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DECEMBER.
1956
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WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
2
December
1956
More Than $4. Million Paid in SUB Benefits
HE more than four million high-velocity dollars placed in the hands of laid-off UAW members between June and November have proved
emphatically the soundness of the UAW
through on the principle of the guaranteed
wage
in the
1955
negotiations.
The
auto
breakannual
Heavy unemployment, caused by slumping sales
and foolish production scheduling, hit the industry even before the SUB plans negotiated with the
Big Three went into effect in June. Industry unemployment soared to 280,000 in September and
even after the pickup following the model changeover there were still 171,000 over-all unemployed
In spite of the heavy
in Detroit
alone,
drain
on the SUB
trust
quate
unemployment
million
the SUB
from
to supplement
funds
and
compensation
solvent.
inade-
yet
the
The ease with which the funds have sustained
these withdrawals shows they are on a sound,
even overconservative basis, and that higher benefits can be paid for a longer duration even with
the eurrent nickel-an-hour contribution for each
hour worked by each employe.
The Chrysler General Fund, for example, was
at 25.12 per cent as of August 1, During August
and September, $1,145,519.93 was paid out in supplemental benefits to laid-off workers. Yet on October 1, the Chrysler General Fund trust position
still was 24.77 per cent.
Daring October, laid-off GM workers picked
up $718,809.19 in SUB checks but the trust fund
position as of October 1 was 37.11 per cent and
indus-
107,00@
which had only a year to build up, laid-off
GM, and Chrysler workers drew nearly $4
funds remained
try’s Big Three—GM, Ford, and Chrysler—alone
haye paid out $3,855,465. Other industry has paid
lesser amounts.
in Michigan, ineluding
in mid-October.
funds
Ford,
Big Layoffs Still in Ag Implement;
on November 1 it still was at 36.4 per cent.
Through October, laid-off GM workers were paid
$1,189,494.63 in SUB benefits.
Laid-off
SUB
Ford
workers
benefits between
average
$15.37.
weekly
The
June
benefit
Ford
were
for
$752,830
and November
Ford
general
33.47 per cent and
paid
trust
the defense
fund’
worker
and there are some indica-| 53,000, or approximately onetions of callbacks in other| third of the total agricultural
plants,
cultural
but
the
UAW
Implement
ment has adopted
and see’”’ attitude.
a
Agri-
Depart-|
implement
force,
industry
between
June
partment, reveals in a recent report.
A breakdown
lows:
of the figures released
by Matthews
Norma] Retirements (age 65 and over)--_--Early Retirements (age 60 to 65)__-_________
Permanent and Total Disability Retirements...
was
dustry and in the
where SUB plans
the breakthrough
tions.
The experience
port to the UAW
agricultural implement industry
also were negotiated following
in the Ford and GM negotiain 1956 will give
proposals in 1958.
strong
sup-
=
i
|
ag
year compared to eight million made in 1955. However,
a projection of the outlook
for ’57 carried in Ward’s
Automotive Report suggests
total ’57 production will” be
about 7 million—approximately a million more cars
than the current year’s output and a million fewer than
“SomEBoDY [S LOOKIN’ FOR TROVOLE
out THERE ///
in 55.
Even
GM
President
General
Admits
Harry
that
admitted
has
Vice
Motors
W.
improvement
factor
the
matter
cost”
the
try
Improvement
Anderson
use the improvement factor as
the basis for seeking any price
adjustments
. , . or to guard
against price decreases other-
the annual
in
UAW
in
of
prices,
UAW
last
the
reminded
wise justified . . . in any request you might make for a
change in ceiling prices?”
not,” Anderson
. “Definitely
replied. “It is our feeling that
indus-
month.
In its statement scoring price
quoted
from
derson
before
ington,
May
Stabilization
Chairman
testimony
the
Board
U.
24, 1951.
Dr.
S.
in
by
fol-
An-
the four cents improvement
factor is repaid in the form of
increased production so that in
effect you have sometimes a
Wage
Wash-
George
W.
Cilfetto
rial
5,032
109
Factor No Burden
in
decrease
Taylor asked Anderson, “. . . it
would not be your intention to
hikes on 1957 models, the UAW
tirement have been approved and these retirees have received $5,594,628.35 in pension benefits, Vice President
Norman Matthews, director of the National Chrysler De-
fund
There's One In Every Shop
contracts is “not an element of
Since the inception of the UAW-negotiated pension plans
with Chrysler in 1950, a total of 5,499 applications for re-
at”
NOT UP TO ’55
In auto, production for the
final quarter is running well
below production for the same
period last year. The industry is expected to make just
under six million cars this
of 1951
Chrysler Retired Workers
Collect Over $52 Million
was
tive bargaining demands in 1958 in the auto in-
added. This is a permanent
reduction in the work forces.
Since then, another 37,750
have been laid off.
work
‘‘wait}and June of 1956,’’ Greathouse, director of the Agricul-
was
at 31.59 per cent on November 1,
The UAW has made it clear that increased
benefits for a longer duration leading to a full
guaranteed annual wage will be among the collec-
Department,
Implement
tural
4. The
workers
Auto Employment Below 55. Level
Substantial unemployment remains in both the automobile
and agricultural implement industries according to the latest available statistics.
In the seven states where the automobile and parts industry is concentrated 104,000 workers from auto, parts and
related industry laid off since January 1 had not been recalled by November 2, the U. S. Labor Department’s Bureau
ee
ASSESSES
of Employment reported.
In a letter to the affected
The callback in the auto inlocal unions, UAW Vice
dustry was not quite complete
President Pat Greathouse
at the time the Bureau compointed out: ‘‘It must be
pleted its survey. The Decemrealized that in June 1951
ber figure is expected to show
there were 160,000 producsome improvement.
tion workers ‘employed in
AG IMPLEMENT HURTING
this industry. By June 1955
Since June, 37,750 workers
this had been reduced to
have been laid off by agricul118,000. By June of 1956
tural implement companies
further cutbacks in employunder contract with the UAW.
ment had reduced the total
International Harvester reported that 5,200 would be
ee
“Thus we had a cutback of
recalled before December 1,
in
cost
actual
for
particular unit. We do not intend to seek a price increase
.
growing out of the increase of
four cents an hour in the annual
“So
crease
factor.”
improvement
that
your
while
total
it would
wage
Krolikowski—A
normal
age
retiree
with
44
asked Dr. Taylor, “you don’t
feel that it would result in any
increase in your unit labor cost?
Is that it?”
Anderson
not... .”
replied,
“Definitely
Vi
Pe
358
years
of
service was limited to $52.50 under the old plan. He now
receives $99.00 per month, in addition to his Social Security
benefits.
A. Busswood—A disability retiree with 41 years of service was held to $90.00 monthly under the prior plan. Under
the new plan, his benefits have more than doubled, resulting
from the increased benefit formula and credit for all years
of service. Brother Busswood will receive $184.50 per month
until he reaches age 65, at which time his benefits will convert to Normal Age Retirement.
CUSTOMERS
in-
bill,”
Total Number of Authorized Retirements____ 5,499
794
fess” Pormimntions 2.2 ee
Number of Pensioners as of Oct. 1, 1956______ 4,705
*
xk
* Total Assets as of Dec. 31, 1955_-___— $67,363,697.00
Amt. Paid Out (1950 through 1955)__$ 5,594,628.35
(This includes Chrysler ABD since July 2, 1954.)
Two interesting examples reflect the increases negotiated
by the Union under the three-year agreements of 1955:
R.
a
AND CLERKS both fr own as the cost of living continues to edge
upward. This is a supermarket in Cleveland, Ohio, but the same picture could be
taken in almost any town as breadwinners and housewives face up to the continuing problem of inflation.
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December,
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
1956
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to
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ll
Ra
Local Union
y
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al
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Br
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So
t
es
ot
Pr
d
_ For Hungary an
UAW
WORLD — OR
in plants all over Detroit, and
members
elsewhere in the United States, at press time were
planning to stage short lunch period meetings to
protest Soviet brutality in Hungary—to raise funds
for the relief of Hungarian workers—and to pon-
concrete
der
world peace.
to make
steps
possible
ing for a United
ence.
of
the
Nations charter revision confer-|
This conference would take up the question
establishment
of
a permanent
AF atl -CiO
AMERICAN LABOR SUPPORTS
HUNGARIAN STRUCGLEM FREEDOM
WORKERS DE
£AGUE
permanent
At the meetings, scheduled to begin just after
The United Automobile Worker went to press,
workers planned to consider a proposal urging the
United States Government to take the lead in call-
NONE
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voluntary
United Nations international police force to move
in and maintain order and resist aggression in such
eases as that of Hungary during recent weeks.
‘‘Had such a force existed at the time the plea for help
was made to the United Nations by the people of Hungary
and by the official government spokesuren of Hungary, they
could have moved into that country as the Soviet troops
See Highlights of Local Union Resolution on Page 8
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Re ee ee
lees
moved back, and the people of Hungary would be free and
independent today,’? UAW Detroit Local Union officers said
;
in a resolution adopted unanimously at press time.
PROTEST
MEETINGS
THROUGHOUT
U.S.
Local and International Union officers immediately began
arranging for the nationwide meetings. The Union is seeking
the cooperation of managements in arranging the lunch
period meetings.
“We hereby call upon all UAW local unions to call
lunchtime meetings in which we can express our thanks
that we live in a free and democratic country. We shall
urge our fellow workers to contribute as generously as
possible to the assistance of the Hungarian workers, and
to take any other actions that may be deemed necessary
to aid them and other workers behind the Iron Curtain
in their struggle for freedom,’’ the resolution said.
More than 300 Joeal union officers attended the Detroit
area meeting which established the Aid Hungary Program.
$25,000
INTERNATIONAL CONTRIBUTES
Moneys collected in the UAW drive will be directed
through special trade union channels, ‘‘including the Free
World Labor Movement, and in cooperation with other international relief organization’ so that their maximum use
and effectiveness will be realized,’’ the resolution stated.
These contributions from individual members will supplement a $25,000 contribution from the UAW International
Union itself made recently to the AFL-CIO International Free
Labor Fund.
The resolution further pledged:
© Condemnation of ‘‘the brutal and savage attack inflicted
upon the people of Hungary by the communist tyrants of the
Soviet Union’’;
© To back United Nations efforts to effect a withdrawal.of
Soviet forces from Hungary;
© ‘Solidarity and sympathy’’ with the Hungarian strikers.
on
sa
ALL OVER AMERICA workers are rallying to the
defense of the people of
by the Workers Defense
Martin Gerber (at micro-
Hungary. One of the first protest meetings was held
League in New York City. UAW Region 9 Director
phone) makes appeal for funds.
Police Force
UN
Permanent
Step Toward World Peace
NEW YORK—UAW President Walter P. Reuther ealled
for a permanent United Nations police force as a vital step in which the H-bomb has made
peace
a condition
for
survival.
toward maintaining world peace. The proposal was made at The United Nations must be
press time in a speech at the’
strengthened,
however, so that it
City College of New York saere of Hungary’s. freedom is a constructive and effective alAlumni Association meeting fighters which
has brought ternative between appeasement,
which is immoral, and total war,
here.
that gallant country to its which is unthinkable.
“Tf the United Nations had knees,’’ he added.
