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United Automobile Worker

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1957-09-01

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UNITED

AUTOMOBILE

WORKER

September

1957

—

McClellan's ‘'UAW' Is No Kin of Ours

Some
newer
may have been
weeks

by

UAW
puzzled

references

members
in recent

in

the

the
initials
practices.

press

.

and on TV to the “UAW” or the
eUnited

This

Auto Workers” inconnee
tion with investigations by the Mc-

has

never

answer

is that

made

wit-~

pend-

that

small-town
misleading

dailies —

some

by

which

headlines

the union

of which

you, as committee

especially

newspapers

When

up

politics
space

swer,

in

Last

an

The

apparently,

in

month

embezzlement.

fellow

was

is that

a county

Indiana
a

ana governor

an-

it all

ed”

treas-

confessed
The

to

and

the

Indi-

fired a state tax

UAW

the

the

in this area with

union

gaining

has

collective

contracts.

“will

agreements

other

result

with

international

a

in

are

ganizations

area

of

with

of good

men

will

Automobile,

|

bar-

and

UAW

a beachhead
state

board

by

election

Products

Co.

in a

winning

at

here,

Al-

FRASER,

Vice-

months

President Richard T. Gosser
reports. The vote was 89 to 74

of

or-

in every

American life— have |

{

with

169 eligible.

It brings to

38 the states with UAW
bership.

Close

cooperation

tor

Charles

Kerrigan

competitive
made the

9A

mem-

world’s

of
as

largest

UAW-AFL

Direc-

and the

e

UAW-AFL,

for

their

own

pur-

convict

§

but

they

are

en-

are

technically
of

able

$300

to

employers

get

of

and

been

with

steal

present
law
toward them.

taxes”
have

away

million

guilty

this

because

the

is
very
tender
The goyernment

At
man

the largest unit,
Corp.,
Chicago,

makes

auto

springs,

the

2,200

Nachwhich

Workers.

ploys

The

Pat

about

The

1,000.

staffs

of

Vice

Greathouse

em-

President

and

Region

4

rulings

labor board

,
|

use the
money
until Uncle
Sam
catches
up with
them;
then they simply pay up, hay-

to

prove.

ing

had

The
the

have

made

So

free

the

use

Treasury

House

this

of

and

tough

employers

the

has

Ways

court

cash.

urged, and|
Means

com-;

|mittee has approved, a bill that |
would

impose

a

$5,000

fine

and/|

|a year in jail for failure to hand|
| over
| tice,

tax

withholdings

“willful”

or

not.

upon
But

no-

and

Machine

157-141

for

Works

ruling. The
the

UAW,

other ballots were
the union.

Two

of the

members
family,

more

quite

a

few

the

back

in jail.

AFL-CIO

merger

in

with

our own

UAW.

two

e Six
shop and

by Local

Cross Co. finally
with what
UAW

president.

five-minute

e A

plan

pen-

years

years.

6%

of

Feb.

his

gross

schedule

of

six

and

three

Instead

of

months’

after

one

after
18
after two

weeks

after

vacation

10

pay

of

gross

earnings

after

six

service; 2% after one
year; 3% after-18 months; 4%
after two years, and 5% after
years.

10

e Standard rules for journeyman
status,
grievance
procedure, seniority and other standard contract provisions.

exist-

The

company

reinstate

worker

with

who

had

also

full

activities

with

full

to

fired

for

back

been

union

agreed

pay

during

a

the

UAW’s
organiaztional drive at
the plant, aud to reinstate into
his former classification— also

earnings

15 and*May

per

pegged on hourly earnings, however, Cross workers will receive

but with an improvement which
allows five-year vesting at age
35.
e A special lump-sum retroactivity payment for each workof

week

periods

year;
1% weeks
months;
two weeks

for
unthe

non-contributory

after

one

in- ; months”

in the

similar to thos

days

service;

1%

are

category).

A

sion

at this plant

vacation

three

in-

wage

holidays,
union
checkoff and two

washup

shift.

George

They

paid
dues

15.

‘back

pay—another

A Big Three-type SUB plan. | worker who had been reclassiSix cents an hour to adjust
fied and given a wage cut for

| the same reason.

inequities,

Three Seek Toledo Offices

Vote

|

“willful”;

e

wage

In Rockford, IL, final certifi- |
cation at the Mattison Foundry

word is

skilled

e
@

Director Robert Johnston teamed
with the competitive shop crew
in this drive.

Relatives

took

Across-the-board

between

tally

plant

one

of

vote

but

challenged

18 were
by

awaits

the
a

cast

a

was

18

by

by

Mattison

man

who

hadn’t worked in the plant for
three years and the remainder

by

office

cluded

from

clerical

labor

board.

In

Latrobe,

even | in

the

the

UAW

the

Pa.,

Kennametal

a 529-311

help,

unit

860

by

ex-

margin.

gave

The

mild measure
may die a
completely eliminated the ugly eae
staff of Region 2A Director Ray
quiet
death—as
quiet
as
the
practice of discrimination in all
Ross worked with Gosser’s staff
its forms.”
' scandal itself,
| to bring the victory about.

Valiquette

Rediger

the

workers

plant

‘

December 1955, the federation ordered the name change to avoid

Co-Director

local

workers

er

was 464 for the UAW, 231 for
no union and 21 for the Bedding

but

currently

After

President | ing in the Big Three auto plants

ment,
announced.
About
workers were involved.

counted

the

racketeers were. They had muscled in, led by the unsayory
Johnny Dio, a New York ex-

creases
of
28¢
an
hour
skilled workers and 26c for
skilled
workers
(most
of

Key Election
Vice

never

while

. Workers were to be found in the

Mich —It

1

Leach,
clude:

S

month,

:

In more recent years, no auto

the firm, a leading manufacturer
of
automation
equipment,
were
announced
by
Russell

shop department
victory
possible,

added.

union,

than about 80,000 members.

Merelli
termed
“an
excellent
settiement, especially for a first
| contract.”
Terms of the settlement with

Gosser said. Other campaigns
are now in progress in Maine,

he

|

the UAW-CIO,
however,
which
continued to grow to become the

of strike action

Region

between

the staffs of Region

q
3

_. Martin chose not to wait for the
judgment of the rank and file. He
called his own rump convention
and led a few thousand members
back into the AFL, which gave him
a charter as the AFL United Auto
Workers. The yast majority of
auto workers remained loyal to

Air-

155, but the
came
across

must prove “willful
intent to
delay or escape
payment” in
order to get a conviction. The

similar |

DIO MOVED IN

to

Cross Strike Won:
26-28c, Fringes

Richard T. Gossér, director of
business- | the
competitive
shop
depart-

these

explains,

| key

UAW
President Walter P.
Reuther’s comment was: “We in
UAW will not rest until we—in
cooperation

using

The

which

unions.”

only

|could be punished.

the
the

number

Union

loy

labor

last.

|“non-payment

Joseph W. Walker, league program
director,
foresaw
UAW’s

move

Teamsters

Not

paid

Na-

Jetti has agreed to furnish
league the names
of all

the

Is Key

tional
Urban
League
to
join |
forces in fighting discrimination
in hiring has already been put
|
to work here.
|
As the first step, UAW Region 6 Director Charles F. Bioplants

the United

Me.—The

brand-new

dangering
the
social security
jbenefits of their workers. Morejover, the workers whose income
tax has been withheld but not

agreement

and

had

will set the record straight in instances

established
a

|"Willful’

ment

Joh Bias Battle
the

president,

SANFORD,

| Poses money that doesn’t belong
to them, the Treasury Depart-

Region 6 Starts

between

from

}men

official
charged
with
the
same offense.
He was a Republican—and
wound
up
on
Page 13.

LOS ANGELES—An

I am

treasury—except
that it’s 1,000 |
Two victories in Mlinois and
times bigger and can bring grief ;
one
in Pennsylvania
led
the
to far more innocent people.
UAW
organizing parade in the

poor

Democrat

he made Page 1.
Three days later

he

‘

|

dent and called a convention
ratify these actions,

tried to use dictatorial methods
in running the union and had

As Maine Goes,
37 Went Before

This “loan” from the public}
purse is roughly
equivalent
to
jes $300,000 Dave Beck “borrow-

newspaper

Detroit?

depends.

urer

is Indiana

worth

other

!

board elected R..J. Thomas presi-

confusion

While front-page headlines tell of the misdeeds of a
handful of crooked labor lead ers, a $300 million scandal involving thousands of businessmen has gone almost unnoticed.
The U.S. Treasury Department says this amount of the
public’s money is being wrongfully used by employers who
withheld it from workers’
earnings as income and social
Democrats Get
security tax but never turned
All the Breaks
it over to the government.
extent

F
things,

connecting

Isn't News

what

stitution.
Among

where the above-noted references were or will be made.”

carry

$300 Mill ion Gyp .

To

, was removed from
office by the union’s executive
board for violating the UAW con-

the

chairman,

Bosses Do It:

Just

i"

eraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, widely known
as ‘the UAW’ or ‘the United Auto Workers’ is the organization referred to.
“For reasons of simple accuracy to the general public as well as
courtesy to the million and a half members of our union, I trust that

cussing events prior to 1956. These

picked

omer Martin, then president of
the UAW-CIO

‘the UAW’ or ‘the United Auto Workers’ during questioning by committee members,” Reuther wrote.
“These remarks, however unintended, leave the clear impression

WIRE SERVICE CLEAR
Despite
the change
in name,
which occurred last year on orders
from
AFL CIO,
some
witnesses
still refer to that union as “the
UAW?” or “the United Auto Workers,” especially when they are disthen

one AFL, one ClO—stems from
the auto workers’ historic strug= of the late Thirties. In 1939,

UAW-AFL, now known as the Allied Industrial Workers, many
these witnesses have continually referred to their union simply

eteers.

are

eae fact a before the AFL
with Pecentially tie eae Tagen

A reminder of the facts set forth in the accompanying story was
sent to Sen. John L. McClellan-by UAW President Walter P. Reuther
as the current hearings continued.
“While it was doubtless made clear at the beginning of each
presentation that these persons were in reality officials of the old

ing a housecleaning. It is charged
with
being
controlled
by rack-

references

clear that

openly denounced the CIO. In
addition, he was suspected of
trying to “negotiate” a backdoor agreement with the Ford
Motor
Co.’s notorious
Harry
Bennett, old Henry Ford’s righthand man and head of the Ford
goon squads. (The firm was still
non-union at that time.)
After
Martin’s
removal,
the
UAW-CIO international executive

Industrial

Committee Gets Gentle Nudge

between the AFL and the CIO, and
now known as the Allied Industrial
Workers,
AFL-CIO.
This
union has been suspended from
in the AFL-CIO

it abundantly

Allied

Nees

union referred-to is “the old UAW-

nesses are talking about- another
union, known as the “United Auto
Workers, AFL” before the merger

membership

despite’

Editors have little excuse for
error since the national wire-service stories from Washington have

raised

these

happened

the

"SR

oilon.

racketeers in its ranks, but these
references—often handled care-

The

=

ublic that these references are
e mrotiien

tolerated

lessly by the press—have
questions.

AFL, now
Workers.”

tions department, explaining the
problem and asking editors to
make it clear to the general

Even new members know that
union

has

corrupt

press releases sent out months
ago by our union’s public rela-

Clellan committee of corruption in
labor and
management
in the
New York area.
our

with

UAW

city

TOLEDO,

council

because

they

O.—Three

will

have

are,

too,

the

candidates

special

Thompson
for

this

affections

city’s

of

nine-member

union

members—

They're Jack Thompson, UAW Local 12, who’s CIO director
of community services; Marigane Valiquette, a member of the
women’s guild of the Local 12 summer camp, and Howard Redi-

ger,

executive

secretary

of

the

Toledo

CIO

Council.

i

September

UNITED

1957

AUTOMOBILE

WORKER

‘Delighted’, but . . .

1-Stop SUB

At American
the

company

ers seeking
employment

ident Norman
the
of
tor

nounced,
Tke

new

Matthews, direc;
American
UAW

to

mail

which

procedure,

, tion

16 on a
a work-

Matthews

Doehler-Jarvis

said.

Co.

the

was

such

adopt

to

employer

first

get-

unemployment

state

benefit,

A study of the effects of automation on employment,
sought by the UAW for more than two years, is at last to be
undertaken by the U.S. Department of Labor in Michigan,
according to an announcement by Sen. Charles E. Potter.
UAW President Walter P. Reuther immediately said he was
¢‘‘delighted” at both the state

applica-

after

to the company

his

ting

SUB

his

an-|

has

goes into effect Sept.
trial basis, will permit

er

work-

unsupplementary
benefits, Vice Pres-

Department,

Motors

a system. (The United Automobile Worker, August). American
Motors becomes the second.

Effort

18-Month

Matthews

noted

is the

arrangement
can

Motors

“We

had

ment

worker

1956.

Across

papers

laid-off

whereby a

sified

at

only

report

need

dropping.

arrange-

an

Three

his state unemployment agency in order to apply for both

~—Lichty,

bene-

SUB

the

and

state

the

“Such a plan
fit,” he said.
could not be worked out, however, anc the mail system was
substituted.

the need

bring

will

and

reporting

for dual

the

to

and money
worker.”

ing in time
unemployed

say-

a

While

advertising

television

In

druff.

Helene

Chicago,

Enden

of inflation.

firm’s

the

said

Greathouse

The

latest

Statistics

workers

steel

im

figures

work-

19,000

for

increases

ers covered by UAW contract
reasons for its action,

as

Trail

Wages

“None of these reasons quall-|
fies as an argument for higher

prices,”
Greathouse
“During the last year,

increase

through

in labor

c

asserted.
the only

product,

the

company

prices

fin-

the

absorbed

sumers, it would still return a
handsome
profit
for
1957
of
nearly 19% of net worth after
not

firm’s
a

third

valid

reason

is

argument

increases

effect

workers’

creased

over

Aug.

