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UNITED
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AUTOM
OBILE
WORKER
November
1957
Skilled Trades: A Dream Comes True at GM
Nov. 28 will be Thanksgiving Day
for most
people,
but
a lot of General
Motors skilled tradesmen
will feel like
celebrating, it a little earlier this
month—on* Nov. 11, 12 and 13 to be
exact, and
in Veterans’
Memorial
tee; Jake Shaheen, chairman, and
Walter Wojciechowski, secretary-
Then and there, they will for
the first time — as a group with
their own identity in UAW’s na-
Sub-council 9's choices were Leo
Haley, Local 651, Flint A.C. Spark
hall
in Detroit.
at next
year’s
contract
will
have
Step by Step
Transmission,
nego-
disapeared.
Behind this historic event lie more
than two years of hoping, thinking
and planning—climaxed last April 11
Turner,
Local
chairman
659,
and
Flint
secretary-treasurer.
In January they had gotten
identity. At the convention they
had been handed authority. Now
they had chosen their voices.
The test—and the proof—of the
wisdom
the
N.J.
long in arriving.
It came in September
field O. and Marion, Ind.
50 dealing with contracts and negotiations, shop stewards and shop committeemen
and
be
heard
President
the
foresight
constitution
These were two new
fabricating plants GM
The UAW
was
at
Mansfield
and
Marion,
IATC
had delayed the election—keeping
the UAW from obtaining a consent election, causing NLRB hearings, holding up the poll while the
NLRB pondered in Washington,
in
not
won
When
and
the election eventually was
UAW
committeemen
the new
Proposals
Mans-
meetings
Fisher Body
had set up.
had
were
been
certified,
elected
under
constitutional
provisions.
were
drafted.
Separate
gave
their
After months
strike vote was
had won a National Labor
in the
Leonard
of
the
tones
approval.
of negotiations, a
taken. Bargaining
of Vice
“.. . and it is our very fervent
opinion that the future of this
is
more than the production workers, or
getting
a
little less. The answer is both have
to get more, a hell of a lot more in
19582"
Three New
With
animous
ments,
Rights
the delegates’
acceptance of
skilled tradesmen
been seeking.
The
constitution
of UAW
now
gave them (1) the right to vote
separately on contractual matters
involving them, (2) the right to
select their own stewards and committeemen and (3) the right to
ratify their own contract changes
and take their own strike votes.
Earlier this year, in January, the
GM national council had adopted new
by-laws, tearing down old geographical boundaries and setting up 11
new sub-councils ‘on the basis of
common interest.”
The eighth of these new sub-coun-
cils was for skilled tradesmen work-
ing in design, engineering and model
The ninth was for
pattern shops.
those employed in tool and die shops
and
as maintenance men.
In July, the sub-councils
met
again and elected their spokesmen.
Sub-council 8 chose three from
Chevy Transmission
Wins 9-Day Strike
MUNCIE,
Ind.—A
strike
by
Local 499’s 970 members
UAW
brought a contract settlement here
Chevrolet
Motors’
that General
transmission division could have
had nine days earlier if it had been
willing to negotiate.
The new contract met the local’s
demands, particularly in dealing
with
shift
seniority,
preference
and a speed-up problem the company has stubbornly refused to
recognize.
Only one dissenting vote was
membership
at a large
voiced
meeting
called
to
For jobs like these...
++. a new bargaining plan.
had
found at last the voice and lever they
had
ratify
the
new
agreement. The local committee
was assisted in negotiations by
3
Region
from
representatives
and the General Motors department.
420
skilled workers
the
contract.
meeting.
Only
Why
the
whelming
against
attended
their
four
unity?
acceptance?
turned
Why
down
the
over-
The wage rates were comparable
to any paid by GM—with inereases
ranging up to 63c an hour and averaging better than 10c.
The seniority agreements for both
plants
were
the
most
comprehen-
sive of any in GM establishments.
The
shift preference
provision
was comparable with any now in
existence.
GM
were
old
set
up.
Improvements
had
built
these
jobs—assignments
their
contract
when
1958 rolls around.
GM
almost unthe amend-
at GM
voted
new
in
plants
Mans-
the job rates and working conditions
set up had been inferior to those in
the old plants under UAW
protection.
But now, united in UAW, skilled tradesmen had written out in
“Tt is a mistake to talk about the
skilled trades workers getting a little
workers
seven
field and Marion were the same as
those done before under UAW contract elsewhere.
The only difference was—here
President Walter P. Reuth-
production
was
the settlement.
At Mansfield, where the election had been close with UAW
winning by only 27 ballots, over
for
er echoed this sentiment when he
said, just before the vote was taken:
the
Only
safety apparel.
Lesson for 58
on trial in these minutes through
which this convention is now passUAW
exhausted
had been won dealing with such
contract issues as equalization of
hours, vending machines, gloves and
department director, when he said in
arguing for the proposals:
ing.”
an honorable
Time for ratification came.
At Marion, the skilled workers
met in a group. There were over 580
trades
GM
union as an effective instrument
settlement had been
the strike called.
after
Improper skilled trades classifications had been eliminated. Sharper
lines of demarcation between certain
issues
Woodcock,
every attempt to reach
only
present.
strikes.
Union on Trial
The
importance
could
amending
convention’s
and
a division of the Society of Skilled
Trades, an independent union with
few members and little ability to do
at
sub-councils
and
The debate was over three proposed amendments to UAW’s constitution—changes in articles 19, 45 and
the
of creating
however,
margin was even larger, 463 to 122.
The opponent had been the Interna-
anything besides stir up dissension.
By attempting to carve out
certain tool and die classifications
Chevrolet,
by a heated debate and a vote taken
on the floor of UAW’s 16th constitutional convention in Atlantic City,
Jack
continued,
Almost Unanimous
After a week of picketing a settlement was reached.
tional Association of Tool Craftsmen,
Michael Loverich, Local 735, Detroit
tiations.
The confusion, the lack of focus,
the dissatisfaction of these workers
in 195
preparations for negotiations
treasurer.
Plug, negotiating committee member;
tional GM council—cut the dies for
their own demands to be served on
GM
Relations Board election at them in
the spring.
Independent Dela
The vote had
been 207-180 for
UAW at Mansfield. At Marion the
Detroit Local 160, at GM’s Tech Center: Ralph Drumm as their member
of the national negotiating commit-
MANSFIELD
PHONE LA 2cs11
NEWS-JOURNA
MANSFIELD, UHIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1957
—
*
Vote Today To
End GM Strike
See Employes
Back Saturday
The week-old strike at the Mansfield General
Motors plant appeared about over today.
The company and union officials agreed on a
settlement at 2 a. m. today. Union members now
must ratify the agreement to end the strike.
members
of Local 549, Unit-
ed Auto Workers,
are to meet in,two separate
of the agreement
could
late today to hear terms of the settlement.
mean
strike-bound plant Saturday
The
meetings
will
be
East Fifth St., with the first
scheduled for 5 p. m. for all
trades
employes
tool, die and maintenance
partments.
at the
held
in Local 711, IUE-CIO Hall on
skilled
sessions
Ratification
a return-to-work
in
de-
At 8 p. m. all pro-
duction
and
material
employes
will meet
to hear
terms of the new agreement
object
read—and
lesson
for
remember—
Apprentices Train
At 21 GM Units
Agreement Reached At Fisher Body
Fisher Body employes,
to
an
is historic
STORY
NEWS
because it reports first strike
settlement ratified separately by skilled trades group.
A new skilled tradesmen apprentice
set up in 21
has been
program
General Motors local unions in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.
And set up with a bang, at that,
judging from the ratification telegrams sent to Vice President Leonand Woodcock’s office.
The messages kept repeating the
same
phrases:
“. . . apprentice
agree-
ment ratified unanimously . . . 100%
. .. without a dissenting vote. . .”
Strike Helped
In
large
part
the
agreement
was
due; Woodcock said, to the struggle
put up by newly-established MansLocal 549 and Marion
field (O.)
(Ind.). Local 977 (see above).
“Their willingness to fight for
the sound local agreements and, in
addition, to support the apprentice
demands, has made this apprentice
agreement—the first in GM— possible,” Woodcock acknowledged in
a letter to all locals.
In outlining
highlights
of the pro-
gram, Woodcock stressed that for
time spent in taking related training,
the apprentice would be paid at his
straight time hourly rate.
This could amount, he said, to as
much as 672 hours’ pay.
Up with Skill
The wage formula in the new program provides a starting rate for all
apprentices of $1.93, an increase of
10c an hour.
Besides that, greater equity has
been established for those training
for higher rated jobs. This amounts,
for instance, to llc more for toolmakers, 17¢ more for diemakers
and 5lc more for model makers.
All told, rate increases ranged up
to 74¢ an hour.
And now, under the new agreement,
wants
gram
a
to
production
enter
the
worker
apprentice
has a contractual
ference over new hires,
who
pro-
right to pre-
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UNITED
1957
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Page
3
Board Examiner Upholds
Our Case Against Kohler
The 314-year
ward
struggle
of UAW
ultimate decision when
strikers
against
a National Labor
the Kohler
Relations
Co. took a long step to-
Board
trial
examiner
upheld
virtually all the union’s charges against the bitterly anti-labor firm.
The trial examiner, George A, Downing, ruled that all but a handful of the strikers
were entitled to reinstatement upon application, or when the strike ends, because the
company prolonged the strike
by a. series of unfair labor
practices.
The
decision
UAW
INFLATION
4)
by
817,
SLOGAN
Whitfield Taylor,
Whitfield,
Oscar
and
Local
8 17; H. T. Hendrickson,
Local
made
Signs
550.
the
flooded
companies
pals are sitting around
gaining table.”
mails
with attacks on the UAW’s
anti-inflation proposal for a
$100 cut in the factory price
of 1958 cars, favorable reaction from public figures and
just plain citizens flowed into
Solidarity House during the
last month.
Adlai
From
He’s
Walter
hower’s
Robert
Treasury,
(“Your
statement
In
Anderson
...
Eyen the newspapers held up
remarkably well in view of the
hostility of the big companies
and their big advertising budgets. The Washington Star, for
example, after listening to the
replies,
its
repeated
management
for
call
earlier
statesmanship.
“While the Big Three have
now formed a united front in
rejecting the Reuther plan,” said
the Star, “we still believe it is
worthy of more serious explora-
least
that
with
he
one
was
scientists,
President
reporting
of
whereupon
it.”
the
have
position
was a 12th consecutive rise (to a
all-time
Treasurer Emil Mazey.
Mazey said the convention,
which will be held in the MaDetroit, Jan.
Temple,
sonic
22-24 will take up two key iscollective
and
policies
bargaining
amending constitutional proyisions dealing with dues and
strike funds.
The special convention was
authorized by delegates to the
constitutional
16th
UAW’s
convention last April in Atlantic City, N. J., who will also
serve as delegates to this conference,
Wage
LA
Clellan
CROSSE,
Wis.—The
committee’s
agents
Mc-
who
are “investigating” the Kohler
strike are not doing an objective
They are acting more like
job.
stooges for the Kohler Co. than
like impartial investigators.
This charge was
made
by
told
Secretary
- Treasurer
delegates.
the
“They
are
}questioning
local officers, and
about
members
rank-and-file
the conduct of the Kohler strike
jane
Sees
boycott...
GOP
“These
Plot
. . . can-
investigators
| not do an impartial job because
they happen to represent the reRepublicans
minority
jactionary
Toledo
city
gene
council
Valiquette,
a
is
Mari-
mem-
ber of Doehler-Jarvis
Local
1053
and
assistant
on
the
Voice of Labor program, She
made
the
finals
by
placing
14th in the primaries, Howard
Rediger,
member
of UAW
Local
12 and
tary
of
the
just
out
of
executive
Toledo
secre-
Industrial
Union Council, finished 20th—
the
money.
Negotiations
Downing
also
“I
@
for
of our
the
between
union
and
matters,”
In
the
act
other
FORT
latest
took
their
state
they
Interest
example,
“For
there
here
the
place
Texas
in
merger
big-city
when
old
Tarrant
President
organization
former
Adams,
and
four
and an investigator by the name
questions
the
ask
of Johnson
and
take
two
notes,
“Any
tory
Co,,
investigators
(other)
time
anything
deroga-
the Kohler
their
drop
is said about
either
they
long
I haye-a
at
and
the
resolve
went
eyent,
he
con-
these
on.
said,
the
company
the
with
early
as
meet
to
ready
a settlement.
average
and
pencils or stop wr'ting,” he asserted.
On the other hand, when they
strike,”
he
but
are
the
also
be
called.
firm’s
president
spokesman, respectively
Mazey said that during
officer
company
a vigorous
contract.
under
often
young
“that
victory
hear,”
Ballard
workers
rural
can
we
if
but wonderful
show
youth
the way to good, honest unionism, the future of our movement
is secure.”
UAW’s
campaign
successful
was conducted by a staff assigned by Vice President Richard Gosser, competitive shop
department
and
Koh-
is a small
thts
alone,
reason
that
that
sign
They
“I
recall;*
can’t
“I
saying,
couldn’t say” or “I don’t remem-
UAW
plant
“For
ler’s appearance at a National
Labor Relations Board hearing,
by
133: questions
he answered
ber.”
