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UAW Solidarity
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1960-01-01
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Vol. 3 No. 1
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SS
Joyous
Holiday
Season
So All
Of Yu
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UAW
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a mi
Wicinbers,
And
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Staff
(and
Solidarity,
Too)
AT PACKARD:
ToT Apo ysV tha
Vol.
Second
8000
re-
carried
to
the
pen-
federal
13 months ago
Studebaker-Packard
(after merging)
tried
dling Packard workers’
sions
time
cut in
The
on
two
@
Packard
Continued
POSTAGE
hanpen-
with
Form
Washington
GUARANTEED.
2579
attached
St., Indianapolis
government
calls
which
plan,
detailed
was
citizens,
Secretary-
by UAW
in
Mazey
Emil
Treasurer
on
na-
the
for
senior
5
power
purchasing
bonds”
by
issue
to
government
tion’s
recommendations to the U.S.
Subcommittee on
Senate
Problems of the Aged and
Aging.
Value of the bonds would
increase along with rises in
the Consumer’s Price Index.
Mazey, a principal witness during the subcommittee’s three-day Detroit
hearings, said the bonds
would help “provide protection against rising
prices for the retirement
savings and pensions of
older people who are least
themprotect
to
able
to
ICFTU
the
Solidarity
International
Fund
globe-
special
into
placed
are
World
Sixth
held
Congress
(For
Belgium.
in Brussels,
more
the
on
see
ICFTU,
page
3).
‘Peace, Freedom, Theme
Of Free Trade Unions
Belgium
International
Confeder-
ation of Free Trade Unions,
the
brings together
which
labor movements
of the free
its Sixth
held
world,
World
Congress and celebrated its
Tenth Anniversary here in
early
UAW
December.
Reuther
President
was
a
a large delegation
Walter
member
P.
of
represent-
ing the AFL-CIO and served
as chairman of a key comeconomic,
social
CIO President George
Meany
on
mittee
and political questions. AFLheaded
gation.
The
by
from
the
On
Read
American
congress,
some
101
400
dele-
attended
delegates
countries
and
the Inside
the
news
about
your
favorite region — yours — on
pages 2 and 7. And for the
“inside”
on,
what
big
_busi-
ness is doing in political acrun
tion, see page 6. Then
—don’t
walk—to
Citizenship
8
VVSSNNNNUASNNINUNUAAAONNNOAOUANNSANAOOUASAAAUUSSOAOU OOOO
&
savings
of the closing
Page
copies
to 2497
“constant
retirees will
on
label
the
receive pensions equal to
85%, of the level provided
at the time
RETURN
undelivered
The
was significant
counts:
7, Ind
mailing
UAW.
unilaterally,
at
one
announcing a drastic
pensions.
settlement negotiated
by the UAW
Send
under
Federal
The
court, Packard retirees were
never sure from one month
to the next if another pension check would afrive.
The pension dispute and
when
Ind
7,
directly
proposal for offsetting inflation’s destructive effects on
the living standards of: retirees has been urged on the
BRUSSELS,
tirees guaranteed lifetime
pensions and provides
lump sum payments to all
Packard workers aged 60
to 65.
For nearly a year, while
tension began
a copy.
POSTMASTER:
amy)
1960
January,
A practical, down-to-earth
ICFTU
Packard
case
Mich.—5
Indianapolis
am
Coos
Published
tion of
shaped containers by (left to right) Tom Mboya, general secretary of the Kenya Federa
Geijer, president
Labor; M. M. Kamaliza, from the Tanganyika Trade Union Congress; Arne
ns of the
of the ICFTU and UAW President Walter P. Reuther, during a pause in the sessio
of pension fund ligitation
begun last year against
Studebaker-Packard Corp.
sioners’
E&
14,
St.,
OFFICE
Edition
UAW Advises Senators
The UAW has reached
an out-of-court settlement
UAW
Washington
Eastern
1
Inflation-Proof’ U.S. Bonds
Needed by Senior Citizens,
Some 2,000 retired Packard workers are no longer
living on pins and needles.
the
2457
at
monthly
Detroit
Ave.,
CONTRIBUTIONS
Dispute
assures
Jefferson
E
Ind-—EDITORIAL
Indianapolis,
at
paid
No.
-
UAW Wins
Pension
that
postage
class
3,
AMERICA-UAW
OF
WORKERS
IMPLEMENT
& AGRICULTURAL
AIRCRAFT
AUTOMOBILE,
UESAUOU OANA
your
meeting.
next
representing
57
million
workers, adopted several
resolutions reaffirming the
ICFTU’s determination to
continue battling against
aggression,
dictatorships,
discrimination, poverty
and exploitation.
to
Delegates
reorganize
emphasis
tion
Africa
of
the
structure
the
organiza-
place
to
ICFTU
of
also took action
on
workers
by
The subcommittee, headed
Mich.)
has
ing Reuther, who was chairman of the delegation representing the former CIO.
the
chaired
also
Reuther
drafted
which
commission
the original — and now historic — manifesto entitled
month.
It
the
by
used
now
as a basic slogan.
viding
“Bread,
dom,”
ICFTU
Free-
and
Peace
hearings
country
(D.,
McNamara
Pat
Sen.
conducting
been
throughout the
than a
for more
the
highlighted
purchasing power bonds prothe
questioning
in
posal
UAW Secretary-Treasurer
about
he
the
presented.
The
program
12-point
broad
program,
Maz-
ey said, was pointed at “prothe
those who
security
basic
have contributed
Continued
&
Page
on
Asia,
in
America.
Latin
and
greater
selves.”
Plans were made to step
up support for the ICFTU’s
International Solidarity
Fund, maintained through
voluntary
The
fund
contributions.
to
is used
give
practical assistance to
for
programs
education
workers in under-developed areas of the free world,
to
contribute
refugee
to
relief, to help build free
labor unions, and similar
to
projects
democracy.
The ICFTU
strengthen
was
in London in 1949
union leaders from
out
the
free
founded
world,
by trade
through-
includ-
EROSION
by
off-set
Tite
rising living
income
by;
bonds,”
“constant-purchasing-power
of
re irees’
tary-Treasurer
in
Detroit.
older
and
Emil
With
retired
Mazey
him
(right)
is Charles
workers’
told
Odell,
department,
a
Senate
director
costs
UAW
can
Secre-
subcommittee
of
the
UAW
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EASTERN SOLIDARITY, January, 1960—Page 2
UAW Staffer Goes to Jail—Here’s Why
PHILADELPHIA
here not Jong ago,
Charies
tion
A.
— A UAW
but nobody
Guensch,
director
for
the
staff member went
made a fuss about
Region
state
of
9’s
Pennsylvania,
—not as a convict, of course,
but as a lecturer.
He spoke on “What I
Know
Unions”
to
About
a
of
ddressed
all
pris-
eners.
the
past,”
lid
¥;
“busians,
lawyers,
i college
stu-
day
an
off
Prison
here
about
because
of
called
about
the
* which
had
om
Guensch
maire
had
among
te
ng
a
been
members
determine
they
and
indicated
in
a
unions.
to
and
then
room
gram.
group
interests,
reach
your
being
locked
a
The
in-
gen-
How-
audience
in
until the end of the
But
it
certainly
worthwhile.”
the
pro-was
y
tion
of
provide
per
who
The
e
state’s
Insurance
add
al
da
for any
hospitalized.
is
CIO’s
were
tral
State CIO Council has
ded
the
liberaliza-
Disability
SS
New
1854,
of
claimant
by
Joel
closed
tal
R.
repeated—and
a
for
under
law,”
this
additional
our New
Jacobson
“This
to
onary
or
even
new.
In
cen-
and
were
has
increased
with
financial
their
upon
Blue
upward,
drain
The
state’s
TDI
Sive step to ease this burden,”
he continued.
Jacobson also urged an in-
crease
the
@
in
weekly
inclusion
of
compensable
Temporary
benefits
pregnancy
item
as
under
Disability
ance.
and
Insur-
Region 9 Bowling Tourney
EDISON,
Jersey
hold
its
NJ.
—
Recreation
tenth
The
New
Council
annual
will
Region
9 Bowling Tournament
at the
Edison Bowling Lanes here on
Route
1,
near
the
Lincoln-
Mercury plant, on January 31
and Feb.
7, Regional Director
Martin
The
Region
and
Gerber
has
tourney
9 locals
announced.
is open
in New
Pennsylvania
members,
and
is
and
to all
Jersey
their
sanctioned
by
the ABC and the WIBC. It will
be
divided
into
men’s
and
Women’s
divisions
and
into
three events — teams, doubles
and
singies,
according
to
Joseph
Lisi,
Region
9
tive.
Closing
date
for
repre-
entries
is
Jan. 15. The entry fee is $4
per person
per event.
The
trophies
which
will
be
awarded
each
event
by
the
fund.
to
the
are
winners
being
regional
bh
should
of
the
of
For
entry
cal
fice
York
to
the
the
tournament
#e,
Pete
Mershon,
77
Deborah Court,
Plainfield.
NJ
at
4-5656.
or
855
1,
ber of
mittee
information
contact
the
Sixth
N.Y.
Assisting
your
Region
9
Avenue,
wellow
.
Pa. —
677
has
UAW
of
Guensch
Region
9
PhiladelIphia’s
talk
about
Holmesburg
Prison
the labor movement.
education-citizenship
listen
to
Guensch
is a
representative.
New Jersey UC Law
Inadequate, Says CIO
NEWARK,
N.
J.—New
Jer-
“The
sey’s
unemployment
compensation law is grievously inadeand
is
growing
progres-
sons,”
tive
the
program.
In
his
CIO's
report,
phasized
that
New
New
em-
sult of the refusal
is
“as
New
a re-
of the state
Jersey’s
pared
to other
the
ranks
these
Jersey's
one
New
12th
wages
Jersey’s
of
in
this
as a percentage
average
“The
the
$35
in
the
in
the
benefit
lowest
improvement
of
the
New Jersey UC law should be
one of the first actions of the
being
com-
states.
citing
New
Computed
country,
unem-
ployed workers are now
treated
shabbily
when
3.
state,
senate to act upon
any improvements during its last two
sessions,
Jersey
computation.
Jersey’s
that
apparent
compari-
erage weekly benefit was the
highest in the country. Today,
of
however,
our
Today, New Jersey’s $35 maximum
ranks 29th throughout
the entire nation.
2. In 1953, New Jersey’s’ av-
UC law was previously one of
the best in the nation. He
added,
of
weekly maximum
benefit was
surpassed
by
only
9 states.
legisla-
Jacobson
said,
1955,
In
1.
committee
1960
he
examples:
which met last month at the
council’s
headquarters
here
to plan
inadequacy
state law becomes
simple
by a few
according to Joel
State CIO legis-
legislative
new
legislature,”
clared.
Jacobson
de-
Need $91 Wk. to Live in NYC
NEW
YORK—In
this city, an average family of four
persons with one wage earner needs an income of abou
t $91
a week to sustain an adequate but modest level of
living,
the Community Council of Greater New York repo
rts, The
cost
of
living
metropolitan
The
amount
is
lower
areas.
cited
in
New
will buy
York
the
goods
City
than
and
in
families
standard.
do
It
is
not
estimated
have
the
services
that
incomes
about
sufficient
20%
to
of
this
achiéve
authorities
of
Mh
tors
in the
city’s
this
the
preserj
agit e
Bh [or
pigotl
[iTy¢
ouo™
Local
736
to
sir
field.
NJ—General
has
presen
¥
five
books
on
labor
to
Arthur L. Johnson school
brary
here.
was
ring,
The
made
local
thony
local’s
presentat)
chairman
education
a
th!
of
UAW
Local
¢
at the annual reunion banqu
reports Tom Lazzio, local press
ident.
