Walter P. Reuther Digital Archive · UAW Solidarity

Title

UAW Solidarity

Date

1960-02-01

Alternative Title

Vol. 3 No. 2

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IMPLEMENT WORKERS

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pril by IEB

The UAW COPE Voluntary Dollar Drive for the
critical election year of 1960
will be held in April.
Decision to hold the drive
in early Spring was made
with unanimous approval by
the IEB during its meeting
in Solidarity House the week
of Jano ii
Action by the board set
into motion

plans

for the

COPE drive
union-wige
funds
will raise
which
needed to help elect candidates for public office

friendly to working people
and liberal causes.
It was pointed out

that

donation of $1 to COPE was

IN HON OR

of his years of service to his union, William. (Bill)

McAulay Geft) is presented a plaque by UAW President. ‘Walter

oe

P. Reuther. The presentation was made at. a testimonial ban-_
ee 1-B at. the :
quet for McAulay,- who retired as director of
. 1959 Convention, after 20 years in the post.”

Honor McAulay
At Testimonial

good citizenship because it
represented participation in
the nation’s political activity
by large numbers of individualeitizens, and places the
financing. of political campaigns on a broad, democratic basis.
The voluntary dollar drive

by

COPE

On

is in sharp

the

con-

Inside

It can be done. The high
cost of medicine can be low-

ered. Read how some trade
unionists are doing just that
—turn to pages6 and 7 for

trast to the large contributions made to political parties and candidates by high
income persons and families
in
interests
vested
with
multi-million dollar corporations.
ex,
for
ed
ll
ca
re
s
wa
It
—
ample, that officials of the
oil
largest
29
nation’s
companies made personal
totaling |
contributions
$344,097
to help.
elect
President Eisenhower.
A
Senate
subcommittee
which made a detailed study
of the last presidential cam-

paign found that 12 families
contributed

more

to politics

than the, entire 15,000,000
of the AFLmembership
(Ford,
CIO. The families
Mellon,

Rockefeller,

Pew,

etc.) gave more than $1 million. Individual contributions
members
of AFL-CIO

amounted to $559,000.
The Taft-Hartley Act for-

from
bids use of money
union treasuries in support of
candidates for federal office.

Funds for this purpose come
entirely from voluntary inon Page

Continued

12

At McCormick:

IH Shutdown Pact

Will Double Pensions
CHICAGO—When the historic old McCormick Works
of the International Harvester Co. here is finally shut
down for good, its workers
be left out in the
won’t

economic cold, thanks to a
special agreement just nego-

tiated with the giant farm
| implement firm by the UAW.
The
agreement — provides

laid off since April 17, 1959,
and for those to be laid off
in the future. (The company
says it will take three years

to shut down the plan com-

pletely.)
The cost to Harvester
of this shutdown agree‘ment is estimated at between $4 million and $5

other attack against UAW
William
(Bill)
McAulay
leaked two days earlier to
retired the same way he
the second in a special series
g
e
in
Vic
rd
to
n,
co
ac
lio
mil
And
rity.
Solida
by
es
articl
of
the press by Sen. Barry
came into UAW — his chin
the
in
not
,
benefits
se
ou
extra
th
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t
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Pat
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your
es
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news
find
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contract
for
those
on
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UA
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Continued
on
Page
3
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te
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l
Ha
na
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at
rn
te
ning greater justice, dignity
.
nt
me
rt
pa
De
and security for wage-earnTerms of the agreement,
ers.
,
by
th
mon
last
nced
annou
This was emphasized . by
4
on
Regi
and
house
Great
officers of the union at a
inton,
Johns
t
Rober
tor
Direc
testimonial dinner a few
ts,
benefi
on
pensi
e
doubl
clude
weeks ago honoring McAuand
pay
ation
separ
ased
incre
lay, now 72, who retired as
prefer
and
rights
fer
trans
director of Region 1-B at
at
s
right
ring
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ential
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rif
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tions
UAW’s
1959 Convention.
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labor
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He had served steadily in
the
of
s
detail
the
are
Here
e
enc
fer
con
the
on
ats
ocr
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point
“Positive
Program
for
that post since 1939.
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cover
h
whic
ment,
agree
g
kin
wor
for
tee
mit
com
America”
directly
to
SenaCIO 12-point program
UAW President Walter
office,
on,
ucti
prod
of
3,000
rid
get
to
sly
eles
“tir
tors
and
Congressmen
durwhich delegates outlined
P. Reuther told the audirs
worke
ical
techn
and
d
skille
ous
obvi
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mor
the
of
e
som
ing
a
three-day
AFL-CIO
to Senators and Congressence of approximately 600
UAW
four
to
ging
belon
es.”
stic
inju
.
Legislative
Conference
held
men, see page 7.
at Detroit’s Veterans Me:
locals
Sena
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nam
by
ed
laud
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here.
The conference heard a
morial Building that Mcly
ons
will
pensi
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Month
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ma
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s
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keynote speech by AFL-CIO
Aulay “always has symMore than 600 delegates
bers
worke
for
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doubl
ned
be
Ken
F.
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Joh
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(Mic
President George Meany in
representing some 80 interbolized our union.”
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(Constitutional
Article

Change

16, Section
18)

—

17 and

At the recent Seventeenth
C on vention
Constitutional
held in Atlantic City, New
Jersey, Oct. 9-16, 1959, the
Article
amended
delegates
16, Sections 17 and 18 of the
Constitution
International
relative to the status of laidoff members to provide a
for maintaining
procedure

membership.

in

good

stand-

CTATTADEVA TNT:

Labor Rally Urges Congress To Act
On Positive Program for America”

ing in the Union.
visions

are

Section

The

as follows:

17.

Any

pro-

member

who has not worked forty
(40) hours or received remuneration in lieu of work
(40)
forty
to
equivalent

hours’ pay within any calendar month shall he entitled to exemption. of paymonthly
of regular
ment
dues.
A member who has been
laid off or is on leave of

absence

from his regular

employment. who is covered by check-off provisions under which management notifies the Local
Union of members who are
on leave of absence, laid
off or rehired,

shall auto-

matically be considered as
entitled to “out-of-work”
Any other memcredits.
ber in order to be entitled
credits
to “out-of-work”
shall report his lay-off or

leave
son

or

of

absence,

otherwise,

in

to

per-

the

Financial Secretary of his
Local Union within one
month of the date such
lay-off became effective.
Any member who is Covered by check-off as set
forth above shall report
' immediately to the Financial Secretary of his Local
Union any other employment he may obtain during the period of his lay-

off or leave of absence.
Any member not covered
by check-off shall report
to the Financial Secretary

of his Local Union the
termination of his lay-off
or leave of absence, or any
other employment he may
obtain during the period of
his lay-off or leave of absence.

Any member who is en-

titled

to

Continued

“out-of-work”
on

Page

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SOLIDARITY, February, 1960

~

Page 4

D.C. Rally Pushes Labor
from Page

Continued

1

(Mass.), Wayne
Morse
(Ore.) and Jennings Ran-

dolph (W.Va.).
Meany sharply

slapped.

at Vice President Richard
M. Nixon for casting a

crucial vote which “insured the anti-labor character of the legislation.”

Meany

said his statement

was to “set the record
straight” and to clear up “a
considerable amount of mis-

understanding”’ about the
way the restrictive law came
into effect, and about the
votes cast by some members
“whom we
of Congress
rightfully regard as friends
of labor.”

President Walter P.

UAW

Tell Your Congressman:
Act Now on Gvil Rights

UAW
members have
urged to write or wire

Congressman

tition

to

in the

support

House

been
their

a pe-

of Repre-

sentatives to get a civil rights
bill out of the Rules Committee
to the floor for action.
Two
UAW
departments,
citizenship and fair practices,
joined in the appeal to the

to take action
membership
on behalf of the discharge
petition.
As Solidarity went to press,
a reliable source in the nation’s
capital released the names of
Congressmen who had signed
the petition. Newspaper report-.

are

ers

not

allowed

to inspect

the petition, kept at the Speaker’s desk, because of House
rules.
On Jan. 21, when the list was
released, the petition had been
signed by 145 Democrats and
30 Republicans. To break civil

rights legislation out of the
Rules Committee, a total of 219
signatures are required.
It was noted that among
the non-sig ners was Rep,
William E. Miller (R., N.Y.),
who was elected chairman of
the Republican Congressional
Committee the day the list

. was

released.

Another non-signer is Rep.
Charles A. Halleck (R., Ind.),
GOP floor leader.
UAW President Walter P.
Reuther charged at the AFLCIO Legislative Conference held
in Washington, Jan. 11-13, that
a “cynical political deal’, was
and the
by Dixiecrats
made
Republicans
in which
GOP
agreed to kill civil rights legislation in the last session of

Congress in exchange for Dixiecrat votes in favor of the Land:
rum-Griffin bill.
“The four Republicans on the

Rules Committee are in an unthe four
holy alliance with
Dixiecrat committee
members
to bottle up civil rights,” Reuther told the delegates to the
conference.
Some 80% of the Republican
members of the House had not
signed the discharge petition
at the time the list was released.
UAW
members
were
also
urged to ask their Congressmen

to vote for a “meaningful”

civil

Expose Bigots,

UAW Demands

The UAW has joined religious leaders of all denominations in calling for govand
“expose
to
ernments
punish” the swastika-painters who are guilty of “acts of
as those
as basic
bigotry
a
to carry
swelled
which
the
down
nation
civilized
road of savagery just three
decades

ago.”

