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Management Cold Shoulders Joint Study of Shorter Week
See Page 3
AEC Official at Hearings Admits Lack of Rules
See Page 3
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Bargaining
Political Theory
and Practice
Program
4
Economics
Contract
tet!
EDUCATION AND DISCUSSION
ON HISTORIC PRINCIPLES
Analysis
Time
Study
F teaching Methods
Administration
7,
Ind.
Page
School
time
15 sites, starting
with
Summer
It’s
At
Huron,
Port
n
Center
to
Connectieut
time—from
Oklahoma,
Summ er§
VAW
I¢e’s
Summer
School
ID at the FDR
Labor
again—UAW
Region
RE
through
stretching
and
Michigan,
ET
to
Canada
from
and
California
June, 19572
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
4
October for Region 5 at Oklahoma University and for Region
4 at the rapidly growing UAW Labor Center at Ottawa, TIlinois, more than 3,000 students will participate in one of the
most comprehensive adult education programs available anywhere.
A six-part core study program, ‘‘Heart of the Union,”’
cur-
School
Summer
UAW
1957
of the
feature
will be the
riculum.
“‘We have designed the 1957 Summer Schools with
the intention of training 3,000 students as teachers,’’ reports UAW Education Director Brendan Sexton.
“Each of the six basic parts of the program is contained
in outlines which are so organized that each student ean use
the outline he receives in the summer school to teach the program in his own local union.”’
“By training 3,000 teachers who ean carry the information gleaned this summer back to each local union, we will be
making the benefits of our education program available to
most of the one and one-half million members of the UAW.”’
Part one of the core study program is organized
around the film, ‘‘Sitdown,’’ and deals with the history
of trade unionism and the organization of the UAW.
“‘Tndustrial Unions Adapt to the Age of Automation,”’ is
the title of Part Two. Students here will examine the methods
already adopted by the 16th Constitutional Convention which
the UAW intends to utilize to cope with the problems of the
future. The study program is built around the film, ‘‘United
Action.”’
The film, ‘‘Who Pays for Elections?,’’ sets the pace for
Part Three which takes up financing political action. Four
basie issues—edueation, the right to belong to a-union, the
hours of work, and civil rights and civil liberties—will make
up the study program oi Part Four.
Part Five deals with ethics, racketeering and trade
union morality and features the UAW film, ‘‘Labor’s
Witness.’’ Full discussion of the UAW’s 1958 collective
bargaining demands and strategy highlights Part Six
which includes the film, ‘‘The UAW is 20 Years Old,”’
as a visual aid.
In addition, the usual workshops on time study, bargaining, radio, television, union administration, journalism and
economics will be included at each of the summer school
sessions.
Sexton also announced that the UAW’s ‘‘Eye Opener”’
program, nationwide 42-station early-morning radio show featuring Guy Nunn, will be broadeast live from the FDR Camp,
Region 1D Summer
(See next page
School.
for complete
Summer
of UAW
schedule
the
21, during
June
through
17
June
Michigan,
Huron,
Port
Schools.)
Hayes Aircraft Workers’
Pay Boosted in New Pact
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — Some 6,000 Hayes Aircraft
workers—members of UAW JLoeal 1155—will find their pay
envelopes swelling over the next two years.
The third contract between UAW and Hayes—just ratis membership—ealls for a wide range of
fied by Local 11:
pay increases, the first Com-?—______
reeven moved
ahead in some
other
pany-paid pension plan,
spects.
Aircraft
largest
second
Heading up the UAW’s bargaining team were Region 8 Director
changes.
major contract
Hayes
39
with
along
gains
economic
single
E. T. Michael, representatives of
the UAW’s
Aircraft
Department
and Region 8 staff members.
Alabama’s
is
employer.
1155's
“Local
Michael:
Said
Hayes’ workers back abreast with | leadership and membership are to
the rest of the nation’s aircraft | be congratulated for their display
puts
agreement
new
The
industry, making up for previous
years. Now, Hayes’ workers have
of Society
End
of
wing
Society
of
last
plant
month.
Tool
field
and
555
room
picked
Mansfield,
in
workers
the
production
and
UAW
UAW,
Skilled
to
history.”
The Hayes
hit
| government
}
The
|
|
|
voted
workers
At
4 no union.
7 no union in the production unit. (See related story
on page 106.)
the
highest
plant
work
new
The
pact
point
does
Cost-of-living
ed
to
increase
rising
every
Fx
lator
b
and
provide
for
every
a one
.6 decreas
of
r cents
clau
rate,
formula
similar classes in their own
as
pay
in
for
sent
1g
the
5
a
index
decrea
in
at
for
esca-
present
solidified
ce
pc
the
into
job
clas-
January
since
out
continues
tate
the
beginning
next
May.
with
and
j
Union
to
é
rebuff
Union
the
and
mediators
efforts
all
mediators
federal
has
provision
which
-
to
time
t0-|
ne
956,
pee
guarantee
¥.hours
for
days
four
meet | production
called
of
80
four
production
and 32
in any
in to work.
|
a
tiate
with
most|/;+,
weeks
days
-
wé
2
and
28
want
workers
hours
week
1
and}
tough
been
Forge
ever
g
contract
Vulcan
1953,
employer
non-| and
for
are |the
they
| was
wasn't
wast
it
economic
signed.
1956
Vulean
agreed
settlement
before
federal mediators on
the Company
Then
é
has
nego-
to
During
since.
negotiations,
by] wae
Plagued
workers
Soo
contract|
out}
in
Organized
the|
of
spell
would
three-day
sho:
a
to
weeks.
im work
of | ¢
to get}
.
ny
Compa
offered
at any
to
nagement |
Vulcan
the
as
refusal
agree
Company
still
are
1957,
21,
strike]
on
Detroit,
174,
Local
Side
We
UAW’s
the
of
Unit
| Company
increased
sifications
was
and
a gether
The
| further seven-cent wage increase |
is payable
education
adult
full-blown
Strike at Vulcan
is the
issue
Major
Forging |
Vulcan
the
of
Members
|
one-cent
Summer
UAW
previous
home.
return
they
local unions when
174 Continues
Local
UAW
re-
in the
participate
at
program scheduled for 1957 by the UAW. Students attending the 1957 sessions starting this
month and continuing through October will receive special training to enable them to conduct
wage
wa
photographers
by
snapped
above,
Schools, will be common again as 3,000 students
federal
for
shown
these
like
SCENES
in
aircraft
for the
calls
Lo-
days.
in Mans-
207-180,
throughout.
increases ranging from 5 to 13
cents hourly, improved hospital
benefits, a Company-paid
pension plan with a $2 level benefit, pay for jury duty up to 21
Ohio,
Marion,
a
sister
plant,
tool
room workers picked the UAW
was
463-122.
The
vote
543
UAW
its
has
modification
Trades, was rejected in favor
of the UAW by workers at another new Fisher Body Stamping
solidarity
cal
|
Soundly trounced at Marion,
Indiana, in April, the IATC, a
the
of
unt
Unt
sup
J
ry ‘2
Februa
backed out
June
'
lement
6
tl
that
a
finally
June,
UNITED
1957
aS
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a
A
AUTOMOBILE
A
A
A
WORKER
A A
A
JUNE
REGION
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FDR Labor Center, Port Huron, Michigan
ID
+10
457,
University of Wisconsin, —
Madivens Wisconsin.
UAW Education Center, Port Elgin, Ont.
7
UAW
tentative
added
of
housing
ae
Education Center, Port Elgin, Ont.
WEEK
BEGINNING
E
7 dates
due to
erection
FDR Labor Center, Port Huron, Michigan
1A
30%
JULY
are
(| |
WEEK
BEGINNING
|
1957 UAW Summer School Schedule
AUGUST
22 Weeks
UAW
9 (east)
Pottstown Community Camp,
I
9 (west)
II
I
2
11
3
fuidue University, West
Automobile
Worker
its
Pittsburgh
relations
|
tion.
the
2B
Ee
6
Thanks
economis
shes
the
pushes
COnOMBL
|lion
2
wrong
e
a
into
the
pay
envelope
Price
just
government’s
Index
after
Worker
tion during
(Index
will
deadline
to
for
United
The
continued
Consumer
due
UAW members,
oH
If the April index
April,
reports
are
| climbs
the
pre-
an
same)
the
is
hour
two
be
will
SINCE
members
119.2,
to
IKE
Tracing
the
June
1.
receive
If it
cost-of-living
hour
an
cents
hour
is due
million
UAW
are
protected
escalator
hourly
clauses.
gain
for more
members
by
pumps
than!
who|
ures
1.
living
costs
the
care)
14.2
cal
per
has
cent
care,
up
they
to| Today’s
been
some
one-cent|ing
$20
mil-|
all-time
centers
high
around
factor
cost
of
up
7.3
housing
home-maintenance:
to|
and
| costs
per| all
All
Jtema
Food
114,7
109.0
120,7
.
118.9
113,2
124.9
Increase
3.6%
3.9%
35%
(Source:
Consumer
March,
1956
March,
1957
Year's
Housing
Price
100,0)
9.3
for
ex-|
no
more
prices,
up
were
four
reading
are
other
up
2.5
items
and
per
is
years
3.9
2.1
4.5
Rise
per
cent.
Care
Keereation
Reading,
Other
104.8
131.4
119.2
107.2
121.2
106.8
136.4
122.9
110.5
124.2
1,9%
Index,
66%
U.
8.
Dept.
3.8%
of Labor)
3.1%
2.6%
such
the
“that
to
bargain
the
relations
will
tactics
and
Com-
the
Com-|
COMPANY
ADMITS
GUILT
ad-
personnel,
management
to
notice
a
in
Allis-Chalmers,
unchal-
go
cannot
and
107, the/ the government
to
a} another
court.
test
In
of
UAW
marks|
of
office
in
the
and|
UAW,”
Ross
pointed
out.
Gea
Des
Company's
not
only
decision
even
of
the
rethe
these
ruling
of
in
its
Publication
OFFICIAL
Aircraft
with
a
to
8000
ruling
decision
and
ruling,
review
of
in
the
spite
in
the
Com-
is
most
=
i
Fit Reds.
