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1957-12-01
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Vol. 20 No. 12
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AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Ay
December
1957
ee Step-Up. Too:
Senate Will Probe
Car Prices, $100
Auto
Worker’ Era at End:
Weekly Solidarity’ Due Next
With
this
issue
the
United
Automobile
Worker comUAW President Walter P. Reuther has
pted an invitation from Sen. Estes Ke- pletes its 21st and
last year of publication.
fauver (D., Tenn.) to tell a Senate committee Shant
the pricing practices of the auto
In accordance with the mandate of this year’s UAW
industry
convention, a new publication, Solidarity, will make its apSimilar invitations were sent to the heads of the automotive Big Three, but at press
time
no
acceptances
had
yet
been
announced
by
Ford,
Chry: sler
©
Pro-Labor Candidates Sweep
Detroit, Jersey, New York
In New Jersey, labor-supported Gov. Robert B.
Democrats
20
years
seats
in
In
for
won
the
New
Wagner
margin,
the
a
state
won
Democrat
in
city.
In Buffalo,
time
majority
York,
the
first
of
assembly.
Mayor
by
a
auto
largest
the
history
another
of
of
King
25,
Detroit’s
recently
in
didates
won
on
the
la
WINNERS
Ed Carey
lature.
presi-
dent of Chrysler Local 7 and
has spent the last 12 years in
the
legislature
where
he was
the
as
Detroit
Both
expected
Patrick
and
to give a new
ing
nation
was
seen
arm”
to
a
national
the
GOP.
from
Most
sputnicks
of
of
straight
One
which
which
would
he
develop
holding
line
the
“a
in
wage
the
the
automobile
the
75%
month.
the
Negroes
Democrats
for the
ing
with
time as compared
two years ago.
zine,
the
leading
publication
of
its
kind,
concedes that SUB has forced the auto industry y to level out production schedules.
Even though unemployment is heavy in
Michigan and in the auto industry, the
magazine says, this year’s model changeover period passed “with scarcely a murmur.”
Also, despite deep cuts in auto employment since 1955, the SUB funds are ample,
the article continues. Almost $8 million has
been paid in benefits, yet the SUB trust
funds of the Big Three stand at more than
$137 million.
Closings Not SUB Fault
“But that is due to the fact that the companies carefully avoided liability before it
ever
arose,”
000
between
says Business
Week.
“The
auto
industry cut its employment more than 100,-
January
and
June,
1956...
country
where news is being made.
“We hope to give our listeners
as ‘live’ a coverage of important
events
as possible,”
explained
Guy Nunn, UAW radio-TV director. “The only way to do it is
to
be
there
when
the
news
election.
The
programs
were
heard
throughout
that
state. However, Nunn said, this
was only a beginning.
“When
the technical bugs
are ironed out, we’ll be able to
reach our listeners in all parts
of the country from the mobile
unit,”
These
he
said.
listeners
are
not
just
UAW
members,
judging
from
include
They
received.
farmers, lumbermen, fishermen,
merchants, housewives
small
and workers in other industries,
all over the country.
Shishkin
(PAI)—Boris
WASHINGTON,
brought
elected a vice chairman of the
National Civil Liberties Clearing
to
our
on
have
will
attention
the
subcommittee.
been
has
committee,
civil rights
problems
and
automation
by
on
brought
resulting
House.
layoffs was passed by the UAW’s
agricultural implement workers
council
The
tended
ing
here.
two-day
by
more
members
delegates
than
in the
at-
meeting,
industry,
UAW
international
the
on
called
union to use all its resources
to discourage ‘he relocation of
plants and to unionize plants
vot-
this
65%
dustry
next
year
the
held
in
special
Detroit
Region
10
Kitzman,
No worker laid off before May 1, 1956 was
eligible for SUB.”
The magazine flatly denies an oft-repeated charge by management—that SUB
next
called
for
to
month.
Director
addressing
ference,
the
be
Harvey
con-
a more
active
participation on the part of each
local union and each member
in
the
the
current
1958
preparations
for
negotiations.
Herschel
Davis,
all
on the course of general
employment
in
Detroit,”
tive
assistant,
appearing
in
UAW
Vice
President
Pat
Greathouse’s
absence,
traced
Business Week declares.
. One of the persistent criticisms (of
SUB) was that it would force end-product
manufacturers to pull back into their own
plants
and
work
supply
generally
firms
done
would
by
die.
suppliers.
Actually,
. .
the
core of Michigan’s permanent unemployment
are former workers of supply firms—many
of whose customers took the work into their
own plants—but SUB had nothing to do with
he
The
article bolstered
this point
by
citing
the real reasons why such plants as Murray
Body, Motor Products and the smaller auto
companies
tor.
folded. In no case was SUB
a fac-
of the union’s agricultural
plement department.
Caterpillar
ces
7%
Tractor
last July,
and
raised priand
implements 642%, and followed
two weeks later with a boost of
in
the
price
pointed out.
companies
will,
of
of
course, try to blame these price
increases on wage costs,” Davis
told the delegates, “and
expect
ment
to see
plenty
propaganda
to fool the public
their charges.”
more than an organizing committee,
hopefully
eyeing
the
auto industry. Volume 1, Number
1, dated May 1936, hailed the
tiny
union’s
release
from
an
AFL-imposed
Among
you can
of manage-
which
will
the
members
Walter
had
written
worker
Reuther.
30,000
members
contracts.
In
those
board
elected was a 28-
Ford
P.
administrator.
executive
then
days,
named
The
union
and
and
16
for
a
long time, the United Automobile Worker was at once a
handbill
and
a
a month
and
sometimes
paper
its
report
was
of
first
could
on
full
or-
of
twice,
the
anniversary
report
a
375,000.
the
member-
Communications
In recent years,
of course.
the
UAW has embraced two other
great industries— aircraft, and
agricultural implement. The paper’s old name no longer repre-
sented
the
realities.
In
addition,
the
union’s
leadership
was _ increasingly
conscious
of
the
need
for
better
and
more
frequent
communication with the membership.
The
cussions
made
convention
it
dis-
clear
that
the membership felt the same.
Solidarity
will be edited
by
Ken Fiester, who for nearly 11
years was editor of Textile Labor,
tile
the
publication
Workers
Union
of
the
of
Tex-
America.
Fiester came
to the UAW
in
June and has been editing the
United
Automobile
Worker
the
national
October, International Harvester
raised the prices of tractors and
“These
The United Automobile Worker was launched — and_named
—when
the UAW
was hardly
change.
WASHINGTON—The
Oliver followed with a 6% price
In
hike in September, he said.
$77
to
$720
trucks, Davis
1936
Now IUE Has
An 'Eve-Opener'
im-
Deere
Outline
in
pending
administra-
has caused the closing of plants that formerly supplied parts to the auto industry.
the preparations made so far
plan,
important
as
it
may
have
|
“The SUB
for
the
upcoming
negotia|
|
been in stabilizing auto employment, has had
tions.
Greathouse is director
no bearing at
manufacturing
Began
Better
major
convention
is
@ The outside four pages will
cover the week’s news about the
UAW and the affairs in which
UAW members are most interested. These pages will vary according to geographical area, At
present, six different geographical editions are planned.
@ The paper won’t try to be
a substitute for the daily press.
Instead it will supplement the
commercial papers by interpretive stories from the UAW angle.
The new paper will also replace Ammunition, the monthly
magazine formerly published by
the UAW education department.
ship
contracts expire.
Like the demands on the auto
industry, they will be finalized
at
This
be
and consumer tips, news features, editorials and cartoons.
Paper
discussion into be made on
implement inwhen
will
The center four pages will
be a magazine section, including
(among other things) household
On
the federal government to speed
up the national road-building
Much of the
volved demands
the agricultural
also
Solidarity
struggles to gain a foothold at
GM, Ford, Chrysler and the
rest.
Another resolution urged the
international union to call on
program.
represent-
150,000
and
@
the
conditions.
working
board
ganizing. The sixth issue told
of the AFL-CIO split; but for
the most part, sometimes once
The latter
that do relocate.
step, the council said, is essential to maintain established
wages
an
year-old
Elected
Shiskin, director of the AFL-CIO
Business Week Admits it: SUB
Works Just as Union Predicted
fh: O and a half years after the UAW’s supplementary unemployment benefit plan
was first negotiated, an outstanding spokesman for the business world has admitted it
is working just as the union predicted.
A long article in Business Week maga-
the
the “inflationary
further increases
Kefauver
correct
to
administration. In
voting figures re-
of
and
MILWAUKEE — A resolution
calling for a shorter work-week
veal that the Democrats gained 10% over the last election
with
first
move,
around
state
and
proposal,
“Eye-Opener”
The unit will
Shorter Week, More
Organizing: Ag. Imp.
newspaper
and
UAW
rejection
of his
to segre-
jobless
the
move
decided,
Here’s
started last month
to bring
on-the-spot news coverage to
the
43-station
radio network.
executive
an eight-page weekly.
what it will be like:
breaks.”
The first trial of the mobile
unit took place at five plants
in New Jersey, just prior to the
increases
of steel—said
auto, prices
this
segment of the election
observers
had
been
Republican
New York,
in Washington.
administration
In New Jersey, Vice President
Richard Nixon had stumped the
state and President Eisenhower
had called for a New Jersey Re-
price
economy,”
watching closely was the Negro vote for its reaction to the
the
of
policies
rights
civil
a severe blow to the Republican
investigated
anti-inflationary
in
for Swing
number
14th
as
subcommittee
Because of
impact that
uneasiness of all Americans as
prices zoomed upward for the
The easy sweep of local and
by Democrats
state offices
the
the
as
political experts chose to ignore
as a contributing factor the ris-
vitality
pre-
price cut in framing its 1958
contract demands. The proposal
was rejected by all three companies.
dredging
up reasons
for the
Republican set-back
which
gation.
to the Detroit council, which
is faced with critical issues
affecting the city’s economic
future. A strong program of
rehabilitation is
industrial
needed and the guidance for
such a program is expected to
reconstituted
the
in
come
council.
around
in
ranged
are
Carey
a
that, in return, the union would
consider the effects of such a
Wednesday- morning quarterbacks across the nation were
is
cilman in the city’s history
William T. Patrick Jr.
“shot
victory
Reasons
coun-
first Negro
an
aspirations to the Democratic
Presidential nomination in ’60.
Gov.
G
Mennen
Williams’
“staunch right hand.” Also given
labor support
and
elected
in
Senate’s
also
announced last August, that the
Big Three cut prices on their
1958 models by at least $100, as
The victory of Meyner is seen
as giving a strong boost to his
former
for
cerning
publican
is
is
the
Committee members will undoubtedly question Reuther con-
council. One of the winners is
Ed
Carey,
UAW
international
Carey
the
indastry.”
and
William T. Patrick, Jr.,
are clearly enjoying the paper.
representative
and former minority leader in the state legis-
Democrat
they
price
a
city
of
because
has
The UAW has a roving “Eye”.
A mobile broadcasting unit
the
better understanding of the
problems involved in a formu-
DETROIT
six seats
the
hoped
the}
can-
of
In announcing the hearings,
Kefauver — whose committee
key indus:
labor-endorsed
chairman
®international
Views News
industries.
scheduled hearings during the
week of Nov. 25 on the US.
missile and satellite programs.
any |
Victory
profits in the
changed
paredness
UAW
staff
member.
Liberalminded candidates also won in
Buffalo’s
suburban
cities
and}
Detroit
was
member
the
towns.
other
Tennessee
in
Peterson,
and
and
For the first year at least, the
Roving ‘Eye"
between
Senate anti-trust and monopoly
subcommittee,
said his group
will hold a hearing on automobile prices Dec. 16. The hearing
date, originally scheduled Noy.
trial area, labor-backed candidates won 11 out of 15 seats on
the council, including the re-
election
prices
Kefauver,
vote
of
pearance in early December.
Motors.
relationship
Cites Purpose
Robert
900,000
the
wages,
a
turned back the bid of Repub-o,.,.,
lican Malcolm Forbes by a sizeable margin. Also in New Jersey,
General
The UAW has long called for
an impartial Congressional probe
of
Labor-supported candidates in key areas were elected to
office by wide ma: rgins in an off-year election which many
experts feel was a forecast of the coming Congressional and
Presidential contests.
or
try
into believing
Union
Workers
has
nation-wide
program
radio
UAW’s
ter the
show
conducted
of
Inter-
Electrical
inaugurated
a
early - morning
afpatterned
“Eye-Opener”
Nunn.
by Guy
is
program
IUE
new
The
being heard in 19 cities where
is
membership
union’s
the
Like
heavily.
concentrated
30-minute
the
“Eye-Opener,”
show is broadcast on a five-
day-a-week
members
are
basis
en
when
route
IUE
to their
jobs. It will consist of news,
views and music.
is conducted
The program
by
Jim
member
staff.
Toughill,
of
the
IUE
veteran
publicity
SEeuooela
UNITED
* Page2
UNITED
| “ December 1957
AUTOMOBILE
Page 3}
WORKER
Jury Acquits UAW: TV Programs
Upheld as Union Educational Effort
A federal court jury has ruled that the UAW’s membership education program cannot be red-lighted to a stop at politics.
The jury, sitting in Detroit, took just one hour and 55 minutes to
free the UAW of government charges that the union violated the TaftHartley Act’s corrupt practices section pertaining to political expenditures
by
unions,
banks
corporations.
and
Legal eyes across the country—those
of corporations,
radio and TV networks, newspapers and banks as well as
Pitzele Exposed
As Beck's Boy
<>
®
They Can? They
other trade unions — were
on the courtroom of
focused
8.
n
N
Merly
—
GTO
HIN
WAS
Federal Judge Frank A. PiPitzele, labor editor of Business
during the week-long
Week magazine, has admitted to card
e
the McClellan committee that trial
Charge and Defense
he was in the pay of union-buster
to 1955 at $5,000 a year.
to
was
said,
Pitzele
ferman,
Shef-
from
assignment
His
1953
from
Shefferman
Nathan
serve as a consultant to Dave
Beck, president of the Teamsters union.
Pitzele was also a labor advisor to President Eisenhower and
to former New York Goy. Thom-
as E. Dewey.
in
was
-he
period
the
During
Shefferman’s employ, the Busi-—
ness Week editor was also chairof the New York State
man
A
STANDING
ROOM
council sessions.
dark
suit)
ONLY
Even
had
his
was
Ken
the
Bannon,
troubles,
as
rule
at
the
national
department
photo
director
shows.
Ford
There is a “terrifying parallel” between the Eisenhow-
er and Hoover administrations as far as the American
economy is: concerned, and
only the safeguards written
into law in the Roosevelt and
Truman years have averted a
disaster, UAW
President
Walter P. Reuther told the
national Ford council’s Detroit meeting.
The
council
was
conyened
by
a
special
conyention Jan, 22-24.
Reuther warned the delegates
that
1958
bargaining
may
be
“about the roughest”
in UAW
history.
There is a concerted
effort by industry, he said, to
place the blame for inflation on
organized
lic
labor
hysteria
and
against
wages.
