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United Automobile Worker
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1957-01-01
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Vol. 20 No. 1
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INTERNATIONAL
UNION,
UN
Entered as 2nd C
EDITORIAL O
Published
Mont
‘UAW Asks President to Support Probe
n
atio
Infl
for
s
son
Rea
Real
ine
To Determ
See Page Three
FIRST HUNGARIAN REFUGEES ARRIVE IN DETROIT
—A father looks stunned at the loss of his homeland, his
daughter, holding an armful of roses thrust upon her by a
lady in a fur coat, sobs, a mother checks anxiously to make
sure her brood is intact, and the son, lower right, takes an
inquiring look at his new country.
(See story and other pictures on Pages Six and Seven.)
‘
Page
1957
January,
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
2
UAW and IAM Plan Joint Action Program
For Aircraft and Guided Missiles Industries
=f
Two AFL-CIO Unions, the UAW and the Internationa]
Association of Machinists, on the eve of the first anniversary
of the merger of the AFL and the CIO last month, annéuneed
establishment
of a Joint
Standing
Committee
to unify
and
strengthen efforts on behalf of the nearly one million workers
in the aireraft and guided
Region 2A Director Ray Ross
missiles industries.
and Region 8 Director Norman
affiliated with
The UAW,
Seaton as alternates,
The UAW Executive Board and
the CIO before the merger in
December, 1955, and the IAM, the IAM Executive Council have
formerly affiliated with the AFL,
represent the overwhelming ma-
jority
of
organized
these
industries
workers
United
the
in
in
States and Canada which during
the past year have become the
largest employers of labor on the
North American continent.
President Walter
UAW
Reuther and IAM President
P.
Al
Committee
by
Hayes were
co-chairmen
named
the Joint Stanting
representatives
UAW MEMBERS
Vice President
UAW
ESE
Woodcock,
KEY MEN on the new UAW-IAM Joint Standing Committee for planning and
coordinating action in the aircraft and guided missiles industry smile their approval of the pact. They are, L to r.. UAW Vice President Leonard Woodcock, committee
vice chairman, IAM President Al Hayes and UAW President Walter Reuther, cochairmen, and IAM Vice President Roy M. Brown of Los Angeles, vice chairman.
ion’s
“The
area.
primary
to
7a,
people
concern
founders of the Community
services |
ee
~| meet
in the!
of
0™
together
to review
the
medical
soundness
and
the|
the
Medical
throughout
their
implications
Health | quality
for
assuring
of medical
the
service.”
Aircraft Conference
Slated in Washington
Washington’s Statler Hotel will be the site of the
Seventh UAW National Aircraft Conference January 31
through February 2, UAW Vice President Leonard Woodcock, director of the National Aircraft Department, reports.
“Washington has been selected as the site for this Con-
ference,’’ Woodcock said, ‘‘since this will provide delegates from Aircraft Local Unions a first-hand opportunity
to present to both congressional and administration officials problems which confront our membership.
“Tt is recognized that this indugtry, as a quasi-public
enterprise which is continually affected by public policy,
has itself developed effective means of advancing its own
of
Los
vice
as
Standing
Committee which will include five
UAW
representatives will be:
Region 5 Director Russell Letner, Region 6 Director Charles
Bioletti, Region 9 Director Martin
Gerber,
and
rector Charles
Region
9A
Di-
H. Kerrigan, with
Albert
A.
Evarts
Society;
Medical
ty
C.
Robert
Medical
Service,
Arch
among
Medical
Society,
were
those
Others
Drs.
Howard
Rusk,
president,
sociation.
and
Albert
American
secperaemenr
pee ree
benefit
The
mon
both
organizations
mutual
of
benefit
the
objectives
stability,
mem-
for
for the
industry.
will
seek
possible
wages,
com-
joint
union
se-
classifications,
health
prentice
and
training
tract terms,
er and
and.
on
job
and
entire
Committee
curity,
strike
between
ap-
other
Co-Chairmen
Hayes
job
welfare,
and
con-
Reuth-
announced.
LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
In addition, the Committeee will
seek
to
develop
an
effective
pro-
gram on matters of governmental
policies
and
affecting
a legislative
protection
guided
nation.
of
missiles
“It is the
cers
that
reflect
the
industries
program
all
feeling
bargaining
and
in
of both
table
the
the
and
the
of your
this historic
itself
for
aircraft
workers
offi-
step
will
direct
Unions
and
in
at
the
the
make
“To
unions.
of this Committee and this
even
effort
will of
we
more
course
joint
continued
between
par-
the
IAM
contracts at North American
In
Douglas early this year.
| preparing for those
IAM representatives
in
“My
wife retained
her union mem-
As-
bership after we were married, and
boy!—do | have to sign some agree-
ee
e RT
Snoke,
Hospital
their
new
and
of
of health
W.
of
and
the relationship
understanding
bers
indus-
and the UAW was an important
in the precedent-setting
factor
versity, and medical editor of The
New York Times; Albert E. HeusMichigan,
and
Cooperation
|| physical medicine, New York Unitis, commissioner
situations;
the
ticipation by our local unions
wherever
Lodges
IAM
with
possible.”
Benja-
professor
Inimproving
in
negotiations
appreciate
min Spock, professor of pediatrics,
Western Reserve School of Medicine;
@
plants
important
meaningful,
invited.
included:
In
local
work
Walls, president of the Michigan
State
remaining
Vice President Woodcock said
in a letter to all UAW aircraft
L.
and
the
working conditions and economic lives of our membership,”
Novy, past president of the Michigan
@
the
past
Graham,
In organizing
strengthening
president of the American College of Surgeons; Luther Leader, president of the Wayne Coun-
their}
high
Depart-
representatives of each Union other than the co-chairmen.
Association;
School;
Asso-
and plans as to
-i,tion’s program
Un-
Furstenberg, dean of the University of Michigan
Medical
to
country
the
Standing
develop programs
and assistance in
@
non-union
tries;
Joint
ments!"
UAW
National
negotiations,
attended the
Aircraft
Confer-
1955, in Los
ence in November,
Angeles and UAW representatives
participated »in a January
conference in California.
E E
A ORE T
IAM
T
ines
Detroit
said health
eminent
Aircraft
Leonard
Drs. Dwight H. Murray, national president of the American
physicians
is asking
tions,
ene
available
National
of
ident
Roy
M.
Brown
named
were
Angeles
chairmen of the Joint
Health Group Invites
president and head of the} vitation. “In view of this concern,
lich is now developing | the Board, in one of its first acmake
director
Committee to
of. cooperation
these fields:
negotiations
ment, and IAM General Vice Pres-
Doctors to Discuss High Quality Care
n to
Unions
AFL-CIO.
the
The Community Health Association, a voluntary nonprofit group of prominent Detroit citizens organized to promote better medical care for the citizens of the community,
has inyited 46 physicians of national and local prominence to
a
onference on the quality of medical care. It will be held
in Detroit January 11 and 12.
Association is that the medical
Invitations wer > sent out by
be of high
shall
provided
’|care
roy
in his insaid
her
Reut
ty,”
quali
UAW]
Walter P. Reuther,
two
met last month in WashingBoth are vice presidents of
who
ton.
Community
of the
of
the
authorized
interests,’’ he added.
“We hope to develop and transmit a program to those
in Washington who will recognize and support it as vital
to the general health of our country and all its people.’’
Major aircraft negotiations for 1957 also will be concentrated in the Eastern United States and it is felt that
having the meeting in Washington will be of added value
to these forthcomipg negotiations. The Sixth National Aircraft Conference was held in Los Angeles just prior to the
start of West Coast negotiations.
The Aircraft Department has recommended that each
local union send three delegates, the president, the chairman of the bargaining committee and one other member of
the bargaining committee. Two additional delegates may
be selected by the local union if desired. Also, local unions
currently facing negotiations may send additional delegates,
ia
t will help
THEY’RE COLLECTING for Hungarian relief because they ‘hope i
Lotheir relatives in Hungary. Jim Voss, left, and Lou Molnar, members of UAW
ary while
cal 887, Los Angeles, compare notes on the latest information from Hung
gate colwaiting for the shift change. They’te taking part in the Local 887 plant
lection, hope funds may help their relatives.
:
UNITED
1957
AUTOMOBILE
The UAW is urging President Eisenhower to support a sweeping probe into the causes of inflation.
As The United Automobile Worker went to press,
Needlessly High Auto Prices
Needlessly Limit Job Chances
the White House still hadn’t replied to a wire from
UAW President Walter P. Reuther. Reuther asked
Even the added glitter from 1957 models can’t keep the
customers’ eyes off the high price tags on cars. And the higher
prices automatically mean fewer sales and fewer jobs.
In his telegram to President Eisenhower, UAW President
Reuther used the automobile industry to illustrate his point that
Congressional in-
vestigation into the wage-price-profit relationships in
the auto, steel, meat-packing and other basic industries whose pricing policies exert such a decisive influence on the American economy.”
prices don’t have to be as high
as they are now.
its efforts to get the facts on inflation as
renewed
the cost of living rose to a new all-time high for the fourth consecutive period. Most of the inerease in the October
Consumer Price Index (the latest) was due to higher
{
price tags on 1957 model automobiles.
INFLATION MEANS LONG RANGE TROUBLE
“Current and threatened price increases that are
haying . .. such far-reaching and serious conse-
4
“When.General
used
er
¢,
{
press
conference,
President
the
facts
all the
(until)
LET’S EXPOSE PROPAGANDA
“Through its irresponsible pricing policies, big business is usurping a growing and disproportionate share of
the fruits of advancing technology,’’ Reuther said. It is,
he added, ‘‘siphoning off consumer purchasing power and
Reuther pointed out, ‘‘Higher wages,
higher prices, merely rob Peter to pay
not contribute toward the achievement of
balance between increasing production
ing consumption which is essential to the
of full production . . . full employment,
of
farms
and
followed by
Paul and do
the dynamic
and increasachievement
“Unfortunately, the growing imbalance in our economy during the postwar period has, in a large measure,
resulted from
the fact that
profits of America’s giant cor-
porations have reflected a disproportionately large share
of the fruits of advancing technology and greater produc-
tivity.’’
Big business
ion
against
labor
long
with
has
the
4
attempted
slogan,
to turn
‘‘wage
publie opin-
incre
S.
se-price
inerease.’’ It’s a phony, The President and the incoming
Congress can, if they will, expose it by probing all phases
of the present price-profit-wage relationship,
approximately
hour
by its U. S. factory
“In
the
gross
face
distortion
and
basis
for every
workers.
of such
profits
of the
truth
to
to say
nomic concessions to their workers
these Corporations, which account
higher
amount,
four
age
in
of
slightly
wage
more
increases,
had
than
Of
received
10 cents
this
itself
eco-
aver-
workers
the
per
a
between
difference
the
mately
in a difference
industry.
their
“These
industry
1957
of approxi-
jobs
facts
relating
are
in
of
piled
data
profiteering
which
by
auto
pur-
for
purely
cited
have
the
to the auto
In
illustration.
poses
reflect
would
100,000
other unions
hour
sales
in
difference
compelled
for 80 per
of
wage
6% to seven million car year or
This
a 5% to six million car year”
an
auto
introduction
that
responsible for their
prices.
mean
models,
the
year,
Dealers’ Association, who said
‘could
tags
price
higher
that
price
to
this
“The price increases, however,
will limit the size of the sales.
This is evident from the warning
given the industry by the president of the National Automobile
cent of total car production, to raise
prices.
“From the time of last year’s auto
increases
again
procedure,
increases were
be a
that
“Nevertheless,
observed,
operating
ard
per
it would
in-
claiming or hinting, in accordance
with what has now become stand-
worked
hour
to the
increased producfrom automation
amounts
sizable
eco-
$3.06
whatsoever
cause of reduced sales), raised
by
models
prices. on their new
during the first nine months
of the year equal to 57.7 per
cent on net worth on an annual
no
. . . meant
increase
General Motors and Ford, despite
profits that were still exorbitant
(although lower than last year be-
nomic gains as those of General Motors, raised prices in
1955, after reporting profits
int
increase
Reuther
before
the same
bar-
and other technological changes.”