Mess
AFI “CIO (Beet
Meany,
Secretary-Treas-
William
F.
President
marked
the
}ism
and
called
Schnitzler
Walter
May
P.
Day
and
Reuth-
program
| of the Voice of America. All three
| assailed
Communist
totalitarian-
| everywhere
dom
of
their
OBILE
Jefferson
E.
“a
er
bargain,
AUTOM
Office:
insists
| Geor ge
UAW
the
upon
to fight
unions.
workers
for
the
free-
WORKER
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Detroit
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Mich.
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per|
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NLRB
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second-class matter under the Act of August 24, 1912, as a monthly,
per
liems
refusal
of
involved
posses
rapes Seah
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in order
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‘esirable.
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and
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continued,
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right
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notice
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to
elec- | between
agree
organization
Editorial
of medicare.
are
their
served
to
Local
Serve
_Trebuffed | its
Local
the
major
up
personal
today
costs
food
case
The
if the Allis~-Chalmers
full board. |
of these
with
UNITED
one-
Medical
Apparel
the
NLRB
full
democratic
Vice-Presidents
in
International
Executive
BALLARD
CHARLES
RAY BERNDT
BURT
GEORGE
CHARLES_BIOLETTI
ROBERT CARTER
ED COTE
GERBER
MARTIN
W. JOHNSTON
ROBERT
H. KERRIGAN
CHARLES
— COST OF LIVING —
What's Happened in One Short Year
(1947-49:
but
it to the
decision
first
sisting
yearly
4, Clothing costs are up
cent; transportation is up
liy- | cent;
appeal
“Obviously, the
fusal
to
accept
tremendous:
in the
have
|-Company,”
to|
the NLRB is a blatant attempt
to thwart efforts to organize its
white collar employes. In per-
costs constitute
family’s
at}
“We
| with
affilia-
the
that
as UAW
affiliate
the
Bil)
a
the
of
these employes
organize.
BREAKTHROUGH
“The
2. The rise in the cost of seryices (medical care and personal
than
back
to point out:
Major contributing
cost-of-living | today’s
Each
the
to
ceding month.)
January, 1953, beginning of the|cent
in one year, represent
The late-May index announce| Eisenhower Administration—UAW | “recovery”
from
the
level
ment will decide how much more | economists cited govérnment fig-| Which they fell two years ago.
per
one
When
partment,
third of
penses,
in
unit of drafts
edition
in an| continues
Greathouse, director of the
ion’s Agricultural Implement
3. Food
money,
catch-up
na-){n
the
UAW
cent
prices|raise
show
for
lion-plus
release|}one
Automobile
across
rise
carried
halmers
of| cent. Housing
button on his adding machine, | 4, the March index (118.9), a mil-
the
pany
workers
government
this
| lensed.
regional director
the
technical
Million-Plus UAW Members’ Pay Upped:
some
organized
|ganize
tactics.
FIRST
to Escalator
Unless
UAW
to
refused
CompanyB
bargaining meeting.
Center
A
0
is persisting
set aside because of the| pany. This is an all-out attack on
allegedly “unfair cam-|the right of all workers to or-
chartered
definite
UAW Labor Center, Ottawa,
Illinois**
0m
Company
ruling
the Company and certified the} mitted last month that it is purUAW and the workers were) suing this course in defiance of
due to extensive rebuilding program at
the Labor
Oklahoma University, Norman,
Oklahoma
5
4 (2 weeks)
rim
(**) Dates of
Region 4 are
voted
appealed
asking
NLRB,
Board
the Company is making it clear
that it plans
to try
to deny
its
draftsmen
for
Company
The
rejected
California Hot Springs,
20-22
but
charged.
Ross
Works
election
NLRB
The NLRB
8
as
Relations
talks a fine?
1956,
Pittsburgh
the
paign
15
Works
policy
Ray
October,
In
tion be
Inion’s
not
a newly
goes to press.
Company
Director
2A
Michigan
California
California Hot Springs,
California
Lake Junaluska Assembly,
Junaluska, N.C.
UAW Local 211, Defiance,
Ohio
with
deeds often differ from its}
words,’’ UAW Vice President
Pat Greathouse
and Region}
University of Connecticut, Storrs,
Connecticut
FDR Labor Center, Port Huron,
1B
25
to bargain
in
Labor
Manufacturing
its refusal
labor
Michigan
9A
18
of a National
Allis-Chalmers
“This
FDR Labor Center, Port Huron,
1c
18
defiance
men
Lafayette,
ndiana
Purdue University, West Lafayette,
Indiana
3
In
the
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
2A
International
in for UAW
Allis-Chalmers Refuses
To Recognize New Local
Penna.
1!
18
Training
Pottstown,
ership and Achievement Award, from
Representative John Bartee—standing
Region 3 Director Raymond Berndt.
Fredonia State Teachers’ College,
Fredonia, N. Y.
FDR Labor Center, Port Huron,
Michigan
Kent University, Kent, Ohio
II
Leadership
Bs
REGION
4
PURDUE UNIVERSITY STUDENT
Phil Satterfield (left) of Marion, Indiana, receives token key,
representing annual UAW Raymond H. Berndt Lead-
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nad
JIM
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Managing
Editor
James Yardley, Irv King
Jerry Dale, Robert Treuer, Howard
Ray
Members:
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KITZMAN
HARVEY
LETNER
RUSSELL
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WILLIAM
McCUSKER
JOSEPH
MERRELLI
GEORGE
E. T, MICHAEL
KEN MORRIS
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PATRICK
W. ROBINSON
KENNETH
ROSS
WINN,
RICHARD,
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| What Kind of Shorter Work Week?
Most Workers Prefer
Fewer
Days
Union
Survey
Per Week,
Indicates
One of the most talked-about topics in UAW-organized
shops and plants is our Union’s demand for a shorter work
week with increased take-home pay.
At meetings, in lunch rooms, at the gate, members are
talking about the 16th Constitutional Convention’s reaffirmation of that demand as the major bargaining goal for 1958.
But they’re not talking about the desirability of the shorter__
week as such—you can hardly find a UAW member who is
not in favor of it; instead, the only differences of opinion, if
they exist at all, are over the kind of shorter work week best
suited for UAW members and the industries in which they
are employed.
It’s an argument that won’t be decided overnight.
It will be discussed and discussed and discussed .. . at
all levels: at general membership meetings of local
unions, at UAW summer schools, at local, state and
national conferences, by the councils and subcouncils,
by the rank-and-file and the local leadership, by stewards and committeemen and by the top officers; in fact,
wherever
item.
UAW
members
:
meet, this will be a major
501,
226
53
107),
31
Total ballots counted______-________ 446
“In every case in which a member marked two choices, a
half vote was credited to each choice. ...
“The idea of longer vacations was second most popular.
Interestingly, a large number of people voted for the combination of fewer days per week and longer vacations.”
The paper went on to say that many of the “miscellaneous” yotes called for lowering the retirement age, and one
worker went so far as to suggest a 30-hour week made up
of three ten-hour days.
“Many indicated that their desire for shorter hours
was based on providing jobs for more people” rather
than on purely personal wishes for more leisure time,
Union News indicated.
Those are the opinions of the members of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers. If you have an opinion on this subject, be sure to speak up at your next union meeting at which
this topic comes up. That’s the only way the UAW can develop its shorter work week program—through the expressions of the rank-and-file membership.
@IBG Radio
Station
Philadelphia, Fa-
:
At the April Convention, UAW President Walter P. Reuther told the press that discussions he has had with rankand-file members across the country have led him to conclude
that the average UAW member seems to lean toward the
shorter week rather than the shorter work day, but that such
specifics would not be decided on until next year, after the
whole membership has had an opportunity to express its
views.
FIRST SURVEY
So far as can be determined, only one group has made any
attempt to find out worker attitudes on this question. A few
months ago, the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers’ Union
ran a front-page story in its official publication, Union News,
which bore this headline:
“When Work Hours Are Cut—How Would You
Like to Take Your Additional Time Off?”
Under the story, the paper ran a box, which readers were
urged to clip out, use as a ballot and return to the paper.
While this is an admittedly unscientific way of making a
survey, the results are interesting just the same, especially
since it’s all we have to go on at this time.
About a month after the straw vote first began, Union
News pains its findings. This is what editor Ray Davidson said:
STRAW VOTE
“Tf and when the number of working hours are reduced,
OCAW members strongly prefer that this come about in the
form of fewer work days per week.
“This was revealed by an informal, unofficial straw vote
conducted by Union News by means of a ballot printed in the
last two issues of the paper.
“The straw votes cast were as follows:
For shorter daily hours____-__________
For fewer days per week______________
For an occasional three-day weekend___
For longer vacations _________________
Miscellaneous choices _________________
Si
Shorter Work Seek
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HERE ARE JUST A FEW of the hundreds of letters and cards which floodéi);
partment last fall after the Union’s commentator, Guy Nunn, asked for views ons:
Three Days With Hubby?
After UAW delegates at the Atlantic City Convention had
reaffirmed the shorter work week as the major 1958 bargaining goal, a cynical newspaper reporter remarked that, while
UAW members might be for it, ‘‘you’ll have trouble with the
housewives. They don’t want their husbands hanging around
the house any more than they are already.’’
Just in case there are others who share that quaint view,
the UAW has news for them: ‘Tain’t so!
As early as the fall of 1956, steps were taken to find out
just what the average housewife in a working family thought
about the shorter work week. UAW Radio-TV Director Guy
Nunn announced over the Union's 42-station, coast-to-coast
‘Eye Opener’’ radio program that the UAW was sponsoring
a letter-writing contest on the subject, ‘‘Why I am for (or
against) the shorter work week.’’
Nunn was flooded with hundreds of replies, many of them
from women. Final results showed the letter writers were in
favor of the shorter week by better than two to one.
Here are a few excerpts from some of the letters:
‘I’m old-fashioned enough to enjoy my husband and children at home, Summer vacations are a joy, nota burden....”’
—Mrs. George Nicholas, Rivera, California.
‘*What is good for General Motors executives is surely
equally good for the workers of America. And what GM executive is content with a two-day weekend of hunting, fishing, and/or golfing?...