A resolution,

adopted

un-

by the internaanimously
tional executive board, said,
“World War II, its concentration camps, its extermination ovens, its six million
Jewish dead—are not so far
in the past that we in America can look upon the revival of the swastika across
the face of our synagogues
as merely the twisted work
of pranksters.
board
the
acts,”
“These
said, “shame and humiliate
all who believe in democracy and scorn those who have

died for it.”

in-

bill

which

would

1. Clearly

stated

Congress-

rights
clude:

segregation

de-

for school

ional support

decision;

2. Restoration of a revised
Part III (stricken from the
1957 civil rights bill) which

authorizes the Attorney Gen-

eral

relief

seek injunctive

to

their civil

for citizens denied

rights;
3. The right to appoint feddistricts
in
registrars
eral
where citizens are barred
from registering and voting

in federal elections because of

discrimination;
financial
and
4. Technical
assistance for schools in communities that desire to desegregate, and where states
withheld funds;
5. Legislation aimed at preventing hate bombings and
other violence, and
at apprehending
those
guilty
of
such actions.
These
amendments
are

needed because the bill now
bottled up in the Rules Committee (HR 8601) is “completely
inadequate.in its present form,”
it was pointed out.

Drugs Too High,
Kefauver Warns

(For more on high cost of
drugs, see pages 6 and 7.)
WASHINGTON — Sen.

Kefauver

Senate

(D.

Tenn.)

Anti-Trust

and

Estes

his

subcommit-

tee, resumed hearings into the
high
cost
of drugs
with
a
warning to tranquilizer manufacturers that “unless you and

others get your
the U.S. will have
national
health
For the first
Kefauver
_ tory,

cost of

drugs

prices down”
some form of
insurance.
time in hisnoted,
the

is more

than

the cost of medical bills.
First
witness
in
the
new
phase of hearings on tranquilizers
was
Walter
A.
Munns,
president of Smith, Kline
&
French Laboratories of Philadelphia. This firm has the exclusive sales license for selling.
thorazine, a tranquilizer, in the
United States.
Staff members of the subcommittee introduced evidence
from State Department records
which show that 50 tablets of
25 milligrams each are sold to

druggists here for $3.03. However, the cost to the English
druggist is 77 cents and to the
French druggist, 51c.
Munns said he could not provide any information on. the
wide spread in price. He added
that his firm set its prices on
the basis of everything that
went

search

into

and

the

drug

plus

“educating”

re-

the

physician.
It
was
disclosed
that
Munns received a salary of
$140,000
in
1959
and
the
chairman
of
the
board,

Francis

Boyer,

got

$107,500

plus a bonus of $32,355. In
owns
who
Boyer,
addition,
989,545 shares of stock, was
entitled to dividends in ex=cess of $940,000.
Dr. John Blair, staff economist, presented charts at the
that Smith,
showing
hearing
Kline & French had a reported
rate of return, after taxes, of
more than 40% on net worth
last year.

Retuher urged delegates to.
“provide a positive alternative to the drift and complacency” of- the Eisenhower
administration.

He commended the conference as “a good beginning, but
only a beginning,” and urged
organized labor to go on the
during the current
offensive
Congressional session to achieve
“the things we believe in.”

William F. Schnitzler, AFLer,
- treasur
ary
secret
CIO
warned that “we have many
more friends when we talk with
them than we do when they
are recording the votes.” He
ealled for intensive efforts at
the grass-roots level to let
Congressmen know how citizens
feel about key legislation.
Meany told the conference
there were three roll call
votes in the Senate and one
in the House which provide
the record
by which the
labor movement “can accurately rate its friends and
enemies.”
In the Senate, the key votes
came on amendments offered
by Sen. John L. McClellan (D.,Ark.) “and deceitfully entitled
a ‘bill of rights for union members,’ ” Meany said. They were:
@ On April 22, adoption of
the so-called “bill of rights” by
a vote of 47 to 46;
@ On the same day, the tab-

ling of a motion

is made by a Pat McNamara (D.. Mich. ‘_
A POINT
(left), in a discussion "ith Gus Scholle, president of the

Michigan State AFL-CIO,
tary-treasurer.

and Emil Mazey,

UAW

secre-

to reconsider

and reverse this action. It was
on this action that the Senate
split 45 to 45, Nixon broke the
tie and “insured the anti-labor

eharacter of the legislation.”

@ On April 24, defeat by a 50
to 41 vote
of
a
McClellan
amendment to “outlaw all secondary boycotts.”

The

came

key

Aug.

by which

vote

13

on

in

the

the

House

roll

call

Landrum-Griffin

was

adopted, 229 to 201.
“It is on these roll calls-.
and these
alone-that
the
can accurlabor movement

ately rate its friends and
enemies,” Meany said.
Votes-on final passage of the
bill after it had gone through
House - Senate
conference do
not furnish an honest test,
Meany indicated, because “at
this point, the trade union
movement
was faced with a
choice of two evils.
“Under these circumstances,

s
Hon
re
e
Se
of
ic
ton
his
e
san
ES
SU
IS
.
VE
TI
LA
SS
ST HG
when Keith Prouty (left), research decker of the Con(D.,
Rep. Frank Kowalski
necticut State AFL-CIO;
Conn.), and Mike Sviridoff, president of the state AFL-

CIO,

got

wee

in

oe

our legislative representatives
informed the members of Congress that labor could not in
good conscience
urge its

friends to vote against the con-

ference report, even though we
considered it damaging to labor.
“In other words, we had to
accept the lesser of the two
evils.”
This position, Meany said,
was “exactly in accord with
the report which the AFLCIO convention
in San
Francisco adopted unanimously.
“The key roll-call votes I

have

same

tion

described

ones which

ordered

are

the

very

the conven-

distributed

te

ali AFL-CIO members.”
Delegates visited their legislators on Capitol Hill to urge
action on the program. They
also met with Senators and
Congressmen in seven regional

sessions
issues.

In

to

discuss

addition,

delegates

civil rights and
improvements.

security

spe-

such as area reminimum
wage,
social

Pressure

WASHINGTON—Delegates

the: AFL-CIO

Legislative

ference heard firsthand
Rep. Erwin Mitchell (D.

of

the

Jerry
for a

held

on

Under

dent; Sen. Ralph Yarborough ‘D., Texas), and
Holleman, president, Texas- State AFL-CIO, meet
|
ere.
chat in the Senator’s

legislative

separate conferences

cific. subjects
development,

L al 967 presiFELLOW TEXANS Ea Rackley (eft), Loc

relentless

pressure

to

Con-

from
Ga.)

used

by business session of Congress,
He didn’t buckle, however.
“It got so,” he said, “that
my
eleven-year-old
daughter

came to me and cried: ‘Daddy,
I can’t stand this. Next time
there is a vote you vote like
everyone else.’ ”

to ststress
UAW PRESIDENT Walter P. Reuther ‘isda
a point as he urges the labor movement to take the offensive for better legislation to benefit all America.

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Ever wonder where an editorial may come from in your

daily newspaper?
You and every other reader
-Chances are you haven’t.
expect it to come from the paper’s own writers—unless the
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paper says otherwise in print.

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Reuther Eyes IUD

Well, take a look at those at the left and see how the

fe

press can work to filter its propaganda into you.
Those editorials will show you that the editorial page
of your own daily newspaper may not be all it’s cracked
up to be.

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They’ll show you that a newspaper may pick up false and
misleading propaganda and print it as its own carefully
thought out opinions.
They’ll show you how propaganda can be spread around
without you or any other reader possibly knowing it is just
that—propaganda.
They’ll show you how miserably lazy many newspapers
can be.
Most readers never consider that an unsigned editorial
they read in their daily paper might come from any other
source than the paper itself.
Again, take a look at the editorials on the left. None
of them say they came from a source outside the paper
which printed it in its editorial columns.

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None of them tell the readers whose ideas and attitudes

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they’re trying to shape that some outside source is doing
this sort of thinking for a paper too lazy to do its own.

- And these are just a few of the same editorials Solidarity

might have reprinted if space permitted.

They

papers

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d’
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r
he
ut
Re
p,.
er
President Walt
to Workers, who also
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Department of the AFL-CIO.

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also

off the editorial pages of quite a few newsthe country.

,

of them is separately published.

Each of them. leads its readers to believe it does its own
:
independent thinking.
Each of them is located in states as far-ranging as Washington on the west coast to Georgia, North Carolina and
New York on the east, from Minnesota in the north. to
3
Texas, Louisiana and Alabama in the south.

Separate papers. Separate locations. Separate editorial
et

staffs.

But the same editorial, passing along false and unchecked conjectures which shape up as plain, unvarnished
propaganda slanted against UAW and IUD President
Walter P. Reuther and the unions affiliated with the TUD.
Where did it come from?

Solidarity wrote to the 15 papers, in which, we had learn-

ed, the editorial appeared. We asked each if they would
tell us the source.
Besides the papers whose “editorials’’ are shown, these

included the Danville, Iil., “(Commercial News,” the Alexandria, La., “Town Talk,” the Geneva, N.Y. “Times,” the
Huntsville, Ala., “Times,” the Lynchburg, Va., “Advance,”

:
and the Macon, Ga., ““Telegraph.”
As if they felt it’s nobody’s business if they mislead and

headed by

Reuther, looks something like

s

around

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ne
i
olds its third co
tion in ——,

come

a federation within a federa:

propagandize,

tion..It’s no secret that Reuther is impatient with the political moderation of George

A few,

most didn’t even bother to reply.

however,

did.