The
O.
Workers,
Industrial
who've never known ‘hard times’
aren't interested in unionism,
would insist that Kohler Co.'s
Lyman
and
Herbert Kohler
Conger
despite
said,
they
said,
8,
“You
Kohler
the
concerning
Allied
16,
Steelworkers,
111,
UAW
the
against
campaign
which has the firm’s Dayton,
prepared to appear before the
McClellan committee any day
quesof the week to answer
tions
Region 2B
was
tally
Charles Ballard,
the
said
director,
UAW,~
age
cast a single
is only 22, had not
no-union vote.
CLC.
in the
post
rural workers, whose
at
at
what
these
Products;
was that
United Aircraft
surprised them
secretary,
AFL
same
fills the
surprised
election
C.
E.
represen-
tatives here weren’t
an NLRB
winning
Delbert
head.
O.—UAW
FOREST,
the
of
is
IUC
formér
Huddle,
Central
County
Council.
merged
became
Council
the
when quesMacGovern
people in the room
tioning takes place.
any
has
and
sit
Reuther
to effect
(PAI)—The
Union
questions
are
to
has
recrimination
you
table
possible
as
WORTH
trial
indicates their bias and demonstrates the fact that they cannot
make an objective investigation:
Selective
both
are
ers
Assembly
Trades
Worth
Fort
and. the Tarrant County Indus-
file of the Kohler workers,” Mazey declared.
“The manner in
which
for
it
e
Voi
a
y
Nar
Merger in Fort Worth
For Nobody
leadership
rank
time
legal
repreduly-established UAW
sentatives of the Kohler work-
Down-
of
origin
This was the
ing’s hearings.
that
the
which
the
passed
ference
union.
the
by
filed
charges
tice
is “to drive
the
accept
Reuther said
and
boycott
responsibility
com-
a
strike
believe
At | since
plaint against the company on
the basis of unfair labor prac-
the company be required to bargain in good faith with the union and supply it with certain
a wedge
company
will
findings,
conducting.”
had 3,300 | and
issued
counsel
general
recommended
gation in Sheboygan
Kohler,
Ready to Meet
new contract began Feb. 2, 1954,
and the strike began April 5.
The following October the NLRB
Labor
Too
the
ard,
director,
and
Ball-
Riverside Won
After 20 Years
PHILADELPHIA—Another
gave “credit”
in-
here
folded
union
committee {dependent
for the presence of
the UAW won an NLRB
to |when
Sheboygan
in
investigators
election at Riverside Metals, a
Goldwater
Barry
Sens.
GOP
(Ariz),
Karl
Curtis
Carl
members on
(N.D.)
Mundt
and
minority
(Neb.),
the McClellan com-
division of H. K. Porter Co,
On the ballot with the UAW
was the Riverside Metals Em-
ask a question which might heUnion,
Independent
ployees
alify
disqu
to
ought
“who
ee
|mitt
sult in an answer which in some
exercising
been
had
which
the
if
and
when
|The chief investigator, a man by
es”
selv
them
way might be used against the
bargaining rights at the plant
comthat
e
befor
|the name of MacGovern, is the|
ars
appe
UAW
feverishly,”
write
“they
union,
for 20 years.
\chief hatchet man
for’ Senator|
e, Mazey declared.
mitte
he said,
225,
UAW
were
results
The
the
on
nd
dema
Goldwater,” Mazey charged.
his
based
He
“That has been the experience
Yoid and
160, two
e| independent
thes
een
bétw
n
iatio
assoc
He said Sen, John McClellan
close
witnesses
of. the
of every one
two for no union, out of an ellCo.
Kohler
(D., Ark) and his staff had not
the
and
rs
senato
before these
who has appeared
gibility list of 405 workers,
even
considered
investigating
investigators to date.
Year-Long Effort
the
UAW
until
Republican
Riverside Metals makes parts
Ready to Appeal
members of the committee put
Progress was reported in ef- for the automotive Industry
“I hope, in the near future, to
Unable to inon the pressure.
campaign,
The organizing
other
forts to effect a merger between
some
the
in
be able to reveal
corruption
vestigate
for
on
Detroit AFL and CIO units fol- which had been going
UAW—since
none
exists—the
misconduct on the part of these
jon
for
employees.
been
which
1954.
1,
the
primary
Senate Agents Are Kohler Stooges,
Mazey Tells Wisconsin Convention
Emil Mazey in a speech before
the Wisconsin State CIO convention here.
“We have four investigators in
the city of Sheboygan,” Mazey
candidate
Data,
work-| both
contract
a
that time the company
other
of
-find-
Downing,
company
Downing’s
Kohler
March
ployees for the losses they may
have suffered as a result of the
rental
V.
head.
If the
Downing
terminated
to
strikers
eight
forcing
by
a company-owned
from
move
hotel and by refusing to renew
the leases of two strikers on
company-owned homes, He recommended that the company be
required to reimburse these emmoving
and
quarters,
into
entered
the
found that
violated the
Herbert
ers in an NLRB representation
election in June 1952. The company and the union thereafter
with-
with
bargain
to
the
we are nevertheless willing to
accept his recommendations as
a basis for settlement,” President Walter P. Reuther wired
the
for
agent
ing
These
grant-
increases
wage
A.
if the
wage information it requested. | the union “is prepared to bring
about a prompt termination of
Local 833 was chosen bargain-
violating
actions
by
1954
further
He
company had
brushed off its anti-inflation efforts.
UAW
PRETTIEST
George A.
strike in
on March 1, 1955, and
matters of employment.
high)
in the consumer price index. The
union took the occasion to note
that not only the auto companies but the federal government
The call for ,;UAW’s special
constitutional convention has
been sounded by Secretary-
i LA
an
it into
strike
accept
George
to ter-
recommendations provide full
equity for the Kohler workers,
Downing
before
Kohler
will
of
offered
NLRB trial examiner.
“While the UAW
does not
feel that the trial examiner’s
discharge,
this
about
union
the discharge of 90 strikers
... you will press
consecutive
ings
has
the
company
would
UAW
practice
labor
refusing
partial evidence that they fear
the effectiveness of his argu-
12th
he
UAW
minate
them
about
bargaining
out
discharging
with the union;
53 strikers in one department
on July 1, 1954, and illegally
the UAW
UAW
strike,”
converted
two
ing
taken such effort to refute Mr.
Reuther’s proposal is at least
the
the
act.
t
- Hartley
the Taf
illegal actions included
He
manufacturers
has
Acts
hearings
June
ther’s proposal represents a high
level of statesmanship ... The
Bolstering
Illegal
unfair
satisfied that Mr. Reu-
that
union
responsible
been
the
said
company
Marble then repli¢d:
fact
the
The
in
found
trial examiner
The
that the long strike began as
an economic one but that the
this
president’s office sent him
full UAW statement, __
“I am
in or
of people
and
1955
in February
began
continued for two years. Final
some
made
were
summations
six weeks ago. Testimony coyered 22,000 pages.
sent a copy of this response to
Reuther;
in
Cites
agreement
deal
violence
The
case
“in
a great
the point.”
Is Now Official
Establishing
at
ments. I hope
UAW Convention
sues:
the bar-
technique
backfired.
Samuel
D. Marble, president of Wilmington (0.) College, received
the Ford letter, and replied
is cer-
tainly well founded”) a wide
leaders
national
of
array
praised the UAW position.
companies’
Reuther
that
irresponsible
appeal the section of the decision denying reinstatement to
some strikers.
Three firms have gone to great
length to discredit the UAW proposaL
the
of
P.
the
places
added.
Mazey
they had received copies of one
or more company rejections, and
asking for the full union case.
This would indicate that the Big
(“This is the kind of leadership we must have”) to EisenSecretary
Converted
Scores of educators,
etc. wrote to UAW
Stevenson
E.
for
Emil
confirmation”
charges
engaged
Bid to Kohler:
We'll Take It
by
position. It should
rest
wild
high
tion before, or while, the princl-
auto
“100%
at
and
Public Likes $100 Car Cut
Despite Big Three and GOP
While the Big Three
as
of the UAW’s
“lay
hailed
Secretary-Treasurer
Mazey
(see: page
also Local
a big hit.
is posted at foundry conference
was
the
-McClellan
committee.
Detroit Unity Talks
GOP
members
Kohler strike
an excuse to
seized
on
the
and boycott as
send inyestiga-
tors to check on the UAW,
The purpose of their investl-
investigators,
which
that they are biased
acting
Co,
as stooges
“Walter
will
and
show
really
for the Kohler
Reuther
and I
are
lowing
an all-day
mittee
of three
Detroit-Leland
was named to
for discussion,
meeting
at the
more
each
group
department
Hotel, A subcomfrom
work
out
points
ted
help
9
than
a
year,
from
the
of
Martin
staf,
was
conduc-
competitive
office
here,
Gerber's
with
shop
the
Region
aa
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
November
1957
UAW Foundry Workers See
Jobs Shrink ByasRUSS SMITH
Output Soars
_
So you
think
automation,
improved
technology,
semi-automation
and mechanization
are just so many empty words tossed around by engineers and guys looking into the future with a crystal ball?
You think k you are safe from
0
these “fu ture” horrors on your particular job. Sure,
your plant has installed new equipment, but it’s not going to affect you. Maybe the guys
in the next department or building, but you have seniority and know-how.
Somehow,
you're safe. Or so you think.
Don’t be so sure. Your turn may be just around the corner. The foundry workers
can
tell
you.
3
Your union — the UAW — is not opposed to automation and the other so-called
improvements. Progress can’t be halted or held back.
But it can be regulated for the
benefit of workers just as well as for increased productivity and profits. And that’s your
concern — the concern of all UAW members.
Read about these typical members working in
affected, and what they think ought to be done.
Gs
SN
&
NEW
OFFICERS
nella,
Local
president,
of
600,
and
foundry
council
are,
secretary-treasurer;
James
Alexander,
from left,
James
Local
Local
12,
president.
against
gle
bring
Sumers
fits of
greatest
fight | etc.
Y.—The
inflation
to
UAW
N.
and
the
workers
strug-|
and
con-
has
until now
|
He
issues
and
confronting
seyeral
the
country,
Vice
al foundry
conference
here.
Two hundred and twenty-five
delegates
representing
foundry
workers
attended
three-day session.
Greathouse,
who
of the
foundry
stressed
that
spoken out
speak out”
75,000
the
of
prices,
an
blaming
al-
all-
it
on
contracts.”
However,
the
only}
increases were those for the annual improvement
factor
and
| the cost of living.
|
Hits McClellan
union
and will continue
on inflation.
said
has
to
ready
for
it
Committee
gate
“started
out
corruption,
to
but
bers of the committee
investi-
some
mem-
would like
to destroy unions as such. These
people have worked consistently away from corruption in la-
bor
our
and
gating
the
industry
into
UAW
and
inyesti-
other
un-
1958 bargaining sessions.”
Regarding the economic scene, | ions that are doing an effective
As employment job.”
“...
he said,
He discussed the UAW procontinues to go up, the percentage of people employed in man-| posal to cut car prices on 1958
models
every|
down
goes
ufacturing
month. Less and less people are|
and
foodstuffs
the
producing
less and less people are produc-|
we also have
ployment.”
Automation
“When
Hits All
we
speak
of
and
would
at
the
said, “We
boost
production
by
our
would
people
earning
whole-
think
a
automobile
million
If we sold a million
money
be
cars.
more
cars
working,
to buy
other
things. And eyen at the present
rate of profits, if they produced
would
automa-
we usu-|
mechanization,
tion and
it
unem-
substantial
$100
sale level,
we manufacture.|
about prosperity, |
ing the goods
When we talk
by
and
a million more cars they
still make more money
ally think of this applying to| than they are now making.”
The council elected James Ry- |
big)
and the
Motors
General
He}
companies,” he went on. “How- an, Local 12, as president.
has
It
dry
in
cut
cores
it
seconds
“I
made
to
in
time
take
takes
think
it
the
between
report
the
to
are submitting
ence outlines case
which
work
week
wages.
There
set
up
more.
they
that
are;
the
changes
consumer,
creases
taxation,
be
in
building
and we
benefits
in
to
passed
the
wages
of
be
must
from
on
form
or
used
schools,
pare
for what
changes
technological
the
recognize
to
need
“We
dry
had
to
insist
these
the
of in-
through
for
the
|
of General
Motors,
and
an opportunity
to comsome
techniques
erations.
Other
of
with
new
their
speakers
9 Director
}gion
the
GM
own
op-
Gerber;
Martin
with
.
s
keep
be
Lloyd
labor-
repre-
deco-
the
mahpower,
and
150%.
fair
practices
depart-
and
-equipment
technology
‘new
as
assistant
was
director,
Chicago
conference
Milwaukee
ternate
ONLY
WOMAN
delegate to
the foundry conference was
Anna Oglesby of Local
1308,
Chicago.
As
photo
shows,
she
eertainly had something to say.
Ralph
was
city
spot.
was
Robinson,
Region
selected
as
picked
as
for
1958,
4.
the
while
al-
Otner actions by the conference included a civil rights resolution calling for action in the
fields of education, hiring at the
plant
housing
tions,
gate,
apprenticeship,
and public accommoda-
for the
addition-
our
with
in our
We'’ye
purchasing
more
power,
money
envelope.