‘Both my husband and I enjoyed a very close, warm relationship ... in our childhood with our respective fathers...
because
ness.
they
For
had t
us now,
}.’
feel that more suo
much to reduce pre}: "!
“And equally nj. »
friendship. .. . I ev |
quently, I cannot vj
week (and)... ‘havior
—Mrs. George M. ) ‘\
“I believe in thai
working man got a}
worth,
Kansas.
“I'll be happy t)
... The hours foro:
enough. ... He cop:
can hardly speak, y %
so much union wolp'¥
appreciate
that
chanan, Michigan.
e3)
| 1!
“I’m all for the
her husband home
there,
so
she can i‘
Franklinville, New \*
“Some men spe:
work because theitj»y,
need the rest to bi
have) more time tt «
jiam Landmann,
My,
ty
tes to
nearby
There’s still a chilly air ’round the
house — a full 48 hours after Pop—
this
muttered
nowhere,
of
out
from
down
by
time
Pop
put
and said: There!
Pop
there,
halfway through dinner:
“Right after supper, we've got to
figure out how to cut down on expenses ‘round here.’’
(Pop still calls it ‘‘supper.’’ Dinner,
you haye at noon, he says. And if you
think there’s another meal comin’ up
after THIS, you’re crazy, Pop says.)
the
Cut Budget
the
pen
Finally Pop stopped for a moment at
pointed to the notebook: Right
he said, is $92. That’s what I
earn when I work 40 hours a week. But
that’s not what I bring home, ‘cause I
have deductions. What ¥ really bring
home, most of the time, that is, is this:
$86.
In six years workin’ in the plant,
Pop said, we have managed to break
Mom took Pop’s announcement in
stride, didn’t jerk a bit as she con-
tinued pourin’ cream into her coffee.
We youngsters kept right on churnin’
into our food, thinking’ of the ball
game soon to start down the block.
And then it dawned on me that Pop
was speakin’ almost like Mr. Hobson,
the economics teacher at school,
Expenses .. . cost of living ... Pop’s
income . . . and so on.
For the first time I got interested in
Pop’s venture into economies.
Actually, Pop doesn’t know too
much about economies, as it’s taught
But, like everyfrom the textbook.
body else, he has theories about money
and inflation and taxes and trade with
other countries — and that, says Mr.
Hobson, is economies.
Takin’ Mr. Hobson’s definition, Pop
is a workin’ economist. Mention taxes
to him and he’s off. He’ll talk on just
about any subject, especially when it
affects our bread and butter.
But, from experience, he seldom gets
a showdown on
around to demandin’
So Pop
expenses around the home.
must have been givin’ a Jot of hard
even.
Pop
in the
six
years ago. He still
has nothing in the
bank, _
We’ve lived on
what
I’ve
Mom had gone
through this routine before.
simply: Where do we start?
WL
seat Idea!
“itook time
to develop
that close-
wengeasured experience, but we both
jtg-and-child friendships would do
yvij{ juvenile delinquency... .
juj more time for husband-and-wife
ai@husband’s companionship; conse10 id
objections
to the
shorter
work
uOqjround-another-day’ reasons..,."’
Julighland Park, Michigan.
jy week. It’s about time the hard-
|, .’—Mrs, Helen Wilber, Leaven-
’
(ry husband at home an extra day.
* ¢e together are never quite long
se from the shop so exhausted he
jtends so many meetings and does
odne, all on hig own time, He will
|... '—Mrs, Edwin Irvin, Bu-
10%) work week, A wife likes having
“vopows ahead that he’s going to be
“, with him,., .’’—Hope Sawyer,
formuch time traveling to and from
' we so far from their homes, they
héed for work again, (And they'd
dilywith the family, ,.,’’—Mrs, WilDW |, Wisconsin,
vestigation of household expenses—
right in the middle of his country sausage and boiled potatoes.
LIKE WASHINGTON
When my brother and sisters took
off after ‘‘supper,’’ I decided to stick
thanks
’eause,
tround,
to
Mr.
Hobson,
I had a couple of views of my own that
could
be tested.
Just that day our class had been discussin’
President
budget.
Hisenhower’s
And when Pop ealled for less spendin’,
it was like some of the Senator’ up
there in Washington callin’ for less
| spending.
Pop borrowed my notebook and my
ballpoint pen and proceeded to cover
the kitehen table as soon as Mom
cleared away the dishes.
Pop
side
wrote
with
finished
my
the
furiously.
chin
dishes
in
my
and
I
sat
hand.
was
along-
Mom
standin’
Pe 4 ae
c¥
156. Aw,
She asked,
dry-
you
want
cleanin’ bill,
Unless
country
to have
sausage three times
week,
Pop.
Mom
|
said
ceilin,’
She
figured Pop was insinuatin’ that she
wasn’t shrewd
enough an’ it took
five minutes to cool
Mom down.
said to Pop: All right!
he
in-
back.
Pop
both
and
this
Only real fishin’ I ean get in all year,
Pop said. And that was that.
Ka
oceasional
hit the
an
I jumped
20M
Pop said he'd
take over the Saturday shoppin’ at
the supermarket—
and, boy, did Mom
order
~ and
ye
HOW AND WHERE?
That was unfair, I thought, ’cause
it threw the onus back onto Pop.
Mom said she couldn’t get by with
less than the $35 a week she now received for food at the supermarket, to
pay the milk bill
!
and to pay for the
fil We,
h
to
to
suggested
Mom
ee
-
|
LS,
could be accomplished was to cut
‘round
expenses
the house.
a
subject
mer vacation.
was
little
goin’
And
that
=
the
quickly:
earned,
Pop said it
about time a
money started
into the bank.
the only way
EG {
thought.to
on
Pop said—an’ that’s
all.
\=7
~ aulice of the UAW’s Radio-TV De/
sister work week. See story below.
moved
“1’m already down to one pack a day.”
It turned out that nowhere was there
an item of expense that could be eut—
except, maybe, by eliminating the sum-
ys 255 x5
had nothing
bank
*“Tobacco’’—then
Finally, Mom
Go ahead! From now on, Saturday
afternoon means YOU do the shoppin’.
No alibis! I don’t care if the Tigers
are playin’ a doubleheader against the
Yankees and you have free passes to
getin: .5..
I guess Pop realized what he’d let
himself in for, but he didn’t flinch.
Te’d do it, if only to take some of the
work off Mom, he said.
Pop went down his list. He couldn't
He
drop his insurance payments,
couldn’t get by on less gas for the ’1
Dodge. Mortgage payments had to be
made. Food bills couldn’t be cut unless
we lived on cold
more often,
cuts and
potato salad
A deep silence came over the kitchen
as we closed in tighter on Pop's columns,
figurin’
to ourselves.
France Pushes Milk and Soft Drinks
PARIS, France (PAI)—Milk and soft drinks are now being distributed
free in French factories and workshops,
Actually, it’s all part of a government-sponsored campaign to cut down
on wine consumption, It seems, that some workers drink at least two quarts
a day of red wine, Hence, the milk and soft drinks on the house,
Next day I took all Pop’s figures
fo Mr. Hobson. Maybe he could come
up with somethin’.
Mr. Hobson decided to get over an
entire course in economics ‘cause he
started mentionin’ how President Eisenhower figures the government has to
spend about $72 billion this year and
no matter where anybody wants to cut
spendin,’ it’s like cuttin’ out Pop’s vacation or reducin’-the mortgage.
Hobson
Mr.
could
eut
said
government
the
for the farmers—but
money
the farmers would
be hurt.
highways
and motor-
Money for schools an’
could be eut—but parents
ists wouldn’t
like it.
Money for housing could be cut—
but builders and people who need
homes
would
Money
be hurt.
for
the
army
an’
air foree could be eut—an’
nayy
most
an’
people
say the country’s takin’ too big
would
a gamble.
When President Truman was in
Washington, Mr. Hobson said, businessmen complained and said what
this country needs is a government
run by businessmen.
Well, said Mr. Hobson, we now
have a government run by businessWho's secretary of defense?
men.
=
Charles E. Wilson, former pres-
Why
ident of General Motors. A businessman if there ever was one,
from
way
treasury?
the
secretary of
Who's
Ceorgé M, Humphrey,
a
businessman
back.
Who’s secretary of state? John Foster Dulles, a corporation lawyer almost
all his life.
Who’s in charge of the army an’
navy
was
an’
force?
air
a five-star
Yet
nobody
So
Pop
to eut
federal
President,
The
who
general.
in
Washington
seem
can
expenses.
shouldn't
feel
too
bad,
sess,
An’
Mom
shouldn’t
get
so
hot
just
‘cause Pop wants to take over the Saturday shoppin’ at the supermarket.
If we only had a chauffeur, we could
fire him, That would help the household budget,
I
|
Pyare, 1957,
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Page
9
185 Jobs Lost
Detroit Stove Plant Shuts Down;
Racket-Ridden Past to Blame
A
Company’s
caught
up
sult,
shady
with
it,
185
about
the
UAW
Detroit
Welbilt
as
and
will lose their jobs
this month
when
management closes
The
past
a
re-
plant
Corporation
Maspeth,
New
York,
UAW’s
the
from
blocks
on
just
Avenue,
Jefferson
union terrorism.
In April, 1955,
management
linked
the
picture,
and
old
old
THE WORLD’S BIGGEST STOVE, famous Detroit landmark outside the former Detroit-Michigan
Stove Company plant (now the Welbilt Corporation),
will become meaningless after June 30 when the plant
shuts down, with the loss of 185 jobs. Here, UAW
Local 1166 President Frank Liccari (second from the
right) discusses problems during lunch-hour break
with members of his Local.
bilt Corporation.
CAN’T
BE
been
reported
Labor
out
by
subcommittee.
sponsored
tors John
Pat
igan
The
McNamara
subcommittee
Eisenhower
which
Senate
bill
by
Democratic
Kennedy of Mas
setts and
The
a
would
Sena-
of Mich-
rejected
an
administration
have
is
bill
covered
only
2%
P.
Plate
Company,
About
hit
125
the
22nd
8,000
in
this
people,
90
following
Toronto,
trike
vote.
