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Public Review Board
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UNITED
2
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
May,
These Six Have Agreed to Serve on UAW
HIGGINS
OXNAM
1957
Public Review Board
KERR
WITTE
Delegates Approve Public Review Board
RABBI
Hebrew
Sketches of Board Members
MORRIS
ADLER:
A
prominent
JUDGE WADE McCREE: Judge of Third
Judicial Cireuit Court (Wayne County,
Michigan) since 1954. Served in U. S. Infantry. in World War IJ, entering as a priyate and being discharged at end of the war
with rank of eaptain. Served overseas in
Italy with 92nd Division. Member of Mich-
scholar and key figure in community
life of Detroit and nation. Since 1938 has
been leader of a Detroit Hebrew congregation. President of the Zionist Organization
of Detroit and viee president of Jewish Community Council in Detroit.
igan
BISHOP G. BROMLEY
dist Church leader and
OXNAM: Methodynamic
writer.
Former president DePauw University and
former professor at University of Southern
California and Boston University. Resident
bishop of Methodist Church in Washington
since
Author
19
of several
ing, ‘‘Labor and Tomorrow’s
books,
and
College,
MONSIGNOR
Director
tional
International
nore,
Denmark.
Labor
pany
Board.
and
Wrote
Peoples
at
Elsi-
Member
of
National
War
Arbitrator
for
Armour
Com-
United
“Unions,
Packinghouse
Management,
frequent
and
Action
HIGGINS:
Department,
Welfare
1954.
G.
Conference
Nationally
Na-
since
recognized
objective authority
as
on labor-
articles in field of labor economics.
DR. EDWIN WITTE: Retiring from University of Wisconsin economie faculty after
42 years
of service
government
to the state and
this year,
he was
ored at a “‘labor symposium’’
Wisconsin.
He was executive
Workers.
and
Commission,
Writes syndicated
relations.
management
column for Catholic papers and is author of
of California
College
Catholic
informed
includ-
GEORGE
of Social
November,
World.”’
University
Compensation
1952-54.
DR. CLARK KERR: Chancellor of Uniyersity of California at Berkeley. Taught at
Antioch
Workmen’s
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey—Determined
lat the UAW shall continue to be recognized as a
clean Union and that the existent high moral and
ethical standards in the administration of the Union will be guaranteed, delegates to the Sixteenth
Constitutional Convention adopted the Public Review Board proposed by the International Executive Board.
President
the Pub-
Roosevelt’s
lie.””
recently
hon-
at Madison,
director of
Committee
nomic Security (1934-35)
the Social Seeurity Act.
national
on
which
Eco-
sponsored
Delegates Hail Labor Unity, Want More of It
ATLANTIC
CITY,
New,
Jersey—The ‘ ‘historic morees
of the AFL and the CIO”’i
unorganized
The
to
protection
union
workers.
resolution
of
millions
ment
also calls for the
dele- | ereation of “appropriate internal
| machinery to resolve jurisdictional
1955 was applauded by
gates to the UAW Convention | disputes” with arbitration “as the
against
the
pressures
and
temptations
of reaction,
ruption,
and
stagnation”
corand
“to
pos-
facilitate
the
earliest
sible merging of state and
central bodies.”
local
here in a resolution on labor| yitimate step” to avoid unnecesunity which calls on the lead-| sary and inexcusable jurisdiction-
The delegates also called on the
merged labor movement “to con-
affiliated unions to ‘‘work to-|i"& of the no-raiding agreements.
to
ership of the AFL-CIO
and its} al
gether in the spirit of understanding
and
cooperation”
to
extend|
and
warfare,
It
asks
protect
for
continued
the
new
the
efforts
labor
tinue
broadenmove-
CINCINNATI, Ohio—In a recent address at the University of Cincinnati, the Rev. John F. Cronin, 8.8., wellknown economist and labor mediator, lauded the UAW’s
Public Review Board as ‘‘one of the greatest programs of
labor statesmanship in this century."
Father Cronin spoke on ‘‘Labor, Management and the
Responsibility of Power'’ at the weekly meeting of the
University’s 36th annual Business and Professional Man’s
Group, current affairs forum. He is assistant director of
the National Catholic Welfare Conference’s Department
of Social Action.
Most union abuses arise from membership apathy made
permanent by constitutional changes giving autocratic
power to union leaders, in the opinion of Father Cronin.
“The UAW proposal strikes at the heart of this abuse
by giving outside trustees the power to act as an ultimate
court of appeals from any misuse of union disciplinary
machinery,’’ he said. ‘‘Even more drastic is the proposal to
give this board power to initiate its own inquiries into the
democratic health of the Union and its locals.’’
Concluded Father Cronin, ‘‘Real union democracy will
lead not only to better unions. It will also produce better
labor-management relations.’’
to broaden
encourage
labor's effort
maximum
participa-
tion in citizenship responsibilities”
to
strengthen
the
democratic
“to
Public Review Board
Praised by Economist
and
process
and
to
make
“more
responsible
sponsive
to the
| people.”
is
The
“an
delegates
government
and more
needs
of
noted
encouraging
that
sense
rethe
there
of
dedi-
cation within the AFL-CIO
Executive Council and a determination
a
to
work
together
building
movement.
labor
united
truly
in
national
Union,’’
delegates,
President
“a change
which
Walter
will make
P.
our
Reuther
processes
told
more
the
democratic.
Its adoption is not a criticism of the present procedure but it is an
effort to make our Union more democratic.”
A member tried at the local level who is not satisfied with the
disposition
of his case
when
it is reviewed
by
the International
Union
has the option of appealing to the next Convention or of appealing
to the seven-member board. In each case, the finding of either the
convention or the Board is final and binding upon both the individual
and
the Union.
RABBI
ADLER
The
CHAIRMAN
Public
Review
Board,
which
will be chaired
Adler, noted clergyman from Detroit,
take up matters relating to the broad
practices.
The
Board
bargaining
plained,
was
not
not
have
who
has
problems.
a worker
procedure
Review
will
properly
of
the
handled,
Union.
he
unless
Board
For
example,
a seniority
appeal
He
cannot
that
charges
Morris
also is given the authority to
question of ethical and moral
jurisdiction
can
by Rabbi
over
purely
President
Reuther
grievance
only
take
collective
and
through
such
the
a
claims
case
on
his grievance
ex-
it
normal
to
the
seniority
was not handled properly because of fraud, discrimination,
If it falls into one
because of collusion with management.
these
three
“We
believe
BOARD
GIVEN
because
that
it can
categories,
relates
that
to ethical
kind
the
of
go
and
to
the
moral
clean,
Review
Public
practices.
democratic
and hope to keep,” said Reuther, “is the kind of Union
Board in
its decisions tested by the Public Review
accepted standards of morality in a free society.
REAL
Union
or
of
Board
we
that can
keeping
have
have
with
STATUS
“But you ought to recognize,” he warned, “this is the real thing.
There are no ifs, ands, buts or loopholes. We mean_to give the Public
Review Board real status—and these recommendations do exactly
that.”
After a thorough debate, the delegates approved the recommendations overwhelmingly and then appointed six candidates submitted
by the International Executive Board.
Besides
Rabbi
Adler,
they
are:
Msgr.
George
Higgins,
Wash-
ington, D. C.; Dr. Clark Kerr, chancellor of the University of
California; Dr. Edwin Witte, University of Wisconsin; Judge
Wade H. McCree, Wayne County Circuit Court, Detroit, and
Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Washington, D. C. (Sketches of the
six members of the Board are printed elsewhere on this page).
The seventh member of the Board will be named by the Interna-
tional. Executive
members of the
Board
Board.
list
from a
Dr. Milton
to be drawn
Eisenhower,
up by the present
president of Johns
but he
Hopkins University, had been invited to serve by the UAW
declined because “it would simply not be possible for me to take on
an additional obligation of such importance.”
Members of the Board will be subject to reconfirmation at each
UAW
Convention.
“The Council's prompt action
in the Beck case is heartening
evidence of this will to build a
ununited labor movement
and
mi-
hampered by the corruption
a
of
self-aggrandizement
|
“This is a change in the basic trial procedure of our Inter-
nority of men who have abused
their positions of trust for personal gain at the expense of the
membership.
“This
nority
is
movement.
| the
}men
bor
| file
a
It
drag
who
for
have
selfish
who
and
unions.
corrupt
on
the
between
used
ends
majority
constitute
leadership
mi-
entire
(blurred)
has...
distinction
| whelming
| zens
and
selfish
few
the
la-
organized
and
of
decent
the
of
the
rank
over-
citi-
and|
American
majority which|
“It is this vast
| wants and needs labor unity,” the
| resolution
|
noted.
For editorial comment on
the new Public Review
Board, see page 15.
INTERNATIONAL TRUSTEES ELECTED by the
UAW Convention meet with President Walter Reuther. Left to right: Treva Berger, Local 470; Reuther;
and Paul Lawson, Local 813.
i
1957
3,000
Program
Bold
Draft
Delegates
Page 3
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNIT ED
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At UAW’s Most Cons
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey—Nearly three
thousand delegates conducted one of the most con-|
structive conventions in the UAW’s history here
last month, adopting resolutions and constitutional
amendments of history-making importance that)
will shape the collective bargaining and organiza-|
|
tional activities of the Union for years to come.
a
Union
pted
standards of UAW members and their families, was ado
s
only after full and free debate in the spirit of the Union’
cherished and jealously protected democratic traditions.
On one issue alone, for example, although an overwhelming majority voted in favor of the committee report, which was supported by the Union’s administration,
the delegates spent an entire afternoon hearing 44 speakers from the floor, 22 for the proposal and 22 against,
=
before the vote was taken.
contracts
UAW
when
shorter
work
changes
stitutional
these
changes
New
Tools,
Tactics,
subject-title,
general
Board,
ances
and
Union
itself,
ment
upon
the
move
This
officials.
pointive
has
been
leaves
among
dues
UAW
spring
strike
on
Workers
Communications
Al
President
Union
Machinists
Meany,
Hayes,
President
special
to
Eleanor
Mrs,
The decision of the 1955
Convention to make the shorter
work week with inereased take2,
RooseILGWU
Beirne,
Joseph
President David Dubinsky, Hungarian Foreign Minister (under the
Nagy government) Anna Kethly, Canadian Congress of Labor Pres-
Some
65,000
workers
UAW
employed
at
aircraft
Workers
Douglas,|7-cent
hourly
at
Douglas
increase;
got
North
goal
gaining
major
bar-
reaffirmed
and
next
the
pay
home
They heard selections sung and
ident Claude Jodoin and others.
listened to a brief talk by Marian Anderson.
Other actions of the Convention as well as the events listed above
are described in more detail elsewhere in this issue.
65,000 Aircraft Workers’ Pay Upped
as
paid
be
right.
of
a matter
George
President
the
program
shall
which
of
benefits
an adequate
for
assistance
strike
to
demands,
those
provision
to make
for-
to
order
in
and,
support
effectively
need.
than
AFL-CIO
by
speeches
a
it possible
make
will
rather
basis of right
the
heard
delegates
The
velt,
benefits
that
fund
a strike
to raise
up
to setting
view
a
with
also
and
year
that
program
“crash”
pay
of
collective
major
the
for
preparation
shall be
1958
January
in
demands
mulate
in
negotiations
bargaining
points:
convened
1958,
in January,
achieve-
maintenance
of a full
economy.
cock,
tional
President
director
Aircraft
of
Wood-|
“Leonard
the
Union's
Department
Na-
received 6
workers
In addition, some
received
cost-of-living
cents
of them
security
their
6.
In
view
is
Executive
the International
Board is authorized to launch a
comprehensive
educational and
public relations program to acquaint the membership and the
general public with the feasibility of and the necessity for the
reduction
the
a
of the work
expansion
week
and
purchasing
of
the
er
expansion
purchasing
to bring
in order
understanding
ter
thus
and
lems
rational
the
at
of
of
about
the
facilitate
intelligent
and
the
pow-
Board
to
prob-
cussions
table
bargaining
a
a betmore
approach
in
gates
who
attended
last
month's
Convention in Atlantic City
Detroit's Masonic Temple has
tion site
All
major
contracts
in
the
Sixteenth
been
PLANT RELOCATION
1958
UAW’s
The
4.
from
as
to
and
social
relocation
provide
maximize
continued
their present
locations.
5.
of
auto,
aircraft
agricul-
tural industries expire in the first half of 1958, Approval of
a Special Convention was given last month by Atlantic
City delegates so more thorough attention could be given
to setting collective bargaining goals in the months ahead,
work
of
the
in
in
the
rapidity
advances,
their
of
it shall
be
Improvements
be made
our
and
Union to
practical
and
action.
proas a
proto
eco-
incentive
also
the
demands
so
plants
at
at
to
for
present
must
in our SUB agreements,
our pension plans, our hospitalmedical-insurance protection
and in the provisions of our
also
direct-
the
recom-
Executive
upon
from
program
employment
workers
draw
membership
various
levels
dis-
of
develop a realistic
collective bargain-
for
1958
mit
such
program
Special Convention
(Continued
to
for
on
and
to sub-
the
1958
discussion
page
10)
In This Issue
“The
United
counts
of
the
and
Automobile
will
you
Worker’?
of
edition
this
Throughout
actions
the
ac-
find
taken
decisions
policy
vital
to the
by delegates
made
UAW’s Sixteenth Constitutional
Convention last month in Atof
Because
of
it
space,
Jersey.
the
was
full
in
report
to
New
City,
lantic
important
the
by the
adopted
limitations
possible
some
of
not
on
resolutions
Convention.
in
with
will be dealt
These
issues.
full in forthcoming
Here is a directory of some
of
tion
the
key
actions
in
this
Bargaining
for
Tactics,
see
Board,
see
Convention,
see
contained
1958, see Page 3.
New
|
Page
and
Tools
5,
Review
Public
Page
2.
ial
Education,
Page
Civil
|
|
a
OLD
FRIENDS
i
ye
REMINISCE
about
the early
days
Auto Workers, Noted labor author, Mary Heaton Vor
, chats with Adolph Germer, former CLO
regional director now on retirement, Mary, who wrote
many books and articles about the UAW and other
unioms, is still writing about organized labor,
of the
see
Relations,
10.
Rights,
Political
si
0.
Page
see
International
7
Conven-
on
articles
Collective
as Convenand
members
International
mendations
flowing
costs
their
the
ing
also include adequate
must
tection for workers displaced
result of plant relocation and
employers
to require
visions
bear a larger share of the
nomic
ed
Constitutional
chosen
working
Convention
1958.
|
Detroit has been chosen ag the site for the UAW’s Special Convention next January 22nd and 23rd, it was announced by Emil Mazey, UAW secretary-treasurer.
Precise economic: demands in crucial 1958 collective
bargaining will be determined by the same near-3,000 dele-
affect
plants.
points,
related to the reand
week
work
increases.
Crash Convention Set
UAW
technological
phases
many
the
explore
also
DETROIT
of
the
day-to-day
issue:
IN
and
that
| the
6
received
workers
American,
and
Fairchild,
American,
North
recently
received| cents or 3 per cent—whichever
is
Chance-Vought
|
in-) greater; workers at Fairchild got}
factor
improvement
annual
Chance-Vought
to 9 cents;
by|5
announced
it was
creases,
Vice
agreements
conditions
whom
with
managements
upon
job
to call
is directed
UAW
The
3
working
production
employment-full
of the problems
of the
duction
A Special Convention
1.
The
costs.
operating
held
to be
ordered
was
Convention
Special
A
@
increased
meet
The increase was proposed to:
last dués increase was in 1951.
and
ment
should
six
The
nation.
the
in
for 1958 endorsed
month,
which
Union,
dues
union
lowest
the
divided
increase,
International
the
and
unions
local
the
between
equally
dues
50-cents-a-month
a
voted
the
to
essential
power
to press
UAW has collective bargaining} the policy of the UAW
vigorously in the 1958 negotiations
to | agreements to join with our Undelegates
by
wholeheartedly
for agreements with a maximum
Study}
joint
a
ishing
establ
in
ion
ituConst
Sixteenth
UAW's
the
of two years’ duration.
Such a Committee
Committee.
here last
tional Convention
To complement
the five major
throughout the nation
continuance of clean un-
the
assure
to
step
bar-
collective
program
gaining
as
attitudes
in-
pay—head-|
take-home
a six-point
ed
publications
in
hailed
widely
S
and
week
work
creased
ap-
and
elective
by
affairs
in the UAW.
Delegates
@
Union
economic
of varying political and
a bold and constructive
fonism
of
stewardship
judg-
pass
and
voals—a
major
Jersey—Two
shorter
New|
CITY,
ATLANTIC
International
the
investigate
to scrutinize,
authority
with
Short Work Week, Higher Pay
Top Bargaining Goals for ’58
griev-
for internal
from
apart
and
separate
body,
a
as
Walter P. Reuther, and Vice Presidents Richard Gosser and Pat Greathouse.
Re-
Public
a
of
resort
last
of
court
alternative
an
as
view
the
of Col-
Techniques
and
establishment
the
approved
Convention
Tlie
still
under)
identified
were
Bargaining.
lective
@
providing
the
of
president
Jodoin,
and
Canadian Labour Congress. Left to right, Vice Presidents Leonard Woodcock
Norm Matthews, Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey, President Jodoin, UAW President
con-
and
resolution
The
membership.
entire
the
benefit
and
groups
Claude
by
in
were sworn
Convention. They
Constitutional
the different |
to
peculiar
problems
the
meet
to
order
in
bargaining,
G2
in }
and
in organizing
both
groups,
various
of
pressures
economic
in
demand
permit a fuller exercise of the spe-
time,
but, at the same
character
cial
Wp
taking the
THE TOP six officers of the International Union, UAW, are shown
Sixteenth
oath of office after their re-election by acclamation by delegates to the
Refinements in the internal organizational structure of the
were adopted which strengthen the Union’s industrial union
@
the
Z
pay.
with an increase in take-home
week
a
be
will
1958
in
renegotiated
are
bargaining
collective
priority
top
Union’s
The
major
]
the
to strengthen
decision, designed
important
ng}
and to improve the working conditions and livi
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Page
see
Action,
see
Page
Workers
of
Protection
is shifted
work
when
Equity
to plant, see Page
from plant
15,
Terms
Two-Year
Union Officers, see
Dues
Increase,
see
for
Page
Local
Page
16.
7.