$2,070.
for
wage
dustry because of
tivity resulting
all
“Ford, whose workers won
tracts, inflation shrinks savings and causes real hardship
for people living on fixed salaries, Reuther asserted.
Reuther reminded the President that the UAW repeatedly has asked for a public investigation into the
causes of inflation. He warned that failure to determine
the underlying reasons for price increases can have &
disastrous effect on the whole economy,
products
retailing
and
members are protected against inWhile most UAW
creases in living costs by escalator clauses in their con-
the
cost
the 1955 price increase, were
to $310 on
. equivalent
.
a car wholesaling for $1,500
PROFITEERING AND INFLATION
Reuther asserted, ‘‘The public is misled into believing
that wage increases are to blame for high and rising
prices. So long as that belief remains unchallenged by
publie exposure of the actual facts, the guilty corporations will be able to continue their price gouging without
hesitation or fear.’’
The rapid growth of profits for large corporations
and the size of the profit per man-hour worked will
show that the drive for huge profits and not wage increases is responsible for rising prices, he said.
High prices reduce sales and thus produce unemployment, he added. He pointed out that in 1945-46, GM workers struck to get wage increases without price increases.
for
entire
times
profits,
Motors’
eral
fac-
“In fact, it is quite likely that the
for all U. S.
the average
corporations
manufacturing
during the same period. Gen-
mis?
The UAW President added, ‘‘Unfortunately, and
I am sure unintentionally, the example you used in
your press conference left the impression that wage
increases are the cause of our current inflation ...
We are of the firm belief that an objective analysis
of-all the economic factors relating to wages, prices
and profits will furnish irrefutable proof that wage increases definitely cannot be blamed for recent price increases by major corporations in basic industries such as
auto and steel.’’
narrowing the market
small businegs.’’
worth—3.2
its net
on
under the
tor’ provisions of our collective
gaining agreements. .,..
taxes,”
before
wage
improvement
‘annual
so-called
out.
in its U,
productivity
for increased
he said, “were running at an
annual rate of 78.9 per cent
before
are
profits
“Its
in-
published
addition,
reveal
or com-
similar
corporations
major
in their industries.”
NAM Shows No Interest in Probe
NEW YORK CITY—Maybe the National Association
turers just doesn’t want the public to have the facts about
least its annual Congress of American Industry didn’t act
tion from UAW President Walter P. Reuther to join with
supporting a probe of inflation.
Reuther
called
Swigert’s
torial,”
Reuther
attention
wired,
attempts
to fix prices,
victims.”
the
telegraphed
The
NAM
“the
NAM,
to put
the
answered
showed
whose
it
no
other words:
Business
Big
News,
NAM
members
would
interest
carry
at
continued
No
dice,
all
its
in
reply
an
to blame
in
Swigert.
its
impartial
He
“In this edi-
have
workers
for inflation on the
blame
that
in the
editorial
to a recent
of Manufacinflation. At
on an invitathe UAW in
Ernest
President
NAM
to
invitation
Its spokesmen
PRICES
mind
workers
cost-of-living
“The remainder was compensation
20
by
worked
hour
factory
plants.
CLOTHING
open
the
pointed
Reuther
every
effectively to check the forces of inflation until
we first determine conclusively the real causes
and fix the responsibility for price increases?’’
Reuther asked.
Reuther pointed out that to determine the reasons
for inflation, ‘‘it is necessary to approach the matter
an
excuse
an
it
1955,
in
prices
“It ignored the fact that its
profits, based on the first
nine months of 1955, were
equal to $2.93 per hour for
creases must be checked.
“Do you not agree that it will not be possible
with
Motors
per hour in economic
memwon by UAW
bers,”
14
price
that
said
as
cents
gains
quences for the general welfare must not only arouse
the concern of all of us, but (also arouse) a national
determination to check them,’’ Reuther said.
He reminded Eisenhower that in his November
its
raised
ae
cents reflected
adjustments.
the power
who
are its
magazine,
It
investigation.
labor for inflation.
LETS TELL 'EM
WAGE BOOSTS ARE
RESPONSIBLE
In
PRICES
the President to back a “searching
President
from
Support
for
Asks
UAW
Page
Calls for Price Investigation;
UAW
The
WORKER
FOOD
January,
3
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
January,
1957 -
UAW Members Get
2-Cent C-0-L Boost
Most of the UAW’s one-and-a-half million members received a two-cents-an-hour pay boost last month under unionnegotiated
cost-of-living
escalator
The wage increase w. a
brought about by a new alltime high in the cost of living,
HOT SOUP hits the spot for members of UAW Local 840 on their lockout picket
line at New Castle, Delaware. They are workers at the former Bellanca Aircraft
S plant which has been purchased by Piasecki Aircraft of Philadelphia.
C-O-L
3
Rising,
Too
Advisory Committee and Executive Board
Recommend 50-Cent Increase in UAW Dues
Following the recommendation ef a rank-and-file committee, the UAW International Executive Board unanimously}
endorsed a proposal to increase the Union’s dues by 50 cents.
The Board’s recommendation will be presented to delegates to the UAW’s 16th Constitutional. Convention next
-- +>.
Atlantic City The?’=..
Aplin
proposed dues adjustment
lish the collective bargaining
would be divided equally be- pattern for that year.
tween local unions and the
This program would be considInternational Union as are ered at a Special Convention to be
present
This
dues.
proposal
was
made
long study of Union
lems
by
the
rank
and
existing has climbed
most other costs, dues
years.
$2.50
SPECIAL
the
file
level
for
file
com-
bargaining
unions’
cost of
213 FOR
along with
have stayed
almost
members
committee
50-cent
monthly
of
the
The
the
and
unanimously
a letter
In
rank
recommended
UAW
unions,
recommend}
to
local
to all UAW
Secretary-Treas-
urer Emil Mazey pointed out
that the present dues level was
established in 1951. Since then,
adjustment;
in wage
hour
file committee
an
cents
51
won
has
average
on the
“the Union
he observed,
amount.
rank
Committee also |
to the Convention that starting in
1958 strike aid be paid on the basis of “right” instead of “need.”
seyen yoted for a $1 increase and
one indicated he believed there
should be an increase without
specifying
ONE
unanimously
yoted
six
demands.
Advisory
The
°58 CONVENTION
Thirteen
and
a
financial prob-
While the local
mittee.
and International Union’s
at Mthe
after
held in January or February of}
the uAW’s|
1958 for mobilizing
full strength behind '58 collective
an
plus
increases,
additional 20 cents in fringe ben-
recommended—and
efits.
the Executive Board unanimous-
an Emergency
be developed.
into effect in
“For each additional penny our
members will pay in dues,” Ma-
forced to strike in 1958 to estab-
nomic benefits that have been won
ly agreed—that
Strike Program
This would go
event
the
Union
UNITED
Publication
actually
receiving
are
is
“our
said,
zey
24 57 E. Washington
2457
E.
Circulation
Office:
OFFICIAL
PUBLICATION,
copies
to
St., Indianapolis
cents
Washington
International
second-class
to non-members,
matter
under
the
$1.00.
Act
eco-
14, Mich.
7, Ind.
St.,
Indianapolis
Union,
United
Entered
of August
Indiana
Automobile,
at Indianapolis,
affiliated
to mem-
Ind., as
24, 1912, as a monthly.
EMIL MAZEY
P. REUTHER
Secretary-Treasnrer
President
RICHARD GOSSER, NORMAN MATTHEWS,
LEONARD WOODCOCK, PAT GREATHOUS
Vice-Presidents
WALTER
International Executive Board Members
HARVEY KITZMAN
CHARLES BALLARD
RUSSELL LETNER
RAY BERNDT
WILLIAM McAULAY
GEORGE BURT
JOSEPH McCUSKER
CHARLES BIOLETTI
GEORGE MERRELLI
ROBERT CARTER
KENNETH MORRIS
ED COTE
PATRICK O'MALLEY
MARTIN GERBER
KENNETH W. ROBINSON
ROBERT W. JOHNSTON
RAY ROSS
CHARLES H. KERRIGAN
NORMAN B. SEATON
FRANK WINN, Editor
CHARLES BAKER, Managing Editor
PHOTOS—James Yardley, Irv King
STAFPF—Russell Smith, Jerry Dale, Robert Treuer, Jim Richard
Members;
American
Newspaper
dues are the lowest
the nation’s major
unions. Even with
cent adjustment,
dues will be as low
For comparison:
workers
pay
Guild, AFL-CIO
However,
said.
among
trade
the 50UAW
as any.
Steel-
was
based
on
the
since
the two
stores.
Since escalator clauses were
first negotiated by the UAW
in 1949, auto workers have received a total of 82
32 cents an
hour in wage increases under
these provisions.
It’s a Lousy Trick,
Said the Neighbors
TUCSON,
Arizona—Having
of
pense
dealer
of this
thought
when
he
wrote
auto dealer. The
he had something
to
a
suburban
what
Friend,
“Dear
customer:
ex-
the
at
chuckled
leaders
ion
un-
buying,
installment
abuses
the
against
years
for
erusaded
prices
October
pay,
cents will merely permit him
to catch up with the higher
prices he has to pay in the
would
all your
neighbors think
if we came to your town and re-
of nearly all consumer
goods except food also went
up.
The two-cents wage increase
At the present time, VTAW
possessed
your
Back came
ply: “I have
15
up
with
my
all
think
car?”
the customer's retaken .this matter
neighbors,
it
would
and
be
a
they
lousy
trick.”
$5 a month;
Rubber Workers, $3 to
$4.50; Mine Workers, $4.25;
IAM dues are $4; Teamsters, $5 (in Detroit) ; IUE,
$3, and IBEW $4 (minimum).
While the UAW is lowest in dues, it is second to
no union in services provided the membership.
since
the
“The
last
dues
50-cent
per
adjustment.
increase will cost
less than one-third
hour,”
he
Mazey
ent
time
pointed
month
dues
each member
of a cent per
out.
revealed that at the pres-
279
UAW
local
COPYRIGHT 1955 CARTOONS-OF-THE MONTH
unions
have established dues beyond the
$2.50 level.
Of these, 138 locals
have
dues
$3
dues.
range
For
between
the
rest,
$2.75 and
“Now his ‘secretary will spin him around. . .
| wish he'd be a little more serious about
who gets promoted around here!"
the
$5.
|Piasecki Buys Plant, Locks Out Workers
NEW
Kohler
7,
ment
Dues Low
secki,
Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America,
Published monthly. Yearly. subscription
with the AFL-CIO.
bers, 60 cents;
in
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WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
Office: 8000
members
UAW
take-home
It’represents no
in the worker’s
want
to
become
840
at
the
of the East, has locked
Loeal
of UAW
bers
to
seems
who
Pia-
Delaware—Frank
CASTLE,
the
out mem-
former
Bellanca Aircraft plant here.
The lockout started the Monday after
Thanksgiving, the day the Piasecki Aircraft Corporation of Philadelphia ‘‘officially’? became the successor management
Piasecki bought out
at the Bellanca plant.
Bellanca in October and immediately started to
plot ways of getting rid of Local 840 which has
represented Bellanca workers since 1941.
his
date
To
tactics
have
he lost control of the plant, which now is Vertol Aviation, and set up a new plant in Phila-
21,
vember
for workers
nored.letters
ers with
Piasecki
to replace
New
Castle
out-of-state scabs.
to
has attempted
area
public
opinion by trying to provoke violence on the
more
with
up only
wound
line—bift
picket
trouble with the law. Two Piasecki executives
charges after
on hit-and-run
were arrested
they
drove
their
speed
at high
and
cars
through
injured
two
the
picket
pickets,
line
Piasecki, incidentally, is the same man who
ran roughshod over legal rights of workers for
10 years
delphia
to keep
plant
his workers
from’ joining
at his old
the UAW.