Meanwhile
the
UAW
continued,
industry
far
capacity.
raising
prices
below
stir up
as
while
higher
president
and
much
jected
this
approach
power;
but
assured
big
high
By
production,
Who
Paid?
Reuther
the
point
in
on
Ford, UAW
Motor
Co,
re-
favor
of
lower
at
ex-
been
fi-
Play
and
the
UAW will play a “home-andhome”
series in next
year’s
negotiations, it was revealed
at the national
session,
Talks
pany’s
will open
new
building. Then
to
Solidarity
headquarters,
weeks
neutral
Ford
will
be
ground,
at
paid
he
for
for
by
the
from
this
asked.
its statement
on
his res-
“we do not believe that Mr.
Pitzele at any time allowed
ex-
“It
his reporting
was
workers
ers who were forced to pay
prices dictated by the company without regard to all the
open
economic
Bannon
by
the
laws.”
reported
more
in
supplementary
paid
this
unem-
ployment benefits.
Also, he said, the preferential
hiring agreement won by UAW
has
resulted
in
more
Labor
to
be
news
for
colored
fact that he was
a retainer from
Teamsters
consum-
that
of labor
Week
Business
who
by the
ceiving
financed
said
Week
Business
ignation,
were denied their full share of
the fruits of technology, and it
was
medi-
This
Union.”
question,
to
is
techni-
and
officials
rethe
cians who regularly read Business Week would give the magazine credit for offering dispas-
of
objective
and
sionate
news
the
coverage
of
most
time
the
even
subjects,
most
on
and
though it is self-acknowledged
pro-business.
be
to
the
it above
rank
would
dents
stu-
Most
“news”
weekly
popular
more
20,000
magazines in this respect.
plant |
An
exception,
however,
has
being
than
Ford workers affected by
curtailments or removals
employed in new locations.
Continued
on
Page
11
council
the
com-
administration
they will shift
House,
UAW’s
The final two
“played”
on
enough
Ken
for
Bannon
nounce
“He's
Ford
his
160,000
$21
a
to
and
a stock
set up in
107 offic
employe
107
were
purchase
shares
share,
of
How to Make $
Most
stock
early
of
those
a
1953
3.
granted
Ford
who
to
plan
for the
directors
In that
total
of
stock
op-
2,-
at
bought
In '55 had to walt
'66 before they could
They
because
are
nation-wide
an
and
local
Jan,
31,
1955,
15,000 shares
per
share.
On
Aug.
Yntema
real
union
members
The
Muzzlers
—not
argued
Still another UAW
in their
of the
option
31,
rate
“the
Emil
Republican
Mazey,
bosses
were
of
Michigan and self-seeking Republicans in Washington, particularly
Senators
Goldwater,
Curtis and Mundt.”
Supreme Court Justice
Frankfurter
wanted
court decision on the
four questions:
1. Were the
Felix
a_
lower
following
challenged
pro-
grams “paid for out of general
dues of the union or may the
funds fairly be said to have been
obtained on a voluntary basis?”
reach
broadcasts
the
Did
just
seven
months
later,
he
sold
those
same 15,000 shares back to the
company
for $60.17 a share~
for a total profit of $587,500.
On
ust
er
that
day,
By
Jan.
give
profit
of
up
him
this
stock
(give
30 of
again
of $21
this
available)
gobbled
to
bought
shares,
cut-rate
figures
profitable
Yntema
3,000
same
same
or
Is
another
a total
month
take
anothat
Yntema
the
(latest
had
24,000 shares
of
on
another
a
Aug-
a share.
year
few
state
27,000.
that
His
block
$1,080,000
thousand)
until over and above his original
cash! million profit cleanup.
the
candidates
the
by
record
of
on
economic
broadcasts
the
UAW
par-
spon-
“with
an
in-
tent to affect the results of the
election?”
According
Joseph
Rauh,
to
UAW
the
attorney
same
four
questions could be asked serlous-
ly of most radio and TV news
programs,
“certainly of newspapers’ handling of news” and
of
half
members.
the
and
economy
themselves.
Succeeding conventions, with
deledemocratically -elected
gates from local unions across
the country, repeatedly had
as an
education
reaffirmed
essential activity, he said. Expenditures for education—in-
ac-
right of freedom of speech.
Attempting
to muzzle the
UAW,
said
UAW
Secretary-
sored
at the bar-
the betterment of the union, the
cluding
quittal—was that any law that
attempts to muzzle an individual or an organization is in violation
of the
Constitutional
Treasurer
of
corporations
panel
shows
and
Democracy
An
the
as
obvious
extent
The
of
blow
verdict
to
victory
in
belief
constitutional
in the UAW.
jury’s
a
newscasters.
sidelight
jury’s
democracy
sponsor
Upheld
important
was'the
which
was
Senator
seen
Gold-
water
and
accomplices
who
long have denounced most un-
jon
dues
ticularly
Justice
as
compulsory—par-
as the jury pondered
Frankfurter’s
direct
question
regarding
dues-paying,
UAW
the
witnesses
union's
program
effort
radio
tural
to
in
broad
minute
show
voluntary
had
the
desortbed
educational
detail
jury
in
an
that
and television were natools
of
communication
with UAW
members,
P.
Walter
President
in membership education as a
continuing, expanding force for
contention
because
limit
the
to
been politicking
for years.
Said Reuther: The founders
of the UAW were great believers
of
purpose
— effectively
reaching UAW
homes,
have
corporations
another,
or
way
one
that
aware
well
Reuther Cites History
The fact that non-UAW members may listen in and be influenced by the radio and TV
shows is “incidental” to the un-
4. Were
pur-
television shows
the UAW’s
were within the law. But the
comment was made without
enthusiasm; GOP leaders are
went a rare copy of the minutes
of that historic conference.
newspapers, of UAW-produced
films and leaflets.
ion’s
that
after a jury found
where
Reuther took the jury back to
conferformation
UAW’s
the
ence in 1935. Into the record
extension
conferences,
international
issues?”
the
quent (and inaccurate) comment by disgruntled Republicans in Michigan and else-
UAW
of local union classes of summer school sessions, of biennial
ticular
One official, however, Theodore O. Yntema, was permitt~ed to cash in several months
earlier than the others,
$21
up
option
profits,
gain-basement
Coun-
:
the
chased
the
on
on
On
said
went
point:
has
the
tions
as
Ford
gram.
simply
stock was not traded on the open
market until that time.
fi-
driving
to National
which was
benefit of
and “key”
year,
Yntema’s
wages
in
in
in a sensa-
was
here
to adAmerican Life UnAssociation and de-
delegates
prove
Director
double-talking,”
Bannon
cil
of
factor
prices,
Ford
to ram
higher
major
Presi-
O, Yntema openhere
just
long
tional account
nancial doings,
Yntema
dress the
derwriters
Vice
UAW
The
UAW’s
defense
was
basic:
Radio
and
television
shows are integral, modernday parts of the union’s overall approach to improve its
membership educational pro-
3. Did the broadcasts “constior
electioneering
active
tute
Bannon Bares Million-Plus
“Now corporations can do
the same thing,” was a fre-
tions.
“the public at large or only those
affiliated with the union?”
Ynside Yntema:
CHICAGO—Ford
the UAW was simple and brief:
It produced recorded transcriptions of nine
UAW-sponsored
television shows (shown locally)
in the nine weeks immediately
before the November 1954 elec-
2.
has
Home-'n'-Home
Ford
pansion?”
entirely
paid
had
dent Theodore
ed his mouth
hammered
away
that
industrial
pansion, like Ford's, had
who
He
been associated with the
ation board since 1955.
In
not
resignation.
Profits of Low-Wage’ Man
buying=
industry
“And
his
of
the acceptance
announced
Week
Business
circumlower
normal
higher
profits
is
operating
economic
rules
the
stances would call for
prices
pub-
a whole
earnings,
year
nomic proposals for 1958. The
union’s economic program will
determined
almost
He told the committee that
Business
nor
Dewey
neither
Week knew of his association
with Shefferman.
later,
days
Three
than $1.2 million had been
to Ford workers thus far
by Ken Bannon, national Ford
director, to
discuss non-ecobe
nanced
Dewey.
(center,
Facing Rough Road,
Ford Council Hears
Board,
appointed
Mediation
he had been
Labor
which
iy
to
by
The government’s case against
Do, Legal or Not
had
mously
of
Reuther
Re-
expenditures
such
to
members
back
added:
UAW
leader=
come
must
unani-
conyentions.
at
were giyen
home,
ship
approved
been
ports
television—
and
radio
the
from
mem-
bers who are in the shops today.
rank-and-file
the
Obviously
must be trained. This educacarried on
tional program,
throughout the UAW’s history,
“resulted in the kind of leadership that was able to rid the
of
union
leadership
communist
and prevent corrupt influences
taking hold.”
Racketeering In the UAW “is
not
possible,”
are
paramount
possible
to take
Rauh’s
Judge
jury
for
over.”
said, “be=-
the members
in the UAW,
cause
the
Reuther
and
it
corrupt
isn’t
just
leadership
Summation
Picard
said:
in his charge
“The
union
to
had
a right to show education is no
Johnny-come-lately phase
of
activity!”
In his summation, Rauh made
the following points:
@ Breakup of the
ucational program,
the
union’s
right
political issues and
would weaken
program.
@
The
were
tion
a
for
the
UAW’s edby erasing
to
discuss
candidates,
entire
challenged
programs
membership
primarily,
year-round
and
broad
consump-
were
program
part
of
that
dealt with
issues
affecting
workers.
@ Can the Taft-Hartley Act
make “second class citizens” of
the UAW, robbing it of a volce
on political issues as they affect
millions
of
Americans?
@
The emphasis on
in the UAW is written
its
or
constitution.
@ There'd be
had
corruption
educational
in
no
education
right into
racketeering
unions
programs
elled along UAW lines.
@ No union can work
the
bargaining
table
and
if
all
only
at
mod-
ignore
the legislative table when political issues arise which bear di-
rectly
on
collective
bargaining.
Page
4
etre
i
seam
1
Strike, Near-Strike Produce
4)
1957
December
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
Gains at Transmission, Buick
A 35-day strike at the Willow
Run GM transmission plant and
an llith-hour agreement at Bu-
ick’s main plant in Flint, have
resulted in victory for 27,000 GM
Both agreements were
workers.
ratified at membership meetings
10.
Noy.
have
agreements
two
The
been hailed as major victories
long-standing
settling
in
grievances over job standards
at the
while
speedups
and
same time establishing revised
provisions.
seniority
agreement.
either
At the GM
members
6,200
poised
rights,
iority
and began another in two widelast
early
areas
ly separated
UAW’s
the
partment,
members
ratified
an
of
980
Local
UAW
settling
agreement
and
health
over
41 grievances
1,400
NJ.
Metuchen,
At
de-
Ford
national
reported.
of
director
Bannon,
safety conditions, rates of pay
and production standards and
establishing
to
portant
all
Louisville,
In
bers of Local
a
im-
principle
workers.
Ford
mem-
4,200
Ky.,
out in
862 walked
disstandards
production
a
pute at the plant’s body-welding
booth.
Body Mix
Better
standards
dispute
settling
In
the production
the
at
in Metuchen,
plant
cury
local established a principle
to
importance
particular
Mer-
the
“of
all
assembly
in
workers
Ford
It
declared.
Bannon
plants,”
concerns line operations where
the
same
The
pany
body
line, he said.
which
steps
on
com-
the
will take to “improve the
mix in the trim depart-
ment”
tailed
to all
“Once
the
are run
type bodies
different
at this plant were dein a letter Bamnon sent
Ford locals.
again solidarity among
teamwork
and
membership
by the leadership has proved the
best approach to resolve the issues successfully,” Bannon said
in his letter.
The
walkout
the
at
year-old
Louisville plant, which assembles Ford cars and trucks, began
Noy. 5 and was still in progress
at press-time.
“In
strike,
an
we
to
effort
avoid
negotiated
on
this
the
for two
involved
issues
had _ several
and
months,
around-the-clock
it
was
said.
to
no
sessions,
avail,’
and
job
a
mem-
walk-out
Also
seniority
scores
production
agreed
upon
of
dis-
was
agreement
a
which
throughout
the
Announcing the agreements
was Leonard Woodcock, UAW
vice
president
and
director
of
Also
in
the GM department, who participated in the Buick settlement with representatives of
department.
GM
the
on
the
Buick
talks
were
Re-
gion 1C Director Robert Carter
and his staff and Jim Bishop,
president of Buick Local 599.
conducted
were
talks
transmission,
GM
At
representa-
by
separate ratifiwere held, one
At Buick, two
cation meetings
Ford workers settled one strike
Ken
a
in
tives of the GM department and
Region 1A office along with Local 735’s bargaining team.
One Ford Is In,
Another Is Out
month,
UAW
were
protects the men
plant.
to
of
settlement
the
for
Settled
putes.
new
21000
griev-
agreement
was
reached
a
marathon
bargaining
speedup
sen-
plantwide
won
were
session.
tions.”
In the agreement reached at
UAW
plant,
the transmission
negotiators
Buick,
when
i? after
rate
classification.
bers
At
viola-
seniority
and
speedups
wage
Averted
conditions,
“working
over
strike
a new
Walkout
hit
735
of Local
and
disputed
plant,
transmission
Oct. 7 after voting
the bricks
ances
in
issue
an
not
were
Wages
standards
all production
but
Bannon
the
for the skilled trades and
second for the remainder of the
local’s membership. Both groups
ratified the agreement by overwhelming
votes.
Seniority
Dispute
Events
leading
up to the near-
cancellation
of
the
seniority
that
It had been found
pact.
many
of
the
high»
seniority
while
layoff
on
workers were
short seniority
still on the job.
mittee
then
personnel
The shop
held
a
were}
com-
series
of
plant meetings to determine the
defects in the seniority pact.
New seniority proposals were
submitted to Buick along with
other disputed
matters. After
ing
signs
picket
the
and
distributed
had
kitchen
doughnuts.
the
already
coffee
hot
distributing
be-
were
strike
begun
and
At the GM transmission plant
the strike halted the production
transmissions for
of automatic
Oldsmobiles,
Cadillacs,
GM Truck and Coach
rolet trucks.
Pontiacs,
and Chey-
UAW
—
Wis.
RACINE,
Local
at the
strike
85’s month-old
Walker Manufacturing Co. plant
here
Region
man
over
been
has
10 Director
The
reports.
dispute
a
settled,
Harvey
production
was
and
strike
in
rates
settled
an
on
auto
parts.
Kitzman
by
The
a
the
of a
standards.
hourly-rated
said.
began
in the plant
All 450 workers
now
or
Kitz-
standards
of
elimination
complete
piece-work system instead
change
UAW
firm
are
basis,
makes
Plate
MIDLAND, Ont. — Seventyseven auto workers here con-
of
members
Canadian
the strike
to picket
tinued
Name Plate Co. as
its first birthday.
neared
Novy. 22 for their first contract
voted
majority
great
a
after
to bar-
labor
fair
the
with sizeable
in all
board
workers
technical
the social security
efits for Fairchild
aircraft work-
Smith.
of
areas
ben-
fringe
and
wages
Md.
has
been
announced by the UAW national
aircraft department.
agreement
Signing of the
follows on the heels of the
successful wrap-up of aircraft
contracts at six Curtiss-Wright
across
installations
try.
