vice-President
Depart-
More than 2,400 S-P retirees,
members of Studebaker Locals 5,
South Bend, Indiana, and 255, Los
Angeles,
Packard
and
Local
190,
subreceive
Detroit, will now
stantially higher pension benefits,
including
of
$5
a
7.47.
average
The
retro-
be
will
check
benefit
active
payment
retroactive
many
retirees
will
example,
a Local
doubled
checks.
For
who
or
was
nearly
getting
cial security,
tract, is now
month,
in
security.
stead
getting
of
addition
Local
on
1.
to
the
for
plus
retiree,
pension
-pension
retirees
haye
creased by $16.86 under
rent agreement, he said.
the
Foundry Workers
Vote for UAW
DRIVE
runoff election conducted
National Labor Relations
STOP
SUB
SPRINGFIELD, Mlinois — Employers in this state received a
severe jolt recently when
their
drive to block state payment of
unemployment compensation benefits
to
workers
plemental benefits
by a Circuit Court
In
receiving
was tossed
Judge.
sup-
out
the first case to be decided
on this issue, Circult Judge DeWitt Crow denied the suit of Illinois
employers’
groups,
Judge
HITS
SNAG
Crow,,reported
Director Robert
his
decision
employment
are
for
not
the
on
UAW
Region
4
Johnston, based
grounds
compensation
general
benefit
funds
of
jobless
tion”
dismissed
the
charge
as
“pure
that
the
trust
fund.
Towa—in
at the Riverside
a
by the
Board
Foundry
work-
Robert
solely
specula-
simul-
taneous payments would increase
the tax burden of the employers
and drain the state unemployment
compensation
cur-
funds
un-
ers.
He
in-
here voted 301 for the UAW to
214 for No Union, it was an-
that
but
workers
$101,-
to $142,-
monthly
BETTENDORF,
now
pay-
from
old basis,
all
in-
is
agreement
will be held at the $151.04, Matthews said.
same time as the AFL-CIO conA comparison of benefits under
‘the new and old plans show that
vention in 1957.
TO
so-
his
190
jumped
Average
benefits
5 retiree
$52.50,
getting
have
476.58,
pension
under the old conreceiving $135.90 a
monthly
ments
receive
tripled
$52.50
$109.60.
Total
05
A
now
nounced
tional
jointly
by
Region
Johnston.
campaign
by
the
the Competitive
and
The
the
staffs
of
Director
organiza-
conducted
Region
4,
Shop Department
Agricultural
Department.
600 workers
castings.
was
4
The
and
Implement
plant employs
produces steel
- Item sets