“4
Permanent
Voluntary
a permanent voluntary police
United
Nations
Police
Force
MATTER
OF SURVIVAL
would provide such an alternaforee that could have landed
Nations
United
standing
“A
tive. It would
provide
means
as few as 20,000 troops in Permanent Police Force, comaggression,
checking
(a)
Hungary after the initial Sov- posed of volunteers from all for,
in
(b) maintaining agreements
ary
Hung
nations, can prevent in
withdrawal,
member
jet
trouble spots, and (c) it would
would have a free and inde- the future any such acts of age
quickly put out any brush fires
on the part of any napendent government today,” gression
It
in -the world.
tion anywhere
UnReuther said. ‘‘The Soviet
would seem to me that, without
ion would not have dared to such a force, the United Nations,
perpetrate the ruthless mas- as an instrument of peace, may
well suffer the same sad fate the
League of Nations suffered a few
decades
ago.
is
ed
imperative
have
Nations
Unit-
the
that
a
in the
“We
established
with
maximum
limitation
the
a
from
number
strategically
placed
around
could
area
ns.
an
awe dl
BILL KEMSLEY, longtime member of UAW Loeal 174, goes over his duties as
the newly-elected chairman of the Non-Governmental Organizations Committee for
the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), With him at UN headquarters are
Mrs. Frances Freeman, past chairman of the Committee, and, right, Dr, Balachandra Rajan, secretary of the UN Indian delegation and chairman of the UNICEF
executive
board.
Kemsley
is the ICI°'TU’s UN delegate,
was
International
Police
na-
no
would
De-
be
would
in
posts
they
where
threatened.
BET
“The
ticipate
any
Permanent
be shifted quickly into any
existed or
trouble
where
BEST
would
world
the
a
to
on
or
nations
force
the
of
Conference,
UN
on
be able to dominate the force.
tachments
Force.”
such
a
at
such
single
nation
large
the
of
group
for
Voluntary
date,
for,
nation
each
any
no
way
That
tion.
from
basis
quota
envision
UAW
force
voluntary
a
condemnation.
and
dignation
oppor-
in-
moral
of
resolutions
and
Revision
provide
means
effective
and
practical
of stopping aggressors in their
eloquent speeches
tracks than
an
calling
in
possible
earliest
Charter
more
some
lead
the
taking
the
here
has
of previding positive leadin this critical situation by
tunity
ership
to avoid the awful results of
an H-bomb war, which World
III inevitably would be,
War
it
events of the last few weeks
the people of
have awakened
America and of the world to
the necessity of this step.
“America
and
fate
a
such
avoid
“To
prevent
and
general
into
the
believe
up
spring
that
spreading
their
I
conflagration.
FOR
forces
not
in
be
any
incident
of
PEACE
any
permitted
in
military
which
nation
to
par-
that
na-
action
In
tlon was involved.
“The United Natlons Is the best
hope for peace in the atomic age,
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eeguny
chemist of considerable reputation.
CCORDING to legend, an outlander visiting a
z00 for the first time stopped short when he
£4
saw
the chief biochemist of the big atomic medical
project, sponsored by the Atomic Energy
Commission, at the University of Rochester.
“*. . . he has announced a sort of post-election
crusade to impress on laymen the vast seientific
and medical ignorance that enshrouds strontium
fallout—even among scientists who have been
working on it.”
The whole subject was under a radioactive
a
He gazed up at the ungainly creature and then
walked on muttering, ‘‘I still don’t believe it.”’
Nothing
adopt
world
could
be
more
this same
tragic
attitude
than
having
facts of this faitastie age.
tastie atomic
the
the fan-
toward
The fantastic facts are: each H-bomb exploded
any place on the globe may bring the human race
closer to extinction; the strontium 90 released by
these blasts is a cancer-causing substance.
Now that the election is over—and the GOP no
longer has to hide the issuae—common sense dictates that we all had-better learn as much as possible about radioactivity and what to do about it.
After all, cancer affects Republicans and Demoerats alike.
GOP-supporting Newsweek, in its first issue AFTER the election, carried an article warning:
POST-ELECTION WARNINGS
HIE testing of hydrogen bombs
most
already
propelled
enough
pernicious aftermath
may
strontium
90,
cloud during the campaign.
The day after the
elections, the U. S. Children’s Bureau announced
it would set
of fallout.
of
the
implications
fallout.
was
to study
the effects
and
Originally
amount
"scheduled
of
radioactive
for November
held up. until after the elections.
3, it
The Middle East crisis has diverted attention
from the issue, but it would be foolish to forget
it. Further study may show that if the flaming
Middle East brings on a major conflict... in
which H-bombs are used’, . . the winners would
have
the
of nuclear fission, into
in Detroit-Toledo
up a committee
STRONTIUM 90 WITH US NOW
TILL to come is the report of the special
United Nations report on a worldwide survey
the stratosphere to doom countless of the world’s
children to inescapable and incurable cancer.
This may occur as the fallout sifts to earth over
the next 10 or 15 years.
“Such a frankly hideous possibility of
widespread bone and blood cancer was raised
last week by Dr. William F. Neumann, a bio-
A-Bomb
. . . He is
also be sure losers.
While tactical atomic weapons do not seem
to worry the scientists, the possibilities of
H-bombs, big enough now to wipe out much
more than a city, have leading scientists
frantic.
They
know
that
strontium
90 stays
in the up-
per air a long time—gradually descending. They
know
that
human
beings
receive
strontium
through milk, cheese, vegetables and meat. They
know that strontium 90 is attracted to calcium,
that it becomes a part of the bones of growing
children.
Some think there is already enough strontium
90 in the stratosphere to condemn today’s children to receiving 10 per cent of the maximum
permissible amount.
They know
THERE
WOULD
RONEN
ties
faraway
near
to
BE
the
places—here
of
SECOND
CHANCE
than
a
in America.
apparently
the
foliage
get strontium with
with their milk.
More
NO
90 is falling on fields—not
Chicago
concentration
sticks
that strontium 90 causes eancer,
stuff
and
have
yet
grasses.
Two
the
just in
coun-
heaviest
discovered.
Grazing
It
cattle
their hay.
Kids are getting it
year
Adlai
ago
Stevenson
urged that a United Nations police force be
sent to the Middle East. The UN is now taking that action, perhaps too late.
It would be tragie beyond all understanding if
the Eisenhower-Nixon Administration refused to
heed Stevenson’s warning on H-bomb testing—
simply because a Democrat first made a big publie issue of it.
This
would
be
chance ¢o correct.
one
mistake
there
would
be no
Backyard?
Utilities Rush Construction
Of Untested Atomic Reactor
Well out of the public eye, circled
by a high fence and hidden in a
woods, the Public Reactor Development Company right now is con-
structing, near Monroe, Michigan, an
atomic reactor of untested design.
Because of protests originated by
the UAW, the Atomic Energy Commission will hold a public hearing on
the project in Washington on December 10.
The AEC’s Atomic Reactor Safeguard Committee, composed of 15 of
the nation’s best-qualified atomic sci-
entists
and
engineers,
has
turned
thumbs down on the project. But the
Reactor Development Company, composed of utility interests and headed
by Walker Cisler, president of Detroit Edison, is rushing right ahead
with construction.
The location is in the heart of one
of America’s most densely-populated
areas.
IN DETROIT-TOLEDO BACKYARD
For people in Detroit, Toledo and the
many surrounding communities, it could be
like haying an A-bomb planted in the backyard.
UAW President Walter P. Reuther
points out that the Safeguards Committee report indicates ‘‘not enough is
known about the design and operation
of the Monroe reactor to make sure that
if it gets out of control there will not
be an explosion similar to the explosion
of an atomic bomb.”’
ha cil
Nor can the Safeguards Committee give
assurances that the reactor can be kept under control. Instead of electricity, it might
produce tragedy.
The UAW and three other interested unions filed petitions asking that construction
be held up until after the public hearing on
the project. The Atomic Energy Commission
refused to cancel its ‘“‘conditional?? permit
before the hearing although it did agree t6
a public airing of the safety problem.
WHAT ABOUT INSURANCE RATES?
No one has produced an estimate of what
would
happen
eontrol.~For
publie
just
if
that
what
the
reactor
matter,
the
no
threat
went
one
would
out
of
mean
in
has
made
terms of increased life, liability, medical and
property insurance rates.
But the excavating and construction
keeps going on,
work
Reuther points out that the conditional
permit ‘‘authorizes PDRC to spend $40
million in building this reactor of un-
proved design. . . . It contradicts common sense to say that AEC, which has
disregarded its own safety regulations
at the beginning, will enforce safety
standards rigidly and with sole regard
for public safety when an adverse decision on its part would scrap a $40 million investment which it has invited and
encouraged,
‘‘Safety standards which are bypassed at
the beginning can only be expected to deteriorate further as the day of final decision
approaches.”’
be
The
own
law.
ahaa
UAW’s
halted
rules,
brief asking
asserts
These
the
AEC
rules
that construction
have
is violating
the
force
alia belli etc
its
of
LOOKING LIKE A GUARD TOWER on the Gaza
Strip, this imposing structure keeps the public from
seeing the construction already in progress on the
atomic reactor being built near Monroe, Michigan.
The AEC’s regulations provide that a ‘‘conditional’’ construction permit shall not be issued until the Reactor Safeguards Committee
are completed.
approves
the project
and public
hearings
AEC
SUPPRESSES SAFETY REPORT
Yet the AEC suppressed a Reactor Safeguards Committee report issued June 6th which stated:
“There is insufficient information available at this
time to give assurance that the PRDC reactor can be
operated at this site without public hazard.’’
On
August
4th, the AEC
issued
the construction
over the authority of Commissioner Thomas
The UAW intervened within a month.
(Continued on Page 5)
lel iad
Murray.
permit
December,
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
1956
a
“ie
THE FIRST UAW Civil Rights i
Conference in the Ohio-Pennsylvania- |
West Virginia area drew 400 dele- |
gates. Among the speakers were, |. to
Burroughs in Lather; Worker Wasn't
Demetrios Koutsimbas won an unemployment compensation claim from the anti-union Burroughs Corporation of
Detroit by proving he doesn’t use shaving cream.
A plant guard saw Koutsimbas shaving in the wash
room during the lunch period. He informed the foreman.
Moments after the whistle blew, the foreman saw Koutsimbas standing in front of the mirror, razor in hand.
Burroughs fired*Koutsimbas for shaving on company
time, Koutsimbas claimed he had finished shaving and was
r., Fair Practices Co-Director William
Oliver, Pat O’Malley and Ray Ross,
directors of Regions 2 and 2A, and
Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey.
|
I
just tidying up when the whistle blew.
He shaved with warm water only in a demonstration
before Michigan Employment Security Commissioner Albert A. Haines and Burroughs attorneys to prove his case.
Haines told the adding machine firm Koutsimbas’ story
added up; and they'd have to cough up on the claim.
UAW International Representative Tom Doherty
helped Koutsimbas prepare his case, and he served as
razor-carrier in the showdown.
Land of Beans,
Cod and the UAW
GE’s Profits Soar
So It Boosts Prices
of
“NEW
YORK—Sales and profits
General
Electric
substantial
quarter
this
year
gains
and
.
first
Company’s
..
history.
for the nine months
$160,727,000.
Journal,
in
nine
the
. . .”