1 “reflect

share

output

the

which

last

of

12

per

a decline

New

York

advertising

are.

news-

1%

more

about

to

amounted

than

he

took

the

to meet

he had
ago.

over

the

Economics

| All Have

newspapers

no

five-tenths

What

of

of

the

were

314%

}only

ago,

dependents

the

June

1956,

Most

discussions

mark

increase,

: the

case
=

—
home| even higher
:

bills|

|COUNting

for

‘Seneral)

stated.

| port

to

“most

than

But

of increasing
power in the

hold

his

Matter

of

..

fact,

.

that

||

the

bulk

civil

Into

worker}

(D.,
Tenn.)
by Congress’

es
rights

have

and
the

the

every

been

NAM

is that|by

.
legislation.

spokesman

throwing

the

steel

the

bent

the

on}

industry}

tarbucket

crease

average

crease.

“forced”
On

J. McDonald,

the

price

the

contrary,

steel

citizen,

the

and

workers

will

be

dis-

families,
small
the communities
upon a high level

announcement

came

Union

for

Field?

TORONTO,

Ont.

(PAI)—

may

turn

The United Church Board of
Evangelism and Social Service
is deeply concerned about the
low rates of pay in some On-

re-

stepped

(D.,,

in Michigan had fallen
sixth straight month.

New

has
been
absorption

the lull has

by

repeatedly

in

|Committee’s anti-trust subcom-| conditions.
mittee headed by Sen. Estes Ke-|
fauver
caused

proposals

at a time when
manufacturing
employment in the Detroit area

“ac- |

the

“in

McNamara

that

Potter’s

;

of

up

of
worker
purchasing-power”
have an equal stake in the mat-

at)

in-

David

union presi- |

might very well have shown a dent, has said flatly that the||
decline if it hadn’t been for the industry could reduce prices $6
instead of boosting|
escalator clauses in union con- | a ton —
tracts that
enabled
wages
to them by that much — and still
keep within reasonable distance earn record profits this year, if
of living costs.
| what they’ve made so far is any
In contrast
with BLS
fig- ' basis for judgment.

for

made

in

automobile

similar

placed,
their
| business
and
which depend

for

7-10%,

some

set

the

investigain the
delay
The
| tion of the steel industry’s price
tario towns
and
fixing by the Senate Judiciary |
unions for help

own.

Dividends

with

study

being

particularly

who

his pur-| organized labor. He’s Charles ‘R.
vice
Jr., NAM executive
interyen-|Sligh,
ing year,
the
average
factory president,
worker
did
very
little
better |
in-|
He said the steel wage
instead
chasing

was

Patrick

declared

it was

steel

pilot

said

|Mich.), Goy. G. Mennen
Williams and
the UAW,
Reuther

refining,|

expansion,”

better off. | whitewashing

it amounts

the

been

|Sen.

their re-

oil

and

iron

| chemicals,

1%

of

Mit-

a project.

industry.”
Notin,; that

Business

the

P.

announcement

ter.

of the

was only) latest

of a point

that

Michigan

Department

over

James

Stake

Potter’s

of
Commerce
reported
cash
dividend payments last month

In

May.

year

a

of Labor

|sential to such

in clas-

lineage.

Office

he

||Chell, labor participation is es-

worker with
}port showed, was in manufactook
home
which
had
an
overall
with $72.58 |turing,
| average rise of 5% in dividends.

1957.

of

ures,

However,

to

improving

Really Something
To Crab About
SYDNEY,

Australia — Crea-

tures of the
the
Bridge

penters

Union

grievance,
who

union,
puses

are

stealing

deep
and

here

to

Sydney’s

represented

complained
and
giant

water.

file

a

divers,

by

this

that octocrabs
are

under-

anything,”

pinch

union’s

30

tools

their

“They'll

the

have caused
Wharf
Car-

secretary

com-

plained. He demanded an increase
in the present $l-a-

week allowance

for tool losses.

went

the

the

in-

man-hour

months,

The

cost of such a wage increase...
(is) more than offset by increased productivity.”
Caterpillar’s 7% price increase

‘SIs

another

ing

of

shocking

example

||of the irresponsible
by

price gougAmerican consumer

the

big. business

the UAW

justifiable

in this

country,”

oificer said, “Such
and

reckless

come| increases are at the
the current inflation,
granted

5 has

increases

wage

with

the increase in steel prices, instead of passing it along to con-

into

labor costs over the past year,”
the increase in the price of steel
productivity|
forthcoming
and
wage

“Had

wage

“increasing|

gave

hike,

price

1%

of living, per-|

as compared

1%

June

higher prices, Greathouse
said, pointing
out
that
the

a

announcing

show

|tary

a 13% sag. Philadelphia
Los Angeles papers also

The way BLS estimated it, in|
*
comparison with the figures for | With

Productivity Up

also

as an excuse by other profitinto
corporations
hungry
own prices and
crease their
profit margins,”
Caterpillar, in

country,

impact.

jhave

But these “high” wages that
so terrify the NAM
were cut
by the cost of living. The BLS
figured
that, in fact, “real”
earnings were up only one-helf
of

on

2%

means less than
ished item.

a year

helping

steel

in

of

make

aren’t

hike

4%

the

(so)

The

used

be

“would

prices

tional

reported a drop, while the Detroit record was 40-50% below
last year’s figures,

the month before and $2.50 more

take

Bureau

Caterpillar

a

of

cost

taxes.’””

action confirmed earlier predictions that the recent rise

This

than

wages

Tractor Price Hike
Flayed as ° Gouge’
Recent price increases by
the Caterpillar Tractor Co.
have been denounced as “another shocking example of irresponsible price gouging” by
Pat
President
Vice
UAW
Greathouse, director of the
union’s agricultural implement department.

Half

the

wages

June

home.

“real”

that plain.
if wages
But

returns, according to the FTC.

|in

difference

“high”

the

|$75.13

is that

reason

or 65c

Labor

condition

the

cost

June a year ago. A
three
dependents

ma-

National Association of Manufacturers screeches about and
the

use of the sham-

stopped

is

said

dan-

cure

not

does

When

druff.

poo

commission

the

the

dividends

price

the

be

possibly

considerable

between

of

Industries

Curtis

there’s

against

a complaint

up

subcom-| haps

industrial

principal

The

dan-

for

as a cure

|shove

Reports

Kefauver

probing

|jor cause

on

product

the

PAI

the

can’t

wages

falsely

of

Shampoo

Syndicate

BLS's nawest look at the wage|
| fixing—especially by the steel picture indicates take-home pay|
industry — waits to get under | of a worker with no dependents
way, more and more facts are} in June averaged $67.73, a slight|
| coming to light to show that) rise over the $65.24 figure for

WASHINGTON—The end of
Enden may be in sight. The
Commission
Federal Trade
of
the makers
has accused
Enden

From

mittee

End?

Enden's

Sun-Times

the

of

) warned in a message to Secre-

DividendsRise 3 V2 % Wages! %

have every reason to believe it
will be, the application by mail

will eliminate

Chicago

had
and

‘In keeping with the administration’s wishes, gentlemen,
we're being statesmanlike in raising our prices... We're
blaming the m on wages!’

we

and

successful,

is

it

“If

ads —
a
for the na-

tional job temperature — are

that

at

hoped

“Help
Wanted”
good thermometer

ssi

and Potter’s proposal

Presidential commission to
investigate automation’s na-

|

Ameri-

with

in March

develop

to

time

No Help Wanted | a

of an

result

reached

agreement

study

the new

that

3

U.S. Automation Study
Must Include Labor,
Reuther Tells Mitchell

agree

to

for

system

one-stop

a

to

auto

first

become

has

Motors

American

Page

un-

price

heart
which

of
is

those

on

as a result of prior price in- | endangering the stability of the
American economy and causing
creases, as reflected in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ cost-of- | widespr: ead hardship to millions
living

of workers,

index,”

Such

pay

“catch-up

boosts

increases,

have

been

designed

to offer a measure of protection
to
Caterpillar
workers
against

the

effects

of

rent rigged inflation,”
house continued,
“Secondly,

Caterpillar
ficiently

the

Co,

large

to

the

Great-

profits

have

cur-

of

been

absorb

the

the}

suf-

in-

crease in the price of steel,” the
UAW vice president said. “Steel

represents

less

than

half

the

fixed
| “It

particularly

incomes,
is to be

investigation

prices’

the

now

hoped

into

being

anti-trust.

price

to

see,

gouging

the

‘administered

conducted

subcommittee

the Senate
Judiciary
tee will reveal, for the

people

that

the

by

of

CommitAmerican

extent

indulged

in

of

by

large
corporations,
and
will
finally fix economic and moral
responsibility for the inflationary pressures which are forcing

up

the

cost of living.”

AREA

Joseph

REDEVELOPMENT
McCusker,

Washington

to

left,

confer

Is of deep

and

with

Region

Rep,

Interest In Detroit,

1 Co-Directors

Louls

©,

Rabaut

so

George

Region

Merelli

(D,, Mich.)

1A

and

on his

Co-Directors
Ken

Morris,

bill to provide

Ed

Cote

and

right, visited

federal

aid,

Page

4

UNITED

AUTOMOBILE

WORKER

September

Proxmire Backed
As Kohler Seeks

McCarthy's

Seat

By FRANK

Editor,

WALLICK

Wisconsin

CIO

News

MADISON, Wis.—A liberal Democrat, William Proxmire, has begun his race for the U.S. Senate with a ringing
endorsement from the Wisconsin CIO Cauncil. The state
Federation of Labor is expected to follow with its suppo: rt.
Proxmire opposes former Gov. Walter J. Kohler Jr., the

tepublican

pecial

nominee,

election

he Senate

he

seat

death

A

of

who

for

a

Newspaper

within
Kohler
ed

in

man,

close

27

Guild

to

—

card

in

has

He

as

an

for

Senate

on
th

depend

of

election,

the

and

to

“This

control

may

outcome

are

twice

ter Kohler

labor

mobilize
yote

when

down

comes

many

and

nancial

by

of

now

upon

the

a

of

working

big

right

the

workers

at

this

thing

in

off

Proxmire,”

and

a

Says Harvey

Kitzman,

of the state

Democratic

gion

10

director

UAW

the

death

125

shares

of

of

Only 500,000 voters out of 2.2
million registered
went to the
polls in the primary.
A noisy

death

Evangeline

the

|

company.

repeated

in

enly

letters

sent

The
a

month

to

2,500

leaders in Wisconsin.
If the claim is true,
to

stock?

the

of

dicting

from

the

that

the

wreckage

Republican

civil

Will A help Proxmire’s chances.
big labor vote was
cast

the
Rep.
he

pendent.”
backers

An

Howard

not

run

Many

|The

outright

run

as

an

Boyle

has

as

a

|fight

O'Konski

and

Kohler’s

party

He

this

tration,

yote.

cut

against

trusters

hatreds

GOP

mire’s

and

are

the

built

factions

political

saying

up

between

will work

advantage.

of

brain-|

that

the

date’s

the

In its push for Proxmire, the
state CIO said “Wisconsin voters

the

Aside

union

what

of

in

|

|

It’s

the

and

RASH

OF

of

as

right-handed

effect

ad-

the

sales

state

from

name,

GOP

tax

|

crossed

the

Proxmire’s

It’s

to

campaign,

is

| worker

PROPAGANDA

SHEBOYGAN, Wis.—Unhappy about the
recent objective story on the Kohler strike in
Life magazine (May 20 issue), Kohler Co.’s
high-powered public relations firm has begun a new smear campaign against the UAW
and Local 833.
There is also a suspicion among
the
strikers that the company is trying to get
the McClellan committee to investigate the
dispute.
“It’s a puzzle to me why these Kohler
press-agents should work so hard for that,”
said Allan Graskamp, Local 833 president.
“Walter Reuther has already declared
that our union would be happy to come before the committee and talk about the strike,
even though such an inquiry is pretty far removed from the area the committee is supposed to be investigating.”
The Mouthpieces
To spearhead its new campaign, Kohler
used two of its most-reliable mouthpieces—
Chesley Manley of the Chicago Tribune and
Fulton Lewis, Jr., Mutual
radio
network
commentator who is acknowledged to be the
most reactionary of broadcast pundits.
The Tribune ran a series of four articles
by Manly. Among the “facts” Manly tried
to “prove” in his stories were these:
@ That the UAW’s nation-wide boycott
of Kohler products is an illegal secondary
boycott. (Actually, it is a perfectly legal, primary
consumer
boycott
permitted
even
under the Taft-Hartley Act.)

of

@

|

he
aid

|

On

the

U.S.

from

the

its

fortunes

the

to

the

a

South

UAW

of

UAW

Among

Emil

833

Sheboygan

Schuette,

Labor

Breirather,

chief;

Local

Dave

Rabi-

counsel;

Oscar

Rey. Rudolph Huiconducted the sery-

Osear

an

chalk

Supreme

who's

hands

peeled

southern

in

Rumpf,

casualties

election

of

were

the

several

men and women whose chances
of returning to work—after be-

on

Ohio

get

to

pays

the

Five weeks ago, the NLRB
discovered
the
Aeronca
Independent Union’s officers

had failed to file
munist
affidavits.

the

keeps

UAW

cinnati
for
the

a

lest

think-

in

the

steel

four

plants,

its workers

on

a silver

Could

this land
unions?

Could

the

UAW

of

the

repeated

Ike’s Boys

a

inter-

crash

in

anti-union
feelin
the
schools

newspapers?

Gagged

Last January, Aeronca Manufacturing
Co.
won
a National

Labor

(Members of |

The

Board

vote

beating

the

to

re-

enable

day

independent

hope

gave

union to
opposition

election

of the company,

go
to

came.

union,

the

had

failed

to comply with the Taft-Hart} ley Act and wasn’t permitted on

| the ballot. Aeronca workers were
| to choose between the UAW and
no

union.
Aeronca’s
on these

munism

| (2.)

| dues

tirely

And

centered
campaign
(1). Com“points”:

wild

(3.)

Aeronca

to

on

go

en-

promised

its

workers’

would

payments

in

“outsiders”

Aeronca

UAW;

the

always

is

UAW

the

in

runs

Detroit.

version of an
a new
workers
| independent union—remodelling

| the

Independ-

Aeronca

defunct

for | ent Union.
so,
Even
(and - patrolled) |

Relations

its controlled
independent union,

justices!

Finally

overcome | strike;

UAW

extensions

the UAW.

into

independent

generations
of
ing,
generated

and

in

then

the independent
on the ballot in

other

Armco

to meet,

peated

that

non-ComThe
Cin-

office
set
deadlines
independent
union’s

officers

freight.

platter.
And
it tosses
cent or two extra.
July and August were
esting months here.