1958
got
in
the
for various ailments and dis4 eases when these bills ought to
be paid by the company or the
insurance outfit.”
I
.
JEFF
Ford
must
this
cut
a
must
four-day
week.
The
also get a part of
more
pay
to
| keep
up
with
rising
living
produc-
production
to 220 be-
company
CLEVELAND,
the profit melon
in the form of
se
year,
been
>.
Local 1250: “I think we
have a shorter work week
workers
on
.
NASH,
—possibly
spent
costs.
“In
$500,-
my
(flask
near
job
repair-
man)
will be
eliminated — at
least partially—
through the shell molding proprocess
this
Although
cess.
increased
production
the
future,
on blocks
parts, it
hasn’t been perfected
yet, just on smaller
job
my
When
long.
be
won’t
is
these
increased
pro-
increased
prof-
ductivity
fits
a.
he
the displaced
has
“This
for
plants
is an old plant with fairly new
GE electric furnaces. This eliminated some 25
f
it
while
men
producupped
tion about 130%
for a reduction
= ** in manpower of
|
~~? © approximately
|#
and
without
any
_ 2onsideration for
foundry
brought
workers.
a
about
need to group foundries together
so that
areas
certain
witlin
seniority,
pensions,
| other fringe benefits
will
workers
be
fully
50%.
and
rates
of foundry
when fellows are laid off
| in smaller foundries, in particu-
5
as
such
equipment
and
engineered right into the
set-up.
protect their seniority,
rates, etc.”
MARC
see
Floor
reduced
were
space
This
the
points
up!
necessity
retraining
|workers
who |
3
and
The
me
EB
have
been
replaced
by
machinery, so they can acquire the
new
know-how
equipment.
to
handle
p
new
“Cost of such retraining should
be borne by the company and
the
government.
tised as the most
tons
when
I was
shell
18—about
“Automation can kill the community unless it is controlled,
as
14
a
in-
eight
cores
sand. This
operators,
ogy.
the
s work
the
tional foundry council.
“There's no doubt that
with
green
a minute
machine
tenders,
required two
even
three
| job is produced
a
mation
of
core
pers, and two core finners, for a
total of 12 operators. Now, with
the shell core process, the same
minute
“IT know
I
“Blower
operations
originally produced
This
tivity is now
as before.
was just elected
secretary-treasurer
proc-
three core handlers, two core dip-
operators.
medical
and
core
semi - automatic
cores
Foundry unit —
handling health,
problems,
the
ess, nodular iron
year—
boys elected
vice chair-
seniority
as
such
machinery have
kept it modern.
man
of
the
Dearborn Iron
and_
in the
flexi-
chipper.
safety,
modern
adver-
was
, production
and
changes
from
and
per
opened
improvements
then,
Since
world.
plant
foundry
the
1952,
in
engine
our
“When
cranes
overall
years ago, and I've worked
crankshaft
stock
handler,
spector,
grinder
|
|
FORRESTER>
“RED”
CECIL
1250:
Local
Ford
CLEVELAND,
requirements
greatly
30,000
Ford’s
’
50%, while production in the
core room has increased considerably. This is the pattern
throughout the foundry industry.”
on
men
bility increased. Two
each of the three shifts now can
~
DETROIT,
STEPP,
“The installagm tion was put in
a ‘package’
Sas
material
with
protected
assemblers.
reduced by
ovens, dip tanks and
Manpower has been
CLEVEADAMS,
McKINLEY
LAND, National Malleable Local
350: “The plant where I work
being utilized by
rector, skilled
trades
depart- | caused a layoff }
ment,
in our plant i
Region 1 Director Ken Morris This was parand
Region
ID Director
Ken
tially the effect;
Robinson were also in attendof one machine. {
ance,
os
It’s | and what their rights are: Many
the | times, workers pay medical bills
anneal
Chrysler Local 490: “Newly im-|
unheard of production with the
down
cuts
ment;
Robert
Kanter,
director, |proved
technology
old style equipment.”
manpower.
engineering department; Joseph| considerably
on
eee
Mattson, assistant director, comWhy,
only
last }
*
petitive shop
department, and week
... TONY CUCINELLA, DETROIT,
automa- |
Ford
Local 600:
“I started
at
George
Campbell,
assistant di- |} tion in general
¢
director,
required
keep
pay
“There's no doubt in my mind
that we need a shorter work
week and more take-home pay.
DETROIT,
bei
eliminated, I’ll have to be retainBudd Local 306: “As chief stewed for another job. Who’s going
When we get it, we'll have more
ard in my plant and vice presi- | leisure time to enjoy the good to pay for my retraining and for
dent of the national foundry| things of life. We will have to my wages while P’m being traineouncil I see and hear plenty
educate our members to a better | ed?
“Ford has also employed the
about the effects of automation
and
time,
this
of
utilization
in the foundry we'll need more state and city shell molding process in producalso parks and recreation facilities.” ing crankshafts. The new proindustry,
about improved
s
.
ey
cess eliminates the use of core
staff repre- | area and
Utter and F. A. | pensions,
Van Atta, health and safety
partment;
William
Oliver,
too,
slingers, jolt and strip molding
the cut in
Despite
machines.
.
ALEXANDER,
JIM
Humphreys,
sentative;
to
009 for new equipment. This inequipment such
eluded modern
as overhead sand system, sand
secure
jobs
in
Paul Russo, assistant director of |lar,
they
can
|
| the
within
their
foundry
department;
and
foundries
other
hospitals, | William
down
cause
get
should
sentatives
to
investigate
make recommendation.”
Re- | Then
included
we
and
management-government
this confer- |for vice president. Tony Cucinelhistories of |nela, Local 600, defeated Hur-
the Ford Cleveland foundry, and | tary-treasurer, 101-60.
Delegates were treated to a
manufacture of}
the
in
even
bathtubs by Local 344 in Balti-| tour of the Tonawanda Foun-
that
so
plenty
tion: Last
force had
have
are
shorter work week
contract “demands.
president.|
“In 1946, Fulton had
mately 355 workers on
for use.
changes
important
we | ander, Local 306, was unopposed |
situations in National Malleable, |ley Goodall, Local 532, for secre-
cores
3,
manpower.
20
jobs
2
al production. That’s the number one reason why we need a
automa-
cuts
to
to
power
| tion
and
im| proyed technology Avhich
ups
production
and
ovens.
15
this up.”
Council
this
minutes
conventional
these
committees
and
govern-
situation
local of which I am
I’m also the
chairman of
Foundry
Sub-
drastically.
257
to prepare
a shorter
up
plant,
drying
used
Now
this
their
proved technology and automation have increased production
and have cut down
on man-
for
work at the Fulton Foundry.
one of eight foundries in
now getting out more than four
and one-third tons—a productivity increase of 425%.
“Also, we are using the CO-2|
process of hardening cores extensively
of
,
how
“There’s
another
thing
I'd
.
like to bring
home
to UAW
They need to know
JOE
JANDA,
CLEVELAND, ;members.
Amalgamated
Local
1260:
“I }more about health and safety,
points
hear
is vabout
hours
up
_Chrysler- Evansville
¢|
eight
made
need
plants being closed and seriously hurting the community. The
|
every
definite
increased productivity
and decreased manpower requirements,
etc. Also, to look into outmoded
pro-
ever, it also applies to smaller | defeated Maurice Treadwell, Lo- |
companies and in all fields. For |cal 173, by 140-31. James Alex-
example:
replaced
manpower
castings
a
ment-publi¢, labor and management
representatives
to
look
into the problems of automation,
has
been
cut
over 40%- This
means
that
a
wi
;wor ker
who
¢
ie
used to produce a little more
than eight-tenths of a ton. of
Taking
a swing at the Mcis director|
committee,
Greathouse
department,| Clellan
“our
getting
and
and
is
committees
the
its
duced 320 tons
of castings daily.
Production
has
been
increased
more than 200%
up
“the increase they were giving
to their
workers under
their
“We
are
under
attack
for
this,” he continued.
“We
are
being singled out now because
are
high,
line
molders
examples
at
Malleable
machines.
This
has
reduced
manpower
and
increased
production.
“Formerly, 120
is just the opposite.”
cited
the jtime
production
There
squeezer-type machines with jolt
happened
a fair share of the bene- corporations raising
automation are the two/ though profits were
President Pat Greathouse
told
the union’s 12th annual nation-
we
What
National
INDIA-
Local 1210: “At our plant,
company
has
rearranged
Cuci-
HCL, Automation
Top Foundry Topics
BUFFALO,
GRAVES,
NAPOLIS,
Tony
Ryan,
306, vice
LEONARD
foundries,
and
One
slack
at the rate of 12
with
nine
we
way
is
means
produc-
as much
times
fight
can’t
can
through
week with more
auto-
technol-
improved
we
two
only
a
take
up
shorter
take-home
pay. Workers need their share
of the pie, and we've got to
come up with some new ideas
to keep our constantly increasim-|ing work force employed.”
na-
UNITED
1957
~ November
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
Again: Depends
Who's Crooked
AUSTIN,
390’s
Sabotage by Rumor?
and
Press
an Associated
the headlines,
instances
some
reporter of long
would
R natural-born loafers, of whom there are so many of
us, we offer Bogdan Baynert’s version of life in the
fully-automated age, in the cartoon on this page.
Most of us have mornings when we’d much rather do
our job along with breakfast in bed. Trouble is, who knows
a company that would pay us for it?
Management Morality
will
government
go
(the
you
court;
to
can then be prose-
accept a consent decree; and the union
cuted for penalties.
Does this make the double-cross
Chamber of Commerce way of life?
The Men Who
can
the
of
a symbol
their
Be
Eisenhower’s decision to send troops to Little
Rock was his inescapable duty under the circumstances.
But the circumstances were created by his own failures.
__ Even in his nation-wide broadcast announcing his decision the President spoke only of the law. After three
years he has yet to speak out for the basic morality and
simple justice of the Supreme Court decision; he has yet to
appeal to the south to accept the inevitable with grace.
Thus it is superficial to blame the use of troops on
Governor Faubus. Faubus could not have done what he did
if Eisenhower had done what he should.
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By RAY MARTIN
The
south
is getting
for
don’t have
Denison,
George
Guild, APL-CLO
against
posing
$2.5
which
million
cost
in
board
has
received
two
from
from
of-
Memphis,
has been non-union.
to North
good
Rep.
bargaining.
south,
the
said the union is:
1. Adding to the
workers outside the
industrial
profitable
less
it
making
runaway plants
responsibilities.
Building
to
For
luring
sippi
for
a
broader
eco-
purchasing
industry.
more
power
Strengthening
Economic
Michael
was
Aim
elected
figure
worst
“As
the
UAW
economically,
it
musters
the
plants,
just
Michigan
and
week
40-hour
The
the
is not
of
years
earn
workers
up|
Missis-
$55.20
against
as
$93.51
Mississippi
nor
best
for the south.
the
is narrowed, millions of families
in the south will remain economic
their
of
victims
low
And
industry.
will
status
economic
hold down the level of prosperity for all Americans,”
The
8
gion
states
8 are
by
faced
that
the
the
Re-
lie within
most
UAW
or
challenging
any
other
union,
has accepted that
“The UAW
“beMichael,
said
challenge,”
cause there can neyer be real
security or prosperity for workers
anywhere
holds
until
of reaction
the
have
into the 20th century.”
strong-
been
out
(D.,N-Y.)
led
as
did
Rep.
“informative
and
in-
booklet,
the
it
Horace
Detroit Circuit Judge
W. Gilmore noted:
able
and
well-qualified
of
up
made
is certainly
board
“The
who
(D.,Mont.)
Anderson
found
(D.,N.C.)
Lennon
Alton
citizens, and I am sure it will
do much to maintain the high
ethical and democratic standis
the UAW
ards for which
so well known.”
Goy.
Iowa
Loveless
of
this
board
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The
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ACT
THE
BY
39,
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in the direction
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significant
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a
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of
opinion, the
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wrote:
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managing
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of
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and
names
the
under
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not
or more of total amount of stock. If and
names
the
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a
by
owned
addresses of the individual owners must
be given. If owned by a partnership or
other unincorporated firm, its name and
address, as well as that of each Indi
given.)
be
must
member,
vidual
“It’s a long, long jump from
the Mississippi-Georgia level to
level,”
the Michigan-California
said Michael, “but until that gap
point
social
south
after
And
fornia,
democratic
lifts the
runaway
back
to
on
Average income per person in
Mississippi is still only $815 a
in
$1,831
as against
—
year
in Call$1,899
and
Michigan
UAW
April's
last
director
at
firmly
believes
He
convention,
that workers’ faith in their undoesn’t
its principles
fon and
stop at new and higher wage
rates,
based
is
if its
management.
example,
in
off
better
growth
California.
in
can
Region
a
$99.04
for
their
to
Michael,
said
he has the. figures
his statements.
of
—
desert
is no
irresponsible
Michael
security
south
south
the
industrialists
labor southern
to their cotton
down
right
socks.”
As UAW membership strength
in
injustice
Michael.
