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ADLAI STEVENSON marches in Detroit's Labor
liL. to R.—Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Wil
Parade.
ams,
Stevenson,
Senator
ae
y
Don't Be left Out
|
é
On,
County
McNamara,
CIO
President
Lieutenant
Mike
Governor
Novak,
Phil
Hart
i,
UAW International Representative Joseph Ptaszynsk
BELOW—A portion of the 100,000 who saw the parade;
heard Stevenson speak.
and
%
Patrick
Wayne
Day! — Register Now
Page
UNITED
2
AUTOMOBILE
October, 1956
WORKER
58,000 Laid Off;
Auto Jobs Down
271,500 in Year
Another 58,000 workers in the automobile and
related industries were laid off in the last 30-day
period for which figures are available.
Approximately 271,500 workers in auto and related industries have been laid off and not recalled
according to the latest United States Bureau of
Employment Security report.
The report, showing figures as of September 7,
covers only seven states where three-quarters of
the automobile and parts industries are located.
The statistics do not include smaller layoffs in many
other states.
While
hopefully
workers in the automobile industry
for callbacks, unemployment in the
still waited
agricultural
implement industry increased. Latest figures show more than
39,000 UAW members in agricultural implement plants are
idle now.
NO RECORDS IN 1957
Hardest hit in the auto and
related industries category are
Michigan with 170,500 out (in
just these industries) ; Indiana
with 39,500 workers in auto
parts plants idled; Ohio; with
23,500; California with 16,000
and New York with 14,000.
Total unemployment in
Michigan has reached 251,000, according to Michigan
Employment Security Commission figures. This includes 175,000 total layoffs
in Detroit.
While some auto plants have
called back a few workers,
more are still laying off.
According to Ward’s Automotive Report, the industry’s
Bible, production for the last
quarter of this year will be
almost 10 per cent lower than
it was a year ago. Ward’s estimates the industry will make
ee
1,949,000 the final quarter
Jast year.
lican
1,761,000
cars,
compared
to
of
Motors’ final-quarter schedule
will be 14 per cent below the
same period a year ago while
Ford’s final-quarter schedule
is seven
below
1955.
Chrysler’s final-quarter schedule is only two per cent below
1959.
Comparison Shows
Why Most Workers
Are Gladly for Adlai
The
Madison
who
are
Avenue
once
merchandise
trying
Eisenhower
Let's
take
them
up
on
that
to
like
and
compare Eisenhower's attitude toward
adequate
unemployment
compensation
Stevenson's.
benefits
with
‘Two months ago, UAW
Adlai
President
Walter P. Reuther wired the Pres-
ident, urging him to use his “good
Offices” and “great personal prestige in the ranks of the Repub-
majority
in
the
Michigan
of estimates so
far is that the industry will
make 614 million cars next
year, a half-million more than
it made this year, but well un-
law.
quest.
Compare this with Stevenson’s
speech at the Detroit Labor Day
rally, in which he said:
“I know
of Governor
Williams’
proposals for making unemployment benefits more adequate. I
hope they can be adopted and
that they will become a signpost
der the eight million ears
turned out in 1955,
Ward’s indicates General |for the nation.”
UAW
dangered by an atomic power
reactor
of unproven
design.
As The United Automobile
Worker
went
to
s , the
Atomic
Energy
Commission
still had not announced wheth-
er it would hold a public hearing on the proposed power re-
Monroe,
to
There
the
will
itself
be
pressure
foree
and
located
near
Michigan.
are
the
indications
of
hold
public
AEC
a
ing.
Previously
the
to
public
AEC
that
opinion
reverse
hear-
had
pera “conditional”
granted
mit to build a fast neutron
breeder.
many
soft
ee
spots.
most
world
fortunate
country
in the
more than 230,000 workers
have
been
“Too
much
perity
the
idled,”
of our
has
been
future
on
the
Stevenson
current
Stevenson,
pros-
borrowed
easy
buy-now-pay-later
STEVENSON
said.
from
payment
plan.”
MARCHES
who
marched
four
blocks along with Michigan Goyernor G. Mennen Williams and
the union
members,
assailed Re-
publicans for allegedly concerning themselves only with statistics
and disregarding problems affecting humanity.
“Their blindness
is that they
unemployment
and
depression
in a factory
on
a farm
and
ness as an end in itself, progress
as something
slide
rule
statistic,”
and
you
measure
on a
prosperity
as
he said.
a
“It is time to start thinking
again in America
in terms
of
people—in
terms
of
individual
human lives.
“To believe in the New
is to commit
with
every
ourselves
resource
at
America
to fighting
our
com-
mand these ugly patches of poverty and of insecurity which still
deny dignity, even decency, to the
Behind
are the Detroit
pany officials,
the
Edison
project
Com-
The
AEC
report
by
had
the
suppressed
Reactor
a
Safe-
guards Committee that “there
is insufficient
information
available
at
assurance
actor
site
can
this
that
be
the
to
public
President
give
...
operated
without
UAW
time
re-
at
this
hazard.”
Walter
P.
for six months
active it could
said
the
stability
Monroe
hearing
said,
on
Reuther
even AEC
Strauss
the
he demanded
project.
pointed
Chairman
told
a
a
out that
Lewis L.
Congressional
committee that a fast breeder
is “the most hazardous of all
reactors,” just one month be-
fore he voted to issue the con-
struction
permit.
Reuther
but
by
wild
smaller
AEC
in
at
added,
reactor
Arco,
November,
“A
similar
operated
Idaho,
1955,
went
and
radiotaken
reasons
of
for
fast
this
breeder
in-
reac-
tors are not understood but
must be determined before the
proved
when
so
be
down for repair. The AEC Reactor
Safeguards
Committee,
whose report AEC disregarded,
Reuther
brought
the
suppressed report to the public’s
attention
was
not
“The
watts
reactor
for
safety.
Arco
sparsely
reserve
Monroe
of
be
ap-
fast breeder,”
“developed
and
can
was
settled
1,000
located
400,000
reactor
he
kilo-
in
government
acres.
would
a
The
develop
300,000 kilowatts
of thermal
power and would be located 30
miles
miles
from
Detroit
from Toledo,
“The
permit
for the Monroe
there
is
whether
issued
by
20
AEC
reactor admits
uncertainty
there
and
is
a
as
to
credible
of
all
Turning
to the problems
age of automation,
of the
Stevenson said,
“We must insist upon expanded
programs of unemployment imsur-
ance,
worker
retraining,
guaran-
teed annual wage, and ether programs aimed to share equitably
between
and
business,
the
the
displaced
which lies within our grasp.”
UAW President Walter P. Reuther,
Governor
Democratic
Williams,
Senator
and
Patrick
V.
McNamara of Michigan also addressed the gathering.
President Reuther charged
that the Eisenhower Administration has “‘betrayed’’ the
ATOMIC AGE NEEDS
consumer,
worker
the
American
people
issue—tax
wage,
on
issue
policy,
slum
after
minimum
housing
clearance,
Social Security, and labor legis-
Jation.
“The Madison Avenue hucksters
will
try
to
merchandise
the
idea
that Eisenhower is liberal when
it comes to the problems of people but conservative
in matters of
transitional costs of these great
technological changes. Bold invention is needed as much in the
government,”
technology
NO SWING TO GOP
Williams told the crowd that he
social
sphere
as in
the
itself.”
“There
are
three
freedom.
cons along
New
To
about
these
the road toward
we
which
need
a
really
people—all
of
added, “—
care
and
follow
America,
ernment
sphere
guideposts
to a better life,” he
education,
medical
beathe
gov-
cares
of the
people
—cares about them, not as statistics in a poll, but as children
of God, entitled to the best of
all possible lives in the most
abundant nation in the history
of the whole world.
“My solemn pledge, as the pres-
idential
cratic
candidate
Party,
is
to
of
do
the
my
Demo-
best,
with your help, under a kind
Providence, to lead us all into the
shining
and
spacious
Seeks Hearing on Monroe
Because of protests filed by
the UAW, the lives of a halfmillion
UAW
members
and
their families may not be en-
actor
too
the cost of living as only economic problems. They see busi-
compensation
unemploy-
some
There was no reply. Instead, a
leveling out of production, the week later, Labor Secretary
outlook for 1957 is something James Mitchell wired an answer
less than brilliant. The gen- which, in effect, denied the reeral consensus
ed that the 10-month-old merger of the AFL-and CIO means
unity in fact—as well as in name.
Stevenson cited the growing and continuing unemployment in the auto industry, the decline in farm income, and
inflation as indications that the Republican ‘‘prosperity”’
ment
state’s
neighborhood meeting
At Adlai’s right: Con-
Adlai E. Stevenson launched his campaign to win the presidency on Labor
Day in Detroit's Cadillac Square. Fifty thousand jammed the area to hear him
following a record-breaking Labor Day parade which saw more than 75,000
march down Woodward Avenue while 100,000 lined the curbs to watch.
It was the biggest Labor Day parade in the city’s history and demonstrat-
see
the
a
Adlai Tells Top Labor Day Crowd
Unemployment ‘Sorry, Disgraceful'
Legislature” to persuade them to
drop their opposition to improvein
reception at
of Michigan.
“Tt is a sorry and disgrace- |tives of almost one-fifth
ful fact that in this richest American families.”
hucksters
again
ADLAI STEVENSON
gets a rousing
which was a part of his Labor Day tour
gressman Charles Diggs (D., Mich.).
has
toothpaste,
are
always
asking
consumers to “compare” products.
ments
NOTHING LIKE ’55
While this includes
per cent
i
Ss
America
in
would
an
breach
explosion
the
that
gas-tight
building surrounding
the
actor,” Reuther added.
“In
every-day
means
that
language
the
reactor
re-
this
might
convert
itself into a smallseale atomic bomb. This is oné
of the hazards which the Reactor
Safeguards
before
it gives approval
wants
to
Monroe
In a
be
Committee
assured
against
to the
reactor.”
formal statement
re-
questing a public hearing, Reuther
charged
that
the
con-
struction
permit
has
been
granted
in
violation
of the
AEC’s
a
hard
time
said.
selling
“They'll
that
own
rules.
No
“reason-
able assurances” of safety can
be given. It’s doubtful whether
such assurances could be made
to
us because we know better.”
was
proud
to run
son-Kefauver
on
the
ticket.
He
ception to a Republican
Steven-
took ex-
claim that
labor is swinging to the
In addition to President
Vice
GOP.
Reu-
ther,
UAW
Presidents
Norm
and
Secretary-Treasurer
Emil
Matthews
and Leonard
Woodcock
Mazey were on the platform at
the Cadillac Square celebration.
After his speech, Stevenson,
Williams, and the labor leaders
made
unscheduled
stops
for
brief greetings to the Polish Legion of American Veterans Convention and to the Union League
of Romanian Societies of America, and visited Pontiac and
Muskegon.
Atomic Reactor
condition of meltdown and reassembly of the fuel of the
PRDC reactor which could re-
sult
have
he
within
the
which,
Reuther
time
schedule
for
the proposed actual operation
of the plant. It is a type
posed
ed
and
said,
is
sup-
to be “constructed,
experimentally
test-
proven
in less populated areas,” before being built in a metropolitan
The
area,
UAW
established
its in-
terests
as an
intervenor
by
pointing out the concentration
of
membership
in
Detroit,
Vo-
ledo and other cities and towns
in the area. The AFL-CIO
Electrical
Workers
and
the
Papermakers also have intervened.
Previously
the
UAW
had
charged the AEC with attempting
to
hand
to
ties a monopoly
energy
tial
pense,
electrical
developed
the
big
utili-
on the atomic
at
power
poten-
public
ex-
rr
nm
. October, 1956
3
Page
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er
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nt
e
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. At UAW
ee
local| #
Rank-and-file delegates from 1,500 UAW
unions voted by better than 97 per cent to support |
the candidacies of Adlai Stevenson for president
and Estes Kefauver for vice president.
At an enthusiastic and cheering Special Election
Year Conference, the delegates and UAW staff
members voted, by separate secret ballot, 2,516 for
Stevenson-Kefauver, 24 for Eisenhower-Nixon, 36
for no endorsement and one vote for “Joe Smith.”
StevensonThe local union delegate vote:
Kefauver, 2,036; Eisenhower-Nixon, 24; No Endorsement, 34; Joe Smith, 1.
Thus, the overwhelming majority of the UAW
membership threw the lie into the faces of people
like Senator Barry Goldwater (R., Ariz.) and John
Feikens who complain that the UAW and other
leadership do not speak for the membership on
political issues.