Fairchild
The
marks
forts
by
of
Vice
several
Woodcock,
aircraft
the
gion
and
UAW
President
head
of
department.
negotiations
tional
agreement
aircraft
led
teams
Leonard
the
UAW
Involved
were
the
department,
E.
8 Director
the
his staff,
ef-
joint
successful
the
workers,
for
who
in
na-
Re-
T. Michael
and
office
in
e Increase
of 3c.
15c.
BY
CRAFTSMAN
UAW-AFL-CIO
52%
the
at
611
Local
of
members
The
local’s
strike
on
replace
to
scabs
140 members
since.
ever
as many as 240
were working in
the
As
plant.
more
and
more
be-
strike
effective,
down.
128-Day Fight
Won by 996
Amalgamated
at
work
at
strike.
Their
to
a 128-day
con-
increases,
wage
a pension-severance plan and
to
according
benefits,
other
The
car
has
makes
which
other products,
firm,
The
heaters and
been
O’Mal-
Pat
2 Director
ley.
the
Fintube
26-month
new
Region
front,
Brown
the
includes
tract
996 are back
Local
after settling
here
Co.
of UAW
O.—Members
ELYRIA,
HollyNorth
newly-organized
plang, ratified their first
wood
1950.
since
organized
which
agreement,
covers
UAW contract, the last of six ne- about 140 workers, calls for an
in- immediate
5c across-the-board
«t Curtiss-Wright
gotiated
the
across
stallations
nation, | wage increase, an additional 3%
Earlier,
signed
by
erson,
N.
pay
Caldwell,
1223,
Local
been
had
agreements
N. J., Locals 669 and
300 in Pat-
580
in Quehan-
set up
Mich.
na,
Pa.
J.,
Local
and
Utica,
190,
Local
an
In all, 20,000 Curtiss-Wright
workers were involved.
increase
union
various
ing
hour.
for
calls
tract
10c
of
premium
Eliminated
inequities,
in wage
Also
gains
some
up
included
are
all
past
to
severance
by
a
and
service.
7c
to
Pen-
will consist of $2.25
were
year
a
result-
per
stand-
pensions,
fund
contribution,
agreed
holi-
ard aircraft contract provisions
covering vacations, hospital-sur-
gical benefits and
hour
and
financed
be
to
also
a month for each year of service.
Disability benefits will be paid
and
to 46c
a pension
sion benefits
wage
general
13 to 17c, eight
shift
shop.
a
fully
con-
the
Hollywood,
North
At
company
The
fund,
hike in November
wage
3%
an-
and
November,
in
boost
other
1958.
days,
BOYCOTT is being promoted with billboards such as this one at LaGrange, lil. The
rejected the UAW’s offer to settle the 314-year-old strike on the basis of an NLRB trial
e. The
examiner's report (United Automobile Worker, November) so the strike and boycott continu
™~
tase is now before the full NLRB.
Curtiss-Wright
—
—
the strikebreakers started getting the pink slips, and on Noy.
1, the last 60 scabs were sent
packing and the place was shut
e@Substantial improvement in
particularly
contract language,
in seniority.
On
been
came
10 to
eBoost for leadmen from
Contract
have
the
premium
shift
hiring
At one time
imported scabs
in the surgical sched-
ule.
the
with
bargain
Ex-’Banana’ Man
@ Increase ‘n surgical and hosimas
pital benefits as well
provement
.
and
them.
gains
Other
binding
employment
them
refusing.
out
them
in effect, locking
ment unanimously, is a 7-10c increase in pay plus the inclusion
of a 13c cost-of-living increase
into the base rates.
the
discriminated
he
Moreoyer,
against Local 840 members by
agree-
the
to
UAW.
Fairchild
ratified
in
a clause
Despite
refused
by George
7,000
the
are:
coun-
the
Won
im-
successor companies to observe
contractual obligations, Piasecki
department,
department
842, headed
Local
and
years,
became the target for
techunion-busting
agreement
Bellanca
are
company
A new contract
gains across the
FIXTURES
AFL-CIO
niques.
7-10c Raise, Fringes
Up in Fairchild Pact
{UNION MADE
INSTALLED by
mediately
Piasecki’s
charges
practice
for many
plant
at the
erated with scabs after locking out the regular workers, is
now shut down ané the scabs
laid off; and the urion’s un-
runout from unionized condi150
tions in Toronto, some
hed
— refus
miles sout
plant was purchased by Frank
Piasecki in 1956, and Local 840,
which had had bargaining rights
op-
which
plant,
The
reasons:
Plate—a
Name
than
Aircraft
Bellanca
former
The
in their
of final victory
ever
unfair labor practice strike.
They base this belief on two
for the UAW in an Ontario
Labor Relations Board certification election.
Canadian
plant
more
convinced
840
Local
Corp.
the one-year mark
of
members
with
passed
month,
here
last
awaiting a decision from National Labor Relations Board
trial examiner Robert E. Mullin.
the
of
front
Aircraft
Piasecki
last
struck
members
UAW
in
line
picket
eIncrease in yacation time
three weeks after 12 years.
PLUMBING
dis-
Large
916.
and
1262
Locals
in Mattoon,
plants
Blaw-Knox
Del.—_The UAW
CASTLE,
NEW
Hollywood
KOHLER
company
and
(above)
After Year, Piasecki
Strikers Still Certain
Still Bad Name
ers in Hagerstown,
Wiping Out Piece-Work
Ends Walker Walkout
the
to
according
against
local membership voted by 7-1
to strike. When the settlement
came
Radiator Co.
Young
tances to cover around the big plant make the horse “a picket’s best friend.” The workers struck
for wage increases and contractual improvements. Elvis E. Swan of Region 4 staff is servicing
the 360 strikers.
gain.
the
meetings,
fruitless
several
development,
practical
a
are
IlL,
at
HORSEBACK
ON
For Name
strike at Buick began July 31
when the shop committee was
directed to serve a 60-day notice
of
PICKETS
at
the
rate
of
of
service
$4.50
with
a month
no
per
service
or age limit and-with a guaranteed minimum monthly payment of $90.
Severance payments will be
computed at the rate of $100
a year.
‘December
UNITED
1957
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Page
Comics? Nah;
Funny Papers
Editorials
AYBE we just don’t under-
Are the Real Target
We
5
stand
Sen
Goldwater
natural that the McClellan probe of labor corruption
should have caused management publications to resume
their baying against unions. The relative handful of wrongdoers offered an opportunity that no employer mouthpiece
could miss.
What’s not so natural, on the surface, is the choice
of target. One after another, such management organs as
Business Week, Forbes Magazine, the Wall Street Journal
and the Journal of Commerce have taken off—not against
the Becks or the Hoffas or the Klenerts—but against
Walter P. Reuther and the UAW.
Why? Why this management assault on a union that is
the symbol of integrity and high principal? Simply because
the UAW is such a symbol.
To big business, the real enemy is not the corrupt union
leader but the honest one. And because the UAW’s prestige is
all the greater in contrast to those exposed by McClellan’s
probe, big business is taking the offensive.
_
Y=
Barry
(R.,
M.
Ariz.),
the
rich department store-owner
who takes such a dim view of
the UAW. According to Ruth
=
WE'RE OFF
THE GROUND
Montgomery,
columnist,
up
near
good
the
a
Washington
old Barry
top
in
is
“kissabil-
ity” among
capital society
chicks.
We'd guess he’s closer to
being the kiss of death.
sensor! en ot
A month or so back the
papers ran scare-stories about
“poisonous paint” on Japanese toys. Full of deadly lead,
the stories said. Turns out it
was all the work of the Toy
Guidance
Recession? Well, It’s
‘Healthful,’ They Say
It would never do for management simply to admit
the UAW’s honesty. Any such admission, if made at all,
must be coupled with the charge that the UAW is a menace. Like Senator Goldwater, big business greatly prefers
the Hoffas and the Becks.
fs Only Mink Immoral?
Council,
run
by
a
group of U.S. toymakers.
Turns out, too, the story was
a fake. Our state department
bas apologized to Japan. Not
much im the papers, though;
did you notice?
s
s
3s
Someone in the management of the Washington Post
the business advisory council
we’re in another of those re- to Secretary of Commerce and Times-Herald had a
Weeks — made up of more bright idea, a while back, for
cessions.
about
lot
a
heard
we
1952)
in
again
(and
1948
in
R=
than 100 heads of the coun- making a quick buck — a spekeeparen’t
y
simpl
Jobs
by
accepted
such
and
mink coats, deep-freeze cabinets
try’s largest corporations —
cial section on Spain.
ing up with the increase in
certain underlings in the Truman administration. A wellpredicts there will be a fur
Franco’s boys
naturally
.
ation
popul
his
in
”
“morality
about
fuss
a
quite
made
known general
early leaped at the chance to look
dip in business
ther
g
cuttin
are
prices
r
Highe
year.
latter
campaign for President in the
next year, which should cut good in a respectable “libdown on the amount of
the rise in prices but may
eral” newspaper. The result
It’s now revealed that the Secretary of State and
goods consumers can afford
also increase unemployment was
a Sunday
supplement
more than a score of his staff in this “moral” administrato buy.
thou- called “Spain Speaks”, with
by “several hundred
tion received gifts from King Ibn Saud of Saudi-Arabia.
Technological impr ovesand.” However, Weeks isn’t the usual blurbs for the adTop prize was a new Oldsmobile; nothing came from the
ments and the spread of
worried about that.
vertiser
(iie., Franco)
who
5 & 10.
ing
automation are reduc
picked up the tab.
It will be “a pause for
the
rers
at
Saud
worke
of
Ibn
r
with
numbe
ting
the
Since the U. S. was negotia
breath, a healthy thing for
Among the blurbs was a
t
same
harshes
the
out
the
turn
Yet
quired to
time, wasn’t this “conflict of interest?”
the economy,” he feels.
plug for the “syndicates” that
a
been
t
has
press
goods.
of
amoun
can
Republi
the
from
t
commen
editorial
What concerns him much substitute for unions in Spain.
feeble “tut-tut.”
has
course,
of
UAW,
The
more is that Congress will All this made Victor G. Reuthings
these
of
been warning
We commend to Secretary Dulles a study of the
insist on stepping up U.S. ther, who heads the UAW
the
Now
time.
long
a
for
ethical practices codes now in force throughout the AFLscientific activities, such as Washington office and who
y.
union
has
compan
Cro.
the satellite program. That has had his share of overseas
very
unhappy.
Poor Little Profits
means “the prospects for tax experiencé,
At the end of October, for reduction are not what they The Post, having pocketed
have been a few the Spanish dollars, printed
instance, the president of the might
his letter of protest; but of
Investment Bankers Associa- months ago.”
course the damage was done.
upon a time a Wisconsin state legislator attracted tion of America came right AFL-CIO Alarmed
qc
The labor movement isn’t
As the saying goes,
wide attention by successfully sponsoring a bill aimed at out and admitted that things
“heaven protect me from
preventing all political activity by unions. The Catlin act is could be better. Of course, he as concerned about taxes but
my friends.”
looked upon as a model by reactionaries everywhere.
took a slightly different ap- a lot more concerned about
jobs.
The AFL-CIO execus
.
s
proach.
Court
A couple of weeks back the Wisconsin Supreme
tive council said it was “both
Quite apart from the difsaid,
he
is,
trouble
The
suspended the author of this measure, Mark Catlin Jr.,
puzzled and alarmed” at the ference in newspaper, radio
a
been
has
there
that
found
was
Catlin
months.
six
from the practice of law for
Eisenhower
administration’s and TV coverage, why aren’t
squeeze
on
profit
margins
guilty of using his influence as speaker of the state asattitude.
y
se
more folks upset about the
becau
industr
wasn’t
sembly while serving as attorney for state prison inmates
sign
“There is still no
McClellan committee's disable
to
pass
on
such
infee.
a
for
PAC
personal
of
sort
seeking pardons . ..a
tration
that
the
adminis
has
closure of management corcreased costs as higher
This, said the court, was unethical.
zed
ity
recogni
the
possibil
of
ruption, and the Fifth Amendwages. He said this in Dea general downturn in the
Seems to us Catlin’s legislative offense was a lot worse.
ment
boys on the bosses’
troit, too.
Obviously
he
y,”
econom
noted
the
counOne columnist ofhasn’t looked at the UAW’s
payroll?
cil.
“In
fact,
recent
cutfered this explanation:
statistics.
backs in military procure“People just don’t expect
On the other hand, he went
ment have not only reduced
business to have ethical
on, these “weak spots” in the
posture
defense
’s
America
Editorial Office: 8000 E. Jefferson Ave., Detroit 14, Mich.
standards.”
economy aren’t so bad. “Some
ted
but have also aggrava
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the downward drift in the
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To workers
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on
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models. The Eisenhower administration has stood firmly
by its “tight money” policy.
And the President’s solution
to everything is “buy less.”
Maybe by next year we
won’t have any
other
choice.
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The Sunday before election
the political pundit of the
Newark
(N.J.)
News,
Bill
Clark, allowed that Gov, Robert B. Meyner’s advisers
wished they could wipe out
his last week of campaigning,
in which he favored unemployment
compensation
for
strikers, A dreadful blunder,
Clark
Meyner
The
reported,
in
result;
the
since
“CIO
Dreadful
it
put
camp,”
blunder;
dreadful plurality for Meyner; dreadful Democratic state
assembly,
A House
December
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
1957
for Goldie:
Holly Finds Out That ‘Union’
Means Helping from the Heart
By HERB
OLLY,
MICH.
ned a two-story house, And
just what
would a woman who had lost a leg do with
that second story?
HOOVER
—
This central
Michigan
city (population 3,000) had the usual
small-town reservations about unions, even
though UAW Amalgamated Local 524 has
represented workers here for years.
But then Aili Gold, a grinder at American Spring with 16 years’ seniority, had
her right leg amputated. And Holly found
what a union is all about.
The story started on June 7, 1956, when
Goldie,
as her fellow workers
call her,
wound
up
in a hospital
with
an infected
pendix. Complications included
which endangered both legs,
Nellie Gets
blood
ap-
clots,
It was time for some political action.
Nellie
Williams
bearded
the
township
board
waiver
ack.
operated
again
on
the
that’s when
a fellow-worker,
eral
ago,
two-room
she
shack
had
been
on
their
living
acre
in
of ground
little
six
miles south of town. It was 100 feet_from
the road and you had to scramble down a
bank to get to the door. It had only an outside toilet. and all in all, it was no place for
anyone with two legs to live, much less one.
I just made up my mind Goldie had to have
a i
tal.”
house
when
she got out of the hospi-
Nellie went to Frank Hubble, Local 524
president. After he drove out to look at
Goldie’s shack he agreed. And soon most of
the 120 American
convinted.
Cash
Spring Workers
were
also
and Commodities
Early
yards and other business places. Soon she
had promises of discounts on all the material
needed. She had donations of a hot water
heater, a heating oil tank and a paid-up insurance policy on Goldie’s house. A lumber
mill operated by the Seventh Day Adventist
Church near town got in on the deal.