The
banquet was hy
at
the
Robin
nearby
Hood
Clifton,
Inn
NJ.
ike
NEW YORK (PAI)—The Nii 9 2
York State Department of L
bor collected close to $1 mj
lion
in 1958
in
minimum
underpayments
lishments.
paid
9,729
ALBANY,
°
were
°
*
+o
unde»)
aii!
estarios
In all, 24,352
workers
creases
by
reimburse)
N.Y. — Wage
through
with
Edison
New
is
collective
the
Brunswick.
city
N.Y.—The
annual
gaining averaged 9.4¢ an hori
‘@
for the
1,155 settlements
i #iit
New
York
state
during
19539!
>
BRISTOL,
Bucks
hd
s
Pa.
*
(PAI)
County
—
Thil
AFL-CIO
hail
lishing Co., publishers of Levit-)'ved
town
Times
ane
and
Bristo
Courier.
NEW
YORK—New
York
la-»!
imum
$1.50
an
wage
hour.
should
be
set
the present
wage.
The
on the
in New
$1.50
federal
proposal
increase
York.
minimum
was
in living
base:
cost
that
of
UAW’s
24.
chairman of the
Party
who
died
mer,
left
estimated
million,
bate
a
Republican
last sum-
personal
at more
according
court
records
estate
than
to
here.
$4.5
pro-
OUTSTANDING
Council
to
Presiding
CITIZENSHIP
Judge
Adrian
award
Bonnelly
is presented
of
Muncipal
by the UAW
Court
for
his
Philadelphia
“devotion
Citizenship
to
humani-
tarian and unselfish efforts in behalf of his fellow man and for his wisdom and energy on
the bench and an unstinting lifetime in public service.” Shown presenting the plaque to the
judge
council
Adams,
is
secretary
President
Charles
members
president
T.
O'Malley,
look
of
on.
Local
treasurer
of
of Local 813,
council
Left
585;
to
president
right:
O’Malley;
and
head
of Budd
Red
Edward
McElroy, president
Charles J. O'Reilly Jr., council
Budd
Hunting
Park
and William Overton,
Local 813; Judge
president of Local
aip
This is 50 cents higher than
New
FIRST
i
bor believes that the state min-
of-
NEWPORT, R.1—Henry P.
Fletcher,
former
national
3
Union against the Bristol Pub:irt !
lo-
It Pays to Be
A Republican
=
asked Gov. David Lawrence t) 99)
investigate the strikebreakin:ian®
activities
of
the
Schleppey;orrds
Klein
organization
in
tht
|
strike
of
the
Typographica) lif
and
April
3
More than 875,000 workers berjod &
efited.
International
through
18
bajpd) a¥
Bowling
Tournament
will
be
held at the Thru-Way
Lanes
here
beginning
Feb.
13
and
continuing
dé
ii)
un-
Jersey
near
BUFFALO,
ninth
New
)
waew
Local 726, are commembers Lou Ianni-
familiar
of
their wives wis
mem-
Local 343, Plainfield.
Mershon
advised
those
si
3
N.J.—More
50 retirees and
guests
of +
Phone LOngacre
Mershon,
ji?
committee)i
8
PATERSON,
the
je
by
William
Goi
president, and #
Parenti,
5
= |
Educate
oe
Sb
sites
“:i)
program,
UAW
in
CLARK,
most
family budget standard and will Pay the federal,
state and
social security taxes.
Living costs for this “average family” have rise
n more
than 12% since Oct. 1954, when the council first establis
hed
standard.
by
«
aimba
celli, Local 267, Union, N,J.,
Tom
Orlando,
Alcoa
Local
1189,
Garwood,
NJ.
and
Ralph DiSiano, Mack
Truck
recreation
entries
blanks,
union
donated
ble to the
Recreation
be mailed
further
Charles
its
Jan. 31 in Edison
>
it
aqh
Department,
consists
of
books on labor by outstand):
work-
families.
of our
is
law
to provide
such
additional hospitalization
benefits is a logical and progres-
benefit
pr
i¢
hospitalization
benefits
part of our state’s dis-..
ability insurance
program
ean
hardly
be
called
revolu-
as
of hospi-
zooming
imposed
expansion
Cross
need
proposal
and
INMATES
Council's
and their
rate
and
severe
ers
Jersey
TDI
declared.
specific
the
rates
being
of
unjustified
—
increases in the Blue
rates accentuates
the
benefits
utilization
Cross
cil here.
monotony
that
creasing
director, before a public hearing of the TDI Advisory Coundeadly
insurance
appolr
adminis)
“Bookshelf”
tiated
lative director.
Jacobson.
made
the
statement in a report submitted to
the members of the State CIO
20 per cent in the last 25 years,
“With hospital
use in-
Jacobson, State CIO executive
vice president
and
legislative
“The
back
wr
residents of the co)»
Local
The
sively worse,
R. Jacobson,
“A study conducted by the
Health
Information
Foundation of New York City has dis-
recommendations
presented
far
available for workers
dependents.
to
benefits
disability
as
hospitalization
Temporary
law
Europe,
board
‘itty
the Allentown
school dist)
with a “UAW Labor Bookshe
quate
N.J. State CIO Council
Asks TDI Improvements
NJ—The
of
County
.
Truck
re-
were
been
ALLENTOWN,
Guensch
asked
The
ty.
answering
group.
Union
to needy
an-
to
the
has
&
old age assistance, aid to
blind and disability assists)
spent
spoke
president
595,
board.
—
present
so
never
interest
doors
circulated
their
to
union.
“It was a novel experience
for me—going through locked
from
the
attentive
“I
75
N.J.—Sigmund
ontkowski,
Local
ever, I found that only a handful
had
ever
belonged
to
a
question-
of
more
uine
listens
people
or
questions,”
telligent
every
and
said
told
some of the
voluntarily
meets
hour
questions
‘self-improve-
life
w
one
and
LINDEN,
—
inmates
and
tes,
their
ported.
Holmesburg
group
all
other
fulfilled.
about
e were
20 n
the
to
spoke
r
and
al
Phila-
lowed.
a
came
to
and a request te hear from
a representative of the labor
was high on the
movement
list. The call from the prison
folKaplan,
David
official,
kinds
“I
“It
went
educa-
More Regional News
On Page 7
Labor
group
in
and
Prison for about an hour and a half
delphia's Holmesburg
Should
citizenship
to jail
it.
Lion
Local
92, as
fellow
of Local 293; Matthew
secretary treasurer and
Bonnelly;
416.
Joseph
F.
Ferrara,
1/1
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UW cara
Pree VeLa Tl
Pree ue
Free
dom
Cite ec ue
Bey) ee) oat 1s
eee
od
to Jaunch the’ International Confedération~
of
Trade Unions they chose. « Bread, Peace and Free-
! » as the'title of its first Manifesto
forged
In the ICFTU the workers of the free world have
for themselves-an instrument to fight for social justice
everywhere and to make internationalsoiidarity Ce hu]
hes
reality.
Whether
it’s
a
mill in India,
worker
in
‘Bread,
a cotton
Peace
A hungry child somewhere in Africa,
Or women workers in an Asian silk
factory—
You
By
can reach
help them
supporting
Fund.
around
the
the ICFTU
world
to
and
Solidarity
Freedom’
A DECADE AGO in December 1949 there was established the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
(ICFTU).
THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY of the ICFTU was celebrated at its Sixth World Congress the first week in December 1959 in Brussels, Belgium.
IN ATTENDANCE was a large delegation of American
trade unionists, including UAW President Walter P. Reuther, a member of the ICFTU executive board.
AT THE FOUNDING CONGRESS of the ICFTU, there
were delegates from 70 trade union organizations in 53
countries, representing 48 million workers.
TODAY THE ICFTU includes 131 affiliates in 101 countries in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa,
Australia and New Zealand, representing 57 million work
ers. In the United States, the AFL-CIO and United Mine
In Canada, the Canadian Labour
Workers are affiliated.
Congress is affiliated.
IN TEN YEARS, the ICFTU has become a strong and inve of
creasingly influential organization truly representati
e of
the free workers of the world, and a recognized forc
world importance.
BUT THERE IS
strengthening and
STILL a tremendous job to be done in
consolidating the forces of free trade
material
unionism throughout the world, in winning higher
in reand cultural standards for workers everywhere and
inforcing and invigorating democracy.
towards these objectives
OF ADVANCE
THE RATE
e unionwill depend on the continued support of all free trad
ortance of
ists, and their awareness of the urgency and imp
movement.
the tasks facing the international trade union
PURPOSES
OF
ICFTU:
THE
for an ever-rising
TO STRIVE
working people everywhere;
TO PROTECT
ment;
totalitarianism,
against
TO
ation;
ns
ONE OF THE PROJECTS carried on by the ICFTU Solidarity Fund
was the financing of an African Labor College in Kampala, Uganda.
Above
(left to right)
Robert
Shebal
and
Irving
Bluestone,
UAW
inter-
national representatives, examine a model of the college with Victor
Reuther, director of the UAW’s international affairs department, w hile
visiting
ICFTU
headquarters
in
Brussels
last
year.
SUPPORT
of
living
colonial
the
struggle
peoples in their struggle
for liber-
free
trade
whether
unions
Communist
in
or Fascist;
TO FIGHT for the economic and social advance
workers in colonial and dependent territories;
and strengthen workers’ rights
TO PROTECT
where.
for
and promote world péace without appease-
STRENGTHEN
TO
standard
of the
every-
a
sug
Dr
on
ti
ip
cr
es
Pr
of
st
Co
gh
Hi
The
It's Enough to Make You Sick!!
and
how
greedy
profits.
search
its
suspect
for
just
the
and
higher
great
how
industry
higher
Now, thanks to Sen. Estes Kefauver (D., Tenn.)
and
the
facts
shocking
of
pages
front
across
spread
been
have
in
newspaper
every
committee,
investigating
Congressional
his
the
country.
the
teacher who
Michigan school
Her
security.
social
no
amounts to a few hundred
gets no pension and
income
yearly
total
dollars, which she gets
for baby sitting or doing anything else she can to
keep body and soul together,
Kefauve
to
express
our
to write
member
for
gratitude
the sky-high
cost
of drugs
to every working man and woman
it assumes
near-disaster proportions for those most in need
of medicines at low cost—the elderly and retired
living
suffer
on extremely limited incomes who often
not just one but a variety of ailments,
Harry W. Springer is an 85-year-old Detroiter
with a problem. A widower, he lives on a pension
of $79 a month.
By the time he pays out at least
$25 a month for the drugs and medicines he needs
to stay alive, and $17 for heat and utilities, he is
left with about $37 a month to live on — $37 a
month for food, clothing and other essentials, and
taxes on his home.
“You
can see why
Solidarity.
Like
so many
I can’t
of his
fellow
Suffers from several ailments.
as $40
for a
little bottle
make
it,” he told
retirees,
Springer
“I’ve paid as much
of medicine,”
he
said.
“Of course they never tell you what it is; they
just hand you the prescription and say—‘go have
it filled’.”
Springer’s wife died about two and a half years
ago.
Before
her death,
cines sometimes
her weekly
bill for med-
ran as high as $50, he said.
Of course those without funds to buy expenSive medicines can always do without, as at
least one drug industry official has suggested.
What's a little arthritic pain? And some of the
older folks are better off dead anyway, these
aposties of high prices seem to feel.
Tragically, some of our senior ctizens do exact-
ly what the heartless cynics suggest.
According
to W. B. Brown, a retired Dodge Local 3 member,
many retirees “simply are not able to buy the
drugs
they
are
supposed
prices are just enormous.”
to
have
because
the
Brown knows what he is talking about.
He is
on the Local 3 retired workers steering committee
and is active in the UAW’s retired workers program in the metropolitan Detroit area.
One of
his duties is visiting the sick.
ae
That is not the point, however, Margolius note
need
water
to live, too,
but
don’t
expect
intended
not
the benefits
to the
drug
to be
his legacy
companies
and
i"
specuiih
lators who found a bonanza in drug stocks,” Mars
golius declared.