October
Co.
scored
the
third
months
best
in
Boston, long famed for codfish
and baked beans, is now beginfor
ning to win a little fame
of
the
. . . Earnings
amounted
(Wall
UAW
to
Since
Street
18.)
was
area
Co. said it will raise
gional
up
hand
washers
Journal,
tools
and
same
to
window
Shops
dryers.” (Wall Street
trols,
day.)
of
win
where
votes
to
93
9A
16
the
votes
have
wins
Is at
and
out
re-
won
for
No
covering
Con-
organized.
of
Detroit
UAW
piled
years, contracts
two
past
the
In
113
other 2,000 workers.
Union.
Public Barred from Reactor Site .
Sometimes an exclusive
newspaper’s lap.
picture
falls in @
The United Automobile Worker wanted to
be the first to carry a picture of the construction now under way at the Monroe reactor site. So we sent a photographer there.
The guard at the gate (see picture at left)
was sympathetic. But his job was to keep
the publie out.
So we called the engineering firm handling
the project.
“We have lots of pictures of construction
going
on,’’
a member
of the
firm
admitted.
instead
‘Maybe you could use one of those
of taking your own.’’
We said, ‘‘Fine.’”’
“But
involve
in motion
now
paigns
active
Seven
you'll
have
to have
On Full Medical Care Plan
es
the plants
have been
UAW members. (when
are working full time)
17
new
4,000
estimated
an
Detroit Group Sets Sights
your
cam-
The Community Health Association of Detroit, an organization whose aim is to offer comprehensive prepaid medical
service of high quality to residents in the Detroit area, made
further strides in organization last month and prepared for its
first publie project—a conference on the quality of medical
an-
care.
attorneys
The
arrange it with our attorneys,’’ the firm mem-
will
It turned
velopment
thing
out the Public
Company
wanted
private.
For
publication—no
Reactor
to
keep
pictures,
ney said.
quality
program
attor-
Board,
of
hear-
public
!
design.
Rush Atomic Reactor
Legislative
the
of
chairman
Atomic
on
Subcommittee
Energy, warned the day the permit was
granted, ‘‘The issuance of the permit .,. is
in disregard of public safety.’”’
Senator Clinton Anderson, chairman of
Congress’ Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, charged, ‘‘The issuance of this construection permit ... sets a dangerous pattern.”
Finally the Reactor Safeguards Committee report was made public.
ADMITS
EDISON SPOKESMAN
IT’S ‘DANGEROUS’
It showed
must be carried through
and demonstrations
before
Some
Even
the
even
the
reactor’s
of the tests cannot
AEC Chairman
fast-breeder
group
plans
Alvin
tests
that a long series of AEC
type
design
can
approved.
be
begin until 1959.
Lewis L, Strauss admits that
of reactor—which
to build—js
Alexanderson
the
of
most
the
Monroe
the
dangerous
Detroit
type.
Edison
Co. was quoted in the Detroit News, “It is true
this reactor can be dangerous, A tremendous
quantity of fission products are present,
these can be hazardous—if they escape.”
and
a
The
Reactor
Public
build its atomic reactor — of unproven
Holifield,
maintain
gets
under
care
of medical
of
Detroit
Emil
and
Building
Treasurer.
the
MEETS
Associ-
With
when
the
Macioce,
Marion
high
way.
ELECTED
meeting
a
University
president,
Detroit
from
Mazey,
of Michigan;
president,
vice
Trades
UAW
Council,
Secretary-
20
DECEMBER
The Board announced plans of
expanding its own membership at
its next meeting on December 20.
reference
January
the
to
actor at Arco, Idaho, showed instability. It oscillated. That is, the power level went up and down
without anyone understanding why this occurred.
We will run our reactor on low power and oscillate it until we know the cause of this phenom-
enon.”
continued,
Alexanderson
reactor,
breeder
fuel
and
elements
terrific
under
There
radioactivity.
that,
preventing
of
will select the best method,”
He described
he said, a way
doesn’t melt
the
heat
are
at
we
and
WILD
other safety precautions including,
of making sure the uranium core
plant,
as it did in the Arco
unnoticed
feel safer?
anyone
make
assurances
these
Do
RUNS
PLANT
REACTOR
SMALL
that
danger
always
in’
‘blow
methods
three
least
will
concentrate
thus
Is
there
neutron
fast
a
“In
The Arco plant, which ran wild for months, had
The Monroe plant, In
a 1,000 kilowatt capacity,
and
Detroit
000
kilowatt
The
have
A
away
Toledo's
thermal
questions
answered
high
from
fence
the
backyard,
unit capacity,
which
are
and
right on building,
is to
the
public
site,
and
guards
the
a
300,-
right
importance.
of life-and-death
armed
a
have
has
keep
utility
five
officers
the
group
shall
and
the
keeps
Rev-
care.”
medical
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION, International Union, United Automobile,
Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, affiliated
Published monthly. Yearly subscription to memwith the AFL-CIO,
bers, 60 cents;
second-class
to non-members,
matter
under
the
at Indianapolis,
Entered
$1.00.
24, 1912, as a monthly,
of August
Act
Ind., as
EMIL MAZEY
P. REUTHER
Secretary-Treasurer
President
RICHARD GOSSER, NORMAN MATTHEWS,
LEONARD WOODCOC 1K, PAT GREATHOUSE
Vice-Presidents
WALTER
International
Executive
FRANK
CHARLES
WINN,
BAKER,
PHOTOS—James
STAFF—Russell
Members:
Smith, Jerry
American
Members
Board
HARVEY KITZMAN
RUSSELL LETNER
WILLIAM McAULAY
JOSEPH McCUSKER
GEORGE MERRELLI
KENNETH MORRIS
PATRICK O'MALLEY
KENNETH W. ROBINSON
RAY ROSS
B, SEATON
CHARLES BALLARD
RAY BERNDT
GEORGE BURT
CHARLES BIOLETTI
ROBE
CARTER
ED COTE
MARTIN GERBER
ROBERT W, JOHNSTON
CHARLES H. KERRIGAN
NORMAN
to
public
be asked to make recommendations to the Board on all matters relating to the quality of
consist | will
erend John A. Trese, Hospital Coordinator, Catholic Archdiocese of
Send
re-
breeder
AEC’s experimental
added, “The
voted,
was
2457
Construction
He
the
Executive Committee
it
to
country
the
throughout
together in Detroit in Janat a conference on the qualmedical care. The Conference
and
meet
uary
of the} ity of
County.
show
ing before starting to
Chet
invited
Honorable Wade H. McCree, Jr.,
in Wayne
Judge
Court
Circuit
con-
it does
for the
Congressman
be
and
REUTHER
Development Company is not waiting
4)
it will
Jahuary
WE SCORED ANYWAY
ation’s board of directors, Noyem- Conference on the quality of meders were
ical care, President Reuther said,
A free lance photographer flying to To- ber 12, the following offic
elected: President, Walter P. Reu- “One of the primary concerns of
ledo on a job’ snapped the picture at the left. ther, UAW president; secretary- the Community Health AssociaHe sent it in to us on the chance we might treasurer, Joseph F. Verhelle, De- tion Board is the quality of the
presidents,
vice
banker,
troit
be interested,
medical and hospital care that will
The picture’s a lit- Rabbi Morris Adler, Congregation be available to Community Health
As a first
rey Zedek, the Reverend El- Association members.
tle fuzzy. It doesn’t Shaa
B. Usher, director, Departmer
step in assuring care of the highshow much — just a ment of Social Relations, Epis- est quality, the Board will call on
lot of excavation and copal Diocese of Michigan and the eminent. physicians from Michigan
the
page
To
Detroit
physicians
establish
At
But
from
12.
in
Detroit and a member of the
of the
Other members
Board.
Board are James A. Lewis, vice
Conference
Care
and Michigan and throughout the
nation to make recommendations
to the Association on how it can
De-
some incidental
struction.
(Continued
held
be
eminent
every-
their
Medical
11 and
ber said.
So a UAW attorney contacted an attorney
for the Publie Reactor Development Company.
e
e
the
in
presently
There are 216
jurisdiction.
major organizing
ago, the Competi-
Department
a string
of
Region
representative
Latest
fans,
sub-region
Kerrigan’s
tries.
tors used in everything from port-
Boston
made
a
two years
tive
prices by 7% per cent to 10 per
cent on a wide range of small moable
the
Charles
“FORT WAYNE, Indiana—Gen-
eral Electric
victories.
Editor
Managing
Yardley,
Dale,
Irv
Robert
Newspaper
Editor
King
Treuer,
Jim
Richard
Guild, AFL-CL1O
a.
CE
ee
ae
UNITED
Page &
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
December,
1956
By Using Union Purchasing Ser
Thousands of Detroit and Michigan union members are packing S
full as his jelly-like belly simply by stretching their dollars as they do ¢
this year.
No, they aren't printing their own five-spots on elastic—they sim Pp
old union admonition—''Be Wise, Organize!'' They are organized on +
ganizing
as consumers,
too.
Members of 110 local unions which are affiliated with several different internatio
to establish a beachhead in the continuing struggle against inflation. They have see
ter standard of living won through their unions at, the collective bargaining table ch
huge chunks, by unjustified price increases. They have found a means of combatting
The dollar-stretcher for more than 20,000 Detroit area workers and their famili
every
modest
day—is
the
Union
Purchasing
office one flight up at 2025
Service,
Gratiot
a union
membership
Avenue,
not
controlled
far from
orga
downtown
Detroi
The markup (that's the difference between what the retailer pays for an ite
consumer) is tremendous on many items. Some retailers are contentewith a low vol
markup to pay their costs and provide their profit.
The
Union
Purchasing
Service,
sponsored by the union-organized
Motor City Co-op, Inc., seeks out
manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers of consumer goods who are
willing to accept a lower markup
in exchange for volume—in other
words, take less profit on each item
but sell so many items that their
profit is higher than taking the
high markup on fewer sales.
A REGISTERED member of the Union Purchasing Service in Detroit
is pictured at the entrance at 2025 Gratiot Avenue. The office is open daily,
11 a. m. to 5 p. m.; does heavy telephone business.
The
dealer
or
manufacturer
to
sell
and
members
that
at
Fos
and
a
price.
‘In recognition of business referred to
the dealer or manufacturer by the UnTWO MEMBERS of the Detroit Typographical Union are signed up
in the Union Purchasing Service office by Mrs. Elizabeth Crothers. Members
of all unions register free, Non-union members are charged $1.
Purchasing
the
Service,
help,
etc.
how
Any
necessary, installation. The dealer also
agrees in the contract to offer purchasing service members full advantage of
any special purchase sales or promotionals, at prices reflecting the special
ion
its
expenses,
office
members
Fifteen
plan
sérve
Purchasing
Union
the
rent
works
for the
consumer:
and, where
services,
pay
Here's
The purchasers are protected from flyby-night operations by the contract
which requires that the price offered to
Union Purchasing Service members must
include manufacturers warranties, dealers guarantees
to
as directors of the
Service without pay.
Union Purchasing
in a signed con-
price list with the
F Service and agrees,
tract,
files
money
dealer
agrees to pay the service a small percentage reference fee each month. The
non-profit purchasing service uses this
eligible
AFL-CIO
to
union member
register
for
is
identifica-
tion purposes with the Union Purchasing Service. Non-union people
can register, too, but they must
pay a SI fee.
Any registered member who is in the
market for almost anything simply calls
the service on the phone. He names the
item he wants, giving the make and
model
the
The
number,
if possible.
purchasing
lowest
service
price
then
available,
purchase order, and directs
ber to one or more places
item can be purchased at
quoted.
