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INTERNATIONAL
UNION, UNITED
AUTOMOBILE,
AIRCRAFT
& AGRICULTURAL
IMPLEMEMT
WORKERS
Regional
OF AMERICA-UAW
SOLIDARITY
Vol.
3,
No.
Eastern
12
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(ndianapolis
Third Eisenhower-Nixon Recession
Scuttles
GOP
Prosperity’ Line
The
were
third Eisenhower-Nixon
predicting
would
come
in
recession
1961
which
didn’t
economists
wait
for
the
prophets’ deadline—it’s here now.
So the Republican Party’s 1960 campaign slogan
you never had it so good” may have to be thrown into
the ashean before Election Day.
UAW members, as well as
are feeling the recession al-
workers
plants of one of the auto industry’s Big Three.
Drives Setting
ready.
The latest jolt hit
workers in the farm implement industry and at the
International
Co.
has
Harvester
announced
that
it
is going to close 10 plants
November
during October,
throwing
and December,
some
25,000
workers
into
the already-rising list of the
nation’s unemployed.
that
of
heels
the
On
THE
SIGN
displayed by UAW
members
tells the
story.
How Much Profit
In ‘Miracle’ Drugs?
Harvester Shutdown
To Cost 25,000 Jobs
CHICAGO,
imately
Il. — Approx-
25,000
International
with
ago.
some
5,000
five
years
Harvester workers in four
key midwest states will be
The
10 plant
mark the first time
unemployed
ity of the company’s factories are being shut down for
six weeks
at
least
two
to
as a result of the
company’s announced plan
to shut down 10 plants for
varying periods.
This is in addition to layoffs of about 10,000 other
workers which already have
taken
place
at
Harvester,
the nation’s largest producer
of farm equipment and road
construction
machinery,
UAW
Vice
President
Greathouse said.
Pat
Greathouse laid the
blame for the shutdowns
and layoffs squarely at
the door of EisenhowerNixon Republicanism
which,
numbing
he
said,
the
has
been
nation’s
eco-
nomy. That brought on
the excess
inventory
which resulted in the layoffs, he emphasized.
In the past five years, still
another
10,000
workers
also have
off permanently,
house
who
ment
Department.
union’s
The
Harvester
been
said
laid
Great-
is director of the
Agricultural
company,
for
Imple-
exam-
ple, is permanently closing
its vast McCormick
works
here; about 500 are employ-
ed
there
Minn
today
compared
vester
so
history
long
a
that
time,
closings
in Har-
a major-
Greathouse
said.
The shutdowns are hitting
plants
in
Illinois,
Indiana,
Kentucky and Ohio.
Moreover, supplier and
parts plants also are expected to be affected while
the shutdowns can be expected to cause reduced
schedules for
that
produce
them,
the
the plants
parts for
UAW
officer
said.
Employment
members
at
of
UAW
Harvester
plants and parts depots now
numbers about 25,200, compared with 35,000 a year ago
and
more
than 50,000 in
1957, Greathouse said.
“With the possible exception of the depression years
of the
early
1930s,
employ-
ment at Harvester is at an
all-time
low,”
he
emphasized. “And with Harvester
being
the
giant
in
the
agri-
cultural implement industry,
it goes without saying that
the industry is sick as far as
farmers’
buying
“Full
responsibility
cerned,
Continued
on
is
Page
con-
for the
12
ting back production of its
1961 models and expected
to lay
off some 5,000
workers by Oct. 4.
ler
the
Sen.
Estes
new
Only
Continued
UAW
on
Page
UAW
took
last week
National
Board's
the
that
in
—
step
unanimous
decision which declared the
Kohler Co. guilty of just
about every charge against
it by the union,
Union officials conferred
with enforcement officers of
the
Board
at
Milwaukee
after Kohler announced it
would offer reinstatement to
1,400
striking
UAW Local 833.
Terming
the
move
a “major
members
of
company
break’’
in
614-
the bitter, drawn-out
year-old strike, UAW SecEmil
retary -Treasurer
Mazey
névertheless
point-
Kohler’s acbeen
have
ed out that
might
tion
based on the possibility
that, should the plumbingware firm lose the appeal
Continued
on
Page
the
The
to implement the
Labor
Relations
sweeping
the
rising
opening
12
its
news,
emhad
made that ‘a record month.”
Observers didn’t even
have to point out that Mitchell neglected to mention
3
Wis.
broke
before
from Washington that
ployment in August
Jogs
SHEBOYGAN,
day
Secretary of Labor James
P. Mitchell had bragged
of
Kohler Co.
boasts of pros-
the
Chrysler
under
Kefauver
made
perity from the EisenhowerNixon administration sound
hollow.
Senate drug price investigators were trying hard
to get some answers to
this question during hearings by the Senate anti-
trust subcommittee
Chrys-
announcements
simultaneous
Just how much profit is
being made on
wonder drugs?
The Harvester and
number
U.S.
of
people
needing
with
the
jobs
population.
is
fact is, as the AFL-
CIO pointed
out (see
Chart Page 3), that unemployment
has
kept
creeping upward
ever
since
the EisenhowerNixon administration took
office ir 1953.
Continued
on
Page
3
other
industries,
Registration
New Records
Registration
pushed
by
drives
the
being
UAW
and
other unions in the AFLCIO has resulted in record
numbers of voters signing in
city
states.
shock, Chrysler Corp. announced that it was cut-
in
after
city
in
14
key
Emphasis
in the drives
has been in communities in
California, Illinois, Indiana,
Towa,
Kansas,
Maryland,
Michigan,
Minnesota,
Missouri,
New
Jersey,
New
York,
and
Ohio,
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin.
In Philadelphia
alone,
according to UAW Region
9 Director Martin Gerber,
registration
reached
1,121,182,
the
in the history
On
highest
total
of the city.
the last day of the reg-
istration, all records were
broken, Gerber said, when
16,701 people were registered.
Other reports gathered by
DeCitizenship
the UAW
partment show that all-time
records were also set in such
cities as Cleveland and Canton, O.; St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo., and in Baltiother areas of
more and
Maryland.
where
In California,
registration closed in midSeptember, some individual registrars reported as
Continued
on
Page
$
J. L Case Settlement Cements
Union, Greathouse Declares
180,
Local
of
Sept. 18 to end
Members
who voted
their six - month-old strike
against the J. IL Case Co. in
Racine, Wis., won two imbenefits which do
portant
not show
contract.
in
up
their
new
UAW
said
benefit,
One
Pat GreatVice President
d
- earned
house, is the har
knowledge that “in unity is
strength.”
“By resisting all the provocation
sure
the
and
economic
Case
pres-
company
brought
half
a
against
year,’
them
for
Greathouse
commented,
“our union
members
in effect
served
notice on all backward manand
that united
agements
dedicated workers can defeat any attempts to starve
I’m
them into submission.
proud of the wonderful solidarity they showed throughout this long fight.”
Another benefit not in
writing in their contract is
the prospect
Continued
for improved
on
Page
12
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Which
Do
You
Choose
... Liberty
or Bigotry?
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2
1960—Page
26,
September
SOLIDARITY,
EASTERN
Conn. AFL-CIO
Endorses
—
Conn.
HARTFORD,
dorsed
the
candidacies
ported
the
state
Dems
for Con-
running
of six Democrats
en-
has
Connecticut
in
Labor
gress, including the five incumbents, and of Democrats
It also suprunning .for the state’s General Assembly.
convention
three-day
last
late
AFL-CIO.
were
Represent-
North
3rd
Endorsed
Daddario,
Q.
Emilio
atives
Hartford, Ist District; Robert
N. Giaimo,
Haven,
of Meriden.
Judge William
became
the 2nd
Chester
Congress in
Rep.
after
date for
District
Bowles withdrew from the race,
was also endorsed, on the basis
of position
of his statement
rec-
the
and
convention
to the
opponent.
ord of his Republican
The incumbents were endorsed
on the basis of their records
in Congress.
were
Onge
convention.
who
adopted a state-
the convention
income
a “state
favoring
ment
St.
taxation,
of
subject
the
On
those
among
the
addressed
and
Daddario
Kowalski,
equitable
most
the
as
tax
means of raising additional tax
and
revenue”
tax,
income
on
“an
that
urging
withholding
a
vot-
the
compared
speakers,
candi-
Democratic
the
one of the conyention’s main
who
Onge,
St.
director
of the International Ladies
Garment Workers Union and
Jr.,
Kowalski,
Frank
at-Large
all
for
Tyler, political
Gus
Congressman-
and
Regional News
On Page 11
basis, be substituted
existing sales taxes.”
Irwin,
J.
Donald
District;
Norwalk, 4th District; John
S. Monagan, Waterbury, 5th
District,
More
Con-
Council,
Labor
State
necticut
platform.
here
of the
month
the
at
came
actions
The
Democratic
Ken-
ing records of Sen. John
Vice
and
Mass.)
(D.,
nedy
President Richard Nixon,
“When we look at the total
record of these two men on 23
issues covering foreign policy,
social legislation and labor legislation,
right
ing
we
and
times
23
times
three
right
voting
Kennedy
find
Nixon
and
pointed
20 times,” Tyler
wrong
out.
vot-
Other speakers included Con-
necticut’s Gov. Abraham Ribicoff; economist Leon Keysercouncil
Svirldoff,
Mike
ling;
president and assistant director
of UAW Region 9, and John J.
Driscoll, executive secretary of
regional director for the Water-
NEW
area.
bury
than
See Kennedy on TV
In East Sept. 29
Voters
York,
New
Jersey,
New
Massachusetts
necticut,
get
will
Pennsylvania
Kennedy
TV
a regional
Con-
op-
Mass.)