From
others, Nellie squeezed
cash.
Much of it came from fellow union members. Most of it came from the downtown
folks,
though,
after
Joe
McCall,
publisher
of the Holly Herald, printed the story.
Nellie soon had $1,500 in the bank.
Meanwhile,
Hubble
had
been
putting
some old skills to use. He had once been in
the lumber business. Out on Goldie’s acre
was an.old foundation, laid by her husband
just before
he died
it up and drew
in 1937. Hubble
measured
a set of plans to fit it.
Even Some PAC
And then someone discovered that the
old foundation wouldn’t allow the number
of square feet of floor space required by the
township
building
code,
unless
Hubble
plan-
in the
manager
Spring
he
Helps
game,
Howard
of American
could
“They're
weekend.
have
Smith,
Spring,
trucks
gen-
had
and
told
anything
8
‘Onion in Detront
LeReesl
better now.”
I ster,
interior
proval.
with
they
the
worked
plant
some
on
the
manager’s
ap-
By the end of the second week end,
Goldie’s house was enclosed. By the time she
left the hospital on Jan. 8, 1957, it was almost
ready.
Goldie
knew
Goldie
had
something
was
didn’t know
what.
“I figured
patching up the old shack,” she
neighbor
to
made
up,
but
they
says.
arrangements
convalesce
at
her
she
were
with
a
place.
“I
wheeled my chair over to the window to
look at my place,” Goldie tells it. “And there
was a brand new green house with white
trim, standing up flush with the road just as
pretty as you please.” Goldie shakes her
head
Nellie Williams took charge, with everyone’s blessing. She sent out scouts to lumber
the week-
With company trucks, Local 524 members had used company time to round up
the lumber and materials for that first
Nel-
the
a
else he needed to do the job for Goldie. “We
always had good labor Telations,” says Hub-
lie Williams, served up an idea that had
been cooking in her head since the operation. Nellie tells it like this:
“Ever since Goldie’s husband died 20
years
got
regulation.
to roll. On
Company
and saved it. Goldie began to bounce
And
things began
Busy
ble.
doctors
on the floor-space
and
workers, with a sprinkling of foremen, descended on Goldie’s acre. Women members
of Local 524 and wives of the work crew
cooked up ham, roast beef, scalloped potatoes, beans, pie and coffee. Much of the food
came from Holly merchants.
fetes
the
meeting,
end of October 8, a crew of American
Hubble
17
its monthly
Then
On July 24, Goldie’s doctors decided to
amputate the right leg and try to restore
some circulation in the left. For awhile it
looked like she might not pull through. On
Aug.
at
she
at this
said.
On
Now
“I busted
28,
she
like the Lee
at
$117
raised
out
moved
Timed It Right
lives comfortably
party
card
and
April
she
Neighbors,
a
point.
Nellie
for
the
house,
in.
by
Caswells
Williams’
bawling,”
who
herself.
threw
suggestion
drop
by
all
the time. And the crowd from the plant
visit regularly. She does all her own housework, scooting about in her wheel chair. “T
sit on the floor to mop under the bed,” she
explains.
just
And
right,”
ability
my
how
about
says
pension
social
income?
Goldie.
from
security
our contract were
the
“I
plant
($96.10).
changed
get
The
my
($50)
law
so anyone
50 could qualify for disability
52.”
“I timed
this
dis-
and
and
over
pension. I'm
There’s just one more job to do before
Local 524 leaves Aili Gold to herself. “She
has an old heap she used to drive to work
in,” says President Hubble. “She was going
to sell it for a couple of hundred dollars. We
told her not to. We're getting it fixed up so
Goldie
can
drive
it.”
al Chemical
Union,
Workers
his
address
production
and
lower
speech
to
convention,
the
followed
big
of
policies
prices
buffet
a
at
delegates
450
to
one
meet
by
K.
the
supper
in
growing
C. Towe,
Solidarity
for
economic
board
Walter
also entertained
UAW
called
and
greets
speaker,
Here
host,
play
assailed
Reuther
industry,
the
The
leader.
Internation-
was,the
helped
UAW
a convention
workers’
L. Mitchell, chemical
the
so
P. Reuther,
Walter
President
a convention
to hold
DETROIT
VISITING
chairman
the
House.
In
price
and
higher
recession.
of
wages
His
American
Towe argued that
Co., who took an opposite tack,
Cyanamid
higher wages inevitably result in higher prices and therefore
reduce purchasing power. The conyention agreed with Reuther.
December
1957
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
What It Will Look Like
To Be Run Over in 58
next
intersection
busy
that
across
jaywalk
you
When
year, your mortal remains will probably bear one of the imprints shown
on this page.
These are front-end shots of most of the 1958 models.
We've had to be a bit selective for reasons of space, but
every manufacturer is represented at least once.
We put this together for two reasons. First, no one else
that we know of has presented the whole array of U. S. cars
at the same time from the same angle.
Second, we wonder how many of you — who make the
can tell them apart?
monsters —
We’ve had our art department paint out the names and
sure-fire symbols. If you think you can identify these front
ends, starting at the upper right-hand corner and proceeding
clockwise around the square, write us a note. No prizes —
just honorable mentions in the first issue of the UAW’s new
weekly, Solidarity.
Any takers?
Automation:
By JERRY DALE
EAST LANSING, Mich. — “On my old job, I
controlled the machine. On my present job, the
machine
controls
me.”
department
of sociology
to Faunce,
that automation makes them lonely on
and isolates them from fellow-workers.
the
21
times
"that they used
job more often
with
didn’t
and
in four large machining
most highly automated
Listed
according
“Almost
ence,
William A. Faunce, a graduate student and
recipient of a scholarship set up by the Square D
unit of UAW Amalgamated Local 351, Detroit,
interviewed 125 workers
departments of one of the
auto plants in Detroit.
Gripes
Their main complaint,
have “no difficulty making friends any place.”
as many
workers
reported
to get together socially
with friends from their
off
old
the
job
than they do now with friends from their present
job, but approximately half reported no differ-
This was one of the opinions expressed in
a survey on worker attitudes toward automation conducted by a member of the Michigan
State University
anthropology.
Nerve-Racking
Lonely,
is
job
most
get
of
these
together
socially
indicating
with
that
they
friends
from
either job,” Faunce’s survey reports.
As an example of worker dissatisfaction because of “lack of opportunity for social interaction on automated jobs,” Faunce quotes one of
the workers interviewed as saying:
“There
that’s
why
are
not
so
it is more
many
workers
boring
and
around...
lonesome.”
Supervision in the automated department is
closer and the worker’s relationship to the foreman
has
quotes
worsened,
the
one worker
survey
discloses.
as saying:
Faunce
work
stations and
to work
tween
because
sion
is decreasing
workers,”
Other
from
the need
the
Faunce
complaints
of faster
foremen;
for closer attention
social exchanges
explained.
include
increased
production;
the
too
closer
much
and
more
be-
tension
supervi-
constant
attention
required
by complicated
machinery;
frequent. breakdowns and costliness of mistakes;
lack of identification with the work; and a decline
in
conversation.
To the question, “Are you able to talk very
often to the men around you while you are work-
ing?”, only 45%
of those doing automated work
answered yes, compared to 80%
who answered in
the affirmative concerning
their conversational
habits
while
Only
tact every
compared
of
on
“social
Only
their
they
had
on
18%
previous
Friendships
said
they
to almost
40%
few minutes
interaction”
138%
new
made
non-automated
Harder
had
some
who
reported some
on
(aatecateay
automated) job.
difference, these
form
while on automated
reported
more
work.
their
old
job,
while
making
job.
more
of con-
work,
form
friends
47%
said
friends on their old (non-
While 40% said there was no
were either working with the
Same people on both jobs or were the type who
Most
Prefer It, But...
The
Press story reporting
Associated
Faunce’s
study
of
worker *attitudes
toward
auto-
mation, as published in the Detroit News,
classic example of telling only half the truth,
The
first paragraph
automated
to
headlined this
ers”).
The
a
prefer
non-automated
jobs.”
(The
“Automation
Wing Poll of
paper
Work-
is
troe
as
“Most
is
workers
statement
says:
far
as
it
goes,
based
on the survey's finding that 72% of the workers
interviewed preferred their present automated
jobs, What the story neglects to report Is Faunce’s
comment
“that
the
proportion
of
workers
ring automated to non-automated jobs
as high as is indicated by this study,”
He
based
1,
All
automated
2.
Those
tion may
partment
this comment
those
on
Interviewed
line by
workers
have quit
and were
have been lald off,
thelr own
two
were
may
not
not
be
working
on
an
request.
transferred
thus
prefer-
factors:
most dissatisfied with
or
altogether different, just push, push all the
time. They never say hello . . . treat you like
a machine. They used to be friendly. Now they
seem to be under a strain. The foremen at the
new plant have too much to do and too much
responsibility and they get tired and cranky.
They'll die of a heart attack yet.”
The same worker said his department used to
have 134 men with one foreman and one assistant
foreman. Now they have 100 men with five foremen.
Speaking of lack of identification, Faunce
says in his survey:
“The worker on the automated line is alienated
in
the
sense
to
automa.
another
interviewed,
or
de-
may
that
and
over the machine
previously
the
on William
old job — nobody
. . . Over here it’s
“It was better on the
breathing down your neck
acquired
he
work
no
longer
has
control
skills
pace, machining
are no longer needed,
increasingly
becomes
“Machine noise, increased distances between
Jobs
difficult
to
and
identify
machine does as his work.”
Hard on Nerves
Concerning the nervous tension workers
transfer
perience
on
over.
I was
automated
machines,
it
what
Faunce
ex-
cites
this quote:
“IT pushed a wrong button and stuff flew all
lucky
(not
getting
hurt)
but
it
cost the company $13,000 to fix the machine.”
Those workers who said they preferred working on automated
machines cited the smaller
physical
for
as
handling
involving
more
der
effort
required
materials.
more
interesting
blocks,
and
more
crankshafts
parts. This is one
automated work,
Faunce
was
the
Some
the decreased
responsibility,
Calls for
previous work
Their
and
and
said
Research
included handling
aspect
the
other
most
recipient
heavy
disliked
job
it was
challenging.
and
first
regarded
need
cylin-
engine
in
non-
of the Charles
Kelly
cal
labor research scholarship, endowed by Lo(United Automobile
351’s Square D unit,
dents
UAW
selected by a group of trustees made up of
and university officials, It is named in me«
Worker, June 1957).
The
vides for yearly grants of
scholarship fund
$500 to qualified
pro«
stu-
mory of a late unit officer,
rrr rr
ree
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
Dear
Mr.
ert:
How About Those Skin Lotions?
We've Got Other Questions, Too
Like
By SIDNEY MARGOLIUS
Como, we get letters, lots
Perry
can’t sing out the replies, but
could
scope”
Dec.
9 over
CKLW-TV,
Detroit.
Other
concerts
are
rehearses
under
guidance
results of their practice
being scheduled, too.
on
of
Italo
“Tele-
Mom’s Outside Job May Be Helping Her Become
Better Adjusted Wife and Mother Around Home
By CAROLINE
up by
aSking
We
here are the best answers we
the people who
know.
“My skin is very dry and for the past few years I
have found Lanolin Plus Liquid very beneficial, not
only at night but in the daytime as
SKIN
a make-up base and in = ae
On opening a new bottle the other
day I detected a strong odor of
LOTIONS
olive oil. I spread Lanolin Plus on one side of my face
and olive oil on the other. There didn't seem to be any
difference. It looked and felt the same and took about
the.same time to be absorbed, Since then I have been
using the oil and like it, especially the price. Eight
ounces of olive oil is 39c. The same size Lanolin Plus
&
HARMONY’S THE KEYNOTE as a part of UAW Choral Group
Taranta, assistant director. You'll get to hear—and see—the
scrape
of letters.
Liquid is $3 plus 40c tax.
Is there olive oil in Lanolin
Plus Liquid? What are the other ingredients? It has a
faint delightful fragrance, one of the few I can use, as
I am allergic to almost all perfumes.”
é
—Mrs. J. M., Cleveland, Ohio.
DAVIS
UAW Women’s
Department Director
Like most advertised brand-name toiletries, Lanolin
Plus Liquid does not state on its label the ingredients other
Research into family life has finally helped explode at least a couple of moss-covered than that it contains lanolin and various esters (vegetable
and animal oils and fats) and cholesterols. Whether or not
prejudices toward women who work.
One was that a working mother generally contributes to juvenile delinquency. this product does contain an ester of olive oil, it is true that
The other was that her job necessarily keeps her from maintaining a well - regulated olive oil has been widely used as an ingredient in creams
and lotions, although not so much now as formerly. Pharhome.
:
maceutical experts say olive oil is a good emollient for dry
I spent a week attending a
|skins. But they also point out that you can buy ordinary
forum at Arden House on Col-
Boycott Gotham Hesiery
umbia
University’s
Harriman,
N.Y. campus where several reports by social workers buried
PHILADELPHIA—The
eonsumer
these old ideas.
The conference was held by
the National Manpower Council Theme of the meetings was
am,
Gold
tions.
One
religious
Feldman
of
the
conception,
en
are
some
better
of their jobs.
working
mothers
“Such a woman
tification in her
wom-
because
f
may find graroles of wife
and mother, but needs more
for
complete satisfaction. Many obtain it in paid work from which
they return to the family stimu-
50
women
N. Y.—More
attended
the
first
in
Workshop
discussions were
devoted
to automation,
national economy, legislation affecting women
workers
and
the work
of women’s
committees.
A
general
session
wrapped up UAW policy and
women
Gold
products
brands
Stripe,
of
Chadbourn
of hosiery
and
lated
band
Still,
firm also shut down
Hosiery
Mills,
for an
Columbus,
election.
and eager to be with husand children,” this social
Scientist declared.
“Such mothers may have
much
to give the child
though
such
as
as
they did not work. Many
mothers
are
better
moth-
ers because they do work.”
The effects on the children,
she warned, however, “will be
on the positive side only if she
some
the
and
“These
than
familiar
challenged.
satisfaction
out of
if her relationships
children
have
tency,
affection,
understanding.”
tered at the sessions held
Local 686’s headquarters.
workers,
votes
petitioned
with
Falls and Poughkeepsie as well
as Buffalo and Lockport regis-
protecting
non
working
UAW
women’s
conference
for
the Buffalo area held here for
two days and devoted to workshop discussions.
Women from local unions in
Jamestown, Rochester, Niagara
Practices
The
derives
Buffalo Gals
Get Together
LOCKPORT,
46
negotiate.
of
Southern
California,
declared
that contrary to popujar mis-
Stripe, Gotham,
with
L.
University
most
the
Larkwood.
in July resulted in a vote of 156 for the
organiza-
report, by Dr. Frances
whose
against
are conducting
are
Goth-
Gotham
The
warmth
positive
consisand
consequences
assume that adequate
sion is available
for
supervichildren
when needed, that the husband
is at least tolerant of his wife's
employment and that her reasons for working are not neurotic but realistic’—that is, help
enrich
living.
the
family’s
standard
of
Another report, by Eleanor E.
