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1961-01-01
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Vol. 4 No. 1
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rma farms)
Act Fast To End Slump,
Labor Urges Congress
WASHINGTON
— The
labor movement has called
upon the 87th Congress to
give priority
attention
to
eight key measures
restoring
nomic
the
health.
The proposals were
drawn up by the AFLCIO Economic
Policy
Committee, of which UAW
President Walter P. Reuther is chairman, and approved by the AFL-CIO
aimed at
nation’s
eco-
Executive
The
SENIOR
SENATOR
by
McNafriend
of the nation’s senior
citizens, made a strong plea for
support
the
aged
of
medical
under
care
Social
ity in a talk before
House Conference
lems of the Aging.
ference agreed,
for
Secur-
tion of doctors representing
the powerful American Med-
ical Association, delegates to
the national White
House
Conference
on
Aging
this
month voted a clear-cut en-
dorsement of medical care
for the elderly under the social security system.
The Conference support
of the Forand-type social
security principle for medcare
was
an
acknowl-
edged victory, coming as it
did
after
Health and
tion yielded
ating AMA
the
_session’s
Welfare Sec-
to its domindelegates to
vote down an endorsement
in its section report.
Two-thirds of the 270 delegates to the Health and
Welfare section of the Conference, attended by about
1,650 delegates in all, were
doctors.
Earlier
in the
four-
day session, Sen. Pat MeNamara
(D.,
Mich.),
a
champion
of the
medical
care
measure
and
chairman
of the Senate Subcommittee
which
conducted
hearings
on
health
castigated
posing
the
care
the
for the aged,
AMA
for op-
Forand-type
pro-
posal.
“T hope that the delegates
Continued
on
Page
2
UAW Plan Would
Reduce Layoff Loss
UAW has proposed to the
automotive Big Three a plan
of periodic one-week plant
shutdowns in place of mass
layoffs or short work weeks
growing
out of production
cutbacks
to
meet
the
prob-
lem of excessive new car inventories and declining sales,
The
they
shutdowns,
would
make
because
it
pos-
sible tor workers to collect
ing
and
stantially to the purchasing power of the workers
involved as compared to
layofts or short work
har
d-
ship for their families and
Continued
on Page
12
y
SAUNA EV UA UAA ALAA ESA EOE ESATA
es
Joh Loss at
20-Year Peak
WASHINGTON — While
Republican campaign claims
that “you never had it so
good” still were ringing in
the nation’s ears, unemployment last month skyrocket-
ed to its highest levels in 20
years,
The U.S. Labor Department
reported:
@ A total of
workers were
in December.
4,540,000
unemployed
That's big-
ger than at any time since
the tail end of the Great
Depression,
@ The number of workers unemployed and looking for jobs shot up by
the
greatest
number
in
U.S. history for that period.
This
was
about
a million
workers more than the two
million unemployed who had
drawn jobless compensation
during Christmas week the
previous
@
Jobs
year,
dropped
Continued
on
Page
sharply
12
court’s
E.
transferred
would
eight
Page 11
increase
in
easing
by
of
mortgage
FHA
and
VA
and federal action to stim-
T,
ulate state and local public
works
projects.
Meantime,
gress
was
getting
John
U.S.
hard
the
work
big
President-elect
Kennedy’s
Demo-
administration.
Its
Con-
at
for
to
F.
cratic
the
ready
switch
beginning
activity
held promise for passage of
some vital legislation advo-
cated
by labor.
Sen.
Paul
Douglas
(D.,
Ii.) predicted speedy action on a stepped-up area
redevelopment bill to aid
that
not be
the economy.
Senate
purchaser first agreed to
employ the union’s members, subject to their ability to do the work.
Majority
Mike
Mansfield
health
care
Leader
(D.,
Mont.)
looked
for Congressional approval of bills
on housing, education,
A major missile and electronics manufacturer now is
for
the
aged
and
a
higher
minimum
wage as well as area re-
understood to be interested
in buying the plant.
Meanwhile, Michael said,
the union also will insist that
order
points
unemployment,
immediate
terms
unless the new
reinstatement
high
ness,
1959, to an Episcopal
Church religious order
which then arrived at an
the property
the
social
security
benefits,
tax relief for small busi-
UAW and Local 840 had a
contract for the previous 16
years.
Piasecki sold the Newcastle plant in December,
with UAW
eight
an
ber, 1956, after purchasing
the Bellanca Aircraft plant
at Newcastle,
Del., where
agreement
Among
emergency supplementary
unemployment
insurance,
ruling
8 Director
President
of
to overturn the order
now must comply with
Region
were
AFL-CIO
For
list of the
priority points, see
development.
While the former Massachusetts
senator
will
not
take his Presidential oath of
also
PhiladelPiasecki’s
covers
phia plant, some 30 miles
since the
Newcastle,
from
ployment ¢ompensation during the final week in December,
top
measures
were a cut in personal income taxes during periods
Michael said.
The company had locked
out the workers in Novem-
the
@ Some three million jobless workers collected unem-
Unemployment Benefits
subadd
would
(SUB),
“minimize
Section
it,
more than a half million,
three times greater than
the normal
rise for the
month.
unemployment compensation and Supplementary
weeks,
ee Magazine
UAW
means that Piasecki has exhausted all its appeals in try-
Democracy
House Meet
Med Care
WASHINGTON
— Overcoming the intense opposi-
The
To Our
the White
on
ProbThe con-
White
Okays
ical
Happening
eight
George Meany. The singling
out of the measures was the
first indication by the AFLCIO of a “priority” choice
among a 20-point legislative
program
announced
earlier
by the executive council.
Local 840.
The Court turned down
the company’s petition to
review decisions of lower
courts and the National
Labor Relations Board ordering management to put
the local’s 137 members
back to work with back
pay and to recognize and
bargain with UAW.
from
Michigan, genial Pat
mara
(D), a staunch
against
a2
listed as needing immediate
action in a letter to Congressional leaders of both parties
WASHINGTON
— The
U.S. Supreme Court this
Month brought the Piasecki
Aircraft Co. to the end of the
trail in its bitter, over-fourbattle
at
special meeting, Jan. 5.
Union Wins
Final Decision
year
Council
office until Jan. 20, Congress
went
the
company moved some Of its
following
there
operations
the lockout.
into
session
intervening
nedy’s
supporters
Continued
on
Jan.
3.
and
oppo-
time,
Page
Ken-
12
Special Convention Called
Official call to the UAW
convention
was
issued
Mazey.
to
be
this
held
month
in
special collective bargaining
Detroit,
by
April
27
through
Secretary-Treasurer
In
29,
Emil
Copies of all resolutions to be considered by the convention must be received by the international secretary-treasurer by April 6,
Cuban Unionists
_ Fighting Castro
TST
SOLIDARITY, January, 1961 —Page 2
SITET
WASHINGTON—Former
once-free
the
of
ers
Cuba,
organized
Revolutionary
Workers’
movement
into
in exile
eratic
Front
leadlabor
of
Cuban
the
(CDRWF)
their
fight
here
for support
to
against
ships of Batista and Castro.
“Our position is clear and
concrete,”
the
proclamation
said. “We
don’t stand with
the past of infamy, nor with
the present of terror.”
Demo-
carry
on
Fidel
Castro
the
Ameri-
The proclamation also struck
out at “the old leaders of the
trade
union
organization,
which to better serve the dic-
dichis pro-Communist
and
tatorship,
voiced
an
appeal
can
of
labor movement.
tatorship
Victor Reuther, director of
International Afthe UAW
fairs
Department,
presided
UNION FIGHTERS FOR A FREE CUBA, who organized in exile as the Cuban Democratic Revoa
lutionary Workers’ Front (CDRWF), appeal for support of the American labor movement at
meeting held in Washington sponso red by United States affiliates of the International Metal
Left to right: Victor Reuther, director of UAW International Affairs DeWorkers Federation.
o
partment, who presided; Jose A. Hernandez, former head of the Cuban Metal Workers; Pascasi
Textile
Cuban
the
of
head
former
and
general
secretary
CDRWF
Lineras,
Antonio
Workers;
leader
Collada, former Hotel and Restaurant Workers leader in Cuba and Mario Fontela, former
Hernandez fought against ex-Dictator Fulgencia Batista
of the Cuban Agricultural Workers.
CDRWF is
with Fidel Castro and then broke with him when his regime turned Communist.
anti-Castro
and
anti-Batista
free
democratic,
return
to
fights
and
to Cuba.
unions
trade
UAW Wins Another Round in Long Fight:
Kohler Strikers To Get Tax Refunds
The UAW’s fight for justice
for the Kohler workers is far
legal
recent
latest
the
despite
ended,
from
victories.
the union’s
are
Here
developments:
@ A new decision by the Internal Revenue Service, follow-
ing
ing
sult
a U.S. Supreme Court rulin the Kaiser case, will re-
in income
strikers
Kohler
refunds
tax
amounting
half a million dollars.
charge
against
the
the
accusing
again
to
a new
has made
The UAW
@
for
Kohler
Co.,
plumbing-
ware firm of failing to comply
with the orders of the National
Labor
Relations
Board,
and
asking the NLRB to get an enforcement order from a federal
court.
@ The company’s attempt to
have its appeal of the NLRB
decision finding Kohler guilty
heard in a federal court in Chi-
cago
rather
than
Washing-
in
ton failed, but Kohler now has
that ruling on appeal also.
The Internal Revenue Servy-
ice, in an announcement made
earlier this month, said it was
modifying
its
revenue
rulings
relating to union strike benefits in view of
the
Supreme
Court decision in
the
Allen
Kaiser case.
(Solidarity, July,
1960).
The
IRS
had
that
all
strike
case
of
Kohler
previously
benefits
were
striker
Allen
taxable, but the UAW
Kaiser
to
court
held
four
took
years
the
ago
and, after a lengthy legal battle,
won a favorable decision from
the
high
court.
Now, seven months
later,
the IRS has announced that
“in
cases
presenting
facts
substantially like those in the
GET
KEEP
IT STRAIGHT
UP TO DATE
OD
WAKE
federal income tax.”
Secretary
UAW
Commented
Treasurer Emil Mazey:
“It has been a long road to
win
other
justice
EYEVoice OPENE
of the UAW.
NUNN
News * Music
* Sports
Weather
* Shop Tolk
Weekdoys
Kaiser
as
it relates
and
to
the income tax issue.”
Regarding the issue of Koh-
ler
Company’s
non-compliance
with NLRB orders, Kohler Local 833 made its latest complaint late last month after the
plant was scheduled for a 12said
local
The
shutdown.
day
the shutdown
violated the
board’s reinstatement order.
David Rabinovitz, Local 833
attorney, said the
shutdown,
coupled with the reduction of
the normal work week down to
32 hours, “reaffirms the union's
position that Kohler
Co. is not
in compliance with the order of
the
NLRB...
.”
He pointed out that Kohler
has not scheduled such shutdowns in 25 years. The company had claimed the layoff
was due to “excessive inyen-
tories.”
In a letter sent to the board
by UAW
attorneys
ber, the
union
last Novem-
objected
“to
any
approval or certification by the
board at this time of respond-
ent’s
date
ance
(Kohler
Co.)
conduct
as amounting to
with any
part
to
compliof
the
board's order.”
The letter was sent after the
the
that
had learned
UAW
company was seeking a certificate of partial compliance with
the NLRB’s orders from that
agency.
The UAW told the board that
of the
anticipated
board
order.
“For the board to countenance the retention of strikebreakers and the
offer
of
only
a 32-hour
week
to strik-
ers entitled to reinstatement
as compliance with its order
would
be
a travesty
ministration,”
the
letter continues.
Only a fraction
upon
ad-
union’s
of
the
1,600
have
not
been
Kohler strikers are back on the
job
Many
...
not
re-employment,
offered
even on a 32-hour a week basis
. - . Some of those who are
back at work are
forced
to
work
for lower wages
.. «
Those
ler
have
evicted
from
their
Company-owned
not
been
paid
Koh-
homes
damages,
These
as ordered by the board,
are some of the other complaints raised in the union’s
letter to the board.
This letter was followed by
another
communication
to
the board a few days later,
in which UAW general counsel Harold Cranefield asked
the board to get an enforcement order
from
the
U.S.
Court of Appeals in Washington against the Kohler
force it to comply
board’s directives,
In the meantime,
pany’s
peal
attempt
from
transferred
the
from
Co., to
with
the
to have
NLRB
the
com-
its ap-
order
the Washing-
ton federal appellate court to
court
appellate
the Chicago
The UAW
was turned down.
had
opposed
the transfer.
However, Kohler has appealed
the court’s refusal to transfer
the case.
among other things, it offered
returning
strikers
a
32-hour
work week, although the Koh-
had
short
a
work
It
is
the
"Ws.
never
been
week
since
union’s
comply
tives
with
has
on so
the
the
concerning
strikers,
the
went
the
Moreover,
on
to
back
pay
for
board’s
letter
the
failed
Kohler
32-hour
week
out.
just
charges, the letter states.
gives rise to speculation
This
that
off
con-
somebody
as
to
tipped
the
the
date
company
and
head
CDRWF
the
former
and
when
dictator
gime turned Communist.
group
in the
Others
Workers.
Democratically
secre-
IAM;
pointed
by
issued
proclamation
to
“IT’S BEEN a long road
win justice .. .” for
UAW
members in the fight against
the bitterly anti-union Kohler
SecretaryUAW
said
Co,
Treasurer Emil Mazey.
banner
under
charged,
in
the
the
fu-
procla-
“has
could
be
served
whose
commit-
crimes, the
trade union
outrages,
and
the
terrorism
and
moral
practices
grant
dation.”
most
of
fla-
political
degra-
regime,
Castro
the
Under
the CDRWF charged, “The Cuban worker has
either becoming
and
that
out
in
the
picable political
most repugnant
Ben Segal, International Union
of Electrical Workers.
Lineras
class
ted, and would continue to
be committed, the most des-
United
America,
of
Steelworkers
tyr-
altars of a hy-
concept,
protection
Faupl,
Bernstein,
Meyer
sub-
political
demands
happiness
the
as
can affiliates of the IMF at the
Rudy
of ‘the
on the
mation
- elected
were
their
working
the
concept
pothetic
ture.”
This
leaders of the once-free unions
in
Cuba
haye
been
reand
Castro
by
ousted
placed by Communists.
Representing
other
Ameri-
meeting
of
neo-Soviet
to the
present
tary of agriculture and former
Agriculof the Cuban
head
tural
justify
social
and
sec-
CDRWF
‘exclu-
duties
of the Cuban
proletariat,’ renouncing all economic
retary of foreign relations and
former Hotel and Restaurant
Workers leader in Cuba, and
Fontela,
to
enclose
in the
were
CDRWF
Collada,
Antonio
the
economic
order
to
re-
his
concept
of
anny that reigns in Cuba today, encloses itself and tries
the revolution against ousted
Dictator Fulgencia Batista and
then broke with the bearded
present
sively
mitting
in
fought with Castro
ers, who
class in the
in
Work-
Meal
of the Cuban
police force which
a
the
integrated
with
denounce
his
the choice of
a part of the
is coercively
the red militia,
informer
an
becoming
of
or
CDRWF when it was founded
denounced both the Dictator-
comrades
own
confidentially.”
to
Conference Okays Med Care
Continued
from
Page
grass-roots
1
care,
The
A
care
indiyidual physician
be influenced
will
source of payment.
that
whole,
in
ment
as
effect,
upheld
federal
coordinating
periodic
VOLUNTARY
recom-
agency
reviews
of
AGENCIES—
A central national voluntary
coordinating body should
be
set up to assist in the program
of service to older persons,
HOUSING—This group advocated “housing which the aged
can afford, that meets the special needs of the aged, designed
the
from
to avoid isolation
the
regular community. This would
in
including the aged
mean
urban planning and revision of
local zoning laws and building
a
this,
heavy
govern-
federal
The
codes.
federal
expand
ment should
mortgage insurance, conduct a
research
the public
program
housing
the
elderly.”
old
age
INFLATION
—
survivor
and
extend
program
for
Benefits
for
depend-
and
to
adjusted
be
should
ents
changes in prices, wages and
recomwas
It
productivity.
mended that the present $4,800
base for computing taxes and
benefits be increased periodically in proportion to the inwage
in the average
crease
level.
observers viewed their endorse-
indicating
medical
GOVERNMENT
—
federal programs,
the
as
FEDERAL.
als-and
renders
the
by
do
We
not believe this is so.”
the conference
When
also
social
in the aging field should be
given a statutory basis, appropriation and responsibility for
formulating legislative propos-
The measure also had
drawn strong support during the election campaign
from President-elect John
F. Kennedy who sought to
have it passed by Congress
during last year’s special
“shirt-tail session” following the political conventions.
of
for
of
COMMUNITIES—Local
communities
should
immediately
create committees on aging.
STATES—Each
state should
establish, by legislative action,
@ permanent unit on aging.
mendation by the session’s
group
maintenance
income
that this should be the “basic
means of financing health
care for the aged.”
quality
conference
mended:
surance principle by the conference came on a recom-
against
support
provision
security
here will not allow themselves to be hustled or stamnot in
into action
peded
keeping with the purpose of
the conference,” McNamara
said in an obvious reference
to AMA efforts to defeat the
endorsement.
Support of the health in-
the
plant
six days before the NLRB issued its order finding Kohler
guilty of unfair labor practice
of
organization
of
“Health care should be made
available without barriers and
with preservation of the dignity of the individual. In order
to achieve these objectives, we
should
believe the individual
be enabled to pay during his
working lifetime for the care
he requires after retirement.
“It is distressing to be told
by organized medicine that
direc-
points
secretary
votes went heavily
measure, said:
conten-
also
Accompanying Lineras at the
meeting was Jose A. Hernandez,
to put the working
“The CDRWF does not stand,
nor can it ever stand,” the
proclamation continued, “with
the present labor leaders, who
A minority report favoring
the proposal in the Health and
AMA
where
section
Welfare
tion
that
by
putting
the
whole
plant
on
32
hours,
Kohler sought to retain the
scabs it had been ordered to
fire, if mecessary,
to make
room for returning strikers,
Co.
former head of the Cuban Textile Workers.
Mario
Kohler had NOT complied with
the board’s directives because,
Kohler
«> GUY
for
strikers
ler plant
UP WITH
tents
benefits
Kaiser case, strike
as gifts
would be regarded
and, therefore, exempt from
and
CDRWF
the
of
general
secretary
Lineras,
Pascasio
by
sought
proletarian demands’
(which)
served as an efficient tool to
maintain Batista, to suppress
democratic
struggle
and
to
prevent the initial triumph of
non-communist
forces
that
were fighting against the dictatorship.
talk
a
Batista)
straightjacket
over the meeting sponsored
by American affiliates of the
International Metal Workers
Federation (IMF).
The gathering heard
(of
RESEARCH—Early
ment
of a national
establish-
institute of
gerontology in the National In-
stitutes
cated.
of
Health
was
advo-
Press Bias Against Labor Blasted
news-
daily
of
bias
anti-labor
papers was sharply and pointedly spelled out this month by
Radio and TV DepartUAW
panel
the
editor
of the press
gaining.
on
ments,
de-
union
presented
table.
at
The
them
describes
typically
forced
ship
“In a process like collective
arCummins
bargaining,”
gued, “it is not always possi<
ble to report the news with<
out including some of the
by
on
member-
union
the
Goebbel’s ‘big lie’ formula to
inactually
use
constant
bargaincollective
fluences
ing is debatable but it cer-
propaganda.
“Growing power of the union
to enforce, even to dictate, its
general
to
standing,”
demands poses a threat to the
very existence of collective bar-
@
to
Nunn
said.