.
Penicillin, not
about 5c a dose,
a “brand drug,” now costs on j ri
though most doctors will chargt
their patients $1 or more in addition
regular fee for administering a shot.
is of concern
ends meet,
time trying to make
enough
30e or 60c a day is “not too much to pay for th
relief of pain,” and that a $20 prescription is
cheap price for saving a life.
humanity,
great
who has a hard
Some industry spokesmen, in testifying befa
the Kefauver committee, asserted that, after
“He
public service he is performing with this investigation, and to urge him to keep right on di
es are resumed,” said Mazey
when the he
services
is director of the union’s community
department.
While
a
Dr. Alexander Fleming, the famed British
physician who discovered penicillin—the fore)
runner of most modern antibioties—didn’t mak
a cent from his discovery because he didn’
patent it.
to Sen.
the
by public funds.
pay $5 a bottle for it.
a statement.
UAW
from #
icine since 1945, only one did his research in
drug industry laboratory, Margolius noted.
We
“Sen. Kefauver'’s probe has shown that the
drug industry has used the misfortunes and
miseries of the ill, the crippled and the elderly
It has used
to enrich itself beyond all reason.
pain and suffering as a vehicle to become the
mest profitable of all American industries,”
UAW Secretary Treasurer Emil Mazey said in
“IT ure e every
taxpayers’ money—and
Of the 28 winners of the Nobel Prize in medy!
rural
retired
is an 80-year-old
E. Logan
Mary
is, from
stitutions supported
She is forced to subsist on two small “meals” a
day—breakfast, and “dinner” consisting of a bowl
of soup and crackers. Often, she says, she “walks
to a dime store to get a bowl of soup
a long way
for 20c; other places it’s a quarter.”
Miss Logan suffers from pernicious anemia.
The drug she is supposed to take costs $18 a
needle shot.
for each hypodermic
“There's just no way I can afford it,” she says.
year
this past
myself
“I starved
pay $150 in taxes to keep them
home
away.
so I could
just
taking my
from
“The other day I had to get something
for an
At one drug store it was 75c for a tiny
earache.
little bottle, so I walked
another drug store which
the
There
little cheaper.
35c,”” she said.
about three miles to
I thought might be a
bottle
same
only
was
A member of Ford Local 600 who said he
had been working “fairly steady” told of having
a prescription filled the other day which cost
him
$7.50
for “twelve
little antibiotic
pills.”
“T’'m not saying I didn’t have the dough; I did,”
the Ford worker, who didn’t give his name, went
on. “But I have a lot of friends who've been laid
off for a long time.
Suppose it’d been them that
Where’d they get the money?”
had to pay $7.50?
There was no one around with an answer to
that question.
One of the reasons given by
spokesmen for the high price of
drugs is that “research
Margolius,
Sidney
But
drug industry
“brand name”
costs” drive
well-known
up prices.
consumer
counsel for the labor press, points to a recent
study by the Federal Trade Commission — a
federal government agency—which showed that
the research cost of brand-name antibiotics is
less than
seven
per cent,
Research really gets only about 3.3c of the
antibiotic sales dollar, Margolius told a New
York State legislative committee last October,
when he was testifying in behalf of the Metropolitan New York Consumer Council.
“The real gainers from the high prices of modern drugs are Wall Street investors who saw the
profit
marketed
drugs
in life-saving
possibilities
under brand names,” Margolius testified.
market price of the shares of ten leading
doubled
panies
of these drug
manufacturers
“The
com-
In 1958, one
1956 to 1958.
from
a profit of 17
made
per cent on sales and 28,per cent on investment,”
he pointed out.
Many of the dramatic advances in medicine
were not developed by the drug industry at all.
Salk
polio
through
Dimes,
vaccine,
funds
to which
Streptomycin,
by an
university
financed
most
for many
tributing
veloped
made
example,
was
developed
Americans
have
been
for
available
years.
it has been
underpaid
laboratory.
by grants
by
from
the
pointed
professor
Other
out, was
working
research
the federal
March
has
to
thejj
attitude is exemplified)! .\\)
by Dr. Austin Smith,)
°\°
president of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
Association,
which
is in the
best
eake” tradition.
Said the good
quoted by The New York Times):
“let
"em
doctor
eat)!»
(as}»
“T am sure that all of us feel the greatest com4r
$5
another
you
charge
they
“then
and
bottle,
The drug industry’s
by a statement made
of
con-
de-
in a
been
government
passion for elderly people who find it difficult tap? ©.
pay for medication.
If the pharmaceutical indu: a
try is at fault here, it is because it has helped
create a pool of millions too old to work by pros’
longing their lives.”
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but
Grugs,
of
about
—that
“About 75 per cent of the retirees I come in
contact with need to take medicine to keep
themselves going, but a lot of them just don’t
have the money, once they pay for rent and
food,” he told Solidarity.
LUCILLE ULM
years
complaining
been
have
TUTTO
for
members
UAW
Most
{
EEE
A Phony Ad?
No, It's Symbolic!’
The drug industry not only believes in
charging enormous prices, but also engages
The
in phony and misleading advertising.
committee’s probe has not yet delved too
deeply into this phase of the industry, which
might
prove
into pricing
just
as
practices.
colorful
as
the
inquiry
Here is one example of drug advertising,
as revealed in the Chicago labor paper
“Work:”
Pfizer Laboratories once ran a big promotional campaign for its trademarked antibiEvery doctor in the counotic, Sigmamycin.
try received a folder on the drug which contained this copy:
“Every day ... everywhere... more and
more physicians find Sigmamycin the antibiotic therapy of choice.”
Underneath this headline were printed the
professional cards of eight doctors from various parts of the nation. The cards included
name, medical degree, street address, phone
number and office hours.
When skeptical newsmen checked, they
found that the eight doctors did not exist.
Confronted with this information, John MeKeen, president of Pfizer, readily acknowledged that the ad’s “doctors” were fictitious.
He said it was a “symbolic way of indicating
that the antibiotic was in wide-spread use.
Under federal law, the Federal Trade Commission has no jurisdiction over drug advertising as long as it is disseminated only to
Which
members ofthe medical profession.
may be why the industry advertises primarly in medical journals and through direct
mail instead of using the daily newspapers.
Which may in turn be the reason why the
newspapers haven’t hesitated in playing the
drug hearings big — after all, they’re sot
offending a big advertiser,
=Sruss v4 0eEV COU ANNOASLUUUOUAA THORS
SAOU EAU
_
Antitrust and Monopoly
ts of the U.S. Senate’s
}committee on administered prices in the drug
fustry that the reader sometimes loses sight of
Here, in sumfat the Senate probers found.
item:
of the
official
An
Association
American
iRetired Persons charged that Parke, Davis &
. of Detroit cut off supplies to a non-profit,
“S4count pharmacy én Washington, D.C., patron'{d by retirees, which had been buying drugs from
s firm for 15 years. A company spokesman said
was
2 official
‘ftem:
“misinformed.”
fetught female sex hormones for 14c a gram and
/ Hid them to druggists for $15 a gram, an increase
».6§ 10,000
teeiiitem:
seized
fm
under
iring World
I, was
‘iament in 1952 to a group
eno recouped their entire
{ofits in about five years.
tii}Item:
i
/ojohn
sisirtain
2
Restricting
of
4e domination
eitis
alien property
the enemy
War
said.
three
laws
sold by the U.S. gov-
of private investors
inyestment out of
have
agreements
big
firms
and Merck — who control
cortisone derivative drugs
sufferers.
resulted
070
which
Schering,
in
tablets
per thousand
watethritis
drug
it markets
vation
$136
under
ueticorten,
first
charged
a
the
the
"The
bought
“negotiated”
is
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an anti-
name
Adminis-
contract.
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Detroit
7
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firm’s
their
using
name rather than the generic or chemical
thus hiking patients’ costs,
Item: American drug companies sell their prod>
ucts at much lower prices abroad than in the
United States, though added shipping costs alone
normally
countries.
make
to
tend
higher im
prices
Item: Francis C. Brown, president of Schering,
gets $75,000 a year, is eligible for a pension that
could pay up to $33,000 a year for life and hag
been given options to buy his company’s stock
that could net him
prices.
rent
the
Among
& Lee, which
Co.’s “public
relations.”
firms realso han-
in Arkansas wrote to the commit-
News
t873
drugs
prescribe
to
doctors
in excess of $300,000 at cue
Item: Penicillin tablets marketed by Squib’
under the trade name ‘Pentids 400” sell for
$14.85 per hundred. The same tablet sold by a
small company under the generic penicillin name
costs $3.75 per hundred.
Item: A Johns Hopkins University professo¥
accused drug firms, in their advertising, of sell
ing “bushelfuls of sow’s ears for silk purses.” He
said they dump “miserable’’ medicines on the
market every year with the aid of exaggerated
j
ads and persistent detail men.
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factor making
This is another
Item: Drug companies employ hordes of so=
called detail men (salesmen) who try to persuade
foreign
tee and asked: “Must some of us die in this democ-
of the drug
tournaments,
costs.
increased
would
publicity” it is getting.
portedly hired is Selvage
Item:
with
only,
MD’s
Also fishing contests, bowling
shoots and sport smokers.
brand
name,
\KDURTRIES Fetal Tray Comencsion
ALL wes FIC S80
dies the Kohler
firms befeel they
“to meet
for
13.0
....
Item: Like the auto industry, drug
They
lieve in “planned obsolescence.”
have to come out with new products
for
tourneys
the competition.”
.. . 13.5
niet eins ace -uacets
expenses
paid.
skeet
e
DRUG PROFITS are almost twice the averag
rate for all manufacturing, according to this chart
which was submitted in evidence at the Kefauver
hearings.
druggists
brand
Veterans
a quantity
133
SOURCE
estfhen the government switched to competitive
infidding, Schering dropped the price to $23.63 and
dill lost out to a smaller firm which quoted an
‘ven lower price.
“off Item: Schering
.....
BAKERY
of prednisone,
under
ABRASIVES, ETC.
PETROLEUM
the market in
used by arth-
charges
still
155
“4s
14.2
SORPT)
st Item: The drug industry, with an after-taxes
yofit averaging 21.4 per cent of investment,
ad the highest profit ratio of industries sur‘sipyed by the FTC.
soil Item:
MOTOR VEHICLES .....
CASS
2 ewes
ELECTRICAL MACHINERY.
ENGINES
Q TURBINES
Schering,
—
PERCENT
yearly
arranges
Laboratories
all
golf
INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS. . 162
OFFICE BSTORE MACHINES 15.5
a former German-owned
Corp.,
Schering
investigators
committee
per cent,
”
5
x?
Pfizer
example,
Comparison of Rates of Return After Taxes
in Selected Industries, 1957.
Mich.,
Kalamazoo,
of
Co.
Upjohn
The
profits?”
more
for
hides
Item: One factor which increases drug costs
is the industry’s habit of entertaining doctors
like aircraft companies entertain generals — for
clearly fall within the definition of administered
prices. They are set, not by the changing forces
of supply and demand, but by administrative decision and held constant over extended periods of
time.”