They identified the source as an organization in Wash-

Meany, president of the AFL-

ington, D.C., called “Editorial Research Reports.”

CIO, and it is also believed he
is becoming somewhat weary

Only one paper, the Petersburg,

carried

an

“Editorial

;
material. —
A call to Editorial

Research”

Research

Va., ‘“Progress-Index”’

identification

brought

the

with

the

admission

that it indeed had sent out the piece as part of its “re-

minder service.”

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Neither, so far as we can learn, did the newspapers,

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unit, without formaly dissolv- -.
ing the AFL-CIO merger.
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decent craftsmen and good journalists are supposed to.
Checking reports is supposed to be Lesson Number One at
‘any school of journalism.
Instead, the newspapers used the piece almost intact,

is ex--.

pected to seek increased dues
from member unions. for pos-. .

)

.

Editorial Research, so°far as we could learn (and we
checked as thoroughly as possible) didn’t bother to check
the “facts” in the material it sold to these newspapers.

a.

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ivities—as The

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changing infrequently a word here, a phrase there, perhaps
omitting an. unimportant sentence, or rewording the title.
The only exception was the Asheville, N:C. “Citizen”

which rewrote the material, clearly basing its own effort on
the Washington organization’s editorial.
The rest were too lazy to do even that.
Perhaps the readers, therefore, learning they’re being
propagandized, discovering how obviously such newspapers
are trying to shape their ideas along the lines of propa- ganda, have the right to ask:

_ How many other editorials have there been such as this,
on what subjects—and why?
And perhaps, with this lazy man’s editorial
really ought to‘be called the “idiotorial” page.

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(This is the second in a series of. articles dealing with the
high cost of prescriptions and means of combatting such costs.
—Ed.)

Thousands of UAW members, both working and retired,

have found a way
tion medicines.

to beat the high cost

of vital prescrip=

It was done sievoly by getting together a large enough
group of people interested in participating in a genuine

discount plan, and then going out and finding a retail firm

big enough and honest enough to give substantial and gen-

uine discounts to those presenting proper credentials.

Using this method, members of many Detroit area
UAW locals as well as members of other unions have
saved hundreds of thousands of dollars during the past

two and a half years, when the first discount plan began.
Credit for starting the ball rolling must go to the union

label committee of Dodge Local 3, which arranged the first
such plan in June of 1957 with Regal, Inc., a retail drug
chain which operates storés in Michigan, Ohio and West
Virginia, and which does a multi-million dollar business.

member

Special cards were issued to every

entitling him to a flat 10 per
in the Regal stores, including
ular discount price is clearly
product, and the purchaser

of Local 3,

cent discount on all purchases
prescriptions. The item’s reglabelled in advance on every
does not present his discount

card until the cashier is ready to ring up the sale.

Following the success of the Local 3 plan, other UAW
locals and locals of other international unions began to
show an interest in it. With the assistance of Bernard
(Whitey) Dancey of Chrysler Local 7, who is the com-

munity services director for the Wayne County (Detroit)
AFL-CIO Council, many other locals enrolled sig: mem_bers in the plan.

Members

Save

Regal, which began operations with two standard drug

stores in 1948 and which switched to discounting in 1956
with a small chain of four Detroit area stores, has grown

regional

into a large

chain

because. it offers

‘stead of make-believe discounts.
It was

able to do this because

real

imto

it decided to go back

the old-fashioned concept of a pharmacy and combined this
idea with modern merchandising techniques. It operates
prescription centers rather than soda fountains,
stores, toy shops and candy counters.

“We

“We

cut

out

trimmed

magazine

all the frills,” the official told Solidarity.

costs

by

eliminating

fancy

services.

We

make no home deliveries, we don’t try to carry every brand
and every item but concentrate on those products most in
demand, and we have a certain amount of self-service, complete with super-market style checkout counters.

“We concentrate on prescriptions, on non-prescription

drugs like aspirin and vitamins, and related items.

“We have an affiliated wholesale company which services

only our stores. Thus we eliminate another middle man,’
‘We buy in large quantities and save
the official explained.

. some money that way, and, of course, we aren’t out to get
Our operation is profitable, but we don’t
rich overnight.
try for the fantastic type of net profits enjoyed by others.”

Labor costs are not an important factor in the operation of his stores, the official said, although his sales

clerks are unionized and to the best of his knowledge are

paid as well or better than clerks in the regular drug
His pharmacists are also paid well, and their
stores.
:
primary duty is to fill prescriptions.

The chain’s “no frills” policy also extends to its execuThe executive offices, located next to the wholesale
tives.
warehouse in a portion of the old Packard plant on Detroit’s
East Side, are so austere they might easily be mistaken for
the average local union office.

Today, 47 union groups in the greater Detroit iiatrapols
tan area, including 32. UAW locals and groups, participate
in the Regal

discount

Regal’s retail affiliate firm ope

tion center in Cleveland (under

operation.

present

A few months ago, the Metropolitan Detroit Area UAW
Senior Citizens Steering Committee, representing those in
our community with the greatest need for medicines and
the least amount

special

discount

of income to purchase

plan

for retirees

with

chain.

charge

8000

for

East

the

Jefferson,

card.

Detroit

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a local union can’t just go to the neigh-

borhood pharmacy and negotiate a discount plan.

The aver-

age individual drug store owner, whose overhead is high
and who charges standard prices, couldn’t give much of a
discount even if he wanted to.
The Regal chain, according to one of its officials, is ee
lieved to be the only organization of its type in the country. While there are a number of discount drug stores in
cities

like

New

York,

Washington

and

Chicago,

they

are

individually owned and without the many advantages of a
large chain.

“Whitey” Dancey—He helped unions set up discount plans
The following are examples of Regal’s pricing policies:
@ Decadron, an anti-arthritic drug, sellS for $8.55 per
20 tablets, according to a recommended pricing schedule
that many drug stores use. Regal sells it for $4.82 to anyone (without a discount card). If you have a 10 per cent
discount card through your local union, you pay even less

—$4.34. If you are a retiree with a 15 per cent discount
card, you pay $4.10.

@ Parke-Davis’ 25,000-unit vitamin A capsules sell for

Regal’s
$4.01 per hundred in most drug stores.
the same quality 25,000-unit vitamin A is 69c.

price

on

@ Diabetics in constant need of insulin get it 50c a bottle
cheaper at Regal stores, according to the company Official.

(Although

the fair trade law in Michigan

went

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Local 961
Chrysler Local 7
West Side Local 174
Ford Local 600

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Office Workers Local
Ford Local 400

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De Soto Local 227
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Budd Wheel Local 306
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bers, local union officers and retirees in other cities who

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have: any disc

in care of Solidarity, 8000 East J

The success of these “pilot plans” in the Detroit area
and the article on drug prices in the last issue of Solidarity has brought a number of queries from UAW

not

~The Regal official said his firm
Chicago and other large cities if
sumer groups show an interest.

Area retirees holding a Retired Workers’ discount drug
card may buy prescriptions, vitamins and insulin at a special 15 per cent discount at Regal prescription centers. The
cards, which are non-transferable, may be obtained at any
of the Detroit drop-in centers, at area meetings of UAW
retirees, or by writing to Retired Workers Department,
UAW,

does

unions in that area. Local union
land are invited to write in if they
a Detroit-type discount plan,

them, negotiated a

the Regal

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out the

window in 1953, prescriptions;. drugs and vitamins are still
sold at full list price by most drug stores in the state.)
Many pharmaceutical manufacturers object bitterly to
Shortly after that firm began its
Regal’s price cutting.
discount policy, Parke-Davis ‘aitd Squibb — two leading
drug manufacturers—refused to sell to Regal at all. Others
practiced the old credit. squeeze, demanding cash on delivery
for all supplies.

(However, Regal does carry most of the nationally
known drugs, even in those cases where it cannot obtain
them directly from the manufacturer).
Other pressures were brought to bear on the discount
chain when it- began operations, but the company’s executive was reluctant to discuss them publicly.
‘We're not interested in the past,” he said. . “The important thing is that we have succeeded in remaining in the
discount business, despite all the pressures, and we aim to
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Metropolitan Detroit
Steering Committee

Area

Organized labor’s goals for the second session of the 86th
Congress were carried directly to Congressional leaders biy dele-~.
gates to the three-day AFL-CIO Legislative Conference in Washington, Jan. 11-13. Following are highlights:

1. Raise and Extend

Minimum

Wage

A top-priority legislative need is amendment of the Fair
Labor Standards Act (Mifimum Wage and Hour law) — (1) to
extend its coverage to millions of workers now unprotected and.

(2)

to increase

the

minimum

bill endorsed by the AFL-CIO
Bill (S. 1046 and H.R. 4488).

wage
is

to $1.25

the

than

100

communities

hour.

The

basic

Kennedy-Morse-Roosevelt

2. Aid to Depressed Areas
More

an

have

been

Officially declared

to

be economically sick. Last year, the Senate passed a comprehensive Area Redevelopment Act. (Douglas-Cooper Bill) which,
while not going as far as organized labor would like, would
authorize $390 million in loans and grants to rehabilitate distressed areas. A similar bill, with somewhat reduced financial
support, was reported by the House Banking and Currency Committee, but is now held up in the Rules Committee.

3. Guarantee

Civil Rights

Congress myst enact legislation that will (1) clearly state
Congressional support for school desegregation decisions;
(2)
grant authority for the Attorney General to institute lawsuits to obtain compliance (similar to Part III, deleted from
1957 act);
(3) provide technical and financial assistance for
school
where
aimed

facilities and operations to facilitate desegregation and
states withhold funds; and (4) enact federal legislation
at preventing hate bombings and other violence, and at

apprehending

those guilty for such actions.