Maccoby of Harvard University,
showed that the working mother
was not quite the guilty party
In juvenile delinquency that so
many readily believe.
She referred to a study on juvenile delinquency made in the
late 1940's.
In it, a group of
500 delinquent boys
was
compared with a group of non-delinquents similar in intelligence,
national,
racial
and
religious
union
and
union
costs
refused
after the
same
background,
standards,
“There
union
age
was
and
no
he
is doing,” she said, “he is far
more likely to become a delinquent
than
if he
is closely
watched.
“Furthermore,
who
works
does
if
a
mother
arrange
ade-
absence,
more
quate
care
for
he
the
is no
child
in
likely
her
to
be delinquent (indeed, possibly
less so!)
than
the adequately
supervised
child of a mother
who does not work.”
1155
employed
at
Hayes Aircraft.
In the first case of its kind
under a UAW aircraft contract,
the right of equal seniority to
all workers, regardless of sex,
Was put to test when a group of
ing
were laid off without be-
given
into
the
jobs
right
held
by
to
bump
persons
with
less seniority.
Grievances were immediately
filed
33
by
the
women
local
with
in
behalf
seniority
of
and
or these
UAW
office
workers?
The
gals got to meet the pianist-singer after he was interviewed for
“Eye-Opener” and “Shift Break”
at Solidarity House’s radio
studio.
Left to right,
they
are:
Janice
Ferrazza,
Winnie
Reynolds,
Geneya
Roberts
and
Mary
Piazzon,
in
Least-expensive
encountered
is Co-op
prepared
lanolin-type
Lana-Rose,
which
con-
five
years ago
my
mother-in-law
bad
her
HOUSE
RESURFACING
little,
the
hardened
—J.
getting
gotten
have
people
Many
it's
now
but
paint
house
W.
worse.”
R., Irvington,
into
trouble
They
no
N. J.
with
these
sprayed-on asphalt mixtures. These include both home owners and contractors who were persuaded by manufacturers
to sell them.
compounds
of these
are being
longer
:
used by reliable contractors.
Surfacing experts advise that there is no simple solution. The cracking or crazing is due to the asphalt in the
There is no guarantee further crazing won't
compound.
the
until
occur
to
continue
compound
enough for the asphalt to become inactive.
on the type of asphalt that was used—it
prepare the surface and paint over it.
long
on
has
been
may
be possible to
Then—depending
cuss some of the things I should
SPRINGS
look for in a good mattress and box
”
springs? What kind of fabric covering is the best? What should it be filled with? How
coils should there be in a good mattress?”
many
—Mrs. E. K., Milwaukee, Wis.
Prices of mattresses vary considerably for the same
Nor are brand names a reliable guide to value.
quality.
Above all, don’t rely on price tags attached to mattresses by
Some of them label mattresses with exagmanufacturers.
gerated prices so retailers can offer what seems to be a big
reduction, but is actually none at all. In shopping for innerspring mattresses, compare values by comparing the quality
of ticking,
filling and
:
construction.
The ticking should be closely and firmly woven twill or
damask of so-called eight-ounce quality. Cheap mattresses
are
made
sometimes
six-ounce
weight
lighter
the
with
tick.
Tt doesn’t matter significantly if mattresses are tufted,
tuftless or quilted, as long as the filling is secure, and the
sidewalls firm. Moderate price mattresses are made with a
Better mattresses have a pre-built border. This
roll edge.
abide by the contract. As a
result, the women were hired
into the jobs they sought and
shape.
and
agreed
to
awarded a total of $1,825 in
back pay.
Handling the grievances was
Liberace
a pound
qualifications
to
handle
the
jobs they sought.
When
the
grievances were one step short
of arbitration,
the
company
capitulated
HAPPIER?
$1.50
"I have been shopping for mattresses and box
springs and find the prices vary as far as their quality ts
BED
concerned. Would you please dis-
has been won for the 500 womLocal
or
mixture is peeling off. I have tried to scrape off some
of it to the clapboard and paint it with outside white
BIRMINGHAM, Ala—A handsdown victory for equal rights
women
WHO'S
by
Have Rights!
of
we’ve
pint.
paint ingredients, Little
So Women
en
$1.40
pe reer
be-
what
about
214-story house, wood shingle on top and clapboard be-
living
her child is and
a
“About
tween the groups of boys in the
proportion of their mothers who
worked
regularly
outside
the
home,” she said.
“If the mother
remains
at
home but does not keep track of
where
for
all its ingredients: lanolin, mineral oil, glycol and the others.
had
difference
U.S.P.
sumer cooperatives sell for about 60c for eight ounces. In
contrast with the advertised brands, it states on its label
to
and offered for sale the ShanGa.,
$2.35
lotion
44 against,
management
Lanolin
drug stores. This quantity would last you a long time.
For women who want a prepared lotion for dry skins
and general winter use, but are allergic to perfume, dermatologists sometimes recommend Lubriderm, an unscented
lotion with lanolin, for dry skins and general winter use. It
a
asking ladies not to buy these brands.
It has been on strike at. the firm’s Shenandoah
(Va.)
Knitting Mills since April 22. A representation election held
from management, government,
schools, social agencies, publicaand
Inc.,
is
“Work in the Lives of Married
Women.” Others attending came
tions
boycott
Hosiery Workers
Toilet
the local
ed by C.
union committee headA. Hollingsworth, local
president, and Dan
}man
the
of
UAW
the
partment
sentatives.
unit.
national
and
Glass, chair-
Assisting
aircraft
regional
was
de-
repre-
is a strip of quilted
ticking
to
the
If you
do
ticking
bottom.
buy a
sewn
This
around
helps
roll-edge
type,
the
the edge to hold the
mattress
sure
make
its
hold
it at least
| has rows of vertical stitching on the side walls to reinforce
the filling.
Also look at the label on the mattress or ask the store
to find out how many coils the innerspring unit has. Moderate-quality
coils.
Better
innerspring
mattresses
mattresses
have
220,
252
may
and
have
even
only
more.
180
_
Moderate-quality box springs have a few as 63 coils.
Better ones have 72 or more, and the coils also are deeper.
The coils should be wire-laced to provide a level platform
top.
Copyright 1957 by Sidney Margolius
Page 9
WORKER
|
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
1957
December
Epstein,
Salk
after
bit, says Al
HURT a
DOESN’T
for members
some
area;
American
work-
Dr.
Homer
ers
and
their
O.
Stilsen
of
advantage
Hospital
families
of them.
was
spon-
Local
shot.
North
trustee,
887
Local
sored free shots
Angeles
Los
in
10,000
took
Memorial
White
in
vA
charge.
(second from left) to Walter Murphy,
$100 THANK-YOU NOTE is presented by John Skibski
and Frank Golembiewski,
Szewezykowski
treasurer of UAW Local 12 summer camp, as Frank
Spicer unit officers, look on. Skibski made the donation in appreciation of help to his late father.
@
Grateful Son Donates $100
To Camp; Union Aided Dad
average
O. — The
TOLEDO,
local union officer doesn’t expect any special expression of
the
of
local
union,
Spicer
the
so
officers
the
Amalga-
of
unit
by
done
well
for a job
gratitude
mated Local 12 here were astonished as well as pleased to
see John Skibski.
Skibski
said
express his
crete way,
Leo
It
mer
ate.
who
was
donation
died
suggested
to the Local
camp would be
It would send
children
week
to
to
father,
his
given
Skibski,
June.
wanted
thanks, in a confor the help the
had
local
he
the
last
that
12 sum-
approprideserving
country
of summer
a
for
fun.
a
Skibski, who is not connected
promptly prewith the UAW,
sented
a
check
for
$100
to
Walter Murphy, camp treasurer.
“The
father
of
they
had
been
joined
the
Members
Ferro
tied
the
union.
of Loca’
Stamping
Pleasant
gave
the
the
hospital
as a
disposing
of
mained
after
disaffiliated
of the United
The
workers
UAW
by
margin
held
in
at
an
that
Mine
yoted
to
of
which
re-
District
50
Ferro
an _
Mt.
money
means
funds
from_
since
in
workers
Workers.
for
the
overwhelming
NLRB
time.
election
Making the contribution in behalf of the
workers
was Ray
Smith,
Local
753
president.
The
funds
will
go
toward
building of a new wing on the
Central
Michigan
Community
HospitaL
union
things
Ont,—Ben
38-year-old former UAW
representative,
national
had
been
workers,
worker
whose
Preserved
Local
became
organize:
240
an
on
of Canadian
Director
Burt four years ago.
ley
While
ran
a
On
staff
Office-
staff
George
After
the
shop
he
and
got
the
from
the
the
only
going the
of his life.”
Crow-
slate
until his fatal illness,
without
preown
Golembiewski,
discovered
a
death,
Frank
grievance
was
rector;
chairman,
cancellation
SERYE
ALSO
who
only stand
and watch
as workman
cornerstone
installs
291's
of Local
new $40,000 home in Oshkosh, Wis. From left, C. E. Bergquist, local financial secretary-treasurer;
Wesley Doermer, building committee member; Ralph Koenig, Region 10 education and PAC di-
required
unit
the
THEY
notifica-
as
Skibski’s
Reiff,
and
Alfred
local
Hoffmann,
guide
of the local;
Region
10 Director Harvey
Kitzman,
and
James
Ly
president.
immediately
filed. The union eventually won
the case.
“We're glad we could be of
some
help
makes
a union
family,”
easier
are
said
to
to
this
member's
Golembiewski.
“It
officer’s job a lot
find
that
his
appreciated,”
efforts
Pamphlet to Aid
Puerto Ricans
NEW
YORK—UAW
recent
among
Puerto
their
locals with
Rican immigrants
members
will
be
interested
in a new
Spanishlanguage pamphlet, “Manual del
Delegado.”
The
pamphlet,
issued
sion
here by the migration diviof the Puerto Rico Depart-
of
no
Labor,
workers
who
English
union
Locals
and
may
at
Columbus
88
York
to
the
23,
helps
its
functions,
better
free
union
cop-
by
writ-
ayenue,
New
are good,
although
loyal
lan-
migration
“Puerto Ricans
union
members,
little
understand
publication
N.Y,
Puerto
know
obtain
this
ing
to
them
ies of
division
'
guage
difficulties
bring
about
some of the adjustment
problems faced by many of our Immigrant
for city council and become the
first labor-backed
candidate to
carry the city’s west ward.
He
was the council's most energetic
member
friendship of
tion to the union,
by the contract.
and
makes
members,
local
a labor-endorsed
UAW
Insurance
company
their
office-
member,
ever
been placed on an inactive
ferential hiring list at his
request.
or
interdied
the
my
The elder Skibski was on sick
leave from the shop where he
had worked since 1941. He had
Crowley,
home
the
leaders
were
that kept him
Rican
here suddenly of complications
by influenza,
worsened
Crowley,
in
for
could
told
last few months
ment
Ben Crowley
Dies; Ex-Rep.
WINDSOR,
Skibski
people
the
753 at the
plant
anybody
encouragement
a Michi-
up
more
Then,
according
to Frank
Szewezykowski, unit secretary,
his insurance was cancelled by
gan UAW
local have enriched
their community hospital fund
by $1,344.24
and
at the same
time
ended
a _ long-standing
court
fight
over
the
‘money,
which
did
local officers, “The
Aids Hospital
membership
than
repay,”
Cash Quarrel
The
union
ancestors,”
according
to
Clarence Senior, division chief.
The booklet is a translation
of
a
sued
under
and
publication
originally
is-
by
the
Textile
Workers
the
title “20 Questions
Answers
Stewards?’
OOOO
for
TWUA
21-POUND
WILD
TURKEY
was
downed
by
Fred
Perrigini
(right)
in
Couldersport,
Pa,
It
was
the first wild turkey he'd ever seen, Helping show the prize is John Miller, Both are members of
Local 55, Buffalo, N.Y, The UAW hunting-party of five, led by Jim Shuetz, skilled trades repre«
sentative, also bagged two eight-pound birds,
iiéé4#44ge.#.#w#wawaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
“]
Page
UNITED
10
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
UAW, IAM Both Get
Big Bundle at Brass
PORT
package
the
HURON, Mich—aA 2314c) also get the
year, besides
settlement
has ended
214-week strike of
meémbers
at
the
1,800
New
fringe
benefits
include
improvements in pensions, disa-
UAW
Mueller
additional 6c next
escalator boosts.
Brass
bility pay,
sickness
and
accident
union’
security
Co. plant. here.
The
workers,| benefits,
overtime,
call-in-pay,
members
of Local 44 ratified Blue Cross payments, seniority
the settlement
mous
yote,
Ken
Region
Robinson
makes
by a near-unani-
Although
comparatively
the
strike
short,
were
Local
actually
ay.
The
settlement
new
the
two-year
same
agreement
calls for a 12c-an-hour wage in-
crease across the board for nonbonus workers this year and an
additional
6¢
next
year,
pension
to
their
base
rate
this
year plus an increase in their
bonus computation from 85% to
100%. This equals a 5¢ acrossthe-board
increase.
They
will
which
of
included
of
$125
so-
plan of $2.25 a month
of service, with
a 30-year maximum and 10year full vesting after age 40.
Disability pay is pegged at a
fiat
$90
a
month
until
social
qualify
a
pay.
worker
Weekends
for
disability
week,
four
agreed
call-in
hours,
to
pay
and
pay
of the recent
Cross rates.
from
the
the
three
the
to
company
entire
increases
in Blue
Sunday
as
also agreed
to several other minor
improvements in the contract.
The total cost of the package
settlement
obtained
latter’s
by
is the
differs
the
in
same
as
IAM,
but
details.
that
the
Schultheiss to appoint the study group.
The Labor-Management-Citizens Committee (LMC) of Toledo was formed about 12 years ago by a group which included
UAW Vice President Richard Gosser, then director of Region
2B; Michael DiSalle, then mayor of Toledo, and Paul Block Jr,
Publisher of the Toledo Blade. LMC
members
disputes.
make
themselves
KOKOMO,
Ind.
“right-to-work”
ternational
—
laws
Inflation,
and
relations
in-
were
among the topics discussed at
the UAW’s
first regional citizenship
activities
conference
here, Region
3 Director
Ray
Berndt reports.
More than 80 delegates representing
locals
in
Indiana
and
Kentucky
heard
UAW
Vice President Leonard Woodcock lay the blame for present
inflationary conditions on the
irresponsible
pricing
policies
of the Big Three auto manufacturers and other big busi-
ness enterprises.
as
He also characterized
the
“battleground”
Indiana
on- which
union workers will have to fight
|to undo the harm done by the
Is tate’s so-called “right-to-work”
Sexton Knits Farm-Labor Tie
First of Many
Speaking of the
ministration
in
Woodcock
example
cited
of
the
as
failures
policies.
publican
present adWashington,
Sputnik
an
of
Re-
Roy Reuther, coordinator of
the UAW’s citizenship activities department, told delegates
the Kokomo conference would
establish a pattern for many
similar
regional
conferences
throughout
the
country.