QUESTIONS
Court.

Armco

workers

up

major

migrant

Middletown

the

the

| August

Whatever increases and bénefits the United Steelworkers

Now?

controls

own

Armco

hardly half that—
federal
minimum

surface,

in

union

in terms of real unionism.
It must be admitted

is much like any other American city of 50,000. It has its
slums, to which “immigrant”

RAISES

That

heiven

eye

activities

farther

$1.30

States,

weather

population

where

company

United

around

conditions

land

| wage law.

by

the

well-to-do.

largest

news-

arms

whose

| been earning
| despite
the

was chal-

border

land

a

}hour

Kohler will also
Michigan’s Gov.

lenged as a “UAW captive”
Republican
papers
when

Local

American Rolling Mills
Co.| ing fired—grew yery dim.
(Armco)—some
10,000, all of|
This time Aeronca had come
whom belong to the Armco In-| up with new gimmicks.

“independent

the economic
south.

candi-

to

Most of the city’s hourly-rated
workers
draw
their pay from/

is swelling mainly because even
southern Ohio is progressive or
advanced
in
comparison
with

legislature.

the

the

company-

same

their

so-called

unions.”
It’s a

campaign

Wisconsin

a

those

wrap

What Is Kohler Cooking

NEW

land

attesting

dominated, company-supported “unions” with as little force

papers

economist,

his

1934

sortherners
head
on arrival.
its most significient foothold in
Stylish homes
ring the city, | the Land of Company Unions.

dependent Union.
Armco’s influence spreads}.
ists only in small pockets, bears
across the city, into all walks of |
ene
Ou aewsb
s persi
caln life.
Possessing
probably
paignspean
the
against
the labor
move-

from the Harvard
Business Adminis-

and

O.—They
of “Taft-

Ssandlotter
facing
the
New
York Yankees,
Authentic trade unionism ex-

25

“monopolistic

be an issue.
G. Mennen Williams

to Prox-

Anti-Sales Tax

MIDDLETOWN,
call this the heart
land.”

is pledged

skilled

the

Its Why We Sometimes Lose

led the GOP to oppose any levy
on sales in the recent session

Kohler got only one-third
of
the Republican votes in the pri-|

mary,

a

a

di-

Life in Taft-land:

ago

price-fixing.”

graduated
he | School of

McCarthy}

will

Co.

for better social secur-

is

Leo

boycott

ice, and

a forward-looking
to
Washington.”

against

headed

Hey-

pre-

shares

publisher

ministered

McCarthyite,|

“Joe

Joe

ity benefits and fair labor-man|
agement laws, and he intends to | ment—while
|

“inde-

announced

young

|to work

in

will swing to Proxmire.

Republican,”

into

war

Republican
primary
for
Alvin O’Konski, who said

would

will

years to send
US. Senator

left

Graskamp,

Local 833;
zenga, who

left

was

fight between Eisenhower See
Taft wings attracted 69%|
have their
best
chance
them,
and
experts
are pre-

union;

Schreiber
and
Ernest
Jurk,
UFW
Local 800;
Art Adams,

wife

claim

Allan

novitz,

of his

Kohler,

Herbert.

happened

GOP
and

the

1934

regional

who

833

Nevertheless,
Kohler
and
his backers continue to claim
that he has “no interest” in

Re-|

admin-|

after

Kuhn,

Charles

rector

Council;

is

of

is ansucces-~

Art

the

AFL-CIO

president,

Koh-

seat

of

president;

candidate

Senate

by

1955

aunt,

member

istrative committee.
Light Primary Vote

U.S.

for 1934

bargaining
committee;
Rudy
Renn,
1934
strike
chairman;
Judith
Hoag,
OEIU
Local
93

the

who

left,

Schmitt;

manns,

headed

ferred stock in the Kohler

shops

for

Lee

former

state

Republican

herited

vacation, but we feel that if|
labor yote gets out we can/

win

|

Court records
show,
however, that Walter Kohler in-

the

are

is a

the

McCarthy.

}

vote.

the

vacant

|

Wisconsin

is

the

for

the

of

is

From

president

fi-

in

Herbert

Kohler

governor

interest,

which

relative,

Walter

always
in his

no

otherwise,

Co.,

his

ler.

has

or

Kohler

labor

governor.

Sors.

began, Wisconsin newspapers
have been saying that Wal-

the

SERVICE

Kohler strike victims
nual event for their

Ever since the Kohler strike

assembly-

up a perfect

Democratic

time

can-

came

voting record.
He has
had strong labor support

hard

by

34,000
votes of beating
in 1954. Proxmire start-

politics

MEMORIAL

But Where Is
Walter's Stock?

Proxmire—

victory.

chalking

Faces

fill

empty

Democratic

union

a

to

McCarth

governor,

holds

come

left

Joe

three-time

didate

Aug.

in

1957.

ee

545

with

the

UAW.

and

the

slow

stuck

workers

campaign-

Some

ed openly in the plant—and now
the court are appointed by the President UAW bid by some 300 votes.
stand as targets for reprisal.
But
even
the
Eisenhower
with the consent of the Senate.)
appointees
on
the
NLRB
in
Of the 622 who voted for no
|
@ That the strike has been “lost.” (He
were
allegedly
some
| union,
Washington
couldn’t stomach
said the same thing in the fall of 1954, a
and
sub-foremen
foremen,
Aeronca’s. tactics. The NLRB
few months after the strike began.)
The
persons.
salaried
other
office at Cincinnati had ruled
@ That the Kohler strike is being run
on
again
appeal
may
UAW
Aeronca’s anti- UAW
camby “organized crime” and “hired criminals.”
paign legal—but the NLRB at
these and other grounds,
(There is not a trace of evidence to supWashington
saw otherwise.
And of the 622, how many
port such a charge, since none exists.)
Washington
ordered
a
new
fact
the
by
influenced
were
@ That the Kohler strike is part of the election because of Aeronca’s that Aeronca for years had got“national CIO” program. (Manly apparent- | open threats. to its pro-UAW }ten away with indiscriminate
workers.
job
firings, indiscriminate
ly is unaware that the “national CIO”—like
On the second
round early transfers and pay cuts?
the “National AFL”—went out of existence
in December 1955, with the AFL-CIO mer- last month, the UAW lost again | At Aeronca, 545 stood pat for
—this time by only 77 votes.
A
Time
justice. Only 622 wavered

ger.)

Just a ‘Raid’
Lewis also came

switch
1,300,

in

40

votes,

would

have

up with a few gems. He

UAW

and honest

Local 833 weren’t actually on strike against
the Kohler Co. but were simply “raiding”

He

Must

declared,
another

for

union.

example,
The

that

Kohler

the

UAW

workers,

and

he said,

were happy members
of an independent
union who didn’t want the UAW, but that
the latter had established picket lines to|

force them into the UAW.

Anybody here in Sheboygan could tell}
Lewis that the “independent union” went
out of existence years ago—before the strike
—when its members voted in an NLRB-conducted election to join the UAW. But then
“newsmen” who want to rewrite history are
not interested in facts,

out

of some

given

the | will

trade unionism

Have

SHEBOYGAN,

| 622

Fallen

Wis.—Into

the

have their
as well.

|

him

“yes,”

of

if he

the

was

slugged

morning

indeed

him

when

a

with

effect

of

Before

medical

strike-bound Kohler
Co. Staggered Frank
Holub said the cuts on his head had been
hours

spread

department
Holub,

suffered

27,

in

on

of

a

the

truth

the

the

scab.

wee

three mysterious strangers asked
scab, and when he bravely answered
blackjacks.

The company called the cops, who were unkind enough to
remember that Holub had a long, long record. The cops asked
questions.
Holub finally admitted that he had just gotten drunk and

had

fallen on his head.
He’s spending 30 nights in jail—though the
eonsin law lets him out to go scabbing during the

kindly
day,

Wis-

September

UNITED

1957

loaf

ale’ (or Less}

is better

goes,

saying

the

loaf,

a

alf

As

none.

than

it

now stands, with one major section cut out and the jury-

trial amendmeat

a

AUTOMOBILE

C

added, the civil rights bill may be a lot less

than half a loaf. Yet to the rights-starved south it is surely
better than nothing.
There is still hope, of course, that something a little
better will emerge from the Senate-House conference—
something that will win the support of ALL the freedomloving members of the Senate. But even if the improvements are virtually invisible, the bill should pass.

WORKER

Ze

This matter is too crucial and has been too long ne“glected for no law to be better than a weak one. We simply

cannot afford to let the communists proclaim around the
world that the Congress of the United States refused to take
even a short step toward guaranteeing the Constitutional
rights of Negroes in the south.
Besides, passage of this bill will be an assertion of intent;
and if, as its critics fear, the intent is not fulfilled, how then
can the O’Mahoneys, the Kennedys or even the Kefauvers
resist its improvement?
Let us, after nearly a century, again resume our legislative progress toward the principle that “all men are
created equal.”

Aw, Go Ahead - - Buy the House
th at

Administra-

Housing

Federal

with

done

been

has

tion regulations in the last few weeks is the best possible
W
example of what it means to have a business-minded government in Washington.

Down payments were cut — making it easier, on the
surface, for the average Joe to buy a house. But interest
rates were raised — making it harder for him to keep up
the payments.
If the Taft-Hartley act is a full employment bill for
lawyers, this one is a guaranteed annual wage for bankers,
foreclosure

and

mortgage-peddlers

agents.

Go ahead, Joe, says the government; take the plunge. The
banks will get your money and with a little luck, they'll get your

house, too.

Great stuff, hey?

The Government's Business
ete plants are big, aircraft
orders are cancelled, aircraft
some cases the “policy decisions”
mean economic disaster to a dozen

orders are big—and when
unemployment is big. In
made in the Pentagon can
communities.

one in the UAW argues that this country should
make weapons simply to keep workers employed. What
we do say is that the government has an even greater rein this field than in others affecting employey
ment.
No

that caused these
Basically it was the government
thousands of workers to be brought together from remote
parts of the country in order to, build aircraft.

If a project (like the Navaho missile) is abandoned,
Uncle Sam has to put the pieces back together. The UAW
has shown how the problem can be met; it’s up to the government to meet it.

UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKER
Jefferson

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EMIL MAZEY
WALTER P, REUTHER
Secretary-Treasurer
President
RICHARD GOSSER, NORMAN MATTHEWS
LEONARD WOODCOCK, PAT GREATHOUSE
Vice Presidents
3
International
CHARLES BALLARD
RAY BERNDT
GEORGE BURT
CHARLZS BIOLETTI
ROBERT CARTER
ED COTE
MARTIN GERBER
ROBERT W. JOHNSTON
CHARLES H, KERRIGAN

',

rao Pass

need

/

FIESTFR,

Director

Director

Smith,

Jerry

Ray

Members:

Dale,

Martin,

American

Yardley,

Treuer,

Walsh

Newspaper

Irv

Guild,

and

AFL-CIO

Dio

to help

through

Lipton,

not

order

how

you

to

know

with

can

“I do not want to be unfair)
to you, Mr. Hermanson, but I|
do

come

not

know

before

and possibly
Johnny _Dio

how

you

can|

this committee)

justify
prevent

having)
either)

or

strikes

jurisdictional

ganization of your plants.”

or-)

Equitable

any

worked
union

ard

Research

very

you have done has been just
as improper as anything we

have

heard

in

front

this
since
hearing began.”

of

organizers

president

vice

Tolkow,

said

that

UAW

money

jt,

but

did

If

came

- AFL

either.

not

oppose

Efforts

of

the

a payoff involved were

un-

committee
to learn from
Tolkow whether there was

secretary-treasurer.
of
the
UAW-AFL,
Anthony
Doria,
his

first

“hunting

license”

to

“paid”

to

Another case concerned the either get- money from emRoto-Broil Corp. of America. |ployers
under
extortion
or
were
rs
worke
Originally, the
work out “sweetheart” deals
of
337
represented by Local
to keep legitimate unions out,
the Retail, Wholesale and DeLater Dio became a New
How-}
Union,
Store
partment
York
regional
director
for
ever, a Dio-controlled Local) the
and _ after
UAW-AFL
|
=

T

aia

ea

some

time

he

was

leave the union, its international president at that time,
the
told
Washburn,
Lester
committee. However, it was
shown that he has continued
his “labor” activities.

A Union

him

Bern-

this }got him a charter for UAWNew AFL Local 102. This gave Dio

by

CHICAGO,
the

La

Sole

Iil.—Shoes made

Grange

Shoe

Co.

will now bear the union label
of the United Shoe Workers
of

America

under

an

agree-

ment recently concluded with
the union, The company, lo-

Minn,
Wing,
in Red
cated
manufactures shoes for wom-

Asso-

simply.

union

representative, did not endues
into
dipping
dorse

picket-

netted
which
ciates,
about $1,800 a year.

It

Jacobsen

Hermanson
the

from

successful
sinee Tolkow
Then Kennedy swung hardtook the Fifth Amendment.
er: “We have had some labor}
Dio’s “labor’’ activities be|
what
.but
racketeers in here
gan in 1950, when the then

Hermanson
that
After
signed a contract with Dio
“so he could represent us if
we had a Jabor problem.” The
deal was made with Dio’s outfit,

executive

|sen,

down

sent

pressure

| He Didn’t Say No
| © Testimony by Irving Jacob-

look at it any other way... |

York

mob” and “‘an associate of the
late Dutch Schultz.”
Dio was very cooperative
with Hermanson who was
having difficulties getting
materials because his supstrikewas
plier’s plant
bound. Two broad-shouldwere

do

in

York

was} committee

mittee Counsel Robert KenBlitz as a
identified
nedy
“a
“notorious hoodlum,”
member of the Lepke-Gurrah

guys

New

under

prevent your plant from |of Roto-Broil, showed that the
being unionized, is that not | company kept about $23,000
rather
dues
|of checked-off
a fact—and including strongarm tactics and the rest. I | than turn it over to the union.

Dio by one Irving Blitz, Com-

line to get supplies.

