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SOLIDARITY, May, 1961—Page2
Malcolm Smith, Oshawa Local 222 president, member of Special
Convention resolutions committee, chats with Walter Reuther.
ee Emil
international
Mazey,
= treasurer,
urges
Canadian
- George
director,
Canadian
Burt,
chairs
Canadian
The 250 delegates represented
Cleary Auditorium,
Bae
Conference
Economic
UAW
in
the region’s 65,000 members,
Windsor’s
secretary-
Conference
to push national planning, |
Pat Smith, Local 439, chairman, Nels Wilson, 222, Jim Maxwell, 676, Ed Bruce, 707,
Brown,
112,
form
Canadian UAW approval for the union’s
ing recommendations
Reuther
“flexible” approach
to 1961 collective bar-
Convention.
|
_ They also approved-a special report of
a
Canadian
Resolutions
Committee.
The
|
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tr
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on
ns
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at
ri
va
ed
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report in
theme intended to fit Canadian needs.
“On
$66
On both sides of the river, emphasis was
on spelling out the problems workers are
facing in 1961 and suggesting a wide
variety of solutions. Thus, instead of the
rigid ‘30-40-60’ position which a minority
group favored, both Convention and Conference backed the ‘Flexible Reduction of
the Workweek With No Loss In Pay,’
‘Salaries for All Workers,’ and the full
range of legislative and collective bargain-
PAT SMITH, ‘439°
behalf of the commit-
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Re
“Transfer
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tl
of
HERMAN SWANSON, 200’
CAPUTO, ‘1067’
operations
clauses
“Ford
efficiency
guerre oa
artists
cut
plant
wei ets
director,
not strike during the life of a contract—
for any reason. U. S. UAW members can
strike over production standards disputes
and other ‘non-arbitrable’ matters.
Burt detailed legal advice he had obtained in: efforts to find a way to give
:
Canadian members relief from management speed-up attacks. He promised that
the International Union would continue to
search for a way to free its Canadian
noe
|
members.
As at Detroit, the Canadian Conference
recommended contract periods of two
was especially
years maximum. Sentiment:
strong for one-year pacts where speed-up
problems have been most severe.
- UAW President Walter Reuther key-
noted both meetings when he said the
union would go to the bargaining table
with goodwill, but also with strength.
(Please check the rest of Solidarity
for extensive reports on the UAW’s legis-
HUGH McCONVILLE, ‘195°
“Let’s
lative and collective bargaining position).
oR teiens
MARTY
UAW
workers face in a law which says they may
Detroit’s huge Cobo Hall), 250 delegates,
local union presidents and bargaining
committees representing the Canadian —
Region’s 65,000 members gave a resounding O.K. to the program nailed down in
the previous three days by 2,500 delegate
Special
Canadian
led a discussion of the problem Canadian
Meeting in Windsor’s Cleary Auditorium
(on the riverfront directly across from
at the UAW’s
put forward by the
administration.
- George Burt,
American.
the
as
emphatic
as
was
_ gaining
Keith
Tackled
Problems
Canadian
Committee.
Resolutions
Canadian
and
“We
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See
PURER,
LORNE CHARLICK, ‘397’
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The UAW this month —
ped up preparations for major
1961 negotiations, armed with
a bold, new approach to conout by
tract talks hammered
collective
special
union’s
the
bargaining convention, held in
Detroit, April 27-29. .
Approximately 3,000 delegates overwhelmingly voted:
of .a crucial two-;
approval
front program aimed at win-:
to the basic:
answers
hing
problems
of
workers
and:
their families.
Detailing workers’ problems.
under 27 specific areas to be:
at the bargaining.
up
taken
tables; the program is aimed at
winning
more
security
for:
members
UAW
and
sew
Or. K ers ss 5 CCUr 1 C y
workers on
retirement and putting a stop:
to high unemployment.
One set of problems involves:
essential
contract
issues
to
be}
serious
that:
bargaining:
the
at
covered
table; the other calls for joint,
action for,
union-management
legislation to help solve broad:
be’
cannot
which
questions
answered in negotiations.
officers
top
UAW’s
by
LEADERSHIP
gredient in the democratic processes
tion. Left to right: Vice Presidents
important
an
was
ai
Norman
Matthews;
and
Greathouse.
Treasurer
throughout the convenLeonard Woodcock and
Pat
Emil Mazey
President
Walter
Reuther;
and Vice Presidents Richard
Secretary-
T. Gosser
whelmingly
by UAW’s
Special
Collective Bargaining Conyention.
The
program is aimed
at
securing
answers
to the prob-
lems either at the bargaining
table or through legislative ac-
tion,
or
The
through
both.
delegates
the
approved
year’s
declared
resolution
they
embodying
bargaining
this
tothe
But
solutions
issues are
they
also
possible.
made
it plain
that while the union is “flexible” in working out answers
UAW Dinner
birthday
celebrated its 25th
opening
night
‘these
lems.
first
they
until
human
compelling
at
home,”
tion’s collective
the
solution section declared.
The bargaining section
cussed
re-
dis-
problem
11 separate
areas, some containing several
separate issues. The 11 areas
-—salaries
for
|
all workers.
t
it
moving to bring
ContinuedonPage-10
of the
special convention with a dinner party, and more than 5 ,700
people came ‘to commemorate
‘the- event at Detroit’s Cobo
Hall.
It was the largest dinner ever
held in the long history of the
Motor City; Mayor Louis C.
summer under the comprehenSive
program
adopted
over-
whelmingly by delegates to the
union’s Special Collective Bargaining Convention.
Spelling
areas
of
out: the
problems
broad
affecting
and we are:
total effort:
front.”
in
delegates
detail before:
stamp of ap=-:
|
workers, the convention emwith
along
that,
phasized
solutions won at the bargaining tables, specifically-designated new = legislation can
of the
some
provide
help
answers,.
The dramatic dual approach
is. a history-making step in
developing. bargaining. prin-
pushing
problems,
proposals
for
solutions:
instead of.
con=
for
|
tract changes.
Three conWith UAW-Big
tracts running out Aug. 31, negotiations are expected to start
in
July.
Highlighted by a vast bane:
25th’
UAW’s
quet celebrating
convention)
the
abniversary,
was held at Detroit’s mammoth!
WOMEN
UAW members
played an important role in
the convention, as exempli-
fied by Teresa West
(above),
Local
212,
who’ served
as
chairman of the Rules Committee.
|
:
Broad, Hard-Hitting Legislative Program
UAW
members
will have
their. eyes on legislative goals
as well as contract gains this
in
to the
specific
hours pay with retirement at
convention
60—failed to win
support by a lopsided margin.
With UAW President Walter
P. Reuther
answers
to the problems we are talk-:
President:
ing about,’ UAW
Walter P. Reuther told the:
convention.
bility
@ Health care. |
@e Wages and purchasing
power.
@ Contract duration.
Efforts by a group of locals
to push a so-called “30-40-60”
program — 30 hours work at 40
conven~
bargaining
layoffs.
workers.
through subcontracting.
® Retirement.
prob-
to find
proval, the program is keyed to’
negotiators flexi-;
union
give
@ Discrimination.
-@ Production standards.
@ Loss of job security
meet
going
are
legislative front
going to make a
at the bargaining
by
Discussed
point - by - point
they gave it their
Overwhelmingly Adopted at Convention
"Biggest Yet"
The UAW
world
@eCreati neg employment
opportunities — reducing
work. time.
@ The hourly wage system
principles
alternative
flexible” in insisting that solutions must be forthcoming.
“Neither the United States
nor Canada can be. equal to
meeting the challenge in the
are:
and priorities that they rec-
ognize
@ Full-week
@ Displaced
is “in-
UAW
problems,
the
to
dead
“We are going to fight on the:
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Stressed by
in 11
Workers’ problems
bargaining
collective
broad
areas are pinpointed for contract negotiations this
summer under the comprehensive
two-front program voted over-
we
are
“We
Cobo
locals
Hall.
held
an
Canadian
additional
UAW:
two-:
day conference of their own at.
Windsor, Ontario, immediately,
following the Detroit séssions,.
