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UAW Solidarity
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1958-01-13
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Vol. 1 No. 5
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ANGELES—A drive to
LOS
SOLIDARITY
to win,
and
workers
elim addition, a substantial
wage raise, union security
and other benefits for all 800,-
000 in the industry is the goal
set here by a joint InternantoF | tional Association of MachinIsts-UAW conference.
from
delegates
150
Almost
seven major companies agreed
the two unions would work in
unison to achieve their aims.
The 13c differential arose beeause both the Douglas Aircraft
and North American pacts inescalators
cost-of-living
elude
others
the
while
Aero-Jet
Rohr,
‘Ryan,
(Lockheed,
General
and Convair) do not. The agreements were reached two years
ago.
Can Afford
addition
In
It
wages,
direct
to
the joint conference also backed
a day a month for each
of service; a union shop;
half
year
{)
of
pay
severance
for
proposals
improyed
an
ance;
program,
company-paid
relocation
and
Michigan Edition
Entered as Second Class Matter, “Indianapolis Ind.
EDITORIAL OFFICE—Detroit, Mich.—Sce a copy.
Published Weekly at 2457 E. Washington St., Indianapolis, 7, Ind
Printed
im
im
100% Union Shops
|
WE EXPECT BIG THINGS
FROM YOU, FRIEND
training
allow-
|
ra
consider amendment of provisions dealing with dues and
strike funds.
|
the
average,
haye
companies
seven
net
im
open
bargaining
some
with
| week.
sessions,
companies
In many
of the
| both UAW and IAM
4x
“|
¥
4
be
|
the
one
with
ef principal
speaker.
space
1
wnions
are
these
AFL-CIO
are
facts:
and
telling
affiljated
the
Eisen-
and
meet
administration
members
of
Congress
that,
getting
ready
to control
in order to stay free on
the
that
U.
the
8S.
has
got
production
ment
and
basis.
2.
Perhaps
plaints
by
Mich.)
Sen.
see
to
it
and
full-
a
on
get
in
space
earth,
people
American
economy
their
to
and
full-employ-
because
and.
Pat
of
com-
McNamara
other
liberals
Senate
prepar-
Can You Wait?
that
the
Democratic
. caueus
agenda was all taken up by re-
@ WHAT DID IKE really
say in his state of the
union message? No one
is better qualified to tell
us than the senior Sena-
edness
from
Illinois,
Paul
H.
Douglas.
He , has
agreed to do just that.
@ SEAFOOD, MAMA was
a
song
once.
Well,
the
shrimp - boats bring in
pretty good stuff. Our
culinary department will
explain all.
DIRTY SHIRTS are no
fun no matter what.
Even so the job is easier
when
you
know
we'll tell you.
how,
as
the
and
Nothing
of
flood
wing
|
ports
from
the
committee,
Leader
did not
Majority
Lyndon Johnson
(Tex.)
limit his report to space
control.
He
also
talked
about
meat and potatoes here at home
in
terms
of
unemployment,
schools, housing, credit, natural
resource
conservation,
aid
farmers and small business,
3.
Senate
Minority
td
Leader
William
F.
Knowlanc
(R,,
Calif.) did not think domestic
programs would be slashed in
order to meet the cost of stepped-up defense, science and education
expenditures.
Danger
is that
if Johnson,
Knowland,
Speaker
Sam
Rayburn and others find they get
press, TV, radio and back-home
moll
responses
only
when
they
whoop
outer
on
space,
action
race
the
up
they
keep
to
may
to
and
meat
|
(D.,
po-
of
Congress,
who
quick
need
human,
only
are
support for the meat and pobii=
UAW
by
Sen.
Mich.),
remain-
| that
A
—
federal court has upheld the
members to
right of UAW
walk off their jobs, despite a
no-strike
working
safe.
The
are
conditions
decision
a
endorses
ruling
tional Labor Relations
1125
when
agreement,
in behalf
workers
at
the
of
not
Na-
Board
Local
Knight-
Morley Corp. here who were
stopped
they
when
fired
heat
110-degree
in
work
after the
failed.
blower
system
An estimated $300,000 in back
pay could go to 17 workers in-
volved, who also get their jobs
back If they want them.
a
The court ruling reaflirms
(Solidarity,
McNamara
committee
that
mem
the
including
—
staff
the
that | Govern — would
concerned,
up the conventhe chairman.
“JT
only
report
Mo-
te
(McGovern)
he
think
still
50 Newspape
At
ments
vide
the
were
being
pushed
have
which
stations
both
Sheboygan,
50)
tele-
in-
im
Wis.,
Kohler
strike.
sources
said
\
8
on EE ane
Contimued
to the committee,
working
to pro-
and
magazines
newspapers,
counsel
arrange-|
nearly
the
for
facilities
vision
time,
same
was
Detroit
scene
and
of
the
Informed
Kennedy
Continued « on
re
was
Page
3
Rules
Heat On, Jobs Off. Court
Mich.
President
reporters
told
sharp
|should
be
fired,”
McNamara
This will also be the day regis- | added.
tration of delegates will begin. |
(Meanwhile, it was learned
that Robert F. Kennedy, chief
rs
toes.
RICHMOND,
a
Pat
a
whose
chairman would be in full conwill | trol of the Kohler hearings and
committees
opens.
clave
light
ber,
constitution
The
committee,
prompted
However,
until
not meet
before the con-
rules, will
21, the day
tion
Jan.
tatoes on the tables of their constitutents here on earthy
Members
Wednesday.
ing committee
which will set
control
go
resolutions
ef the
‘said
McGovern,
reactionary
L.
the
John
for
behayior
was
| Walter P. Reuther
| Dec. 23).
they
Detroit.
the
and
definite
| protest
opening
at Ma-
the
down
about
counsel
the
of
problems
in
Temple
yesterday,
(D.,
tor
ised an “early hearing” om
the UAW
strike- against
Kohler Co.
The credentials committee met
hower
the
in
noticed
little
But
commotion over missiles, rocand
satellites
A-subs,
kets,
control of earth from outer
2,- || closed-door meeting here as
| Congress convened and prom
Atlantic |
approach
the
to sift the
sonic
Dems’ Sense Needs Prop from You
WASHINGTON—The. race
for control of space is on.
con-
by
in
when
face
will
gayel is banged
role
By the Washington Office
in
— The Mo:
WASHINGTON
a@
committee held
Atlantic} |Clellan
16th
attended
attendance
tion
after-
the
Woodcock
was
its
comenroliments, convention
acinto
going
were
mittees
noon gathering. Roy Brown, general vice president of the IAM,
shared
which
April
convention
meet-
the
handled
City
799.
last
With
img of the conference, while A.
©. McGraw, IAM west coast rep-
resentative,
since
their
City.
United
the morning
union
Those delegates already were
accredited to the convention by
action by the unions followed.
Region 6 Director Charles Bio-
*) Jetti chaired
of cre-|
Promise Early
Kohler Probe
We're Growing
this
companies
have units.
other.
the
against
union
the
}vention
which
Until the 1956 negotiations
companies tried to play off
number
Emil Mazey
as Solidarity went
to press reflected the growth of
worth, after taxes, compared
to a national average for all
plans for
The session made
joint action by local committees
t
leaping
dentials pouring into the office
of
UAW.
Secretary
- Treasurer
made
on
profit
to 30%
13
from
The
the
industry of 12%.”
aly
oH)
c
“On
—
ig
eur proposals,” said UAW Vice
Woodcock,
Leonard
President
director of the aircraft depart-
ment.