Phila-
In 1955
immediately
Piasecki
to start on November
Union
to discuss
that
840
Local
from
Bellanca contract and his
The former Bellanca
for work on November
advertised
26. He ig-
meet
he
of the
continuation
manpower needs.
workers reported
26 but found the
gate locked. They set up a picket line the
Piasecki, finding that no scabs
next day.
Castle, began adwere available in New
vertising in Philadelphia papers. Applicants
at the Philadelphia hiring hall weren't told
about
So
‘truth
Local
840,
upon
to innocent
facts
secki’s miSleading
The
able
to
to
‘New
result
gather
has
Castle.
required to
picket line,
to
squads”
about
or
lockout
the
they would be
840
the Local
work-
reverse
the
with
a) a picket line to advertise the lockout;
and the
b) inyestigations by the NLRB
FBI of his violations of the law in dealing
with the former Bellanca workers; and
c) considerable public resentment of his
attempts
to
and Local
in mid-November
came
Piasécki
840 members were paid off by Bellanca on No-
him:
earned
at
delphia. The UAW won an NLRB election
Vertol last year.
Announcement of the sale of Bellanca
learning
been
only
bus
this,
dispatched
15
State
who
that
through
take
Philadelphia
people
ads.
to
police
the
give
answered
Pia-
has
been
Piasecki
workers
ride
the
to
ride
checked
his
the
bus
bus
one day last month. They found it improperly
registered so they arrested the bus driver.
While waiting for Piasecki to be cited for his
flagrant
disregard
of the
law,
Local
840
mem-
bers are continuing to picket peacefully, determined that Piasecki won't steal their jobs.
ett
Union’s
index figure.
real inerease
as reflected in the latest national consumer price index
announced by the federal goyernment. The Bureau of Labor
Statistics said the index
climbed to 117.7 per'cent of
the average level of the 194749 base period.
Under the escalator clause,
wages. of UAW members are
adjusted every three months
in line with the rise and fall
in the cost of living, as indieated by the government’s
index,
;
The increase in the cost
of living was due largely to
the higher price tags on
1957 model cars, the govern-
SS
clauses,
UNITED
1957
January,
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Page
5
AFL-CIO Says Economic Trends
Spur Shorter Work Week Drive
WASHINGTON—Organized labor’s current campaign fo:
a shorter work week is based on economic rather than social
considerations, the current issue of the AFL-CIO Collective
Bargaining Reports says.
The long hours that generally meant undue physical
time for family and
strain, health hazards and inadequate
— —— _|_—_—_
—<$—$ —_
__
the’
sparked
social needs
some
still
are
there
“Today
schedules,
week
“Although
ther
40-hour
and
day
8-hour
ening
sentiment
hours
for
reduction
based
on
ahead.”
The
is rooted
the
was
proposal
NAM’s
Business,
tion of Independent
also
which
National
by the
opposed
In addition,
on
taxes
many
cigarettes
gasoline,
cosmetics,
and
states, counties and
many
sharp
increase
in
or
va~
million
Christ-
unemploy-
ployment
555,000
at
in
2,460,000,
a
single
a
rise
month.
of|
The
outlook
for December
was
not
materially brighter.
Most
of the increase
was
on seasonal layoffs in
blamed
construction
and
both
auto
and
other
farm
out-
equip-
not
include
for
for
available
figures
latest
were
prosperity
example,
showed
unemployed
as
of
for
84,-
No-
By contrast,
only
in Deunemployed
of 1955.
As a part of its over-all fight
the UAW
for full employment,
proposed an industrial slum re|habilitation campaign
for De-
|troit;
sought
to ‘fight
unemploy-
| ment by stimulating sales through
lower prices. (See stories on this
| page and page 3.)
sales
cities levy additional
in-
ment in Noyember was reported | 7
by the U. S. Departments of Labor and
Commerce.
These departments placed the total unem-
troit in November
items.
consumer
holidays
a job.
vember
15.
35,000 were
Com-
admissions.
movie
A
000
Federal
nessmen and should be curtailed rather than expanded.
excise taxes now exist on such items as luggage and leather goods,
furs,
without
Detroit,
tax
The Federation said sales taxes are a burden to small busi-
mittee.
mas
The
Federa-
the same
before
testified
a
substantially
paid
everyone.
on all major consumer items except food and drugs.
An excise tax is a fancy name for a sales tax. The UAW is
opposed to this form of taxation because it puts the greatest burden
on those least able to pay.
The
and
Nearly two and a half
American workers faced
did
old,
an
excise
an
place
to
Congress
urged
He
Subcommittee.
or
four
five-day
ment centers had good evidence
that GOP claims of “prosperity”
broken record over and over. Charles R. Sligh, Jr., as chairman of
the NAM’s Executive Committee, testified before a House Ways and
Means
or
8-
For 2!/2 Million
As Winter Hits
But
to play
four
door labor.
of Manufacturers
phonograph
days,
farm,
Tax
Association
in its political
plugged
again
once
has
ne-
labor-management
Sales
National
The
re-
be
can
hours
which
years
different
listed
report
duced in
Seeks
—
WASHINGTON
in
ways
ground
NAM
and
the
in
advance
ductivity
fur-
in part in a general desire for
it is more
time,
leisure
more
widely
AHEAD
of
flaw
stepped-up expenditures for new
it adds,
plants and equipment,”
and
high
a continued
“indicate
perhaps even higher rate of pro-
short-
for
in plans
foreground
the
the
improvements
technological
half
to
the
of
Jobs Lacking
employment
MOVING
INDUSTRY’S
heavy
present
“The
situations in which eight hours’
physical
undue
means
work
strain,” it adds, “but it is primarily the economic aspects in
cutting
cations.
workers.
fewer
day;
creasing
productivity of the U. S. worker,
that
mean
recalls,
report
the
more is produced in fewer hours
or with
hour
week
work
of
increases in
Long-continued
RISING
MAN
PER
OUTPUT
opportunities.”
Deex-
lication of the AFL-CIO
partment of Research,
plains.
maintain
help
will
a bettey life, the report, a pub-
hours
shorter
that
toward
earlier move
workers’
gotiations —shortening
these children of
Kohler strikers show off the boycott T-shirts made by
UAW Local 833’s Women’s Auxiliary. They’re available at boycott headquarters in Sheboygan.
Union-Run Flint Christmas Toy Center
Saves Union Folks Thousands on Presents
FLINT, Michigan—More than 12,000 union members here
got a Christmas bonus that wasn’t written into any contract.
3ut their union won it for them, just the same.
The Flint CIO Council set7
A MERRIER CHRISTMAS
a
up its own toy center in
The CIO toy center allowed lawest
rink
r
rolle
own
ed-d
clos
bor to prove a big point. All proof the city. Every family that motion was done in the labor
could produce a union card, press and over the UAW’s daily
|radio program, Shift Break.
Not
CIO or AFL, was eligible to a single penny was spent for addo its toy shopping there.
vertising in the local daily, which
SAVINGS UP TO HALF
The merchandise was priced
3 to 50 per cent lower than
the prices downtown, where
merchants were set for their
annual killing.
Arrangements were made last
summer with the Wisconsin Toy
Company,
Novelty
and
bill
for
poration
served
the
Commerce
and
the
in Flint,
of Commerce
But many
light. They
prices.
CIO
put
of
a howL
merchants
began
By
sale
the
was
saw
to shave
time
over,
with
a
fair
profit and forgot about making
a killing on the kids this year.
“We
had
to teach
a few
what the Christmas
about,”
said
Floyd
member
AC
plant
of UAW
and
CIO's Toy
spirit is all
Kennedy,
a
Local
651 at the
chairman
Committee.
didn’t take a
of this deal.
people
“The
of
the
Union
penny of profit out
Wisconsin Toy and
Novelty Company
did all right for
has
Chamber
up
themselves
content-
toy busi-
Motors
The
were
Cor-
as a private hand-
General
ing
merchants
itself without gouging.
And
we
taught our own membership
sothething
about
what
a union
ness went to the CIO five miles
west of town, and the Chamber
day
already
brought
a
the
16-
ing
down-
group
of
mer-
chants into the CIO offices to talk
about next year.
keep the profit at
their
the
card is worth.”
The success of the venture
willing
toy
and
to
do
to
center
the
set
up
They
home.
want to
They’re
wholesale
a
for the CIO
buy-
community
to run.
ME SSAGE,
UAW Offers Support
For Plant Rehabilitation
Formation of a municipal redevelopment corporation to
work at industrial slum rehat vilitation in Detroit was urged
by UAW President Walter P. Reuther last month in a letter
to Detroit Mayor Albert E. Cobo and members of the Common
Council,
The UAW: offered to con-®
|
tribute $10,000 as ‘‘seed
money”’
get such
to
a corpo-
ration started as it did in the
case of the Citizens Redevelopment
Corporation
which
aided
rehabilitation of
in the current
the Gratiot-Orleans area and othresidential areas in
er blighted
Detroit.
In his letter, Reuther commended the Council
for its action,
early
And
inventory.
and
found
of
toys
would
that
the
same
load
have
cost
him
$63.0n
up
like
his
pay
kids
a
could
That
getting
check
better
have
was
the
of thousands
It
an
and
extra
it
$23
gave
Christmas
than
the
sary
familles,
funds
loans
areas
the
of
and
to
instrument
secure
finance
the
the
industrial
carefully
purpose;
selected
5) Create a special
will
which
corporation
as
opment
to
ralse
neces-
redevel-
sites
for
and
that
task force, as
a subcommittee, to follow through
and implement the over-all recom-
he
experience
of union
serve
the
typical
secure
and
rehabilitation
bilitation
in
otherwise,
and—public
private
the necessary sponsorship and support for such legislation;
4) Take immediate steps to creindustrial rehaate a non-profit
was
provided
designed
out a program
those problems, including
of financing the program
dustrial
the whooped-
downtown.
tags
price
just
ha
He
of Detroit;
legislative
detailed
$8) Develop
proposals designed to facilitate in-
it
stores,
appropri-
other
and
Plan
City
the
with
Work
from both
sources;
worth of CIO toys, then checked
items at Flint’s
the very same
biggest-volume
a citizens’
to:
ed the appointment of
committee immediately
to meet
methods
$40
bought
its now occupied by idle, abanindustrial
obsolete
and
doned
plants.”
The UAW president recommend-
2) Work
market.
Worker
Auto
One
retail
the
creative production
the Detroit city lim-
trial rehabilitation
guaranteed-that its mark-up
would match the summer-time
prices on
useful and
land within
ate municipal agencies to develop
analysis of the
a comprehensive
in the indusinvolved
problems
It took the full risk on
labor
rent,
to “rehabili-
tate the industrial slums of our
city by proposing to seek federal
aid and to stimulate civic action
for the purpose of bringing into
Commission
prior to
weeks
special union
Christmas at its store for seyeral years. Highest quality toys
and jewelry were shipped into
Flint by the truckload.
The Company used only union
members as clerks, paying their
lost time.
in moving
in October,
1)
4
held
has
which
firm
waukee
long
toy
Mil-
a
has
town
THE
MODELING
FLINT UNION MEMBERS take advantage of a ClO-sponsored
quality goods at a reasonable price.
toy center to get
repreof the broad
mendations
Industrial
sentative Community
} Rehabilitation
Committee,
UNITED
Page &
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
i January,
1957
4
And Auto Workers
—
ERIKA HANGS, 13, was the first Hungarian refugee to step out of the chartered plane which brought 43
victims of Red terror to Detroit. Here the tearful young-
ster is presented with a bouquet and a kiss from a member of Detroit's Hungarian community. In photo below,
Erika’s sad-faced parents appear bewildered by their enthusiastic
welcome
to the
Motor
City.
yee WORKERS of Hungary, victims
of the worst oppression the world
has seen since the days of Hitler, now
know that their trade union brothers and
sisters in the free world have not forgotten them.
Angered by Soviet brutality and
moved by the spirit of the Christmas
season and the brotherhood of man,
UAW members everywhere opened their
hearts and stretched out their hands in
friendship to those yearning to be free.