Economically,
the
along
roadsign
Another
way: the pending NLRB vote at
Ford’s Lister Hill, Ala., plant. A
victory there,
UAW
resounding
sald Michael, “will jolt the anti-
spreads
said
Long Way to Go
8
non-union plants,” as Region
Director E.-T. Michael put it.
double
They dump
their veteran
workers in the north, creating
unemployment, and seek to consolidate themselyes in the south
“to perpetuate social and economic injustice.”
in
thousands
to
clock
workers,
a
’way
Multer
effect.”
LeRoy
in the depressed south
look both north and
do
is
termed the document “excellent
and I trust it will have much
teresting.”
north
thus
is Minnesota
UAW
Rep. Abraham
Caro-
hope to move northward.”
Runaway
plants
from
up-coming NLRB vote.
At the Ford glass plant in
one
only
Tenn.
Nashville,
the
against
cast
was
vote
election.
in an NLRB
UAW
That plant will soon employ
upwards of 6,000 also.
A late-spring UAW Local 1155
Aircraft,
Hayes
at
settlement
Birmingham, Ala., pushed wages
conditions up to
and working
the point where “it was like an
through
Document
‘Excellent’
the
to-
through
view board. This will do a great
people
many
deal to dissuade
who otherwise might be misled.”
of-
of an
in advance
the UAW
ward
heavily
the
“Our success in Florida has
the
south
talking,”
he
said.
collective
ayail-
to
in front, and I surely want
compliment you on the creation
and selection of the public re-
Douglas Aircraft office workers and technicians at Charlotte,
leaning
booklet
hailed
by
members
the
lina, from Virginia to Delaware
and Maryland, then down quick-
sible
Only One ‘No’
are
or
all
“Again,
“It’s no longer a matter of
high northern living standards
From
gradually moving south.
the far south, from Florida, we
N.C.,
unions
south and see significant, almost
standeconomic
unbelievable
ards among workers, made pos-
history
whose
workers
local
to
P. Reuther he said:
necessary
Michael’s
Tennessee
“Workers
now can
technicians
and
workers
fice
now in the UAW are showing
more enthusiasm than ever in
organizational work among area
salaried
their
ly to Florida.
em-
will
soon
which
and
UAW
made
Mississippi
to
Alabama,
Georgia to South Carolina,
from
the
for
35-year-old
being
his office wall. His finger moved
been won for UAW members at
Martin Aircraft’s Orlando, Fla.,
plant — a plant that recently
overwhelmingly
support
is now
Goy. Orville L. Freeman. In a
letter to UAW President Walter
fice is in Baltimore. He’s seldom
found there, though, because of
widespread UAW activity.
He pointed to a large map on
achievements that result from
UAW organization.
An “outstanding” contract has
yoted
roots
The
progress
understanding,
social
and
to look hard
southern holdouts opprosperity
economic
Social,
Ryder
the
ion,”
far on
to lift it socially so that both
economic and social justice is
possible,” said Michael.
to know
UAW
of
signs
grass
to the
unionism
trade
influence
it can
where
thinking.
King
of
tae international union.
Among those to comment
Growth Spells Progress
UAW
3.
Editor
reyiew
ehle
The South's Learning
attract
and
was
favorable comment
from
govyernment and civic leaders.
Compiled by the UAW publications department,
the
booklet, “A More Perfect Un-
creased
Relations
ads
|
A
newly
published
40-page
\booklet describing the structure
jand workings of the UAW’s pub-
nomic base for southern workers’ families so that their in-
E, T, MICHAEL
KEN MORRIS
PATRICK O'MALLEY
KENNETH W, ROBINSON
ROSS
who
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2.
MERRELLI
story
Public Praises
alarm
GUARANTEED
law
workers
pay.
ploy nearly 6,000.
In Atlanta and
Made Faubus
the
provisions
wage-hour
You
employer)
a
employers
among
violated
the UAW.
A’ A hush-hush Chamber of Commerce conference last
month a speaker proposed a new scheme for combatting
boycotts of scab-produced goods. If you’re approached by a
union to join in a boycott, he said, accept. This will make
the union liable to prosecution under the anti-trust laws.
buried
in
a report from the U.S. Department of Labor that 3,245
plants
in Texas
alone
had
it is small wonder that Sputnik was the first to rise.
The Bedside Companion
corruption
Texas
Hidden
the scien-
deliberately discourage
of
year.
tific prograss of the nation for such a reason. Yet the very
existance of the rumor indicates what a disservice a wholly
“business-minded” government can do to America.
There is a vast difference between renouncing socialism as an appropriate economic system for the United
States and renouncing ALL government projects as bad
in themselves. If scientists belieye—no matter how mistakingly—that this administration holds the latter view,
The
Texas
fleeced workers out of millions of dollars in wages last
Among his most interesting discoveries was a widelyaccepted rumor, in scientific circles, that some people in
the present federal administration simply didn’t want the
missile or satellite programs to be successful. Why? Because they are being run by the government rather than
by private enterprise.
The reporter, Ben Price, didn’t say this rumor was true.
He simply reported that it existed and was believed.
It is hardly possible that any responsible official of the
government
says
unions,
about
experience and excellent reputation did a long and thoughtful feature-story on the U.S. missile program.
federal
oulletin
Local
newspapers which, like papers
everywhere,
are
playing
up
satellite hit both outer space
after the Russian
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upon
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UNITED
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WHAT
IT IS: The Heart of the Union is a film and dis-
There are six basic discussion un} )
ing films. The units are titled (I)f /
Union (film: “Sitdown”) ; (2) Adaptifyr
mation (film: “United Action”); () »
cussion program designed by the UAW education department to explain labor history, union ethics, the theory and
achievements of trade unionism and the UAW’s 1958 bargaining program to union members.
Action (film: “Who Pays for Politics}{ \¥'
Years of Four Basic Issues; (5) ea
Standards (film: “Labor’s Witness”
There are two basic texts, one consisting of discussion
materials and the other an instructor's notebook. They are
put together so persons of no previous experience can present
the program after one run-through.
150,000
The up-beat you hear in the UAW from Maine
to California these days is the Heart of the Union
program
through
pumping
its arteries.
excitement
and
understanding
Within six months from the day the Heart of
the Union first beat, Brendan Sexton, UAW education director, revealed, more than 15,000 members
have taken part in its work.
The most important feature of the program,
he said, is that already 100 UAW members, without
any previous training, have stepped up from students
to discussion leaders and instructors.
Within a year, he added, the goal is to present
the program to 150,000 UAW members and to train
1,000 discussion leaders.
Approximately 4,000 UAW members at the
union’s summer schools saw the films and took part
in the discussions which are the substance of the
Heart of the Union plan. Even before the UAW education department had set up plans for the winter
season, more than 100 local unions, spurred by re-
turning
summer
school
students,
grams on their own initiative.
had
started
pro-
Films and texts are available fr¢
department.
UAW
An outstanding example of how the program
is moving is Local 330’s record in Grand Rapids,
Mich. On returning from the Region ID summer
school, three officers of the local—Robert Sloop,
president; Larry Duram, education committee chair-
Billie
Bok—joined
steward, and set to work.
ra
Heart-Beats
two stages—first, a demonstration to the local stewards, and second, a presentation to the entire membership. Plans are now under way in cities as far
apart as Flint, Mich. and Orlando, Fla. to carry the
program to city-wide audiences.
and
ws
Program for 1958 (film: “UAW Is 2 ie.
In most locals the Heart was set to beating in
man,
i
with
Ed
Lynn,
chief
off
ion \
the ie
Aqui
loca}
meric’
low\
grati
ard
First, they stimulated interest by posting big,
colorful hearts on every available display space in
the plant.
and}
Next, on the basis of their experience at the
summer school, they trained additional discussion
uF
leaders.
In mid-October, in the main meeting hall of
the Grand Rapids CIO building, with local union
discussion leaders in complete charge, they kicked
|
tion)
rat
ae
to Ie
disdei!
ee
eer
cig iee
‘ad of them includyy a'ounding of the
the Age of Autoyotancing Political
44) Two hundred
ec Htion and Ethical
i) Our Bargaining
i, Old”).
"}UAW
education
7
rogram to an audience which included unbers, wives, children, representatives from
|high schools, students and teachers from
i College and observers from all other UAW
ithe community. After the meeting refresh-
ire served.
juccessive
Five similar programs are to fol-
Fridays.
|ton attributes the swift response to the proithese factors:
The
fact that so many
f took
part
local union
in its planning.
leaders
(he five films used give the program a drama
lity no every-day discussion could achieve,
The two basic texts provide data, interpreta-
istorical
; and
introductions and documents
instructors
are
never
at
loss
so that
for
ma-
The discussion techniques built into the prosure that each person who takes part learns
is and theory of the labor movement and how
idiscussions, even while participating in the
fons themselves,
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UNITED
8
AUTOMOBILE
7
¥
Region!, |!A Women Hear
Mazey, Thresh Out Issues
WORKER
Hey,. Buyer!
day
held
Lectures
and
Women’s
troit.
shop
by
department
discussions
work-
ranged
and
over
inter-racial
~
rela-
democratic
ther,
hope,”
political
Roy
action
ment
coordinator,
opening session.
On
BANQUET speaker was Emil Mazey.
Joe McCusker, Region 1A co-director;
oline Davis of women’s department,
are the cornerstone of
Reu-
dais
Gwen
(from
Thompson
left)
were
and
Car-
And
the
principal
at which
speaker
was
CONFERENCE
draws
comment
(left
to
Doman,
president
of Regions
1 and 1A women’s committee,
McCusker.
Demand Short Week
For Older Workers
Matthews Cites
White Collar Job
TORONTO
What's
wrong
with
veteran|
Certainly during those negotiworkers in industry going on a) ations, said Reuther, will be de-
of their
mands for:
directly |
1. Improved pension benefits.
into full|
2. A cost of living clause in-
special short work week
Oxn rather than plunge
from
full employment
retirement?
serted into the pension program.
UAW President Walter P. Reu- | 3. A pre-retirement program
ther
asked
midtOctober
UAW
that question
in a special
regional
whose cost is built into the overto} all pension cost.
here
in
talk
representatives
Reuther
|
said a hospital-medi-
conference
bargaining.
has
UAW
The
op-
posed the compulsory aspects
of retirement programs,
Reuther
The
special
the
ed
much
Atlantic
on
alcoholism.
the
The
convention
problems
program
City,
last
program.”
delegates
the
task
home
more
are
of
UAW’s
Council
tional
York 29, N.Y.
East 103rd St. New
price
The
discounts
more.
for
two
is
orders
for
2| the
Alcoholism,
of
sions
relating
your
high
or
CHORAL
County
Grosse
the direction of
director of the
Symphony
OrSouth
Oakland
and
former
concertmaster
and
staff
director
new
proj-
Symphony,
at NBC.
Non-Members, Too
In
ect,
announcing
UAW
Reuther
the
President
stressed
the
and
Walter
that
it
is
The
said,
are equally
choral
cultural
and
welcome.
group,
Reuther
spiritual
program
is typical
white
collar
can
Matthews
be
was
solved
of
the
Solo
to
of|
provi-
introduced
resenting
10 regions,
37 local unions
featured
cussions
on
automation,
ression,
State
ministration
tunities,
local
of
and
union
job
In his talk, Matthews
the-importance
and
Time
broader
the UAW intends to promote
as technological progress and
dis-
ad-
oppor-
also dis-
of
train-
white collar worker.
YOUR
of
from
for local union leadership
the effect of automation on
HIGH
100.
such
the
as
to help the re-
other
hand,
demand
just
buffered
aspirin
re-
Sears.
if you
Available
C?
various
really needed
buffered aspirin you
can pick
group
plans.
To carry the thing a little farther, suppose your doctor
has suggested you try a combination of aspirin with phenacetin and caffeine—what the trade calls APC pills.
Step up to the counter and ask for them under the
brand name “Empirin” and the clerk’ll charge you $1.35 for
100 of them. Or point to the rack containing ‘“‘Anacin” and
‘
you'll find the price is 98c.
Your druggist, however, will sell you plain APC pills fo
from 70 to 89c, and group
plans’ll sell-’em for 59 to 65c
and even sometimes for as
little as 39c.
Odd thing is, most people
buy the costlier aspirin even
The
leading
brands
of
when the lower-priced brands
toothpaste have been raised
in
price — identically
and
are available. Chalk at least
practically simultaneously.
a part of the blame for it up
The
large
size
packages,
to TV.
which all had been selling for
One of the biggest sellers
79c,
now
all sell
for
83c.
in recent
years
has
been
The consuming public is left
“Bufferin.” They’ve been hitpuzzling over four mysteries:
ting the public over the head
(1) Why did all go up at
with TV commercials showthe same time and by identiing
diagrams
fact
a
our
interior
cal
tacid
don’t
need
ingredients
(4)
the
cheaper
or even
world
or
brands
mix a cup
Will
the
Federal
Commission investigate
identical price rises?
are
that
in
What
of salt and uw cup of bicarbonate of soda at home?
an-
the
(2)
buy
to
powders,
get upset stomachs from ordinary aspirin and, as a consequence,
amounts?
makes a tube of toothpaste
worth 83c?