‘aides
SADDLE
THE
IN
BUSINESS
brotherhood.”
ity of human
failing
“is
America
that
asserted
president
UAW
Eisenhower
the
of
record
the
Discussing
It is not
the social
the little men of Big Business control our government.
because they are evil, but because they do not understand
prisoners
the
are
is contradictory,
America
of
told
spend
to
diplomatic
“the
his
cesspools
is go-
what
know
to
ica”
ing on in the world. He said he found “bitterness toward Amer
Cadillac
during his visit to India and other countries because “the
cabinet won't let these people be our friends.”
the
accused
been
“lye
Reuther
war,’
cold
at
Editors,
Newspaper
of
for
politics
“but
declared,
American
came
Washington,
in
meeting
April
their
the
of
Society
to the same conclusion by a vote of two to one.” He pointed out
that most of these editors were partisan toward Republicans.
president called our prosperity “uneven and out of
The UAW
balance.”
prosperity
our
of
share
at
corporations
of
being
government
Business-controlled
Big
“The
the
has
into
gone
the
of
The
workers.
declared.
ribs,”
Reuther
IDLE
WORKERS,
auto
Detroit
in
while
nation,
BUSINESSES
FAILING
275,000
said
He
they do it, it's good business.
is in the saddle, and their spurs
largest
work-
workers
alone,
12
unemployed
were
the
of
cent
per
in
are
throughout
force
work
our
the
was
jobless.
While the profits of giant businesses are up, he pointed out,
adthere have been more small business failures under the present
than
“This
Reuther
is not
told the
administration.
an academic
just
“Go and
delegates.
Federal
the
Truck.
these plants?
DRIVE
“Instead
And
EVEN
FOR
of
Motor
closed
the
workers
Murray
or
the
economy
or
in
jobs
president
“Now
tags
been
ance,
on
and
General
the
making,
'57
vice president
Motors
models;
This
only
this despite
means
more
‘‘de-
as
promised,
Eisenhower
AFL-CIO
they
the
will
the
huge
inflation
charged,
raise
profits
and
the
they
more
administra-
Republican
are
areas,”
industrial
pressed
as kennel dogs and
unemployed
declared.
Reuther
dogs,”
bird
“Ike's acceptance speech at San
price
have
imbal-
“The real voice of the GOP is not Eisenhower talking about ‘a
government with a heart,’ but Charlie Wilson talking about the
Big
Business
Administration
Emil Mazey and
Pat Greathouse,
Norman
and
after
talks
control
was
of
also
Secretary-Treasurer
by
stressed
their
of the
announced
twenty-three
there
tion,
cock
cost of living has soared to a new all-time high, and there is a trepower,” the
mendous imbalance between production and purchasing
UAW
four
of
Vice Presidents
WoodLeonard
the
Matthews
balloting
In
the
that
evidence
s further
1s
Eisenhower Administration
lined
for
up
the
against
special
the
and
people
interests,
Reuther
broken
President's
the
cited
promise to amend the Taft-Hart-
ley Act,
tional
with
his
“packing”
of the
Labor
Relations
(Continued
on page
employer-minded
Na-
Board
individ-
8)
for
26
hour,
three
and
inequity
cents
at
six
of
increase
won
were
wage
an
adjust-
hour
Goodyear
pro-
reopeners,
ment
the
insurance
numerous
The
new
of
schedule
surgical
the
in
are
plan
other
among
contract
Continental
Can
agreement
provides
a general
increase of eight cents an hour
additional
an
with
February
in
hour
one
and
cent
paid holidays and
were
1A,
grade,
lished
along
with
rights
seniority
now.
a new
estab-
changes
and
an
extra
an
seven cents one year from
Seven
Iabor
Every voter owes it to himhis neighbor
self, his family,
to be informed
his country
and
issues
on the
ballot.
Walter
President
UAW
will
Reuther
discuss
November
in the
Election
regularly
mornings-a-week,
e-Opener”
*
sored
he casts his
when
in
inequity
adjustments in some office
technical classifications,
and
P.
issues
the
6 General
the
five-
radio
pro-
on
UAW-spon-
UAW
with
along
gram,
Commentator Guy Nunn.
can be heard
“Eye-Opener”
your loin your area. Check
your
with
or
newspaper
cal
local union hall for the time
and the station for the Monday-through-Friday
changes.
as Reuther says, is too many.
But—today, in 1956, after
years
$35
medical
for impartial
vision
opinion on sick leaves, improved
vacation allowances and improvethe
“deeighteen
areas,” which,
office, there were
pressed industrial
accident|
provided,
wage
two
erence,
suf-
the
employes,
Broader appliOhio.
in Akron,
cation of recall rights, shift pref-
of which are discussed
in this issue—the UAW
lient fact:
cites thi
when Eisenhower took
tries—all
elsewhere
President
In 1952,
the
Body,
their
lost
who
income,
farm
in
SUB
for
the
peace,
per
ments,
and
and
WON
general
cents
fering of small business and mass
unemployment in the automobile
and agricultural implement indus-
The
PROFITS
MORE
stabilizing
Products
about
what
plant,
“uneasy”
are
PLAN
A
for
allowing
also
SUB
Francisco was wonderful, but it
bears no relationship to the actions of his Administration.”
of economics,”
Detroit and see
discussion
east
visit
used to call the best on the road.
at
Hoover
the
Our
GOP, the empty Packard plant.
last Packard there, That's the car they
that monument to the
members have made the
“Look
under
except
history
in
time
any
at
ministration
weeks
hospital
sickness
insurance
pol-|
insurance
life
insurance
with
along
ous audiences in the last several weeks.
the
paid holidays, an
minimum starting
company-paid
surgical
ter P. Reuther has told numer-
decline
“During the past 12 months, corporate profits soared 35 per cent
we
over their 1954-55 level. What do you think would happen if
asked for a 35 per cent wage boost?” Reuther asked, ‘They would
laugh at us; but when
“Yes, Big Business
by facts, UAW
$3,000
a
rate,
pro-
Automatic
1957.
seven
in the
gression,
increase
end
at the
six cents
and
March
of
a
Wal-
President
for
in-
effec-
hour
an
cents
10
now
tive
icy,
Besides
well-
the
while
profits,
corporate
have been short-changed.
and consumers
ers, farmers
expense
advanced
has
|
The Republican claim of
“Peace and Prosperity’’ is a
slogan that is not backed up
losing
are
we
that
saying
at
of the initial contract
of
crease
Industrial Blight
Slowly S preadin g
Under Eisenhower
in
than
rather
poverty”
of
di-
Woodeock,
Leonard
Quehanna, which is in effect
21 months, provide a general
Kansas.
be
should
Dulles
Foster
wants
if he
lounges,”
cocktail
John
been
has
Division),
Terms
with Contitwo-year agreement
nental Can Company, Coffeyville,
strong.”
and
clear
won
has
951
Local
UAW
and
voice
the
why
That’s
DIPLOMACY
State
the
“in
time
be
it should
when
of
Secretary
said
Reuther
environment.
own
LOUNGE
COCKTAIL
MUCH
TOO
their
of
Aircraft Corporation
Goodyear
They
understand.
not
do
they
so
hungry,
been
never
“They've
revolution.
breed
conditions which
economic
and
Air-?
tary Unemployment Benefit Plan,
has been signed by Local 856 with
because
world
the
President
A new two-year agreement,
which includes a Supplemen-}
the
Administration,
(Plastics
Department.
eraft
solidar-
ticker—the
market
have
we
because
now,
fail
will
National
the
of
rector
Vice
UAW
by
announced
de-
Reuther
injunctions,”
and
stock
the
on
quote
don’t
they
something
they
and
then,
failed
“They
clared.
goons
and
scabs
with
Thirties
the
Corporation
Curtiss-Wright
are trying to stop our political action program
who tried to stop the organization of the UAW
“The people who
are the same people
in
is a better America.
All we want
has no axes to grind.
Know the Issues;
Hear ‘Eye-Opener’
cluding an initial collective bargaining agreement for UAW
Local 1069 members at Quehanna, Pennsylvania, with the
working
represents a basic moral force in America, and that
people will be influenced by that endorsement because the AFL-
CIO
in-
negotiations,
of
sets
three
of
completion
Successful
labor movement
the united
“that
on,
he went
believe,”
“We
of
kind
the
to
directly
delegates, “because this decision is related
world your children will grow up in.”
es
3 New Pacts Record Gains
For UAW Aireraft Workers
to make a decision even more
negotiations,” Reuther told the
“You have been called together
important than questions of wage
ie
by delTHE LARGE auditorium at the Masonic Temple in Detroit was jammed
n and
egates to the UAW conference. After the delegates voted to endorse Stevenso
Kefauver, UAW Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey urged stepping up the COPE dolvoters
lar drive; Vice President Leonard Woodcock outlined the need for getting all
e drive
registered, and Vice President Pat Greathouse urged that a comprehensiv
t Norbe made to get out the biggest possible vote on November 6. Vice Presiden
man Matthews chaired a portion of the meeting and added to the remarks made by
the speakers.
The yoting was conducted by secret ballot in voting
booths set up on the stage of Detroit’s Masonic Auditorium,
where the Conference was held, and the counting of the ballots was held in full view of the delegates and the press.
The vote was taken after a point-by-point discussion of
the issues in the eampaign, led off by President Walter PReuther.
BIG
Ee
“Eye-Open-
program.
er”
Staff's Secret Ballot |
Solidly Supports Adlai;
Nothing for Eisenhower
of
All
staff
UAW
the
from
throughout the United States that
for the one-day
could be spared
meeting
UAW
They
attended
Election
were
Year
the
National
Conference.
permitted
to
vote,
too, on the endorsement proposilocal
from
separately
tion—but
union delegates.
Results of the staff secret-ballot vote (which are not included
in
the
delegates
vote
results):
Stevenson-Kefauver—180
Eisenhower-Nixon—0
No
Endorsement—3
Void—5
Staff members voted on a blue
ballot and delegates on a white
ballot.
AFL-CIO Backs
Adlai and Estes
CHICAGO—It's
all out for Adlai
and Estes.
The AFL-CIO General Board enthusiastically endorsed
Adlai Stevenson for President and Estes Kefauver for
Vice President in a meeting here.
The endorsement of the approximately 150 General
Board members present followed similar action by the
AFL-CIO
Executive
Board
at its meeting
in Forest
Park,
Pennsylvania,
In announcing the Executive Board’s recommendation
to the press, AFL-CIO President George Meany said the
possibility of endorsing Eisenhower and Nixon never even
was raised,
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
October,
Skilled Trades
Conference Call
Now December 10
1956
SAy! JOE'S
REALLY DOWN/
The Fifth Annual International Skilled Trades Conference, originally scheduled for
September, has been postponed
until
1956,
December 10, 11,
it was announced
UAW
President
Reuther
Norman
12,
by
Walter
P.
and Vice President
Matthews and Re-
gion 1A Co-Director Joe MeCusker, both members of the
Skilled Trades Committee of
the UAW
International Ex-
Local 148 Okays
New Douglas Unit
“It
time
fornia,
ecutive
Board.
is our hope that
will
give
Vice
Richard
Gosser,
the extra
President
director
of
the
Skilled Trades Department, who
has been ill, an opportunity to
recover sufficiently to be present
at this extremely important conference,” the announcement stated. “In addition, the many press-
UAW VICE PRESIDENT Pat Greathouse, center, talks to Dr. Arthur Flemming, director, Office of Defense Mobilization, right, as Frank McCulloch, administrative assistant to Senator Paul Douglas, Illinois Democrat, listens, at a luncheon
in the Capitol in Washington attended by members of the Agricultural Implement
Task Force Committee on unemployment.
ing problems that have arisen in
our International Union make it
impossible for the officers to be
More Than 35,000 Jobless
present
at
meeting
The
In Ag Implement Industry
this
on
Conference
same
city
and
the
same
to
be
cember
10,
the
same
Hotel,
September
accredited
13.”
will be held
and
Morrison
the
important
September
the
tel—
most
11,
to
elected
conference
one
12.
ho-
Chicago—
delegates
the
in
will
on
De-
Unemployment in the agricultural implement industry increased to more than 35,000
Currently,
some
800 delegates
in September as International Harvester laid off more than 12,000 workers in 10 plants.
have sent in credentials, indicat“The unemployment figures, however, don’t tell the whole story,’’? commented UAW ing, in the opinion of the Skilled
that
this
Vice President Pat Greathouse, director of the UAW Agricultural Implement Department. Trades Department,
year’s Skilled Trades Conference
“Employment has been steadily decreasing in this industry,’’ he explained. ‘‘In June of will be the largest yet held.
this year, according to the U.
culture; Harry
Dreany,
chief,
S. Department of Labor, the the Task Force which includes
average number of production mayors and representatives of Industrial Procurement Division; and C, W. Yungblut, asfarm organizations as well as the
workers in the industry to- UAW, “is that our Committee
sistant to Jameson,
taled 107,600.
gained
recognition
as a factor
Senator Alexander Wiley, WisFor years, the Republicans
consin
Republican,
who
assisted
which
can
contribute
something
DOWN ONE-THIRD
goes, So Goes the Nation.”’
in arranging appointments for the
Membership of Local 148, Douglas Aircraft,
Long
Beach,
Caliwith
has
months
of
the
year.