The
By
means
of
Security
and
breakers
ties
the
175.
snowbank”
vember
of
of
of
from
and
miles
a 97
scabs
farming
tourist
of work
sections
Union
town
union
strike-
in
the
re-
gion,
the
Company
managed
to
keep operating.
It admitted a loss
of $145,000
in sales
in the first
en weeks but has given out no
nore such figures.
of
3y
mid-March
people
owners,
ers—had
in
the
foremen,
the
total
number
plant—including
and
office
levelled
off
work-
at
123,
Workers
were
quitting
every
week
and
being
replaced
by
younger
strikebreakers
from
further away
3usiest
man
in town
was
the
scrap-dealer
who
calls at
Name
Plate,
The Union asked for irrevocable
dues
checkoff
before
the strike,
inion
shop
the
55-cent
and a 10-cent boost to
to $1.15 wages
Name
Plate
paying
was
Che real issue
is whether
nionism can get a foothold
area
haven
from
Plate,
h
former
which
for
the
t
fast
small
Toronto
fest
two
in
years
unlon
in
y
area,
Midland,
ago,
the
stron
in an
becoming
runs
proce
a
shop
Name
arrived
dumping
which
he
with
House subin support
called
“economic
wages and
for
coy-
an
piracy
of
long hours
that will prevail in large
of American
industry,
commerce.”
in his capacity
Department,
as pres-
Industrial
Reuther
now
covered
earning
hour,
it
less
ainst
Is
tary
were
than
the
the
.of
the
for
the
will not
be done.
would
ise of
that
to see.
pro-
Ad-
former
clearly
do the job that needs to
To harken to the latter
be a mockery of the promthe full and satisfying life
America’s
know-how
each
The
should
one
of our
declared.
resources
and
guarantee
people,”
thereby
Wel-
“It
would
to
adopt
upon
the
Clearly,
a
with
fair
labor
a test
of
be
number
plant
minimum
wage
and
Act
is of
workers
fair
of
to
Reuther
less
benefit
not
em-
themselves,
.
are
chiseling
protection
the
and
victims
of
he
in
to
provides
nation
a yearly
and
vision
suitable
suffer
the
most.
According
have
reached
up.
the
drawing
the
others
unemployment
sation,
which
out
by
now,”
are
55
years
has
he
high
probably
said.
old
seniority,
or
too
tinued
great
danger
effectiveness
of
to
the
the
run
over half
over,
with
young
to
re-
tire but too old to find other jobs
in a metropolitan
area where
more
for
than
100,000
unemployed.
Although it
ent
by the
is
contract,
are
not
the
currently
in
the
Local,
pres-
with
Kentucky
UAW
—
radio
A
com-
the
in
E.
dynamited
1954.
Wade
by
IV last month
title to his parhouse
after
a
struggle
shortly
which
after
newspaperman
the
home
for
“white”
the
made
Wade
took
who
had
Carl Braden,
Wade
in
instead
responsible
of
tenced
for
of
it,
convicted
15 years
a
|months
in
higher
conviction
leased
after
and
behind
bars
a va-
acts.
and
prison.
court
having
others spent
jail
before
and
criminal
was
to
and charged
“sedition”
other
summer,
his
of Wade
with
Braden
he
sen-
Last
reversed
was
served
Two
of
re-
eight
the}
up to six months in
all
charges
were
dropped without trial last Noyember,
However, all those involved
were
needed.
the
mortgage
nicality
to
though
an
money
could
sued
foreclose
on
a tech-
the
mortgage
insurance
company
of
At
fired
the
the
from
same
house
their
time,
and
the
jobs.
the
bank
foreclosure
dicated.
builder
hold-!
not
be used
suits
At this point,
UAW's
er’
an
the
adju-
Guy
Nunn
and
“Eye
radio
picture.
interview
with
which
of
loaned
to
this
Wade
pay
more
off
the
aired
heard
by
accumulated
paired
pancy
house
and
by
is
Wade
In a letter
expressed
said:
his
and
that
he
$12,000
and
court
being
re-occu-
for
his
to Nunn
re-
wife.
in which
appreciation,
proposals,
that
ply
at
would
“You
no doubt have had many
similar successes as a result of
good deeds on your part.
I am
proud
to
of the
assistance
quaintance
from)
you
have
and
and
made
am
...
“Eye
your
in
least
100
coverage
(I
received
Opener,”
—
con-
Fair
enterprises
workers,
mum
the
hours
covered
mum
protection
of
the
provision to
workers as the
wage
provisio
ap-
employin
“It is just as important
tend
to wage
would
to exmaxi-
newly
minl-
These
workers
need and are
entitled
to
such
protection,
The
employers
of these
workers
will
encounter
no special hardship
in
FUTURE
HOME
OF
U AW
the new Union Service Center
near future. Modern in eyery
members
Angeles.
of
the
Local
who
LOCAL
887—This is an artist’s conception of what
of Local 887 will look like when it’s completed in the
respect, the $200,000 Center will service the 15,000
work
at
the
North
American
Aviation
plant
ac-
appreciative
The second proposal i
the new
only
be limited
he
Wade
Labor
Standards
Act,
The
first
of these is that the overtime provisions should not be extended to
any additional employes; the new
coverage
a
mortgages,
now
readied
and
Simonson,
by the in-
than
interest
costs.
The
case
old
show
Wade
was
Open-
Nunn
Chicagoan,
David
who was so outraged
justices
the
been
early-morning
entered
until
had
nationwide
Braden,
neighborhood.
bombing,
those
supporters
if
ing
paid $5,800 to restore the property. A local court ruled that the
been
the
local
authorities
arrested
Braden
and
five other white
exami-
|
“But beside the qu
ion of their
inadequacy, Secretary Mitchell's
proposals contain two propositions
that are unsound in principle and
threaten
were
compen-
Of those still working,
|
John
;
re-
bigots
seeking
needed, with replacement
of
lenses as often as once a year,
if
by
After
“vis5,000
glasses,
with
products
modern
plants.
racial
riety
reIt
ap-
had
so-called
ruth-
nia was announced at the
cent State CIO convention.
competitive
which
bought
many
Califor-
neither
after
the transfer of the property from Braden
to Wade. The
suit held up repair of the home,
white
California
Northern
was an-
because
highly
tiremeéent
Detroit-
attempts
possession of it from
Prepaid Vision Care
unionists
early
a
“Of
Com-
performed
noticeably,
mentator
Guy
Nunn
has
been
credited with helping a Louisville
Negro regain and repair his home,
them
fully
prepaid
program
for
he
in
close
Ke-
President
Pro-
gained
months,
to
to Local President Frank Liccari, 200 were laid off even before management
decided to
TERROR
persons
concluded,
(PAI)—A
ion
care”
for
18
Local
cut
operating.
the workers
will
build-
the
pay
the
As usual, it’s the workers who
headlines all over the world. The
house was bombed by unknown
exploitation.
OAKLAND
Stove’s
three-year
There is no need or justification
for this kind of economic piracy
today,”
before
plant
over,
UAW
take.a
pliance
market
made in new
and
hiring
Investigating
regained
clear
tially-wrecked
employer and the econthe nation
as a whole.
this
pete
management
services
Andrew
to
but
Crime
broadcast
maxi-
only
called
LOUISVILLE,
ployes can be quite as substantially
engaged
in
commerce
or
can have just as much an effect
on
commerce
as
a plant
with
many employes. ...
“The
was
of
contract.
wage
Tates
nor
worker
productivity wére
important
factors.
Welbilt
simply
could
not
com-
which
the
to
a
took
members‘
the
other
of
modernize
keep
get
it took
Guy Nunn‘s Broadcast Helps
Negro Regain Bombed Home
based
few
to
to
Welbilt
agreed
but all
hope-
money
threat
in 1951,
assistance of UAW
Region 1 CoUAW to organize this plant failed Director George Merrelli and Inbecause Perrone’s gangsters ter- ternational Representative Pete
rorized
union
members
through
Petrucci, is trying to negotiate a
beatings
and other acts of vio- severance pay plan for the memlence. Even after the UAW final-| bership.
la-
employes...
a
of
the same
Repeated
unfortunate
with
the
election
ductivity also increased
Mo-
regardless
factors,
failed
same
USE
generally
coverage
of
but
Frye
that
Briggs.
standards,
most
aries,
Michigan
work
providing
the
When
keep
incen-
management,
plenty
the
40-hour
in
strike
1166,
mittee
to explain.
its link with
such notorious Detroit
hoodlums
and professional strikebreakers as
Santos Perrone, who performed
in their establish-
accord
accepted
workers
ministration, and the absurdity of
the employers’ pleas
of hardship
and inability to pay, are obvious
for all
in
Without
of the
Eisenhower
ments
the
bor conditions
the
omy
for extension
of coverage
have been made
by Secreof Labor James P. Mitchell,
speaking
and
the
one dollar an
inadequacy
week
ards
de-
presently
background
Stove
New
mum
hours
protection
provided
workers by the Fair Labor Stand-
clared
that
about
two-and-ahalf. million of the workers not
communi-
camps
in
Walter
to
shop
an
workers,
base
to be shut.
spent
fauver
building, which is about ready for
razing
and
which
could not be
adapted for modern machinery.
being
Com-
wage
was
dilapidated plant, but found it impossible to do so in the ancient
adjusting
it had
which
The new management made an
attempt to continue to operate the
Ken-
a brief
ident of the AFL-CIO
north of
per
cent
and
filed
minimum
end
to the
substandard
workers
are
President
had
extended
erage,
here
tourist
UAW
Reuther
Acting
at 2 a.m., No-
issues
w
Earlier,
on
mark
in sight
ed
the
six-month
May 22nd with no end
The
both the Senate and
committees on Labor
MIDLAND,
Ontario—Strike
of
UAW
Local 1265 members at CaName
workers.
nedy-McNamara ball is now
considered by the full Labor
mittee.
trade and
No Settlement
On 6-Month-Old
Canadian Strike
nadian
million
up
Actually,
This #
MODERNIZED
Senate Labor Committee Considering
UAW-Supported Minimum Wage Bill
WASHINGTON
A UAWbacked bill to extend the $l-anhour minimum wage to more than
six million additional workers has
firm
present
the
form
to
the
are
$1.75
an added
machinery and
ing in shape.
of
out
a
gangsters to keep the unions out
and paid its executives fat sal-
racket-
bowed
the
firm
close
previous
Stove
old
union,
ly won
The blame for this can be put
squarely on the shoulders of the
Solidar-
Welbilt
the
Island,
Long
with:
merged
of
Company
York,
the
the
City.
fore
long associa name
gangsterism and anti-
Company,
ated with
the
or-
less condition of the Detroit plant
made it just a matter of time be-
few
Detroit-Michigan
below
other- possible
East
a
to
tor
and
will
ity House, is over 100 years
and is better known by its
name,
tive
be
plant.
plant
Detroit
The
this gave
Company’s
the
at
another
at
is’
rate paid in Detroit could not be
verified, though
some claim that
of
will
by
substantially
at the end of
the
successor
the plant.