7
(See story page 7.)
to the main:
In addition
task of charting this year’s:
bar-} i
collective
important
con-'
the
program,
gaining
vention’s outstanding
included :.
events’
1; A. message to the union:
from President John F. Ken-:
nedy who declared UAW is at:
the. forefront in meeting “to-;
ciples and priorities to meet . day’s challenge, that of ecoIt rec-.
the needs of workers.
nomic growth and strength in:
ognizes that legislation can afthe service of freedom around!
fect the economy and raise or
the. world.”
| lower job security.
2: The firm declaration by’
Reuther that the union’s. col-:
The legislative section of the
lective bargaining program “is:
two-front program involves 16
not a clever gimmick but a:
(The colspecific suggestions.
Continued. om Page: 10
Continued: om Pare: 16.
Miriani told the crowd
The
affair. was
a special fea-
ture of the convention, and the
diners consisted of delegates
and their
UAW.
wives
and
officers,:.staff
friends,
members
and employes, local union: léad-
ers. and.
many ’ distinguished
guests, led by U.S. Secretary of
Labor
Arthur Goldberg
tegration
King, Jr.
The
leader
Rev.
Martin
King
and inLuther
held
the
huge audience spellbound
with
paring
a
stirring
the
speech
plight
of
the
com-
Ne-
gro today with the plight of
jJabor 30 years ago (see separate story on page 5), and
Goldberg told the crowd that
American labor faces its own
New Frontiers (see story on
page 4).
—
Sen Paul Douglas (D., Il.),
Gov. John
gan, Gov.
Wisconsin,
UAW
\
~ “7
Swainson of MichiGaylord Nelson of
Mayor
President
Miriani
Walter
Continuefion Page 10
and
P.
|
SUCCESS
for
OF
members
THE
of
NATION’S
UAW
first space
“Missile plist
shot spelled sticcess
Local 1245, ‘too. They
assembled
the
Redstone missile that hurtled the Mercury capsule carrying
The workers
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., into space.
cheered Shepard’s flight at a celebration at the Chrysler
|
at Sterling Township,
Mich., where
the Red-
stone missiles are built.. At the same time, Local 1245 Presi-—
nt
me
oy
pl
em
un
vy
hea
t
tha
out
d
nte
poi
oe
nr
Mo
m
lia
Wil
dent
has hit workers there despite the Redstone’s success because©
of government cutbacks.
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‘SOLIDARITY, May, 1961 — Page 4
Exiled Cuban Unionists
Seek Labor's Help
The
the
recent
2,600 delegates
UAW
Special
to
Col-
lective Bargaining Convention
led by UAW President Walter
Keuther took time out to welcome representatives of the free
Cuban labor movement now
seeking support for their cause
from the organized American
trade union movement.
Mario Fontela, secretary
general of the free, exiled
Vice
President
Revolutionary
Woodcock
Labor
Fontela,
UAW ViceWoodcock
huge Cobo Hall that if the convention ended with a simple
mechanical listing of collective
bargaining demands it would
tie the hands of union leadership at the bargaining table
and
invite
management
to
take refuge behind some wunrealistic
dollar figure and
charge that such demands are
munity
gaid.
today
peril,”
in
is 2 comWoodcock
“One can only think about
| the deteriorating situation in
only
think
can
one
Laos,
about the collapsed invasion
in Cuba, and the fact that
the
that
obvious
it is se
common people in Cuba are
supporting Castro,” he said.
And, he added, it was in the
light of world events that the
continuing stagnant economy
States would
United
in the
to
have
be
viewed.
Woodcock warned.that the
owners of the giant corporations would attempt to evade
their responsibility by trotting
out
the
about
old,
foreign
tired
propaganda
and
imports
all
the rest of it, hoping that by
- so doing they will split the
ranks of UAW membership by
exploiting the fear and worry
of the future that is in their
minds.
“But this year of 1961 is a
turning point,” the UAW offi.
cial declared, “these men who
own these industries, too, are
. Americans.
The time is slipping away from us.”
Woodcock
left
no
doubt
that
the
union
was
in @
‘t deadly serious mood regardas inproblems
such
‘ing
i creasing levels of hard core
; unemployment.
. He said that we should. not
let the management who con: trol
these
corporations
get
away from facing these probthem
hit
should
“We
lems.
‘and hit them:
‘These
the
problems.
are
Help us come up with a solu‘tion. Help us not only save the
but help
workers
automobile
‘us save this economy of America so that we can save America, so that we can save de-mocracy and so that we can
‘save
41,
Cuban trade
formerly was
told nearly 2,600 delegates in
attendance.
In a vital, hard-hitting address Woodcock told the delegates
assembled
in Detroit’s
costly.
“America
of
Cuba
Reuzher.
Union
solidarity
and
freedom
of union
leadership
to
pursue
a
flexible,
unencumbered program at the bargaining table during the up-coming
Big
Three
negotiations
were two of the main purposes
of the special collective bar-
too
Front
government - in - exile to the
UAW which was accepted by
At Big 3 Talks
gaining convention,
President
Leonard
Democratic
(FORDC) presented a flag of
the
Cuban
revolutionary
Woodcock Asks
For Flexibility
.
nearly
is
a
veteran
unionist
who
secretary general
of the Cuban agriculttral union
prior to his resignation and
self-imposed exile as a result
of the communist domination
of Cuban labor unions under
Fidel Castro.
Fontela
was
imprisoned
for
two years for labor union
organizing activity under the
‘corrupt
Batista regime
and
after his release he joined.
Castro’s July 26th revolutionary
government,
Shortly after the overthrow
of Batista,
Castro
attempted
to place communists on the
executive committee of the free
confederation
of Cuban
workers
(CTC). When the confederation
resisted this attempt, Castro
CGissolved the executive committee and ordered the 33 Cuban
trade unions to hold new elections in October, 1959.
Fontela
was reelected to
the executive committee, but
because of the pressure of
Castro inspired communists
in the labor movement, he
immediately resigned. Committee members of 26 of the
33 trade unions also resigned
subsequently, while the other
seven unions succumbed to
communist pressure.
Fontela then left Cuba and
is now living in Miami where
he is attempting to rally the
remnants
of the free Cuban
trade union movement to fight
the Castro - dominated, communist unions in Cuba as well
as the rightist Batista supported CTC in this country.
In
a prepared
statement,
Fontela who speaks little English, said:
“In the name
tionary
of the Revolu-
Democratic
Labor
Front of Cuba, I appeal to you
in this moment when our besuffering
country is
loved
under the worst of dictatorships, the enslaving and oppressive communist tyranny
directed by the traitor Fidel
Castro and his henchmen.”
At the present time he is
engaged in soliciting funds
to continue his struggle and
te gain recognition for his
movement
from
the
AFL_ CIO. He is being assisted by
in
unionist
trade
a fellow
exile, 29- “year- -old Angel Rod|
riguez.
When
he
country
support,
is not
touring
soliciting
messages
Fontela
of hope
funds
the
and .
broadcasts
and
:
encour-
agement to suppressed trade
unionists in.Cuba over the free
Cuban
underground
radio.
your
desperately need
“We
Please
economic assistance.
help us in this critical hour,”
Fontela beseeched the convention delegates, “help us to help
ourselves to be free and happy
again. Our hopes rest on you.”
responded
delegates
UAW
generously to Fontela’s appeal
by
contributing
nearly
$300.
Big 3 Councils
Plan Meetings
every
from
Representatives
local union in the Big Three
will meet this month and next
in Detroit to plan strategy in
the forthcoming negotiations.
The
National
General
Motors
Council will lead off with a
three-day conference in Ford
Auditorium May 17, 18 and 19,
Vice President Leonard Wood-
cock, GM Dept. director, announced. About 300 delegates
representing the 350,000 UAW
members in GM are expected
to attend.
The Ford Council will meet
e week later, May 24 and 25,
with about 200 representatives
Ford
125,000 UAW
the
of
to Ford
workers, ‘according
Bannon.
Director Ken
Dept.
About 300 delegates representing 80,000 Chrysler workers will
16, Vice
15 and
June
meet
Matthews,
Norman
President
Chrysler Dept. director, said.
Seminar for Women
Scheduled by ALES
— A one-day
YORK
NEW
seminar for women trade unlonists on “Women and Human
Rights” has been called for May
27 by the American Labor EduEsther
Mrs.