(D.,
of
and
an
hear
to see and
portunity
Jack
areas
many
in
Sen.
on
program
network
on Thursday, Sept. 29.
The Democratic presidential
a 30-
on
appear
will
candidate
minute show sponsored by the
New York State AFL-CIO and
speech.
The
a major
to deliver
is expected
seen
be
will
program
from 10:30 to 11 pm., Eastern
folDaylight Time, over the
stations:
lowing
Channel
3.
Channel
13.
Channel
7.
Syracuse,
N.Y.,
Albany,
N.Y.,
WAST -TV,
WKBW-TV,
Buffalo,
WINR-TYV,
N.Y.,
City,
York
New
WABC-TV,
Channel 7.
WSYR-TV,
Channl
WSYE-TV,
Channel 18.
40.
Watertown-
WPTZ-TV,
Plattsburgh,
Carthage,
N.Y.,
N.Y.,
Channel
WKTYV,
Channel
Several
were
other
the
TV
7.
N.Y.
being
darity went to press,
your local listings.
so
check
York
City,
New
York,
Channel
can
nities
be
in
seen
7,
New
in
many
upstate
Connecticut,
New
as Soli-
commu-
Jersey
and
Curtiss-Wright Unit
Elects Ormsby, Lazzio
Robert
Ormsby,
president
Amalgamated Local
Paterson,
NJ.,
has
of
669, UAW,
been
re-
elected
as
president
of
the
UAW’s Curtiss-Wright Council.
Tom Lazzio, president of Amalgamated
Local
300,
Woodridge,
NJ.,
was
secretary-treasurer.
The
meeting
council
in
held
its
California
Violations of the
laws
in
non-farm
featuring
political
seen Oct. 18.
Others slated
to
lead-
appear
New
York’s
Mayor
Wagner.
present
union’s
Charles
the
regu-
the
on
UAW,
elected
annual
recently.
child labor
establish-
ments went up more than 20%
in
1958 compared to 1957,
Watertown
Avenue
Oct,
14
through 16.
Registration
will
take place Friday, Oct. 14, at
the
starting at 7:30 p.m.
ing until 10 p.m.
Saturday
held from
The
from
Sunday
first
and
class
last-
sessions
will be
9 a.m. to 4 p.m,
session
10 a.m.
to 1 p.m.
will
be
This
is the same
program
which made such a hit at the
Region 9A summer school. In
fact, the October program was
scheduled
from
after
Waterbury
many
area
requests
UAW
members
who
attended
the
summer school and who wanted some of their fellow members
to
get
a
chance
to
take
the same course.
One of the topics to be discussed will be the issues of the
1960
election
campaign,
according to John Dillon, region-
al
education director,
Dillon asked that any member of a Waterbury area UAW
local
interested
in attending
classes contact his steward or
his local union officers for fur-
ther information.
end
said:
its
finally
kicking
dragged
and
Cen-
after
straight talks brought
which
strike
to a shop
down
shut
11 days,
system
Pennsylvania
entire
the
for
the first time in more than a
century and tied up much traffic into New York. (Solidarity,
Sept.
CURVES
Classes will be held at
Kaynor
Technical School
with
been
12.)
key
the
viewpoint:
has
p.m.,
has
Quill
the
are
Here
from
achieved
Kerrigan
6:30
Pennsylvania
decisions,
lasted
Robert
members
in
9A and the
Department
the
“The
own
an
are
Conn.—At
of handing
16 hours
Gov. Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, Adlai Stevenson and
announced.
stations
network
five
down
ly instead
squealing into the 20th
tury.”
The agreement reached
ers from Eastern states. Herbert Lehman, former New York
governor and senator, will be
Director
of
to this
of
lar 1960 CORE program for all
interested members,
Regional
5,
Utica - Rome,
series
prominent
will
process
added
in
2.
Channel
a
request of UAW
this area, Region
UAW
Education
N.Y.
finally had been compelled to
sit down and negotiate serious-
and Connecticut.
The program will be the first
in
Transport
striking
20,000
More
labor-management relations,
Declaring that the railroad
of Massachusetts
in parts
and
—
ing a settlement which TWU
President Mike Quill hailed as
marking a new step in railroad
the entire Capital District
Albany - Schenectady-Troy
out
of
(PAI)
on the job in the Pennsylvania
Railroad shops after negotiat-
through-
seen
be
can
WATERBURY,
Binghamton,
WCNY-TV,
channel
YORK
Workers and members of System Federation 152 are back
Albany
The
Classes Set
For Waterbury
N.Y.,
Elmira,
Pennsylvania.
parade.
reached
in that city’s annual Labor Day
(This photo and the one below
parade in the last issue).
trade unionists marching up New York’s Fifth Avenue
This year’s marchers surpassed last year’s by 60,000.
Solidarity too late to be included in the story on the
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56°
9A sub-
and Region
the council
of the 174,000 0!
(upper left) at the head
strides out
AFL-CIO,
of the
president
MEANY,
GEORGE
AND
ANGLES
e@ The agreement eliminates
“contracting out” of work except by special agreement with
make
a neat package as this longstemmed
model
brings the
message of the International
Ladies
Garment
Workers’
union
label to the 600,000
New
Yorkers
who
watched
been awarded a scholarship in
the Harvard University Trade
Pa.
—
Case
two-
ber reports.
The case involved Jack Coke,
had
for
alleged
a foreman
Products
The
Kindig
been
It
the
is
at
pay.
the
Small
Tube
Inc, plant
here.
Fred
held
that
the
of
and
the
had
University
cause
no
ordered
with
back
estimated
Coke
that,
deductions,
about
pay.
$1,500
Coke
in
The
arbitration
case
handled by Paul Clouser,
gion
9 representative,
Gregg,
gaining
to
Prof.
usual
receive
April
arbitrator,
company
instated
last
insubordination
Pittsburgh,
action
fired
chairman
committee.
of
and
the
has
shops.
e@ The
agreed
Pennsylvania
to
fill
all
hasj
crew
vacan-%
2+
absence of}
due to ill-1\|
cies caused by the
the crew members
ness or other causes. Previous-'
ly
the
railroad
worked
thejai
job
in a kind
samejic
the
on
crew
diminished
of “speed-up.”
e@ Work assignment protec->
tion has been assured and aj}
signed.
e@ The
railroad
for
pay
won
union
be as-#
will
work
to whom
out
spelling}t!!
adopted,
rule”
“scope
severance}
powerhouse}*
employes whose jobs are being}‘
eliminated as a result of the):
railroad’s new policy of buying}:
its power instead of generat-}
ing it itself.
The railroad agreed to re-;
@
hire all employes on their old)ic
jobs within 48 hours instead of}
bringing
had
as
it
ers
laid
gradually{il:
back
them
in-'
This
intended.
cluded about 75,000 other work-»
e@ The
to drop
during
off
railroad
some
strike.
the
also
$14 million
agreed)
worth}
of law suits that it had brought}:
Workers.
against the Transport
O.
of
for
re-
after
will
back
was
Re-
Ray
bar-
had been recommended by Al
Region 9A subOlerio, UAW
regional director for the Bos-
area.
The
tion
such
covers
scholarship
tui-
expenses,
Other
only.
and
room
books,
as
board, must be raised by the
scholarship winner himself.
Boe, who works at the Na-
tional Automotive Parts
in
warehouse
ciation
bridge,
cer
such
of
is a former
Mass.,
local,
his
positions
haying
as
AssoCam-
offi-
held
recording
steward.
chief
and
secretary
He had been acting recently as
a volunteer organizer for his
local. He has also been a mem-=
ber of several local and area
union
his
tee,
the
unit
the
committees,
Council
including
negotiating commitlocal’s joint council,
Massachusetts
and
COPE.
4 BOCK
<r
Don-
of Amalgamated
old member
Local 209, began his 13-week
course earlier this month. He
ton
GUE
been
nell, executive director of the
program,
Richard W. Boe, a 21-year-
year-old UAW
Local 981 has
won its first arbitration case,
Region 9 Director Martin Gerwho
Joseph
by
announced
The
it
Program,
Union
Local 981 Wins
ALTOONA,
UAW
young
this area has
BOSTON—A
from
member
Photo),
Arbitration
union
Boe of Local 209
Harvard-Bound
that city’s giant Labor Day
parade
(N. Y. Daily
News
Its Very First
results
union’s
the union, and completely bars};
contracting out work to non-)i0
Citizenship
Hike NY Blue Cross
Rates in Turnabout
State
has
New
YORK—The
NEW
Insurance
reversed
partly
Department's
Cross
Blue
granted
averaging
increases
cent.
Only
ment
month
last
refused
had
1960.)
The
New
rates.
which
premium)
pers
33.45
depart-:
a Blue
for a 37.3 per
(Solidarity,
Sept.
called
is officially
Cross}
cent hike}
Blue.
York
and)x
itself
the
request
in
York{
12,§
Cross,?
Asso-»
ciated Hospital Service (AHS),}
covers seven million people in}!
the metropolitan area.
The
into
rate
effect
increases
Noy.
1.
will
Important
Voter Registration
Information
On Page 11
go)
) Opposed by Hofta, Bridges, UE
nedy’s
ok
Kennedy’s
rallied behind
paign
include
the
IVE
and
of
Electrical
Workers,
Ciothing Workers,
the
munications Workers, the
tail, Wholesale
Workers,
the
Com-
Rethe
and
the
who
he
though
his
even
One
Teamster
plained
‘Nixon
Hoffa’s
by
saying
publican
likely
support
that
candidate
to
make
a
“is
career
F.