How much can the buyer
depends. On photographic
for example,
the purchasing
quotes
issues
a
the memwhere the
the price
save? It
material,
service can
obtain prices at 20 to 30 per cent below
retail prices. On major appliances—refrigerators,
washers
stoves,
and
dryers
—the difference might be as much as
40 or 50 per cent below retail. On small
items, it generally will be 20 per cent
or more.
The Detroit program can provide almost everything in the home furnishing
line as well as automobile accessories,
toys, and such miscellaneous items—as
jewelry, watches, clocks, typewriters,
cameras, portable tools, or luggage.
"We
shop
the motto.
so that
you
can
save,"
is
The service saves consumer
members more than just the differ-
ence in price.
er
avoid
the
It helps the consum-
various
gimmicks
some dealers will use sometimes to
peddle slow-moving merchandise.
For instance, not long ago aman with
a wholesale meat and a freezer business
contacted the Union Purchasing Service. He wanted to sign up and announced that he would sell freezers for
"practically nothing" just to get the
meat business with purchasers of freezers.
The Union Purchasing Service checked
him out. They found the freezers he was
offering could be obtained for much
less than he was offering. And they
RETAILERS often advertise low prices then make a huge profit on “carrying charges.” The Union Purchasing
Service therefore urges members to pay cash for appliances and furniture and other large items. It recommends that
workers,
if
they
have
to
finance
their
purchases,
rrow
the
money
from
their
Federal
Credit
Union,
Chrysler A.B.D. Federal Credit Union shown in the picture at the left. At the right is a DAW member
rangements for a loan at his Credit Union in order to finance the purchase of some home furnishings,
like
the
making ar-
found
that
his meat
was
overpriced
or,
where the price was interesting, the
meat was not top grade. He was turned
down.
Many dealers also advertise inviting
Sul
UNITED
Page 7
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
5th Annual Skilled Trades Conference
Will Commence in Chicago December 10
The fifth annual Skilled Trades Conference, postponed|
from September, will be held December 10, 11 and 12 at the
Morrison Hotel, Chicago. Stimulated by the impact of rapid-}
|
ly expanding plans for automation in industry, by sweeping
augeded an agethey're
or-
effave found a way
ewe wages and bet-
in
sometimes
ay.
pipuge.
1 #e are signing up
dailich maintains a
Q ‘
he charges the
s with a high
i ines
parents.
appliances-—but
large
fon
TESTING out a dayenport is great fun this
youngster finds during a shopping tour with
her
| items on time
llg:alled “carrying
payments
charges”
© that the buyer winds up
4 more than the full retail
for 100
||
ei
Purchasing
Union
The
lish.
of |
production workers in industry, Vice President Gosser
said that today in Ford Motor
Company alone, the average
delegates will be considering has risen to 15.8 per cent, and
the problems of about 150,000 this figure of more than douUAW workers in the skilled bling the former ratio of
skilled workers to production
trades.
Vice President Richard T. workers is the trend in all in:
Gosser, director of the Skilled dustry.
Since the 1955 conference,
Trades Department, will be
40 new apprenticeship agreechairman of the Conference.
To Chair Meeting
and
ned
sig
n
bee
e
hav
ts
will
men
rs
office
UAW
top
six
All
RICHARD T. GOSSER
attend along with Region 1A put into effect, Gosser said.
Co-Director Joseph McCusker, This was accompanied by that
agree- and prestige in manufacture
skilled trades
who, with Vice Presidents many
, and
Gosser and Norman Matthews ments as well. More than 10,- ing, the problems change
acute,
make up the UAW Executive 000 journeyman cards have frequently grow more
phere in
Board’s Skilled Trades Com- been issued, and the flow of This is the atmos
which the fifth annual Skilled
applications remains steady.
mittee,
As the skilled worker stead- Trades Conference will conPointing out that less than
increases in importance vene.
15 years ago there were about!ily
<j) pack just as
fimas shopping
ww
workers
skilled
seven
ratios
increasing
steadily
technological changes, and by
skilled workers to production
workers, this promises to be
one of the most important
such conferences ever held by
the skilled trades workers.
Eight hundred and forty
afore urges its members to
if necessary,
i,
to finance
dise through their Federal
46 |. By using the Credit Unsti @p the “carrying charges’
dite minimum.
ig)
4
Kae
aX
gers are skeptical—or.even
silblligerent—when contacted
ace. But, once they sign a
ietitract, they generally renew
and again.
ne ain
4 dealer turned the servblegcold the first time. Then
vi de in and signed up but
ort 1 that he was suspicious
fb sltole deal. A year later he
hk and signed
mm
enthusiastic this time and
vimgyanted to apologize and
iiput that he had added
“walvorth of business through
'
on! fa lady in a small town near
had heard about the Unvot!
nl#ising Service through the
» and television programs
fey Guy
Nunn,
“hj
director of the Union’s
attendOffice and Technical Workers’ Department, addresses some 100 delegates
, held reing Local 889’s educational conference on collective bargaining problems
al 889, was incently at Local 155 hall. The conference, first of its kind held by Loc
te collar
tended primarily to better acquaint stewards from the Local’s 21 whi
nded
units with their collective bargaining rights. It was the kick-off of an expa
educational program for salaried workers.
—
wrote:
efto tell you that the purchasdis really something. | visited
itn she was directed to) reed was rather skeptical of re-
Id and the saving was more
| the trip to Detroit. Many
mo
fit one of the thousands of
voawho have learned the truth
ice, "Be Wise, Organize!"
that
COLUMBUS,
first
\ IATTHEWS,
NORMAN
civil
UAW
Ohio—Set
rights legislation
Civil
Rights
to a theme
can
pass
Conference
of killing Rule
in the next
held
ever
22
Congress,
in Regions
so
the
2,
9A and 2B—covering Ohio, western Pennsylvania and West
Virginia—drew some 400 delegates, visitors and resource ex-
|
>
sda
THIS
IS Mrs.
if
Leona Rizner, the lady
in charge of the office of the Union Purchasing Service.
perts.
The two-day confab, scheduled to be a biennial affair,
was jointly sponsored by Region 2 Director
Pat O'Malley,
Region 2A Director Ray Ross,
Region 2B Director Charles
Fair
Ballard, and the UAW
—}
‘ js Helpers
vovroit area
Practices Department under
the co-direction of President
Walter
> in Call
“|| 1-1477
P,
Reuther
and
Co-
Director William Oliver.
At the opening session,
Secretary-Treasurer
UAW
m.-5 p.m.)
Emil Mazey was the keynote speaker. He reviewed
the battle for civil rights
o{formation
and civil liberties, blasted
away at Rule 22, the White
Citizens’ Councils, reaction-
x
onion
of ichasing
“alervice
PRESIDENT
UAW Civil Rights Confab
Draws 400, Hits Rule 22
| called; sec-
4 came ‘away thrilled with my
ind the courteous treatment
VICE
UAW
fecting this letter to you bebf all | wish to thank you for
dze to me when
oc,
THE whole family is interested in
how much can be stored in the new refrigerator,
up again.
THE NAMES of all registered members of the
Union Purchasing Service are in this cross-file, used
to check on callers seeking information on merchan-
dise available, The lady is Mrs, Livia Tonascu,
ary Congressmen like Senator Eastland, and wound
up by urging the delegates
to do a better political ac-
tion job on all levels,
Other featured speakers
were African labor leader Tom
MBoya, UAW Vice=Presidents
Pat Greathouse-and Norman
Matthews, Political Action Co-|»
ordinator Roy Reuther, and
the directors of UAW Regions
“He’s sore since he saw his
2, 2A, and 2B (represented by
picture on a non-union pack
Orville Beamer), as well as
of cigarettes!”
Fair Practices Co-Director
Columbus
William Oliver,
Named
Mayor Sensenbrenner wel- McCusker
comed
the
delegates
and
vis-
itors,
civie, social and
groups made
ticipation
was
concerned,
UAW
the
the
a
par-
which
Side
of
Detroit,
to
fill
County
Wayne
pervisors
covers
1A,
named
cilman
co-director
Region
West
been
labor
the Conference
fullone as far as delegate
of
Board
McCusker,
Joseph
A total of six morning and
workshops
six afternoon
staffed by resource experts
from many cities and many
different
County
To
by
Edward
Detroit
a
has
vacancy
on
of
Su-
Board
City
D, Connor,
County includes the city
troit and its suburbs,
Coun.
Wayne
of
De-
ee
a
ee
SE
ec)
eS
e
Page 8
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
<
UAW Urges U.S. Take Lead
In Securing Middle East Peace
December,
t Came
1956
From Out Of Nowhere
A UAW resolution on the explosive Middle East situation declares that peace in that
area must be based on an honorable peace negotiated directly between Israel and her Arab
neighbors and on the United States taking the leadership in working out a long-range economic aid program to help all the countries of the Middle East to fight and conquer their
chronic poverty and to raise their living standards to a decent and healthful level.
Immediate blame for the situation was placed by the
free nation by the open and deUnion’s resolution on the ‘‘or nen and declared state of war clared state of war against Israel
against Israel by Dictator Nasser of Egypt and the heads of by Dictator Nasser of Egypt and
the heads of other Arab states and
—_________.__.
ther?
and
states
Arab
other
in the Detroit area to consider the
refusal to negotiate a peace
agreement with Israel.”
It puts this factor against
the background of ‘‘the awak-
dangerous
international
Excerpts
follow:
LET’S
ening of fanatical nationalism,
from
FIGHT
the
situation.
resolution
HUNGER
“In this situation the members
of the UAW feel a strong bond of
the sharpening of ancient religions hatred, the stupidity friendship and sympathy for the
ofall the nations of the
of British and French colonial people
Middle East, and we share the
inand
on
ati
ill
vac
the
cy,
poli
hope that peace can be restored
n
eig
for
decision of American
so that America and the free napolicy, and finally the aggres- tions of the world, working
sive drive of the Soviet Union through the United Nations, may
cooperate
with and extend ecoto dominate this strategic area nomic aid to all the people of the
of the world through its re- Middle East: including the Arab
cent efforts at economic and nations and Israel so that instead
military penetration and po- of fighting each other they may
jointly take on the task of ecolitical subversion.’”
nomic and
social construction and
their refusal to negotiate a peace
agreement with Israel, the denial
by
Nasser
of passage
of Israeli
ship$ through the Suez Canal, the
growing belligerence and increased
terroristic activities against Israel
by Dictator Nasser’s raiders, en-
couraged by
strengthened
Soviet scheming and
by Soviet arms, fi-
nally culminated in military action on the part of Israel before
Soviet arms being poured into
Egypt overwhelmed Israel and
made
nation
her
very
existence
as a free
impossible.
“We
believe that any longrange settlement .. . must pro-
vide for equal access to the Suez
Canal
by
all
nations
large
and
small for their peacetime
mercial pursuits,
com-
SUPPORTS CEASE FIRE
The resolution declares the Un-
together fight their common enemies, poverty, hunger, ignorance
“We urge that the United States
take the leadership through the
fire
agreement
out of a long-range economic aid
program to help the countries of
tion
in disregard
“We wholeheartedly and vigorously support the protest of the
United States Government against
ion’s
of
and
French
British
sibilities
to
despite
their
states
forcibly
of
ac-
respon-
United
extreme
bond
the
unilateral
the
strong
condemns
of
the
by Nasser.
It
and
and
cease-
UN’s
the
support
Nations,
provocation
the
the threat of use of so-called “vol-
unteers” from the Soviet Union
and Red China. This threat ...
is not
UAW’s
friendship
and
the
belligerent
rulers
of some
countries.