4. Health
The

Benefits for Aged

Forand

Bill

(H.R. 4700)

would

utilize

the

social security

system and provide for payment for 60 days of hospital care, for
skilled nursing home care and for, surgical service.
The Forand
Bill is the major social security issue for 1960.
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which at

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if enough

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Thank You, Dear Readers
Solidarity wishes to express its thanks to the
many readers who wrote or called us in regard to
the arti¢les'‘on the drug scandal which appeared in
the January issue, and who offered praise, tips and
suggestions. Many of you also had questions which
you wanted answered. We hope that the articles in
this issue and those to come in future issues will provide the answers. However, we shall also try to answer each letter individually, but it will take a little
time to handle the flood. of mail which has come in.

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drug. discount plan:

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l 306

174

ocal 889

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ring Lecal
al 78

272
681

Local 304
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Local 254
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Area

UAW

Senior

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Citizens

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5. Improved Unemployment Insurance

The states have failed to do a satisfactory job in protecting
the unemployed. Only the federal government can correct the
situation, through the establishment of minimum standards for
all state laws. The Federal Unemployment Compensation Standards Bill was introduced last year by many members of both
House and Senate (H.R. 3547, S. 791) that would require each
state to meet minimum standards. The bill is now pending in
the House Ways and Means Committee.

America's

6. Support

Schools

AFL-CIO supports the Murray-Metcalf Bill (H.R. 22, S. 2) as
approved by the House Education and Labor Committee and
awaits action by the Rules Committee. .

for All

Homes

Decent

7.

With 15 million American families still ill-housed, the AFLCIO calls upon Congress to enact a comprehensive housing bill
which would (1) provide at least 200,000 low-cost public housing
units annually; (2) make available low-interest, long-term loans
for middle-income housing;
(3) tackle the problem of special
housing for the elderly;
(4) assure every family an equal opportunity to obtain decent housing without regard to race, color
or creed; (5) provide at least $1 billion a year for 10 years for
expanded slum clearance and urban redevelopment and (6) encourage co-operative and moderate-priced rental housing.

Promote

8.

Growth

Economic

_ The Administration’s policy of tight money and high interest
rates has contributed to two recessions and caused a shocking
Congress must put a brake on
slowdown of economic growth.
rising interest rates by repulsing Administration requests for

higher interest rates on long-term government bonds, and should
reorganize the Federal Reserve Board to give representation to
consumers, small business and labor.

Standards

Labor

Protect

9.

The
Davis-Bacon
Act which
affects public construction
should be broadened to include all non-farm construction involving federal financing or where federal insurance or loan
guarantees are used. In addition, contractors should be re-.
quired

to

undue

delays

The

honor

prevailing

fringe

minimum

wage

Walsh-Healey
in

require adherence to
at least biennial wage

Retired Workers’

DISCOUNT

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For

Locations

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means

dollars

saved

for

Overhaul

11.

Develop

12.

Protect

should

be

as

well

amended

determination

fringe benefit
reviews.

standards,

as

to

wages.

eliminate

procedures,

and

to

to

require

Tax System

The AFL-CIO called for a ‘major overhaul’ of the tax system to include a substantial increase in the $600 individual exemption; close loopholes now enjoyed by upper-income groups;
eliminate tax burdens of workers on contributions to public retirement funds; reduce or eliminate the unprogressive tax systems.

America's

Resources

‘Bold steps’ are needed to move the nation’s atomic power
- program rapidly toward the production of power at costs comparable with other sources, with a full-scale federal demonstration nuclear power program the necessary first step.

offered only by

REGAL

10.

Act

benefits

Detroit

area

retirees

Family Farmer

Organized labor wants legislation to ‘help secure a just re- turn for Americans who work in agriculture,’ including the gearing of price supports, where possible, to the family farm; expansion
of the school
lunch
program;
extensive
use of
agricultural surpluses ‘in the battle for peace and freedom
overseas;’ and providing minimum wage and unemployment insurance to workers on the large corporate farms.

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"Disservice:

UAW Scorches

BLS Reporting —
last month blasted a
UAW
report on national productivity
trends released by the Bureau
of Labor Statistics as “a surrender to business pressure, an
abdication of the bureau’s re: Sponsibilities and a disservice
.to the nation,” and urged a
- Congressional
study
of
the
same subject. .
President Walter P.
UAW
. Reuther sent the request for
a Congressional evaluation to —
Sen. Paul Douglas (D., Hll.),
chairman of the Joint Economic Committee;
Rep. Richard Bolling (D., Mo.), chairman of the subcommittee on
economic
statistics
of
the
Joint Committee,
and
Rep.
John
Fogarty
(D.,
RI),
chairman of the Health, Education and Welfare subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. —

Accompanying
was
a copy
of

the _ letters
a resolution,

adopted
unanimovsly
by the
IEB, which sharply criticized

the recently issued BLS report.
The bureau’s report, the resolution charged, is a “‘grab-bag
of unevaluated figures’ whose
effect is “to confuse
rather

than to enlighten.” ~

The
report,
the
statement
continued, “presents no fewer
than 40 separate figures, computed on different bases and
ranging from 1.7% to 5%, all
purporting to be the trend or
‘normal’ annual rate of productivity advance as of 1958.”

The
UAW
resolution
charged the bureau with at-

tempting
to escape
from
a
controversy generated by an
earlier,
unpublished
draft
which showed that productivity in the past half-cen- —
tury had been increasing at
an accelerating rate.
!
According to the method. of

analysis favored in the unpublished draft, the rate of productivity advance “has tended
to increase at the rate of .06%
a year, rising from 8% per year
as of 1909 to 3.9% as of 1958.”
The Union said the unpub-

lished

“aroused

draft

oreieleisis,

the vio-

lent opposition of management
the
They feared
technicians.
impact of the bureau’s findings
bargaining
the .collective
on
positions of their corporations.
“In
UAW-organized
industries, for example,” the resolution continued, “‘these findings
(of an accelerating productivity

National Skilled Trades Advisory Committee heard

detailed reports from UAW’s International officers on skilled trades matters.
Among
_ attending were (front, left to right): Robert Mills, Local 155, Detroit, representing job

skilled workers, chairman; UAW President Walter P. Reuther, and Evan Lininger, Local 685,
‘Kokomo, Ind., representing Chrysler skilled workers, secretary. In the rear (left to right) were
John Newton, Local 12, Toledo, representing skilled workers in the parts industry; Carl Daniels, Local 5, South Bend, representing independents;
Ed Moore, 326, representng GM_ skilled
workers; Adam Urquhart, Local 160, representing UAW’s GM sub-council 8; William Stevenson of
the international skilled trades department; James Kalasardo, Local 6, Chicago, representing
agricultural implement industry skilled workers; Harper Johnson, Local 148, Long Beach, aircraft
skilled workers; William Rossi, Local 600, Detroit Ford skilled workers; and Michael Vernovai, Local 1251, miscellaneous industries. Not shown in the picture is Eric John of Local 200, Windsor, who
served as a fraternal- delegate from the Canadian region.

advance) indicate the necessity

for a substantial upward adjustment
of annual
improvement
factor
wage
increases
which are fixed at 24% under
most present agreements.”
Management opposition. to
such findings, the UAW said,
“was backed up explicitly or
implicitly by the power of the
corporations to withhold
basic data
essential
to the
bureau’s operations.
“The fact that productivity is
a controversial matter, politically and in collective bargaining, does not excuse the bureau’s
failure
to publish
its
evaluations of its data. Even
less does-it excuse the actions
of those, who in their own narrow and selfish interests, have
prevailed upon the bureau to
reshape its study so as to confuse rather than to enlighten
the public on a subject. vitally
affecting
the
national
interest.”
Reuther’s letter to the three
lawmakers pointed out that he
was writing “on behalf of the
UAW
International Executive
Board to urge that you consider what steps you might apaoe
take in this mat2) epee
a

Historic First Meeting
For Skilled Trades
Advisory Committee

Bringing UAW’s skilled workers closer to the wunion’s collective
bargaining
processes,
the
new
National
Skilled
Trades
Advisory
Committee
met last month for. the first
its establishfollowing
time
ment by the International Ex-

ecutive Board.

tional Union’s officers discuss
in detail skilled ‘trades matters
in all sections of the union.

The new committee,

should

step

back

now

and
then
and look
at the
trees. ¢
- Phat was the gist of an
informal
message
delivered
by Monsignor George Higgins

of the Nationa Catholic Wel-

fare Council, Washington, to
UAW
officials and international
representatives
at
a
mid-January luncheon.

“Don’t let your
opposition
longfrom
away
you
scare
range
thinking,”
he
advised,
pointing to such crucial issues
as the effect of wages and prices on the American economy

and

“where

America

is

going

spiritually and culturally.”
- America is suffering from
a letdown in its morals, he
said, and all our institutions
church,
the
schools,
—the
industry and the trade union
movement—must face up to
the crisis in morals.
is wrong,
leadership
Labor
he said, if it believes it has
As
“a monopoly on virture.”

long

the

as

labor

struggle” — “and the record
shows the UAW meant what
it established
it said when
Review
Public
historic
its

Board
proud

The

which

on

to serve.”

moral

I am

most

crisis as it touch~

es the labor movement, he said,
does not touch exclusively “on

those unfaithful servants” exposed by the AFL-CIO Ethical
and the
‘Practices Committee
McClellan.