Washington
Defense
Department
“got fed up with paying
“non-
competitive’ ’prices for antibiotics from American drug firms,
i
and
is now
buying
far cheaper
Bf
@
i
major
The
cin,
many
drugs
overseas.
prices
of
the
four
antibiotics—aureomy-
chloromycetin,
cin and
terramy-
tetracyclin—have
mained
the
same
for
re-
almost
ten years, despite
the fact
the
feur different products
are being made under differ-
ent
methods
in
different
areas by different companies.
@ Production
costs
for
a
capsule
of
chloromycetin
were
estimated by the Senate economists at a penny and a half,
although a patient will have to
pay up to 5le for it. Parke-
Skilled Trades
Conclave Dec. 8
Dec. 8 through Saturday, Dec.
10. UAW Vice President Rich-
ard
Gosser,
director
of
the
Skilled Trades department, announced.
Delegates must be Journeyin
_trades.
on
the
apprenticeable
Representation
the
basis
of
two
will
be
delegates
from each local union — one
from tool and die and one from
maintenance, Where more than
one unit exists in a local union,
each unit may send a delagate.
Local
unions
having
more
than
one plant may
send
a
delegate from each plant, while
amalgamated
locals may send
a delegate from each unit.
In
local
addition, officers of the
unions
and
bargaining
committeemen
Party,
conference
of keeping
from
being
are
the
the
i
urged
to at-
UAW,
school
backing
ticket
Sen.
ginia,
in
an _
headed
Harry
F.
in 1956.
the
net
agenda
diluted
by
27.5¢
wholesaler,
profit
@
on
had
to
the
higher
prices
stroyed
bill
a
drug
mil-
vaccine
it was
by
for
The
drug
putting
drugs,
companies
more
than
100
biotic combinations
on
market
which do little
encourage
“shotgun
py”
by
doctors,
a
medical
almost
are
anti-
the
but
thereaHarvard
school
testified.
@ An antibiotic,
de-
paying
other
indicated.
@
the
professor
bacitracin,
17 years
promoted
names,
according
the
big
types
firms
sold
under
to
in
unconcern-
cruel
privations
aged,
and
oniy
opportunistically
the
confronting
unions
CIO
economic
the
farmer.”
expelled
from
refused
to en-
as Communist
have
J.
Fitzgerald,
presi-
election.”
West
Coast,
Time
Harry
New
York
Times
re-
latter’s
and
campaign
later
in Labor
Continued
from
talks.
Page
1
many as 2,000 people hav-
ing signed and it was estimated
that
possibly
300,-
drives were well under way
in other places, such as Racine, Kenosha and Milwaukee, Wis.; Buffalo and New
N.Y. and in the states
of Indiana
In
the
and New Jersey.
campaigns,
the
unions
its
and
AFL-CIO
joined in the various comthat
groups
munities with
are backing registration on
a non-partisan
basis.
by
trade
testimony
Forge Meet
by
Set
council.
All forge
to writing statements about the
drugs, getting the information
which will be held at the Local
914 Hall here. Local 914 is the
host local for the council meet-
medicines, but has given up all
testing, and limits itself now
from
the
vard
manufacturer,
doctor
That
reported.
was
mony
a Har-
the
ran
in
way
the
the
testi-
Kefauver
hearings, But the committee’s
exploration
of the antibiotic
field ran headlong again into
strenuous
lican
and
protests
subcommittee
drug
One
the
of
strongest
Illinois,
Senate
Dirksen
any
members
ob-
was a member of the
group,
Sen.
Everett
Dirksen
can
Repub-
manufacturers.
of.
jectors
Senate
by
Minority
Republi-
Leader,
repeatedly
questions
whether
excessive
for
objected
which
would
unreasonable
prices
have
antibiotics.
been
He objected to any move by
Kefauver to place into the record material which would show
the amount of profits made by
any
drug
firm.
locals
in
participate
ing.
Locals
council
are
the _
not affiliated
the
of
urged
to
sessions,
with
further
obtain
may
the
in-
formation by writing to Brother Kosick at 12252 South Union
Ave.,
One
Chicago
of
28, Ill.
914
of the
highlights
the
meeting will be
Forge
Herbrand
Local
in
work
of
out
stamping plants in Detroit
and Twinsburg, O.
Harat
Employment
vester plants, before the
new layoffs, already had
reached a post-war low
that was, with the possible
exception of the depression years of the 1930's,
an all-time floor for the
company.
At the time of the Chrysler announcement, that comrevealed it was empany
ploying only 72,000 in its
plants in the United States.
The Harvester and Chryswere
announcements
ler
of
echoes
merely
the
of two unusuallycandid
publications
views
busi-
which
very
well
be
ac-
cused of “selling the country short’
by the
Eisenhower-Nixon administration.
One was the Wall Street
Journal, the other Business
Week.
The Wall Street Journal
stated
bluntly
Sept.
19
that “a recession has been
under way for some time,
and the real question is
when it may end.”
The WSJ said “the fact
that a recession is under way
has been difficult to see” but
that “if one looks at more
detailed figures, the picture
of recession begins to em-
erge clearly.”
Business Week reported in
its column “Business Outlook” Sept. 17:
“If recessions are
triggered by declines in durable
goods (and they. seem generally to be),-and
if any
early sign of management
misgivings
comes
in bluecollar layoffs, this is a figure
to watch.
“The
dip in this figure
came earlier than in production both in 1953 and 1957.”
These were the years of the
two earlier
EisenhowerNixon recessions.
PERCENT
8
Local
Harvester
secretary-treasurer
1301,
Rock
couldn’t
Stanley Kosick of
by a doctor who helped discover it.
@ The American Medical Association used to test all new
International
1
are
padlocked
be
ness
The
UAW’s
Forge
Council
will meet Oct. 21 and 22 in
Fremont, O., it has been announced
Page
The Harvester plants that
already
000 more voters had registered for this election
than had put their names
on the books in the last
election.
The
citizenship
department
also
reported
that
York,
from
(1,200), McCormick (2,000),
East Moline (2,200), Spring(2,field (3,900), Farmall
000), Louisville (1,700),
Tractor (2,500) and Melrose
Park (2,200).
The layoffs Chrysler has
3,500
include
predicted
workers in the Detroit area,
in addition to another 1,500
blasted
Registration
Continued
(300 workers), Fort
Falls
Canton
(4,300),
Wayne
tour of
Day
Bombs
Fisenhower-Nixon Recession
will
that
Jack
vice
presi-
ago,
is being ignored by the drug
industry although the drug in
many cases is better than the
heavily
the
and
Kennedy
4.29c,
for
by
Hawaii
lion shots of polio vaccine because
they
became
outdated.
Sick Americans
apparently
footed
the
the
the
from
14.5
ed about
youth;
the
of
dent, met clandestinely with
Vice President Nixon during
makes
destroy
nation’s
ported,
however,
Hall, an
ILWU
sales to the government in 1956.
@ Eli Lilly & Co., Indiana-
polis,
the
The
Vir-
on
taxes
before
67.1%
of
classifications,
of
the
Warehousemen’s Union, refused to endorse either candidate.
tories, of Syracuse, N.Y., showed
the company made a profit of
charged
non-
that
of
Bridges, president of the International Longshoremen’s and
Records of Bristol Labora-
reveal
the
and
the
working
man;
callous to
educational
requirements
On
Dixiecrat
capsule
aspirations
Presidential
independent
a
to
now that I shall vote against
Senator Kennedy in this fall's
Davis & Co. of Detroit, which
makes the drug, reported it re-
ceives
Democratic
dent of the United Electrical
Workers,
told his delegates
at their
convention
earlier
this month: “I say here and
and
of
and
Albert
President
Byrd,
union’s
dorse Kennedy,
although
not
openly coming out in support
of Nixon.
segregation
by
needs
dominated
court
1952
the
as “impervious
the former
of
the
nominee’s campaign.
They praised Kennedy's 14year battle
“for
economic
and social advances and for
a positive, constructive program of world leadership.”
Nixon, on the other
hand,
was described by the IVE del-
Two
South
the
supporting
Gosser
will be the question
the genuine trades
apprenticeable,
he added.
when
promote”
crisis
him-
of
tively
interested
Justice
Court
urged
400,000 members
and
their
families to ‘vote for and to ac-
belatedly
foe
former
and
suffered
for President.
governor
Eisenhower
sald,
on
can-
James
bitter
didacy
egates
ap-
but he refused to integrate
schools in this state.
Byrnes
has twice before
broken with the Democratic
and
High
was
outlawed
to
of
a
Supreme
Carolina
tend as fraternal delegates, to
assist in formulating a program
which will be understood in all
sections
and
S.C. —
a
discovered
The
8th
Annual
Skilled
Trades Conference of the UAW
has been set for the Morrison
Hotel in Chicago for Thursday,
men
the
self,
of
facts came out as witness after
witness spoke up:
2,
yells
his
Profits Probed
in
The
an
interrupted
candidate
of
less
Clear-cut answers were hard
to get, but some eye-opening
@
gave
of Kennedy’s
Byrnes,
for Nixon.
Tennessee
with
Byrnes,
can
harassing”
leaders
of
that
organization
which
was
expelled by the AFL-CIO following charges of corruption.
There were reports that Hoffa had issued orders to local
leaders to urge members to vote
Drug
both
intregration, has announced
his support of the Republi-
Re-
out
by
Louis
COLUMBIA,
of
the
con-
James Byrnes
Supports Nixon
ex-
official
St.
tic” support
members
have not formally
endorsed the GOP candidate,
Vice
President
Richard
M.