UAW President
ther
was
resolution
attitudes
authorized
at
November
a
present
of
meeting
of local
union
at
penetration
economic
and
and
to
OF
the
their
military
political
subver-
sion of the Middle East.
the YEARS
in
to exploit
crisis and to further
efforts
P. Reu-
to draft
as a contribution
of the Communists
of the Arab
Walter
made
the establishment of peace but is
a hypocritical effort on the part
with
and sympathy for all the Middle
Eastern peoples, despite the hostile
disease.
leaders
UAW’s Annual
Tenpin Tourney
Deadline’s Ahead
Michigan GOP
Kills Comp Bill
After Vote’s In
The
UAW’s
tournament
annual
will
be
bowling
held
at
Key
LANSING, Michigan—The
Republican-controlled Miehigan State Legislature completed its miserable 1956 record
last month by finally killing
Lanes, Fort Wayne, Indiana, for
eight straight weekends starting
Williams’ bill to liberalize unemployment compensation ben-
expected
outright
efits.
Democratic
There
was
Governor
not
even
“enlogy’’ this time.
Governor Williams had
tne
Legislature
fore
it a plan
sion
last
imum
26
to
June
duration
39
into
special
and
had
of
weeks,
¥
called
laid
to extend
the
benefits
and
to
a
ses-
be-
max-
February
Men's
and
bles and
each
$9,500
The
2.
women’s
team
events
weekend.
to
The
singles,
will
be
prize
exceed
last
year’s
deadline for entries
11,
1957.
tries
should
be
Questions
sent
to
is
is Janand
the
en-
UAW
Recreation Department, 8000-East
Jefferson Avenue, Detroit 14, Michigan.
from
forthe
working
Highlights of Local Union Resolution
Urging Support for Hungarian People
bid for
freedom
by
See Story on Page 3
cere but futile
sympathy from
peoples of the
quent speeches
expressions of
the democratic
world. The eloand resolutions
a month-to-month
cratic
program
despite
the
fact
at
the
that
75,000
unemployed
their
unemployment
workers
have
more
ed
to
finally
than
the
The
trolled
new,
January.
Legislature,
still
will
and
House}
8 vot-
special
benefits.
but
GOP-conmeet
survived
the
and
sup-
the resolution of the United
free
in
the
people
to
of the
the
power
Soviet
world
naked
use
and terrordictatorship
the aspirations
people
of
THE MEMBERSHIP is justly proud of Local Union 579’s new $100,000 home. The structure, on the
outskirts of Danville, Illinois, has an auditorium with
a seating capacity of 2,000; a full set of conference,
office and recreational facilities.
of
that
country
of
establish a government
regain
choosing and
own
full political and spiritual
freedom.
“To the
compensa-
adjourn
who
opposition
may
their
their
and
session,
thus
killing
the
Governor’s bill to raise unemployment
compensation
that
of
exhausted
tion benefits, Senate and
Republicans on November
new
ruth-
and
immediate
an
calling’ for
complete withdrawal of Soviet
military forces from Hungary so
Michigan
now
days
the Hungarian people to win
freedom.
“We unanimously endorse the
decision of the United Nations
his Demo-|
polls,
two
wholeheartedly
in crushing
tion.
Governor Williams and
with
down
youths
of military
ism by the
com-
victory
brave
in
recess,
fifth time—until
November 8,
two days after the general eleclandslide
again
less and murderous butchery the
successful
struggle
for freedom
and to further betray their promises of no reprisals by the forced
deportation
to Siberia of the
of the
On September 19, the Republican majority voted to recess a
the
in
Nations which expresses the
moral condemnation on the part
“to study the unemployment sitIt managed
to ignore||
uation.”
Despite
to put
later
port
act-
figures
back
“We
meeting for a day or two each}
month, and then recessing again
| /
high unemployment
pletely.
them
of the United Nations which valiant fight for democracy
express the outrage and in- freedom.
dignation of the free world do SUPPORT UN RESOLUTION
ing on the Governor’s bill—which| |
had the endorsement of the UAW}
—called
urging
and
of Hungary
people
to hold
local unions
UAW
Ford Pays Salaries
For GOP Politicking
increase
the ceiling on benefits.
The Legislature, to avoid
the
of
Soviet suppression
Below are some of the high points of the resolution condemning
meetings to protest Soviet brutality and to raise funds for the relief of Hungarian people.
“Free men throughout the
world have been shocked and not restore freedom to the
outraged at the savagely bru- heroic Hungarians nor bring
tal suppression by the Soviet baek to life their martyrs to
Ford election workers failed
to prevent a Republican route
dictators of the desperate the cause of freedom.
in Detroit, which went solidly
“We are sickened at the cynical
galthe
by
reach for freedom
Democratic, but Ford tried.
deceit and betrayal of the KremSalaried
personnel
were
lant people of Hungary.
lin masters who at first acknowlgiven
the chance
to get out
““Wehave been sick at heart edged the ascendancy of the new
the vote
Election
Day—with
Ford paying their regular salthat the only response to their Hungarian government and withary.
appeals for help has been sin- drew their troops, only to march
On
the surface,
it was just
run
take
kitty.
uary
dou-
Nations
the Middle East...”
the
THREAT
“We regret that years of-threat
to Israel's very existence
as a
mid-
United
people
in particular
to
of
the
Hungary,
Hungari-
an workers who, having laid down
overbeing
after
their arms
whelmed by the size, the power
and the brutality of the Soviet
invasion, still hold high the torch
of human freedom by continuing
their struggle through strike action and other forms of passive
resistance, we pledge our sympa-
a good
BUT—
citizenship
e@ The
offer
gesture,
was
limited
to
salaried personnel. It was not
extended to production work-
ers.
e@ And those accepting the
opportunity
had
to indicate
which party they were going
to help.
The salaried man, eager for
a bright future at Ford, certainly might not feel he had
much choice in party designa-
tion.
thy and
darity.
friendship
and
our
soli-
SUPPLIES FOR HUNGARY
“To hasten the day when
people
and
workers
of
the
Hungary,
Poland and other countries behind
the Iron Curtain can take their
rightful places in the world community of free nations and enjoy
the
and
do
blessings
human
all
in
our
of
peace,
dignity,
power
we
to
freedom
resolve
help
to
them
achieve this end. As an immediate project we are determined to
raise’ funds for medical supplies,
food, clothing and other necessities to relieve the suffering of the
Hungarian
people,
relocate
and
homes
their
garian
ruthless
“The
driven
Soviet
tragic
underscores
to
rehabilitate
refugees
in
and
native
for the revision
ing of the United
land
imperialism.
lesson
the
from
of
help
Hun-
their
by
Hungary
compelling
need
and strengthenNations charter,
so that the United Nations does
not suffer the same fate as that
which
befell
tions.”
~
the
League
of
Na-
1956
December,
medium-price field.”’
In order to avoid being
kicked out of the fraternity, |
the
blers
prices
an
October
over
cent
that
reported
previous month
He is survived by a widow, two married sons, two children
at home and thousands of Union brothers and sisters who
have been inspired by Sayen’s ideals and his devotion to his
fellow man.
sales
factor
improvement
automatic
and |
UAW
offset
than
more
vances
izing.
per
technological ad-
though
Eyen
have only one
a fence he paused to shout, ‘‘ We
Mounting
as October,
same
the
were about
1955.
he served
police brutality
were
“bold
Corsales
previous month
the
gas and
of the tear
height
the
At
trouble.
was
life to give for our Union.’’ His cry became the battle ery of
the workers massed there, And it was their spirit which
carried the day.
A staff member since 1938, he spent his entire lite organ-
31.6
about
rose
there
as part of the front line which held a plant.
there
Early last month
AMC's
that
indications
move” might pay off. The
poration reported its new car
in
and
¢
Ram-
UP
SALES
AMC
s days of the Flint sitdowns
1937, he was Joe Everywhere—
of men like
today
UAW
dedication
Sa; n, the
the
of
Because
Repres
the
everywhere
cent.
per
of 5.35
average
During
in 1936
boosted
its six-cylinder
on
Texas
ntative Joseph
stretches from Texas to ( Janada and from
Maine to the West Coast.
Joe Sayen died at his home here this past
month. He was still organizing virtually to
the day he had that fatal heart attack. Ie
started persuading workers to join the UAW
almost before there was a UAW.
for sales in the?
American
DALLAS,
[fiternational
of pace on the part of American Motors Corporation,
its Nash Ambassador and Hudson Hirof
es
pric
list
ory
fact
i
ses
rea
dec
ced
oun
ann
AMC
designed ‘‘to make
e”’
mov
ld
‘‘bo
a
as
bed
cri
des
it
t
wha
in
78
$
to
$236
m
fro
net cars ranging
however,
Fatal Heart Attack
Has
s in the auto indusyear
nt
rece
in
t
edur
proc
g
atin
oper
dard
stan
s,
tice
prac
Price gouging
t for a refreshing chang
cep
—ex
els
mod
1957
on
ced
oun
ann
were
s
ease
incr
as
d
inue
try, cont
bid
9
Flint Hero Joe Sayen
AMC Cuts Some 1957 Prices;
Big Three Gouge Public Agam
a stronger
Page
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
cost-of-living increases in
auto industry and the fact
and
the
Magazine,
to Steel
try, according
indus-
the
in
statisticians
that
estimate that the cost of steel in
500 automobile is increased
only $14 by the recent steel price
boost, the auto industry again
falsely blamed “increased labor
and material costs” for its price
increases.
UP
PRICES
GO
GM
bumped
to
$95
from
prices
up
Chevrolet
Buick,
$194;
from $193 to $299 on various mod-
prices $213
Oldsmobile
els; jumped
to $427, and increased the factory
list prices on Pontiac models from
to $317.
is inalso
automation
which
much
Chrysler,
corporating
the
raised
production,
into
models
Plymouth
of
prices
from $69.50 to $170.50; Chrys-
lers from $31 to $302 and DeSoto models from $128 to $220.
its
suggested
jumped
models;
Ford
on
to $155
$61
from
prices
ed
boost-
Company
Motor
Ford
The
list prices on Mercury models
from
its deluxe,
four-
the
$100
on
door
hardtop
sedan
to $358
four-door
Montclair
on
wagon.
station
Studebaker came out with 1957
factory list prices increased from
over
to $172
$48
els
last
comparable
mod-
year.
ON
RACE
ANNUAL
price
their
“justified”
Having
gouging of the public, even in the
face of a warning from the presi-
dent
of
ley,
that
Dealers’
make
.National
the
Association,
higher
price
B. Frib-
tags
could
and one
million
in which
cars are
on
off
set
Big Three
the
annual production scramble.
November
uled
Carl
the difference between a 6%
million ear year
to six
only 5%
sold,
their
Automobile
at
67
per
vious month,
748,500 cars
members, John Sanderson,
left, whose father works at Kelsey-Hayes, and James
Webb, son of a Dodge Main worker, inspect a model
of the new Gratiot-Orleans Housing Development.
The area was just lying fallow until the UAW took
the initiative on forming a citizens’ council; gave
$10,000 to the project. The Building Trades donated
$5,000 to further plans.
Vertol Workers Win
Initial UAW Contract
Leonard
President
Department,
craft
just before ‘cutbacks
ber of 1
started which snowballed into the
massive layoffs of 1956
Region
and
&
battled
tract
which
the
Piasecki
and
UAW
in
successful
bitterly
blocking
elections
NLRB
Local
picked
this
five
year.
in
gains
1069, which, incidenup 700 new members
negotiations
during
the
were
the
and
has
now
2,250 of the plant's 2,700 employes
on checkoff.