Division
continued
ganized
members
shut
permanently
June
30,
production of its Jewel stoves
be
Reports that wage rates
Long
Island plant, which
has
in
Los
UNITED
Page 10
HOW
TO
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
BUY
Mortgage Gray Market Gyps Home Buyers, Sellers
By
SIDNEY
Families
their houses
buyers and
tribute to a
market
in
charges
fées
FHA
rates.
Often
self or
it is the home
buyer
him-
easier
GI
to
find
there,
mortgages
although
above
and
the
VA
es-/
Only by brokers,
Store.
you
this
a
It’s
case,
shop
at
qhite
the
a cut-rate |
the
reverse.
family
mortgage,
that
say
money
In}
ers
ads
$10,000,
agrees
to pay a discount
of 10)
per cent, It gets the $10,000, but}
signs
a
mortgage
contract
$1,350
HOW
the
Here
ples
is one
of
of the
how
the
market
works,
as
Reader T. L. B., of
Mo.
Mr. B. reports:
trying
to
ranch
sell
now
mortgages
have
to
Many
until
pay
GI mort-
Tennessee,
It’s
East
active
where
building
gray
buyers
get
the
CONFUSED
don’t
their
bank
realize
monthly
that
they
have
pay this additional fee. Even
they
are
even
home-building
quiet
home
they
from
Alabama
relatively
BUYERS
still
believe,
in
has
surance
that
Some
letters
cate, that the FHA
sarance is like the
to
then
confused.
reader
bills
indi-
mortgage inmortgage “in-
pays
off
the
mortgage if the breadwinner
It sure isn’t.
dies.
the
this
new
houses
buyer
will
additional
per
often
cent.
have
to pay
one-half
During
the
of
$60. Actually,
better
al
in one
off getting
non-FHA
1
first. year
of a $12,000 mortgage,
mortgage
premium
costs
way
this
you
you're
a convention-
mortgage
at
514
per cent than the FHA 5 per
cent plus one-half of 1 per vent.
Unknown to many home buyers, the FHA premium is not deductible on your income ‘tax re-
turn
as is straight
mortgage
interest,
Moreover, the FHA insurance premium is calculated on
an anjual
a monthly
interest
a
declining basis, not on
basis as the mortgage
itself, so you
little
more
actually
than
Eventually, after you
mortgage
you
many
may
get
in your
5%
years
area.
have
pay
per
cent.
from
now,
pay off your
a refund
if it doesn’t
from
FHA
too many
losses
by
two
buyers, veterans,
ready to sign a sales
tract if
loan.”
Mr.
I
B.
broker
could
get
found
a
who
them
put
up
and
a
principal
$11,800
house,”
GI
ports. He wouldn't do
two veterans are still
But
even
the
rate,
Mr.
rate
often
B.
for
finds
command
and
4
FHA
the
|
5%
5%|
VA)
will
annual
about
eers.
still
interest. Thus
|
per
have
$600
to
to pay
the
a
gray
Mr.
bonus
KKK.
B. |
of |
market-
Struck Out
UTICA, Michigan—A
victory for Packard Local
190 came at mid-May with
a certification vote at the
Utica-Bend Corporation
plant here, a subsidiary of
Curtiss-Wright.
Utica-Bend
skilled work-
ers, in an NLBB election,
voted overwhelmingly in
favor of UAW as their bargaining agent, defeating
the International Society of
Machinists and Maintenance Workers, an affiliate
of the Society of Skilled
Trades,
This is the third defeat
for the Society by the VTAW
in recent weeks, according
to Ken
Morris,
UAW
Re-
gion 1 Co-Director.
Seniority, pensions and
other benefits these workers had at Packard were vital election issues.
In another earlier election at the same-plant, production workers voted 330
for UAW to 10 for no union. UAW also represents
the plant's engineers. (See
related story on page 4.)
promoted
director
workers
‘of
the
in this ter-
representation
our
Union.
drives
already
| SHEBOYBAN, Wisconsin—
| Some
jis
but
the
surely
being
all-time
| “‘negotiators’’
Company
lthan
|
three
| understand
the
faith.
how
their
the
the
now
to bar-
obligations
and
nineteenth
century
tions; about the treatment
ing people should get.
gallant
members
have
Kohler
of UAW
been
on
Local
the
made
the
help
were
riod,
when
budge
no-
It
should
underway
in the future.
since April 5, 1954, were not
prised by the Company's
tinued
fused
to
refusal
it
by
to
bargain.
now,
having
lived
with “Kohlerism”* for 38 months.
A BIGGER
What
gain
by
BOYCOTT
does
this
Kohler
Company
attitude?
Nothing,
according
to UAW
Secretary| Treasurer Emil Mazey.
|
“Herbert
V. Kohler
and
his
| Closed corporation will
an intensified boycott
now face
campaign
practice
UAW and
a
Na-
Board
these
trial
charges
days.
by
the
long
earlier
Union
this
mediate
held
the
over
which
to resume
dormant,
were
year
were
and
dispute.
a
nine-week
ended
late
Talks
in
April
regret
members
community
tors
of
the
of
have
face
to
of
report
our
and
Kohler
rebuffed
and
and
the
the
have
new
plant
to join the
Union’s
a settlement
of
the
terms
this strike
“Until
of the
can
the
the
proved
re-
in
proposal
the
...
for
Act,
fully
UAW
to
to a Company
contract with
cover
the
scabs
“ofthe
in
the
plant and to keep the strikers
|in the street for keeps.
“We
Reuther
In
| talks
a
shall
told
never
the
delegates.
statement
were
negotiators
“Despite
again
do
issued
broken
off,
out
that,”
UAW
of
the
three
clergymen
and
every
possible attempt
on
the part
of
the Union, Kohler Company has
failed to come to the bargaining
table with any kind of a will
settle the long-standing strike
their plant,
NEW
“One
to
at
THOUGHTS
of
the
chief
obstacles
reaching a settlement is that
chief negotiator for Kohler,
man
after
declared, in part:
the earnest efforts
NO
UAW
negotiators,
administrative
asReuther, declared:
to
inal
Conger,
thought
has
not
since
he
had
an
broke
in
the
Ly-
orig-
the
AFL strike at Kohler in 1934.”
Union negotiators were led by
Region
man.
10
Director
Acting as
senting the
faiths
were
Social
Action
Cronin,
Harvey
Kitz-
mediators and reprethree major religious
the
assistant
Rey.
Fr.
director
Department
John
of
of
come
Competitive
Shop
ment.
deal
and
the
was
necessary,
National
A great
of
union
Nashville,
under
the
National
Department
Ford
but
Depart-
of hard
the
work
results
all of the effort expended.”
Kills Jobless Bill
killed
the unfair labor charges against
the Company and our legal, primary boycott... .”
sistant
will
000 persons
overtures
pursue
city
local
will
Wisconsin
(PAI)—
in Wisconsin
has been
A bill to extend
unemployment
compensation to an additional 20,-
Taft-Hartley
we
the
MADISON,
be settled.
then
in
workers
of
Agreement.
“Our success was through the
united efforts of Region 8 Director E. T. “Mike”
Michael,
the
“Our
Union
has always made
every
possible
effort to resolve
this dispute.
When Kohler Company joins the ranks of American
industry
and
negotiates
as it
should
in order to comply with
the
these
virtue
terms of the UAW-Ford
negotia-
strike,
By
the first UAW
GOP
and
obstinate
UAW.
choice,
they
justify
to
Union
that
Union
ealcitrant
pe-
management
refused
to
from its previous position.
tion, amounted
fer” to sign a
surcon- |
They're
the
“We
the
charter
This position, as UAW
Presi| One of the
dent Walter P. Reuther pointed
Jack
Conway,
out at the recent UAW Conven-
strikers,
lines
face
by
Relations
the
aided by the offer from three na| tionally prominent
clergymen
to
work-
picket
to
labor
by the
into
Ma-
addition,
considered
negotiations,
to
833, who
112
Efforts
To the UAW’s latest proposals, Kohler
Company
had but
one answer: No.
The
“In
hearing
took
nation's labor laws put on management by again coming to the
bargaining table a few weeks ago |
with hands and heads empty
of
everything but their own preju-
dices
being
A
products,”
continues
tional Labor
examiner.”
have
inability
declared.
many
unfair
charges brought
more
years,
scab-made
| Company
Kohler
after
learned
showed
by
his
zey
record
held
long
in good
They
of
who,
|still not
| gain
of
people are very slow to
jlearn,
receive
KEK Ke
Kohler Again Refuses Settlement:
UAW Vows Intensified Boycott Drive
of
their
KOHLER COMPANY STILL SAYS NO to collective bargaining—that’s the report of the UAW negotiators and clergymen mediators pictured above after the
latest attempt to settle the 38-months-old strike failed. Left to right, seated: Dr.
Cameron Hall and Rey. John Cronin, two of three clergymen who tried to mediate;
UAW negotiators Art Bauer, Local 833 vice president; E. H. Kohlhagen, Local recording secretary; Jack Conway, administrative assistant to UAW President Walter
P. Reuther; Region 10 Director Harvey Kitzman and Don Rand, administrative assistant to UAW Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey. Standing, Local 833 President
Allan Graskamp and International Representative Ray Majerus of the regional
staff.
|
cent.” Understand, this is 5%4 per|
cent of the amount of the mortgage in addition to the 5% per|
cent
want
those
bers
an
val
premium.|
is
did
150,000 other Ford workers across
the United States who are mem-
|
“going discount
loans
vote
leave.
the election,
“Workers
in
the
voted overwhelmingly
|
higher-rate|
a
that
tional
it. “The
without
FHA mortgages, which cost
per cent compared to the 4%
to
prove helpful in other organiza-
a buyer.”
loans.