1958
With more than 100 local unions still to be heard
from, 2,906 members already have submitted
credentials to the UAW *s special constitutional
conyention to be held in Detroit Jan. 22-24 te
barga
formulate 1958 collectiveFaire
S
a OIEand
rrae PN policy
Re ining
%
to meet
afford
can
13,
POSTMASTER: Send undeliverab! le copies with Form 3979 attached
7,
ly under mailing label to 2457 E. Washington St, Indianapolis,
GUARANTEED
POSTAGE
RETURN
U.S.A
ances for displaced workers.
“There is no doubt that the
companies
Jan.
Special Convention
Is UAW's Biggest
insur-
apprentice
OF AMERICA-OAW
WORKERS
IMPLEMENT
& AGRICULTURAL
AIRCRAFT
AUTOMOBILE,
UMIOM, UNITED
INTERNATIOWAL
inflicted on many
8) differential
ublaircraft
wage
hour
wipe Out a 13c.an
under
that
held
The court
that a no-strike clause doesn’t| the labor law, the workers’ acbeproper
entirely
tion was
apply where working conditions
danger
un- cause of “abnormally
or
sub-standarc
become
and
}ous conditions for work”
safe.
long
position
the
by
held
UAW)
Failed
Blower Sytem
could
not be considered
their
health
a strike,
of the~ provision
purpose
case, | The
Knight-Morley
In the
of
the rights
to “protect
was
the factory's blowers caught fire
their labor with1953 heat workers to quit
during an August
to protect
room out penalty in order
spell, filling the buffing
with
the
abrasive
dust
temperature
Seventeen
to
buffers
and
110
pushing
walked
company
The
in
1956.
of
Appeals,
took
the decision to the U.S. Court
ruled
ers.
which
in fayor
has
of the
now
work-
}
held.
court
out | Second
were promptly fired.
The UAW filed unfair labor
charges in their behalf and
NLRB
by the
was upheld
and
the
degrees.
and
lives,”
their
Decision
|Area
Redevelopment
WASHINGTON—An
legislative
Douglas
conference
area
on
redevelopment
will be held here Jan.
for House
AFL-CIO
banking
committee hearings
Speaker Rayburn.
and
the
bill
16 to plan
currency
promised
by
2
Jon. 153, 1958—Page
Signs that the “Michigan
is killing us” wail by the sta
industrialists is losing its effect were evident as the new y
got under way. Even a chamber of commerce saw soil
thing
good
in the state’s
business
climate
and
still
SOLIDARITY,
firm said ‘‘no thanks” to a bid from a southern state.
Plymouth, Michigan, which
took a low blow when its 75‘Poor’ Runaway
year-old Daisy Co. decided to
Despite its moans of
run
away
to Arkansas
where
it
can par $1 Jess an hour to its
workers,
cheered
up
considerably
with
the
announcement
MICHIGAM
that
Corp.
the
Gaylord
Container
of St. Louis will move in
and take
plant.
William
state representative, and
Connor.
Edward
member
eouncil
Carey
international
UAW
(left),
city
Detroit
as
in
sworn
are
(center), take their first oaths, Joined by re-elected
T. Patrick
County
Wayne
All received
In '58
in
representatives
to
a
nearby
vacant
the newspapers have
play
down
luncheon
Economic
ment
Commission
| state’s “industrial
the
fact,
of
the
10th an-
recent
at the
Develop-
praised
climate”
the
and
department,
practices
mamed
te the
Name UAW Aide
To Appeals Post
was
by Mayor Louis Miriani
Commission on Commu-
A member
Relations.
mity
Im
Lansing,
where
Pensation
more
than
30 elected trade unionists
tare
men
last week, Goy. G. MenWilliams announced the
were
sworn
into
the
member,
to the
Ploymént
gwion’s
story
at
Security
appeals
gent
Russell
of UAW
pointed
to head
partment
of
Understand
the
rights
and
de-
Needs
ment
as civic-minded
union
members
eases
years.
for
the
of
the
working
man
throughout the
High
meeding
on
the
needs
and
state.
list
of the
woman;
chairman
council
sisted
of
immediate
|
matters| senting
attention
is
tion
Detroit's industrial and residen-|
of the MESC
and
UAW
Gerber
Products
a
and
further
boost in the state’s industrial
Power Co.
activity, Consumers
has
announced
it will invest
year in the company’s
to
board.
of
referees
S. Coleman,
Is Good
dailies
‘crowd
and
of
puts
anti-tax,
the
lie
president
of
and
more
proof
the
the
Detroit
News,
of
News?
the
to
anti-union
Michigan’s
newspapers,
the
from
all other
wages. You'll see that
and in all editions.
report
up
editorial
the
policy
NOVI,
in
pre-
and
the
Mich.—After
months
“Michigan
attractiveness
apparently,
became
a
this
small
to
front
with
takes
tial blight, which was a key is- over the post of Charles Longgue in the recent city election. heed, former president of a DeAuto
workers
in
the
Detroit }troit printing union local, who
area have a direct interest in an died last year.
immediate program in order to
of the
members
other
The
provide jobs for those who find commission are John F. Young
their plants automated and to and Duane Mosier.
Burroughs
Began Jan. 6
grievances
|
of
no
public
its
the
and
publican
were
not
Meetings
The strike got under way by held
the 2,600 workers on Jan. 6 after}and
are
profits}
money
wi
a bigwig
circles,
know
Michigan
in :
told the
There
should
has
campaigns
Boost
m
if
Labor
segments
the
chamber
is"
sh
iat!
fiseirss
«iif
#}
that
finds
now
commerce
clima
educatioibi?©
all
Plymouth,
area’s climate for business ab
ops
(ior
industry apparently is not
bad
as some
have
made
ager, too, noted
it ¢
«!!
city maj
Plymouth
to be. The
that “apparerigr..(\)
ly we have the kind of labia
‘©
market which is very attractifore):
to those who require skilled ap
Lins
workers.”
which
of its
|
Corp.
Wheel
Motor
x10
had consider)
appliance divivi>
LOS
southeibues
a
to
operations
and
heaters
which
company
A
other
a)P
has
ar
out: ‘««
that it will move
nounced
did not attempt tt)
Michigan
| oft-adopted smokescreen(¢
12
blaming taxes and labor cost/s0”
The Sundstrand Machine Tot
©
Co. will relocate its machine top)
month.
plant
drop
40%
the
year.
How
in
the anti -unior
am
- hig)
anti
group
wiiw
become
fo):
living
abstain from further attacks
the state appears to depend
they
desperate
how
being | political campaign
officers the year.
t-1
a)
oip
als
Mite
durin)
issues
@
3
GD
little
—
a meeting the day before had| progress reported to date.
The strike has the full authset aystrike deadline. The local|
Overshadowing al. else in the
atate is the need for action on
Jack Fuller,
UAW Pioneen=:
state's
union
Provide
work
for new
in | orization and support
voted
membérship
_had
November for a strike if’ their! ternational union.
workers.
of the
in-
officials and membentou"
UAW
throughout the Michigan ares
the passing of autre
mourned
the rising unemployment. Longmeeded
improyements
in
the!
been
unemployment
ignored
controlled
the
need
program
law
of
have!
by the Republican- |
legislature
for
a
well
as|
employment
workers.
|
through
mix
DAW
months
layoff,
to
jobs
ing
Local
their
Refrigerator
ary,
1,300
137
Co.
hourly
members
a
of|
return-|
During
Janu-
the
came
Hupp
Corp., manufactures refrigerators, ranges freezers, air
conditioners. as well as aircraft
for defense.
>
40’s,
Jack
of they?
years
worked
untilita*
Co.