Referring to the UAW’s formative years in the mid-Thirties,
Reuther
declared
that
“we
must
once again translate our dreams
into reality, as we were once able
audi-
his
reminded
He
do.”
to
ence that such things as penholiday
and
vacations
sions,
pay were once considered “viexisted
which
goals”
sionary
only
ion
today’s
union
pointed
out.
Berndt,
said
cock,
are
being
introduced
Wood-
goals
visionary,
as
who
the
was
it
of
many
Similarly,
leaders.
of un-
dreams
pipe
the
in
he
of
duty
every trade unionist to participate actively in the political life
of his community.
Motive Study
In Region 9
work
three-day
tute
Martin
here,
UAW
EDUCATOR
Brendan Sexton (right) joins leaders of Muncie, Ind., at annual farm-labor
banquet for the traditional picture-taking. Sexton was the principal speaker.
From left: John
Raber, state president of the National Farmers Union; Fred Bowen, county Grange;
Marion
Clawson, NFU county president; John Wells, UAW Local 287, public relations director for the
county CIO council; Muncie’s Mayor H. Arthur Tuhey;
Leon J. Parkinson,
managing editor
of the Muncie Evening Press, and Sexton.
banquet
rift
between
Admitting
here.
there
the unionized
recent
years,
the
had
been
farmer
a
and
city worker in
Sexton
praised
the National Farmers Union
for doing much to bridge the
gap.
Sexton
noted
US. history,
ers
joined
that
farmers
together
throughout
to
and
win
worksuch
reforms as the Homestead Act
and the Land Grant College Act
which
established
“the
most
democratic
the
world
educational
has
ever
system
known.”
farms getting progressively bigDiscussing the UAW’s fight on
ger and
farmers
progressively|inflation,
Sexton
rejected
the
fewer.
idea that prices are the result
of
supply
and
demand.
He
‘Terrible Thought’
pointed out that the auto indus“It's a terrible thought, but
try was operating at only 75%
it’s one we may have to face,”
of capacity and that car proSexton told the more than 500
duction had decreased 19%, yet
farm and labor leaders at the
car prices
are still going
up
banquet, “Although
we have
when they should be going down.
not had to subsidize the famThe same situation exists in
ily farmer yet, if the time
comes
when
to preserve
of
we
the
community
have
to do
American
life,
we
in
so
way
the
agriculture,
“How
rise
he
can
and
not
the
the
said,
price
price
asking,
of
food
of farm
products?”
labor moyement will have to
be in the forefront
of the
The banquet was held under
fight.
the
joint
sponsorship
of
the
“Think what this community|Delaware
County Farmers Un-
would
farmer
be
is
like
if
the
family
removed
from
his |
He was pess’ mistic about the| home
and
the
land
around
future of the family farm, and | Muncie is left to a few tenants |
pointed to the “bad trend” in}working
for a big corporation
American agriculture, with! farmer.”
|
| ion
and
Industrial
cording
UAW
the
Delaware
Union
to John
Local
287, who
County
Council,
acM
Wells of
is in charge
of public relations for the county council and the banquet,
was
the
staff
theme
of a
training
Region
Gerber
The
labor
structure
9
reports.
institute
was
jointly by UAW
nell University
insti-
Director
set
was
which
his
drew
of 150
can
up
and the CorSchool of In-
France
Smith,
labor-man-
agement extension program;
Alice Cook, F. F. Foltman, Lois
Gray and Wally Wolting of the
Cornell staff.
“We believe that a study of|
recent discoveries in the science
of
human
relations
should
enable us to work more effectively,” Gerber said. “The fact
that the staff agreed that this
subject
ture
should
meetings
wide
interest
aroused.”
KC
Busses
Gov,
James
KANSAS
Kansas
illustrates
the
T.
in futhe
conference
Seized
CITY,
City
in a move
be pursued
Mo.
Blair
Public
to prevent
(PAI)—
seized
the
a strike
by
Service
Co.
the Street Electric Railway and
Motor Coach employees who are
fighting
for a better
turnout
gave
the
school,
record
Sixteen
and
Mexi-
two
the
international
courses
from
an
flavor.
Right-to-Work
Bastion Won
ST.
PETERSBURG,
breakthrough
cance
in
of
one
low-wage
Fla. —
major
of
the
A
signifi-
country’s
“right-to-wreck”
law
bastions has been achieved with
a@ UAW election victory at Electronic
Communications,
Inc.
UAW
ment
cock
national
director
announced,
aircraft
Leonard
departWood-
The victory climaxed a sixmonth drive by the UAW in
an area where there is not a
single industrial plant under
union
agreement.
The breakthrough is considered
significant
because
the
area is Florida’s newest mush-
rooming
some of
electrical
up shop
ing low
industrial center where
the largest aircraft and
companies are setting
in anticipation of paywages and hiring “co-
operative”
workers.
Propaganda
The
Drive
workers
at Electronic
intense high-powered campaign
of
company
propaganda
and
personal visits by an army
of
company foremen attempting to
break
down
the will of the men.
The UAW’s efforts were coordinated by Jess Nichols, aircraft
department
contract.
representa-
tive,
and
working with Region 9A
competitive
shop repre-
out
the
sentatives.
Assisting
drive
in closing
was
Region
8
victory
at
Director E. T. Michael.
tional efforts.
of Cornell’s
a
at
unionists
director
Alpheus
Douglas
students.
Electronic
Prof.
school,
dinner.
a speaker
dustrial and Labor Relations.
Speakers included Sam
Jacobs of the UAW Washington
office, who also teaches at the
Washington
Institute
of Psy-
chiatry;
“summer”
Communications chose the UAW
despite being subjected to an
LIBERTY, N.Y.— Human motivation and its application to
union
region’s
collects
law. Indiana was the first highly-industrialized state to enact
such legislation.
disparaged
MUNCIE, Ind—Neither farmers nor
workers
can
survive
without
each
other,
Brendan
Sexton, UAW education director,
told the second annual farmer-
The
delayed until October because
the Ottawa, IIL, center wasn’t
completed until then. At left,
Myers and Region 4 Director
Robert W. Johnston flank Sen.
Paul Douglas (D., IIL) as he
First Citizenship Conference
In Region 3; Others Coming
cost
Time and a half will be paid
for Saturday work as such and
double
time
for
such. Management
director.
will be dedicated by President
Walter P. Reuther, but was
actually put to its first use at
Sickness and accident benefits
were raised from $30 to $40 a
effect in Toledo, O., for several years.
The Port Huron city commission, prompted by the 11-week
Mueller Brass strike (see above), authorized Mayor Robert E.
labor
camp
Better
Mich.—A civic committee here will study the
Possibility of adopting a labor-management-citizen system
of
settling local labor disputes similar to a plan which has been
in
to arbitrate
NEW MOTEL is pride and joy
of
Wally
Myers,
Region
4
monthly. Fifteen years of service
"TOLEDO PLAN' IN PORT HURON
PORT HURON,
available
ee
security
eligibility is reached,
when
payments
drop
to $45
cost-of-living increases based on
added
payments
for each year
plus
the
UAW-pioneered
escalator
clause. Bonus
workers
get 8c
plan
cial security, has been superseded by the standard UAW
of
et lines when its contract expired Oct. 15. Both locals rati-
pension
maximum,
44
out
and
old
monthly
was
Local 44 joined the IAM pickthe
The
fixtures.
work
for 11 weeks
because
they refused to cross the picket lines of Lodge 218 of the
International
Association
of
Machinists, who had been on
strike at the same plant since
Aug. 16. The IAM local represents maintenance and skilled
workers. The UAW local represents production workers.
wea
provisions
Director! clauses.
reported. The firm
plumbing
members
1D
|
With
the
election
Communications
workers in other nearby
are
expected
to
show
support
to
the
UAW
the
plants
strong
organiza-
‘Nazi’ Acts Laid
To Canadian VW
PORT ELGIN, Ont—*Nazi-
like
tactics”
dian
branch
against
workers
Volkswagen
VAW
are
of
in
auto
being
the
Canadian
the
used
Cana-
German
firm,
the
Council
charged at a meeting here.
Council
delegates declared
that
the
management
Volkswagen
service
rious
methods
Scarborough,
fighting
the
ing
unfair
at
plant
the
in
Ont.
has
been
union
by
va-
intimidation
and
includ-
threats
of deportation. Many of the
workers are immigrants from
West
Germany.
pe
Louis Pizitz Dry Goods Company, Birmingham; Smith’s Bakery, Inc., Mobile,
Arkansas
ern
CLEVELAND—The electricians
are back in UAW Local 32 at the
Industries,
38,
Local
IBEW.
Case
they
who
numbered 27,
by the IBEW,
getting
were
IBEW,
38,
Local
plant.
in the
work
38,
Local
joined
UAW,
the
left
IBEW, and waited for the jackthey
While
off.
pot to pay
waited, they gave up their UAW
gave
pensions and took cash;
up their UAW fringes and ac-
cepted
outside
the
But
cash.
contract rate never materialized.
Members of their own new
Local 38 continued to work
right beside these White Motor electricians, receiving the
higher rate, while the new
unionism
craft
to
conyerts
In
a
decertification
election,
with the UAW as intervenor at
they
request,
electricians’
the
voted by 16 to 7 to return to the
UAW. There were two votes for
no union.
Region 2 Director Pat O’Malley
and Joe Novack, president of Lo-
cal 32, were active in the campaign. The fact that White Motor is O’Malley’s home local was
a factor
contributing
to
the
great local interest in the results.
s
happy
Wis.
sequel
wincn
ran
—
to a
in
the
Here’s
little
October
story
issue
of the United Automobile Worker concerning the Massey-Harris-Ferguson
tool-room
workers
who left the UAW for one of
those independent skilled trades
groups in 1955 only to return to
the
UAW
this
wiser about
eties.”
year,
sadder
“independent
but
soci-
farm
implement
never left the UAW.
The
UAW-won
cording
to George
sistant
director
skilled
trades
clude:
benefits,
of
the
increase
tive to Sept. 22, 1956.
@
Another
Sept.
22,
7c
1957.
as-
union’s
in-
retroac-
retroactive
to
.
@ Pension paymepts and credits for years of service as though
they had never left the UAW.
@ All other benefits as though
they
had
never
In November
left.
1955, the unaffil-
iated International Association
of Tool Craftsmen succeeded in
a raid on the tool-room workers
at M-H-F here. These workers,
long-time
members
of
UAW
Lo-
cal 244, voted 45 to 42 in a labor
board
election
to
secede
from
that local and to join the IATC.
But the IATC, a sometime affiliate of the now-defunct Skill-
ed Trades
Society, won
increases
did lose
their
their
entire
seniority
About
three
got
vote. This
for
rights
contract.
workers
the
no wage
or other benefits.
It
them
their pensions,
company-paild
months
another
time
it was
UAW,
insurance,
and
ago
their
chance
42
the
to
to 20
“The new contract proves their
renewed faith in the UAW was
not
misplaced,”
said
Campbell.
“The contract spells out the difference
societies
unions,”
between
and
splinter-group
legitimate
Florida,
Inc.,
Toccoa,
Chicago—Consolidated
Nipple
Conveyor
Company,
Systems,
Furniture
Corporation,
Sears
Roebuck
United
&
Parcel
Co.;
Globe
In-
Shops,
Victor
Adding
Simon
Service,
cities:
Allstate
Serta-Restokraft
Company,
@ivision),
iture
Shafer
Downers
Company,
Indianapolis
The
G.
Springfield.
E.
H.
Block
Wolf
Company,
Inc.;
Hook’s
Drugs, Inc.; The Merchants Association,
National Liquor Corporation, Paramount
Hardware Manufacturing Company, Vonmeen
Hardware Company, H. P. Wasson
0.
cities:
American
Jeffersonville;
tion, Neisner
Harlen
pany,
Lines,
Calumet Bottlers AssociaBrothers, Gary; Hausske-
Furniture
Lee
Barge
Furniture,
Manufacturing
Pe:
S.
Com-
G.
Taylor
Chain Company, Hammond; Warsaw Fur-
niture
Manufacturing
Wayne
Knitting
Green
boro;
Inc.,
Hoge
Mill.
Warsaw;
Kentucky
River
Steel
American
Corporation,
Saw
Gordon
and
Foods,
Company,
Chemical
Company,
Company,
Tool
Inc.,
Kentucky
Inc.,
Owens-
Company,
William
Color
Kentucky
L.
er
Maunfacturing
and
James
U.
J. V. Pilch-
Company,
Inc.,
Plain-
view Farms Dairy, Puritan Cordage Mills,
Inc.,
Stewarts
Dry
Goods
Company,
Louisville; Thomas Industries, Inc., Prince-
Maryland
Companys
mpany,
Products
Can
ea mores
Bread
National
Plasti
Odenton,
ti
Michigan
Filnt—Ace Furniture Company: Advance
Electrical Supply Company; Allen Cleaners; Applegate Cheyrolet Company; Bowles Cleaners; Callahan Cleaners; Cameron
Cleaners; Civic Park Cleaners; Clotharin
Cleaners; A. M. Davison Company;
Flint
Fireproof Warehouse Company:
Flint
Furniture Dealers; Flint Furniture Mart:
Flint Home Furnishing
Flint
Sash and Door Company, Company:
Inc.;
Flint
Saunee
Works
(Solay
Sausage
Company,
Inc.); Genesse
and Towel
ice: Otto Graff,Coverall
Inc: The George ServW.
lubbard Hardware Company:
Kelly De-
Compan:
Skaff
labor
Rug
MacGregor
Company;
Rapids; De Vlieg MaGrand
Company,
chine Company, Ferndale.
Also, Horner & Coppin Company; Stan
Smith-Bri
Company,
Knapp
J. W.
Holland;
Sugar
Claire; Monitor
Machine,
Loomis
Bronze
han
Moyno
City;
Bay
Company,
Big
Company,
Joseph.
Saint
tion,
Minnesota Bs
Company,
Marshall-Wells
Missouri
Gideon;
University
of
Kansas,
&
Supply
ufacturing
Wohl
W.
New
Company,
Dennison
Slavitt:
Deco,
ark;
tion
Yard’s,
Voorhees,
Electrical
town
New
York
Plains;
Don
Strauss,
New
York
city
area
—
Diana
Stores,
Consolidated,
Charlie’s
Campbell
&
Auld
Company;
Co.:
Cavper
Oldsmobile:
&
Clavton’s
£
ail Clothiers):
Corruna
Road
Furntfara
Crawford Clothes: Cross Company:
rowley Milner & Co.:
poration
Ait
of
pmcoxhigs
Corporation:
holstering
ean
Detroit
Dutch
Enterprise
Famous
Company:
Baking
Maid:
Tool
Furniture
Good
Bolt
Electro
and
and
Up-
dry
Co.,
Grinnell
at the Graduate School of Jourof Columbia University.
scholarship was estabInternational
Labor Press Association, which
is composed
of
editors
ated with the AFL-CIO
affiliated unions,
Blood
associ-
and its
was selected by the fac-
ulty of the school with the advice of ILPA representatives. He
is 28 and a graduate of Boston
University, where he majored in
Journalism,
Blood
the campus paper
mercial dailies 1n
worked
on
and on comVermont and
New Jersey,
The ILPA scholarship
provides
for a grant of $1,500 to cover
tuition charges for a year and
part of the student's living ex-
penses;
on
the
labor
The
basis
winner
of
reporting,
his
is selected
interest
economics
industrial relations,
Nwe
Hecht
in
and
Brothers
Len
Q.
