LATEST UPDATES
UAW Solidarity
Item
- Title
- Date
- Alternative Title
- extracted text
-
UAW Solidarity
-
1957-12-30
-
Vol. 1 No. 3
-
4
AN
Matter,
Class
Second
as
OF AMERICA-UAW 7
IMPLEMENT WORKERS
INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED AUTOMOBILE, AIRCRAFL £ AGRICULTURAL
SOLIDARITY
1, No. 3
Vol.
Indianapolis,
a
IAL OFFICE—Detroit, Mich.—5Sc
ed Weekly at 2457 E Washington
Michigan Edition
copy.
St., Indianapolis
7,
Ind.
to-
er, let us march
fight
us
let
gether,
to-
and
together,
gether we shall win.
P. Reuther
—Walter
1957
30,
‘Dec.
attac
liverable copies withon FormSt. 3979
POSTMASTER: Send unde
olis 7,
anap
Indi
ingt TEED
ve mailing label to 2457 Vast WashGUA
RAN
U.S. A.
im
Union Shops
Printed
in 100%
Ind.
Let us work togeth-
POSTAGE
RETURN
Pattern for 800,000:
n
e
e
S
a
r
E
w
e
N
s
t
c
a
P
r
i
A
For
when bargain58
19
in
ly
ear
n
tte
wri
be
l
wil
y
or
st
hi
r
bo
la
A new page in
) and the
AM
(I
ts
is
in
ch
Ma
of
n
io
at
ci
so
As
l
na
io
at
Intern
ing teams of the
ns which
io
at
ti
go
ne
ct
ra
nt
co
for
s
ie
an
mp
co
ft
UAW sit down with the aircra
ty
ri
jo
ma
t
vas
e
th
s—
er
rk
wo
ft
cra
air
0
will set a pattern for some 800,00
represented by the two unions.
ions will
un
th
Bo
ft.
cra
air
in
e
on
as
be
l
wil
W
Once again th e IAM and UA
present uniform demands in
areas at
bargaining
major
their respective contract ne-
Prices Up Again
o
—Air Wages, WToairMore than 40,000 UA
craft workers will start
off
dex announced Dec. 20.
boost
the
Receiving
are
tin in Baltimore. and North
American Aviation in Colum-
OF
SPIRIT
SEASON
' The sudden death of Ralph
instead (see story on Page
has focused national at-
tion on a law-suit against
ie UAW, the background of
i) which is little known
ichigan.
outside
. |
o@ |
‘~/ |
in at
Ms |
_
|
ip as a scrap
are
These
terms.
ef | being
get
ay
In
sued
the
because
truth
the
UAW
it tried
behind
the
i On Your Menu:
iF
|
'
'|
Be Busy
will
General
is
to
at-
® SHUTTER - BUGS will
find out just what’s what
field,
in the camera
thanks to our hobby experts.
@ SHORTER HOURS for
older workers, instead of
total retirement, were
by
recently
suggested
President Walter
UAW
P. Reuther. The reaction
has been interesting, as
you'll see.
@ CHRISTMAS will live a
little longer as local
unions send in news
about their parties.
pires May
and
open
Motors
before.
can
be
The
22.
Jan.
ex-
contract
29, followed
Chrysler
ations
will
(see lead
conven-
start almost at once
cash
The
story).
tion
for
year
negotiations
Aircraft
all highly-technical
it, “The
in irony,
As one observer put
current trial is steeped
the UAW.
dealer.
effect,
.
Victor.
brother,
This will be a busy
| Renda charges malicious prosconspiracy to commit
'écution,
we | malicious prosecution and abuse
i | of process.
tempted murders of UAW President Walter P. Reuther and his
1958: We'll
Its secretaryunion,
The
and
Mazey,
Emil
treasurer,
several of its staff members, as
well as members of the Detroit
police
state
Michigan
and
are being sued for $414 million
by a resident of Detroit, Carl
Kenda, who describes himself
Brothers?
Reuther
June
1;
by Ford
opened
Auto L
negoti-
days
60
across
the
plants,
to the supply
and
railroads
mills,
mines,
nation
steel
iron
As a Christmas present from
the auto manufacturers, 90,000 auto workers in the Detroit
area were laid off until after
New Year's, bringing immediate hardships to families at a
time when tight
already overtaxed
mas
expenses.
Although
knowledge
it had
that
could’ outdo in drama the circumstances which have led to
are still
facts
in
shrouded
known would fill a book. Presented here is just the barest
background:
of the
oufline
In the Forties, while the UAW
was
engaged
union.
ties,
common
Among
these
de-
and
wel-
health
severance
program,
fare
and
re-
pay, plus a common
for union security.
location
program
internal
in a bitter
each
wage
are a substantial
mands
increase, elimination of inequi-
are
which
those
mystery,
out based on contract/of
worked
demands already formulated by |
many
Though
law-suit.
the
budgets are
with Christ-
been
new
common
car
sales
has
head-
the
in
established
McGovern
assailed
Reuther
rep
be
will
s
ker
wor
ar
Sol
and
bias in his
ti-UAW
an
n
ope
(for
st
coa
t
wes
the
at
resented
and public statements
t
duc
con
|
confab.
ing the committee’s probe
ard
reg
be|
will
m
gra
pro
m
for
uni
A
story
cloak-and-dagger
No
| Detroit.
Rohr
American,
North
vair,
Mcexpected
know
didn’t
to appear.
renewspaper
to
had. come
from
he
we
Lockheed, Douglas, Ryan, Con-
committee,
the
of
Washington
chief
Kennedy,
F.
said he had
and
Govern
why he failed
to
According
McGovern
ports,
the
strike.
Kohler
Lobby Lights
Burning Late
WASHINGTON—Lights are
| burning late here these nights,
n
sio
Ses
l
cia
Spe
y,}|
crac
demo
n
unio
struggle for
just on Christmas
ortant area where | and
imp
not
r
the
Ano
an
saw
ts
men
ele
e
outsid
two
ned by the Mcte
ar
He
es.
tre
7
e
Continued on Pag
Continued on Page 7
tion, corpora-
Clellan investiga
tion lobbists are huddling with
ayotts Jar Na tion’s Economy
Shoek waves from the holiat
shutdowns
season
day
Chrysler and Ford, plus cutbacks at General Motors, are
the
felt -throughout
being
middle west and are rapidly
spreading
tion.”
locals and
aircraft
UAW
IAM district lodges covering
P.
Walter
(Solidarity, Dec. 23).
counsel
general
IAM
Roy Brown,
president.
and
yice
President
UAW
Robert
local
IAM
of an attack
and target
Reuther
will meet in Los Angeles. Featured speakers will be Woodcock
penetra-
gangster
off
staying
action| by
4, west coast
and
the UAW
On Jan.
leaders of
labor
honest
an
in
with
contend
that
must
culties.
union
united
the
pro-| group
Companies
Seven
diffi-
the
highlights
it
because
a pension
won
unions.
of both
>
:
y
r
e
t
s
y
M
d
Ol
s
ve
vi
Re
it
Su
enda
ho Shot
through
gram
of UAW.
guests
young
by these
is typified
—
UAW
and
Los Angeles,
O., and
bus,
here last week
John L. Mcto the Repubof the Senate
committee met
—but without
, counsel
as today. Then, Douglas work-| Govern
ers —- members of both IAM lican members
Mar-
L.
Glenn
Md.,
erstown,
tho
but
cooperation,
efforts were not as comnor at the same high level
their
early
plete
Hag-
in
Fairchild
at
No McGovern
Vice President Leonard Woodcock, director of the union’s national aircraft department.
