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UAW Solidarity
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1960-05-01
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Vol. 3 No. 5
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UAW
INTERNATIONAL
UNION, UNITED
WORKERS
OF AMERICA-UAW
SOLIDARITY |
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Action:
Demands
iwublic
IMPLEMENT
& AGRICULTURAL
AIRCRAFT
AUTOMOBILE,
edical Care for Aged Becomes
Top Issue in Political Campaigns
Health care for the aged
surged forward last month
as a major issue in Congress
and in the Presidential campaigns, impelled by vigorous
support from the nation’s
senior citizens, organized
labor, and liberals.
Focal point of the drive
was the Forand Bill, a
by the
backed
measure
y
AFL-CIO and the UAW
which provides health security through broadening
of the Social Security Act.
Mounting public demand
for adequate legislation in
this area swept the issue
prominence,
national
into
despite attempts to kill it by
the Eisenhower Administration, the GOP-Dixiecrat coalition in Congress, the AmeriAssn., and
Medical
can
other reactionary groups.
Publie reaction erupted
after the President told a
PETITION
|
bearing
the
of
signatures
than
more
7,000
legislation
thought such
was “socialized medicine”,
and the House Ways &
Means Committee — dominated by Republicans and
Dixiecrats — initially rejected the Forand Bill.
UAW
retirees in support of the Forand Bill is presented to Rep.
Wilbur Mills (D., Ark.), chairman of the House Ways & Means
Committee, by UAW President Walter P. Reuther, John FitzRetirees
patrick, Local 600, (center), secretary of the UAW
Committee,
Steering
Miller, Local 22, chairman
tion subcommittee.
of the
steering
But following these developments, mail poured into
Washington in such numbers
York
New
the cautious
Times observed:
“No other question is producing anything like the
volume of Congressional letters and postcards, and none
has caused greater political
discomfort among members
up for re-election next November.”
Intensity of public support for the Forand Bill
dramatically
made
was
clear when two rallies called by organized labor each
drew more than 10,000.
and Dave
committee’s educa-
Detroit
Metropolitan
area,
Martin Is First to Agree
: To Retrain for Space Age
electronics
missiles and
equipment, the agreement
is designed to meet the
company’s anticipated
needs for workers qualified for electronics jobs,
UAW Vice President Leonard Woodcock said.
BALTIMORE, Md. — The
first agreement anywhere in
under which a comUAW
pany will retrain workers
for new space age jobs and
needed skills has been won
by the union at the Martin
Aircraft Co. here.
The agreement also provides that laid-off workers
will be the first recalled
when their old jobs are in
the same “family group” as
those for which a manpower
need exists.
Resulting
from
The agreement was negotiated by the Local 738 bar-
In
gaining committee assisted
by the office of Region 8 Director E. T. Michael and the
national aircraft department
headed by Woodcock.
Noting
that
the need
comes up from time to time
transi-
tion of the company’s Baltimore plant from production of manned aircraft to
Continued
on
Page
UAW-spon-
a
Detroit,
sored rally heard three major
Democratic aspirants for the
nomination
Presidential
pledge support for the Forand Bill: Senators Hubert
(Minn.), Stuart
Humphrey
Symington (Mo.), and Jack
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12
on
Page
Symington... Humphrey ... Kennedy
Three
Major
Nomination
UAW
Rally
Contenders
Support
Pledge
Held
in
for
for
the
the
Detroit—See
Section for a Full Report,
Presidential
Democratic
Forand
he
conference
news
Bill
Solidarity’s
at
Mammoth
Special
Center
12
Dirksen’s Nose Still Reacts
But His GOP Heart Is Hard
Talk sense about medical aid for the nation’s old
folks and a certain Republican Senator’s nostrils will
flare—but it won’t soften his heart.
When UAW President Walter P. Reuther’s testimony favoring the Forand Bill was read to the Senate
Committee on Problems of the Aged and Aging, MinorDirksen
of Llinois
McKinley
Everett
ity Leader
wrinkled his nose and sniffed, “It’s a stinking statement.”
Later, IUE President James Carey testified and
Dirksen snorted, “Another stinking statement.”
Reuther, unable to testify in person because his
plane was grounded by bad weather, said in a later
visit to Washington, “Sen. Dirksen was angry, and
angry people aren’t very intelligent.”
Unemployment Up;
Fear Economy Dip
Unemployment
took
a
sharp rise in March, pushing
the nationwide jobless rate
above 5% of the work force,
according to figures released
in mid-April by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Jobless Rate
Hurts Nation,
Senate Told
“in
Unemployment is
many. respects the central
economic
problem
our
of
free society,” and solving it
is more than “simply a matter of maintaining ‘prosper-
ity’.’”
So stated the final report
of the Senate special comunemployment
on
mittee
problems, filed March 30 by
J. McCarthy
Sen. Eugene
(D., Minn.,
committee
chair-
man.
The report pointed out
that unemployment has
hit 5% or more of the nation’s work force for 26
Continued
on
Page
12
While unemployment
was rising, employment
was falling, the department said, reversing the
usual pattern for March.
Impact of unemployment
hit hardest in farming, construction and trade — in-
dustries in which employment always rises in early
Sprin, even in recessions.
A
man
department
the
blamed
spokes-
severe
March weather for the
turn in em“abnormal”
loyment - unemployment.
However, the decline also
showed up in factory employment, which is not
sensitive to
particularly
weather.
In transportation - equipment industries (which in-
clude auto and aircraft), a
drop of 25,000 in employment was said to be due to
reduced auto output and the
“established trend” of military production shifts from
aircraft to missiles.
These
were
the
eco-
Page
12
nomic portents indicating
trouble ahead:
1. The US Department of
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on
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May, 60—Pag
SOLIDARITY,
<a
9 Conference:
4s° @ One Game World Series —
>We
EASTERN
Co
Won't Get a Second Chance!”
NEW
for
a
YORK—The
free
and
struggle
peaceful
and
300
Region
union
9's
annual
conference
here.
‘History
has
members
at
education
thrust
unon
a heavy responsibility, the
sponsibility
as
custodians
reof
provide
re-
world
freedom,
the
in
“We
the
are
for,
faced
today
complacency,
need
yeloped
year
by
a
and
year
of
decision.
Street
Avenue,
to
UAW
do
again
president
delegates
“It
to
That’s
circling
smiles
trips,
this
values
New
are
problesns
is
a
year
Franklin
the
more
be
to
the
parade
remain—
a long
York,
but
indivisible.
are
solve
our
way
human
Their
problems,
as
talk about
about.”
He
people
ceived
the
in
that
Asia,
“we
are
of
“things
and
accused
of
do
we
the
“favoring
and
over
tail
brary,”
health
lagged
care
said
not
for
the
only
man
its
young
generation
portunity
with
the
it
meeds
challenge
future.”
He
dent
the
spend
cannot
more
President
on
himself
schools,
went
a
$1.25
minimum
a dollar
an
hour
say
a
Region
9 Director Martin
Gerber and
President
Walter
Reuther at regional education conference in New York @
+
and picks up some tips on organizing.
Gerry’s chairman? i
the UAW’s in-plant organizing committee at Daystrom Tri’
sicoil, Worcester, Pa., a non-union shop.
interest
is
to 534%,
hiked
from
that’s not in-
in the
GOP
book,”
Reuther pointed out. “I call
that cockeyed, upside down
economics.”
He also urged passage of the
Forand
cope
the
bill
(see
special
and
ship
stu-
for
a
national
program
dents
in
verty”
the
all
over
food
and
“enlist
the
world.
against
to
of
the
a
war,”
try
he
can
noted.
start
its
The
“war
taking
our
surplus
“out of the storage bins”
placing it “in the empty
“Here
at
ernment
po-
“If we give our young people the tools of peace, it is less
likely that they will have
overseas later with the
by
bellies
of hungry
people
all
over the globe,” he continued.
scholar-
to
fight
poverty”
section
of this issue of Solidarity)
called
op-
to
to
flationary
denies
afford
as
Congressional
Republicans
414%
noted that while PresiEisenhower has said that
country
present
cre-
till he changes his mind.”
gage
Russia
to
of
direct
$1.25 an hour is inflationary,
but when FHA home mort-
States
the
a_
“moral
can
of
on
“The
bigover
in the world
the
has
asked.
live
wage
is-
but even poor India in the field
of education because “the rich-
est country
medical
wage, the UAW
officer urged
that we “let every Congress-
pensioners.”
behind
he
opposition
to
American
United
we
Speaking
something
education and
fins
for cars
re-
the rest af the world the arrest
of students in South Carolina
for the ‘crime’ of sitting in the
wrong chair at the public li-
purpose.”
bond
and
lived
the leader of the free world.
“How
are we to explain to
los-
need
on
dentials”
because we have
sense
rights”
bearing
time,
Africa
housing
government
civil
“total
America
war
has
care most of his life.
Reuther also asserted that
“what we do in the field of
sues
for sewers
over
bond
issues for schools by a margin of 10 to 1,” and declared
that
“there’s something
wrong when we put plumb-
He
handshakes,
may
wage
need
globe-
ground
in
that
school,
in government
Turning to domestic affairs,
Reuther listed education, civil
rights,
medical
care for the
aged and a higher minimum
we
than
displayed
national
Wall
the
peace”
Latin America
no
to
for the same
for
government
re-
the world’s
delegates
declared
ing
from
lustily.
When
and
half
to
conference.
He called
ing
ger
asserted as the
problems
from
de-
the
effort
well
goes to sleep hunnight,”
Reuther
three-day
really
year,”
is over, the
unsolved.
“Africa
goy-
House.
what
parades
problems.
of
to move
and
our
with
Pennsylvania
applauded
takes
volicy
—
government
back
will
1932—another
decision
of
we
1960
In
we
relations
White
Roosevelt promised
seat
with
sound
the
of
influence
what
in
we
declared
public
when
is
“The
of
he
corrupting
slogans
this
calls
trouble,”
ernment
unless
leadership
sponsibility
be
but
told
be
that
population
ery
every
has
us
might
member
world
is a sort of “one game world
series—there can be no second
chance,”
UAW
President
Walter P. Reuther told more
than
it
to go
tools
coun-
home
we
policies
need
to
clared,
cial
stimulate
recurring recessions. To change
the atmosphere
in Washington, we've got to get millions
of working Americans registerto
vote.