- Nixon,
IUE
The IUE’s 450 deiegates’ resolution called for ‘‘enthusias-
would begin stumping against
Kennedy,
in
address
plause.
Furniture
indicated
addressed
frequently
The loudest dissenting voice
was that of the president of
the
Teamsters,
James
R.
Hoffa,
the
overwhelming
reception
to
Kennedy before he spoke and
. American Bakery Workers, the
‘Upholsterers, the Textile Work-
‘ers Union
Workers.
was
vention
Ma-
Brotherhood
the
Ken-
The 1,500 delegates and 10,000 guests at the IAM con-
chinists, the Steelworkers, both
the
were
the candidates.
cam-
UAW,
backing
program
vention
have
that
unions
AFL-CIO
grow-
and the Machinists, whose
{ Kennedy, the Democratic nominee for President.
those
the
‘97 APquiaydes
CIO general board in endorsing
the candidacy of Sen. John F,
of
join
0961
the AFL-
followed
groups—has
list
to
a
of the
where
tour
plant,
members
work.
Birthday Telecast Aids
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Communist-dominated
two
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latest
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Wg. Cle ee
Union after union in organized labor—with the exception
of the expelled Teamsters and
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SOLIDARITY,
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patriotic
message
of
cities
or
Sen. John F. Kennedy, Democratic candidate for President, to
“end the present drift in our national course and make our
great country greater, our powerful nation even more power-
ful.”
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Kennedy
carried
small towns—the people turned
sands, listened, and cheered.
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campaign—big
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by making it the instrument of any religious group,
nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding its occupancy from the members of any religious group.
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and
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to emphasize
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dj) this campaign have
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subvert
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mit
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not look
with
office.
to do so).
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md4America I believe in.
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i prelate would tell
‘| ) how to act and no
gponers for whom to
any
il is guaranteed
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where
is
no man
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| or the people who
that
isible
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a religious
agree with
it.
—
or
iirginia’s harassment
jat led
dut
to Jefferson’s
it may
tomorrow
society
‘tc harmonious
inal peril.
where
religious
if his choice — where
vote,
no
slblics, Protestants
bloc
and
owel, will refrain from
“which have so often
“promote
instead
religious
of
guarantees
balances
and
per-
test — even by indirection — for if they disthat safeguard, they should be openly working
public
— who
office
whose
acts are recan attend
may approfulfillment
of his Presidential office is not limited or conditioned by
any religious oath, ritual or obligation.
Fought
for
Freedom
This is the kind of America I believe in — and this is
the kind of America I fought for in the South Pacific and
the kind my brother died for in Europe. No one suggested
then that we might have a “divided loyalty,” that we did
not believe in liberty or that we belonged toa disloyal
group that threatened “the freecoms for which our forefathers died.”
And in fact this is the kind of America for which our
fled here to escape religious
to members of less favored
did die when they
that denied office
forefathers
test oaths,
churches when they fought for the Constitution, the Bill
of Rights, the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom — and
the Alamo.
at the shrine I visited today —
they fought
tradition,
in that
to follow
tonight
you
unconstitutional
of the
boycott
aid
public
the
schools,
parochial
to
schools
(which
and
to judge
I attended
against
myself)
1948
ment of the American bishops in
dorsed church-state separation.
Condemns
my
I do
public
respect
not
to
consider
acts
other
—
why
these
any
—
en-
strongly
Persecution
quotations
other
should
countries,
which
that
you?
I
But
am
binding
let me
wholly
say,
upon
opposed
with
to
the state being used by any religious group, Catholic or
Protestant, to compel, prohibit or persecute the free exercise of any other religion. And that goes for any persecution at any time, by anyone, in any country.
And
1 hope
that
you
and
I condemn
with
equal
fervor those nations which deny their presidency
Protestants and those which deny it to Catholics.
to
And rather than cite the misdeeds of those who differ,
I would also cite the record of the Catholic Church in such
nations as France and Ireland — and the independence of
such statesmen as de Gaulle and Adenauer.
But let me stress again that these are my views — for,
contrary to common newspaper usage, I am not the Catholic candidate for President, I am the Democratic party’s
candidate for President who happens to be a Catholic.
I do not speak for my church on public matters — and
the church does not speak for me.
Whatever
In the National Interest
issue may come before me
be elected
I should
—
on birth
control,
if
as President,
divorce,
censorship,
gambling, or any other subject — I will make my decision
in accordance with these views, in accordance with what
my conscience tells me to be in the national interest, and
without regard to outside religious pressure or dictate.
And no power or threat of punishment
to decide otherwise.
me
if the time should
But
ever come —
could cause
and I do not con-
cede any conflict to be remotely possible — when my office
would require me to either violate my conscience, or violate
the national interest, then I would resign the office and I
do
would
public servant
conscientious
other
any
hope
likewise.
and instead of doing this do not judge me on the basis of
these pamphlets and publications we have all seen that carefully select quotations out of context from the statements
of Catholic Church leaders, usually in other countries, frequently in other centuries, and rarely relevant to any situation here — and always omitting, of course, that state-
intol-
simen and all churches
in has the same right
jatholic
working
me on the basis of 14 years in the Congress — on my declared stands against an ambassador to the Vatican, against
it has been,
4- or a Quaker
as a condition
him
a President
I want a chief executive whose
sponsible to all and obligated to none
any ceremony, service or dinner his
priately require him to fulfill — and
I ask
jitholic against whom
“der years
the
by
For side by side with Bowie and Crockett died
Fuentes and McCafferty and Bailey and Bedillio and
Carey — but no one knows whether they were Catholies or not. For there was no retigious test there.
act
an
him
upon’
of checks
are
religion
on
And neither do I look with favor upon those who would
work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring
when
i officially neither
©alere no public offic+ fions on public pol» foteil of Churches or
ov {eno religious body
“iiindirectly upon the
ef If its officials—and
upon
favor upon
our system
would
imposed
Amendment’s
First
the
») 2 to state once again
|, for that should
nation
the
that
I would
neither
affair,
by
imposed
to holding
to repeal
war
» alir know no relig-
ioe | some
or
private
views
whose
President
a
in
I believe
frig) until it now festers
—sHla—the
I believe.
in which
is the kind of America
That
by Sen. John F.
group of Protestant
sued
But I do not intend to apologize for these views to my
critics of either Catholic or Protestant faith, nor doI intend
to disavow either my views or my church in order to win
this election.
If I should lose on the real issues, I shall return to my
seat in the Senate satisfied that I tried my best and was
fairly judged.
But if this election is decided on the basis that
40,000,000 Americans lost their chance of being President on the day they were baptized, then it is the whole
nation that will be the loser in the eyes of Catholics
and
non-Catholics
around
the
world,
in
the
eyes
of
history, and in the eyes of our own people.
But, if, on the other hand, I should win this election,
I shall devote every effort of mind and spirit to fulfilling
the oath of the Presidency — practically identical, I might
add, with the oath I have taken for 14 years in the
Congress.
For,
without
reservation,
I can,
and
I quote,
“solemnly
swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President
of the United States, and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect
and defend the Constitution, so help me God.”
“| want to emphasize
from the outset
that | believe that we have far more critical
issues in the 1960 election: the spread of
Communist
influence,
until
it now
festers
only ninety miles off the coast of Florida—
the humiliating treatment of our President
and Vice President by those who no longer
respect
our
power—
“The hungry children I saw in West
Virginia, the old people who cannot pay
their doctor bills, the families forced to
give up their farms—an America with too
many slums, with too few schools, and too
late to the moon
“These
and outer space.
are
the
real
issues
which
should decide this campaign. And they are
not religious issues—for war and hunger
and ignorance
ious barrier.”
and despair know
no relig-
AP Phote
over
3,740,000
families
still have
to exist
on
an income
of only
*1,000-*2,000
a year
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film, gives
“Ten Tons of TNT,” a 30-minute UAW
a graphic analysis of one of the biggest problems fac-
Olr@yorld
only
if the
eloped
which
in
free
countries
the
of
title
The
he
need
offer
to
film
achieve
derived
is
affairs
foreign
the
decent
President
conference
the
revealed
by
underde-
the
standards
living
fact
the
jion
the
of
Department,
\
issued
has
UAW
The
Detroit
E. Jefferson,
8000
Home
At
“Prosperity
a new
14, Mich.
7
election.
Abroad,”
for those who
the major
debate
and
pamphlet,
Liberty
Insure
Can
Educa-
UAW
pocket-sized
that serves as an excellent source
to understand
the
through
obtained
be
can
film
10
equals
world.
weapons
Steuther that the U. S. stockpile of atomic
the
“ons of TNT for every man, woman and child in
Prints
in
to
come
leadership
from
their
up
UAW
will
peace
that
contended
nations
by
development
build
countries
delivered
AFL-CIO
at an
technological
free
the
of
‘97 aequades
Reuther
York
slew
'
P.
leader
the
as
0961
@Walter
“i
its
address
an
upon
is based
film
The
today
under-developed
the
to help
harness
to
world—how
“1@conomies.
States
United
the
ing
in the
issues
want
1960
It consists of a series of charts and illustrations graphicaliy
wolthowing the reasons why the U. S. economy must grow 5% a
dear if the nation is to haye prosperity at home and be able
ti act as the world’s leader in the search for peace.
It
facts
with
shows
how
figures
and
jidministration’s policies have dragged down the US. to the point
‘hat the nation is now in the midst of a depression.
Single copies of this handbook are available free from the
Education
JAW
Department,
8000
14, Mich.
Detroit
E. Jefferson,
Another pamphlet that clarifies the issues facing
the voters in this year’s election has been published
by Public Affairs Institute under the title, “The People and 1960.”