WASHINGTON—The staff
New strides in aircraft barlaborMcClellan
gaining were made back in 1956} of
the
when the UAW and IAM began | management investigation
se
the new year with a le hourly increase as a result of the
rise in the cost-of-living inworkers
to
according
gotiations,
Probers Meet,
UAW
up
not
were
announcement
a
as
came
Ford
sler and
the
jolt
previous
years,
most
Ohry-
to
to
finds
own
auto
the _ recently - introduced
for
models.
The shutdown for the holiday
period brought a shudder to vet-
before
World
reémempractice
companies
two-week
mas time.
“Sounds
days,”
not
the
Hardest
one
to
II
War
close
“inventory”
just
Hit
old
at
for
the
a
Dec.
the
60,000
-
off
laid
for
most
old
weeks,
days,
either.”
it, “and
Hardest hit are Chrysler Corp.
are idle
workers, all of whom
Affected
and
all
plants
General
undergoing
downs, has
both
of
Motors,
Al-
week.
Year's
departments
Tuesday
closed
Monday |
holiday
though
not
shutwidespread
cut back production
Continued
on
to
was
meeting
determine where we
were | discuss and fro
m here . .
Christmas | should go
during
Ford
the
of
purpose
21,000
plants,
New
meeting:
by} | businessmen to discuss the probof ‘ri ht to work’ k? laws. The
are) jens
‘rig
ems of
week and about 9,000 are to be
idle
of Com-
lobbyist told a Chamber
aot
shutdowns
workers.
Here's what a General Electric
“Last night I i went to a meet;
d
Eve until)
which eight senat
at end
ing
ntattrex wae$: with 80
closed on aer‘isoiesa
%
Christmas
Chrysler
preparation for the new legislative session.
Jan.| merce
reopen
A Riymou
23
At Ford
Dec.
closed
ysler
and l Chr
2, unti
Jan. 2.
some
like
put
Jan
Dodge}
Year's.
will
on
Christ-
the
oldtimer
good
down
for
both
pt Dodge se
fill orders
eran auto workers who
ber it was an annual
DeSoto
New
DeSoto
20;
Generally
period
overtime
on
and
of the shutdowns
workers.
December
plants
to
after
until
in
Congressmen
anti-labor
Page
7
ie
this connection, thank
“In
God for the McClellan com-
The
business
immeasurably,
improved
must
warn
the
that
climate
this
been
but
for
improved
last,
not
may
climate
members of management
prove to have
rackets also.”
has
committee
mittee.
in
on
I
since
may
the
1957—Page
2
Expert Praises UA
30,
Day Center Programs”
The
UAW's
program
for re-
SOLIDARITY,
Dec,
tired workers in Detroit has
been hailed by a national expert on day centers as being
a “significant beginning” to-
MICHIGAN
ward meeting a growing need
faced by every community in the
nation.
Following a detailed study of
the Detroit program, Miss Hollis
Vick,
director
of services
for
older people under the United
ae
months,
=<
14
STATEMENT TO NEWSMEN
on short-lived AFL-CIO state merger meeting in Detroit is made
by Peter M. McGavin
(third from right), special representative of AFL-CIO President George
Meany.
Seated with McGayin are (left to right), Herbert McCreedy, AFL-GIO regional direc-
tor; R. J. Thomas, AFL-CIO special representative; Gus Scholle, president of Michigan
Council, and Barney Hopkins, council secretary-treasurer. Meetings failed to get under
next attempt will come at state merger conyention in February.
Mich. GOP Eyes
WASHINGT—ON
The
LANSING — In an atmosphere of rising unemployment”
and falling purchasing power among the state’s workers,
Michigan Republican legislators have chosen to ignore the
need for action, instead turning their sights on proposals to
hobble workers and their unions.
In a meeting of Republican S———_
party
leaders, Sen. Robert
Faulkner
heads
of
the
mittee,
Coloma,
Senate
said
he
will
propose
and
Com-
un-
security
under
to choose
a state
Winners in the Dec. 20 prim. ary
shop provision. The campaign to}
outlaw
the union
shop was retary-treasurer of Local 104 in
spawned
the
after
Taft-Hartley
workers,
act,
under
continued
and
Vincent
J. Murray,
of a unit of Local 889,
beat a fellow Republican.
head
who
to choose union shops in elections
by
such
overwhelming
Ryan received nearly half of
margins that the provision was the 3,718 total votes cast.
dropped from the law.
|
Murray, with only one rival,
Further
Also
gan
Curbs
to be proposed
Republican
curb
cising
on
by Michi-|
legislators
union
netted 507 votes.
The
is a| Vacated
seat
rights in| he
won
stake
by Ed
members exer-| ternational
their citizenship
at
Carey,
is
the
UAW
representative,
election
to
the
one/
in-|
when
be
requiring
that
unions/
Running
with the endorsement
incorporated.
|of the Wayne County CIO CounSpeaking to the recent AFL-| cil, Ryam has been president of
CIO
convention,
Secretary
of Local 104, served as delegate to
Labor
James
P. Mitchell
stated the
UAW
Bendix
council
and
is
that
the
administration
in}a founder of the Southeastern
Washington was opposed to such|Community Council. He is. also
legislation and would nat rec-| president of the Detroit Cathoommend
a so-called
right
to!lic Labor Conference and editor
work law.
field
of
| of its labor newspaper.
ALSO,
Tune
Shiftbreak
WEBEC,
1330
in to
with
KC,
the
Herb
in Flint
UAW
Hoover
daily
Shiftbreak
for
2:45-4:00
the
Shiftbreak with Guy Nunn for the UAW
800 KC, in Detroit daily 2:35-3:15 p.m.
shows:
UAW
p.m.
over
over CKLW,
Body,
elec-
follow-
Lansing,
Mich.
Rapids.
Chevrolet.Gray
Iron,
Electro-Motive,
LaGrange,
Saginaw.
Elyria, O.
Ml.
O:
Munsfield,
Body,
Fisher
Elections were also won among
the maintenance clerks at the
Hyatt
in
plant
among
the
No.
Body
NJ.,
Clark,
at
draftsmen
in
1
Fiint..
and
Fisher
The draftsmen at Fisher Body
in Flint are already enjoying
~
sec-
six Democrats;
the protection of the national
UAW-GM
agreement,
with the
group
consituting
bargaining
The
unit.
action
bargaining
tional
a
brings
units
GM
separate
the
total
under
the
agreement
to
a
day,
Three
activity centers;
are
the Kundig
Junior
the ot
Center
League
of
na-
127.
tired
UAW
wives
wide
Special
meetings,
parties
of the
three.
At the UAW
gram
and
activity
bother reporting that a Repub-|
boycotts
consumer
mary
perfectly legal even under
of
provisions
restrictive
lican state legislator in Michigan
publicly exposed his total ignorance of the nation’s labor laws
in the columns
of a Detroit
newspaper.
The solon, state senator Robert
E, Faulkner
cussing the
cott
in
of Coloma, was disUAW’s Kohler boy-
connection
with
legisla-
year
following
are
three
quoted.
para-
verbatim
“Secondary
boycotts
be illega! now, but unions
imposing
Kohler
away
Co.
them.
strike,
with
now
and
it,’ Faulkner
in
may
are
the
getting
said.
“He defined the secondary
boycott as a union order to its
members to refuse to purchase
products
volved
of
a
in a labor
company
dispute
in-
with
not
Kohler
boycott
is a
consumer boycott and
boycott.
secondary
a
Pri-
are
the
the
Act. The same is
Rubber Workers’
Taft-Hartley
true of the
boycott.