Service.
cation
Peterson, assistant to the Secretary of Labor and director of
the department’s women’s bureau, has been invited to participate. The seminar will be
held at Carnegie International
Center, New York.
—
ONE OF THE FEATURED snedkors ne the 25th UAW birthday
banquet was Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg who warned
that time was running out in the struggle to regain the na-
economic balance and to begin forging ahead again.
tion’s
Goldberg is shown in the picture above presenting a scroll to
the UAW which is being accepted by UAW Secretary-Treasurer
(left) on behalf of the union.
Emil Mazey
UAW
Achievements
Lauded by Goldberg
Secretary of Labor Arthur J.
the
congratulated
Goldberg
‘UAW
the
on
occasion
of
its
Anniversary — celebration
25th
and urged a flexible cooperaaplabor-management
tive
ecoto the nation’s
proach
‘nomic problems now in order
that America might start moying ahead again,
of job seproblems
“The
curity, of a competitive posture
in the world markets, cannot
be solved by either manageunilaterally,”
labor
or
ment
Goldberg told the nearly 6,000
UAW Silver Anniversary banquet guests gathered in Detroit’s mammoth Cobo Hall.
Goldberg expressed confidence that if labor and manother
each
met
agement
half-way,
the
nation
would
begin to forge ahead again
— on the economic front.
“In the next year alone, we
must create 10 million jobs to
provide for those presently un-
employed, to provide work for
new entrants to the labor force,
to
offer
employment for those
displaced from farm
tory by technological
or facchange,
to
the
‘He
added:
“This
is
not
runaway
program.
This is a
program with more guts than
‘this union has ever put to-
gether.”
challenge in the past:
@ “Good trade unionism is a
showcase for democratic proadvertise
should
We
cedure.
more broadly this kind of institution, created by the people
for
voice
as a
themselves,
themselves in- the ordering of
social and economic life.
movement
labor
“The
social
this
create
helped
order. It is a free institution
- dedicated te this way of life.
It speaks the same language
of
justice
one
and
hears
conscience
throughout
nations,’
Gold-
new. frontier is’ apathy. The
greatest danger to freedom is
an inert people; the greatest
danger to trade unionism is an
apathetic
@ The
membership.
third’ great
chal- Jenge to trade unionism is te
in
cooperate
the
bringing
benefits of good unionism te
areas needing it most.
“There are many places in
our economic life where the
dark of the past still lingers:
migrant farm workers, caught
in a life of squalor, with no
voice to speak for themselves;
great areas of the nation where
working men and women have
no
EXILED
a
organized labor must assume
if it would meet the period
of great challenge facing it as
the labor movement had met
e “The second major challenge on the labor movement's
point
-where they understand § the
‘problems
and where
they
‘then demanded a solution to
them,
12
next
the
in
jobs
lion
months,” Goldberg declared,
major
four
outlined
He
areas of responsibility that
the wanting
berg said.
freedom.’ ”
brought
mum — we are still faced with
the creation of over seven mil-
that
i “Woodcock urged the dele“gates that UAW rank-andfile members would have to
.be:
and to put the involuntarily
part-time worker back on a
full-time basis,” the labor sec~
retary said.
“Even if we sought only to
maintain
an unemployment
rate of 4% —.and that is certainly an unacceptable mini-
CUBAN TRADE
UNIONISTS
solicit
funds to carry on the work of. freéing ‘Cuban
trade unionism from the communist-dominated tyranny of Fidel Castro at the UAW special
delegates contributed nearly $300 to the fund. Piccollective bargaining convention.
UAW
tured above (left to right) are Mario Fontela, secretary-general of the Revolutionary Democratic Labor Front of Cuba (FORDC); Bernie Rifkin, UAW Region 9 education and citizenship
when
staff member and Angel Rodriguez, a veteran Cuban trade unionist who fled Cuba
Castro
communists
teok
over
Cuban
trade
unions.
effective
representation,
no
better
to
strength
common
their conditions.
e “Finally, the fourth major
challenge is a broader role of
partnership between labor and
individual
The
management.
interest of the American busi-
ness and
the American
union
can no longer be served without
reference to the national in-
terest. Both must now move
together within a framework
of accepted public responsibility.”
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Non- Violence
In a powerful, moving adLuther
Martin
Rev.
dress,
King, Jr., hailed the UAW on
the occasion of its Silver Anni-
the
compared
and
versary
successful fight of the UAW
and organized labor generally
to achieve freedom and dignity
with the ever-continuing
to
of the Negro
struggle
“march from the dark crypt
of segregation.”
King, a dynamic leader in
against
battle
Southern
the
segregation and discrimination,
to see
Siete
sees
paid
have been clipped and you now
organized
of
pioneers
early
laber who fought against the
arrayed, overwhelming odds of
anti-labor interests.
“Organized laber has come
a long way from the days of *
injunc-.
strike-breaking
the
tions of federal courts, from
have organizations of strength
and intelligence to keep your
interests from being submerged
and ignored,” he said.
more than
the
told
King
the
attending
guests
5.700
UAW’s 25th Anniversary banspaciously
Detroit’s
in
quet
beautiful Cobo Hall that the
inspiration
gain
could
Negro
the
for
encouragement
and
hard road still ahead from the
the days of intimidation and
firings in the plants, from
union
your
the days that
could be physically
leaders
beaten with impunity,’ King
Said.
examples set by labor in realizing its goals.
desegregation
young
The
“The clubs and the claws of
the heartless anti-labor forces
the UAW
reminded
leader
special convention delegates
and their guests that despite
probmany absorbing
the
lems confronting the Negro
today, the Negro was not unmindful of the new problems
facing labor as well.
“The autoworkers are facing
core unemployment,”
hard
economic
“new
noted,
King
patterning through automation
and relocation of plants is dissolving the nation’s basic industries,”’ he declared.
“We are neither technologically advanced nor socially enthis
if we witness
lightened
disaster for tens of thousands
without finding a solution.”
King
basic problem,
The
contended, is whether we are
as concerned for human values
and human resources as we are
mechanical
and
for material
The society that pervalues.
forms miracles with machinery
has the capacity of make some
miracles for men—if it values
men as highly as it values machines, he said,
“Automation
cannot
be
permitted to become a blind
out
grinds
which
monster
more cars and simultanously
and
hopes
the
out
snuffs
lives of the people by whom
the
said..
industry
was
built,”
he
Few people, Rev. King told
the attentive banquet throng,
were as well equipped to so
well understand the problems
of the autoworkers as were the
Negroes:
—
“Because we built a cotton
economy for 300 years as Slaves.
grew
nation
the
which
on
powerful, and we still lack the
most: elementary
h
whic
ott
poye
bus
Ala.
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mer
tgo
Mon
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succ
the
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led to the integration of the Montgomery bus system is shown above as he delivered his address
to the huge audience celebrating the Silver Anniversary of the UAW in Detroit’s Cobo Hall.
zens
or workers,”
rights
he
of citi-
said.
“We, too, realize that when
-human
values are subordinated
to blind economic forces, hu-
man beings can become human
scrap.”
King inIn his address,
jected sober note after sober
note into his remarks comparing the similarity of the
struggle of organized labor
and the Negro.
King’s
resenting
from
Far
upon _ their
intrusion
sober
festive mood, the UAW delegates and their distinguished
the young
guests punctuated
time
statement
clergyman’s
thunderous
with
time
after
applause.
the audience
reminded
He
that in the 30’s when labor
was seeking recognition there
which
voices
powerful
were
said then—and which are say-
A HIGHLY TECHNIC
L point is seriously
iscussed
by
2 group
of
skilled ecattaeaes during
the
UAW’s special collective bargaining convention in Detroit.
Taking part in the talk are (left to
right) William Stevenson, assistant director, skilled trades department; Michael Vernovai, Local 1251, Region 9A, skilled trades advisory committee; Richard Odle, Local 57, Region 3, skilled
trades advisory committee; Arthur Toucredi
and Robert Jensen, both of Local 490, Region 1; Joe
Wysocki, president of Local 75, Region 10; Anthony Sparagowski, president of Local 1058, Region 2B; Jesus Chantres, Local 600, president of the tool and die unit and advisory committee
member; Jim Schuetz, assistant director of the skilled trades department.
ing to the Negro now: Never—
are
ready—you
are not
you
our
really seeking to change
form of society—you are Reds
—you are trouble makers—you
are stirring up discontent and
discord where none exists—you
are interfering with our property rights—you are captives of
would
who
elements
sinister
exploit you.
heard
of us have
“Both
these reckless charges—both
we
that what
of us know
simple,
were
sought
have
which
without
needs
basic
no man is a whole person,”
King asserted.