It states the facts and gives sample of authoritative
;
ppinions on 24 of the most important issues confronting the
jAmerican people today, as compiled by PAI and the editors of
Press Associates.
Technical and sometimes complex material has been presented
brief
jn
jn
the
and
iter,
non-technical
various
editors
fields
with
examined
this
of
copies
ison,
14,
Detroit
and
Mich.
developed
in
the
mat-
subject
booklet
Department,
Education
Experts
form.
of
publications
pocket-size
73+page,
jtained free from the UAW
adequate
entirely
experience
long
ikinds prepared the texts.
Single
yet
and
can
various
be
82
UAWers.
las
Fraser,
cation
Detroit’s
Region
right)
UAW
sponsored
was
Department.
Metropolitan
Airport
Hutton
Carrol
wish
them
Merrelli,
and
1-A
1 and
Regions
by
to
George
Co-Director
1
Director
Education
tour
The
Cusker.
At
to
left
banner,
Eisenhower-Nixon
the
are
Region
—
Some
look
this
LONDON
first-hand
its
Europe,
unions.
They
step
take
them
from
the
low-cost
ob-
8000 E: Jeffer-
study
Their
the
that
will
tor Carroll
They
Direc-
pointed
confer
with
out.
is trying
Statistics
from
people
latest
ing
with
wages.
average
actual
liy-
family
a
for
its
modest
of
estimate
costs
to discourage
comparing
the
(1)
who,
thirties
earns
probably
and
average,
a
not
is
this
“subsistence”
on
live
could
BLS
the
October,
last
the
than
more
you
since
of
As
(2)
feels,
BLS
the
or
“minimum”
budget
less.
in his late
worker
for a mature
out
made
was
“modest but adequate’ budget
for a family of four cost $117
city,
in a typical
a week
approximately $89.
Government
The
argues:
quite
England,
as
Switzerland
and
Balance in Fund, July 31, 1960.......:cccccsssecneeesees
Income in August, 1960:
Per Capita
98
$1,339,466.25
Interest
on
$28,413,848.68
Balance
There
UOUUVNAUI DASA
in
are
Fund,
20
For
August
August
1960.
31,
1960...
new
$29,923,759.23
1,026,734.24
$28,897,024.99
strikes in effect involving approximately
4,000 members of the UAW.
UGANDA TEAA AAAS ASA eS
. They
from
refrain
furniture
or
etc.”
a radio,
or
set
TV
it’s not far from it.
allowance would per-
minimum
The meat
about 1142 pounds of
for
for supper
fish
mit you
or
meat
four
a
buy-
is not the
Well, if that budget
for
another
and
people
The
$ 1,509,910.55
Total to Account
Disbursements in
also
lunch,
allows
also
budget
‘2
just
3% eggs'a day for four people,
you
any
includes
that
and
might want to use for baking.
Of
the
course,
three
Papa
cans
allowed
him
Papa
can
every
five
every four
suit every
by
of
buy
years,
could
beer
this
up
a week
budget.
one
one
give
topcoat
wool
a
year,
every
hat
shine.
No doubt
recession
year.
every
thing
about
numerous
with
suit
years, a lightweight
five years, one pair
Dame
and
the
Sorin Paris, with a side
Versailles.
tour was set up to be
there’s
every
the
thus
satisfaction
the
1—In
and
ing
eye.
only
tive
and
informative
Hutton
the
of
and
ed-
said.
become
“In
better
ac-
costs
each
period,
was
which
by
the
Association,
sponsored
by
labor, liberal
izations.
or
real
the
it
52
a
been
and
a
a
both
over
American
coopera-
number
co-op
of
organ-
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION, International
Union, United Automobile, Aircraft and
Agricultural
standard
at
least,
They
two
show:
subscription
members,
between
ship
wages and of
that
a
DOUGLAS
MARTIN
TED
ROBERT
copy
60c;
to
mor-
FRASER
HAWKS
JOHNSTON
KERRIGAN
HARVEY
JOSEPH
E
T.
GEORGE
Members
GERBER
CHARLES
KITZMAN
McCUSKER
MICHAEL
MERRELLI
KEN
MORRIS
PAT
O'MALLEY
E
S.
PATTERSON
KEN
ROBINSON
RAY
ROSS
manufactur-
equal
the various cities. This conbelief
general
the
tradicts
that high wages make high
living costs,
5c
international Executive Board
CHARLES
BALLARD
RAY
BERNDT
CHARLES
BIOLETTI
GEORGE
BURT
right
of
in
members,
E.
JefYearly
RICHARD
GOSSER
NORMAN
MATTHEWS
LEONARD
WOODCOCK
PAT
GREATHOUSE
Vice
Presidents
in 20
level
the
living costs
to
$2.50.
of
semi-
EMIL
MAZEY
Secrétary-Treasurer
to
wages run $7 to $42 a week less
and
costs,
living
local
than
most typically, are about $20
living
modest
this
below
standard.
2—There is little relation-
Workers
Published
WALTER
P. REUTHER
President
is
Papert
Miss
costs,
to living
points out. In most U. S. cities,
AFL-CIO.
monthly.
Editorial
office, 8000
ferson,
Detroit
14,
Michigan.
cities—Detroit
approximately
Implement
America,
Too,
established,
Houston—are
wages
the Colos-
Cathedral
three-week
Travel
four years
get and average earnings
cities.
you
hit
figures
The
in
the
arranged
of
layoffs.
budget
this
based.
Having
and
Rome,
tour,
the mature worker often has
more than the two children on
which
Vatican,
unionist
only
$595
for
travel and living expenses
hat
rain
earn
don’t
year
one
For
the
argument
the
wage
a
Notre
bonne
trip to
“The
The
every
is, in
fact
The
average.
life most workers earning
weeks
in
quainted.”
worker
38-year-old
this
that
probably earns more than the
average
Venice’s
you also can answer
enough
easily
the
seum
nations
three-fifths
and
years
to
addition, it was planned to help
UAW people and those of other
budget.
coat
a
allowed
of
Buckingham
Brussels,
Forum
ucational,”
DepartLabor
York
er New
ment official work out a comparison of the costs of the bud-
up
give
automobile...
might
pound
170,444.30
Investments..
represented
., . They
example,
She’s
British
Works,
especially
better
Government
the
on
sights
Glass
Louvre,
costs
of living
a comparison
is valid,
wages
average
with
we’vye had Kate Papert, form-
less
on
every two years.
does slightly
Mama
at
London
in
Roman
well
famed
of
the changing
Guard
in
many
historic
and
Bourse
Ger-
a
year,
a
by
the
workers
seeing
the
Palace
France
Italy and
dungarees
our
live
could
satisfactorily
for
their
ing
bureau
family
“A
is
than
income
budget
by this
could,
to
of
compared
taxes,
wages
industrial
including
average
the
huge
Belgium,
are
continent’s
Museum
European
other
in
asin
two
been
has
staff
BLS
The
arguing in its publications that
budget
from
with leaders and
of
unions
of
Labor
of
Bureau
S.
U.
The
the
Con-
H-C-L Expert Says:
‘Don't Blame Wages
MONTHLY STRIKE REPORT
INTERNATIONAL STRIKE FUND
FOR AUGUST 1960
Mc-
Educa-
union’s
by the
members
leaders
International
trade
many
committee-
arid
stewards,
Hutton
visit
members
members,
and
officers
Education
Conferences
by
coordinated
and
1-A
and
shop
< Sv 1N 0000000
Joseph
Co-Director
Doug-
Federation, Hutton said.
In
addition,
the
UAW
program
sels, and inspect France’s
Renault auto plant.
Regions
UAW
by
Sponsored
union
See”
1-A
Co-Director
1-A
have
been
arranged
International
Metal
accompanied
Trade
Free
of
federation
Unions headquarters in Brus-
of
Cliffs
White
one,
will
Rome,
countries
the union’s Education Department, the UAWers include local
No
Region
coordinated
and
of British trade unions here
and with Italian union federaand
tion officials in Venice
historic,
six
are
three-weeks
is a busy
three-week
European
scenic
on
Some
by their wives.
a
its
and
tour
into
men.
at
month
here
a
of
first
taking
workers
landed
UAW
82
are
unionists
trade
1
Time
bon
trip to Europe
were (holding
82 Unionists Take European Tour
Sponsored by Regions 1 and 1-A
Dover to the giant snow-coyered Alps of Switzerland.
“Long
tudy
voyage
Winn,
Frank
cations
ment
Joe
and
Walsh,
tions
and
Editor
Public
Assistant
Public
and
Director,
Publ
Relations
Depart
Director,
Publica-
Relations
Depart
ment.
Editor
Henry Santiesteyan, Managing
Assistant Director, Publications
and
and Public Relations Department Mar.
Jerry Dale, Howard Lipton,Alpert,Ray Staff
tin, Jerry Hartford, Cy
Members
Members, American Newspaper
Guild,
AFL-CIO.
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196C—Page
10
Unionists from Swede
Felt Right at Home Her
unemployment is the most
portant American problem. T
26,
Swedish
the
of
Members
Metalworkers Union were honthis
dinner
ored at a UAW
Eisenhower
said,
September
month at Solidarity House—in
the Scandinavian Room whose
furnishings they had donated
union.