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
ay, 1957 —
M
UAW’s new International Executive
Board didn’t waste any time swinging into
action. It met in special session right after
the Convention ended. From left to right: Regional Directors E. T, Michael (8); Ken W. Robinson (1D); Ken Morris (1); George Burt (7—Canada);
Russell Letner (5); Raymond H. Berndt (3); Ray Ross
(2A); Pat O'Malley (2); George Merrelli (1); Vice Presidents Pat Greathouse and Richard Gosser; President Walter P.
Reuther; Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey; Vice Presidents Norman Matthews and Leonard Woodcock; Regional Directors Charles
Ballard (2B); Martin Gerber (9); Harvey Kitzman (10); Charles Kerrigan (9A); Joseph McCusker (1A); William McAulay (1B); Robert A. Carter
(1C); Ed Cote (1A); Charles Bioletti (6) and Robert Johnston (4).
Reuther Tells Convention:
World Crisis Isn't Economic or Political-It's Moral
ATLANTIC CITY, New
Jersey—UAW President Wal-
ter P. Reuther, addressing the
opening session of the Union’s
Sixteenth
Constitutional
Con-
vention
here, stressed
the fact
that the crisis the world faces today
is
essentially
The
UAW
topics
to
a
moral
President,
ranging
from
right-to-work
one.
discussing
world
laws
and
affairs
from
education to Union progress, set
the serious tone which marked
the six days
of the
Convention.
He said the issue of world peace
transcends all others because “all
the other things that we shall
struggle to achieve at the bargaining table are without purpose
unless there is peace in the
world.”
None
of
them
“can
de-
fend us against the tragic destruction of the H-Bomb,” he pointed
out.
LEADERSHIP
Decrying
and
the
better
bombs,
that “Megaton
lowed by even
til
finally
the
tion.
capacity
that
far
bigger
said
H-Bombs are
greater bombs
of
. . . We
for
Reuther
mankind
total
have
has
folun-
achieved
self-destruc-
responsibilities
transcend
the
struggle
for wages and hours and working
conditions. . .. We have the social
and
moral
provide
to
positive
make
world
responsibility
it
in which
peace.”
Speaking
to try to
leadership,
possible
to
people
of
40
can
tional
to. try
build
a
live
billion
plans to build underground
ters, Reuther declared:
“The
against
in
dollar
shel-
only adequate
defense
the H-Bomb is uncondi-
peace.
. . . We
do
not
want to live our lives in the tun-
nels and the dugouts;
to live in the bright
a free
world
of
“The
crisis
in the
economic,
(it)
is
a
moral
we want
sunshine
peace....
military
or
crisis
man’s
to man
rible
world
is not
political
. ..
of
it
...
re-
growing
and
inhumanity
it finds
expression
its most
in
the
ter-
total
|
de-
YESTERDAY'S
DIPLOMACY
fight
hatreds,
for the
but
things
we
to
begin
to
believe
|
in,
instead of just fighting against the |
things we
are opposed to.
And |
the free labor movement
world must provide part
leadership
in
ment. ”
We
lems
such
a
of
of
great
the
the
move-
cannot solve “today’s probby yesterday’s
diplomacy,”
he declared. “What we need in
the world is fewer striped-pants
diplomats
and more
to people
about
Iomats
dom
must
those
areas
millions
who
their
can’t make
secure
They
practical
in overalls”
“You
a
of
the
be
basic
prob-
or free-
vacuum...
made
of people
will talk
peace
in
dip-
..
secure
world
go to bed
in
where
hun-
gry every night of their lives.”
When the free world labor
movement
fights
for
economic
and social justice, it “does more
in
the
practical
fight
against
Communism in one week than
all of the fat cats in Wall Street
do in all of their lives, because
they stand in the way of social
progress,” he declared.
Speaking
UAW
years,
the
has
of
made
the
Reuther
average
in
advances
the
pointed
wage
in
the
‘dustry was 43 cents an
1936.
Today, it is $2.34.
most
taken
said.
|
important
home
gains
last
out
the
21
that
auto
in-
hour in
But the
are
in a pay envelope,
not
he
“The most important thing we
have
won
in those 21 years of
struggle and sacrifice is that we
took hundreds of thousands
of
workers wha were nameless, face-
| place, then
| be
and
have
of worth
given
and
MERGER
them
dignity.”
to problems
of the 1955 merger
AFL and the CIO,
served
that
movement
united
he
labor
was
‘‘a
is
between
Reuther
movement.”
He
however,
amidst
| the
kind
say
free
Reuther
thunderous
there
for either
in the lead-
of
delegates.
the
on:
“If
we
house,
| clean
then
it
the
for
use
a
bor
movement
and
broom,
they'll
He
the
ob-
us.
promised
labor
a
said
But
they
they'll
try
own
reactionaries
to
use
destroy
in the
the AFL-CIO
Committee
la-
rupt
“expose
with
equal
crooked
and
All the corruption
bor’s side.”
He
that
pointed
out
that
than
but jurisdictional problems have
so far blocked the “comprehenorganizational
which
hoped
the merged
to launch.
crusades”
AFL-CIO
had
“This is one of the important
tasks that the united labor move-
ment
ahead,”
“we
any
must
solve
in
the
period
he said. As for the UAW,
are willing to sit down with
union and work out sensible
and sane solutions to jurisdictional
. . we are not
problems, but
by
around
going to be pushed
movement.”
labor
the
in
anybody
the problem
of
Reuther declared
of decent, honest
all over America
by the headlines . . . exposing
corruption and racketeering in
the leadership of certain unions.
“I
that
think that we can
the overwhelming
all agree
majority
of the leadership of the American
labor movement is composed of
decent, dedicated people who have
made a great contribution involving personal sacrifice, helping to
build
a
movement.
certain
decent
American
But,
labor
unfortunately,
unions
the
gangsters
in
“We
happen
leadership
movement
(It)
want
is
to
to make
pen
labor
no
to
believe
that
in the American labor
is a sacred trust... .
use
place
the
a fast
to believe
for
who
.. . We
hap-
labor
buck.
that
movement
people
is
the
a
movement
American
movement
pay
a
workers
labor
living
wage
represented
crooked labor
Of our own
leader
to
by
the
that
are
democratic,
to
work
Union
and
and
we
fight
are
to
Union
lying
George
when
C.
Justice
Court
S. Supreme
U.
McCARTHY'S
no
is
UAW.”
But
if Joe
for
basis
this
tinues
our
against
ing
which
wait
to
he
smear
Union,
for
an
invitation.
go-
tor
Speaking
Barry
that
of
Committee.”
attempts
Goldwater
of
Sena-
(R.,
Ariz.)
and others to extend the national
drive for federal and state “rightto-work” laws, the UAW president
said:
“Just
listen
to
these
figures
and then you will understand
the basic motivation behind the
drive
billion
for right-to-work
laws. In
to
federal
and
a dis-
aid
“the
people
kids
to
kind
of
budget—less
of one
to
school
private
tragedy
always
have
the
billions
got
sense
life
the
courage
war,
find
in
our
a way
to
edu-
war,
then
goals
men
of
we
in
live
to
“little
the
Business,
in
observed.
for
collec-
1958,
week
work
pay, because
power.”
purchasing
the
to
people
the Union's
more
and
train
children
up
we
to
take-home
said
but
money
for
afford
die
to
courage
Reuther
bargaining
need
six-
is that we
spend
better
to
better
for
to
can
we
than
per cent.
great
He
men
little
of
Big
faith
and little vision,” will reply that
cutting hours will result in cutting
living standards.
I
am going to demand the right to
defend the good name of~our Un-
before
that
puts
“The
we
con-
not
am
and
Reuther declared:
“We want a shorter
campaign
I
send
tive
Earl
the
McCarthy
law
corporations
this
Summing
and
‘There
investigating
tax
their
against
with more
said,
a
bill
fight
cate our
peace.”
SMEAR
“in
have
who
had
“T received a telegram from SenconReuther
McClellan,”
ator
tinued,
PRICE
saying
soldiers
a pro-Communist.
Warren
affect
education,
“If
was
a traitor
Marshall
THE
peacetime,”
General
called
he
to
elect
you
legislation
tax
opposition
make
the
he
knew
he
as
just
greedy
of
declared.
Reuther
their
good
Joe”
about
lying
was
he
knew
of ex-
and
for
haven't
more
Reu-
“Jumping
that
declared
ther
part
the
families
spend
Commenting on charges by Sen(R., Wis.)
ator Joseph McCarthy
even
was
that the UAW
corrupt than the Teamsters,
victims
islation.”
Reuther attacked the NAM
the Chamber of Commerce
tenths
our
clean and democratic.”
easy
proportionate
share
of the
tax
burden upon the people, then you
pay the price of that kind of leg-
$71.8
going
keep
right-to-
schools,” and he assailed the tiny
amount allocated to education in
President
Eisenhower's
record
leader.”
Union, Reuther
said:
“The UAW is not perfect, but
I can say without fear of challenge that we are clean and we
and |jon
the racketeers haye moved into
positions of power,” he observed.
to a crooked
.
a
We
have already made “great
progress,” he told the delegates,
bribe
future>
reaction-
so-called
wealthy
wealthy
la-
many
(the
people
you
favors
..
on
PAY
“If
cor-
employers.
is not
on
your
WE
“100
vigor
. ..
contract.
Ethi-
the
hour.
your income just as much as the
you
that
Committee
Bargaining
elect who will work on your wage
ax,
process.”
they
for
“the
write
won't
the
per
benefits.
workers
that
will
an
$2.20
of the
The UAW president, in stressing
the importance of political action
as the “practical housecleaning job
of democracy,” told the delegates
per cent support of the UAW until that job is: completed,” and
urged the McClellan Committee
to
fight
employers,”
went
our
average
is
fringe
ploitation
NEEDED
clean
wages
a right-
work laws—not to liberate workers from union bondage, but to
from
corrupt, reactionary corporation
executive “would rather’ pay a
sive
aries)
continued
president
don’t
bill, the
the
make
UAW
without
“This is why
Suggesting that American labor
clean its house “from top to bottom,”
states
to-work
all
labor
applause
30
In the 18 states with a right-towork law, the average is $1.78,
or 42 cents less, not counting
American
We
HOUSECLEANING
have been shocked and saddened
Railroad Workers Union.
the
the
states’
to
a “truly united labor movement”
will become a reality in the near
Turning
to
racketeering,
that “millions
trade unionists
TWO OF THE many foreign observers at the Convention are shown here in an artist’s sketch as they
listen intently te UAW President Walter P. Reuther’s
remarks about the world crisis. Mrs. Ema Poeradirdja (left) and Anwar Manan represented Indonesian
our
| movement,”
out
necessarily
confident,
of
cal Practices
arising
of
movement.
ership
a sense
merged
not
out
should
be
no. room
jerooks or Communists
PROBLEMS
Turning
service, and if
those people ought
kicked
| labor
less clock card numbers, and we
have made them into human be-
ings
to human
| People want to apply the ethics
and the morality of the market
ATLANTIC CITY, New
Jersey — UAW President
Walter P. Reuther told the
Convention he had this message for the nation’s two
major political parties:
“You both ought to do
some housecleaning and . . .
send Senator Eastland and
Senator McCarthy into political oblivion, and rid the
American political scene of
these two immoral characters.”’
“We need to find a way to get
the free world mobilized, not because we share common fears and
common
; dedicated
The Unholy Duet
|
structive capacity of the H-Bomb,” |
Reuther asserted.
lems.
NEEDED
race
flects
100
said
they
is what
“That
years ago when people fought to
to 14
16 hours a day
go from
Reuther
hours,”
time we cut the hours, our
standards went up because
every
living
the
tools
became
want
out. “But
pointed
to
of
more
use
automation
abundance
economi¢
productive.
these
and
new
atomic
. ..
tools
energy)
We
(of
to
raise the standard of living of the
many and not to inflate the stand-
ards
of
luxury
of the
few.
“This is our basic struggle,” he
concluded,
Fs
1957
May,
Page
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
5
d
ne
li
am
re
St
s
ic
ct
Ta
ing
n
i
a
g
r
UAW Ba
ATLANTIC
L. A. Speedup Strike Settled
strength
its full economic
to mobilize
able
be
should
UAW
that the
Determined
Jersey —
New
CITY,
to}
at the bargaining table in 1958 and also have the tools
cope with problems resulting from new technology and NLRB |
policies encouraging ‘‘carve-outs,”’ UAW Convention delegates approved a refinement in the Union’s basie industrial
a
union concept.
‘The strength of our industrial Union must continue to
be based on an ability to mobilize the full resources of our
economic power in eyery sector of all the industries within our jurisdiction,’’ the members of the Constitution and
Resolutions Committee wrote
in a special joint report.
be
“To do all this, we must
Leonard Woodcock
as well as to resist raids
jurisdiction made possible
nology,
on our
by
Union,
current policies of the NLRB.
“These new technical, economic,
a sharp
with
white
skilled,
of
rise
industries.
stitutional
machinery
be
must
trend.
We
jurisdiction
united
which
in order
and
technicians
ers
in
there
have
sizable
are
in plants
|
engineers
in which
of work-
groups
tees;
that,
Provide
circumstances
under
and
where
special
involved
be
where
collective
with
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the
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EMIL
MAZEY
resolution,
P. Reu-
debate
called
on
a
on
plants around the country. Matof the Chrysler
as head
thews,
Department, knew the score bet-
most.
Hitting out at
ter than
what
he
towa
termed
“unfair criticism,” Matthews said:
“The reason there is so much
talk about what is being done in
Chrysler is because of the fact we)
by
blocked
were
A
tant
the Corporation.
only
charged
during
vital
contributed
Matth
negotiations,
little or nothing.
they
UAW PREPARED
off all the
ticked
Matthews
trouble’ spots in Chrysler over
months—the
several
the
past
the
Evansville,
Trenton
ship
has
action
ards,
been
tion,
voted
against
member-
Chrysler
strike
of
favor
in
stand-
production
the International Union has
there with strike authorizaset to throw the entire Un-
reached—
been
has
strike.
ion’s weight behind such a
know there's no solid}
“Now,” asked Matthews, “who
to base a |
on which
is militant? Are these two or
But
ews.
settlement
when they
issue left
strike,
mili-
speed-tip
production
a
after
pretty
get
people
few
a
Wherever
plant,
DeSoto
the
plant,
assembly
Ohio,
three fakers that sit in this audience militant—or is the leadership
militant,
the
of
plus
plants
Chrysler
the
International
Union, my friends?”
Carried unanimously was a sevresolution
anti-speedup
en-point
reaffirmed existing Interwhich
policy.
Board
Executive
national
UAW, IAM Pool Bargaining Talent
upon
the
policy of feeding
Union's National]ent
WASHINGTON — Subcom-| rector of the tment
of skilled manIAM/nation’s supply
and
,
Depar
Aircraft
mittees have been set up to General Vice President Roy| power while refusing to contribformulate joint demands for Brown also ripped the aircraft ute anything to it. It has raided
1958 bargaining in the air- and guided missiles industries for the trained and experienced labor
to other industries but has
craft and guided missiles in- their failure to train skilled forcesstent
its
to meet
refused
ly
persi
rs.
worke
dustries where workers are
obligation to train its own work“We have agreed on immerepresented by the UAW and
ers to meet its own needs.
diate actions to be undertaken
“Looking toward 1958 negotiathe International Association
and laid the basis for effective
tions, our Joint Committee set up
set
joint action on a common
of Machinists.
op
of
Announcement
up of the subcommittees followed
a meeting here of the Joint StandPlanning
ing
established
Committee
Unions.
In
a joint
President
and
Coordinating
by the
announcement,
Leonard
of
setting
the
Woodcock,
two
Vice
di-
demands
tions,”
1958
in
and
Woodcock
negotia-
Brown
three
detailed
said.
“We intend to get to work at
once to end the parasitical prac-
the
respect to skilled manpower. This
industry has followed a consist-
tion
tices of the aircraft
industry with
and
fields
and
health
security,
benefits;
of
specific
pensions,
security;
devel
to
subcommittees
demands
employment
dispersal and severance
and a wage determina-
procedure
job evaluation
to
replace
systems.”
present
Secretary-Treasurer
MATTHEWS,
GREATHOUSE
PRANK
RAY
Board Members
HARVEY
KITZMAN
RUSSELL LETNER
WILLIAM McAULAY
JOSEPH McCUSKER
,EORGE MERRELLI
E. T. MICHAEL
KEN MORRIS
PATRICK O'MALLEY
KENNETH W. ROBINSON
ROSS
W INN,
Editor
JIM RICHARD, Managing Editor
PHOTOS—James Yardley, Irv King
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American
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Py!
UAW and IAM representatives are shown at the recent meeting of the Joint
L. to R., IAM Grand Lodge Representative A. C. McGraw, Los AnCommittee,
geles; IAM Vice President Fred Coonley, New York; 1AM Vice President Roy M.
Brown, Los Angeles; UAW Vice President Leonard Woodcock, who is director of
the Union’s National Aircraft Department; Irv Bluestone, administrative assist-
ant to Woodcock, and
Walter P, Reuther.
Jack
Conway,
administrative
in
insurance
Execu tive
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Vice-Pr esidents
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second-class
to
subscription
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the
against their Union by a handful of people whose efforts have
helped
Matthews for a few words.
The Union’s speed-up problem
in Chrysler
was most critical
workers
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of
end
the
the
ridicule
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President
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reject the agreement and the right
UNITED
determine
Nine
Tool Craftsmen.
voted for no union.
sup-
by
covered
workers
Give
at
picked the UAW 463 to 122 for
the International Association of
all workers voting on matters directly relating to their own prob-
lems;
to
Fisher
Marion,
in
Tool
sentative.
work-
negotiated
voted
diana,
with
of the
problems
plant
stamping
dele-
by
new
a
in
Workers
practical
dealing
agreements
mental
gates.
of the workers
served, supple-
interests
can be
the best
involved
in an NLRB
a week after
endorsed
was
plan
the
commit-
bargaining
national
Constitutional
Sixteenth
Convention came
election less than
of their
representation
|
forged
tools
bargaining
the
by
shall
col-
first test of the new
The
Union.