King
mid-Thirties,
the
In
industry
auto
the
recalled,
stood up for its rights by sitits machines,
at
down
ting
“just as our courageous students are sitting down at lunch
counters across the South.”
' “We are proudly borrowing
your techniques,” King added,
“and though the same old and
tired threats and charges have
off for us, we
dusted
been
doubt that we shall collectivize
a single lunch counter or naof
the consumption
tionalize
é
sandwiches and coffee.”
The
labor
ese
SEVERAL
lively
DELEGA
debate
vention.
|
on
ES FROM UAW REGI N 6 listen attentively to the proceedings during a
the issue of production standards at the special collective bargaining con
ties of kinship between
people
Negro
and the
tradition,
mere
beyond
goes
King stated.
“For example:
“Labor needs a wage-hour
bill which
under
need
puts
a firm
floor
wage scales. Negroes
measures,
same
the
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for
desperately,
more
even
so many of us earn less than
$1.25 per hour.
“labor
housing
needs
a
legis- B
lation to protect it as a conNegroes need housing
sumer.
needs x
Labor
also.
legislation
medical <'
old-age
an adequate
care bill and so do Negroes.”
In
the
political
arena,
King
pointed
out,
only
a
liberal—or labor— candidate
whether
white
or
black—
would appeal to the Negro
|
yoter.
a
©
~~
.
7
“Negroes
exercising
a free
suffrage would march to the
polls to support those candidates who would be partial to
social
legislation,”
he_
said,
“the campaign for Negro suffrage is both a fulfillment of
Constitutional
rights
and
a
fulfillment of labor’s needs in
a fast-changing economy.”
King
warned
his
listeners
that neither the problems facing labor and the Negro, nor
‘the problems facing the nation
and the world today will somehow work themselves out.
'
“We know that if the problems are to be solved we must
work to solve them,” he said.
“Social progress never rolls
in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the
tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals,
7
“So in order to realize the
American
dream
of economic
justice and of the brotherhood
of man, men and women all
over the nation must continue
to work for it,’ King declared.
He called upon the audience
to join with him in following
a course of “maladjustment’’—
a term borrowed from modern
pyschology—if this meant an
active rejection of many of the
stagnant features in our social
order.
“I
never
intend
to
adjust
myself to religious bigotry. I
never intend to become adjusted to economic condtions that
will take necessities from the
many to give luxuries to the
few.
“I never intend to become
adjusted
to the madness
of
militarism or the self defeating
effect of physical violence.”
King
declared
that in the
present day of guided missles
and
the
constant
threat
of
man’s annihilation by nuclear
bombs that no nation can win
a war.
“It is no longer
a choice
between
violence and nonviolence,” he warned, “it is
either non-violence or nonexistence.”
Again picking up the twee
of “maladjustment,” the hardhitting, young Baptist minister
declared that he was proud to
be maladjusted and suggested
that he was in the excellent
company of such men as the
Prophet Amos, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson, all
of
whom
had _ rebelled
and
cried
out
against
the
“adjusted” injustices of their day.
“It may
well be that
the
Salvation of our world lies in
the hands of the maladjusted,”
King cried, “and so let us be
‘maladjusted’
if
maladjusted
3 means following in the footsteps of these great men,” he
said.
In a final ringing plea te
his audience of labor leaders
and delegates, political and
civic dignitaries, King asked
that
the
they
stand
struggle
economic
together
for
justice,
in
truth,
brother-
hood and dignity for all men.
- He expressed the conviction
that if the assembled audience
would stand together for these
things they. would be able to
bring into being a bright new
day.
this will be the day
“And
when
all
of
God’s
children,
men,
and white
black men
Jews and Gentiles, Protestants
and Catholics, will be able to
join hands
the
Negro
and sing anew
slaves
a
The Choice Was
=
ve
of
at last, thank God
we are free at last’.”
old:
with
‘free
Almighty,
;
Listing
economic
plague the
Canada,
Walter
the many. severe
problems which
United States and
President
UAW
Reuther told the
eS
BE
By
SOLIDARITY,
a
dp
to win justice for the workers:
the need for unity in fighting
Pee
need
the
and
rights,
for their
eer eh
YO
Thr
ss TASES
for flexibility in negotiations.
“Tt’s not the resolutions you
adopt or the militancy you put
in slogans that gives us power
table,” he
at the bargaining
economic
the
“It’s
declared.
logic supported by a membership that knows what. it is doing and where it is going.”
pursue
to
able
best
seemed
which
‘solve the problems.
“We would like to
that
-do
it
we
flexible
are
are
we
but
how
we
determined
be done... and
things that CAN
‘that it WILL
‘then we list
‘be done.”
He listed the grave problems
-unem‘facing our economy:
lack of
insecurity,
;ployment,
power
purchasing
enough
to
flood of
the increasing
‘buy
‘goods turned out by automa-
‘tion.
Then he listed some of the
-possible solutions which man‘agement and union representa“tives will consider at the bar‘gaining table, and which elect“ed representatives could consid-er in the legislative halls:
- A shorter work-week; earlier
* retirement, longer vacations,
and
economics
morality.
schemes,
expansion
and
American
con-
other plans “we want our share
of that area now, not out of the
Sit
down at the bargaining table
give your workers that
and
measure of justice and. security to which they are due and
pockets
of
the
which
he
said
sumers,” he said.
He ‘listed the. Millions in
options
stock
bonuses and
a handful
of
wage earners who
the
need it.”
is quite simple. When you have
the tools of abundance, you can
keep them fully employed only
as you relate them to the needs
of the many. But when you gear
them. to the selfish interests of
the few you get in trouble.
in
are
we
is why
“That
suggest,”
on
tion
that -we are. in trouble? ... It
te
‘he told the delegates, ‘“‘that we
and
problem
basic
“pose the
companies
the
to
say
‘then
-that the No. 1 job is to get the
‘unemployed back to work —
great
ed States and Canada, Reuther said:
- “So. we need to ask why is it
course
the
the
bonus divided among a handful of Ford
Corporation executives recently would have given every hourJy Ford
worker 13 cents’ an
hour for every hour worked in
1960; a recent $88.5 million bo-.
nus melon divided among Génexecutives would
eral Motors
provided 12:6 cents ‘an.
have
hour for every hourly-rated GM
employee, Reuther noted, add. ing: “we want some of that, for
Citing the crippling unem| ployment throughout the Unti-
would be carried on against
a backdrop of economic adversity, Reuther pointed out,
the UAW needed to remain
- flexible in its demands, pre-
- pared
imin
hour,
the
by
others.
and many
negotiations
the
‘Because
'
payment
with
ceiving for years.
The $33.6 million
gains
at the expense of the consumsaid. The union
er, Reuther
wants its share out of the huge
funds set aside by the big companies for “bonuses, stock op-
corporations to “abandon -your
of
standards
double
historic
health insurance, salary payment by the year rather than
wage
said.
He. pleaded
cation, federal unemployment
compensation standards,
provement in SUB and
he
auto executives have been re-
of auto-
mation makes possible.”
The UAW doesn’t want
ployment, full-production economy,”
abundance
the
which
to get more at the expense of
our neighbors; we have been
struggling to release the eco-=
nomic potential of the abunfull-emdance of a dynamic
more paid holidays, control of
conoutside
and
overtime
tracting, a national planning
agency, assistance in retrainre-emand
ing, relocating
ploying displaced workers, indebt
plans,
pension
suring
for unemployed
moratorium
workers, control of plant lo-
delegates to the Special Collective Bargaining Convention
that two needs were paramount
ay, ;
1961
kage
So
Fae
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6
Economic. L ogic’ Termed Power at | Bargaining Table
‘trouble—because the great corporations
than
more
been
have
their
share
taking
and
haye
workers and consumers
been short-changed. Until we
>
both
that,
correct
econo-
the
mies of Canada and the United States will continue to limp
along in low gear with high
unemployment penalizing hundreds of thousands of workers
in both countries.”