Committee.

“They

has

defensive

position.

Labor

its

is in

a strong enough
position
to
speak out and lead spiritually
and culturally.”
He predicted
the public would listen to the
positive answers.

In projecting ‘a more mature

image on public issues,’ Higgins called on the trade union
movement to restyle its press
“and give both sides of controversial

issues.”

—

4. Pledged
full support to
members of UAW Local 155 on

strike since last Aug. 4 at the
Cross Co., automation machinery
manufacturer
of
Fraser,
Mich, |

The

will

&

—

in detail its scope and functions.
Reuther
told
the
group,
meeting at Solidarity House
in Detroit, that the Board
had acted to revise the old

skilled

trades

machinery

cause experience had proved
the urgent need to make the
union’s skilled trades structure more representative and
more responsive to the needs
of the union’s skilled trades
members.

Officers

trades
mittee

discussing

skilled

matters with the comwere:
Vice
President
Leonard

1.
Woodcock,

trades

who-covered

at General

skilled

Motors

and

in the aircraft industry. Woodcock is director of UAW’s national GM and Aircraft departments.
}

2. Vice President Pat Great-

house,
who
went
into skilled
trades matters in the agricultural
implement
industry.

new

handle

committee

the

functions

also

of

the former National Apprenticeship Committee which in
had no. formal
past
the
structure. Serving with the
membership of the Advisory
Committee for apprenticeship
matters will be representalocals
UAW
of three
tives
have had wide experiwho
ence in this field.

Established as a result of the
International Execv.iive Board’s
directive changing the union’s
skilled trades structure to tie
in skilled workers more closely with UAW’s collective bar-

gaining

setup,

the

Advisory

heard UAW
Committee
dent Walter P. Reuther

Presidiseuss

furnished soon to UAW

unions.

local

(CLEVELAND — The _ convention
of
the
Brotherhood
of
Railroad
Trainmen,
meeting
here, overwhelmingly voted to

eliminate the color bar from its

constitution.
eS
The
San
Francisco

convention of the AFL-CIO last September
asked
that
both
the
of
and the Brotherhood
BRT
Enand
Firemen
Locomotive
ginemen take such action. The
BLFE has not held a convention since the AFL-CIO meeting.
The BRT action was taken on

the

strong

President

recommendation

W.

Park

International Union and skilled
workers
on
matter
affecting
the apprenticeable trades.

Rule Bolsters’

_

Min. Wage Law

WASHINGTON — The. Fair
Labor Standards Act, which in-

cludes
the
Federal
minimum
wage law, has been given new
enforcement
teeth
by - the
United States Supreme Court.
The Court ruled here that
workers who are fired illegalJy not only are entitled to
reinstatement
but
should
also be awarded lost pay by
the courts.
The
6 to 3 decision
overturned
a lower
court
ruling
which: held that an employer
could
be
forced
to _ re-hire
workers
fired
illegally
but

could not be ordered to pay lost

wages.

Dissenting

ciate Justices

of

Kennedy.

were

Whittaker,

Asso-

Black

and Clark.
Secretary of Labor James P.
Mitchell had asked the high
court to overturn
the
lower
court decision on the basis that
it weakened
the enforcement
of the Fair Labor
Standards
Act. He said it gave the employer
an
economic
club.
to
hold
over
the
heads
of his
workers.
:
:
|
thrée
involved’
case
The
long-term employes of Robert
Demario
Jewelry, Inc.
of
Gaines,
Ga.
They
were
fired
te
complained
they
because
they
Mitchell that
Secretary

were not receiving the $1 an
|
hour minimum wage.
In
other
labor- related

the

eases

RR. Trainmen
Kill Color Bar

|

Plans also were reported to
the Committee by Pres. Reuther for establishing regular
communications
between
the

be-

Greathouse
is director
of
discussed
and
2. Reviewed
UAW’s Agricultural Implement
-to it by the
resolutions referred
Department.
comresolutions
Convention
3.
Vice
President
Norman
mittee.
|
Matthews,
director
of
the
Chrysler and the Office and
resolutions
3. Recommended
Technical Workers departments
later approved by the Internaof the union, who covered the
tional Executive Board which
skilled
trades
area
in those
set up procedures for establishfields.
ing new apprenticeable skilled
In addition, Ken Bannon, the
trades, lines of demarcation for
union’s Ford Department direca
and
classifications,
skilled
tor, and Joseph McCusker, conew council structure for job
director of Region 1-A, discussshops and independents. In aded skilled trades at Ford along
dition, the Committee adopted
a policy statement on the mis- . with the Ford apprenticeship
setup.
cellaneous and parts industry.
The
Advisory
Committee
_ These actions were based in
scheduled
its next meeting
by
raised
problems
on
part
for June. Meanwhile, detailed
| Convention resolutions covering
information
concerning
the
many of the same matters.
resolutions adopted
will be

enemies
in management
and
politics, Higgins said, “but they
are not that strong that labor
should always be in an overly

movement

believes the wrongs “are being
committed only on the other
side of the fence,” trade unions
will not be able to devote their
the
to winning
full energy
struggle in morals.
the
admires
he
said
He
UAW’s position in the “great

movement

also:

1. Elected Robert Mills, a
tool maker from Local 155,
Detroit, as chairman; James
Kalasardo, millwright, of Local 6, Chicago, vice chairman,
and Evan Lininger, tool maker, Local 685, Kokomo, Ind.,
as secretary.
—

rank-and-file.”
labor

structure,

Union

tional

are merely symbols of a deeper
problem
that is traceable
to
the rank-and-file which shows
lack of interest in union affairs and an unwillingness to
connect morality with
their
union’s everyday
affairs.”
He said the health
of a
nation is “forged in the soul
of its people and the health
of the trade union movement
is forged in the soul of its

The

each of

elected
were
members.
whose
of skilledby a@ specific area
Internathe
within
workers

Msgr. Higgins Advises Labor
issues,

:

As a result of
the
Boardadopted
new
procedure,
the
committee heard the Interna- —

‘Help Nation Face Moral Crisis,
Trade union leaders, always
in the thick of controversial

those
shop

court. refused

to

review a lower court ruling
which upset a National Labor
Relations Board order certiof |
unit
craft
2 new
fying
electricians in a plant long
eovered by a plant-wide contract of an industrial union.
The NLRB had decided that
the International Brotherhood
could
Workers
Electrical
of

carve

out

a craft

unit

of elec-

tricians
at.
the
Cumberland,
Md.; plant of the Pittsburgh
Glass Workers
Glass Co. The
Union held. an industrial-type

contract.

The lower court reversed the

NLRB,
characterizing its new
policy on craft units as “arbitrary and discriminatory.” In
refusing to review the lower
court ruling, the Supreme Court
left this decision standing.

Films:

10.

Kohler-NAM

Feb ruary, 1960—Page

s
n
o
i
t
a
t
S
V
T
FCC Slaps

PT

ry

For Anti-Labor Programs

SOLIDARITY,

WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission
has sharply rebuked two television stations and their parent
company for the use of their

facilities for TV programs aim-

ed at discrediting
movement.

the

labor

inreprimand
FCC’s
The
volved the Metropolitan Broadstations
and_
Corp.
casting
Washington,

WTTG-TV,

DC.,

and WNEW-TV, New York City.
comafter
acted
FCC
The
Secretaryplaints from UAW
Treasurer Emil Mazey. and the
AFL-CIO.

A SERIOUS DISCUSSION concerning their new appointments
is held by Brendan Sexton (left), just appointed coordinator
of organization, and Carroll Hutton, who succeeds Sexton as
director of the education department.

Sexton Coordinator

Name

@ During McClellan committee hearings involving the UAW

m
Ar
ng
zi
ni
ga
Or
w
Ne
Of

Basic re-organization of
the union’s organizing arm
of
appointment
and the
Brendan Sexton, education
director for the past decade,
as Coordinator of Organization were announced last
President
month by UAW
Walter P. Reuther.
Appointments of Sexton

Hutton Heads
Education Dept.

field level,’ Reuther asid.

Carroll Hutton, assistant di-—
rector of the education depart-

ment for
been
has

the past two years,
to succeed
named

Brendan Sexton as the director.
Hutton has served the UAW
in a number of capacities since

helping to organize his fellow
night-shift workers at the DelGeneral
division of
co-Remy

Motors in his home-town
Anderson, Ind., in 1941.

of

Before entering the Navy in
1942, Hutton served on the

organizational
and
educational
committee
of
Local
662. He returned from Navy
duty in 1946, and was elected president of his local in
1948 and 1949. He resigned to
become education director for
UAW Region 3.
1957 until
September
From
as successor
his appointment
to Sexton he served as assistant director of the education
department.

In

stepping

into

newly-

the

created post of coordinator of
organization, Sexton leaves behind him a precedent-studded
record as director of education
for the past 10 years.
’ Under his
direction,
the
“department developed a program
of
institutes, classes
and
summer
schools which
attract
more
than
50,000
UAW
members
each
year.
Sexton organized the UAW’s
biennial international education conferences which have
received national attention.