O'Sullivan
“Any attempt by a state legislature to outlaw a primary conis
legal
continued.
“And
which
boycott
sumer
under
lieve,
illegal,”
Federal law would, I beand
unconstitutional
be
Mazey
real secondary boycotts are already prohibited by federal law.
Faulkner’s
legis-
definitions,”
Mazey
“Obviously,
lative
as
eyed
tl
cent
his
It’s Voluntary
one more thing: It’s the
strikers who are asking
, “And
Kohler
Matter,
that
for
citizen,
and
member
union
every
every
to
not
buy Kohler plumbingware.
UAW’s
the
_nor
they
Neither
officers
to
buy
“We
not
or
are
not
would
ordering
buy
to
not
an
such
issue
anybody
anything.
could
and
Boy-
order.
another union.”
Faulkner's
remark
drew
an
immediate
retort
from
UAW
cotts are carried on through
yoluntary action, and our boycott of Kohler products is insuccessful because
creasingly
“I think we'll invite Faulkner|
to our next UAW summer school,
so he can learn something about
just settlement of the Kohler
voluntarily
are
and
strike
refusing to buy Kohler prod-
| Secretary-Treasurer
Emil Mazey.
| the nation’s labor laws,” said |
Mazey. “Or maybe all he needs
is a
new
dictionary.
millions
ucts
of Americans
until
plements
National
gr
a combinaljitt
educational
|
4)
i!
|
pation
in civic affairs. The
centers
were
originated
4°
:
cultural activities, hobbies, coi»
seling of problems, and parth»
UW
as coy)
’
munity projects to fill a comniiuo®
nity need. Recreation, Miss Vf
noted, is not the primary p§
pose
of
the
ideal
day
centhis
Counseling and referral for |)”
dividual needs are far more i}
portant, she said.
Without
Detroit
the
UAW
facilities
os
'
centers, 1!
for
retirit
would be far behind the citiés}®
San
Francisco,
Cleveland
a)
Chicago,
active
day
which
center
are
engaged.
programs,
Solid Support
READING, Pa. —Eyery
candidate
here
county
supported
won
election
posts,
Candidates
won
were
by
to
from
William
Insurance
sing\iiz
city
including
men.
union
Agents
unions
Ruoff
(to
city
lab
ai}
thriwi
bers
Local
board),
Teamsters
prison
and
42
(to
Fred
Local
board).
the
H.
429
why
are
“Uv
of tt}
cour"
+
*
scho?
Hinklj#l
(to
f
4
~"
cil), Vince Strollo of the Piun)
that
the
Labor
a
want
company
findings
Board
examiner
terms
with
said.
thhiy
<}
0)
\
of
-im-
the
Relations
and
comes
its workers,”
to}
Hy
Mazey|
A secondary boycott is a com. (10!
bination of two or more personiiiwn::
to
exercise
coercive
pressuriku:
upon other people, not a party
to
the
those
combination,
other
people
to
to
cause*i«
withhold
through fear of loss or damage}sn:
to themselves.
A primary boycott is a com-*i
bination of two or more persons|ii‘
by
concerted
action
with
whom
the
dispute.
UAW
ANN
UAW
the
to
cease
person
combination
with}!
has
on Council
ARBOR,
Mich. —
Five
representatives
are among
the 27 labor appointees
to
the
58-member
community
council
named
by
the institute of labor and industrial relations of the University
Wayne
They
Leonard
of Michigan
State University.
Vice
are
Woodcock,
and
President
Brendan
Sexton, education director;
Mal Evans, an assistant education director;
Nat
Weinberg,
director of the special
and
ects department,
ence
Peterson,
resentative
in
education
Region
projFlor-
rep-
1D.
a}
>
$7)
or
withdraw
their
patronage
from the boycotted
personio”!
cock- | dealing
as
are
intentions
declared;
|
§("
centers, the py
includes
wil}
;
in commun
or
ati
Uni,
20,000
workers
participate
part)
the
communities,
ite
and
Center,
through
30
\#/
five-day centers
serve
approximg):
persons
UAW
counseliil!
jah
\0/
4
ai
Be a Law...
“Our
primary
tior he said he was going to
introduce in the state legislature
A.M.
A.M.
A.M
A.M.
A.M.
AM.
A.M.
A.M.
AM
A.M
A.M.
at the
Brown-Lipe-Chapin,
from the Detroit News:
“He (Faulkner) said his bill
will contain a clause outlawing the secondary boycott.
5:45-6:15
6:15-6:45
6:15-6:45
6:15-6:45
6:15-6:45
6:15-6:45
6:00-6:30
6:15-6:45
6:15-6:45
6:15-6:45
6:15-6:45
mainte-
LANSING,
Mich.— They
say
only the unusual makes news.
graphs
Chicago, Illinois
Alpena, Michigan
Cadillac; Michigan
Detroit, Mich.
Gaylord, Mich.
Gd. Rapids, Mich.
Muskegon, Mich.
Saginaw, Mich.
Petoskey, Mich.
Rogers City, Mich.
Trav. City, Mich.
involved
and
There Oughta
The
KC
KC
KC
KC
KC
KC
KC
KC
KC
KC_
KC
part
3,000
and
‘GOP Sen. Betrays Ignorance:
next
WCFL
1000
WATZ
1450
WATT
1240
CKLW
800
WATC
900
WMAX
1480
WKBZ
850
WSGW
790
WMEBN
1340
WHAK _ 960
WTCM
1400
most
company
Ternstedt, Flint.
Diesel Equip., Grand
Detroit| So perhaps we ought not to even
the field of political education |City Council in November:
a law
a
the
apprentices
Fisher
the old
are William A. Ryan,
of
New
ing GM plants chose the UAW:
@ Chevrolet Spring and Bumper, Livonia, Mich.
Fisher Body No. 1, Flint.
AFL-
representative.
at
Illinois and
draftsmen
tions,
Ryan, Murray Win Primary;
3rd District Votes Jan. 10
union} election
a
held
nance clerks.
In the NLRB-conducted
Tt will be an all-UAW election on Jan. 10 when voters in
a “right to work” law, which!
would deny workers the right to Detroit’s third legislative district go to the polls in a special
union
the
among
|
ion busting legislation when the
Jegislature convenes on Jan. 8.
No. 1 objective of the group is!
for
12 of
elections.
Detroit’s
the aging
In
two
has won
were
Ohio,
plants
last
companionship
Thirty Communities
apprentices; the remainder being
E. |
who}
Labor
and
elections
Jersey
CIO has notified its 650 state
and local bodies to expel local
union
affiliates of the
three unions ousted from the
federation at the recent convention
the
Teamsters,
Laundry Workers
Bakery Workers,
the
representation
Michigan,
CIO
way;
during
the UAW
The
3 Ousted Unions
Out of Councils
Union - Busting
plants
so that more centers will!
available for retirees to yisil}-\y
Foundation.
Racking
up an .850 batting
average in organizing drives at
GM
Community
Fund,
has v ‘(ees
that the city of Detroit ex)
on the UAW-pioneered prog)
financed
Win 12 of 14
GM Elections
and
INA,
oded
‘0€ ‘29d ‘ALINVOIIOS—E
LS6L
Is Social Security Running in the Red?
o, Definitely Not!
Getting along in years?
Thinking about your social security?
40“) Worried about these scary stories you've been
in the red?
ty fund running
1Don’t be.
r
stuff you’ve been reading is, in most cases,
ither misinformation or propaganda slyly spread
© 7 persons and organizations wanting to underjine public confidence-in the social security sysjm.