Axle
aty
:
During
known
his
career
to millions
he
be-}n
of De-}'t
troit newspaper readers through i710"
his letters to the editor, which!» *
appeared
dailies.
troit
also
He
%
CERTIFICATE
PRESENTATION
to
group
of
UAW
membe rs and
officials who successfully com-
pleted course in GM grievance procedures is made here by Walter Henderson, Region
150 students who received awards for
was among
Group
representative.
cational
weeks
course.
Ceremonies
were
in Local
174
hall.
frequent
of
served
subjects
two
intervalsiie"
in
terms
De--s'*
asi
ve
a Michigan state representatioy"!
;
ae
at
yariety
a
on
be recalled to their jobs in
ey
company’s various operations.
For the first time the com-
parts
trying
from 1939 until 1951,
|
will
pany
will
manufacture
dehumidifiers. Gibson, a divsion of
Houghtorio)
at
he was elected financial secre-1°™
tary of Local 174, a post he held}i»
Gibson
workers
the
Timken-Detroit
are
at
and
30's
Ends at Gibson
Mich.—After
Jan. 6
was 57.
wh¢}iw
Fuller,
One of the band of stalwarts “ov
who helped build the union int °°
andi
infancy
its struggling
Six-Months Layoff
GREENVILLE,
Jack
pioneer
died on
Lake. He
comprehensive|
specific
aid to Michigan
as
ar
ub
and
of
of
ian
durin)
production
anti-governor
standard
because
came
long
wt
to move its ojo
company}
the
The decision
into
erations
main
ti
Americajo!
Rockforiyoid
its
in
at
department
Division
Broach
—
adjusted.
between the local
with
company
the
in
to
In
be an
w
gr
the
industrial
om
Pliances, has decided to consolpace”
,
date its operations here.
isn’t
story,
currently
grit
+
#
ai
that “after travels in 38 sta’
Il, next
of,
«°
raj
in Michigan,
ers, space
in-
a big headline
-
state has announced that it w
stay in Lansing. The compan
which employs about 300 persoipewt!
in the manfacture of lawnmoyjoiit
corporations.
Affected is the assembly of
fruitless efforts, UAW members |
of Local 36 at the Novi Lincoln|Lincolns,
Thunderbirds
and
assembly plant have struck over | Continentals at the plant which
job rates and classifications.
|} went into operations last spring.
compensa-
all,
made
ion
Abuses Bring Lincoln Strike
as-
after
Lansing,
transfer
next fly-by-night company with five
run southward
to pay sub-standard
story
made
nouncement
The
editions.
But wait until the
employes decided to
plant—the
ex
away Daisy Manufacturiibm
y* iu!
operatio} ur or
1957
ended
Co.
with a neat profit of $1
000.
intelligent
rating only three paragraphs
on page 4. But even this
was too much. It appeared in only the first edition of the
day’s papers,
being
killed
unceremoniously
and
removed
advisory
Doherty
John
history.
ten
to that
members
hundreds
cases
appeals
previous
killing us”
In
bringing to their jobs an under-| for five terms. He has served as
standing
Detroit
dustry.
But
to
worth reporting.
Doherty is a charter member
of Local 7 and was its secretary
be!
the
its
unijue®
the community to sell that facie)
When is news not news to the News?
Apparently when it runs counter to
dollars
department
in employ-
last
News
in
recognized
the Burroughs Corp.
In anticipation of
Co.,
On Jan. 2 the Michigan Economic Development Department reported that 20 industries had moved into the state
during
1957. Their presence
means
more
jobs, more
tax
Williams
to
the
three-man
board is Tom Doherty, international
representative
in
the
ap-
will
is
benefits.
UAW
compensation
who has specialized
representatives
of
been
referee has given a decision.
Appointed by Goy. G. Menneii
presi-
state’s
labor.
Participating
eitizens, labor
and
(See
652, was
has
The board takes final action
on ail cases appealed by either
| the worker or the state after-a
Commis-
White,
Local
ment
Em-
board.
right.)
Earlier,
Dobstaff
Michigan
department
com-
appointed to the appeals board
of the
Michigan
Employment
Security Commission, one of the
most
important
posts. in the
state’s
machinery
of employ-
legisla-
appointment ef Thomas
erty, UAW compensation
of the UAW’s
No
no
wages—eyy
favorable
Power
Carey was elected along with five other candidates en-|
Council.
was
union
wr
Mito
tax structure. i1mong them were
the
presidents
of
Consumers
gervice during 1958, both on a state and local level. Already sworn in as a new member of | yore than $100 million in 1958,
the Detroit city council is Ed Carey, UAW international representative and former minor- | the
second
biggest
spending
ity leader in the state legislature.
dorsed by the Wayne County CIO
©
Lillian
Detroit,
in
Ako
Hatcher, international repregentative in the UAW’s fair
though
and
Daisy
State
Michigan
than ever role in government
a gréater
will undertake
Michigan
chosen
niversary
of UAW
Is Role
for
speakers
election.
in
endorsement
CIO
Praise
Although
former
and
representative
city
by
members
council
Public Service
Greater
UAW
Ed
Leadbetter.
D.
Thomas
clerk
VETERAN
A
AND
FRESHMEN
TWO
over
taxes
| ji
1A eduthe six-
before
ton
his retirement
Lake
where
he
to Hough- »)"§
owned
operated a small resort.
Officers and staff members
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S561 ‘Gk “Wer ‘ALINVGITOS—E ed
Those Happy, Happy
uto Plant Workers!
§
T’S a factory
worker
really
like today?
The image seems to vary, It de
nds upon who’s looking at him
dealing with him. To the Gallup
gal
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\Acimposers, he’s ‘one thing. To the
OP, another. To the Democrats,
|
\ is foreman, his doctor,
+, his wife, his fellow
ie’s a lot of things.
>
| But the commonest
of all—at least among
ers these days—seems
his preachworkers —
;
conception
the thinkto be that
“gihe’s happy.
~ wfOh,
maybe not living in / perpetual
sqlee, But who is? After all, hasn’t
iop 4e got
a car and
a TV?
‘si union to protect him.
He’s
got
Even if he
‘neg(oesn't belong to a union, he’s got
There’s
&, “ae minimum wage law.
‘tmedmemployment compensation when
~ w¥e's laid off, hospitalization when
ic @§e’s sick, insurance for his bank deOsits and social security when he’s
45.
MB Is there. any reason why he
visathouldn’t be_happy?
“ #)-A- surprising number of reasons
‘enough, at any rate, to jolt the
“If I understand him correctly,”
Swados wrote, “he is referring to~
the fact that the worker’s rise in
real income over the last decade—
plus the diffusion of middle-clasa
tastes and values throughout a large
part of the underlying population
— have made it increasingly difficult to tell blue-collar from whitecollar worker without a program.
“In short, if the worker earns like
the middle-class, votes like the midmiddle
the
like
dresses
-dle-class,
class, dreams like the middle-class,
then he ceases to exist as a. worker.”
Swados holds no brief for that
idea because “there is one thing that
the worker doesn’t do like the middie-class: he works like a worker.”
“The steel-mill puddler does not
yet sort memos, the coal miner does
“not yet sit in conferences, the cot-
ton millhand does not yet sip mar-
tinis from his lunchbox.”
In fact, Swados
found,
“the work-
er’s attitude toward his work
erally compounded of hatred,
and resignation.”
One of the basic reasons,
says, is economic.