FCC Delay Hit
By Trade Mag.
Broadcasting

leading industry
zine, has sharply

Federal

mission

- Telecasting,

trade magacriticized the

Communications
for

its

long

Com-

delay

and four other UAW representativs to new positions were made under the
plan
new organizing
adopted by the international executive board,
Nov. 12, 1959.
At that time, the organizational structure of the
union was revamped to “emphasize centralized coordination at the international
level of the UAW and decentralized field work at the
The

in

acting
on
anti-labor
charges
brought against the Metropol= "pbc:
Co.
he.magazine
maintained
et “the time -to rebuke ...
is when
the incident or the
protest occurs.” If it comes only
at license renewal time, “it may
be three years before it is announced’”—a
period
during
which the industry. has no FCC
opinion to use as a guidepost,
the magazine pointed out.

were

others

four

appointed to fill posts of
assistant organizational
and

coordinators

will as-

sume responsibility, under

direction, for or-

Sexton’s

ganizing work in specified

areas.
Those named were Robert
Shebal, office and profes-

sional; Joseph Tuma, aircraft
and missiles: Ralph Robinson,
and
implement
agricultural
foundry, and Joseph Mooney,
competitive shops.
All of the appointments were
in its
by the IEB
approved
meeting in Detroit the week of
Jan. 17. Sexton was granted a
leave of absence from the education directorship to assume
his new duties.
In his new capacity, Sexton
directly under the
will work
organizational
international
comcommittee,
coordinating
posed of the union’s six top officers and chaired by Reuther.The* committee is responsible
all of the
coordinating
for
UAW’s organizing activities.
“While the UAW’s record in
organizing the unorganized in
past years has been very good
when compared with the exunions,”
other
of
periences

Reuther

pointed

out,

“it

was

felt that a more effective job
of meeting the special problems of competitive and runaway shops and organizing of
clerical, professional
office,
and skilled trades groups could
best be done under this new
approach.”
In keeping with the aim of
decentralized field work, Reuther said all staff organizers
will be assigned by the international
organizational
coordinating
committee
but
will

work under
Supervision
rectors.

the

of the

direction

regional

and

di-

Howard

as

presidency

Intl. Labor

by

of

he

Press

R.

C.

(Dick)

assumed

the

the

AFL-CIO’s

Assn.

@ On the eve of Congressional action on controversial labor
legislation, both stations telecast a program supporting the
Landrum-Griffin
restrictive
bill. The AFL-CIO assailed this
as a “one-sided presentation”

and a “perversion of the public
service concept.”

The

commission’s

complaint

against WTITG’s role in connection with the Kohler hearings noted
that the station,
working with NAM representa-

tives, sent 102 telegrams to stations
in
different
markets
offering to sell the film summaries.

The

offers,

said

the

FCC,

“were made at the: suggestion
and request of the NAM” and
the cost of the telegrams “was
divided
between
NAM _ and

WTTG”

although the wires sig-

nificantly made no mention of
the role of the NAM.
When not a single station
accepted the offer, the commission complaint continued,
“arrangements were made by
NAM
to
have
summaries
made available free of charge
to interested stations.” Again,
the FCC noted, “no information was given by WTTG...

during
any

any

transmittal

of the stations

to

receiving

Fired Three Times

matters

considered

in the

biased,

pro-

kinescopes

contrived

vided by the NAM.”
- One of the letters went to WITG-TV, Washington, D.C.,
to
s
film
free
ring
offe
in
NAM
the
with
ed
erat
coop
h
whic

other
NAM.

by
for
d
pai
e
wer
y
the
em
th
g
lin
tel
t
ou
ih
wt
ns
tio
sta
Other stations included WNEW-TV, New York City;
St. Paul, Minn.;
Minot, N.D.

WDAY-TYV,

they
that
summaries
said
were being supplied by NAM.”
The FCC called WITG’s failure to identify the NAM’s active participation in supplying
the free films “ a serious omission,” in view of the fact that
federal regulations require
any
to identify
broadcasters
direct or indirect sponsor of
telecasts.
The second charge involved

favorable

KSTP-TV,
KMOT-TV,

a televised interview with SenJohn

ators

L.

McClellan

(D.,

Ark.) and Sam J. Ervin, Jr. (D.,
N.C.), both supporters of harsh
legislation. The AFL-CIO had
said the timing of the program
made it impossible for supporters of more moderate legislation to ask for equal time to
talk on a bill which would have
met the problem of labor corruption “without undeservedly
restricting the legitimate functions” of unions.
Metropolitan’s defense was
that “at no time” did the
AFL-CIO ask “for an opportunity to present the other
side of the case—if there is

another side to labor .corrup-_

tion.”
The AFL-CIO, in reply, assailed the broadcuster’s “cynicism,” declaring that the issue
was “not the pros or cons of
labor corruption, but the high-.

ly controversial issue
proposals
pending
should enact.”

commission

The

of which
Congress
:

found

that

the
“both
interview
the
in
lent
answers
and
questions
support to the advisability of
one
enacting
-the
Congress.
labor bill as against the other,”
nor
and that neither WTTG
WNEW ever broadcast any program. “presenting a viewpoint

N.D.,

Fargo,

to

bill then

any

and

other

pending before

|

—

—

labor

Con-

gress.”
The FCC dismissed Metropolitan’s defense — that the
AFL-CIO
had never sought
equal
time — by
declaring

that

this

was

a violation of

the “fair presentation” policy
endorsed
by
Congress
and
the commission.
It cited a
policy reiterated many times
by the commission which de-

clared:

~

“We do not believe ... that
the
licensee’s
obligations
to

serve the public interest can
be met
merely
through
the
adoption of a general policy of

not refusing to broadcast opposing views where a demand
is made ... for broadcast time.

“If, as we believe to be the
case, the public interest is best
served in a democracy through
the ability of the people to
hear expositions of the various
positions taken by responsible

groups and individuals on particular topics and
to choose
- between ~them;
it is evident
that
broadcast
licenses
have

an

to

affirmative

encourage

duty

and

generally

implement

the broadcast of all sides of
controversial public issues ...
over and above their obligation
to make available on demand
_ opportunities
for the expression of opposing views.

“It is clear that any approximation of fairness in the preof any controversy
sentation
will be difficult if not impos-

sible of achievement unless the
licensee playsea conscious and
positive role in bringing about
of the
presentation
balanced
opposing viewpoints.”

LL

=

-

He Has 3, 380 ‘Reasons to Be Happy

EAST MOLINE, Til. — An International Harvester worker fired three times has been
reinstated with full back pay, thanks to prompt action by his local.
‘Bernard Peterson, a member of UAW Local 1304, was fired more than a year ago
by the management of I-H’s East Moline Works for “failure to report for work for five
days.”

The local checked and
was able to prove to man-

agement that Peterson
had in fact reported his absence.

Management’s

answer

was to fire him anyway as an
acemploye,’
“undesirable
MKuchirka,
cording to Peter
—
local president..
The local took his case before the permanent arbitrator
who ruled that Peterson was

not

discharged

for just’ cause.

“medically unfit.”

WASHINGTON—A
plea
for
more extensive support of the
trade union press by the leaders of the labor movement was

here

Co... WITTG
Kohler
the
and
furnished free films of selected
portions of the investigation to
27 television stations, without
informing them that the films
were paid for by the National
Association of Manufacturers.

UAW has demanded equal opportunity to present its
views over the television stations which broadcast edited
kinescopes on the Kohler hearings supplied by the National Association of Manufacturers.
six
to
e
wrot
y
Maze
Emil
rer
easu
y-Tr
etar
Secr
UAW
outlets demanding “an equal opportunity at an early date
te present the views of the UAW with respect to those

But again the company fired
him—this time because he was

Back Labor Press,
ILPA Head Pleas

made

The FCC listed these astrelaffiliates as
ties of the MBC
with
consistent”
“not
being
policy as. regards
commission
broadcas“editorializing”
by
ters:

Equal Time Asked

At this point, Local 1304
used part of the Harvester
a
contract which says that
medical
arbitrator shall be
used

when

the

company

doc-

tor and the employe’s personal physician disagree.
The medical arbitrator ruled
that Peterson was fit to work,

‘HE WOULDN’T

STAY

FIRED—International

Harvester fired

Bernard Peterson (center) three times but couldn’t make it
Here he gets back pay check for $3,380.84 from Local
stick.
1304 President Pete Kuchirka (left) as Tom Kelly, Region 4’s
sub-regional director for the Quad-Cities, beams his approval.

been. reinstated
‘and he has
which
pay,
back
with full
gross.
$5,500
about
came to
After deductions for taxes and

money

earned

ing the layoff
presented with

380.84.

elsewhere

dur-

period, he was
a check for $3,-

will. require the company . to
pay out about $2,500 in settleE. T.

8 Director

| Michael said.
The
decision
involved the
to comply
company’ Ss refusal

the

with

in

column

3.

a

RS

RTA

GRC

CRE

TREN

PR

A

AT

RS

RES

Here Are Names

Of Pact Signers

are the identificaHere
Martin
tions of UAW and
in the
Co. representatives

above photo. Seated

(left to

right): Ken Hopkins, presiIvy,
Joe
788;
Local
dent,
president, Local 766; Douglas Dorman, director of labor relations for the Martin
WoodLeonard
company;
UAW _ international
cock,
vice president; E. T. Michael,
director of UAW Region 8;
George Frongillo, UAW AirinternaDepartment
craft
and
representative,
tional

Marvin

»

PENSION INCREASES negotiated by UAW with the “Martin
Aircraft Co. “will be a big help,” Local 738 retiree Robert
Kritzler told his wife (above) when they read about terms of
Kritzler, 74, was a
the settlement in a Baltimore newspaper.

tool

maker

who

Berndt's

retired

in

1954,

Inquiry Discloses:

Acute Facilities Shortage

For Disturbed Indiana Kids
INDIANAPOLIS—An

increasingly

stitutional facilities for the
' disturbed children has been
Director Raymond H. Berndt

from

complaint

The

inquiry

of a UAW

showed

that

member.
800

would

In addition, a large number
of the children have been on
the waiting list more than two
years and some as long as three
years, Berndt said.
The Regional Director’s inafter a letter
quiry came
who
member.
a UAW
from
of his
approval
said court

“Eye” Drops
Ind.—Because
‘EVANSVILLE,
UAW’s Chrysler local here has
gone out of existence following
its
moving
company’s
the
plant to St. Louis, Mo., “EyeOpener,” the union’s informa-

tive, chock-full-of-facts,

of state in-

care of retarded and emotionally
brought to light here by Region 3
following an investigation resulting

six
under
many
youngsters,
years of age, are on a waiting
list for admission to a state

institution where they
- receive needed help.

acute shortage

enter-

‘taining radio program no longer will be carried in this area.
It will continue, however, to be
heard on its other regular stations.

application

tional

care

for

for

state

his

institu-

young

he
him,
entitled
daughter
had learned, only to a place
on the waiting list for ad-

mission of the child.