10). One of the latest of the latter has been Albert
i “|, Adams, vice president of the National Associadion of Life Insurance Underwriters. The axe he's
“oniinding ought fo be obvious to anyone. Private
aisurance companies fought tooth and nail against
ry)
iliie isitablishment of social security.. Even now, years
‘ter it has proven to be_a success, they still sit
hi
tein 1) nights scheming ways to sabotage it.
And they have plenty of outlets to use.
at
©) Among the more respectable financial publi1
oils eations which have given space to this propa‘ones ganda lately have been Business Week, Bar‘won ron’s Weekly and the Wall Street Journal.
“: 2) A more popular periodical which has teed off
Its mass circulation
(1 social security is Time.
ieee
-9vidlakes it a good billboard for those who ‘want to
slsojnock
its knees.
on
system
the
Its intention
of
so.
aren't
ts “conclusions” on “facts” that just
Under the title “The System is Running
in the
4ed,” Time “reported” that collections for the
dast financial year ending June 30 “were only
<)
‘17 billion, while payments~exceeded that.”
The truth of the matter is that for that pewie
o hefriod payments totaled $6.51 billion. Operating
“costs amounted to $150 million. Add the
» ‘ujand you get $6.66 billion — considerably
nesithan the $7 billion Time pulled out of the
meerlIneome for that period was $7.1 billion,
4p
of
$6.5
paid
billion
in
and
workers
by
two
less
air.
made
their
’-lgamployers and $600 million from interest earned
sai *n investments made by the fund.
Time also tossed in such tidbits of misinformase?
agion as a statement that new payments for total*-
i) ¥y disabled workers over 50 are draining the fund.
#
s‘ruth
' beiund
Not
is, these
benefits
financed-by
a separate
are paid from
a separate tax contribution.
with
satisfied
that
shocker,
blamed
Time
«Mongress because it was “too quick to expand the
‘isteyystem and to boost benefits without waiting to
/ dayet the bill for past increases.”
iui
Sidney Margolius, syndicated columnist for laspor papers, threw that one right back in Time's
ilegeeth,
Py +
“The truth is,” he wrote, “Congress carefully
“so4 considered costs and predicted almost exactly
/ of) the income and payments situation, as anyone
vot knows who has ever bothered to pick up a
woh
te
or Senate
House
amendments,
“Both
the House
report
and
on
Senate
social
security
/topornewhat
rise
over
in
1960-61
$25
billion
and
reports estimated
then
level
in 1961-64.”
off.
name
formal
(the
ance
are Secretary
They
Robert B.
of the Treasury
P. Mitchell
James
of Labor
Secretary
Anderson,
security).
of social
and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Marion B. Folsom.
They and Commissioner of Social Security
Charles I. Schottland recently issued a report on
by the
this statement
which carried
fund
the
Senate Committee on Finance:
“|. the investment of the moneys in the
old-age and survivors insurance trust fund does
not involve any misuse of the moneys or en-
the safety of the funds.”
danger
The method often used by enemies of social
security is to list its current assets and throw
them against the anticipated amount of payments.
that will be made over the years ahead. That was
the gimmick used again by Adams in his attack
on the fund and the system. An answer was not
AFL-
Cruikshank,
Nelson
from
coming
in
long
CIO’s director of social security.
Adams said that the fund balance was $23 bil-
Do You Know?
1. If you become disabled to the point where
you can't do substantial work, but are not yet
become
50 and
(h) apply
do
you
for disability
eligible
wage
to freeze your
now
until you reach
(a) do nothing
50, you should:
50.
reach
benefits;
office
(b) do
entitled
is
#
sf
see
to
record until
family
your
nearest soctal
dies,
breadwinner
If your
2.
should: (a) get in touch with the
security
payments;
any
to
will
as social security
nothing,
contact the family if it is entitled to anything.
person
3. A permanently-disabled
in
worked
(a)
should:
years
recent
hasn't
who
the
ignore
new disability benefits as he would not be eligible
now:
for payments
If a widowed
social
with
be eligible.
as he still might
security
4.
(b) get in touch
full time,
works
mother
her
children would: (a) be eligible for payments any-
way; (b) be barred from payments.
5. If a man who had been earning
week
a
$80
and two
ments
6.
in
recent
children, they
of about
years
dies
leaving
at least
a wife
cet monthly
would
$80;
(underscore):
$136;
pay-
$200.
mother dies but her husband
If a working
still lives: the children would: (a) not be eligible
for social security payments
is still able to subport them:
ble though
them.
ity
7.
hecause\the father
(b) world be eligi-
the father is alive and does support
When you become eligible for social securshould:
you
wait
(a)
until
you
really
need
the money as you always can collect the hack
payments: (b) apply immediately as the number
of back
hayments
ds Jimited hy late
you
can
collect
retroactively
Answers
\eiithat the fund will level off at about $24 billion in
02 1957-59,
who run social security — the trustees of
the trust fund for Old Age and Survivors Insur-
rather clear since it based
‘ping just that seems
©
of economists and, what’s more important, by the
in the newspapers about the social secu- _men
-afMading
“The
“Since the leveling off is merely as expected,”
Margolius asked, “why all the scare stories?”
His attitude has been reflected by any number
at
(social
2--a
t—h;
begin automatically);
payments
security
3—b; 4—a; 5—$200;
7—b.
Copyright
1957 by Sidney Margolius
never
6-—b;
Jion while the accumulated liabilities against it
billion.
$323
were
“What he meant by the total liabilities,” Cruikshank said, “was the total number of payments
that it could be anticipated would have to be made
over a long period of years.
“Now it is true that over a period of years,
looking ahead as far as the year 2,000, there will
be over $300 billion that will have to be paid out
of social security, and that there is only $23
billion presently in the fund.
“But he left out of the picture the fact that
there will be billions and billions of dollars paid
into the fund before these huge amounts become
due.
“About $18 million comes into the social security system every day, seven days a week, the year
around. ~ Against that a little over $16.5 million
is paid out every day.
“This doesn’t relate to the question of the total
liabilities over a period of years that Adams referred to. But let’s take a look at his own private
insurance industry.
“At the end of 1956 the insurance industry itself reported that there was $432 billion, 331 million in life insurance in force by U. S. companies.
This represents total liabilities over a whole period
of years.
“Against that, they have only $79 billion, 733
million in legal reserves.
“This would look as though the insurance-comred,
the
operating
were
themselves
panies
wouldn’t it?”
recognize
to
have
“You
potential
the
all
that
claims against the social security reserve are not
going to come due at any given moment or any
given time.
they
happen
should
to die in one
is going
holder
policy
that
know
companies
“Insurance
would
be
not
every
not
If that
day.
meet
to
able
liabilities.
their
“At the same time, I think it’s a despicable
thing for someone to go around trying to undermine the confidence of the American working
people in the social security system.”
confidence
Cruikshank’s
echoed
by
Folsom.
a
In
system
the
in
issued
statement
was
last
July, the Secretary of Health, Education and
Welfare said:
“The trustees of OASI trust fund, in their re
port
and
to Congress
survivors
balance.
“That
March
in
is
system
insurance
the
that
1, state
old-age
actuarial
is, for the long-range future, the sys-
tem will have sufficient income from contributions hased on the tax schedule now in
the law and from interest earned on invest-
ments
to meet
fits and administrative expenses.
“Disbursements
for bene-
all future payments
will
grow,
but
too,
so,
contributions and interest income.”
So, you can see. The social security fund
only is running in the black, but Congress,
men
who
run
the fund
and
ing it with your interests
its future is secure.