Peak
em-
to the solution of the extremely
critical unemployment problem in
this industry.”
ployment in June, 1951, was 160,- | SOUGHT SOLUTIONS
800. The June average is 33.1 per
The Task Force met
cent
below
the
peak
five
years
ago.”
The Agricultural Implement
Task Force Committee on un-
employment, after carrying the
story of unemployment
in the
industry to Washington late in
August, had to cancel a meet-
| Officials of the
joperation
| fice
the
with
the
tional Election
in Defroit.
“Perhaps
thing
mittee
UAW’s
most
accomplished
in
Greathouse,
by
Washington,”’
who
UNITED
is
foréign
discussed
son,
Na-
the
Mobilization,
of
aid
with
ICA
Of-
Defense
Flesher,
program
Guilford
deputy
congressional
and
in
Jame-
director
relations;
director,
was
Office
C.
of
for
W.
In-
dustrial Resources; C. A. Richards
Com-]|
chairman
Defense
Department
the
important]
the
Administration,
Co-
The
possibility
of utilizing
farm implement inventories in
Year Conference
the
top
International
Washington.
ing with legislators in Chicago
early last month because of a
conflict
of
with
director,
Business;
E.
Agricultural
said
of
sion,
Office
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“We learned some of the
tations
present
legislation
limi-
imposes
on these agencies in attempts to
combat
unemployment,’’
said
Greathouse, “and I think we came
away with a better idea of what
we
must
convenes
maintain
do
when
full
employment
if we
Congress
are
re-
to-restore
implement
Committee
and
in
the
industry.”
members
who
participated in the Washington
meetings included: Mayor Jack
Humble,
Racine,
Wisconsin;
facility
jet
UAW
for
Ind., as
Des Moines, Iowa; Mayor
Woods,
Canton,
Illinois;
Manager
Cornelius
of
UAW
officials,
besides
won
Another
Beach
ploy
5,000.
Income
Debt Hits New
The
Federal
recent
farm
Reserve
report,
income
stated
in 1955
had
more than $800 million,
5 per cent, while farm
climbed
to
| 00,000,000,
a
new
System,
high
that
North
in
net
or about
debt had
$18,-
agreement
per-
employment
full seniority
ers
laid
division.
The
off
from
UAW
gaining
Wright
opportunities
with
protection for workthe
also
rights
unit at
at
the
Long
has
Beach
won
bar-
the
CurtissEdwards Air
Force Base in Palmdale, California. Forty workers voted for the
UAW and seven for no union in
an election.
of
workers
field
base.
and
The
unit is composed
presently
service
assigned
work
at
to
the
Goes
used the slogan, ‘‘As Maine
C.
Oliver,
state chair-
apparently
has
District race, but the vote was
Federal
to
eliminate
health
insurance.
its
advertising
firm
is accused
“the
cies, health
has
American
of
Ac-
of
deception
accident
of
misrep-
duration
of
requirements
poli-
of pros-
policyholders
and the
of illnesses covered.”
The Company
is one of 41 insurance firms against whom com-
were
issued
Three
WASHINGTON,
declined
of
Ads
Company
Worth
High
em-
Faster Than Income
Insurance
the
resenting
Down;
will
transfer to Long Beach with seniority and will markedly increase
James
eildent
plaints
Farm
Democrat,
examiner
The
Re-
The
Long
mits 375 employes from the Santa
Monica
Division
of Douglas
to
won the 2nd District seat.
Commission
and
and
the
eventually
Coffin, the Democratic
Trade
Mose
Kucela,
representing
gion 3 Director Ray Berndt.
Kitzman,
in
under
crats,
from
Great-
facility
area
DC-8
planes
jurisdiction.
new
of
A Republican won the state’s only other congressional
district, the ‘‘safe’’ rural third, but his plurality was lower.
The Republican campaign stressed that a vote for the
Democrats was ‘‘a vote against Ike.’’ Nevertheless, many
independents and Republicans voted for Muskie, who got
180,000 votes in a state with only 99,000 enrolled Demo-
Chicago
Minnesota,
production
so close it will have to be decided by a recount.
pective
number
Harvey
M.
the 1st Congressional
house, included: Region 4 Director Robert Johnston, Region
10
Director
is Frank
man, who
directed
Rock
Island,
Illinois; Ralph
Bradley,
president,
Mlinois
Farmers’ Union; and Jerry Sonosky, representing Governor
Freeman
He
WASHINGTON—A
Bordine, Jr.,
Orville
Maine.
Insurance
Paul
City
bringing a new
commercial
The
agreement
This year, the GOP is mighty sorry it ever heard of
that saying, because Maine is going Democratic. The state’s
young Democratic Governor, Edmund S. Muskie, won a
second term in Maine's ‘‘earlybird’’ election last month.
He thus becomes the second Democratic Governor to be
re-elected to office in Maine in a presidential year since the
Civil War.
Moreover, Muskie won with the biggest vote ever given
a Maine Governor of either party. In 1954, his victory margin was only about 20,000,
But that’s not all, For the first time since the New Deal
year of 1934, a Democrat was elected to Congress from
FTC Slaps
Mayor
Mike
Micich,
Charles
City, Iowa;
Mayor
Ray
Mills,
a
Guild, AFL-CIO
and discussed
discussed the prospects of channeling defense work into distress
Vice Presidents
Members:
needs
lunched
partment staff members met
Committee
at the Pentagon
affiliated
to mem-
Richard.
Democrat,
secretary of defense; R. C. Lanphier, Jr., deputy assistant secretary of defense for supply and
logistics, and other Defense De-
WALTER P. REUTHER
EMIL MAZEY
President
Secretary-Treasurer
RICHARD GOSSER, NORMAN MATTHEWS,
LEONARD WOODCOCK, PAT GREATHOUSE
Jim
and
Flemming, director, Office of Defense Mobilization, at the Capitol.
Reuben
B. Robertson,
acting
24, 1912, as a monthly.
FRANK WINN, Editor
CHARLES BAKER, Managing Editor
PHOTOS—James Yardley
STAFF—Russell
Smith, Jerry Dale, Robert Treuer,
Illinois
with the Committee
Indiana
International Executive Board Members
CHARLES BALLARD
HARVEY KITZMAN
RAY BERNDT
RUSSELL LETNER
GEORGE BURT
WILLIAM McAULAY
CHARLES BIOLETTI
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ROBERT CARTER
GEORGE MERRELLI
ED COTE
KEN MORRIS
MARTIN GERBER
PATRICK O'MALLEY
ROBERT W. JOHNSTON
KENNETH W. ROBINSON
CHARLES H. KERRIGAN
RAY ROSS
NORMAN B,. SEATON
Washington,
Frank McCulloch, administrative
assistant to Senator Paul Doug-
Automobile,
United
Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America,
with the AFL-CIO. Published monthly. Yearly subscription
bers, 60 cents;
in
agricultural
Indianapolis
Union,
Committee
an
the Company
As Maine
“This compares with an average of 116,200 during the first five
ratified
Washington
ing
that
Star
last
year.
Cents
D.
columnist,
President
commented,
‘‘Shows
the
they'll
in
labor,
support
ion leaders will
three cents,”
the
Republicans
be
not-
Eisenhower
had dedicated'a Labor Day
faith
C.—A
get
stamp,
GOP
figure
from
worth
all
un-
of
During
the past three years,
corporate profits have advanced
at an average rate of 29 per cent
faster than the personal income
of
the
American
people
as
whole,
YEAH
HE FORGOT
¢
TO REGISTER!)
a
October,
UNITED
1956
Page 5
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
r
e
h
t
u
e
R
s
y
a
S
,
e
t
a
L
o
Too Little, To
t
i
o
r
t
e
D
in
s
e
v
o
M
.
t
p
Of Defense De
re
Why
Couldn’t Help Have Come in Time?
tary
to bring his departmental circus into Detroit to convince voters
that the GOP is willing to do something about unemployment.
Charlie, as ever, responsive to the needs of his party, sent
Defense Department procureReuther declared that the UAW
ment officials to survey Michof course, welcome any
“would,
to
plants
ing
igan manufactur
necessary defense work that can
see if defense contracts can be
same
the
At
ment.
up
set
partment
Memorial
Veterans
Detroit's
who for weeks and months have
had to live on inadequate unem-
in
exhibit
an
Building to show small manufacturers what items needed by the
Armed Forces they could bid on.
work,
two
273,000
figures:
of
increase
an
months,
contracts
President
UAW
commenting
ther,
“exhibit”
Department's
a
is
ployment.
move
political
to
the
in
ployed,
plus
time
“The
on
6,
on
eye
Republicans
dollar
presumably with
Reuther
“When
continued.
the
November
persons
to
day
the
displayed,”
take
have
a
sin-
of
None
for more
received
in
contracts,
defense
Job Clin-
Defense
reported
than
more
this
carried
8,000
registered
had
on
that
al-
invita-
a
concrete action to relieve unemployment, they fail to do so.
the GOP-contimes
“Three
trolled state legislature has re-
in
A
the
first
told
one
of the three-day affair, and
virtually
was
hall
exhibit
empty.
some
fused to act on improvements
compensation,
unemployment
in
tions had been sent out to companies in the state, fewer than 150
plants,
Republicans
opportunity
though
now
Ike-Nixon but-
prominently
all
re-
newspaper
ic Here.”
system.
are
Iron
necessarily
have
out.
pointed
headline:
procurement
the
through
manufacturing
state’s
Jobless Denied $8 Million
By Michigan Supreme Court
year,
paper
the
real
a
not
The
enterprise
an
“With
tons
does
Attend
free
sur-
Marquette,
and
“Few
defense
sending
agents to swarm
anies did not becomp
hed
blis
esta
old
ing
idat
liqu
and
g
gin
mer
rd
towa
d
tren
The
Mennen Wilgin in 1956. This picture, taken in 1954, shows Michigan’s Goyernor G.
who lost their jobs
liams addressing a protest rally of members of UAW Local 2,
GOP is in
the
ger
lon
The
ess.
busin
of
out
went
ion
orat
Corp
Body
ay
Murr
the
when
power, the more numerous business failures become.
such
to suffer’ as one of the ‘joys’
the
of
cited
LITTLE SUCCESS
The Defense Department’s exhibit and clinic appeared to be
meeting with little success. One
‘the
jocularly
extol
that
admitted
also
Detroit
to
De-
the
zero.”
to
Michigan
then,
is actually
fication
he
K:
visit
brief
mercifully
Pyle's
right
unem-
labor areas as. Escanaba,
gle
Presi-
Howard
Assistant
dential
score
than
was
before
ago—even
months
considerable
work.
sult in defense
these areas, so classified
votes
action
for
reclas-
as
Peninsula,
Upper
Michigan’s
further examples that such classi-
Reuther
elections,”
in the coming
charged.
re-
was
has
Mountain
pro-
of
not
hope,
but of gathering
viding jobs,
q
as
a false appearance of Republican
unemfor Michigan’s
concern
fi
that
production,”
area
Since
Reuther
“clin-
put
jobs;
areas
even this contract actually was
not let for the specific purpose
of relieving unemployment. So
the
to
try
of
that
Department
the
of
partment
calculated
cynically
area
an
Defense
and
MOVE
CYNICAL
“This
co
the
the effort
late.
characterized
little and too
ic,’
too
A
on
in
out
only $78,000 was let as a
of preferential status as
sified,
result
P. Reu-
Walter
already
troit since
on
workers
by go-
cently reported that out of the
defense contracts placed in De-
tion and many other firms. They
include the thoudo, however,
sands of Packard
“indefinite” layoff.
more
Defense
“The
Corpora-
Body
said.
he
in the footsteps of the
Murray
welfare
action was needed to let contracts
and to accelerate schedules of
ness under the Eisenhower Administration “prosperity” regime,
defunct
bring
not
would
Corporation, the latest firm to
go out of the automotive busi-
following
reclassification
mere
clude the 3,000 out-of-work UAW
members at the Detroit Mack
Avenue plant of Motor Products
roit company joins the
Det
er
oth
n
—A
LK
WA
DE
SI
TY
MP
NT,
PLA
EMPTY
or Products Corporation anMot
the
as
,
ies
tor
fac
ant
vac
of
n
tio
lec
col
y
stl
city’s gho
3,000 UAW members lost their
e
Som
.
sion
divi
e
tiv
omo
aut
its
of
ion
idat
liqu
s
nce
nou
an prosperity.”
lic
pub
“Re
of
ce
den
evi
r
the
fur
th,
mon
last
ed
jobs when the plant clos
pointed
UAW
the
May,
in-
not
do
layoffs
new
These
future
bene-
CONTRACTS NEEDED
“When Detroit and Flint were
reclassified as distress areas in
in
43,000
their
ing into debt.
of
out
on
to live
mortgage
and
unemploy-
statewide
latest
ment
had
announced
Commission (MESC)
the
fits, have
benefits,
those
exhausted
having
or
Security
Employment
Michigan
compensation
the
time,
same
the
about
At
ployment
IN MICHIGAN
OUT
273,100
to workers
it will be cold comfort
De-
the
time,
at this Jate date
jobs. But
provide
unemploy-
the area’s
let to relieve
COM
government,
to the
gift
Motors’
General
Wilson,
Charlie
Secre-
called on Defense
Party last month
The Republican
small
manufacturer
and
the exhibit
that
reporter
clinic did not prove helpful to
him.