Berndt
said the Indiana
State Director of Mental Care
told him, during the course of
the inquiry, that responsibility
for the lack of sufficient and
proper
facilities
had
to
be
placed squarely on
the
1959
legislature.
The legislature, he said, had
cut more than $26 million out
of the needed budget appropriation, Of this, $19 million would
have gone to repair, remodel
and
facilities,
construct
and
$6 million for more employees.

Holler,

vice-chair-

man, Local 738.
Standing (left to right)
were Charles Crowley of the
John AlMartin company;
738;
Local
den, président,
Harry Green, William Grady,
-and T. J. Cummins, Martin
company; Horace Sadler,
Simpson
Terry
788;
Local
of
both
Neal,
Eddie
and
Moore,
Jackson
Local 738;
Don
Local 738;
chairman,
Local
chairman,
Cassidy,
788, Tom Connole, UAW Airinternacraft Department
representative, Retional
Volk,
gion 5, and Michael
repreinternational
UAW
sentative, Region 8.

Negotiating committee

member Wiliam Hightower,
secrefinancial
738
‘Local
tary, and John Barnette, Region 8 staff representative,

were not present for the picture.

decision

Aircraft Local

WITH BROAD GAINS WON in. negotiations, the new pension agreement between UAW and the
Martin Aircraft Co. was signed recently. The settlement
covers
workers
at Martin
plants
at
Baltimore, Md.; Orlando, Fla., and Denver, Col.
For identification of those in the photo, see
box

arbitration

+

MORTON, Pa —The long arm
of the UAW grievance procedure has reached across the
Atlantic to the benefit of three
Aircraft
members of Vertol
Local 1069 in one of the most
- unusual grievances to be re~
ported from Region 9.
Corp.,
Aircraft
Vertol
The
whose plant is located in this
Philadelphia suburb, sent three
to
mechanics
field service
France to service Vertol helicopters in that country.
The company,
however,
failed to pay the trio the
they
Local

1069’s contract with the firm,
so Jack Cashmere, local president, filed a grievance which
resulted in back pay awards
of $1,500 for the mechanics.

The

Vertol

was

plant

once

owned by Frank Piasecki and
UAW
the
by
was organized
was
Piasecki
after
shortly
Piasecki then
out.
forced
Bellanca
former
the
bought
Castle,
Aircraft plant in New
Del. but refused to recognize

the UAW

local which had

been

in existence there for ten years
members.
and fired all UAW
Local 840 has been on strike
ever since.

Local Assists
Handicapped
Kids, School

NEWPORT, Ark. — Members
Local 1006 here are
of UAW
a
in to support
chipping
youngster at the Newport
Home for Retarded Children.
| They also have helped remodel
the building occupied by the
handicapped children.
The voluntary project is
Thompson,
Zolan
by
headed
BALTIMORE, Md. — UAW
Local 1006 president, and the
retirees have learned Once
other local officers. They are:
again that the union stays in-°
Bobby West, vice president;
no matter
in them,
terested
Rex Davis, recording secretary,
how long they’ve been out of
and Kenneth Frazer, financial
the plant.
secretary.
This was brought home most
recently by UAW’s latest pension contract with the Martin
Aircraft Co. here. In addition
to benefit boosts of about 30%,

Retirees Value
New Pension —
Gain by UAW

the

new

agreement

also

District

Court

has

“It is true that the decision3
the

had

result

of

entitling

mitted to the arbitrator was
classification
proper
of
that
and any effect on wages was

rect result.”
indi
an
ly
mere
:

The

court added that “proper classification of certain employees”
was clearly proper subjects for
arbitration under the contract.
“It would seem an illogical
if
proceeding
“an idle
and
a court could require a reto observe
party
calcitrant
to arbitrate
his agreement
and be powerless to compel
the results of the arbitration
to be carried out,” the court
declared.

Hepner is president of the
local union and Robert Gnegy
shop chairman.

UAW Saves

Office Jobs

At Auto-Lite
ATANTA, Ga. — Office workers’ jobs were saved by UAW
Auto-Lite Co.
here after the
had decided to do away with
out the
contract
and
them

service
work to .a non-union
company, Region 8 Director E.
T. Michael reported.
_ The work involved a payroll
job in the company’s Atlanta
The company notified
office.
the local’s Office Workers Committee that contracting out the
work would result in one work-

er being laid off immediately
with others to follow.
The committee and Region 8
international representative

James H. Butler then notified
management at a meeting that
its plans were contrary to the
UAW’s agreement with the
company. They cited a decision
by arbitrator A. R. Marshall re‘turning other contracted - out
work to the unit.

After management said it
would
review
the issue, the
company then reversed its decision. “The work will remain

in the

bargaining

jobs were

unit and

saved,” Michael

the

said.

pro-

vided other advances.
higher
of the
‘Importance
pension benefits to VAW members already retired at Martin
_ In addition, Berndt. said, the
was emphasized by Robert
of
‘additional cost to Indiana
Kritzler, a Local 738 member
rushing to complete new state
who retired as a tool maker at
‘buildings before the end of the.
“Jame-duck” . the plant in 1954,
current
Handley
“When I read the story of
“might
have
administration
the settlement,” he said, “I was
more than made
up the $26
amazed to find the union still
were
the mentally-ill
million
is fighting to win me benefits
short-changed last year in InSix years after I left the plant.”
diana.”

Evans,

ident,

citizenship

served

as

council pres-

chairman.

“Being
interested
in
an
election involves much more
than what happens election
day if you want decent candidates
elected,”
Judge
Hughes said.

*“You’ve got to work at
ting people to pay their

getpoll

tax so they can vote, because
the best candidate in the world
can be defeated if people who

want to vote for them are not
eligible to cast their ballots.
And you’ye also got to work in
bringing the facts about issues
to.the people.”
Hawks detailed UAW’s wideranging fields of interest, such
as defense contracts and foreign affairs as well as collective
bargaining, and noted the reasons for this.
Leroy Franklin, the council’s
delivered
secretary,
financial
the invocation.
)

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SPECIAL

SET

OF

BOOKS

2

them to be paid an increased ©
wage from a retroactive date.
“But the question to be sub-

Grass Roots Work Needed to Win Elections

GRAND PRAIRIE, Tex.—Democracy is as much a matter
of grass roots work as it is of
Judge.
interest,
day
election
told a “wives
Hughes
Sarah
of the
banquet
appreciation”
CitizenUAW
County
Dallas
ship Council here.
About 400 local union offieers and their wives attended
the banquet at the hall of UAW
Region 5
Locals 390 and 893.
also adDirector Ted Hawks
dressed the banquet, while Roy

oseg

that Alfred Bly, Matt Pewitt,
Ted Hepner and Charles Cook
had been unjustly denied upgrading to a machine repairman classification.
Stating that the company’s
were “lacking in
ons
enti
cont
|
merit”, the court noted:

U.S.

of the arbitrator in upgrading ~
the four employees may have =

Wins Grievance
For 3? Overseas

allowances
and
wages
were entitled to under

8 peru

The court’s ruling, upholding
the arbitration award won in
July, 1956, by UAW Local 149,
Region

Shoe Co.’s Winchester plant
decision upgrading four men.

10s

dered the American Brake
to carry out an arbitration

ment,

or-

The

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—

Va.

WINCHESTER,

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went

to

a

special

high

school

when Mrs. Janet Barnard delivered a set of “Labor’s Bookshelf” to Sunnyside High School at the Oaklandon, Ind., tuber-.
culosis sanitarium. Donated by the Marion County, Ind., UAW
Citizenship Council, the set of five books was received by Mrs.
Mary Zimmerman, librarian at the school. Mrs. Barnard (right)
is the wife of Edward Barnard, council chairman and president
of UAW Local 98 at Indianapolis.

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12

Goes

UAW —

HINSDALE, Ill.—Despite

ert Johnston, was 253 for
UAW, 227 for no union and

February,

bitter opposition from the
giant International Harvester Company, which threw

2 void ballots. There were
487 eligible to vote, and only
five did not participate in
the election, which indicates
the intensity of the campaign.