Including a 10-cent hourly increase granted by the Company
just before the certification election,
Vertol
picked
workers
up
14
Local
Bob
Ormsby,
Union
Local
669,
Tom
a
ur father’s lunch to him.
“Take
I put just dry bread crusts in
it today to remind him to ask
for that raise!”
reopener
wage
in
of 12 cents
a result of a
a
two-year
six
for
seven
pay.
days’
sick
weeks’
three
two
and
by
work
sion
plan
for
one-half
and
as such;
automatic
minimum
and
range,
to
a
covered
non-contributory
which
ar-
including
procedure,
time
new
a
year;
vacation after one year
weeks after 12 years;
provision,
employes now are
All
five
one
after
leave
includes
pen-
vested
to
$80
rity,
A
10
a
years’
month
unique
from
were
the agents
would
records
able
court,
be
the direct
charges
Curtis
unions
made
(R., Neb.)
the
and
the
old
con-
for
a
age
at
plus
Social
feature
of
contributory
50
Secu-
the
to non-
Interest
visions
for
of
is
plan,
in
the
UAW
that
to
Council
Carl
local
were
provided
refunds
with
insurance
pro-
contributions
new
company-pald
retirees,
federal
Senator
CIO
Life
avail-
of pre-election
receive
thelr
that
believed
pensions
contributory
although
of a
result
by
re-
such
made
be
investigation
The
of finan-
informed
order
upon
amounting
service
benefits
refused
was
workers
provisions,
disability
quest
that
rights, early retirement
and
Each
cial secretaries.
jury
asked
they
the boc
to inspect
strong
Motors
cases,
some
In
work;
provides
also
cost-of-living
Wright,
and
;
from
progression
of rate
maximum
version
office
at
sec-
and
holidays
paid
7, just
November
of
morning
the
Michigan—On
this General
hold.
per
for
Starts Day After Nation Voted
after all the election results were in, PBI agents appeared at
five UAW local unions and at the CIO Council office here in
pref-
10
hours’
a half
and
contract
The
after
employes
bonus
a
Probe of Flint Political Activities
FLINT,
ond shift ahd eight per cent for
third shift plus eight hours’ pay
669 represents
Local
agreement,
production workers and Local 300,
technical
shift
and
shift
night
Saturday
that
report
300,
Local
Lazio,
at
workers
Aeronautical
Wright
a
won
Jersey,
New
Paterson,
general wage incres
an hour recently as
cent
include:
seniority;
by
bitration;
Presidents
and
erence
2,
June
until
runs
seniority
by
addition
the con-
seniority within ocgroups with promo-
plant-wide
cupational
tion
automatic
provisions
Other
grievance
12-Cent Raise Won
At Wright Aeronautical
UAW
in
in
seven cents an hour
effective June 1, 1957,
particularly
contract
of new
to members
\ the initial
satisfying
UAW
tally,
before
makes
history
That
and
an
and
hour
an
Vertol
pre-
Piathis
have
Vice
National Air-
the
of
director
cents
still 13 per cent below
produced in Noyem-
the
Woodcock,
9 Director Martin Gerber have
announced,
above
was
CLEARANCE
FOR SLUM
SPADEWORK
aided by organized labor in Detroit so it was natural
for unions to be represented at ground-breaking for
$35 million Gratiot Redevelopment project. Manning
dent Marion Macioce
shovels from left, are Vice Pr
of Detroit Building Trades Council, Sen. Pat V. MeNamara (D.-Mich.), Goy. G. Mennen Williams, Secretary-Treasurer L. M. Weir of Carpenters District
Council and UAW President Walter P. Reuther.
Workers at Vertol Aircra ft Corporation (formerly
secki), where the UAW won a certification election earlier
year to cap an organizing drive spread over 10 years,
ratified overwhelmingly their initial contract, UAW
production was schedcent
of UAW
SONS
TWO
@
$124
contract
$1,000
to
call
policy
emphatically
Curtis
when
the charges
them.
a
then,
Since
election
federal
of
in violation
laws.
The CIO
denied
made
Grand
Federal
Bay
City,
Michigan,
agreed
membership
and
executive
board
at
Jury
Subpoeto look into the charg
nas were issued for: minutes of
records.
Union
and
checks
cancelled
ments,
financial
complete
meetings,
state-
other
Region 1C Director Robert Carproceedthe
on
ter commented
ings:
and
and
We
‘“‘We
we
have
say
it
it many
said
times,
again—the
its locals have nothing to hide,
shall cooperate with all legal
Jury,
of the Grand
orders
have taken the position that
right
to
protected
and
UAW
by
continue
freedom
under
established
to defend
of
the
We
our
expression
Is
Constitution
law,
that
We
shall
position,”
Page
UNITED
10
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
December,
1956
UAW Folks Go Strong for Adlai;
Liberals Defeat Ike’s Buddies
UAW
members,
an analysi
of areas
where
UAW
mem-
|bership is concentrated shows, supported overwhelmingly in
the November elections the endorsement of the candidacies of
Adlai
Stevenson
better
than
Special
97
Election
and
per
Estes
cent
Year
Kefauyer
majority
was
delegates
held
voted
by a
to the
UAW
in September.
pgSe
ee aa
ee
of
concentration
greatest
by
Conference
This showed up particularly
in the Detroit vote, where the
which
while
|
Republicans
re-
UAW members is found: The placed Democrats in Ohio
Stevenson-Kefauver ticket West Virginia.
carried Detroit by 64.7 per LIBERAL BLOC BOLSTERED
cent,
an
cent
increase
over
All right, who’s the genius?
er
Its
prominent
functions
advisory
set
up
are
similar
committees
by
the
to the
which
UAW
in
were
past
years
to aid in the development
various other programs, such
pensions
and
Supplemental
employment
Among
by
@
The
up
retired
the
Un-
Committee
Regional
headed
McAulay
(1B),
Directors
Raymond
than
on
personalities.
But,
at
the
that
Party
majority
same
time
that
which
he
heads
a Democratic Conis the first time in
the
voters
congressional
have
majority
party in opposition
of
the
chosen
of
a
the
to the party
President-elect.
In .the
Senate, the Democratic majority
is 49 to 47. In the House,
Democrats
jority
increased
to at least
their
36 with
ma-
three
races remaining in doubt.
The Democrats also increased
by
the number of governors representing their party in the roster
of the 48 states. Of the 30 gubernatorial offices up for election
William
(3) and George Merrelli (1).
the
but
108 years—back when Zachary
Taylor was elected President—
President
Reuther.
It includes
Vice
President
Richard
Gosser
and
popularity,
that
this
Berndt
tured
UAW
staff consultants also attended.
year,
the
16 and
Democrats
Democrats
the Republicans,
replaced
for
the
most
cap-
14.
Republican
of
that
party
gressional
in
and
tions.
the
con-
gubernatorial
elec-
Particularly
both
noteworthy
were
the victories of Senators Wayne
Morse
of Oregon,
Warren
Mag-
nusson of Washington and Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania.
In
each of these cases, these lib-
eral Democrats defeated close
personal friends of President
Eisenhower, two of whom were
handpicked
by
him
to make
the
races—Governor Arthur Langlie
of Washington, keynote speaker
atthe Republican National Convention, and former Secretary of
the Interior Douglas McKay in
Oregon.
President
McKay
order
Morse,
One”
resign
to
the
one
Senator
Republicans’
Duff
of
“Eisenhower
even
his Cabinet
oppose
target.
Senator
was
Eisenhower
of
the
for
post
had
general
the
“Number
Pennsylvania
leaders
President”
of
Union
should
paign’ within the bitterly fought
Republican Convention of 1952.
NEW DEALER IN
Former Governor Dan Thornton of Colorado was another close
Eisenhower
He
went
friend
down
to
and
supporter.
defeat
at
community
as
a whole
workers’
to
centers
munity
working
on
with
housing
for
with
set
The
Union
prove
should
medical
care
for
seek
seek
to
set
peo-
support
Union
to im-
programs
continue
legislation,
and
can-dominated
erwhelming
press
gave
majority
THE BASE FOR A SOLID UNDERSTANDING between farmers and workers
was laid at this first annual banquet held at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana,
recently. It was jointly sponsored by the CIO and the National Farmers Unién with
550 persons attending.. Speaking is Leon Keyserling, economic adviser to both
Also pictured: John Raber, center,
President Roosevelt and President Truman.
president of the Indiana NFU, and John Wells, public relations director for the
Delaware County Industrial Union Council.
to}
Republi-
of
with
campaigners
liberal
Senator
McCar®
and
gallant
los-
ers—Adlai B. Stevenson and
Estes Kefauver.
We
know
that opinion“is shared by the
officers of the Union and the
overwhelming
membership.
majority of its
In his speech
conceding
the
etection to his opponent, Stevenson described the contest as “a
vigorous partisan contest
affirmed again the vitality
Democratic process.
that has
of
the
SOUGHT BETTER AMERICA
“I have tried to chart the road
to a new and better America,”
he continued. “I want to say to
all of you
who
have
followed
me
that
I am
supremely
confident
that our cause will ultimately prevail although we may have lost a
battle.
“But even more urgent is the
hope that our leaders will recognize that America wants to face
squarely
world.
back
to
We
from
the
facts
don’t
them.
to
America
be
of
of
to-
want
We
to
can't,
continue,
the
shield
democracy..
LIBERAL
And
we
under
and
let
the
us
POLICIES
of issues
democracy
total
Republican
The
ov-| Eisenhower
getting
front-| jthe
total
coverage
would
And
vital
and
the
history. They
contest out
licans had
to end!
an
Church,
The editors of The United
Automobile Worker believe
that the American people owe
a great debt to two courageous
world
| U.S. Press Gives Break to GOP|
WASHINGTON—The
Frank
the
32-
Adlai and Estes
Advanced Cause
Of True Liberals
can
educational|
other means
welcomed,
too,
Idaho of young,
Wisconsin.
cussion
a compre-
should
assist-
Despite
the
Eisenhower
landslide, these two men brought the
campaign to a high level on dis-
program
should
include
job coun elling
for “middle-aged
workers.”
The
of
FOR
This
@
special
give the Administration
all responsible support in the troubled
times ahead.”
hensive educational program with
pre-retirement®
and
post-retirement counseling.
@
thy
spear
retirees.
up
a
former
Boise City attorney, over the incumbent Senator Welker, whose
reactionary record as a senator
is further strained by a close
God,
@® The Union, in cooperation with
management and the community,
should
year-old
“May
ple, the Union should seek “integrated” housing which retirees
could share with the rest of the
population.
@
and
a
We are ready for the test that
know history has set for us.
com-
older
the
Carroll,
President Truman and a
New Deal and Fair Deal
Liberals
victory in
draw
which
the
ant to
leading
day’s
will satisfy “the total needs” of
its senior citizens, in both large
and small cities.
@iIn
congressman
up
were:
work
the
cam-
conclusions
Committee
in
Wayne
Benefits.
the
reached
of
as
Workers’
show
by electing
gress. This
in the
experts
do
publican
field of geriatrics, held an
initial two-day meeting in Solidarity House at press time.
The Committee was called
together by UAW President discrimination in the hiring of
older workers.