When we expand productive power without expandthis
ing purchasing power,
lack of purchasing power results in millions of unsold
ears and appliances, which
A TELLING POINT
Fishman and UAW
Secretary-Treasurer
Walter P. Reuther.
by ‘UAW
President
(left)
Emil Maney
is enjoyed
by
Delegate
Sam
in turn
brings layoffs, which
lessens the purchasing power
of consumers. even more—and
unemployment
so
more
and
more
breeds
unemploy-
_
ment, Reuther pointed out.
The UAW is not interested in
“struggling as a pressure group
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g
u
o
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d
n
‘Firm Sta
s
d
r
a
d
n
a
t
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k
r
On Wo
. The resolution on production
“isn’t going to
standards
. ehange a single thing in the
:shop unless we work at the
bargaining
the
at
-problem
Secretary-Treas‘table, ” UAW
-urer Emil Mazey told the special convention, and ‘‘the special convention, and “the right
to strike over production standards is a weapon we want to
“maintain.”
He pointed out that the auto
industin contracts, of all the
union contracts in mass pro-
_. duction industries, are the only
-ones which permit such strikes
during. the life of the agreement.
Mazey,
.
who
chairman
was
fects your own plant, because
a
can change
company
the
schedule by a few jobs an hour,
reassign all the jobs and give
the workers more work and you
have a speedup situation. We
lancontract
have
have to
guage to meet this problem.”
More: rest. time is needed in
some plants, and this has to
be worked out in individual
negotiations, he continued.
‘During the hearings, “we
talked about the cleaning of
management
machines and
not permitting the worker to
take the grime off his hands.
The obyious answer is washtunch and
before
time
up
before quitting
the question of disci“On
a grievance -is
while
pline,
worker
no
processed,
being
ought to be disciplined” and
-the company shouldn’t get ex-
-eomes off the same conveyor
¢reates many problems, Mazey
‘pointed out, because you have
not only different models but
‘answer,
. different
one = car
than
more
where
body
and dif-
styles
ferent paint’ jobs.
“We think the
.
manpower
: ought to be set on the tight-
&
%
est mix,” he declared.
x
“On the question of breaksome
in
found
we
downs,
ik
o
£
‘plants around the country that
“when the line broke, the com-~
‘pany
would
speed
the
contract.
need
We
“stopping this, Mazey
lineup.
language
asserted.
of new
question
the
i “On
-models, moving from a higher
toa lower production schedule,
‘or going from a lower to a
‘higher one, also creates problems.’ Think about it as it af-
production
while
dis-
the
pute is in effect, he declared.
“We ought to make is costly
for them to violate our production standards agreements.”
During periods of “low bar-
gaining power and high management inventories,” we have
to “examine our grievance pro-
cedures
velop
putes
-when
during the convention with UAW
ef the international aircraft de-
|
time.
of a special committee of the
Executive
Internationa]
Board which had held oaearings on production standards
problems all over the coun. try and in Canada, spelled
‘ aes a few of these problems.
‘To make best use of maximum bargaining power, he recstandards
setting
‘ommended
-on a job just as early during
‘negotiations as possible.
was
problem
greatest
The
‘found in the proper spacing of
sjobs on moving conveyors in
-assembly plants, he said.
The mixes of different units
tra
iceals in Region 5 confer
DELEGATES FROM AIRCRAFT
Vice President Leonard Woodcock (third from left), oe
partment, and Region 5 Director Ted Hawks.
Rei
"INFORMAL
this
—
ee
CONFERENCES
Region
3
hbo
were
Ray
almost
Berndt
constant
(facing
occurrences
camera),
as the convention
confers
with
tabressed,
a cluster of delegates.
At
and see if we can de-
tools” to. deal with: dis-periods
such
during
a strike is not
Mazey
total
the
—
asserted.
“Then we have the quesplants.
duplicate
of
tion
They may be assembly plants
same _ parts,
the
making
where workers are on strike
at one plant while the complant
another
works
pany
corporation
same
the
of
overtime ... and thus neof our
strength
the
gates
strike.
“We want to serve notice...
that
we
members
breakers
will
to
not.
permit
become
when members
our
strikeof an-
local are fighting for
other
decent working conditions.”
Mazey also pointed to the
Canada,
in
problem
special
where laws prohibit production
standard ‘strikes.
to convention
a SERIOUS ATTENTION
Above, Region 2A Director Ray Koss
and 658.
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“HE problems of workers and their families are
usol
nd
ma
de
ey
Th
y.
ac
cr
mo
de
of
ms
le
ob
pr
the
:
tions; they engage the good faith of labor, management and government. They test democratic professions
:
and democratic performance,
IS time the corporations stopped shifting the
“TE
ifam
ir
the
and
s
er
rk
wo
ir
the
to
ss
gre
pro
of
ts
cos
lies and their communities. It is time they faced up
to the problem of finding ways to share in the costs
of progress among all who share in the benefits of
progress.
“ANSWERS
to that problem must be found. In
some cases the answer will lie with private industry which, as it assumes more of the costs of its
managerial decisions that now fall on workers and their
communities, will tend to make those decisions with a
greater measure of social responsibility.
“EN
OTHER cases, only through government action can there be a fair sharing of the costs and
burdens of -progress.
we shall listen with open
“ACCORDINGLY,
minds if management in negotiations should
argue that some of the problems faced by our members should properly be dealt with by government
rather than through collective bargaining.
of
the
declaration
of
A
digest
“But
good
UAW
7
by the
Convention -
April 27, 28, 29, 1961.
HOUR AFTER LONG HOUR of hard work by the Joint
Resolutions and Constitution Committee resulted in a
declaration of principles, priorities and purpose adopted
by the convention as the UAW’s basic program for 1961
negotiations. Left to right: Alex Garcia, Local 542; Roscoe
Local
674; Furl P.
Williams,
faith —
that the corporations
be
made
in
be willing
Special Collective
Bargaining
C. Ingram,
shall
that argument
to join with us in seeking governmental solutions to
those problems of their workers with which they do
not believe they can.cope directly.
principles, priorities and
purpose adopted
we
insist
Local
975,
co-
secretary; Harry Southwell, Local 174, co-chairman;
Lonnie Murphy, Local 148; John Mando, Local 600, co-
ARE confident that if we face these problems with courage and determination and
achieve the singleness of purpose essential to our free
society's working together, then we will and can find
answers. To this end we commit ourselves to a total
|
effort.”
“WE
chairman; Daniel House, Local 365; Robert L. Fliearman,
Local 206; Paul Silver, Local 351; Thomas O’Neill, Local
600; Kenneth Brooks, Local 724; Robert Mills, Local 155;
Alonzo W. Moore, Local 435; Lacey Dixon, Local 163 and
Robert Thimmes, Local 230. Committee members not in
picture were Malcolm Smith, Local 222, Canadian region,
co-secretary; Lester Fox, Local 5; Pete Neputy, Local
1301 and Charles Zimmerman,
Local 526.
;
GARE
UH LEAR
EE
EEE
EEE
That’s a key to our economic security.
So have the numbers of these workers perma-
How can we create the many more jobs we
:
he
need?
Each. displaced worker
needs.
There are many
By reducing work time.
/
to do this.
_ ways
nently separated from their jobs.
- One is for a temporary substitute for the
income suddenly taken away from him and his
_
family,
@ A shorter work week with no loss in pay.
@
A shorter work day with no loss in pay.
@
A shorter work year with no loss in pay.
@
More paid holidays.
The other is help to move from idleness into
new
displaced workers and their families must
found, either through collective bargaining
government or both.
ae
@ “Sabbatical” leaves with pay.
Control of overtime.
Lowering
means
the
retirement
of reducing
work
age is still another
time.
1: Preferential hiring rights at major companies for workers of a supplier plant whose jobs —
are wiped out when the bigger firm decides to
ation of them—leads to creation of more Jobs.
perform their work.
Creating more jobs—to help build job security
a prime
UAW
table this year,
objective
oe
Workers on layoff a full week or more have
needs that must be met, problems that cannot
More
adequate
security must
be provided
period, and other means to cushion automation’s
impact on workers and their families.