Item: The drug industry has hired a number of
public relations firms to counter-act the “bad
findings:
sensational
Ary, are some of the more
our
of
out
blood
P $ECTIONS—2-5 PAGES—-PRICE 20 CENTS
Here’s what you can do to combat
high price of some prescription drugs:
Urge
1)
your
doctor,
he
when
writes
the
a
prescription for you, to use the generic rather than the brand name of the medicine,
t
whenever possible. This gives the pharmacis
dan opportunity to sell you a lower-cost pro
uct, especially if you tell him you can’t afford
high-priced
the
2)
Price Gap
Defended
by Upjohn
Whenever
stuff.
you
do
to pay
have
your
make
for a drug,
price
known to the druggist. If enough
complain,
tomers
he will
in turn
a high
complaint
of his cus-
complain
to
his supplier, and it goes on from there. Such
grass roots pressure may perhaps persuade
Hidden-Factors
the drug manufacturers
Increase Costs,
Senators Hear
if
this
3)
with
to lower their prices,
doesn’t.
inquiry
Congressional
Get together in
a group of locals
your local union, or
in one city, and with
such groups as credit. unions and consumer
disco-ops, and discuss the possibilities of
count
|v
or co-op drug buying
yur vive
tvnvviviv ety
PAUCUULI UOTE UU ERE
the hear-
concerning
printed
has been
dso much
squeeze the life
just because these companies
racy
Estradiol from a French firm, bottled it at a cost
of 11.7e for a bottle of 60, sold it to druggists
for $8.40, with a retail price tag of $14.
Item: Sen. Kefauver charged that “most drugs
to reduce costs,
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ARE EYEE
a
6
LIME
1960—Page
CZ A
OPENER |
January,
@\@ EYE
off
Guy
Nunn
on
promises
to see
the
right
foot
who
profit
from
in
publicity-boot-treatment
7 vaws
SOLIDARITY,
to
presented
Do-
over
fist.
was
BOOKSHELF
LABOR
School in behalf 0! f Local 306, and
High
minican
hand
all-girl school’s debating team started winning
—
the
Making
ative Frank
sentative Ed
UAW
(left) and Education-Citizenship repreLaBita
Lee (right). Debaters are Marjorie Gunn, Diane
Vanootighem, Rosalie Bryh, Sharon Fricke, Margaret
Carolyn Crawford, Linda S todulski, Pat Tokarski and
Barbara
them win a debate—auntil they
visited UAW’'s Solidarity House
Bookshelf
the 1960 Presidential
lot
underway.
gets
subjects.
a
of
Frank
nd
Ed
Pp
situation
activity
education-
completely,”
Maria,
their
now
“They've
said.
debates in a row.”
Fortune,
many
“is
not
golf
fray.”
ten
im the coming year.
This fact emerges
of
survey
market
National
conducted
systems showed
in serving.
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Maryland
Baltimore
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680
6:00—6:30 AM
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WNTA
wrt
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970
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6:00—6:30 AM
6:15—6:45 AM
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WPAZ
1370
the importance to each other
of
America’s
farming
and
working populations.
The NRECA, which conducted the study, is an association
of almost
1,000 local electric
major
cooperatives in 46 States, serving over 16 million people. The
co-ops, celebrating their Silver
Jubilee
power
private
interest
little
electrical
items
in
sumer
survey
the
of
months
PRESIDENTS AND FINANCIAL
ALL LOCAL UNIONS—UAW
RE:
STRIKE
FUND
for
Expenditures
is a summary
month
the
STRIKE
INTERNATIONAL
TO
ACCOUNT
DISBURSEMENTS
BALANCE
involving
are
IN
1,767
10
FUND
of
ple
NOV.
NOV.
strikes
members
November
7
ee EAA LLL ASI UNPELAS AMEN HANA
AAL ESA SONI
1959
$19,149,898.99
1959
at
effect
in
of the UAW.
SEASON
and
303,878.17
....
the
present
NAA
HA
from
25
all
almost
20
peo-
companies
to
the
as
movement
the
Luce
time,
hardly
pointed:
the
“Perhaps
manager
(political
of
now.”
his
has
in the
assignment.
felt
a
It
is
Get Ready to Roll
Detailed
information
and
materials about the-Ninth Annual UAW International Bowling Tournament
ed to all local
has been mailthe
in
participants
mer
and
unions
forUS.
and Canada,
Olga M. Madar,
UAW
Recreation
Department
Director,
The
run
from
24,
day
announced.
tournament,
concurrently
Feb.
except
13-14
for
weekend
be held
Buffalo,
at
N-Y.
which
each
until
the
April
Easter
17-18,
Tru-Way
will
weekend
April
in December.
was
Brademas
a
ference
on
retirement
sure
in
jon
and
an
two-day
the
industrial
more
by
session
luncheon
at
during
main
the
speaker
held
early
here
meeting
conference
university
security
Charles
been
activity) “was
prob-
lems of older people will comattenthe “increasing
mand
tion of Congress in the immediate future,” Rep. John Brademas (D.,Ind.) told an AFL-CIO
Department
Industrial Union
education.
ex-
not
parade
the
led
also
expected,
$132,654.39
DOLLARS,
in
raked
extreme reactionary organizations
What's that about “slush funds”?
WASHINGTON — The
social
maga-
have
amounted
expenditures
Their
IN VOLUNTARY
and
con-
23-
holi-
will
Lanes,
:
Odell,
were
ion
cause
or
set
technicians
retirement
director
every
people
ties differ
for
down
and
every
communfty,
differ,
unions
chairman.
of
United
Union,
Agricultural
be-
Se
a
hires
of the terms of employment, he
pointed out.
discussed
conference
The
accomplished
be
eould
what
through bringing the strength
of
the
behind
a program
general
movement
for older and
International
Aircraft and
Automobile,
Workers
Implement
of
copy.
P. REUTHER
WALTER
President
EMIL
MAZEY
rer
y-Treasu
Secretar
RICHARD GOSSER
MATTHEWS
NORMAN
WOODCOCK
LEONARD
GREATHOUSE
PAT
Vice
Presidents
Board
Executive
International
CHARLES BALLARD
RAY BERNDT
CHARLES BIOLETTL
GEORGE BURT
DOUGLAS FRASER
MARTIN GERBER
TED HAWKS
ROBERT JOHNSTON
CHARLES KERRIGAN
HARVEY KITZMAN
JOSEPH. McCUSKER
E. T. MICHAEL
MERRELLJ
GEORGE
IS
MORR
KEN
LLEY
PAT O'MA
E. 8S, PATTERSON
KEN ROBINSON
RAY ROSS
differ.”
the “whole family” and family
benefits are increasingly part
labor
was
monthly.
Published
AFL-CIO.
America,
n, DeJefferso
E.
8000
Editorial office,
tion
subscrip
Yearly
troit 14, Michigan.
$2.50.
to members, 60c; to non-members,
un-
communi-
management
entire
labor
PUBLICATION,
OFFICIAL
urged unions to
department
whole
the
“for
negotiate
family” in the fields of lei-
Modern
state
programs.
director,
education
Z
said.
Prof. Max Kaplan of Bossociology
University’s
ton
retirement.
could
The conference, first of its
movement,
kind in the labor
was opened by Al Whitehouse,
Russ Allen, IUD
IUD director.
roles and functions in a retiree
program for themselves, Odell
and
in such
councils
Given enlightened leadership,
older people can perform many
sure
and
central
of
what
the activity
be done to increase
in this field at an evening
session.
Gdell pointed out that “there
is no formula or blueprint that
be
about
made
Suggestions
80 un-
the UAW’s older and retired
dedepartment,
workers’
scribed the union’s program
can
workers.
society
than
and
retired
lei-
in the fields of labor education,
hour
—
$78,941.52—or 2.6%.
IUD Holds Conference
On Retirement, Leisure
attended
had
30
yoluntary
could
more
$19,453,777.16
1959
and
zine reports, but the words of
Ralph J. Cordiner, GE’s chair-
$18,128,438.53
1,325,338.63
....
36,
1959.
NOVEMBER,
FOR
1959
5
Income
purchased
business
$957,764.80—
spent
DEMOCRATS
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is “still growing so strong,”
reports Fortune, “that appli-
that
Fund
Syracuse
courses
— and
man,
four
The
out by
1959
SPENT
COPE COLLECTED,
—OR 4%.
for their pro-
of
spent $1,575,329.42
They
in receipts, during the January 1-August 31 period.
took in a total of $1,494,449.45—or 45.7% of the total of $3,The DEMO271,866.85 that all groups reported in receipts
total.
of the
were given $1,002,368.85—or 30.6%
CRATS
in 1957 in Syra-
end
completed
past
Fraternally yours,
EMIL MAZEY
Secretary-Treasurer
Saunas
1,400
the
total;
the
America, and Pro-America.
to $201,764.93.
The REPUBLICANS, as
no longer stay
requests
by 43 politi
politics
on
spent
Four extreme reactionary groups consisting chiefly of
a few very wealthy men spent more than two and a half
They were Americans for
times as much as COPE did.
Constitutional Action, Christian Nationalist Crusade, For
in which more
it can
voluntary,”
SECRETARIES
Strike
31,
FOR
IN
of
or 31.7%; COPE
ceed the number
of
slots
available for participants.”
The applications may be “all
REPORT
FUND
BALANCE IN FUND, OCT.
INCOME IN NOY. 1959 .
There
a
By
of
52.1%
—or
than
1,000
executives
have
taken part since 1956. And ECO
part
following
TOTAL
over the country
was
the REPUBLICANS
expenditures,
political
people
universities
cations—all
Greetings:
The
at
$3 million
eal groups during the first eight months of 1959, according
to financial reports filed with the Clerk of the U.S. House
Of the exact total of $3,023,705.50 in
of Representatives.
some 5,000 people have undergone it.
A corporation-sponsored group that calls itself the
Effective Citizens Organization
(ECO), has presented
special
reported
than
More
cuse, N.Y., where General Electric is the city’s
largest
employer.
con-
Strike Fund Report
TO
OF
seminars
6:15—6:35 AM
Political Memo from COPE
by
companies,
6:00—6:30 AM
850
WKBZ
=Syvovvsnnennecevanuseceerernencne crease
Gulf
put
been
tics” program
appliance
discloses.
Pennsylvania
The Manufacturers Association started a “practical poli-
electric
NRECA
the
has
100
grams,
on the
ahead,
Ohio
$284,606.67.
about
up with
gen-
EET
TEL OEE
=SpOeNese ANNUAL EN NREETLG ST EEAEDT SES SEEN POLI
Deal
Jersey
New
po-
used
20,000
program
NAM
by
3,000,000 rural
projection
into
came
year,
this
the
families will be interestpurchasing one or more
co-op
ed in
it.
Another
their neighbors “down
farms.”
Nearly
over
Kansas City
St. Louis
6:15—6:45 AM
800
CKLW
Rapids
Grand
Missouri
A
“practical
- politics
course” brought out early in
1959 by the U.S. Chamber of
with
Detroit
6:00—6:30 AM
1310
WISH
Indianapolis
Muskegon
Republic
of other
been
TIME
1330
calls
“middle-managepeople.”
has
KC
WIPS
162 business firms and 479
local chambers, the magazine
indication of the close economic ties between city inpopulations and
dustrial
operative
Association.
The
study underscores once again
tune
ment
STATION
Evansville
mak-
Borg-Warner,
Station List
Indiana
companies, big and little, have
sponsored
political
action
training courses for what For-
taking
New
companies
these
6:15—6:45 AM
6:15—6:45 AM
5:45—6:15 AM
backing
comprehensive
Commerce
eral manager, interprets the
survey findings as one more
Co-
large
Can,
said,
NRECA’s
Ellis,
Clyde
the
Electric
Rural
which
homes,
a
by
the
legislation designed to spur the
electrification of isolated farm
buying
rural
the
of
result
a
as
being
going
from
a
ate political action were Gen-
members
union
by
-says
said
magazine
The Luce
that the “pioneers” in corpor-
billion
estimated
an
to buy
dollars worth of products man-
ufactured
for
and
Opener"
on
rigged,»
910
1320
1000
exclu-
Oil, Monsanto
and
Steel, while hundreds
game—politics.
arguments
ready-made
rural
are
cooperatives
electric
ican
and
this
WHAY
WATR
WCFL
litical action efforts” are Amer-
... They are marshaling execfor
utives in training courses
and issuing
practical politics
coach,
America’s
of
but
are
management.”