“The average automobile
(Swados himself worked in
gets
plant)
sembly
a
little
is genshame
Swados
worker
an asbetter
than $2 an hour. As such he is
one of the best-paid factory workers
in the country“After 20 years of militant
struggle led by the union that I
believe to be still the finest and
most democratic labor organizain
tion
United
the
he
States,
is
earning less than the starting salaries
_ and
ioleminformed) have been dug up by
yeldarvey Swados. A writer and —
-iiemnlike
so many
outside
authorities
\! em the subject—a factory worker
tudiabmself, Swados finds life on the
nieussembly line hardly a stroll
eeuthrough a field of daffodils waving
#m a summer sunset.
Twice in the last year, Swados
~T
eotnas written about factory workers
ym@and their existence in a somber
omtabone. Once was in his novel, On
(United Automobile
edthe Line
tM Worker, October). The other was
! sm The Nation, a magazine pub“ttdiiehed for intellectuals. The title of
of
| Seite latter article was “The yu
athe Happy Worker.”
“M
He pegged his piece to a quotaeo@iton he’d found in another -article:
“The old-style sweatshop cripoe
pled mainly the working people.
oe
0 Now there are no workers left in
America;
are almost
all mid-
dle-class as to income and expec-
iy
“©
we
f
tations.”
to
offered
inexperienced
college
semi-literate
often
graduates without dependents.”
After deduction, Swados says, “his
pay check for~40 hours of work is
going to be closer to $70 than to
$80 a week. Does this make him
middle-class as to income?
“Surely it would be more to the
point to ask how a family man can
get by in the Fifties on that kind
of income.
“For one thing,” Swados went on,
“he works a lot longer than 40
hours a week—when he can, Since
no automobile company is as yet in
a position to guarantee its workers
anything like 50 weeks of steady
40-hour
paychecks,
the auto worker
knows he has to make it while he
can,
‘During the peak production periods
he
therefore
puts
in
nine,
10,
11 and often 12 howrs a day on the
assembly line for weeks on end. And
that’s not all.
“If he has dependents, as like as
not
time’
he
also
job.
I
holds
have
down
worked
a
‘spare-
on
the
line with men who doubled as mechanics, repairmen, salesmen, con-
tractors, builders, farmers, cab-driv-
ers, lumberyard workers, counter
men. I would guess that there are
many more of these than show up
in the official statistics.
“Even if he puts in 50, 60 or 70
hours a week at one or two jobs,
his wife’s pay
on t
he has to coun
check, or his son’s, his daughter’s,
his brother -in-law’s; or on his
or his
social security,
mother’s
~
father’s veteran’s pension.
“The working-class family today
is not typically held together by the
male wage-earner, ‘but by multiple
wage-earners often of several gern
erations
club
who
together
to
get
the things they want and need.”
Another basic reason why Swados
found the factory worker is far
from happy is the yery nature of his
work itself.
“The plain truth,” Swados wrote,
“is that factory work is degrading.
“It is degrading to any man who
ever dreams of doing something
with his life; and
worthwhile
pitied
selves more
hated),
sick
of working like blinkered donkeys,
sick of being dependent for their
livelihood on a maniacal productionmerchandising setup, sick of working in a place where there was no
spot
rest
to
relax
period.
“Sooner
concluded,
ciety . . .
come face
of. work,
or
“if
we
to
during
the
class—and
really
the
aware
intellectuals
of the dismal
—
side
are
of
factory life. They just don’t like to
admit it.
“For me it was expressed most
precisely last year in the dismay and
sympathy with .which middle-class
it
is about time we faced the fact.
“Almost without exception, the
men with whom I worked on the
assembly line last year felt like
Depending on
trapped animals.
personal circumtheir age and
stances, they were either resigned
to their fate, furiously angry at
themselves for what they were doing, or desperately hunting other
work that would pay as well and in
addition offer some variety, some
prospect of change apd betterment.
“They were sick of being pushed
around by harried foremen (themthan
“We seem to be operating in
this capitalist economy on the totalitarian assumption that we can
funnel the underprivileged, undereducated or just plain under
equipped into the factory, where
we can proceed to forget about
them once we have posted the
minimum fair labor standards on
the factory wall.
“If this is what we want, let’s be
honest enough to say so.
“But if we cling to the belief that
other men are our brothers .. .
then we will have to start thinking
about how their work and their lives
ean be made meaningful.”
Swados contends that the middle
12-minute
later,” Swados conwe want a decent soare going to have to
face with the problem
friends greeted the news that I had
gone back to work in a factory,”
he wrote.
“If workers are now full-fledged
members of the middle-class, why
difference
What
the dismay?
whether one sits in an office or
stands im a shop? The answer is
so obvious that one feels shame
at laboring the point.
“But I have news for my friends
among the intellectuals. The answer
is obvious to workers, too.”
13, 1958—Pa
Jan.
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after all,
entertaining
takes some
thought
viewpoint—is the fact that a guest who’s invited
Someone once wrote about the “ideal guest”:
“She is not difficult to please;
She can be silent as the trees.
2
all ostentatious
shuns
She
at the
show;
She knows exactly when to go.”
But
Well,
what
There’s
or
or by what.
rules
basic
just no telling how
that
more successful
who appears to be-delighted
everyone, and surprised at
the
observes
when
the
speaking,
generally
nothing.
She
ideal hostess?
the
about
hostess is someone
by everything a
be,
person
sensitive
isS going
etiquette.
of
someone
can
to be miffed,
She stays relaxed. Nobody’s apt to have a ball
if the lady doling out the hors d'oeuvres is grim.
What’s more, if she’s affable, she’s a little more
able to soothe any ruffled feelirigs that pop up.
Finally. she has to be ingenious about handling
those
“difficult”
situations
if
happen
they
to
occur.
Probably the first important attitude a good
hostess has to have is concern for—and delight
in — her guests. It’s théir desires that come
first.
Not hers.
Therefore, she spends some time thinking about
how the guests are going to like each other.
. Whether or not their personalities are going to
mesh. Sure, friendly arguments can be fun. But
there’s never any telling when what started out
as
ese
the HOSTESS
a GUEST
likes to see?
a clash
of opinion
glaring and sniffing
Neither does the
will
wind
up
with
at each other.
successful hostess
a couple
pair.
off
people who have absolutely nothing in common.
She wouldn’t ask a weight lifter to spend an evening chatting with a chess player. Nor does she
21
going
social’ security
to
get
or the
a kick
DAR.
out
of
In planning
again
think
she’s
a stop-gap
ought
the entertainment,
to
consider
the
the hostess
wishes
ef
her
guests. A game the hostess may be crazy about
herself is not necessarily something her guests
will find hilarious.
An otherwise perfectly normal individual may
become tongue-tied and terrified if asked to get
up and perform by herself in, say, a charade. No
hostess. should be so cruel as to make a tone deaf
are
to sing. All in all, if games
have on
pers
to be the evening’s entertainment, team particiis
competition
individual
pation rather -than
safer as far as feelings are concerned.
Then, once the party is going good, the games
should be changed frequently. It’s better to stop
a game right at the peak of the guests’ enjoy-
ment than to let it drag on until boredom sets in.
At the same time, if a game isn’t going over,
the good hostess has a bright suggestion for some-
thing else that will perk up the party.
If organized games aren’t to be the evening’s
doings, then the hostess ought to cluster her
guests so that no more than five or six will be
.
within chatting distance of each other.
This is a small enough group so that stimulating conversation can be had. At the same
time, it’s not so small-that a guest will feel
conspicuous if she decides to branch out and
move to another bunch.
discussing
Above all else, unless she’s a far better diplomat than John Foster Dulles, she doesn’t pair
off people who are having a feud at the moment. A party is no. place for her to expect a
warring couple make up. Not, that is, if she
has any regard for the feelings of the other
guests in the event the armistice isn’t signed.