Each did his bit in his own way. Some members and their local unions passed resolutions
condemning the actions of the Soviet Union
and its puppet government in Budapest. These
called on the United Nations to form a permanent international police force to prevent a
similar tragedy from eyer happening again.
Others dug deep into their pockets and con- tributed dimes an dollars to the UAW's special
fund for the relief of refugees now in Austrian
camps. Often the contributors were short on
cash due to the recent layoffs and the Christmas gift buying season.
Still others
participated in an even- more
personal way, besoatny “sponsors for Hungarian refugees brought to America by the
various religious and charitable groups.
Sponsors must give assurances
that the refugees they “adopt
will have a place to stay and will
not become public charges, and
théy must provide for them until
they can stand on-their own feet.
*
*
*
N DETROIT, for example, UAW
members were among the 175
sponsors who vied with each other
to “adopt” the 43 Hungarian refugees who last month were flown
to the Motor City from Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. They were the
first victims of the Red terror to
arrive in the Motor City.
John Veszpremi, a veteran
member of the UAW's West
Side Local 174, and his wife
Margaret, decided to sponsor
not just one but two of the
refugees who had arrived on
a cold, bleak and rainy Sunday afternoon at Willow Run
Airport.
Open
They picked Karoly Beke, 21, and Mihaly
Novak, 20. These two
young men had been
among the 43 who
ed stepped out of the
specially chartered airliner—some weeping,
some smiling, some somber. They carried all
their earthly
belongings
in paper
bags
group
enthusiastically,
songs
and
cries
for "God
of
with
“'Isten
flowers,
tucked
governor,
speeches,
Hozott,"
has brought you.
gan's acting
state.
Hungarian
Phil Hart,
welcomed
Michi-
them
to the
The group was then taken by bus to a church
in the
Delray
section
of
Detroit,
where
many
people of Hungarian descent live. It was here
that Brother Veszpremi and his wife picked
out the two young men and took them home
that very evening.
*
ESZPREMI,
*
who
*
is 59,
has
worked
at Tim-
ken Axle since 1926 andis a veteran of the
1937 sitdown strikes. He is also a former chief
steward. Born in Hungary himself, he left there
in 1913 to come to Detroit.
“L know what it is to come to a strange country, not to know the language or the customs.
Thaks why we'll help these boys all we can,"
said,
“We're
Lutherans
ourselves," said Veszpremi,
“but we went to Father
Cross Roman Catholic
while back and told him
regardless of religion or
as we could help. Like
cans,
we
were
With
Jacobs (of the Holy
Church in Delray) a
we'd sponsor anybody,
anything else, as long
so many other Ameri-
immigrants
Mrs.
Veszpremi
once
ourselves."
as
interpreter,
ences during the revolution. Novak,
a mechanic,
the two Freedom
had
been
bridge,
when
troops.
He
in
Budapest
he heard
demonstrators
had
left
acting
Fighters told of their experi-
at work
his
been
the
work,
news
fired
repairing
that
on
along
*
ELIEVING
peaceful
by
Russian
with
others,
*
town
left Budapest
and
in southeastern
another
the
tanks
*
the revolt to have been
ful, he then
with
and
returned
Hungary,
patriot group.
Russians
success-
returned,
reinforcements
however,
and
secret
Pat
in Detroit.
Mrs.
HANGS,
following arrival of Hungarian
Hancs, a mechanic, went on strike during revolt, later fled with his entire family.
Margaret
Hancs;
45, breaks
daughter
down
during church services
Annemarie,
15; son Endre,
11;
Hancs,
and
daughter
THE
Erika,
refugee group
Left to right:
13.
MEDAL
premi, a member
sponsoring.
right:
RECEIVED
of UAW
Sponsor
Mihaly
pated in the
HE
Novak,
reyolt;
must
20,
Local
ery
de
as a veteran
of the
174, to the two young
provide
for
a mechanic;
escaped
to
where
ee
-
ENDRE
a
found a gun on the street, and fought for three
days in the streets of Hungary's capital.
When
ies
he
“Our own children are married and live
away from home, so we've gof plenty of
room for them," added his wife. "God
knows ‘these boys deserve a break after
what they've been through."
he joined
nal
poli!’
under their arm. Though there were a few families in the group, most of the refugees were
young men—Freedom Fighters who had to
choose between deportation to Siberia or a
tisky escape to the West.
Several thousand Detroiters greeted the
his home
ef.
T
when
the
his charges
Veszpremi;
Communists
1
}
until
and
clo)
‘ii
i:
"
January,
UNITED.
1957
invelfNovak said he knew their cause
§t He waylaid a Russian soldier,
»
uniform
gun,
machine
and
and
©aese to escape to Austria, walking
aes in seven days to reach the bor-
|
WORKER
Hearts |
‘oir
5
AUTOMOBILE
After
probably
'
) use.
When
nian soldiers
tular Russian
that
and
out,
occupation
Until
90
sis.
More
than
had
been
col-
evelstween Thanksgiving and Christmas,
tojich-time meetings and through plant
yitatections at UAW-organized factories
tit to coast.
vly report from
G0)00 had been
:
Region 2B said more
collected from UAW
waduring the first week of the drive.
wolirkers at Solidarity House gave nearly
sem
mre
«
that
1957
plain
talkin’
the Empire
dollars
livin’
would neyer
elevator.
In
to
the
corner,
1957,
busses, but
but
and
it
for
about
look
plastic
and
seems
a
one
high.
be
like
tourists
building
like a quonset
will
quarters
lose sleep
and
we
open
over
this
unst
of tene
bein’
called
up a lather
arctic
ice
under
raisin’
and
cap
the
don’t
seem
skyscraper
I suppose
money
just
nt and
able
to ride
to
Alaskan
that
about
I'd
like
be
the
international
slum
like
and
dwellers
up 5,280
who
feet
in an
readin
s@ngs,
gadgets
that
translate
cook
to me
as
"em
lower
thinkeaps.
to see
year
of
And
knoy
before
wonderful
languages
dinner
about
: GIVE ME YOUR. TIRED, YOUR POOR,
YOUR HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING
TO BREATHE FREE,
THE WRETCHED REFUSE OF YOUR
TEEMING SHORE,
SEND THESE, THE HOMELESS, TEMPEST,
TOSSED, TO ME:
| Lift MY
LAMP
BESIDE THE GOLDEN
to get hysterical
over
ANY
new
in
and
a
few
iny
chan
three
minutes
and
turn
year.
Supreme Court Decision
Due on PAC Appeal Case
WASHINGTON—The U. S. Supreme Court is expected to
announce shortly its decision on whether the UAW violated
Taft-Hartley Act prohibitions against federal campaign contributions in the 1954 elections,
Arguments on the Republi-?
DOOR.
c¢an-inspired
heard
last
won
the
gal
battle
trict
dismissed
dictment.
Dis
the
in-
BLES
LOSERS
HARD
bosses}
Republican
Michigan
committed.
ivacens
z
pa
RIGHT
be
and
FREE
that
corporations
in
distinction
to
of|
questions
es
the
law.
dates,
who
WHAT’S
THAT?
The
two
young
Hun-
those
Republican
repeatedly
to
on
appear
were
soundly
elections,
the
the
urged
preme
Court.
to
appeal
same
trounced
Joseph
Attorney
the
L.
all
earlier
made
it
cases
clear
that
on
no
this
1
politics.
men with
are
ns
> jnter-
oppo
views
with
have
corpora-
the
outside
Su-
Rauh,
point
violation
Michigan
were
still
added,
sition
Republican
to
trying
bosses
the
gag
They
at year-end.
UAW
prompted a Federal Grand Jury
CIO
The
tive
probe
the
of
investigation
Board
smear
by the most
ments of the
eun/
gooeaer!
that
charged
more
“nothing
is
political
ue
and
UAW
political activities in Flint.
International ExecuUAW
egeaeage
effort
the
than
inspired
a
elereactionary
Republican Party.
A
s+
—
WHAT'S
COOKING
in the Veszpremi home?
Two
young refugees watch Mrs, Veszpremi prepare evening meal.
Communist propaganda in Hungary told them American
workers are starving.
He
views
political
their
of
| sion
te
ia
aseayey
psi
me
of
use
the
that both corporations and unin- j ion should be allowed free expres-
When Judge Frank Picard in
Detroit threw
out the indictment, the Michigan GOP leaders
unions
between
candi- }is
refused
5
might
there
sponsored
radio and
television}
tion's essential purpose.
programs in the 1954 elections vio- | however, that the U.
lated
is
a ae
corporation
stockholders
UAW-j|on
on
candidates
Democratic
while
UAW, | ests
appearance
the
that
claiming
the
indict
the
SPEECH
indicated
Rauh
a
NEES
OF
ns of the
<nce
anieae Adi
Se
pointed
then
titutio
for
Sum-| money
Arthur
and
Feikens
John
De. | marie up of
the Justice
pressed
merfield
partment
He
the
did violate
le-| UAW
U.S,
the
when
been
UAW | out, too, that if the
of-the
round
first
were|/had
The
month,
Court
SOME
appeal
arguing
before
the
Supreme
Court, contended that decisions in
in,
a
miracle, I’d
high marvel
e good
it.
temperatures,
write
electronic
UAW
partici-
provide
on the lights at dusk. There’s only one fly in this
supe
intment.
You have to be in the upper brackets to afford this
pr
and,
until they invent a way to get me off this darn street corner, I ain't
garian refugees living in the home of John Veszpremi of
UAW’s West Side Local in Detroit had never heard of TV,
The boys are fascinated by old cowboy movies,
Boch
this,.too,
Ge
important
and
half
taxes and tempers.
Th
tell me this will
Like
TELEVISION?
Beke, 21, a machinist,
that
hut. The thing will cost
as
domestie
maghines
in
(ply
_
Seems like a waste of effort when they can’t even find
what
makes
people
so dang
belligerent. Knowin’
what's
ur
programs,
4 garian Freedom Fighters whom he is
ly can stand on their own feet, Left to
wiser,
i
bucks
architectural
this mile
the
he’:
chrome
literal
of
suicides.
not
a thing
mile
a mort
for a heap
I can’t work
vitations
al
it will
a little
mansion
world scientists will work together to see
This is real progressive and it oughtta r
(1), with which the UAW and the
GO are affiliated. These contribu©!
ore in addition to a $25,000 check
ithe International Union contributed
AFL-CIO's International Free Layad several weeks ago.
s:ago, UAW Region 4 Director Robert
elton offered the Union's |4-acre Center
ya, Illinois, as a temporary home for
in refugees. The Center could offer
etomurters for about 150 persons.
Vesz-
be
fur seats and built in
is progress
at $25,000 a
mobile
old
my worm’s eye view of
t, shyly, that they
could
provide
Unions
v0b)'4 sitdown strikes is shown by John
will
However,
$500 in easy installments of twenty
I’m concerned, progressin’ much,
perch
From
money will be used for relief
1 channels set up by the Interna-
vtnelZonfederation of Free Trade
old street
to afford
down
they’re
million
higher
*
$60,000
at the same
he’s able
come
is progress,
sing his mother and two sisters behind.
ight of his family lies heavy on’ his
: Veszpremi and other UAW members
cnuldungarian descent were thus putting
rinetaning into the Christmas season, their
elirkers donated thousands of dollars to
wehelgarian workers still in Austria's refu-
they
will make
qn Russian tanks and reinforcements
ithe rebels could: not continue their
tegnst such odds, so Beke decided to
*
me
not
Then
vw) rebels, he said, but it was a different
*
or
range of, say,
ain't, as far as
didn't
troops
leave
whether
their weapons.
took
decided
7
throw and it enables the millionaire to sit soft while he keeps
way-
they
I have
F’rinstance, some of the new ’S7 cars have
TV screens for stock market reports.
This
revolt on the radio
not to go to work.
the same decision,
closed the mill.
of the Hungarian
home, bringing with
for Beke and his
ran
deliberation,
but still holding a bag instead of a key.
bs
i
jint.
