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1959-07-01
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Vol. 2 No. 7
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EDITORIAL
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Published
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Lipshaw
pany,
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SOUTHWELL
HARRY
With the adoption of the Local Election Committee Report and the installation ceremony performed by President
Walter P. Reuther at the last meeting of the Joint Council,
the 1959 Local Union Elections are completed.
I would like to take this
opportunity to express to
you
ly elected
self,
our
7,
Ind
7446
unit
Manufacturing
of
Local
174.
(Ternstedt)
CAL
|
you
that
(Ternstedt)
(Rockwell
ON
SUNDAY,
26th,
Local
174
will
hold
(Rockwell Standard)
Joseph “Slicked” Letkowski
(Ternstedt)
its an-
sult
ED
the
Relations
Labor
National
members,
their
enjoyable
families
day
and
for many
thousands
ed. Twenty-six
eligible to yote.
DANSBY
(Massey
of our
Brother
friends,
porary
Tickets are available in your plant. See your committeeman or your unit officers.
You
do
not
have
to be present
to be eligible for one
Fletcher
committee
gotiations with the
the near future.
of
the valuable awards. We would appreciate your support and
would be happy to see you at the Picnic.
UAW
by
7,
ED.
and
will
a
open
Stevens;
trols; Harry R. Slaven, Wolverand Joseph Szabo,
ine Tube;
Revere Copper.
..4052
A
cast
total of 12,637 votes were
in the Local election re-
80%
of
flecting
78
plants
plant
to
Time
Time
Politics
An idealist is one who tries}
to keep politics out of politics.
elected
Board
to
were:
the
Local
represented
easy
it
make
the
in
the
by
members
and
con-
for
chil-
Runs Out
is running
out
The
polio
to cast
season
Michigan usually starts
If
| June or early July.
in
in late
you or
your children still aren’t protected by polio vaccine, start
the three -shot series immedi-
Inc.;
Lyon,
Brooks,
Milton
Drop
Letts
Burnett,
Edward
Forge; Ollie M. Cheney, Amer-
President Votes in Local
membership
dren and adults who need to be paralytic
against
protected
polio.
|Executive
the
approximately
of
a vote
The vote was conducted in yoting places set up in or near each
......4540
ne-
Those
Penman,
Powell, Sr., Detroit Con-
Frank
Unapposed
..
JOE PALUMBO
(Bond Steel & Storage)
in
Products;
Alex
venient for all
..Unopposed | their ballots.
Tube)
Kelley,
M. Nowak,
Massey
Alex S. Nemeth, F.
2.00... 5684 | Local.
KWASNIEWSEI
E.
Detroit
Ternstedt;
Paul
A.
Petiot,
Rockwell Standard; James B.
Pinson,
Detroit
Diamond;
GUIDE
tem-
company
B.
SERGEANT-AT-ARMS
(Roberts
Orvel
D.
Forging;
Hammer,
Metal
Mathew
Ferguson;
Ferguson)
BOLDA
Albert
Michigan
C.
FedDay-
ski, Detroit Brass & Malleable;
Mattie Mason, Fisher Livonia;
Elected
(Ternstedt)
were
workers
(Two
Danilow,
John
A.
Kemsley,
Ternstedt
Timekeepers;
Stanley Litwin-
TRUSTEES
(Detroit Controls)
Leedon (Tommy) Terry
1959, The result of the election
was 16 for Local 174; 8 oppos-
Free Rides, soft drinks and ice cream, plus contests
prizes combined, should attract a large crowd and re-
in a very
YEAR
FOUR
Joint
the
Steel;
American
..............6438
THOMPSON
JAMES
at
sworn
were
Alex
Firestone
Universal;
SECRETARY
RECORDING
your
This yearly outing is for) Board on May 15, 1959.
nual picnic at Walled Lake Park.
Valuable
was set up
our Local Union members and their families.
An election
July
held
and
board
the
prizes, including an automobile will be awarded.
and
r
.............. 4215
(Ternstedt)
Brass;
John
Standard)
Staniszewski
Tony
(FLOYD
JULY
8109
ve
.......:......6581
GARLAND
| ROLAND
Reuther,
Divincenzo,
SECRETARY
FINANCIAL
confidence is not misplaced,
we will continue to do our
best to deserve it and to
maintain or improve the high
and
of efficiency
standard
service for which Local 174 is
so well known and respected.
Thank you.
SOUTHWELL
HARRY
assure
...........7935 | is,
........ Unopposed
FLETCHER
P.
members
ican
VICE-PRESIDENT
apprecia-
board
Ternstedt;' Steve Danko,
eral Screw Works; Blaine
.......
Sahlaney
|
were
balloting
the
HARRY SOUTHWELL.
(Detroit Universal)
officers and my-
sincere
on July 8th.
Meeting
PRESIDENT
Nick
Walter
President,
UAW
Results of
as follows:
A petition for certification as
bargaining agent was filed with
tion for the wonderful support you gave us. We interpret this as a vote of Confidence and satisfaction in
the way your Local Union
has been administered in
the past.
I-ean
| Council
of
Representative
by
lin
was orequipment,
laboratory
ganized by Cal Fletcher, Vice-
President and
the Local,
Friday, June 12th.
The officers and executive
a
is
manufacturing
company,
The
Avenue,
Central
Com-| |through
new-
the
of
behalf
on
Indianapolis
Street,
Lipshaw Mfg. Co. All Local Of ficers
New Unit of
Re-Elected for 2 Years
All incumbent officers we: re returned to office for a twoLocal 174
year term in the week long election held Monday, June 8
For the Vote of Confidence
Given By the Membership
By
Ind.