“fairly
inequities
in
New Britain
Waterbury
Chicago
elaborate
that
confidence
ing
tax
Few
6:30—7:00 AM
Michigan
Sively
concerned
with
goyernment and political affairs,
Other
corporate
today,”
fairly
departments
issue
extracurricular
Rural Electric Co-Op Survey
Predicts $1 Billion Buying
Of Union-Made Products
Members
ap-
peers.
of
complex
more
Sister
won
hottest
managements
the
events reversed
two
Frances
Lee,
Then
representative
for
esented them with
union’s
Labor
the
in behalf of Local
of
Bookshelf
306.
“The
LaBita.
“The
business
“have
of top
Business
\i
|
the
1150
eral Electric, Ford and Johnson and Johnson
GE
and
full
wealthy,
in the December
big
his
staff
1
being
Big
giving
KRKD
Illinois
Ford
year—by
Angeles
and are headed by executives
of standing
who
have
the
this
the
magazine,
Fortune
of
lush publication put out by
Henry Luce (Time, Life) for
tor Brendan
Region
on
corporations
influential
idarity House
the union's
s from UAW
x
certain
by
pushed
peared
Education
operation
calculated
campaign
report”
A “progress
anda
ma1t Know
1 On
have
time
to
gram which it hopes
the
rolling smoothly by
ts at Dominican
had
in Detroit,
ort end of the
s
involving
t
pro-
action
political
well-oiled
de-
a
up
is gearing
business
Big
the
point,
tto
Up
Labor
union's
the
received
and
Los
Connecticut
Big Business Plunging
Into Political Action
An all-girl high school's team
to help
words
find
couldnt
the
crry
California
Tells All:
‘Fortune’
new
present
“Eye
STATE
McNamee,
Sayville.
Bookshelf’ Aids
Girl Debaters
the
bloated drug prices. Be sure and hear the series
subjects on your radio program, EYE OPENER,
the
then
1 represent-
Region
are
union
for the
presentation
country
Detroit's
to
to it that EYE OPENER gets
Members
Frank Winn, Editor and Director PabliRelations Depart
Public
cations and
Joe
ment.
Assistant
Walsh,
tions
ment.
Henry
and
and
Jerry
tin,
Public
and
Publica-
Demart-
Managing Editor
Santiestevan,
Publications
Director
Assistant
Department.
Relations
Public
Howard
Dale,
Hartford,
Jerry
James
Director
Relations
Yardley,
Members
Lipton,
Photographer.
American
Guild,
Staff
Ray
Newspaper
AFL-CIO.
Mar.
Members.
every
training
phase
Gerber
of
union
reports.
Using
a
method,
assigned
lead
the
particular
staff
to
member
research
problem
and
discussion
then
on
a
large
national
number
union
Detroit
and
cussed
were
Among
—Is
the
collective
mining
the
role
committeeman?
—Arbitration
process.
—What
financial
the
dents
and
program.
—Health
lems
—Are
lege
at
and
of
minority
groups?
Law.
« —Labor
the
meeting
we
tions.
—The UAW
tion of the
‘es
the
from
SCENES
CANDID
Region
Rifkin).
(Photos courtesy Bernard
held
institute
training
9 staff
l
ci
un
Co
r
e
t
s
e
v
r
a
H
l
na
io
at
- Intern
io
Oh
in
n
o
i
s
s
e
S
y
Da
1y
s
u
B
s
d
Hol
ed
SPRINGFIELD,
report
decisions
future
was
past
on
arbitration
hearings
company’s
negotiations
of
director
assistant
Shy,
Harvester
International
partment.
The council
last month.
contract
De-
throughout
Director
last month.
for
of
2A
Harvester
who
Department,
is
who
Greatunion’s
in--
had
tended to fly here from Calithe council
fornia to attend
session, missed his plane connection and was unable to get
to Springfield in time. He was
represented
adthe
Herschel
meeting
the
administrative
his
of the
at
Davis,
ed Education
Cormick
other
on
matters.
shutdown
policy
of
(PAI)—Many
union
trade
top
nation’s
the
by
Thomas,
Norman
for
Socialist
champion.
CIO
UAW
civil
and
They
President
long-time
liberties
AFL-
included
George
Meany,
P.
Walter
President
Reuther, IUE President James
Porters’
Pullman
Carey,
B.
A. Philip Randolph
President
and
President
ILGWU
Dubinsky.
David
More than half of the
annually
killed
destrians
auto
accidents
walked
acted
or
reportedly
in
an
pein
jay-
other-
wise unsafe manner, according
to the National Safety Council.
discussed
the “state of the union.”
Labor
cussed
Council,
“Labor’s
in
sponsibility
AFL-CIO,
director
versity’s Hartford
dent
and
of
Local
405,
studied
by
UAW
Hartford.
Subjects
students
included
grievances,
union
bargaining,
responsibilities)
leadership
cording
9
and
the
collective
to John
education
of
and
improved
communications,
Dillon,
ac-
Region
representative.
include
to
and
budget
present
the
of
aware
well
salary
the
in
inadequacies
schedule for faculty members
state supJersey’s
New
of
ported
leges
and
faculty
salaries
“College
the
rise throughout
the
col-
universities
If
nation.
our
New
colleges
Jersey
will
are
en-
lags
lose
and
fact,
it becomes imfaculty salaries
well-qualified
for
the
learning’.
facu
staffs
of
Ity
our
institutions of
labor education
Hartford branch
graduation
ceremonies
for
students
taking
of Connecticut's
University
courses at the
Left to
get together for an informal chat,
of the
Glynn, coordinator of the labor program
Beecher,
Donald
institute;
labor-management
university's
Local 405; Mitchell Sviridoff, president of
president of UAW
right:
the
John
state
AFL-CIO
and
John Dillon, Region 9A
Sexton, UAW education
Connecticut),
director of UAW Region 9A;
educatio n representative, and Brendan
assistant
director,
(Photo
courtesy
University
of
WASHINGTON—*
ons live from
held
State
locals.
meetings
paycheck
85d
in
served
great deal
about the
to
of misinnew law,
Carliner
of
office;
coordinator
the
Andy
for
And
in Region
activities.
citizen~
9A:
an-
has
Kerrigan
through 24 and will feature
four workshops and a general assembly. Delegates will
be able to register Friday
evening and Saturday morn$3.50 per delegate.
The general assembly
will be held Friday eve-
_——_—_—$<—<$—$—————
is
all
workshops
with
ning,
day Saturday and Sunday,
Kerrigan said.
workshops
The
Steward
Time Study,
dure
and
Train-
Proce-
Speech,
Effective
and
on
are
Parliamentary
ing,
Limitations
Political
on
in
Bargaining
Collective
1960.
The conference address is:
Sloan Bldg., 52 Memorial
Mass.
Cambridge,
Drive,
Booklet Gives ‘How'
Of Co-op Housing
Thousands
— RK
YO
NEW
area
in
New
the
rent
paying
are
below
housing
private
York
45
they
because
help
to
savings
their
pooled
themselves
City
to
20
of
comparable
Other families caught in the
too little to
earning
mid—dle
carry
priced
much
of highburden
the
private housing and too
to
qualify
swers
in
from
the
the
find
new
housing
United
Foundation, 500
New York 36.
says the
paycheck,”
headline on a newspaper
story.
The Vice President of
the United States receives
a salary of $35,000 a year
plus $10,000 for expenses.
fee
registration
The
ing.
cooperative
to
Jan. 22
at Cambridge
housing—may
Things Are Tough
All Over
in
were
sistant
percent
the
education-citi-
Lew
ever-increasing
of
this
of
Gabe
director,
reported.
families
higher
PARTICIPANTS
These
valuable members of their faculties to other institutions.
state-suprorted
West
rights
woulld
mended by the State Board of
Education.
Wrote Krebs:
“The State CIO Council is
members
uni-
arbitration
state
1960
an-
the
act
appropriations
state
college salary program recom-
cure
presi-
Beecher,
Don
a
L. Tl-
CIO
tant
York
(MIT)
be increased so that New Jersey will be able to keep and se-
in
The four-course program
began
which
relations,
labor
Oct. 9, is*taught at the Hartford branch. Those responsible
for setting the program up include John Glynn of the insti-
tute
the
cost-of-living,
that
perative
Uni-
branch.
in
because
Re-
of the
urge
Legislature
“Because
students
The
Affairs.”
on
also heard from Dr. Wilber
Griswold,
nounced
the
the
that
by
on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
college
Krebs
Paul
arranged
Martin
nounced.
The institute will be held
College
of the
lis, chairman
cio
State
Committee,
Salary
President
Director
be held the end of this
month, Regional Director
sup-
In a letter to Herbert
and 2
for Massachusetts locals will
State
schedule.
salary
Reporting
Gray,
Charles
for
quest
their
in
behind,
dis-
Internal
higher
tire
State
Public
teachers
Jersey’s
New
to
port
pledged
Labor—
BOSTON — Region 9A’s
annual education institute
Red
The
—
has
Council
CIO
on
by the Greater Hartford Central Council, AFL-CIO.
“Labor
on
spoke
Sexton
Democracy.”
and
Education
Sviridoff, who is also presi-
dent of the Connecticut
and
administra-
NJ.
new
do’s
Classes for
Mass. Locals
Brendan
Pay Demands
NEWARK,
the
representative.
New
ship
Labor Backs
N.J. Teachers
and
dispute
secretaries
Brown,
assistant
director
of
the
Community
Services
Department, and Bill Dodds, as-
Roche of the legal staff; Jerome Pollack, program consultant in the Social Security de-
rec-
a
the
Washington
includ-
Department;
presi-
with
a:
partment;
CasDan
Woodcock;
Leonard
of the
director
sey, assistant
Auditing
Ed
Gerber
to Vice President
tive assistant
pending
YORK
Director
Gettlinger,
Larry
Honor Norman Thomas
NEW
staffers
Conway
Jack
Sexton;
ommendation of its executive
board, giving the council’s policy committee full authority to
work with the Interntional on
a final settlement of the Mc-
assistant,
who
Participating
leaders were among the sponsors of a 75th birthday dinner
to
worker.
Pat
President
director of the
Vice
house,
I-H
Ross,
Ray
adopted
council
The
discussed.
of
clear up a
formation
also
were
programs
education
sponsored
is
program
The
a
also
Institute
Labor-Management
402
Local
Region
local,
Troyer’s
Connecticut’s
of
University
in
met
member
another
by
were
program
labor education
which
Springfield by Warren Troyer, Local 402 president, and
the speakers who
105 graduates of
among
dressed
chain.
was welcomed
Hall,
STORRS, Conn. — UAW
Education Director Brendan
Sexton and Mitchell Sviridoff, assistant director of
9A,
farm
huge
the
Amalgamated
the
Region
also
Delegates
council,
The
Labor Grads
At UConn
Hear Sexton
UAW
(Solidarity,
administration
implement
early
here
met
McCormick
rundown
received a complete
from Shy on the department’s
the
of
shut-
announced
1959).
July,
sion of the UAW’s InternationCouncil by Art
al Harvester
the
involving
Chicago
in
Works
ses-
on the UAW’s
report
of its famous
down
delegates
one-day
a busy
attending
up-to-date
the
to
given
arbitration
schedule
the
and
Shy
detail-
O.—A
an
councii
the
also gave
N.Y.
Kiamesha,
at
month
last
them
Re-
Philadelphia
for Pennsylvania
locals,
in
Linden,
N.
J.
for
Jersey
locals
and
in Buffalo
and
citizenship
UAW’s
The
union
Conferences
chal-
collar workers.
conferences
financial
and
zenship
movement.
—The challenge of organizing new workers.
of
problems
special
—The
white
and
of
throughout
local
Regional
and
direclabor
and the
American
held
for
DeAngelis,
regula-
and
rules
—Union
9
Gerber
prob-
level.
local
the
Martin
series
orientation
don’ts
by
local
welfare
virtually
Disclosure
Act
of
1959
(the
Landrum-Griffin Act).