©
sober
all the predictors say it will, and then some.
theran Church made his trip to Deable.
ded in a small city near the Austrian
jnere he worked as a machinist in a
ad the news of the
ping, so he decided
wrkers had made
gpontaneous strike
friend, a member
ighis unit and came
and ammunition
Page
COPYRIGHT 1955 CARTOONS-OF THE MONTH
"You serious about wantin’ a couple of days off?"
UNITED
Page 8
AUTOMOBILE
January,
WORKER
1957
Promises Histadrut Help
UAW
In Securing Middle East Peace
problems but
worse ones.
The UAW International Executive Board
pledged to Histadrut, the General Confederation of Labor in Israel, to use all its in
fluence withthe United States Government
to bring about immediate and direct negotiations between Israel and its Arab neighbors
for a ‘‘permanent, fair and honorable peace
treaty that will recognize Israel’s right to
exist,”’
The pledge was made last month in a
only
create more
and
He characterized Egypt as the ‘‘aggressor,
which for eight years, day after day, night
after night, has attacked and harassed Israeli settlements from bases in the Sinai
peninsula and the Gaza strip.
>
He pointed out, in emphasizing the necessity for Israeli access to the Suez Canal, that
he.had ‘‘heard of no special sessions of the
cable to P. Lavon, secretary-general of UN General Assembly being called during
the last eight years,’’ because Egypt had
Histadrut.
It described such a peace as one that blocked the Canal to Israeli shipping.
would provide to Israel the right of naviga- WHEN BIG NATIONS FEEL PINCH
tion through the Suez Canal—which
been denied
.
UAW
Still Trailblazing
Short Work Week Protection
In Muncie’s ‘Best SUB Plan’
s
MUNCIE, Indiana—Worker:
the Serrick Corporation are
Plan’’ yet, Region 3 Director
cludes breakthrough on prote
week and independent administ
« It protects UAW Local 459?
members against short work
weeks as well as layoffs. And
it provides benefits at a
straight 65 per cent of take
home pay instead of dropping
down to 60 per cent after
four
weeks
ing
GM
plans.
of
Gulf
Aquaba,
also
action,’
he
declared.
and
are
their
CHICAGO—An
which occurred at
self.
would
pay
get
of $32
another
out
of the
16
fund.)
Laid-off
I've
do not
paying
his
ings.
“have to
less than
regular
UAW,
Nor
does
he have
earn-
to accept
a job
requiring
more
than
45
minutes’
traveling time
(or the
time required to travel to his reg-
ular job)
in order
to remain
qualified for SUB benefits.
HIGHER SUB MAXIMUM
If, for other reasons, a worker
is disqualified under
employment
tem, he is denied SUB
Bucks
only
six
weeks.
After
that,
he
gets SUB checks.
In most other
plans, such disqualification would
make
benefits
a
worker
for
the
unemployment,
The
maximum
fit under
the
ineligible
duration
SUB
weekly
$30 unless a worker
for
state
pensation.
up
(in
original
payment
Other
tion
fund
Then
of
is $25.)
provisions
is low
is
is ineligible
com-
he can
receive
plans,
the
from the
improvements:
dollar
his
bene-
unemployment
to $50 a week
the
of
for
amounts
and a lump
fund.
top
No reduc-
when
sum
the
substi-
tute benefit arrangement enabling
workers to get the full amount of
the SUB
benefits
after
exhausting
he
de-
I've
tradesman,
nothing
to
gripe
Steelworkers
Contract
County
Pennsylvania—
will
“Solidarity
never
old
The
again.
same
be
the
union
song,
and
hun-
Forever,’’
dreds of picket signs telling scabs
they
A JOB WELL DONE, say these UAW skilled tradesmen
Fifth Annual Skilled Trades Conference. Left to right are
tive Board- three-man Skilled Trades Committee consisting
gion 1A Co-Director; Vice President Norman Matthews;
Gosser (chairman of the Committee) ; and Assistant Skilled
Campbell.
a
at the conclusion of the
the International Execuof Joseph McCusker, ReVice President Richard
Trades Director George
January
11
is the
deadline
for
been
announced
by
entries for the UAW's Sixth Annual International Bowling Tournament,
UAW
Recreation
Madar,
sors
it has
whose
the
Director
department
Olga
spon-
tourney.
All UAW members, as well as
members
of all other AFL-CIO
unions,
are
eligible
to
compete
in
the event, which is scheduled for
weekends in February and March
unemployment
compensation
in
states where
it’s not integrated
with SUB (including Indiana). He
can
ment
also
The
when
ratified
time.
get
a
lump
hereturns
700 members
the
new
sum
settle-
to work.
of Local
contract
459
at press
at the
Indiana‘
person
per
company
entry
$1
per
events competition
extra
amount,
$2
$11,500,
Miss
fees
which
phies
will
must
blanks.
is returnable
last
also
year
Madar
be
Of
14,
Michigan,
a
United
supplied
for the
won
Typographical
Un-
persuaded clerical
successfully
workers and potential scabs not
to enter the plant of the Evening
lines
picket
solid
Their
Press.
only
broken
were
paper
executives
by
some
who
through with police help,
The 21 printers involved
All-
contract.
this
the UAW
thanks
for
and
crashed
expressed
They
the
news-
the standard
strike obtained
ac-
in the
ITU
their
support! given
the USW.
by
in prize
totalled
said.
awarded.
Local 155 Wins
Tro-
Entry blanks and requests for
additional information should be
sent to the UAW Recreation Department,
Solidarity House,
Detroit
into
ion Local 71 its first union contract in the area,
The UAW-USW-ITU
pickets
is optional at
person.
Thursday
which
International
and women
event
turned
of labor’s unity and
manpower
the
in team, doubles, singles and allAn entry fee of $4.25
events.
per
rainy
here
UAW Local 130 and
Steelworkers Local 4889
The tournament, which opens
February 2, will include compe-
tition for both men
recent
wanted
strength.
Wayne,
in Fort
Lanes
Key
weren't
demonstration
Tenpin Tourney Deadline Near
sys-
benefits for
mike,
LEVITTOWN,
the State Un-
Compensation
Gosser,
for the
Chairman,
Favorable
workers
time
and
Help Typos Achieve
accept any job
80 per cent of
straight
got
about!”
hours’
administration
Acme-Lees
“Mr.
the
life as a skilled
breakthrough
divorces SUB
eligibility requirements from the State
Unemployment Compensation sys-
tem.
arose,
got a terrific inferiority complex. For the first time in my
any
fund.
independent
delegate
clared,
32
to
another
day’s
pay
(eight
times his hourly base rate) from
The
incident
the Con-
asked Vice President
chairing the confab,
In addition, if an employe
works 32 hours a week for two
consecutive weeks he is entitled
the
A
Getting
rate
be
ference during discussion on
the new five-point skilled
trades program speaks for it-
mike.
base
must
No Gripes!
week they work.
(For example:
if a worker with a $2 base rate
worked only 16 hours in a week,
he
Canal
.
Chrysler
guaranteed
hourly
‘‘The
blocked by Egypt, to the Israeli port of made available for navigation for all counEilat, and the removal and prevention of tries—from the largest down to the
any kind of military, economic or political smallest.’’
blockade by land, by sea or by air.
The UAW Board’s wire also advocated removal from the Sinai Desert
TREATY A ‘MUST’ FIRST STEP
and the Gaza strip the bases that had
‘Only the establishment of a peace treaty
been used for Egyptian aggression
between all of the nations of the Middle
against Israel.
there
which
East ean create the climate in
The Board further declared that it would
confidence
can develop mutual respect and
urge the United States ‘‘to take the leaderbetween the peoples of these countries so ship, through the United Nations, of workthat they will be able to cooperate in an ef- ing out a long range economic aid program
fort to improve their economic conditions, to help all the countries of the Middle East
raise living standards and provide all the so that they may harness their rivers for
people with a fuller measure of economic power and irrigation, increase their food
and social justice.
supply and develop their economic resources
In ‘a speech before the West Coast
to enable them to fight their common enemies
of poverty, hunger, disease and ignorance,
section of Histadrut, President Walter
and_to raise their standard of living to a
P. Reuther underscored these points by
decent and healthful level and to enable
emphasizing that a return to the ‘‘status
quo”’ in the Middle East would solve no
them to spiritually enrich their lives.’’
GUARANTEE
Workers
times
for eight years—and
“Tt’s only when the big countries are affected that the UN moves to take positive
as in the pioneer-
Ford,
$2-HOUR
s at the Acme-Lees Division of
celebrating their ‘‘Best SUB
Ray Berndt announced. It inction against the short work
ration.
the
through
aecess
“Congratulations, Hasse, you’ve been made foreMan. Here’s your first hour’s pay ... you're fired!”
by Egypt
it has
VAN
a
174
Local
“We're letting you go, Binks—We
want
to
cfeate
jobs
for
unemployed to conform
‘Right-to-Work’ law!”
the
with
young
our
ing
DYKE,
Michigan
155 has won
victory
in
an
—
UAW
an overwhelm-
NLRB
election
at the Anzick Manufacturing Company
plant here.
The-yote
to 10 in favor of Local 155,
was 28
UNITED
1957
January,
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Skilled Trades
Solidly Support
5-Point Program
Fifth Annual Skilled Trades
CHICAGO—The
Hotel,
which
Conference, meeting here in the Morrison
adopted a’ dynamic new five-point program
had been submitted for their consideration by the
Union’s International Executive Board.
More than 40 delegates took the floor. They
asked questions about the program, discussed it
thoroughly during the first two days of the threeday confab, then they unanimously voted to accept
it.
ever
workers
of skilled
conference
largest
g
the
was
This
to meet in the history of the Us AWe
Vice President Richard T. Gosser, director of the Skilled
Trades Department, chaired the Gonference. He told how the
program originated, and-how@——_________.____
the International Executive program. We are not here to debate how these things shall be
Board supported it, and how done, but to make sure that they
it ean be gradually imple- will be done.”
mented in the various UAW
Joseph McCusker, co-director of
contracts. (See program in de- Region 1A and a member of the
tail on this page.)
BY
WORKING
to
Solution
a
find
fo
UAW
“the
that
Stressing
ing
TOGETHER
is gothe
skilled trades problem within the
President
family of the UAW,”
out
pointed
P. Reuther
Walter
industrial
that
great
ers
strides
where
the mass
unionism had made
skilled work-
for the
efforts
union
craft
failed.
had
industries
together,
march
and
together,
Talking
what
lies
in
get
we
“What
said
Reuther
1958 will depend on the degree of
mobilization of our Union in sup-
port
of
demands. .. .”
Union
the
said
Reuther
mobilize its forces, “to win
our
wage
highest
will
the
his-
the
in
demands
tory of our Union.” He predicted
that the gains of the last 20 years
will seem insignificant in comparison to the gains of the next 10
years
ing
when
the
technology
new
and
will
dévyelop-
result
in
vastly expanded economy, and
much bigger economic pie.”
REVIEWS
Vice
thews,
CHRYSLER
three-man
mittee,
Skilled
detailed
Trades
the
a
“a
GAINS
President
Norman
a member
of the
MatIEB
Com-
substantial
progress made at Chrysler in the
1955 Agreement
and since then.
Since inception of the apprenticehip program at Chrysler, according to Matthews, 583 apprentices
some
and
graduated,
been
have
404
are
trained.
Vice
still
in
President
process
Leonard
of
can
make
being
Wood-
cock
told
delegates,
“We
must
not confuse the tactical problems
back
to
our
local
that here is a way
Union membership.
great
progress,”
TAKE STAND
to adopting the
new
resolutions
program,
delegates.
were
approved
Among
of
im-
a number
these
‘splinter
Taft-Hartley,
of
repeal
ahead,
Trades
Let’s stress that solidarity in the
You have that teamwork
ranks.
in the leadership.