(3) Would it be just as well
don’t
people
most
that
Trade
these
added.
There’s one aspect of all
this that’d be funny, if your pocketbook weren’t involved.
It’s the righteous indignation of ‘‘Bayer’’-—which used to
have the dubious but profitable distinction of charging the
most for what’s basically just aspirin.
Since “Bufferin” sales have zoomed, ‘Bayer’ has been
running ads piously asking the public:
“Are you paying twice the price of Bayer aspirin for
pain relievers that are nothing
than aspirin
more
in disguise?
Such pain relievers, which attempt to belittle straight aspirin, give you an assortment of added ingredients for your
extra
which
money—ingredients
magnesium
compounds,
aluminum
soda.”
do
not
relieve
carbonate
pain,
and
like
baking
If ever there was a case of the pot calling the kettle
black, this is it. “Bayer” itself has been charging the public
two and even three times the price others have been asking
for aspirin, And the reason it was able to is it used the same
method “Bufferin’”’ has found so profitable: constant, highpowered advertising that has made you think of “Bayer”
whenever you think of aspirin.
You, of course, reSame thing applies to “Anacin.”
member the TV commercials which quickly tell you that
your doctor recommends the ingredients in “‘Anacin.” True
enough, but some people sometimes get the impression “‘your
What doctors are really
“Anacin.”
doctor” recommends
recommending, if they do mention this combination of ingredients, is APC tablets.
You don’t think this ding-dong, hit ’em-again-and-again
Well,
for Rehearsal
of
plumbing. As I reported, the
price is $1.23 — the highest
you can pay for any aspirin.
‘Yet, pharmacists report it’s
the big seller — despite the
advertising
Voice
Experience.
Days
by
operations,
....
in Detail
if
job
evaluation,
automatic
prog-
transfer
arbitration,
panel
GROUP, UAW
Choral
only
The weekend session, held at
the King Edward
Hotel and
attended by 79 delegates rep-
workers | cussed
a5 cax5d-lateacobesmetecaseseeeetootek Type
or
worker's
George Burt, director of the Canadian region.
P.
community rather than a strictly amion venture. Non-members
of UAW
Address
ME AROPUNGS
Symphony
Pointe
bargaining
8000 East Jefferson, Detroit 14, Michigan
mew choral group is the place
for you.
The choral group is now being
Scandinavian
chestra,
the
workers
of their own.”
10 Regions
retired
HOW'S
technical
C?
If you're interested in singing and you live in the Detroit-Windsor area, the UAW’s
set up under
Henri
Nosco,
retired
done
thews declared.
the future of the program.|ing
Workshop sessions were held on | and
each major point.
| the
UAW SINGERS:
How’s
to
to be
and _
collective
headway
be set up,|
constitutional
UAW
5c, with | and
100
that should
programs
office
making
led
activities,
workers’
| retired
| discussions covering the types of |
Na-|
the
through
on
J.
director
remains
depended heavily on the organized plant workers,’ Matthews said.
“They are now
Worker
Every
has
workers department.
“In the past, office
ground and making
effective the UAW’s |
en- | workers’ program.
UAW
he takes his rightful place in the
organized labor movement, Mat-
the
returning
The
to the union’s international office workers
conference
here.
Matthews
is director
of the
problems
charged
of | already- highly - praised
Sexton,
Brendan
to
cording
UAW education director. It may
ordered
N.
April.
Should Know About Alcoholism,” | Future of Program
Charles E. Odell,
is available to local unions, ac-|
be
at
work
The
“Now,” said Reuther, “we must
breathe
life into that
broad,
with
publication,
“What
titled
workers
—
in this field, UAW Vice President
Norman Matthews told-delegates
res-
union’s
tired
Leaflet
on Liquor
their
AFL-CIO has published a| even
leaflet
UAW
and _ constitutional
pertaining to the re-
The
.
to study
olutions
changes
| flextble
in negotiations.
mand
new
for|
week
be a 1958 de-
older workers may
New
The
|
question indicat- |
work
On
has an antacid added
the new
Public's Getting
A Good Pasting
made some progress in organizing new white collar groups, but
cal care program must also be
from all over the U. S., gathered
to hear bout th: UAW’s retired | worked out.
UAW
regional
representaworkers
program
as it stands|
tives met here for a two-day
near the eve of 1958 collective
always
instead of just plain aspirin you want
for
and
right) George Merrelli, Region
1 co-director; Agnes Loveland,
vice
president,
and
Jennie
and
beginning.
it up for as little as 39 to 69c from some union health centers
display
from
the
aspirin which
But
the
Emil
Mazey.
only
buffered
tailer
UAW
Secretary
- Treasurer
MARGOLIUS
and the price’ll likely be 89c for 100 at a private-brand
the majority is not white?”
The conference wound up
a banquet
SIDNEY
latively few people whose stomachs are upset by ordinary
aspirin.
Ask for “Bufferin” and you'll have to cough up $1.23
“Yet if we deny the rights
of some of our citizens how
can we lead a world where
with
that’s
Suppose
depart-
told
nr
Call an aspirin tablet by any other name and you'll pay
more for it.
You doubt that? Well, tell a drug store clerk you want
“Bayer’s”’ and it'll cost you 62e for a bottle of 100. Ask for
“Squibb’s” and you'll have to fork over 79c for 200,
But buy it as plain aspirin U.S.P. from a reliable druggist, department store, medical cooperative or union-sponsored pharmacy, and you'll pay as little as 12 to 39c for 100.
De-
the subjects of women’s activities, job security, political
action
tions.
“We
By
the
in
'‘Bayer'?
Are a Headache in Themselves
women from 31
attended a two-
conference
Why
1957
Prices of ‘Brand Name’ Aspirins
UAW women in Regions 1 and 1A were reminded
again of the key role they pla y not only in the union but
in the community
and the
nation.
Over 100
local unions
November
pays
Harry
for
these
Winocur,
companies?
manager
of
District
65's
phar-
macy in New York reports that union members buy more
“Bayer” aspirin from the union pharmacy than the pharmacy’s own brand—which sells for only 15c for 100, or onefourth the price of “Bayer.”
Yet, the 15c aspirin meets the U.S.P. regulations, is
made by a competent manufacturer with quality-controlled
methods
and
is checked
by
the
union’s
representative.
Even “Squibb,” one of the oldest and best-known pharJean Goldkette,|maceutical manufacturers, can’t win the public away from
jits
president,
shorter
hours
give
workers
Reuther said.
“Bayer’”—although its price is lower.
both the time and the means
Interested singers may fill in
for such activities.
Why worry? Well, the public spends over $50 million
the accompanying coupon or a
Establishment
of the group
How much are you chipping in?
facsimile. Auditions are already a year for aspirin.
was greatly aided by the Na-
tional
Artists
Foundation
and
under
way.
Copyright 1957 by Sidney Margolius
—_—
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
1957
November
Our MD Aim:
A Fair Shake
basement
medicine,”
Michigan
State
eonvention
Maybe
quality
of
to watch
two World
care,”
said
maining
eight
“ But
cannot
we
matically lowered Dy any cna’
at all in the currently prevailing
Need
a
ad
wie
know: at
would
one
No
ingly
the first
and
of time.
of
bill,
that
gains
have
“doctors
workers
have
wages”
in
their
of
tion
the
of
out
made
charge
ability
for
more
charged.
he
dent
URW
of the United Rubber Wo. rkers; Carl Baker, president of
Local 2, and UAW
Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey, just
before latter dedicated Local 2 hall
By
GEORGE
SCRIVEN
f
Editor, United Rubber W orker
O.—The trade union
is primarily respon-
AKRON,
|movyement
for
sible
about
our
dignity
and
bringing
democ-
industrial
insures
| security for the worker and his
promoted to director of the en- family.
gineering and time study diviSecretary . Treasurer
UAW
sion of the union’s research and
Emil Mazey stressed that point
department.
engineering
security
in turn,
Mead,
by
UAW
will
J.
William
ern Ohio,
Mead, a member
2 here.
a
force
University.
He
seryed
in
the
UAW
engineering
depart-
becoming
ministrative
Sitdown
Veteran
Kanter,
an
assistant.
a member
is a veteran
of
ad-
of Local
the
GM
mission
400, |education
Local
plant. He had preyiously earned
a bachelor’s degree from Wilberbefore
use
shall
and
our
engineering
industrial
studied
at the
University
of
Michigan
while
still
employed
in
the
ment
the
to
ing
22,
said,
Mazey
|
|a%
and
stands
are
apples,
“It’s not
management,
also
fair
some
to
try
where
bad
and
de-
the
entire
stabil-
strength,
progress
for
it
was
“Just
he continued.
ago,
years
there
on
all,”
of
good
the
Local 2 home
| community,”
|21
none
and
organizing
of
a symbol
ity
in
Stability
new
“This
standards
it to help complete
for
of
Symbol
ethical
“The American people should
remember, too, that the Senate investigators are spending
all their time on unions and
humanity
of
cause
higher
than any other segment of our
society. The few bad apples will
be driven out of the movement.
this build-
are dedicating
“We
in south-
of
have
Local
Workers
Rubber
United
be replaced
representative
that “labor leaders, as a whole,
cation address in the newlyof
headquarters
remodeled
department,
Beckham,
(see below).
Turning to the present Senate
probe, the UAW leader declared
dedi-
principal
the
gave
he
as
He replaces Robert Kanter,
who is transferred to the acUAW
tuarial division of the
social
question
a
you were going to
of whether
building
This
union,
a
have
should convince all that you are
here to stay and are a part of
sitdown| the
community.”
strike and
the “battle of the
Mazey’s talk climaxed a dayoverpass” at Ford. He was first | long open house at the threecalled to the staff of Local 174 | story
the
of
headquarters
and
with
was
union.
the international
graduated
stitute
of
receive
his
Wayne
continue
from
Technology,
master’s
State
Detroit
will
University
his studies
at
cal 674, transferred
war to the Wright
its
ing
Cincinnati,
bargaining
World
22,000
Whur
Chase
and
Cincinnath,
the
Uni-
of
Lo-
chaired
If when
Much
Law
will
during the
plant out-
UAW
experience has
aireraft
negotiations,
tended
In-
from
and
committee
members,
He
soon
degree
versity of Michigan
Beckham,
a member
side
service
to
called
was
later
dur-
it had
of
his
been in
He
at-
College
have
tickets:
Hf
going
loved
ex- |
box-seat|
in
Anderson,
was
to
be
Noted
ago
by
the
county
“Twenty
Mazey:
I would
ed out—not
have
in.”
been
By
the
14,000-member
history
a
boasts
unionism
sitdown
More
local,
of
back
going
which
strikes of the Thirties.
union
10,000
than
establish
“Remember,
is
no
plain
now
in
a
union,
that
have
the
so
didn't
never
have
plant
the
where
you
must
come
easy,
there
conditions
they came only through
jon’s efforts,” he said,
the
ex-
they
that
un-
662 Union Center
Emil
tary- Treasurer
who said the building
mem-
of
many
workers
younger
| worked
unions,
LOCAL
in Anderson, Ind, (above) was
formally dedicated
by Secre-
the
to
bers, business and clyic leaders
toured the building,
Mazey called on union veterans
younger
to the
along
to pass
workers the story of the struggle
to
NEW
militant
|
Mazey,
must be
dedicated
“not
only
to
the
memory
of
the
many
oldtimers who took part in build-
ing this local union, but also
to the community
for its education
so that
we
can
carry
out our aims and objectives,”
Hostesses
(right)
for
open
house
nights
at the
$600,000
center
added
attraction,
CIO
into
sheriff.
|
ing
|
|
|
years
escort-
its
pleasant
day’s
end
is
new,
$125,000,
he
structure
is
agree,
practices
the
modern
and
eost
and
of
of UAW,
said,
the
acceptance
of
symbol
combined
of
the
the
area
come
because
good
dent
for labor, UAW Vice PresiLeonard
Woodcock,
fea-
tured
speaker,
Besides
unions
said.
Woodcock,
speakers
2A
Director
Jones,
local
president;
Mayor
Robert
F.
Wessell and John Rooney, Ohio
Council
Ross
whole.”
here.
how-
have
tackled
problems
in the
belief that what is good for the
community
and
the
nation is
Tire
plant
the na-
has
Local
Co.
progress
ever,
is no place for them here.”
Mazey was introduced by L. SBuckmaster; general president of
2
the
Rubber
Workers.
Local
members work at the Goodyear
and
the
unjon
progress,
CIO
laout
of
local
the
of the labor movement just as
fast as we can do the job. There
a black mark for organized
bor. They ought to be driven
speakers
they
3,000-member
Much
commit-|,
a
ecommunity’s
the
heard
included
Region
Ray Ross;
Adrian
Rubber
head-
had
tee, “they have used their power
for selfish gains and are making
&
new
he
Rather,
tion,
those union officials
charges by the AFL-
ethical
formally
answer. It isn’t that the build-
stroy our house of labor to clean
out a couple of rats.”
As for
who face
233
|quarters.
Indi-
escorted
was
Local
opened
Mazey to URW: Unions Key to Security
been
has
Reuther,
he
Mazey
town
Kermit Mead, an administra- | present-day
tive assistant to UAW President | racy, which
P.