Walter P. Reuther. It is ‘ad@ The Union was urged to sponvising the Union on its long- sor further research into the
range program for retired needs of retired workers.
Meeting with 15 national auworkers. The program will be
thorities from the Advisory Comsubmitted to the next UAW mittee were members of the
UAW Executive Board’s Retired
Convention in April.
tionally
personal
gains,
John
friendship
part, strengthened the liberal wing
ISSUES
voters were giving a personal
vote. of confidence
to Eisenhower, they repudiated the Re-
up of na-
which is made
ON
of UAW
members
based their
votes on the issues involved rath-
The UAW is awaiting additional recommendations from
its new National Advisory Committee for the UAW Retired
after the group,
VOTED
they
For All Retired Workers
Program,
vote
and
What is more important than
the statistics, however, is that the
Democratic
hower'’s
Union Studies Program
Workers’
per
The UAW votes were not enough
to overcome
the tremendous
sweep built up by President Eisen-
COPYRIGHT 1955 CARTOONS-OF-THE-MONTH
.
4,2
the Stevenson
in 1952.
WE
of
of
figure,
| governors in Oregon, Washington,
| Kansas, Colorado, Iowa and Massachusetts,
hands
in
be
a
of what
expected
made
routine
view
of
the
to
Ameri-
course
of
a sharp
the Repuband hoped
campaign.
Democratic
majorities
in the
congressional
contests, it
and gubernatorial
would
lican
gram
appear
that
outlined
by
voters
agreed
most
with
Repub-
the
Stevenson
Kefauver even though they
personally attracted to Ike.
proand
were
}
showed
half
of
given
page election coverage during the | four candidates, Stevenson
recent campaign to the Republi- 36 per cent, Nixon 9 per
can ticket of President Eisenhow- and Kefauver
only 5 per
all
only
cent
cent.
Eisenhower was given a substanNew York Times story disclosed. | tial edge in press coverage every
except
October
2-8 when
The
study was
conducted
by| week
er
and
Press
does
Vice
President
Inc.,
for
private
business
covered
650
government
vey
clipping
agencies.
Sunday newspapers
84 per cent of the
per
tion.
which} both candidates
Intelligence,
newspaper
alysis
Nixon, al
cent
The
of
survey
Republican
Nixon
the
front-page
The
daily
and
showed
59
headline
an-
and}
sur-
326
representing
daily and 97
Sunday
ticket
received
and
of
per
circula-
that
the
Eisenhowercent
space
of the
ceived
41
for President
per cent. Nixon was
vored
every
week
except
first, September
11-17.
The
more
refa-
the
press coverage
became
and
more
pro-Republi-
can
as the
campaign
neared
the
final
stages.
From
October 16-22 the press favored the
GOP 61 per cent to 39 per cent
for the
On
Democrats.
October
to only | ber 1 the
30, 31
and
Novem-
Republicans held a bet41 per cent for the Democratic |ter than two-to-one margin, getticket of Stevenson-Kefauver in ting 68 per cent of the press
the 52 days between September
coverage to 32 per cent for the
11
and
November
1
Democrats.
ST. JOSEPH, Missouri—UAW Vice President Pat Greathouse, left, director of
the Union’s Agricultural Implement Department, congratulates officers of the National Farm Organization on their election. Left to right: Oren Lee Staley, Rea,
Missouri, president; William Barnes, Lamoni, Iowa, secretary; Clifford Houck, Corning, Iowa, treasurer, and Bob Casper, Winterset, Iowa, vice president.
F
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—_—_—K—X———X—sXSX
December, 1956
Ford, Chrysler Councils Vote
II
For ’58
Goal
Major
Week
Work
Shorter
Page
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
Both UAW Councils Also Endorse
Industry-Wide Preferential Hiring
ates voted
Both the National Ford Conference and the National Chrysler Conference deleg
r eollective barsolid endorsement of the shorter work week, with increased pay, as a majo
The UAW
gaining demand in negotiations with the Big Three auto corporations in 192
National GM Conference passed a similar resolution earlier this year.
was among the
Approval of the resolution on the shorter work week and increased pay
ember and Ocactions taken at the Ford and Chrysler Conferences held, respectively, in Sept
tober, in Detroit.
Ford
Chrysler
delegates
discussed
ther and
tor of the
to
to the National Chrysler Conference and
by both UAW President Walter P. ReuVice President Norman Matthews, direcNational Chrysler Department.
Chrysler
Colbert,
L.
L.
by
employes
all
a letter
cited
Matthews
President
Vice
written
presi-
poration
dent, in which he emphasized that the Cor
of the market
was going to try fora bigger share
ards.
“We are
Corporation
Matthews
alterably
THESE CHRYSLER workers are laying the base”
for the 1958 demands. Delegates to the UAW’s Chrysler Conference in Detroit digest the complex economic
facts out of which demands are born. This Conference, and others ahead much like it, will assure UAW
members of a solid foundation for winning the shorter work week in the next negotiations.
stand-
work
‘
not going to agree to subsidize the
through increased work standards,”
said.
“The
the
Union
opposed
International
I am
to speed-ups.
not
should
Chrysler
in
Union
is un-
to
going
establish
ASSURED
SUPPORT
Chrysler
“In
there
where
are
we
the
to
say
standards,
loose
that
leadership
problems
the
line
be faced practically and realistically in
commented President
a fair day's work,”
must
with
Reuther.
other
the
on
“Tf,
the
hand,
tries
Carporation
to
push too far, and the Local Union has a legitimate
the
production standard grievance, and where
Routine Hospitalization Plans
Fail to Meet Health Needs
er by
membership is willing to fight on this matt
contractual
all the constitutional and
following
will
they
provisions,
Union.”
International
have
the
support
full
of the
also
Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey
the full support of the International Union
UAW
pledged
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey—‘‘Tough-minded manage- in establishing fair production standards in all
ments and practical labor unions are coming to the ines- Chrysler plants.
Delegates passed a resolution strongly censuring
capable conclusion that something must be done about oron for “social irresponsibilganizing health care to bring the adantages of modern the Chrysler Corporati
in creating the present chaotic conditions by
medicine to the American people,’’ Leonard Woodcock, UAW jity
blind disregard of the human element in their provice president, told the annual
duction scheduling thereby causing instability in
for
suffering
and
and hardship
the community
meeting of the Association of
Older Workers Wiser
thousands of workers and their families.”
Labor Health Administrators
— Once
CITY
YORK
NEW
heré this past month.
PROPER CLASSIFICATIONS
again, employers with an aver~
They are finding that a
sion to hiring workers over 40
The delegates directed the National Chrysler
or 45 years of age had their
Department to continue to work within the terms
“great extension of prepayis the only practical way
ment
of making progress in health
security,’? Woodcock said.
FUTURE
After citing the deficiencies of
plans
most existing prepayment
OF
PLAN
providing
surgery
for hospitalization,
only
he observed:
route
hard
the
by
come
“We
indemnity,
cash
and/or
to the conclusion
of experience
that direct service, group pracmedical
tice, comprehensive
care will best serve the needs
of our people.”
of the deficiensome
Noting
cles of the present prepaid plans,
Woodcock said, “There has been
an inflation in its cost far beyond
we regard
as justifiable. The
liance on the
pital admission
notion that hosis their key to
what
great
too
placed
have
plans
re-
an insurable risk. They have tried
to isolate X-ray and other benefits so as to provide them in the
This
outside.
not
but
hospital
has given rise to cases where peodiagnostic
for
pockets
own
SEEK
them-
unnecessarily to
care which could
on
basis.
“EASY
their
of
gotten
have
rendered
better
patient
out
care
selyes admitted
the hospital for
be
costs
large
meet
to
unable
ple
WAY
an
out-
OUT”
back.
pinned
ears
ley,
ment
of the
head
for
an
easy
instead
way
out
by limiting their ability and putting economic pressures on the
subscriber,
“Furthermore,
to look
at
Blue
we
are
Cross
unable
without
indithat
up
and
lists
approved.
for all new
work
proper
are
other
concerns
exhausted
unauthorized
te
pence gramme
aes
hoe
preferential
re
and
work
hiring
after
Chrysler
condemning
stoppages
ERE
of laid-off
also
sen-
speed-
TEE SE
were
out
that
such
existence.
of
delegates
by
the
on
Ford
’58”’
Ban-
Ken
week,
work
shorter
the
on
Speaking
Council
in the industry.
IT IN
GET
‘““WE’LL
liquidated
hired
be
workers
basis of their seniority
non, director of the UAW’s National Ford Depart“We'll get it in 1958; there’s no quesment; said:
we did on pensions and SUB.”
Another Conference speaker,
tional Vice President Norman
remarks
recent
to
ferred
by
this
on
job
same
the
do
We'll
it.
about
tion
that
UAW InternaMatthews, rePresident
Vice
Richard Nixon, who, in a political campaign
speech, had promised workers a four-day week
and two TV sets in every home within 10
years, provided they voted for the GOP.
remarks
Nixon’s
that
commenting
Matthews,
were reminiscent of Herbert Hoover’s promise of
“a chicken in every pot and two cars in every
“we
that
delegates
cheering
the
told
garage,”
want
wait
Mr.
tell
to
Nixon
we
that
for a four-day week.”
10 years
BENEFITS
HIGHER
DUE
his report to the
not satisfied with
Bannon, in
that “we are
the
had
Union
proof
that
higher
won't
UAW
in
Council, declared
the present level
of SUB benefits,” which call for payments
65 per cent of a worker's take-home pay.
benefits
of 60 to
He said
could
paid even out of the present trust fund, which
not yet reached its maximum level.
He
recommeéfided
to
the
delegates
that
be
has
they
make higher SUB payments one of their 1958
demands. He also said the UAW was seeking
to simplify SUB reporting procedures, and to
classi-
skills and
merged
urged
substitute
established in
plants, consistent with the
required of the workers.
urging
or
been
have
which
industry
in the
two-stop
a
method
one-stop
reporting
for
the
present
system.
Bannon also charged that “the mad production
race between Ford and General Motors” in 1955
caused
the
1956
layoffs
and
resulted
“in
hardship
and suffering for thousands of Ford workers.”
observed that of 140,000 Ford workers on the
last year,
18,000 were
He
job
laid off in 1956.
Se
the
rest
whether
the
from
apart
medical
of
“We
continued.
care,” Woodcock
doubt
contingency
separate
a
as
with
separation
permits Blue Cross to deal with
care successfully when
practice is the crucial
hospital
medical
the
to
admission
in
element
hospital, length of stay arid the
We doubt
services provided.
more
even
whether
is conducive
tion
of
opment
a
medical
total
Woodcock
the
to the
sound
care,”
cost of medical
devel-
that
been
has
care
separa-
program
out
pointed
of
the
in-
rapidly than the
creasing more
cost of most of the needs of the
average American family.
Because group practice is the
and efficient
“only economical
care,”
medical
to provide
way
Woodcock predicted that the dec-
ade
ahead
ical
service
a vast
will see
alveady
looking
and
jority
from
to secure
panies
com-
by other
laid off indefinitely
members
UAW
aid
to
Company
the
with
agreement
hiring
a preferen=
immediately
out
work
to
Department
hospital
questioning whether
care can be successfully dealt
are
utilization
workers
agreement
rates
, Resolutions
man probably reaches his peak
intelligence at the age of 50.
sion of comprehensive
on
Health,
research
Bayley,
New
Dr.