“This is GM stuff,” he declared.
“By
the
time
these items,
ness.”
I re-tooled
I'd
be
out
to make
of
busi-~
LANSING, Michigan—Approximately 57,000 jobless Mich-
igan workers were denied about $8 million in unemployment
compensation benefits by a ruling handed down last month
by the state’s GOP-doniinated Supreme Court.
The decision, which reversed an earlier ruling by a lower
—
aa
‘|court, once again dramatizes? weeks
alpayments,
of benefit
|the importance of electing though the lower court had held
judges who are aware of the she was. Supreme Court Justices
Talbot Smith and Eugene Black,
problems of working people.
| by
Mrs.
UAW
of
was
case
test
The
Mary
E, Melia,
Side
West
brought
a member
Local
at the Univer-
laid off as a grinder
payme
benefit
THE SIGNS carried by
UAW Local 190 members
in Detroit’s Labor Day parade were a grim reminder of what GOP “prosper-
ity” has meant to too many
workers, The main Packard plant apparently has
been closed permanently.
up
May,
time
that
to
ks,
¥
20
unemployment
could last for
Hlowever,
in
legisla-
Michigan
1954, the
in
plant
1953.
| sat Products Company
Dearborn in September,
At
174,
to a
duration
inereased
ture
26 weeks maximum, When Mrs.
Melia
20
received
payments
applied
weeks
of
for
the
Supreme
last
May,
benefits
the amended
The
in
the
law,
of
1954,
additional
provided
Court
ruled
her
she
six
by
she
was not entitled to the additional
both appointed by Goy. G. Mennen
dissented
vigorously
Williams,
| from
George
the
Edwards,
appointee,
did
(Justice
decision.
Court
Williams
a
also
In
part
take
not
the decision since it was heard
the
to
named
was
he
before
Court.)
The
Smith
majority decision, Justice
in his dissent,
declared
deprives
financial
the
the
those
help
amendment,
been
longest
of
most in need
authorized
since
out
of
they
work
their benefits exhausted,
by
had
and
get
will
workers
Michigan
chance to show their support
Justice
ber
6,
Smith's
He
views
is running
on the non-partisan
on
4
of
Novem-
for election
ballot,
2a
IS TIME RUNNING OUT ON PACKARD?—Thoudefisands of Packard workers have been laid off “in
nitely” by the new Curtiss-Wright managers, and
t
nobody knows for sure whether the now empty Detroi
plant will reopen. Note that in this casual photo, all
the cars shown going under the Packard “are ” are
General Motors products.
4 Y
ne
UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKER”
nt tu
Republican
Platform
“In
so far as
balanced budget, we pledge to work for
eS.
INCOME
;
DEPENDENTS
AGAINST
millions
of
families
with
incomes
tax saving:
: words," Reuther said, “the Big
"In other
WIPE an
OUT DIVIDENDmcalaee
TAX CUT
Business boys didn't have to wait. They got
their tax cut while the country was going
deepest in debf. You have to wait for yours
until there's a balanced budget."
1
Eisenhower
and
tional Debt has increased
$12 billion.)
Nixon, the Na-
by more
than
The chart shows how Congressmen from the parties voted when the chance came to give you a tax
cut. When 193 Democrats and 10 Republicans voted
to raise the personal income tax exemption by a
hundred
crats
seven
=
dollars,
voted
votes,
201
Republicans
against
it. The
and
measure
nine
lost
Demo-
by
just
Another bill which would have brought you a $20
cut in income taxes for each dependent passed the
House by just five votes, all but a tiny drop of
them Democratic. The GOP killed the bill in the
S
Senate.
Fal
_
Billions for Corporations
|
The wealthiest corporations would get even wealthier—at your expense.
"Watch for that one if the Republicans win this
year,” Reuther warned Conference delegates.
Unless the trend is reversed, more and more industries will fall under the control of fewer and
The result will be less competi-
tion, less of a break for the consumer.
To many, who claim to support "free enterprise,”
the term means leaving them free to squeeze out
small manufacturers with the resulting decline in jobs.
More key issues in the 1956 campaign
will be taken
up in the forthcoming
Election Edition of the UNITED AUTOMOBILE
WORKER.
Let the Facts Decide
mune
In 1952, after first promising to support 90 per
parity to the nation’s farmers,
“100 per cent of parity.”
1952
cei fe
Eisenhower came ouljgro
3|
Your food dollar today doesn't buy any f
than it did in 1952, yet farm income is down 28 BS¢
cent.
Big food processors have pocketed the differenieyat
While the farmer took a cut of more than a fo rfl
his pay, the big food processors have increased Hr
profits by 50 per cent.
7 |
When the time came to make good on Eisenhower's
paign promise, here's how the parties voted on the issue:
@)®
i)
90 per cent Parity Issue
PROFITS AFTER TAXES
OF #100,000,00022 CORPORATIONS 1956
IT quarter
ANNUALRATE
SENATI 4:
HOUSE
DEMOCRATS . . . .
REPUBLICANS .
L. Wi
FOR AGAINST
4
211
275167
FOR AGAI|A
5
44
3 fe
6
Eisenhower vetoed this measure.
Instead of getting what they were promised, farmer er
Agricultural Secretary Benson and “flexible supports. Sowa .
Business food companies "‘flex" their muscles and squeeze prea!
/
farmer who, too often, finds he has no support,
INCREASE
10.0
BILLION
63%
“Highest of all, perbaps, will be the priority of
first-class education
to meet the demands
ar
BILLION
ASX
of our swih
growing school age population,” Eisenhower's 1956 acct
ance speech,
|
Instead of calling for Federal Aid to Education)o|':
Truman did, Eisenhower, when
a White House Conference.
tax.
Know the Issues
|The Farmers’ Cut in Pay
Eisenhower opposed both measures.
"We believe in good business for all business, small,
medium and large,’ GOP 1956 Platform Promise.
Despite rosy statements about “'general prosperity" only Big Business has made big progress undér
the Eisenhower-Nixon Administration.
,
Profits after taxes for the nation's biggest corporations have shot up 63 per cent since Eisenhower
took office,
f
Profits of the nation's smallest corporations have
been cut in half. Business failures have increased 46
per cent over the 1952 rate; outright bankruptcies
are up 61 per cent.
Yet Cola G. Parker, president of the National
Association of Manufacturers, recently called for a
17 per cent reduction in Corporation Profits Taxes
. «with the loss of income being made up by a sales
fewer corporations.
oe Lie: WES
under
$5,000 a year got only nine per cent of the
(Under
REP
Pei Wa
out to
gl
Billions went to corporations and upper-income
families. They got 91 per cent of the tax relief. The
Raise Exemrtion By $100
i
pointed
UAW Election Year Conference delegates that in
1953, when the budget was not balanced, the GOPcontrolled Congress cut taxes.
TAX CUT- HOUSE
$20 Cur For All
aALL
states:
Reuther
oe
_
1956
President Walter
a
&
The
UAW
ee a a
Rea
Candidates will—and should—discuss dozens of important issues in the next few weeks.
Here are just some of the issues which UAW President Walter P. Reuther presented in
detail at the Special Election Year Conference.
One central theme runs through all the issues, however. The Republican Party and the
Eisenhower "team" are chiefly interested in Big Business. They advance Big Business interests
:
at the expense of the rest of the country.
Their practical performance does not square with their campaign promises. Their claims :
about what they have done in office do not coincide with the facts.
Reuther summed it up: "The Madison Avenue hucksters are giving you the fancy
slogans. Ike's in the parlor giving you the pious platitudes. But the Big Business boys
are in the back room giving you the business.”
Here are the highlights of some of the issues presented at the UAW's precedent-setting
Conference. Below are some reasons why 97 per cent of the rank-and-file delegates voted
to endorse Democrats Stevenson and Kefauver.
_|
Taxes?
Your
About
"What
t
Ly
Tn ene
The GOP Record:
PROFITS AFTER TAXES
SMALL BUSINESS
UNDER
3| MILLION
Ptea
Ts) |
reat)
Peel]
he took office, cal
When the Conference, despite Republican staih'>
managing, called for Federal Aid to Education, {|.\\”
te
senhower virtually ignored the recommendation.
oot
-_——
to TM ated
RBEESGDS
MN
VOUS S
VOTE
:
T
H
E
VOUR
FA
FULL and
Senate Vote On Proposat
To Grant Sociat Security
Disasrep Workers At Ace 50
STEADY
We have kept our promise to the American people to
er and5,
sing pow
\\uin the sound dollar to: protect pur
!
2 cha
the
we
4O4S5OP Platform Claim.
=, de Great Eisenhower Crusade
ve
. B.
6
RPUBLICAN
might and was
it a chance in
the people was
the dollar and
dele-
the
reminded
Reuther
President
SECURITY
never did get off
Hriucound on that one.
joathen it was making noises like it
& oF to persuade the voters to give
‘te one of the promises held out to
athe Republicans would stabilize
fsnflation,
omnes,
insurance,”
and
pensions
savings,
EVES
FOR
“EQUAL
of
P
E
O
P
L
E
S
AMILY'S
FD
En ployment
value
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
1956
October,
st
a
82 San Francisco in August, several of the TY peraf airs, in tune with their “peace and prosperity"
44, bragged around how the Republicans had
Heded in keeping this promise.
cit} F the same time in Washington, the Bureau of
Fe" 4+ Statistics was readying its monthly report on
“'ezost of living, one showing that the BLS Index had
to a new all-time high for the second consecu-
“Ed
‘iapinenth.
0“ "That
increase was the biggest single in“émase in any quarter so far, so big it brought
. W4AW members increases of four cents an hour,”
34 Ed Reuther.
4g
Mba
FThe
Index
stood
the
lower
had zoomed
Index
The
¢
114.1
at
Eisenhower
when
nyzreases in the cost of living strike at every family, but they
stiose
in
hardest.
he's
says
Eisenhower
1), housing, security, recreation...
ge dismal failure of the Eisenhower Administration to hold
ine on prices robs them—and millions of others on fixed
—ies—of
SENATE
FILIBUSTER-RULE
Senior Citizens can cope with “problems of
“ bemrned with how
ssi
brackets
P. Reuther lays out the facts, comparing campaign promises with actual perform-
GOP Ignores Civil Rights
office.
took
Walter
all hope
of dealing with those problems.
Ee
hi 2
se
ance on-major issues, for the delegates to the UAW National Delegate Conference. The delegates from UAW
local unions from coast to coast listened, discussed and then voted overwhelmingly to endorse Democrats Adlai
Stevenson for president and Estes Kefauver for vice president.
117.0, an all-time
to
PRESIDENT
UAW
1» Republicans deliberately delayed the announcement of
swaicord Index until the last speaker had finished in San Fran© The information was released two days later than orig-
dag scheduled.
=
"In
area
the
exclusive
of
jurisdiction,
federal
more
AGAINST
FOR
progress has been made in (the civil rights) field under
the present Republican Administration than in an) similar
period in the last 80 years,’—1956 Republican Platform.
22
Not even promises—just claims.
That's all Eisenhower and the Republicans offer in
the field of civil rights. “And the claims are discredited
by
the
record,"
President
commented
Reuther.
When mobs tried to block Negro children from
enrolling in schools ia Tennessee and Texas, Eisenhower was ‘neutral.’
"It's interesting to note, too,"’ said Reuther,
Sy »'
4
"that Governor Clement of Tennessee, who sup-
iE
ports Stevenson, used troops to implement the
Supreme Court decision in Tennessee, but Gov-
Lots of crops—unsold machines
ernor
Shivers,
a
friend
of
Eisenhower,
used
troops to block implementation in Texas.”
Eisenhower supported the “watering down" of the
GOP platform pledge on civil rights in 1956. Eisenhower has not taken a single step to support progress on civil rights. The Republicans have not pioneered a single major break-through in the civil rights
field. They have merely picked up where the Democrats have done the pioneering.
Rule
When the Tidelands Oil Bill—to divert offshore oil revenue
tie schools—came up for a yote, Eisenhower lined up with
hil interests to help kill it.
When the Aid to Education Bill came up this year, Eisen-
lr did not attempt fo rally Republicans behind it.
vteventy-three
voted
cynically
Republicans
for
the
Powell
isindment to line up Dixiecrat votes against the bill. Then they
lied over to vote against the bill itself.
All but
Congressmen
six Democratic
for
in 36 states voted
ill, although 99 Democratic Congressmen from 12 Southern
in a block against it.
iis voted
its voted for the bill,
itepublican Congressmen
Even so, a majority of Dem-
voted against the bill, 119 to 75.