The
sessions
were
chaired
of
—What every staff member
should know about the strike
benefit
—A
Management
member
procedures.
YORK
to acquaint
shop
about
into
Director
been
gion
a changing
staff
know
have
under-
of
as
every
should
nature
bargaining
area
dis-
problems
changing
NEW
from
Washington.
these:
a
inter-
staffers
the
Regional
aided
of
delved
Hold Area Sessions
On New Labor Law
that
probiem at the institute.
The regional staff was
by
which
activity,
self-instruction
each
was
institute
NNILSV3—L
staff
of Region 9
month at an
*ALIVVOITOS
unusual
— The entire staff
Lake Kiamesha last
* apnupe
MONTICELLO,
N.Y.
spent a week at nearby
O,
Institute
Special
9 Staff Att ends
Region
WEntire
096k
P
for
a
public
few
booklet
an-
on
available
Housing
Fifth
Avenue,
Pension Dispute Settled
SOLIDARITY, Ja nuary, 1960—~Page ®
+4
Continued
from
Page
Packard
1
forced
of Packard's Detroit plant
in 1956.
@
Cash
Packard
workers
Average cash
will be $1,200.
settlement
“
(some
350)
UAW
ment
highly respected
and research
to
those
become
political
and
from
parts of the country.
many
He
UAW ’s
been
had
for
staff
11
on
the
years,
most of the time attached to
the union’s Washington of-
fice.
director
Reuther,
Victor
Washington
of the UAW’s
office, issued the following
statement:
“We are deeply grieved at
the sudden death of Sam
Jacobs, a consultant to the
UAW Washington office on
consumer
and
tax
problems,
and his wife, Pearl Jacobs.
“For 20 years Sam Jacobs
has been an informed and
courageous
spokesman
on
behalf. of consumers, as a
school teacher, as a leader of
the consumer movement, as
an officer of the Office of
Price Administration, as an
administrative
assistant to
Senator Pat McNamara and
more recently as a consultant to the UAW.”
NAA, Douglas
Councils Meet
March,
progress
reports
covering
in shaping
the uni-
on’s
collective
bargaining
demands were delivered at
the Douglas council meeting
at Tulsa, Woodcock said.
A
from
Beach,
total
of
22
delegates
Locals
148,
Long
Calif.; 1093, Tulsa,
3, Charlotte, N.C., towith
international
at-
ion.
é
American
i
unic
Council
&
ning
over
who
led
tions.
sho,
Mo.
al
for
and
the
“This
tees each
when
benefits.”
Morris
typical
now
they
qualify
curity
and
reach
for social se-
estimated
Packard
retiree a
the
retiree
sured
about
Under
time we instituted suit. The
settlement also requires the
monthly
$207.
terms
income
of
the
retired
workers
Detroit
Bend
and
were
at
plant
i
Packard#ire
to
receivepit!
pensions from a consolidat
pension
was
years
fund.
Less
than
after
the
after
Studebaker
signed
ab
tional
of
K.
agreement
and
only
McDaniel,
representative;
Kujawski,
twoal
andes
Local
interna-
190
Harry
presi-|
dent; Redmond Roche, UAW
pen-
both
ai}!
Packard
merged,
Packardho»
car manufacturing was end«+
ed permanently in Detroit.
Alongside Morris, negoti- il
ating for the UAW, were O, 4)
John
sion agreement negotiated in
1955,
in
outh
Studebaker
M, Hawkins, administrative
assistant to UAW Vice President Norman
Matthews;
which he and his wife are
entitled, it means an as-
pension annuity for life of
more than 20% higher than
appeared in prospect under
the company’s plan at the
the
year
with
30
years’
service
would receive approximately
$57 monthly
in
guaranteed annuity. When
added to social security to
guaran-
Packard
between
time
65 and
each individual
worker affected
settlement
period
at
attorney and Willard Sollen-
berger
of the union’s
security
department.
social
yi
ny
¢
iil
‘
| +{i!
|[*
.
negotia-
said:
“If
we
had
not been able to negotiate
this agreement, there was a
possibility the case might
have been in the courts for
years,
during
which
time
Gains Won
In Martin
Agreement
BALTIMORE
gains,
—
including
boosts
of about
won by UAW
Broad
benefit
30%,
REACHING to shake
just addressed their
were
in negotiations
court settlement
for workers at three Martin
Aircraft Co. plants across
the
country,
UAW
President Leonard
cock reported.
Woodcock,
director
union’s national
partment,
said
agreement
in
future
credits and
Woodof
won
the hands of old friends, UAW Vice President Norman Matthews, who had
meeting, joins with retirees from Packard in rejoicing over the out-of-
by the UAW
the
Continued
from
so much to our
richly
deserve”
advances
pension
service
automatic retire-
creasing
and
Page
society so
and
“in-
extending
op-
dignity and self-respect even
nation
cost of
willing
rate of
full-time
our
ment
eligibility
provisions,
established
vesting
gains,
benefits,
though
broadened
raised
early
disability
and
retire-
retirement
reduced
members
of
UAW
the
Local
It
and
of
pay;
international
absence;
tion
pay,
holiday
sick
union
pay;
vaca-
union
leave
for
jobs
jury duty pay.
None
cluded previously.
Early
was
age
retirement
changed
from
noted
All
i
UAW
60
higher
social
employment.”
benefits;
improved
workers
by
out
thrown
of
technological
now
before
chasing power bonds for the
financing of constant purchasing
power
pensions
would provide a means to
enable pension funds to give
effective protection to pension recipients,” Mazey said,
indicating
also
this
workers
younger
protect
would
pension
accumulating
now
credits.
the proposal has been presented to the Congressional
Joint Economic Committee
standards of retired workers
was available would assure
its speedy incorporation into
would be able
pension pay-
“Employers
to guarantee
ments
ing
of constant
purchas-
financial
power
with
no
fact
that
such
risk to themselves,”
“The
he said.
a me-
explained
thod of protecting the living
by Prof. H. S. Houthakker
of Stanford University.
negotiated pension plans.
“Constant purchasing
power bonds will fill a great
He
Mazey pointed out the
program would help UAW
and other unions settle the
thorny problem of how to
provide pension plan probuying
for the
tection
power of retirees.
efits, as provided in the For-
Bill
responsibilities.”
“Issuance of constant pur-
With the suggestion for
“constant purchasing power
savings bonds” the cardinal
point in Mazey’s testimony,
the UAW officer emphasized
these would provide retirees
with “a genuinely risk-free
and inflation-proof form of
hospital and surgical coverwomen
and
for men
age
drawing social security benand
Urged
easily can afford the
the pregram if it is
to achieve a growth
five per cent a year
investment.”
other suitable work.
Other points included better surplus food distribution;
in-
years
Vice
Con-
need also for the millions of
people who are not covered
by group pension plans but
have to depend on their individual
stressed.
savings,”
Mazey
of
to 60
serv-
President
~
current retirees will rethe new benefits,
Woodid.
Participating in ne-
ms for UAW
2egion
and
Coun
Local
738,
766,
Council
three
locals
8
were Wood-
Director
officers
John
pr
ent;
788,
Joe
Representatives
the
lifetime pensions.
eligibility
with 25 years service
of age and 15 years
the
them
and “to recognize and accept
plants who, because of their
age, are- unable to obtain
and
was
from
changes or geographic redistribution of industrial
leave
pay
retired
social
security
program;
lowering the social security
retirement age, and special
early retirement provisions
738,
local
is
disability pensions under the
ment—on
which
members
of
the three locals were voting for
ratification as Solidarity went
to press—future service credits
now will include the following:
Absence due to compensable
call-in
he
included
security
Baltimore, Md., Local 766, Denver, Col, and Local 788, Orlando, Fla.
It increased
normal
retirement benefits
from
$1.75
to
$2.25 per month per year of
service, Woodcock said.
Under terms of the agree-
injury;
assures
gress; improved public housing for the aged, and better
mental health programs.
Mazey stressed that the
1
portunities for the older person to contribute to our society and to maintain his
ment,
which
‘Living-Cost’ Bonds
Vice
aircraft dethe
new
scored
kins of Local
treasurer and
887, Los Angeles, Calif.; 927,
Columbus, and 1070, Neo-
is to be
sulted in this agreement.
approved
UAW
Morris
North
two-day
O.,
assist them in the transitjon-
this problem by working cooperatively with us in efforts
to find a solution that re-
disability retirement age.
The
pension
pact,
which
opens up during the life of the
UAW-Martin
contract, covers
about 15,000 workers who are
Rapidly approaching 1960
aircraft
industry
negotiations
were
top
topics
at
meetings
last
month
of
UAW’s Douglas and North
American
intra-corporation
councils, Vice President Leonard Woodcéck, director of
the
union’s
National
Aircraft Department, reported.
With Douglas bargaining
sessions scheduled to start in
corporation
to
and for a willingness to meet
all
unanimously.
a pen-
month
more
and those in the pre-retirement group by Morris
legislative
consultant
leaders
was
to
The settlement was
termed a “significant victory” for Packard retirees
a
union
plan
almost
produc-
trade
by
volved
retiree
1 Co-Direc-
mailed
affected.
The
here in the nation’s capital,
and his wife died together
Dec. 14 in an auto accident.
He and his wife were burservied in Detroit following
ices attended
were
from
of
than $400,000 in cash settlement to those in the 60
to 65 age bracket that will
assur-
have
payout
——o
rose
who
60 to 65.
detailing the proposed agree-
tion worker in a Detroit auto
plant
Region
would
immediate
be
commended for recognizing
the very real problems in-
carefully spelled out. Letters
— Samuel
former
49,
Jacobs,
aged
they
“The
tor Ken Morris’ office and
officials of Packard Local
190 contacted all Packard
pensioners and those near
retirement. At a series of
meetings the details of the
proposed
settlement
were
Sam feats
Wife, Killed
In Accident
WASHINGTON
$490
to
to all for-
would
to live without
sion check
month,
settlements
ranging
from
$1,980 will go
mer
ance
retirees
T.
Alden
of
of UAW’s
Ken
Hop-
secretaryIvy,
Local
vice-president
also
bargaining
E.
of
each
took
sessions.
of
part
the
in
AN
OFF-THE-CUFF
CHAT
between
leaders of the union's Agricultural
group on developments affecting
Convention.
The
Council
met
in
UAW
Vice
President
Detroit
last
month.
Implement
the union
Pat Greathouse
(third
from
left) and
Council followed his comprehensive report to the
and the farm machinery industry since the UAW
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7,
Ind
tructure Will Forge
New Dues
Tools for a Better Tomorrow
Li
Overwhelmingly approved by better than a 90% vote of
convention delegates to provide the tools for meeting im-
Gy
‘Cost af Me mbership in UAW
Still World’s Best Investment’
The new
ture which
dues
went
effect January
ealls for basic
gains already. made.
These include wage advances and improvements in SUB,
pensions, health, medical and life insurance and other vital
benefits for all UAW members.
The solid vote of approval for the dues hike, amounting
trative dues of $3.75, and
to
STRIKE
INSURANCE
FUND
in
months.
recent
3c an
than
almost
after
came
hour,
related industries.
Heavily emphasized
what adequate
@
Thus, local union min-
dues
less
of
days
two
equally-distributed pro and con discussion by the delegates representing UAW’s 1,400,000 members in the U.S.
and Canadian auto, aircraft, agricultural implement and
$1.75 goes to the international as per capita
payments.
went up 50c, from $1.25
to $1.75. Payments into the strike insurance
fund went up $1, from
25c a month to $1.25.
In 1958, a provision
was put into the constitution to build the strike
fund which temporarily
added $1 to strike fund
went into effect
urgent goals for insuring steady progress on the bargaining
and organizing fronts as well as improving and protecting
1, 1960
adminis-
2
imum
dues
were
increased
50c
a
month
from $1.50 to $2, while
per capita payments to
the
international also
union’s
Jan. 1, 1960.