Together we
Condemnation
groups.”
of
go
unions to tell
to solidify our
the
ment under our industrial union
structure to solve the problems
of special
should
of
refine-
a
out
“working
clared,
“We
Skilled
Committee, called for the support
of all the delegates\in implementing the Skilled Trades program.
portant
the
de-
That's
fight together.
he
to our problem,”
three-man
DELEGATES
In addition
we need to do is stand
“What
and
key
in
IEB
by
were:
groups,
journey-
man card conversion,
better
screening of skilled tradesmen
among displaced persons,
Other
resolutions
were:
Ex-
panded
educational
ganizing
affirmed
strikers,
the
unorganized,
resupport
for
Kohler
outside contracting, es-
freedom
of job
tablishment
tions,
next
Region
ton
of
persons
new
conference,
host
to
at
the
or-
classifica-
Robert
the
Johns-
993
visitors
delegates,
tered
opportunity,
4 Director
played
program,
and
and
Conference,
Board
Education
ton, Fair
William
rector
members,
and
were
Ken
Bannon,
Ford
Oregon
Di-
Sen-
ator Wayne Morse and Assistant
Skilled Trades Director George
Campbell.
Catholic Group Elects Flannery
Harry
nator
and
for
W.
the
television
Flannery,
activities,
elected president
Association
for
Peace.
He
was
group’s
with those of principle which are
vention,
set forth in this Skilled Trades —
recent
AFL-CIO's
coordi-
has
radio
been
of the Catholic
International
named
at the
29th
annual
con-
mitted
The following is the text of the International Executive Board’s recommendation to
the UAW Skilled Trades Conference. Delegates unanimously adopted it.
matters
THE
THAT
in
exist
®
skilled
related
the
that
and
the
SPREADS
tool-die,
maintenance
be
._present
maximum
rates
the
increase
Wage
forward
tremendous
of
point
starting
taking
progress
of
into
account
the
the
industry
and
with particular reference to the inequities and
disparities which now exist in such magnitude in
the various skilled trades classifications,
This
demand
not
members
remaining
the
would
be at the
of the
expense
Union,
but
of
con-
sistent with the efforts the Union must make
for major economic adyances in wage and
other matters for all of our people.
+
new
The
rates then
established
as a result
of the
demands
and the negotiations would be a minimum
e guaranteed to all in the classification
but
could be made
and beyond which advances
with
no maximum
2
IN
®
ORDER
ticeable
limit,
TO
skilled
FULLY
trades
MOBILIZE
and
related
apprengroups
for themselves and to the common objectives
will
be
formulated
for all, we
urge
that
| which
| upon
application
to and approval of the International Union with regard to any specific location
of constitutional
a matter
become
the following
right:
@ Apprenticeable
workers,
members
DEMOCRATIC
here
seen
being
skilled
trades
and
of our
Union, shall
SENATOR
congratulated
related
be per-
MORSE,
by
Vice
President Gosser at the conclusion of
his impromptu talk to the skilled trades
delezates, told them, “When I was a
Republican, they (the GOP) were proud
that I had the support of organized labor. Now, that I'm a Democrat, I've
committed some sort of a crime by tak-
ing that support
with
me,
and
vote
pertaining
classifications.
in
the
general
to all of the workers.
production
They
unit
on
In similar
workers, office workers, ene
technicians would decide those ques-
and
affected
Since
only
employers
themselves,
quite
often
are
not
in-
to strike action in accordanee with constitutional
provision and the approval of the International
Union,
3
IN ORDER
TO
@ rights expressed
shall
have
direct
choosing as
mittees and
Provision
MAKE
MEANINGFUL
the
in para
h 2, it will be
workers
trades
skilled
that
provide
to
necessary
representation
of
their
own
part of all local shop bargaining comof all national bargaining committees,
must
be
and
that
the
representatives
try
ONE SUBSTANTIAL THREAT
to the con¢ tinued forward progress of American indusis the lack of sufliciently expanded programs
for
apprenticeship
groups.
from
these
elected
trades
by
made
are
these
of
a demand that added
shall be a very sub-
negotiations. There shall be
to this old maximum rate
stantial
eliminated
classifications
considered
other
and
trades
be
classifications
now
as they
MERIT
matters
fluenced simply
by voting,
it is also necessary
to provide that under
prescribed circu
ices
skilled
trades workers
be permitted
the'r
toward the very real advances Which can be
ours in 1958, we advance the following pro-
gram for implementation by the Convention
of 1957 and whatever other bodies may -be
affected, and for full incorporation in the
demands of 1958,
to
common
which
@
on
trades.
continue
gineers
tions
voting
their
fashion,
looking
and
of the Union,
members
to
would
our Union and to mobilize the full efforts of
the apprenticeable skilled trades and related
groups in behalf of themselyes and the remaining
separate
only
of
effectiveness
the
increase
to
order
In
staff
Director Brendan SexPractices Co-Director
Oliver, National
Here’s New Program for Skilled Trades
Unanimously OK‘d by Conference Delegates
regis-
welcomed
them
warmly,
Others
who spoke, in addition to the offi-
cers
as 1,000 delegates, visitors and staff people filled the large auditorium during the
Fifth Annual Skilled Trades Conference. Representing 175,000 skilled UAW members from the Union’s total membership of more than 1,500,000, they formed the
largest Conference of this kind ever held by the Union.
appropriate
necessary
also
is
It
training.
skilled
to take into account that over the years the nature of certain trades has changed, some being
while others,
now more complex and demanding,
technological
of
virtue
by
cordingly,
it is proposed
that
less so.
are
change,
apprenticeship
Ac-
traine
ing schedules
be reviewed
and
brought
into a
realistic relationship with the trades for which the
apprentices are being trained. In order
to meet
the
pressing
to
In
this
it
connection,
skills
the
utilize
is
also
apprenticeship
the
revise
and
view
demands,
necessary
ratios,
it is necessary,
available
are
that
to
in
re-
order
among
the ranks of the other members of the Union,
to revise the age limits governing the acceptability of apprentices.
continued
for those apprentices who
into
the
industry
from
the
outside,
special provision be made establishing
for
other
applicants
apprentice
capacities
In
obtain
fashion
this
more
fully
the
work
the
of
evaluation
tained,
within
who
trained
industry
and
retraining
as
trades
workers
jobs,
present
Only
demands
WITH
their
with
such
for
due
ob-
can
mechanics
whole as a realso permit the
of
allocation
a
program
pro-
present
to
as
skilled
this
can
IMPLEMENTATION
of
journeymen
FULL
in
Since the
faster pace.
skilled trades workers
mechanics
and
THE
qualified
industry as a
change, it will
qualified
with
the
and at a
number
of apprenticeable
duction
industry
already
in greater
proportion
is increasing in the
sult of technological
employed
are
and
be
are coming
but
that
a
higher limit
experience
nation
the
limit
age
present
the
propose
therefore,
We,
be
also
it will
program,
¢@ this
of the
full strength
the
exercise
met,
to
possible
be
apprenticeable
for the solution of many
skilled trades workers
are
they
with which
problems
pressing in-plant
these are
Included among
contending,
presently
the
important
the question
unsettled
items
of the
of outside
matters,
crossing
contractors
of trade
and
many
lines,
other
Page
UNITED
10
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
January,
1957
U. S. Paying Off Nation's Bankers
With Boost in Your Interest Rates
BUNDLES
Right
ment
thus
FOR
now,
BANKERS
the federal
tion’s
way
govern-
to get. This
Administra-
of saying
to the bankers who
Republicans
paign.
Those
in
interest
you”
past
cam-
supported
the
who
“thank
profit
rates
are
from
the
Having
tion
for
thus
built
higher
the
interest
founda-
rates,
Administration
ahead
to
the
second
last month it raised
rate on FHA home
4% to five per cent.
bankers,
rediscount
for making loans.
Eisenhower
went
the finance companies and the
insurance firms. The people who
will be paying the freight for
small
sional
charge more
the
high
this financial gravy train
the workers, the farmers,
the
rate, which is the interest charged
on loans to commercial banks by
the government’s Federal Reserve
System. Since it now costs banks
more money to get loans, they
is increasing interest rates,
making money
more
“ex-
pensive” and harder
is the Eisenhower
it boosted
buys
teed
businessmen and profespeople. This is the price
a house on an
mortgage will
pay
the
bank
the interest
loans from
who
extra
one-half
sy
Reh N ae Tee( tts
In terms
The fact is, the largest proportional price increase this past year
in the Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index has been
in personal-care items. These have gone up four per cent the past
year, a rise of about double the general increase in prices. Price
boosts of some commonly-used personal-care items are even greater,
like the increase of eight per cent in the tag on shave creams this
items
as
nail
polish,
Ethel Hoover,
price checkers
permanent
re-
costs
amount
deodorants
have been sending in
consumption of such
and
other
toiletries,
BLS price economist, has revealed.
In general,
attribute the increased usage to heavy television
vertising of such products.
Very
interestingly,
the
toiletries
and
cosmetics
Mrs.
the|
ad-|
industry
spends a greater portion of its advertising money on TV promotions than do most other types of manufacturers.
One heavy
advertiser, Hazel Bishop, even reported that for 1955 it spent
$1,600,000
on
just
the “extraordinary
one
network
campaign,
manufacturing
which
was
four
costs” of $400,000
to
the
of repayment.
Moreover,
the higher FHA
will make it
for veterans
ont
total
sg
interest
rate
extremely difficult
to get VA
home
loans,
because
these
are
still
cheap
if it can sell dear?
in-
sured at a lower rate of interest,
and what bank will sell its money
Thus
a new
pressure
is created
bankers
are
to boost interest rates on GI home
loans,
too,
soon.
If
predicting
and
that
it does,
this
freely
will
the
happen
federal
gov-
ernment will, in effect, be picking
the pockets of veterans who
they
at low
cost.
MORE
FOR
The
count
too.
an
were
rate
boost-in
is
Every
appliance
on
buying
homes
APPLIANCES
original
hurting
time you
redis-
consumers,
buy
or some
the
the
THE UNITED NATIONS’ fight for peace goes on
at many fronts. While the world worries about Hungary and the Middle East, UN agencies quietly keep
working to bolster the economies of have-not nations.
Here a representative of the UN’s International Labor Organization shows a Haitian trainee the ins and
outs of welding.
a car or
other
installment
major
plan,
to bankers.
ALLIS,
or
the
be-
ae
Wisconsin—Ever
since the Westinghouse
Company
Le
Roi
UAW
but
Air Brake
of Pittsburgh bought
engine
Local
plant
756
the
here
in 1953,
had
nothing
has
trouble.
The Union has represented Le
Roi’s 500 workers since 1935, but
it’s only in the last three years
that the Local
negotiating
has had
contract
difficulties
renewals.
A nine-week strike preceded the
1954
settlement.
workers
11 weeks
had
This
fall,
they
got
to hit the
before
Le
Roi
bricks for
a settle-
WASHINGTON
— The
CIO
and
16 other
ganizations
have
launched
But
or-
a
this
dogged
toiletry
in
reason
for the current
products
is the
super-markets.
combination
of
The
BLS
dramatic
impulse-teasing
judgment
prominent
displays
of many
in
price
tendencies
Company
backward
15
@
that
wanted
instead
to
of forward:
An average wage
cents an hour.
move
increase
of
@ A
supplemental
unemployment benefit plan (SUB).
@ A
GM-type
pension
plan.
@ A seventh paid holiday.
@ Shift differentials of 12 cents
for second and 14 cents for third
shift.
@ Five cents an hour additional wage boost for skilled trades.
@
A
viding
weeks’
cost-of-living
escalator
severance
plan,
for
pay
a
pay
maximum
after
24 years
of
12
of serv-
joint drive for a federal aid for
ice.
upcoming
@ Improved vacation pay, providing for-three weeks after 12
construction
session
of
bill in the
Congress.
The Conference on Federal
Aid for Education recently
held
office
its
of
Treasurer
first
meeting
AFL-CIO
William
in
the
Secretary-
F. Schnitz-
ler. Representatives of the
group also met with Marion B.
Folsom, U. S. Secretary
of
Health, Education and Welfare.
}years
| years.
@
and
four
Improvements
cident and life
other benefits.
The
new
weeks
in
after
health,
insurance,
contract
expires
25
ac-
and
June
1, 1959.