Another considerate action on the part of the
hostess is to give her guests plenty of notice.
For more formal parties—receptions, anniversaries and so forth—the invitation ought to go out
at least a month in advance.
Even for informal get-togethers, a last’ minute
Previous
call is rather difficult to cope with.
plans may have been made by the invited guest.
Maybe a baby sitter has to be found, and that’s no
breeze these days.
may
—-a substitute for somebody else ‘the hostess
would much rather have had. Or she may think
the hostess is rather ill-mannered not to consider
the difficulty of getting ready for a party in a
mere matter of hours.
bring together persons of widely differing ages.
No matter how gay she may be, Granny isn’t apt
to go in for rock ’n roll. Nor is a girl or boy just
turned
last moment
What's just as important<-from the hostess*¢ i,
Little accidents—a dropped dish, a spilled
drink, 2 soaked dress—are bound to happen in
the course of a party. The less the hostess says
shows
Still, she
the better.
them,
about
some
eoncern—for her guest.
Then, there’s the problem’of the bore. The
gal—or guy—who just can’t stop talking someene’s ear off.
For this crisis, there are three techniques: the
the “cut”, the “send.”
the first instance, the hostess—as
“take,”
In
as
soon
she notices the bored one’s frozen face—moves
in, takes the bore of his hands and let’s him find
gome blessed freedom elsewhere.
“Sending,” is simple. The hostess simply says
“Alice (or Henry), would you be an angel and
fetch (the ash tray, the lighter, more ice cubes,
anything).” Off trots the bore.
Or, the good hostess cuts in by breaking up
monologue
the
mentioning
your
but
with “Oh,
your
Henry,
new
excuse
do
reminds
car
me,
me
that I’ve been having trouble starting in the
morning .. .” Let the bore answer the hostess,
who can then ask the other guests for their opinbons, just to break up the lopsided conver: sation.
In the
ene
home,
who
lucky
or
final analysis,
has
the
break
impressed
lavishness
they
got
hostess
the good
her
just
of
by
guests
the
with
food,
being
the party.
is not
her
or the
asked
The good hostess is the one about whom
guest says a day or two later, “Gee, we had
to
a
a
ball at Ella’s the other night. She always throws
a good party. I hope she has another one soon.”
When they say that, Sister, you really have
become
the hostess
with
the mostest.
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Jan, 13, 1958—Page
By Bogdan Baynert
NO TRIM! JUST
~ > HAIR TONIC, PLEASE
YOLIDARITY,
{ DIDN'T RAISE
MY SON TO
BE A SCIENTIST!
FIRING
SCHEDULE
Tightening Belts
Peoria, IL —
eut?” butchers
often.
Husbands
im some
eredit—in
they're
Businessmen
the
are
more
asking
using
wary
the
budget-—
for extended
their
keep
to
order
ears.
attract
“Haven’t you got a cheaper
here are being asked more
are reshuffling
cases
A Peoria Story
late-model
“give-aways”
shoppers
to
to their
?
eounters.
People of the Peoria area are
these and other measures after the layoff of 6,000 employes in the East Peoria
plant of Caterpillar Tractor Co.—makers
of the huge, yellow earth-moving machinery.
The
Caterpillar
layoffs,
coupled
with
smaller ones in other Peoria plants and
businesses (e.g., over 50 members of the
im
*'union-are out of work), so far
t created large areas of hardship
prosperous
Peoria.
But belts are being tightened, though only
a few
notches.
Ma
men returned to their homes in
guch
states as Tennessee and Missouri when
they were laid off Others have found work
in the Peoria area (principally in construction).
Still
Here's
from this department’s mail, more
expect
a buying
from
guide
different
to
types
what
of
you
rugs,
can
and
typical costs this winter:
ALL-WOOL: Most trade experts consider
that a good-quality all-wool rug still offers
the best all-around combination of durability,
soil resistance and resiliency. But good wool
rugs cost $10 a square yard and up. At $12,
a 9x15 wool rug would cost you $180.
NYLON is the other “most preferred” rug
fiber, because of its high abrasion resistance,
good crush resistance (if not as much as
wool)
and ease of cleaning.
Some nylon rugs,
however, have been known to
“pills.” authorities report. Nylon
eosits 510-$14 a square yard.
course. is completely resistant to
mildew damage. At $12, a 9x15
eosts $150.
form
by
Caterpillar’s
supplementary
unemployment
benefits fund, which, with state unemployment compensation, gives a jobless worker
60 to 65% of his salary
for 26 weeks.
The cutback at Caterpillar and elsewhere
doesn’t show at first sight in metropolitan
Peoria.
Z
The real recession shows in people—
and there are few persons who have
escaped the consequences of the layoffs.
At least two workers at Caterpillar were
Sores
for every person who was laid
off.
Peorians cannot understand many of the
apparent
contradictions:
While
laying
off
6,000 men in Peoria, 550 in Decatur, and
650 in Joliet, Caterpillar is going ahead with
construction plans both at home
and
abroad.
(Reprinted from Work, published
He Council on Working Life.
by
Catho-
fiber
carpeting
Nylon, of
insect and
nylon rug
WOOL-NYLON blends are a desirable
quality, but still in the same costly price
bracket as all-wooL The blend provides the
and Thane:
We Told 'Em What Cars
Should Cost—a Lot Less
ROUBLE with the auto
business, says Advertising Age (the weekly magazine
that
of
the
ad
nobody
experts)
knows
is
what
cars jare supposed to cost.
Buying a car, the magazine
complains, is like bargaining
with
a
sidewalk
rug
sales-
man.
“Dealers
use
weaselwords and double-talk to
snare unwary buyers, who
have no way of knowing
what they are supposed to
pay,” the publication goes
Ga
‘
facturers have an obligation
to
tell
them,”
the
article
Of course,
the UAW
bas al-
to cost—that
is, $100
concludes.
ready said what new cars ought
Biss
x
less.
ae
What with our dependence
on German scientists these
days, some bright
boys
have
come
sions.
Here
are
Air Force
their own “German”
up
with
~
expres-
a few
that
~
might apply in factories, too:
Efficiency
expert:
Das
schwettenoudter.
At least part of the blame
lies with the manufacturers,
who long ago stopped using
prices-as a regular part of
their ads, claims Advertising
Age.
“The public has a right to
know what new cars are sup-
By Sidney Margolius
families would like to buy rugs than almost
any other household item, if they could only
afford them.
The annual February rug sales start late
in January, but many retailers already are
eatting prices this winter because of keen
competition for volume.
Manufacturers,
however,
are holding firm on their
charges.
have been helped
their union, Local 974 of the UAW, to get
work in Chicago and elsewhere.
As a result, few workers have drawn on
Buying a Rug?
Judzing
others
Here
Inspectors:
Das
phaul-
\ terfinder grape.
Security force: Das sch* noopen bunche.
Contract negotiator: Das
tablegepaunder.
You can probably think of
posed to cost, and the manu-
a lot more.
WMTERNATIONAL UNIOM, UNITED AUTOMOBILE, AIRCRAFT
% AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS OF AMERICA-UAW
virtues of both wool and nylon, while min-
imizing nylon’s tendency to “pill.” The
carpet trade prefers a predominance of
wool in the blend. One highly rated blend
is 70% wool and 30% nylon.