They need more than the present maximum of
26 weeks or even 39 weeks of coverage.
problems
connected
with
5: Older workers who will not or cannot move
also would be entitled to help from
layoffs
tion
of a full week or more also must be faced—and
answers found—at the bargaining table. ‘These
@ Harsh disqualification provisions.
would
assure
steady
work
pay from week to week at least.
By
giving workers
who
and
steady
are paid hourly
now
the same status and the same security as office
workers, they also would put a stop to shorttime weeks.
rights, based on past service, if he is rehired.
|
With the SUB program, management for the
first time in collective bargaining history acknowledged responsibility to provide continuing income for workers even
ment had no work for them.
when manage-
Now is the time to ‘strengthen that principle
in practice by improving our SUB agreements.
» From its very start, UAW
discrimination.
*
ee
of color
. .-. religion
Discrimination
against
women.
Discrimina-
+ OBes
reason.
We are pledged to this until discrimination
ended in our plants once and for all.
We propose that management accept the principle of salaried status for hourly workers in
is
Because it. is immoral, because it hurts the
economy, major strides must be made toward
:
that goal this year:
We propose that management join with us to
create a joint committee to work out methods
for putting this principle into operation.
In its public contracts, the government forbids
discrimination because of race, creed, color or
national origin.
Some hourly workers can be put.on salaries
They. are the workers holding
immediately.
down jobs in plants where their operations are
pretty much like the work done by: salaried em- ao
We are determined that managements in
our industries provide the same policy. This is
one of
ployees, or where the work. flow already provides
5
-
A major step toward giving salaried status
to hourly workers and providing relief from ~
the problem of short workweeks can be taken
by providing make-up SUB benefits for wages
lost as the result of short workweeks.
This would assure them, at least,
for every hour of the workweek.
because
~~ That fight continues, —
The switch from hourly pay to salaries must
be started this year.
ee
has fought against
‘Discrimination
tion for any
proportionately.
regular full-time workweeks.,
—
He also should receive all his fringe benefit
These are the weeks Which occur too often,
in which hourly workers are sent home after two
days’ work, or-three, or four, and their pay cut
this year’s negotiations,
and
tial hiring rights at any of the company’s plants
where there is a job he can do.
@ Strengthened SUB administrative machin-
They
adjustment
tions should not deprive the worker of preferen-
-into effect and are working well.)
7
of
7: Accepting separation pay under such condi-
reporting procedures already have been worked
out with some companies.
They have been put
:
a period
for a new job.
@ Discrimination against higher-paid workers
who have been laid off.
ery at the plant level.
during
the automa-
~ 6: When a worker ‘has no alternative to
separation from his job, he needs enough of a
separation payment to tide him over for a
reasonable time and to help prepare himself
Restrictive eligibility requirements.
@ Duplication of reporting procedures.
fund
transition.
- Include:
@
|
4: Regular payments by management into an
automation fund to finance the costs of moving
and relocating workers and their families, retraining, and family maintenance during that
Laid-off workers need higher SUB benefits.
other
and decision under the con-
er should be able to move with his job.
for them through the supplemental unemployment benefit plan UAW pioneered in 1955.
Many
discussion
3: When shifts to new locations occur, a work-
|
be neglected.
Salaries instead of hourly wages would pro|
vide it for them.
aoe
2: Relocation of plants should be a matter of
at the bargaining
Workers need the security of steadier incomes.
be
or
Here is how we propose to approach these
problems at the bargaining table in 1961:
Any one of these alternatives—or a combin-
—is
employment,
Solutions to the basic needs and problems of
@ Longer paid vacations.
@
faces two immediate
LNIW391ddNS
_ The problems of human suffering faced by displaced workers and their families have been rising rapidly.
ee
‘
:
We—UAW members, wage-earners and-families everywhere—need jobs. Many more jobs.
ALIVVAIIOS
-
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AAA
HATHA
s
HYUDEVAVUI TATA
Collective Bargaining Program
RHEE
‘1961 ‘ADW—e_-§ e6ng
cnet ne neigy evi
liz
jv
‘AULTTATU
UOTE TOTAL
SAU AHUHTNETEAEA HATE TAHA EEA HEHEHE eee
our
objectives in 1961.
- We are determined also that this fair employ-
ment protection be extended to older and aging
|
_. workers, st
And we insist on contract terms to halt discrimination against women workers.
We must have equal treatment and oppor’
tunity for all who work or who seek work in our
of income
4
‘
industries. —
VEHICLE OUTPUTano PRODUCTION WORKER EMPLOYMENT
is4u7 —
i960
.
VEHICLE OUTPUT
AUTO INOUSTRY .
PRODUCTION WORKERS
_
‘At a time when
creation of jobs is needed
They are doing this by sub-contracting away
work traditionally done by UAW members,
The standard of living of re
considered inadequate by the g
_ Pensioners have no protectic
The
sub-contractor
who
gets
the work
his own employees, who are not members
pays
of our
union, substandard wages and few, if any, fringe
benefits.
We urge the corporations in our industries
to announce publicly at once against this kind
of unfair, unscrupulous competition.
We
affirm
our insistence that such
sub-con-
tracting is one of our basic concerns in collective
bargaining,
Problems of production standards and work
pace are a constant source of friction.
Basically, they involve deciding whether
each worker is to be viewed as a human being
in his own right or merely as one of the tools
of production.
Many varied production standards problems
were turned up by the union’s International
Executive Board Production Standards Subcommittee during its series of hearings with local
unions earlier this year.
The
local
unions
pointed
up
problem
areas
caused by management attempts to treat workThese relate to:
ers as production tools.
@
Establishing standards at the beginning of
@
Changes
the model year.
@ Increased line speeds.
@ The mix of units on the line.
@ Management trying to make up for loss of
production by increasing the work pace.
in production
change in the job.
@ Lack of compensatory
line speeds are changed
quirements.
@ The
paced by
@ The
assembly
@ The
standards
manpower
with
no
when
to meet production
re-
fact that the worker is constantly
the speed of the line.
lack of rest from the pressure of the
line.
lack of time to wash up.
@ Discipline of workers who protest a stand-
ard.
@
Delays in the grievance procedure.
@ Management producing the work elsewhere
when a production standard strike is authorized.
With some of. these, the simple matter of stat-
ing the problem points up the answer.
For others, alternative answers are possible.
These must be nailed down by the union and
management through collective bargaining.
We reaffirm our determined opposition to
all forms of speedup and unreasonable work
pace. We insist management negotiate with us
adequate protection against it.
We reaffirm UAW’s traditional policy insisting
on contract provisions which reserve the right to
strike over production standards and piece rates.
provide
and comfort for workers. We
progress but many acute probl
in a number
is threatening the job security of their workers.
1960
should
of plants
desperately, management
i947
Retirement
Where the corporations in our industries subcontract for parts and supplies, we must seek
agreements that they will select suppliers which
maintain terms and conditions of employment in
line with the dignity of working men and women.
management in many plants is
Moreover,
using various means to erode our bargaining
units by removing work from them.
Solutions under the contract to protect the
jobs of our members, therefore, must be found.
living costs,
A worker’s wife who surviv
pension cut off, leaving her|
best she can.
Plant closings have
occurre
funds were not large enough t
Vesting provisions in most {
reasonable
and = unnecessary
against younger workers who :
to one employer.
We and management have an
that these and other =
retirement are met.
Legislatively, retirement rid
pdlant closings emphasize the n¢
management. to work together
reinsurance of private pension ]
For many years, in addition
that a reasonable proportion o
accumulated in negotiated pen
vested in projects to help me
members and their communiti
as low-cost housing and comr
Management must work out
to put part of the pension func
proper safeguards, to help s
problems of the workers to —
belong.
SOLIDARITY |
} to
SUPPLEMENT
poe
3d oe
Official
Convention
Photograph
Photo
by
Morrie
Press Picture
Safron
Service
AUTO EXECUTIVES’ COMPENSATION FOR 1960
‘WENRY FORD 1r™
FORD MOTORCO.
FREDERIC DONNER
6M. CORR
G2. COLBERT
—« CHRYSLER CORR.
THOUSANDS
§ 700
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1 provide
security,
500 -|
dignity
400
300
200
100
kers.. We have made much
acute problems still exist.
living of retired workers is
te by the government.