UAW
ther,
Victory
lective
choosing as a part of all local
and
ers
skilled trades workers.”
rect
cor-
to
adjustments
5.—Other
the Cor- | that the leadership, and particuUnion,
| larly the International
poration.
| does not have the guts to take on
But, Matthews said, Chrysler
the Chrysler management.”
up
stirred
being
are
workers
Some
speedups.
to
sought
Others
the
and
cleared.
with
modified
4.—Discharges
restoration of full seniority.
current
of the
avenues
peaceful
tlement
Union's
the
praised
combatting speedups.
delegates
strategy in
had
had
we
“If
workers
production.
the
related
classifications,
these
direct
own
the
workers,
office
workers,
P. Reu-
of
subject
the
and
the Convention floor had
of words on
thousands
From
poured
of
these tools in 1955, we would have
done a much better job for both
bargaining
that appren-
skilled trades and
to
needed
Walter
commented:
ther
dedicated
demands
changing
President
UAW
ternational Executive Board and
the two Convention Committees
ticeable
refinement
our times.”
to
concept
are
us
of
all
the
meet
To achieve these goals, the delegates approved constitutional
changes. recommended by the In-
collective
Change
machinery to assure
a
.
strength
to bear in the common interest
of the entire membership.”
which:
union
industrial
workers
all
of
duration
for
en
be
| plant, the Kokomo, Indiana, plant,
the
has
how
ly
CITY, New Jersey—Exact
ATLANTIC
plant,
\ the truck plant, Plymouth
dups? | Dodge Main plant, the Highland
International UAW been coping with production spee
forge
plant, the Dodge
Park
Supplying the answer here
are doing something about those | plant, the Los Angeles plant and
nth
tee
Six
the
to delegates to
| the A.B.D. plants
things (speedups) in Chrysler.”
settled
were
Constitutional Convention was
of these
“Most
He praised the record of ChrysNorman Matthews, vice pres- ler workers down through the | through negotiations,” said Matident and director of the Un- years, at the bargaining table and thews.
“Yet,” shouted Matthews, “some
et line when all sane
pick
the
on
t.
men
art
ion’s Chrysler Dep
rd set- individuals have the guts to say
of our basic
implementation
the
spe-
the
solve
to
their
bring
to
this
to
able
our
within
con-
administrative
and
problems
cial
our
to adapt
act now
must
of the sixsettlement
The
week old Local 230 strike called
for:
1.—Production standards dismanpower
pute—additional
placed in certain operations to
alleviate the speed-up problems.
2.—Production standards froz-
to
s
p
u
d
e
e
p
S
on
y
c
i
l
o
P
s
’
W
UA
is being apart; it is being away
from, completely and totally.
This is keeping all together.
This represents a refinement of
of workers special privileges, we
re-
which
given
workers,
including
back
pay, with
employment
records
MATTHEWS REAFFIRMS:
It
is separatism.
unionism
Craft
group
any
granting
“Without
our
in
workers
engineering
and
technical,
collar,
Angeles.
the Union’s National Chrysler Department.
Matthews declared: ‘‘Only
through the coordinated ef-
a concession to craft unionism,
Vice President Leonard Woodcock
said:
“What is craft unionism?
in the numbers
of
form
model, including line speeds.
3.—Modification
of discipline
Bargain-|
officers,
of the
ing Committee and members
of Local 230, all of the Chrysler local unions and the Inwe |
Union ~were
ternational
successful in bringing’ about
an honorable and acceptable |
settlement at Chrysler Los
according to Vice President
Norman Matthews, director of
Convention and which objected to
the changes on the grounds that
the changes allegedly represented
years,
coming
in
change
logical
forts
solved all problems in dispute,
To the supporters of a minority
report which was presented to the
and political developments will be
a continuing problem. There will
be a rapid acceleration of techno-
settlement
a strike
the International
of
permission
the
in
came
Proof
to strike action in accordance with
constitutional provisions and the
tech-
in
and
force
labor
the
in
shifts
to
quickly
respond
to
able
Chrysler local unions proved |
beyond doubt in the recent
strike against Chrysler at Los
Angeles by UAW Local 230
that it pays to present a solidly united front against the
Corporation.
assistant to UAW
President
UNITED
Page &
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
May,
1957
She Turned Convention Hall Into Hushed Cathedral
ATLANTIC
of an
hour
cathedral
and
CITY, New Jersey—For a quarter
Convention
while
visitors
the
nearly
listened
to the greatest
Hall
here
was
a
hushed
5,000 delegates,
officers
with
emotion
any
generation
Yoice
and
they
“For
reverence
learn
represented
that
President
Walter
P.
Reuther
the
Anderson
when
re-
he
to
I, too,
have
a suggestion.
your
own
soul’s
know
Him
knowledge
greatest
and
will
sake
know
give you
comfort,
the
and.
satisfaction
Him
well,
the greatest
greatest
amount
because
peace,
of un-
derstanding of your fellowmen that it is humanly
possible to have.’’
Then Miss Anderson sang the aria, ‘‘My
Heart, at Thy Sweet Voice,’’ from ‘‘Samson and
peated the words the late Arturo Toscanini
addressed to Miss
heard her sing:
President Reuther recalled that the first
time he heard Miss Anderson sing was the
historic concert at the Lincoln Memorial in
Washington, which was arranged by Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt and the then Secretary of
the Interior, Harold Ickes, after the Daughters of the American Revolution had denied
this greatest of American singers the right to
sing in Constitution Hall.
know you have had many speakers and
have suggested many things that you might
do.And
at the UAW Convention has produced.
In introducing the great contralto, Marian
Anderson,
“T
first
“Tn
you feel
ence of
you hear
you will
On a
Delilah ;*’ the spiritual, ‘‘He’s Got the Whole
World in His Hands,’’? and Schubert’s ‘‘Ave
Maria.”’
A standing ovation and thunderous applause
“Yours is a voice such as one hears once
in a hundred years.”’
Miss Anderson prefaced her songs with brief
remarks which included these sentences:
brought
stanza
“T only wish that you could see yourselves as
I ean from here. What a very fine picture you
make! It is something that arouses one on the
and
arose
of
her back
‘‘The
then,
and
at
ity”’ which
inside.
her
sang
to the rostrum
Battle
Hymn
invitation,
with
her
one
to sing solo one
of the
the
entire
verse
each
of
our
there
are
points
when
like you are close to being in the presGod,’’ President Reuther said. ‘‘When
Marian Anderson sing the ‘Ave Maria,’
have that same deep inner feeling.’’
motion by Sister Treya Berger, Local
unani-
Convention
the
Illinois,
Waukegan,
470,
lives
mously voted Miss Anderson a lifetime honorary
membership in the UAW, ‘‘because,’’ said President Reuther, ‘‘she sings our song, ‘Solidarity,’
Republic’’
audience
of ‘‘Solidar-
is sung to the same melody.
as well as we do.’’
“ROOTS
RUN
DEEP
Father of a Union Leader
ATLANTIC
idealism
was
CITY,
that inspires
revealed
to
the
President Walter
ther,
The
Costa
Indonesia
Bolivia
Rica
UAW
Over 100 Foreign Visitors Attend Convention
ATLANTIC
—During
Convention,
CITY,
the
New
Sixteenth
total
of
a
constant
attendance
at
who
not
eign
observers
sions,
with
did
Jersey
were
in
interpreters
understand
UAW
102
for-
almost
all
ses-
for
those
English
explaining all the details. In addi-
tion, a large group of trade union
leaders,
foreign
embassy
representatives and foreign newspaper
correspondents covered the Con-
vention.
Three.
groups
Brazil’s
the
totaling
largest
22
made
delegation.
A
group of ten Indonesians, representing
the Indonesian
Railroad
Workers’
headed by
Mrs. Ema
needed no
followed
The
Union
a
was
Convention
fifth
on
anniversary
April
of
9, the
the
last
Bolivian
revolution
which
secured many rights for the people for the first time.
Louise Levinson, of the Union's
Education
Department,
had
the
somewhat
difficult task of keeping the foreign observers supplied
with daily proceedings and committee
full
reports,
schedule,
numerous
and
arranging
their
answering
their
questions.
Observers
were
present
from
the following
countries:
Bolivia,
Brazil,
Costa
Rica,
England,
France, Germany, Honduras, Indonesia, Korea, Mexico, Philippines,
woman team leader,
Sweden, Denmark,
Ireland,
Poeradiredja.
They
Holland and
interpreter, and avidly | tria, Belgium,
the
proceedings.
Bolivian group came
the Bolivian
sentatives —
deputies and
tives.
(PBKA),
the
They
from
House of Repreall were national
labor representa-
were
presented
to
land.
Trade
union
Hernandez,
leaders were Jose
secretary
general
the Philippine Trade Union
ference;
tional
P.
Union
AusFin-
P.
Narayanan,
of
Malayan
of
CohNa-
Plan-
Bar-Tal
Bardacke,
and
Gregory
Histadrut,
Israel;
Ismael Rodriguez, Cuban Federation of Labor; Michael Pissas,
general secretary of the Cyprus
Conference
of Labor;
Sjoeberg, president
ish Telegraph and
Workers.
Embassies
Dr.
roy,
were
and
Sten
Noble,
Germany;
Canada;
Jacques
by
Pat
ConAndreani,
International
Department,
night
session
tion and
meetings
meet
with
Weinberg,
Leo
devoted
answer
economists
Relations
addressed
were
of
period.
to
arranged
various
UAW
Carroll
Goodman.
a
special
a
ques-
Separate
with
groups
economists
Coburn
3,000
of the drive and
leadership
Convention
and membership
delegates
here
when
P. Reuther introduced his father, Val Reustill
charged
with
which
excitement
honored
following
the
the re-election of the
leader for his seventh straight term.
when
they owned
the schoolhouse
and the roads, the
houses and everything.”’
France; A. H. Treganowan, Great
Britain;
Nathan
Bar-Yaacov,
Israel; and Kjell Oberg, Sweden.
Victor Reuther, director of the
Union's
the UAW
demonstration
towns;
of the SwedTelephone
represented
was
Jersey—Some
Said Walter P. Reuther of his father:
“He gave us our basic philosophy. . . . He is an old crusader.
“He fought in the ranks of the labor movement in the
mountains of Tennessee, in the coal valleys when the going
was much rougher than it is today; when the stool-pigeons
and the company spies and the guards controlled the mining
tation Workers;
Tom
Bavin,
ICETU Asian office, Singapore;
Moshe
air
massive
Victor M. Cabrera
Tarja
Nester L. Aviles
New
the
to
Nat
and
Reuther,
Val
78, rose as his son issued this warning:
now
“We always
he goes.’’
carries his soapbox
UAW
from
members
on their feet
stayed
all
with him, no matter where
across
the
U.
S.
nearly a minute, applauding
and
Canada
who
a man
looked nearer 55 than 78,,who looked comfortable on a ‘‘soapbox’’ facing 3,000 Convention delegates and a gallery that
spoke
held another 2,000 onlookers, and who
and conviction that belied his y
7
vigor
a
with
His wife, Mrs. Anna Reuther, the mother of Roy, Victor
and Walter Reuther, seemed proudest at the ovation her husband
received.
Maybe—just for an instant—this reward. that was her husband’s, as-he looked out at the host of cheering autoworker
delegates,
was
and heartaches
principled.
Out
of such
UAW—Roy,
payment
that
for a lifetime
are companions
a home
Victor
in full
and
came
to the
the Reuthers
Walter—who
of the struggles
idealists and
identified
have
never
with
the
the
forgotten
the direction and inspiration they received in their childhood.
The depth of Reuther trade union roots is not surprising
when you listen to Reuther Senior speak:
Men
AFTER HER CONCERT at the UAW Convention, Marian Anderson (left) is
warmly congratulated by Valentine Reuther (right), father of UAW President
Walter P. Reuther, as Mrs. Reuther, Senior, looks on.
“I belonged to the labor movement early in the
‘90's when we had craft unionism.
“I joined the Amalgamated-Association of Iron and
Steel Workers when it completely ignored and disregarded the laborers employed in the steel mills.
“I was admitted to membership there at an early
age. In the late '90’s children did not go through high
school. They had to go to work . . . I saw little boys at
the tender age of 12 leading mules into the mines at
4 o'clock in the morning.
“I saw their bodies mutilated by falling stones,
brought out on a cart.
“TI saw a mother clutching a child to her breast and
trying with kisses to bring those cold and unresponsive
lips to life.
“Tears came to my eyes and I vowed then and
there that as long as I had a breath in me, I would
fight that system of exploitation that was not only
content to exploit from grown men, but reached out
almost into the cradle before children had reached maturity.’’
A féw moments later, when he turned to rejoin his wife,
while his words
penetrated deeply
into 3,000 and more
minds,
you could see in the faces of Roy and Victor and Walter Reuther an expression Of intense pride, almost reverence.
It matched the look on their mother’s face,
V
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195?
May,
a
a
en
a
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
Onc
~ Overwhelming Majority
XY
Nearly
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey—Delegates to the Six-}
teenth UAW Convention approved by an overwhelming ma-| UAW
amendment
a constitutional
jority
delegates
re
Another $17 Million
imi
Emil
the
made
‘‘not
had
UAW
the
that
noted
Mazey
pt eerwill gesoon
same | winners
5
s
:
inted
is. M
i:
Mazey
needs,
UAW
last
the
tha
out
pointed
pro
gates
Convention
f
tensive
during
6
A
on the dues
con,
and
debate
The
clusion that the dues ought to
be increased by 50 cents per
tee’s
unions,
MAZEY
GIVES
emergency
the
of
on
last date
the
was
which
1951,
since
that
out
pointed
We
gram.
am a
UAW,
lately
which we increased our dues to
meet the administrative cost of
our Union, 279 local unions had
mum
been operating
lowest ‘possible
union
in
we
that
not
have
we
ter to our membership that the
month
per
cents
50
proposed
price
the
or
a week,
cents
of half a package of cigarettes
a week, or a total of $6.00 per
ment
bers
71
in
dues
in
the
since
that
letter
received,
had
cents
per
1951,
in
hour
last
our
in
this
in
out
pointed
also
adjust-
of
hour
cent
a
we
an
are
cases,
economic
one-third
asking
to
order
in
hour
make our Union more financially
secure, so we can do a better job
and win even
for our members
He
illustrated
how
the
cost
on
for
the
simple
rea-
APPROVED
a motion
three
the
that
or
total
On
tee’s
cent
to close
debate
four
in
was
debate,
closed
opposition
delegation.
and
with
out
of
the Constitution
Commitrecommendation
of a 50dues
increase,
the Convention
voted overwhelmingly to approve
it.
A motion calling for. a roll-call
vote was then submitted, and de-
of
the
for
alike
up
gone
had
living
asserted.
Mazey
benefits,”
greater
today.”
here
After prolonged | debate, Chairman Reuther called for a vote
benefits, and that for this 71 cents
per
in dues
ruled
mem-
most
membership
the
for
are
INCREASE
year.
“We
of
son that I know that in our Local
Union we need the two bits.”
than one-third of a cent an hour,
11%
care
we
say
crease
to less
amounted
increase
dues
take
Delegates Rogers, Local 396: “I
rise to speak in favor of the resolution asking for the 50-cent in-
let-
this
in
out
pointed
“We
care
our Union at the
dues of any labor
and
unions,
with
country.
the
“I
who may haye. to go on strike to
achieve some of those things that
showed
comparison
has
take
it may
I
the
dues
our
of other
dues
the
that
feated
required
with
less
than
800 voting
200
for it.
of
the
Education
Nunn,
Guy
Sexton,
Brendan
rector
tions in 14 states.
All of the 35
able
be
of
teenth
at Atlantic
Seaton
Maryland,
— Joe
rivals
to
promised
testant
of
to
the
notify
time
each
and
voice on the air.
to
In addition
for prizes and
marks
broadcast
each
contestant
with a souvenir
him (or her) at
er” microphone.
Nunn
day
or
UAW,
eoast
to
con-
he
photo
“Eye
the
Opena
aired over
programs
er’?
“Eye
successive
May.
during
Open-
Drawings
which
the
appear
work
and
in
of UAW
John Gelsavage,
and brush worked
the
UAW
this
sketches
issue
are
Staff Artist
whose pen
furiously at
Convention,
pany
returned
and
Navy
the
as|
in|
the
to
again serve as committeeman
and as a member of the Negotia-|
|
tions Committee.
Elected president of Local 842
in 1950, Michael
led |the first suc-
which
in aircraft
fight
cessful
inprogression
automatic
won
stead of merit review in the Local 842 contract with Fairchild.
turn
duct
drive
on
a
at
who
the
did
UAW
successful
Victor
a temporary
to
staff
con-
organizing
Products
in West
Virginia in 1949, joined the staff
again October 16, 1955, and for
the lJast six and one-half months
has
738
been
near
servicing
;
Baltimore.
Martin
waiver
was
estimated
it to
PRDC
$5 million
witfhesses
to PRDC.
at
Local |
the
present
sched-
intervening
unions
testimony.
their
October
ATLANTIC
days
sey—The
CITY,
unanimous
By
here
delegates
in ‘59
Jer-
New
springtime
of
over.
are
Conventions
UAW
wit-
13, when
May
to resume
for
are
They
witnesses.
nesses
NLRB election in July, 1942. He)
was on leave 1944-46 for service|
Michael,
Credit Line
won
this
to
loaned
Commisthe
before
Hearings
13
recessed April
sion examiner
of the interat the completion
venors’ cross-examination of Com-
Aircraft}
UAW
for
Cannon
be worth
Fair-|
served
He
the
after
plant
the
child
charge
of
by
for
“use”
material
$3,500,000.
Michael|
at
the
estimated
the} uled
committeeman
and
steward
in
showing
of the entire
summary
be
proceedings
will
Convention
recorded
Hagerstown.
in
coast}
that
mittee
Michael
her
presented
was
Balti-|
the
waive
to
proposes
value
The
pub-
the
plutonium,
of
radioactive
two
joined
hearinter-
a guaran-
times
three
years
five
will
a member
was
original
of the
Organizing Com- |
being
eligible
having their re-
announced
also
first
has
his
hear
to
expect
can
will
Nunn
Brother
weeks.
also
Only 19 years
he
when
old
over “Eye
few
next
they made broadcast
the
during
Opener”
AEC
gates,
recordings
the
hear
for
price
lished
Smith,
Hapers-|
town—by
the
Region
8 dele-
and
PRDC
price for plutonium
a price
plant,
the
teed premium
in
produced
and George|
Maryland,
more,
sub-
give
to
plans
AEC
than
Bauernschub,
cost
extensive
the
of
more
chosenwover
more
plant,
vention of the Unions.