RAYON
carpeting is durable enough if
well made, but tends to mat down. It lacks OFFICIAL PUBLICATION, International Union, United Automowool’s resiliency. You can buy rayon car- bile, Aircraft and—Agricultural Implement Workers of America,
peting for as little as $4 to $6.50 a square AFL-CIO. Published weekly. Yearly subscription.to members, 60c;
yard, depending on the quality. This would to non-members, $2.50
EMIL MAZEY
make the cost of a 9x15 rug $60 to $97.50 WALTER P. REUTHER
Secretary-Treasurer
President
WOOL-RAYON blends have some of wool’s
MATTHEWS
NORMAN
GOSSER,
RICHARD
resilience, depending on the amount of wool.
LEONARD WOODCOCK, PAT GREATHOUSE
They
should
have
at least 50%
wool.
Vice-Presidents
One
good
blend
has
70%
wool
and
30%
rayon. It’s available around $9 a square yard
and up. At $9, a 9x15 would cost you $135.
COTTON rugs are really suitable only
for temporary needs or rooms that don’t
have
much
traffic,
as many
families
who
bought them for heavily-travelled living
rooms have learned to their chagrin. They
come in bright colors but get dirty quickly, are hard to clean, tend to mat down
and sometimes even stretch. Moderatequality cotton carpeting is available fer
$4 up. At $4, a 9x15 rug would cost you
$60.
Note that in general, the better the rug,
the more it weighs. When you pick up an
edge of.a good rug it feels heavy.
Copyright 1957 by Sidney Margolius
SOLIDARITY
International
CHARLES BALLARD
RAY BERNDT
GEORGE BURT
Executive
Members
HARVEY KITZMAN
RUSSELL LETNER,
WILLIAM McAULAY
McCUSKER
JOSEPH
MERRELLI
GEORGE
E, T. MICHAEL
CHARLES BIOLETTI
ROBERT CARTER
ED COTE
KEN MORRIS
PATRICK O'MALLEY
MARTIN GERBER
ROBERT W, JOHNSTON
CHARLES
Board
KENNETH W. ROBINSON
RAY
ROSS
WINN, Director of Public Relations
FRANK
KEN FIESTER, Director of Publications and Editor
H. KERRIGAN
PHOTOS—James
ART—Jack
Maschhoff,
Gelsavage
Yardley,
Bogdan
Irv
King
Baynert,
John
STAFF—Russell Smith, Jerry Dale, Ray Denison,
George Ryder, John Ullman, Henry Santiestevan
Members,
a
American
an
aa
Newspaper
Guild,
ee ee ee
AFL-CIO
ee
In Regionthe 1A
complete
f
\
|
As part of
mobilization in support of the
UAW’s 1958 collective bargaining objectives, Region 1A
has begun an intensive Heart
of the Union program within
the locals.
Under Co-Directors
_
Future Mill Co.
In an NLRB election on Jan. 3, Future Mill workers voted
#29 strong for the UAW, 2 for
Cote and Joseph McCusker, the
19 |
'
- the regior will be held im both
evening
_ order
- poon
As
morning
and
to allow
day
means
of
shift workers
a
_ well-informed
_ classes
different
|
|
areas
to attend.
insuring
membership,
been
of
up
set
the
im
the
of
Heart
UAW’s
_The
Union is a film and discussion
the
by
designed
program
department¢
education
union’s
to explain union history, union
|
the UAW’s
gram.
|.
ethics, the theory and ,achievements of trade unionism and
locals of the UAW all over the
country. Certificates are awarded all who complete the pro-
gram.
And
to Join
- USA-UAW
dan
Bliss
to
us
brings
director
of
department
text.
practice
a
it
made
jointly with unions having sub- |
in the
representation
stantial
same industry in efforts to solve
common problems.
The intra-corporation council
meeting will be held Feb. 20 in
Pittsburgh and will have dele-
five
and
USA
four
from
gates
The
attending.
plants
UAW
company’s nine plants normally
workers, divided
5,000
employ
between
evenly
approximately
unions.
the two
The USA plants are in Canton and Salem, Ohio, and Pitts-
purgh
The
ings,
ledo,
and Ambridge, Pa.
UAW firms are in Hast-
Cleveland
Mich.
O.
of
the
steps
Further
UAW,
tion of its Diesel
progress
in
production are
Dethe
at
troit GM Diesel plant, where
building expansion program
a
is
under way.
Completion is expected next
spring and will provide two new
lines for a total of
assembly
manufacturing
five..New
ods
most
make
will
modern
plant
the
meth-
“the
of its kind
plant
in production technology,” according to the company.
The plant employs 1,600 workers, members of UAW Local 163.
|
|
there
1B Y
ap-
McAuley,
William
was
attorney
a Shefferman
that his
cussion
Géorge Kamenow,
|,
De-
in
“Textile
four
only
“The
gone
by
increased
lower
question
the
and
(b)
|
auto-
more
they
would
who
did, the |
~~
consume |
would
UAW
the
that
and
agent,
savings in labor costs have
into (a) more profits for
owners
of
if
am
a living wage | Unionbuster Nathan Shefferm
would still remain to be solved. | His shadow crossed Pontiac
said.
Sexton
%,”
even
if no one earned
dropped
have
prices
don’t.
And
consumer.
the
to
They
sion that this would be reflected |
prices.
low|
that
is
show,
should
fig- |
Sexton’s
as
problem,
savings
illu-
the
destroyed
years,
10
in
his
war.
the
workers in
mation
have to go through the full pro-~
cedure for an NLRB election.
New Local, New
Year, New Pact |i:::'ve campaien, ine UAW
Expecting to be subjected te
the full treatment of a Shefferthe
informed
| representatives
at the| company head of their knowl
MUSKEGON—Workers
Metallic Process Co. are starting | edge of Shefferman’s tactics and
Aim of Democrats
LANSING—Support for an allout drive in the field of industrial safety will be one of the
top priority legislative goals of
Michigan
cording
Democrats
Goy.
Lt.
to
in 1958, ac-
:
realistic
and
state colleges and universities
as well as continued develop-
and civil rights
ment of highway
will be sought.
programs
be
Hart
said that
waging
an
to “overcome
which
ference
Democrats will
apathy
have
-in
resulted
of
workers.
clear,
often
scale
they
textile
In
are
wage increase
i-
a
holidays,
paid
of
have
a 1909 safety law remaining on
the books as the chief protection against countless hazards
never dreamed of in the time of
hour
wonder
big|
the
if
and C of C publicity camwage
against
any
in fact.
basis
Is it true,
for
+ pushing
indif-
and
rid
wage
low
$2.07.
paigns
campaign
active
the
about
$1.41.
to | NAM
support”
get
within
7c, equalization
class
clients
and
| troit
across
elties
other
in
more
scores
and
De-
the
industry fication,
in the
Automation
automatic
wage iM-| \intry,
Perhaps because of the over=
ed.
ipli
has mult
creases, night shift bonus and |
made} standard vacation plan.
Sexton
as
Workers,
| whelming number of pledges ta
A.
Philip
to
4 Staff
given | With the assistance of UAW|.
brought into the plant, phony
|
they
tives
senta
on?
repre
1D
ecti
n
| Regio
workers job prot
formed,
no” committees
“vote
|
Local
show
es
to
selv
stics
them
d
stati
lishe
cited
estab
Sexton
work
te
made
visits
time
night
|
ce
a5
4
ale
n
bega
|
has
and
573, elected officers
that employment in textile
homes, heavier jobs gives:
{ers
“is
act.
00
contr
negotiations for a
dropped to 588,000 from 786,0
zers and a score
| union sympathi
e
.
|
=
in tén years.