Bannon,
through
re-
The
gray
market
exacts
especially
high
tribute
on
on medical
announcing
ritory
their homes and I am still without
eligible
Of these, two were
dence
the
B.
others
UAW
National
Ford
Department, declared, “This smashing
victory in the southern part of
the country is convincing evyi-
balance
Mr.
proportions.
by the Na-
tional Labor Relations Board,
workers at the new Ford Glass
Ken
who
con-
of $11,300, I would have to forfeit $1,100 to $1,200 and thus
receive $10,600 or $10,700 for
an
month
by landslide
In a vote conducted
In
money, but he wanted 10 to 11
per cent discount. “Assuming a
$500
down
payment
on
the
house,
to 1
NASHVILLE, Tennessee
— The
UAW won an election here last
absent
mortgage
would
Votes UAW-379
to supervision,
two
terminated
their employment
and one was
the
a
production
Nashville Ford Plant
not,
Veterans Administration at $11,800, for the last three months. I
have
were
understand it.
last week we
were breaking
records!”
Six
34-year-old
appraised
“I don’t
Why, just
Plant
chose
the UAW
by 379
(Copyright 1957 by Sidney Margolius.) ~
votes to 1 vote for No Union.
reported
by|
Kansas City,
“I have been
my
house,
GI
HOME
bonus.
the
on
cent
1 per
fallen off considerably and FHA
mortgages currently are getting
exam-
mortgage
with
to get a $15,000
other
areas.
WORKS
many
they
Florida,
and
MARKET
of build-
gage. The mortgage gray market also is booming in Texas,
cent or whatever the agreed-upon
rate is.
GRAY
houses
because
$11,000.
It pays this extra $1,000)
premium in addition to the usual}
interest rate of 442 or 5%:
per}
a group
recently said in newspaper
that they would no longer
sell
for |
device of the discount, FHA, too,
collects an additional one-half of
heavy.
In Detroit,
wants}
for
are
that
to the lender, and the onehalf of 1 per cent goes to FHA
as a mortgage insurance premi-
interest | banks and savings and loan asso| ciations. The premiums demand-
for
quote the mortgage rate of 5
per cent and neglect to mention
but by reputable | goes
to insure the lender
(not
The mortgage gray market op- }ed
are
especially
high
on
the jum,
erates by exacting a premium for West Coast where a great deal of you) against any loss. Thus when
of $10,000 is raised to
loans called a “discount.” This is home
building has been
taking a loan
the
through
or $11,000
not the kind of discount you get} place and demands for mortgage
$10,500
when
Ads
are still rare.
builders,
who must
pay
who want to sell
Even Uncle Sam himself is getas well as home the “discount.” If the ‘builders
ting a cut from the gray market.
builders now pay }pay it, the cost must be passed A home
buyer pays a total interwidespread gray }on to you when you buy a house. est charge of 5% per cent on an
mortgages which Discounts are being exacted not | FHA mortgage. The 5 per cent
extra
tablished
MARGOLIUS
F.
the
the
National Catholic Welfare Conference; the Rev, Dr. Cameron F.
in
trolled
the
Republican-con-
State
Senate.
| Bigger Boycott
“While
pany
the Kohler
continues
Com-
to refuse
to
settle the strike, its president,
Herbert
around
V. Kohler, is running
the
country
telling
other companies, they, too,
can use Kohler methods to
| break unions in their plants,’’
UAW
Secretary-TreasurerEmil Mazey declared.
“America’s working men
and women can have only one
answer to this NAM-supported, anti-labor campaign — a
more
ous
intense and
boycott
more
of all
vigor-
Kohler
products,’’ he continued. ‘‘The
struggle against Kohler is all
labor's struggle.’’
Kohler Company makes
plumbingware and fixtures,
portable electric light plants
and air-cooled engines.
Hall,
executive
nomic
cil of
Life of the National CounChurches of Christ in the
Department
of
director
Church
of
and
the
Eco-
U. S. A.; and Rabbi
Eugene J.
Lipman, director of the Commis-
sion
on
Social
ion of American
gations,
Action
of the
Hebrew
Un-
Congre-
June,
UNITED
1957
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
CHA Directorship Goes
To Dr. Frederick Mott ©
a ae
is Dr. Frederick D. Mott, presently medical adminisof the Miners Memorial Hospital Association and
He
trator
enior
United
medical
consultant of the
welfare
Mine
Workers’
retirement fund. He will be-
and
in
September,
|
ton
SCHOLARSHIP WINNE R WILLIAM FAUNCE
(left) receives $500 check from Local 351 President
Paul Silver as Vice President Ed Perkola, Square D
Unit chairman, looks on. Funds for the scholarship at
Wayne State University in Detroit are donated by
members of the Unit.
First Scholarship Winner
State
Wayne
at
first
the
is
Detroit
student
graduate
A 29-year-old
of
recipient
to undertake
ing
people.”
social
in|
University
...
research
American citizen.
Saskatchewan has
into
He
Detroit,
William
is
is
who
His Ph. D.| tinuous fund.
sociology.
industrial
are
Recipients
thesis is tentatively entitled, “Au-|
“aid
to
Detroit
in
plant
Square
in the
workers
by
ed
herd.
D
Faunce,
|
and
one
has
|
students
promising
encourage
University Professor Harold Shep-|
is married
who
is a graduate
child,
and
Faunce
ex-GI,
an
most of his summer college vacations working in various Michigan
NLRB
construc-
locked
still carries cards
and
tion trade,
the
in
worked
also
has
of}
the
by
made
president
UAW
yice
rector
of the Union’s Foundry
are
:
di-|
Di
Regional
and
Department,
;
and
Trust
National
}
have
2.
the
agreement
the
first
special
time
short
ratifica-
membership
an
in
work
tion
Breaking from traditional dibargaining,
vision by division
the agreeement was reached in
joint negotiations and estabproa Corporation-wide
lishes
be
will
agreement
The
gram.
renegotiable at the termination
present
of
in
tracts
January,
-1959.
per
cents
five
employer's
The
con-
labor
divisional
fall
the
Regular
state
| including
compensation
to 68 per
| pay,
24
less than
worker's full
cent
depending
68 per
The
workers with
| dren, Workers
the
Maximum
locally.
division
tives to stabilize employment
avoid
or minimize
layoffs
work
short
by
the
Plan
benefits
plant
the
are
requirement
charged
obligation
division's
aceumulation
two
to
unless
be
and
and
provided
are
weeks
incen-|
60
from
of
of after-tax
that
as
a
paid
all}
local
from
as
Plan
draw
their
with
two
with
per
status
children
average
65bY Per)or
secure
to disqualify
benefits
Plan
income
notable
will
is
earnthem
neverthe-
benefits
as
below
long
the
repre=
features
over
initial)
SUB
gains
hour | senting
exhausted, In| plan patterns include;
cent
cent
normal
family
on
guarant
Other
per
with
workers
to
fund-
per-
to
as
counsel.
benefits
to draw
seniority
year’s
at the rate of one weekly benefit
for each credit unit, at the starting
|
date for benefit payments April 1
|of
|
next
ers,
from
3.
cause
Fund
the
All
application
work-
other
in
rate of cancel-
layoffs
heavy
withdrawals
sizable
respect
with
details
and
lishment
if
on
later
lation
should
a higher
for
as
made,
is
provision
| plans,
|
high-seniority
of
equity
the
protect
to
order
In
year.
and
procedure
verification
of
to
estab-
eligi-
bility are reserved for joint union-|
This
determination,
management
the unilateral,
replaces
provision
porting requirements and exhibiting of state unemployment checks
as a rigid condition
fication
4.
Full
served
| imposed
meeting
by
in
present
Indiana
to SUB
respect
| vision
flexibility
for
islation
in
16}
SUB
for
the
is
quali-
also
re-
restrictive
leg-
the
and
plans
problems
Ohio
under
agreement
providing
for joint negotiation of whatever
modifications of the Plan the parties determine
workable
to be
in either
necessary
of these
and
states,
without
and
“guarantees”
“contract.”
director
assistant
general
the
8, heralded
order, pointing out that
the first time a charge has
is
the
of
month
seventh
It later signed a
nickel an hour.
contract with another union cov-
into
gone
have
888
Local
UAW
of
strike against the BryCompany plant here
and butter
ant Heater
total
with
plant
recruited
has
manned
strike-breakers,
from
Arkansas,
some
back
the
into
picket
the
plant.
plain it is taking advantage
rigid anti-labor laws
Texas’
Okla-
our
to try to break
then
and
888
Burt, Local
Union,” James
other
Among
said,
President,
|
go
walkout.
in an
contract
a settlement
Local 888 was seeking
creases of nine cents per
since
also
the
living
asked
costs
previous
for
effort
without
had
wage
hour,
gone
agreement.
improved
is a so-called
laws
act.
has
to}also
right-to-work
but
meets
said
Burt
“Management
bargain,”
doesn't
17
The strike started November
after the Union twice had extend-|
ed the
achieve
of
to
contract
inferior
an
us
offer
far
to
line
it
made
has
Company
“The
|
as the state of Washingaway
27 of the
only
However,
ton.
have
members
254
original
crossed
increases
ment; fully paid funded pensions,
and an additional paid holiday.
its
as
and
Louisiana
homa,
wage
imover a
annual
cent
per
12
immediate
three-year
period;
an
five per cent wage increase for all
improveemployes
insurance
dispute
it
of
provement
The Company, a division of the
has
Corporation,
Carrier
giant
turned down every Union proposal
including arbitration to settle the
Instead,
its Indianapolis,
this called for a
ering workers at
Indiana, factory;
bread
their
a
only
offered
Company
The
by|
members
227
laws,
anti-labor
rigid
Flanked
Texas
TYLER,
with | amount
a pro-
Bothe,
off
laying
'6-Month-Old Texas Strike Solid
Despite Seabs, Anti-Labor Laws
more
or
one
for
procedures
Company-determined
to}
cent will apply
in many Plans, under which workthree or more chil-| ers are subjected to inflexible re-
ings sufficient
less
income,|
unemployment]
employment
for state
hours
under
lay-off
duration
the
for
obligation
hour
The
receive 66 per cent,
|
n
betwee
is split
of the agreement
about
to bebe
is expected
ae
I
=abo
three cents payable into a pooled
“0
Corporation-wide Trust Fund and |
Laid-off
workers
who
each}
by
two
accumulated
cents
partial
and
Company
this number.