Beau-
Secretary-Treasurer
Emil
they
Mead, Kanter,
Beckham Shift
Walter
Esther
Mrs.
UAW
in
where
UAW
services,”
their
the
of
would
What's the Diff?
|Reporter Learns
featured speaker at the opening of the new Local 662 hall,
the
and
to pay,
were
four
and
money
ana,
bencfits“The trouble is that this has
led some doctors to assume that
the insurance has increased the
worker’s
L. Cubba,
Arriving
fringe
of
form
the
the money
|
Escort Changes
social |
as
wages
“{
his four ducats.
a por-
earmarked
ak
a
FAIRFIELD,
O—“What’s
so
Series important about a local union
World
for two
tickets
games at Milwaukee.
x | dedicating @ new
building?” a
Brooks headed for New Yor
reporter
asked
as
and | "€wspaper
with $100 expense money
great
that
fact
Pa.
winners
Detroit
pense
society
the
reminded
Bye-Opence
ihe
for taking
instead
following
doin and William Brooks.
Koralewski accepted $100
benefits extended to cover another third of health needs.”
Reuther
becoming
since
in
reason
uae:
Pittsburgh,
Joseph
get
to
trying
are
we
and
es
er
erage
Leas
teams
and Max Koralewski of Toledo, ,
Henry
Mrs.
and
Mr.
O.;
Schneider and L. S. Norwicke
service
health
American
Downey,
“Present insurance plans, at
7 est, cover only one-third of the
family’s
©
to the World Series, but my
ners:
Adele Davidson of Los An- || blood pressure is high and
old heart
aid
pm
WianeckiHerbof |)| could
J: Marvin
geles; Edmund
”
.
t
i
takes
Calif.;
segment — of
bigger
a
care for a longer period
average
~
Her fifth
are a : con! est.
as of Labor Day.
received from all| ate le class is proud of her,
her hosted
U. S. and ‘Canada,| shor salt, ane
enane Gee acca
ee
broadness of Eye-
the
announced
a
members
union
with
quarrel
when they want prepayment to
cover
health
Series
to
air
on
ing
|
Radio Director Guy Nunn
win-|
UAW
to that of the doctor.”
conscientiously
cannot
“J
League
pen et se ern
transferpatient’s
for
the
the
National
and
its citizens’ ad-
me) to; show howath-s 1s.3
for,
any way impaired by adoption
modern plan
from
money
.
Thrill
ae
Big
ee
Too
in their predic- || ;
how
to
as
tions
of
conference
Ta: ieriee
wocate am perecnal,
TecEOe: ration rela
mE ee
t
“But it is Tee, difficul
tionshi
aneeny
sone,
of a
ring
.
to take}
decided
listeners poured
left, paw recreation director | Vouiq stand
Olga Madar,
Visory committee.
and an advisory committee member, is shown with Dr. Mabel | Fotries were
parts of the
Locke of the University of Idaho and Cadet John F. Reilly.
indicating the
in a lecture which was read by|
Vice President Leonard Wood-|
cock in the absence of the UAW|
president, who was ill.
Still a
re-|
seats. The
aaa
/—
wrote
teacher
school uene
Day Datelong, Eye-Opener| Detroit
is ete
Gavinanditna
All summer
,
Youth, Fines
on
Council
President’s
the
Reuther
said
it,”
for
paying
or
was part of
POINT
AT WEST
LUNCH
medicine
practicing
for
pattern
Series games
i.
City
York
New
or
Labor
ue
duets
contentionithati
have
of the 10
but only two
Milwaukee
vision and radio.
the
accept
to
for the best via tele-
hope
—and
lecturer.
Biddle
box
choice
listeners
contest.
baseball
the alternative $130 cash award| Going
Reuther, who was the society’s
1957
Eye-Opener
two more are the envy of their friends
travel
to
must
from
UAW
it’s a sign of the times,
chose
winners
* not conflict with the objective
high
Eight
to the Eye-Opener’s
care
for
pay
and
vide
©
—thanks
pro-
to
arrangements
—
fatter wallets—and
g
outlinin
‘
on medical
prepaymeht plans,
“The
DETROIT
Society
while
policy
the union’s
told the}
Medical
here
Pres-
UAW
P. Reuther
Walter
ident
bargain
for
looking
not
are
Two Get Series Tix,
Eight Take The Cash
— “We
RAPIDS, Mich:
GRAND
ye-Opener Experts:
dicates
ty UAW
told
233’s
the
has
its members
nities
and
secretary-treasurer.
the
new
meeting
building
progress
brought
and
that
“in-
stabili-
not only
to
but to the commuthe
nation
as
a
November
1957
—_—
j
There's Always Something
Different Out in California
There’s always something different in California and
UAW summer schools are no exception, as thesé three scenes
from the Region 6 institute reveal.
At
diploma
top left, the “‘best-behaved student” gets a special
from Region 6 Director Charles Bioletti as Vice President Pat Greathouse holds him, a bit gingerly. The “student”
is Ronnie Trujillo, whose parents are looking on.
is doing the kitchy-koo.
At top right, the outdoor class provides
autumn climate at California Hot Springs.
Directly to the
George
Parsons,
Herman
draws
Local
McQueen,
Dennis
right,
811;
Local
for
Dennis
his
a plug for the
the Menace
Hazel
179.
Joe Kowalski
L.
and
The artist is Al Wiseman,
who
Hank
Local
by
887
originator,
Blakey,
is visited
Ketcham.
Dennis
is
saying, “How come you guys go to school in the summertime?”
Protect Packard Vets
At Utica Bend Plant
UTICA,
ment
Mich.
covering
Local
Plant
—
An
agree-;
1,000 members
190 at the
Utica
of Curtiss-Wright
of|tial
year’s
aircraft
Leonard
negotiations
chain,
Woodcock,
with
the
Vice-President
head
of the!
aircraft department, announced. |
Only the Hollywood, Calif.,
agreement
remains
unsigned,
he
said.
20,000
The
UAW
Curtiss-Wright
The
Utica
Bend
reached
after 3%
represents
workers.
pact
was}
months
of|
negotiations headed by Region 1}
Co-Director Ken Morris. It coy-
ers one of the oldest work forces
plant
an
Wright
average
was
in
age
acquired
a
stock
Pension
by
for
preferen-
Studebaker-
proyed
vacations,
ums and insurance.
Also,
workers
shift
Studebaker
get
pension
-
premi-
Packard
credits
at
Utica Bend without the customary 10-year minimum re-
quirement.
Thus
baker-Packatd
a _
worker
Stude-
ployed at Utica Bend for
five years would collect
both
the
em-
(say)
from
Studebaker-Packard
and
Curtiss-Wright
pension
funds when he became eligible
for retirement.
The
agreements
are
the
first
Curtiss-| headed by Woodcock.
deal
Studebaker-Packard.
hiring
Bend;
area,| since
the
formation
of
the
of 53. The | Curtiss-Wright
council,
also
in the Detroit metropolitan
with
in Utica
“Do Higher
Wages
Cause
Higher Prices?” is the title
Bend|Packard
workers
through
Feb.
Corp.,|1, 1959; eight paid holidays; im-
most of them former Packard
workers, has virtually completed
this
ployed
in Fund
Drive
Wage increases of 12-56c an
NEW YORK ,— Martin Gerber,
hour
are provided
in the} UAW Region 9 director, has been
agreement.
of
the
a
new
Other
features! named to the labor committee
include full seniority for Stude-| of the 1957 United Negro Colbaker-Packard workers
em-! lege Fund Drive.
film
produced
AFL-CIO
and
WASHINGTON
interested
movie
in
ayailable
renting
should
AFL-CIO
this
contact
education
the
“All
mired
depart-
ment,
815
16th
St.
N.W.,
Washington 6, D.C. The rental
fee is $2. The film may also
be obtained through the UAW
film department
House,
stricken
creases
ranging
from
five
for clerical and
in-
techni-
cal workers at the Dana Corp.’s
Ecorse division here have been
won by UAW Local 889, which
fessional workers
Detroit area.
in the
pro-
greater
Wallace Webber, local president,
termed
the
agreement
one of the best in the country
for
The
across
office
{ion
up
shop
ions,
ment
workers,
contract
calls
for
5c
the board, inequity ad-
justments
to
and
30c
hourly,
checkoff
un-
a
two
year
years.
Pensions,
The
accumulative
local
also
won
work
DOTTED
LINE
is where
this UAW negotiating team is signing
the new Utica Bend pact.
From left, Walter Oshinski, Local 190
committeeman; Eddie Dwornik, financial secretary; Harry Kujawski, plant chairman; Wise Stone, UAW aircraft representative; John K. McDaniel, Region 1 representative, and Region 1
Co-Director
Ken
Morris,
a
come
company
over
coverage
plan,
progression
and
in
retirement
full
all
in-
automatic
grades
They
found
why
a book
adare
President
said.
slightly}
occurred
shrink,
of
poems
my
heart?
Thy hopes are gone before;
from all things here they have
departed.
Thou
shouldst
now
depart.”
Reuther described Don's life as
of each
and
classifications.
The negotiating committee
was headed by Region 1 CoDirector Ken Morris,
of them
«pirst in government, then in
They|
whO/the YAW, Donald Montgomery
The)haq always worked vigorously
supple-|4nq
effectively
to protect
to
their
mented that of the other in the| extend
fight for justice,
growch
the
democracy
tolerance
and|anq
the rights of all citizens
improve
economic
of} anq social well-being,” he said.
extension
and
freedom,
and
and
Taylor
Mary
Montgomery
was
During his wife's illness, Don | herself a distinguished trade untook a leave of absence from his ionist, writer and
government
UAW
post in order to devote full) Yorker.
time
to her care.
“We
his
know,”
death
tragic
was
illness
Reuther
the
said, “that
result
and
the
of
the
also
un-
timely
death
recently
of
his
equally devoted wife. The emotionel upset brought on by his
bereavement and
the
physical
exhaustion
brought
on
by
director
ports of
In
reau.
riculture
Since 1945 she had heen
of the division of rethe U. S. Children’s Buthe Department of Agin 1933 she created and
a
Guide,”
200,000 cir-
“Consumers
edited
pamphlet of nearly
culation.
she developed a radio
called “Consumer Time”
five
for
was broadcast
Broadby the National
1937
In
his | program
months of constant and sleep- |which
less nursing of his wife up until years
the moment of her death were casting Company.
for
forts
Don
share
death,
of
his
a
to
burden
carry
his
too
despite
many
on
the
and
the
morning
called
heavy
friends
burden.”
Don
his name
j}under the UAW
pension
plan,
together with continued equity | that
in
grief,”
died of a brain tumor.
were a devoted couple
shared the same ideals.
Early
Too
knew,
Don
P. Reuther
provis- |seemingly
supplemental
unemploybenefits and 20 paid sick
days
E.
less than two months after his|one of “devotion and dedication
wife, Mary Taylor Montgomery, | to the service of his fellow men.”
to 30c
covers industrial office and
with
Don’s death
at Solidarity
Mich—Wage
Donald
of us who
and
loved
Walter
5=30c Gain
In Office Pact
ECORSE,
—
opened to “Adonais,”
Shelley’s
Montgomery, for 14 years a UAW
Washington staff member
and | elegy on the death of Keats, Don
since 1947 director of the union’s had marked these lines:
Washington office, died Oct. 11,
“Why linger, why turn back,
at his home here.
by
for showing at local union
meetings. Local union officers
an hour
with
Gerber
Rights
Don Montgomery Dies Soon
After Wife; Union Mourns|
Wage-Price Film
Can Be Rented
police,
address,
told
ef-
to
of his
she door was open and that
all the personal effects of himselZ and his wife were arranged
so that the. could be properly
disposed of, and then he said he
was going to shoot himself.
When the
was dead,
police
arrived
University
he
N.
of
J.,
in
born
at
educated
Pennsylvania
land the University of Wisconsin.
|He served in the Navy in World
gave |War
them
Park,
Asbury
|the
.was
Montgomery
Don
}sional
I.
ti-trust
laws
in
began
his
and
unfair
competition
career
general’s
profes-
He
the
administering
Wisconsin
office.
Before
an-
attorney
joining
the UAW staff he worked successively for the Federal Trade
Commission, Securities and Exchange
ment
Commission
of Agriculture,
and Depart-
-
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
1957
November
Page
11
‘Why You Just Can't Trust the Boss
INDEN, N. J.—It was only a little
plant, hardly visible among the
giants in this grim but bustling factory town on the southern edge of
northern New Jersey’s vast industrial
out some
regular
consultation
understanding.
than
vided more
to
pared
sembly
3,800
plant.
200 steady jobs—com-
as-
GM
nearby
at the
But the history of labor-management
relations in this tiny unit, and the manner of its closing, present in miniature
the basic reasons why the average work
boss.
plant
The
Mather
‘Bigger
was
Spring
the
Co.,
branch
eastern
of
to us,” said Coyle.
operation was going
board.
eastern
the
along
for concern.
‘Cooperation’
Asks
Local 194.
and became
long been
ledo plant had
organized;
are part of Amalgamated
workers
the
Local
contract was
A standard UAW
12.)
signed, and until three years ago there
was little to distinguish the operation
thousands
from
try.