There
are
so
many
of our fellow citizens who
have
:
Reuther also called for sj
goy-
efforts
dollars
purchasing power. Instead we
get economic
stagnation
and
ed
against
the right to vote but don’t
t
ercise it, and we’ve got th jae) :
something
about
it,” he int
i
to
to balance
raise
CO)
the
cial contributions
70¥ 5:
9)
finzs)'/
being mz;
by the DuPonts and the Pe}
to
the
Republican
Party.
Others
who
addressed | 5
conference
included
Regis
Director Martin Gerber; 1}
Jersey
State
Paul
Krebs;
UAW
zation;
CIO
Brendan
coordinator
education
Presicji*
Carroll
Sexiks
for
Hutton,
director;
orgéjs°
U
Don
Kp
Nuclear
H
executive director for the Cc
mittee
icy;
fora Sane
Homer
American
ca,
and
national
Jack,
co-dire
Committee
James
on
Farmer,
program
A;
NAAP?.\
director, | 7
Mazey Talks
To Region 2
Fiscal Officers
CLEVELAND,
©
O. —+
isn’t enough for financial q
ficers of unions to just
honest;
each
must
always
be *
position to prove his honest
UAW Secretary-Treasurer En
Mazey
said
here
last
month,
Mazey
was
the
speaker at a two-day
officers
institute
principj
financi
attended
}
REGION 9's ANNUAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE hears UAW President Walter P. Reuther denounce
the failures of the
Eisenhower Administration.
Others at the head table are (from the left) Ken Bannon, national Ford Department director;
Brendan Sexton, coordinator of organization and a conference speaker; Jay Watkins of the regional staff; Dan Bedell (face
UAW
Region 2 local union f
nancial secretaries, president
recording secretaries and tru
ministrative assistant,
and is not visible.
The
session
was
called t
Regional Director Pat O’Ma}
partly
hidden)
of
the
Washington
and
Charles
office;
Guensch
4
Paul
2
Krebs,
president
of the regional
of
staff.
the
New
Region
Jersey
State
9 Director
Martin
CIO;
Gerber
_ Shotgun
President
—
George
AFL-CIO
Meany
has
called a special convention
May 19-20 of all AFL-CIO
ganizations
form
a
in
New
merged
the state.
The convention
in
the
Newark
Jersey
labor
for
or-
to
body
will
Armory.
be
in
held
The
convention
call
came
several weeks after Meany ordered revocation of the charters
of
the
New
Federation
New
7
TWENTY-FIFTH
ANNIVERSARY of New York City’s Xavier
Institute of Industrial Relations is noted with a dinner which
together
(1.
to
Mitchell, UAW
Region
Van Arsdale, president
and
the
Rey.
Philip
A.
r.)
9A
of
U.S.
Secretary
of Labor
James
Director Charles Kerrigan, Harry
the city’s Central Labor Council,
Carey,
institute
director.
Xavier,
a
Jesuit-sponsored training school for rank and file union members, is open to members of all réligious faiths.
Volunteer
faculty
serves
without pay.
(Harcourt-Harris
Conway,
Reuther’s
is sitting
behind
tees.
ad-
Reuther
ley
for
_ Jersey Labor Faces
WASHINGTON
brought
Jack
Photo,
NYC.)
of
Jersey
Jersey
Labor
Industrial
and
State
the
Union
Council, and directed the creation
of a new
merged
AFL-
CIO
body
The
charter
in
the
order
to
came
on
state.
revoke
the
basis
the
of
a report by Peter M, McGavin
and R, J. Thomas, assistants
to
the
tiations
with
tion
president,
the
for
were
a
that
merger
AFL-CIO
in
nego-
line
constitu-
stalemated,
All
on
bodies
in
the
stone
state
merge
and
on
All
and
sey
In
an
has
been
federa-
June
AFL-CIO
organizations
former
to
completed
will be held
local
with
AFL
Key-
agreement
6.
affiliated
the
and
the
a conyention
or
in
unions
New
either
former
Jer-
the
CIO
body
will be given credentials
to the
merger
convention,
if
they
are
McGavin
in
good
and
standing.
Thomas
will
act as convention officers and
present
a
draft
constitution
for the new AFL-CIO body to
the delegates.
The New Jersey
Council announced
that
it
will
hold
State
CIO
meanwhile
qa
one-day
convention May 7 at the Essex
House in Newark to discuss the
creation
body.
of
a
state
all
filing
the
new
Reporting
tion
have
merged
with
exception of New Jersey
Pennsylvania.
emphasized
local
obtain
Wedding
State
who
AFL-CIO
financial
the
officers
information
reports
nee:
1
possibii
required
bl
Labor
- Managemert
and Disclosures last
(Landrum-Griffin Act).
Institute instructor was Da&
Cassey,
assistant
director
ci
the international union’s au
diting department. In additio;
to
explaining
and
discussin
the
new
federal
labor
Cassey detailed the UAW
diting
system
covering
the
international
unions.
Despite
praise
and
from
law)
au)
bot;
loca
the
Mc
Clellan committee’s own chie)
accountant, which followed ar
exhaustive
investigation
of
the
UAW's books, the “Goldwaters
Mundts and Curtises still continue
against
pointed
their
our
out,
political
union,”
attacks
Other
Regional
on
,
Page
News
11
Mazey,
friends.
back
men
young
eager
its bright,
ia thy of
them
has been sending
these days
u/anagement
ulon‘school.”
44 4ihe boss’ goal is to educate them to “eduyou.
”?
‘As one executive puts it,” Business
k magazine said recently, “ ‘Lobbying
be
to
have
who
voters
It’s the
se.
luenced.’ ”
programs,
“education”
Management’s
leuerefore, are targeted smack at influencvoy \z you, and thus getting your vote.
bombsights are meetings, discussions,
ssioeches, advertising, house organs, door-to«' 4r chats, and the $2 billion a year reading
ik industry, among others.
Hoeach of these, and all of them together,
+ ik to build up aeceptance among wage“o#ners and their families of the economic,
litical and social policies that the leaders
‘sa@| management
best
think
=qpups
1s country.
‘0
and
for
of
you
business
the
and
pressure
rest
of
fin addition, they want to cut down—some
t4mt to wipe out—the pressure that work3 put on companies through their unions.
»
‘dey want to cut down
Fortune
And
ii
stand
alone
Magazine,
$2 bil-
at about
the businessmen’s
“<_.25-a-copy journal, has reported that more
“man 200 individual companies are putting
jat “educational” material for the boss to
ass along to you.
Moreover, long before the spotlight was
mjurned on these highly-developed managerent activities, the New York Times — back
‘n Feb. 10, 1952 — reported that “Public reiitions activities of companies now center
n one goal—economic education.”
That’s you they’re aiming it at.
Take a look at the reading rack technique.
a lot of interesting
contains
rack
ach
and
seseful “how to do it’ material. But there
‘re other pamphlets there, too, and managejjaent is itching for you to read them.
The Wall Street Journal, for example,
©)
‘ui
cil
vd
Motors
a General
ujuoted
“Any overdoing
terial would be a
interest. We try to
haye no relation to
but are personally
to employees and
The
you
stuff
to
idea
take
when
These,
of
you
those
“business
the
pick
however,
as saying:
official
of the economics maquick way to kill off
mix in pamphlets that
business or economics,
interesting and useful
their families.”
“mixing”
up
the
or
in
is
to
get
economics”
others,
are the old tried-and-true
sdmethods. What is more recent and lately exi(panding is management’s open concentration
jon
“educating”
its boys
on
you,
your
neighbors,
eg
your
BALLOT
Political “education” is nothing new to
management. Companies were in politics up to
their necks long before there were unions.
That’s a big reason labor always has had
such a rough time. Unions usually have to
operate under laws pushed through by Big
Business.
Company political “education,” therefore,
is as old — and stems from the same roots
— as Big Business lobbying.
“Sure, we haye boys who hobnob in politics,” the Wall Street Journal quoted one
auto company official as admitting. “We
call them the anonymous department.”
The behind-the-scenes activity which has
however, is the
into the open,
popped
stepped-up, widespread intensity with which
company after company now is carrying on
management’s political “education.”
The National Association of Manufacturers has a full-course kit of political medicine
to spoon-feed the boss’ boys in “education
classes” — and it sells it for $300 a kit.
The Chamber of Commerce says it is shipping out manuals for its own courses at the
Iron Age, the steel
rate of 1,000 a week.
industry magazine, reported last June that
“top management is sincerely throwing its
weight behind it, authorizing the tools and
necessary programs.”
The magazine quoted J. J. Wuerthner Jr.
of General Electric as saying that business
has “tens of thousands” of management peo-
X<| ME
THE PEOPLE
Management
January,
politically
to turn
1959.
Association
single person
in
employed
effective
efficient
and
nowned
Harvard
by it in a far more
way
than
we
could
reach those same people by going to them
through their communities, the neighborhoods where they live, the organizations to
they belong, or any other medium.”
Reid and job-holders in other corporations
usually
assigned to political “education”
make a point in their addresses of the educational and political action programs of
COPE and of unions generally.
But Michael D. Reagan, a political science
lecturer at Williams College, commented on
this in the March-April issue of the reBusiness
Review.
Reagan pointed out that unions are associations of people while corporations are
associations of capital, as illustrated by the
fact that in elections of corporate boards
of directors, voting is on the basis of one
share of stock, one vote, and not one man,
one vote.
“Tf the resources of a billion-dollar corporation can be thrown into the political balance by officers who are in effect accountable
only to themselves, what happens to the
principle of political equality ?’” Reagan asks,
ple going “through company or area programs of political indocrination.”
Companies such as American Can, Gulf
Oil, Sears, Roebuck, Aerojet, Republic Steel,
Standard Oil, F. W. Woolworth all are blossoming out in the political “education” field.
Ford, moreover, has laid out a month
by month program of political education
and action over two years. The Ford setup
was discussed by its director of civic affairs, Thomas R. Reid, at an American
This is what UAW’s education program is
concerned with, too.
(~
=F
conference
The Ford program is planned step-by-step
clear up to the 1960 election.
The corporation, Reid said, “has within
itself the mechanism needed to encourage
the interest and voluntary action of every
your demands and
ue, make you and your co-workers less crii4al of reactionary, selfish company policies.
“education” pr 0uw! These management
oodrams, therefore, serve to emphasize why
mgs sband union education activities such
\1s UAW’s are needed, urgent and mean-slagful.
ealMMany of the management programs were
effect to some extent long before factory
oultiorkers organized their unions. Since that
sme, they’ve been considerably stepped up.
‘Today, estimates of the reading rack in-
ralvistry’s take
pn a year.
loose
0961 “AWW ‘ALINWAIIOS—E
The Boss Wants to
Educate’ Your Vote
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;
Waar
is a UAW Summer School?