" : They Gave Away Billions
WAI "Policies of sound conservalion and wise development
nll have been pursued by the Eisenbower Administration,”
Ki #6 GOP Platform Claim.
iuo®'Sound
li
i
o
conservation"
has meant giving away—
which
the rock on which
makes
possible
the
is
all civil rights legislation flounders
in the Senate. When the Republicans had a chance
to kill Rule 22, they voted overwhelmingly in favor
of the filibuster (41 for, 5 against).
"We urge that action be taken at the beginning
of the 85th Congress to improve Congressional procedures so that majority rule prevails and decisions
can be made after reasonable debate without being
blocked by a minority in either House,’ the Democratic Party Platform for 1956 pledges.
The Republican pledge: No mention.
(to)
«++
laws
t
Timber
Grazing
resources
lands
wararesources
conceived
means—
scandal—an
attempted
right in the White
House
steal
of
TVA
2
!
Giving away public power sites such as Hells Canyon to
pyiliprivate utilities.
2 ]
Giving a monopoly on atomic power development to prlot yate utilities . . . after billions in public money financed the
Be research to make atomic power possible.
Reuther
told
Conference
‘illistration you haye to
le. That Republican in
N@lars and was arrested,
6 | a pickpocket by their
delegates,
''In this Ad-
steal billions to be respecIllinois who stole a million
was just a piker, He was
standards,"
protection
the
extend
to as many
. .’—1956
more
of
workers
Republican
federal
the
as is possible
minimum
« nd prac-
Platform.
“The little men of big business who run the Eisenhower Administration may not be necessarily evil or
they may not mean to do the wrong things,’ commented President Reuther.
"They just don't understand. They've never been
hungry.”
When Republicans talk of the minimum wage they
demonstrate that they don't understand the necessity
of putting “high velocity'’ purchasing power in the
hands of the people at the foot of the economic ladder," he said.
The UAW battled for an increase in the minimum
wage to $1.25. The Eisenhower Administration, and
Eisenhower himself, insisted that it should be raised
to only 90 cents. They battled any increase above
that. Democrats in both the House and the Senate
outvoted them and raised it to a dollar.
Here's how the vote went:
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
The GOP Platform for 1956 promises
to extend minimum wage protection.
On
the
SENATE
FOR AGAINST
15
5]
13
2
HOUSE
FOR AGAINST
56
255
41
46
Billions of public assets in Tidelands Oil
HIVE’ Wise development’
The Dixon-Yates
iT
Jo
22,
filibuster,
|
Ike Fails on Minimum Wage
President
record:
Eisenhower
to “continue
refused
to
to fight”
back
up
Labor Secretary Mitchell on his request to Congress to extend
minimum wage coverage to retail employes. President Eisen
hower never proposed any legislation on broadened minimum
wage
coverage.
President
subject on his May
allowed
Labor
25,
Secretary
Eisenhower
failed
to
include
this
1956, list of ‘“'must'' legislation and
Mitchell
to postpone
a Senate
hearing
which made minimum wage broadening Impossible this years
“Continue” what "fight?
Ee
oe Nae
a
October,
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
1956
First in Nation
National Foundry Confab
STREAMLINED
SUBCOUNCILS
In a move designed to bolster
and
attendance
of
role
gates
overwhelmingly
adopted
governing
by-laws
the
in
changes
dele-
the
subcouncils,
the
the
strengthen
subcouncils. The new set-up now
provides for five subcouncils as
follows:
Subcouncil
1B,
1C
1—Regions
and
1D
(all
1,
of
UAW
ther,
in
President Walter P. Reuspeech,
exposed
the UAW
called for
Foundry
a broad
key
a
up
take
to
program
help
and
employment
the
slack in
farm-
the
ers who are in serious trouble as
a result of their continued drop
in income.
1A,
Michi-
gan).
Adlai and Estes Get Support
At UAW Delegate Conference
(Continued
uals,
of
to
North
American
shooting
the
strike,
at
pick-
of UAW
Perfect Circle plant,
owned by a man then in
the Eisenhower
against
Mrs.
and
on
out
the
largely
vote
Avia-
were
workers
their
while
con-
Company
Kohler
the
and
ets
defense
letting
tracts
tion
page
the
er party
3)
from
mishandling
Culp
the
of
that
said
Reuther
to
Aid
Oveta
vaccine.
judged
as
issues,
cabinet;
by
the GOP
Education;
Hobby’s
polio
Salk
21
on
key
as Tidelands
Oil
and
the
Natural Gas bill, on which some
Democrats
we'll
tell
in
Congress are wrong,
them,
but
when
right, we'll support them.”
Speaking
of the
civil
they’re
rights
is-
sue, Reuther observed that “‘neith-
was
it
Convention
the
Urging
the
the
program
giveaway
I want
due
to
record,”
want
a
or-
And not
the GOP
this
on
auditorium
big
“I
GOP
wrong
delegates
the
jammed
in
favored
out
spoke
issue.
was
the
dered a weaker plank.
one single delegate at
Convention
in the
Eisenhower
plank;
stronger
in
in
Stevenson
direction.
of
to
who
to
Reuther
start
my
a
own.
to give Ike a long overin Gettysburg.
rest
Charlie
give
General Motors.
Dick
Tricky
yoted wrong.
“The Democrats at their worst
are still better than the Republicans,” he declared. “When the
Democrats
direction;
right
the
Convention
conclided:
Congress
in
Democrats
the
voted right by a margin of five
such
even
including
one,
to
issues
Democratic
movement
the
but
“study
UAW,
the
rightly,
Wilson
I'd like
back
to
I'd like to give
back
Nixon
to
Checkers and the government
back to the people.”
After
concluding
his
remarks,
Reuther opened the floor for discussion and urged especially those
who
might
disagree
tion of what
the mike.
he had
with
any
Sa
3
at its 11th Annual
Conference held last month in Detroit. Shown here (left to right) are Council Secretary-Treasurer Jimmy Arena and President Jimmy Ryan, UAW Vice President
Pat Greathouse, director of the Union’s Foundry Department; Assistant Foundry
Director Paul Russo and Council Vice President Jimmy Alexander. The Foundry
Council was the first delegate
Kefauver ticket.
bers of the UAW, died unexpectedly this past month. He
was an administrative assistant to UAW Secretary-Treasurer
Emil Mazey.
The UAW Executive Board adopted the following resolution in Stromar’s honor:
“Every member of the International Executive Board
is shocked and deeply grieved
at the unexpected and untime-
por-
said to take
ciate.
“Although
$108,000
and
10
has
a
our
hall,
one
modern
most
of
the
local
buildings in the South,
William J. Porter, Jr.,
building
of
veteran,
a UAW
the
in
With
Union.
coura-
a few
originally Company-fosinto
union
independent
of an
tered
the then
Chrysler
“These
union
President
reports.
Local 10 represents workers at
the General Motors plant in Doraville. It currently has 2,500 mem-
bers.
the
historic
were
in
of that
strike
the
sit-
the
of
one
sitdown
year.
largest
in early
strikers
down
new
fledging UAW
was
and
1937,
a
— UAW
Georgi
a
pioneer
of
geous and bold pioneers like
himself, he led his fellow Chrysler Highland Park workers out
Building
dedicated
was
age, Tony
years
42
only
asso-
and
friend
our
of
death
ly
Local 10 Dedicates
Local
days
when
it
took
courage
to acknowledge
even membership in the UAW. In
recognition of his leadership qualities, his Local Union
to many
important
elected him
local union
offices, including the highest they
could offer him—the presidency.
“As loyal and as courageous in
the defense of his country as of
his Union, his period of service
with the International
Union,
which
began
in
1941,
was
inter-
rupted for nearly four years when
he served from 1942 to 1946 with
the Armed Forces in the South
Pacific. He was a combat soldier
and
was
the time
wounded
in
earned
“He
serve
returned
and
gion
1 and
Mazey.
trusted
than
DELEGATES to the Republican Convention in San Francis co kept track of
fluctuations in the stock market through this ticker installed in the Fairmont Hotel, Convention Headquarters. Despite the flowery speeches, many delegates kept
closer track on how their stocks were doing than they did on unemployment sta-
tistics. In a way the stock market
of convention affairs,
ticker symbolized the Big Business domination
Be
%
first
director
devo-
as
of
as-
Re-
and
Secretary-Treasurer
Tony
losing
Stromar
a
competent
UAW
SES
with
life to
then as administrative
“Losing
more
again
regional
to
after
stripes.
distinction,
assistant
By
II, he had
to civilian
his Union
tion
Emil
War
sergeant’s
sistant
action.
he was discharged,
the end of World
Se
and
and most-liked mem-
one of the best-known
Stromar,
Tony
dio—all four networks.
29:
October
Monday,
8:30-9:00 p. m. ABC television and radio.
Saturday, November 3:
11:00-11-30 p. m. Television
—all three networks. Radio
—all four networks.
Monday, November 5: 12
midnight-12:15 a. m. CBS
television and radio.
(All times shown are
Eastern Standard Time).
DORAVILLE,
Stevenson
the
Tony Stromar Passes Away;
Was Young UAW Pioneer
The following is a list of
major addresses scheduled
for Adlai Stevenson:
28:
September
Friday,
7:30-8:00 p. m. CBS television and radio.
October 11:
Thursday,
9:00-9:30 p. m. NBC television and radio.
23:
October
Tuesday,
$108,000
to endorse
UAW
in the
body
JIMMY’S”
“THREE
RE-ELECTED
COUNCIL
FOUNDRY
9:00-9:30 p. m. Television
—all three networks. Ra-
forth-
that question
met
a
(F
See, Hear Adlai
the shameful record of the Republican Administration.
Vice President Pat Greathouse,
director of
Department,
See
The 11th Annual International Foundry Conference of the
UAW, with some 250 delegates, alternates and fraternal delegates participating, grabbed the distinction of being the first
trade union delegate body in the U. S. to endorse the national
Democratic ticket of Stevenson and Kefauver.
ee
..
SS
+ 2 -..
uNe
29
Representing some DSI
Subcouncil 2— Regions 3, 4
W
UA
er
und
s
ker
foundry wor
and 10.
contracts, the Foundry Con
Subcouncil 83—Regions 2, 2A,
2B, 8, 9 and 9A.
ference not only endorsed
Subcouncil 4—Region 7 (CanStevenson-Kefauver but urged
ada).
ive
cut
Exe
al
the ‘Internation
Subcouncil 5—Regions 5, 6.
Board of the UAW to endorse
Subcouncil meetings, in a move
these outstanding candidates to reduce costs to local unions,
and to actively work in the have been reduced to two per
councils of the AFL-CIO to year—each January and May.
persuade the AFL-CIO to en- Election of subcouncil officers,
of this year
dorse and actively support with the exception
when they will be held next Janet
ver
tick
fau
-Ke
son
ven
Ste
the
uary, will take place at the Anthis fall.”’
nual Conference in September.
Se
N
te
Estes
Adlai and
Endorses
is
devoted,
associ-
TONY
ate. The
STROMAR
UAW
has
lost a loyal
and faithful servant, but to us,
and to the many throughout
the Union who knew him and
loved him as we did, it is like
losing a
family.
member
of
our
own
“Our heartfelt sympathies go
to his wife, Alice, and to all his
family.
of
We
their
hope
crushing
will support
that
our
burden
them
of
at a time
they most need support.
“And we want Tony’s
tle girls to know,
sharing
now
and
grief
when
four
lit-
as they
grow into greater understanding
that their father
and maturity,
was a good
man
who
inspired
confidence and happiness and affection among those who knew
him; that he was a man of the
greatest
and
of
integrity
purpose.
“No
dren
Wins,
a
nobility
of
of
character
principles
and
father could leave his chilfiner,
a richer,
heritage.”
293-5!
Workers in another Ford Motor Company plant have
voted overwhelmingly to join hands with the great majority of Ford workers who are represented by the UAW.
Out of 345 eligible voters in the new Ford Chicago
| Stamping Plant, located in Chicago Heights, Illinois, 293
voted UAW and five for no union in a recent NLRB election, Ken Bannon, National Ford Department director,
reports.
Jim Hamby, president of UAW Local 551, Ford Assembly, assisted Region 4 Director Robert Johnston and his
staff in the organizing drive.
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i
ff
O
I
5
Page
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
1956
October,
9
Heartbeat Away
The Story of Richard Nixon
local union were raking over
group of the brothers and sisters from a midwestern UAW
med up his views
sum
er
weld
y
burl
a
ps,”
cree
the
me
s
give
xon
“Ni
.
ntly
rece
h
lunc
at
on
A Nix
on the subject. “He scares me,”
wrong with Nixon?”
“Me, too,” a companion said thoughtfully. “But just exactly what’s so
rnment growgove
of
lems
prob
the
With
ica.
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Two years Jater he was re-elected easiing, the importance of the vice
nified campaign foot forward. So
ly beating little-known Steve Zetterberg,
far people aren't fooled.
presidency is increasing. Nix
Voorhis’ former secretary.