Indianapolis,
at
paid
postage
class
Second
Form
1959
ately.
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bevel
oy
tiny
Vote Here
Frank Jarosz of
as Mary Belcher
the Local election committee
checks Walter’s dues receipt.
smiles
Brother
ballot
Reuther
enters
the booth
to mark
his
and
Local
drops
174
it in the ballot
and
votes
in
box,
every
Walter
Local
is a member
election,
of
gie period,
b and
brs
the
18
those of the
major
“Big
iviekheed, North American
an 55%.
'’ hit the industry. Sales
iisilaid off.
J towprofits remained heavy.
/fajor firms took in a net
| The “Big Six” profit
| 22.3%.
fms showed a net profit
wn ‘Ix’? made a 15.3% return.
example,
for
1950,
In
growing
The
By
1963,
50%.
amounts to about 40%. By
for expenditures of about
sum
call
This year, the
military estimates
this was
factor
a major
to 732,000,
the UAW
he
Moreover,
from
in the drop
said,
are not
and
rockets
as great.
{ possible the high returns
“jcholders.
itects them by putting up
aloes so, of course, to pro-
fon.
»
'
«
‘ont safeguard of aircraft
4s,
vito
tools,
protect
“4k pointed
and
the
out,
buildings
interests
space-craft
has
been
roblems now confronting
“The problems of people are a
lot more real. We have insisted that new contracts must
go to those areas where aircraft workers have distressing
problems of unemployment.
“Moreover, we have been fighting for severance allowances for aircraft workers hit by such layoffs along with
adequate relocation provisions,” the UAW Vice President
said,
In addition, the growing importance in the industry
of the electronics control of missiles, rockets and similar
space-vehicles also has had a heavy impact on employment, Woodcock said.
New plants and facilities have been set up to produce
these,
many
in
other
areas
of
country.
the
result
One
is
plants already working on these products now are operating at less than normal capacity. This means that jobs are
taken away from these communities, thus creating greater
unemployment.
In addition, these plants employ fewer workers than those
turning out other aircraft.
But it also has resulted in new
job classifications at the plants
has
“That
work.
this
doing
brought about a need for training
workers as well as for establishing proper wage rates for the
Woodcock
classifications,’”’
new
added.
of
problems
their
Despite
to
amounts.
in what
working
a one-customer industry and of
working under rapid changes in
both the product and plant operations, the union has made important progress for the aircraft,
it
workers
rocket
and
missile
Woodcock
represents,
plans
Pension
gained
generally
noted.
were
finally
in
Un-
1956.
ion shop provisions have become common in many eastern
plants but still are to be established at the larger companies
of the west and
On
has
suc-
reduc-
other
behind those ix
working indust,ies.
metal-
ing
of UAW.
UAW
considerably
ceeded
uo» |L and office workers are members
wages,
southwest.
the
in
In 1949,
lag
in
aircraft
for example,
less
their
than
average
the
wages
hourly
paid
earnings
more
than
in
addition,
general
represented a healthy increase.
increases
of
5c
an
hour
were won although the industry was unstabilized and
tracting. Other important gains also were chalked up.
“During that period of cutbacks and stretchouts,’ Woodco¢k said, “managements, plants
and stockholders all received far
the
than
consideration
more
workers.
hid Exchange Commission
ubalindustry last year averbfed to a return of 9% for
year,
This “catch-up” money
Yet
the job upturn since the layoffs
only to about 2%
amounted
Jobs just didn’t open up again
to absorb most of the workers
who had been laid off. Manpower
needs of the plants working on
missiles,
hour
previous spread of 16c an hour.
workers
Vice President stressed.
of this
an
half the industry’s workers, most of them members of a
different union who were not enjoying the cost-of-living
features in their contracts, to gain them, thus ending the
been coupled with a sharp dropoff in production of conventional aircraft, particularly fighters and interceptors,
Woodcock explained.
In terms of overall empoyment, in the past two years,
903,000
April
18¢c
amounted to $2.59 an hour, just 9c under auto.
Moreover, 1958 negotiations enabled the
of missiles has
shift to the production
averaged
auto workers.
for missiles.
budget was earmarked
aireraft procurement
workers
government's
of the
1%
about
wages
aircraft
noted, each
But, Woodcock
an end in itself.”
set of negotiations
also
con-
“is not
“Some problems are solved; others remain to be solved
future negotiations. New problems come up,” he ex-
in
plained.
“We're
missile
on
intent
workers,”
rocket
and
licking
he said.
UAW has made plain what
this. In addition to continuing
improvement
in
wage
rates,
those
problems
for aircraft,
its goals are to do much
of
these include:
© Higher pensions to enable workers to keep a deliving
of
standard
cent
when they retire. The pensions also must carry vestrights
ed
a worker
so
when
not lose them
leaves the employ of
aircraft
other.
company
@ Raising
ance
the
coverage
for
will
he
one
an-
total insur-
of
aircraft
workers to provide more adequate standards of hospital,
medical and surgical coverage and sickness and accident
weekly disability benefits.
@ Severance pay based on the worker's length of service.
@ Doing away with inaccurate and overlapping job
descriptions through which management can downgrade
workers, thus lowering wages while the worker’s job duties
stay the same.
e@ Achievement of greater individual and job security
through the union shop where state laws permit.
“We're not shooting for the moon,” Woodcock said,
“eyen though UAW members make the products for space
travel.
“But the workers aren’t going to be left behind.”
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