SUB payments
provide
Plan
benefit,
provisions,
by
available
below
week
a
plan
if scheduled
shift premium
made
SUB
incentive
including
rate
for
establishes
| apart from SUB
, Ray
rectors Bob Johnston
i
| guaranteeing not
Berndt and Pat O'Malley, fol-| hours’ pay at the
lowing
problem,
so
established
all
mit
units
respect
with
to
respect
with
credit
of
and
are
ing
scheduled
this
Provisions
benefits
16,
including
Plan.
the
of
cancellation
work
short
meet
To
hours.
|
workers
fewer
even
or
12
| date
sometimes
weeks,
Fund
unit
rate of one-half
maximum
| per work week from the effective
unilateral
attitude
by
of
spite
Pia-
case,
| stuck against Piasecki. The latter
is
at what
organization
| delayed
Vertol
UAW-organized
the
|now
plant in Philadelphia for 10 years,
often playing fast and loose with
the law
general
NLRB
the
to
in
Bert
| this
840
in the Local
commitment
Piasecki
binds
which
contract
to
as a successor management
apthe Union,
with
bargain
pealed
of 70
true
his
seniority
a
off 50
Pia-
| counsel’s
clear
the
citing
latter
showed
of Region
Goer-
Lowell
the
of
in
an |
old)
their
about
however,
lich,
on
talk
plant
Philadelphia
his
workers
notice
mem-|
its
laid
towards
oyt
should)
840
and
attorney
UAW
the
at
purposes
benefit
for
units
as in
by
plagued
from
Malleable,
foundries,
been
Greathouse, |
Pat
Corporation-wide
other
was}
industry,
foundry
the
payable
At
basic principles for the em-|
ployment security of workers|
in
automatically
come
win |
to
battle
up-hill
the
of
jobs.
plant|
Bellanca
has
in
In
Jecki
in the
been laid off and
employes
plant.
Worker
Automobile
of the seabs
also
Secki
pur-)
he
after
urged
in
press.
have
here
ORES
Bee
basis”
| individual
credit
earn
can
workers
All
1.
be-
payments
benefit
case,
such
“come
to
bers
@
in view|
significance
particular
.
fea-7
Plan,
SUB
the
of
s
tur
.
main
and
away
fade
to
Most
Local
said
He
here,
| went
that the failure
..|
A
ea
act justified ae
former
the
chased
United
7j¢
was)
Piasecki
Thanksgiving
last
at-
Piasecki’s
the Local for breach of contract
Un-| Went to court as this edition of
the
that
Local
|out
locking
Lo-
OUT
FADE
ad-
damage suit against the Local Unby
A suit brought
ion members.
to
UAW
of
members
out
still
postS
for “indefinite
y
a com-| | torneys moved
ponement” of a = Piasecki $100,000
Piasecki,
year,
letters
and
He maintained
of the NLRB to
Members of Locals 453, 350 and 1210, after lengthy negotiations, scored
Plan}
precedent-setting gains in a new Supplemental Unemployment Benefit
contract with National Malleable and Steel Castings Company last month.
National Malleable is the largest of the independent foundr ies under
UAW jurisdiction, with plants at Melrose Park, Illinois, Chicago, Indianapolis and Cleveland employing 4,200 workers.
of
first
pickets
as
lockout,
the
office of the | vertse
to issue
failed
CONTINUES
Meanwhile,
regional
far
waiting.
still
they're
labor)_|
3
So
Piasecki.
from
against Pia- | PICKETING
complaint
the
members awaited a new press
Telease
diree-|
unfair
an
issue
WANTED
UAW Negotiates Improved SUB Plan;
Includes Short Work Week Benefits
Announcement
e
cal 840, announced
| in the Hodcarriers Union and the ion was dead and
American Federation of Musi- | vindicated.
| clans.
of
‘
See
process
to
order
|a complaint by the NLRB, Local
Phila- ee
regional
NLRB
this
early
plaint
releases
in press
rt
y
line jobs. He
plants on production
State]!
Wayne
and
Sexton
Brendan
lished in memory of a late Unit
officer, consists of $2,500 donat-
Director
Education
Mazey,
Emil
estab~
fund,
scholarship
the | and
by
selected
was
to operate,
the
Following
a UAW
the
secki.
When
the
upheld
eral
gene
and ordered
practices
spent
has
Q
that
had
to
tor
Michigan,
of Petoskey,
Piasecki, who wants to
his plant
wants
he
than
more
iche
Michael
delphia
where he earned his bachelor’s
degree in psychology.
A native
Director
Executive
CHA
MOTT
D.
FREDERICK
DR.
a
Delaware—Frank
CASTLE,
unions
appeal
University,
State
Michigan
rustees of the fund, consisting of|
Silver, UAW Secretary-Treasurer
Industry
Auto
the
in
tomation
and its Social Implications.
The
Se
be
will
Appeal Upheld
counsel
venture.
ambitious
an
is
troit
con-
a
maintain
to
year
each
ed
in
degree
philosophy
of
doctor
his
for
working
Health
nity
undertaking.”
f T.
De-
in
Association
dynamic
CHA
that
Reuther
by
caught with his press releases showing last month.
ng
Thomas J. Ryan, assistant NLRB general counsel, acti
Director E,
for the general counsel, informed UAW Region 8
Commu-
new
(the)
that
dence
headed
and
battle
evi-
as “new
Mott’s appointment
organization
founded
NEW
Dr.
described
Sciences”
Medical
to Local 351 President Paul Sil~|
ver. Additional funds will be add-
of
Faunce
health
public
newsletter,
weekly
The
the
on
Report
“Washington
The fund provides research]
Scholarship recently set up by the grants of $500 a year to properly
qualified students “in reasonable
Square D Unit of UAW Amalga| need of financial aid,” according}
mated Local 351, Detroit.
A.
Amer-
service. All residents are covered
| by the province's hospital plan.
Research|
Labor
Kelly
Charles
the
an
for
North
complete
most
ica’s
work-
affecting
problems
of that province's
public health, an
appointment
unusual
Meand
Miners
the
Association
Complaint Ordered
Against Piasecki
to Saskatchewan for five years—
until 1951—where he was named
| deputy minister
of
department
the
up
give
to
decision
UAW
U. S. Governseveral important
ment positions. Later, he moved
Local 351 Announces
UAW
held
Universities,
McGill
and
care.
is assurance
of Prince-
a graduate
Mott,
prepaid
in
blazer
trail
shift to the Michigan
as comprehensive a medicalhospital plan as possible, at
reasonable rates.
Dr.
a
days
Deal
New
his
of
directorship
Hospital
morial
establish
to
wants
which
group
been
“His
P.
Walter
President
UAW
Reuther, is a community-wide
|
since
group
by
is headed
which
CHA,
The
Ever
in Farm Security Administration
two decades ago, Dr. Mott has
Detroit with CHA
in
his duties
gin
as
administrators
medical
pointed one of the nation’s leading
its full-time executive director.
ap-
has
Detroit
of
Association
Health
Community
The
to
laws
these
used
it
“It
fill
a] our jobs with strike breakers.
| “Now the Company say it won't
settle
in
the
the
strike
unless
the
Union
be
| agrees the strike breakers will
up kept on in our jobs, and the Union
It| members
safety
plant's
the
off-set
to
standards
high accident rate; better medical
and other
p rovisions
| insurance
contract changes,
|
#8 the Company
sees fit
words,
other
“In
way
laws the only
lis
by
! that,”
only
will be called back
caving
in,
We
under
we can
will
these
settle
never
do
Page
UNITED
12
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
June,
1957
UAW-Ford Pact Opens Door
Older Production
Workers Can Learn Trade
HARLES
H. DUNGER, age 40; course.
He wants to become a
and with 22 years’ seniority | journeyman
electrician.
He
passed
his preliminary examinaa production worker at Ford,
as
tions
is looking forward to new security in his job.
This Navy veteran and father
of
four
will
be
one
of
the
on
negotiated
National
the Ford
first
The
he'll
with
eliminates
and
combine
to
production
the
training
that
be
taken
the
new
at
move
are
with
Joint
Apprenticeship
will use
The
cant
fits
ladder
so
man
each
on
the
which
leads
status.
will
to
to
to
take
the
for
permission}
Company-sponsored
That
left
to
over
ability to write on economics
Automobile
Of
conditions
which
Richmond, Pressed
chairman,
sent
Frederick W.
Metals
board
be
preswould sell
president
George
Morton,
Monica,
California,
of
Corporation
Ferro-Cast
of
Santa
Huron
to Port
the plant.”
“to reopen
(According
business
to
reports
world,
the
two
the
in
the
firms
are to be merged, allowing FerMetals’
ro-Cast to get Pressed
credits.
tax
profitable
and
is a common
This
maneuver.)
Morton, in a meeting
Region
1D
Director
Ken
with UAW
Robinson
turned
Union
tinue
more
conditions.
would
be
willing
then
would
it could
was
the
told
to con-
him for
Morton,
declared
reopened.
be
not
He later changed
agreed
to another
fore
was
to negotiate with
equitable terms.
however,
plant
but
down,
He
take
his mind
meeting.
place,
the
and
Be-
however,
he again changed
his mind and
called a press conference at which
he
accused
the
UAW
of
not
al-
indicated | lowing him to reopen.
“It's very unfortunate,” Robinmanagement
the “new”
had no}
obligations as far as the Pressed} son told the press, “that Morton
Metals workers were concerned.
|decided not to keep his promise
He wanted to operate
“like a to meet with us again.” He pointnew company,” and
with all the ied out that Pressed Metals manhad
of an unor ganized | agement
advantages
been
“highly
unj
plant.
stable” for years, had constantly
His conditions for reopenthe
and
ing
the
tial wage
nual
im
cost-of-lis
Union,
Local
plant
cuts;
included:
suppleme: ntal un
efits and rest
plan
fit of
calling
service
ed
on
refused
gain
on
for
anded
nm and
Substan-
elimination of anit factor and
clauses
a maxi
a month
ut
concessions
from
had gotten some.