King
Howard

touch

in

put

was

He

in

RWDSU

pushed

and

the

with

contract

the AFL-CIO and the
Ken- | became independent.

nedy said,.“‘you were using
one of the worst hoodlums

of Dio's
A case history
Was
however,
operations,
brought out involving a New
Flowerized
company,
York
Presentations, Inc. and company official Merrill Hermanson.
Hermanson told the committee that he had a “labor
situation” when Local 139 of
the Doll and Toy Workers of
America tried to organize his
he

| company

what he| charter

thought of. him:
“In other words,’

ment.

wanted to-make sure
not troubled again.
‘Helpful’ Dio

Hermanson

telling

backdoor

jout.. Later, UAW-AFL—now
(D.,| known as the Allied Industrial
words in| Workers—took up the local’s

few

minced

Mass.)

through the hearings of the
McClellan committee.
A central figure in these
operations is convicted
Dioguardi,
gangster John
known as Johnny: Dio. But
the facts did not come to
light through his testimony
when he appeared before
the committee. There was
no testimony as such, since
Dio took the Fifth Amend-

break

Editor

came|

never
eers, posing as labor leaders} The organizers
make deals with corrupt em- back again.
ployers to exploit their work- | Kennedy Tells Him
Kennedy
John
Sen.
ers, are now being exposed

by

Relations

Public

of Publications

Robert

Joe

of

(PATI) — |around, the foremen would|344 of the old UAW-AFL
WASHINGTON
The raw facts on how racket- tell them to deal with Dio.| worked out a~‘sweetheart” or

ered

ROSS

PHOTOS—James

Ciessipi ef
STAFF—Russell

RAY

WINN,

FRANK

KEN

Executive Board Members
KITZMAN
HARVEY
RUSSELL LETNER
WILLIAM McAULAY
JOSEPH McCUSKER
GEORGE MERRELLI
E. T. MICHAEL
KEN MORRIS
PATRICK O'MALLEY
KENNETH W. ROBINSON

Pretty

‘Created’ Dio

Crooked Bosses

drive
organizing
plant. The
was stopped but Hermanson

GUARANTEED

POSTAGE

RETURN

Sitting

“It just occurred
the box factories

strike,

we'd

to me that if
ever went on

starve

to

death!”

en,

misses,

children,

growing

girls

and

Pase

6

World Labor Congress:

Spirit of Tunisia
Inspires ICFTU
By OTTO

JNIS

on

—

an

gress

of

The

international

the

of strictly bread-and-butter

scale.

International

in this North
The

days

African

ICFTU

LEICHTER

This

was

Confederation
was

the

held

outside

place

in Tunisia,

event

of

Europe,

world

independent

and

the

importance
which

first

to

has

an

here

newly-independent

struggling

for

national

or

and

Asian

ler

still

from

action.

—

but

did

not

oppose

PAC

session

on

this

sion,

The

they

in

a full portion

action,

of

too.

ees
for

the

organization

America
also

in

Soviet

The
ing.

of

and

forthcom-

First of all, the Tunisian govern-

the

nation’s

labor

In the early evening hours all
of these can be seen in the side-

movement

— which was fully air-conditioned.
Among other facilities it contained a
small bar-cafeteria.

author-

Second,

as

it turned

out,

walk

of

Europe,

waves
here.

struck

where

record

a few years ago, it is said, the cafes
were restricted to the
French

the

during

the

heat-

sessions

cafes, one of France's gifts to

Tunis. There is no discrimination,
no segregation, no tension. Only

temperatures outdoors were under
the average for the same period in
the eastern United States and most

satellites,

alone; the change came with the
approach of Tunisian indepen-

dence,

Another Step

Melting-Pot

Even though a large proportion
of the delegates came from underdeveloped countries, an extensive dis-

The older sections of the city are
Arab in population and architecture.
Other parts are as French as any

automation and the industrial uses
of atomic energy. Victor G. Reuther,

terranean:

was

for

stressed

held

the

the

condemning

on

the

impact

American

importance

all

With

and

of

delega-

against

problem

capital

capital

There

disposed

of

across

of,

a new-born

the

unions,

the

Geijer,

a

metal

worker,

This

new

brated

time
by

nation

won

a

host

of

dancers

Hope

Tettegha

represented

of Ghana.

singing

independence,

a song

accompanied

from-his

country.

He

cele-

by

folk

of Ghana
The

dele-

gates from Great Britain, which once

held the Gold

TUNIS — Arne Geijer, president
of the Swedish trade union federation, is the new president of the
ICFTU. He succeeds Omer Becu,
who declined to accept reelection.

de-

who

Celebration—and

Medi-

is a “Little Sicily”

and

~

shy gentility and his dedication to the
labor movement. He will also be remembered by delegates to the AFLCIO merger convention.

New ICFTU Head
Is Our Old Friend

of the

a world-wide

this

colorful

provincial

All in all, the Tunis conference
offered a confused and divided
world a guide to the path toward
peace and prosperity. And it was
another great step toward making
trade unionism a truly world-wide
movement,

for silverware-users.

soon

‘What

friends with his striking costume, his

pression,

one for finger-eaters and the other

was

was,

nation,

Weapons

would be divided into two sections,

answer

raised

ment had built a new hall in modern
African-Arabian style — the home

guaranteed annual wage, the shorter
work-week and higher earnings, not
only as normal union goals, but as

in the best King Solomon tradition.
He ruled that the dining-room

first question

the delegates were able to take full
advantage of meeting in this ancient

tion,

prime minister finally
and settled the strike

the

forms of discrimination waS featured
by an address by A. Philip Randolph,
head of the Sleeping Car Porters and
an AFL-CIO vice president.

resolution

speaking.

said,

ICFTU,

to rival New York’s “Little Italy.”
Some 80,000 Jews live peacefully
here, as in no other Arab country.
There are Maltese — still British nationals, though they have lived here
all their lives. And there are Turks,
left from the days when all north
Africa was in the Ottoman empire.

The ICFTU
conference did its
share in providing color. There was
John Tettegha, who came to the
Vienna gathering in 1955 as se¢retary-general of the Gold Coast

cussion

of

nen this city was chosen
the fifth world congress of

by American delegates
about the heat?”

executive board

South

whethér

A

spoiled everyone’s appetite by eating with their fingers, ignoring
knives, forks and spoons.
Ceylon’s
intervened

It Wasnt Such a Hot Time
After All, Delegates Found

delegation,

million in the next three years.

international

boys,

was

Fe

Sightseeing was part of the fun for ICFTU delegates. This group is among
the ancient pillars of the mosque of Kairouan, a tourist highlight.

President

The fund is expected to reach $5.6

Russia.

to the presence

President

Spain, certain South
American
countries or other totalitarian nations.

The dispute began in a company
dining room, when technicians and
office-boys.

AFL-CIO

ES

ized a “solidarity fund” to help defend trades unionists from oppres-

COLOMBO, Ceylon — A
strike
over table-manners paralyzed this
city’s telephone and telegraph systems for 20 hours.
objected

congress

Fund

The

Bad Table-Manners
Keep Phones Quiet

clerks

ICFTU

American

There

other areas.

However, this was not just an ela-

borate

the

established

control of atomic weapons and placed
the major share of the blame for the
upon

Board

set up an African regional organization along the lines of those already

The congress unanimously called
for international agreement on the
lack of an agreement

to

Later the ICFTU

abstained

—

on

For the first time in ICFTU history a director of organization —
Charles
Millard
of the Canadian
Steelworkers—reported.
He told of
his year-long effort to expand mnionism in Asia and Africa.

With equal bitterness it condemned
the recent activities of France in Aldelegates

led

Solidarity

in

By acclamation
the
ICFTU
adopted a resolution condemning
the Soviet Union for its brutal intervention in Hungary.
French

The

bread-and-butter

the “old countries” it demonstratéd
a kind of international unity that
cannot otherwise be achieved.

The

—

reelected

affairs.

particular,
the conference
demonstrated the real meaning and goals
of democratic trade unionism.
For

geria.

meeting

which also ineluded Victor G. Reuther, international affairs director
of the UAW.

com-

labor

(ICFTU)

tary-Treasurer William F. Schnitz-

Anti-Oppression
African

con-

Walter P. Reuther to its executive
board. Neither was able to attend
the convention.
AFL-CIO Secre-

And its every action reflected*hatred

For

world

George Meany and UAW

sovereignty.

of oppression—of colonialism,
munism and fascism alike.

even

and Reuther

TUNIS

Naturally
enough,
the conference placed heavy emphasis on promoting trade unionism in the young
countries,

over

Unions

international

Returned

take

been

major

Trade

Meany

nation only since March,

1956.

of Free

first

African soil in modern history; the
first international gathering of unions

are

proved by the’ nine-day

capital.

conference

unionism

Coast

the applause.

There

many

of

were

also

whom

mountains”

has

return
over.

to

to attend

the

They,

the

had

in their neighboring

worked closely with UAW repreInternational
sentatives in the
Metal Workers Federation, an arm
of the ICFTU.

as a colony, led
“come

songs of hope
celebration.

over

the

the conference

state, and would

fighting

too,

Algerians,

sang

rather

when

songs

than

it was

—

songs

but

of

FOIVA

ARGENTINA

wane ‘star
Fuxsonts

sd

New

gation

nation of Ghana was represented by a delein

two above.

colorful

native

costume,

as

shown

Their singing was a highlight.

by

>

ee

Policy huddle brings together O. A. Knight, William G. Schnitzler and Victor GC. Reuther of the
AFL-CIO team.
Schnitzler headed delegation.

The
the

speech

reaction

Reuther,

must

We

have

of James

weren't

been

good,

told

who

B. Carey,

according

left, and

made

to

Victor

it.

“a

iE WORKER

Page 7

s_abor Day: It's Alot Just 2 Monday Off

oo tueOur cover suggests, Labor Day
siil——like other holidays—is a lot
1 31 fn. It means parades and speech© yoy, you like that sort of thing. Or
® Bfigeans a weekend in the country,

? ade yy at the ball game, taking the
oti oito the amusement park.
.. d08But Labor Day is more than
It
off.
om > an extra Monday
(Y .oean, 75 years ago, as a pretty
Jeu on business. The thousands who
hotierched in the first Labor Day
ai sivade in 1882, down Broadway to
»@ moion Square in New York, were

difesitesting as much

or more than

old-fashioned abuses.

As for miserable working-conditions, we fight them a lot more
effectively through the union’s
grievance
procedure than our

great-grandfathers
their parades.

did

through

Even the UAW has its Kohlers,
who refuse to admit there has been
any change at all. And once you step

«et

factories of. that

day.

“es Have Changed?
; bodAnd in protesting, they were riskcigp@their jobs — for in those days,
emns could not protect a
tn being fired for joining

#93 government
—Itf

All

worker
up and

simply didn’t care.

right,

you

say,

but

i4cklists

be

and

any

signs

yellow-dog

alo Miami

or

joined

Sun

AFL-CIO

CHICAGO

—

The

svillative council convened
savtuted

Automobile

sefess and

bce

was

of news —

tion,

the

quick

first

AFL-CIO

ex-

here as The

Worker

went

to produce

to

merger

f

Though

the

newspapers

and

on

the other,

hotels’

long

struggle

One

in

it ex-

against

Issue

was

jate and

the problem

of merging

local labor bodies, most

of

jhich still remain CIO or AFL. All
(dich mergers'are supposed to be comjeted before the convention, but in

fifany large industrial states — MichAan

coeen

among

them—negotiations

fruitless

so

far,

have

bers,

a

No

This same matter has contributed

) ) the merger snar] in some state and
The

building

trades,

Josacked by the Teamsters Union, have
‘emanded settlement of the jurisdic“ional

question

first.

Meany has repeatedly said that as
1 the case of the AFL-CIO itself,
herger should come first, and the re‘olution of disagreements could folpw,

of

economic

muscle

in the country

placent, less smug,
than the UAW.

There’s
tory.
About

Labor

Day

less self-satisfied

a good

halfway
and

reason

the

between

—

present

his-

the ‘first
time,

a

had

won

(for that time)

good

wages

extend

on this

that

bargaining “matters.

ers who

We

MAZEY

fought

to broaden

depression

strated

that no group

finally

single

how

area,

tightly

could

the

out-

demon-

organized
an

in

a

island

of

and so is the united labor movement
of today.

get

into

As

“labor

though
high

long

it took a long time to

gear,

ago

Samuel

as 1908

Gompers,

representation

forerunner

of PAC

the AFL,
set

up

a

committee,”

and

COPE,

to

help labor’s friends and oppose its
foes in Congressional elections,
The

committee

The

committee

and spent $8,147.19,
the

first

voting

raised
also

record

put

of

$8,225.94
together

Congress-

men on labor measures, It sent the
information to unions In their home

districts.

The Scale’s Different

Just
tee did

as today, the first commitnot make endorsements of

simple

as

this:

With

our

foundation of social legislation, plus
the sympathetic
understanding
of
federal, state and local government,
the

to

only

odds

move

are with

our

us when

forward.
own

When

strength,

we

fight

we

have

against

a

combination of the employers and
the government, the odds are against

us.

We can still win, but only by doing it the hard way.
So—since September is only two
months before November, and since
Election Day follows Labor Day by
about the same margin, don’t just
take the Monday off. Give a passing

thought to the 1882 paraders and to
the heritage you must protect.

After the ball game,

of course,

CavilCade:
Labor
Oddities
By LES FINNEGAN
IN HAGERSTOWN,
MD.,
the
UAW discovered hidden talent in the
big local union at the Fairchild Aircraft plant. Betty West, a shapely 5foot-3 brunette and a former UAW
of the 10th annual convention of the

a

PAC’ Started Early but Grew Late

Political action by labor is almost
as‘old as the labor movement itself

need

own strength as a union, plus a sound

of workers, no

build

still

need political action.

It’s as

Had to Broaden

The

We

Setting the Odds

look of the existing labor movement
and develop its sense of responsibility
to all workers.)
We

to

more.