In addition to paying
Michael, a Region
and former presi-
was
proposes
47-million-dollar
the
dent of Local 842 at Hagerstown, | PRDC.
“Shop
House
a
in
$11,050,000
PRDC
pay
of
develop-
‘and
AEC
the
that
profit
millions
reported
Convention
decided not to stand
required
were revealed in the open
ings brought about by the
di-
last month.
City
re-election and
8 staff member
Di-
non-winners
the
Constitutional
He
speech
Six-
the
to
delegates
by
as
of
ment.
sidies
the
financial
assured
an
in research
Details
only
proposed
the contract
opposed
dollars
of the
as
deter-
the
of PRDC
advantage
plus
than
who
the
to probe
group
private
to
35,
of
to
crecnda it haa civen
a1
x
Be
Galltiin
new member of the UAW’s InBoard
Executive
ternational
chosen
and
Cannon
in
permit
is
8,
Region
of
rector
fea-
winners
AEC
Seaton
heard week38 radio sta-
“Eye Opener” is
day mornings over
many
Norm
succeeds
Steward” Pat Cameron and other
personalities, plus music, news and
sports.
the
Michael,
(Mike)
T.
E.
and
35th
which
Opener,”
“Eye
tures
of the needs of the International
Union and the local unions, it does
of
comparison
a
While
increase.
17-
Admiral
prize);
(1st
after
Mike Michael
New Director
In Region 8
TV
color
21-inch
RCA
an
cast,
50-cent
a
against
from
The contest was conducted by
the UAW’s Radio Department to
publicize the Union’s nationwide
broadnetwork
early-morning
of
600;
Local
Stellato,
speak
to
rise
made
We
of $2.50 a month.
for me.”
done
Delegate
the mini-
beyond
their dues
raised
been
educators
the
safety
by law.
violation of its own regulations.
The Unions-were successful in
prizes).
in-
what
appreciates
up
toastmasters
tric razors,
(lith through
cameras
Johnny-come-lately in the
but I am a Johnny-come-
that
made
and
hearings
responsibility
intervenor|
an
construction
a
granted
(2nd
sets
TV
portable
inch
a
and
prizes);
10th
through
number of wrist watches, elec-
think
say
to
like
judges,
prominent
set
dues increase of 50 cents.
further
“Au-
of
panel
get
in-
in favor
meeting
and
now _busy
are
relations,
bor
selecting the winners, who will
1058:
dues
A
Action,”
filed
IUE,
last August
petition
three leading universities who
are experts in the field of la-
a
to
dues
any
opposing
as
I would
pro-
aid
We
time.
this
at
a union
recommendations
strike
to any
opposed
a membership
“We
delegates,
the
out
pointed
FACTS
the
told
Mazey
of
Delegate Sparks, Local 1250: “I
would like to go on record by sayof aling that our membership
most 9,000 voted unanimously at
he noted.
of our Union,”
needs
tomation.”*
at
gripe
Local
Roberts,
crease at this time.”
financial
the
of
1956,
6,
cember
are
record
De-
dated
Letter
Administrative
I worked,
no
Political
More
many local unions’ financial status
is healthy and can well take care
We go on
of their local needs.
and shop committee
were all notified in an
stewards
members
record.
and Brother
have
we
Delegate
crease
members,
board
officers,
“We
local
the
recommendations,
point
all when you come down
measly 50 cents a month.”
commit-
study
the
adopted
Board
the
where
thing,
and
Mazey,
Executive
the
first
in
things
just
to
like Brother Reuther
“This decision was transmitted
to the Executive Board,” Mazey
after
few
going
the
UAW,
Paperworkers
Union Means to Me,” “UnLocal
jon’ Ediieation?"» “Why, We «Need
the third thing, it gives me good
wages . . . we are behind people
to the International Union in
additional per capita taxes,”
he explained.
Then,
am
I
486:
Local
siven.
The
members. Many|
est to UAW
chose such topics as “What My|
the
reactor
AEC for carrying out the contract
unplspeciic authorization is
imi
three-minute
a
“Speech” on any subject Of snter=|
in-|
the UAW gave me a safe place to
work. The second thing it did, it
gave me security on my job. Then
month, with 25 cents of the
dues going to the local union
and 25 cents of the dues going
stated.
a
out
con-
a
reached
and
meetings
several| “Now,
held
committee
SS
tape-record
ex-
the
(1955) made provisions for 4) crease question:
Berwick,
Delegate
rank-and-file study committee.
“That
ing booth and
delé-|
ftom the remarks of several
.
out that|
open
mine
beateeidl be Femeed to
mene 7s
a record”)to —
Contestants entered
permitted
were
excerpts]
some
are
Following
studying the Union’s financial|
forcing
repped
ate pact is ee
ere
issue of this newspaper.
n@——_
the steps taken
Detailing
Von-
Can-@—
non (D., Missouri), chairman of the
House Appropriations Committee,
>
and their names will|
mistake that- some other unions have made reeently in not) dividually,
the June|
notifying their members of the financial needs of our Union.’’| also be published in
pene:
Clarence
Representative
in-
notified
be
which vhs a
, came under ire m
eae
ERE
SUE
the Se
for erg
eligible
became
and
Contest”
1957,
1,
June
effective
$3.00,
to
$2.50
from
dues
bership
ae ‘ace saeete SCHOO
poe
prizes,
hendeone
55
of
°"®
|
Secretary-Treasurer
increase,
the
of
:
Speaking on behalf
SS
/ sets to cameras.
'
‘
near Monroe,
reactor
fast-breeder
is building a
which
pany,
eetaoreae
a, Ga
a
WASHINGTON—The contract between the Atomic Enoff” \ergy Commission and the Power Reactor Development Com-
to
ees
convenes
ihe tite toda
mem-
monthly
400
Page 7
Latest ‘Gift’ to PRDC
Off
of
To Sound
Sound
Favors Dues Increase
increasing
WORKER
decision
of
the
attending
UAW’s Sixteenth Constitutional
Convention,
days
autumn
the
of October were favored as contime.
vention
A change in
tion
shift.
was
UAW
necessary
The
previous
leeway
period
setting
the
Constitufor
such
of
section
a
the
UAW Constitution set May as
the month for UAW bi-ennial
conventions, with a one-month
national
The
still
the
given
Executive
same
precise
change
affects
Convention,
Board
the
in
dates.
one-month
exists with
‘‘anchor’’
Inter-
the
leeway
October
month.
union's
now
The
next
members and the Union, and how
Jaws in Indiana
“right-to-wreck”
Unthe
required
elsewhere
and
fon’s
them
resources
full
DECREASE
NO
overwhelming
a
decrease
a
result
1
over
a
“the
of
mem-j
million
because
members
an
receive
in
increase
factor
as
month
pay
a
cents
50
have|
not
will
take-home
dues,
in
will
Union
ment
in
ofa
increase
that
number
Union
our
of
bers
PAY
noted
also
Mazey
IN
combat
to
on
of
June
our
improve-
wages
of
the
in-
will
There
hour,
an
six cents
be a two-cent-an-hour
probably
increase
in
wages
creaséd
cost
of
of
the
is facing
to
living
Republican
our
meet
as
a
inflation
country.”
result
that|
mentioning
concluded
by
I
the huge corporations—G
Motors,
Ford,
Chrysler,
InterHe
national
Harvester
with which
bargain.
“
and
the UAW
.
.
You
others—
has to |
cannot
achieve a short work week, you
cannot deal with the problems
of automation and... , speedup
and living standards with a pea
shooter,” Mazey declared,
UAW OFFICERS greet IAM President Al Hayes as he appears for
Left to right: UAW Vice President Leonard Woodcock, Hayes, UAW
Diréctor Charles Bioletti, (Hayes’ speech is reported on page 13.)
the first time before a UAW Convention,
President Walter Reuther and Region 6
Reuther’s wor
Prepared for celebration
Region 4 delegates cheer Reuther re-election
n
o
i
t
n
e
v
n
o
C
W
A
U
of
s
t
n
‘/Mome
o\
May,
1957
» WReuther’s shoulder,
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Supporters crowd around Vice President Richard Cosser
UNITED
Page 10
AUTOMOBILE
UAW Wins New Contract
- For Bell Aircraft Workers
COURT
A new agreement covering about 13,000 Bell Aircraft
employes has been ratified by UAW members of Local 501,
Buffalo, and Local 218, Fort Worth, Texas, it was reported
by the UAW’s National Aircraft Director, Vice President
Leonard Woodcock, and Regi on 9 Director Martin Gerber.
Negotiations are continuing for
Fort
of
workers
hourly
the
making a total of eight paid holidays. Sick leave pay was raised
to five Gays after one year, improved from five days after five
Worth Local 317; and the salaried unit of Buffalo Local #86.
gains
of
list
the
on
High
for
Life insurance has been raised
from $2,000 to $4,000; sick and
benefits
accident
been
days; three weeks’ vacation with
pay after 12 years, as compared
in-
to after 15 years in the old agreement; and a revised cost-of-liv-
creased to $48 weekly; family aland
upped
been
have
lowances
and
each
down.
has been won—
holiday
.5
each
for
going
point
index
.6
up
going
point
index
cent
one
providing
fotmula
ing
all non-contributory.
Wage increases range from seven to ten cents an hour, and an
it’s
additional
Shorter Work Week Top Goal for ‘58...
(Continued
from
improve transfer and promotion
agreements, and that new joh
classifications
be
negotiated
page 3)
Endorsed as goals for improvements in SUB were: Higher benefit payments, expansion of dura-
tion
to
52
weeks,
against onelayoffs which
protection
and two-day-a-week
hide unemployment,
cope
with
growing
Can UAW Speak Freely?
The UAW this month prepared to make, in the words of
President Walter P. Reuther, “every legal effort to defend
our constitutional right to free expression.”’
The scene for the defense will be the courtroom
Frank
A.
Picard,
United
States
District
mated plants.
-“These things,” commented
to
order
the
case.
Judge
refused
to
hear
reconsider
a petition
attorneys
in
dates for federal office appeared,
out of general Union funds. Judge
Report,
framework
‘spell
of reference
in which
we
shall
through
which
1958
prepare
out
with-
for the
Convention
we
the tremendous
Union.”
will
and
mobilize
resources
of our
were
word
the
in. the
meaning
the
within
not
“expenditures”
law.
as
In addition
from
page
settles with
5)
to the Local
its Los
ers.
Union
Angeles
work-
After
comparing
notes,
all
officers and Bargaining CommitChrysler
local
union
presidents
tee, others who participated in the|
agreed on this point: the Chrysler
negotiated
settlement
of
the
speed-up
program
is widespread
speed-up strike were Region 6 Di-
and
rector
Charles
Bioletti;
Art
Hughes,
administrative
assistant
to Vice President
Matthews;
Chrysler
ber
Department
Ed
Goldman,
Vice
staff
Bartelbort;
and
President
United
REUTHER
mem-
Matthews
Said
tional
of
used
The
Chrysler
speed-up situation
tionally,
Los
was
which
Angeles
the latest
were
ions
1956-57.
followed
speed-up
hard
on
the
Colbert’s warning and led to
merous work stoppages and
have
negotiators
ment
Union's
resolving
most
these
disputes.
around
active
work
They've
the
weapon
local union committees
bargaining
work
up
to iron
standards
a string
UAW
eals
of
US.
part
in
mounting
agreement
in
to
Chrysler
emerged
halt
all
plants
New
England
tile Committee
revealed
extent
of the decline of
textile
industry
land.
ment
January,
176,700
This
in
dropped
was
1953
195L.
in
a
and
to
drop
158,300
from
from
led
UAW
the
the
of
from
1956.
230,500
286,400
in
of
a
au-
strike
International
Un-
time.”
smack
in the
of Chrysler
center
came
Vice
collective
parts
vice
to
by
of
of
the
Presi-
taken
bargaining,
the
country,
president
alleged
UAW
Chrysler's
Chrysler
the
pointedly
agree-
rising
standards.
that
pro-
workers
not be confused and misthe
Misch
statement,
President Reuther teamed
story:
“The
sible
vice
}never
inaccurate
and
statements
president
had
STRIKE
its
“The
International
leadership
of
(Misch)
anything
local
tional
a
to
irrespon-
taken
unions
by
the
number
where
of
Chrys-
constitu-
have
rank-and-file
been
mem-
authorization
pleted
and
if
been
the
com-
produc-
tion standards in the Chrysler
Corporation, It belies the impressions created by and the interpretation put on Mr. Frank
W.
Misch's
speech.
“The UAW's policy on production standards is of long standing
and applies equally to the Chrysler Corporation,
to Géneral Motors, to
company
Ford,
and
to any other
under contract with the}
UAW.
COOPERATION
“The
WITH
International
operation
with
the
-LOCALS
Union, in co-
leadership
of|
the local unions, will continue to
work in good faith to resolve production standards disputes in the
Chrysler
plants
they
be resolved
may
in
the
hope
that
satisfactorily
and ratified by the membership—
as was the case in the recent
settlements of Dodge Local 3,
Plymouth Local 51, Kokomo, In-
Union
Local
685,
and
“However,
the
International}
will
continue
others.
to effectively|
irgplement its policy of protecting|
| collective bargaining, has unfortu| nately created a completely false | the interest of the workers and|
either the |
picture
of
the
situation
in
the | we will not permit
Chrysler Corporation or any other
Chrysler Corporation and the recorporation
to push
its workers
| lationship between
the Corpora-
| tion and
“This
ineptness
the
UAW.
is another
of
the
example
Chrysler
of the
Cor-
| poration in handling its labor relations, and it comes at the very
around.”
At Atlantic
UAW
leaders
sition—and
than
ever,
in
City
last month,
reaffirmed
firmer
this
free
speech,
out
and
also:
“Jus-
majority
veloped
through
due
opin-
process
the lower courts.
“The UAW considers
in
this
case
of speech,
like
to be of importance far beyond
the rights of organized labor as a
group in our free society. We bevalue, and that the wights of one
group cannot be infringed without
putting in jeopardy the
gf speech of all groups
people.”
freedom
and all
After a debate
which the majority
ers
were
in
the
in four
wage
years
by
top
po-
language
salary of the
tional
president
from
$18,000
Interna-
was
to
boosted
$22,000
a
of our
Con-
resolution
school
the
but
sup-
also
operation
of
systems.”
‘to
local
The resolution also calls for
“distribution of such aid based
upon
school
(HR
1)
and
needs
community
and state ability to pay,” and declares the Union’s support of the
Kelly School Construction Bill
as
“a
first
direction.”
right
The
“1)
step
resolution
further:
condemns
plans
U.
the
defy
which
sion;
give
Supreme
S.
deci-
integration
racial
Court’s
the
systems
school
to
aid
in
to
2) favors a national minimum
for
wage
$5,000
than
teachers
a year”;
not
less
in
the
reduction
a
3) favors
“of
of
size of classes to a maximum
30 students per teacher;
4) opposes further increases
in tuition fees at state colleges
universities;
and
5) favors establishment of
federal and state scholarships
qualified students who
for those
otherwise
would
college,
attend
for
penditures
be
education,
in every
services
to
district
ex-
increased
adult
psychiatri¢e
to
unable
delinquency
juve-
combat
“drop-
and
the
support,”
our
concludes,
and com-
resolution
Convention
“at the federal, state
representatives
their first
a
outs.”
‘We pledge
and
part
facilities,
subsidize
nile
motion
was carried by an
estimated 99 per cent of the
delegates, officers and Inter-
given
classroom
school
during
of speak-
favor
a vital
porting “generous, immediate federal aid to assist not only ‘with
the construction of needed new
and
Delegates Up
Officers’ Pay
but
passed
federal
Frankfurter’s
The
rent Chrysler situation reflects accurately the position and policy
of the International Union and its
of
“that
the Sixteenth Constitutional
Conyention of the UAW.
production
matters
that the
held
OPEN
adjustment
standards are not worked out to
the satisfaction of the workers.
“This action on the part of the
International Union in the cur-
on
tice
were
plants when such
have
of
national
democratic,
secret
ballot votes
by the rank and file requesting
do
with
in
production
votes
other Chrysler
Chrysler
has
already
bers.
“The International Union will
authorize additional strikes in
diana,
who
a
strike
and
authorization
involving
in
Union
have
strike
standards
ler.
com-
AUTHORIZATIONS
leadership
with Vice President Matthews
in the
following
clarifying
|
in New
Eng1957,
employ-
January
would
|
Tex-
taking
this
with
So
Chrysler
Governors’
membership
un-
issues were resolved
any
many
duction
overtime
HARTFORD,
Connecticut
(PAI)—A recent study by the
in
ment
an
Textile Layoffs
local
STATEMENT
referred
Canada
until
various
the
at
Chrysler
loz
with
re-
commented
on Chrysler's profits
and threw
an arm
around
the
UAW.
It was more like a hammerlock.
With strike votes in progress
in
met in special session in Atlantic
City during the Union's week-long
Convention,
strong
dent Frank W. Misch.
Misch,
who
had
never
in active
and
with
. . . Other strike votes are
| statement
successes.
the
inna-
production
the speed-up controversy
assisting
of Chrysler.
by
the
Landing
crises, chalking
presidents
across
out
the
by
MISCH
swiftly
country,
Constitu-
the necessity of an actual
pending
nuau-
standards
moved
and
strike.
the
been
taken
without
Depart-
Chrysler
UAW
Key
met
ion. However,
of
thorized strikes as Chrysler workers rebelled against the inhuman
production they were called upon
to make.
to delegates
Sixteenth
more
was
thorized
tactics
heels
P.
vote in three other local unions.
“Several strike votes were au-
Chrysler employes telling them of
the production race between the
Big Three—GM, Ford and Chrys-
Chrysler's
Walter
Chrysler Corporation
a drive in all plants,
for
bined.
vention
on
other basic rights, is an indivisible
more strikes
in the rest of the UAW
disputes
President
the
thorized
At the time, Chrysler President
L. L. Colbert sent a letter to all
ler.
REPORT
sistance from the local unions.
During this period, 17 strike votes
in a long list of production standards disputes which erupted dur-
ing
they
than
noted
luxury”
democratic process, the UAW
expenditures
lieve that freedom
pending over production standards
in Chrysler Corporation
plants
granted
Convention:
“The
stituted
SPEEDUP
necessary,
in his report
attending
was
was
UAW
Reuther
very close to the situation in directing the negotiating activities.
LATEST
action
decided.