Martin
UAW
Paul
and
Gerber
the
staff helping
9
Phillipe
cars.
contracted
others
“We
skipped
would
we met
with
we
Barney,”
Mather
have
Coyle
day,
layoff.”
an “indefinite
nouncing
Planned
That
Way
vice
Wotjowicz,
Ed
president,
Eugene
was
there
Cook,
and Harold Pilson.
said
months,”
was
as
wasn’t
“It
new
Boss
Hides
Out
“They'd always
do that because
Director
of the
apt to cancel
were
George
said
orders,”
all too high
in New
“But
One
but
don’t
owe
remained
until
at
Sept.
at
you
the
haye
not
fired,
a
too.
time
to be working,
guys
jobs,”
Coyle
and
are so
said.
“Only
are
finding
it
work.”
members
reported.
to
when
there
gone to
the 200
remember
toolmakers
or
that
anything
that,’ he went on.
“Despite all
talk about prosperity, there isn’t
room
aid
to
supplementary
for
semi-skilled
the
workers
factory
is that
unemployment
their
benefit
fund is being liquidated in four
payWorkers with top seniority will
ments.
get $35 a week
for three
weeks;
the
fourth payment will be held up until fi-
nal administrative costs are calculated.
On the other hand, the local’s credit
union
is in temporary
can’t
get
when the
depositors
away
right
money
their
was
trouble. There
$28,000 in outstanding loans
plant folded; as a result, the
But, of course, the credit union and
the SUB are only temporary relief at
basic
the
can’t change
They
best.
was being closed because the cost of gas,
workmen’s compensation, unemployment
insurance, steel and transportation were
us they couldn’t
companies
auto
told
the
funny
Phillipe
workers.”
“All the jobs are on incen-
Coyle.
added
pay?
should
were
like this where
get
36,
much
known,”
on the job if we had
laid down
We
men
40 of them have
average age of
like
the
have
could
we
though
com-
wages,”
“They
men
is supposed
to
they’re
president,
bitterly.
Pilson
sound
plants,
about
The
“At first the company people claimed they had only known about it for a
few days, but later on we found out
two
for
it
about
they had known
or
good
machinery,
Scarce
may
many
local
Pryor,
the
was completed.
“Nothing
the company;
as of that
in a section
Monday morning the Local 194 execBeutive board reported at the plant.
sides Coyle, Saylor, Hlavaty, Wojtkowski
and
20
remaining
Are
“It
an-
force
under
in to
severance
money.
penny.”
work
said
the
Jobs
as well.
whole
sent to the
were
and
group.
their
one
hard
grams
r
dismantling
til the
doing,”
been
had
it
Although
4.
July
offer
came
13—Friday the 13th.
That was when the
old contract expired.
Gerber made
a
routine call to agree on an extension un-
could
week-end
the
worked
shifts
he
the
Something
arbitra-
the
told
man
work,
Phillipe
Nonsense!
saved
any
himself
paid our employees
Late on Saturday afternoon, unknown
even to the men who were working, tele-
obligations.
acquired
Mr.
plant
but
day, July 5, and Saturday
this
and
for homes
—
Early this year, though, the old fears
tive and we would just have been cutfull
at
going
was
The plant
revived.
ting our own throats.”
tilt, eyen building a substantial inyenThe works manager, Barney, met with
springs.
finished
tory of
* the union this time. He said the plant
committee,
local
long-term
cottages;
summer
high, he told the Lothe “cooperation” of
the union was needed.
The union, with Region
of them
Some
But along about that time, a new
president, young Henry
(Hank) Mather, inherited the top job from his
father. He came here to lay down the
on
to take
safe
Severance?
a
everybody
of the workers felt it
before them, many
of others in the indus-
law.
Costs were
cal 194 officers;
company’s
the
With
Phillipe
Gerber,
planned to shut down over the holiday,
management asked 20 men to work Fri-
predictions
rosy
with
Cook,
with
Mather
mittee.
Would
He would not.
this year the
Hlavyaty, sec-
Jersey
of
even
two
before
develop a torsion-bar,” said Henry Wojt“They're
kowski, a local committeeman.
making them in Toledo and they could
have made them here, too.”
(The bigger To-
the
hold
“He
full
A
was one of the first to
“This company
The workers promptly joined the UAW
along
meet
tion cases, and that never happened
before.”
=
However, the plant continued to hum.
better than ever.”
The switch by Chrysler to torsion-bar
suspension also seemed to be no cause
sea-
it.”
Raymond
management
get
said.
fu-
“He told us
to be bigger
about
as we got back
local
never
engaged to survey the operations.
“But then Mr. (William) Barney, the
works manager for both plants, talked
It opened the unit here in 1941 to
GM.
be closer to the growing array of auto
plants
about
officers
local
the
down.
the
Better’
the
that
“As soon
ture of the plant. This was heightened
when a firm of consulting engineers was
is in Toledo, O. Mather Spring supplies
the auto industry, primarily Ford and
assembly
and
among
headquarters
whose
shut
Because of Mather’s statements there
of uneasiness
amount
was a certain
good
believe—with
union
the
trust
you just can’t
er. and his
cause—that
granted
superintendent had been fired,” recalled
Jack Coyle, chairman of the Local 194
“The committee never
shop committee.
functioned after that.”
it never pro-
and
Eventually
secretary.
met with the Toledo delegation.
They
learned that in Toledo it was taken for
plant
old
ago—the
years
two
ber—just
recording
wondered
committeeman,.
wage-opening
a
up
pass
we
retary-treasurer,
set up
In this period the local
to
voted
complete
was
194
At the UAW convention
Local 194 delegates—Paul
date in the contract.
“The trouble was, by the next Septem-
At first glance there would seem to
be no story in the fact that the plant
closed its doors for good, after 16
Except in wartime
A committee
for the purpose.
even
to insure
Local
“Naturally
com-
the
between
Saylor,
be
should
there
agreed
union
the
and
pany
center.
years.
was
It
errors.
own
of management’s
pointed
facts—or
they
Jersey.
have
been
betrayed.
that
men
200
of
feeling
the
Mazey Blasts Him
NAM Head Urges Strike
To Block Sho rter Week
In the best “let’s you and him
fight” tradition, the president of
of
Association
National
the
Manufacturers came to Detroit
and urged the auto industry to
force a strike on the UAW next
year rather than grant a shorter
work-week.
In a speech
of
Club
nomic
Eto-
the
before
NAM
Detroit,
head Ernest G. Swigert declared that “it will do no good
ay
a
;
a
of
unwisdom
economic
at this
week
work
shorter
period if you don’t have the
courage to face a strike.”
RST
SIGNING BY SOAPY makes possible a $115,000 re-training program for handicapped workers formerly employed at the Kaiser-
Frazer plant. From
rehabilitation,
liams
and
left, Ralf A. Peckham,
Department
Ed
Cote,
of Public
co-director
director of vocational
Instruction;
of UAW
Governor
Region
Wil-
1A.
Handicapped K-F Workers
To Get $115,000 Training
dustries
Handicapped workers formerly
employed
at the Kaiser-Frazer
plant will benefit from an agreement
G,
for
signed
Mennen
a
gram,
by
Michigan
Gov.
re-training
pro-
Williams
$115,000
grant
from
the
vocational
tend,
to
rehabilitation
ect
and
and
agreement
between
the
UAW
the
not
social
Frazer
workers
who
the
tion
of|
and
basis
of
The
guidar
be
by
at-
security
voca-
selected
medical
supplied
the
standards
governing
tion
will
the
of
state
program,
on
informa-
trust
“a
to
until one
fund,
eligibility
rehabilita-
state agency
will furnish
medand
counseling,
can-
the
on
is half-dead
boxer
tionally handicapped.
It provides
that individual
applicants
Swigert
kind that isn’t happy
agency
are
was answered immedUAW Secretary-TreasMazey in a 30-minute
a Detroit radio station.
Swigert
jately by
urer Emil
talk over
bloodthirsty boxing fan — the
is a joint projstate
prices.
today’s high
Comparing
grounded
could
He also repeated the old NAM
line that labor is to blame for
Warns of ‘Class War’
| fund on behalf of former Kaiser-
the
fice. This in turn will be used
to obtain an additional $65,000
in federal money on a matching basis,
was
weather
The
security
fund
for a $50,000
fund
Corp.,
Joint Standards
providing
The agreement between the
State
Office
of Vocational
Rehabilitation and the board
of trustees of the Kaiser-Frazer UAW social
opens the way
bad
the
proving
treatises
write
to
vas,” Mazey said the NAM boss
for a
itching
“obviously
was
fight—a fight to be waged by
himself.”
than
others
Swigert is urging the auto
industry to “wage war on its
workers,
their union and
their
send
this
Mazey
aims,”
that
action
city spinning
warfare,
“Our
happy
“We
union
continued,
would
union,”
is
he
class
col-
our
lective bargaining problems at
the conference table and not on
the
line.”
picket
Answering
the
that
Swigert’s
demand
a
for
assertion
“is simply a device
more
overtime,”
week
;}cure
|
sald:
shorter
to seMazey
ical treatment
(including prosRegion 1A Director Ed Cote; Dathetic
appliances),
vocational | Week Down, Goods Up
“The
UAW
favors a shorter
vid LaMoreaux, supervisor of the |treatment,
occupational
tools
se-| jand equipment, maintenance Job work-week not to create more
Kaliser-Frazer
UAW
social
Signing
the
agreement
curity
fund;
tional
rehabilitation;
director
of
Ralf
the
A,
office
were
Peckham,
of
and
yocaGoy-
ernor Williams.
Robert Jesperson, vice president of Kaiser In-
|placement
trust
fund
plied
by
other
cost
and
needs
will
the
be
will
as
follow-up,
shared
overtime
sup-
of the practical steps our nation
two.
lenge
such
agency.
The
cannot
state
The
provide
by
be
the
create
can
opportunities,
more
take
in
jobs...
meeting
of automation
(It)
the
but
to
is one
chal-
without
ened week would actually reduce living standards is “asinine and ridiculous,” the UAW
clearly
shows,
hours,
a
Mazey
reforms,
“Where
continued,
would
asked:
be . «+
America
its
had
had
NAM
the
if
today
way?”
Going into Swigert’s charge
that labor’s wage demands are
the reasons for present-day inflation,
history
Mazey
UAW’s
duction
pointed
Mazey
a
for
proposal
the
to
re-
$100
in the prices of cars and
to take any
“that when the work-week was| the union’s pledge
into conreduced from 72 to 60 to 40} possible loss in profits
“an
continued.
out
ducing the living standards of
our people, without the suffering of heavy unemployment.”
Swigert’s claim that a short-
officer charged.
industrial
America’s
strike-
a
not
to work
prefer
into
dizzily
‘This country isn't ready for a shorter work week. The people
wouldn‘t know what to do with the leisure.’
re-
goods
and
greater
services
abundance
of} sideration
created, |
was
the living standards of all of the
people
same
were
time,
while,
raised,
at the
opportun-
a greater
ity for leisure and cultural attainment was made possible.”
He pointed out that the NAM
“used
ments
almost
against
annual
anteed
same
the
pensions,
and
wages
argu-
guar-
other|
by our
won
gains
social
major
union at the bargaining table as
they are currently using against
the
work-week.”
shorter
opposition
the Wag-
Reciting the NAM’s
to social security, to
ner
Act,
pensation
pensation,
Drug
to unemployment
and
to
Act and
workmen's
the
Pure
many
Food
other
com-
com-
and
social
Profit
Picture
offered
“We
year,
next
constructive
... ® legitimate,
plan
practical
and
to stem the tide of rising prices,”
he declared, but all the UAW got
was
Big
fast
“a
Three
dent,”
Presi-
the
from
and
that
1956
Citing Swigert’s claim
in
profits
“corporation
than
lower
were
the
from
brushoff
were
they
in
that
observed
Mazey
1938,”
wrong,
how
facts show
“the
how deceitful, Mr. Swigert and
the
can
NAM
corporation
totalled
year
nearly
1956
billion,”
$2.3
10
be,
profits
In 1938, U.S,
billion,
they
thmes
after
were
For
taxes
he
running
higher
—
$21
}
Page 12
UNITED
Oliver Units
Form Council
CHICAGO—The
other
UAW
two
senting
Oliver Corp. workers
met
unions
here to discuss mutual
—and
before
the
repre-
was
out,
formed the Joint Oliver Unions
Coordinating
Council,
reports
UAW Vice President Pat Greathouse, who had
been instrumental in getting the unions
together.
all
The
three
unions
workers
vhain.
The new
nate
in
council
represent
the
Oliver
will
preparations
for
coordi-
the
1958
negotiations, and
will provide}
mutual assistance for councilaffiliated local unions. It will
also facilitate exchange of con-
tract
information,
problems
and
grievance
other
collective
bargaining information.
The council includes the UAW,
the International Association of
Machinists and the All‘ed Incustrial Workers. It is patterned
after similar “coordinating
committees” set up earlier this|
meeting.
who attended
of York, Pa.,
ative of IAM
E. O'Neal of
Among
those
were Carl Burtner
business representdistrict 98; Virley
Cleveland, business
representative for IAM district
54; John Morgando, IAM grand
lodge
representative
for
the
Illinois area;
and Robert
D.