Eastern Sunbathing Association,
five-state nudist organization.

to anyone

tied up

strength at the bargaining-table as
much as we ever did — but we need

care much
else,

what happened

their well-being was

Clearly these aren’t just collective

for their members; they had relatively strong organization in many
and they didn’t

today.

the security of our gains is tied in
with the whole world, it’s tied in
even tighter with the fate of our
fellow Americans.

steward, astonished
other union
members when she was elected queen

parts of the country;

in-

It’s even more obvious that we
have to care about social security
and minimum wages and fair employment practices and workmen’s
compensation and the rest. For if

(In all this period, of course,
there were many honorable exceptions—devoted, far-seeing craft lead-

is less com-

matters

be

fairs; and to do that, we have
know something about them.

they

LEONARD WOODCOCK
PAT GREATHOUSE
Presidents

and

to

So we take a stand on foreign af-

excess

Secretary-Treasurer

number of the old AFL craft unions
seemed to be nice and cozy, too. They

eninside factories.
An agreement
solworked out by an executive council

»0 special committee, and approved by
PU/AFL-CIO President George Meany,
eoiwas rejected by the building trades
nofconvention.

lot

union

under

hs |\yartments over construction work

areas.

fraternal greetings

EMIL

almost all the industry organized.
But if that’s what you’re thinking
you haven’t been paying attention.

—even

lioyweal

about

profits because on the surface,
were getting theirs.

ployers and the racketeers who serve
as their union fronts, know that the
benefits of union organization don’t
come easily even in the nation’s largest metropolis.

* |
Another problem was the jurist: \i|lictional dispute between the buildaiing trades ant industrial union de-

1

workers;

security for themselves alone. The
CIO was built on this basic principle,

ynion organization, the AFL-CIO
nibpricil had more important matters
) its agenda,
-wtrisdictional

factory

they

was

‘Hessed lingering resentment over the
jami

because

Sure, it’s nice and cozy in the
UAW, with a million and a half mem-

made

that

prices

matter

ustuch of the shift, guessing, on one
rind, that it was a “public relations”

“ove,

worry

farm

It Can Happen Again

s#hieved, won’t be in the balmy sunsaline of Miami Beach.
«|
Instead, the delegates will asuusemble Dec. 4 on the bleak and
uivyindswept shore of Atlantic City,

W.J. The merger convention
1955 was in New York.

wages

about

didn’t

low

one

that this year’s con-

since

care

they

in New York
crooked em-

Immigrant workers
city, caught between

such

have

No Union’s an Island

manufacturing

up in Washington or Detroit. And
so do most of his southern neighbors.

in

we

didn’t

about

They

Naturally enough, craft workers fell away from their unions.
They could “get theirs” anyway;
and since this was the union’s attitude, why should they pay dues?

T. GOSSER
MATTHEWS
Vice

But

of

because they didn’t care about the
farmer; they didn’t worry about low

worry

WALTER P. REUTHER
President

contracts

Millions of young-

saixjwipe them out.

out

everywhere.

about

have

unions

the

and

self-satisfied;

We look forward to another historic year in which our union, in
carrying out the mandates of the 1957 convention, will again establish
new economic and social frontiers for UAW members and for workers

RICHARD
NORMAN

for all the people

Just as the printers and the carpenters and all the other crafts found

to basic

not look for the flaws.

to our members and their families warm
75th anniversary of the first Labor Day.

to

frause in most parts of the country,
+ law

were

world.

terested

average

thought

The officers and international executive board of the UAW

= tehat’s a Yellow Dog?
won’t

They

the

because

the

AFL-CIO

of issues.

self-government

From the Officers and Executive Board

ifTThis Labor Day we won’t be prosubing against the eight-hour day
‘a the 40-hour week. We’ll just be
‘ting for a 30-hour week instead,
so much because we need the
tv s§ra time off but because we know

sil! There

any

nor

the

with the well-being of other Americans, we have discovered that the
well-being of Americans is tied up
with that of other workers in the
world.

times”,

For instance, even the youngest southern textile worker knows
what a blacklist is. He knows you
ean be fired for joining a union, no
matter what kind of law they have

have

sswadshorter work-week is essential
©} nation’s economic health.

leaders

why

Those 1882 paraders didn’t carry
any banners ‘about colonialism or

they wanted to latch on to the “good

outside the handful of big, well-organized basic industries, you're in the
middle of the same old jungle.

times

e¥ve changed. Indeed they
» at least on the surface.

It declined

gave

problems.
didn’t

7” yoit*hey were protesting against the

the

member

too.

They Know in Dixie

declined.

neither

ponsible for the 60-hour week and all
the rest of the miseries of 1882 have
great-grandsons,

range

All during the boom years after
World War I, membership in the old
unions

also

in general and the UAW in particular gets involved in such a wide

They ‘Got Theirs’

Just
the
same,
times
haven't
changed as much as you think —
because the old boys who were resspiritual

That’s

either.

tew dy were celebrating.

ib au¢our day, the 60-hour week, the
‘eiklist,
the yellow-dog contract,
‘ocfamiserable working-conditions in

Ten years later they were on the
ropes, almost flattened —
and it
wasn’t the depression that did it,

er workers never even heard of these

Senators

and

people

But

today’s

the

It

decisions,

operations,

of

course, are on a far different scale.

During the first five months of
a
— a so-called “off-year” —
ganized labor reported expendi-

are of $78,973.37
tivity.

on political ac-

In the same period the Republicans spent $1,485,819.36 and the
Democrats $547,441.53. The Republican finance committee in a single
Pennsylvania county spent $107,782.26, or more than all of labor combined,
These figures help to explain why

unions

are

now

tion, and the $1
job, every year.

making

drive,

officials

political

ac-

a year-round

D.C.,

enjoyed

their

AFL~

biggest

chuckle of the summer over a report
listing the lobbying expenditures of
various organizations during the first

six months of 1957.

ing

was

squandered

In top spot, hav-

more

the Campaign

than

$100,000

for the 48 States,

a reactionary group headed by unionhating Rep. Ralph Gwinn (R., N.Y.).
What the labor officials enjoyed most
was the fact that this biggest-spending outfit spends its money to lobby
government

ly

IN LONDON,
published

Swimming,”

spending.
:

°

?

Representatives.

make

WASHINGTON,

against

simply provided the facts and let the
local

CIO

IN

ENGLAND,

book,

by

“Long

Commander

a new-

Distance

Gerald

Forsberg, came up with an answer to
a question that for many generations

had puzzled union merchant marine
sailors of other nations. The puzzler:
Why British merchant mariners were

the world’s best seamen
and the
world’s worst swimmers.
A weird
superstition was responsible, As recently as 25 years ago there were
sailors “who refused throughout
their lives to immerse their bodies in
water,” Forsberg “explains.
‘Those
shipmates of mine believed wholeheartedly that immersion in water
would weaken their physical powers,
In

particular

streak down
particularly
was

never

washed,

let

there

was

one

six-inch

the backbone which was
sacrosanct.
That strip
permitted

alone

even

to

immersed.”

be

"eee
—" <>
ae

Page

—UNITED

8

AUTOMOBILE

WORKER

September

That's No Joy-Ride:

Gal Winner:

Union Vital

10c-a-Mile Car Costs Pace

Switch in Consumer Outlay
By SIDNEY

Moderate-income

transportation

food

reasonable

from

inflation

| Like Church

cost-of-living

a_

for

in

are

prices pile on top of higher housing,

are

prices

breaking

into

all

to

bills

comparatively

to now,

Up

bills.

have

that

a gallop.

one-fourth

Our
of

food

entire

expense. Thus, a typical family spending $30-32 a week for
food needs to keep its meat bill down to $7.50 to $8 a week

or it will run short of funds for other needs.
The fact is rent, car expenses, doctor and medicine bills
now demand a higher share of your income. Note the table
with this report showing the changes in the relative imporconsumer

the

in

items

different

of

tance

since

index

price

1947-49, especially the jump in housing costs. and transportation.
For the first time, typical car operating costs have
risen above 10c a mile. The latest report prepared for the
AAA by Runzheimer Corp. shows these costs jumped
514% from 1955 to 1956. This year’s higher depreciation,
insurance and fuel costs add almost as much. A family

operating one of the three most popular makes in a sixcylinder model, trading every three years, now must
these lines:

costs alons

expect

Mile

¢ Per

Insurance
Licenses ..
Depreciation

25
15
55

Gas, Oil
Maintenance
THES te es Ae ees

$ Per

..

and

lawn

and

curtains

lumber,

and

paints

rugs,

equipment.

special

in

garden

and

drapes,

warning

the

those

For

interior

work,

alkyd

flat}

enamels are taking the lead in popularity from the rubberbased water-soluble paints. Rubber-base paints are easiest!
to use because you simply wipe up spills with a damp cloth|

and rinse out brushes in soapy water. But the alkyd paints}

scrubbing.

cost

better,

paint

old

cover

usually

less and

can
=

Maye

bureau’s
metic

withstand|

A.

Russ,

care

cheapest

in

of

hanging.

not

but

all,

So-called

washable

or

sunfast

en.

there

Miss

last

a

lent

More
gpe

as

ir

the

state-

Congressional

_sub-

in

Powers Needed
also declared that

the

Get FTC

and

why.”

the

Federal

.Trade

face

Flint

tive

lore>~ at this time of year than in early spring.
TURNITURE: Here again prices are generally higher
than last year, and upholstered pieces are due for another
boost soon. If you’re buying, watch the sales — — and watch
the furniture too.

to

stop

treatment”

broadly

a machine

teachers,

greatest

he

run

complishments of my union
are felt.

a

in

and

asserted,

challenge

At work my union takes
care of my working conditions,

rates

of pay,

looks

out for my

protection and

|

i

seniority

in general

| '

welfare.

!

At home, my union makes

in

itself felt through

promoting

standards

family.

i|

and providing better living|

challenge will determine to a
large extent whether we have
chaos or Utopia in 2000 A.D.,”

Com-

One

of my life. Whether Iam at
work, home, or at play, ac-

coming
be more

grounded

worth-while.

life

My union is a living part

meld

be

to

needs

is his church, the other his
union. Just as the church fills
our spiritual need, the union
fills the need for human dignity.

history of education.
“How
well
you
vocational
teachers measure up to that

for

has made

enjoy more

my

said.

County Industrial Union Council
to fill the unexpired term of the
Tacino
late
Ellsworth
Smith.
has been director of CIO community services.

arthritis,

it possible for us to
fully the precious

resistant to scratches, and water marks, rings, etc. can be
removed simply by going over them with an oiled cloth. One
sign of cheap furniture is a glossy varnish finish lacking
depth and smoothness. Particularly beware the tendency of
some manufacturers to sell furniture made of soft woods as
“mahogany” because it has a mahogany finish.
In buying upholstered sofas and chairs your main choice
is between flat-weave upholstery fabrics and pile weaves.
Pile fabrics cost more, are generally more durable and more
luxurious-looking. But the less costly flat-weave fabrics don’t
collect as much dust and are easier to clean.
Here is a check-list of points to watch out for when
buying furniture: table leaves that don’t match table in.color;
warped table tops; dents poorly filled in with shellac so that

in the political field has
made politics a living and
breathing thing with my
family. Imagine combining
the views of a husband,
wife and two teen-age children, who, incidentally, always think they are authorities on any subject. Living in a predominantly reactionary neighborhood, it
makes my heart proud to
see that because of our discussions at home, our children dare defy the popular
of the high
viewpoint
school children and openly
wear the buttons of our organization.
At play, my union figures
' very strongly. It is because of

glides not installed under legs; inadequate corner blocks;
brittle or porous finish, especially of table tops; open joints
in bedroom pieces; poor drawer fit.
*
°
°
7
Here are the changes in the BLS retail price index
which show-the new directions your money is taking:
1947-49 Dec., 1956

three weeks’ paid vacation,
seven paid holidays and every
Besides providing
+ weekend.
for my time off, my union
has gone even further. Now
my union sponsors bowling
Fei
sy tournaments, golf clinics and
handicraft
tournaments,

More

modern

is

furniture

appearing

finish instead of glossy varnish. Oiled wood

they

still

bed

show;

Sinise

rd
Acaparel

..

Medical

Care

rails

that

don’t

Readi

BEATE

PS

Cate:

Ri

in

match

6.8

3.2

ones

ar re

Copright, 1957, by Sidney

FTC

rate

aa

62

100%

Margolius

7

11.2

5.4
22

51

x

aa

5-1

100%

|

See
-

BE

fs

a.

—

was

BROTHERHOOD

e

;

%
the

.

=

of the

theme

:

jamboree

week-long

of

53,000 Boy Scouts from all over the country at Valléy Forge, Pa.
Four

scout

years

of

leaders

bias that

hard

paid

marred

work

by

off as there

the

the

UAW

was

1953 jamboree

and

other

no recurrence
in Los

unions

of the

Angeles.

The

with

racial

prin-~

enjoy

lessons

dancing

classes,

now

I

that

union

my

color; metal

27

a

eae

declared.

the

wood

oiled

24

Honk...

ae CL EAR AOEL

etc,

finishes are more

1212

Trodenttation
Personal

with

rheumatism,

|
|

union

of the

effect

The

|
|

It

moments a family spends together.
At home my union
CHICAGO POST TO IACINO
has helped encourage more
CHICAGO—Paul A. Iacino, of |participation
in community
the UAW has been elected secre- affairs and in learning about
tary-treasurer
of the Cook
other peoples of the world.
Arnold

“misrepre-

for

the

the

Mich-

senting the benefits” of their
drugs, “O-Jib-Wa bitters” and
“Oscoda bitters.” Despite the
firm’s advertising claims, “neither preparation is an effec-

of

patching.

make

be-

to

diver

BARKS)

being

a human

Vocational

“needs

—

I © me there are two things

declared F that

said,

makes

Today’s

igan medicine-men have been
handed another kind of dose
by

Utalse

Arnold

what

Men

WASHINGTON—Two

American

below.

14, city champion

EYEE ANCES

20-hour|

ee soon veneion:

technician

Lumber prices have dropped about 6% in the last year,
and some plumbing equipment is also cheaper. But heating
equipment, hardware, concrete products and asphalt roofing are all higher. Construction costs in general tend to be

careful

er,”

quackery.