Depends.
Actually, the question ought to be:
“Who is a UAW
Summer
School?”
Because the school’s success rises or
falls on the individual UAW member
who comes to it. It is the member
and
the
himself
citizen
petus.
depth
a
that
Make
no
of
his
better
UAW
gives
desire
member
the
mistake.
to
school
If any
its
one
make
and
im-
word
describes a UAW Summer School it is
“desire.”
Each of the 3,500 to 4,000
who flock to these classes each summer
is
a
Where
person
do
with
they
a
come
mission.
from?
All
over
the
UAW.
Sometimes
ger
locals
bers.
locals
From
they
all the
come
with
from
thousands
What
mittee
ards.
of
do they
do in the local
But
or
their
community
groping to find a
offer
School
One
their
helps
may
them
come
find
to
union?
it.
find
out
handle
that
his
may
més
re
he
c
local’s
niques
comii
of
awareness}
com-
just
They are
which they
The
other
its
file who
local and
they're
better.
way in
talents.
and
keep
stew-
members,
sometimes
from
mili-
edit a nevis.
he can mij
mittee in}
they’re leaders—officers,
chairmen
big-
mem-
state
members of the rank and
want to learn to serve their
can
the
Sometimes they
come
with a smaller, but still
tant membership.
Every
Canada
sends delegates.
Usually,
regions.
Summer
how
to
other ma)
grievance
a
burning
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fo
t
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Su
e
g
led
v
boa
more than 16 million older
citizens, Williams told the
contenders
major
Three
Presifor the Democratic
pledged
dential nomination
for
support
know how to be elected President of the United States,
he had better listen to you
people or he won’t get any-
Bill
Forand
the
at a mammoth rally attended by more than 10,000 in
it clear
was
aged
making
27,
March
Detroit,
aid
medical
in the
issue
a key
where.”
the
for
health insurance
Federal
for senior citizens will be
breakgreat
mext
“the
legislasocial
in
through
1960 election campaigns.
Support
Bill, which
social
the
for the
seeks
Forand
to amend
to
act
security
ior citizens, was promised
by Senators Stuart Symington (Mo.), John Kenand
(Mass.)
man
of the
aged
and
mittee
Se
(co
and heard
Humphrey
iir Grounds, Detroit,
.).,Mo.); Sen. Hubert
‘mabi-¢esident
Walter
members
UAW
10,000
THAN
(ORE
P.
Reuther.
and
retirees
jammed
the
huge
addresses made by (left to right)
John
Kennedy
(D., Minn.); Sen.
auditorium
on
the
State
Sen. Stuart Symington
UAW
and
(D.,Mass.)
sisiant UAW Rally Adds Strength
Vo Demand for Health Insurance
ure, announced a campaign
would be launched to get the
bill to the floor of the House
petia discharge
through
tion. A total of 219 votes are
necessary to accomplish this.
Following are some key
quotes from the Senators’
speeches to the rally:
Symington:
“The number one concern
of our senior citizens is the
for
of caring
cost
heavy
their health.
“Three-fifths of all persons over 65 have incomes
of less than $1,000 a year.
They are caught in an
economic squeeze; a sudden illness, a stay in the
hospital can wipe out all
of their long accumulated
savings.
“There is nothing in the
Forand Bill that would affect the American system of
free medicine.
“This plan deals only with
fi adAn intensive drive to enst} it the Forand Bill gained
g9nifnificant national momena_ gigantic
following
ot
at
rally in Detroit
tT WAW
ff d5ixich three major aspirants
sit
Presi-
Democratic
the
ic
Isifential nomination pledged
t1eqqpport for the measure.
UAW
10,000
than
s10MMore
1sdmmembers and retirees heard
“oisinators Stuart Symington
Kennedy
Jack
(0Mo.),
(eg2slass,) and Hubert Hum-
endorse such
) veiirey (Minn.)
Usiehzislation.
af® The rally and the strong
from _ the
e10bandorsements
such
gave
senators
seilhree
ssadorce to the Forand Bill
| ovitirive that opposition from
bizet? resident Eisenhower and
Hegsiegative
sanoliouse
votes
House
the
by
and
Ways
sinsiMeans Committee failed to
i Sigialt
it.
Aime
9% Rep.
2 .(11.), sponsor
He
Just
(D.,
Forand
of the meas-
Hubert
of
Never Paid
Cannot Understand
Who's
medical
citizens.
f
insurance
provided
be
should
for
senior
Kisenhower’s
sory insurance
answer: “I have been against compulas a very definite step in socialized
myself,
want
medicine.
In
I don’t
I don’t
his question,
believe
the
any
in
it and
of it.”
newsman
also
I want
noted
of
none
that
it
“some
of the Administration’s critics have even gone so far
as to say the President does not understand this problem because he has never had to defray his own mediUf
cal bills.”
The President
question.
did
not
answer
that
part
of
“For
the
last
eight
Eisenhower
had
out
always
Vice
UAW
Mazey,
Emil
MatPresidents Norman
thews and Leonard Woodcock,
ious
cals.
and
that
had
of var-
presidents
UAW
Detroit-area
The
siastic
opened
dances
singing
World
lo-
rally — an enthuone throughout —
gaily with square
by the retirees and
by the UAW New
Chorus,
Guests of honor
event, who watched
from
proceedings
the
at the
all the
gover-
nor’s box, were the members
of the Detroit area UAW
Senior
Citizens
Steering
who sponsored
Committee,
the rally and worked on the
arrangements.
petition
A
for
the Forand
Bill circulated at the -rally
than 6,000
more
gathered
signatures.
political
nation’s
the
the
he said, “arm-
McNamara was interrupted during his talk by a trethe
from
roar
mendous
crowd which greeted the arrival of Kennedy, Humphrey
and Symington, who were
escorted to the platform by
urer
ary
- Treas
Secret
UAW
all his
lived
scholarship,
life in a government-owned
house, and had never paid a
doctor bill because his medical care was always furnished by the government.
“And yet he says to the
old people of America, get
lost — but don’t get sick,
because I’m not going to
help you get the Forand
Bill,” Reuther said.
up
of
he
ed with money and Madison
Avenue — but with no logic
and no heart.”
a government job, went to
a _ government
on
school
Pointing
importance
But
cial progress,”
The issue was dramatically sharpened by the rally and the pledges made
by the Democratic Senators which came only a
few days after President
Eisenhower openly attacked the health imsurance
spelling out a
measure,
GOP policy of rigid opposition.
pointed
aging.
the
of
problems
“Aligned against us are all
the usual opponents of so-
Thunderous ovations given
by the huge audience to the
MichiReuther,
Senators,
gan’s Gov. G. Mennen Williams, Sen. Pat McNamara
(D., Mich.), and other speakers attested to the intense
interest aroused by the medical-eare-for-the-aged issue.
Reuther
subcom-
years,
we have had an administration frozen in the ice of its
own indifference.
At a news conference on March 30, President Eisenhower was asked his philosophy concerning what kind
“
how medical bills are paid.
The doctors, the hospitals,
the nursing homes, the way
medical care is provided —
they are all left alone.”
Humphrey:
“The latest word is that
the Eisenhower Administration is ‘exploring the probthat they
lem.’ If seems
only just discovered
have
that there are nearly 16
million Americans over the
age of 65, and they need
time to recover from the
shock,
“This administration often reminds me of ChrisWhen
Columbus.
topher
he set out, he didn’t know
going.
was
he
where
When he got there, he did
not know where he was.
“And when he returned,
he didn’t know where he had
been.”
Kennedy:
on
Senate
warned it will not be easy to
achieve the goal.
in
(Minn.),
Humphrey
talks which followed an
Presiaddress by UAW
dent Walter P. Reuther.
‘
chair-
tion,”’ said McNamara,
cover medical care for sen-
nedy
to
wants
anyone
“If
crowd,
the
“If the need to protect
the welfare of our older
citizens is one of the great
challenges of the 1960’s—
then protecting them
against the economic ravchronic
of disease,
ages
illness and disability is at
the very forefront of that
challenge.
hardship
and_
“Poverty
and
heartbreak
into
turn
despair when illness threatens.
“This Administration does
not have an answer.
“But we do. And we intend to do something about
it.’
ay)
UAW
listens
crowd
right
PRESIDENT
VICE
intently
at
the
of the
McCusker
Matthews
as Gov.
UAW
UAW
G. Mennen
Forand
governor
and
NORMAN
are
Bill
UAW
Region
1
(seated,
MATTHEWS
Williams
rally.
Region
addresses
Seated
1A
Co-Director
introduced Sen, Stuart Symington
to
the
left)
the huge
Co-Director
left
and
Joseph
George Merrelli,
(D., Mo.)
CAR
t
“We
have
celebrate
SS
come
together
tenth
anniversary
the
“... We said... that we were
to
gether
not
only
achievements,
to celebrate
but
to
ourselves
cate
come
have
we
And
to
no
past
and
RETIREES
their
through
dignity
gram—and
made
have
etruggie to broaden the frontiers
progress and fulfillof human
ment.”
10,000
and
said,
Ford
that
were
we
we
pro-
great
We
that.
did just
the
to
to
social
security
has
G.
...
going
today
and
we
people
The
the
of insecurity,
be-
dared
out
to
Williams
Mennen
human
of
marched
wilderness
cause
struggle.”
Corporation
“The Chrysler
made us fight a 108-day strike
retire
have
sion
lion
have been able to
members
UAW
in
the
collected,
plans,
in
those
last
ten
years.
than
$250
through
more
ten
years
our
..,
nomic
countries
throughout
world...”
position
is
less
fat)
and they find they can’t \)
it. That’s why we are gay)
do everything humanly pt
We
pen-
mil-
...
(and)
to mobilize
the Congress
the
vide
medical
they
when
;
the politiceyy
science of America
our pension checks are going to
retired workers in 44 states and
27
for medical c}
is urgent. . .}
when people need the most}).0«
cal care, that’s when thei
125,000
did,
we
because
and
...
“The need
older people
adopts
... un}
care
retire.”
a bill jj
for
our
©
‘
‘
during
Treasurer
Emil
(1. to r.) UAWSecretary
(D.,Minn.) and John Kennedy
Humphrey
three Senators,
spoke at the rally.
also
nomination,
you're
only
not
say—you're
get a pension, you're
ought
going
Gov.