The rank-and-file delegates aimed it pointblank at UAW’s
strucinto
fund
imsurance
strike
dues of $1.25, for a mina
$5
of
dues
imum
month.
Under the provision,
local retains $2
each
from the administrative
remaining
The
dues.
dues structure of $5 a month
new minimum
the
members,
UAW
of
needs
far-reaching
portant,
Their
by the delegates
dues can provide were:
to be strong
union
for the
demand
in connection
with
to
enough
win bargaining goals to meet current and future needs
such as those stemming from automation’s growing impact on workers and jobs;
© The vital target of organizing
particularly in white-collar fields;
unorganized,
the
The need for continued gains and protection covering principles already won by UAW such as SUB, pensions, insurance benefits and others;
@
This
Is How
UAW
That $1 has now been
integrated into the new
strike insurance fund.
Based
on a 40-hour
week, 50-weeks a year,
the new dues structure
of $5
a month
amounts
to less than 3e an hour.
“The
simple
and
un-
Dues
Are
Shared
deniable fact
that the cost
remains,
of mem-
bership in the UAW and
the privilege of sharing
by
won
benefits
the
UAW
members
is still
the world’s best investment,” said Emil Mazey,
secretary-treasurer.
@
ance
The urgency of building an adequate strike insurfund in preparation for major negotiations coming
auto
and
up, including
@
those covering
agricultural
implement
workers
impact
of today’s
the
of
Recognition
aircraft workers
in
in 1960 and
1961;
administered
economics, stepped-up management opposition and legislative influences on how hard the union and its members
must fight on all fronts, and
@ Gains made possible in previous years as the result
of a then-adequate UAW dues structure.
In the past five years, the union’s aircraft, auto and
agricultural implement workers have averaged pay increases of at least 52¢ an hour.
This does not include additional increases s*2t1 as those
covering skilled workers or those aime?,s. eliminating or
lessening inequities.
Nor does it cover the vast gains won by the union in fringe
benefits such as pensions, SUB, hospital, medical and life
insurance, severance pay, paid vacations, cost-of-living and
improvefactor protection, shift premium
improvement
ments, holiday pay, health and safety coverage and much
more.
Stacking these huge gains — at least 52c an hour in
basic wages plus much more in fringe benefits—against
the dues boost cost of only 3c an hour—clearly and accurately shows the value of an adequate union dues structure.
More Democratic, Too
The
UAW
17th
Constitu-
membership
than
the
tional Convention was much
more representative of the
gress
izens.
Each
gates
age
is
of
of
America’s
the
represented
of
454
dues
members,
Each
man represents
000
citizens,
2,491
an
Con-
cit-
dele-
aver-
paying
Congressabout 350,-
Delegates
d
— Then
Debate
Voted
DEMOCRACY DECIDED the dues issue at the UAW’s
17th Constitutional Convention—after ten full hours of
debate, extending over a day and a half, delegates voted
by a majority of 90% in favor of modifying the union’s
dues structure, During the debate, the number of speak-
ers was divided equally between those for and those
against the dues increase. Thus, those speaking for the
minority position were given 50% of the time, although
they were supported by only 10% of the delegates.
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Aircraft Up First in 1960
First UAW members to get the benefit of the new
dues structure — with jits growing strike insurance
fund — will be the nation’s aircraft, rocket and related
electronics workers whose collective bargaining agreements are set to expire at 30 major plants in 1960.
In addition,
their
second
basic
round
of pension
ne-
gotiations already is under way. One major corporation — Martin — already has settled its UAW pension
Other negotiations will follow throughagreement.
out the year.
Included in the 30 plants at which UAW contract
negotiations are approaching fast are a dozen basic
agreements
with
giant
companies.
Bargaining
goals
were categorized in August at the first joint conference of the UAW and the International Association of
Machinists, the two major unions representing aircraft, rocket and electronics workers.
AMM
| GENERAL
l by
iy
:
Z
CITIZENSHIP
|
i PRACTICES
-
iw EDUCATION
i RECREATION
was
ity; improved grievance procedu
contracts, firmly and justly enfor
“... We
of
the
by
controlled
cratically
dues
paid
by
03
- oy
members.
UAW
members
tomorrow
portion
of monthly
dues
5c
for a special
their
A $30
will
back
million
up
collective
mize
by
majority
strike
UAW
bargaining
in
insurance
members
table
case
any
to hit the bricks.
Those
rebuilding
are
the
of
delegates
of
$30
weight
the
chief
and
at
the
fund
mini-
backing
strike
carries
bargaining
you
But just in case
that $1.25 a month
of
funds
Reason
conyention
part
easy
of
the
to see.
UAW
the members.
union
The
fund;
have
is first of all a union
And
philoso-
milestones
of, by and
the members
built it, year
have
lot
table.
UAW
Under
strength
bers
that
dues
$1.25
the
old
setup,
situation
with
strike
by year.
been
who
many:
is the
need—and
major
reason
raise—an
fund.
The
bricks.
great
majority
tiated
110,000
wages
of the
mailing
of thy
under
members
are
Example:
more
little more
than
SUB
than
$100
paid out to UAW
negotiated by the
many
other
plans
three
4
‘
negotiate
years 6
million
in
members.
UAW
and
union
’
.*
the |
in
members
UAW
the
Since
plan.
pension
and Canada have retired undej))
plans. About 90,000 are still liyi}
4
ing benefits.
for
are
April 1, 1960, will}
to UAW
checks
benelpi:
contracts,
SUf
nor
hayiysi
contribution to the security of we
purchasing power of the nation,
the
stead-
Example:
has
developed
in the
1959,
and
Wages
have
climbe
into
1960,
one
after
another—like
the
their
the
strike insurance fund had been greatly depleted.
By Noy. 30, 1959 it had dropped to
ing
and
1958,
of
1959,
amounted
strike
they
amounted
their
major
than
more
dent Walter
few
AL TRIKE AN| SY
N
O
D
ND
FUN1958
to
donations
to
$12,483,-
to
a
of
ahead
year
P. Reuther
there’s
that
bargaining
tables.
what
in
negotiations
agriculand
auto
locals, UAW Presi-
convention
knowing
will
noted
no
to the
at
happen
of
way
their
airthe
“if
But, he emphasized,
then
fight,
to
have
craft workers
we are going to back their fight up
our
in
have
we
with every dollar
steel
industry in recent months—tried to
turn the clocks back to wipe away
fair conditions won by workers in
years of hard, bitter struggle, striv-
is
expenditures
covering
those
tural implement
years, industry after industry, comnot only has
pany after company
curtly refused workers’ reasonable
and justified contract proposals but
the
months
642.68 to members of 261 locals covering 291 plants.
With aircraft locals set to move
adequate
past
fund
11
members of 254 local unions covering
279 plants totalled $22,030,331.91.
Noyember
through
January
From
bargaining differences without this.
But in the management climate
which
and
During
its mem-
settle
1958
$34,513,974.59,
ma-
Proportionately, not many members
and locals find it necessary to hit the
a month
structure
the
strike insurance
the need arises,
also insures you
to
reported.
lowing closely in 1961.
UAW’s democratic
bigness
insur-
a
was
In
Secretary - Treasurer
jor aircraft negotiations coming up
in 1960, and auto and agricultural
implement contract bargaining fol-
for
up.
for your necessities.
why
the delegates
made
This
members
Management is a lot less anxious to
force
you
out
on
strike
when
it
knows you have that kind of UAW
support
Emil Mazey
the
purposes
union’s
million
at
the ancient
anniversary
|
conventions.
$19,149{898.99,
fund
ance fund.
The $1.25 a month you'll be paying
into it lessens the chance you'll have
to strike.
A
at
about that better
workers,
for minori
steadily in)
Stronger Strike Insurance Fund Backs Up Union's»
sacrifices
haye
vote
Example:
7
communicat}
for retired
protections
list grows
portance,
union.
The
2e for education; le for recreation and lc for a retired members fund. The constitution, of course, is democratically determined
hopes
activities;
extended
programs
veterans,
bers—the
foi
legislative,)
relations
projects;
How- do you measure a union's greatness? Not
in the size of its membership alone, but in what
it has done for the members, and in what the
members are willing to do to build and safeguard
(Art.
citizenship
that the poets and
increased
community
phers have talked about for the many centuries.
We dared to organize, we dared to build, and,
when need be, we dared ‘to fight to bring our
dreams to practical fulfillment—and that is why
we are important.”
16, Sec. 12) spells out how dues received by the international
shall be allocated (see drawing above). The constitution also
provides (Art. 16, Sec. 4) that local unions shall set aside from
their
programs;
we are about
common
their
“... We do more than dream
is demo-
constitution
The
because
realize
and can begin to
and aspirations,
J. MASCHHOFF
UAW
are important
brio
activity;
organizing
constant
people, we are about people who have problems,
who have needs.
And we are about the practical democratic tools by which people can deal
with these problems and can meet these needs
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3
Reuther
P.
Walter
President
in his keynote address to the 17th Constitutional
0]
RE
TI
RE
D
nt WORKERS
UAW
by
union’s
the
of
essence
greatness
1
in
pay;
severance
compensation;
it.
The
0)
.
i
medical”
health,
ily improved;
supplementary
pensions;
plans;
of
05
|
The UAW is a great union—made great by the
millions of workers who are the UAW and proud
stated
toy
y
i
strike fund.”
That also goes for
agricultural implement
any
workers
other
the bargaining
sacrifice.
to
(
auto workers,
and
workers
justice
get
table, he made
clear.
at
Mandates),
'y Out
Condues
Delegates to the 17th Constitutional
vention debated modification of the
structure for a full ten hours, extending over
a day and a half of the convention, during
which both sides of the question were given
equal time:
debate
10% for 18 weeks
weeks in 1959.
Mindful of the st#0''*
by the recession, })..7
at the challenges ¢|
:
The additional fild
>
yj] be earmarke
went on against a grim backThe
—jmportance to the })
ground of economic recession, wide-spread
unemployment and a deep dip in the — and-file members.
financial
UAW’s
resources,
were
These
"1
some of the background facts:
reoe ele aibower eee
A ane
merica’s economy,
a
ard
hi
cession
throwing millions of workers out of jobs;
rs in 1958
2. UAW lost 289,000 membe
:
ve
:
becausez
i
i rily
prima
of
the
slump
economic
3. The International’s income dropped ‘
200,000
in 1958;
4. UAW’s
721,094.91
5.
The
net deficit in 1958 totaled $2,-
or $226,757.91
UAW
strike
a month;
insurance
fund
was _
down to $17,076,718.63 as of Aug. 31, 1959;
6. The
economy
THE
CONSTITUTION
COMMITTEE
(above)
brought before the conyention which changed
long, tiring hours to get the job done. Result:
overwhelming
majority.
Note
the
cluttered
did
the
hard
work
the dues structure.
for their
support
table, piled
of
working
out
the
resolution
The committee members toiled
an
by
voted
recommendation
with work,
International took several
steps, including laying off
drastic
a total
@
More
adequy
locals. This hadi
a result of recesSik
‘s
.
S| Ey iding ica tay
:
nat PO
grievi.') *
handleard
aainb
pe
the
“eel
}
@
Building
ie
serves
will
enab! ae
those depleted ot
times of economic Pee
adequately service)”
e Organizing th),
ticularly in the soulo
States and: the aan
of 188 staff members, sharp curtailment of
e Building u aN
the radio and television programs and cutarnt
lative and
back of Solidarity from a weekly to a__
Stepping up } 1
_@
paper;
ly
month
to spet Oe
7. UAW officers, board members and staff _ ting efforts
which ‘drastically )
members took two voluntary pay cuts —
;
Sutld ..”
Since
the
:
t
i
have
cost-of-living
cntle
x
;
Total:
12c.
other
hour
an
18c
totalled
also
factor
improvement
the
In Canada,
allowances
hour,
an
30c
The
basic
minimum
in
1957.