Dose

the

story

is

bowling.
She's a_ full-time
president, serves as secretary
of the pension board and administers the insurance program even to the payment of
claims,
Sc ais

of

broadly trained. It is up to you
to find brand new ways to train
them.”
=
“The next century’s best work-

protect

to

powers

added

a

the

trouble

swimmer in her age
group. Frances herself loves
the Tigers and hates the Yankees, and averages 155 in

American

“the
workers for
the
age of automation must

the Post Office Department
need

relief

of Pennsylvania

Anrld

practices.

ly sunfast and washable. Wallcloth, a durable fabric cover,
is useful where you want to hide badly-cracked plaster
without

fore

testimony

mission.
The
FTC
told the
O-Jib-Wa Medicine Co. and
the Continental Products Co.

walls

University

investigating fraudu-

advertising

have

—

caused

from

Mary,

work week within the next 40
years, a university official has
predicted.
The prediction was made by
Dean William Arnold of the

wom-

rederal Trade Commission

not

are

troubles

will

workers

cosno

made

month

PHILADELPHIA

Brass Co.j why

second-baseman on bis high
school team, and a daughter,

°
or Utopia?

Chaos

the

are

of aging

Russ

of

for

Rapids,

Frances has a son, Lynn, 16, 4

20-Hour Week:

preservatives

such

signs

committee

by experts. Pre-pasted wallpapers are general-

recommended

like

Better

and

drug

division, says

external

are

papers

and

feel

director

food,

to counter-act

Papers sold only as “sunfast” should not be considered
washable. They can be drycleaned only, and also require

more

promise

Navona

medically - known

with mild soap and water.

“ungrounded”

for reducing or
artLritic pains.

Grand

Rapids

hasn’t

clear

There is no medical support,
she said, for most drugs taken

Beware

that

Many moderate-cost houses nowadays are decorated|the public against
with wallpaper, ofter because commercial builders find it less
expensive. Washable, sunfast papers are the most practical
Medicine
with
aned
drycle
be
can
and economical in the long run. They
wallpaper cleaner and then washed

a

women

family:
ads

eee says EB

ment

manufacturers.

major

the

to make you look and
a schoolgirl again.

PAINT, LUMBER: Paint prices have been advanced by|beforé

several

to

UAW

cosmetic

— Here's

MSitiesS g DUTEAN Wuichy Das
$106
repartee assteady increase; in
18
530 | or ceptive clans tors aaa
Sea
Syereht Sees

Pre-Labor Day sales offer a chance to replace tires at
prices. Other buying opportunities include furniture and

this

Sorry, Girls -- Those Fancy
Drugs Won't Restore Youth

Year

At the rate of 10,000 miles a year the total bill comes to}
$1,034—more if you rent a garage.

Grand

LEATHER GOODS class of Local 22 is hard at work. Tnistractor
at the weekly sessions is Ted Tellefsen (standing). To right of
him is Rosalie Koss, women’s committee chairman.

$654

3.80

cut

&

WASHINGTON

1233,

Mich, (In case you_wondered,
65%
of the members are
men.) Her husband, John, is
a supervisor in the same plant,

is to try

advice

your

of Local

creeping

the

kept

—

One of three women prizewinners in the UAW’s EyeOpener contest is Frances
Parks, for nine years president

MARGOLIUS

families

medical

and

meat

your

keep

to

meat

as soaring

squeeze

19:

| ™
(1
wi
/10
)we
)\a
ji
} \s

for) 9

) %
children and .most important
:

of all,

¢

to

ar

need
y

aE

BT

our

widen

an

5

ever-present)’

for knowledge.
I

aio dae

said in

the

beeina\ni:

begin=)'1
the
. es, as I said in
|
d
Boar
rian
byte
Pres
the
of
s
Evan
H.
s
Loui
Dr.
by
on,
serm
l
cipa
e are two organiza-| \s
of National Missions, was based in part on the “South Pacific” | MINE, ther
person needs. One, his} 1!
a
s
tion
the
of
Ross
y
Harr
.”
Hate
to
ght
Tau
Be
to
Got
ve
song, “You
oO
church—the second, his =n
fair practices and anti-discrimination department was on hand,

September

UNITED

1957

AUTOMOBILE

WORKER

Page

That Gas Bill Ils Back: It
Could Triple Your Cost
Gas

Natural

if the Harris

tripled

gas bill will be

household

monthly

Your

9

bill, now

|before Congress, is passed. That’s the opinion of one of the country’ leading experts on
utility problems.
James Lee, a member of the Michigan Public Service Commission, declared that a
with gas and who now pays $25 a month will pay $75 a
| householder who cooks and heats
>month for gas if the Harris”
bill becomes law. Lee made

Promote Two
In Education

over

by
the

Detroit

Malcolm

and

Evans

Carroll

M.

nationwide

gram.

The

Harris

Lee,

Power

Brendan
Sexton,
union’s education

department,
They are

“Eye-Opener,”

UAW’s

veteran
two
of
Promotion
| UAW educators to be assistant
anwas
directors
education

nounced
head of

Odell to Head
Retiree Setup

the statement in an interview

would

Federal

from

tired

setting

or}

bought

gas

natural

would

sumer.

Hut-

the

Charles E. Odell has been appointed coordinator for UAW re-

to

by the pipeline companies

which

of

according

prevent

on

owned

radio pro-

bill,

Commission

a price

the

be

fair

Instead

like this are J oe Payton’s

LANDSCAPES

favorite

CASTLE,

—

“But

When,

Joe

—

he

since

That’s

14.

was

years
here.

the 29
longer than
spent in the plant

TORRINGTON, Conn, — That |
old
gag
about
“beautiful
but
dumb”
doesn’t
apply
to Anna

winner

schoJarship

of

the

top

award

He

how

many

“25

30”

around

turned

or

youngster.”

The
slowed

hobby

but

took

Union

brains

to

$1,000

from

the

Council.

win

the

is

the

It

award,

and the accompanying
speaks for itself.
Anna

picture|

daughter

of Mr. |

and Mrs. Paul Kicin. Her mother
is a member

of

being employed
ton Co.

UAW

by

1645,|

Local

the

af-

know

)
|

he

has

After

drive in 1941

840’s

first

Torring-|

and

lem.

the

°

the

couldn’t

of

their

park

days
and

the

considering

the

100 happy

|

kids,

The

commission

has

fair

the

rob

to

held
the

fixing

in

that

to

the

bill

would

enrich

the

average

further

companies

gas

who

con-

rates

Labor.

aside,

of

educators.

tend

Boston
In

the

school

College.

addition

She

of

to

plans

to

education.
providing

at-

of

the

top award of $1,000 and 15 basic
scholarships
for
high
school
grads,
the
program
will
continue
financial
aid
next
year
for more than 36 upperclassmen
at the University of Connecticut
and

the

teachers

colleges,

plus

assistance to four upperclassmen
not helped previously,

ers

Educational

simply

pipeline
making

UAW ’s

in

several

days

studying

operations

“very handsome profits” even
now, the commissioner declar-

program

health

customers

of gas, who

the

of

ly

pass

form

higher

gas

higher

can

simp-

rates

on

in

prices

for

their
products,
as
I am
with
the householder, who can’t pass}
the extra cost on to anybody and

who

is in

tomer’

said,

effect

of

a ‘captive

a local

pointed out. “You

noythey

monopoly,”

cus-

Lee

either get your

gas from the one local distributor or you go without it. There

entry

is no choice
That’s why

and no competition.
we have regulatory

commissions in the utility field
to set rates. But the Harris bill
would subvert that.”
The

AFL-CIO

recently

called

on all affiliated unions to mobilize their membership
in op| position to the Harris bill.

result,

CLASSES IN SINGLE CITY

| mark

and other
nations are well

country.

Bad Movies
In

about

Pay

Copenhagan,
a

million

a

city

population,

of

Jen-

sen's association sponsors
1,300
evening
classes,
covering
subjects from foreign language and

foreign

policy

to

hobbies

labor
problems.
The
range
subjects is broader than here,
explained,

because

“we

and

think

of
he

it

Anna

Kicin

classes

Jensen

are

said,

to make

actually

Among

taught,

sure

being

the

held

He

latter

the

In

in the U.S.

officer

acting manpower
employment
the

in Newark,

service

that

held,

other

1943.

in

NJ.,

various

positions

with

Odell

developed

the

1937

from

agency

1940

on.

nation-

comprehensive

first

a

as

years

war

the

Navy and was
for
director

counselling
wide employment
manual for the U. S. Employment Service. He also pioneered in studies of the employwork-

older

of

problems

ment

ers, conducted by the service
in five states in 1950 and 1951.
Odell is a former president of

and
Personnel
American
the
Guidance Association, a member
of the National Committee on

Social
National
of the
Aging
Welfare Assembly and a representative of the Department of

Council

Federal

the

on

Aging.
An alumnus

city

York

in

years

Uni-

Syracuse

of

NJ.

Passaic,

early

his

spent

but

UAW Pair Head

SLC

HARTFORD, Conn.—The president and executive secretary of
the

newly-merged

State

Labor

Council,

Connecticut

AFL-CIO,

are
UAW
members.
They
are
Mitchell
Sviridoff
and John
J,
Driscoll

9A

SERIOUS
dent

SUBJECT

Norman

of workers’

Matthews,

education

engrosses

Vice

Presi-

E, Odell, newly-appointed coordinator for retired
workers’ activities, and Borge Jensen,
Matthews
presided at a UAW
Danish labor education leader,
luncheon at which Jensen both learned and taught,

sources
of school
union-owned moyie

funds
house,

Charles

Is

a

“We show very bad American
pictures,
but people
like
them,”

he

Lifetime

medical

care

and

there

is no

doctor

Is

shortage

“Actually,
you
can
go
to
private doctor and pay for it

you

“But

want

a
if

to,”

Jensen

them

feel

people

it

makes

in

the

superior.

smiled,

free

Sviridoff,

or the
On

do

There

quality

care,”
the

this only

of

other

is

no

a

hails

from

Driscoll,

is

.were

State,

of

the

1251,

president

former

other

little

bit

dent,

Jensen

how to make sure the workers
share in its benefits,
This is
ome reason he is here, under
the auspices of the internaservice

Local

| tary-treasurer,
the
M,

H,

Collins,

and

Region

Kerrigaa,

Bridgeport.

sub-regional

Connecticut

because

877,

to

director,

Waterbury,
and

secre-

respectively,
state CIO,

two

officers

of

of

the

council are Timothy

executive

Joseph

secretary-treasurer,

vice

M,.

presi<

Rourke,

treatment

hand,

educational

a

from

They

Local

on

said, Europeans have much to
learn from this country about
productivity,
and
especially

tional

Charles

went

difference

the

assistant

Director

The

You Can Pay, But...

up

is

employment

of

41, married and father of two
children. He was born in New

but checks

what

He

workers.

older

adin personnel
Washington,
psychology, social
ministration,
insurance and guidance. He is

classes comes from the government, which does not attempt to

is better that we hold classes
inside the labor movement than
outside,”
Most
of the money
for the

with

department’s

graduate
took
Odell
versity,
University,
at American
work

assured to every Dane, the visitor continued,
This system
began with insurance funds set up
by early
unions,
but
has since
become universal and Is supplemented by state money, he said
The doctors don't object to it

interfere

| classification

on

3

Scandanavian
ahead of this

to

Labor

of

the

chief

has
the

he
to

Connecticut

Den-

of

Department

Field

for

spent

1955,

Labor

the

—

and

new

ed.
counselling, selective placement
}
“I am not so concerned with) and testing of the U. S. Emthe industrial and commercial
ployment Service from 1947 to

Detroit.

program

In

as

served

Jensen’s account made it clear
that in at least two areas —
workers’ education
and a national

develop-

Employment

S.

the

and

coordinate

Copenhagen, Denmark, who in
the course
of an
eight-week

States spent

the

union’s

Secretary

Under

of

visit to the United

in

Since September 1955
been ‘ special assistant

Borge
Work-

Association

of Ashton,
as special

post.

U.

the

Pioneered

wrong
when
Americans
as

is the
view
of
secretary of the

the

in

Service

labor, its functions and achieve- they
think
of
Europeans
as
ments,
and
outstanding
labor| “backward” in living-standards
personalities
of
the
past
and) or the comforts of home.
This
Jensen,

assist

of

career

In
order
to win
the
$1,000
award, Anna
had
to pass
two) dollar-chasers
with no interest
tests—first, a written examina-| in social or cultural progress —
tion on the history of organized
and Americans are wrong when

present;
and
second,
an
oral
test by an impartial
committee

an-

Odell has Had wide experience
in the field of older workers’
problems
and
a distinguished

consumer

are

Reuther

enlarged program for its more
thar. 75,000 retired members, as
convendirected by the UAW
tion.

pipeline

technicalities

will

ment

and

or not those

costs,

Harris

He

the

rates—to

relation

newly-created

Court

power

Presi-

assistant to the Under Secretaty of Labor to accept the

to over-

Supreme

which

Pushing

later, Doug CarFelton Light of

members,

U.S.

| company

the
local’s
recreation
committee came
back with the
answer—a $25
check, voted
by

designed

1954

are

young-

25¢

a

sider whether

soft-

director

afford

fee.
A few
avaggio

negoti-

That's One Mark
Of Danish Unions

one

bill was

duty—in

3 since

couldn’t enter the city’s
ice tournament because

He

LABOR

Europeans
are
they
look
upon

in Region

Neighborhood

sters,

was)

president.

1,300

Michigan.

ball games at Mehares park,
Detroit, members of Chrysler
Local 7 heard about a prob-

it down,

Joe was a leader in the UAW’s

Local

of

High

decision

A $25 Bargain:
100 Happy Kids

house

burdens.
Since
he has
raised)
seven children, they’ye been considerable.
organizing

turn

automation,

materials
has
somewhat, esBut
he’s
days.

has also served on
$7,500 scholarship
program
of| ating committee.
the
former
Connecticut
State}

Industrial

he

the

He turned

cost
of
Joe down

The

Council’s

In announcing the promotions, Sexton noted that the
union’s education program has
been stepped up to its highest
pitch in order to help meet the
new problems of the age of

to the

canyases

out,

University

| 1949,

doesn’t

exactly

Profits

1A. He is ac-

Community

representative

|pecially
these
quick to acknowledge that until
the
lockout
the
UAW
did
a
great deal to ease his financial)

This Beauty
Is No Dope
Kicin,

war.

repre-

Hutton, a former president of
Local
662, has
been
education

ture, “but I was offered $500
for one once, when
I was
a

in

town.

in

the

down

his

education

institute of labor industrial relations at Wayne University and

besides the many he has given
away. He has never sold a pic-

he

until
“Then,
he says.
school,”
1916, I took lessons from a couhad
we
artists
ple of retired

here

resumed

the

has

even

I was

when

out

ter

years,

45

than

more

“T started

Joe

in

painting

in the

so I was interrupted for a while.”

easel,

been

has

for

oils

his

I went

tive

border with the Army,
after that I went overseas,

and

Local
840’s nine-month
struggle against a lockout by Piasecki
Aircraft Corp., Joe Payton has

a refuge

then

in} Mexican

discouraging

most

are

things

Del.

been

sentative in Region

subject.