Wrapped up now is an agree-| of other devious methods used.
hada 38
;
In Flint, Sheffe
Average wages in industry are ment with
a union shop clause, |
Has
New Safety Law
quate
automa-
in the
Region
wages only result in low prices |
when the maufacturers pass on |
;
Has it?
In addition, Hart listed “ade-
Diesel Expands
GM
in the
jobless
office
the new year off right. They’ve | awaited to do battle.
«8
campaign,
A Shefferman
got themselves union represen- |
|
has
stry
indu
“Since 1947, the
and a new} revealed by representatives of
local
new
a
on,
|tati
|
ion
bill
$4.5
d
spen
to
been able
3
the
before
the industry.
companies
of benefits| various
lot
a
with
act
contr
and equipment
| McClellan committee, is sought
Put this all together, and you jon new plants
to them.
new
|
been
has
time,
a picture of the textile and, at the same
have
The big change came with the} by 4 firm anxious to keep its
|
$216
from
ts
profi
up
pile
to
able
a union
having
from
workers
industry paying fewer workers
| ey
th
which
in
on
electi
NLRB
|
ion
mill
$533
to
1947)
(in
| million
less money for more production.
| organizing drive succeed.
chose the UAW.
(in 1957).”
of professionals are
since
50%
almost
And there are fewer
To- Hart.
and
has
Productivity
of "meeting
that
out
alone.
area
ures
better |
workers ought to produce
jobs and lower prices.
earn
today
workers
Textile
W.
FE.
intra-corporation
UAW
66c-an hour less than the averVice)
to
Bliss~council, according
age for all U.S. industry, Sexton
direcr,
Gosse
President Richard
said.
tor of the council.
The UAW in recent years has
123,000
The
of
Chamber
ideal
is the
This
Bren-
as
textile
took
Sexton
atthe
contracts will
Steelworker
tend the next meeting of
Sexton,
radio
United
by
covered
plants
troit
Sexton, pointing out that laeds
shr
to
ory
the
who tore the
| bor costs (per unit of producUAW
the
”
ak,
Bre
ft
on “Shi
have gone down heavily
tion)
coats
show.
the four E. W.
from
this
education
In Bliss Meeting
Delegates
are
Commerce formula.
land|
is the promised
This
then wage reductions ought to
pull down prices and build up| described by the National Association of Manufacturers.
employment. Right?
More work, lower wages, fewer
It works just the other way.
ing carried on in regions and
pointed
gell
of
gu
!
No
e?
ic
Pr
w
Lo
s
n
a
e
M
e
g
a
W
Low
up
push
increases
If wage
employment,
cut
and
prices
be-
is currently
program
The
pro-
1958 bargaining
of Defense
|)
Din-
Labor,
and
drive
| proached the company president,
| suggesting that he recognize the
on the basis of pledge
union
cards signed by the men.
president refused, menThe
tioning in the course of the dis-
real disaster.” In
the Departments
area “from
a letter to
Heart of
CONCENTRATION AND STUDY mark the faces of
ently under
the Union students in Region 1A study course eurr
Nickerson
way. Reading from program material is Norman
of Local 157, Commonwealth Brass unit.
Director
Michigan
of the
economy
the
so that members will be able to
attend sessions close to . their
All locals have been
homes.
urged to have as many members
attend as is possible.
the
| from
the
representatives @
\ under way, UAW
preserve
to
Administration
region
the
when
Earlier,
|
John
WASHINGTON—Rep.
D. Dingell, Michigan Demoerat, is demarding “vigorous
Eisenhower
the
by
action”
a
|
|
|
|
haye
and after-
union,
}ters
Jobless
On’ State
classes in
| No Union and 0 for the teams-
Action
Asks
Dingell
throughout
programs
of
series
Shefferman
union-buster- Nathan
notorious
of
the scene ended in a thumping UAW victory at the
shadow
crossed
J.
Edward
the
which
in
drive
organizing
two-month
PONTIAC—A
‘gi wer ‘ALINVarTOS—s
z
es
id
UAW Vote Landsl
Shefferman Ex-Client
‘Heart Beats
actually
increases
they wonder,
money
more
pushes
If this is true,
read
to
ought
up
that
per
prices?
says Sexton,
backwards.
its
Representing
officials,
\president,
vice
Toney,
gaining
it
It} Hibbel
merely
wages
Low
doesn’t.
make bigger profits and fewer
jobs, as textile has shown.
Everett
Donald
president,
nancial
assisted.
The
motor
the local were) favor of the UAW, or because of
recording
John
company
parts.
Byers,
and
publicity,
fi-|
was
recelved
word
-Instead,
Albert|jater
that
secretary. Bar-| qisassociated
committeemen
and
unpleasant
Sugarbaker,| the battle never came off.
Wayne
secretary,
recent
Wolverton, | the
Walker)
Nicholas
services”
of
also | organization.
company
the
‘self
the
from
had
the
Shefferman
A peaceful drive then ensued
es
| with
manufactur
| slide.
the
resulting
UAW
land-
the Model T.”
The newly-appointed head of
the state department of labor
is Russell White, president of
UAW
Local 652.
Retain Reduced Fares
For Detroit Retirees
Detroit’s
senior
citizens
will
be able to continue to ride DSR
buses at reduced rates, at least
until June 30.
last
Commission
DSR
The
the privil-
extended
again
week
ege, which has been in effect
“on a temporary basis” since
May, 1956. The half-fare was
to haye ended tomorrow, after
been
having
times.
extended
Retired
persons
at
gainful
who
year
earn no more
65
several
or
older
than $1,200 a
employment
'
may
permite
obtain
ride
to
buses for 10 cents instead of the
reuglar 20-cent fare. More than
have
retirees
Detroit
37,000
taken advantage of the plan so
far, out of approximately 50,000
eligibles.
The reduced
by
stituted
after
UAW,
a long
fare plan was incommission
the
canipaign
ite retired workere’
by
the
steer-
ing committee, President Walter
city
Detroit
and
P. Reuther
councilman
Edward
Connor.
~
of Local 212 drew more than 300 delegates
E
ENC
FER
CON
NGE
CHA
AND
DY
STU
CT
CONTRA
hear (center, left)
tes
ega
del
ps,
grou
l
pane
the
of
one
in
Here
to dts Sunday, Jan. 4 meeting,
secretary of Local 212
l
ncia
fina
ot,
Desp
e
Stev
and
Staff
sler
Chry
Jimmy Cichocki of th e UAW
closed with remarks by Region a
and
ce
Bru
E.
ent
sid
pre
212
l
Loca
by
d
opene
was
Conference
eo-director Ken Morris, former president of Local 212.
>
Labor
CLAVE
®
History in Pictures—5
the
left),
(upper
at_auction
usually
the slave,
of buying
a
first expense
the
After
labor.
cheap
was
LABOR
&& Plantation owner's only outlay was to keep him healthy.
On this system, a few thousand southern slave owners had
®
grown rich and politically powerful. On it also; the southern
Shanghaied to America by the thousands of boatloads,
almost four million enslaved men, women and children were
im the southern states by the mid-1800s. The “free” popula-
1
Jan.
bbuilt.
been
had
economy
@ arricultural
DARITY,
= tion outnumbered them only two to one.
The benefits of the system to the plantation owners. were
almost absolute. They enjoyed the entire product of the labor
of their slaves. They organized the work force as they alone
completely.
imply much
thought best. They controlled their workers
(Some of today’s “right to work” communities
the same setup.)
of
system
begun in the colonies in the early 1600s,
century apintense as the mid-19th
slavery, which had
increasingly
grew
“Underground
proached.
undemocratic
and
cruel
the
to
opposition
But
more
becoming
were
railroads”
numerous (lower left); through these, some in the south and
more in the north helped smuggle slaves to freedom.