So
is yours.
those
in
who
mind
are
are
will
not
the
watch-
satisfied
4
1957—Pago
30,
Dec,
SOLIDARITY,
Whatever the occasion happens to be—
an informal party or a night out on the
—
wonders for dressing up any ensemble.
This one which is loosely knitted
‘
in white—or any other color you might
happen to choose depending on your
taste and needs—is as easy to make as
it is glamorous. It’s large, too, being
20 inches by 66 inches even without
the fringe. The stitch called for
in this pattern is the garter stitch. The
my
SNR
women of all ages, from the teen-ager
to grandma. Maybe it’s because one does
sneerserresionteny
town—stoles seem to have an appeal for
S-461
If you've just simply got to keep your hands
busy, why not put a pair of knitting
needles in them and have something to show—
and wear—for your pastime. Take this
knitted cotton blouse as a for instance. One
of these is a wonderful item for your
wardrobe because it’s handy regardless of
the season—hot, cool or shiverish.
This casual model can be made very easily
in sizes 12, 14 and 16 simply by following
133.4
136.29
the clear instructions printed on FREE
Since stripes are very much
LEAFLET S461. Even if you’re just a
beginner, you'll find concise directions
neckbands for the front and back, the front
stripes, which you crochet in
a chain stitch, are put in before you
You'll learn how many
Knit
jou
assemble the cardigan.
make
i
i
it fit snugly at the waist by
with a purled row.
P babe
You
sewing a half-inch elastic
band in the hem. Don’t be scared
by the button holes. There are
instructions for them,
The stitch used in this pattern is the
stockinette, made by knitting one row and then
purling one row for an inch, ending
The pattern is for sizes
12, 14 and 16. When you send in your
stamped, self addressed envelope ask for
eect
stitches and how many rows it takes to rmake
an inch. The kind of materials and the
quantity you'll need are listed, along
with a description of how to make the various
stitches. The National Needlecraft Bureau
Says that most any dime store has
instruction booklets for those who're a
little leery about having the knack.
You can have this pattern or any of the others
on this page, or all three, just by
sending a stamped, self addressed envelope
to Solidarity’s consumer department,
UAW, 8000 E. Jefferson, Detroit 14.
in the fashion
picture this year, you may go
for this smart, striped cardigan. It's
knitted in nylon. The
for making each part of it—the back, the
and the sleeves.
OLR
AIS USE RCA
~
inches. Along with complete, simple
instructions you will receive a
close-up photo of it so you can check
on yourself as you're going along.
If you want to try this, send a
stamped, self-addressed envelope
‘~ and ask for FREE LEAFLET 133.4.
Tit
gauge is nine stitches for each two
FREE
Yourself
SR
iid
Glamour
LEAFLET
;
136.29,
,
morning.
a
a
in
“Well,
°
forced
ORs
“Advertising
technique and your attitude.
Accept the fact that normal
speeds are often too fast for
Whenever }
winter conditions.
weather is bad, slow down.
neighbor,
S
;
YE C/G
:
Fie?
*fpo
2
Ra
and
ating
keep
defroster
in
blades,
proper
oper-
°
©
2
The neighbor closed the booklet and laid it on the seat between them.
“Well, some people’ll say anything to sell somethin’,” he sneered.
that part they put.in about the effect of temperature?” the old auto work-
°
if
il
\k
|
|
°
»
feet regardless of the varying temperature.”
“What's it say in there about ‘stopping ability’?” the old auto worker asked.
“Braking distances on loosely packed snow with various equipment at speeds
£
MPH,”
regular tire
%
-
Ore
As soon as you start out (but
away from other cars or haz-
°
ards) try your brakes to find out
how slippery the road sur-
,
iB
Z
;
a
Ve Ea
onuellfte t
yusstiidiiiaarmnnlygfbllr
ce
eres
e
2
Don’t Follow Too— Closely
¢|
o
°
=
:
=
Coe
On
°
a
o,
pve
Saree
3
ie
5
°
og
ae
od
°
°
©
ofO
;
Z
00S Se,
o
ge
o
°
‘a
a
oo
Z enek
Ee
pears
°
ee
z
°
co
Oo
Pf
ROR
SO
‘
feet;
feet.
38
tire chains,
reinforced
feet, and
46
chains,
20
of
52
tires,
snow
feet;
60
tires,
as follows:regular
“were
read,
neighbor
the
77
about
was
distance
the braking
tire chains,
reinforced
With
zero.
above
30 degrees
Test road conditions right away.
brakes
to
began
it and
through
leafed
sighed,
<
oa
by
reinforced
link of the cross chain
co
E
packed
hard
on ice or very
oecoe
{
aloud:
“The difference between zero temperature and 30 above can increase skidding distances by over 100 feet when driving at only 20 MPH.
“Stopping distances are considerably longer when temperatures are near the melting
poiit than when they are near zero. A small temperature rise or a little sunshine can
make ice wet and slippery within a few minutes. Use of tire chains provides the shortest possible stopping distances, regardless of temperature.
“Tests showed that a car with new tires going at 20 MPH on glare ice may stop at
114 feet at zero degrees, but the same car at the same speed takes 235 feet to stop at
s
$ iB
6
one
read
again:
read
condition.
Ventilate
to
inside of windows clear.
He
cut braking distances in half on both snow
They
The neighbor picked the booklet up again,
eo
heater
are
snickered.
however,
each
tire chains have
They
pamphlet
w
and ice .. . increase traction to start or climb hills up to seven times over
that with regular tires on ice . . . outpull regular tires nearly four times
on packed snow...
“Regular or round wire link chains provide good stop-and-go traction
on snow and ice, but their side-skid resistance on ice is poor compared to
reinforced tire chains.”
er asked.
°
eee evince
no
wiper
Maintain
Pos
blind.
tires,
regular
than
projecting teeth or cleats.
°
3
“Where’s
neighbor
his
the
it disdainfully.
the
to
handed
and
compartment
stuff?”
this
better
much
not
“Reinforced
Avintaceen
got a committee on winter drivin’,” thetests. I got a booklet someplace here they
through
leafed
believe
snow...
+ an
neighbor.
S
“The better snow tires are a big help in loose snow and slush.
3°
o,0°?
who
“You
p
#200
°
if
the
dashboard
the
in
fished
He
out.”
put
a
pempee:
a
snapped
rein- 9
these
and
tires
Considerable.”
help.
considerable
they’re
now,
I say,”
hooey,
°
°
got
they
said.
=e
snow
“These
worker
“Well, the National Safety Council, they
old auto worker said. “They made a buncha
your car, your driving
J Winterize
chains
the old auto
tryin’,”
they’re
5
figger out
could
they
“The way they can jiggle atoms and stuff nowdays, you'd think
way to solve a simple problem like this,” sniffed-the neighbor.
a
_
o
call positive traction,” &
z
you'd
to get what
streef.
“This weather, there just ain’t no sure way
he said, as he steered gingerly down the slick
z
snowy }
one
downtown
teller,
bank
a
his neighbor,
driving
was
worker
old auto
An
o
ne,
Be Sure?‘
“=
LS6k
How Can You
_.
#
Z
9:
.
in a series of fast appli-
cations. Jamming on the brakes }
will lock the brakes
the car into an
skid. Keep your
and
throw
uncontrollable§
head.
oe
#5
hazard,
co
iself
2
too closely, always a
4 4 Following
Geis
dangerous
is especially
°°
~° 5
—1in winter. Keep well back of
oi the vehicle ahead to give your-}
—emergency
«
Pi
195
glare
feet;
ice,
snow
however,
tires,
174
feet;
chains, 77 feet.”