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who survives him finds his
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for goods and services to stimulate industry to
full production and maintain full employment.
$260,650
430,000
Probably the most important non-inflationary means of boosting purchasing power
through collective bargaining, however, is bettering the current wage improvement factor
formula.
Gm 09549 SALARY a
@RB9 PROPORTION OF TOTAL BOHUSES
out as
ve occurred where pension
e enough to pay benefits.
; in most plans contain unage limitations
necessary
‘kers who give long service
nt have an obligation to see
er compelling problems of
‘ement problems involved in
size the need for labor and
‘k together
More purchasing power is one of the prime
needs both of workers and the national economy.
Without it, we cannot maintain the demand
‘TOTALS § °698,275
10 protection against rising
aving her. to make
-}
for government
te pension plans,
in addition, we have urged
roportion of the large sums
otiated pension funds be into help meet needs of our
communities, projects such
ry and community facilities.
, work out with us methods
onsion funds to work, under
to help solve present-day
rkers to whom the funds
The present 214% factor is grossly Inadequate.
It does
not
reflect
fully the
quickened
increase
in productivity made possible because our technological progress has been speeded up.
‘Prepaid,
comprehensive
health
The cost-of-living escalator table no longer is
eras ie) the wage-earner
of
date.
care coverage
is a major need of workers and their families.
In
most
areas,
it is not
even
ilies are entitled to.
And
available.
of the union and their fam-.
that’s costing members
Managements in 1961, moreover, must face up
realistically to the need for revising the wage
formula to reflect its original intent.
more and more.
Our members need to be relieved from this
growing burden.
It must be brought up to date.
It also must assure our members that their
improvement factor wage increases in the future
will be figured according to an up-to-date appraisal of the normal rate of productivity advance In our economy.
Other major industries have faced up to this
problem by paying the full cost of health
programs for workers and their families.
Our industries
Through
should
collective
do no
care
less.
bargaining,
we
courage development in more areas
quality comprehensive, direct service
ment medical care programs.
must
it, too, is out
For the collective bargaining tables in 1961,
therefore, UAW serves notice it will permit no
tampering with the basic principles underlying
the cost-of-living and annual
nprovement
‘factor wage formula.
What’s available, though, usually is much less
than what the companies and the union have
agreed the members
because
en-
of high
prepay-
In addition, collective bargaining this year
must provide answers to two other pressing
human
problems
of our members:
1:
The need of unemployed or sick workers
for continued health care protection beyond the
few short weeks they get now following their
layoff.
Economic and technological changes are being
stepped
lems.
They
2: The need of retired workers for health care
help. The cost of providing this at their own
expense has become an intolerable burden.
up.
These
should
create
human
proh-
not be shunted aside because
a prolonged contract to wait for solution.
But under the age of automation’s
changing conditions, they often are.
When that happens,
tolerable proportions,
a
Our
contracts,
two-year
_
problems
therefore,
maximum
living escalator
sions.
and
if
grow
of
rapidly
to
in-
must be limited to
they
include
improvement
cost-of-
factor provi-
If they don’t, the limit should be one year.
Duration of contracts in Canada must con-
sider that
Canadian
workers
the right to strike during
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urgent
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are denied by law
a contract’s lifetime.
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1961—Page
7
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PERCENT
:
Maintaining full production and
ment requires planning.
A National Planning Agency
plish this.
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and
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Despite four recessions in the past 15 years,
and a steady stream of national economic hardships before that, there still is no direct action
by government and industry
maintain full employment.
UNEMPLOYED
full smpley-
Many workers need protection of their pension
rights.
“TeT
LEA
Vtr
TT
ey
ie Pi tie er et tt |
would accom-
They work in piinte where pension plans still
are far from fully funded because the plans have
been in operation only a few years. ©
=
Thousands of wage-earners, as a result, have
lost their pension security because their employers suddenly went out of business.
Its essential function should be to determine and.
our society’s needs which have to be met
the resources we have to meet them,
It then
those
would
resources
establish priorities
meeting
and
those
for
needs,
This can be avoided by a federal system of
reinsurance for private pension funds.
using
and
develop and recommend the programs to accomplish this,
In short, it would slais aheatt to build and
keep full employment and a healthy economy.
The government established this principle
‘when it began insuring bank deposits to stand
behind the promise of private banks that the
deposits were secure.
Technological
progress — too often
involves
heavy economic loss for workers and their families.
Pension reinsurance, as a minimum, should
insure the full pension rights of workers already
To
retired and those close to retirement age.
To meet their problems of suffering and
hardship, a National Retraining and Relocation Fund should be established by legislation.
Its finances
venues.
should
come
out
of general
the extent
the goal
it is financially practicable,
should be the reinsurance of all accrued pension
rights,
re-
It would provide payments to sustain the
technologically displaced worker and his family
during periods of retraining or relocation.
It would
provide moving,
travel and other
relocation expenses for those willing and able to
find jobs elsewhere.
_ Jt would pay the costs of retraining.
And it would meet their other essential needs.
Displaced older workers
usually find it just
about impossible to land a new job.
Their aching need can be met humanely by
letting them retire without delay.
Creating the many more jobs workers need
can be stepped up by legislation, too.
Shortening the workweek
on a flexible basis
through law, for example, at no loss in pay.
The Convention said
relation to the level of
When we have full
ard 40-hour workweek
this should be done in
unemployment.
employment, the standwould apply.
When man-hours are being wasted by unemployment.at more than a specified level, the 40hour week would be reduced to whatever extent
needed to provide enough job opportunities to
create full employment once again.
Out. of its general revenues, government
should provide special early retirement pensions
for displaced workers over a given age—say,
age/60—certified as unable to find a new job by
~ the national Employment Service.
That retirement should be at the full amount
of a normal government pension,
~~
At the same time, efforts also must be made
in negotiations to supplement such early retire-
ment pensions,
In addition to the problem
older
ment
worker,
must
we
move
of the displaced
retire-
to reduce
. Our unemployment compensation system
gently needs to be brought up to date.
age below 65, without actuarial reduction
in benefits,
For
the
40-hour
would
level.
|
be shifted in turn toward
at less
than one percent—is far less than the MAGEE
cost of unemployment itself.
| fila need jobs. This |is one way to help aah
7
;
different
state,
district
UAW
Instead they permit destructive competition
PENSIONS...
among the states to hold down employers’ costs
by denying human ave
l2 YEARS OF PROGRESS
(Worker With 30 Years’ Service and Wife)
Needed
are:
a job unemploy@ Federal staridards to do
ment compensation is intended to do—assure the
Large-scale unemployment is a national problem. Therefore, the cost of maintaining full takehome pay during a reduction in the workweek
should come from a National Workweek Adjustment Fund, financed by a small payroll tax on
all employers.
small net cost of this—estimated
53
ests of the unemployed worker, the economy, or
the employer. —
But because unemployment reflects insufficient ability to buy the goods that are produced, the law also would have to provide for
maintaining purchasing power during oa
of the shorter workweek.
The
current
and territorial programs do not serve the inter-
As unemployment then started moving down,
the workweek
the
ur-
unemployed worker an income related to his
normal wage level and standard of living; help
sustain purchasing power in a recession and thus
act as a brake on the downward economic spiral.
@ Continuation
ny
ee
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Re
we
3
wit
ee
OTE:
Maa
RMI LES cccucmmmmmnnel
ais
UAW- bsp
concen
On|
TEES
pn
benefits
until
ployed worker gets a suitable job.
tise
PENSIONS puss S06:crn SECURITY
of
~
@ Retraining courses
an
unem-
for unemployed work-
ers, if recommended by the national Employment Service, to improve their possibilities for
re-employment.
BCU Kec
le
OU EC
LO
80,000 NEW JOBS A WEEK
0
0
3
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’
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O
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B
(
$35}
ans
R
ST
ONOMY
cay a
TA aera aa aca
OF posh OUR ECONOMY WILL LOSE
as
MILLIONS
OF JOBS
40
600.000
15,000,000
a worker
BY
§
Doubled socin
om
SECURITY BENEFITS
BERS
When
WORKERS
is unemployed
or*?8900
PER FAMILY
ee
to
Le
dae)
ILL Gn
DISPLACED
AUTOMATION
14 AILLION
16,000.000
Q
_ONRT ADDITIONS _
TO THE LABOR FORCE
| of
Dowbled socim
HOSPITAL
Ce
SECURITY BENEFITS
BEDS
HOMES
for long, he
suddenly may find he stands to lose the household and other possessions he’s buying on time.