No group is more entitled
be interested in the quality
As
a
off.
result,
many
ter attempt to settle the isEllsworth
reasonably,
sues
among
the
1,500
residents
in this
conservative-to-the-core community
make no secret
of
their sympathy
for the
union’s members in their long
strike at the General Processing Corp.,
president.
“The
bunch
of which
Wibel
union men are
of
home-town
Carpenter,
Local
1015-
presi-
added.
“That
was
when
he
the
is
man,
tried
to
saying.
keep
strike
clean. They were driven into
their strike by Joe Wibel’s dictatorial tactics.”
The
dispute
that
led
to
Daniels’
broke
into
pointed
the
comment
open
last
Aug.
12, That was when the local’s
members
set) up their picket
lines in protest against man-
agement’s
violations.
continued
to
another
notification
agreement,
unfair
labor
location
as
required
a string
of charged
one
of
US. cities in which
sided
nature
of
newspapers
during
the
compilation
Publisher,
dustry’s
shown.
three
the
nedy
was
recent
the
own
Not
Detroit
candidacy
for
the
by
one
21
a
of John
U.S.
shot
a
and
in-
has
then-
supported
F. Ken-
presidency.
Cincinnati,
Cleveland, Denver, Des Moines,
Detroit,
Indianapolis,
Los An.
City,
Omaha,
Phoenix,
had
plant
union
San
and
Francisco,
Tulsa,
The
Seattle,
Associated
Press
Paul,
Tucson
pre«
viously
had
reported
that
none of its 39 member news~
papers
in
Michigan
supported
didates,
the
Democratic
have
of
Tre-
the same
grab” if a
empha-
it, he
shows
And
describe
civic
term
and
by
the
contributions
to
like
saving
holdup
as “an
police’;
Certain
war
for
the
disabled
may
veterans
on
exemption
their
tax-assessed
homes,
Emil
Treasurer
UAW
a
be
Michigan
eligible
portion
valuation
of
of
Secretary-
Mazey,
director
of the union’s Veterans Department, reported this month,
Ex-servicemen
receiving a
Veterans Ador more
10%
pension
for
or
tax-assessed
hit a pedestrian,
if the
arrested
shoot
same
for
papers
UAW
The
Secretary-Treas-
urer emphasized that the taxassessed valuation is different
from
ation.
or sale valu-
the purchase
Since each county or township has a different tax review
period, eligible veterans should
apply
the
for
exemption
as
soon as possible at their local
Mazey
tax assessor's office,
added.
“They will have to present
their discharge papers, their
last pension check or a letter
from the Veterans Administration certifying entitle-
a
to a pension, and
ment
contract, deed or other docu-
pic-
which
tion,”
they
he
want
pointed
the
out.
exemp-
the
refer
to
“union members.”
And
shop
if they
officer,
in
happen
steward
for
they
a
or
a
likely
as
sudden
the
or
news-
as
to be
a
union
not
are
newspaper
aide.”
“dope”
systematically
of
get
them
local
promotion to “Reuther
@
Pre-bargaining
size
ac~
driving
wives,
patly
of
workers
drunk
their
are
works
cidentally
But
be
to
told
the
an
arbitration,
to
otherwise
to
work
the
up
six
quick
atom.
employer
a
size
ability
paragraphs
on
rejects
newspaper
is
likely to describe it as “sturdy
independence”; if a union does
so, then labor is showing “reck~
less irresponsiblity.
@ Newspapers
start playing
up a so-called “strike threat”
in
eyery
negotiation
about
six
months
before
bargaining
even begins, Nunn
noted. But
the term “lockout,” he added,
has
been
newspaper
though
all but
its
creased.
dropped
language,
practice
from
even
has
in-
Angelo’s main rebuttal consisted of saying, “I am tired of
entire
press
malicious.
strike
who
split
If
the
stress
union
company’s
eight
@
or
continued.
vicious
It
as it was
is
being
not
ten
called
half
years
as
ago.”
SOLIDARITY
“
REGIONAL
NEWS—ZJanuary,
1961
Members Sign In
New Health Plan
unions
broad
over $7,500.
he
reporter
how
United
employee”
a
or
record
dogs,
the
might
news-
man,
company
About
non -~ service-connected disa~
ability may be eligible for tax
exemption on the first $2,000
assessed valuation of their
said, prodwellings, Mazey
not
is
vided the property
“dic-
for, Nunn
the
Tax Possible
For Some Vets
daily
the
as
things
making
a
stories
where
newspapers
corporaappointed
ments showing they are buyon
home
the
own
or
ing
so-called
thrown
rocks
windows.
can-
had
been
victed of such charges.
On the other hand, a
pany
charge
promoted
downs
was
National
Board.
company
of two of UAW’S
9,000 members
General
Motors
local
have the chance this month to sign up in Detroit's new,
Community
union-backed
the
program,
care
medical
Health Association. Full CHA benefits will be available to those
who do starting March 1.
The two groups are Local 235 which represents about 7,500
Chevrolet Gear and Axle workers and Local 262 whose 1,500
Blue Shield filed a rate int
role
members work at the Chev
crease request with the state
se
choo
can
Forge plant. They
insurance commissioner's ofor retain their current
fice which demanded boosts
CHA
Blue Cross-Blue Shield coverage.
Previously signed up was &
of Local 157 members
group
Commonat the
work
who
wealth
their
and
Corp.
Brass
dependents. They’ve been enservices since
titled to CHA
Mott,
D.
Frederick
1,
Dec.
M. D., CHA
noted.
Similar
are
under
executive
director,
enrollment
efforts
among
way
Employed
workers.
enrollment
which
other
in
groups
taking
is
place typically have a choice
the Blue Cross-Blue
between
CHA
the
and
plan
Shield
program.
Meanwhile,
Blue
Cross
and
that
$1.36
would
cost
policyholders
to $4 a month
more,
Blue Cross said it wanted a
22.04%
increase
in
current
rates while Blue Shield asked
for approval of a 13.5% rate
boost.
granted
summer,
-Blue
an
Shield
11.5%
had
increase
been
last
offers a
program
CHA’s
broad range of benefits includcalls,
home
visits,
office
ing
laboraX-rays,
immunization,
of
days
120
and
tests
tory
complete hospital service. Care
through
initially
is available
the group of physicians practicing at Metropolitan Hospital
and
Clinics.
to
The
that
the
pitched
out
production
Labor
con-
com-
union
slow-<
by
the
Relatfons
The
NLRB
said
the
came up with only in-
sufficient evidence and refused
to issue a complaint based on
the company’s agsertions.
The
union
the
be
said
settled
company
the strike
rapidly
would
if
start
bargaining in good faith, and
spent the same time at the
now
expend
aganda,”
table
“that
in drafting
they
prop-
Alley Up!
Oklahoma
St.
by
as
been assaulted
member
Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh,
pickets
at
newspapers
citizenship”
assumption
a union
sized.
interest
overt
press
of
into
reported.
bargaining
single
newspaper
supKennedy:
Baltimore,
Minneapolis,
such
and
and
hospitalized
by professional
strikebreakers
while
engaged in lawful picketing,”
Boston,
geles,
Flynn
hired
were
kets also have
could
Chicago,
pointed
Thomas
protection
Here is the list of the big
metropolitan
cities
in which
not a
ported
gun
addition,
approved
described
have been
the
“bosses,” sometimes as
tators.”
@ Workers
who
do
catching
schools.
an
by
Foundation,
e@ So, tco, in political activity,
Nunn
declared.
When
General
or
Chrysler
Ford,
show
officers
pay, however,
is considered
by a publisher
as far too
intricate an assignment
fer
are
Looking
union denied this emphatically.
It
pointed
out
that
no
newspaper,
dailies
it
how
saw
he
the
scabs
the
break
emphasized
the
“had
“and it wasn’t in the air.”
Shortly after the strike startbrought in
ed, the company
International
strikebreakers.
union
election,
of
had
the
fund.
The
company,
on its part,
charged that members of the
the oneAmerica’s
magazine,
Wibel
Flynn
major
Editor
and
said
Carpenter
‘plant
On GOP Side
was
the
pointed in the air all the time.”
been
Survey Shows
Press Again
Detroit
asserted,
he
“In
the
and
ar-
point
recruited from cities
Jackson and Chicago.
without
practices,
was
of threata shotgun.
“didn’t
he
said
said
operplant
by
Wibel
Representative
contract
These included moving
ations out of the Quincy
by
gun
at
anybody.”
He
was
bringing it in to a night watch-
“They
the
the
carried
rested on a charge
ening pickets with
have
as
bitter.
to
either a service-connected
over the dispute soon
became
He
quoted
97%.”
Feeling
a good
boys,”
took
It
vote.
about
Dolphie Daniels, Chamber
of
Commerce chairman here has
been
membership
strike
against
ministration
got nowhere,”
dent, said. “We
described
whatever
plot”
union
Exemption on
in this small, peaceful, usually bustling
QUINCY—People
community belieye Joseph Wibel really doesn’t want to settle
the bitter dispute that has kept some 120 members of UAW
Local 1015 on strike now for five months.
Several times, the union’s negotiators believed they had a
tentative agreement ready for
members to vote on as a strike
big list of unsettled grievances.
settlement. In each case, the
the
strike,
the
Before
company suddenly and unexunion had made attempt af-
backed
elected
treated by the press as a “labor
But they describe
interest as a “power
City on Strikers” Side
In Long, Bitter Dispute
pectedly
unions
businessman,
minded
sponsibilities.”
under-
public
by
“presidents,”
as
“industry
spokesmen”
and
“leaders,”
democratically
papers,
“an
disservice
grave
does
tainly
out.
officers
influence the make-up of the
school board, even when this
has meant no more than organized support of a public-
in elections,
that
“good
Dr.
putting
“Whether
pointed
attempts
Motors
leaders.
elected
their
he
But
as radical, exorbitant in cost,
arbitrarily
and
unworkable
bar-
collective
bargaining
press
impact
the
was
trade
formally
are
the
of the Detroit Free Press. Topic
for
charged:
Many
they
and
Co.,
managing
Angelo,
Frank
director
Motor
Ford
the
of
Nunn
against
press
the
tion
age campaigns, and their children make up the overwhelm~ing majority of schoo] enroll-
prej-
mands are presented by newsas
readers
their
to
papers
“new.”
Typically,
newspapers
against
attacks
steady
level
before
long
demands
these
labor re-
administration
lations
labor.
of
@
lations Research Association's
Detroit Chapter.
Nunn took part in the program as a panel member with
M. Cummins,
by
the
about
Nunn
made
udice
ment director Guy Nunn at a
meeting of the Industrial Re-
Manton
of public schools than union
members, Nunn said. Few others have worked harder than
union members in school mill-
gaining,” the auto corporation
official asserted.
Neither Cummins nor Angelo
directly answered the charges
steady
overwhelming,
The
Detroit
UAW
rolling
are
tournaments
area bowlers are
two
toward
—
Region
top
ls
scheduled for Feb, 18 and 19,
and Region 1A’s set for Feb, 25
and 26. Both tourneys will be
held
18050
at
Log
Cabin
Woodward
Recreation,
aye,,
Detroit.
a
X-RAYS
at Metropolitan
Hospital are part of her
aT
Comunity
Health
Association
(CHA)
Local 42, The labor-supported health
for Judith Allen, a member of Offic ¢ Employees
Motors this month,
program enrolled members of two UAW local un ions at General
coverage
insurance
—
IN MICHIGAN
MICHIGAN
SOLIDARITY,
January,
1961—Page
4
JUST
$780MillionLoss
lo Jobless in 60
ten months of 1960.
wages for the entire
n a month in wages in the first
tals more than $780 million in lost
$450 million or
month for the
to more than
$37 million a
same period.
The figures
are
the
result
of
computations
based mostly on
data published by the Michigan
Security
Employment
sion.
They
economic
show
the
loss to the
Commis-
terrific
state
and
its
cOmmunities,
not only
in
individual purchases of needed
goods and services but also in
terms of tax income.
Meanwhile, the MESC
ported
Michigan’s
that
employment
increased
of the
227,000
was
35,000
state’s
force.
labor
jobless
The
up
its
labor
total
rose
force,
to
total
of
during the
to the mid-
of
ployment
is
how
affected
from
averaged
January
during
wages
200,000
1960.
in the
same
the
a week
wage
during
period,
their
have
totalled
had
that
amount
worked
The
if
the
area
state,
in
workers
wages
have
on a
wage,
received
minus
compensation
lost as the result
unemployment.
of
to-
manuof the
2,080
hours
jobs
were
Michigan
no
lost
as
short work weeks
tial employment.
during
available.
wage
loss
estimate
the
the
fig-
result
of
of
or other parIn addition,
no
figures
are
available
to
measure wage losses of persons
who
would
be available
for
work
if job
opportunities
existed but who are not considered part of the labor force
40
average
million.
Since
they
did
not
work,
they drew $122 million in unemployment
compensation in-
any
more
because
they
have
stead. Also deducting SUB payments, even though all unemployed
workers
do not come
under UAW’s SUB program, the
total wage loss thus is reduced
ment
include
figures
some
also
necessarily
workers
out
of
work because they are seeking
a different or a better job.
at Lansing.
grounds
state capitol
the
Medic's Heated Blast
Brings Calm-Reply
Firm Refuses
Workers Shift
In Move South
from
whose
17
to
the
job
will be
when the Detroit
seniority
37
Manufacturing
Co.
doors of its plant at
years
on
left behind
Gasket and
shuts
the
12640 Burt
The president-elect of the Wayne
Woodcock
attack
in answer
by
Dr.
D.
from
came
prescription
The
month
this
a prescription
given
W.
to a bitter
McLean,
ers reportedly are being paid
approximately $1 an hour.
of March. A minor part of
are being
operations
schools.
Dr. McLean
had
castigated
Woodcock for the union official’s statements in a speech to
and moves
the
operations
there
work-
production
where
Tenn.,
bulk of its
to Newport,
About 675 workers have been
affected by the shutdown, expected to be completed by the
end
the
City,
Marine
the
to
shifted
1-A CoMich., plant, Region
Director Douglas Fraser said.
“Fhe company proposed to
consider some of its Detroit
at
jobs
for
workers
area
Marine
City
has
but
on
a
selective
absolutely
re-
fused to permit workers who
have given it long and faithful service to move with their
jobs to the Tennessee plant,”
Fraser
said.
members
the
through
Association
Medical
medical
of
Colleges
American
last
month
concerning the relationship between medical education
and
practice.
In
an
editorial
earlier
this
Dr. McLean
charged
that
Detroit
to
and
I wouldn’t
problem
about
which
thought-
and
careful
got
if I
I
of the papers given
has
institute
same
this
later
for publication
year. I hope that when it bewill
you
available
comes
lems
which
education
of medical
all—physicians
we
re-
“Medical
in
and
interested,”
laymen alike—are
Woodcock noted.
schools,
in
my
encourage
should
judgment,
experimentation
support
and
adand
in the organization
ministration
care
medical
of
medicine,”
clinical
just as in
the UAW
vice
president said,
“The very salvation of the
private
and
practice
of
voluntary
system
surance
encouraging
tion,”
of
he
“Nowhere
medicine
health
may
lie
in-
in
experimenta-
added.
propose
I
did
to
of
reorganize a great school
medicine on a trade union basis
sold special
The fund
issues of Detroit newspapers to help raise funds for needy Detroit area youngsters.
Mazey’s
drive is an annual campaign conducted by the Goodfellows’ “Old Newsboys” group.
newspaper
sales
brought
he raised last year.
in
Above,
contributions
Solidarity
of
House
$1,894.41,
staffers
a total
stop
Mazey
of $783.73
to buy
their
(right)
more
than
newspapers
the
from
$1,110.68
Mazey.
as
you
contrary,
out that the
ice
to
...
of
job
said,
On
furnishing
of serv-
should
interfere
the
suggest.
I was
careful to point
not
with
education,”
be
the
are
session
members
of
series
five-
of
all
Jackson
sentative Robert Frost noted.
A new, eight-weeks program
of classes covering labor economics
and
automation
also
has been scheduled for stewards, committeemen and offiin Lansing,
cers
at Local
652
ned
to start
Feb,
area
locals
ing
classes
he
added. These sessions are planEducation
weeks
and
at
view all this material.
“We need to encourage rather
than inhibit discussion of these
matters by people who are interested with a view to finding
a way to meet the grave prob-
Emil
five
a
21.
sessions
include
for
Flint
year-round
once-a-week collective bargain-
been
passed
around to all
participants for comment and
Secretary-Treasurer
includes
area locals.
Plans for weekend
education conferences also are
under way for locals at Adrian
and Battle Creek, Region 1-C
Education-Citizenship
Repre-
the
“Each
at the
UAW
series
Woodcock’s proposal amounted
to a “conflict of interest” in
view of his unpaid position as
chairman of the Wayne State
University Board of Governors
and its relationship to the uni-
News,
in
McLean.
day,
for local unions as part of Region 1-C’s broad 1961 education
program, Regional Director E.
S. Patterson reported here.
week,
ful attention from the medical
educators,” Woodcock told Dr.
a
FLINT
— A
large-scale series
of classes has been scheduled
Medical
month
spoke
for
By Region 1-C€
classes starting Feb. 27 for day
and night shift workers who
wanted
could.”
“The
NEWSBOY
Leonard
President
Vice
UAW
progress.
education
medical
for
The
versity’s medical school.
Woodcock specifically denied
I
if
this, saying “I couldn’t
TURNING
County Medical Society was
Full Series Of
Classes Set
the
upcoming
medical group
chieftain.
Woodcock said medical educators have been giving serious
attention to the possibility of
serving health insurance plan
basis,
stopped looking for work.
At the same time, unemploy-
into
sworn
was
he
after
Swainson
B.
John
Gov.
by
pledged
office this month by state Supreme Court Chief Justice John Dethmers (lower right). Photographers and newsmen swarmed around the ceremonial stands as a throng watched the event on
ranges
and
was
ex-
to keep
and
downtown
economic
current
the
through
Michigan
bring
economy
state’s
the
panding
Workers
in unem-
to
ACTION
STEADY
alone.
$3,900
average
make
wages
the
ten-month
earnings
would
$917
for
com-
talled about 416 million in the
state and 219 million in the
Detroit area, assuming all unemployed workers could have
aver-
worked
the
full-time
ures
at
jobless
least
4: Hours
Straight-time
hours
200,000
same
unemployed
SUB.
October
hour in
If each
as
ployment
year.
aged $2.65 an
facturing.
the
Detroit
at
job at
state,
period
using
an hour.
and two children would
received if he had been
a month
through
to $2.82
the same period.
These
figures are based on
the wages a worker with a wife
the Detroit area, and the workers and their families:
1:
Unemployment
in
the
state
‘entire
Detroit area worker unable to
find
a
job
during
1960
amounted to $4,146 while other
for
unem-
the
the
lost
123,000.
heavy
amounted
Michigan
The
MESC
figures
also
showed that while Michigan
unemployment
was rising
35,000 between Nov. 15 and
Dec. 15, only 9,226 new job
openings were listed with the
State
agency
by
employers
and
8643
workers
were
placed
in
jobs
during
the
final month of the year.
Here
the
3: The figures also show that
the minimum wage loss for a
of
increase
an
21,000 unemployed
month-long period
December
8.7%
for
2: Unemployment in the Detroit
area,
including
Wayne,
Oakland and Macomb counties,
averaged
105,000 or 52.5%
of
the state’s total for the period.