Michigan’s
by
address
out
work
old.to
die,
to
that
said)
(we
a pension,
get
dark
surface...”
hear
too
you're
young
family
(since
progress
ago
years
going to get medical care through
then), but we have only scratched
friends
presidential
Democratic
to
the
(and
a pension
Platform listeners include
Forand Bill rally in Detroit.
Mazey, Senators Stuart Symington (D.,Mo.), Hubert H.
The
(D., Mass.), and UAW President Walter P. Reuther.
the
too
determined to win for our members a measure of security and
to-
eternal
the
what
matter
others)
. rededi-
..
when
going—in those negotiations (in
1949 and 1950)—to break through,
of the first UAW pensioner who
vetired and received a check from
;the Ford Motor Co. on April 1,
14950.
“Ten
all
avowed
candidates
for
THIS
IS JUST PART
OF THE
HUGE
CROWD
which jammed
thep
express support for the Forand Bill and to celebrate the tenth fiir
The © vik
25th anniversary of the federal social security program.
heard speeches by UAW President Walter P. Reuther and otheir
and
over
political
other
65
under
the
leaders.
social
They
security
all
expressed
system.
their
support
TYPICAL
of
t)
of the
of Ford Local 600)
pioneering
tens,
with
rally.
VERY
THE
AMONG
age
Ford
81,
National
Both
and
pension
Ford
Rudolph
Ford
plan
Penner
Department
AND
for 28 years.
SON
team
were
workers
negotiated
retirees are members
35 years, Rudolph
FATHER
FIRST
(right),
Director
of Local
among
by
Ken
the
age
76,
UAW
seen
Bannon
were
who
here
(left)
600. Bill worked
those
Bill
the
Bet-
chatting
during
the
at Ford’s for
attended
the UAW-sponsored rally.
Howard Didsbury of Detroit Local 412 is at left. His dad, Alfred (right), was visiting in the
Motor City. The elder Didsbury, an 89-year-old UAW retiree,
lives in Connecticut,
under
in 1950
to retire
WAITING
sat
on
the
HIS TURN
speakers’
at the mike
platform
is Sen,
flanked
by
Pat McNamara
UAW
Regional
Co-Directors
who
Joe
McCusker (left) and Douglas Fraser (right) of Michigan Region 1A. Sen.
McNamara and his subcommittee on the aged and aging have been in the
forefront of the battle to solve problems
of our senior citizens,
SERIOUSNESS of the problems facing older people is reflected in
the expressions of these two pensioners at the rally as they listen
to UAW President Walter P. Reuther call for adoption of the
Forand
(D., Mich.)
Bill,
UAW
Leonard
»—__—>
PRESIDENT
VICE
escorts
Sen.
speakers,
Woodcock
the
of
one
(D., Mass.),
Kennedy
John
Man , in
into the huge hall,
center rear is not
identified,
si
*
|*
iu would
|.
din
think
ounce
an
them
j. is
Bill), But
The Presi-~
volllical
to
opposed
~oudpposed
human
would javor the
\Withe Forand
stot the case.
i)
of
any-
that
The
to it.
Association
it,
of
ito it.
(ways
Undertakers
These
been
opposed
has
never
been
who
went
dent
who
who
Eisenhower.
has
job,
ment
had
always
government
a@
Here's
Prestman
unemployed,
a
govern-
to school
scholarship,
on
who
op~
owned house and who has never
paid a doctor bill because he’s
is also
people
understand
a
Sit and ... the American
“ton
can’t
The
Amer-
is
“_..1
.
lo
all his
always
in a government-
life lived
had
medical
his
care
fur-
yet
And
nished by Uncle Sam,
he says to otr old people...
I’m
going
not
to
help
you...”
",,, The
ness of a
wealth,
but
moral
what
its sense
its
do
jailing
people
by
material
values...
we
do
. and what
older citizens?
tests,
of social
responsibility
equates
human
real measure of greatcivilization is not
tts
America
(For
for
our
tt
vote,
(so)
with
children
do we do for our
On both of these
our children,
our
and ourselves . , .”
We
What
the
I
is
same
urge
letters, to
get
your
friends to
example),
is failing,
.
so
about
democracy
lowest-paid worker
and
which
wealth
“,°.
mobdtlize
as
each
wonderful
(is that)
... has
a
of
the
one
DuPont...
you
to
write
older
sevelt
America,
and
if
we
Congress.”
Wall
know
we
do
get
can
the
ruts
dential
(right)
to light
. Fair
Coliseum
in
Detroit
late
in
March
candidate,
of Cadillac
his
Hubert H.
six years.
to
DAY
cigar.
which
Local
The
Humphrey
that
is
you
what
can
(D.,Minn.),
a light
happened
22, Detroit,
thoughtful
get
as he
candidate
Fust,
Fust
is, of course,
Sen.
Frank
has
if
elected,
the
Street
back
to
Wash-
of
way.”
can,
of
the
to
then
the
America
detours
sideroads,
get
back
SYMINGTON
Treasurer
speakers’
on
ond
and
the
(right)
remarks
the
we
can
high-
and
find
Mazey
can
See-
one
amusing.
of
a PresiH.
to
looked
71,
from
out
begin
the
EVERY
that,
ington.
We have to do that job
again in 1960.
And if w2 do, as 1
retary
NOT
said
Jrom
SEN.
IT’S
a big job to do in
1932, Franklin Roo-
jirst thing he would do would be
to move
the seat of youernment
sign petitions, and to
neighbors
and
your
do the same .. , Let’s
that, I am confident that we
get this legislation through
are
“We
have
America,
In
for a match
been
retired
st) the UAW pension program as well as the
of about 10,000 retirees anf their friends,
%))
“tamicers and by several Senators, Congressmen
‘ive
which
would
furnish
health
care
to
people
IN THE
FACES
the
faces
Above, John
Mich.,
Park,
photo
SEN.
(left)
KENNEDY
and
George
stops
to
Merrelli
chat
with
(right).
UAW
Region
1 Co-Directors
Ken
Morris
Local
below
of
senior
our
are
citizens.
M. Currell, a Highland
in
Pensioner
retiree.
is Andy
who
600,
CROWD—These
Fagin,
86,
April,
retired
Ford
1950.
‘igvetirees at the rally are Fred Wendland (left)
dech., and Earl C. Paul of Highland Park, Mich.
LIKE
tended
zen
of
MOST
the
signs
Congress
a
rally,
those
this
petition
to pass
the
who.
senior
urging
at-
citi-
the
Forand Bill,
Why You Need Forand Bill
Here’
you're
Whether
Bill
Forand
you.
young,
the
or older,
would
benefit
middle-aged
It would provide hospital,
medical, surgical and skilled
nursing help when it’s needed most — when you're up
social secu-
in years drawing
rity benefits, and can afford
leaving
earner dies
children.
wage-
a
when
or
least,
it
young
It’s real insurance protecHere
sons the
“must”:
nine
are
a
is
Bill
persons
older
Forand bill, which would pay
the costs of 60 days of hosadditional
care,
pital
and
care,
nursing
skilled
surgical
benefits.
A. Thirteen million
and women would get
men
life-
time protection — all those
eligible for old-age benefits
under social security.
B. Old people not entitled
to old-age benefits, if they
have to turn to public assistance, would be helped ina_ smaller
Since
directly.
number would be forced to
aid, each one
seek such
adecould be given more
the
from
assistance
quate
limited funds available to
welfare agencies.
Young workers would
* also gain.
Their aged parents
A.
would be protected at once
— they and their families
would have similar protection on retirement or if the
wage-earner dies leaving
young children.
any emB. The most
ployed person would have to
contribute in the early years
would be $1 a month or 23c
a week (14% of earnings up
to $4,800). For farmers and
other self-employed people,
contribution
maximum
the
the
from
benefit
2 would
rea-
good
Forand
Most
l
sense.
in the best
tion
would be 35c a week.
3 Few persons over age 65
+ have or can afford good
health insurance protection
through any other means.
A. Only 2 out of 5 have
any such protection according to the latest government
figures.
B. Much of that is inadequate. It can be cancelled;
it has lifetime ceilings; it is
very costly.
C. The best-known polilices cost $6.50 or $8.50 a
month per person and pay
only part, perhaps not even
half, of hospital costs for up
to only 31 days.
Claims that
Claims that a much higher proportion of older people
will
Bill
Forand
the
now,
in five years
covered
be
(1)
have no substance. They
include
plans;
since
almost
worthless
still
unproved;
(2)
1957,
add alleged gains
serious obdisregard
(3)
stacles to continued purchase and growth.
The Forand bill would
e strengthen welfare agencies, hospitals and Blue
Cross.
services.
The
> erate.
A.
about
cost would
be mod-
The cost would be only
first
the
billion
$1
year, according to the Secre-
tary of Health, Education,
and Welfare. The higher estimate used by the insurance
industry and its doctor allies
reflects the expensive pracinsurtices of commercial
ance and is highly exaggerated, as a government report shows (Hospitalization
Insurance for OASDI Beneficiaries, page 85).
The
new
benefits
can
be
> financed on a sound basis,
A. It would relieve them
through the social security
of the high-cost load of the
payroll tax, but without enaged. Many hospitals have
dangering present cash
large and growing deficits.
the long
Even
benefits.
raising
keeps
Cross
Blue
range cost estimate of the
rates, partly because it inSecretary of Health, Educacludes retired people withtion, and Welfare is only 4/5
out charging them more
of taxable payrolls.
of 1%
than the community rate.
Public welfare agen- - Insurance through the social
B.
security system is the best
cies now spend $300 million
insurance buy available, aud
a year for health care for
retired
people who have
the aged.
would not have to pay anyC. A dependable system
thing.
of financing health costs of
The Forand bill follows
the aged, such as would be
* our established patterns
provided through the social
of
for paying the costs
security system, would help
agencies to
these community
improve
and
extend
their
health care.
involve
not
does
It
A.
{
own personal
your
with
been
have
experiences
medical costs and how this affects the rest of your budget.
If
the
congressmen
enough
the
petition,
discharge
sign
en-
tire House can then yote on the
Write your own
Forand Bill.
House
the
Washington,
at
congressman
Building,
Office
your
your
to
them
urge
Give them
too.
local union.
with your
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@
name,
congressman’s
check
vote
senators
the
for
your
yoters
bill,
congress-
because
er - Republican
was
Ways
followed
and
Means
Ike
their
Eisenhow-
was
by
summed
Senate
in
to
security
bill
up in one word
Republican
leader
blurted
this
out
way:
in
his
the
Senate
reaction
“Stinking.”
in
citizens
and
church
Forand
should support
Ask them
to write
congressmen
urging
passage
of
and
contact
your
Jefferson,
Detroit
14, Mich.