William
Region 6 staff.
not confined to specific plants.
time when, there-are
ban
a
ion expressly leaves this crucial
constitutional question open and
directs that the facts must be de-
Settle West Coast Chrysler Speedup Strike...
(Continued
rights
He_ pointed
payments
the
ruled
had
Picard
candi-
which
on
or
minority
QUESTION
that
broadcasts
for
act’s
UAW Backs
Federal Aid
To Schools
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey
—Declaring that “education is not
that the indictment was improper
and violated the First Amendment of the Constitution.”
which
the UAW
violated
Taft-Hartley Law by paying
the
East-
the activities of the UAW were a
proper exercise of “our constitu-
filed by UAW
case
the
Reuther
three-man
Court
the
Committee
President
its decision,
the
for the
by corporations
or unions in
connection
with
any
election
for federal office.
Commenting on the March decision of the Supreme
Court,
tional
the Supreme
of
contributions
DENIED
to
following
Picard
charges
January
mation,
the delegates directed
that contract provisions be written to broaden seniority units,
gan GOP leaders still feeling the
sting of their rebuff by Michigan
voters, appealed the case to the
Supreme Court, which voted 6-3
Last month,
Vice
tionality
earlier. The Justice
egged on by Michi-
President Leonard Woodcock
in
supporting the Collective Bargaining
auto-
of the UAW
Department,
Court
of Judge
The UAW counsel had asked
for reconsideration, insisting
that the high tribunal should
rule at once on the constitu-
Judge
Picard
who
had thrown
out the GOP-inspired indictment
PETITION
when required, with wage rates
that properly
reflect increased
worker
responsibility
in auto-
liberalization of eligibility provisions and simplifications of procedures, provisions for full payment
out of the funds if state compensation is not available to workers
eligible under the SUB plan.
To
DECIDE
ern Distriet of Michigan in
Detroit. No date for the trial
has been set.
years.
In March, the U.S. Supreme
for
pay
gains provide
Other
jury duty up to a total of 20 Court ordered
a trial’ before
the Bell workers is a substantial
hosin insurance,
improvement
pital and surgical benefits.
have
TO
WORKER
munity levels to achieve the goal
opportunity
of equal educational
that
end
the
to
child,
every
for
we may have an intelligent citigemocracy,
a flourishing
zenry,
and a prosperous economy.”
Convention Hits
‘Oil Diplomacy’
New
CITY,
ATLANTIC
Jersey
year; secretary-treasurer,
$14,000 to $18,000; Interna-
—In
500 to $16,500, and
tional
Executive
foreign policy, the UAW Convention declared that “oil diplomacy,
tional
vice
presidents,
$12,-
InternaBoard
members,
from
$10,000
to
$12,500. International repre-
sentatives
now
receive
$7,-
000 to $8,000 a year instead
of the previous constitution-
ally required
week,
Delegate
435,
posed
“I
stated
to
feel
:
to $125
Nutter,
that
the
he
raises
the
enough.”
Local
$115
Local
was
op-
is
not
because
salary
Delegate
659, chided
a
those
Ashby,
dele-
gates who
urged higher increases,
asking,
‘‘Do
we
come here to give our mem-
bership’s
raising
next
money
dues),
day
given
we've
out
tional
pockets
pockets
of
give
and
to
of
into
our
the
then
the
our
the
representatives?”
Delegate
away
the
money
Interna-
workers’
private
officers
Llorca,
(by
and
Local
up
the
ing majority: “We are
to
in this movement
rich ,.. If you have a
not
get
rep
719,
seemed
attitude
who
doesn’t
crease;
not
of
the
get
to
the
sum
overwhelm-
deserve
rid
salary
of
an
the
in-
rep,
adjustment
... It's been four years since
their last increase. To fail
this adjustment
to make
now means at least a sixyear wait. What worker is
willing to wait that long?”
diplomacy, or dollar dibased upon an. anxious
military
plomacy
and
Administration's
Eisenhower
the
of
denunciation
scathing
a
for fair-weather
naive search
friends among foreign governare no substitute for a
ments
long-term commitment to help
the have-not peoples themselves
find a democratic alternative to
temptations.”
munist
on international
In a resolution
declared
delegates
the
relations,
Com-
-and
threats
Communist
miust not
that “the free world
count on an international collapse
system.
Communist
the
of
munist
losses
threat,
nor
and
in-
reduced
the
African,
or
strength
of
Com-
have not difluence in Europe
military
the Russian
minished
potential
sian and
among
Latin
“So
have
drawing
Chinese
they
power of RusCommunism
Asian,
the
masses
American
poverty,
as
long
. . .
ignor-
ance and disease remain the lot
of these peoples, dishonest Compromises
munist
ears.”
We
must
| promises
| formance,”
|clares.
end...
fall
will
plight
with
“We
| privileged
not
third
“totalitarian
democratic
per-
accomplish
this
can
by
receptive
on
answer
the
their
to relieve
resolution
telling
the
de-
under-
of the
world
how
to help
them
help
good democracy is but by showing them, by proving to them that
we
are
willing
themselves
| of living,”
to raise their standard
‘
1957
May,
have
didn’t
conventioneer
Radio} resentative
and
Woodcock
whys | Leonard
display
(ete bre Guy Nunn.
and hows of labor's birthIt brought to life the
DepartEducation
UAW
of
the
‘'30’s
combined | depression
had
officials
ment
the
answered
that
Kat
|
dreadful|
Graskamp;
SII DOW STORY i
ue
Kohler work-|
tell it.
was
display
strike
J.
employment.
of
level
Brei-
workers
minimum
decent
Security
the Social
story
veterans
the
retired
for
vrecreation-
-
the
captured
all
the delegates.
of
attention
..
story
rights
Jodoin:
Claude
Chief
| CLC
UAW
Committee.
Label
ciyil
the
5
ey. The union label gives you a
story
That
both.
of
guarantee
was told effectively by the UAW)
Union
for
fight
the
wages
story
boys’
qualmon-
When you buy men’s and
clothing, you want the best
ity and best value for your
I
il
production
maintain
Trustee
Leo
Nitsche;
warned. The hard road
room
to remove some of that stain
was told in stark detail.
a
union story
credit
The
help
J.| 4S, refrigerators, etc.,andthusa high
Allan
833
They
homes,
buy
families
their
help
-announced.
booth
still stains our
Jabor
showlife, the NCLC
Child
national
the
UAW,
years
50
was
That
mines.
women
the
to
belong
| Workers
Majerus;
Raymond
Local
Women’s Department.
175,000
than
More
posted
Labor
|| Cormmittee The faces belonged to
|
not yet 14 years old. The
| boys
just returned from the coal
boys
|
ago.
the theme of a display by UAW
Rep-| Women’s
International
President
833
Local
of| Kenneth
out
the|
know
you
at
out
huge photograph
Child
National
from a.
the
by
her union
was
That
ing girl in 1857—but
her' now.
protects
|
complete story of Hie theasyear!|
long Kohler strike,
nar-} ers were there to
a film
Story,”
case
In
was|
display
the
STORY
didn't
you
Kohler
A
etary-Treas- |
S
by UAW
rated
by
arated
urer Emil Mazey, Vice President | of
educational)
an
in
absorbed
self
and
Hall
Sitdown
“The
him-
find
of
Highlight
|
could
Boardwalk
the
strolling
of
lobby
huge
the
into
walk
Convention
thought.
deeper
for
there
was
erature
|
vacationer
casual
the
Even
| KOHLER
Labor | which told The Labor Story. Lit-
to learn The
Story.
her
secretary
833 recording
the workprotected
Heaven
cal
in
chapters
glorious
history.
other
Union's
}and
| the
Lo-
n,
Kohih
FACES
faces looked
DIRTY
Dirty
co-ordi-
boycott
G.
E.
and
nator;
strike|
Flint
the
to
back
Kohler
took| rather,
born,
was
UAW
the
viewers
government agencies to spread
before passersby a colorful arartwork
and
photos
of
ray
|
|
|
to
| which
and
talent
union
local
with
|
New
CITY,
Jersey — You
last month
II
s
te
ga
le
De
on
ti
en
nv
Co
ue
ig
tr
In
ts
bi
hi
Ex
ATLANTIC
be a UAW
Page
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
, jj Canada Leads U.S. .
On Health Planning
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey—Canadians are just about
|to pick up the down-payment on a full-scale national health
plan.
pre sident of Canadian Labor Conequivalent to AFL-CIO and a direct affili-
Jodoin,
So said Claude
eress, the Canadian
at the UAW’s?¢ e
ate of AFL-CIO,
Con-
Sixteenth Constitutional
vention last month.
Canadian labor
down through the
Reuther Scores Phony Kohler ‘Offer’
In
ported
Reuther.
P.
Walter
dent
has
there
that
indication
resuming
in
or that it has
is interested
pany
serious negotiations
in
keeps.
give
better
to
swer
clared.
say
gain
| to
CITY, New
ATLANTIC
Jersey — The UAW has reaffirmed its solid stand against
handling scab-made goods.
Sixteenth ConstituUAW
called on the
Convention
labor
movement
contract clauses which
entire
products
and
goods
in legally-struck
ers
seek
work-
by
made
plants,
the “Hot
Goods”
tack
to strike-break
makes
law
same
The
and
seab,
to
refusal
handle a violation of a federal law
thelr
and
violators
makes
and
unions
liable
voluntarily
goods.
standing
jon
An
handle
FC —E—EEE—
it
And
is
to
this
resolution
for
called
to
permit
an
the
worker
seab-produced
a
under-
un-
the
gain.
adopted
purchase
on
Taft-Hartley
refusal
goods,
a
ae
to
are
continuing,
A
ments
|
|
the
4410
members,
to hire
is
becoming
the
In
| peal
Washington,
of
regional:
fair
the
usal
director
labor
to
the
practices
of
UAW
the
issue
ap-|}
NLRB}
an
une
complaint
the
notice
other
the
the
on
heaving
Local
in
840
13,
May
to
begin
recommended
have
|
sey—By
a
CITY,
unanimous
New
vote,
GOAL
UAW
to
answer
an
As
the
in
employment
creasing automation,
the es-
age
old
un-
mounting
inof
Presi-
face
CLC
week
work
the shorter
pay.
creased take-home
Pia-
pointed
Roosevelt,
and Mary
lons
Jer-
granted th
Convent
in. the
honorary
memberships
Union,
They went to Eleanor
Marian
Anderson
Heaton Vorse,
twee
in-
with
Answering left-wing criticism to
affiliated
Canadian
unions
being
Jotrade
unions
with American
out
1, Members
UAW
as
as high
Niagara,
power
the face of
it is essential
protecpossible
the
have
Canadians
strongest
the
of
has
organizations.
that
shown
Canadian
un-
trade
International
in
Experi-
strength
that
find
can
workers
wa-
a
existing
any
union
the
in
to out-produce
able
Jodoin,
power
owns
it
Already
may
ions.”
Jodoin added praise for the International Confederation of Free
giving
world,
justice
to
Said
efforts
and
social
of
hundreds
ICFTU)
(through
millions
justice,
our
believe
“We
Jodoin:
for
the
economic
of
degree
any
denied
now
“hope
across
to be in
We
interests of all Canadians.
the
standards,
living
higher
believe
Canadian
assure
would
ng
of pensions regardless of |free unions and free bargaini
to be natural steps toward peace.”
many times they change their
LAUDS
suit
the
said
ence
plan
(government)
from
doin
ATLANTIC
twice
trade
| employment,”
is
injunction
in a state court
Ladies Honored
terfall
world.
largest
the
Trade
Unions
as the
industrial democracy”
how
federal
on
to
ura-
This
workers
10 with the trial|
trial
be
prove
tional
pension
may
what
Manitoba
in
only
industrial
develop-
Nickel’s
til Canadian labor blew the whistle on the “illegal play.”
a naalso in Canada:
Sought
pensions.
to
termi-
before
contract;
pre-trial
scheduled
re-
line,
picket
days’
on,
deposits
nium
| that
tion
un-
Jodoin,
on
plant in the world.
“In
Said Jodoi
these huge interests,
govern-
passes ... but our
invented the back-
went
| apart
cites
One
management
the
of
charges
practices
Coripany,
the
filed
this
said
International
in
tablishment of such a pension plan
and their
to which all members
employes would contribute so as
to provide adequate pensions for
quite
retirement,
on
workers
pending
Coun-
federal
before
. . . I knew
That
“We
has
UAW
the
o7
to start May
27, A
for r an
bid
secki's
Local
luetant to continue to pay the
ride
to
scabs
out-of-state
through
60
unfair
sgheduled May
out Belto recog~-
or
Union
nize
still
is
victory
platter.
event that we had forpasses in football and we
politi
ward
Reuther
to cover
throwing
provincial
the
to
ex-
the
of
nickel-produclargest
the
| prove
ing area in the world.
UAW)
the
praised
Jodoin
against Piasecki for failure to live dent
up to terms of a legal contract Is |Convention decision to drive for
that
indicated
kept
government
ball
“. . . the
Jodoin:
Said
plan
begun
Manitoba
in
|ment
is due
ex-
(mainly
Nickel
has
by
tracts
vast
to
rights
Come-
holds
firms,
steel
S.
owned)
S.
U.
hos-
goal:
next
U.
land.
International
naex-
nine
within
insurance
on a silver
health
arrive
The
didn’t
plan
Canada,” controlled
of
pany
Ore
Iron
Labrador,
In
said
clusive
is a fully-paid
labor's
Canadian
GIVEAWAYS
CITES
win
to
e
Walter |}larg
President
The
to the land area of 16 U. S. states.
Canadian
the
effective
become
months.
in
interference
attempted
cites
the internal affairs of the Local.
Piasecki
the
Piasecki, who bought
nd then refused
lane
“Hot |
immediate
of
layoffs
The
|
may
however,
management
to
amendment
to
refuse
by
hopes
Goods”
Act
damage
employer,
An
eab
for
management
failure
court
acts
illegal
the
nating
The ranks of the Local are still
with
picketing
advertising
| solid
| that
more
give
management,
on
two
against
Plasecki
the
by
off
laid
being
al
the traditional and histori
solidarity of workers ... in rf
fusing
sel. Meanwhile,
were
here
plant
Bellanca
former
of Taft-
«
a “frontal
as
Hartley
part
| to
Kohler |
in the office of the General
awaited
Thanskgiving,
insurance,
plan.
pitalization
to
have
too,”
there,
Piasecki
against
840,
Local
of UAW
Piasecki
by Frank
from
Jodoin,
plained
has
campaign
is equal
area
That
interests.
Gren
Wenner-
European
the
to
|area
la-
‘‘down-payment”’ on
health insurance plan,
The
tional
Kohler
potential
other
refused to struggle
Walter | declared.
their “day in court” this month
| and noted with satisfaction that
‘
‘
‘
|
scabs hired for their jobs in the
upon
looked
here
win
and
act|
if they
that
know
Company
had lateral
ponsi
irres
as
and
as arrogantly
.government
|
have
will
we
that
r,
bly as Kohle
ward pass.”
Delaware —
CASTLE,
last
since
One provision of the Taft-Hartfrom
workers
prevents
Act
ley
against
action
concerted
taking
handling such material
Delegates
NEW
UAW
UAW and
Reuther.
Piasecki Lays Off Scabs, :
Continues Illegal Lockout
Members
free emout
to handle} locked
obligation
from
ployes
to
strike.”
even
Kohler
own. nephew,
Herbert
| to let his
|
we
that
so
a
avoid
to
try
ex-
to
came
Jodoin,
years,
its
we
because
.
eve:
health
national
out.
I
justice.
on
carry
only}
not
the
in
investment
strike
persistent
bor’s
moved
has
in Canadian
to settle this strike.
tending the hospital
you, we are not trying} all medical bi
refused
“Mind
an
force
A driving
settle
immorality
its
in
rogance,
refused | let
refused
agreement
the
|could
"Hot Goods’
The
tional
arbitrate
tend
pro-
to
mediate
to
| refused
con-
Company}
Kohler
“The
| tinued.
are
to
to
giveaways
He pointed
dian government
corporate giants.
all-embracing
Cana-
at
hard
slapped
Jodoin
the all-important health
social security front.
ahead on
coverage
Reuther
this | little bit of economic
to
have
we
that
say
debar- that struggle. This is
Reuther
faith,”
good
in
an
Kohler
entitled,’’
movement
years has
labor
Canadian
way
to blaze any new trails in Kohler. |
are merely trying to get a
We
to
refused
and
law
the
fied
as
another
contract
a
sign
would
de-
this Union,
part of the
that
union
who pays dues into
I never want to be
of any
leadership
=»).
pointed
the
years
three
to
went on, “and for three
the Kohler Company, in
responsibility
moral
the
Reuther
dispute,
ones
are
and
facts
ALL OFFERS
REFUSED
into
get
we
did
“How
strike? The Kohler Company
an-
just
to
being
lies:
had
the
you,
to
where
a
people
. . . the
tell
to
Wis-
economic and social justice
which they and their loved
of
to
Senate
the
beforé
the
what
America
the Kohler strike
of
in
for
Reuther
that,”
human
| Committee
the}
street
Kohler
Mr.
“I
keep
to
days
of
couple
scabs
the
Convention
this
say
“I
the
in
out
strikers
one
and
plant
the
Convention
to cover
UAW
better.
nothing
833.
Kohler
ago,
weeks
agreement
an
sign
eral
that
to
“offered”
with
the
told
Reuther
the
Local
UAW
striking
of
like
would
I
as
strikers have struggled “to
of decency
measure
that
PresiKohler strike,’ the UAW
|dent declared that “I would like
members
the
to
to offer
anything
backwards
over
For
said, ‘Joe McCarthe
investigate
headline which
to
wants
thy
Com-|
Kohler
the
the
newspaper
a
Reading
company.
no}
been
yet
as
the
of
re-
he
speech,
opening
his
anti-labor
most
nation’s
bend
head
Kohler,
Herbert
for
ference
inter-
running
of
McCarthy
| Jo&
Presi-
its fourth year—by
entering
of
union
International
an
if
only
stands guard.