Average straight time earnings
in
from the previous month,
At the same time, Detroit's
jobless
million
the minimum
purchasing
power loss in the Detroit area
totalled at least $450 million
by
to 7.9%
$780
year.
putations
un-
mid-December
to $647 million
for the tenmonth
period and a total of
Thus,
re-
least
at
of
average
an
lost
workers
unemployed
n’s
a
allowed
primary
Woodcock
at
courses
Local
on
bargaining
and
a six-weeks
parliamentary
Local
659,
shift
day
for
program
workers
six-
326;
on
procedure
and
labor
night
history
and bargaining techniques at
Local 1292, Regional Education-
Citizenship Representative Jack
Holt said.
Collective bargaining classes
also will start Feb. 23 at Howell
for
Locals
147,
219,
1156, and March 8 at
for Locals 743 and 754.
568
and
Owosso
UAW Wins Big
At Denham Plant
GRAND
RAPIDS
tional
Labor
at
Denham
has
ing
The
Relations
certified UAW
representative
the
—
Na-
Board
as bargainfor workers
Manufacturing
Co., a hardware producing concern at Big Rapids, Region 1-D
Director Kenneth Robinson reported,
The NLRB certification fola
lowed
whopping
union
governmenta
in
victory
conducted secret ballot election.
72
The
votes
no union,
workers
against
gave
only
UAW
21
for
~
What's
To U.S.
Happening
Democracy?
(Story on Pages 6 through 8)
“THE ‘GERRYMANDER’:
A
22m.
man
enrn seam,
\ PREDATOR IN THE —
‘PoumicAL JUNGLE,
ns edt
In 1812, in the office of an editor friend,
celebrated American artist Gilbert Stuart took
pencil in hand and sketched.
When he finished, be chuckled, “That will
do for a salamander.”
His friend snorted, “Better call it a gerry
mander|"
What Stuart had done was add a head, wings
and claw to a map of a district reshaped by the
state legislature so that it looked oddly like a
dragon.
The editor blamed Massachusetts’ then Gov.
Gerry for the strange reshaping of the district,
charging it bad been done to gain political
advantage,
The
name
“gerrymander”
stuck.
What it means to Democracy today ss ex
plored in depth in a series of articles starting
in this issue. The author: Solidarity staffer
Terry Dale,
Solidarity’s version of Stuart's “gerrymander™
is by free lance artist Jack
Maschboft.
SOLIDARITY
to
What's Happening
_ (Part One)
MICHIGAN
REPRESENTATIVE
DISTRICTS
A Conspiracy of Silence
For somie time, thoughtful observers of the political
scene, students of government, union leaders, liberals and
representatives of urban
with
have watched
communities
alarm the steady deterioration of the democratic process
through continued inequalities in methods of representa-
tion.
While discrimination against voters based on race or
color, prevalent in some sections of our country, is finally
pages of our daily newspapers,
hitting the front
nation-
is
wide discrimination against voters based on geography
WO senders
Coy Beardaries
wee
(This is the first in « series of articles—Ed.)
‘(OW democratic is our democracy? How representative is our republican form of government? Does
every person’s vote count as much as every other person’s vote?
In theory, the government of the United States and
its component parts is very democratic, truly representa-
tive and
certainly
egalitarian.
But in practice, it is not always democratic and it
is often unrepresentative and unequal.
In the 18th century, the American revolutionists
eried that they could no longer endure “taxation without
representation,” but millions of their descendants today
are enduring “taxation without equal representation,” and
are doing little about it.
For example:
@ The town of Union, Conn., has a population of
383. It is represented by two elected representatives in
the state’s lower house. The city of Hartford, Conn. has
a population of 162,178, according to the 1960 census. It
too is represented by two elected representatives in the
lower house of the Connecticut state legislature. Thus, the
vote of a Hartford voter is not equal to the vote of a
Union voter. A vote in Union, Conn. is-equal to 423 votes
in Hartford.
@
The 935,047 people of Dade
County, Fla., which
includes the city of Miami, can muster no more votes in
the state legislature than the 9,543 people of Jefferson
County.
@ The more than six million inhabitants of Los Angeles County, Calif. are entitled to one state senator. The
14,294 people of Mono, Inyo and Alpine counties are also
entitled to one state senator.
@ The 690,259 people of Oakland County, Mich. are
represented by one state senator in the Michigan senate.
The 87,016 people of Lake, Manistee, Mason, Newaygo
and
Oceana
senator.
counties
are also represented
by one
state
@ New Jersey’s rural Sussex County, population
49,255, and metropolitan Essex County, population 923,545, each send one senator to the New Jersey state senate.
@ About 51% of Michigan’s voters in the 1960 election favored Democratic candidates for Congress. These
voters actually elected only seven Democrats to Congress.
The Republican 49% of the electorate, however, elected
11 GOP condidates to Congress, due to the population
inequalities of Congressional districts.
Are these examples “horror stories” designed to
frighten and fool the gullible? Not at all. These examples
reflect a nation-wide pattern of misrepresentation, underrepresentation and overrepresentation, which will be examined in detail by Solidarity in a series of articles, of
which this is the first.
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not even discussed, thanks to the efforts of those interests
who have a stake in keeping millions of urban voters
virtually disenfranchised.
The problem of unequal representation falls inte
three broad categories: unfair apportionment of state
legislative districts, assuring almost perpetual minority
party control of many of the country’s state legislatures; variations in the size of Congressional districts,
which are supposed to be of nearly equal population,
and deliberate “gerrymandering,” the practice of —
and here we quote Webster's dictionary — “dividing
state into election districts . . . in-an unnatural and
unfair way, especially to give a political party an advantage over its opponent.”
These series of articles will deal with each of these
three categories, starting first with the most serious, the
state legislative district. We will examine each
unfair
problem in some detail, and then offer some possible
solutions.
Michigan’s second ané)
held in 1908, retained
the U.S. census rather
reapportionment.
_ So far so good — 01
However, the state-1
ern
times
by
the
Repub!
follow the constitutional m
after census figures sho’ {
tance, though legally and
litically understandable:
portionment might favor1
politician wants to legisla
By 1950, the inequitie);
so intolerable — a few
hundreds of thousands in
by just one legislator —
apportionment could no I
tirely. So they decided to
a method of reapportionmpr
}
instead of better,
A Nation-Wide Problem
The problem of state legislative malapportionment
exists to some degree in almost all of our states. However, the degree of voter inequality is greater in some
states than in others.
For example, city voters are most unfairly treated in
California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New
Jersey and Rhode Island, according to a study by Prof.
Gordon E. Baker of the University of California, writing
in “Rural versus Urban Political Power,’ one of the
Doubleday Short Studies in Political Science.
On the other end of the scale are Massachusetts
and Wisconsin, where, Prof. Baker asserts, country and
city voters get equal representation. States where the
urban population is underrepresented to only a slight
Pennsyl-
Hampshire,
New
Arkansas,
include
degree
vania, South Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia and
Wyoming.
The states not mentioned so far fall somewhere in
between, with problems of underrepresentation ranging
from serious to substantial. The state of Michigan falls
into this latter category, and the remainder of this article will deal with Michigan in more detail, precisely because it does not represent the most extreme case.
Example:
In 1952, two proposals).
state legislature were pli)
Michigan
©
backed by the labor movenje *\
Both houses of the Michigan state legislature present
a problem
of underrepresentation.
does
not
reflect
two.
The
lower
the
accurately
make-up
The
political
wishes
of each
of
the
people of Michigan. However, it is generally recognized
that the state senate is the more unrepresentative of the
house
a pretense of rep-
at least makes
resenting people. The senate represents trees,
How did this happen? A little state history may help
to explain,
Those who wrote Michigan’s first state constitution — adopted in 1835 — made every effort to have
‘the state legislature founded on a democratic basis
of representation in BOTH HOUSES. This effort conformed with the requirements the U.S. Congress established in the Ordnance of 1787, which set up the
Northwest Territory. The territory included Michigan.
It did not take our 19th century lawmakers long
to
that
recognize
population
sary to change the arbitrary
earlier
the
for
the
election
constitutional
serted
in
the
of
convention
constitution
shifts
might
make
it neces-
geographic divisions set up
legislators.
of
1850,
providing
for
Consequently,
language
the
was
at
in-
re-arrange-
ment of senatorial and state representative districts every
ten years, on the basis of the Michigan census.
(Such “re-arrangements” are today referred to as
“reapportionment.”’ Reapportionment simply means to
re-divide districts in JUST proportion).
democratic government to |\u> %
have equalized representative
of both the house and the). * »
Even more important,
for machinery to implement j:'°
the legislature failed to act.
ik
The other proposal, fin):
Michigan Manufacturers Ab
Commerce and the Farm Buji!
«
by most of the state’s onjo
1%)”
“counter-proposal” designed
public, Masquerading under | %"'
called “balanced legislatureyi')\*
permanent
a
geographic
of
freezing
basis without
inequities,
?
The same proposal
of
the
lower
house,
but
sty
re
-"
also}
onlno
basis. The “gimmick” used
became known as the “moie\*
this clause is based on a Fret,
ing one-half,
The “moiety” provisions °»
of counties to be entitled t) \
their own if they have ay»
one-half of what is called thy! »
‘ ealnstitutional convention,
<yge, except that it made
™
© tate census the basis for
8
|
2 —— dominated in mod~ \frty — did not always
. olto reapportion districts
eisiation shifts. Its reluc(qo reprehensible, was po~toyakers feared such reapeulgpsition party, and what
ruc Af out of a job?
ib “en districts had become
“vo?
voters
in one
district,
i yr, but both represented
0. =n the opponents of re‘aomgnore
the
situation
en-
ai! ik the public by favoring
BEL
jat made
matters worse
jadical Talk About
round Again”
This ratio is simply the population of the state divided
by 100.
If this sounds a
little complicated,
MICHIGAN
it is probably be-
SENATORIAL
cause the proponents of this plan meant to confuse the
average voter as much as they meant to cheat the more
DISTRICTS
populated areas. To dispel some of this confusion, let’s
use some up-to-date figures to show how this undemocratic clause works in actual practice,
According to final 1960 figures from the U.S. Bureau
of the Census, the current population of Michigan is
7,823,194. If you divide this figure by 100, you get 78,232.
That’s the “ratio of representation.’”’ This is the approximate number of people which each state representative
district is supposed to have. But since “moiety” provides
that any county or group of counties with just half that
figure, or 39,116, is entitled to a state representative, it
follows
that
great
inequalities
will
be
created.
Thus,
“moiety” actually prevents equal representation, allowing disparities of more than two to one.
Unfortunately for democracy, the “balanced legislature” concept — which froze state senate districts and
provided “moiety” for house districts — was adopted by
the voters, despite labor’s best efforts.
What has been the result of the 1952 “reapportion-
U Mentws
mes
Disirici Boundaries
woos
County Foundariss
ment,” which wasn’t a reapportionment at all?
How Voters Get Cheated
The result has been the virtual disenfranchisement of
thousands of Michigan voters. Let’s look at some examples.
As a result of the 1958 elections, the lower. house
was evenly divided between the parties, with 55 Demoerats and 55 Republicans. If the districts from which
these state representatives were elected had been equal
or nearly equal in population,
represented
equal,
tion
of
Actually,
figures),
bined
by each group
district
should also have
the 55 Democrats
3,435,659,
while
the total number
the
(using
55
population
Republicans
of only
been
represented
conservative
of people
1950
a popula-
population
represented
2,936,107.
nearly
Thus,
a
com-
about
half a million Michigan voters went unrepresented in the
house between 1958 and 1960.
(A similar breakdown for the 1961 Michigan state
represented a population of 3,193,417, while the 22 Republicans senators represented 3,178,349 people, or 15,000
less than the “minority” Democrats.
In the state senate elected in 1958, the 12 Democrats
legislature, elected last November, was not yet available
as
this
edition
went
to
press.
However,
it is safe
to assume that the 54 “minority” Democrats in the
house still represent more people than the 56 “majority”
Republicans.)
Let’s look at it another way .
wreapportionment of the
no
on the ballot. One,
'hmand designed to restore
\ gate of Michigan, would
»©4
people in the districts
2 senate.
wpuld also have provided
‘“4portionment in the event
id and sponsored by the
)jation, the Chamber of
©. Federation, and pushed
Irty press, was a sham
gm-flam a trusting voting
zuise
of a plan for a so-
, actually
provided
for
“penatorial districts on a
| for existing or future
iled for reapportionment
tartially on a population
‘nis part of the proposal
“a4 provision.
The
name
of
‘ouvord, “la moitie,” mean-
“mits a county or group
\astate representative of
uoulation equal to only
v fatio of representation,”
an
ee a ee
DEMOCRACY
idl
doesn’t always win: This is a 1952 vint-
age picture of the Michigan Committee for Representative Government filing petitions with the state elections
commission to get a reapportionment proposal on the
ballot. The proposal, backed by labor, lost to a so-
called “balanced legislature” plan backed by Big Business (see story).
Pictured, from right to left, are
Mayor
Sachs;
Al
Zak
Berniece
of
Hamtramck,
Howell,
committee
Mich.,
attorney
chairman;
Ted
Herbert
McCreedy, who is now Michigan regional director for
the National AFL-CIO, and an unidentified official of
(Photo courtesy Michigan
the elections commission,
AFL-CIO
News).
The 12th state senate district, with a population
of 690,259, is entitled to one senator. The 27th state
senate district, with a population of 90,650, is alsa
entitled to one state senator. Thus, the people of Oake
land County, who make up the 12th, are outyoted 714
to 1 by the people of Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse,
Kalkaska, Leelanau, Missaukee and Wexford counties,
who make up the 27th.
The 11th senate district,
1
which covers Macomb
County, has a population of 405,804. The 28th district,
covering Alcona, Arenac, Clare, Crawford, Gladwin, Iosco,
Ogemaw, Osceola, Oscoda and Roscommon counties, has
a population of 94,026. Macomb voters are thus out.
voted more than 4 to 1.
Both Oakland and Macomb counties are part of thé
metropolitan Detroit area. The 27th and 28th district
cover most of the northern part of Michigan’s lower
peninsula, a rural area.
The 13th state senate district, which covers Gene<
see County (including the city of Flint), has a popula=
tion of 374,313. The 29th district, which covers the
tip of the state’s lower peninsula and includes the
counties of Alpena, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Emmet,,
Montmorency, Otsego and Presque Isle, has a populae
tion of 97,517.
The 55,806 people of the 32nd senate district, which
covers the Upper Peninsula counties of Baraga, Hough»
ton,
Keweenaw
get
one
Ontonagon,
and
are
entitled
to one
senae
tor, The 2,666,297 people of Wayne County (Detroit and
some suburbs) are entitled to only seven senators. Des
troiters are thus outvoted 7 to 1.
The picture is not much brighter when it comes to
house districts. Mid-Michigani’s Gratiot County, popula
tion 37,012, is entitled to one state representative, Metros
politan Oakland County, population 690,259, gets only six
state representatives, or about 115,000 residents per repe
'
resentative.
Delta County’s 34,298 people get one representative,
and Bay County’s 107,042 people get one representative,
Huron County, population 34,006, gets one representas
tive, as does Monroe County, population 101,120, The
counties of Arenac, Gladwin, Missaukee and Roscommon,
population 34,613, get one representative, and Ottawa
County, population 98,719, gets one representative. Che»
boygan, Emmet and Otsego counties with 37,999 people
but
representative,
Saginaw
County,
with
190,752 people, gets only two representatives.
Grand Traverse and Kalkaska counties, population
$7,872,
are
entitled
to
state
one
representative,
but
Washtenaw County, population 172,440, is entitled to
counties, with
only two. Houghton and Keweenaw
38,071 people, get one house member, but metropolitan
Wayne County, with more than two and a half million
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people, gets only 38 house members. No wonder Detroit is listed as being among the ten most underrepresented cities in the United States in Prof. Baker's
study.
These
many
—
examples
more
be mentioned
could
—+tell the story of what the 1952 “reapportionment” has
meant to the voters of Michigan. This is not a case of
minor ballot pilfering. This is the equivalent of wholesale
theft,
the
leaving
frustrated,
voters
urban
state’s
their
denied.
political will
Cause and Effect
The “rotten borough” system by which Michigan
Republicans retain control of the state legislature and
cheat the state’s voters has had some rather frightening
results in terms of good legislation stymied during past
legislative sessions.
For example, an amendment calling for state funds
to finance free polio shots for needy children was defeated when 19 Senate Republicans, representing Iess
than 2,850,000 ‘people, voted against it, although 12
Democrats, representing almost 3,200,000 people, voted
for it.
Similarly, a senate bill to liberalize unemployment
compensation for laid-off workers was defeated by the
same 19-12 margin. Here again, the “minority” Democrats actually represented a majority of the people of
Michigan.
The same thing has happened in the lower house.
When a Republican house committee bottled up a mine
safety
a
bill,
move
made
was
to
the bill
discharge
from committee. Such a motion requires an absolute
majority vote of 56. The motion failed when only 55
representatives (53 Democrats, 2 Republicans) voted
for it and 48 Republicans voted against it. But the 55
_ represented almost 3,500,000 people, while the 48 rep-
resented only slightly more than 2,500,000 people.
As a matter of fact, a case can be made which proves
that much less than 1% of Michigan’s population has
life-or-death control over all legislation introduced in
the state legislature.
It goes like this (according to the Michigan State AFLNews):
The state senate has what amounts to a veto power.
No bill can be passed without the consent of the majority of the state senate. That body is controlled by a topheavy GOP majority of 22, as opposed to 12 Democrats,
thanks to the “frozen” district lines. The 22 Republicans
are in turn controlled by a caucus of 12 ultra-conservatives who come from districts where winning the GOP
primary is tantamount to winning in the general election. Those 12 received a combined vote of only 56,695
in the 1958 primary. The current population figure for
Michigan is 7,823,194. Even if we grant that the population in 1958 was slightly lower, those 56,695 voters still
represented much less than one per cent of the total
population.
_ This minute segment, through its representatives in
“the state senate, is thus able to determine many facets
of your daily life — how much and what kind of taxes
you pay, how much you should get, if anything, in
workmen’s or unemployment compensation, your safety
an the job, what kind of roads you'll travel on, whether
your state parks should charge you admission, whether
you may or may not be discriminated against because
race, color or creed on the job or in public places,
a
Of course a good governor can veto bad legislation
and a more equally divided house can also slow the
senate down, but neither can create good legislation
unless
the
conservatives
senate
consents,
representing
Thus,
a
such
these
small
12
part
ultra-
of
the
people have a virtual yeto power over desirable legislaea eee
by the vast majority of the voters of the
That is the end result of the 1952 proposal which established the “rotten borough” system in Michigan, a system which would put to shame even the original rotten
boroughs of merrie olde England.
Small wonder that the big business, special interest
groups and the Republican-Party of Michigan, for all
their talk about constitutional revision, are not interested
in true reapportionment. As we've said before, no politican wants to legislate himself out of a job, and no spe.
cial
be
interest
lobbyist
wants
What does it matter to them
“the drain in the process?
In
future
articles
go
to let
of
good
“a
that democracy
we
will
discuss
re-districting
and
the
the
existing in other states, the related problem
gressional
haye
been
governments
offered
more
to
make
our
representative,
goes down
situation
solutions
state
and
thing.
of Con-
which
federal
Tax Concessions?
The Game’s Not Worth the Candle
locates
NEW YORK—Is it an ecopolicy for
nomically sound
states to offer tax conces-
sions in order to attract
or
sites and
terials,
tendency
“there
the
be
two
fused
be highly inefficient.