“You believe anything
ev
il
4 DP
Whether
°.
,
tig
OO.
%
oe
em
regular enews
in
reinforced
good
tire
you
tires,
keep
for
deep
condition.
chains
Use
iy
He
£
Se
Dhiy
eo
got
“Sure.
neighbor
“Good
say
out
saying,
the
you
“See
averages
regular
read,”
you
were
tire
of
stop.
room
for
an|
eo
9°
o
aos
eo
6
“On
plenty
dangerously
chains,
huffed
99
feet,
his neighbor.
thing
way
his
regular
and
reinforced
“Well
tomorrow?”
across
I didn’t tell him
slush
the
ridin’
he was
and
said
on
snow
to
o
lower:
Just be ready the same time,” the old auto worker said.
picking
-
here’s
my
tires,
tire
stop.”
himself:
tires.
his
He watched
Wonder
what
he'll
when I put my reinforced chains on? Probably complain it’s bumpy.”
Sterne
Shae:
;
In the bank, the neighbor listened to a vice president talk about driving.
“Great
“Kriend
things,
to gel some
o’
miné
these
was
snow
askin’
tires,”
about
the
vice
‘em,”
since they're all they're cracked
president
the
teller
up to be.
boomed:
said.
“I
oughta
tell
‘im
6
1957—Page
Dec, 30,
PARIS
WHICH
“SS CAR ARE
You
Our
NATO
allies
Eisenhower
were
looked
ITEM
more
than
-
interested
in
what
he
in
how
said.
SOLIDARITY,
BUYING, SIR?
NEWS
End
of an
WASHINGTON
—
senting.”
Era
“Abe
Murdock,
dis-
That warning-signal of an NLRB decision unfavorable to labor will be heard
no
on
more.
Murdock,
the
powerful
more
retired
last of the Truman
board
and
and
opposition
more
as of Dec.
There
was
for
cut
the
last
appointees
five
years
voice to decisions
16.
down
labor's
no reappointment
a
that
rights,
waiting
for
the man who claimed repeatedly that the
Republican-dominated board was upsetting
many precedents of the past and under-
cutting
labor
established.
Instead,
ning,
rights
the
post
41-year-old
that
went
had
been
to John
professional
long
H.
Fan-
government
worker
who
joined
the Department
of
Labor in 1942 and only this year was given
an annual career award for outstanding
government service by the National Civil
Service
League.
The “great dissenter” went out in a blaze
of dissents. There were three of them in
the last hatch of cases in which” he was involved.
One
dealt
with
jurisdictional
(Murdock has accused the
shirking its duty in this field.)
involved
picketing
rights.
mat-
board of
Another
(Murdock
has
long accused the NLRB of undermining the
picketing rights of unions.)
And the third
involyed a new subject—hiring halls and
their status.
Murdock in ‘his last dissent
accused the board of all but destroying the
hiring hall system, so important in the
building and maritime trades.
Murdock’s retirement—the remaining
members of the board with whom he had
differed repeatedly wrote him a nice, if
relieved, farewell letter calling him one of
the “giants” of the NLRB’s history—
highlighted a whole series of board decisions that have brought deep and bitter
criticism by organized labor.
In each case there was a Murdock dissent
pointing out the precedents the board majority was shattering; chiding the majority
for
abandoning
jurisdiction;
its duty
by
narrowing
sco)ding it for shutting
to the Be
chore
its
its eyes
of employers; accusing it
of “legislation” in making policy decisions
that oucht to be made by Congress
Over the last five years there have been
at least a dozen Murdock dissents that rep-
resent
NLRB
milestones
pol
became
since
a majority.
highlights
of those
Jurisdict’on
One
rels
the
in
tracing
Eisenhower
Here
way
the
it
are some-of
narrowed
board
its
in
appointees
of Murdock’s
Eisenhower
has
change
decisions:
of the strongest
with
the
has
own
the
quarbeen
juris-
diction, leaving a “no-man’s land” of labormana
nt relations where the states
have neither the means nor the power to
Cracks
A PAI Feature
intervene,
with
labor
usually
being
again expressed his “fundamental disagreement” withthe majority’s narrow jurisdic-
standards, declaring that the SuCourt only last March had “voiced
tional
preme
to take what
the ‘no-man’s
the obligation of this board
action it could to re-occupy
land’ ” created by its own rules. Murdock
put himself on record as favoring “an immediate
liberalization”
of the
board
juris-
dictional standards set up in 1954.
Employer ‘Free
Organized
cused
Speech’
labor for some
the NLRB
majority
of going
far be-
yond the “free speech” provisions of TaftHartley by permitting employers to make
anti-union speeches to captive
and interrogate workers.
audiences
The Blue Flash decision was one in which
interrogation
of workers
was
found
sible. Murdock dissented. In the
case the board majority was
speechmaking by an employer
of a representation election. In
the
board
widest
has
possible
given
the
permis-
Lux Clock
tolerant of
on the eve
other cases
employer
latitude in outspoken’
the
oppo-
sition
called
to unions. Murdock has frequently
such behavior “coercion.”
Ina
recent series of decisions, the NLRB
Picketing
Our
federal government
be
killed
atomic
or
crippled
explosions
Is
it
.
fall;
the
possibility
that
.
Four
deficit
strike
servants
cows
It
has
further
held that boycotts by such minority unions
also are illegal. Both decisions, which can
have a crushing effect on the rights of
workers in economic strikes, have brought
stinging dissents by Murdock who charged
that
the
board
majority
the entire framework
Hiring
Halls
On Sink
last
office the NLRB
hall System
day
undermining
of the right to picket.
of
-Murdock’s
term
in
by the-Hodcarriers
in
cracked
employed
a Seattle, Wash.
was
down
on a hiring
dispute. Declaring that for
more than seven years the courts have held
that “an exclusive nondiscriminatory hiring
hall
is not
served
per
bitingly:
se
unlawful,”
Murdock
ob-
“Now for the first time in a sweeping
decision ignoring all board.and court precedents, the majority hold that such a
contract is unlawful. The importance and
far-reaching consequences of the majority’s decision cannot, in my opinion, be
overestimated. Not only does it silently
overrule all previous decisions of the
board, but it is contrary to decisions of
the Ninth, Sixth and Third Cireuit Courts
of Appeals.”
put
4c stamps
on
aren't
trying?
INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED AUTOMOBILE, AIRCRAFT
& AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS OF AMERICA-UAW
IDARITY
curtailed picketing
that organizational
is illegal.
he
duced the deficit to $499,999,980. Who says our public
picketing by a union that is a minority or
has lost its representation rights after an
economic
a
.
all
his
2,000 © Christmas
eards. This, of course, re-
.
valuable Holstein
>
Postmaster-General Sum=
merfield is so worried about
the $500 million postoffice~
The big worry, Gray told
the Detroit Economic Club,
is a breakdown in the nation’s banking system
because it would be tough to
clear nine billion cancelled
checks a month.
*
.
Seems to us the same
theory shows up on the
assembly-line, too.
human
civilization itself
would ‘be destroyed?
Nope.
*
.
Ford engineers have discovered that two and two
make
six.
Two _ tractors
hitched together, they say,
have the pulling-power of
six individual units.
by
Nope.
Rights
majority has sharply
rights.
It has held
and
Than Death?
were electrocuted in South
Dayton, N. Y. by a shortcircuit in a milking machine.
Could this be a good argument
against permanent waves?
is
worried — honest! —
about the effects of a nuclear war on the United
States, according to Gordon
Gray, director of the Office
of Defense Mobilization.