Helping send higher the flames of resentment against
slavery was the hanging of John Brown (right), in 1869, at
Harper’s Ferry, Va., after he was captured when he led‘a
raid to try to start a general revolt of Slaves there.
war
The
exploded.
had
War
Civil
the
years,
two
Within
was more than a matter of the south trying to hold on to an
ftmhuman, outmoded system of labor. It also involved the unindustrialized south’s reyolt against northern financial and
industrial domination.
staff artist John Gelsavage.
by UAW
history
labor
painting is one of a series on American
The
-
Bendix Locals Facing
3-Way Negotiations
that
January is an extra-special |pointed out
*{
@ix workers.
Seiieasal WA Ws mbanibers:
}
every
!
convention
eS
in
Detroit
ep
oe
But
fore
—
@x
—
from
Council
Jan.
delegates
will put
Sancuace
[
18
to the
into
president
director
Bendix
FEPC
Ben-|
of
Bendix
Al
;
vice-|
the) ference
“double
fe harass
(R.).
talk”
and
cated
i
of
busi-
Harold
He
and
by
Commerce
coerce
indicated
a
called
it
method
employ-
Harold
he
Rund-
would
call
fer another FEP vote if shown
evidence
of
erimination.
of each
of
a
widespread
:
dis-
at
Bendix
Teterboro,
|/tos
aa
city
an
bureaucracy.”
berg
other
of
other.
he
will
“a joint
situation
|
|
|
South
NJ.;
Angeles,
hower
tions.
beef
will
up
urge
the
education
1958
and
Con-
Eisen-
recommenda-
Instead
of
$1
billion
for
scholarships over four years,
labor and cooperating groups
will back bills for more schools,
pay
and
for teachers,
actment
of
scholarships,
Rights.
the
The
program
as high as $5
a
ask!
con-|
so
where)
certain to!
somewhat
the
less
first
five
H-bomb
IUD
GI
Bill
would
billion
than
the
of
cost
of
of
an
attack on the US.
Set
al Union Department, AFL-CIO,
locals are lo-| will hold a legislative conference
here Jan. 15 to organize support
Elmira,
,N.Y.; of the 1958 legislative program,
Bend,
and
Ind:
Joseph, Director Al Whitehouse has an-
St.
nounced.
Continued
from
tracing McGovern’s
effort
to
check
up
Page
1
the
outlays,
steps in an
on
facts
concerning
support
Reuther
him.)
comes
of
said,
an
financial
strikers,
etc.
UAW
wel-
“The
opportunity
to put
be-
The UAW has repeatedly volunteered to appear before the fore the Senate committee and
McClellan committee to testify| the American people the facts in
as to the Kohler strike or any| this long and bitter strike beother activity. Secretary-Treas-| cause we are confident that a
urer
Emil
Mazey
has
already} | fair and objective review of all
turned over to the committee all ; the facts will fix the moral refor
this
strike
of
shoulders
the
upon
squarely
the Kohler management.
“For
almost.four
years
the
Kohler management has refused
to bargain
in good
faith,
to
mediate
or
to
arbitrate.
It has
steadfastly refused to grant to
its workers the measure of economic and social justice which
thousands
of other
companies
have granted to their employees.
“The UAW has nothing to hide
and
the representatives of the
Wage-Hour
Extension
WASHINGTON—The
AFL-CIO
minimum
committee
will meet
special
wage
here Jan,
14 to plan means for getting
action this year on Senate and
House
hour
lion
_
HEADS TOGETHER is an appropriate pose for UAW
VicePresident Leonard Woodcock (left) and Roy Brown, general
wiee-president of the IAM, at west coast session.
(Story on
1).
optimism”
of most business forecasters
who looked at 1958 in the
newspapers
ing
many
for
had
UAW
other
little
mean-
workers
who
members
the new
and
year on lay-
mew
claims
ployment
for
unem-
the
eve
compensation
ed ‘a new
high
1958.
on
others
not
benefits.
entitled
Jupiter on Boon
Not
was
than
reflected
reach-
of
10,000
whose 1957
sales seems
to
more
countless
jobless
in these
expected
the
to
at
drop
Chrysler
figures
more
of
bills
act
coverage
workers,
to
9.6
including
clerks,
employees
logging
cessing
sawmills,
and other
telephone
:
extending
of
exchanges,
wage-
mil-
retail
small
small
food \prooperations,
UAW
Corp.,
triumph in terms of
to be fading in 1958.
witnesses
will
refuge
taking
Amendment.
in
Our
completely
questions
the
without
Fifth
“The UAW has been cooperating fully with the Senate committee and several months ago
turned over to the committee
our
voluntarily
on the Kohler
ed
committee
the
.by
primarily.
centrated
gating
that
the
strike.
assign-
investigators
date
“To
records
complete
before.
and
union
a
public
have
con-
we
trust
on
investi-
hearing
is
held a comparable effort will be
to investigate the commade
pany.”
Texas
Not
DENVER,
So
Colo.
—
Rich
Wanting
being
for
reputation
actually
when
over,
they have a few very rieh people
but millions very poor.”
there
out
points
paper
The
are a number of million
annual incomes, but the
is offered
by
20%.
the
Army’s award of a Jupiter missile contract to Chrysler. Despite claims
Potter, (R.,
by Sen.
Mich.)
would
in
Warren,
from
Charles E.
that
the
produce
5,500
Mich.,
the
it was
company’s
own statements that no more
than 500 auto workers could
hope for employment.
A thousand Chrysler workers
showed up after the contract was
announced, only to be told they
weren't
wanted.
(Crash Convention
Continued
dicated
tions
tend
to
from
UAW’s
Page
public
1
rela-
department that they into cover
the convention,
according
to
Frank
Winn,
director.
de-
conyention
half in order
to
carry the important speeches
and debates over the 42 stations broadcasting the union's
morning
Opener.
radio
dollar
aver-
age income per person in 1956
in Texas was $1,686 as against
a nationai US. average of $1,950.
show,
Eye-
“This means that most of our
members can be ‘at’ the conin
vention
sense,”
ment
said
a
meaningful
very
Guy
director.
depart-
Nunn,
“A million and a half UAW
members can’t fit into Masonic
Temple. but they can know what
the delegates are thinking and
saying and how they're arriving
at their
decisions.”
Meanwhile,
UAW’s
executive
board was meeting at Solidarity
House to blueprint the economic
policy on collective bargaining
which will be presented to the
for their
delegates
conyention
to | consideration
correct some wrong ideas about
and
the Oil, Chemical
Texas,
Atomic Workers (OCAW), which
has a lot of members in that
state, says in the OCAW Union
News: “Some states have an undeserved
all
‘rich’
hope
to about
As
usual,
UAW’s
radio-TV
department
was.
setting
up
special leased lines from the
all
answer
Little
amount
partment
voluntarily.
appear
will
would
evident
The rise of more than 137,000
—nearly 30,000 in Michigan alone
total
with
age
jobs
Official figures, which always
lag behind, revealed last week
that
Local UAW
officers and company officials agreed the shrink-
award
on Kohler Welcome to UAW
Farly Hearing’
sponsibility
Page
“cautious
—brought
the
than
550,000,
Industri-
WASHINGTON—The
The
off.
involve
a year,
minutes
Session
Bright Jupiter Glow
train-Eo
better
fellowships and retroactive en-
Ma-
within
to
ing
Inter-
prior to negotiations
out
UAW
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to:
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