12-man
to the
The
cluding
both
delegation,
- and
rank
Act
- file
SOLIDARITY,
GOP’s Southern Accent
Showing in Civil Rights
The
“the
that
shows
record
Linfrom
Abraham
departed
party claiming
coln has long
has generand
his teachings
ally allied itself with the South
on civil rights ... ,” the InDepartment,
Union
dustrial
AFL-CIO, has charged.
in
charges
The
contained
wer:
to the
released
a study
affiliated
partment.
the
of
unions
Walter
in
charged
the
trates
further
foreword
a
“GOP-Dixie
almost
De-
P. Reuther,
president,
IUD
63
that
pene-
axis
in
deeply
as
rights as in
legislation.”
the area of civil
of welfare
that
“The
entitled
study,
The
Civil Rights Fight — A Look
at the Legislative Record,” reviews
party positions on key
civil rights issues in Congress
and on fair employment prac-
tices legislation in three
states — Ohio, California
Michigan,
The
political
record
parties
importance
all
to
others
true
of
who
finds
civil
rights
ally
and
usually
cratic
“the
taken
‘of
extreme
Negro
believe
and
in
the
democracy,”
of
that
advances
legislation
in
come
the
states
under
leadership
party
of
the
rights
wing.”
nation’s
emphasizes.
study
It
is
the
meaning
the
the
key
and
and
in
feder-
have
Demo-
that
Jackson
leadership
despite
has
in
its
civil
Bourbon
The IUD further notes
the GOP cannot perform
quately
rights
in
“as
economic
guarded
by
lition with
crats.”
The
the
area
long
as
programs
of
the
are
safe-
a coa-
the Southern
declares
civil
party’s
maintaining
study
that
ade-
Demo-
that
the
Heritage Fund
proposal
GOP’s
legislation
session
gust
in
civil
for
special
the
rights
Au-
was
of “Congress
that
“the
politically motivated and
ignored
deliberately
it
two
1960
spent
months
rights
civil
the
debating
act.”
areas
cation,
legislation
of
federal
housing
aid
by
GOP -Southern
proposals
wage,
and
renewing
the
“It was with these two ends
in mind that Senate pee
Leader
Everett
Dirksen
to
motion
the
made
opportunities
job
said.
study
the IUD
proposal,”
a
—
(PAI)
WASHINGTON
“survey” used by the American
Medical Association when the
was _ before
aid bill
medical
Congress to “prove” that America’s aged don’t need and don’t
want Federal medical aid has
come under the sharpest kind
of fire from American sociologists.
It has been especially denounced
versity
uni-
by at least nine
helped
who
professors
but
survey
the
in making
who are now bitterly angry
at the way its results were
misinterpreted and the “political”
was
it
use
by
to
put
the AMA to defeat the laborsupported Kennedy bill.
The AMA, in a news release
the Senate
on Aug. 14 when
was debating the bill, flatly declared
survey
the
that
made
by
that medical aid under the sonot
was
cial security system
needed.
The survey claimed, among
declared
clusions
trary
not
health,
“are in good
aged
which
most of the
that
things,
other
shocked
hardship cases.”
The result: The Kennedy
which
was
similar
to
bill,
A “charity” bill
was defeated.
was substituted and has been
signed by President Eisenhow-
er.
It has
denounced
been
by
the AFL-CIO as utterly inadequate and a determined effort
“constructive
ef-
forts
to
encourage
greater
citizenship participation in the
affairs
of
government”
and
because
ing
the UAW
interest
since
we
organization
ultimate
of
“has an abid-
in
such
recognize,
does,
strength
democratic
matters
as
your
that
the
and
government
vigor
de-
pends
in
large
part
on
an
informed and politically active
public.”
The
above
comments.
were
incorporated
in
a
letter
to
the
Foundation from UAW
President Walter P. Reuther transmitting
the check
for the
UAW’s contribution.
The
Foundation
is a nonpartisan
organization
to the encouragement
devoted
of regis-
tration and voting by all American citizens of whatever party
or candidate preference.
do
it
on
their
own,
newspapers
leading American
which
legislation
opposing
would
place
medical
care
for
the aged under the social seThe Wall Strect
curity system,
Journal printed three solid col-
MEDICAL CARE
FOR THE
AGED
REGISTER
vt VOTE
the
University
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the
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and
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byt
extraneou)
religious
nothing
NTUC,
unionists
of acdr
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nonsense
in
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the
population
who
survey
took
but
not
thaPr
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discussingh
stop
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be
would
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to
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con-
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of
the
wrote:
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the
political
not have
it.at the outset.”
aid+fi4
fanatics
silence,
ed and abetted by bigots comficy
tinue ... to... manufacturt
ligion.”
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“both
avow
NTUC
proposed
clearly
candidates
and repudiate the
any
of
any
candidate
attempts
that
his
religious
“Only
these
when
groups
and
ciaHy
or
individual
port
to win
the
on
is
have
claims
on
interviews
were
that
clear
been
relegated
long.”
where
the
ready
Negroes
on
largest,
homes
least
ed
they
is
pre-
based
reached
their
most—those
where
the
poverty
aged
hospitals,
of those
refused
problems.
al-
assistance,
old-age
and
20%
who
the
in
is the
and
rest
at
interview-
to
discuss
Sen, Eugene McCarthy, Minnesota Democrat, who is chair-
man
of a Senate Subcommittee
on unemployment
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throughout
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country,
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release
news
AMA
misleading and deceptive ...
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undertaken
and
about
the
with
tive
in
use
‘conclusions
for
used
was to be
propaganda, I would
false
selves
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statements
the
racists
math:
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confusing
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Nebraska
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to
used
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bolster full page ads in ten
Heritage
prefer
that
Professor
bill,
the
Forand
strongly-supported
to
was
Congressional
in
are moderately
and
financial condition, not
sick
good
it
to discover
of
the
important
ment
the Congressional Record letters and statements from sociin
participated
who
ologists
were
but
suryey
the Emory
newspapers
of
Hundreds
the United States
throughout
“prove”
to
used the material
each
concern
it,
the
economic
U.S.
of
policy
do
the
of
however,
jologist himself, has inserted
itself.
“survey”
the
of
umns
$5,000 to the American
contributed
fearful,
job
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Swedes
The
decisions
arguments
workers
in
Medical Care ‘Survey’ Twisted
By AMA, Professors Charge
the
that
appears
now
It
much-cited Emory suryey has
met with the scorn and wrath
of
numerous
sociologists
has
ca-
also suffer economically as a
result.
Reuther told the group that
Gets Donation
From UAW
UAW
astonished
They
he added.
slowdowns,
believe European nations will
at Emory
the two professors
Georgia,
Atlanta,
University,
“emphatically proves that the
Americans
of
majority
great
over 65 are capable of financing their own health care and
The
are
abroad.
effects
the
kill
bringing
are
from
actually
had
in May,
of
industries there in that country
a time
ters
With Sweden operating at
full employment, Noren said,
Dirksen,
against both.
voting
both
against
voted
had
who
provisions
“At
the
their
new
:
next J)
Rights
Labor
campaign.
dele-
half
cre
Trade
Human
expressed
people
Swedish
or
for
can
for
to
in
National
Metalworkers
been
a third
market
the injection
question
in
international
spokesman
of the
1,350,000
Jewish
has
the
bill.
care
the
pacity.
of Republicans
a majority
with
Democratic
coalition.
only
bill—
civil rights
1960
the
from
the
the
during its tour to see steel mills
and auto plants operating at
dropped
been
as
the
had
gation
com-
of
said
group,
such
and
3
bike ;
ybsnr
False Issues
In Campaign
Council
adopt-
Congress
Noren,
and
Union
believes
medical
secretary
in goyernment-con-
had
measures
Ivar
bill was tabled by a 54
party-line vote, similar
hower
to 28
of
Forand
tract industries.
“As Democrats were quick to
the Eisenpoint out, before
the
aged,
for the
ing
job op-
to assure equal
portunities
to edu-
minimum
care
health
in
a permanent
up
set
who
in
|
governmer
in overcom!
years.
The
White
the
in
man
a
urgency
Ejsen-
an
bill
Eisenhower
The
session.
would have authorized federal
funds to help school districts
with desegregation and would
mission
split between Northern and
Southern Democrats. It was
also intended to block domestic
House
rights bill during
days of the special
hower civil
the opening
have
“GOP political strategy was
all too obviously intended to
emphasize
the
civil
rights
put
Trumajmir?
Hit by ILC
to the
would
F. Kennedy
presidency
Sen. John
American
1946.
put all
to work
labor
those
of
election
that
however,
to
the
in
for the
the
As a nation, he added, the
U.S. is far behind in social
He pointed out,
legislation.
propose
could
Til.)
housing.
and
care
health
under
unemployment
years
as
such
legislation
social
nothing
ate jobs in each
and interest on the tremendous
in
in Sweden
progress made
headquarters,
union
international
at
ing
that
told the group
Reuther
the union strongly appreciates
befriendship
of
the bonds
He said
tween the two unions.
UAW also looks with gratitude
of the Scandinavian nation’s Metalworkers
VISITING SWEDISH TRADE UNIONISTS, members
President Walter P. Reuther
by UAW
Union, were welcom: ed to Solidarity House this month
furnishings for the Scandinavian Room
ed
donat
had
union
h
Swedis
The
left).
from
enth
(sev
passed
elected to
machinery
P.
Walter
President
done
team,
The UAW
président said })
is imperative that Kennedy b|
in-
the Metalworkers, is in the U.S.
to study American labor unions
and management operations.