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“And
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the Report of Your Latest
Walter Reed Hospital.”
Checkup
at
What the Forand Bill Provides
are the answers
questions
on
provisions
Q. What
propose
A. To
curity
of
the
the
important
Forand
Bill:
does the Forand
to do?
amend
Act
to your
so
as
the
to
Social
provide
Bill
Se-
in-
surance against the
cost
of
hospital,
nursing
home
and
surgical services to all those
eligible
for
old
ors insurance
Q.
What
provided?
A. Each
be
insured
age
and
benefits.
hospital
surviv-
benefits are
eligible person would
against
the
cost
of
the first 60 days of hospital
care in any calendar year including
a semi-private room
and all the hospital
services,
medical care, drugs and appliances which the hospital customarily furnishes its bed patients.
It would mot pay attending doctor’s bills except for
let busi-
dominate
most
their
familiar 4;
> with social security operations and the health
needs of the’ aged support
oa
approach
ill.
A.
of the
Among
American
Forand
them
are
Public
the
Welfare
Association, American Nurses’ Association,
tional
and
Association
Workers;
of
also two
the
men
Na-
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Social
who
have headed the Social Security Administration:
Arthur
Altmeyer
and
Charles
on
I. Schottland.
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is what the Washingand Times Herald, one
nation’s leading indenewspapers, said edithis month about the
the
for the
wrong
aged
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it.
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of the
members
10,000
bill...
surgical services.
Q. What nursing home
fits are provided?
A. Skilled nursing
ices
would
patient
nursing
be
is
home serv-
covered
transferred
home
from
bene-
the
if
to
the
the
hospi-
tal and if the services are for
the same condition or one arising from that for which he received hospital care. The care
in the nursing home could be
extended so that up to 120 days
of combined
care would
be pro-
vided in a 12-month period but
only 60 days of this could be
hospital care.
Q. What surgical benefits are
provided?
A. The
the cost
program would pay
of surgical
services
provided in a hospital. It would
also pay such costs in case of
emergency or for minor surgery
performed in the out-patient
department of a hospital or in
a doctor’s office. The cost of
oral surgery by a dentist in a
hospital would be covered.
Q. Can
own
the patient choose his
doctor
or
surgeon?
A. Yes.
would
Q. What
person have to do
benefits?
eligible
an
to get these
A. The procedure
like those already
for
patients
covered
would be
developed
by
private
insurance plans like Blue Cross
eligible
The
or Blue Shield.
person would be admitted to a
hospital or nursing home on
The
his physician’s referral.
insured
patient could receive
services
from
any
qualified
doctor or institution which has
agreed to participate, and to be
paid for services insured under
the
plan.
the
American
like
Association,
of
Association
{nol
Medical
National
the
Manufacturers,
alti
sensible
this
oppose
should
form of prepayment for the inevitable costs of illness in later
hard
understand—
to
life
is
kind
of occupational
save
Hospital, Nursing, Surgical Benefits:
Here
Persons
Why
local
union or the Older and Retired
Workers Department, 8000 East
activities.
motives
and
the
If you want to furnish
with material about the
Bill,
medical
ness
who
ed Auto Workers Union. No one
should have been surprised for
they were roundly cheered and
applauded for their stand.
No
one should have been surprised
booed
that the President was
for his opposition to the For-
why.
to tell them
homes
of
and
groups,
civic
to
once
be
senior
believe they
the
Everett M. Dirksen.
The
Eisenhower-Nixon
spokesman
organizations
Committee
giving
health
community,
you
bill should
other
and
by a House
Medical Association, National Association of Manufacturers and
other
business
groups, the Eisenhower-Nixon administration
attitude
the
clubs
opposition
propaganda pressure against
the bill
by
the
American
on
Contact
bill.
them
vote to not recommend
Forand Bill.
With
e
passed.
senators
congressmen immediately to
urge them to sign the Forand Bill discharge petition,
the House of Representatives
won’t get the chance to vote
on the measure.
That's
writing congressmen and senawhy
reasons
tors, giving the
the
nursing
No one should have been surprised that the three avowed
candidates for the Democratic
presidential
nomination
were
unanimous
in endorsing
the
Forand bill when they spoke
together on Sunday at a rally
friends and relatives about the
bill; ask them to support it by
believe
excessive
charges by the small minority of doctors, hospitals and
also
ing, Washington, D.C.
@ Talk to your
neighbors,
at
write
pension
tors at the Senate Office Build-
they
from
evidently going to become an.
issue in the presidential election campaign.
We think that
President Eisenhower has put
his party not only on the unpopular side of this issue but
checks or those of your parents
or relatives. Write your sena-
the bill, too.
Write to Get
Vote on Bill
Unless
and
infor-
the same
give
you
mation
of
to be sure
want
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D.C.
or
security
social
your
public
Forand Bill.)
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into
eaten
have
costs
medical
the
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ton Post
of the
pendent
torially
sentatives. Getting action on it depends on you, your family, your
friends, your neighbors.
Here’s what you—and they—can do:
Urge him to sign the
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of RepresentaHouse
in the
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man.
own
tives. Tell him in your
bill and tell your own personal
bill
words why you want the
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experiences.
passed, what
“political medicine” or “so:
cialized medicine” as somi
officials of medical societi
claim. They used similar un
founded slogans agains
medical care’ for dependentsip
workmen's
of
servicemen,
compensation, Blue Cross
and Blue Shield plans, disfederal}
ability benefits,
grants to local health agen- +;
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how medical bills are paid. The
doctors, the hospitals, the nursmedical
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care is provided—they are all
left alone.”
Why
and
other
workers—
automobile
wage
trade
in
earners
every
industry—
and
should be enthusiastically eager
to pay during their productive
years
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his
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one has
eing there.
not
enough.
we
task
only
fummer
in
union
reason
School.
too.
buzz
Core
UAW’s
the
There’s
He
Program,
in
classes,
various
in
Here
groups, in workshops, or just
around
broadens
member
the
in
chow
his
an
table,
horizon
the
as
important
an
corporation
member
He
active
fluences
some of
clear
to
the public.
the opinion
maintain
that
in-
Here he learns
hurdles he must
his
union’s
influ-
ence in the community,
He will-study the tides of collective
He will toughen himself
bargaining.
to face the
management.
hardening
attitudes
political
corporations’
big
that
re-
economic
re-
activities
restrictive
sulted in the new, more
relations law.
labor-management
organiza-
propaganda
the
grasp
will
widening
in
tion serving a dynami¢ society
an ever-changing world.
He will analyze the newest switch
in
VENCATED
TOE
ASTAHLE
wD AIONISM & CITIZENSHIP
; GO
of
find
will
lationship
Finally,
he and
of
he
out
jobs
will
his fellow
issues
that
Summer
some
take
School
Is it clear?
one sure way
prosperity.
decide
what
members
up
of the
the
tasks
must
set
is to be peace
if his world
in his world—or
to survive.
are
to
to if there
themselves
These
the
is even
subjects
time
student,
and
of a UAW
Perhaps not. But there’s
to find out what a UAW
Summer School
Go to one.
is all about.
Su
at ira
oy
UAW
A
teletype communication recently received
Education Department read in part:
by
the
“Ship immediately 80 sets UAW Labor Book Shelf
Utah State AFL-CIO ... This is a right-to-work
to
,
SOLIDARITY,
May, 1960—Page
10
Drug Probe
state.”
Gratifying as the order was, considering the need for it in
such a state, it is not unusual to receive such response.
For example, since the last edition of SOLIDARITY, Region
6 Director Charles Bioletti reported that every public, private
and parochial junior and senior high school in San Diego County, Calif. has a set of the books.
said 60 sets were
Johnston
Bob
4 Director
Similarly, Region
placed in Chicago’s school system libraries. Region 9A Director
Charles Kerrigan reported, also, that 37 sets had been distributed
by the Greater Hartford (Conn.) Labor Council.
Region
2 Director
Pat
O'Malley
presented
32
sets
to
the
Cleveland, O. Board of Education, and Region 9 Director Martin
are
Gerber reported that the locals in the Philadelphia area
presenting the school libraries there with sets of the books.
All in all, more than 2,000 sets of the five-volume book
shelf haye been placed. The price for each set is $11.75. It can
Education
UAW
the
by
issued
publication
new
A
Department is a useful, folded pamphlet, “Your
Dues—What They Are, Where They Are, Where
Go, What They Do, How They’re Set.”
UAW
They
pamphlet
The
tion
Department
saw
can
at $1.00
be
through
ordered
per
achievements.
bargaining
collective
union’s
the
through
100, or $5.00
per
Educa-
UAW
the
1,000.
A UAW education film, “Push Buttons and People,”
was among a cluster of five labor films viewed and
evaluated by college economics classes.
and
Views
reported,
AFL-CIO Education
News
among other things, that 81.2% of the students who
the
UAW
film
which
deals
with
the
problems
of
auto-
mation, considered it a fair, objective presentation of the subject.
This was by far the highest rating on impartiality given to
The ratings were established by questionany of the films.
naires filled out by the students after watching the film and
through a series of interviews among them.
The film shows UAW President Walter P. Reuther testifying before a Senate subcommittee on the problems of automation.
It also contains factory scenes documenting this.
The film can be obtained from the Education Dept.
Digest
A
vicious
tem
Chokes
attack
on
of unemployment
sation,
issue
of
published
in
Reader’s
brought
an
April
3.
our
the
UC
Tom
Doherty,
chairman
ofthe
Michigan Employment Security
Adyisory Council.
In a letter to the editor of
the
Digest,
Doherty
takes
lous
entitled,
ed
strong
exception
“The
employment
written
by
Gilmore.
to
Com
is
article
led
O.
fhat
only
is
legisla-
the laws for their
states.” In none of
“examples”
were
because
of standards
by
ridicu-
state
paid
payments”
law
said the tone of the
to believe
to
of
a
request-
federal authorities,
4) State and federal authorities “take extraordinary
measures” to prevent fraudulent
claims.
Gilmore's
“broad
claims
of improper
of loafers, quitters,
him
since
change
sSchemers
and
cheaters”
are
being paid unemploymentcomp.
Doherty
“attempt
are
based
but on his own
not
mistaken
conception
of the UC
gram.
“Simply because
that
on
proGil-
it is “part and parcel of a de-
more
UC
does not make a cheat and
Joafer out of a worker.”