British Columbia whose provincial
| health plan for its citizens. Amerover all
in- | government
has turned
listened
here
delegates
ican
mile
square
to a 40,000
tently as Jodoin spelled out the | rights
arbitrator, though the Union had
the offer, disregarding
accepted
in an effort to
the family ties,
never do that.”
also accused Senator
We shall
Reuther
on developstrike—now
brought up to date
ments in the Kohler
dispute
the
enter
consin,
river.
the
down
line
picket
the
Governor
then
Kohler,
on
workers
sell
and
seabs
tect
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey-Convention delegates were
UAW
an
for
hard
worked
families
their
and
workers
dian
gains;
|
2.
have
chalked
up
International
of
it
serve
by
the
unions
make
with
in-
development,
much
of
Cana-
American
best
greatest
the
sense In dealing
greater
ternational corporations;
3. Canadian
un-
of International
capital,
Interests
can
Modern Republicans
CITY,
ATLANTIC
New
Jer-
sey—“There has been a lot of
talk about modern Republicanism,”
P.
tion
UAW
Reuther
Walter
President
told
delegates
UAW
here,
Conven“and
I
MceNamara
Senator
thought
a
with
up
came
Mich.)
(D.,
good definition the other day.
Repubsaid a modern
“He
lican was a fellow who talked
but
like Franklin Roosevelt
voted like Herbert Hoover,
“Now you take Senator Gold(R., Ariz... He is not a
water
mod
Republican,
reactionary.
Herbert
William
Hoover
He
and
MeKinley,”
He
talks
votes
is
a
like
like
Page
UNITED
12
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Get the Shorter Work Week,
Dubinsky Tells VAW Convention
ATLANTIC
long-time
CITY,
New
president
Workers
Union
of
Jersey—Viery
the
(ILGWU),
David
————
Dubinsky
sider
asserted,
if organized
succeeded through
win
great
public
a
become
our
‘‘You
copied some of the pioneering
work that we have done. You
have
done
did,
it
better
because
powerful
you
than
are
we
a more
ulated
him
UAW
to
on
his
president
Workers
have
the
re-election
“because
they
least
from
of view—and the
showed
it—that
vote
they
man,
at
“Let's
| change
TO
never
the
in
about
the
concepts;
let’s
ness
where
“The
attitude
unionism
leads
Dave
de-
OPPOSE
that
they
the much
estab-
were
tolerated
under
looser constitution
of
declared,
the
fact
that
“the
labor
evil.”
MICHIGAN
&
any
will it
try.”
move-
ment
up to now was not able to
detect,
to expose
and
eliminate
this
bring
“because
benefit
bring
He
to
benefit
noted
that
| the Hungarian
labor
to
the
Anna
| ship
In
the
Ralph
W.
“loyalist”
the
Lone
Democrat,
and
won
equally
publican,
race
to
out
over
Martin
fill a yacant
U.
coun-
Yarborough
had
been
terly
opposed
the
forces
by
ex-Governor
Dixiecrat
for the
Council,
gency.”
He
the first
office in
bitof
Allan
Board
gained
Michigan,
state
six
posts, including
ent of public
office
of
the
the superintendinstruction;
the
Irene
Murphy,
the
late
a five-
She
won
gents,
sey—UAW
President
New
Walter
P.
labor movement, but go after
the crooks on the management
too,
crooked
a bribe
ployer,
for
them
over
and
labor
from
put
about
plenty
among
when
leader who
a crooked
them
15
you
of
both
years
time
and
to
themselves.”
find
in
a
took
em-
jail
give
talk
the
the
lack
part
has
of
of
played
concluded
leader-
the
in
by
govern-
this
emer-
pointing
democratic
Production
employes
ing
union
salary
to
out
for
the
the
and
maintenance
at the Acme
Company
Metal
in Detroit
gin
of
two
collective
to
one
bargaining
ducted
by
the
lations
Board.
in
Etch-
have
by a mar-
a
recent
election
National
vot-
Labor
con-
Re-
the
least
closing
of
stockholders,
beneficiaries,
comwho
owners
mine
and
oil
capital
benefit from excessive depletion allowances. At the same
to
annual
urges
large
panies
time,
it urges
that
the
billions
of tax dollars thus recovered
be used to cut income taxes on
low and middle income tax
resolution calls on labor,
“about
pay.”
also
gains
earners
families.”
to
and
payers
finance
needed federal
school aid.
tax
services
badly
such as
Democracy’s Untinished
Business: Civil Rights
ATLANTIC
CITY,
pressing and
people*today.
It
is
tops
in
finished
business
cording
to
gates
a
here
New
Jersey—Civil
compelling
challenge”’
“democracy’s
un-
in
America,
resolution
attending
to
the
acdele-
UAW’s
Sixteenth Constitutional Convention.
The
Convention
adopted
the
following
nine-point
1—UAW
ports
program:
wholeheartedly
the
unanimous
the
U.
S.
Supreme
ing
racial
sup-
decision
Court
segregation
of
outlaw-
in
educa-
tion.
2.—President
the
launch
the
an
openly
Justice
Councils”
in
eight
should
now
into
“White
operating
Southern
else
and
probe
of so-called
anywhere
direct
of
immediate
activities
Citizens
“or
Eisenhower
Department
they
states
may
be
federal
Eisenhower should
agencies
responsible
for housing programs that federal
aid is to be extended only to those
who do not discriminate against
color, race,
origin.
4—UAW
port
to
the
Rule
22
creed
hung
via
up
by
to
or
national
pledges continued
bipartisan
who
(which
group
opposed
permits
sup-
of
Sen-
veto
American
filibuster).
legislation
unlimited
5.—UAW
has
tactic.
rededicates
unceasingly
for
Much
been
debate,
of
because
pass
“talking-out”
work
the
the
rights
failing
this
itself to
enactment
of a fair employment practices
law by Congress, by state legislatures
and
ments;
by
enactment
local
govern-
of legislation
to provide punishment for interference in voting; enactment of
federal legislation abolishing the
poll tax as a prerequisite to voting;
enactment
of
a
federal
anti-lynching
law;
and
enactment of a permanent civil rights
commission as part of the U. S.
Department of Justice.
6.—UAW
government
urged
to
7.—UAW
to
8.—Every
UAW
against
the
enact
work
hiring-gate
Canadian
a
rf
Bill
everywhere
discrimination.
local
union
for by Executive
10479 and
10557.
Orders
sep-
of
posts
di-
Mag-
of
a sister-in-law
a seat
U. S.
Frank
Michigan
was
of
governor
on
of
Supreme
Murphy.
the Univer-
Board
of
|
Re-
it
plus
|
powerful
members
and
support
most
unionists were seen
from
other
UAW
Michigan
as reasons for
the surprisingly heavy turnout of
voters and Democratic pluralities
} ranging from 42,000 to 85,000.
|
Yarborough’s
assured
| control
the
of the
victory
in
Texas
U. S. Senate,
where
Democrats
| they hold a paper-thin
' 43 to 47 votes,
continued
margin
of
to
No.
9.—Every local union shall include the UAW’s model anti-discrimination clause in all contracts
Magnus-
while
of
use the right to file complaints
under the federal government's
Contract
Executive
Order,
pro-
vided
U. S. Senators
ate
facing
power
civil
rights is the ‘‘most
Rights,
3.—President
ed in favor of the UAW
Mennen Williams }
by Governor G
won
handily
in
“non-partisan”|
various
races
for
county
court
posts. Governor Williams’
tireless
campaign
throughout
the
state,
Jer-
Reuther told the UAW Convention he had this-bit of advice
for the McClellan Committee:
“Go after the crooks in the
side,
their
and
those
In Wayne
County
(Detroit)|
races, Democratic
judges backed
No Double Standard
CITY,
wage
to
existing tax loopholes and the
repeal of tax concessions made
as liberals
counteract
campaign
pay
Industrial
elected
former
sity
ATLANTIC
continuing
to
to win state|
Stevens will|
others
to-three
edge.
on
a
benefit
of Agriculture),
Michigan
and
Court
Justice,
hold
and
Chris
unionists
Michigan.
Among
commissioner,
now
everywhere.”
$10
of the State CarCouncil.
They are
and three positions on the “nonsupreme
partisan” Michigan
court, where Democrats, in fact
if not in name,
of Communism
to the freedom of
than
nusson will be on the State Board
of Education, which governs Michigan teachers colleges.
Democrats
educational
highway
and
more
}sit
on
the
governing
board
of
Shi- Michigan State University (State
vers.
In
Moscow
that the labor movement has enemies from without as well as
within, “But the constructive
forces will overcome
them
and
will
build
a progressive,
on
education
and
by
of
politi-
run
Michigan
son, president
penters’ Union
a
the
education
Stevens,
one
brutality
Vote for UAW
by
to say
various
state
legislatures
local governing
and
tax-
created.”
must
top
was
workers of America, and a guide
for the workers of the world.”
without
to
Don
Union
S. Senate
seat.
labels.)
rector
Rein
party
were
Dies,
Hutcheson,
ballot,
on
nor] ment
fighter,
non-partisan
arate
Elected
Dem-
conservative
Thad
technically
liberal
reactionary
Congressman
an
a
but
crushed
nature
regard
clean,
nominated
parties,
}cal
State,
Yarborough,
well-known
ocrat,
Star
are
comrevo-
not} of the part that the labor move-
tive board-in the state's his-@—_____-_________
(Michigan supreme court canditory.
Two of the victorious}
| dates
UAW
ment in the Hungarian situation,
Dubinsky stated “We
are proud
Democratic forces with labor backing have won
victories in eleetions in Texas and Michigan.
Wolverine State, the Democrats made a clean
ten state offices in a n April 1 election which gave
the first 100 per een t Democratic state administra-
are}
by
stirring events in
Although that up-
Nazi-like
Deploring
TEXAS
Democratic candidates
prominent union leaders.
was
workers
Political Victories
smashing
In the
sweep of
Michigan
rising
true
with
Liberals Chalk Up
Liberal
UAW
savagery, the freedom fighters
exposed for all the world the
Kethly,
freedom
of last October
with.
corrup-
will
seen
lution
of the most
our century.
LAWS
it
addresses
was on the platform, and
mented, “The Hungarian
“We
will oppose any punitive
legislation that some of our enemies want to propose,” Dubinsky
the old AFL. He blamed
much
of the corruption in the old AFL
on
PUNITIVE
Dubinsky
Convention . .. as
staff artist.
let's
tion. This attitude of corruption
The
ILGWU
head
reviewed | will not help preserve decent unpast
labor history
about
the ionism.”
AFL's
experience
in
trying
to
eliminate corrupt
elements
from
a
few
unions,
and
pointed
out
It
facts
toward
to
In a resolution on taxes, the
Convention called on Congress,
plenty
liberal and consumer groups to
band together and publish the
belong.
cynical
trade
PAST
they
to
The
the
despe-
unions;
taxes
able
and
of
greater
ways
able
come
over-
practices
the
“shift more and- more of the
tax load to low and middle in-
have
to
be
best
the
lish ethics and morals in the free
trade union movement which are
not
offered
in business.
Those
|who cannot see why we must do
this should go out of the trade
union movement and go to busi-
can give to their Union and to the
labor movement of America.”
POINTED
bring
|mocracy
Au-
that
not
ment.
as
the
had
enough
foul
con-
may
giveaways
subject.
but
ing bodies,
well
in both parties to
the years to
support
for
could
strong
the
labor
taxes
Jer-
that
had
the
and
cial interests and
their servants to curtail and curb the
American
trade
union
move-
|
congrat-
recognize
best
my point
yesterday
and
we
“Let's
and
New
are levied are not, and delegates to the UAW Convention
here
a
CITY,
billion, sales taxes arid other
devices
by which
the tax
burden is shifted from those
inevitable,
We'll
ruthless
employers
and
deadly
legal
and
vicious
vices worked
out
by the
Dubinsky paid tribute to UAW]
President Walter Reuther for his
qualities,
cause,
come
Union.”’
leadership
week.
paeeeees
by the ILGWU
and
noted
that although they had done
pioneering,
sey—Death
International
Ladies Garment|
tol d some 3,000 UAW Convention
follow you on that, too.”’
He had previously enumerated some of the gains made
of
ATLANTIC
Dubinsky,
|
delegates to “‘go ahead, and ge st the shorter work
lot
How About a Depletion Allowance for Workers?
JIM MORRISON, left, accepts UAW Charter No. 1701 from UAW President
Walter P. Reuther on behalf of 2,000 engineers and technicians employed at the
Honeywell Regulator Company in Minneapolis.
Formerly affiliated with an independent engineering society, the members of the new UAW Local voted earlier this
They were to vote again early this month in an
year to affiliate with the UAW.
NLRB election forced when the Company cancelled its agreement with the Local.
Left to right: Morrison, Local 1701 vice president; Frank Pavelski, Local 1701
secretary; Ross Jordan, Local 1701 treasurer, Region 10 Director Harvey Kitzman,
Vice President Leonard Woodcock, and President Reuther.
May,
1957
|
... But—
Penalties Now
Seeds of Hope in PAC Plan :
oe
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey—A defeat at the bargaining table is no more catastrophic than a defeat at the political
table.
Workers and their families must achieve victory at both
if there is to be any brightness in the future.
Those
points
were
made@—
a
pro-management
placed heavily on the need for inby
awareness
political
creased
union members.
“To make a better nation and
those
into
their families is a
contributors
“heavy
campaigns”
flow
legislation
in
of anti-worker
and
of workers
interests
the best
whose
long list of
to political
maiming
at
aimed
comes
payoff
resolu-
in
both
of
the
the Republican Party. (with
exceptions)
as a “willing
few
and
Congress.”
And
obedient servant
ary
forces
Houses
as
it pointed
reaction-
of such
the
to
Chamber
of
Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers
and the
American Medical Association.
The resolution took less than
100 per cent pride in Democratic
leadership which “has deliberately
chosen not to provide a strong,
in opposition to
squarely
Poised
the job of political action the
year around,” said the resolu-
heavy
SERVANT
the
charged.
85th
governments
anti-worker
power.
THE
our children and their children,
we must continue to work at
tion.
The
levels.
movement,
majority
and
state
many
and
federal
brit oa
It further admitted that “liberal
forces are still short of a working
at
governments
labor
tion
It was noted, sadly, that workhelped put
er votes sometimes
ourselves,
for
world
better
a
local
was
stress
resolution,
portant
the
|the
years ts a
workers by
legislation in recent
penalty imposed on
clear here in a resolution
adopted by the Sixteenth Constitutional Convention.
Throughout the entire im-
—
Ford Pension Up $20 M illion
liberal legislative program.”
“Standing in the way of
democratic
charged,
rule,
is
the
the
states
and
ment refuse
AN OLD FRIEND DROPS IN—President Walter
Reuther spends a few minutes with former UAW
President R. J. Thomas. He’s now an administrative
assistant to AFL-CIO President George Meany.
true
resolution
fact
that
many
the
federal
governto provide equal rep-
resentation
by
Result: large
represented in
and Congress.
Must Separate Military,
Economic Aid—UAW
reapportionment.
cities are understate legislatures
The resolution called for Con-
vention
support
of
the
follow-
ing political action program
Total assets of the Ford-UAW (Pension) Retirement
Fund reached $190,785,898, up more than $20 million from
1955, it was reported recently by UAW National Ford
Director Ken Bannon.
During fiscal year 1956, a total of 2,485 Ford workers
went on retirement. This makes a grand total of 12,185
Ford retirees currently receiving benefits, which amounted
to $9,035,533 during the 1956 period.
The retirement program covered by the UAW-Ford
agreement has now been in effect for seven years, as of
March 1, 1957. Over this seven-year period, more than
15,000 Ford workers received benefits totaling $29,144,470.
the
next
two
1—To
of
ensure
liberal
UAW
must
round
critical
strength
continue
citizenship
formation
and
in matters
in-
political
of
local,
must
3.—UAW
and
IAM President Assails
NAM’s ‘Creeping Fascism’
its
state,
of
in-
national
using
concern,
available,
continue
local
to rally
unions
programs
the
must
through
state councils
ther and
year-
behind
support
government.
maximum
liberals in
initiate
politics,
education
all methods and media
including radio and TV.
2.—UAW
growth
programs
international
and
years:
continued
WASHINGTON — Endorsing President Eisenhower’s
strong plea for foreign aid appropriations, Victor G. Reuther,
administrative assistant to UAW President Walter P. Reu-
for
local
to work
with
U. S. With
a clearer
picture- of
political
parties,
through
this realignment,
“the
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey—A. J. Hayes, president of American people can vote for a
the International Association of Machinists, lashed out here clear-cut program ... with the
at the ‘‘creeping fascism’’ of the National Association of full assurance that when elected
that party will carry out its liberal
Manufacturers.
without qualification,
The free labor movement is no more in fayor of NAM program
compromise or delay.”
——
are@
we
than
m
fascis
‘creeping
5.—More
people must be entinued,
the
AFL-CIO
merger
rises
in favor of creeping Commucouraged to become actively enin importance.
gaged in politics as one of the obnism,’’? said the IAM presiBecause
the welding
of AFL
ligations of responsible citizenship.
dent to delegates attending
and CIO into one federation has
6.—UAW urged all local unions
ituConst
16th
s
UAW’
the
not fulfilled all the hopes of unity
to cooperate with city, state and
tional Conyention.
But
to effectively
Hayes
called
thinking,”
tion,
fight
NAM’s
backward
“backward
to
unemployment,
what
low
exploita-
must
not
only
Hayes
said.
being
fired
More
before,
at
anti-labor
these
Hayes
critically
movement,
principal
said.
is
than
ever
the
labor
it
against
as
‘The
the
of
ment.
to
destroy
They
are
ergies to those
And,
Hayes
the
to-
be
bending
ends.”
added,
of reaction
are
some success, He
Taft-Hartley
the
that
has
between
and
harmony
in
the
existed
UAW
of
for
eight
and
IAM,
nothe
(b)
Said
“business
Hayes:
‘oday,
ganda
machine
is
Seldom
full speed,
labor
been
concerted
the
be
to permit
itself
again.
reaction
are
waiting—
of individuals
with
in some
the
un-
Federa-
DON’T BUY
attack.
Never
much money and power
aligned against us,”
For that reason, Hayes
Tg
tgs
political
machin-
7,.—Local
ately
in
at the
where
an
mem-
active
of
part
programs
to
registered
political
make
and
voters,
local
lists
lists
and
then
year-round
certain
all
their families
unions
collection
action
immedi-
voters
vigorous,
the
and
membership
community
members
tensify
should
registered
8.—UAW
in
of candidates.
their
campaign
are
level
unions
check
their
UAW
be placed
CONTRIBUTES?