UAW
Nixon
Administration
as well as officials of
members
has
=
“By Golly, if I had a part in this campaign . . .”
be-t
|
+
Lsva—it
MORTON,
an economic
e8e¢
Vertol Contract Nets
22ac Plus Package
Pa. — A contract settlement which calls for
package in excess of 22.5¢ has been agree od to z
Fie Peete
e
©
Wage
June
LOCAL
UAW
his local on
\of
1223 member
the occasion
Sobonosh
John
retirement.
of his
the membership
is presented with gifts from
(center)
the
From
David
left:
president;
local
Hess,
J.
his
Bob Barker,
4Hank Rossi, a member of the local’s retired workers committee; Sobonosh;
}->}foreman, and Dan Anthony, Local 1223 committeeman. Sobonosh received a gold watch, a UAW
«4pin and a lifetime membership card in his local. After working as a custodian for eight years
‘ Mat the Caldwell Wright Airport, Caldwell, N.J., owned by the Curtiss-Wright Corp., he now intends
‘ite spend his retirement years in Florida.
—-
“Even Hurricane Donna Cant Stop
Voter Registration Drive
JUAW
i
| Even
\yqtouldn’t
Hurricane
stop
tégistration
Donna
UAW
the
reports
drive,
voter
Re-
Gerber.
rolgion 9 Director Martin
When the hurricane hit the
ejNew York-New Jersey metroHelpolitan area with high winds
torrential
sand
njanteers
waidoor
who
bells
UAW
rains,
had
been
every
yol-
ringing
evening
and
‘eldriving unregistered voters to
siithe nearest registration booths
raqwere told to “take the evening
‘njoff” and stay home because of
esithe
‘io
weather.
But
Volosin,
one
chairman
! Linden,
|
crew
shop
of
NJ.,
| usual,
It
1}
to@were
if@ward
GM
595,
be
which
covers
south
Newark
and surrounding towns.
the
already
bushes
as
they
own
gosh-awful
wea-
Elizabeth,
the
sajther, got
yairegistered
NJ.,
of the local AFL-CIO council
assembled 2,500 gals as “baby
sitters” to allow mothers with
small children time to go to
the
9
100 unthan
more
voters to the polls
were
that
so happened
working
Gerber’s
despite
Region
12th
district
of
New
committee
doorbells, a women’s
booths.
sitters”
registration
“baby
The
with
“armed”
loons
and
new
A
kill, Pa., Dunn declared that
the union’s registration drive
in New Jersey was the best
he’d seen in a long time.
committee
couldn’t
the
drive was
registration
The
also going well in the Philadelphia area, Gerber reported.
In addition to the UAW volunringing
out
are
who
teers
summer school for New Jersey and Pennsylvania locals
BushTamiment,
at Camp
Jack
Local
at
and
beating
in
Speaking
Dunn
was at the summer
school to discuss campaign issues. Another
candidate who
attended sessions at Tamiment
was Bob Peacock, Democratic
Congressional candidate in the
reached—they
‘9 out
under
that night. What secret weapon Volosin’s crew used to get
people out on a night like that
wasn’t revealed.
It was devotion to duty exemplified by incidents such as
the one mentioned above that
caused Jack Dunn, Democratic
candidate for Congress in New
(Union
District
6th
Jersey’s
County) to heap extraordinary
praise on the UAW volunteers.
toys.
lollipops,
Local
resents
workers
port, Pa. The
local, which
in
ing Division of Avco
turing Corp., bought
Army
loons
them
surplus
and
near
weather
registration
places to attract attention to
the voter registration drive.
This novel method
created
quite a stir in the normally
Jersey,
Republican
area.
@
hour
eral
1961.
pay
@
@.
$60
hour
paid
He
in
establishing
their
@
place.
The
current
ance
rates.
@
&c
cost
to
living
frozen
ment
the
amount
was
craft
It
to
current
rates
@
table
on
Sept.
Retention
representation
plant
and
clause
4,
of
and
1961.
the
of
of
requiring
opposed
by
agement.
insurance
and
mediate
by
ers
range
hour.
labor
hour;
from
9c
39c
trouble
and
are
who
contract.
new
the
is
cur-
employed
more
however,
plant
the
(At
increase.
its
the
time
first
manufacaircraft
Boeing
other
Most
the
industry,
certain
patterns
collective
of the in-
in
leadership
until
has,
accept
to
bargaining
an
such
and
dustry,
clauses
The rate of the lowest
grade is now $2.22 an
the highest, $3.18.
refused
now,
as cost
pay for
of living
stewards
grievances.
handling
of
position
this
Despite
Ma-
of
Association
chinists.
Boeing
Inter-
to the
belong
national
Gross Injustice Rectified —
You Win
Even When You Lose
with
Gerry
—
Pa.
NORRISTOWN,
whose
lass
pretty
a
Gross,
union,
to the
belongs
heart
now knows that her faith in
misplaced.
not
was
moyement
labor
Division
Inc.
Worcester, Pa. When
lost
the UAW
the election,
Gerry was fired,
at
be-
obviously
Oct. 15
Massachusetts:
Oct.
7
Sept. 29
Oct. 15
sit
4
forces.
mediately
tice
bat
to
‘A
fair
Gross
against
charge
offered
to settle
the
firm
case
without
hearing.
settlement
payment
wages to
One-man
—
“anions” may be the style in
some totalitarian countries, but
you can’t get away with it over
here, a federal court has ruled.
In one of the most unusual
labor relations cases ever to
come before it, the U.S. Court
of Appeals here ruled, 2-to-1,
ployment.
“cease
The
in
desist”
and
plant.
the
was
case
a
contained
requiring
clause
employe
any
Union
super-market
Waterford,
employes,
jected
chose
Gray,
the
one
to
N.Y.
in
an
In
1957,
election,
an
these
Teamsters
person,
represent
a
at
chain
Robert
agreement
re-
and
them
collective bargaining.
and
company
The
signed
“one-
Gray
which
E.
in
security
“union”
who
dismissal
pay
not
did
of
his dues to Gray.
named
a worker
However,
Joseph J. Schuitz complained
the
to
tions
National
Board,
had
violated
law because Gray was
organization”
“labor
to
security
union
contracts.
An
agreed,
NLRB
but
that
act
that
was
federal
not a
within
of
part
relating
clauses
trial
the full board
The board has
in
in
examiner
overruled
been overruled by the
agreed
court, which
examiner.
Rela-
Labor
maintaining
of
meaning
Taft-Hartley
a
to
dues
for
handled
1 Man
the
the
pay
to
for 60
order
LaEzza,
John
by
union
the
Region 9 representative.
man union.”
The case involved employes
at a warehouse of the Grand
quired
be
for
but she declined the offer because she has found other em-
firm
cannot
in
lost
an addi-
in
by her
incurred
expenses
job. She
for another
looking
was also offered her job back,
the
workers
a
for
tional $96.20 reimbursement
re-
that
to
called
of
$503.57
Gerry, plus
‘One-Man Union’ lee
WASHINGTON
going
days
firm
the
that
nary
investigation,
so
much
evidence damaging to the company’s
position
was
amassed
her
prac-
labor
prelimi-
im-
went
for
Rela-
The firm was also required
to post copies of the NLRB’s
filed an un-
and
<5
Gerry
UAW
The
4
- union
pro
the
Labor
NLRB’s
The
Daystrom,
of
plant
National
tions Board.
During the
formal
Transicoil
the
at
committee
the
the
Gerry was chairman of the
organizing
UAW’s in-plant
had
she
cause
been a leader of
Don't lose your right to vote on Nov. 8!
Get yourself registered!
into
workers
the
on
workers
work-
to
Air-
production
by
the
of
turers.
man-
for
the
with
bargained
has
UAW
Boeing, which is the largest
in
many
including
boosts
of
Verto]
got
than 3,000).
This is the
contract
new
contract,
Oct. 8, 1962, im-
pay
Woodcock,
to
1,400
peak,
seniority.
Under
the
which expires
later
rently
payment
@ Improvements
contract provisions,
Corp.
Employment,
the
Boeing
to
Aircraft Depart-
changed
covered
added
the
company
for
grievance
handling during working hours
in the plant, another item bit-
terly
and
maintenance
in
the
administra-
in 1956. At about the
time, the firm went
about
present
system
Gerber,
bought
was
and
financially
out by Boeing early this year.
The
plant
now
employs
the cost of living adjustment
over
and
aboye
the
general
Wage increase of 7c based on
the
by
struga corporate
through
gle for control and its name
base
retention of the cost-
determine
the
loca]
committee
members
staffs.
there
same
the
of-living
principle,
bitterly
fought
by
Boeing,
on
this
basis: the index for July, 1961
will
9
1069
The Vertol plant was originally known as the Piasecki
Aircraft Corp. After four unsuccessful
tries,
the
UAW
election
an_
won
finally
allow-
into
Bluestone,
several
Region
rates
in
Local
assisted
assistant
and
in
holiday.
hour
of
be
The
an
was
tive
gen-
single
Cashmere,
Irving
Establishment of a “single rate structure,” eliminating
wage spreads in labor grades
and
News
president,
headed
union’s negotiating
retro-
effective
eighth
states:
Do lt Today!
in
7c an
boost
An
Jack
ge:
area
ta
will net each
$50 to
alone.
Another
the
Connecticut:
New Jersey:
New York: |
an
Regional
Sometimes
Deadlines for Voter
Registration
Eastern
bal-
“flying”
started
the
rep-
Manufaca number
If you are not already a registered voter, you have just a
few days left to get registered. Listed below are the
several
used
Lycom-
the
Voters, Please Note!
for
bal-
787 in Williams-
by UAW
of
was
technique
were
includes:
increase,
6, which
employe
activity
|
0961 ‘9% 4equiaides
craft Department, and Region 9 Director Martin Gerber.