Brenner of Battle Creek, Mich.,
AIW district representative.
UAW representatives at the
meeting also included Region
2A Director Ray Ross; V. L.
Burgoyne,
international representative
substituting
for
Region 3 Director Ray Berndt;
Don Harris, international representative
representing
Region 4 Director Bob Johnston;
Erich Zeeb, a Region 2A representative, and Herschel Davis,
administrative
assistant
to
Greathouse.
Local union
IAM,
UAW
officers
from
775, seeking re-election as fourth ward councilman
Peeler, who hopes to retain his post as city council
LUGANO,
Switzerland—Closer
cooperation
among
representing
by the
Motors
workers
the
1095
and
884,
1096, South
Springfield,
Charles
O.;
Bend,
unions
General
automotive
made
and
City, Ia. The
from
five locals
York,
Cleveland
and Shelbyville, Il,
After the delegates decided to
form the coordinating council,
oldest
the
conviction
devices
of
violating
sending
former
Evans,
AIW
Local
444,
president; Doug Shoaff
Local 1633, secretary.
The
Negroes
“White
ostensibly
Citizens
to
GM
vice
Jr., IAM
all ready
with
a rescue
is
plan
for
Plvmouth
Norman
departChrysler
Matthews,
ment director, and Raymond
Berndt, Region 3 director,
hhave announced a program of
to make
company
the
the
workers’ full seniority rights in-|
tact.
Daily Allowance
credits,
SUE
and
with
In
any
their
union
will
and
rights, they said,
vacation
pension,
These
include
insurance
other
length
addition,
will
equities
ask
of
they
for
coverage
tied
service.
said,
in|
the
compensa-
work
a
European
of
unions
and
can
brothers
in
Five-Man Team
Workers
at
Vauxhall plant
and |
work
a
44-hour
one
concerned
tremely
barassing
would
humiliating
to
other
Freeman
are the
4214
the
GM-owned
in Great Britain
ex-
and
directors
em-
persons.”
meet
their
added
order
affairs
attended
the
wage
of
preceded
the
the
the
IMF
world
and
represents
organized
metal
the free world.
The
combined
delegation
was
by
of
Machinists
the
of
the
abruptness
of
members
of
Steel-
tion to cover the cost or relocation of workers’ families
along with an allowance to
Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, India, South Africa and
Australia. Japan sent observers.
Chrysler's
decision is “illustrative
failure of corporations
of the
to as-
The
three-year
the social responsibility
properly theirs when they have
ance
to the free
union
moyement
new officers.
operated as long as they have
in
a
community
such
as
Evansville.
“However
sons
for
business
point,
legitimate their rea-
moving,
or
they
either
competitive
do
not
corporation from its
bility to the workers
from
stand-
excuse
a
the
responsiand the
|
It Hasn't
|
community from which the corporation
has profited
over
a)
long period of years,” the direc- |
tors said.
program
a
endorsed
convention
of
assist-
world trade
and
elected
Hurt
Ike's
CHICAGO. — Robert Todd
Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln,
declined
to
run
for
because
he
President in 1912, the Chicago
Tribune
reported,
speedup, relief problems, local
seniority and wage rates on a
new classification, has closed
the Detroit
Transmission
plant of General Motors at
Willow Run.
The 6,200 members of Local
735 walked out after weeks of
fruitless
Vice
negotiations}
President
Leonard
Woodcock, head of the GM department, said the union had
exerted every effort to avoid
striking the plant, which supplies transmissions to Oldsmobile,
General
Coach
Pontiac,
Cadillac
Motors
and
Truck
plants.
“I also
agreed
an
want
local
and
for
to
compliment
the
manner
in
to
He pointed out that the local’s
request for strike authorization
was granted without delay by
the international executive board
since the local had
constitutional
and
procedures
quest.
in
Members
followed all
contractual
making
of
the
Chrysler department
3 staffs assisted the
thews
the
re-
national
and Region
local union
Mat-
negotiations,
the
during
said.
Probe
Bias
Aid
Two
such
Two UAW staff members have
been named to a committee of
religious,
labor,
business
the
extent
of
civic
which
leaders
and
will investiracial
dis-
rants, hotels and theaters.
They are Jack Coaiway,
ad-
gate
restau-
Detroit
in
crimination
ministrative assistant to UAW
P. Reuther,
Walter
President
and Mrs. Mildred Jeffrey, the
union’s community relations director.
for
excellent
Ford’s
—
automation
on
engine
cluded
Great
Britain,
France,
the Benelux countries,
the
Scandinavian
countries,
West
pay for any worker who because |
of age or family ties chooses to}
remain here.
Matthews and Berndt said
issued
committee,
month.
Workers
UAW,
the
Association
and
and
those
heavy
at
its
highly publicized plant here althis
got it into trouble
most
U.S.-Canadian
members
from the
International
production
Praised
accent
million
up
as
CLEVELAND
committee
made
and
Learns Human Angle
con-
workers
standards
Automate d Ford Unit
which
eight
both
settlement, which does credit
the
and
to the leadership
1226,”
Local
of
membership
at-
triennial
28,
reaching
Pat
also
well
bargaining
meeting. The IMF is a section
of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
rates|
and working conditions won
the workers at Evansville.
Berndt,
over
was/ which the strike was conducted.”
“I
want
to congratulate
Brother Lohman and his fellow local union officers,
as
well as the members of the
42 hours,
department,
vention
daily costs during
maintain
Ray
overtime
ported.
O'Malley and Harvey Kitzman,
and Victor Reuther, director
of the union’s
international
moving.
to
in Belgium
service
The settlement was ratified by
unanimous
yote
of the
Local
1226 membership, Matthews re-
and in the Netherlands 40 hours.
All others work 48 hours a week.
Woodcock,
UAW
regional
of every-
be
hours,
June
Local
dis-
at
older
ments.
reaching
week;
transfer
modification of disciplinary
measures with back pay adjust-
their
it came in for considerable
cussion, Woodcock said.
and
for
as
since
Aus-
help
to
or
skilled workers.
ards,
Other nations reprethey said, the union| workers.
sented
at the convention
inwill demand adequate severance
live
with
and
production
strike
the
promotional
Management agreed to correct all of the 87
complaints
concerning
health, safety
and
general conditions in the plant.
@Management agreed to clear
workers’ records of foremen’s reports issued during the period of
dispute over production stand-
he
authorized
advantages
and
42 to 48 hours.
American
were
An
eThe application of seniority
rules was broadened to give
equalized
were
designed
to sway
their GM-owned Opel plant in West
Germany, 45 to 48 hours; at the
yotes to the Republicans.
* Hinting
that
higher-ups
in| GM plant in Belgium, 42 hours.
Detroit Republican circles had Ford workers in West Germany
been involved in the plot, Fed-| work 45 hours, in Great Britain
for transfer to any new location | sume
by the company
from
standards
for all operations in
These standards will
workers,
European
workers
of the un-
Willow Run Out
Schedules
Over
Matthews said in a statement
in Detroit.
(Matthews was referring
to M.
E. Lohman, president of the local.)
greater
and
GM
a 40-hour
want
to
most
stand-
tent is changed through technological advances, engineering or
method changes.
also
Canadian
director
to
be continued for the duration of
the model unless the work con-
Finally,
up to its “social responsibility.”
They said the union will fight |
chosen
U.S.,
Ford
how
tralian
Irresponsibility Hit
the
severance
or
transfers
union will “insist” upon in order
and
and
the 7,000 workers of Locals 265
Matthews
and
Berndt
also
and 705 left abandoned by the | said UAW will insist upon recChrysler
Corp’s
decision
to) ognition in the new plant in
shut down
its two
plants here
Vice President
negotiated
the plant.
heads
is,
Pact
e@Production
a shorter
difference
them
ion’s Chrysler department, said
a settlement was reached after:
Their goal is a 40-hour week.
How their goal can be reached
UAW Demands Aid
In Evansville Closing
EVANSVILLE, Ind.— UAW
demand
while
anywhere
laws by
Detroit
Negroes
that
shorten,
er to vote for the Democrats as
a party which “put the Negro in
his place.” The hate letters went
solely
department,
the
promotions,
to
production
Matthews,
Ford
who
Australian
Ford
workers now have
week
which
they
Atlanta, Ga.”
The literature urged the read-
almost
to
only
said,
man
Council
ones
The
in
from
UAW- officer,
at
transmission
intimidate
Four-Point
work-week
from
these
companies. A similar demand will
be made by unions in Europe
and Australia.
1956 elec-
the election
letters
to
ards.
automotive
They Want 40
Motors
higher
meet
this proposal
of the international
trade.”
only
the
campaign.
Detroit
advertising
“welcomed
almost
time, workers
to
workers
union
and
(At
transfers and equalization of overtime, and the disciplining of
Ford.”
GM
1226.”
disputes related
pointed out that America’s Ford
and GM workers will not be the
political
in Detroit’s
and
same
Local
duction standards and working
conditions,
including
52
complaints concerning health and
safety, 35 complaints about general plant conditions, seniority
as a step towards taking wage
and standards competition out
of
resulted
GM
the union’s GM
in
they elected the following coun- eral Judge Ralph M.
cil officers: Ralph E. Davidson, told
McAlpine,
“You
UAW Local 296, president; Rich-| fall guy. Full exposure
ard
workers
John R. McAlpine was fined
$500 after pleading guilty to
corporation council The AIW
Was represented by two locals
from Battle Creek and the IAM
locals
the
with
of
does credit to the leadership and the member-
plant in Willow Run were forced
out.)
The strike had
been called
over a dispute concerning pro-
president.
European
representing
Leonard
of the hate letter—one
by
which
General
George
Woodcock said the delegates
from the European trade unions
Metalworkers
GOP Aide Guilty
In Race Hate Plot
tion
make up the UAW’s Oliver intra-
by
ing
Woodcock,
who
headed
the
UAW delegation to both meetings, said a tentative understanding was reached at the
world committee
session “to
race hate
1315,
the
members to the United States,
coincident
with
the
UAW’s
preparation for 1958 bargain-
Michigan Republican campaign
director for attempting to incite
Ind.;
ship
have exchanges of trade unionists active in GM and Ford,
with the initial visit to be
employed
world-wide
and
Ford
campaigning—has
the AIW and the following
local. also attended: 296,
and
ment
World GM-Ford Plan
Of Unions in Offing
Use
the
Is Out:
was brought to a successful conclusion with what UAW Vice
President Norman Matthews termed “an excellent settl
e-
UAW CANDIDATES for city offices in Fostoria, O., include the
quartet above.
From left they are Kenneth Reinhard of Local
1246 and Alvin Zoller, financial secretary of Local 446, both running for posts as councilman-at-large; William Steyer of Local
ner workers, but has a more} the International
formal set-upFederation here.
Greathouse,
director of the
Vice
President
union's Oliver department, chairthe
GM
1957
INDIANAPOLIS — A two-week authorized strike by
2,600 UAW members at the Chrysler transmission plant here
empires
has
resulted
from
a
meeting of the GM-Ford World
year
by
unions
representing| Committee of free trade unions,
Allis-Chambers and Borg-War- which followed a.conference of
ed
November
Transmission Strike
ls Won at Chrysler
problems
day
:
WORKER
But
and
AFL-CIO
AUTOMOBILE
Dy
believed the office would interfere with his golf game,
at Ford’s
and
of
were too aroused
duction speedups,
staying
at
at
the bargaining table for three
28
lasted
session
(one
weeks
|hours) averted a paralyzing tieup of much of the Ford chain
at a time when the big auto
makers
1958
were
crouching
production
Vote Was
Ford
Five
clip-books.
insistence
every
sprint.
and
problems
for their
worker.
making
headway
after
table
Points
Ford officials agreed to meet
Local 1250's demands for;
1, Sweeping health protection
measures,
particularly
in
the
foundry. (One example: A 400%
increase in fresh air intake.)
2. Increased
fatigue
allow-
ances.
in
production
3. Reduction
standards.
adoption of safety
4. Broad
measures
Proof
nearly
faced
Cleveland
began
hazards,
safety
at the bargaining
the strike vote.
By secret ballot they voted
95% in favor of strike action.
UAW
health
UAW
1250,
that
said
leader.
UAW
with
about prowidespread
Local
work-
Ford’s Cleveland
production demands had reached such a peak that, together
serious
hazards
safety
and
health
to be silenced by the plant's
publicity
The
division,
foundry
UAW
Cleveland
among
ers.”
in
mumerous
areas
and
foundry
the
|throughout
After the strike vote, UAW) both engine plants.
Ford Director Ken Bannon and
of
recognition
Company
5.
| statt acted quickly along with new job classifications with new
| representatives of Region 2 Di- pay rates. (These new rates and
rector Patrick J. O'Malley to re- the
of
recognition.
company’s
inforce Local
1250's bargaining
classifications
job.
new
the
team headed by Dave Sparks, meant hourly pay increases of
local president.
5-15¢e for many in the foundry).
The company also agreed to
Said
Bannon:
“The
95%
for upward
coveralls
provide
strike vote proved the depth
of
the
discontent
and
unrest
of 3,000 workers.
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