Piasecki Strike Vet Finds
Solace in Painter's Easel
NEW

has

P.

Odell, a resident
Md., has
resigned

actual
costs,
the
FPC
would
ton of Chesterfield, Ind.
have to set rates on a formula
Eyans, 46, was a pioneer mem- jof “fair field value.” This for-| ber of Local 212 in 1937 and later ;mula does not take actual costs
became
president of Local 49. into consideration,
He

activities,

| dent.
Walter
nounced.

to the con-

of

workers’

exchange

Department

of

Women's Session Set
The

sent

out

ference

20-21 by
women’s

official

has

been

conducted

Sept.

for the

to

be

call

women’s

con-

Regions 1 and 1A, the
department and the

women's committee, More
than 200 delegates, representing 40,000 women
members,
are
expected
at
the
Fort
Shelby Hotel, Detroit,

Page

10

UNITED

AUTOMOBILE

September

WORKER

A

record turnout of 13,000

ilies attended
Belle

Isle

the annual

Park,

motor metropolis
of fried chicken
games

and

in the

prizes,

retired members

picnic conducted

1957

and their fam-

by the UAW

Detroit

river

midway

These

photos

show

between

at

the

and Windsor, Ont. More than six tons
were consumed.
There were speeches,
too.

typical

scenes:

#80. good housing:
£2 or national origin.

® Just as important for the present and even more important for the future is the upcoming
generation, the UAW believes. More than 900 youngsters in six groups attended the FDRIt’s the 10th year the camp has been operated
CIO Labor Center during July and August.
under the joint sponsorship of the UAW recreation department and the Michigan cio
Council. Located at Port Huron, Mich., the camp provides facilities for all sorts of sports,
games,

crafts

eration.

The

and

hobbies.

Olga

photos at left and

Madar,

below

UAW

recreation

indicate what

director,

is in charge

the kids think of it.

of the op-

WORKER

AUTOMOBILE

UNITED

Worth

Less in lowa?

Caterpillar Policy
Scored by Council
MOLINE,

Ill. —

The

Caterpillar

Tractor

Co.’s

effort

te

create unjustified wage differentials in its branch plants is
solely responsible for a 514-month-old strike at its Riverdale,

Ia, plant, the UAW

J

In

an

Caterpillar Council charged

angrily-worded

“anfair and unjust” the ¢
management’s “adamant refusal” to pay its 150 River-

as

dale workers the same
established in its main

in Peoria,

DL.

Workers

at

More

HARD AT WORK
to
delegates
of

VanAtta Added
To Safety Staff
The

former
for

search

Council,

director

National

the

Floyd

VanAtta,

been named UAW
industrial

1st Technical
Session a Hit

Safety

has

consultant on

hygiene

and

radi-

CHICAG

ology. Announcement of his appointment to the newly-created
post was made by Lloyd Utter,
director

of

the

UAW

technical

will

time

work

to assist local

committees
alth and
and

with

industrial

his entire

the
in

has

safety

with

°943,

before

growing

use

the

gion

joining

Safety

movement

Raiseless

PAINESVILLE,

hazards,

Industrial

have

refusing

Lack

to

agreement

the

on

Rayon

of wage

for

gone

ratify

was

boosts

here

a

the

ratification

of
of

strike

at

after

new

pact.

in the

chief

the

of

two

brought

and

urged

new

three

groups

the

labor

on by tech-

in

412.

delegates

agreed

failure.

their

business

sessions. Reporting back to the
full meeting were Hubert Emerick of Local 212 and George
Klix and Frank Pompa of Local
The

reason

for

the

unanimously

conference

an annual

should be

affair.

troit

reasons”
pass HR

why Congress should
8996, the authoriza-

tion bill reported by the Joint
Committee on Atomic Energy; UAW President Walter
P, Reuther has told more
than
100 members
of the
House

of Representatives.

First, he said, the bill fills
gaps
in our nuclear
science
program, vital because leadership
in the
development
of
atoms
for peace
is essential
to

“U.S.

the

prestige

hearts

and

throughout

Second,

in

the

world.”

the

of

struction by
Development

This

opposed

by

unions

UAW

because

Energy
guards

fastcon-

even

project

and

the

is

other

Atomic

Commission's own safecommittee
refuses
to

certify

GOP

the

Mich.,

it as

Sees

Third,

safe.

Reuther

added,

hidden

pockets

subsidies

the

of

American

Republican

committee,

that

opposition

roe

on

report

on

reactor

the

was

in

of

a

the

minor-

bill, charged

to

its sponsorship

the

taxpayers

members

joint

ity

from

the

based

by

the

the
the

laid-off
up

recently

to

support

of

construction
power plant

has

been

given

Farmers

by

Union,,

the

which

a threat to agriculture
the
Detroit-Toledo
community.
danger
by

the

proposed

an

analysis

of
or

might

Pointing

persons
injured

jor form

to

in it

matter

radioactive

Region

Mich—

the

sale

and

merger

Pressed

in Marysville,
UAW
Region

Metals

of

the

plant

it was revealed by
1D Director Ken

Robinson,
Sens.
Pat
McNamara
and
Charles Potter had been asked
for

the
689,

help

in

a

letter

sent

Pressed

The

hundred

Metals

by

since

local

called

of

transactions
financial

Frederick

by

for

stock

a

in-

ownership

syndicate

speculators

W.

an

headed

Richmond

of

tion of a going

son

said.

number

such

tion

an

violated.

of

by

New

regula-|

If There’s Nota Law...
“On

Metals

behalf

workers

their

jobs,

and

De~

local

has

asked

Marysville-Port

of

the

who

on

for

a

no viola-

regulations,

then

as

One

of

Randolph

be

a

Burgess

management
member
went

Spread

to

good

thing.

it

Way

they see it, a “readjustment”
or “leveling off” is a “healthy”

In

to stop

other

inflation.

words,

when

of

area,

probe

the

the

of

nothing,

ry about
eating.

you

won't

inflation

have

you're

—

to

president
Chicago,

several

the

1943

and

he

has

of Local
For the

months

quarters
cultural

ment

Lo-

his head-

at the UAW’s agriimplement
depart-

office

in

Chicago,

re-

on

of

UAW

strike

negotiating

continue

an

hour

customers

ses-

the

strike.

below

Peoria

rates

Everett

are

of

the

company’s

“unfalr and unjust position with
regard to the Englehart strike”
and would take “whatever ac-

tions may be deemed necessary
to bring the Englehart strike to

a successful and victorious conclusion.”
The council said the strike is
being

supported

labor

by

moyement

City

The

the

in

area.

entire

the

Caterpillar

Quad-

Council

is

made up of delegates from five
locals:
974,
Peoria;
786,
York,
Pa.; 751, Decatur, Ill.; 710, Kansas City, Mo., and 215, Riverdale.

we

have

to

take

a

asked

the

long

at

wor-

just about

Everett

nomist

M.

trade
cepted
special

an

new

1,000

UAW

members

peak. In 1955 it was
Richmond syndicate
gain-basement”

price.

the

previous

than
more

its

sold to the
at a “barHowever,

management.

Interest Bled It
The

Richmond

rowed
terest

tal

the

to

group had

bor-

heavily, at exorbitant inrates, to get enough capli-

buy

the

firm

| for a
wiped

charges.

The

filnally

continued

while,

out

by

its

and

while

profits

were

operations

heavy

speculator

Labor

of

interest

syndicate

substantial

eut

living standards,

in

wages

up

College,

Kas-

1945

of

with

Commerce

the

National

and

Unite¢d

Rubber

Two
years
later he
to CIO as secretary of
policy

Post

the

committee.

Korean

as special

war

Kas-

assistant

of the National

Resources

Board.

He

resumed his CIO post until 1953,
when he was named deputy di-

rector

of

affairs

the

In

the

operation

ent

as

office

of

Later

labor

International
the

he

advisor

embassy.
He left
come to the UAW,

Kassalow
in

Detroit,

Strike

at

Education

the

Co-

(pres-

Marshall

to

the

went

to

this

Paris

post

and

will make

US,

to

has

his

Eaton

CLEVELAND.

the

He

labor

old

is married

four children.
home

of

Administration

name

plan.)

at

on the workers and the
for refusing to take a

the

served

Security

admitting mismanblamed
the
shut-

plant,

under

heads

until

to the chairman

of

the

ac-

York city and

and

economic

During

but

closed

instead of
agement,

down
UAW

plant,

who

Departments

and

its

the sales arrangement included
very favorable
financial
terms

for

serve

of City

worked

the

and

has

operation,

alumnus

Workers.
returned

at

at

will

A ~>tive of New

salow

15 years’

service,

Weinberg,

the

than

ec0-

government

Kassalow

Nat

an

a post with the UAW’s
projects department.

salow

Metals.”

on

in

union

rector

those

went

more

experience

Pressed

what

Kassalow,

with

Held ICA

prevent

Kassalow

Archives.
He joined CIO as a
research assistant in that year.
In 1947 he became research di-

Senators

look

M.

Kassalow to Aid
Special Projects

regulations
to
see
if
they
shouldn’t
be strengthened
to

than

the

think

since

on

ex-

The plant, founded more
30 years
ago,
employed

Pressed| “readjusted” out of a job, with
have lost your paycheck “leveled off" to

behalf

Huron

SEC

Robin-

Both
former
Secretary
of
the
Treasury
George
Humphrey and Under-Secretary W.

tions

been

concern,”

sion.”

way

have

of

exploita-|

Inflation Remedy
‘Little Depression’

York, It wants to find out specifically whether Securities and
Commission

as an

“If there has been

would

Exchange

regard

4 staff

Pearson will make

job-

In its resolution, the council
| said it would inform Caterpillar

im-

ways the Eisenhower administration plans to fight inflation is
by hoping for a “little depres-

laid-off

workers.

we

WASHINGTON —

executive board of Local
Port Huron, which repre-

sents several

what

been

been servicing Caterpillar
cal 974, Peoria, DL

its

Did Financial Fiddling Shut Pressed Metals?
RAPIDS,

has

is a former
992, North

last

interna-

the

Harvester

plants

two-day

10-17c
wages.

contaminaland
with)

poisons.”

8.

a

ers

that might be killed
in a reactor explo-

explosion would be
tion of agriculture

board.

Pearson

the

of

at

pointed
out
competitive

Company-proposed

plant.

from

tional

appoint-

approved

meeting

over production
standards for
one year. It still refused to pay
Peoria rates, however.
This refusal resulted in a
unanimous vote by the work-

cause.”

of danger

was

The

disputed
job
descriptions
and
dropped demands that the workers forfeit their right to strike

sion, the paper adds that “a ma-

this
and

a

Greathouse.

last

De-

Caterpillar deVice
President

sion in June, the company accepted the union’s ‘proposal on

National

out the huge

is

Deere,

finally

At

the

also
in

now

10-17¢

is posed

of

plant

Case

workers,

atomic
Mich.,

Monroe

ment

director

fused to budge, so the Englehart |

publica“serious

to agriculture

modest,

Caterpillar

as well as
industrial

The NFU’s official
tion charged that

L

amples.

March

sees

were

citing

J.

215,

objections

of a “risky”
at Monroe,

considered

Englehart

and

(PAI)—Strong

labor

union

rates,

ratified

Farmers Join
Reactor Foes
WASHINGTON

Pat

for

in

assistant

of the union’s
partment
by

Riverdale

began

Named

plants in the Quad-City area
—of which Riverdale is a part
—were
higher
than
Peoria

negotiations.

sion

report

no

633.

in

Negotiations

contract

Negotiators
that
rates

pact upon farming that an accidental atomic
plant
explo-

safety issue
UAW’s
re-

risky development
who built it.

Mon-

solely

Their

local,

appointed

Englehart

bing machine shop requiring
much more skill than repetitive
operations
at
Peoria.

years.

make

other

declarations that
be
an
unsound

vestigation

Spooks

committee
declined
to
accept
the AEC
plan
to finance this
so-called “private” development
by

peated
would

now-closed

the Power Reactor
Corp.,
he
said.

Monroe,

brushed aside
and
ignored

in

bill

turns thumbs down on the
breeder
reactor
under

and

the

quested Michigan State College
of East Lansing, Mich., to

Michigan’s
two
U.S,
Senators
have promised to check whether
federal regulations were violated
by the manipulations involved

men

committee

Co.

utilities.

GRAND

winning

minds

private

Edison

the

first

proposals

This
newsletter
has learned
that the U.S.
Department of
Agriculture has
formally re-

Reuther Backs New Atomic
Bill—Minus Monroe Reactor
There are “three important

for

Caterpillar.

The

of

those contract changes.
Hans
Larson of the Region 1C staff
assisted the shop committee in

re-

full discussion

of

Local

John-

the

members

insurance

members

Re-

growing

150

here.

the

local unions to insure a “unified force” behind them.
The 50 delegates
broke into

(PAI)—The

1,800 members of Local 482
the Textile Workers Union

America

1958

Pact

O.

Robért

the

Co.

denounced

Harvey Pearson, formerly a
UAW representative, has been

Dough

the

council

Caterpillar Aide

rates
plant

cember, with the union seeking
the same contract provisions and
wage rates in effect in the Peoria
plant,
which
is organized
by
UAW Local 974.

Not only that, but management stands half the cost of

conference

address,

for

Tool

nological and social changes in
the nation.
Matthews outlined the UAW’s
collective bargaining
goals for

active materials in industry will
come under VanAtta’s study as
will the
continuing
campaign

Spurn

discussed

sponsibilities

radio-

against
centuries-old
such as lead poisoning.