Is it the likelihood that
Inillions of Americans would
out?
years “has ac-
Comments:
A Fate Worse
left to
the mercy of a court injunction.
In one of his last dissents, written only
a few days before his retirement, Murdock
and
PUBLICATION,
OFFICIAL
Thternational
Union,
United
Automo-
Workers of America,
bile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement
Published weekly. Yearly subscription to members, 60c;
AFL-CIO.
to non-members,
WALTER
P.
$2.50.
EMIL MAZEY
Secretary-Treasurer
REUTHER
President
RICHARD
LEONARD
GOSSER,
NORMAN
WOODCOCK,
PAT
MATTHEWS
GREATHOUSE
a
Vice-Presidents
Tatcentations Executive Board Members
HARVEY KITZMAN
CHARLES BALLARD
RUSSELL LETNER
RAY BERNDT
WILLIAM McAULAY
GEORGE BURT
JOSEPH McCUSKER
CHARLES BIOLETTI
GEORGE MERRELLI
ROBERT CARTER
E. T. MICHAEL
ED COTE
KEN MORRIS
MARTIN GERBER
PATRICK O'MALLEY
ROBERT W. JOHNSTON
KENNETH W. ROBINSON
CHARLES H. KERRIGAN
_
KEN
FRANK
RAY
ROSS
WINN,
FIESTER,
Director of Public Relations
Director of Publications and Editor
PHOTOS—James
ART—Jack
Maschhoff,
Gelsavage
.
Yardley, Iry King
Bogdan
STAFF—Russell Smith, Jerry Dale, Ray
George Ryder, John Ullman
Baynert,
Dphison,
John
Labor History
‘og 2G ‘ALINVITOS—L o8Rd
in Pictures—3
CORDWAINERS are guilty!” proclaimed the courts.
That was the verdict — guilty of ‘‘conspiring”’ to raise
their wages.
One of the nation’s first labo: r unions, the cordwainers were
journeyman shoemakers who had organized almost in selfdefense as a depression gradually worsened their economic
plight.
to
turned
first time
for the
employers
union,
the
fight
To
the courts. Six trials were held between 1806 and 1815 in New
York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Baltimore. The charge
was “criminal conspiracy,” and in at least four cases the
judges were completely sympathetic to the employers. The
LS6l
Philadelphia judge, for example, made it amply clear to the
jury that he looked for a verdict of guilty.
“A combination of workmen to raise their wages may
be considered in a two-fold point of view,” he said. “One
is to benefit themselves . . . the other is to injure those
who do not join their society. The rule of law condemns
both.”
conspiracy cases were bringing increasing prowage-earners. Were associations of employers,
politicians and others to be pe rmitted, they demanded, while
being prosecuted for organizing to fight
were
workers
But the
tests from
starvation?
“The name of freedom is but a shadow” the cordwainers
declared in a statement to a Philadelphia newspaper, “if, for
doing what the laws of the country authorize; we are to have
taskmasters to measure out the pittance of our subsistence—
if we are to be torn from our firesides for endeavoring to
_ obtain a fair and just support. for our families, and if we are
to be treated as felons and murderers only for asserting our
right to take or refuse what we deem an adequate reward
for our labor.”
Nor was the issue kept apart from politics. The Democratic Republican party of Thomas Jefferson — forerunner of the Democratic party
of today — blasted the prosecution as a challenge to the nation’s entire
concept of liberty. The right of association, said the Jeffersonians, could
as Talks Begin
from Page 1
Continued
both unions-will strive for a uni-
form
program
is
in _ skilled
trades. Due to complexities of
the aircraft industry, problems
of skilled tradesmen are somewhat different than in auto and
elsewhere.
An
apprenticeship
program adapted to the aircraft
industry,
however,
ed out
workers
will
to protect
more fully.
Aircraft
be
delegates
demands.
collective
last
the
Negotiations
-imerican
early
with
demands
to
go
at
held
Dec.
13-14.
Co-
Closely
following
will
be
of
bar-
at
some
and
Chevrolet,
closed
on
day
Saturday
nine of its
to a regular
The
Page
centers,
the
American
from
Oldsmobile
before
which
Christmas
overtime,
has
cut
12 assembly
work-week.
Busy
situation
is
1
been
back
plants
President
and IAM
laid
by
Walter P. ReuPresident Al J.
plans
for
Angeles meeting.
The joint committee
the
Los
at
training
were
decided.
4
Primary
and
apprenticeship
some
of the points
purpose
meeting,
however,
of
the
will
Jan.|
be
to
is in
likelihood
of 1957
being
third best automotive year
004,514
doubt.
cars
As
of Dec.
had
been
20, 6,built
during the year, The third best
year was 1953 with a total of
6,134,534,
Automotive News reports that
dealer
inventories
600,000—a
month's
stand
supply.
at
mines
the
unions
north-
tions
the
lumber
and
Pacific
He
before
World
during
the
War
espionage.
labor
similar service to |
National
new
Among
Board.
Co. in 1940-41.
forgot
never
exposed
he gave
of
Rela-
Labor
NLRB
his
then—in 1949
was hired.
cision
| love
I he
lost.
Winstead
stead was research director for
the Industrial Union of Marine
and Shipbuilding Workers,
fell
Clair
northwest
the
to
According
was
through
a fishing
on
while
police,
he
Lake
St.
wanted
to
on
ice
and
when
drowned
the
as
acquired
life,
outdoor
his
was
job
the
accept
de-
in his
a factor
in
youth
never
Win-
I,
War
World
During
of
to
Winstead
that
—
Ironically,
cases was that of the Ford Motor }a
he was hardly more
their
orders
output
of
ported
and
have
at
50
metals.
100
and
supply
plants
their
are
seven
in
Lay-
re-
opportunity to “muscle in” while
occupied
were
leaders
union
elsewhere.
syndicate
tectors,
UAW’'s
open
plant
In the Michigan mines of the
Cleveland
Cliffs
Co.
iron
ore
has
of the work
been
force
Railroads,
a sharp
generally
ing
too,
cut,
laid off.
have
drop
in
a reliable
industrial
with
10%
reported
carloadings,
sign of fall-
activity.
was
One
looking
secondary
door
the
mobster
pro-
leadership
and
its
and
gambling;
to
to
gambling
a
the
subvert
was!
other
up of ruthless employers
break the union.
struggles began with the
beatings of militant UAW
now-defunct
the
at
badly
now
beaten
co-director
acts
These
Ken
was
of Region
Morris,
1.
smash
helped
an
local at the
UAW
established
stove works, at least for the time
ij
being.
Tried
“But
Assassination
the
enemies
of
the
UAW
was made
An
Reuther.
to kill Walter
ambush was laid at his home.
A shotgun
blast
fired
at point-
him
left
range
blank
death; his recovery was
A
of miraculous,
short
later
similar
a
attempt
near
little
year
was
made on Victor Reuther, now
director of the UAW’s Washington
This
office,
was
a time
Reuther was
toward major
when
scrap
pany’s
Briggs
an
Walter
leading the union
collective bargain-
ing victories. It followed his demand for an investigation of a
between|
contract
“sweetheart”.
Renda
metal.
honest
been
selling
bid
basis.
Suddenly
to
business,
who
never
dealers
Renda,
before
had
been
never
and who didn’t-even
phone of his own.
have a teleBut Renda
had
and
ex-convict,
Detroit
a
who
Per-
strikebreaker
with
contract
lar
made
year, who
equipment
a father-in-law, Sam
had
the
the
had been part of
He fingered
it | mob.
that
in
a simi-
Detroit-
Michigan Stove.