But just how, then, only 10 years
on has received more favorable
The oil, public utility and big business
after entering politics, did he come
groups which bankrolled both campaigns
publicity out of the office than
got a handsome return on their political
so far—so fast?
any other vice president in
Nixon’s voting record almost
investment.
get some of the answers
can
You
history.
exactly paralleled that of Congressman
at
but
on—
Nix
at
not
ing—
by look
(now senator) Everett Dirksen of Illinois
peoy
man
so
do
Why, then,
the people behind him.
and Joe Martin of Massachusetts,
the
st
ple dislike and distru
Nixon got started in 1946 because
*
*
*
*
inom
ial
ent
sid
orapre
corp
GOP vice
a group of oil, utility and
ELL pleased, Nixon’s backers
e.
erat
desp
were
ates
magn
nee?
farm
tion
Nixon looks like the allAmerican boy grown up a bit.
smile, and professionally casual radio and TV mannerisms.
No man in history, aside from
Eisenhower himself, has had
publicity
more favorable
build-up.
of the women
as one
Yet,
in the
cafeteria group said, Nixon reminds
many people of a super-smooth doorto-door salesman. ‘‘ You know,”’ she
‘“‘the
said,
that
kind
the
peddles
perit—
you
tricky can opener which works
fectly when he demonstrates
and doesn’t work at all when
byry it.’”
A
that
milling
listening
fiearing
to
a carnival
said
like
was
Nixon
pitchman—after
CAN’T FOOL "EM FOREVER
It may be that Nixon, who once
a
presses
carnival
people
barker,
with
actually
what
he
im-
really
is in spite of his unquestioned skill
at the microphone or before the TV
cameras.
It may also be that old Abe Lincoln- had somebody like Nixon in
mind
when
a
liberal
his,
he said, ‘‘You
ean’t
fool
all of the people all of the time.’’
Nixon unquestionably is fast on
his feet. He’s an extremely adroit
—if unethical—campaigner, He's
quick to sense shifts in the political wind. So far, this time, he’s
putting his most reserved and dig-
had
they
knock
to
unsuccessfully
whom
off
the
trying
been
Jerry
Voor-
press
Capitol
First of Two Parts
Donne
corps once voted “the best Congressman
the
aroused
Voorhis
West.”
the
from
wrath of the Californian GOP by consi
ently fighting for public power projects;
by opposing giving the Huge corporation
farms too big a chunk of California's
water
searce
an
Voorhis,
Coast
Clearly,
supply.
ardent
cooperatives
sponsored
aid
the West
families.
man
way”
in Congress.
veteran
Herman
and
vote
“their
a vice president
of the
would
who
Perry,
simple.
speaker
to be a good
had
Their
war
were
up
drew
they
Bank of America, telephoned Nixon asking him to seek the post. Nixon, working
in New Jersey at the time, agreed. Nixin
debater
champion
a
on,
high
both
the
so impressed
college,
and
school
screening committee that he got 88 out
of the 100 votes.
Nixon had no issues, but he did have
manager.
campaign
a@ professional
Their strategy: Nixon simply repeated over and over again that since
phone
would
and
“This
say,
hear
pick
an
is a friend
is a Communist.”
munism
breeches,
ier—or
won
by
Voorhis
unknown
of yours,
had
been
fighting
since the time Nixon
it would
more
but
be hard
successful
15,000 votes.
was
party
issues.
no
had
Nixon
campaign,
Voorhis
the
in
As
California.
in
liked
well
was
So Nixon and his cohorts added a few
new tricks to their strategy and ran their
1946 campaign all over again.
their
was
the voting
Labor
American
the
They
voted
York.
New
the two had
from
times
CAMPAIGNED
ON
Party
to hang on
admittedly
Marcantonio,
spokesman
HEALTH
Marcantonio
had
issues,
too.
many
his campaigning a
varied
on
way
same
the
voted
I
Com-
in knee
Nixon
attack
No.
The
Nixon
crowd
had
so
much
to spend, they even had Nixon
below the border in Mexico.
eral
death
to go on
ex-
Vainly
voted
she
with
shall
pointed
out
money
against
aid
Marcantonio
Plan;
that
Nixon
to
Korea;
against
Marcantonio)
Not
their
their
content
on
with
Mar-
advantages
of
attending
all
million-dollar campaign
fund and
favorable newspaper treatment, the
Nixon
crowd
countered
by
of Congresswoman Douglas’ rallies. They
passed
out
their pink-tinged
campaign
literature to her crowds.
Once
again
Nixon's
Big Lie with a straight
won by a large margin.
MeCARTHY
HELPS
ability
face
to
tell
paid
the
off. He
Not just California's big money interests had a part in the campaign.
Senator
Owen Brewster of Maine, longtime friend
of the big utilities, sent $5,000 to the
money
to
Grunewald,
the
notorious
Senator
paigned
at
the
Nixon
pay-off
Joseph
of
MeCarthy’s
supporters,
concerned
over
but
las’ opposition
away.
man,
for Nixon
millionaire
“Commie,”
was
MeCarthy
in California
bidding
The
go-between,
turned
over the
forces,
his
were
Congresswoman
to the
tidelands
This
from
the
year
Committee
this
telephones,
Chotiner,
investigators
personal
ing
Republican
after
bill
as any
much
sible.
(More
cried,
more
Doug-
National
discovered he had been doHouse
business
on White
manager
is now
law.
Nixon,
is respon-
man,
other
Nixon
in
as
next
issue/
The Nixon Record
Vice President Richard Nixon’s
liberal-sounding recent campaign
promises bear no resemblance to his
actual performance in office. Here
are some samples of how he voted:
AS
A
AGAINST
CONGRESSMAN—
AGAINST
AGAINST
FOR
FOR
FOR
.
FOR
Social
extending
coverage.
the
of
abolition
Security
Poll
Tax,
federal slum clearance.
extending rent controls,
the Taft-Hartley Law.
railroads from
exempting
trust laws,
anti-
producers
from
cutting a million workers
wage-hour protection,
from
gas
exempting
regulation.
federal
excess
higher
AGAL
publie
AGAINST
St.
housing,
Lawrence
profits
Tidelands
Oil
giveaway.
FOR
cutting
$100
million
McCarran
conservation
Act,
taxes,
Seaway.
FOR
FOR
oil give-
Congressional
Nixon's
people
as the American
in 150 years.”
about
AGAINST
oil
his
bill
the
give
AS A SENATOR—
Tylng
these
seemingly
unrelated
elements together into a highly-centralized
Chotiner, the man
campaign was Murray
dropped
organizations.
many
to
provisions
cam-
perhaps
McCarthy
backers
Henry
Texas
over
Gen-
life and
office
that
ex-
accomplished by permitting the
up a list of
General to make
AGAINST
NIXON
Nixon
campaign
fund.
the
man
who
actually
giving
Attorney
the
of
greatly
it
provisions,
on freedom such
have not known
for
all of them.
the
it
as
but,
reasonable,
name. The New York Times said of this
bill, “It could be used to impose restraints
cutting military aid to Europe in 1949.
These were
key
issues in the Commie
line. Mrs. Douglas was opposed to Nixon
(and
power
enough
had
the
pro-
Front” organizations with“Communist
out giving the organizations a reasonable
chance to prove their guilt or innocence.
added
Pat McCarran
In the Senate,
billboards
the defensive.
including
This was
Attorney
Congresswoman
Douglas tried to campaign
on
the
issues.
Lacking
funds
to
match Nixon’s radio and TV time, lacking
fair press coverage, she finally felt she
had
a
substitute
to
moved
power
the
panded
1.)
heart
other
Among
little
Nixon’s
this with
(Contrast
spotlight for his role,
in the conviction of
His other significant contribution was
Karl
and
Nixon
Act.
McCarran
the
Mundt presented a bill loaded with recivil liberties,
strictions on traditional
and
he
that
out
point
Nixon
did
He
speech
that
used
He
Witch
the
helped
this
out,
worked
Hunters to drop government employes
as “security risks” without having te
show they were in any way disloyal.
printed on pinkliterature
campaign
California
blanketed
paper and
tinged
with it. Nixon campaigned on the phony
ground that Congresswoman Douglas was
sympathizer.
“practically” a Communist
Neither in speech nor in campaign litera-
ture
to the
major,
sounded
It
in
statistic
ex-
for a “loyalty
“security program”
gram” for government employes.
ISSUE
magic
Hiss.
Alger
that 354
found
the same way.
their
headlined
They
Vito
Sena-
Business
Big
gave
House.
the
address
records of Congress-
and
Douglas
woman
and
Nixon was in Congress three years before he first asked for a special order to
They
gimmick:
chief
Congressman
actly what it wanted in votes, His
yoting record, nearly zero on UAW
voting guides, was almost perfect
from the standpoint of the Chamber
of Commerce and the oil interests.
Dealer,
New
ardent
an
Douglas,
as
tor, Nixon
nominee.
the Democratic
Mrs.
OTH
Gahagan Douglas,
gresswoman Helen
campaign fight, also
White House connec-
tions to help his big business clients.
*
*
«
#*
nomina-
pressions of holy horror at mentioning
Ike’s health as a campaign considerahad
still hasn’t
Douglas
Mrs.
tion.
to find a dirt-
campaign.
every heavyweight
had been using his
Then they untion for Senator.
leashed their boy to go after Con-
office.”
tele-
voice
game.
of the
one
to get the GOP
workhorses
boy
with solicitous references to Mrs. Douglas’ “delicate health” and the “rigors of
I just wantname.
that Jerry Voorhis
can’t tell you my
ed you to know
Since
their
up
bigger
for
ready
their
that
in 1949
doublecrossed
They
Nixon
Voorhis was a liberal he must be
More impractically a Communist.
calls.
the telephone
were
portant
Citizens
now
“was
compared
The moguls formed a committee of 100
The
Voorhis.
to beat
a man
to pick
qualifications
decided
Here
BANKER
A
BY
to
even
Dealer,
to go.
had
he
New
low-income
hard-put,
STARTED
a
operator
machine
you’ve seen the show.
was
years,
toothpaste-adSe
a fine,
has
He
For
from
soll
funds,
In every instance, when Estes Kefauver had a chance to vote on the
above measures, he voted exactly
the opposite way. He was for what
Nixon was against; against what
Nixon was for,
Se ee
aS
y
Page
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
10
October,
1956
Some Democratic and Republican Platform Promises
(With the Record of Where the Parties Really Stand)
;
Platform
"We shall continue our efforts to
broaden and strengthen this (Social
Security) program.”
.
Security
_
Social
Pledges
7
struction;
Education
aid
federal
recognizes
in school
right
of
con-
all
children "without discrimination" to
opportunity.
"We
shall continue
sion and
perfection
to seek
exten-
of a sound
So-
cial Security system."
Pledges "program based on principles of need and designed to encourage increased state and local
efforts to build more schools. No
mention
of discrimination
Republican
Performance
Passed new Social Security bill this
session which lowered benefit age for
women to 62; provided permanent disability benefits at 50. Senate Democrats voted 85 per cent for bill.
Eisenhower and GOP in Congress
fought bill. Ike called lowering benefit age for women and disability benefit age "unwise and unwanted.’ Senate
Republicans voted 86 per cent against
Democrats
Eisenhower
school aid
proposed
$400
bill.
million
school aid bill this session;
heavy
ma-
ously
Education”
jority. voted for bill. Democrats. previ-
problem,
proposed
Bill;
voted
This
year
for it.
“Oil
for
killed
school
proposed
$250 million
bill.
House Republicans
aid
bill
voting
61
per
cent against.
GOP killed "Oil for
Education” bill in favor of Tidelands
Oil giveaway.
x
full educational
Democratic
Performance
Republican
Platform
Democratic
The Issue
“We favor realistic tax adjustments
giving first consideration to small,
independent business and the small
individual taxpayer . . . (increas-
Taxes
i
*
ing)
the
emption
present
personal
tax
ex-
of $600 to at least $800."
ber +. in so far as consistent with a
balanced
budget, we pledge to
work for .. « further reduction in
did not mention intaxes.’ (Pla
creasing personal income tax exemption.)
the
Democratic-controlled
body; withdrew measure when Ike protested about unbalancing the budget.
per cent
of GOP
House
and 98 per cent of GOP
members
senators vot-
ed against $20-cut-for-everybody
in ‘55.
Rule
22
I
(Key to a
Civil Rights
Legislation)
Taft
=
Hartley
a
Minimum
Wages
NO
“We urge... the ‘85th Congress to
improve Congressional procedures
so that majority rule prevails and
decisions can be made after reason-
MENTION
Republican-controlled
has
risen
83rd
Con-
gress in 1954 passed tax bill which
gave 91 per cent of tax relief to corporations and wealthy families . . .
only 9 per cent to families with incomes under $5,000. (National debt
Congress proposed a tax cut for every(97
The
plan
$12.6
office.)
billion
since
Ike
took
Democratic senators heavily favor
abolishing filibuster rule although Dixiecrats oppose any such change.