The plant makes engines, air
compressors and Centaur tractors.
times
displays of them
economists
advertising
the
families.
stores,
on
believe
the
to buy
you
now
television
is breaking
down
the
shampoos,
his
reaction
hand
lotions,
was
that
tonics,
a majority
facial
of these
creams,
items
and
“consist
so
the
and
of
our
and
H.
reports
he
has
finds it quicker,
the
expensive
dentist’s
baking
economical]
advertised
advice
soda
been
we
for
using
and
lathers”
have
been
brushing
your
brush
contain. Your cost
be about 30 cents.
commercially-sold
the
water
that
“as
he
soap
used.
a mixture
For
Also,
“on
of table
chapped
hands
lathers
and
for a year’s supply of shaving soap will
Similarly. glycerine is a basic ingredient
hand
Jotions.
also
decided
he
received
a govern-
security
drive
It hap-
in
a
Cali-
It en-
the
jobs
workers.
of
member
UAW
of
loyal
Lo-
the Western
Industrial Per-
Board
denied
were
that he
maintaining
a
“was
close
currently
continuing
alleged member
nist Party.”
of
clearance.
association
with
Perry
admitted
ers
The
your
the
he
with his mother,
and
his
sister.
He
him
grounds
sister,
an
lived
at
Commu-
two broth-
denied
any
knowledge of alleged Communist
his
by
or activities
sympathies
sister.
The
government
agency
decid-
than
a year
his
ed he couldn’t live at home and
still get a security clearance.
creams
later, the decision finally went
in Perry's favor,
Now
Perry has his job back;
salt
Perry
glycerine and lemon juice.
or shaving soaps at slightly
shaving soap, you simply add
prepared
has
to
Security
home
shaving
any
it
a right
ment check for $2,234.89.
pened this way:
security
But
than
Recently
sonnel
of a simple
for
or better
previously
teeth.”
the
good
using
family uses a mixture of rose-water,
His facts
are right.
Ordin
soap,
higher cost, are big money
ers. With
with
ordinary
sister,
has
to pay Willie Perry for the time
he was laid off for having a relative.
when
and
formula, made from inexpensive ingredients with color and perfume
added.
Many of these ingredients or suitable substitutes might be
found in the average home.”
Mr.
a
Perry
cal 887, was discharged by North
American Aircraft two years ago
buying
on.
have
Willie
Perry,
of Sommerville, Mass., reports he was
showing a large variety of dentifrices,
hair
that
ANGELES—Now that the
Government
has decided
dangered
American
SALT AND SODA STILL WORK
But not all A lot of alert readers of labor and co-op papers know
the score.
Reader
F.B.H.
attracted to a display rack
LOS
U. S.
fornia got extra intense.
observe
screen,
Perry
Man Discharged
For Being Relative
Gets Back Pay Award
The
more
apparently
Willie
pro-
it reported
of women
eee
persistence
for the same year. The advertising bills of its chief competitor,
Revlon, which sponsors “The $64,000 Question,” are even bigger,
according to advertising-expert Charles M. Sievert.
Another
ene
on the part of Local 756 paid off.
Here's what they wrung from a
clause.
AFL-
national
ment.
@ A
Seek School Aid
school
BUDGETS
lipstick,
of a $10,000 25-year
Le Roi Strike Puts the Brakes
On Firm’s Traditional ‘Hot Air’
ing a big bill for the great current splurge of television advertising by toiletries and cosmetics manufacturers.
You’re paying for it in two ways. One is in the higher
prices now being charged for these products. The other is in
the increased
ge of toiletries and cosmetics. There are
now definite indications that television advertising is increasing the cost of this large group of goods, and is influencing
the publie to spend additional sums for products of dubious
usefulness,
of Labor Statistics’ price-samplers
the Bureau
of greatly-increased
:
lieves in being kind
a
you're chipping in for them and other programs. You’re foot-
Bureau
reports to
counting the onecharged as insur-
more
in interest,
because
Eisenhower Administration
Perhaps you’ve never won a $64,000 television prize, let
alone a $100,000 one. But whether you know it or not,
ADVERTISING
is now
mortgage, this boost in the interest rate adds nearly $900 in
WEST
BIGGEST
eee
premium,
mortgage
ee
ance
>=
past year, the 30 per cent jump in the price of home
fills, and the six per cent increase on face creams,
FHA
get a loan from your bank or
finance company, you'll be paying
Os |
roe
an
5% per cent,
half per cent
item
as
Pa
of
thought
FHA-guarannow have to
an
és
then
step:
$900 MORE TO BANKS
This means that a worker
are
the
the
cost
a
First,
per cent in interest during the
life of that mortgage.
The total
jr
Our money is getting more expensive every day, the economists of the UAW’s Research Department point out. And
they’re not trying to be funny.
There is a price tag on money, just as there is a price tag
on cars and refrigerators, though it’s called something else.
The price of money is known
as ‘‘the interest rate.’’ If this we're paying for having reinterest rate is low, money is elected Eisenhower.
Here’s what the banker-minded
cheap. If it’s high, money is
Eisenhower Administration did:
expensive.
probably
of many
“Honest, I didn’t mean to call you
it was just a slip of the fact.”
‘birdbrain’..
.
appealed.
More
he still has a family; and he has
a check from the government to
pay for his lost earnings.
«
UNITED
1957
January,
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Reuther Tells Educators:
America’s Wasting Its Brainpower;
Urgently Needs Federal School Aid
“Any nation more concerned with the condition of its
plumbing than with the adequacy of its educational system
is in trouble,’? UAW President Walter P. Reuther told groups
of educators in two recent
speeches in New York and dicated by. the facts of life .
part-time
classrooms,
crowded
Ohio.
schools, over-worked and under-
COMICS
that “this
MORE FOR
He noted
can have federal aid without federal controls.”
While “we pride ourselves as a
nation that values the individual,”
the UAW President declared, “it
factor
limiting
critical
“the
of Communist
ther
of Technol-
concluded
ogy study which
that
best
our
high schools do not go to college,
to
of talent amounting
students a year,” Reuther
continued.
four years, we have
“In the past
“to
of our
for a
suffered this crisis passively. We
have wrung our hands. . . instead
of taking those actions clearly in-
years.”
of five
period
Construction
enough
come
room
needs,
classroom
of schools
present
the
and
deficit
having
space
to over-
meet
future
300,000
teachers.
Establishment
of
a
of
compre-
hensive
federal scholarship
program
to overcome
the
present
shortage
of teachers, scientists
and
engineers,
and
@ <A
special
program
to
intellectual
to
develop
a
reserve.
federal-state-local
insure
growth
the
and
maximum
develop-
ment of gifted children.
@ Federal-state-local cooperation
to end pirating of teachers by pri-
vate
of
industry,
a
system
qualified
dustry
on
a
establishment
which
would
persons employed
and
loan
teacher
and
government
basis
shortage
until
the
permit
by in-
to teach
present
is overcome.
“T believe that only such a bold
program will be equal to the new
and
growing
dimensiens
of our
crisis,’
calling
his
Reuther
de-
suggestions
program.
He said the program should be
based initially on the following:
©
number
“both practical and realistic.”
“We can afford this program,”
he told the educators. “We cannot afford not. to have such a
of
a program
half and two per cent
gross national product
power,
a loss
250,000
itself
®
clared,
S.
U.
the
that
competent
educational
Reu-
expansion,”
federal aid to education” which
would cost “between one-and-a-
on
“Yet 60 per cent of the
from
students graduating
proposed
commit
the world’s resources is not maor food, but
terials, energy
brain
of the in-
subordination
professed
To meet “the world challenge
using its
He cited a
California Institute
is Russia, with its one-party government, its police state and its
dividual to the mass, which is today engaged in a great national
search for individual talent.”
books than for all the textbooks
used in all our elementary and
secondary schools,
isn’t
“America
brains,” he charged.
‘BOOKS’
PUSH
RUSSIANS
comic
on
“We
litical football,” he declared.
adequate
trained “manpower
a po-
be
not
should
“Education
is
nation
money
more
spending
istrators.
admin-
harried
and
teachers
paid
an
“We stand at a new social frontier. The timid will never survive
the
perilous
threshold.”
journey
across
aa
class-
IN
After taking note of such
charges being made about Michigan, a special committee
Michigan Chapter of the
of
Industrial,
Realtors
of the
Society
made
a
“Taxes
and
labor
costs
The Union is making progress on the organizational front,
UAW Vice President Richard Gosser, director of the Competitive Shops Department, reports. He cited as evidence the
results of recent elections con-
ducted by the National Labor
Relations Board and reported
by various UAW regional directors.
In Region 6, the UAW has
won bargaining rights at the
Harvill
have
been publicized as the reasons for
industry
moves,”
the committee
said, where, in some cases, “the
real reasons
buildings,
were
obsolescence
mergers”
and
Los
of
tfiat
survey, on trends
this
of
members
of
ratio
the
in indus-
economic factors.
The report pointed
drive
of
other
The
there
in
plant
Corporation
Angeles.
tional
INGENUITY HIT a new
trial location.
out, for ex- high during the recent newsIn a recent report signed by ample, that the closing of the
paper strike in Cleveland,
Committee Chairman Neil Riekse, automotive division of Motor
when striking AFLthe group said:
Products Company in Detroit was Ohio,
caused not by high wage rates CIO Guildsmen and mechan‘Tt is not this committee’s
but
by
other
economic
factors ical unions
set up a strike
impression that industry is leavwithin the automotive industry.
ing Michigan faster than it is
newspaper and converted the
“We are encouraged, not discoming in. Our observation is
ladies’ room at the Newspacouraged,
by
what
we
have
quite the contrary.
per Guild’s office into a photo
“Over the past several years It found,” the realtors’ report condark room.
has been the common impression cludes,
careful
organiza-
was
ducted jointly by Regional Director Charles Bioletti’s staff,
the Die Cast Department and
the Competitive Shops DepartSeveral previous atment.
tempts to organize this shop
had failed.
Challenged ballots held up
certification of the latest election for some time,
In
has
the
Detroit
organized
the
area,
Region
Anzick
Manu-
to
move-outs
has been
fairly constant, with three companies moving in for each one moving out.
indicate
that
have
we
figures
latest
The
this
trend
is
realtors
tober,
into
the
1956,
state
said that
firms
29
nine
and
had
seen
The
“there
dency
of
the
central
cities
with
conditions
expansion
areas.
economic
industries
and in
to the
out
space,
into
the
..,. There
reasons
seek
and
more
why
more
factors
in
Company
workers
and
ComBrunning
at the Charles
Jersey,
pany in Teterboro, New
voted for the UAW.
Region 9A reports another elec
Boston area,
the Sterling
tion victory in the
where employes of
Radiator Company voted for the
UAW. This drive was conducted
by the regional staff in cooperwith
Shops
Competitive
the
Motor
Ford
new
UAW
the
agent
Ford
enjoyed
by
UAW
is
other
The
has
Company
collective
as
for
Workers
at
Raws
plants—at
Ford
more
benefits of
contract
than
see.
room
T
UAW
also
conducting
ANN
dents,
financial
secretaries
and
trustees
of
the
Cleveland-Elyria
(Ohio)
area
listen
to a talk by Regional Director Pat O'Malley. More than 100 delegates participated in
the sessions, the third to be held in the Cleveland area, A similar institute was held
in Akron last month
for locals in the Kent-Ravenna-Canton-New
Castle
area,
at new
Tennes-
os
—
or
1380,»
workers,
drive
an organizational
Ford plants in Ohio and
growing
the
York,
New
Buffalo,
000
are sound
in
the Minneapolis-Mohas
in Minneapolis
Brothers
Klepfer
now
order to get it, find a move
suburbs expedient,”
important
of-
additional
an
10,
workers
will get the
UAW-negotiated
the
their
neare
workers.
em-
sonville, Michigan, and Indianapinto
go
plants
these
Once
olis.
full production, about 5,600 Ford
outlying
and markets, as well as the
cessity
for “elbow
room,”
will
which alvoted for the UAW,
ready represents the production
workers.
at the
In Region 9, workers
two
that
The realtors also found that
the closeness of raw materials
600
unit of
plant
bargaining
limited
elbow
production,
Region
recognized
left
has been a long-term tenfor industries to move out
crowded
fringe
pointed
fice
line
about
The
come
SITES
committee
ploy
full
UAW Contract Covers
Two New Ford Plants
con-
“These new companies will create a good net gain of job opporreport
tunities,” the committee's
noted,
‘HANDY’
1
in
Department.
as of Ochad
when
plant,
This
check.
a card
on
plant
ation
tinuing.”