In
3
°1956,341,0
710578358!
22
TOTALS *898,505
———
have
cost-
ment factor increases, and 14c an hour in
Total: 32c an hour.
of-living adjustments,
j
of
in improve-
hour
of 18c an
a minimum
received
a
UAW.
States
United
the
in
members
UAW
1958
1959
TOTALS
581.469.28 *716,905.56 71,500,574.84
AFL-CIO
504,475.44
INDUSTRIAL UNION DEPT. (AFL-CIO) 243,156.04 261,319.40
93,674.21
4463746 4903675
CANADIAN LABOUR CONGRESS——
_57,816.5++
29,24244 28,574.10
INT'L METAL WORKERS FEDERATION
1958 ~1959
majority
the
convention,
UAW
1957
the
PER CAPITA TAX PAYMENTS
the
by
negotiated
been
have
increases
;
this
in
IS PART of the American
UAW
of
and
trade union moyement
union
trade
world
free
the
movement.
increases
movements,
an-
In
tions,
the
the 1957
ten times
since
than
:
unalterable
an
with
keeping
In
is a firm
a constant
and
principle
Constitutional
in accordance
~
has
Executive
national
i
of the
instructions
the
Board.
larger pay
boost was
justified.
1959,
and
came
the
Nov.)
the
mem-
board
about
to
adjustment
Convention
$400.
voted
will
tof Membership
for
16
“ground painted
ges
se.
‘0
also
looked
‘
eaves to replace
(fasion,
The re-
ceternational
at
*@ to continue to
“ams.
/ey@rganized,
par-
it of the United
io
of Canada.
0% seale of legis-
0
activities,
'wready hard-hit' ins, to problems
‘esembers
of the
additional
by
top
@
pay.
pay of the union’s
The
officers
compared
vided
largest
by
any
without
with
20
low
ranks
of
unions
the pay
the
(see
when
country’s
chart).
Sccretary-
President — Treasurer
AFL-ClO
PRUAW Erect cesssst ss 1,150,000
$45,000
22,600
$43,000
18,540
3. Steelworkers... 1,000,000
50,000
ARUAM ss, Oo ciiriy chit
825,000
50,000
50,000
35,000
cece
750,000
35,000
22,100 .
sissies 1,230,000
25,000
630,000
26,000
25,000
440,000
28,600
20,800
To ALA Wg
P.
Reuther
8. Mine Workers ........
400,000 — 50,000
40,000
9, Meat Cutters ..........
330,000
20,000
20,000
..........
325,000
50,000
32,500
300,000
25,500
22,000
300,000
30,000
25,000
300,000
20,000
20,000
iidtessetssc
265,000
22,500
15, Musicians
isticccde-sse
255,000
35,000
16. Operating
Engineers
250,000
35,000
....,.
250,000
60,000
18, Building Service ,..
236,000
35,000
TOV exctilewefrecrtauie
200,000
16,000
“iirc
200,000
30,000
we
put
the
into
words
tion,”
increase
Emil
carry
will
President
UAW
was
Mazey
out
of the
the
emphasized
its
programs
membership
importance
of our
ac-
and
the
unjon,”
‘to
basic
Stressing the vital task of continuing to
organize the unorganized, Mazey said work-
ers are in trouble
ing
social
“on
legislation
the question
because
we
of adopt-
don’t
have
a sufficiently large economic base in certain
sections to elect people to political office who
property
above
rights
human
place
will
rights, who believe that the purpose
ernment is to advance the common
of all people,’”’
the
officers
to
the
earnings
of our
tatives
bers
@
basic
union
of
The
our
3%
the
and
and
fair
salaries
represen-
compared
union
mem-
the
of
union.”
is
increase
of
pattern
wage
the
governing
of salaried
boosts
our
pay
in
by
the
cost-of-living
ad-
organized
plants
many
workers
the
receive
justments which amounted
$370
and
between
Oct.
June
1, 1959.
15,
to
1957
@ UAW staffers must posbargaining
same
the
sess
management
the
as
skills
people they face across the
bargaining table and who are
paid
considerably
more.
OF _
esidents
35,000
: 27,300
“se VP)
Executive
Board —
(16,000
oe
18,200.
» @ad VP)
| 16,500
Senior
14,000
erstengies yess
10, Retail Clerks
DUE
12.
Hotel
iter
& Restaurant
13. Clothing
Workers
- Treasurer
Secretary
needed,
basic
Walter
between
of
22,500 «| «20,000,
front, a
of little
as
balance
a proper
Of The Nation's Largest Unions
political action front or the world
is
resolution outlining a program
except
pro-
maintaining
or the
aly curtailed
Df to negotiate
@s as well as
\ problems of
week,
40-hour
of seeking a large pay raise,
but to show that the leadership of the UAW “believes in
also
involved. Most staff members work far more than a
Since
auto-
told the convention in discussing the dues
increase,
“It is of little value except as we translate the spirit of our resolves into practical
trade union work at the bargaining table,
in the organizational field, in the field of
political and legislative action,” Reuther
said.
Detailing additional reasons why the dues
as
UAW
in
workers
purpose
the
for
24,700
value
109 economies,
©
union such as unemployment and
mation,
“Whether on the bargaining front
received
pay
not
was
said,
Mazey
UAW, such as Chrysler engineers, technicians and office
workers. The latter, however,
members
shops, considering the hours
Membership
5. Carpenters
4.e international
‘agams of special
£ UAW’s ranke-onese are:
‘cling to UAW
many
by
the
Officers’ Salaries For Twenty
BrsMeamsters
5%
is less than
an-
$8,000
staff
for
pay
nual
provide
Union
likely
rise
basic
@ The
financial
serious
adjustment
the cost of
5%,
about
in 1960. Thus, a 7% hike in
the cost of living is only partially offset by the 3%
the
increase
a $240
only
members
staff
year,
first
will still not have “caught
up” with their regular pay-
oto
)
Toh
PE
Aiea
mind
all
2%
another
with
problems. In the case of a
staff member making $8,000
a year, the total pay cut
FUND DONATIONS
GAN. THRU
officers,
cited
Mazey
factors
a
the last
Since
in staff salaries;
risen
has
living
chart,
prepared
while
- treasurer's
secretary
18th.
The
cost-of-living
and
is the
UAW
the
an
plays
also
(ICFTU).
the
not.
do
members
bers and international representatives took voluntary
the union
pay cuts when
AL STRIKE |NSURANCE
1959
as
is
also enployed by the UAW
staff
increases,
c-o-1
joy
an
said
them
of
many
faced
federa-
labor
union of
largest
second
the presicompared,
those
16th and
ranks
dent’s pay
office and maintenance workers and some technicians em-
modest
were these:
@ In 1958
Demands
UAW
Though
has
and
year
clause,
escalator
extremely
UAW
Unions
neighbor-
the
a
have
plants
increase,
and
Trade
basic
the
above,
UAW-organized
most
in
ers
wage
basic
Treasurer Emil Mazey.
Delegates viewed it
Among
‘wyaining
17th
acplants,
UAW-organized
Secretaryto UAW
cording
Inter-
Free
chart
expected to continue to rise
at the same rate for some
time to come. While work-
Convention,
the
per
2%
of
hood
voted
the
to
in
rising
been
for salpattern of the UAW
aried workers in many of the
and mailed to the entire membership
with
to
adheres
been prepared under the direction of UAW President Walter P. Reuther and Secretary-Treasurer
Emil Mazey
mem-
1 after being
delegates
the
by
to several
living
of
cost
The
@
adjustment
officers, board
effect Jan.
on union
Solidarity
of
edition
special
this
salary
bers and international repreinto
went
which
sentatives,
demo-
of
3%
for UAW
practice.
level
high
UAW’s
the
The
tradition,
cracy in fully informing the membership
finances,
more
basic
e
democracy
UAW,
the
increases
convention have totaled
the amount of the new
monthly dues.
minimum
In
wage
words,
other
tax
E
Convention Votes Officers
Modest Salary Increase
approved by thé overwhelming majority of the
delegates to the 17th convention is less than
one-tenth of the minimum monthly gains made
by most UAW members since the 16th conven-
tion
capita
of
Confederation
International
the
the
in
shown
organizations
the
to
of per
form
in the
pays “dues”
UAW
in
—
labor
great
these
addition
month
a
$5
of
ae
a Reena
os
role
important
dues
of
part
tive
period,
added
have
UNION
INTERNATIONAL
of govwelfare
V4, GWAR,
17,
Railway
20; Plumberd
Clerks
|
|
Your
Dues
Make
Possible
Your
Broad
fit
Program
of
UAW
-$ 5,000
$23,000
¢ $35,000
¢ $39,000
sharply
the basis
is your
of how
am
investment
Wage Increases—$3,300
WAGE INCREASES which
creased the security of you
family.
Since 1940, these
have totaled about $1.65 an
about $3,300 a year.
have inand your
increases
hour, or
EA Pensions—$145
Through your union, you have won
PENSION
PLANS
protected by
union contract which will help make
your senior years much more secure.
Your union contracts require companies to pay about $145 per worker
per year for pensions.
ED Vacation Pay—$165
Through
your union, you have won
VACATION
PAY
about $165 a year
UAW member,
has won
UAW
for you
— If you joined the union in 1946, the total of all the gains UAW
for you is valued at about $23,000.
If you
—
became
made
you've
a union
through
member
in 1940,
union
amounts
your
value
the cash
to
won
of the gains
approximately
$35,000.
— And if you signed a UAW card in 1936 when the union first was
organized, you’ve received UAW-won gains and benefits valued in cash
at some $39,000.
benefits your
and
best insurance
much
Through your union, you have won
conieaeiaainnt
Bargains
union
wins
one
for you,
ts
thing
clear:
“y the best
it’s
Oo
wor
Big
— If you joined the union in 1953, the gains
are valued at approximately $5,000.
increases
wage
the
UAW
- Services
The
Buy
Every UAW member, every local union — large or small, aircraft, agricultural implement, auto or any other — is benefitted by the progress made possible
The dues you
through UAW, the most democratic union of workers anywhere.
pay in support of your unton makes this progress possible,
The dues you pay also makes possible-a broad range of services and activities
Renowned
(a few of which are listed below) which benefit all UAW members.
authorities on labor unions recognize these as the most extensive and effective provided by any union.
With
From
Dues
which is worth
for the average
it returns
you
policy
to you
ever
for your
in dollars
own
progress
as well
as dignity
your union, you have won
PAID HOLIDAYS which have a cash
value each year of about $150.
H
SUB
or
Paid Sick Leave—$105
Through your union, you have won
UNEMPLOYSUPPLEMENTAL
if you are an
BENEFITS,
MENT
auto or agricultural implement worker, or PAID SICK LEAVE, if you
are an aircraft worker, in which the
average amount each year paid by
the companies for each worker is
$105.
CF Premium Pay—$115
Through
your union, you have won
PREMIUM PAY for the average secwhich
ond or third shift worker
amounts to about $115 a year,
il
YOU DOLLARS,
On
security..
and
protection,
made.
3 Paid Holidays—$150
Through
and
DIGNITY,
EB
insurance—$145
Through your union, you have won
MEDICAL - HOSPITAL- SURGICAL
and LIFE INSURANCE plans protected by union contracts which require
$145
Oo
companies
a year
to contribute
per worker,
about
Organizing
stepped up on a
ORGANIZING,
broad scale, protects every UAW
member — including those newly organized—and strengthens the union,
ED Additional Benefits
Through
your union, you have won
many other additional benefits which
have a great value.
Among
these are
SENIORITY, GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE, OVERTIME RATES, PROTRANSFER
RIGHTS,
MOTION
JURY
PAY,
RIGHTS, CALL-IN
DUTY PAY—and many more,
SECURITY
uay
- Item sets