SOLIDARITY,

its full weight against the
UAW’s. organizational drive
at the chain’s newest facility, workers at the I-H farm
equipment research and engineering center here have
voted for the union in an
election conducted by the
National Labor Relations
Board.
The vote, reported by Vice
Pat

President

Those voting

not only semi-skilled and
skilled production and
maintenance workers, but
also research and engineering employes
and
technicians. While some of
the Hinsdale workers had

Greathouse

and Region 4 Director Rob-

previously worked in other
Harvester plants, many
—
were new hires. Hinsdale .
is a small town near Chicago.
The anti-union campaign

Pensions Pay

$6 Million
UNION VICTORY at Harvester’s new Hinsdale, Ill., research center is cause for this celebration at a meeting of UAW’s. newest local, I-H Local 152. Post-election meeting took place at
UAW Local 719 Hall in LaGrange, Hl. Grasping the hands of in-plant organizers is Region 4
Director Bob Johnston (center.)
Organizing committee members (front row) include Al Witt
(to the left of Johnston), Paul Biceglia and John Furmanek
(on Johnston’s right),

The

four Alcoa

locals of

the UAW
have ratified a
new
three-year agreement
between the UAW and the
Aluminum
Company of
America, covering 5,000
workers

across

the

country,

it has been announced. by —
UAW
Secretary- Treasurer
Emil Mazey, acting director

hour. Because the - settlement is retroactive to Aug.
1, 1959—when the old pact.
expired—Alcoa workers will
soon
find
Sizeable_
retroactive pay checks in their
pay envelopes.
The agreement is similar

of the union’s Alcoa Department.
,
The pact provides for a

the Steelworkers Union
the Aluminum Workers
ion.

benefit package of
of 3434.
.6c

ents

combined

wage - and - fringe

an

Following
of

are

the

the

Continued

tween

from

the ages

Page

1

of 60 to 64

who wish to retire on ‘early
retirement” benefits. In addition, they will receive full
SUB lay-off benefits before
retiring,
in most cases

amounting
payments

to
of

six
up

months’
to $30

a week plus state-paid unemployment compensation.
(A worker entitled to $60.

Several other changes
were also negotiated to make
it

easier

‘workers

to

for

McCormick |

get

higher and

faster separation pay.
@ All McCormick workers
will get first choice at new
jobs for which they qualify
at I-H facilities in the great-

er Chicago

area.

Such

jobs

will be filled in order of
seniority at McCormick.’
Those who participated
in the protracted negotiations included staff members from the offices of
Vice President Greathouse,
the regional office and the

a month under the reduced
“early” pension in the I-H
contract, for example, will
instead get $120, Greathouse
noted).
I-H
Department,
Harvestwhich
pay,
Separation
@
- er Council President James
is based on seniority and
Robinson and these presirate of pay, will be increased
dents of McCormick locals:
for most of the McCormick
Len
Carney,
Local
1308;
the
computing
workers by
Ed
Bulat,
Local
1101;
‘Dan
of
rate
highest
pay at the
Giblin,
Local
1012,
and
pay earned rather than at
Bruno
Zachman,
Local
the pay rate of the worker’s
1302.
last job before permanent
The
members of all four
the
_ayoff, as called for in
loca
ls
hav
e
rati
fied
the
agr
eecontract.
I-H
“regular
men
t;
This is important because
‘““W
hile
it
is
imp
oss
to
ibl
e
constantly reduced produc«negot
iate
a
shutdo
wn
agreetion schedules at the plant*
and the exercise 6f seniority
rights will result in workers
being transferred to. lower
paying jobs before being permanently laid off.
- Separation pay will range
from a low of $92 for a short
service minimum pay worker, to $5,000 for a high seniority and highly-paid
worker. The average separation pay check will be about

$1,500,

Greathouse

said.

ment which can fully compensate a worker for the loss
of his job,’ Carney told his
local, ‘“‘we have nevertheless

gained
over

vast

present

improvements
contract

con-

. ditions, to a degree never before negotiated in the farm

equipment

aes

totaling 21c

@ Company payment of

the total cost of compre-

hensive insurance for
worker and dependents,
retroactive to August 1.

ag eenen

This means nearly 4c an
hour will be refunded to

:

Alcoa workers. Insurance
includes life, sickness and
accident benefits and hospital and surgical benefits.
@ Up to 6e an hour in
cost- of - living pay. This
feature is not retroactive,
however,

@ Medical imsurance for
retirees and their wives.

@ Improved pensions,
calling for a minimum of
$2.50 per month per year

of service

prior to Jan.

I,

_ 1960, and $2.60 per month
per year of service after
Jan. 1, 1960. In addition,
each worker,
on retire-

ment, will receive special
retirement pay equivalent

to three months of full
pay. All present pensioners

- will also receive

crease

of

$5

a flat in-

a month

in

their present pension. Oth-

-@r pension improvements
provide vested rights and
full pensions on early re-

tirement in event of termination due to layoff or
shutdown.

@

and

Improvements i in SUB
vacations.

The agreement covers Locals 808, Los Angeles; 1050,
Cleveland;
1065,
Chicago,
and 1189, Garwood, N.J. The
- plants in Garwood and Hillside,

Ill.

(Chicago

since

the

its major company-financed
The
agreements.
pension
monthly rate of retirement
is almost 1,000.
While the number of pen-

is a supplier to the aircraft
industry.

-

ill-

n
te
of
t
s
o
m
ty
li
bi
sa
di
or
ness
without

fund

administrators,

retirement
double-rate

on
7,014
and
pendisability

sion

are

10-year

still

period,

living.

to contribute

asked

will

will

to support candithe basis of their

bers, candidates’ records will
be closely scrutinized to determine how they stand on
UAW’s
issues.
specific

broad, positive program for
good legislation will serve as

the

ment.

yardstick

for

measure-

labor has
“American
learned by hard experience

that

direct

there is a very
relationship be-

tween the ballot box and
the breadbox,” said DAW
President Walter P. Reu-

ther.

94,600

-

To COPE

member

dollars
tance from COPE
contributed by union mem-

eligible

Give a Buck

$1 each

of party labels, it was point|
ed out.
aSSsisreceiving
Before

UAW
115,200
the
Of
members who retired over

the

raised

records, and not on the basis

y
rl
ea
on
s
er
rk
wo
0
40
9,
ow
sh

sions until becoming
for social security.

The

be used
dates on

The average UAW member on normal retirement today has 25 years of credited
0
$6
r
fo
s
ll
ca
h
ic
wh
e
ic
serv
ne
nio
un
e
th
om
fr
y
hl
mont
He
.
nd
fu
n
io
ns
pe
gotiated
now also receives up to $119
ty
ri
cu
se
al
ci
so
in
h
nt
mo
a
is
fe
wi
s
hi
if
d,
an
ts
benefi
up
es
iv
ce
re
le
up
co
e
th
,
ng
livi
y
hl
nt
mo
9
$5
al
on
ti
di
ad
to an
y
hl
nt
mo
le
ib
ss
po
l
ta
to
a
for
income of almost $250.
UAW statistics, compiled
from reports filed by pen-

1

UAW’s COPE drive will
nation
as the
held
be
moves closer to a crucial
Presidential election in
which issues of basic im-.
mem-.
portance to UAW
their familitg
bers and
will be decided.

be

income.

area)

- make die castings. The
Cleveland plant makes forgings, and the Vernon, Calif.
(L.A. area) plant makes
moldings and extrusions and

dividual contributions
in the COPE drive.

.
fe
wi
s
hi
d
an
f
el
ms
hi
r
rity fo

meant

from Page

Continued

of $39 social secu-

retirement

Shy,

to Art

Drive

COPE

which set the pension patk
r
o
w
al
ri
st
du
in
t
s
o
m
,
tern
.
ly
on
d
r
a
w
r
o
f
ok
lo
d
ul
ers co
to a monthly income on “reof

dinners,

The newy-organized group
has been chartered as Local
152. The center was opened
last year.

Chrysler plants.
Before the UAW’s victory
in 1949 Ford negotiations

because

turkey

assistant director of the I-H
Department. —

slightly
that
shows
still
more than half of its pensioned members spent their
working lives in either General Motors, Ford or Chrysler plants across the country
and in Canada: 28,558 from
from
25, 301
plants;
GM
Ford plants and 9, 977. from

Retirement

free

according

ance,

sion agreements continues to
rise, the union’s compilation

tirement”

by

from the Harvester Department and the regional office,
aided by local union officers
of I-H locals in the Chicago
area, who helped distribute
handbills and gave valuable
financial and other assist-

won

union

personally

dummy check stubs indicating amount of dues checkoffs and
weekly in-shop
“gripe” sessions on company
time. It was the first time
that Harvester had openly
intervened in a representation election campaign. —
The UAW’s drive was con‘ ducted by staff members

pensions

company-paid

years

retroactive to last August.

high-

So-

that averaged. $60 monthly.
It is now more than 10

including 5c the first year,

and
Un-

McCormick Shutdown Pact

on

an_hour over three years,

to the ones reached last December between Alcoa and

union’s

ployes,

Year’s end figures just
tabulated showed that 115,200 UAW members in the
impleagricultural
auto,
ment, aircraft and feeder
plant industries had retired

Wage increases and

inequity pay

the

cial Security Department.

which
was. negotiated
Pittsburgh last month:

_ @

and disability retirement, acto

headed

the works manager, according to Greathouse, director
of the UAW’s International
Harvester
Department.
It
featured the usual devices—
layoffs of pro-union workers, daily letters to em-

UAW - negotiated pension
funds are paying out nearly
$6 million monthly to UAW
members on normal, early
cording

34.6:Package Won
y 4 Alcoa Locals

was

Month

Each

included

Such “direct relationship”
cited by the UAW President

is

seen

in

the

issue

of

fair

taxation. For example, an increase in personal income
tax exemptions from $600
to $700 a person would mean

an extra $80 a year in cash
for the average family, it
was pointed out,
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