Majority of Republicans consistently
support keeping Rule 22 although some
likely would vote for its repeal.
President
Eisenhower
able debate without being blocked
by a minority in either house.”
“We
peal
unequivocally
-of
the
advocate
Taft-Hartley
re-
Act."
Pledges
return
to principles of
Wagner Act and Norris-LaGuardia
Anti-Injunction law.
“The Eisenhower Administration will
continue to fight . . - (to) revise
and improve the Taft-Hartley Act."
NO
“We feel it imperative to raise the
minimum wage to at least $1.25 an
MENTION
hour."
COST
Truman once vetoed TaftAct. Liberals stymied on ef-
Hartley
forts to get action under Eisenhower;
beat law which would have made act
tougher.
to
Passed increase to present $1 minimum
wage over Ike-GOP opposition.
Eisenhower
former
went
Labor
seek improvements
submitted
have
on his promise
Secretary
in T-H.
amendments
made
minimum
back
the act worse.
and
wage
GOP
Durkin
to
Instead, he
which
tried
would
to
hold
fo 90 cents an hour,
OF LIVING SOARS
*| UAW Calls on Adlai, Ike
To Pledge Probe of Profits
Charging
tration
the Eisenhower-Nixon
with
failure
to
meet
its
Adminis1952
plat-
form pledge to stop inflation, UAW President Walter P. Reuther has called upon
candidates of both parties to pledge a Congressional inyestigation of profits so as to
fix the responsibility for, and bring a halt
to, advancing prices.
in Detroit, chats with a fellow worker on his job.
Kiddy, his wife Marilyn and sons, Davey, 3, and Tommy, 2, were featured in a Ladies Home Journal article
last month. The article told about many of the benefits Kiddy enjoys—but failed to mention his Union
through which he won the benefits.
It's Still Not Too Late
To Give that COPE Buck
Those COPE
dollars are still flowing in—and the more
that come the greater the contribution working people can
make to the success of the political campaign.
In most local unions, the official COPE drive has
wound up with many local unions over their goals, But
there's still time to add to the amount collected.
If you haven’t contributed ... or if you hear a GOP
campaign speech and want to help bring about a change
... if you just plain want to do your part to bring about
victory . . . you can send an extra dollar to the working
people’s campaign fund.
Make out a check or money order to UAW-COPE Fund,
or just send a buck. Mail your contribution to UAW Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey’s office, Solidarity House,
8000 E. Jefferson, Detroit 14, Michigan.
Your buck can help elect a candidate who will lend his
support to labor-backed programs in the next Congress,
C-0-L SETS RECORD
President Reuther’s statement followed announcement by the Department of Labor of
a rise in its price index to a record 117 which
brought more than a million UAW members a four-cents-an-hour cost-of-living pay
increase last month.
Pointing out that the Administration's
cure for inflation has been to apply the
old guard Republican ‘‘trickle-down
theory’’ to the economy, President Reuther said, ‘‘The result has been high
prices to consumers, with big business
receiving a disproportionate share of the
national income in the form of scandalously exorbitant profits.
“The most seriously wounded victim of
the Eisenhower-Nixon economic policies has
been
the
according
farmer,’’
to
BLS,
he added.
are
15.8
‘‘Farm
per
cent
prices,
lower
than they were when the Eisenhower-Nixon
Administration took office, and have been
declining
in recent weeks.
“Nevertheless,
retail
food
iz
prices,
which
account for the major part of the recent rise
in over-all living costs are now about where
they were in 1952.
PROCESSORS BENEFIT
‘‘With consumers now paying almost exactly the same for food as in 1952, and with
farmers receiving a smaller share of the
consumer’s food dollar, the beneficiaries
have been the big food processing corporations.
“Profits after taxes of the 24 leading corporations in the food processing
industry increased by approximately 50
per cent between the first half of 1952
and the first half of 1956.’’
While retail food prices have remained approximately the same while prices paid to
farmers haye dropped to make the vast
profit increases for the processors possible,
costs of other essential items have gone up
sharply and caused a massive advance in
the over-all cost of living, Reuther said.
PROFITS SKYROCKET
Profits generally have skyrocketed at the
same time, he charged. A comparison of profits after taxes of manufacturing ecorpora-
tions with assets of more than $100 million
shows that big business profits have increased by approximately 63 per cent under
the Eisenhower-Nixon Administration, he
added.
“The
protection
against
inflation
which union members receive through
their cost-of-living escalator clauses
demonstrates the soundness of UAW
wage policy,’’ he said,
‘“‘The wage increases which have resulted, however, do not constitute an increase
in real wages. They simply enable the workers who receive them to maintain the purchasing power of their wages. And while
they are protected, as they should be, the
continuously increasing cost of living works
a hardship on other sections of the population and is a dangerous threat to the health
and stability of the economy.”’
BURDEN
In
ON JOBLESS
calling
gation,
burdens
for
Reuther
the
the
also
Congressional
cited
rise in living
the nation’s more
ployed and every
the
costs
investi-
additional
imposes
on
than three million unemperson living on a fixed
income such as Social Security or pensions.
October,
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
1956
or Publican?
Democrat
A couple of Republican senators, Barry Goldwater and
Joe McCarthy, neither of whom have been noted for being
careful about the truth, are worried about people calling
the Democratic Party by that name.
“Democrat’’ is more accurate, they insist, And the
GOP now has adopted their theory as the official party
line.
The Democrats have struck back, Some say the Republican Party should be referred to as the ‘‘Publican’’
Party since a ‘‘publican,’’ they point out, was ‘‘a collector
of taxes or tribute’ in ancient Rome. Others say that a
quick ‘‘poll’’ of voters showed “hardly anyone can think
of anything worse to call the opposition than the ‘Republican Party’.’’
In a press release, the Democrats added a special ‘‘poll’’
was being taken in the farm belt, with farmers being
asked: ‘‘What do you call the Republican Party?’’
“The poll will be resumed,’’ they added, ‘‘as soon as
the field crew of lady questioners can be replaced with
OUTDOOR LIVING in California includes this open-air registration effort by Los
Angeles UAW members. At strategically-located spots in the area, they pass out
literature and actually register voters on the spot. Pictured, l. to r., are Ruth Turner, UAW Local 887; Connie Westfall, UAW Local 148, and Fay Mosier, Local 887.
men.
Sobbs N ENDS AFL-CIO Takes Drastic Steps
s
a
L
e
O
by
Against Racketeering in Labor
INE scoreand no odd years ago, our forefathers brought
forth on this continent a new nation, to the extreme
astonishment of some of the gentry who were reluctant to put
up their Dukes ... and Earls and Lords.
At that time, one of the champions of freedom remarked:
.., .
...
,.
__
‘America does not yet knowtof—
enrich the lives of everyused
aland,
is;
what opulence
one; where freedom is made real
though the progress which she for all peoples; where peace is
has made stands unparalleled won, and held, by arbitration
in the history of other nations, rather than war.”
to
of
it is but childhood compared
what she would be capable
arriving at... .”
speaker
The
year
was
1776,
the
patters
of
that
day
were
was Thomas
which
Royalists,
actionary
and
Paine
with
is
COMPARE STATEMENTS
What is the road to this
America?
called
re-
a
merely
ruffles.
country.”
security,
longer
off new
but
are, he said, on
of another great,
We
country.
the threshold
decisive era... “the America of
the great ideals and noble vi-
“sions
future
which
of.”
be made
must
our
stuff
the
are
pure
forward,
servative moves
con-
a
however
fathers
venson’s New
ica where
the
America:
poverty
abundance
nation’s
is used
again,
atom
the
by
the
firm
knowledge
ment of and by
ple will work.
The
and
is
choice
registered?
is
and
and
for
yours.
power
the
convention,
may
affiliate
the AFL-CIO
“What's
good
for
good
the
CHARLES
for
country,’’
here
in
*
in
*
the
Motors
Defense
WILSON,
me
“We're
General
is
Secretary
1953,
peo-
contained
in
Are
you
by Senator Paul Douglas, Democrat, Illinois, and in other pub-
Senate
it
thé
reviewed
report
Subcommittee
saddle
McKAY,
in 1962,
Seeretary
ployment
as
an
Ad-
on
dogs myself.
out and hunt
fanny
his
WILSON,
in 1954,
x
*
and
dogs
assistant
in
1955,
better
“The
right
to
of
HOWARD PYLE,
try unemployment
and
in pension
welfare
cases of the Allied InWorkers and the Launcalled
Council
the
“known
to
tion
an
it
to
ternational
good
name
code
of
of
corruption
in
the
charters
general
only
“to
welfare
of
UAW
believe,
per
body.”’ Charters
locals”
or
for
use
we
as
in
the
others in
bor, even
the leadership of laa little corruption in
labor
and
Council
along with
movement
too
is
must
be
stamped
of
the
Executive
actions
at
many
last
this
and
meeting
the work already done and being
undertaken by the Ethical Practices Committee is a good start in
he added.
direction,”
right
the
the
“It
and
to give recognition to their join- | the
ing together in a subordinate or bor
affiliated
P,
Walter
“But,
“The
issu-
workers
commented
Reuther.
out.
the
promote
President
much
ance of local union charters.
The code permits the issuance
of
UAW
the
AFL-CIO and its affiliated unions
and to prevent any taint or possibiilty
organ-
union.
believe,”
public
ethical practices it presented
“to
is designed
the Council
the
of any
union
or
so than
more
ly limited—far
and
newspapers
anti-labor
writers would have the general
tion.
safeguard
national
“The extent of corruption in
the labor movement is extreme-
“sufficient reason to believe” that
the two organizations may be under corrupt influence or domina-
of
to
affiliated
ization or group which has been
the
by
expelled
or
suspended
AFL-CIO or any national or in-
the matter, that there is
PROTECTS CHARTERS
The Committee said the
by
international
pre-
without
conclude,
union
for illicit or improper
charters
purposes” is barred as is recogni-
for investigations after the Ethical Practices Committee reported
inquiry had
that a preliminary
led
local
in
traffic
persons
is
impressive
of
architects
evidence
the
united
that
la-
they
what
meant
movement
to the
pledged
they
when
said
for “pa-
membership
as a “hunt-
and
to
the
public
crookedand
corruption
that
ness will be wiped out of labor’s
ranks.”
ing license” for improper invasion
of the jurisdictions of other unions are prohibited.
7
the
headed
than
yell,’’
speaking
of
Defense
unem-
km
of Agri-
*
suffer
of a free economy.’’
officers
to
charters
of
You know, one
for food rather
to the Secretary
*
Issuance
facts
“This (the war and post-war period of
farm prosperity) was a dream world, and
no one expected it to last.’’ DON PARLculture,
ministration representing business and industvy,’’
former
Interior
Secretary
DOUGLAS
sit
bird
liked
always
by
facts
direct-
Committee
Distillery
the
the
said
Union,
govern-
BERG,
*
exbe
biennial
against
kennel-fed
who'll get
than
to
ing action
“*T’ve
mishandling
Practices
recommend-
in
Council,
The
Quotes to Remember in November
The chance remarks which people drop
often reveal their basic beliefs. Here are
some indications of the Hisenhower-Nixon
Administration attitudes as reflected by
statements of White House inner circle
spokesmen:
The
by
shielded
that
An
by
tion.”
pelled
filled with the machinery for ecopownomic and social progress;
ered
if it desires one.
has
be
will
make recommendations, or, by a
two-thirds vote, to suspend “any
affiliate found guilty of a viola-
fruits
the abundant
then
Council
has been
of freedom, so we stand on the
threshold of a renewed America,
“An Amer-
is abolished,
once
Constitu-
the Execu-
before
a hearing
given
Union
Distillery
the
tion,
AMERICA
holding
nation
Ste-
for
basis
the
are
purposes.
illicit
other
tive Council
state of suspended animation,
The original ideals of the founding
their
review
immediately
ions
constitutional provisions for the
issuance of local union charters
and to police these procedures to
use by
prevent their corrupt
and
for shake-down
racketeers
RENEWED
a
in
are
boys
these
while
slowly,
for
dressing,
window
Practices
tion by the Ethical
Committee that all affiliated un-
completed. Just as our forefathers
stood on the threshold of a new
is
which
“conservatives”
recommenda-
a
4.—Approved
CAN ASK HEARING
Under the AFL-CIO
circle,
Workers’
Laundry
Union.
cor-
of
reports
The
Ethical
of the national and local unions of huge funds supposedly
held in trust for rank-and-file
to conduct an in- !judging
Stevenson, that “those who hold
in their hands the power of goyernment must themselves be independent.”
The
speaker,
the
1956,
year,
The
The gentlemen
Adlai Stevenson.
dragging their feet now call them-
selves
International
business
“big
representing.
dle”
and industry” do not believe, with
to the
in the
ruption
the UAW-AFL).
the Ethical Prac-
into
vestigation
what is best for the NATION is
best for each of us.”