&
must
in-
worker
contributions—de-
spite the gloomy
prospect
of
heavy campaign
contributions
from
vested
weighing
interests
the
greatly
donations
of
out-
work-
ers.
The
resolution,
pointing
to
a
U, S. Senate committee
report,
showed
the
tributed
DuPont
$240,423;
the
family
Pews,
con-
$216,-
810; and the Rockefellers, $152,604, all to the Republican Party.
Only a fraction of one per cent
American
families
accounted
Ken
contributed
for,
1,
co-director
announced
of UAW
an
over-
whelming
victory for UAW
in a
representation
vote
at Moezik
Tool
so
con-
Morris,
Region
a
been
a gs
development
Vote for UAW
propa-
has
WHO
tee
racketeers.”
such
to
the
the more
than
$33 million campaign dollars the Senate commit-
spreading
of
the selection
of
operating
at
has organized
target
formation
a
forces
the
can
launch
merger.”
right-to-work laws and (e) the
current Senatorial probe which
is ignoring
the
roots”
the most serious mislabor movement could
subsequent
in
ery in every community in which
the UAW has membership. Special
the
AFL-CIO
meeting
with
pointed to (a)
Act,
independent
against
the
ions affiliated
tion.”
en-
councils
“grass
and working —to exploit every
mistake of AFL-CIO and they
have already exploited the mis-
takes
labor
agree-
for
would
divided
tures
moye-
their
in
will,
Said
Hayes:
“Last
time
we
were lucky. ... Today, the vul-
the power
and
per-
labor
years
make
Hayes warned:
“Their determination
makes
them
dangerous.
haps
ation
One of
takes the
day’s anti-unionism
is clear
enough.
Its hard
core
is that
small but stubborn group of economic
royalists who
see in the
continued
progress
of organized
workers a threat to their power
and position,”
They believe they have
to defame,
to cripple
take
ment
NAM-in-
nature
bers
example
PROGRESS
Hayes:
should
work
run,”
pointing out the UAW-IAM
raiding, mutual-aid pact “set
all aimed
removing
spired regression.
Said
It’s
wounding
force
AGAINST
days
emphasis
time,
“shakedown
LAUDS COOPERATION
He lauded the spirit of cooper-
strength,
ammunition
in
its
best interests of the nation.
remain
strong but take on added
of
called
wages,
anti-social laws, the nation's trade
unions
architects, Hayes said “that is no
reason to scrap the ship.” United
labor, now undergoing what Hayes
Made
by
STRIKERREAKERS
east
and
side.
workers
UAW,
Die
Works,
on
Detroit's
cast
ballots
in
favor
Ninety
per
cent
of
the
of
Re-
Foreign
Senate
the
to
sented
lations Committee, which has just
completed
hearings on the sub:
ject of foreign aid.
of
separation
Affairs
turns in the same
as
did
Europe.
de- |race
the
can,
“We
military }break
Reuther
aid,
economic
and
and shifts in population.
4—UAW
must
encourage
and
assist in creating a more true and
realistic realignment of political
International
Depart-
ment, last month protested ‘‘proposals to reduce further the
aa
>
eS
already inadequate amounts®
of foreign aid,”’ and urging| peace offensive along the lines
indicated above, while continufurther increases in such} ing to sustain our military defunds.
fenses and alliances at strong
levels; will yield maximum reThe statement has been pre-
Urging
other organizations for reapportionment in line with growth,
forces in the
director of the UAW
out
successful
Marshall
I submit
and
before
Plan
it
explodes
in
must,
we
present
the
of
way
into
arms
an-
clared that economic assistance to | other global war. We can make
underdeveloped countries is read- progress in building a stable peace
ily supported
by the American | based on a rising standard of living shared in by the peoples of the
people, as shown by recent pubpresently underdeveloped areas.
lic opinion polls.
“Here in the U. S. many believe ‘They, can narrow the dangerously
we already have a massive €Co- widening gap between their own
economies and those of the indusnomic
aid program
under way
trially developed areas.”
while, at the same time, overseas
it is thought that our sole preoccupation and interest are in the
military
aspects.
particularly
This
unfortunate.
has
been
NEED
SUNFED
Referring to studies made for
the Senate Committee by the Uni~
| versity of Chicago, the Massachu-
ASKS HIGHER BUDGET
setts Institute of Technology and
“Our first-hand observation and | the Brookings Institution, Reuther
our studies of the needs in the pointed out that the gap between
preliminary technical assistance
jand the eventual large-scale inLatin America, compel us to the vestment necessary for economic
conclusion that our budgets for development must be filled by
international economic coopera- | grants through such multinational
agencies as the proposed Special
tion in services, loans and grants,
for EcoNations Fund
directly and through regional and
United
(SUNFED),
Development
nomic
other multinational agencies, such
“social
the
financing
at
aimed
as those established by the United
underdeveloped
particularly
in
Nations,
areas of the world,
Africa,
Asia, and
should
increased
in
be
| overhead” and by loans from the
and World Bank and the International
substantially
annual
amount
in number of years duration.
‘“‘Investment
in a positive
Finance Corporation for revenueproducing capital investments,
—
‘All-Out Support’ Pled ged
For Kefauver Price Quiz
its ‘all-out support”? to Senator
Estes Kefauver, chairman of the Antitrust and Monopoly
Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, for the
Comniittee’s announced investigation of ‘‘price ineréases in
‘administered price’ industries,’ ’ including ‘‘petroleum, steel,
newsprint, many types of foc yd, automobiles and farm ma¢
chinery.”’
The
UAW
has
pledged
President Walter P. Reuther, in a letter to Kefauver,
also requested an opportunity to be heard during the
hearings, ‘‘particularly in
examining the extent to
which price gouging on
equipment,
farm
cars
and
trucks has both cut sales of
these products and further
reduced the real income of
farm families,
personal
“By
experience,
servation and study of our
and other industries and of
the
of
shrinkage
tinuing
chasing
Reuther
the
made
truth
in
obown
conpur-
power
of
the
dollar,”
declared, “we well know
of
the
statement
announcing
your
you
Sub-
committee's
high
‘the
represents
mestic
investigation
that
living
which
doone
of
cost
the
number
problem
of
the
American
consumer is due in no small part
of
manipulation
to the upward
prices by big companies in administered
price
FALLACY
OF
“We
ple
ing
are
out
hower
tight
believe
TIGHT
the
indebted
the
industries,
American
to you
fallacy
in
Administration's
money
policy
MONEY
for
the
which
peo-
polntElsen-
present
Is mak-
possible
ing
it
for
bankers
to
charge seven and eight per cent
interest while they make a shortrange
killing
nation's
the
at the
expense
of
health,
economic
stability, strength and security In
these
critical
times,"
Reuther
stated,
ste
Page
UNITED
I4
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Mrs. Roosevelt Says We Have Duty
To Know and Care About the World
formation—and
ATLANTIC
CITY, New|§
|}
distinguished
Jersey—A
American
who—there
doubt
tle
history
as
go
— will
one
of
the
in}
great
women of all time came before
the Sixteenth Constitutional Con-
vention
of
pleaded
the
with
UAW
here
the delegates
be
truth-
the judgment of the people
ing to be good.
is go-
ful information.” Occasionally,
“people may go wrong, but if you
believe in democracy,
you have
to believe that in the long run
is lit- |
down
“My
and
to rec- |
“to
tare,
selves, but
throughout
not
only
for
be
them-
nels
Eleanor Roosevelt, now
and
the symbol of ali that is good in
America, spoke calmly and slow-
great
fraternity,
the
to
|
Artist’s view of Mrs. Roosevelt
addressing Convention.
throughout
the
world,'’
Roosevelt asserted.
workers
of the United States. In numbers, those of us who work ...
outnumber those who do not.
day
study
that
our
government
does
um in which
way to have
the only possible
it filled would be
by
Union.
the
Soviet
“This
now
tion
is
the
strug
that
haye
in
assumed,
over
by
the
or will
which
talks
“carrying
of
out
that
UN
is
a
of
many
states,
member
of
the
“very
young
nations that
naturally think only about
own interests” rather than
we do not give leadership, they
will turn elsewhere. . . . The
funcNations doesn’t
United
itself.
by
tion
ehinery,
have
tions
but
the
to make
ma-
good
is
It
na-
member
United
the
Nations function. As the leading nation of the free world,
we
have
to
carry
that
respon-
sibility.
“I
cept
this
cept
the
responsibility.
will meet
find-that
the
challenge,
If
you
ac-
we
ac-
think
I
we
it and I think we will
we are able to carry
of
burden
nation
that
ask
only
can
the
in
being
world.
the
leading
“But
it is an
ac
nee
by
the
people
and
a willingness
shown by
know, to
selves,
the people to learn, to
care, not only
for them-
but
for
their
the
the
trade
membership
unions
about
that
she
wisdom
lies
in
continued.
sk
by UAW
Reuther
Freedom
last year,
to
the
had
Bishop
another
also
had
G.
Convention
In
es]
received
been
his
jto
dent
made
last
year
to
Senator Herbert Lehman, UAW
late
U.
S. Senator
Wagner
and
ert Lucey.
“IT have
and
never
prouder
had
Rob-
a happier
moment
in
my
life,” Reuther declared, “than
to be able, in behalf of the one
and a half million members of
our Union, and for them, to
wonderful
brothers
United
and
contact
urged
his
Con-
so
quickly.
she
declared,
state
that
that
SIGNING THE FREED OM PETITION—President
a
just
to Soviet
small
Reuther signs a huge replica of the Hungarian Freedom Petition on the Conven tion stage at Atlantic City.
Looking on are, left to righ t: Vera Rony of the Workers Defense League, Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey,
Hungarian freedom fighte r, Anna Kethly, who addressed the Convention, an d Victor Reuther, the Union’s director of International Affairs.
“we
has
prop-
amount
help
any
and
accept
corner
of
get
ideol-
.
something
grand
referred
P.
and
to
Reuther
if
it
to
the
‘CRAZY
called}
gracious
card
newspaper
man
who
occupied the
great
responsibilities.”
| told the delegates,
|
|
|
that
of
much
the
of
~“ ATLANTIC
Catholie
was
possible
only
these
a wonderful
wife, a woman
the coal mines
and
who
visited
who
and
the
good
he
outstanding
as his
D.
tion
share-crop-
of
New
Jersey—An
fin ger
whose
C.,
C.
director
been
on
the
Roman
pulse
of
of Washington,
the
Welfare
secretary
executive
Social
Ac-|
Conference
and}
of
the
Monsignor
Higgins
been
named
to
said,
Catho-
had
the
the
soul
of
individ-
members.”
about
un-
their
knees
with
regularity
say their prayers.”
and
He
never
rank
come
and
praised
practices
quae |
UAW’s
“will
less the
International
for
“in
He called for “a profound renewal of moral and spiritual val|
| ues”
in all ‘workers.
“This,”
he
National}
of the
lic Association
Peace.
local union — and the
of the
local
union
is
ual rank-and-file
Monsignor
was
of
Department
hu- | toric
file get
labor
code
down
for
and
its
for
on
ethical
the
way
it
his-
cleansed out the Communists, addjing: “But a great deal more re-
was
racy of how
| untarily,
to
Public Review Board before
| mains to be done.”
he
spoke
to delegates
at
the
Hurting
labor, he said, is the
UAW's Sixteenth Constitutional
| everlasting problem in a democConvention.
dehuman
and
freedom
man
cency, and as a person of great
sensitivity
and
understanding,”
Reuther declared
Monsignor
speaking
Higgins
as a Catholic
is primarily
and
}
serious
|
values,
tory
the
is
crisis
ment
in
cally
the
itself.”
Referring
to
than
J
as
our-
the
entire
a
moral
which
his-
| politicians
and
Monsignor
labor and mahagement,
Higgins said: *
|.
“Labor is now discovering that |
society
anvGATe
“1B:
has
not
even
“If the
monopoly
the
the
truth
labor
discovery
is
virtue
this
of
temporarily
embarrassment
in the long run
and discomfiture,
it will undoubtedly be good for it
It
oul.
labor
will
movement
develop
within
a certain
the
sense
humility, and
is the mother
humility,
of all the
after
other
Monsignor
Higgins
said
of
all,
vir-
| tues.”
|
moral
ment
health
the
of the labor move-
is forged
in
the
|
when he said
(Moley)
“He
which
workshop
as
mak
Public Review
the UAW
with
is all right
But
then
who
are
he
Board,
me.
to say
on
goes
of
fun
.. .
that
Walter Reuther has appointed
of men
group
@ hand-picked
stamp
a cer-
movement
of
amount
tain
on
workers
belated
elf-evident
2using
a
in
people
of
class
particular
no
newspapers
Magto Newsweek
Referring
Moley
Raymond
azine
columnist
Higgins’ Irish got the
Monsignor
better of him for a few moments
|
in
practices
some
nent,
some
and
magazines
| and
its
inyes-
Senate
all
at
situation
the
mana
of
| members
move-
labor
helping
Not
|
Monsignor Higgins went on, is the
type of attitude adopted by some
most
has
to get free men, vol-y
assume
responsibility
own
political and ecotheir
for
nomic welfare and for the common good of society as a whole.
movement,
its
the
who
labor
corrupt
into
tigation
and
“perhaps
within
roots
priest
in spiritual
labor
crisis
spiritual
he
rather
economist
id,
said
interested
moral
a labor
nalist
the UAW in reverse as seen from
NO, IT'S NOT ANOTHER UNION—Just
the rear of the stage at the huge Atlantic City auditorium during the recent Sixteenth UAW Convention. Some 3,000 delegates plus another 2,000 or more visitors,
guests and staff personnel crowded into the New Jersey resort center for the six-day
confab of the world’s largest free industrial union.
outstanding
has
forged
he added.
Higgins
Catholic
American}
the
speaker
George
went into
the slums
symbol
within
The
their problems
and to help
them.
“All over the world, there are
hundreds
.of millions
of people
who
look at Eleanor Roosevelt
the
clergyman,
community,’”
pers in-the fields to learn about
as
CITY,
aj
Furthermore, labor is a Cas
influence for} of the
‘*tremendous
health
realize
inspiration
woman
Board
ethics.’’
think that
because
LOON’
labor for years, pronounced t he American labor movement
‘basically sound from the poi nt of view of Christian social
high-
Reuther
Americans
A
Critic Hit by Priest
col-
and much of the social vision
that Franklin Roosevelt translated into the New Deal...
| had
|
“I
AS
Public Review
lady’’|
“union
est office and who carried
Robert
Archbishop
“a
the
retiree Frank
Tuttle, NAACP
attorney Thurgood Marshall,
the
the
Mo-
umnist and magazine writer, she
is a member
of the
AFL-CIO
Newspaper Guild.)
“While
history
will
record
that Franklin D. Roosevelt was
|
number of outstanding Americans,
including
former
U.
S.
food,
freedom
they
millions
a
ask
sent
|in her purse.”
|
(Asasyndicated
un-
which
said
Senator
be
a
Walter
and
Oxnam,
award,
North
introducing
Mrs.
Roosevelt
the Convention,
UAW
Presi-
| her
speaker,
to
just
MOROCCO
from
eat.”
Award
Bromley
she
delegates
She
to
may
and
means
was
20th
able to attend at that time.
to
our
health
had
UAW
surplus
and
its
take
ogy
Jer-
been
are
whole,
trip
soon
losing
will
President Walter P.
just
before
she ad-
but she
a
chan-
Soviet aid. . . . People who are
hungry, who are dying of famine,
“They,
New
a
who
died.
delegate
aganda
dressed the Convention.
The
award had been yoted at the
Union's Education
Conference
|
for
gained
cannot have wisdom unhave education and in-
CITY,
people
as
the
“Otherwise,”
hap-
at home and abroad.
democracy,
you have
Anniversary
a!
(them)
give
“If
declared.
to
have
“We
she
leadership,”
urged
sey — Eleanor Roosevelt
presented with the UAW’s
them
as
| States
own
FOR
ATLANTIC
body
will
there- |}gressman
thinking—and
UAW Honors
Mrs.’ Roosevelt
the
people
to-/ rocco
of communications”
lietenee farateen yan
quite
their
about}
world
the
of
the interests
whole.
lion
who
Mrs.
the
important
and
to
the
told
the
must
Therefore, those
the
from
AID
however,
less they
mandates of the United Nations,”|
Mrs. Roosevelt reminded the 3,000
delegates
men
returned
aid
people,”
currently
policy
S.
the
U.
of
in
note
Taking
trend
popular
always
people,”
Roosevelt,
such
believe
Union?”
Soviet
few
Mrs.
fore, the actions—of the American people, the widow of the late
the
penings
“In a
it be taken
I have
have
reach
each
yeate
we
in that
that Morocco is again faced with
famine, due to lack of rain. During the last one, in 1947, two mil-
to use their own media of communications to inform and to ed-
we
that
world,
the
to
to
media
President
face. Will we fill the posiof leadership in the United}
Nations,
a very
control
a vacu-
leave
not fall short and
for
the
we stand and to make
of where
sure
a
make
to
world,
the
who
Africa,
Mrs.
THOUGHT CONTROL
Noting that “it was possible
Therefore, we have a responsibility to know what goes on
in
the
of the nation
asserted.
a
believed
and
to
enormously
democracy
ly and wih all the authority of a
life-time of experience in national and world affairs.
“I think
we
have
to face
this fact,” she told the hushed
belong
open
groups
72
“You
deeply,
Roosevelt said.
for their brothers
the world.”
audience.
husband
believed in it, But . .
media of communications
ognize
their
“responsibility to}
know what goes on in the world,”
and
it must
of
gr Up
cial
for
the
i
Moley
be
a
rubber-
UAW....
I don't want te take that kind
if
but
seriously
too
criticism
Ra
that
to
going
is
thinks
this
that
gt
isa rubber-stamp
in to give its ofliex ming
blessing
to
everything
that
the officers of the UAW have done
he is
or
will do in the future,
;
crazy as a loon
hat
is the
type
the labor crisis that
do without.”
of
reaction
we could
to
well
|
May, 1957 —
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
Page
WORKER
15
Union With a Heart,
Say Retirees of UAW
UAW
the
again,
Jersey—Once
New
CITY,
ATLANTIC
has proved it’s the Union with a heart. Sixteen retired workers were guests of the International Union at the Convention.
and
the lone woman
Olga
Madar,
director
in
workers’
full
charge
activities,
schedule
neer
UAW
for
members.
consultant
Elaine
Stinson,
centers
and
the
Detroit
recreation@—————_
of retired
Union’s
Their
and
her’s paid by her Loca!
had
arranged
the
activities
One
for
old friend.
attention
on
sues
the
important
proved
what
they
BACK
Convention
their
PARTY
hung
drink,
And
fruit
get
to
pretended
Several
idea
brass.’’