5) The real seandal in this
liberate scheme
program,
to destroy” the
and
that
the
it was
promoted
by an organization
called
Unemployment
Compensation Advisors, which rep-
resents
Targest
some
this
also
in his letter:
schemers
because
collect UC benefits.
2) In every case of “cheat-
writer, the
agency or
court ruled that the
ual was entitled to
under
the
laws
ticular state.
of
These
ple,
the
in
1937,
law
inadequacy
and
now
they
in
the
of
disqualifications
and
because
it
almost
never prints “the other side of
the question,” Doherty said he
individbenefits
that
in
of a state
of
workers “because of the evil
influence
of
Big
Business
lobbyists.”
Because
the
Digest
has
a
long record of printing slanted
articles favoring big employers
and disparaging working peo-
and cheaters”
they
try
to
ing” cited by the
appropriate state
were
many
1) Workers who lose their
jobs through no fault of their
own are not “loafers, quit-
ters,
just
lies
some
of benefits which are
much
Iess than what
these
made
with
provisions
field
country’s
corporations.
Doherty
points
of
disagrees
did
not
expect
to see
7 leter published
par-
agencies
zine.
his
April
in the maga-
Monthly Strike Fund Report
INTERNATIONAL STRIKE FUND FOR MARCH, 1960
BALANCE IN FUND, FEB. 29, 1960
$23,7A3,296.55
INCOME IN MARCH, 1960:
Strike Fund Dues.
.$1,593,951.51
Interest on Investments......
104,283.33
$ 1,698,234.84
TOTAL
TO
ACC ‘OUNT
DISBURSEMENTS
BALANCE
There
ing
14,500
POGPEU C0 100
are
IN
FOR.....,.....
MARCH, 1960...
$24,941,531.39
$341,109.39
..$24,600,422.00
17 strikes in effect at the present time, inyolvIN
FUND,
members
MARCH
of the
31,
1960
UAW.
EUEAE ESATA ee
drug
ply
research
because
it”
otage
purpose,”
Once
before
the
he
tried to sab-
efforts
of
the
sub-
committee which is inyestigating the drug industry
(Solidarity, March 1960). He didn’t
succeed
effort
ly.
has
then,
and
his
backfired
Dirksen,
Wizard
latest
complete-
also known
of
Ooze
as the
because
of
his oily tone of voice and
the pureness of his corn, had
taken
up
last month
in
pain
the
ball
once
again
for the profiteers
by
mittee
objecting
hearings
to
com-
while
the
Senate was in session. This
forced Sen. Estes Kefauver
(D., Tenn.), committee chairman,
to
during
schedule
the
cused
Kefauver
investigation
and
shady
sessions
Easter
sional recess.
The Illinois
Congres-
Republican
of
of pursuing
high
practices
ac-
his
prices
in
the
drug industry solely “to make
headlines.”
If it was Dirksen’s intention
to smother the probe, his attack had just the opposite effect.
His
tactics
made
big
head-
lines in many
papers, headlines
which
he
could
not
ascribe to the Tennessee Democrat.
to
The
testimony
suppress
Dirksen
tried
included
gems:
these
e@ We can buy governmentinspected pet food but not goyernment-inspected
medicines,
according to Dr, Solomon Garb
of the
Albany
(N. Y.)
“It+ seems
that
tion
is furnishing
able
for
cat food
ple,”
@
drugs
completely
to
safeguards
more
for
than
advertising,
on
our
Medical
great
dog
million
on
sick
$210
physician
and
and
peo-
has
million
$194
only
and
research,
to Dr. James
na-
not avail-
Dr. Garb testified.
The drug
industry
spent
according
E. Bowes,
a Utah
college
teacher.
Elimination of excessive promotional
practices
could
cut
the
cost
of
drugs
by
at
least
10%, he said.
@ Physicians were cautioned to be “skeptical”
of the
claims made for new drugs by
their
manufacturers
through
flamboyant brochures.
Dr.
Chauncey
D. Leake, Ohio State
University medical expert, advised his fellow doctors to wait
for “impartial evaluations”
fore using new medicines.
@
Dr.
University
Frederic
of
H.
be-
Meyers,
California
drug
expert, challenged an industry
claim that it leads the world
in discovering new drugs. Actually, the U. S. drug industry
“has
usually
followed
and
oft-
en after a clear lag,” he testified. Much of U. S. lab work
by drug firms is centered on
“exploiting
and
marketing”
foreign discoveries, he said. He
also belittled industry
asser-
tions
that
the
cost
of
its
re-
search
justifies
high
drug
prices. He said some drug ads
are downright dishonest.
@ Some new drugs are com-
pletely
worthless
and
others
have
“a greater potential
for
harm
ing
SUVA UEUAL USANA ECAATA COANE
aN (3
3
than
to Dr.
for
good,”
A. Dale
Bureau
accord-
Console,
for-
Expands
WASHINGTON
— The
Department
Labor
announces
compliance
officers
for the
that
new
Bureau of Labor-Management
Reports have been assigned to
22 American cities.
The cities
are;
Boston,
New
York,
Phila-
delphia,
Newark,
Washington,
Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Cleveland,
Chicago, Detroit,
Minneapolis,
St. Louis, Kansas City, Atlanta, Miami,
Nashville,
Dallas,
Denyer,
Francisco,
attle.
New
Orleans,
Los Angeles
and
San
Se-
If
those
and
not
while,
he
is “pursued
there’s
profit
because
said.
The
en
at odds
and
is
make
noble
and
marketing,
sales
ad-
people
in
it’s
the
sales
peo-
ple who usually control company policy.
Answering Sen. Dirksen’s at-
on
that
“so
probe,
man,
the
conduct
Sen.
there
of
Kefauver
long
as
is
I
not
the
vowed
am
chair-
going
to
be
a whitewash of anything.”
Dirksen must have had considerable
trouble
trying
to
keep up
Sessions.,
peared
is
headed
McNamara
The
by
(D., Mich.).
latter
has
Sen.
been
Pat
Democratic
tion
to
tween
has
the
close
the GOP
maceutical
atten-
alliance
and
be-
the phar-
industry.
In
1956,
for example, officials of major
drug firms contributed almost
$150,000
to
the
Republican
campaign. Spencer T. Olin of
the
Olin
Mathieson
Corp.
—
its subsidiary, Squibb, is a major drug
firm —
is finance
chairman
of the Republican
National
the
Committee.
GOP
$34,600
He
in
gave
1956.
proposal
Autolite
“by
Co.
the
that
in
a
to
be
pay
letter
to
Gosser
proposal
a
very
retirees
Aug.
is done
cess.”
By
ferred
your
something
to eliminate
“excess”
a
premiums
by
claims
the
in
the
ex-
company
1959
almost
For
living
costs
to
retirees
He denounced
Co, for inferring
that
that
‘exceeded
$30,000..”
continue
to
right
Noting
letter did
adyised
UAW
pany’s
through
in
retirees
letter
was
the
sent
on
it be
social
like
OPENER,
you
the}:
the
important};
life.
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catalogue,
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what
Guy
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just
well
Nunn
to
the
net
twas
or
laugh
good
enjoy
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will hold
Detroit’s
building,
announced
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Veterans
May 4 and
department
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talks
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conference
will
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President
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UAW
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meeting
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department
citizenship
coordinator.
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com-
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the consent or knowledge
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reject the proposal.
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year and submit recommenda->
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copies
booklets
containing su
localls
various
the
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Workers of }¢
Implement
Agricultural
9!
Published monthly.
AFL-CIO.
America,
Editorial
14,
troit
8000
office,
Michigan,
E.
60c; to non-members,
to members,
Se a copy.
WALTER
P.
De-
Jefferson,
Yearly subscription
$2.50.
x,
(rela
OBS®
REUTHER
President
EMIL
MAZEY
Secretary-Treasures
RIC. AED
GOSSER
PAT GREATHOUSE
Vice Presidents
Board
Executive
International
Members
ede
HAR
letter writing.
that
important,
aid
the
omics,
not
to get
side of
American
Whether
paid
Autolite’s
is
ROB
deal with union
Gosser
members
OPENER
CHAR
tistics or facts to substantiate
out
pointed
Gosser
its case,
that this was the most recent
effort to “go over the head of
and
the
rollers
and
rock
EYE
issue
that the company's
not contain any sta-
the union”
williliw
clock,
side of every
were
premiums
andjir
CHARLES BALLARD
RAY BERNDT
BIOLETTI
CHARLES
BURT
S FRASER
GERBER
MART
TED HAWK
the Autolite
in the letter
they
alarm
more
bed,
malingering in hospitals, and
that this accounted for some
of the 30% excess in hospital
charges over
during 1959.
aM eV,
ig Olby
sense
only guaranteed
up on the right
who live on meager inprices
at a time when
and
rise.
ai
and the usual morning radio
voices that peddle the everloyin’ sponsors’ product.
OFFICIAL
re-
contention
CU
witiv)
brothers
new-fangled
company’s
the
said
Gosser:
proposal would
only worsen
the economic situation of retirees
comes
than
1 eee
in-
premiums
1 unless
to
paid
substantial
in
WB)
e' 9194
parts depots and manufactur- ing plants will be distributed.
that “there will have
erease
next
fashioned
Bannon
which urged them to vote for
reduced hospital benefits, and
warned
there’s
common
ment
retirees
company
came
believéfyoiloel
coordinator,
and
Brendan
Sexton,
organization depart-
Electric
Vice President Richard
as “unrealistic.”
a
tell you (and just one pro--org 4!
gram will prove the clincher) (498 ont
that EYE OPENER, with Guy
Nunn, has it all over the old-
ther,
the first 20% of their hospital
claims has been blasted by UAW
The
we
that
off,
sisters,
Pat
Gosser Blasts
Autolite Letter
A
(whigjiii9)
shirts that clutter up this planet of ours.
But if you’re still not sold orly)h\y
Party,
called
f
i.
Company
“stinking.’’),
meanwhile,
if
morning
Right
ten
and
IUE
President
James
Carey in favor of the Forand
The
and
before high-noon,
red to statements
by UAW
President Walter P. Reuther
as
surveys
ta
gram.
to
hold-
ing hearings on the Forand
bill.
(It was
during
these
hearings that Dirksen refer-
bill
convinced
with the committee's
At. one point, he apto
be _ using
roller
skates as he shuttled between
the Kefauver committee
and
the subcommittee looking into
the
problems
of
the
aged,
which
be
one
ad
ing to Dr. William Bean of the
University
of
Iowa
Medical
tack
can’t)
weekday
in
their firms because the latter
look for a quick financial kill
with the “quick pill,” accordSchool;
scientific
we
scientists are oft-
with
vertising
sim-
industry
charged,
@ Medical
afford
could
it’s worth-
“unique because it can
exploitation
appear
a
he
we
rei
in what the surveyors repor'
LOOT
(which we rarely do) we'd stife bow
mer
medical
director
for
Squibb
Laboratories.