Inc.,
Sperry
Vincent
Bach
ferson-Travis,
Jamaica,
ge,
McGraw.
Also,
Brooklyn;
Queens;
Lumber
McKeon
McGraw
S.
Box
Stickless
Sons, Inc.,
Griderson
Hotel,
Wm.
Corporation,
Company,
Goods
Dry
Company.
Tennessee
A.
Compan: ‘Ys
L.
Products
Nashville:
Manufacturing
Texas
Kor-
and
Vestal
Company,
Dry
Brothers
Dry
Goods
and
All
Goods
Com-
Company,
Meyer
Nieman-Marcus
ComHouston
Group.
Service),
Asso-
Merchants
Retail
Shop,
Bel
Vogue
Shoes,
Wolfman,
Houston.
Also,
Inc.
Dresser
Inc.,
Werner’s
(Houston
Industries,
Group
Group),
tal Services, Inc., A. Harris & Co.
man-Marcus
Co., Sanger
Brothers,
Store:
Hospi-
Nie-
Dalla:
J. and J, Armature Company, Beaumon
Port Arthur Perchants, Port Arthw
Austin;
Texas
Restaurant
Association,
Wolf & Marx Company, San Antoni 105
Beaumont
Retail
Merchants,
the mid-Thirties,
staff of the CIO
Com-
Organizing
Steel
Workers
was
appointed
|mittee and was then regarded
| by many as a “militant” himself.
the
leaving
after
long
Steel Workers, he went to work
{for Business Week. In 1945, he
state
the
to
mediation board. In 1948 he was
and
speechlabor
advisor
was
Dewey
was
have become
bid
latter’s
the
in
Dewey
unsuccessful
the
for
rumored
Presi-
if
that
Pitzele would
elected,
of Labor.
Secretary
Corruption News
Depends on Who
WASHINGTON — Company
corruption
disclosed
by
Senate is being buried by
nation’s
newspapers,
tary-Treasurer
IUD
have
Secre-
to
of
Union of
told the
convention.
“We
the
the
Al Hartnett
the International
Electrical Workers
protest
the
brainwashing
job
the
daily
papers are doing on the people,” Hartnett
said
in discussing a resolution pledging
ruption,
Foley
Inc,
&
(Houston
Group), Rolle-Jewett
Ralph
Rupley
Sakowitz
Brothers
(Zastern Group), Shudde Brothers, Smart
Hempstead,
Martha-Robet,
I;
UL.
ville,
ConCorporation,
Propane
National
L. L;
Park,
Hyde
New
servative Gas Division,
Island
L. L; Righway Mattress Company,
Brewing
Sehafer
W.
L. L: F. &
Park,
Brooklyn:
&
eck,
Co.,
in
Pitzele,
jwas on the
pany, Grants, Joske’s of Houston, Kruup
& Tuffley, Inc, Leonard’s
Store, Levy
cates
Kres-
UAW.
full IUD
tation
Hicks-
Company,
Pure
‘Also, J. C. Penney (Employers’ Consul-
Mount
S.
and
Brothers, Inc.,
pany,
Norton,
1.) Individual
4
Farmingdale
Vernon;
Service, Inc.; Franklin Shops, Inc., Carol
Hempstead,
Stores Corporation,
Green’s
L. 1; Islip (L. 1) Sanitary Laundry; JefIne.,
Weiss
Inc.,
Corporation,
Brothers
Laun-
like the
_ Everett-Buelow,
Craig’s,
Stores,
Corporation,
Corp.,
Cleaners,
Transfer
and
Company,
Battlestein’s,
McLellan
I)
Inc.,
King
Cotton
Peabody
Hotel
Harvey
Knoxville,
Company.
Roosevelt
Company,
@.
Derick,
Equipment
French
Goldsmith
Shainberg
Lumber
Depart-
J.
Storage
S.
Chemical
Foundation,
Brewers
States
Corporation, Worth Clothes,
Amityville
&
Inc.,
Hotel,
man
Hutchinson
&
Lan-
&
Rea
Real
Consolidated,
Memphis;
Chapman
Merritt
Management
Sam
Company,
Shops,
Company,
and
Supply
Inc., Berwick;
Inc., Sunbury.
Gayoso,
System,
White
& Co., Mangel
Ine.,
York;
Company,
N.J., has won the first laborendowed scholarship for study
the
Seamprufe,
Inc.,
Lerner
Mary,
Miss
En-
Gear
~ Richard J. Blood, New Milford,
by
Inc.,
Kline
Macy
Also R. Ht.
United
Valspar
Grant Goes
To N. J. Man
lished
Stores.
Co.,
Inc.,
and
Also J. Lee Hackett Company; H.
Manufacturin
g
Appliance Company:CompanJ. y, ‘Ines Hotpoint
& Hatcher; Ernst ieon onnaar noone
Service; King Brooks; uC
Kline’s Women’s
Apparel: George C. Kni
ght Company:
ee
Kresge Company:
Liberty Storage
ompany, McLean Specialties Company:
nalism
; The
Store,
Salmon
Housekeeping
Company;
ment
John,
Inc.,
Cupples-Hesse Cor
Michigan:
Company;
Mr.
Inc.,
Produce
Sharon;
Graber’s
&
Corporation,
Stores
Miller-Wohl
Corp.,
Scott
&
Company,
Works
Dye
Nina
Rother
H.
Chester
Hospital,
Boyer
Hotel
Consolidated
Bros.,
Bloomingdale
pany,
and
in la-
was
unions were the chief targets...
Pitzele’s own bias was shown in
public speeches in which he defended what he called “the getrich-quick unions” as opposed to
democratic
unions
“militant”
It
Fisher
violence
recent
bor disputes, in which the UAW
responsible
socially
other
and
dency.
MacLan
Bakery,
Stores,
article on
Erie; J. B. Fishel’s Bakery,
York;
inter-
most
The
for
Company,
in
malicious
and:
writer
Jones
Tennessee
Company, B. Altman Company, American
Express, Associated Dry Goods Corporation, Associated Managers (United Parcel
CorMerchangising
Service), Associated
ComBuilt Machinery
Better
poration,
Retail
Ltd.
Ambassador
Hotel,
Anderson-Tull: ye
Chisca Hotel, DeSoto Hardwood Flooring,
Chevrolet
Midtown
Allen
Fittings,
Oklahoma
Inc., Hummel’s Wharf: Universal Rundle
Corporation, New Castle; Vaughn’s Sanitary
Food
fact
erroneous
were
which
Company,
Northumberland;
Morris-
Abraham
&
Brown
Frey
Company,
GoldNevius
Alexander’s,
Brooklyn;
&
Morristown.
Co.,
Supply
Couplings
Fruit
caster;
Kresge-New-
Trenton;
Ine.,
Ontario
S.
W.
Kegal
Inc., Jacob
Newark;
Lafferty),
&
Steelman
Dunham,
P.
S.
berg’s Corporation,
Stores,
Diesel
Gengler’s
Titusville;
Young,
&
Service
and
Sales, Mount
Carmel;
Gunzenhauser Bakery, Inc.. Lancaster; Hanscomb Bakeries, Philadelphia; Hess BrothEarl
Allentown;
Stores,
ers Department
Transporta(indabury,
Lehigh Warehouses and
Company
Co.; Mennen
Y.
G.
Company,
Drug
Burnham;
Inc.,
Decker’s
Bergenfield;
Hightstown;
Inc.;
Roebuck
son Company,
SpringB.
Kirbs,
Meter
Erie
Company,
Goods
Dry
Erie
Systems, Inc., Trask, Prescott & Richard-
Man-
Hoboken:
Inc.,
Company,
T.
Co.,
&
Veazey
Inc.,
Louis.
St.
Jersey
Supermarket,
Dairy,
Ozark
Drug ComGoods
Dry
AllenDealers,
Automobile
Allentown
town: Beaver Brothers Baking Company,
Ex-
City
&
Pennsylvania
Company;
Company,
Company,
Shoe
Brothers,
Breinig
City:
Kansas
Center,
tension
Kansas
Mayo
Tire
Oklahoma
Goods
Dry
Kerr
Simcoe,
Company,
Delivery
Merchants
Inc.:
Company,
Music
Company,
Canadian
Duluth.
Lumber
Gideon-Anderson
Drug
Crawford
Supply
Sears,
ity.
a
rowers
Bt
Stores:
5
Minneapolis;
Company),
(Dayton
Goods
Inc.;
Skogmo,
Gamble
Stores,
Brown-Dunkin
Good|
Clark’s
Co., Palace Clothiers, Seidenbach’s,
Shannon
Company,
&
Roebuck
Sears,
Corpora-
Whirlpool
Watervliet;
Company,
Beth-
Jenkins
oe
Paper
Watervliet
Rapids:
Co.,
Engineering
&
Design
in
UAW,
a long
Oklahoma
ComPeyton-Marcus
Inc., J. C. Penny.
ld’s,
Rothschi
s,
Clothier
’s
Renberg
pany,
Company, Inc., Flat_ Rock; Outdoor Parking Company, Jackson; Rapids Furniture
Hughes
Patterson
Co.,
&
Friedlen
L.
H.
Saginaw;
Marion.
pany,
Inc.,
Creek: Harvey Goldman Machinery Company, Dearborn; Heavenrich Bros. & Co.;
Wiechmann
C.
Wm.
Brothers;
Morlay
Company,
Division,
Shoe
Ectons
Brown,
A.
John
Also,
Store,
ent
Departm
Hilliburton’s
Store,
Company, Harry Kats,
Harbour-Longmire
Battle
Robinson,
W.
L.
Inc.;
Lassen,
pretation.
Marion
Corpora-
Seeger
Furniture Company., Skaggs
Wandever’s
Street’s,
pany,
y,
Tulsa.
Compan
Parking
Outdoor
Inc,
Rapids,
Grand
tion,
Whirlpool
Clyde;
Furniture
of
Soft
Kalamazoo; Converta
Inc.,
Gibson,
the
Company,
Furniture
Goodman
Dickerson
Field’s of Tulsa, Froug’s Dry Goods Com-
Company;
Brundage
R. Laz
Seeger)
Whirlpool
Cincinnati;
poration,
Porcelain Steel Divi-|
Corporation, Clyde
Clothes,
Christian
M.
D.
(F. &
Jewelers,
Boswell’s
any;
Inc.,
Cathey’s,
Company,
Inc:
Apparel,
Christensen
been
Aero
Chevro-
Hoven
dg& Co.; Taylor Cartage: Troy Clea
Winegarden Furniture Company. nio etroit—Albert’s Inc.; Awrey
Bakeries,
res
Bond
Clothing
Company:
Boston
oe
and
Upholstering
Company.
Envelope
Owosso;
Company,
Bakin.
Manbeck
Hagerstown;
Company,
Rice
Ver
distributor,
Beaudoin,
field;
Company,
Van
Furniture
Store; S. L. Stolorow, Pontiacs
Grain Company, Bad Axe; Roy
partment
Bad Axe
Man-
ufacturing
Company,
Kosmos
Portland
Cement Company, Inc., The Logan Company, Louisville Bedding Company, Inc.,
Louisville
Paper
Company,
Smith, The Mengel Company,
United
Brothers
Winkelman
Detroit
Inc;
Spitz
& EnginWelding
Other cities—Acme
e MoJerom
’s;
Arthur
aing;
Sabew
eering,
DeBros.
Simms
ny;
Compa
Sales
tor
Furn-
Banner-Whitehall,
Company;
Furniture
Motor
&
rus Co,), Columbus; Kobacker Stores, Inc.,|
Portsmouth;
Lorain
County
Industrial|
sion,
Sery-
Sheldon
Suffrin.
Distributors;
Shirt
let;
Grounds;
Harry
Company;
Company
&
Indiana
—-
William
Bearing
Grove;
Company:
Company,
Mattress
Simpson;
B.
J.
Sales;
Com-
Drop Forge, Blue Island; Chicago Musical
Instrument Company, Lincolnwood; Chain
Belt
Parking
ice
Block & Kuhl, Peoria and
& Turnivas, Inc.; Modern
pany, Skokie;
Aurora; Bugs
Company;
Service
Russek’s;
Robinson Furniture Company;
& Co.;
ck
Sears, Roebu
Sanders;
Fred
Brothers,
Insurance
Distribution
Re-Steel
Rayl,
B.
T.
Machine Company, Woodward
Schumacher Electric Corporation, Western Picture
Frame.
Other
Radio
Corporation;
Gingher
3
Page
from
Continued
the handling of articles on
Pitzele
Council, Elyria; Ohio State Council of|
which
with
Retail Merchants, Columbus; Pioneer AdinThese
Retail
Springfield;
himself.
Company,
yertising
concerned
Furnishing
Associates, Inc., Toledo Home
a number of stories about
Parking Cor-} clude
Company, Toledo; Security
Broach & Machine Company.
Company;
Supply
Auto
Ned’s
Also
Plastray
ny;
Compa
ting
Outfit
’s
People
American
Furniture
Drugs;
National
Center
Motor
Service;
Hotel
Curtis
ton;
Spline Tool & Tange; Merchants
Hospital
Michigan
Inc.;
Bureau,
Master
Credit
Capitol
Company,
Grand
Helene
Saginaw
Inc.;
dustries,
Products
Company,
areas:
clients in UAW
Schefferman
are
state,
by
order
alphabetical
in
Here,
‘
Pitzele Exposed
As Beck's Boy
De-
troit, and R. H. Macy, New York, were prominent in the list.
Com-
Beach
edne Anidaton, ine, Wheeling
by | Comu
ha Was dicloc
heavy newspaper advertisers as J. L. Hudson,
Such
Furniture,
Inc.,
Edgewater
Ekco
Box
Office
Manufacturing
Company,
Paper
Jackson-
Toccoa
(Western Pic
Illinois
Continental
George
Thompson:
Company
Frame),
Mba
@ SUB payments effective as
though they had remained with
UAW.
Manufacturing
a
ac-
Campbell,
Florida
of
South
Company,
Corporation,
man
oret
had
department,
@ A 7c wage
Knox
ture
Read
Georgia
Pany;
firm,
just as if they
Company,
Tire
Se UREYE McDonald Cooperative
Dai
ry;
ed's Furniture Company; Rovalite Co
these workers have had all
their lost benefits restored and
have received retroactive wage
increases,
Cross
velopment
Thanks to a just-signed contract between the UAW and
the
Paper
Bridgeport.
Independent
the
Thomas
Angeles.
Press
M.
*
.
Back Pay at M-H-F
RACINE,
Blue
Other
home
came
they
24
Oct.
On
lower
the
get
to
continued
plant rate.
D.
Carton
So, by a vote of 25 to 2, they
Fixture Company,
Resley
Norwalk;
pany,
contract
outside rates for doing
California
Los
South-
Jonesboro.
Lincoln Plastics Corporation,
ville,
led them to believe they would
get “outside contractor” rates.