Local
expected
689
to
members
cut
their
ment ben-| standards in half or keep
a pension
ons
conces
indefinitely,”
son
after
ar
declared.
“We
have
the
can't
living
making
Robina much]
greater interest in reopening the
plant than this absentee manage-
and nothing for le s than
, and other chan
| ment, which is seekingtax credits
ered this
a “takeprimarily, and we'll bargain with
an
proposal
to
the
¢
ediate
and
insist-
answer.
He
m consider or barUnion's counter-pro-
anyone
to open
it up, and
we'll
consider the special problems
in-
volved.
3ut
we
won't
capitulate
the
four-day
sult
of
four-day?
the
trend
will
de-
selectively,
week
will be
the rede-
violent
or
legislation
and
bargaining,
union-industry
of
Of
ultimatum telling the UAW
to
put its union label on a contract calling for “open-shop,”
non-union
SYLVIA
reprints her column
pression.
case involves the Pressed@
of America plant at near| parts industry, and which would
by Marysville, a small auto parts
| have put his plant in a good comfirm which has been closed since
| petitive position.
last March.
About_300 members
Morton, in effect, issued an
of UAW Local 689 lost their jobs
financier
here
the
gradually,
not
The
Metals
York
course,
velop
the membership short. That’s the lesson a California industrialist learned here last month when he tried to reopen a
closed plant by disclaiming obligations to the laid-off workers.
at that time.
New
Recently,
is
to
follow
the
hear
him
works,
you
whistling
life.
tor
Commented
of the
Department:
“This
hours
Ken
Bannon,
UAW’s
direc-
National
agreement
...
Ford
and
what
it means to so many of our older
workers .-. . is a milestone in the
UAW’s progress.”
PORTER
in easy-to-understand
week will come in our land.
Firm Wants Union Contract
But Non-Union Conditions
contract
Worker
course,
Of
to
Ford
language, told her readers, “Of course, the
in our land.’’ By special permis on of the Hall Syndicate, The United
four-day week will come
Ultimatum Fails
cannot
the
UAW has
program,
Charley
almost
negotiated
speaking,
period.
at
on
as he waited to start anew UAW-
hours
journey-
generally
plan
asked
where
could
appli-
7,500
still
(EDITOR’S NOTE:
The anguished cries which were heard from some areas when the
UAW’s 16th Constitutional Convention reendorsed the shorter work week as a major collective bargaining demand for 1958 are not fully representative. Sylvia Porter, a highly-respected economist and newspaper columnist for the Hall Syndicate, who has been praised for hei
UAW- NEGOTI ATED
ee to ernit site: we orkers
to undergo apprenticeship in skilled trades is explained
to Ford Rouge worker Charles H. Dunger by John
Shouligan, secretary of the UAW-Ford
Joint Apprenticeship Committee.
UAW
serve,
has
trimmed
Week Sure to Come
By
Michigan—The
he
a four-year
EF our-Day
PORT HURON,
sured into agreeing
means
UAW
be
plant
on. When
I heard that the age
For example, suppose Charley,
limit
(26)
for apprenticeship
because of experience and seniortraining was to be lifted, I said,/
ity, is awarded 500 hours’ credit.
‘That's for me’.”
Dunger applied
been
Ford lead.
Over the pounding of machinery in the Ford Dearborn Engine
to decide
credit
have
the nation, where the
built a skilled trades
Committee
qualified
plants,
part of the program endorsed
by
the
UAW
Convention
in
April. Other employers across
previous
on. The
a point system
just where
as
their
workers
job.
make
evaluated
workers
production
Company
who
with
play-
from the working force to send
shivers up and down the backs of
agreement,
workers
management
heavy
swing
to electronics
automation,
enough
produc-
tion
and
training
seniority, education,
job experience, and so
“I always hoped to better myself,” says Charley, a member of
UAW Local 600, “but things just
war
meanwhile
in his old classificashaft grinder.
Under
them.
The
placed
with
checkers
the
and
expense at the Henry Ford Community College at Dearborn,
Michigan.
thus giving opportunity to upin-years production
workers
whose
age previously
barred
happening.
was
list,
on-the-job
courses
the upper-age limit for entrance
into apprenticeship programs,
kept
waiting
month
ing
he'll start his course. He'll
receive
recently by the UAW’s
amendment
the
Soon
Standards Agreement
Ford Department
Motor Company.
last
continuing
tion, crank
Ford workers to take advantage
of a new amendment
to the Ap-
prenticeship
and
What
to
course,
week
as
the
spreads,
and
ganized
business
a
work
individual
trialists
as
shorter
indus-
spokesmen
“dangerous
or-
for
will
condemn
step
toward
it
so-
cialism and national paralysis,”
invitation to “maladjustments
an
the
to
economy
disaster.”
marks
which
could
(Precisely
haye
lead
these
re-
by
na-
made
been
in
64 hours in 1880 to 60.2 hours
1900 to 49.7 hours in 1920 to
hours
in
1955.
1940
What's
trend
shows
work
averaged
has
five-day
accept
been
decade.
as
in
so
ception
I.
is
A significant
any
of
these
place;
they
The
they
things
will
will.
question
will
“whether”
is
take
occur.
publicly
served
shorter
work
part
that
age
of
ever”
industry
some
notice
week
will
“costliest
he'll
in
ask
1958,
plain
be
from
simply
a
a
key
pack-
the
time
predictions
If trends
that
wage
it’s
auto
to
on
put
paper.
continue
NAT-
URALLY—meaning they go on as
they have been going on for the
pe
of
t 100 years—the four-day week
eight or nine hours a day will
be
standard
two
decades,
If the
powerful
give
in
a
before
wide
industry
in another
trend
is given the push
unions undoubtedly will
it, the
standard
in
for
four-day
millions
variety
this—say
in
week
of
the
of
will
be
workers
fields
early
long
’60's.
Considering
the history of the
work
week
in our country since
the
middie
of
the
19th
century,
what's astounding about busjnessmen’s reaction to talk of the four-
day
week
tounded.
For the
is
that
they
record shows
natural
work
history
weeks
economic
also
has
a
today,
has
about
a
didn’t
last
disappear
tells
week
us
stimulus
in
the
depression.
War
that:
to shorter
past
has
been
Yet,
while
are
that
as-
since
of
Clifton,
New
representative
Practices
Andrew
and
Department.
Dabbakian
of
the
as
field
UAW’s
Fair
Anti-Discrimination
will
service
Regions
9 and 9A—taking in the
states of
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont,
Massachusetts,
Rhode
Island and Eastern Pennsylvania.
He helped organize UAW Local
153
the
which represents workers at
Hasbrouck, New Jersey Ben-
He
has
dix
field
Aviation
of
Corporation
been
civil
Dabbakian
very
rights.
was
for
several
continued
FEP-PAC,
Until his
Dabbakian
in
appointed
Human
he held
Meanwhile
joint
committee.
on
the
to the
years.
to serve
a
plant.
active
New
Jersey
State
CIO
Rights Committee, a post
has
been
more
per
taken
the
reward in
also
has
when
good
worker
productivity
has
through
the
years
(each
healthy
time.
Each
able
to
turn
out
hour),
workers
have
biggest
chunk
of the~
cash income, but they
have
persistently
share
in increased
time
a
major
taken
a
leisure
move
has
been made toward a shorter week,
businessmen have cried that there
were
‘‘impossible’’
obstacles—
crippling expenses, the difficulties
of applying it in such
fields as
retailing,
utilities,
barriers
always
ete.
have
But
the
been
sur-
mounted,
and
industry
after industry
has.
followed
the
leader-
ship
to
And
the
shorter
each
time
week.
the
shortening
Local
he
153’s
latest appointment,
y
president
of the
posal, which
would
ha
Hed ultimatums to make our members
1850, the work week has row} Bergen
County
CIO Industrial
for the same contract te
given| work under scab conditions and shorter and shorter.
From
an | Union Council and chairman of its
to his competitors
in the auto
for
scab wages.”
l average of 69.8 hours in 1850 to!| Civil Rights Committee,
to the leisure-time
and to the housing, autodo-it-yourself industries
too.
Dabbakian
Jersey,
worker
week
rule
returned.
market
mobile,
President
Walter
P.
has announced
the apof
the
turers catering
Field Representative
pointment
shorter
of the work week has given a tremendous
boost to all manufac-
Eastern Regions
Get Fair Practices
UAW
Reuther
remained
As
risen
in
which
of World
available—the
times
/
we
only
hard times have spurred the cui
in hours—to share what work was
the
“when”
only
And now that Walter Reuther,
head of the United Auto Workers,
has
hours
week,
by the end
And
not
three
in
started
to go out of fashion in
the '20s, really became
the ex-
of months.)
question
steady,
around World War I.
The five-and-one-half-day
the
The
of
reduction
The
six-day
week
very long, began
to
in
44
hours
study
been
vogue
businessmen
couple
the
around
decade.
40.2
a
that
hours
The
to
more,
tionally-known
past
in
on the subject.)
Actually,
a
government
survey
in 1955-56 revealed
cent of all workers
that
17 per
in 17 major
labor
are
areas
already
working
on a schedule of fewer than 40
hours. The standards are changing
right
This
now.
is
the
way
it
has
been
This is the way it is and will be
Reuther
is not being revolutionary at all; he is just dramatizing
a
natural trend.
(Copyright 1957, Detroit
Press and Hall Syndicate)
.
Free
.
Biggest Bargain
One of the delegates to the
UAW
Convention, Henry Hall,
Local
1095,
South
Bend,
In-
diana, in the debate
on the
dues increase, looked at it this
way:
“IT
from
is the
white
Island
string
can
say
for
the
brothers
our Local that the $3 dues
biggest bargain since the
man bought Manhattan
from
of
marbles,”
the
beads
Indians
and
for
a sack
a
of
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