“Firms that do not need
subsidies may be willing to
accept them, thereby wasting tax money. Other firms,
classified as ‘fly-by-nights,’
may remain only long enough
to use up the tax subsidy,
and then move on.” Therefore, reasons Dr. Poole, the
tax-exemption
program
should not be
allowed
to
continue year
after year
without regard to changing
economic circumstances.
The taxpayer, whose
burden
has
increased
greatly in recent years,
does not want industrial
property kept off the tax
rolls, even for a few years,
unless very clear economic benefits follow, says Dr.
Poole. Also, the taxpayer
wants
to be reassured
that industrial immigration does not so increase
public expenditures
that
the additional tax
revenues associated with new
industries will be eaten up
in higher budgets.
Dr. Poole points out that
those areas fighting the eminot
“Their
task,”
he
the emigration
place.”
that
in
the
causes
first
states
to
that
confer
have
tax
re-
ex-
This includes no less than
the form of union security
provisions found in RCIA
agreenients with Mont-
suggests
broader
and
long-
range planning, coordinated
from the top, that takes into
account
different
regional
economic situations, “A
healthy
national
economy
requires that limits be set to
the extent to which the
states act independently
against
each
other’s
ests,’”’ he declares,
and
inter-
gomery Ward, Sears’ largest competitor,
3. Clean up the San
Francisco problem stemming from the improper
firing of Sears’ employees ~
for honoring a legal picket
line.
}
|
This includes restor-
ation of jobs, rights and
seniority to all who were
discharged. Almost all
have been rehired, but the
question of other rights
and lost pay remains,
The resolution adopted by
the committee included notification of President George
Meany of the AFL-CIO, with
which the RCIA is affiliated.
The AFL-CIO is supporting
the Sears boycott.
The representatives of the
more than 350,000 members
of the RCIA said their organization would continue to
picket Sears stores on an informational basis, advise
members of organized labor
and the public at large of
Sears’
anti-labor
policies,
and step up demonstraticns
in various cities aimed at
cutting
patronage
of the
giant chain.
“In a Word, Yes”
He asserts that a firm re- i
SOLIDARITY
+
leading to in-
once the RCIA has used
the democratic process to
win representation of employes
in Sears
stores.
says, “is to try to-offset the
disadvantage
very low among
2. Bargain in good faith
likely to find tax concessions
successful in stimulating new
industry.
tax
CHICAGO—The National
Chain Store Committee of
the Retail Clerks
International Association, AFL-CIO,
has voted to “reaffirm and
intensify” the union’s nationwide boycott
of Sears
Roebuck and Co.
At a special meeting here,
more than 100 leaders of the
RCIA from throughout the
nation approved
plans for
stepping up the boycott of
the giant chain.
:
James A, Suffridge, RCIA
president, announced the union’s objectives at the opening of the session.
Three
conditions must be met by
Sears before the boycott will
be lifted:
1.
End
“Sheffermantype” coercion and
corruption in company rela-~
tions.
a
are
the
Indiana stresses its freedom from state debt as an
encouragement to industry and New Jersey emphasizes its natural
advantages as well as its
concentrated
efforts
toward developing a balanced economy.
In conclusion, Dr. Poole
Retail Clerks Continue
National Sears Boycott
consideration
industry
reached
emptions on new industry.
ed by the new firms,
it is
likely that the program will
of
that
of able
Poole.
“They have decided
that state and local money
Was unwisely spent.”
Indiana and New Jersey
are cited as examples of
of their need for tax remission or of the region’s need
for the industries represent-
gration
conclusion
have
ma-
dustrial relocation,” says Dr.
for the program
“without
to raw
number
considerations
to snowball excessively.”
Dr. Poole believes that the
economic structure of a state
or municipality is not necessarily improved
by adding
“If
new industries blindly.
the same consideration
is
given to all new firms,” he
says,
“A
factor ranks
other
may
access
investigators
subsidies achieve their intended
goal,
states Dr.
Poole.
“Unless
there
is
some
way
to
estimate
fairly accurately the direct and indirect benefits
and costs of an industrial
development program,” he
warns,
reasons,
portant considerations exist
such as markets, availability
of skilled labor, satisfactory
new
It cannot be proved that
concessions
many
only one of which may be a
tax subsidy. Many more im-
encourage
and
investment
such
Are
new industry?
concessions worth the revethey
Do
foregone?
nues
really help to stimulate the
local economy?
These
questions
are explored by Dr. Kenyon Poole,
at
professor of economics
Northwestern University
and one of the nation’s leading tax experts, in an article
titled “Is The Game Worth
The Candle” in the January
issue of Challenge magazine, a monthly publication
of New
York
University’s
Institute of Economic
Affairs. It is Dr. Poole’s conclusion that the game definitely is not worth the candle.
tax
for
| UAW Brings New
World’ of Music
A chorus of “ordinary” people has been setting Detroit
on
its ear,
musically.
The group, comprised
World
Chorus
of it— from
which
all walks
Its members
ment,
said,
and
operators,
parts
an
inspector,
typists,
pharmacist,
VOICES
(right)
RING
guides
OUT
the
in
stirring
80-member
harmony
community
as
New
group
World
during
a
Chorus
director
Richard
performance.
A.
neer,
drill
of
“We
make
area,
depart-
auto
press
sional
many.
in
and
here
studied
Ger-
and
men
the
believe
“We
women who make up the great
part of the community can ap-
engi-
operator,
it a point
who
director,
both
music
profes-
chorus’
the
Huebner,
body
an
other
ways;
union wants this to be a com-~
munity effort,’ said Richard A.
auditor,
teacher,
ethnic
age,
by
choruses are, but we have faith
in the ordinary person and the
housewives,
music teacher—and
employed worker,
Huebner
Detroit
other
or
group,
tool
designer,
tool
and
die
maker,
library
clerk,
bank
cashier,
the
restrictive
be
Others are stock handlers,
auto assemblers, office machine
there’s plenty
One
director
recreation
union’s
the
of life throughout
occupation
baby
and
Madar,
Olga
its talent — and
New
are as young as university students and as
member listed her
“Grandmother
as
sitter,’
draws
workers.
retired
as
old
of some 80 voices, is UAW’s
un-
to not
preciate good music, and that
taste
good
is inherent
there
added Huebner,
in everyone,”
also a member of the Michigan
Commission.
Cultural
this
“Whether
as
person
a
very
something
uplifting
or
a
important
in
singer
community’s
the
levels.”
cultural
doing
are
feel we
we
listener,
to a
relates
to the group has
Response
Its membeen enthusiastic.
widesuch
from
bers travel
spread sections of the Detroit
metropolitan
Wayne,
as
area
River Rouge, Inkster, Warren,
and Centerline to take part in
its rehearsals and programs.
And more than 400 persons
Solidarity
the
into
crowded
House auditorium last month to
Emergency
attend a concert.
seating had to be provided be-_
hind the choral platform.
FORMER TENNIS CHAMP Florence
in the U. S. Girls’ National Tennis
sings
(center)
alto
with
the
chorus,
Royal, who won top place
matches a few years ago,
presents
usually
group
The
about five concerts a year. In
Worlders
New
the
addition,
L
<r
TOOL
A
DESIGNER
chorus baritone.
orchestra.
Clarence
day,
by
He also is a member
Cima
(center)
is
a
of a community symphony
have sung at veterans hospitals and some members have
programs
given
Michigan
“Last
year,
down,”
Moschina,
we
we
singing
were
chorus
Moschina
@ member
I
when
en-
to
forced
J.
Stephen
president.
A
“started
who
kid,”
a
was
is a machinist
of UAW Local
and
155,
the
in
anyone
whether a union
chorus
not, the
to
Open
community,
or
member
approximately
numbers
now
UAW
seven
had
said
soloist
tenor
the
schools.
summer
gagements
turn
at
80 members. Invitations now
are open to competent singers to fill its few vacancies.
Before
starts,
as
a
said.
tion
music
But
under
Sat
ia
SINGING
a theme
from
reader
his wheelchair
in
his
regular
Seeaiaid
is Steve Florescu, who
job.
works
as
JUST
join
ABOUT
(center),
He’s
TOTALLY
also
BLIND
learning
is bass
to play
the
baritone
flute.
Charles
Lott
OLIDARITY
PONSUAAUEVAAA COVA CENTS
chorus
“We
singer
can
charge
no
member,
we
and
fee
them,”
for
he
season
up
sign
Huebner
registra-
the
supply
explained,=
gets
season
the
once
way, anyone wishing to
the
audition,
must
group
for
Reason
out.
he pointed
this is to maintain the group’s
high standards, Huebner said
Right now, the group hopes
to gain at least one represent-
ative
the
Local 900 Member
Stars on Records
any
musical
each
from
Detroit
each
members,
area
UAW
local
among
in
its
‘
Cornell Blakely is a hot baseball player who also became a
sweet singer, A member of UAW Local 900, Blakely is starred on
two rhythm-and-blues and ballad phonograph records—and he
hopes
that’s
ning.
A
body
Wayne,
just
shop
the
tinner
Mich.,
Mercury
begin-
at
the
plant,
Blakely has been striving for
a singing career since his high
school
years
at
Greensboro,
8. C. He’s been concentrating
on
semi-classical
music.
“It's a tough
road to the
top,” he said, “but I'm going
to keep plugging away at it.”
Although
concentrating
on
his singing—he’s a tenor—the
Local 900 member was a hotenough baseball prospect to be
given a Brooklyn Dodgers try-
out in 1951 after he had batted
555 with a semi-pro team,
CORNELL BLAKELY
Currently, however, his rec<
ords are musical—“Promise to
be True”
and
“Tell Me
More.”
oi ed
ON
taken,
CAMERA—The
chorus
was
singing
Ld
during
a television
appearance
when
this
photo
was
SOLIDARITY, January, 1961—Page
10
Staffer To Study
U.S. Policy, Labor
iv
aims
But
to
and
education
meetings,
events
to
and
its
members.
with
unions
are
finding
ways.
1955
the
union
in-
leaders
held
during
and
dents’ school hours.
“Acquainting them
democratic
society can
include
the
those
the
stu-
with
the
processes
of
be
broadened
everyday
used
to
problems
meetings.
“It would
be difficult
ed with our union,” said Carroll Hutton,
UAW
education
director,”
and
it would
be
equally difficult to find a better
for
the
union
to
make
its
goals and methods understandable to a generation that it will
one day work with in the com-
munity.”
.
.
record
of its impact
Membership, the
accomplishments
mocracy
The
the
second
title
the UAW.”
World
for
$8.50
in
both
can
be
for
and
is $1
*
.
his
regular
is on
leaye
duties
to
from
with
which
attend
it
the
passion
member
values the union which protects
that part of his life spent in
deals
on
of eight
assembly.
vary:
with
man
the
fear
of an
competing
with
tells
of a
emowith
ambition.
But
ruggedness
of mass
for
who
The
For instance,
another
man’s
men
each
work.
reads
On
the
is the
the Line
can close it without realizing
vividly why the UAW was born
—to bring some measure of security and dignity to industrial
workers.
The UAW Education Department is able to make On the
Line available to members for
30 cents
a copy
of a paperback
edition.
For copies, write to the
Detroit
14, Mich.
department,
8000
E.
Jefferson,
Insight Into
FDR the Man
Out of
that
has
Franklin
human
been
Delano
being
hidden
legend.
His
Roosevelt,
has
by
the
the
sometimes
political
passionate
admir-
ers haye almost made him a
demi-god.
His
enemies
have
painted a portrait of a modern
day
Machiavelli.
the
man
himself?
out
the
essential
But
what
of
One of the better ways to sift
assay
his metal
man
is
to
in a real, per-
sonal,
close-to-home
crisis.
Jean Gould has done just this
in A Good Fight (Dodd, Mead
& Co., 308 pages, $4), a biography
centered
around
FDR's
struggle
ease
against
that
polio,
crippled
conquered
the
Some
in
ture
the
but
Sunrise
Miss
but
County,
of this was
play
the
smiling
from Dutchess
and
at
dis-
never
squire
N. Y.
dramatized
motion
pic-
book
goes
Campobello,
Gould’s
further in that it pursues
personal struggle through
years
tion’s
this
the
FDR served as our nathirty-second President.
If you saw the play or movie, you’re asked by Miss Gould
to tramp over some of the same
ground twice, but the effort is
it.
Many
of
the
bonus
of
be
able
to
the
same
following
also
hastened the
Salk was to
hand
the
world
a
vaccine and say “this will save
your children.”
In her clear and crisp prose,
Miss
following
Expenditures
is a summary
for the
month
of Strike
of December,
Fund
1960,
able
gle
and
$ 31,922,623.27
1,523,968.80
TOTAL TO ACCOUNT FOR. o00000.--ccccseoeesecs-cs
DISBURSEMENTS IN DECEMBER, 1960 ...
S$ 33,466,592.07
472,036.90
RESOURCES,
There
volving
SM
are
2,100
DECEMBER
10 strikes
members
of
in effect
the
UAW,
31, 1960......$ 32,974,555.17
at
the
present
time
in-
a
to
and
of
interested in
science oyer
haven't
through
the
the
felt
more
triumph
like
scientific
battle,
understand
day terms.
But most
TOTAL STRIKE FUND ASSETS
NOVEMBER 30, 1960 ............
INCOME FOR DECEMBER, 1960 .........
TOTAL
but
accounts
Income
fashioned
Those who are
this triumph of
wading
MONTHLY ‘STRIKE REPORT
INTERNATIONAL STRIKE FUND
FOR DECEMBER, 1960
has
Story that should fascinate a
wide audience. Those who seek
sentiment will get their lumpin-the-throat.
disease
SSUUSHO0NSPA11 ATU EES OCTANE NEAL STREET Ee
The
Gould
the
will
in
important
be
strug-
every-
of
all,
those who have wondered what
manner of man Franklin Delano ‘Roosevelt was will come
to a closer
understanding
this fellow who could grit
teeth,
braces
ered
scared
ing to
Here
meant
an
old
of
his
rise
on
the
painful
that supported his with-
legs,
smile
and
tell
a
nation, “we have nothfear but fear itself.”
it
is
proof
when
he
campaigner,
a good fight.” Here
members.
consists
that
FDR
and
I love
said,
“I’m
is a man,
of
apprenticeship.
students
study
a
the
intermovement
U.S.
foreign
policies
in
among
other
who
topics.
the
be
to
expected
often
Dexter
on
Eye
Masters
sumers
by
Opener.
of
Union
Guy
1960
the
Con-
is interviewed
Nunn,
The
Above,
presidential
elec-
-
to eye
Nixon
| 39
| «*
in
|
tion is over for everyone except
Guy Nunmand the EYE OPEN-
af-
complete
are
INTERESTING people, saying
interesting things are heard
for-
eign
language,
national
laYor
ER
staff.
witnesses,-
According
eyen
Dick
smiled
while
Senate.
But for Guy
official
reading
electoral
off
tally
the
the
and Com-
assigned to appropriate posts
in the international labor field,
either in government or in the
pany
the issue
unresolved; that
official
number
movement,
It all stems from the preelection EYE OPENER contest
Berry,
Local
a
union
trade
international
the maze of myths
grown
up
around
for
for
months
of
classroom
and three months of
course
that undoubtedly
day when Jonas
Douglass.
program
Those
the medical profession’s struggle against the virus. FDR not
only beat polio himself, but he
became a living example that
awakened
the
public
support
by
The
fairs,
get
headed
union
The
Another plus factor for Miss
Gould’s book is that there you
force
University
D.c,
in-service
people appear in both narratives, but the virtue of Miss
Gould’s book is the day-to-day
detail given to FDR’s physical,
mental and emotional struggle
that could only be suggested
and sketched in the play.
get quick attention from his AdminJohn F. Kennedy
(left) pledges
to
Ill.) after he had received a report
problem submitted by a special task
Washington,
nine
work
worth
DEPRESSED AREAS will
istration, President-elect
Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D.,
calling for action on the
of American
American
or
under-
Fe
International
school, part of a program
international labor studies
JefThe
100
of
ras
He
is one
of
four
trade
unionists
who
received
AFLCIO scholarships to attend the
pub-
for
a UAW
life of each
at
simply
Educa-
cannot
stand
None
In it are numerous
staff,
.
often
production
at
auditing
School
Service
Union's
in organizing.
be obtained
to the UAW
1,000.
same—the
its
International
the
member
used
community
each
background
bears
Looks
In
Those
who
have
never worked on an
assembly
line very
a
range of its
and the de-
pamphlet
“The
of
of.the
a
of the union
youngster’s fumbling for
tional maturity;
a third
on our so-
of its methods.
price
youth;
of the
with a
variety
nations.
tion Department,
8000 E.
ferson, Detroit 14, Mich.
older
«+. 1,300,000
UAW
Members
. . - And Proud of It!” Here,
in four pages, is given a panoramic
view of the
union in
the
They can
by writing
one
through the union’s education
department.
One is titled “Here We Are
of
lic relations
emergencies
ciety, can find good use for two
new
pamphlets
now
ayailable
terms
or
working
The
local
union,
looking for material
to present a portrait
and history
UAW
along
effectively
the
e
Berry,
figures
the
factory.
Now,
they
can
know.
The reason has been put into
fiction
form for them by
a
young author, Harvey Swados,
in a noyel On the Line. Once
an auto worker himself, Swados has sharply described life
on the production line.
He has taken a crisis out of
a better way for the youth
of
our nation to become acquaint-
way
Either
our
to find
C.
and
religious
country
and
other
resolve
of
leading
praising the work
for its members.
our
to
workers,” said the local’s invitation. It went even further to
include invitations to membership, executive
board and
stewards’
in
Committee
Josephy
also are editorial comments by
yarious leading newspapers ap-
fully
The latest to follow the Education Committee’s lead is a
Detroit local that has invited
the city’s board
of education
te allow high school students
to attend
union education
classes
by
in government
groups
in
this
special
more
accomplishing.
Education
testimonials
religious
classes,
the
any
than
task
undertaking—and
be issued
other
become
acquainted
a
to visit union
leaders
civic
simpler
long ago as
conventhe
students,
teachers,
stitutes
local
UAW
“invitations
that
any
is
union
the
As
to
isn’t
efforts
and
of the UAW’s
understanding
community
Achieving
other
recommended
tion
nem
ei Oa
member
600, hopes
of
Ford
to be assigned
to the Middle East
uation next fall.
after
grad-
votes
President-elect
wherein
Because
the vote
bond
than
one
mined
research
into the presence of strontium90 and other radioactive elements in typical daily diets in
. 25 cities across the country.
Announcement
of the AEC
research
contract came
from
Dexter W. Masters, director of
Consumers
Union.
Consumers
Union (often called CU) is the
non - profit, non-commercial
could
at.
shake
So,
several
rather
pletely official, 100%
figure is available.
Once that figure is available
and double and triple-checked
the names of the ten winners
will. be
announced
on “EYE
OPENER
and
and
the bonds
way.
Meanwhile,
in
SOLIDARITY
will be on their
back at the EYE
the
project
will
the
research
new
be CU’s own funds. Study was
to begin in January, under the
direction of Irving Michelson,
director of public service projects at CU.
director of
Radiation
Dr. Cyril L. Comar,
the Laboratory of
head
and
Biology
of
clude
a
number
government
of
figure
queries
isn’t
as
forth-
coming soon to get him off the
hook, says Guy,
he’s apt to
petition Washington for abolishment of all future elections,
or,
at least, election contests!
..-Say, have you heard EYE
OPENER
lately?