“ALINVOITOS
between UAW Local 1069 and the Vertol Division of the
Boeing
Airplane Co., ee it has been i announceded by by UAW
i
U
i
Vice
President Leonard Woodcock, director of the union’s Air-
turn
by
now
appellate
the
with
7
1960—Page
12
Case Settlement Has »:
Tightened Local Unity
Continued
from
Page
factor,
1
26,
September
their
said.
of
workers,
hate
SOLIDARITY,
a
*“GUILTY’, said the headlines in reporting the NLRB decision
against Kohler, and guilty the company certainly was, UAW
gan.
UAW Jogs Kohler
To Keep Board Edict
of the
board’s
decision
the courts, it would
quired
to pay
full
to
be re-
wages
to workers starting five
days after they apply for
the
der.
or-
of the- NLRB
While the board also ordered the company to engage in genuine collective
bargaining with UAW, the
company still has not agreed
to
meet
in_
negotiations,
Mazey emphasized.
The union, however, has
been using meetings,
and other forms of communication
to notify
Kohler
strikers, many of them now
living in other parts of the
nation, of the decision and
to urge them to reapply for
their jobs at the plant. The
company
had
put a time
limit of Oct. 3 on its reinstatement offer to the 1,400
strikers.
Meanwhile,
Mazey
—
at
a huge mass meeting of
Local 833 members here—
called for amending
al
a
feder-
labor laws to penalize
company
with
triple
damages
and
them.
when
it “wilfully
deliberately”
violates
Telling the 1,700 persons
in his audience
that the
board's
decision
proves
“we
were right and the company
wrong from the very beginning,”
Mazey
pointed
out
that companies
under
the
present law suffer no hard
penalty when, as Kohler did,
they use the law “to attempt
to destroy unions by refusing to bargain, by provoking
strike action, and by pro-
longing a strike.”
He said a provision of
triple damages to workers
whose lives are affected by
such company actions
“would
slow
down
nies in violating
cause the only
compa-
the law benerve that
in
many
conflicts
to
avoid
can
we
believe
sacrifices
be
many
and
made
on
the part of workers,” the
Secretary-TreasurUAW
er added.
Mazey stressed that his
suggestion
company
mean
would
any
found guilty of un-
fair labor practices would be
compelled to pay workers
three times the loss of their
penalty
similar
A
wages.
now is called for
amount
under federal anti-trust
laws,
he noted.
the board
though
Even
found the company guilty of
such
practices
pro-
of
and
longing the strike, its only
action “was to order the
the
to reinstate
company
strikers on application with
the
exception
workers
properly
leged
the
of
some
77
for
al-
board
discharged
misconduct,”
found
he said.
“This action on the part
of the NLRB,” Mazey declared, “is not an adequate, suitable or a just
solution to our dispute.”
Court
Dismisses
Toledoans’
Suit
A suit filed against the
UAW
by
two
Toledoans,
charging the union with misusing funds by spending for
been
has
action,
political
thrown out of court because
termed
were
the charges
“too general.”
The suit was brought by
Randolph
Gray,
dismissed
in 1950 from his position as
financial secretary of Local
12, and by Harold Billheimer, a member of Local 773 in
Toledo.
UAW Secretary-Treasurer
Emil Mazey termed the suit
“phony” and “a fishing expedition” when it was filed.
He said the actions of both
men have been discredited
in the past.
A5% GROWTH RATE
RATE
it hurts
I
The Issue is Full Employment
A2.4%, GROWTH
of
financially,
where
———_
the
against
Ruling on Tox
Not Backed Up
Three
months
after
~
the
U.S. Supreme
Court ruled
that Kohler workers did not
have to pay taxes on aid
they
received
on
during
strike, the
from
the uni-
their
lengthy
Eisenhower-
Nixon
administration _ still
“is demonstrating its callous
disregard
for
the
rights
of
workers by refusing to implement the decision,’”” UAW
Secretary-Treasurer
Mazey charged,
Emil
Mazey pointed out that
while the top court’s rul-
ing was issued June 13,
the only Kohler striker
thus far who has received
an income tax refund from
the federal internal reven-
ue agency is Allen Kaiser,
whose case had been taken to the Supreme Court
by the union.
Kaiser received $146 in
tax
on
payments
his strike
accumulated
he
had
assistance
interest,
made
plus
Mazey
said. The
union
originally
had filed the case against
Internal
Revenue
in July,
1956.
“We
have
been
waiting
almost three months for the
Justice Department and Internal
the
Revenue
order
to carry
of
the
out
Supreme
Court,”
Mazey
said.
‘We
wonder how much longer it
will take the big business,
Eisenhower-Nixon
Republican
administration
to get
the Kohler workers
in this matter.”
justice
em-
taken
size
Home
drawings
from
booklet,
Can
a
pocket-
Insure
Liberty
“Prosperity
the issues of the
be obtained
Citizenship
Departments,
Republicans slowed US. growth to
one half the rate under Democrats
At
bles, however,
plenty of gains
Copies
there
were
recorded in
the strike-settling agreement
ratified by the members—
more improvements, in fact,
than the local has been able
Her-
together,
put
contracts
administrative
Davis,
schel
last several
in the
to make
assistant to Greathouse, reported,
Among the more impor-
tant
gains
were:
Great improvement
in
seniority protection, which
tract.
A
strong
agreement,
to
skilled
which
trades
man-
agement previously had refused to agree,
Z
paying
higher
for
apply
to
iobs in other
ments.
depart-
Lost time and leaves for
local union officers to attend to union business,
Improvement
ance,
in
overtime
insur-
for
work
walked
out
mands for a
the company
even
to
secretary
union.
In
an
effort
to
break
the stalemate and get negotiations moving, the
dropped
a
number
agreements,
in most
UAW
including cost
of living escalator, SUB,
separation pay, union
security,
improvement
of
the
Wisconsifc
Employment | Relatior)
Board.
Anthony Valeo, preside} 52?’
of the local, extended fl}) 19
thanks of
the many
the
swered
financial
his members |
locals which aif
UAW’s
help
fight.
“With
in
call
the
he said.
“We
7.5 Million Families Rective Less than #2000 a Year
}
9
a
Harvester
Shuts Down;
layoffs,
from
Page
therefore,
|
1
must
El
jat
placed squarely on the EX ©
senhower-Nixon administré:)>\¢
tion whose tight money poly |
cies have been numbing tbl)"
nation’s economy. The Rid
publicans also have been rev
company’s
%
of ovjd) 7s
turn
tractor
out
tractors
producing
Island,
a
more
a
plant
than
can):
500)\\
daily; it has been}o»,
24,
the
The
Rock}o.
is
oper-'ioi\:
same
time,
the}:
of
more
thabii
ll.,
ating at 11%
At
ri
Louisville,}:ii
plant
of capacity.
.,
firm’”s construction equip- "iu
ment division is working}:
at less than 20% of capac-\).
ity, Greathouse said.
But Harvester announce}:
net
profit
$39 million for the first ninjir
months this year and a gros}
profit before taxes of mor|
than $70 million.
Last year, the company'y
gross profit of $140 milliojul
was highest in its history.\
But workers in some Hai
vester plants have been lai.
off with more than 30 year
of
seniority,
while
worker?
than 15 yearjs
with more
seniority have been thrown
out of work with no hope ¢}
ever being recalled, Great):
house said.
below minimum stendords of health and decency
A minimum decent Mandécd of bring
lor)
will never fo>
ld000 Ainericans come out of the shadow
help 32,200,
Wou
P,
fil
their help, we weibiy »
A5% Annual Growth Rate:
i
rae
able to stick together aris
keep fighting for our rights#*
Ky.,
de-
reach
membejai7
Dean Reynolds Seitz of tl}
Marquette University Lait
School, and Arvid Andersojpic!»
the 1,900
Local
180
to
panel
were Prof. Edwin Young *j00/
the University of Wisconsi?:t
The
new contract,
flatly refused
attempt
for yi) 1
agreement.
Other
on
support
together
week of bargainittittis
culminated in the aj/H9i
ceptable
For most of the time since
March
9, when
members
of
sides
long
which
ranging from 4c to
are routine
the UAW
Education
puting
day.
of contract demands which
can
Law School, brought the dj} srit
An average increase of 12c
time
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son. The panel, headed ] fish
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Prof. Nathan Feinsinger
the University of Wiscong (11
in wage
guarantees
for
workers called back after
an hour,
17c.
Triple
holiday.
appointed
enormous productive capa(}
ity,” he said.
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tion emphasizes his point.
rotation,
for the
four,
stricting development
discipline
procedures,
piecework guarantees, and
leaving
of
to a fact-findirl))
Continued
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ment
+
get their generosity.”
previously had
been a
weak point in the con-
union
1960 Presi-
from
and
added.
In addition to the intangi-
the
can be used
and
debate
election.
labor
fair settlement.
It repeatedly stalled negotiations and
rejected any overtures by
are
new,
Abroad,” which
to understand
dential
below
its
Greathouse
tot have anough income to enjoy
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fight,
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long
indicathat as
ployees and bring a measure
a
of
processes
mental
panel
“We have hope, now, that
management
will
end its
vendetta
corporation is the pocketbook nerve.”
“If we can hit them
reinstatement to the time
jobs are offered.
The union on Sept. 1 formally demanded mass reinstatement of approximately
1,800 specified workers un-
der terms
an
to have
seems
1
Page
from
Continued
effect
°
Secretary-Treasurer
of
for
the attitude of the Case management toward its labor relations
has improved
in
small but significant ways.
in Sheboy-
meeting
the
told
Mazey
Emil
result
in the contracts
ex
Greathouse
Greathouse
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tions, he explained,
pension)
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long stalemate was given } «4
pany which previously has
shown only a McKinleyattitude
a
agreement
labor relations in the future, on the part of a comera
and
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The Nation lost forever what idle Men
and idle Factories could have produced
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