Much
and a man who is often drugged_ by the sound of his own
yoice, is at it again.
incongruous
than
do.
shortcomings:
the leader of the Republican
minority in the U. S. Senate
College.
federal authorities for
benefits
Un-
Kenneth
better
Gilmore’s
respective
Gilmore’s
pensation,”
theory
“thousands
of
law
writers
tures make
article
Scandal
one
Gilmore’s
an
their
blame
has
from
on UC
magazine
compen-
Digest,
answer
sys-
know
(Fifth in @ series)
Eyerett
McKinley
Dirksen,
are
diyided among the local union, the international union and
the UAW strike fund.
Along with this, it gives a dollars and cents report on the
gains UAW members haye made as a result of their dues
Sepa
GOP's ‘Wizard of Ooze’
Fails to Find His Rainbow
a com-
payments
dues
the
how
on
breakdown
detailed
plete,
offers
pamphlet
the
title indicates,
the
As
De-
Education
UAW
the
through
it
ordering
by
be obtained
partment.
Continues
of
to
MORRIS.
O'MALLEY
E. S. PA’
ON
KEN ROBINSON
RAY ROSS
Frank
Editor and Director, Publi-
Winn,
High
Depart
i§
Editor
70a
cations and Public Relations
ment
Joe Walsh, Assistant Director, Publica: | sab}
tions and Public Relations Depart (1m)
ment
Henry
and
and
Jerry
tin,
James
Santiestevan,
Managing
Publications
Director,
Assistant
Department.
Relations
Public
MarRay
Lipton,
Howard
Dale,
Members.
Staff
Hartford,
Jerry
Yardley,
Members,
Photographer,
American
Guild,
Newspaper
AFL-CIO,
a
ae
rad
5 UAW
98g
Local Papers
NEW
BRUNSWICK,
papers
were
N.J. —
among
the
Five UAW
award
NYILSVE—LL
Win Press Awards
local union news-
winners
announced
last
Press
Council.
“The Punch
cial organ of
‘ALINVOITOS
month during the Fifth Annual Labor Editors Conference
sponsored by Rutgers University and the New Jersey Labor
Pres
Lo
Trenton, received the
place award for general
editorial excellence in the letterpress
This workshop proved
‘4 stories for the labor press.
"i away because of lack of space. (Sam Reiss Photo).
a well-known
of human
writer
category. David
paper's editor.
Harry
by
interest
be
to
had
editors
some
popular,
so
is conducted
press editors
around
mately
Pa.
—
place
Local 758
month of
Vulcan
Mold
are in the
their strike
and
Region 2A
reported.
Basic
Iron
Director
grievance
strike
mid-March.
since
Co.
benefits
strike
for
here,
Ross
cost of
procedure
Iron
and
dilute
Bulletin.)
.— Offi
Conn
cers of UAW Locals 1010 and
877 gave 85 local high school
practi-
into
insight
an
seniors
labor-management’
cal
rela-
visited
the
group
tions when
the Lycoming division of Avco
Corporation
Manufacturing
here.
The
taking
seniors, all of whom
college
courses,
are
of
preparatory
studying
management
relations
a “Problems
course.
Their
labor-
as
part
of Democracy”
teacher,
Tuller,
are
decided
Dayid
that
A.
theoreti-
cal classroom work needed to
be supplemented
experience,
the
At
met
and
the
yisit
to
aircraft plant resulted.
the plant, the students
spokesmen
agement
sat in on
cussion of
day
by practical
and
for
both
the
unions
Fred
A.
participants
president;
president;
chairman
East,
Joseph
of
the
Albert
Workers
Unit
vice
Gavern,
shop
R.
the
of
Ciuci,
1010
com-
Science,
Salaried
Local
877,
of
director
fault,”
The
wide
port
yoted
plant
a
was
and
seven
event,
than
half
pictures
lengthy
session
a
to
on
cartoon
was
Kilhefner.
“Nine-O-Six”
lished by Local
feature
page
mond Laracy,
award
drawn
first
by
The
community
award
for
feature”
it
has
been
Ross
the
of
the
Eastern
More
than
panel
Dale,
repre-
of
judges
Detroit,
edition
75
300,
of
labor
editor
Sol-
editors
declared
Day
the
in New
of New
day
Jersey
“Labor
Press
Jersey.”
added.
did
faith
not
settle
once
grievance,”
issues
they
he
in
good
became
said.
a
given
page
Workers at the plant affiliated
with UAW in 1945.
relations
-with
the
locals beam approval.
in “best community
company.
points
to his
Biagi’s
paper
him,
behind
board
on
played
proudly
N.J.,
Paterson,
feature”
at
Rutgers,
UAW
AWARD
press
Local
conference
153).
TWO
OTHER
nered
second
received
first
during
category
(Photo
from
editors
fellow
as
by
dis-
Cyclone,”
“The
paper,
669,
Local
UAW
of
Biagi
Charles
EDITOR
PRIZE-WINNING
Bob
UAW
place
award
Oliver,
UAW
labor
annual
the
produc-
ed
some
surprises
for
both
panel
members
and students,
the Post reported. The panel-
ists
were
dents’
surprised
familiarity
at the
with
stu-
many
phases
of
labor-management
relations and their knowledgeable questions.
For
the stu-
dents,
many
tures
the
session
dispelled
of the stereotyped picof labor
and
manage-
ment as two bitterly opposed
factions.
The
students
noted
that
while
sent
the
two
different
they discuss
onably
and
sides
repre-
points of view,
problems reasintelligently
to
reach the best solution,
Following the discussion period, the students were taken
on a tour of the plant. Lycoming makes gas turbine engines,
missile components and other
products,
VICTOR
of striking
application
fits
as
LYNCH,
John
Local
for
president
758, fills out
strike
Latchford,
class,
graph
com-
general
for
place
Kilhefner,
and
award
place
received a third
Oliver Photo).
bene-
munity
services
committee
chairman, looks on.
who
N.Y.—
CITY,
ISLAND
substantial
down
nailed
reports.
room
tool
who
workers
contract,
Charles
and
are
three-year
production,
maintenance
members
of
UAW Local 365 received a 312%
last
effective
increase
wage
March 1, another 3% pay boost
March
on
tional
1,
1962.
paid
Others in the picture
are students,
2%
1, 1961,
wage
and
hike
settlement
The
weeks
three
for
after
STUDENTS buttonhole UAW officers after hearing a aa
cussion of labor-management
relations,
From the left: Al Science, Local 877 unit chairman;
Matto Gayern, shop committee chairman for Local 1010; Fred East, Local 1010 president, and
for
is also
best
local’s
the
mimeo-
in
persident,
(Bob
cartoon.
original
Co. Workers
Register Gains in New Pact
Under their new
agreement, the 400
SCHOOL
excellence
editorial
Amsco
DeJur
Kerrigan
A
Mychaluk
Michael
WINNERS,
and John Kilhefner, co-editors of the “Local 191 Report,” show
Paper gartheir prize-winning entry to fellow UAW editors.
new
in their
gains
Director
9A
Region
Joe Ciuci, vice president,
Local
Ray“The
more
have
HIGH
best
also
Robert B. Meyner
to
at the DeJur Amsco
Workers
here
plant
equipment
photo
CONN.
for
and writers attended the conference and its various workshops. In their honor, Goy.
“The Cyclone,” Local 669, Paterson, paper edited Eby RES
LONG
STRATFORD,
entitled,
for
was
on
idarity.
“best
went
UAW
Jerry
The
went
to
who edits
sented
by
Jer-
Council.
Salary Journal”
Woodridge.
used.
paper
pub906, Mahwah,
place
Press
New
a
said.
The strike is only the second
in the history of the local’s
publicity in the BridgeSunday Post, which demore
The
-visit
The
that
also
cartoon
the
winning
story
was
“Seeds of Hate.”
Third place award
presi-
place
Labor
of
agent
““The
company
also
has
failed to maintain an agreedon grievance procedure and
research
and
Council
State Labor
member of Local 1010.
Ross
third
president
business
than willing to act against an
employe when it feels he is at
Connecticut
the
insisting
a
for best original
A
said.
EE
of
included
Local
Matto
mittee;
chairman
and
a round-table disthe plant’s day-to-
problems.
UAW
man-
and
is
local
sey
local’s
its supervisory staff
although
» Of Labor-Mgt. Relations
STRATFORD,
this,”
line among
Conn. Students Get View
Prouty,
758
and
the
“In addition, the company
has failed to maintain discip-
Classroom
Keith
director
Biagi,
edi-
copped a third place award for
best front page in the letterpress class. F. J. Laracy is the
editor.
maintenance of the UAW-established cost of living pattern
but the company is seeking to
Latrobe,
at
Latrobe
courtesy
(Photos
Mold
Vulcan
against
Becomes
Plant
4, Avco
up
ine
on
been
has
Local
Pa.
rs
STRIKER.
758
LOCAL
“Local
I
pp
regional
general
Kilhefner,
received
and failure to maintain discipline among
supervision,
the
for
dent, are co-editors of
paper.
The
same
team
second
at the
Ray
issues include
living,
John
approxiof UAW
Co.
award
torial excellence in the category for mimeographed
papers. Michael Mychaluk and
Picketing
the
clock,
290 members
is the
“Local
191 Report,” paper
published
by Local
191,
Paterson, received the second
turned
Latrobe Strike
In 2nd Month
LATROBE,
Johnson
‘ACW
and
Service
Labor
National
the
of
director
,"] Fleischman,
labor
for
writing
FEATURE
AND
NEWS
ON
WORKSHOP
6
©W
10
years’
holidays
an
on
addi-
March
also calls
vacation
service,
(a gain
of
ten
114),
and retention of such provisions as the cost-of-living escalator clause, pensions and
comprehensive
of
to
which
management
eliminate
tract,
insurance,
from
the
all
tried
con-
to
attempt
Management’s
wipe out the escalator clause
The
strong.
especially
was
nearstrike
workers’ answer was a
unanimous secret ballot
vote. The company then changed its position and the final
said.