Physical
of
Department
the
Biology at Cornell University,
will
be
tor.
a
The
co-principal
new
greatly
to
CU's
work
total
without
follow-up
in
studies
milk
diet,
and
Retwo
years.
seven
ments—some
ring,
to
other
some
included
cerium
in
naturally
CU’s
eaten
WALTER P. REUTHER
President
EMIL MAZEY
Secretary-Treasurer
RICHARD GOSSER
new
137,
NORMAN
be
study;
lead
210,
potassium
Vice
International
40,
daily
diets, home
economists in the
25 test cities will prepare rep-
resentative
meals,
package
them in special containers and
ship them to CU’s consultant
radiochemistry
laboratories.
Like CU's earlier total-diet
test samples, these will consist
of the total food and water in-
take, including snacks, of teenagers.
This age level is used,
Masters
said, because
of the
wide variety of foods included
in
teen-ager
diets,
making
the
samples
fairly
representative
of the diet of somewhat young-
er children and of older persons who drink milk,
Additional
samples,
representing various age and economic levels, will be prepared
in
three
of
the
25 test
cities.
Presidents
E:
tive
Board
Members
BALLARD
ERNDT
CHARLES
BIOLETTI
GEORGE
BURT
DOUGLAS
FRASER
MARTIN
GERBER
TED HAWKS
ROBERT
JOHNSTON
KERRIGAN
KITZMAN
ISEPH
McCUSKER
E.
T. MICHAEL
GEORGE
MERRELLI
KEN
MORRIS
PAT
07
foods
in typical
MATTHEWS
LEONARD WOODCOCK
PAT GREATHOUSE
occur-
radium 226 and zine 65,
To obtain samples of
normally
Se a copy
ele-
man-made—will
239,
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION, International
Union, United Automobile, Aircraft and
Agricultural
Implement
Workers
of
America, AFL-CIO, Published monthly.
Editorial office, 8000 FE. Jefferson, Detroit 14, Michigan, Yearly subscription
to members, 60c; to non-members, $2.50.
strontium-90,
radioactive
14, cesium
plutonium
in
support
Government
addition
of
conducted
and reported in Consumer
ports
during
the
past
In
SOLIDARITY
will represent
pioneering
strontium-90
the
inyestiga-
expanded
|
accurate
to the names of the contestwinners . . . If some official
for
|
to hold out until a com-
zine, Consumer Reports.
According
to Masters,
support
-
choose arbitrarily and risk doing wrong to any of the contest-enterers,
Guy
is
deter-
OPENER ranch, Guy and staff
continue to roll with the daily
mail, which never fails to in-
financial
yh
than
consumer organization—largest
of its kind in the world—which
publishes the monthly maga-
principal
©
aie
}
of the closeness of
and such late-date
more so-called final vote totals
a
to
}
prizes,
changés as in Hawaii, Guy will
ruefully testify there have been
help
CU’s
war
«
postcard-predictions.
Sticks
finances
ten
|
were offered to those listeners
closest to the new president's
final, popular vote tally, by way
MT. VERNON, N.Y.—The US.
Atomic Energy Commission has
awarded
Consumers
Union
$20,000
research
contract
Kennedy
received.
of
CU To Probe
Diet Fallout
still remains
is, the exact,
of
popular
i
Frank Winn, Editor and Director, Publieations and Public Relations Department,
Joe Walsh, Assistant Director, Publications and Public Relations Department,
Henry
and
and
Jerry
Santlestevan,
Managing
Editor
Assistant Director, Publications
Public Relations Department.
Dale,
Howard
Lipton,
Ray
tin, Jerry Hartford, Cy Alpert,
nard Bailey, Staff Members.
Members
American
Newspaper
Guild,
Mar-
Ber-
AFL-CIO
|
'
Mich—Here
in Flint, where
the first workers in the industry
they're not forgetting it.
Chevrolet
sit-downers
Local
and
659
has
other
union
spokesmen,
Zi
ce
was underlined with the appointment by President-elect John F, Kennedy 0f Mrs. Esther Peterson (right), legislative representative of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department, to be an assistant to Labor SecrearyMrs. Peterson
designate Arthur J. Goldberg and director of the Department's women’s bureau.
is shown here in a recent picture with two other union women active in leadership positions:
Mrs. Caroline Davis (left), director of the UAW women’s department, and Mrs. Agda Roissel,
the first woman
becoming
Labor
For
WASHINGTON—Selection
top
nate
Arthur
Labor
the
Secretary-desig-
under
serve
bilization
will
which
echelon
the
in the
J. Goldberg
President-elect
by
completed
John F. Kennedy.
Included in the list were a
lawyer, a business executive,
the president of a state cenunion
tral body, and three
staff
ing
early
month
this
meet.”
“This
strike
on
repre-
and
impossible
is the
longest
Affairs
George
in June.
of
fact
farm
implements
to
market
the
that
products
was
down.
lishing
an
abnormal
‘If
Ford
standard
the
no
is
“there
Bannon
here,”
pattern
reason
won’t
to
reau.
pressed
support
help in
der
and
our
give
to
only
“not
and
strike
the
back
under
to
financial
stitution,”
Bannon called
Ford
union
con-
the strike “un-
fortunate,”
pointing
out
the company’s adamant
tion
which
forced
was undermining
lations”
pany
past.
had
the
the
that
posi-
walkout
the “good re-
union
and
constructed
in
com-
the
Labor
com-
urged
Donahue
as
until
1953,
in the
of three
and
a
assistant
an
ously
served
department
with
the
solicitor
service
1939
exception
years of military
year’s
A
previ-
from
as
counsel to the Democratic
duty
labor
Pol-
icy Committee on Capitol Hill
during the unsuccessful Taft-
Hartley
"
repealer
fight
in
lawyer
by
to
UAW
N.
W.
WIRTZ,
and
member
of the
new
the
confirmation
post.
PRB
Wirtz
only
had
a few
has
been
local
Wal-
Reuther
inform
their
strike,
employer
war
all
asked
on
wrote,
a
ers
against
fight
“it
similar
against
the
to
Kohler
Carrier
UAW’s
Co., the
un-
is
was
struggle
United
Rubber Workers’ fight against
O’Sullivan Rubber Co., and the
on
Textile Workers’ battle against
Harriett-Henderson Mills.
months
(Solidarity, Nov, 18, 1960).
NORUOEAOHOEDEOUAU
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HVOVVUGREU UA YAOCOEOOUUAUAOOEEOOOAGHE
Eight Key Proposals
Listed by AFL-CIO
1949.
exceeds
7%.
would
cost
Emergency
which
supplementary
insur-
unemployment
million
$205
approximately
a month, including payments to jobless persons with
substantial earnings records who are not now insured.
e
An
benefits,
increase
10%
immediate
$100 million
to
amounting
in
AFL-CIO said no increase in
would be required before 1962.
social
solcial
a
security
month.
security
The
taxes
© Federal incentive grants of $300 million to stimulate action on state and local public works projects
already engineered and approved but temporarily
shelved.
e@ Tax relief for small business by reversing the
corporate tax structure so that firms would pay a 22%
normal tax and a 30% surtax, instead of the present
30%
e
basic tax and 22%
Easing
of
terms
surtax.
on
mortgages
insured
by
the
Federal Housing Administration and Veterans Administration to stimulate home building.
e Accelerated placement of government contracts
both for construction and the purchase of supplies.
© Revision of Federal Reserve Board policy to
provide for purchase of securities of varying maturities, with a view toward lowering long-term interest
rates,
The latter two steps require “executive action and
leadership,” the AFL-CIO statement noted.
The eight-point program, the council said, would
“stimulate sufficient economic activity, with enough
speed,
to reverse
the
present
decline
and set the stage
for the long-range and structural programs that are
necesary to sustain a balanced and growing fullemployment economy, with reasonable price stability.”
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659.
and
unionists
made
a move
that
American
history,”
said. “They won the
bargain with General
in that
historic
compared
that
prior
“Battle
conditions
to the
feudal
union,
system.
General
ing
their
and
that
discredit
Harry
on
Bramlet
bers
of
Motors
He
is no
the
all
paid
out
at
James
actions
bring
Bridges,
say-
labor
unions.
tribute
to mem-
Local
659
Joint
Council, the governing body of
the local, saying that they were
courageous enough to do their
own thinking.
He
pointed
had been
out that the lIoin the forefront
of a number
the
local’s
increased
rates,
de-
necessary for the entire labor
movement to do what it can
to help in the struggle.”
Reuther said the Steelwork-
his
been
all-out
ion,”
of
of
an
pres-
a dedication
a group
lashed
ing
to
in
progress
president
IUD
affiliates
local
of Local
early
Hoffa
strike
Reuther
been
longer regarded as the enemy
of labor but rather as a worthy
opponent.
The youthful
659
a
President
efforts
Governor-elect
Run’.”
the
cal
Chi-
tration.
He
is expected
to
resign his PRB position upon
Senate
Y.,
1937
said
Corp.
Steelworkers
in
the
in Chevrolet,
anti-union
forced
Bramlet,
Bramlet
Buy”
Carrier
and
for a union
have
spirit
Bull
In his capacity as head of
the AFL-CIO Industrial Union
clares
the
UAW’s
Public
Review
Board, has been named undersecretary of labor in the
incoming Kennedy adminis-
ance,
Bu-
solicitor,
Department
which
Syracuse,
at
e
to be La-
Fitters,
Pipe
and
lawyer,
in
agreed
with
the
bor
believe
to Local 991, but to
every way open un-
contract
ers
said,
other plants.”
Bannon said the representatives of the 57 Ford locals
exmeeting
the
attending
Women’s
the
of
months.”
“Don’t
bitter
a United
by
a
against
of
activity
employment
@ Charles Donahue, 48, research director for the Plumb-
work
determination
on
mittee
its
succeed
because
for
not
1937
strong
fought
denotes
Motors
had
The
‘priority’
Peter-
Workers, Mrs.
seyeral
the
do, the
Michigan
Bramlet
right to
not only
but
if we
declared
in Flint
changed
econ-
an_ eight-point
presented
AFL-CIO
has
legislative program to Congressional leaders
of both House and Senate, The eight points follow.
(For story see Page 1.)
e Presidential authority to invoke a $10-a-week
cut in personal incomes taxes for 10 weeks when un$205
cost approximately
would
which
insurance,
54,
Peterson,
son has seryed on the
Department's advisory
estab-
in
succeeds
Esther
Clothing
the
for
AFL-CIO
the
director of the Women’s Bureau. A former assistant education director and later legislative representative for the
strike
and
as-
ion Department, to be an assistant to the secretary and
inventory
high
48,
of
legislative representative
the AFL-CIO Industrial Un-
a strike.”
the comcharged
Bannon
pany was not bargaining in
good faith, and was taking adits
the
upon the completion of
Lodge’s term of service
Mrs.
@
to all of us — so important,
this is only the second time
we've had such a nationwide
gathering of all locals over
of
campaign
cago
and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.
He is slated to become Assistant Secretary for International
at a meetof
for
in Asia
years
the U.S.
will
Carl
“In
quick
the
remain
who
fighting
the
was
recession,
Support
WILLIAM
sistant to the secretary. Weaver, an adviser at two InternaconvenOrganization
tional
three
nearly
worked
tions,
said. “It is important
yantage
of
as a special
Workers,
chine
a
“When
assistant to the president of
the Electrical, Radio & Ma-
against Ford since we gained
in 1941,”
rights
bargaining
Bannon
secretary
in
members
since
Texas State Federation.
L-P Weaver,
@ George
sentatives of Ford locals called
by Ken Bannon, director of the
National Ford Department.
Some 230 members of Local
991 struck the plant over a
company imposed work standard in the welding department
is
charges
the union
which
“gnfair
AFL-CIO
that
Department,
the
of
omists
there
ter P. Reuther.
its creation in 1957, and for
four years prior to that was
executive
991,
came
president
State
Texas
here against a Ford Motor Co,
since
plant
implement
farm
pledge
Administration.
as
served
— UAW
Iowa
DES MOINES,
the
throughout
locals
Ford
strong
country haye pledged
The
during
Electrical Workers, as Assistant Secretary. Holleman had
Ford Locals
Support 991
17.
Sta-
@ Jerry R. Holleman, 41, of
Austin, Tex., a member of the
International Brotherhood of
a
@ W. Willard Wirtz, 48,
Chicago law partner of Adlai
Stevenson, to serve as Under
Secreary of Labor. Wirtz served
Noy.
1946
ing
modern
once
to
strike
John Swainson, and others.
Reuther said that the build-
Carrier Corp.
Boycott Asked
Reynolds served on the National Labor Relations Board from
1946 through 1951.
Kennedy’s Labor Department
appointments included:
to Local
Truman
in
way,
been. for
consultant and recently a vice
Products,
president of ALCO
Inc., to be Assistant Secretary.
representatives.
support
Board
ther,
was
election was out
unanimity-among
@ James J. Reynolds, 54, a
Schenectady, N.Y. management
been
has.
Department
of the Wage
the
was
Dept.
as chairman
of
of
the
Indeed,
Presidential
Named
‘Team’
Top
of
world.
before
there
leader
a union
holds,
now
she
post
the high UN
to occupy
was
who
Sweden,
from
Nations
United
about
zine, said a few weeks ago.
“In retrospect, that seems
like one of the least puzzling
mysteries
a sit-down
new
and
became
Special messages of congratfrom
ulations were
received
UAW President Walter P. Reu-
PT
the
to
delegate
permanent
or
1937
speech.
not
a recession,
Business
Week, a management maga-
movement
union
in the
of women
IMPORTANCE
INCREASING
was
in
must
ident,
the
nation
is in a slump.
Noting that there had been
there
“We
vain,”
tion and
even
Republicans
are finally
admitting that
whether
leade
in
publica-
a pre-election “debate”
hall
of those
industry
business
its
united
Now They Say It
Newspapers,
workers
to engage
dedicated
early
the auto
aSeg—[96}
FLINT,
‘Avenues "ALIVVAIIOS
Local Dedicates Hall
To Sitdown Strikers
campaigns
opposition
water
opposition
Blue Cross
dorsement
the
of
to
cit-
to the
and
sewer
increased
rates and the enof
candidates in
primary
election.
Atomic Plant
Accidents Hit
WASHINGTON — A
40 reactor accidents
by the atomic energy
committee
of the
study of
prepared
technical
AFL-CIO
In-
dustrial
Union
Department
confirms
the “validity of the
trade union opposition to the
construction
fast breeder
troit,’ UAW
P.
Reuther
Reuther,
president
the
study
of the
untested
reactor near DePresident Walter
of
has
who
charged.
also seryes
as
two
days
an
the
accidental
IUD,
atomic
released
after
explosion
near Idaho Falls, Idaho, Jan, 3.
Many
jured
and
workers
hundreds
citi-
of
dangerous
to
exposed
zens
in-
were
accidents
the
in
radiation
cited in the report, Reuther
said,
“The Detroit plant, built in
spite of an appeal by intertimes
is 300
unions,
experimental
an
than
which exploded at the
vening
larger
model
National
Noy.
tion,
said.
“In
the
9,
1955,”
face
of
AEC
the
dent,
Detroit . Edison
with
delaying
the
intervening
the
against
mit
“A
diffi-
this
and
not ‘bow”
a reactor acci-
would
which
thereby cause
while
Reuther
inthe continuing
build fuel elements
culty and
ability to
proceed
Sta-
Testing
Reactor
study
permitted
Company
the
to
of
the
construction
decision
unions’
construction
of
appeal
reactor
per-
acci-
dents released by the IndusreDepartment
trial Union
veals for the first time the
serious nature of reactor experimentation,
“It is clear from the reactor
thouin Idaho that
accident
have
would
people
of
sands
been oxer-exposed to radiation
if the
actor
stationary
had
been
low-uower
built
re-
in a pop-
as the
just
area,
wated
is being
reactor
breeder
fast
bullt
in its first commercial size in
metropollthe Toledo-Detroit
tan
area,
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1961<Pig12
e
x Ask Congress Action
On 8 Priority Bills
sulting
1
Page
from
Continued
Core
ee
nents in the House of Repre-
sentatives
have been
most
the
Senate
the
and
maneuvering for
favorable
both
advantage in
committees.
a
Within
Congress
new
week
political
rules
and
after
the
in-
conyened,
fluence of the new, liberal
administration
Democratic
helped
have
to
appeared
shape an important victory
in putting a stop to the road-
blocks the House Rules Committee had been accustomed
to throwing up against much
legislation.
needed
The Committee, comprised
of eight Democrats and four
Republicans,
to
do
this
had
because
been
the
able
Re-
have
habitually
publicans
Joined byby two Dixiecrats, re-
-
Big 3 Geis
UAW Pian
Continued
1
communities and reduce
to the national
damage
economy that would otherwise result,” UAW
P.
Walter
President
Reuther said in a statement released Jan. 7.
Reuther cited as an example: ‘If reduced sales face
a plant with the necessity to
reduce employment by 20%,
the UAW’s proposal calls for
shutting down the plant completely one week out of five
instead of effecting the same
of manhours
reduction
either by working four days
a week or laying off 20%
of the workers.”
In event of a 20% cutback
in the industry as a whole,
the
proposal
UAW
would
directly add in excess of $22
to the
million per month
total purchasing power of
the workers involved, compared with four-day work
weeks.
“Indirectly it would add
much more to the nation’s
purchasing power at a
time when this is the key
to reversing the forces of
recession,
lions of
since
dollars
these
spent
mil-
by
auto workers would provide employment for other
workers throughout the
economy,” Reuther said.
proposal was
The UAW
submitted orally to the managements of the Big Three
in separate meetings early
It has been
this month.
taken under consideration by
the various
agements.
corporate
vote.
man-
a blockading
six-
The committee is specialit
because
important
ly
before
bills
major
screens
they reach the House floor.
have
tie votes
its
Thus,
or modidelayed
blocked,
fied much of the legislation
backed by liberals and labor.
However,
Speak-
House
Rayburn now is re-
er Sam
ported
addition
of two
to insist
ready
on
to the committee
Democrats
more
and one Republican. This
give the regular
would
needed
their
Democrats
on the
majority
voting
group, so necessary to the
fate of Kennedy-proposedor-supported bills.
At about the same time,
the Senate — by a _heart-
breaking
pected
only
of
margin
four votes —
put off its exon
showdown
ending
the filibuster. The decision
came in a 50-to-46 vote on
a test question of sending to
committee
Page
from
to-six
in
to
proposals
two
make it easier to end filibusters on such matters as civil
rights.
But Mansfield pledged that
the Senate Rules Committee,
which he heads, would send
back one of the bills for Senate consideration at a later
date. This is expected to be
a measure backed by many
liberals to limit debate
through a three-fifths vote.
The current rule calls for a
vote
of two-thirds
plus
one.
2 Sub-Councils
Set Meetings
Two Ford sub-councils will
hold meetings in Solidarity
House the latter part of January, with discussion of rec-
on contract
ommendations
demands to top the agenda,
it was announced by Ken
director of UAW
Bannon,
National Ford Department.
Sub-council No. 7, composed of delegates reprewho
senting members
work in Ford parts depots,
will meet Jan. 23 and 24,
8,
No.
sub-council
and
up of representamade
trades
skilled
of
tives
workers
in
Ford
plants,
Jan. 25, 26 and 27.
UAW Vice President Norman Matthews and Reg. 1A
McCusker,
Joe
co-director
both members of the IEB
skilled trades committee, will
address
delegates
to subcouncil No. 8.
skilled
the
addition,
In
trades sub-council will hear
talks by Robert
Mills, chair-
man of the National Skilled
Trades Advisory Committee
and president of Local 155,
and from a _ representative
from the UAW Aircraft Department.