4 Director

ston

Council

of

the

the UAW while most of those in
other Big Three plants are unorganized.)
In a welcoming

a

UAW
Local
633,
representing
workers at Industrial Machine

(Chrysler office workers are in

the

and

of

is perhaps

workers’

here.

to industrial

Institute

National

technical

devoted

served

of Mlinois

The

union

Vancouver,

career

having

Armour
state

of

VarAtta

safety,

full-

on
plant
safety,
radiation problems

programs.
A
native

Wash.,

Utter

ance

outstanding task facing the UAW
today, and as for office workers, “General Motors and Ford
are no different than Chrysler,”
Vice President Norman Matthews
told the UAW’s
first national

health and safety division. VanAtta

workers

by

FENTON, Mich.—Management
now picks up the full tab for
hospitalization and life insur-

O—Organization

Less

the

Pearson

chose
the UAW
as bargaining
agent
in October
1956, shortly
after that firm had been bought

Insurance Gains
Cover Layoffs

of
conference
first national
technical
workers.
One-day
session was held in Chicago.

of re-

Skill,

Manufacturing

is this group
UAW’s
the

resolution,

here.

(PAI)—Local

AFL-CIO
Society

Eaton

ts

21

Mechanics
on

strike

Manufacturing

Company's axle division plant
here because of the discharge

of two
plant

members of a five-man
bargaining
committee.

WORKER

AUTOMOBILE

UNITED

September

1957

———_—_—_——

[Aircraft Jobs Fly

Away, Union Asks

Five-Point

Action

The threat of unemployment hangs over thousands of
UAW members in the aircraft industry, and top officers of

the union are moving swiftly to do what they can to prevent
layoffs and to help those already out of work.
Steps taken so far include a-meeting with U.S. Defense

Department

officials, demands?

for federal aid and action by
the UAW community services
department to assist hardpressed members.

Unemployment,
a
recurring
problem in the auto and farm
implement industries, is now a
factor in aircraft, which up to|
-]now has been the nation’s big-|
gest

ioe mont

‘Too bad, kid, you ain‘t a power company.’

tion bill is dead

— The

school construc-

for another

session

the

North

gress because President Eisenhower didn’t
lift a finger to help it.
This is the view of the UAW Washington office and other on-the-scene backers

ern

of the measure.
Actually, they say, the President hurt the
bill's chances by criticizing its formula for
distributing federal aid. Rep. Samuel K. Mc-

Republicans

while

their

allies,

The

far

can

ers

thousand

represented

by

UAW

been

in

Los

Angeles

missile

Last

of

the

project.

month

delegation
liam

which

met

H. Francis,

personnel

and

Others

Pentagon.

reserve,

ment

led a

year,

Wil-

re-

Hosvital

Associated

the

Service (Blue Cross) of $11
to $33 million in hopped-up
premium charges.
the
an

open

critical

its

than

rather

increase

and

hearing

questioning

management

tions.

some

opera-

head;

and

leader

TWU

Quill,

Michael

officers

of

of

in-

more than 200 unions in demanding a public hearing from
the

state

surance.

quest

on

superintendent
They

an

based

analysis

their

of

in

assets

reserves?”

and

Annual

Faggen

Pattern?

re-

Blue

New

year — which it also withdrew
rather than face a hearing. The
by both labor and
conclusion

Blue

Cross

does

not

is

want

that

its

scrutinized.
operations
Fageen, in a special memo
welfare
the
for
preparec
funds, compared the “public”
report of Blue Cross with the

one

it must

submit

by

law

to

departinsurance
state
the
out
pointed
Faggen
ment.
actually
Cross
Blue
that
showed a net gain of over $2
million in’ 1956 and not the
reported loss of $4.6 million.

Claims
noted,

naic

to

actually

hospitals,
totaled

he

$103

million instead of $123 million
in the “public” report.

will

the

public

in re-

right

to

cost of a gall bladder
to

operation

the

social workers

Our

a cheryoman.

act like uur bus-

inessmen. 2nd file one set of
figures with the public, and another, supposedly private, with
the government.
“The effects of this kind of
precisely

are

operation

what

| they would be if Blue Cross’

ill-motivated
were
managers
costs
The
private profiteers,

No

private

to

jof

the

...

their

jalong

businesses

public.

“They

listed

vresident

with

four

at

vice

the

the

$112

premiums
expenses.”

million
went

for

first letter

of

$58,769.15

presidents

to $5,961,million of

in

Greek

doesn’t either.
An

FTC

charges

examiner

brought

by

the

the

The

neuralgia.

FTC

adequate

for

says

or

these

the

eftective

ailments,

com-

treat-

is

tablets will give
relief from mi-

Detroit| |
Employment
in the
afea has fallen to 1,282,000, a

drop

of

9,000

from

a

month

earlier. It was the sixth conseoperating cutive monthly decline. Jobless
+ numbered 110,000, up 6,000.

cooperation

employment

state

it a “new drug,” as claimed in
the firm’s advertising. The com-}

mission says the
only “temporary
nor pains.”

announced,

was

in

ment,

is not
nor

Navaho

the

since

can-

repre-

service,

and
agencies
CIO community

community
Los Angeles

vices.
At

with

Pentagon

the

the

local

the
ser-

towards

a

workers,
in

be

which

the

and

affected

they

by

to

communities

live,

who

cutbacks.

may

“Workers affected by the coming layoffs look to their govern-

ment

to

act

assisting them

as

vigorously

reductions

of this dewill
says,

rath-

Division,

Turbine:

Gas

the

deci-

defense

poli-

making

in

out their
cancel
sions which
jobs and their livelihood,” the
UAW vice president declared.

Budgets vs, People
present

“Under

are considered
of the workers

tics

government

“The

give them

sideration
of

as

it

budget

“The

he

affected,”

directly

con-

might
con-

as much

does

the

poli-

workers

in

cutting.

income

of

the aircraft industry depends
largely on
government
decisions.
Such decisions, which

may create disaster for thousands of people should not be

callously and with no
made
thought »f the human suffering that results.”

serious

Just now

published

survey

that

major

is-

reductions

“job

firms

aviation

40,000 by
according

in a recent

industry-wide

a trade

magazine

The

magazine.

is

Week,

Aviation

of

sue

an

by

illustrated

become

may

unemployment

the threat of

among

says

22

exceed

will

the end of the year,
to current planning.”

Most of the workers affected
are members of either the UAW
or the IAM.
even

was

more _

pessimistic

published

by

U.S.

That
Report.
World
&
News
publication cites “industry: estimates” that employment is like-

of

thousands

the

Electric

does

it

as

forecast

responsibility

heavy

by

to come.

An

meeting,

Woodstock told the assembled
armed services representatives
that the federal government
bears

General

at least

sentatives of the UAW communhave
department
services
ity
been in the Los Angeles area to
aid jobless NAA workers by proon
counseling ‘services
viding
credit, housing and job place-

hear

neuritis

drug

Ever

of

reductions.

tinued.

5

Responsibility

Federal

first

Whitney

&

job

most

as a contract cost.
4) Establishment of emergency
job placement services to direct
laid-off workers to other aircraft
where
jobs
defense
industry
their skills can be put to use.
5) The channeling of new orparticularly
plants
into
ders
hard-hit by cancellations,
cellation

mission that Wolverine Laboratories of Detroit are misrepresenting the effectiveness of
Alpha tablets. The tablets are
supposed to help sufferers of
rheumatism,

jobs.

Page

Employ-

attrition

layoffs.

re-

decilned

further

cies, all factors
except the lives

of the principle

Editorial,

the

Westinghouse

tions

give workers

other

No

jobs
500
Helicopter:
Bell
already lost, further reduc-

of severance and relocation pay
for laid-off workers to be figured

alpha-

will

to

get

to

time

See

wouldn’t
haye
believed
the
claims made for Alpha tablets.
The Federal Trade Commission

ment

salary

the

is

and

layoffs

3) Acceptance

bet, but even the ancient Greeks

an

off

collected

more

escalator

WASHINGTON—Alpha

and

who make more than members
of President Eisenhower's cabinet.
Salaries of officers, direc-

tors, ete., amounted
| 566.27.
In sum, $9

under

den

further

Aircraft
No
Division:
Turbine
Gas
predictions available.

of sud-

the shock

ders, to lessen

No

an-

No layoffs;
Aircraft:
United
some hiring being done.

and workers
both management
of impending cancellation of or-

are

Alpha All Greek
To Dubious FTC

arthritis,

they charge off to the public
are the costs which taxable
charge

Beach,

clauses negotiated by the UAW
to protect workers from destruction of their purchasing power
through higher prices.
was the 10th straight
June
month the cost of living went up.

but inescapable reflection of our
social customs that an organi-

raise

losses In 1956 were $4.6 million.
It made a similar demand last

therefore,

mandatory

“Blue Cross is not a profitmaking enterprise; it is run for
It is a painful
the public good.

assert

Long

ers in Birmingham,
Ala.
Cost-of-living pay boosts

;

this to say:

ton had

Okla,

at
in

already

through

Pratt

1) An assurance that no new
plants will be built where existing plants can be used.
2) More advanced notice to

change

losses

Aircraft:

and

er than

sentatives from the armed forces
Service
U.S. Employment
and

Calif.,
and
Charlotte,
N.
C.,
and 5,000 Hayes Aircraft work-

Kemp-

Murray

Post,

York

serves

Associates.

higher
sought
Cross
Blue
premiums for hospital coverage
on a claim that its operating

management,

Tulsa,

$67,-

in the

last month

In a column

to the
devoted
Cross’ financial status prepared |zation
$99 million
by a firm of acturial consultants, | welfare with
Harold

has

Faggen

Kempton’s View

by the latest

were
25,000
employees
Douglas
Aircraft
plants

pitals?”

were
Gerber
and
Kerrigan
Dubinsky,
David
by
joined
ILGWU president; Jacob Potof-

sky, ACWA

in

$99,161,426

it

Affected

“Why doesn’t Blue Cross
| asked.
use its fantastic wealth for additional benefits to the subscribers and the good of the hos-

face

regarding

and

when

premiums

higher

591,347

for

application

its

withdrew

Service

Hospital

Associated

index.)

advertising costs of $465,549 and
administrative costs of 84%.
“How can Blue Cross ask for

job

expected.

since

come

the

YORK—UAW | “Blue Cross, as a tax-exempt, ceived cost-of-living wage inNEW
tion,” Faggen declared
Regional Directors Martin organiza
“should be forced to operate in creases of 3c an hour Aug. 1, also attended.
igan
Kerr
es
Gerber and Charl
as a result of the June con- Five Requests
a goldfish bowl.”
sumer
price
index
figure.
(A
played key roles in saving
The UAW delegation asked the
the justificaquestioned
He
some 6.5 million New York- tion for expenditures of $2,497,- month earlier 39,000 others were | Pentagon officials for the followers from an attempted grab| 722 for soliciting new.—business, raised on the baSis of the May ing:
by

1,500:jobs lost

are expected. Part
firm
the
cline,

secre-

Repre-

members.

staff

union

re-

plant-by-plant

No

has

600

president of Local 887, and seyeral other local and international

Martin:

Vertol

Hurst,

Jack

Bioletti,

Charles

no

sight.

ductions

Director

6

Region

included

Will

layoffs expected.
Sikorsky
Aircraft:

meeting

at the

Week

Aviation:

Aircraft:

gives

Presi-

at

Aviation

Curtiss-Wright:

manpower,

for

defense

of

tary

assistant

Douglas

ticipated.

director

with

15,600.

in

so

of the aircraft department,

by

here since the first of the
year, but no further job losses

guided

dent Leonard Woodcock,

UAW

members are employed, as re-

Bell Aircraft:

area,

Vice

major

where

anticipated.

are being
of cancel-

UAW

the

Temco Aircraft: No job losses

Ameri-

Navaho

of

firms

breakdown.

feet to

layoff

at North

the

lation

aircraft workthe

has

drastic

at some

aviation

but

that industry
shrink from a

where
some
12,000
dropped as a result

30,000 More
| Cof-l Air Hikes
Thirty

most

employment

duce
employment
by
8,000
auring the next six months,

issue of
Report,

current 40 million square
15 million by 1961.

the

the

year, mostly in its Los Angeles area facilities. This is
a revision of earljer estimates
which mentioned a reduction

is talk in Air Force circlosing up “old” plants

which
also said
floor space would

outlook

of

recent
World

is

Expects a total job reduction
of 12,000 by the end of the

Story

an article in a
U.S.
News
&

Here

magazine:
North American

altogether and building new ones
“in remote areas,” according to

southern Democrats, carefully stayed off
the floor. Then these same Republicans,
now joined by the southern Democrats,
voted against the bill as amended.
Connell (R., Pa.), senior GOP member of
Most
responsible
Negro
leaders
had
the House labor and educati ion committee,
+ dropped the fight for an anti-segregation
agrees.
amendment on the grounds that the SuHow They Did It”
preme Court decisions made it unnecessary.
Supporters of the measure were ready
The amendment was offered by Rep. Stuywith an amendment that would have made
vesant Wainwright (R., N. Y.) who openly
it conform exactly to Eisenhower's 1956 posadmitted he was against the bill itself.
ition. But before it could be introduced, the

UAW Team Nips
Blue Cross Grab

American

There
cles of

House adopted a motion by Rep. Howard M.
Smith (D., Va.) killing the legislation.
Once again an anti-segregation amendment was used as a pretext to block school
. aid, The amendment was assed by north-

of Con-

change-over,

To Air Jobs

ported

fense
budget
as
well
as
the
change of emphasis from con-/;
ventional jet planes to guided
missiles and rockets, with resulting industry dislocation during'

School Bill Story: Ike Never
Left the Dugout to Bat for It
WASHINGTON

of manufacturing

workers. Reason for this decline
from a peak of 900,000 jobs include recent cutbacks/in the de-

re ee ena
er
NET my

“Now let's see you bring him in.”

employer

Here’s.a Clue

in

in their hardship

by

50,000 to 100,000

It also quotes
—not attributed

other estimates
to any source—

ly to decline
jobs.

“that

now

will

the

to

300,000

engaged

be

out

coming

of

in

400,000

aircraft

their

shakeout

workers

jobs

plants

when

is over.”

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