Those who are now “in the sad-
drifting,” satisfactory to the selfish interests and the faint of
(formerly
3.—Directed
tices Committee
We are utterly dewell-being.
pendent on one another and
val of marking time and aimless
heart,
ers
all rooted in the soil of national
initiatives.”
destructive
tion in the Allied Industrial Work-
are
farmer
the
corrup-
of
investigation of reports
worker,
factory
the
employer,
the
repeating itself, has
he termed “an inter-
History,
seen what
and
to jail.”
go
them
of
terests
flames and sparks and gives
ideas and
industry
showed
2.—Directed the Ethical Prac-| dustrial
tices Committee to conduct an |dry Workers,
Or is it in the deep convictions
of a man who said four years
ago and repeats today: “The in-
“no
America
that
added
free
materials.
or substantially | workers
influenced” by corrupt groups and
funds.
individuals.
In the
... “If all people want is
let
|
controlled
inated,
big business.” . . . “What's good
for General Motors is good for the
cept the new and greater America
which has had 180 years of preparation. He, too, paid tribute to the
great strides made by this nation
he
representing
saddle
Recently, another champion of
progress challenged the unchanging gentry to recognize and ac-
but
New
.. . “We're here in the
economy.”
CHAMPION
ANOTHER
tional Union to ‘‘show cause”’
why it should not be suspend-
ed on grounds of being ‘ ‘dom-|
a
of
joys
the
of
one
is
fer
Interna- | lished
Workers
Wine
and
Council’s
of the
1.—Approved a recommendation
ing the Distillery Rectifying?
it in the philosophy of men
have said “The right to suf-
Is
who
the stand-
FOREST PARK, Pennsylvania—The AFL-CIO Executive Council has taken four important and drastic steps to clean corruption out of labor’s ranks and to keep racketeer~
ing elements out of unions.
The Council, at its meeting here late in August, took the following steps:
is one
Presidential
of
the
joys
Assistant,
speaking of auto indusin 1956,
as
FAIR
UAW
PRACTICES
President
EXPANSION
Walter
P.
Reuther
CONTINUES
appoints
two
more representatives to the staff of the Union’s Fair
Earl
Practices and Anti-Discrimination Department,
Local
Henderson (left), former president of UAW
1183, will service Region 8 and part of Region 9.
Julius Frazer (right), former chairman of the Joint
324, will servBargaining Committee of UAW Local
ice Regions 4 and 5,
Page
=
a
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
12
Sd
sHow to Buy.
By
¥ Sidney Margolius
=
wees
=
The Readers Ask
“We have
HOME EXPANSION:
house with slab floors and a high attic
stairs. Would it be more economical to
adding a dormer and stairs, or add on to
house? We have a wide lot.”
R. A. C., Memphis, Tenn.
—Mrs.
to four
three
cost
will
wing
a new
that
figure
generally
can
You
square frame
with pull-down
finish the attic,
one side of ths
a
times as much for the same living space as finishing an attic. While
costs vary between localities and depend on materials used, completing a 12x15 5 attic room might cost $500 to $600. Adding a oneEven if you
$2,000-$2,500.
cost of finishing the attic is
floor wing 12x15 often costs
dormer costing $500-$600, the
Local 12 member adds award to Toledo District Amateur crown and other titles
consid-
to
starts
of a wing
means
by
space
of adding
cost
The
less.
erably
E
a
added
come down if a two-story wing is built, if that much extra space is
If a 12x15 one-fioor wing costs $2,000-$2,400, you can figure
usable.
a 12x15 two-story
than
is that
with
they
However,
wing.
the
warm
are
to
cheaper
be
will
also
It
be in the neighborhood of $3,000-$3,500.
would
wing
What You Have Gained
the
many
of
curse
finished
with
house
the
heat
in summer.
Thus,
attic rooms
also
help;
so will
attic
Under UAW Pay Plan
attic
rooms
The recent cost-of-living
increase of four cents per
hour paid to more than one
million UAW members undcr Union
agreements
proved once again the
to be
need
carefully insulated with full-thick four-inch batts in ceilings and
walls, and also have adequate louyers or vents above the insulated
ceiling.
refiective
surfaces
although
cooler,
windows.
and
roof
the
shade
fiective-surface
will
fans
window
or
Louver
as
such
perhaps
batts
previously
aluminum
not
cost
As
as
more
help
will
foil
much
noted
as
the
ads
keep
the
attic
batts,
and
claim.
Such
full-thick
ordinary
than
with
batts
here,
to
trees
planting
soundness and the value of
the wage formula pioneered
by the UAW.
Union members
have
gained 30 cents an hour in
wage increases under the
cost-of-living escalator
since this wage formula
first went into effect with
the General Motors agree-
re-
also need to be installed with more care so they face air space on
both sides to add to the total insulation.
Two important points to consider when planning to expand a
house:
1—It
doesn’t
cost much
more
to expand
big than
small.
For ex-
ample, a full shed dormer, say 25 feet long, will cost only about
$600-$700, while two eight-foot dormers will cost about $500. And if
you do decide to add a wing, and can use the extra space, note that
the two-story wing provides space at about 25 per cent less per
square foot than the one-story wing.
2—In
adding
a
wing,
it will
help
the
appearance
and
yalue
ment
of
detracted
expansion
like
an
with
original
from
no
part
the
appearance
over-all
of
the
some thoughtfully-planned
of the original house.
design
house
of
their
plan.
as
additions
homes
The
much
addition
as
have
by
possible,
improved
piece-meal
should
and,
the
look
in
fact,
or $29.20 per week. Nearly
three-fifths of this increase
represents a gain in living
standards—a high dividend
paid to UAW
members
Is it possible to buy a new 752, 53 or ’54 Chevrolet?”’
The
advantage
of
sometimes get a lower
buying from a reliable
tention
to
the
car’s
buying
from
a
private
W., Bronx, N. Y.
party
is that
you
condition,
and
will
either
give
you
models
new-car
offered
prior to "55.
guarantee.
as low
This
as $1,200
department
recently,
but
has
no
observed
new
models
new
a
Just
how
low
R., Chicago,
—G.
Evaporated
tablespoon.
skim
Besides
milk
being
has
low
184
in
calories
calories,
to a cup, or about
it
is
eight cents for a 13-ounce can), and economical
baking, home-made desserts and beverages.
Copyright
1956 by Sidney
Are YOU
Here
are
the
registration
1955
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
deadlines
Oct. 26
Oct. 1
Poll Tax: Oct. 1
Oct. 22
Delaware
Oct. 20
Connecticut
Florida
Tilinois
Indiana
Towa
Kansas
Maryland
Oct. 15
Missouri
Jersey
Oct. 27
Oct.
Cities,
Oct
Others:
16
26
City
Baltimore
and counties
Other
Oct. 9
Oct. 5
(only
cooking,
where
DATE
Oct. 8
Oct. 16
City:
Kansas
Oct. 10
13
Oct.
Sept. 27
N.
¥.
State—
20
Sept.
per. reg.:
22
counties:
Ohio
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Texas
Oct.
13
Sept. 26
Utah
Oct. 31
West Virginia
Oct. 6
Virginia
Wisconsin
Oct. 6
Oct, 24
| assemblyman.
rival
2 to
1 and
He
er margin oyer
|lican candidate.
| Labor-backed
| the
nomination
|
provided
|
overwhelming
gan
|
|
|
|
|
receipt
The
and
Committee
than the 70-74 posted by Clayton
Lindquist, UAW
Local 248 member
from
West
Lindquist’s
Allis,
tally,
entries
Wisconsin.
however,
pled with the scores
Musha (172), Joe Kish
did
Holmes,
not
of Frank
(149), and
took
John
include
the
248
Creek,
Local
champion
600,
had
a 146 to trail Holmes and Lindquist in the championship flight
with
ing
low
ex-champ
with
net
147.
prize
Farmer
Naglich
with
140,
finish-
won
and
Joe
Green,
flight
co-hosts,
four-man
leaders
drew
436
teams,
included:
Michigan.
the
+
trailed
by two Local 659 members from
Flint, Michigan, Henry Osborne,
142,
83
Recreation
THIRD FLIGHT: low gross, Ray Laszyca, Local 182, Detrolt, Michigan, 167;
low net, Jack Hicks, Local 531, Latayette, Indiana,
FOURTH FLIGHT: low gross, Donald
Hackett, Local 651, Flint, Michigan, 169;
low net, John Mikels, Local 531, Lafayette, Indiana,
Harold
FIFTH FLIGHT:
Murr, Local
low net,
third.
Naglich,
as
531
FIRST FLIGHT: low gross, Joe Kish,
Local 248, West Allis, Wisconsin, 149;
low net, Grover Blair, Local 704, Battle
Creek, Michigan.
SECOND ELIGHT: low gross, Robert
Fell, Local 651, Flint, Michigan, 163; low
net, Frank Madarasz, Local 704, Battle
with a 630 fotal. That was four
strokes better than Local 600 of
Detroit. A Teledo Local-12 team
which
Local
and
Minor
cou-
Reggie
Scully.
(165), earned
team championship for Local
the
»
Lafayette
Local
704,
More Apprentices
with
WASHINGTON (PAI)—An upward trend in industrial training
has
of
reflected
been
more
than
an
by
17,470
increase
apprentices
activities
ployers
growth
by
were
of
labor
the
unions
credited
program.
and
with
em-
the
won the
for state
outpolled
his
had even great-
the
lone
Repub-
Rudolph
Ploetz,
out
for
picnic.
the
|
for
Congress.
support
the
nominees
His
in Sheboy-
victory
margin.
had
strong
a
indication that victory was in
sight when 10,000 people turned
largest
|
|
Oct. 26
Oct. 17
Poll tax
of Local 833, easily
Democratic nomination
it
strokes
first mayor in recent Sheboygan
| history to hold the office without
} Kohler Company’s blessing, won
N. Y. City—
Oct. 8
Sept.
in
12 toa
St. Louis:
New York
Oct. 8
having
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
New
Oct. 6
use
in states
STATE
No Registration
cost
Tl.
Registered?
DATE
Colorado
for
in
two
SHEBOYGAN, Wisconsin —The political miracle which
833’s strike against}
was the direct result of UAW Local
Kohler Company has lost none of its potency.
Seventy per cent of Sheboygan County’s registered yoters
turned out for the primary (compared with a 30 per cent|
average for the rest of the
state). They gave labor-backed
ena whooping
candidates
dorsement.
Allan Graskamp, president
Margolius
still isn’t too late to save your vote:
STATE
low
a 142,
employed
during
the
past
year
| bringing the national total to approximately
180,000. Promotional
of years
is it?’?
for
Kohler Strike Political Magic °
|
Still Is Potent in Sheboygan
EVAPORATED SKIM MILK:
“‘T would like some
information about the new skim milk. It claims to be low
in calories.
diana,
144.
price than from a dealer. The advantage of
dealer is that he will give at least some at-
mechanical
, Andy Holmes, UAW Local 12 member, and former Toledo
District Amateur Champion, kept the UAW = International
Golf Championship in Toledo, Ohio, for the second straight
year by succeeding Local 105 98 member Ilugh Farmer as
individual champion in the Eighth Annual Tourney at Pur:
due University.
The
tourney,
sponsored
by
Tfolmes turned in a pair of
UAW
Region 3 and the Recrea71’s on the tough Purdue tion Department with Region 3
courses at West Lafayette, In- Area Recreation Council No. 8
with
can
specific guarantee or tell you the car is sold “as is’ (without reconditioning or guarantee).
New-car dealers often recondition the
better used cars they get as trade-ins and offer them with a threemonths
an addi-
hour is equivalent to $1,460
per 2,000-hour work week,
appearance
USED CARS: “Please state the advantages and disadvantages of buying a used car directly from the owner.
—B.
and
tional 43 cents per hour or
more in improvement factor wage increases.
This total of 73 cents an
your house to work out a complete architectural design of the-entire
expansion, even if you finish only part at a time. Sometimes folks
have
in 1948,
Andy Holmes Captures —
UAW Golf Championship
in
size
the
It
the
is
annual
believed
turnout
of a town
in
of
Labor
to
Day
be
relation
any
the
to
place
country,
The
complete
switch
from
a
company-controlled community
to a liberal stronghold further isoCompany
from
| lates the Kohler
the community,
Victory came despite efforts by
Kohler
position,
spokesmen
to
arouse
op-
FOUR-INCH HANDLE-BAR WINS longest mus:
tache contest on Old Tim ers’ Day at the Michigan
Winner is Jack Alonge of
State Fair last month.
Carmel Hall, Detroit, 86 spry years young, and the
young lady doing the measuring is Beryl Clark, proLocal 212 Drop-In Center.
gram director at UAW
The UAW cooperated with State Fair officials in making this year’s Old Timers’ Day the biggest and best
yet held.
eal
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