The
facturing
Company,
the Globe
Steel Treating Company and the
Die Supply Company Division of
Region 1A and the
E. W. Bliss.
the new
won
Department
Ford
Ford
Mercury
Station
Wagon
In
con-
committee
move-ins
ss
UAW Organizers Go Rolling Along;
Harvill Latest Victory in California
Do union-negotiated high wages force companies to ‘‘flee”’
to states where unions are weak and wages low?
- The charge—often heard in election-years and peddled
every year by Republicans and big business spokesmen—has
now been nailed to the wall
location of a plant than are
by a real estate group which
wages and tax costs.
could by no stretch of the
Moreover, the report noted, the
imagination be regarded as skill and productivity of the workpro-labor,
er are as important as his wage
MOVING
aA
THERE WAS A BLIZZARD in Chicago so these
two youngsters, sons of UAW members, couldn’t wait
to try out this new Christmas sled.
Realtor Survey Discloses
Industry Likes Michigan
INDUSTRY
5
ae
7.
oy
3
(3
the
insubstantial
© Immediate
creases in teachers’ salaries to at-
rate.
end
RR
Reuther spoke on the crisis
in American education before
the Association of New York
State Teachers College Faculties in Buffalo, and later before the National Council for
Social Studies of the National
Edueation Association (NEA)
in Cleveland.
tract
Nwrs
.
Wins Vote
ARBOR,
Michigan
— Tho
elecitation
a repre
in
UAW,
collective bargalne
tion, has won
em
maintenance
for
rights
ing
ployes
here,
at the
Argus
Camera
plant
Page
UNITED
12
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
January,
Ag Implement Task Force Group
Plans to Meet With Legislators
The
ent
Unem
Implement
Task Force Committee on
ings late this month or early in
me
plans
s
industry
Pat Great
d
to
bolster
rouse
farm
income,
reports.
©
cities
cultural
where
implement
the
is con-
centrated,
the National
Farm
anization and the National
Farmers’ Union.
0
nized
UAW-called
atives
of
last
July
meeting
these
after
-of represent-
groups
in
story
in the
industry
plement
farm
of widespread
income
to
a
goyernment,
car-
gress
Defense
will
make
The
Department.
UAW’
Washington
angements
in|
and
bers
labor’s
ganizations.
repre-}
convention
atives.
“We
will
seek support
mentation
the
three
Committee
resolutions
They
istic
imple-
points
which
adopted
at
Greathouse
for
its
as
initial
are: “Adoption
farm
program
policy
type
farm
farm
organizations
economy.
We
is
in
2)
a
Congressional
farmers
will
spread between
farmers for his
consumers
establishment
products
@
and
and
special
the
prices
commission,
paid
farm
and labor.”
of
will
dent
reception
the UAW’s
and labor
usually
conservative
Walter
P,
featured
—
UAW
Reuther
speakers
Presi-
was
one
UAW RECREATION DIRECTOR OLGA MADAR
discusses the hobby of making violins with two retired UAW members at UAW-sponsored hobby show
in Detroit for pensioners. The violin makers, each
standing behind the instruments they exhibited, are
John Orto, 69, at left, a member of Local 163 and a
former GM Diesel employe, and John Moruszezak, 71,
at right, a member of Chrysler ABD Local 212.
at a Con-
ference on Problems of the White
Collar Worker held under the auspices of the AFL-CIO's Industrial
at
sup-
Union
Department
Conference
legitimate
(IUD).
was in progress
| United Automobile
to press.
Reuther
delegates
meeting.
Other
| clude
| Meany,
as The
Worker
office and technical
cals are attending
other legislagood for both
The
went
Monroe
is president of the IUD.
Thirty-two
realistic
Conference
AFL-CIO
from
UAW
workers’ lothe- two-day
speakers
President
in-
WASHINGTON
George
Secretary-Treasurer
| ston;
B.
Every Morning
and
Carey,
IVE
Wil-
President
who
urer of the IUD.
of
James}-
is secretary-treas-
including
Ike's Li'l Ole’
$100,000 Shack
—
The
atomic
for December 10, won’t go off until this month. The Atomic
Energy Commission postponed the hearing on the conditional
permit for the Monroe Reactor until January 8,
6
ee
UAW
attorneys meanwhile
filed a petition to seeure ac- cess to non-military classified —
data needed to preseht the
Union’s case. The Union contends that locating the Mon-
data.
what
|
EF
Jefferson
STEWARD’S
Ayenue,
Conference
Bargaining
cents,
ha
IS
sented
TIME
STUDY
many
REMEMBER
at
years
more,
or
¢ stopped
WE
20
100
the
of
membership
1
L
UAW’s
in
15 cents
each
OUR
with
same
material
the
to
1,000
out
that
individuals and
should
attorneys
be
avail-
interested
safety,
three
struction
in
data
Lawrence (left), president of Detroit’s Lions Club, and Marshall S. Woods (right),
head of the Motor City’s Kiwanis, after a speech on the Kohler strike before a joint
meeting of the two luncheon clubs. Mazey had asked for and received “equal time”
from the clubs after a recent speech before the same group by a Kohler Company
executive who made a vicious attack on the UAW.
NEW
tive
Education
of
All
unionists.
on
bargaining
Department,
and
that’s
still
timely.
a stop watch, Ten
manuscript
Conference
Ambitious
this
local
y determines
griev-
Buber.
and
Single
and
Single
Collective
x
copies,
pictures
cents a copy.
of the pageant
year
might
price,
on
25)3
that
pre-
commemorating
reproduce
has
received
H.
Leliman
the
it at
accomplishments
senator.
‘Never in my
Communications
sented
along
hich
his
the
with
Lehman
favorite
The
plaque
a
of
president
and
pre-|
Workers,
to the
check
for
Senator,|
$5,000,|
is contributing
charities,
ceremonies
were
attend-
to|
by
the
the
state
world,”
cepting
the
so
few
“I
cause
| even
am
the
aware
of
the
for |
fight
and|
have
Lehman
award.
more
in
of
ed by AFL-CIO President George | nation we have
Meany and Mayor Robert Wag- | complacency.
our
the
country
said
country
hazards.
been_lulled
“The Administration
ner of New York. UAW Presihe
dent Walter P. Reuther, unable | that all is well,”
to be present, sent a congratu- | “but all is not well.”
Reactor.
I
all U. S. and
obvious
that
a
into
tells us
continued,
Canadian
He urged that
UN delegates.
U. S. and Canada take the lead
in such an effort because “it is
by
the
present
government
gary.” He
a puppet
power and
be-
seem
jold and
of the
sentative
and
As
Exthe
the
grams last month to UN SecreHammarskDag
tary-General
garian
in ac-
ashamed
Monroe
mits UN observers inside its
borders.
UAW President Walter P.
Reuther sent identical tele-
more troubled and alarmed
been
the|
lifetime
the
con-
present Hungarian UN delegation unless that country per-
award,|
governor
as
of
protesting
The UAW's International
ecutive Board has urged
United Nations to unseat
for all}
“first-class citizenship
Americans,” and noted his many
guished public servic
Joseph Beirne, head of the}
Services
Community
AFL-CIO’s
|Committee
life-long
Lehman's
AFL-CIO’s | cited
the
making
in
Beirne,
(D.,
| first Philip Murray-William Green|
of distin-|
for “30
it} Award
14, Michigan.
hints
Y.)
Herbert
telegram.
latory
S.,
U.
YORK—Retiring
unions
UAW Urges UN Oust
Hungary's Delegation
gets together with Myron T.
EMIL MAZEY
SECRETARY- TREASURER
UAW
PAST—The
Education
than
clients
much of the data.. If this develops, much of the credit will go to
SCIENTIFIC ?—Arguments
a man
his
At press time, there were indieations that
AEC
Commissioner
Lewis
Strauss
might
declassify
Detroit
1954
hazard.
None
of the
classified
would be made public.
1 174’s Charles
Illustrated by
25 or r
7 cents each.
on the UAW’s Economie
AUTOMATION—A 1
ance procedures,
copies, 10 cents,
tell
pointed
more
public
of interest to
to the UAW’s
GUIDE—Helpful
Union
able
N.
8000
thé
firms have access to the material for use in private atomic
development.
It contends
the
|Senator
t
near
is a public
He
can’t
he knows.
The
|
|
may
reactor
Only one of the Union's attorneys, Harold P. Green of Washington,
now
has
access
to the
ee Murray-Green Award
Presented to Senator Lehman
reading
writing
atomic
centration
built, breakfast
some easy
btained
by
first scheduled
Detroit-Toledo population con-
was sent to the ‘‘cabin’’ by
waiter from the club house
200 yards away and frequently was cold on arrival.
The Augusta Golf Club is
President Eisenhower's favorite vacation retreat.
Here’s
fireworks,
roe
AUGUSTA, Georgia—Because the Eisenhowers don't
like to eat their breakfasts
cold, the thoughtful members of the Augusta National Golf Club have added a
$13,000 dining room to the
President's residence on the
edge of the golf course.
This new addition puts
the total cost of ‘‘Mamie’s
cabin’’ at well over $100,000, according to United
Press White House correspondent Merriman Smith.
The new dining room is
an added convenience. Before it was
Reactor Hearing
Switched to January 8
liam B. Schnitzler and Director
|| of Organization John W. Living-
on
“Eye Opener"
by
rousing
Pat
organization.
of the
program
a
Guy Nunn
President
WASHINGTON
to improve the
can and should
favor
here
IUD Sponsors Conference
On White Collar Workers
annual
NFO
labor
Listen to
inves-
tigation of the
prices paid to
the
by
farm program and
tion which will be
guarantee income to the farmers in proportion to the income
of other segnients of the econ“-emy;
of
endorsed
capitals
of a real-
which
to
problems
Missouri:
any
convention
to Con-
year-old
of organized
the
farm
work together and lobby in Washington
and in the various state
meeting,”
reports.
in
explaining
farm
told
port
which
PROGRAM
He
of the
Joseph,
“We
SEEK
on
National
meet
with UAW
representatives to discuss mutual
problems. It was a significant and
heartening change of attitude
achieyed
been
the
Vice
a
Florida—
Charles B. Shuman,
president of the Bureau, agreed to
in addresses to various farmer or-
St.
TO
position
has
to
after he explained
position on farm
problems.
appropri-
President
maintained.
Greathouse
Com-}
ane other
the
full employment
and
office}
for
and
UAW
Greathouse
assure that the fruits of technological advance are fairly shared
August when Committee members|
met with officials of the ICA and
the
make
ate recommendations
im-]|
geing}
Washington
to
Bureau
gave
mission on technological change,
composed of representatives of
Jaber, agriculture, industry and
unem-|
agricultural
Farm
President
to the Congress, and 3) establishment of a permanent
com-
Rock
Island, Illinois, the Committee
Vice
BEACH,
Delegates
ment of Agriculture to make a
continuing study of this price
spread with the commission directed to make an annual report
agri-
industry
UAW
MIAMI
representatives of, all seZments
of the economy, in the Depart-
Greathouse is chairman of|
the Committee which includes
representatives of the UAW,
several
Breakthrough
1 Washington with Congressional leaders to enlist
rt for legislation to restore full employment in the
Bebrua
their
ultural
1957
force
of
is not
Hun-
repre-
of Hun-
people
added, “it is merely
in
put
government
maintained in power
arms
of
the
Sovict
Union.”
The wire also urged that the
delegates continue their insist-
ence
ing
the
on the Soviet’s withdraw-
troops
under
holding
UN
from
of
Hungary
free
supervision.
and
elections
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