Renda, lacking the facilities to
handle the scrap, subcontracted
a Canatold Dethat he
ness, Donald Ritchie,
dian hoodlum. Ritchie
troit and state police
on
who
a man
than $4,000 a
owned no trucks or
rone,
its
had
switched
had
com-
for the
established
to
scrap’
in-| more
%ig-time,
the
and
man—his
—and
and
told
a
result
As
arrested
Lombardo
Peter
Perrone,
Ritchie’s
of
police
fession,
the
the plot.
behind
was
Jacobs
in
was
who
who
murder
trigger-
Clarence
uncle,
in
jaunt
running.
were
perch
if the
see
He
morning.
the early
simi-
a
accepted
had
He
CIO.
Briggs
Page 1
all} didn’t stop there.
In 1948 an attempt
wecks,
mining
a construc-
Detroit-Michigan Stove Co. plant
in the Thirties and at Briggs Co.
those
Among
Forties,
the
in
back
slashed
for processed
10,
cut
prosperous
from
Continued
paper.
labor
Twenties, he became
members
“Meanwhile, the auto cutbacks
have had their effect elsewhere.
Supply’
plants,
which
produce
parts
‘and
accessories
for
all
manufacturers,
early
an
Then,
made
consolidate the respective de-| out to
mands of both unions into a!
The
single, uniform package.
brutal
regions.
American Motors where producAt the steel mills, production
tion continues to climb as a result of the introduction this| is at 70% of capacity, with some
areas, notably Youngstown,
O.,
snooty of a new, smaller Ramber.
s
reporting
Republic
Steel on a
With
the
sharp -cutbacks,
virtual
shutdown
for
four
to
the
the
of
Even
reached
City meeting. Wages, union security,
insurance,
employment
offs
brighter
about
that
Later
Lake
Senate
the
efforts
it was
police
the
that
and
inadequate,
Renda Suit Revives Old Mystery
Hayes,
IAM-UAW,, headed
Auto Layoffs Jolt Economy
Continued
the
in ice-clotted
committee
lette
body
took
he
the LaFol-
with
to work
a leave
cided
| were
life of Victor Reuther that
executive board deUAW
UAW
ther
of
ready under way, Woodcock said.
the
covering
Negotiations
Chance-Vought Aircraft Co, at
Grand Prairie, Tex. are slated to
begin in mid-January. Chance-
Vought workers are members
UAW Local 893.
in
his
construction expert.
Before long, however,
the
the
a
as
Administration
Recovery
on
attempt
the
after
It was
Industrial
National
the
Brewery
Workers when called into seryice by the UAW.
of
inauguration
the
lowing
Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 he
joined
the
with
post
lar
tion expert and edited an indus-;
try magazine in that field. Fol-
edited
security
are al-
Gelsavage.
John
artist
staff
During
the recent AFL-CIO
convention in Atlantic C.ty, the
joint aircraft coordinating com-
Washington last February.
Bargaining talks between the
UAW and United Aircraft-Sikor-
Conn.
found
than a lad.
the: lesson.
agreement on a number o- bargaining demands at the Atlantic
sky at Bridgeport,
was
investigator,
when
63
west when
NAA
at
who was
camps
were
union’s
meeting
O.
start
NAA
veteran
~ The
St. Clair, learned
Contract
to
the
the
North
Co.
February.
will
after
—~
Aviation
in
mittee
in
néggotiations
immediately
convention.
-lumbus,
during
conference
aircraft
and
council
bargaining
formulated
were
16
drafted
Basic demands for aircraft, of
course,
follow
special
the
special UAW convention in Detroit Jan. 22-24 are scheduled
to meet in Veteran’s Memorial
building at 8 p.m., Jan. 22 to
discuss major aircraft negotiations as well as the union's
general
Jan.
skilled
to
whose
Winstead,
Ralph
death has further complicated
gaining
sessions
between
the; the UAW’s defense against a
union and Douglas Aircraft, in- multi-million-dollar
Jaw suit
volving members of Locals 148,
(see Page 1), devoted most of
243, 1093 and 1291.
his life to the service of the
Proposals
will be. presented labor movement.
work-
the
wasn’t.
The painting is one of a series by UAW
it
—
struggles
bitter
Winstead Gave Life to Cause
New Era in Aircraft
Seen
rights.
and other
not be divorced from other fundamental
And in time — as the result ef these
car
con-
Renda,
and
Jacobs. Ritchie was held in proas a material
tective custody
witness.
Warrants Dropped
or
something
Ritchie change
Unfortunately,
somebody made
police
his
eluded
He
mind.
his
to a firm which had previously
guard, fled across the border to
had the account. He pocketed | Windsor,
and _ collected
Ont.
of $2 a ton.
difference
the
Evidence before the Kefauver
crime investigation disclosed
that Renda’s contract
the time of the Briggs
the
with
ended
It
probe.
Enter Winstead
It
was
only
$5,000
began at to the assailants. He also dropbeatings. | ped his previous lawyer and enKefauver
gaged a new one. Then he form-
ally
repudiated
that
the
had
insisted
only
two
was
Ritcnie
the case
beatings.
ecutor’s
Renda’s
scrap
contract
and
the
This was the atmosphere
which the shootings occurred,
In
the
first
two
years
in
after
the shootings, the police invesno results.
tigation produced
The UAW, dissatisfied, engaged
Winstead,
Winsted turned up a key wit-
be
taken
and
prejudice.
Ritchie
tinued,
against
The
dropped
Renda,
Lombardo,
and
but
ts
War
Jac
both
the jurisdiction
States,
Renda
and
could
court.
office
warrants
rone
to
then
failed.
haye
Without
confession
the authorities
of
he
Efforts
true,
there
whether
investigate
to
between
connection
any
was
asked
earlier
days
Ritchie
then
confession
the
to extradite
UAW
—
| part of the reward the UAW had
offered for iriformation leading
which
natural
bank
a Canadian
from
his
not
pros-
the
Per-
without
against
were conare outside
went
United
the
to
court.
SOLIDARITY,
Dec, 30, 1957—Page
8
Santa Claus Was on Hand
At Every UAW Xmas Party
ND
Santa
DON’T
Claus,
FORGET,”
using
an
Jocal was held in Lincoln
than
by
3,000
of UAW
enforcer.
Local
Giant
WINNERS
at
Fleetwood
theater on Detroit's Fort street. More
attended
of
15 member
party
the
party.
CROWD, but found at Local 212
medical staff on hand for emergency.
AWARD
the
left
children
son
warns
Local
306
painting
STE
PUZZLE
into
ment
mob
PICTURE:
and
scene
are
announced
at
here
a happy
party, Nancy Hallor is consoled
212 halL
Party was held at
contest
:
ual
eo
Christmas
Harper theater, where two entire housefuls of children were entertained.
is Probate Judge Nathan Kaufman, who served as a contest judge.
Find
day
as
Santa
Santa
was
had
the
in
Claus
is ganged
at the
hall
up
by
Christmas
crowd.
on
by young
sons
and
party
admirers.
of
daughters
in local
Refreshments,
Fourth
held
from
at
the
SAGEBRUSH
Claus
at
western
Local
hero’s
SHORTY
212
party,
admirers
shared
and
from
number
hall turned
members.
AMONG 3,000 KIDDIES to jam the Hollywood theater
party are these youngsters, all eyes for Santa.
party,
410
for Local
the
the
174
headline
heavily
looks
of
among
entertain-
Christmas
with
things
Santa
tho
the girls.
- Item sets