‘‘strong’’
reation
ther,
One
shindig.
Walter’s
EDITORIALS ON PUBLIC REVIEW BOARD
Regional
Val
Reu-
everyone
who
dropped
Workers Hit by Plant Moves
To Be Given Job Safeguards
Ajax
Jersey —
and
of town
out
moves
Motor
from
New
CITY,
board
Motor
leaves
members
to spend
they
ALL
have
the
there—and
figure
year
plant
leave
behind.
they'd
in Florida,
moved
their
wage
equity
and here
gates to
in such
like
so
down
workers
the
jobs
to
munity
adjacent
who,
family
nized
to
from
the
the
com-
the
new
plant.
ties, elects
of
not
age
of
or
his period
readjustment,
In multi-plant
corporations,
provisions should be made for establishment of area-wide seniority
to
transfer to the new location with
full seniority and all benefits.
agreements
Where work is moved from one
location to another, the UAW
fer
of
to facilitate
workers
from
the other in the event
one
the
trans-
plant
to
of the shift
are
opening
up
in
counseling
and
related
retired
and
older
of
in work or production schedules
which may result in a layoff in
while
additional jobs
plant
one
in the new
shall be recognized
plant as an extension of the barcontract|
all
unit—with
gaining
standards in effect in the plant
and
workers
to serve as a training
and
for
the
3
demonstration
another.
needs
center
collective
called
instead
ago,
weeks
few
A
bargaining.
of
keeping
their gear in neutral, as they had been doing for years, the workers decided to push
a
and
‘‘forward
take
of the
benefits
look’’
advantage
of
the
UAW-Chrysler
National
they
named
UAW,
many benefits
button
have
had
to do
agreement,
without
for
years.
In an election conducted by the Na-
tional
Relations
Labor
Board,
New
Process Gear workers voted for UAW
by better than two to one. The vote:
UAW—1,233; No Union—530,
Seven
ballots were voided,
The
vote
covered
the
Company’s
six
plants here
and in nearby Auburn,
New
Process Gear is a wholly-owned subsidiary
of
the
hard
Chrysler
to hide
that
Corporation,
fact
from
which
the
tried
workers,
conducted
The organizational drive was
by staff members of the Competitive Shop
under
Department,
Richard
President
of
direction
the
to initiate.”
tacties
which
Process
New
having
had
been
Gear
fooled
Company promises and
pany propaganda, took
UAW's
complete
genuine
dures,
with
job
and
na-
entire
the
this
that
:
Catholic
National
—Sign,
move
Other unions
similar meas~
and
trend
the
from
will benefit
tion
Other
is bound
Magazine,
called
Vice
for
and
Program
Workers
provide
zens,
A
UAW
Older
Other
by
the
Board
and
carried
International
and
ticipation
@
un-
helped
@ (a) One cent of local union
dues and one cent of International
National
higher
security
voted
pay,
for the
better
grievance
Union,
proce-
by
on
and
International
representatives,
©
International
Union
cational
/ Ship
|.
@
yoluntary
union
of
soon
as
| publish,
joint
sponsor-
Union
should
as
practicable,
news
workers’
retired
Regional
assist
jand
staffs
ltheir
ie
eran
“I need
an excuse
for playing
hookey from school, What's that
dilly you always use for not attending your union meetings?”
educa
management,
and
International
commu-
retirement
for
under
a | preparation
and
local
out
vide
addition,
four
(1)
health
additional
economie
security;
appropriate
clal
and
the
unions
program
points
housing,
personal
to
security;
(3)
a
bulletin,
Directors,
of community
Initiation
the
tired workers’ program with’
stantial numbers of retirees.
In
edu-
with
and
institutions
programs
| tional
should
in cooperation
agencies,
nity
empty
pensions,
training
carried
be
should
establish,
how-
Agreement,
and
the International Union to train
members
committee
local union
misleading Comone long look at
Chrysler
and
by
for
committees
leadership
broad
as-
union
local
with
program
to
responsibility
community-wide
A
should
members
staff
working
to organize this
before
Directors
specific
@
workers’
retired
the
par-
active
insure
Regional
sume
defeat
workers,
by
designate
ions,
to
Committee,
Steering
forward
local
basis,
wide
community-
a
on
unions,
local
in
with-
made
be
Arrangements
@
Older
for
re-
sources,
that:
Program
use
community
and
union
local
of
and Retired
Senior Citi-
implebe
Workers
Retired
and
mented by the International Exec-
utive
ba-
veloped on a community-wide
program,
17—UAW | sis to make the most effective
points in the
No,
Resolution
Chrysler tried every trick in the
book—captive audiences, pressure by
foremen, letters and word-of-mouth
campaigns which tried to scare employes into believing that a vote for
the Union would result in the plants
being shut down,
the
underUnion)
this
of
effect
Labor
and
Reuther
Walter
good
why.
explain
to
or
ures
firm,
ever,
News.
Delaware,
will not be confined to the UAW.
will be put on their mettle to adopt
and
it
And
enn te
the
But
democracy.
Region
by
and
Gosser,
earlier efforts of the UAW
The
impossible,
affili-
the United Automobile Workers that they
took this pioneering venture (for a large
9 Director Martin Gerbér’s staff, The campaign was successful despite ruthless man-
agement
as haye
seandals
if
Board),
Review
to President
“It is a tribute
labor as a whole
@
New Process Gear Workers Shift to UAW
SYRACUSE, New York—There’s a new
process for employes at the Chrysler-owned
New Process Gear Company here — it’s
Union
eee
Times.
*
Public
such
Teamsters’
Missouri,
earmarked for financing
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey—Delegates attending the| dues be
the program;
(b)
A special
deresolua
d
adopte
y
mousl
unani
tion
Conven
Sixteenth UAW
the
within
be created
partment
worktion setting up a nine-point action program for retired
International, under direction of
ers, providing among other things that a model retired work- the president, to coordinate and
ers center be planned and built under UAW auspices as a direct the program; (c) A standretired
the
on
ing committee.
pilot demonstration project.
in
be created
program
workers’
each local union to further the
The proposed center will?
program within the local union
provide a full range of activi- more effective development of and the community.
ties and services desirable to retired workers’ activities and
pro®@ Local
retired workers’
grams shall be organized and demeet the leisure-time, health, services in all communities.
to trans-
during
organized
upon
of this move
*
(the
one
which
body
semipublic
is a
+
City,
—Wilmington,
recog-
have
they
Had labor fol-
UAW Okays Model Center for Retirees
fer, may be compensated for the
loss of his job and given finan-
cial assistance
Reuther
of pri-
a committee
sounds as if it should work... .”
in
a
taken
has
Union
union ethics.
make
would
e
—Kansas
machinery
the
ated
*
effect
In
UAW
the
that
*
step that Walter
taken.
have
UAW
ence
agreement
so that any
because
it works,
has an obligation to discipline itself with some eleThe influments of due process in. its procedures.
to
in
A severance
pay
should be negotiated
worker
the
for the cost of re-
family
“Such
*
appointing
*
Sun.
Evening
Maryland,
*
bold
is a very
“Jt
be
locating
his
£
Times-Herald.
and
previously, many of the sordid
might have been averted.”
lowed such a step
conditions of today
action.”
*
and
relationship
over
*
*
—Baltimore,
right
shall
cases—
right
proper
UAW’s
transferred
new
be compensated
ily endorsed the Board’s policy.
The
policy determined
earlier
this year called for job security,
by
the
Any worker exercising his
to transfer to the new plant
in Atlantic City, delethe UAW’s
Sixteenth
protected
in
‘On
those jobs carried
former location.
Constitutional Convention heart-
fully
rates
fixed
Earlier this year the UAW
International
Executive
Board
hammered out a firm statement
of policy aimed at protecting a
worker's
was
parable jobs to be maintained,
executive
Car’s
work
7
beneficial.’
highly
Workers’
vate citizens to review
matter how capable, would have difficulty preventing all corruption, especially on the lower levels.
. . » Nevertheless, the mark of sincerity shows in
to be transferred and applied to
the new plant, wage rates on com-
Car
its workers behind—some to
face unemployment for years.
Super
which
Moines, Iowa, Register.
by
step
convincing
*
Auto
United
“The
“Certainly the members of this ‘watchdog’ board
owe nothing to the UAW ... Monsignor Higgins
membership that
has already warned the UAW
the board will not be a rubber stamp. ... The
is a vast organization and any board, no
UAW
PROTECTION
ATLANTIC
" —Des
the
including
Directors
in.
lic confidence.”
*
of pub-
responsibility and a restoration
great union
D. C., Post
—Washington,
guard against racketeering practices for the United
Auto Workers’ Union is a step in the direction of
rec-
showed
gossip,
time,
good
a
Mrs.
mother,
to
According
had
gals
profound—and
to be
is likely
and
watchdog’
of a ‘public
as sort
to act
citizens
prominent
of
committee
a
of
formation
“The
with several.
up and danced
bag-
the
in later for the
came
who
all
with
dancing
by
gage for two days. Another ordered prime ribs of beef, and
He
beef, instead.
got ground
complained with caustic humor
ADDED
SIXTEEN SENIOR CITIZENS attended the recent Convention as guests of
They held an informal get-together for the officers and Executive
the UAW.
Board members, and Region 9 Director Martin Gerber is shown here as he expresses his appreciation for being invited.
entertained with his guitar music. One boy kicked up his heels
active
move-
his
at
high on it, even though it was
just plain fruit punch.
Recreation staffer Joe Lesi
time since 1906. At that time, both
get
up
a party—their
‘‘Union
a
punch.
Two of the senior citizens, Elmer Montgomery and John Panzner, got
together
for
the
first
didn’t
the
served
1906
youngster
threw
—for
and
of their Union.
worked together and were
in the-then
infant labor
ment,
Talk about problems.
got
HI-JINKS
They
is-
interest,
thought
IN
they
way
the
and
retiree
my
too
wanted to or not. The boys christened him “The Farmer.”
rapt
their
Certainly,
youthful
left
was
5:30 a. m. every morning, and his
roommate got up, too—whether he
(drop-in)
They were seated on the platform throughout the Convention
proceedings.
wanted
ground beef, I'd have
choppers at home.” She
flabbergasted to reply.
pio-
was
coordinator
Union,
“If I'd
waitress,
the
to
a
personal
confidant
an
paid by the International,
all expenses
had
of them
Fifteen
security,
resub«
spells
pro-
(2)
and
(4) s0-
decent
and
in
Page
16
UNITED
‘
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
May,
1957
Meany Rips Corrupt ‘Labor Leaders’
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey—Lashing out at those who?
*hetray union law”’ through t heir actions, AFL-CIO President
Meany
George
labor
movement
the
told
will
meet
UAW
the problem
merged
the
that
Convention
of corruption in labor
no attempt to sweep it
that
they
may
act
on
our
and
we
are
going
law of trade
is our
do it.”
job,
union
own
ethics. That
to
“‘head-on, without evasion and with
3. “The;main reason” that we
”
under the rug.
are against racketeering in labor
The AFL-CIO head devoted Jmembersnin and without them is “not just because it is bad for
his entire 45-minute speech to being informed that you borrow the labor movement, but primarfit, and
without
paying
interest
ly because it is wrong.”
a blunt, frank discussion of may not be against the law of
4. “Anyhow who is conducting
the corruption issue.
the land. I don’t know, but it is the business of the union in a
against
the trade
“Buying
vidual
cision
ion
and
as
that
union
property
then
the
as
an
making
head
the
law.
of
union
the
a
indide-
un-
will
buy
be
not
against
the
law.
be illegal, but
the
trade
union
the
..+
may
Amendment
which is part of our basic law
and is designed to protect the innocent
and
citizen
from
course
is
basic
of the
GEORGE
Nothing
have a right
Amendment.
MEAN
under
the rug
to humanitarian
poses,
or
Meany
“Whether
the
grand
declared:
the
these
District
jury
this is still
management
of
pur-
moves
Attorney
or
not,
our
job.
Whether
is involved in some
crimes,
and
perhaps
committees
or
public
officials
are not as zealous in going after
management
as
they
are
after
labor that doesn’t make any difference and. provides us with no
excuse not to do our job.”
HITS AT BECK
In an _pbvious blast at
sters’ head
Dave
Beck,
told the delegates:
“For instance, borrowing
ey without
TeamMeany
the knowledge
mon-
of the
himself,
illegal.
Fifth
is
playing
into
cases
and
it
going
that
is
to
come
going
handle
to
before
all
it”
“interpret
of the
AFL-CIO
in the same manner for a big union as it does for a small union.
No big union is going to be immune. .. .”
of
6. “American
age...
we
labor has come
have
15
million
then
we
sponsibility
must
and with
in the AFLis Big Labor,
assume
. . . the
big
re-
American
people have every right to expect that we discharge that Tre-
sponsibility
highest
ards
in keeping
ethical
possible.”
and
Facing Meany
the 3,000 UAW
with
moral
the
ruption
as he addressed
delegates—who
ernment,
Labor.”
Business,
Goy-
REUTHER PLEDGES SUPPORT
When he introduced the AFLCIO president, President Walter
Reuther
pledged “the
wholeheart-
ed support and cooperation
leadership
the UAW.
and
of the
membership
we
Council
of
have
taken
united
labor
labor movement
a
truly
Further,
“We
of
We will work with him
the
of corrupt
elements.
and
to
making
the voice
labor stronger in
Meany,
plete
would
the
ter
in turn,
confidence
“play
“dynamic
Reuther.”
its
that
full
Convention Sidelights
for
good
—‘is
by
the
by
profit
in-
“no
has
AFL-CIO
2. The
union
trade
will
we
and
movement,
it.”
government
the
tention of waiting for the public authorities to act in order
£ TOLEDO
BLADE
XPECTED
TODAY
Delegates Vote 2-Year Terms
For All Local Union Officers
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey—The UAW has adopted
two-year terms of offic for local union officers and executive
board members.
Delegates here to the UAW’s Sixteenth Constitutional
Convention—many of whom tested the brief, optional twoee
ae
yeareterm.sendaufound) ite tO} «- so cea
elections and then be subject to
their liking—approved a the two-year Constitutional rulchange in the UAW Constitu- ing.
tion making the two-year term
5—New local unions that have
conducted elections prior to Conmandatory.
vention
time
and
have
been
The question provoked con- granted International Executive
supported
It was
technicalities.
unanimously.
almost
points
Following
on
mainly
discussion,
siderable
were
ex-
plained.
executive
union
local
1—All
April
after
elections
board
(Convention closing date) are
the two-year term basis.
12
on
of stewards
elections
2—All
and committeemen held after the
Convention, likewise, are on the
two-year basis but with a builtin
option
(On
the initiative
bership
of
an
plan.
of a local
union
amalgamated
a shorter
term
of the
or a unit
local
of office
memunion,
for stew-
Board
that
June
permission
term
of
of 1958,
two-year
time.
term
6—Local
year
adopted
tion
basis
went
into
(The
at
unions
the
remain
effect
to
year
union
the
elect
trustee
continue
until
May
1958
election
convert
or
to the
which
last
two-year
elec-
undisturbed.
optional
section
in
1953,
However,
unions
now
convert-
term
a
two-year
in
trustee
elections
whose
pires this year.
The
trustee
term
for
basis
a
four-
forthcoming
to
term
replace
of
elected
office
in
'55
loeal
the
exfor
ards and/or
committeemen
may a
three-year
term
and
whose
be adopted.
Fa
g
such a mem- }term
would
normally
expire
in
bership
ecision,
such
steward- | 1958, shall automatically have his
to four|
committ
tions
are
for lterm of office extended
two-year
pe
3—Where
conducted
local
unions’
nominations
(but
Delegates look at Ed ucation Dept. display
of the UAW’s early history.
local
unions “chose
the
years
to conduct
elec-
7—Local
will
will
two-year
many
“even”
tions.)
ing
office
to
00 STAY INBENDIXae P
years so it will expire in.'59—
thus eliminating the need of lohave
|}| cal unions to conduct an election}
not jin '58 for the. exclusive
reason
elections),
the two-year
term
of
of electing a trustee. After the
Office will apply.
conversion
of trustees has been
4—Elections already conducted | completed, local unions will elect
on a one-year basis will remain Lestees
for four-year
terms as
on
a one-year
basis until 1958 j the terms of office expire.
$
UAW Director of International Affairs Victor
Reuther (right) chats with labor visitor from
Indonesia (left) and Region 10 Director Harvey
Kitzman and Allan Graskamp, president of
Kohler Local 833.
N
Le
the
part”
leadership
tion of corrupt practices—whethby the union
er accomplished
or
American
world in
expressed
President-Meany made me following points:
1. The exposure and eliminamovement
together
the struggle
for peace and human freedom and decency, in the
struggle
against
the
forces
of
Communist tyranny.”
GOOD
EXPOSURE
movement
of
the
position.”
that
takes
who
stand
George
work
trade union law, and no one has
the right to hold a trade union
office
pledged
racketeering
the
it is against
law,
it into
Ethical Pracin cleansing
the refusing to give an account
of those
stewardship
of the
not be
may
while that
funds,
the
to
with
ment on the question of personal
with
connection
in
corruption
the handling of trade union funds,
against
merged
movement.”
labor
promise
AFL-CIO
made
promise
American
“We
of the Ex-
Reuther
Meany and the
tices Committee
the
the
and
four-square
auditorium with the
Tolerance For Cor-
. . . In
until
that
stand-
had already endorsed the ethical
practices
program
of the AFLCIlO—was a huge banner at the
back of the
slogan “No
ecutive
the members
Amend-
Fifth
the
part
is
It
the
take
to
of
that
all citizens
and
law,
taking
“But
Pointing out that it was the
job of labor unions to keep
their movement clean and de-
yoted
not
to
compelled
being
against
testify
average
the
protect
“is
the Constitution
it is against
Fifth
the
“Taking
lw.
It
manner
the hands of American
labor’s
enemies.”
5. The Ethical Practices Committee
that property at an exorbitant
profit to the individual
may
not
corrupt
people organized
CIO; and, if that
com-
UAW
under
of Wal-
- Item sets