Both sub-councils will
elect a negotiator to represent each group, while
sub-council No. 8 also will
elect a member to the National Skilled Trades Advisory Committee and a
member to serve on the
Ford National Council resolutions
director of the
APPOINTED
Illinois Department of Labor,
UAW
Region
4 Director
Rob-
ert Johnston will take a leave
his union
from
of absence
post until he completes the
term he has actemporary
of the
head
as the
cepted
was
state agency. Johnston
newly-elected
by
appointed
Democratic
Gov. Otto Kerner.
committee,
Both meetings also will
consider resolutions on various matters of interest to
the members they represent.
Plans are being made to
from
representatives
have
subtrades
skilled
other
councils participate in future
meetings of Ford sub-council
No. 8, Bannon said, in order
to achieve “positive coordination.”
UAW
ington.
Walter
President
P. Reuther
WASHINGTON — Top
item on America’s “agenda
of unfinished b u siness”
which must be faced by the
incoming Kennedy Administration is “getting America
back to work,” UAW President Walter P. Reuther told
the Women’s National Demat
Club
a
meeting
here.
Reuther
predicted
country will face a
less rate
of 8%
the
job-
in Febru-
ary, “unless we have some
drastic action .. . to commit this nation to full em-
ployment and full production.”
“Our basic problem is we
don’t know how to manage
an economy of abundance,”
Job
Continued
Losses
from
Page
1
in each of the 21 manufacturing industry groups covered by -the Labor Department
computations,
addresses Women’s
Club in Wash-
National Democratic
Biggest Job is Jobs,
Tells Dem Women
Nation's
Reuther
ocratic
(left)
includ-
ing auto, aircraft and missiles, and farm equipment.
@ The heavy unemployment increase pulled the nato
up
rate
jobless
tional
6.8%. Any figure over 5%
is considered by economists
to show a serious weakness
in the economy.
Here are some of the bleak
effects of the recession on
the economy:
members,
1. Many UAW
in the auto, aircraft and agricultural implement industries particularly, have been
Reuther
meeting.
‘In
States
capacity
told
the
luncheon
“we are losing in Africa, we
are losing in Asia, we are losing at our back doorstep of
Latin America ... We are
identified with the status quo
in parts of the world where
the status quo isn’t good
1960, the United
had a greater steel
lying
idle than
the
Soviet Union has in its whole
economy,
“In 1959, we wasted over
200 million tons of steel —
more than all underdeveloped countries in the world
could use for the next three
years.
“This economic waste is
the key to where we’re going at home and in the
world,” Reuther said. “We
must learn to manage it
by sharing it in a way to
create economic
growth
and development.”
Turning to international
problems, Reuther charged,
Hit
enough
even
denies
minimum
people
standards
of
decency and self-respect.”
Among several other
key items Reuther listed
as “unfinished
business”
were education, civil rights
and medical care for the
aged.
“No industrialized nation
in the world has done so lit-
tle to provide for its senior
citizens,’
Reuther
said
in
urging support for medical
care for the aged through
Social Security.
Peak
20-Year
six million total, in the next
few months.
4. Industrial production
now is 6% below January,
considerable
number
of
these unsold new cars are
1960 models, and inventor-
1960, levels and still falling.
5. About
25%
of indusmachines
try’s plants and
are idle.
6. Inventories of new,
unsold automobiles in dealers’ hands now are more
than a million. This is
about 40% greater than
ies of new, unsold 1961
ears have been rising at
about
50,000
a month.
7. The nation’s basic steel
industry production has hoyered at about half its produc-
tive capacity for the past six
months. Fhere are no signs
of a substantial pickup.
8. Business failures rose
10% to 15,400 last year, a
postwar peak,
the previous high at this
time of year. Moreover, a
were
and
=o
hit hard by recession layoffs.
Heavy numbers of-assembly,
plant
supplier
and
parts,
workers have been laid off in
the
auto
industry;
many
Fairchild,
Bell
others are on short weeks.
Aircraft and missile
workers have been hurt by
at plants
unemployment
such as Douglas (both on
at
Coast and
the West
Tulsa, Okla.); ChanceVought,
and
Niagara
Frontier.
In the farm implement industry, thousands of workers have been laid off at
Allis-Chalmers, International Harvester and some Caterpillar Tractor plants.
2. In industry as a whole,
a noticeable dropoff in production was coupled with the
disclosure that the average
factory worker at year’s end
had less purchasing power in
his paycheck than he had at
its beginning.
3. While some economists
predict only a “mild downend labor researchers
foresee an additional unemployment rise, possibly to a
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OTHER
THE
major
THREE
areas listed by Swainson were
the field of human rights, health
and
Welfare
tourist
industry.
challenges
in-
great,
very
are
the
front,
economic
the
“On
the
and
recreation
servation,
con-
and
problems,
deed, because of the crucial need
for
our state,”
in
opportunities
job
more
Swainson
said.
We must concern ourselves
both with the very immediate
need of re-employment of our
jobless citizens and with stimulating the creation of still
more jobs to keep pace with
our growth in population.
“J shall strive vigorously to put
to
a program
effect
into
strengthen Michigan’s economy
to
program
1960’s—a
the
during
provide more jobs by attracting
new industries—by diversifying
our
industrial
strengthening
and industry.
“The
base
and
existing
nation
must
by
business
be
made
even more aware of Michigan’s
unsurpassed assets for industry,
of our great force of highly skill-
ed workers, of our unmatched
industrial know-how.”
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ALSO
SWAINSON
the
need
to
STRESSED
improve
programs
as the
quality
for the young as well
aged. He said that the
be constantly
must
of education
of the last dozen years,” Swainson said at the luncheon.
“To
Governor
Williams
wish to express, for myself and
all our people, our deep appreciation for the high example
I
he set for us, for the goals
he
established,
and
for the
goals he established, and for
the achievements
accomplished.
that
he has
“We wish him Godspeed on his
new assignment with full confidence that the nation and the
world
through
tion
will
that
AMERICA-UAW
Jan.
1961
paid
Automation
Cuts Down on
To Fight for More Jobs
broad, major areas to which we
must address our energies with
vision and thoughtful concern”.
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Ind.
at Indianapolis,
EDITORIAL OFFICE—#000 E. Jefferson Ave., Detroit
14, Mich.—Se
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monthly
at 2547
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Street,
Indianapolis
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Swainson Gives Priority
LANSING, Mich.—Top priority
has been assigned by Michigan
Governor John Swainson to easing the state’s critical unemployment problem.
Swainson said, inhis inaugural
address on New Year’s day, that
the crushing problems of the unof “four
one
was
employed
WORKERS
benefit
the wisdom
he
will
enormously
and
bring
dedica-
to
his
very vital part in the State Department,
“The legacy of good, honest,
clean government he leaves us
is a great
gift,
MITCHELL
indeed.”
Employment
DETROIT—The
impact
of au-
tomation on employment in the
auto industry was revealed in
some startling statistics released
this week by Max M. Horton, director
of the Michigan
ment
Security
Despite
production
ployment
only 2.6%
Employ-
Commission.
a 21% increase in auto
during 1960, auto emshowed an increase of
over the 1959 figure.
In 1960 6.7 million cars were
produced
5.6
million
as
compared
in
1959.
Yet
to the
only
pay-
ments are “of sufficient duration
and amount to meet the needs
of the times,”
outgoing
Labor
Sec. James P. Mitchell has declared.
In his final year-end statement, Mitchell said the jobless
problem is complicated by
the
fact that much of the current
unemployment inyolves “experiwomen,
of whom have been
for over 15 weeks.”
General
1 million
out of work
The secretary said that when
Ford
and
the
Chrysler—will
nation’s
collective
The
automobile
tracts, covering
000 UAW
industry
more
members,
than
expire
600,-
in Au-
field and the union’s agreements
with the agricultural implement
duced
1,100,000
ment
record,
counted
more
on
a
units
state
employ-
2,535,000
persons
were employed, a mere 11,000
more than the 1959 average.
the
from
first
nation
begins
recovering
the current
clump, the
thing
that
will happen
companies
in
industry.
the
An
unionists
automobile
additional
will
be
affected
these negotiations.
All told, 1961 will
In
according
Dept.
to
estimates,
as
the
wage
result
gotiated
Not
in 1959
contracts
and
elared,
a situation,”
he
“unemployment
de-
insur-
ance is a first line of defense for
individuals
my.”
and
Reviewing
ment
picture
the
in
for
the
econo-
labor-manage1960,
Mitchell
said it was a year of “highly sig-
nificant”
with
since
the
1942
New
industrial
fewest
work
relations,
stoppages
He
of our times.”
pinpointed
equal
access
to
equality of
children.
Swainson
concern
ing
aged
our
the
need
schooling
opportunity
tance
because
fect on the
of their
total
ef-
thousands
of
collective
bargaining
contracts
trial
the
which
unions
at
gional level.
will
the
IN
ADDITION
tracts,
1961’s
e
be
negoti-
trades
indus-
local
TO
or
THE
re-
auto-
mobile and farm implement concenter
pacts
and
on
with
the
US.
negotiations
Rubber
Firestone,
Rubber
—
will
Workers’
Goodyear
involving
nearly 70,000 workers—which
in April
and
May;
the
ex-
con-
Leadership!
for
population.
“Shall
the
senior
state’s
citizens,
new
this
must
develop
concepts
very
and
and
approaches
important
aging and
act
field
at
noon
Inaugural
of
John
Lesinski,
were
Paul
office
with
Lieutenant
Adams,
Secretary
SWAINSON
for retiring
Williams
before a
Inaugural
“It
certain
HAD
Governor
HIGH
on
integrity
is maintained
at
of
of
the
ing
talks.
wage
increases
industry
downward
industry.
Disabled Veterans
May Be Eligible
For Tax Exemption
All veterans who are receiving
a pension from the Veterans Administration of 10% or more for
either
a service connected
or
non-service
be
connected
eligible
on
the
for
first
disability,
tax
exemp-
$2,000
assessed
assessed for more than
(tax assessed valuation
$7,500
is not
or sale yaluation).
These veterans should
make
be
interpreted
at
their
as
for
as
this
local
soon
as
possible,
or
purchase
tax
tax
after
county
exemp-
assessor's
January
inasmuch
township
papers,
their
MERE
re
A
1,
has
as
a
last
pen-
they
are
the
home
requesting
wartime
Detroit
on
tax
service
nue,
and
810, Citycorner
of
Detroit,
Jefferson
Michigan,
March 22, 1961. This
open from 8:00 AM
If
any
desired,
State
Veterans’
praise
It
further
please
has
As-
at the City Tax
apply
Woodward
this
residents
sessor’s Office, Room
County
Building,
T.
level
of any
of
should
cere-
government
showing
or
own
they are
City
before
tax office is
to 4:00 PM.
information
is
contact
the
UAW
ruled
that
SUB
Department
been
Ave-
payments are earnings and subIncome Tax
ject to Federal
If you have not kept a record
of the amount you received last
benefits, we sugyear in SUB
to make
high
reopener
in-
veteran may be entitled to
$2,000 tax exemption also.
G. Mennen
us
be
to 6.4 cents an hour in the cloth-
Widows
of
luncheon,
each
could
exemption.
in
in remarks
he made
record turnout at the
is for
construction
buying
which
James
Hare,
Auditor
General
Otis Smith and Treasurer Sanford Brown,
e
any
documents
General
of
permit
sion check or a letter from the
Veterans Administration, certifying entitlement to a pension,
and a contract, deed or other
Swainson
Attorney
indus-
contracts
automatic
discharge
of of-
Governor
sea<
different tax review period.
They will have to present their
monies held on the steps of the
Capitol Building. Taking the
oath
in
The
each
citizens,.too, may enjoy full
measure
of dignity and secur-
fice
railroad
potentially
1961,
the aged so that these
ity,’ Swainson added.
Swainson took the oath
37,000
reopeners
during
the
Another 1 million work-
volved
office
zenship or shall they be permitted to rightfully share in
the fruits of their toil and ef-
“We
and
where
Wage
year.
tion
have
asked.
Coast
The 1961 collective bargaining picture could also. include
negotiations, in the
aircraft,
application
contributed
so much
to our
collective progress and wellbeing, now be cast aside and
relegated to second class citi-
fort?” Swainsdn
Gulf
affecting
men.
to
grow-
who
shippers,
and
valuation
of their homes
provided their property is not tax
all
equal
Atlantic
tion
and
expressed
with
may
for
to
volying 84,000 unionists; and the
Maritime
Union’s
agreements
which take effect in a number of
in these compila- | key industries this year range
still of major imporfrom 143 cents an hour in the
improved “if we are to enable
our children to keep pace with
the
tremendous
technological
advances
workers;
included
tions—but
pire
25,000
the pacts between
the
Ladies’
Garment Workers and the dress
manufacturers’ associations, in-
ers
ne~
1960.
rolls.
such
3
increases this year
of
covering
tries,
million workers will receive deferred
Wilson,
telephone
La-
some
ated in 1961 by building
unions, other crafts and
“In
con-
workers,
picture—are
before laid-off emreturned
to pay-
by
covering
2 million
addition,
bor
see
negotiations
than
200,000
will be that the hours of workers on short work week will be
lengthened
ployes
are
Packinghouse
Workers and Meat Cutters concon-| tracts with Armour, Swift and
than in 1959.
In the over-all
employees,
Motors;
bargaining picture during 1961.
more
compensation
and
highlight
Motors,
monthly average, were added
to the work force which pro-
1600
URGES
ployment” in 1961
and
action
must be taken to insure that un-
men
tract of 35,000 Electrical, Radio
& Machine
Workers
members
with the electrical
division
of
tract
Washington—The nation faces
“a problem
of growing
unem-
enced
Negotiations between the Auto
Workers and the automobile industry’s “Big Three”
— General
gust. Also up for negotiations
late in the year will be the Auto
Workers’ pacts with the smaller
Higher Jobless Pay for Longer Time
To Cope With Present Day Needs
employment
Auto Negotiations
Highlight This Year’s
Bargaining Schedule
PRAWN
FOR
AFL-CIO
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news
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that
formation
you
from
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FIRESTONE
January,
1961
FAX
Firestone Company and Workers
174
=
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
2
Proud of Winning a Safety Award
By
OREN
Worren
Ave., Detroit
SOUTHWELL,
HARRY
ROLAND GARLAND,
JAMES THOMPSON,
10.
Phone TY. 8-5400.
FLETCHER,
CAL
President
Financial
Secretary
Recording
Secretary
Vice-President
ZANDER, BLAINE DAVIS, MARTHA BRADLEY, Trustees
KELLY Guide, ED KWASNIEWSKI, Sergeant-at-Arms
ENE)
Editor. Member AFL-CIO Labor Press Council
ORGE LYONS,
PRESIDENT
award,
many
attitudes
on
it
obstacles,
anti-
machinery,
the
etc.,
foremen,
of
part
it
and
form of nationalistic dictator-
able
been
to
serious accidents.
have
that
We
‘hits’.
on that.
depend
IF
has
THE
been
could
avoid
As Jake
many
have
always
cannot
e
COMPANY
now
will
entertain the thought that, in
the future, Safety will also encompass
the
over-all
Health
Welfare,
employees,
to
bigger
After
do.
any
have
been
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS of our great wealth are being
donated to most of the “free’’ countries of the world to build
structures which are
their economic, industrial and social
considered a prerequisite for !
bolstering a democratic form
of government and an effec-
e
against
been
said, “There
‘near-misses’”
are
deterrent
have
faulty
as
made
have
been only through your long experience and proven ability that
and Democracy
and
Well.
then
name,
products.
like
we
us,
better
all, we,
its
And,
we
and
intensely
and
Being
will
its
progress
awards:
like
Firestone,
proud
of
records,
want
of
We are encouraging these
and
Firestone
believe
its
that
its
to
they
back two-fold—I promise you,
Reward your good, safety-
hard-working,
Come
some
on—it
won’t
sincere
hurt—give
turkeys—about
500 of them
chase, automation which will
give them an army of unem-
“See
knowledge that will prevent
disease and prolong life (if
they can pay the price).
In other words, we are
some, like Cliff Zanley,
ployed,
helping
they
scientific
other
which
can
turn,
plant
to
to continue
ty
build
HARRY
our
own
will destroy
SOUTHWELL
outworn
the high
system
standard
home while we are spending or donating billions of dollars
in an effort to bolster democracy in other countries.
Jast
twenty
years
have
e
TRAGEDY that the leadership of
and the professions who during the
shown
such
initiative
in developing
productivity are refusing to accept any
exert any initiative to correct the serious
of this industrial revolution.
responsibility or
economic results
to protect these freedoms they must be
they do not destroy the freedom of other
applied so that
ents of our
Democratic
freedom
how
never
which it helped to create in America, and in doing
endanger our democratic form of government at
If IS A GREAT
American big business
show
Let
health
countries
if allowed
of living
so could
pur-
is a wonderful
thing, but in order
Society. When free enterprise through automation, administered pricing and collusion creates any army of unemployed workers, it is taking away the freedoms that those
workers have a right to expect and freedom of enterprise
must be regulated either voluntarily or by governmental
action, otherwise those affected will ultimately destroy free
enterprise and indirectly our democracy.
614% or nearly five million American workers are presently totally unemployed. This does not take into account
the great number working short work weeks and this number
will increase steadily during the next few months.
their
much
thought
attended
a Firestone
their
Par-
children
The
state
estimate
dren
in
health
57 per cent
Michigan
department!
of
of the chil-|
the
ages
1
Young
adults
ages of 25 anc
29 have
protected?
4
years
haven't
had
You
sition
it.
are
of
you
a
in
the
being
able of being
tle ole Santa
about it?
cent,
and
enyiable
able
you
some
Perhaps
education
little
a
these
along
‘
lines,
need
foremen
Some are curious as to why no
picture
was
in the
fire
which.
pipes,
blower
of the plugged
taken
the
caused
shop.
machine
is one of the examples
all” safety.
This
of “over-
e
to
Congrats
SILHOUETTES:
Phil Patterson on his retirement
—many happy years for you.
has Dolinsky got on
What
is
that
Brock
foreman?
cigar
from
called
the
shop-coat
Osack,
back.
first day
he
e
CHRISTMAS
on
smiles
the
HAVE
CAN
its
Notably,
touch of sadness too:
to the McHatties who lost his
wife’s mother—Chuck Lokuta, a
father,
brother; Jake Matter’s
Dominic’s
and
sincere
Our
of
family
mother-in-law.
to the
Also
regrets.
Fisher—we-:
Pete
NEW
YORK—A
in which
unique
a relocated
and
cap-
ever.”
How
just the best “lit-
Claus
Incidentally,
some
who
in order
e
want
to win?
WHAT'S
NEW?
As we again
enter the new and leave the old,
it brings to mind the old question: “What will you do about
it?”
Will you strive to make
new
friends?
Will
you
try
to
strengthen the friendship of the
old ones?
Do you
better
job
believe
for your
you
can
country,
do
a
your
state, your family, Firestone and
yourself
this
coming
year
of
1961?
And
will you
Will you endeavor to
obey
the teachings of the Almighty,
5
zA
2
a
3
$
of the
Machine
Trenton,
N.
company
will
will
agreecom-
Electrical,
Workers
and
J.,
Radio
the
down
plant
in
its
June,
and moved
to Columbia,
Under the agreement,-the
pay
2.5 per cent
of
its profits, before taxes, for the
years 1961 through 1963 into a
fund which will be distributed
to
the
scale
former
based
employes
on
on seniority.
a
St. Louis—A
leading
expert on
farm labor has strongly appealed
for the repeal or “radical” over-
of the
ing Mexican
program
of
import-
workers, as the vital
first step toward relieving the
“miserable plight” of American
farm workers and their families.
of
Unionization
is the
ultimate
best hope
solution,
Msgr.