“In general, prepayment plans
are failing to place medical con-
trols
the Company
responsibility
out that any dislike
pointed
by
for hiring older workers
employers is foolish and based
on a myth.
cates, said
present
the
fications and
National
Mental
of
Institute
of
develop-
child
the
of
section
Bay-
N.
Dr.
600,
Local
Prato,
Gene
re-
Detroit, and Secretary Ray Busch of Local 879, St.
Paul, Minnesota, at their September session.
In addition to the short work week resolution,
the Ford delegates also directed the National Ford
tial
doing
conditions on the basis of what they are
We will recognize and establish pro~
elsewhere.
duction standards on the basis of what is right.”
Tells Conclav
Woodcock
that
agree
new
to develop
planned
and
in 1957
Chairman
Council
elected
Conference
Ford
National
the
to
Delegates
by
discussed
topics
important
many
the
among
were
scheduling
production
and
standards
Work
In
many
cessful,
in
he
plan.
places
effect,
said.
direct
plans
such
Most
“We
expan-
are
firmly
med-
are
suc-
be-
lieve such plans are the valid
answers to the medical care prob-
lems
that
cluded,
now
face
us,”
he
con-
eGENE PRATO, Local 600, Detroit, and Ray Busch, Local 879, St. Paul, Minn
Ford
sota, were re-elected chairman and secretary, respectively, of the National
Left to right,
Council at the Ford Council meeting in Detroit late in September.
of the
here, are Prato and Busch being sworn in by Nelson Samp, assistant director
National Ford Department, as Director Ken Bannon looks on,
Page
12
December, |
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
ohler Co. Trims
Hours, Workforce
SHEBOYGAN, Wisconsin—Kohler Co. is steadily losing ground in its efforts to beat the boycott of
Kohlermade plumbing ware.
Since July,
250 strikebreakers
lured
into thé plant
have
quit. Only seven have been replaced. The work force now
stands at its lowest point since the Kohler Co. started its
scabherding efforts.
Shipments and sales are drastically below the pre-boycott
level. Despite the decline in work force, Kohler Co. once
again
has been
forced
to cut
hours.
Kohler Co. always depended on a heavy overtime schedule
to Keep
workers’
paychecks
from
looking
too
skimpy.
The
eld 48-hour week is ont, and even the scabs are complaining
openly. Some departments are down to a four-day week. The
brass department, for example, which used to work as much
as 54 hours i§ down to a 36-hour week with a greatly reduced
foree.
Merchants
brought
in
of $98.06
TWO
in
Sheboygan
a check
and
for
a net
KOHLER
two
are
chuckling
weeks.
For
of $78.02.
his
over
80
one
hours,
scab
he
had
who
a gross
BEING prepared to these Boy Scouts means having a strong union behind you
when you're old enough to work in a plant. Perhaps no other scout troop in America has firmer ideas about what should be done to make that brighter future. The
troop is sponsored by UAW Local 833, the striking Kohler workers, and most of
them are sons of fathers who have been on the picket lines for the past two years.
FATALITIES
With more than two dozen engineers gone, scheduling
becomes
@ serious problem for the Kohler management. Reports
from inside
the plant
way why
A
indicate it is seething as strikebreakers learn
the regular Kohler workers became such good
recent
fatality
hasn’t
helped
morale.
Union newscasts frequently have warned
take dangerous jobs for which they are
to
Claudius
a
Sippel,
40-foot
a one-eyed
scaffolding.
steamfitter,
.He
slipped
the hard
unionists.
off
strikebreakers
not equipped.
took
and
an
assignment
plunged
to
his
not
But
atop
death.
Milton Flader, head of the engines sales division, died recently
of a heart attack. There are many reports that he had just been in
a violent argument with Edmund Biever, works manager, over defective engines.
It is alleged $25,000 worth of Kohler engines were
returned
law
as defective
Most
they
A
engines.
members
of UAW
hope
been
to return
negotiated.
LITTLE
An
that
the
over
suit
and
MORE
old
Local
tp their
They're
the
watching
with
30
is threatened
833 have obtained
hometown
BOYCOTT
German
Company,
soon,
after
developments
with
other work,
but
a contract
with
high
a
has
interest.
PRESSURE
years’
experience
in
the
casting
depart-
ment summed it up: “Old Herbie Kohler thought nobody could beat
him. But we got him on the run. Just a few more people pitch in on
our boycott in a few more places, and we'll have a new day of industrial peace in Sheboygan.”
Kohler Company's top brass, irate over being snubbed so
often in the sales room, have stepped up their speaking activifies. They're scurrying all over the country, wherever they can
wangle
appearances
before luncheon
clubs and
management
groups.
UAW Secretary-Treasurer Emil
follow up each appearance with a
With
its
sales
curve
still
Started running scared
running out of time.
NAA
plunging
soon=as
the
ANGELES,
North
jurisdiction,
by
American
it was
Local
E.
re-
Bioletti,
Region
of North
ation working at
Palmdale Airport
by
NAA
less
ment
than
reached
di-
6, following
American
started
ratification
a
month
between
the
Avi-
test employes
workers
Base.
belong
UAW
The
to
Local
Palmdale
fa-
where
Sabre
tested,
series aircraft are
flightforecasts an expanding op-
testing
the
Douglas
Aircraft
facilities
F-86
and
F-100
Aircraft
also
at
have
the
Desert Airfield.
The addition of the NAA
and
flight
Mojave
Desert
Unit now gives UAW
Local 887
17 units covering 22,000 NAA
agree-
UAW
covering
Force
American’s
Northrop
followed
the
Air
workers
some
at nearby
nia
area.
in the
Southern
Try Kohler Case on Its Merits,
UAW Urges After Fantastic Ruling
WASHINGTON—The UAW
was waiting for the National
Labor Relations Board to
bring the time of justice for
Califor-
cifically states that trustees are
not officers. (Their duties are to
audit the Union’s books and keep
an inventory of the Union’s prop-
erties.)
the Kohler Co. a step nearer
e@ The
NLRB
has
given
the
letter Which states the
as this issue of The United UAW a
Automobile Worker went to Union is in full compliance with
the
press.
UAW
tion
with
that
attorneys filed a peti-
the
the
NLRB
government’s
urging
case
against the Kohler Co. be reinstated and that the 12 unfair
labor practice charges against
the Company be judged on
their merits.
BASIS
(Trial
FOR
REVERSAL
Examiner
George
Down-
ing threw out the case the preceding
month
on
the flimsy
grounds that the UAW’s trustees
had not filed non-communist affi-
cility,
eration.
the Company's
facility.
and Curtiss-Wright
52 flight
which
has
newly organized
North
the ratification of a supplemental
agreement covering 50 flight test
The
Co.,
started,
887) Curtiss-Wright
announced
Charles
rector of UAW
employes
Kohler
boycott
California—|Edwards
has added a “Desert Unit” to its) he
cently
downward,
officials
Local 887 Adds Desert Unit
LOS
UAW
as
Mazey and other UAW
request for equal time.
davits.
This,
made
NLRB's
(in
the
he claimed,
UAW
ineligible for the
services.
ruling
in effect,
for
the
Kohler
Co.,
Downing cited U. S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision in
which trustees of another union
were held to be officers and hence
required
to
affidavits
The
NLRB
iner
by
sign
UAW,
in
to reverse
or
order
its merits,
calling
the
the
pointed
case
upon
the
trial exam-
out:
judged
e@ The
NLRB
itself
always
@
UAW
Constitution
on
has
held that trustees are not officers:
The
@
volved
spe-
The
provisions.
duties
in
of
the
trustees
Seventh
in-
Circuit
an
Stantially
the
greater
UAW’s
trustees.
‘INCREDIBLE,
than
those
the UAW
hearing
nitude
cannot
of
be
acceptet
(lightly).
As
the
Journal
observed
‘The
words
“fantastic”
mag-
Milwaukee
editorially,
“incredible”
which
the
and
against the Kohler
misused. . . . To
missal on
seems the
With
submitted
vits
signed
petition,
the
non-communist
by
its
trustees,
Peterson, Anna
M.
Bond
Mike Novak. The action
merely
did
cepts
not
to
the
protect
indicate
trial
the
that
aflidaKing
Union.
UAW
examiner’s
and
was
It
ac-
views.
dozen
Kohler
charge}
Co.
was
com)
Massachusetts—Spokes:
community to label the products
of strikebreaking employers
as
“unfair.”
GE
took
task
also
for
by
the
Lynn
passing
the
use
City
of
at the
gigantic
to get
Legislature
eastern
governmental
ing the
goods.
purchase
So
the
area.
little
hackles
firms.
the
of
effort
boycott
besides
of
pro-
It}
Co.
concern
and
Massa-
other
groups
resolutions
GE’s
Kohler
plished
back
far
on
goods
electrical
attempted
down
Council
resolution)
Kohler
chusetts
back
a
strikebound
aimed
The
UAW
it ij
men for General Electric here are
trying to make it unfair for 9
was
so dubious a point
”
height of inequit
the
LYNN,
duced
Co. are not
base a dis-
the
the
opposing
Auto Workers
Union ... ap
plies to the dismissal of unfair
labor
practice
charges
decision,
GE’s Unfair
To Embattled
Kohler Workers
to
United
NLRB
appes}
°
pointed
this
would
pleted last spring. It extended ov)
er 15 months and involved almos}
four million words of testimony)
out: “Affirmance of the trial examiner’s decision would
jeopar-
“Consequences
on
against
of
dize every other UAW proceeding
pending before this Board.
adverse
UAW
volving hundreds of thousands 0)
dollars of taxpayers’ money.
Thi
FANTASTIC’
In its petition,
the
almost unthinkable that the gov}
ernment would abandon a case in}
Court of Appeals decision are sub-
non-communist
Taft-Hartley.)
Taft-Hartley
While
support-}
union
to
has
made}
sabotage}
accom-}
raising
workers
to}
in
the
Union.
Full
employment
can
increase
that total by another 2,000.
UAW Vice President Richard Gosser, director of the Competitive Shops Department, and Region 9 Director Martin Gerber
hail
that
the
series
Philadelphia
stronghold
unions.
The
of
of
latest UAW
Bellefonte.
successes
soon
will
so-called
Workers
as a sure
no
longer
be
‘‘independent’’
victory was
at
sign
the
a
at nearby
Titan
Metal
plant there, irked at the Kohlerlike tactics
—$——
of their employer, decided to become a
part of the Union with courage enough to
take on the Kohlers.
Maybe it was because they once had to
strike for three years that they voted:
UAW—840 ; 2nd Union—131; No Union, 10.
Other recent UAW victories in the area
include:
Reading
Budd
Red
Aviation,
Lion,
Helicopter Company),
Strick
Trailer
in
Stubnitz-Greene,
Piasecki (now
the Vertol
Purolator Company,
Perkasie,
Pennsylvania;
Strick Trailer in Trevose, Pennsylyania,
U. S. Steel and Wire,’ General
Motors
arts, and E. A. Gallagher and Sons.
Other
organizing
Philadelphia
cess of 10,000
estimates,
area
drives scheduled
have
additional
a
potential
workers,
in the
in
ex-
Gosser
COPYRIGHT 1956 CARTOONS-OF-THE- MONTH
“All tickets, please”
the}
this}
There's a Big UAW in Philly
PHILADELPHIA—They
(the workers,
that is) just love the UAW in the City of
Brotherly Love.
Since the UAW launched an organizational drive in Eastern Pennsylvania, more
than 9,000 members have been added to
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