This bait was all the more alfrom
workers
because
luring
Little Rock:
Inc.,
Connecticut
Rosenberg,
Five years ago, when the elec-
trical group
were raided
Box,
Inc.,
&
Onsco;
in
interval
the
spent
Wooden
Star Lighting
here
Company
Motor
White
after an absence of five years.
They
West Virginia
Hundreds of companies throughout the nation, most of ;
d, Inc., Charleston; Merchants
Diamon
%5|
W.
an
Nath
yed
emplo
,
esses
busin
retail
them
union-busting “labor relations” service, it was
Wisconsin
e.
itte
comm
te
Sena
al
speci
n
the McClella
American Laundry Machinery Somueeys
Manufacturing Company. Diviyeuhsen
caM-|
izing
organ
up
ing
break
of
ted
consis
ce”
The “servi
sion Nesco, Inc., Ed Shuster Company,
paigns or signi ing “sweetheart” agreements with unions that Milwaukee;
Company,
Baking
McGough
Industries,
Presto
Lake; National
would not ask for benefits. Many of the operations involved Rice
Inc., Eau Claire; Thomas Industries, Inc,
Industries, ElecFort Atkinson; Thomas
the Teamsters.
Sheboygan;
Division,
Spray-Street
tric
The list of clients was placed in the record, even though Thompson
Brothers Boat Manuafacturing
Peshtigo.
Company,
ons
questi
all
to
Schefferman pleaded the Fifth Amendment
about his operations. Yet only a handful of newspapers—
led by the New York Times—published the names.
Alabama
Gus Blass Company,
Ike
Union-Buster
Hired
Lots of Stores
White, M-H-F
Gafts Learn
Page
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
ClO’s
support for the AFL-
fight
to
clean
“Disclosures
tion
volves
go
about
Page
a union;
to make
true
on
of
a
it seem
few
out
the
is
1
if
cor-
corrupit
papers
that
true
in-
what
of
try
is
all,”
Hartnett said. “But a reader
has to turn far back in the
paper before he finds a report—if it’s carried at all—
about
similar
corruption ‘in
disclosures
business.”
-of
Beaumont.
Corpora-
tion, Bronx; White
Plains Greeting Card
Company;
White Plains; Riverhead (©. I)
Building Supply Co., Riverhead, L, 1
& Anderson
Meldrum
Buffalo—Adams,
Inc.;
& Fagin,
I. Berger, Chapin
Co;
E. Z.
Downtown Merchants Delivery, Ine.:
Inc,;
Properties,
Edwards
Co.;
Delivery
ComHengerer
William
Kent:
&
Flint
of
Corporation,
Service
Hospital
pany:
Western
New York; Household Outfitting
KoCompany:
Ine.: Kleinhans
Company,
Furniture
Laufer
Co;
Miller
&
bler
FurniNemmer
Neisner Brothers,
Store;
Supermarkets:
Edce
Park
Stores:
ture
Sears,
Inc;
Sattler’
Inc.;
Sample,
‘The
Devartment
Twin-Tom
Co.:
&
Roebuck
Store, Inc.; A, Victor & Co; Zolte’s.
MachinLaundry
Rochester—American
ery Company:
City
livery and Storage
InCompany:
Foreman
B.
Corporation;
Rochof
Co.,
Oil
and
Gasoline
dependent
& Sons: Mcester, Inc.; Max Lowenthal
ComClothing
McFarlin
Co;
&
Curdy
Northeastern
Brothers;
Nelsner
pany:
Retail Lumberman’y Association: Rochester Brewing Company; Scranton’s Book
& Stationery Company,
Inc: Sieber
Chevrolet
Company;
Sibley,
Lindsay
4
Curr; Star-Palace Launderers and Dry
Cleaners, Inc.: Staub & Soni Treadway
Inn, Inc.; Wolk Bros, Co,, Inc.
Other cities—Brewer-Tichener Corporation, Cortland Line Company, Overhead
Door Company of New York, Wickwire
Corporation, | Cortland:
Cotton-Haplon,
Inc,, Odessa; FE. W. Edwards Department
Store, Syracuse: N. EB. Bill Bakery, Inc.,
Binghamton:
Kordite
Corporation, Macedoni Mathew & Fields Lumber Co, Inc.
Greece; Metalizing Engineering Company,
Inc.
Westbury;
Middletown
Laundry
Service, Inc., Middletown; Mid-State Body
Company, Ine., Waterloo: Monroe Laundry
Service,
Inc., Monroe;
Burr, Livingston,
Sherwood,
Mr,
Ohio
Carlisle-Allon Company, Ashtabula: Dayton Tire and [Rubbers Dayton War
houses,
Inc.)
Liberal
Market,
Inc,
Day>
FINAL PUSH that put Detroi t Torch Drive (community chest)
over its quota was sparked b y UAW Secretary-Treasurer Emil
With him are pretty “Miss
Mazey at final campaign lunc heon,
Torchy,”
with
left,
prayer,
and
Joan
Malkerrin,
who
opened
the
meeting
=
December
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
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1957
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IUD Forms
a
WASHINGTON — The AFL-CIO’s biggest
department swung its spotlight on some of the
country’s biggest problems here.
In a fast-moving, hard-hitting two-day ses«
sion, delegates representing the Industrial Union
Department’s 7.2 million members:
1.
Heard
President
review
UAW
Walter
current
and
P.
IUD§
Reuther
labor
issues|
and national and world problems, with a blast at President Dwight D. Eisenhower
(see
page).
column
2. Cheered
George
pledge
that
unions
as he repeated
movement
are
RUBBER WORKER gets boost from IUD President Walter P. Reuther as L.
United Rubber Workers president, looks on.
IUD also will boost
O’Sullivan
S.
Buckboycott.
WASHINGTON
—
earners and consumers are |
being
short-changed,
and}
giant corporations are get-|
~ ting a disproportionately
large share of the nation’s |
output of wealth, UAW President Walter P. Reuther told|
the AFL-CIO Industrial)
Union Department conven-
tion.
That,
the
said
nation
inflation.
Moreover,
lose
their
to follow
advice
suffering
more
Reuther,
if the
buy
less
who
U.
from
we
to
also
he
said,
power
be
getting
$40
a
the}
the
—those
giant
with
that
tor
million
or more,
in
|
Reuther
de-
elared. The average manufacturing wage in this year’s first
three
week,
months
he
was
$74.20
explained.
Although
big
business
been shoveling profits back
a
has
into
we're
get
said.
higher
contributing
|
propagandized
as
“evil,” “UD Direc-
bigness
said
in
“The
size
of our
response
to
the
the
America
primarily from
big bus-
unions
is
bigness
of
American
industry,”
Whitehouse
told
the
convention.
“The truth is that all the annual dues income of American
unions—our
—
is
profit
less
egraph.
“This
for
operating
than
of General
American
|
unions
our
the
annual
Motors
Telephone
is
income
and
operating
national
or of
Tel-
income
unions
and
the 68,000 local unions in the
country,” Whitehouse added,
and expanding productive capacity, it has failed to push for
“and
for that matter
the
total actual net worth of the
entire labor movement is less
Reuther
medium-sized
enlarging
expansion
“When
productive
of
went
facilities
purchasing
on.
the demand
power,
is greater|
“buy
less”
lack
of
proposal
understanding
than
the
assets
of
many
corporations.”
of
and
demand
“They
are
able
market-place
to
based
of administered
on
bus
he
said.
would
like
the
laws
the Becks
in jail where
belong. I would like the
laws
to
the
put
union
Sheffermans
jail, and I would
to put those who
ices
of
in
people
jail
in
like
busters
urged
progress
to
action
ions
ized
lines,
in
11,
rights.
wholehearted
Meany,
the
icy,
to
and
asked
increase
for
unions
to continue
wage
nomic
an
and
9. Outlined
they
same
legislative
same
the
more
tion;
a
and
the
objectives,
minimum
clearance;
their
moral) atomic
serious
prob-
power
merger
eco-
with
Heels
Asked
be
organunion
and be
Hosiery.
Congress
not
un-
new
to
scruti- =f
labor laws
Bw
weakened.
Pledged
the
IUD’s
full
re- =5
paid
worker
paid
corporation
— The
has as much
Walter
to
lowest-
-Jdzé
power
isw
as the highes
P.
the
executive, Pres-
Reuther
AFL-CIO
Department
told bioj
In-
al
con-
+s0!
“Yet our biggest problem is
getting people to register and
added. “How
vote,” Reuther
they vote is their business, but
law; |
sium
development;
CIO
O'Sullivan
members
industrial
dustrial Union
vention.
construcextending!
program
with
AFL
all proposed
ident
including
wage
of
plus former
haying
along
general} delegates
program;
a crash
1955
at the ballot-box
two-miilion-new-dweliungs-a-,
housing
its
WASHINGTON
defense
memver
IUD’s
comprised
In Ballot-Box
pow--,
other
convention
'Breadbox Key y
negotiating
school aid and
improving and
federal
year
Shefferman
urged
increases
gains.
to
yice
sources to efforts of its affililat- =H
ed
unions
to reduce
working Ba
hours.
legislation
end
all
is
nize
12.
sup-
AFL-C10
purchasing
called
eutbacks,
put
for
the
to be certain that decent labér- =n
management
relations will be sd
promoted and organized labor fo:
insure
civil
during
and
The
Chadburn-Gotham
prac-
to
when
IUD
the AFL,
solution
past
re-elected
as Kohler,
8. Urged the government to
reverse its “tight money” pol-
like the laws
buy the sery-
because
on
Department
affiliated
before
using
good
problems of
between un-
the
Indus-
department’s
Washington
convention,
Re-elected
with
Reuther
was James B. Carey, IUD sec-
unions
of!
exists in labor.
like
the
result
imously
The
Con-
ethical practices committee and
the executive council in doing
away with corruption where it
de-
to
based
Pledged
port
movement. Saying he wants to
see strengthened laws. enforced
“T
and
7.
Reuther also blasted corrup-;
tion in and out of the labor
he
a
hearings.
insisted
be
greater
the
the
H.
tice.
6. Condemned the demagoguery of Arkansas Goy. Oryai tau-
a
rig
discrimination,
and
must
a system
prices,”
as
the
increased the number of vice
presidents from 12 to 14. Albert Whitehouse is IUD director.
labor
before
head
the AFL-CIO was formed two
years
ago,
UAW
President
Walter P. Reuther was unan-
presidents.
proposal
the
come
year
Senate
ions
been
by
outline
5.
Called
for
sense in solving
work jurisdiction
why
have
to
next
the
we have inflation, Reuther said
the classical economic theory of
a free market and the law of
supply
likely
gress
showed
win|
Hubert
trial Union
to
retary-treasurer,
achieve international peace
security.
Heard Sen. John F. Kennea member of the McClellan|
laws
Pointing out that Eisenhower's
without
clared.
— Noting
size of some
of
iness.
corporations
$100
he
to
Whitehouse
comes
|
of
Al
danger
propor-
assets
the
often
is
something
|
of
try
base,
that
tion as the “take-home profits”
we
WASHINGTON
|
up in the same
power,”
to
Next to Big Biz
more than now if take-home
pay in the last five years had
gone
emphasis
‘Big Labor’ Tiny
added
week
the
consume,
to the well-being and the welfare of the whole economy and
| of all the people.”
|
the people don’t have the pur-!
chasing power they need to buy
the
goods
and
services
they|
want.
Manufacturing
workers
|
would
shift
to
aside
arbitrarily
wages in order to contribute to} set
powerful corporations.
the expansion of the purchasing
the
is
must
“When
S. were!
heads
capacity
“And that’s what we are going
to try to do at the bargaining
table.
would|
stop
the
purchasing
Eisenhower's
upswing,
trouble,
is why
people
jobs
inflationary
The
Reuther,
President
to
IUD.
is
than
Wage-
Sen.
in|
weaker,
to help
nine-point
committee,
What's Wrong? Too Much for Those
Who Have Too Much, Reuther Says
his |
assert-
not
needed
Humphrey’s
YOUNG
master,
and
stronger,
that battle.
3. Applauded
to
and
4.
dy,
President
to clear our corruption
the labor
ed
AFL-CIO
Meany
this |
1,
Keep IUD Posts
Named
for advocating policies which |
would
throw
people out of
work
Reuther, Carey
re-|
if
and
getting them to register
vote is our business.”
for
a
On
wa
‘ut
Emphasizing
that
ballot-box fod
standards are about the same.” peal of ‘faft-Hartley and enactment of a fair labor relations action can affect each worker's }19
In his wide-ranging opening
|
described bad
law;
a
full
investigation
of
the
breadbox, Reuther
speech, Reuther also:
the Indiana legislature last | is!
1. Charged
that the nation | National Labor Relations Board’s how
anti-labor bias;-a law requiring year blocked implementation of la !
has been drifting in its handling
unemploy- +o
supplementary
of both domestic problems and | full disclosure of health, welfare the
its leadership of the free world. and pension plans; repeal of the ment benefits program negoti- :J0
Walsh-Healey
Act’s
Fulbright ated by UAW.
2. Lashed
out at America’s
amendment;
repeal of tne iuclost teal
“As a result, the people
educational deficit, saying this
Carran-Walter immigration law millions of dollars in SUB
and> ag
was
responsible
for
Russia’s
and enactment of decent immiIndiana shopaeepers and busi-; eh
stealing
a scientific
march
on
gration legislation; aid to Hun- nessmen lost millions of dollars } 8
the US. Federal aid to educagarian rerugees;
a federal pay , the workers would have spent if
a
tion, he said, would have helpincrease and a mine safety law. the politicians had not blocked }o2
ed
overcome
the
educational
10.
Called for more effective their
payments,” |/@
right to the
lag.
boycotts against such companies
Reuther said.
3. Said civil rights isthe nation’s
lem.
}could
second
most
have
shot
He
several
added,
weeks
did,
but
the
world
change
was
giving
kind
up
earlier
they
the
“The
didn’t
them
of headlines
Sputnik
than
they
all
over
want
headlines
because
Russians
Little
exactly
they
to
Rock
the
wanted.”
4. Predicted that the biggest
obstacle to collective bargaining
gains in the immediate
future
would
be
the
slowdown
and
current
economic
management’s
propaganda about the McClellan
committee hearings.
5.
been
Reported
merger
made
problem
no
since
in
of
1955
progress
the
to
has
AFL-CIO
solve
jurisdictional
the
dis-|
putes. IUD is backing a proposal
for -arbitrating
jurisdictional
strikes
but
boundaries.
6.
Recommended
add
a constitutional
month’s
to
;
SERIOUS
rector
MOMENT
of the IUD
finds
Reut her and
department,
Albert
in huddle
on
Whitehouse,
platform,
di-
not
nenalize
jurisdictional
AFL-CIO
a
union
that
next
convention
amendment
which
re-
fuses to install equipment
or
material produced by members
of another,
|
QUIZZICAL
SMILE
is aimed
at
Sen.
John
F.
and Reuther chat before the Senator's speech.
IUD
secretary-treasurer, seems
Kennedy
as
he
James B. Carey,
a bit grim at this point.
ont
{
!
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