George
G. Higgins
told
the
Catholic Economic Association
at its annual meeting. Higgins
is director of the Social Action
Dept.,
National
Conference.
Catholic
Wel-
Higgins urged extension of the
the
federal minimum
that average farm
wage,
noting
worker earn-
ings total less than $1,000 a year
and for child labor protection,
noting
the
“ugly”
fact
that
"What's a girl like you
doing in a joint like this?"
book,
read
you
“How
lat-
Wentzel’s
to
Handle
Your
e
BUMPING:
ways
in
While
favor
of
we
are
al-
seniority,
we
think it should work for everyone. We, nevertheless, feel a little sad when we see single men
and those with wives working,
men with
few
responsibilities,
continually
“dumping”
family
men and fellow workers off jobs.
Some of these boys have rough
going,
and
need a
little
extra
e
DREAM:
As
many
of
been
produced
before
—
at
Firestone. They sit back and demand
it—but
HOW.
they
don’t
say
All this they want from equipment which has been used for 23
years—without
change
improvement,
or
even
All the blueprints, the theory, the education, or the wishful thinking won’t
replace
worn
and
obsolete
equipment.
No
use
crying
or
he
can
do—no
more.
to
you.
And
threats—a
want
some
man
can
making
do
If
what
you
a better product, spend
money and we'll give it
Don’t
too.
production,
forget—the
incentive,
with its high rate of production
and production with “Reckless
Abandon” is your idea, naturally
you will have an occasional failure—don’t blame us.
And
give
sion
us
to
Engineering:
token
assistance
or “malarkey,”
structive,
concrete
does
not
in-
you waste the day or lose
was it well or poorly spent?
you leave a trail of kindness
a scar of discontent?
As you
close your
ber, do you
would say
You
us con-
e
EBBTIDE:
Did
it;
Did
or
or eva-
give
help.
We promise this
clude Fraternizing.
Don't
have
eyes in-slum-
think
earned
morrow
by
today?
that
one
the
work
more
you
God
to-
did
Asta La Vista
Clergyman Says We Should
Stop Importing Farm Labor
haul
try?
422
1960,
S. C.
to, cannot make those parties—
why should it be compulsory to
attend
Local
est
ever
Webster doesn’t list any “Francie,” Red, you’re still a bunch of
“O.K.” gals.
Leimback says, holidays agree
with
Have
you know, inspection
now
demands a better product than has
you're
Brock.
Is it true—“Mike” Erdody is
to give up his American citizenship? Bring her over here,
Mike.
And—why are you always in a hurry?
LET’S
and
Sure,
of
Don’t you ever get sick
those “Flounders,” Rosy?
Don't forget Joe Osack
for
your tax returns, service with a
smile—no extra charge.
money.
Let’s show a little more
“milk of human kindness.”
He’s the only recip-
Ed Reno?
miss this guy. Nice to see Archie
again—he’s
always
welcome.
Where's “Pappy?”
Car —on Ice.” Careful, it could
cost another transmission and
another vacation.
benefit
Horsman Doll Co.
The company closed
po-
a special
| nized against paralytic polio.
full
the
or not, under these conditions?
fare
need
for
protection
against
three
shots
of
polio
vaccine.
paralytic
polio.
These
young
Paralytic
polio strieks
hardest
adults have one of the highest
and most often in these young; death
rates
from
polio.
All
sters. They need the protection!
adults, as well as all
of polio vaccine more than any | young
other age group. Is your child youngsters, need to be immuthrough
get
and
cost
HARD
between
set-up.
know
won’t
which will activate the initiative and know how that has accomplished so much in the productive field in the solution
of the problems it has created.
STRIKES
we
Do
entire
pany will pay severence pay
to
former
employes
out of future
earnings,
has been
signed by
of responsibility in leaders of industry, labor and civic groups
|
the
and
be-
too old, and they couldn’t bring
their grandchildren.
Make it a big get-together.
It
_ WE CAN ONLY HOPE that the new administration in
Washington can, through positive leadership inspire a feeling
UNPROTECTED
co-operation
of the idea
plete lack of
understanding
hind
them.
write
ment,
are
daddy’s
who
who
those
worse,
and,
were
come—there
my
ridicule
program
our
knock
have
say,
e
MANY
are, at
heads,
Relocated Company
Agrees to Pay Former
Employes Share of Profits
and
of him.
everyone
because
kiddies
suggestion
a-wearing,
about giving us a Real Christmas Party next year.
Spend a little—you'll get it
minded,
but
do nothing
its
—sgive the kiddies nice gifts that
will last and that they can, in
than
SUGGESTIONS: There
least, two Department
“dirtiest”
give them more food than
they can consume, more
goods
e
Why
And,
incidentally,
Firestone,
old boy,-if you do like us, how
again.
“have not” countries to establish a system which will
—
then you will be a better friend
and a better citizen tomorrow.
ient of a Christmas
Ed,
workers with a few of the “good
things in life.”
Make Mary Kujat a “believer”
ship.
“Yes”
answer
This is unfair and shows a com-
the United States of America is a symbol of Democracy. We
are the wealthiest nation in the world. Our scientific and
industrial know how has enabled us to produce goods and
agricultural products beyond our ability to consume,
tive
to
wishes
can
you
possible.
single-handedly,
some
SOUTHWELL
Communism
this
If
who
you
between
Editor
your
In
tribute.
a little bit more?
just
Neighbor”
hourlycongratulate you—the
rated employees, for you, almost
safety
WeMustMakeDemocracy
Work at Home If We Hope
To Sell lt to the World
In the “Cold War’
a fine
It was
such
REPORTS
By HARRY
so.
There
MAX
THE
rightly
and
—
to them
pride
of
source
Thy
“Love
and
safety
and a
recent
company’s
was well earned,
The
award
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457,004 children from 10 to 15
years of age worked for pay on
factory
BUT,
farms
during
e
HIGGINS
1957.
WARNED:
“Congress
problem
day
and
could legislate
from
now
until
accomplish
on
this
dooms-
very
little
unless and until it-either repeals
or radically amends
78, which authorizes
sale
importation
of
Public Law
the whole-
Mexican
farm workers in the
United
States on a contract basis.”
Higgins was one of a group
of four consultants who studied
the
Mexican
program
at
the
request of Labor Sec. James P.
Mitchell.
Their
report,
filed
late in 1959, found that domes-
tic workers
had
been
conditions
depressed
swamped
out of certain crops and
their work chances, wages
imported
work
force.
by
had
and
the
Higgins expressed regret that
“government at all levels
has
seen fit to exempt agricultural
labor from most of the great so-
cial
has
and labor legislation which
the
during
enacted
been
past 30 years.”
.
January, 1961—Pa
SOLIDARITY,
yg
«= Ask Congress Action
On 8 Priority Bills
sulting
1
Page
from
Continued
nents in the House of RepreSenate
the
and
sentatives
ivering for
have been I
the most favorable political
advantage in both rules and
committees.
Within a
the
after
week
new Congress convened, influence of the new, liberal
administration
Democratic
to throwing up against much
legislation.
needed
The Committee, comprised
of eight Democrats and four
Republicans, had been able
Re
the
because
this
do
to
have
habitually
publicans
joined by two Dixiecrats, re-
Big 3 Geis
UAW Pian
from
eommunities
and
national
economy that would otherwise result,” UAW
P.
Walter
President
Reuther said in a statement released Jan. 7.
Reuther cited as an example: ‘If reduced sales face
a plant with the necessity to
reduce employment by 20%,
the UAW’s proposal calls for
shutting down the plant completely one week out of five -
instead of effecting the same
reduction
either
a
week
of
manhours
by working
or
four
laying
in
In event of a 20%
the
industry
days
off
of the workers.”
20%
cutback
as
a whole,
would
proposal
the UAW
directly add in excess of $22
million
total
the
per
month
purchasing
workers
have
modi-
tie votes
its
Thus,
or
delayed
blocked,
fied
much
backed
of
the
legislation
by liberals and labor.
However, House Speaker Sam Rayburn now is reported ready to insist on
addition
of
to the committee
two
and
would
one
more
Democrats
Republican.
give
the
This
regular
Democrats
their
needed
voting majority
on
the
group, so necessary to the
fate of Kennedy-proposedor-supported bills.
At about the same time,
the Senate — by a heartbreaking
margin
of only
four votes — put off its expected showdown on ending
the filibuster. The decision
came in a 50-to-46 vote on
to
power
involved,
to
to
make it easier to end filibus-
1
reduce
the
to
damage
vote.
a test question of sending
committee two proposals
Page
Continued
six-
The committee is specialbecause _ it
important
ly
bills before
major
screens
they reach the House floor.
shape an important victory
in putting a stop to the road-
blocks the House Rules Committee had been accustomed
™~
to-six
helped
have
to
appeared
in a blockading
the
of
com-
pared with four-day work
weeks.
“Indirectly it would add
much more to the nation’s
purchasing power
at a
time when this is the key
to reversing the forces of
recession, since these mil-
lions of dollars spent by
auto workers would provide employment for other
workers throughout the
economy,” Reuther said.
The UAW
proposal was
submitted orally to the managements of the Big Three
in separate
this month.
meetings early
It has been
the various
agements.
corporate
taken under consideration by
man-
ters on such
rights.
matters as civil
But Mansfield pledged that
the Senate Rules Committee,
which
he
heads,
would
send
back one of the bills for Senate
consideration
at
a later
date. This is expected to be
a measure backed by many
liberals to limit debate
through a three-fifths vote.
The
current
vote
of
rule calls
two-thirds
for a
plus
one.
2 Sub-Councils
Set Meetings
hold meetings in Solidarity
House the latter part of Janwith
discussion
ommendations
demands
to top
on
the
of rec-
contract
agenda,
it was announced by Ken
Bannon,
director of UAW
National
Ford
Sub-council
Department.
No. 7, com-
posed of delegates representing members who
work in Ford parts depots,
will meet Jan. 23 and 24,
and
sub-council
made
tives
workers
up
of
in
No.
8,
of representaskilled
trades
Ford
plants,
Jan. 25, 26 and 27.
UAW Vice President Nor-
man
Matthews
and
Reg.
1A
co-director
Joe
McCusker,
both members of the IEB
skilled trades committee, will
address
delegates
to subcouncil
No. 8.
In
addition,
the
skilled
trades sub-council will hear
talks by Robert Mills, chairman of the National Skilled
Trades Advisory Committee
and
and
from
president of Local 155,
from a _ representative
the UAW
partment.
Both
elect
Aircraft
sub-councils
a negotiator
to
De-
will
rep-
resent each group, while
sub-council No. 8 also will
elect a member to the National Skilled Trades Advisory Committee and a
member to serve on the
Ford National Council resolutions committee.
Both
meetings
also will
APPOINTED
director
UAW
4
Illinois
Department
Region
of
the
of Labor,
Director
Rob-
ert Johnston will take a leave
of absence
from
his union
post
until
temporary
cepted
as
he
completes
term
he has
the
head
of
the
acthe
state agency. Johnston
was
appointed
by
newly-elected
Democratic
Goy. Otto Kerner.
consider
resolutions
on
var-
ious matters of interest to
the members they represent.
Plans are being made to
have
representatives
from
other
skilled
trades
subcouncils participate in future
meetings of Ford sub-council
No. 8, Bannon said, in order
to achieve
nation.”
“positive
UAW
ington.
President
Walter
P. Reuther
coordi-
(left)
addresses
Women’s
ie
National
Sea
Democratic
Club in Wash-
Nation's. Biggest Job is Jobs,
Reuther Tells Dem Women
WASHINGTON — Top
item on America’s “agenda
of unfinished b u siness”
which
must
be faced
by the
incoming Kennedy Administration is “getting America
back to work,’’ UAW President Walter P. Reuther told
the Women’s National Democratic Club at a meeting
here.
Reuther
predicted
the
country will face a jobless rate of 8% in February, “unless we have some
drastic action . . . to commit this nation to full em-
ployment and full production.”
“Our basic problem is we
don’t know how to manage
an economy of abundance,”
Two Ford sub-councils will
uary,
:
Job
Losses
Continued
from
Page
1
in each of the 21 manufacturing industry groups covered by the Labor Department
ing
computations,
auto,
includ-
aircraft
and
mis-
siles, and farm equipment.
@ The heavy unemploy-
ment increase pulled the national
jobless
rate
up
to
6.8%.
Any
figure
in the
economy.
over
5%
is considered by economists
to show a serious weakness
Here are some of the bleak
effects of the recession on
the economy:
1. Many UAW
members,
in the auto, aircraft and ag-
ricultural implement industries particularly, have been
hit hard
Reuther
meeting.
“In
told
1960,
States had a
capacity lying
the
Iuncheon
the
United
greater steel
idle than the
Soviet Union has in its whole
economy.
“In 1959, we wasted over
200 million tons of steel —
more than all underdevel-
oped
could
countries
in
the
world
use for the next three
years.
“This economic waste is
the key to where we’re going at home and in the
world,” Reuther said. “We
must learn to manage
by sharing it in a way
it
to
create economic
growth
and development.”
Turning
to international
problems,
Reuther
Hit
charged,
months.
4, Industrial production
now is 6% below January,
1960, levels and still falling.
of indus25%
5. About
try’s plants and machines
are idle.
6. Inventories
of
new,
unsold automobiles in dealers’ hands now are more
a million. This is
than
about 40% greater than
the previous high at this
of year.
time
AGLI
are losing in Asia, we are losing.at our back doorstep of
Latin America ... We are
identified with the status quo
in parts of the world where
the
status
Moreover,
a
quo
isn’t
good
enough and denies people
even minimum standards of
decency and self-respect.”
Among several other
key items Reuther listed
as “unfinished
business”
were education, civil rights
and medical care for the
aged.
“No
industrialized
in the world
nation
has done so lit-
tle to provide for its senior
citizens,” Reuther
said in
urging support for medical
care for the aged through
Social
Security.
20-Year
six million total, in the next
few
“we are losing in Africa, we
Peak
considerable number of
these unsold new cars are
1960 models, and inventor-
ies of new, unsold 1961
ears have been rising at
about 50,000 a month.
7. The nation’s basic steel
industry production has hov-
ered at about half its productive capacity for the past six
months. There are no signs
of a substantial pickup.
8. Business
failures rose
10% to 15,400 last year, a
postwar peak,
eee
{|
by recession layoffs.
Heavy numbers of assembly,
parts,
and
supplier
plant
workers have been laid off in
the
auto
industry;
many
others are on short weeks.
Aircraft and missile
workers have been hurt by
unemployment
at plants
such as Douglas (both on
the West Coast and at
Tulsa, Okla.); ChanceVought, Fairchild, Bell
and Niagara Frontier.
In the farm
dustry,
ers
have
implement
thousands
been
of
laid
in-
work-
off
at
Allis-Chalmers,
International Harvester and some Caterpillar
Tractor
plants,
2. In industry as a whole,
a noticeable dropoff in production was coupled with the
disclosure that the average
factory worker at year’s end
had less purchasing power in
his paycheck
its beginning.
3. While
predict
only
than
some
a
he had at
economists
“mild
down-
turn,” labor researchers
foresee an additional unemployment rise, possibly to a
FP iNt Br
‘Guess What — We
Ain’t Imaginary
+ BF BL Oc ke
ves SATAN
eN Pere
oa
Characters After All’
:
January,
—
UNITED
1961
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
UNIVERSAL
DETROIT
fe
wer
on a
| Universal Workers Enjoy Holiday —
| Festivities and Christmas Spirit
By
PAULINE
Now
that the traditional holi-
day
festivities
trate
our
over, We may
practically
are
do well to concen-
a strong
with
efforts
determination
will and
to make
progressive
a
year
coming
the
who
MAYNARD
and properous one.
New Year resolutions are gen-
erally made and kept but for a
short time and then completely
forgotten until next year.
Let us endeavor, this year, to
dedicate our lives to worthwhile
deeds and let the good in us
predominate
over
bad.
the
Try
to be considerate of others’ feel-
ings, and at the same time, be
helpful whenever possible. If you
follow
can
you
this
from
year
I’m
course,
certain
glance
proudly
and
now
a
back
inven-
take
tory on yourself and realize life
is not so bitter after all.
Will you give it a try? I know
you won't regret it.
e
OPERATIONS
IN
OUR
inspected
I would
during.
the
weeks, thereby making
again
ing
set
1961,
28,
be
for
there
ing
Hall,
8:00
pm.
held
at
promptly.
will
be
6495
West
Meet-
The
to
Ave-
nue as usual.
The tension to many, created
by Mary Jane Chandler's, Ball
Grinding
cy
to
been
Department,
motherhood
eased
expectan-
has
and
finally
we
breath freely again.
He tipped the scale
can
all
It’s a boy.
at 7 Ibs. 15
ozs.
Mary Jane pulled out of this
ordeal (Caesarean section) with
flying colors. We’re all happy
you two.
It’s the first baby
them, you know.
for
for
a
he
for
ish
the
Congratulations
Also
to
to you
Grandma
Wolff,
pyrirhted: Labor Features
plant
TIME
sTuDbY
“=F
course)
of
that
INFORMED
I WAS
man is quite a braggart and
this will keep
perhaps
while.
for a
quite a few
gift
This
good
him
at
and _
heartfelt
you in your sorrow.
Wisconsin Unionists
Pay Fines For
Crossing Picket Lines
Wisconsin
Supreme
cross
the
union’s
by
Court has
picket lines,
Wisconsin
and
Employ-
ordered
not
to
collect
sert
jurisdiction.
that
It
them,
only
added,
NLRB
“A
to
the
Court
as-
without
enforce
its
unions
could
union
solidarity
members
union
which
power.”
Decision
when
it
such
in similar cases
involving International Association of Machinists and United
Auto Workers.
ay quit. onodl
was
possesses
came
Here’s One I Vetoed Twice
quiet
to those|
out with
and
to offer this discount
members.
All members
10%
are
discount
bers a 15%
174,
and
discount.
not
in-
clude... wages or payment in
lieu of wages for a period dur-
ing
a
which
absent
the
from
employee is
work
on
account
of personal injuries
ness?”
of
The
exclusion
provisions
Section
covered
the
sued
an
by
on
“If
from
employee,
work
on
income
1,
11,
Service
1956
105-4
is
of
is-
(T.D,
(3)
provides;
provides
who
(a)
account
personal
injury
or sickness,
will receive a disability pen-
sion
as
long
Section
to
any
an
this
payments
plan
is disabled,
which
receives
age,
fied
but
he
retirement
age.”
recognition
reaches
by
105
the
gross
a recent
nue
9, p.
defining
age
be
tirement
the
term
in
Reve-
1957-
“re-
age”
for
the
specific
of
determining
until
a
disability
excluded
(d). Such
age”
under
pension
Section
ruling defines “reas;
appropriate
pension
at
which
had
and
had
he
speci-
or
writ-
not
an-
the
been
he continued
empployment,
such
would
have had the right to retire
without the consent of the embenefits
In-
found
ruling of Internal
10)
of
105
is
(Rey. Rul. 57-76, LR.B,
tirement
purpose
what
income
in
ployer
ternal Revenue Service of the
exclusion of disability pensions
from
plan
disabled
(d))
does
not
apply
to the
payments which such an employee receives after he reaches
the
employee,
under
lowest age
employees’
unity
such
section
The
in
ten
is appplicable
before
retirement
may
a
he
(d)
employee
that
absent~
as
105
Further
disability
regulations
regulations
plan
sick-
specifically
Reyenue
Section
a
is
the
April
of such
gross
(d)
Internal
6169),
(i)
105
from
or
of some
date
at
the
the
and
of
receive
retirement
on
based
retirement
full
plan,
Le.,
rate
set
service
to
forth
in
computed
actuari-
without
al or similar reduction because
before some
retirement
of
later
specified
however,
that
age,
such
provided,
retirement
age corresponds with the employer’s actual practice and is
reasonable
in
which
that
to
teeth
clause.
can
and
funds
the
insertion
in a moonlighting
One
resolution
be made
Taken
asked
available
for
the
in
of
the
the
for
much
as
nine
e
editor
past
month.