Kerrigan
The
was
365
Local
Salvatore
Louis
lin and
Dorsi,
Victor
committee
DeLorenzo
DeJur
8 mm.
jectors,
DeJur
Conk-
light
and
by
reflex
“Stenorette,”
products.
a
dictating
Tom
staff.
manufactures
meters,
“Dekon,”
The
Schweitzer.
movie cameras
lens
office
Ferguson,
Mickey
Amsco
services
Bonilla,
of the regional
similar
and
Gene
secretary,
assisted
was
House,
Daniel
recording
chairman,
shop
gle
by
included
and
committee
negotiating
headed
out,
hammered
was
settlement
and
pro-
It
also
mm,
sin-
rheostats
distributes
a
35
camera,
tape
and
the
the
recording
machine.
SOLIDARITY, May, 1960—Page 12
Elections Held
By Foundry
Sub-Councils
Ohio —
CLEVELAND,
150 delegates
some
With
from 51 local unions partiUAW
four
the
cipating,
met
sub-councils
foundry
here, March 25-26, elected
officers, heard reports and
held discussions on mutual
problems. ~
UAW
Vice
the
national
Pat
of
Greathouse,
President
foundry
the
addressed
department,
oe
delegates at a joint sesWilliam
which
at
sion
Troestler, International
council
president,
ed,
“Perhaps
voluntary
of
a kind
day,
some
illnesses.”
—Herblock
voluntary
in
Washington
Post
tor Pat O'Malley,
. Public Insists on
Medical Care Action
Kennedy
1
Page
from
Continued
(Mass.).
(See spe-
cial center section.)
In New York City, some
8,000 retired workers jammed
into
the
Manhattan
~™
Center and another 2,000
crowded outside streets in a
rally sponsored by the New
York
City Central
Labor
Council.
As Solidarity went to
press,
Democratic
leaders
in the House agreed to try
to add hospitalization insurance to social security
benefits.
News of the agreement
followed
a
Washington
President
conference
between
Walter
in
UAW
P.
Reu-
Speaker Sam
ther, House
Rayburn (D., Tex.), and Majority Leader John W. Mc-
Cormack (D., Mass.).
UAW’s
interest
in
the
medical-aid-for-the-aged
_issue was underlined by the
fact the International Executive Board, in session at
Solidarity House, April 1114, granted Reuther permission to miss part of the
board’s meetings
attend
the
Washington.
In
the
in order to
conference
Senate,
Democrats
were
pressing for action.
McNamara
Martin
Continued
(D.,
liberal
also
Sen.
Mich),
First
from
in
Page
1
for additional workers skilled in electronics because of
the shift to production of
missiles and electronics promemorandum
the
ducts,
noted the production transition also has brought to a
decrease in use at the plant
of tool room, sheet metal
and aircraft assembly skills,
of the
terms
“Under
agreement, when a need exists for additional employees, those who have been
laid off from the job family
group in question must first
be offered recall,” it added.
emother
“Thereafter,
ployees in the seniority unit
whose records indicate that
the
performed
have
they
same or similar work must
be offered recall. The company may then either hire
new employees or transfer
present employees or recall
other employees.”
The company also agreed
to establish an evening
school to be used in the retraining program, Woodcock
said.
5
Reuther, in a statement
presented to the McNamara
subcommittee as IUD president, expressed confidence a
“vast majority” in Congress
“will find a way to bring this
legislation to a vote.”
The rising public demand
for health care for the aged
was causing an obvious case
of “political discomfort”
among Republicans.
A group of seven Republican senators, openly wary
of the reaction of their constituents if they followed the
Eisenhower line, bolted to
introduce a complicated proposal of their own. Their
plan called for federal-state
grants to subsidize private
insurance plans. The subsidies would go to the insurance companies; senior citizens would be obligated to
pay on a sliding scale geared
to their incomes.
Paul
Russo,
assist-
Sub-Council No. 1 (all of
Michig
— an)
William
Shuford, Local 600, chairman;
William Anglin, Local 474,
secretary-treasurer.
Sub-council
No.
2
(Regions 3, 4, and 10)—Walter
Vaughn,
Local
72, chairAnna
Oglesby,
The
Jr.,
secretary-treasurer,
Sub-council No. 4 (all of
Canad)—Donald Morton,
Local 636, chairman; Lorne
Bigford, Local 199, secretary-treasurer.
conference
will
be
held in Chicago, Sept. 23-25.
All unaffiliated locals who
wish to affiliate were requested to contact James A.
Alexander,
secretary-treasurer, 8000 E. Jefferson,
troit 14, Mich.
De-
will i_eet
narcd Woodcock
Le
late in A>ril at Hartford
‘out 200 officials of
wit
UAW and International Association of Machinists local
union- representing workers
t five United Aircraft Corp.
plants.
Under discussion will be
the
~“‘alled negotiations between the corporation and
the
unions.
Reuther
and
Woodcock,
who
also is
director of UAW’s National
Aircraft Department, will
discuss the contract objectives being sought by the two
unions,
unity
and
the
program
tions.
Meanwhile,
bers
of
UAW
UAW-IAM
for
negotia-
with
mem-
here working
contract since
Local
without
Feb. 15
877
a
at
the Sikorsky Aircraft division
of
wage
increases of seven
fect
April
ment
12
to
The
manage-
unilaterally
cents
union
United,
an
hour
into
put
to
ef-
18
for
5,100
increases
are
similar
members.
those
rejected
by
the
members
just before they
started working without an
agreement.
They had been
put into effect March 7 for
non-union workers.
Woodcock has emphasized
that the bone of contention
with
United
Aircraft
is not
wages or economics “but
over our need for. provisions
such as adequate representation rights, union security,
a meaningful grievance procedure and full arbitration.”
Noting that Local 877
described
tracts
as
United’s
con-
“among
the
“The provisions the workers are seeking were
gained at other companies
long ago.”
IAM members at the Pratt
and Whitney Aircraft divisionof United at East Hartford and Manchester have
been working without a contract since Dec. 4. The IAM
contract at the Hamilton
Standards division at Wind-
Locks
and
Pratt
at
May
expired
the UAW
and
North
15.
April
contract
Whitney
Haven
21
with
division
runs
international
in
meeting
Detroit, April 11-14, voted
unanimous approval of the
resolution, it was reported
by
Vice
President
Leonard
Woodcock, director of the
aircraft department.
Delegates to the conference represented almost
aircraft and
major
every
missile firm in the nation, inDouglas,
Boeing,
cluding
McDonnell, Chance Vought,
Curtiss Wright, Ryan, North
Solar, Rohr,
American,
Aerojet, Convair and Lockheed,
The resolution charged
that “there has been underway for some months a
tenance work in the indus-
try away from workers
traditionally
have
who
performed such work.”
also
The resolution
charged the building trades
unions with “establishing
picket lines falsely alleging
jurisdiction
out
over
work
that
is not theirs by tradition or
charter.”
attending
those
Among
Jobless Rate
Rises Again
Continued
weakest in the aircraft industry,” Woodcock added,
sor
board,
Electronics
concerted and systematic
campaign by several unions in the building trades
industry, whose purpose it
legitimate
pirate
to
is
manufacturing and main-
Reuther, Woodcock Aiding
Effort to End Stall at United
BRIDGEPORT, Conn, —
President Walter P.
UAW
Reuther and Vice President
UAW’
executive
Local
1222,
chairman;
Thomas Cubellis, Local 69,
Next
LOS ANGELES, Calif. —
A resolution calling on the
AFL-CIO executive council
to take “effective steps” to
halt attempted pirating of
work covered under industrial union contracts by a
“handful of building trades
unions,” was adopted unanimously here by the IAMUAW Joint Leadership Consile and Related
Industry.
Local
Slaughter
hall
M.
in
Conference,
Angeles, listen to
(at
speakers’
Brown
Los
President
Vice
UAW
Delegates
represented
McDonnell,
Chance-
Solar,
_
Rohr,
Building Trades Raiding’ Hit
By IAM-UAW Aircraft Leaders
ference on the Aircraft, Mis-
1308, secretary-treasurer.
Sub-council
No.
3 (Regions 2, 2A, 2B, 8, 9 and
9A) — James
nit
members at
union
Vought, Curtiss-Wright, Ryan, North American,
Aerojet-General, Convair and Lockheed.
ant director, and William
defoundry
Humphreys,
partment representative.
Elected to head their re-.
spective sub-councils for the
coming year were:
man;
887
Local
was
(standing, right).
Douglas,
Boeing,
Woodcock
Leonard
heard
M.
UAW
9, at
IAM General Vice President Roy
speaker
keynote
Other
stand).
presid-
department
foundry
chairman of a Senate subcommittee on problems of
the aged, holding hearings
on federal health insurance, predicted passage of
a bill this year.
by
reports
April
held
hour
and
A
’
s
MORE THAN 100 IAM and UAW aircraft and
negotiators in attendance at the Joint Leadership
Delegates were welcomed
by UAW Region 2A Direc-
for—uh—
program
and
wage
Foundry
es
director
from
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Labor report showed the
sharpest increase in the rate
of unemployment from February to March since the
end of World War I.
2. Steel production is
showing its greatest decline
of the year, with mills operating just under 80% of capacity, lowest rate since the
end of the steel strike. Steel
producers blame the slump
on a drop in demand.
8. Inventories of U.S.built cars have passed the
million mark, the greatest
glut in our history, not even
surpassed in the 1958 recession,
the conference sessions were
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Presidents Roy M. Brown,
Los Angeles; P. L. Roy Siemiller, Chicago; Harold J.
Gibson, Seattle, and Jesse C.
McGlon, Atlanta.
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Leonard
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Charles Bioletti.
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information, and to bring pS iiire
delegates up to date on the
status of negotiations now
going on in several major
areas of the aircraft-missile
industry. Reports on negotiations were made by spokesmen
area.
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months,
of 28
1
and
in
areas of chronic
some
joblessness the rate has
exceeded
25%.
“The problem of unemployment will assume far greater proportions in the next 10
years unless decisive action
is taken,” the report said.
“After each of the last three
recessions, the rate of unem-
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ployment was higher than it
had been before the recession.
“Even when our economy has been at the top
of the business cycle, substantial areas of our country and numerous classes
of our people have suffered unemployment.
“Although we have not
experienced mass unemployment in reecnt years, large
numbers of our people have
been
affected
by
‘class’
un-
employment.
of
“Since the number
youthful entrants into the
labor force will rise by nearly 50% in the next 10 years,
unemployment is likely to
continue at high levels unless remedial and preventive
action is taken.”
“Unemployment is highest for the young people,
older
workers,
women,
the
nonwhites,
the unskilled, and
least
educated,”
the
report said. “Improved
vocational training and re-
training
needed to
groups.”
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