YOU
OF
MOST
elected
was
not
are
KNOW
as
During
writing
conference
the
a
view
facts
pertinent
stances; or...”
and
of
all
the
circum-
On the basis of the above reference it is clear that disability
pensions
Pension
Plan
consent
of
have
age
earliest
the
right
the
at
which
to
under
retire
employer
have
not
yet
the
the
age
in gross
Service
questions
office
of
the
income.
If
any
Internal
such
Revenue
action
a
gate
for
was
left
ing
and
hassle
friends
We
to
|
by
later,
for
The
him.”
are
of
out
getting
to
sorry,
this
is
to
the
“to
get
open
year,
the
to”
get
sentence,
mean-
Norm
Norm
to
always
the
of
one
Ol-
“Henry
he
changing
up
article
an
resolve
someone
with
Meloche
lousing
issue
little
better
do
tor.)
of 65 should be advised that the
need not be}
disability pension
included
much
members,
has
not
the same
Norm
read:
completely
at
who are receiving |
who |
and
pension
reached
work
waiting
without
and
an
extend
have
should
szewski
the
last
the
should
he would
the full benefit set forth in
plan for normal retirement.
Individuals
disability
a
can’t
friend
good
In
the
Company Pension Plans are excluded from gross income until
the recipient reaches the age of
65—the
we
in the doghouse
his copy.
under
was
the job in the near future.
(Editor’s note: Our typesetters
seem to make a habit of getting
our
payable
it
token neither has it gotten any
darker, so keep your spirits up
on
back
see you
may
we
and
twenty
some
all
hope to you laid-off
While
the
picture
brightened much, by
course
the
in
Well, folks, that about covers
it for this month,
as of this
immediate
we
all
excellent conference with some
very good addresses by some
of the
best speakers
in the
union today. While we are not
gullible enough to believe that
all of the things acted on will
reach the final stages, we are
hopeful
of
seeing
at
least
some of them become part and
parcel of the new
contracts,
quite
fared
Benefits Non-Taxable
“(1))
points
classifications
past
own
the
our
on
as
but
quarter,
your
of
Revenue
to
used
citizen
trades
skilled
to the
delegate
conference held in Chicago this
mem-
are excluded
under Section
basic
fear} should be included in the new
our} contracts, These varied in charthen
of March,
ides
the
benevolent rulers decided that| acter from
standardization
of
they would graciously extend it | the apprenticeship requirements
to the 15th of April. This, in| and abolishment of some orphan
American
AS
to a
Disability
pensions
payable
under
the
Company
Pension
Plans are not subject to Federal
average
the
back
years
future but frankly
too optimistic.
Disability Pension
105 (d) of the Internal
Code which provides:
“Gross income does
few
A
say
See your Steward or Committeeman for discount cards.
Income Tax, and
from gross Income
| resolutions were presented, discussed, debated, and acted on.
Hi, folks, here it is 1961 ea |Nineteen
of
these
resolutions
|
of
all
settled
yet
we haven't as
dealt directly with language we
seems
It
1960.
for
our scores
|hope to have included
in the
that the Internal Revenue De-| next
contract
negotiations.
on}
partment has a slight claim
While some of these were utotwelve
past
the
our earnings for
pian in character the most of
months.
them
dealt
with
good
sound
MELOCHE
J.
NORMAN
By
to their
retired
is
WORKS
that were
months preceding
quite lucrative.
Our only wish is that we could
UAW
entitled
Congress
Norm Meloche Was Delegate
At Skilled Trades Confab
last
have
been
Regal
Drug
Local
SCREW
Screw Works have
well.
True, it tapered
UAW
ing widespread popularity in the
light of high medical cost today.
Centers
FEDERAL
employment has been concerned
one has to admit that earning
wise, the employees of Federal
Local
Unions
which
provide
from 10 to 15 percent discounts
on medicine and drugs in gain-
Arrangements
made
with
the
out
committee.
LOOKING BACK
12 months insofar
For Drug Supplies
worked
work
the publication and circulation
of
some
type
of
news-letter
the
As
impossible.
to
next thing
among the members of the skillfather of seven hale and hearty | ed trades group. In this manner
as the groups from all parts of the
ourself
class
we
children
of an expert on the
somewhat
country
could
keep
in _ closer
subject.
contact and work in unison for
e
the accomplishment of our aims.
Discount Cards
A plan
the
feed,
house,
to
that
claim
clothe, care for and educate a
dependent on $600 a year is the
created
laughs
to
shown at its first meeting in Cha rleston, W. Va. Chairman Paul
H. Douglas (D.-IIL) is shown at e enter rear; to his right is Myer
Feldman, slated to be associate special counsel to Kennedy-in
the White House, who is top staff officer of the group.
West
Virginia State AFL-CIO Pres.
files Stanley is a member
of
our own humble opinion, is just
a case of prolonging the agony.
always have and still do
We
Fe, | war [ae | err |
this
and
Pr ‘es.-elect Kennedy
the
new
session
of
Special Committee named by
depressed
area program
for
resorts
to a strike ...is a
much less effective instrument
of collective bargaining than a
for
e
away
sympathy is extended to the bereaved.
May the Lord comfort
among
beautifully boxed and -wrapped.
Upon opening it a pair of size 40
men’s shorts revealed themselves
monogrammed “Dead
and were
End.”
Condolences
power
belly
that
passed
the ripe old age of 94 years.
held
the Naval Space Reserve.
Another comical gift was given
this.one,
Department,
practices”
wash
(no name
of Transportation
ler. Although WERB
has ruled
that the fines were “unfair labor
button brush with full instrucThis brush
tion on its usage.
by
was highly recommended
to a fellow worker
general
ment
Relations
Board and by
Circuit Court Judge Elmer Rol-
this arti-
studded
diamond
days—a
foreman
rulings
holiday
his
Murphy,
Unanimous decision, written by
Justice George Currie, set aside
firm.
will cher-
of
rest
Norman
father
both.
ing
gift that was presented to George
Petersen, general foreman of the
Assembly Department.
It’s a gift that
Murphy,
upheld the right of a union
to
levy fines against members who
Christmas
special
of
James
MOTHER
prolonged
Jerry (the daddy) is a Corporation Attorney for a large truck-
cle without news and activities
throughout the shop.
I do, however, want to inform
you about
e
_Mr.
174
Warren
Transporta-
Department.
illness.
meet-
Local
is, from
ROY
PASTULA’S
passed away after a
January
Try
that
tion
like to remind
Saturday,
at
Edna,
closely.
you of our Credit Union
have been curtailed with a mere
employees
crew
of
skeleton
working
it more
his
Will
The
in
a
good
try
Edi-
es bales
NOT CHOOSY
Polio
strikes
the
unimmunized
no matter where they live, what
money
much
how
or
do
they
they should be referred to the}
they
regulations
the
of
provisions
have.
Protect
yourself
and
from
family
your
of
members
of
tragedy
unnecessary
the.
they may have to the Internal paralytic polio. Make your every
Revenue Service in Washington, | member of your family is im-
noted above and should be advised to refer any question which
D.C,
munized.
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE
WORKER
January,
DETROIT
BRASS
AND
1961
MALLEABLE
Fumes from Lift Trucks
Health Hazard in Plant
By ERNEST
Now
that
passed
J. GRAMLICH
the
we
holidays
can
all
have
settle
down
of buy-
of months
ing and preparing things
for
Christmas, and then
when
it
does finally arrive, it is over before you know it. Even the head-
aches.
I hope
everyone
had
enjoyable holiday.
I did.
Getting away from the
holi-
news,
shop
to the
back
and
days
an
we have been receiving numerous complaints from our people
lift
driven
about the gasoline
trucks operating in the buildcutting
ings, especially in the
room,
I am
because,
his
doing
do
from
the
above
and spring, but by mid 1961 a
recovery may begin in jobs and
These are the views|
production.
welfare as
this nation’s economic
We
be
These
the
to
entire
frantic
the
and
auto
industry.
GOP
In
to make
endeavor
good,
look
the
over-
A
RESULT
production
with short
offs until
BY
of
this
of
Fourteen
ing
of the country’s
economists
New
York
and
recovery will
The main
are:
1.
begin by mid-year
reasons they cited
strong
Strong
and
thing
ing.
The last
strongest
is
ministration
and positive
nation’s
expected
part.
The
we
a
back
our
We
at
can
the
in
find
the
do
home
our
same
and
tried
some-
auto
indus-
as
the
buy
it couldn’t
one
is no
100%
such
ferent
to
subject,
importance
but
to
one
us
all.
a
dif-
of
track
and
stronger
be one of its primary objectives. |
Northville,
Incidentally, Detroit and Michi-|
gan
will
and
benefit
indirectly
tressed
now
in
Area's
both
from
Economic
Congress
portance
the
Aid
“Dear
Dis-
“I am
Bill
bed
vital
Brother
4
and
made
in
American.
see
if
the
product
tion
“I
good
rates
workman
American
and
union
dollars
to
hours.
We in the auto
fairly good wages
not
expect
to
receiving|
at
union
industry get
but we can-
continue
im-
many
are
was
im-
x-ray
from
my
Sanatorium
of
good
you
last
Na-
know
friends
shortwinded
of
and
didn’t feel good for some time
but neglected
to get regular
x-rays
which
were
available
is|
America.
Let’s
buy
If you can't see where |
American
Maybury
this
|
}1
me
free
at
the
Mobile
ATTEND
YOUR UNION
MEETINGS
shot
five
to
tion,
but
day:
For
about
it.
followed
for lunch
if you
are
heaven
get
is
Nation,
when
you
will
“s/ Bill Nation.”
for your advice, Bill.
his
address:
Room
Inf.
William
1105-1,
May-
bury
Sanatorium,
Northville,
Michigan.
Visiting
hours
are
from 3 to 4:30 pm. Thursday,
and
Sunday.
If
you
wants
to thank
his
many
Northville.
X-
e
THERE WERE MANY wonderful Christmas parties in the dif-
ferent
departments
recently
spirit
and
of
these
of
it’s
Ternstedt
too
bad
parties
cannot
fhe
be
continued throughout the year.
At least one of the. parties
made
the
West
Side
nice
story
held
local
press
when
Courier
and
a
printed
picture
in Department
participants in this
donated a nice sum
Mary Home
for the
some
tasty
Sisters
Verne
of
holiday
Virginia
Klauza
and
Department
congratulated
ing
and
for
this
which
on
cooking
150
7
on
the
a
the
7. The
fine party
to the St.
Aged plus
when
AVON
TUBE
suggested
been
It has
forgot
he
money,
cost
it
out
found
he
probably
By
STICKLER
JUANITA
a very,
had
We
Folks.
safe
and sane Christmas here. In fact
Jack Klein thought having a
by
sprig of mistletoe hanging
the coffee tables would be living
too dangerously. Either that, or
he figured it wasn’t working because no one had kissed him in
the two days that it hung there
he
—before
it down.
tore
We heard many compliments
on the turkeys given us by the
for Christmas, I
Company
know mine was delicious.
We
some
were
of
is a joke
our
to
to
sorry
members
notes
take
think
off
the
pay.
The
time cards. This cost one of our
eight hours pay and
members
another
‘one
two
hours
notes were to tell them to report
for a different time than usual.
One
so he
of
our
missed
boys
eight
had
no
hours.
phone
Some-
one called the other one and he
missed two hours. This is definitely not a joke.
The Company again has asked
us to tell you to leave the time
of
worthwhile
party
participated.
ated.
who
be
food
we
only
please
Many
have
the paper.
See you next
so
much
month,
me
since
space
folks.
in
miss
you,
Chester
ting
the
room
father
proud
now.
Hunts
of
Brownie
baby
a
and a
a boy
That’s
again
beaming
was
day.
other
of the cut-
HUNT
BROWNIE
leave.
sick
still on
folks.
Mabry are
Hurry back
James
and
Choinski
girl.
the
I think I will
the
on
news
Next month,
further
have
proRay
which hasn’t
well lately.
Blood Bank
so
gressed
the
is
for
girl
Love has taken over the chairmanship and promises action
for the next meeting.
See you all next month,
eards alone. And to be very
get
gonna
“somebody’s
blunt:
clobbered if they don’t.”
e
THANK
TO
LIKE
WOULD
I
for their consideration
everyone
in the use of the parking lot.
the
across
not parking
Their
end of the lot has cleared up all
our problems. Thanks again.
Two Benders were asked in
office
the
been
Hammond
Jim
after
de-
in the
timekeeping
it
very clear that we don’t accept
reas accurate,
figures
his
they
us that
assures
Company
the
much
how
of
gardless
have to be correct. We also
is
feel that if the Company
losing money all they have to
look
do is to take a good
around
really
As
they
trying
the waste
to see where
lies.
as
far
arbitra-
an
to
explain
to
rediculous
pretty
look
will
action,
disciplinary
tor that the people don’t really
have to go to the rest room, that
it is all in their mind.
IT WAS
the
e
A VERY NICE gesture
afternoon
the
of
part
to
afterwards.
up
clean
to
everything
tasted de-
It was potluck and
looked to pretty and
in
licious. We
I know
Ruth
also cooper-
pardon
Gus
the hospital, Gus is now reWe all
cuperating at home.
wish you a speedy recovery
We
and return to work soon.
stayed
the
Guiding
ternoon
Copyrighted: Labor Features
"He's going a little bit too
far|"'
really enjoyed it.
missed
everyone
Bradbury.
Christmas
If I have
neglected
anyone
who aided in the success of this
party,
Jack is back to work
their Christmas Party December
22nd. Some of the girls who were
in and got the
laid off came
tables ready, served the food and
other
sisters
and _ brothers
helped to make this party a
huge
success.
Not
forgetting
management
his
to have
hospital
in the
shift to invite the Committee
organiz-
the
stitches. Take it easy, Ben, don’t
try to eat it all at once. Stretch
it out a little.
Jack Joiner of the Foundry
on
Helen Taras
the
right
his choppers
his tongue for a few
chomped
through
partment for two weeks.
We would like to make
it
Strzalka,
to
he
fact
in
well
so
ago,
weeks
of
a couple
well
pretty
working
had
that
hear
food.
are
believe it or not, he had his jaws
Workers Enjoy Gift Turkeys
Presented By The Company
Hi
friend,
Thanks
Here
chest x-ray or
up here,
and
knows
out.
“Your
advice
every
fumes
these
time these trucks come in.
Several months ago the Engineer inquired about this condi-
my
strepto-
pills
breathing
howiak chomping on the tid bits
Well,
after the union meetings?
Rohloff, entered the hospital
for surgery. After five days in
talking
I’m
Wa-
Ben
SEE
EVER
YOU
DID
Our able committeeman,
There is so much blue smoke you
can’t see from one end to the
This is
other end of the room.
not a very healthy condition and
would
if some of management
leave their nice clean offices and
stand around and get their lungs
they
maybe
full of monoxide,
it.
would do something about
are
Think of the people who
leave
bathroom.
of
Then
get your
will end
party
writing
and
me and
mine.
the product is made just ask a|
salesman.
It may
cost
you
a/
few more dollars but by buying}
American we-are giving work to|
an
a chest
Friends,
in
the
where I have been since
March. My name is Bill
e
WE TOO CAN HELP in the na- |
tion’s economic recovery. When|
you are in the market™to buy}
anything—no matter how small
or how
large—before
you
buy|
look
of getting
regularly.
directly
regarding
average
I
friends in Plant 18 for their
kindness to him since he entered
gov-/ Bill Nation, formerly of inspection
in
Department
7
writes
ernment
spending
aimed
at
Maybury
Sanatorium,
helping our distressed areas will from
right
and
you
Bill
sew-
a totally
I
flat
time
for the next 190 days.
‘So, friends, take my
a card.
She
as
built-in-American
ing machine.
But let’s get
the
animal
some
to the
supper.
I am
folks are out that way, drop in
and visit with him or drop him
even called the Better Business
Bureau and they assured her
there
where
of the same
Saturday
and
be done.
That’s
here
do,
improving after ninety days,
they stop the shots and give
you thirty-three pills per day
market.
position
to
and
by
home
and
by more
in
are
to
the
cover when they see these trucks
blowing out their smoke.
now.
to
of these
ting room while one
trucks are in there, you would
know what I was talking about.
Kie-
neglected
time
my
mycin
paying
they
markets
about
found
ad-
on
and
wages
abroad.
out
will
take
strong
action to. get our
economy
dollars,
is
Herman
for
only
breakfast—a
latest
for
back.
is to go
Here
us,
paid
my
bed
and
large
are taking
machinery
I
as a result
“The
Now
THE
at
will remain
come.
foreign
we did
sewing machine industry.
Do you know that you can’t
even
buy an American
built
sewing machine anymore. Recently a friend of ours went
play|
new
factories,
might
try
buy-
to
OF
or
This,
on
“Charity begins at home” is an
old saying. Let’s remember
it
and start buying American or
spend-
government
e
of automated
stealing
in
that
ing by consumers.
Buying by business.
3.
fellow
recovery.
from
USE
substandard
lead-
met
suggested
Continued
2.
the
recently
away
American
we
now
are
faced
work weeks and laythis stockpile is di-
to
countries
by
recovered and
modern
over-
industry.
road
THE
type
minished. This applies not only
to automobiles but also too electric appliances and many other
lines
our
this line of reasoning.
business
end.
AS
the
these
haye
produced in 1960. This resulted
in an all-time record stockpile
of over a million cars at the
year’s
follow
on
a
Nixon
deliberately
industry
auto
patronize
Unit
fer.
1961.| Things were different then—the
views could well dollar was king and many forTernstedt and to eign countries needed assistance
same
applied
and
not
into
started
barely
are
American worker whom we expect to buy the product
we
we
economic
produce.
When the balance of
trade was in our favor,
regarding
economists
noted
of
Ray
our
unless
winter
a tough
to be
going
It’s
position
proving
am
told
is
run _ for
foremen
the
Even
tonsils out,
about the exhaust fumes in
case you didn’t know.
If you’ve ever been in the cut-
R:
Kennedy's Distressed Area Program
Should Aid Economy in Near Future
By ALEX PENMAN,
blaming
he
as
situation.
stinky
Photo)
Courier
Side
(West
FLASH
TERNSTEDT
Taras.
Helen
and
Home
I
but
only
he
edied.
was
Company for not taking protective measures to correct this
and
to
L
are
check
the
presenting
plant
the
in
party
dinner
job
is
all,
after
see if the situation cant’ be rem-~
She
Light
parties
shift
ever
for
of
the
since
remember. She is on
list at this writing,
been
has
the
af-
I can
the sick
we
but
hope she will be back soon.
. Hope this will be a very Happy
and Prosperous Year for everya
Richard
Sister Mary
Klauza,
Vera
Strzalka,
Virginia
holiday
Shown
Aging.
the
for
Home
St. Mary
the
for
$110
raised
a
held
Division
Ternstedt
of
18
Plant
in
Workers
it,
the driver,
not blaming
this and
on
Let’s all work
tion.
and readjust ourselves to
our
normal way of living.
Seems it
takes a couple
be piped into
immediate ac-
that the exhatst
the offices to get
- Item sets