Existing stabilizers in the economy—unemployment compensation, pensions and other programs—are not enough to prevent recessions
To avoid victimization of the unemployed by
installment-plan retailers, we propose the federal
government establish an Unemployed Workers
|
.
Revolving Fund.
from
This would provide temporary assistance to
jobless workers to help them pay their installment debts within specified limits and under
reasonable safeguards.
When again employed, a worker would have
to pay back the Fund over a reasonable period.
torium on all or part of income taxes withheld
from personal income. This would mean an immediate increase in every worker’s buying
power.
- The President should be given power to tem-
EVEN: IN “GOOD YEARS”
TOTAL UNEMPLOYMENT DOUBLED while
LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYMENT QUADRUPLED
N voved UNDNDER 1S Wi eEKS <
[J] uNeme
3,872,000
TOTAL UNEMPLOYMENT
(] UNEMPLOYED IS WEEKS ANDOVER
TOTAL UNEMPLOYMENT
UNEMPLOYMENT
20.7% OF TETAL
1955-1987
25.8% OF TETAL
Economic
decisions—-such as a corporation’s
decision to close an existing plant
a new one there—may drastically
of tens of thousands of people and
future of whole communities and
here and open
alter the lives
determine the
regions,
These decisions can no longer
anyone’s purely private business.
considered from the public view
the social and economic problems
be considered
They must be
with regard to
they create—
To prevent plant movements based on desire for profit from substandard wages and
working conditions, we propose a Taft-Hartley
i959 = 19696
amendment by which workers -could be excused from working with goods produced by
substandard runaway or unorganized plants.
We
propose
legislation
designed
and grants to encourage
Production
changes
and_
revisions
have
brought sudden layoffs to tens of thousands of
workers.
. These layoffs usually fail to make adequate
provision to transfer them to other jobs or help
them move to another job elsewhere.
Even more vast problems of displacement can
be expected to follow any effective international
disarmament
agreement,
even
porarily cut or suspend withholding taxes when
unemployment reaches a. danger level,
The Loss In Torat Nationat Output
“BILLIONS
OF DOLLARS
*600
GROSS NATIONAL
PRODUCT IN CONSTANT
though
bring tremendous benefits to the world.
it would
To prepare programs to avoid as many
nomic hardships as possible for defense
duction workers and communities, the
posed National Planning Agency should
clude a Commission on the Economics of
armament,
unemployment is heavy.
to
#350 BILLION
4 | CUMULATIVE LOSS
f= \ 1953-1960
‘
De.
1959 DOLLARS
ACTUAL
=
RATE
LLY fi a 2
|
YT:
Tra
i947 46 48
t |
50 S| Se SB 54 55
56 57 56 3 60
prevent
areas, and loans
plant relocation in overcrowded
Defense production workers and their families
are among the most insecure in the nation,
downward.
A quick stabilizer would be a temporary mora-
erosion of the tax base, cost of duplicating housing in new communities, and losses to business
men dependent on workers’ pay
oe
and
checks,
| 1,967,000 |
\ TOTAL
spiralling
whole relocation of workers, breaking of old ties,
abandoned housing and community facilities,
2.887, 000
plant location where
Companies creating distress by moving out
should pay a financial penalty to help meet the
.
costs of alleviating the distress.
Privileged tax treatment for communities
rating industry from other areas should
eliminated.
pibe
We also must plug tax loopholes which now
- permit buying out companies to take tax advan-
tage of their
:
down. —
losses,-and
then
shutting
them
Because of large-scale foreign investments by
and other factors, workers
U.S. corporations,
in
other countries are using the latest technological
developments to produce goods at nearly the
level of U.S. and Canadian productivity, but are
being
here.
paid
only
a fraction
of the
wages
paid
The competition with our products is unfair.
Tariffs are not a desirable answer, They raise
ecoproproinDis-
prices to us as consumers,
We
amend
the
General
Trade to include the
fair labor standards.
age defense production contractors to be ready
for quick conversion to production of civilian
goods as soon as military contracts are ter-
threaten
our market
and do nothing to end the unfair
of. our fellow workers abroad.
urge the ICFTU and our governments to
for exports
exploitation
We also propose that the government encour-
Agreement
principle
on
Tariffs
and
of international
ld
ou
sh
es
ri
st
du
in
rt
po
ex
in
s
ge
wa
d
ar
nd
Substa
opr
by
d
ie
if
st
ju
els
lev
to
ep
st
by
ep
be raised st
:
ductivity.
no
ch
te
le
ab
ar
mp
co
g
in
us
s
ie
an
mp
co
n
ig
Fore
minated.
In addition, we propose legislation to protect
defense production workers against the financial
losses of job displacement when a contract ends.
.
BILLION
Ado Bitttol
1953—1960
1 WHICH COULD HAVE GOTTEN. ALL: THESE...
LNSW31ddNS ALINVAITOS ‘L96L ‘APW—Z-S a6ng
The CHALLENGE OF THE 60
ld
ou
sh
t
uc
od
pr
le
ab
ar
mp
co
a
g
in
uc
od
pr
d
an
logy
to
,
me
ti
of
od
ri
pe
le
ab
on
as
re
a
in
,
ed
ir
be requ
meet U.S. minimum
This is a legitimate cost of a defense production program, and the government should actively encourage contractors to work out practical
measures of such protection with the unions of
their workers.
sell their
ne oe
products
UR
wage standards in order to
here.
ee
1961—Page S-8
SOLIDARITY
SPECIAL
| WHILE PRODUCTION INCREASED
wee,
ee]
Cg
s
t
e
L
The
G@ATA: FEORRAL RESERVE BOARS,
~ Ud. DEPT. OF LABORe «
“Many
minimum
young
ship
needed
to qualify for jobs
fering early personal defeat, as a result.
with
educational
basic
defi-
ciencies, we should devise a program to train
them for more advanced work, and meantime
provide a maintenance allowance for family support,
needed: for
protection -and renewal
of
a National Planning
Agency is needed to develop programs for longrange national needs rather than short-term
private profitability.
To reduce school drop-outs, we propose an
occupational orientation program, financed and
the adults
is
This is an area where
- The three areas of primary need are: Elementary and secondary schools; the transition from
school to job; beyond the first job experience.
For
Agency
erals use, water supply and the pollution threat,
and on the peaceful use of atomic energy.
tragically wasted and millions of youth are suf-
co-ordinated by a Federal Youth Opportunities
Agency, similar to the New Deal’s National
Youth Administration.
For the young unplaced jobseekers, we propose a training program similar to the earlier.
Civilian Conservation Corps.
Planning
Also needed are long-range policies on min-
resources are
in the age of automation. Human
National
public lands and forests, and for revival and
intensification of public power programs.
people are failing to get the
education
proposed
should be responsible for conserving and developing our natural resources. Public leader-
59
The U.S. and Canada are falling behind in
providing adequate housing for millions of
- families.
The obsolete technology of home construction
has kept the price of good homes out of reach
of millions, and has held back the expansion of
the housing industry.
:
We call on the governments of both countries
to take action for the most effective applicaof new
tion
methods
new
materials,
and
other
necessary information for a balanced judgment
on the merits of such price increases.
No price control would be involved—the pressure of informed public opinion should serve as
a restraining influence.
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We repeat the call of previous UAW conventions for establishment of a federal price hear-
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No one can doubt any longer either the power
of certain giant corporations to rig prices, or
their readiness to do so. New restraints are
:
needed.
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ae
a
‘
_new discoveries to cut costs and improve quality.
of housing,
wre
SOLIDARITY
SUPPLEMENT,
May,
sao
MANUFACTURING JoBs DECREASED
The President should appoint Labor-Management Committees in each industry, to study the
special problems of. each and to work closely
with the proposed National Planning Agency.
- Such committees could be of great service
to the firms in the industries, and to the workers and to the government.
They would supplement the work of the newly-
established President’s Advisory Committee on
Labor-Management Policy, which was set up to
study and make recommendations for policies
promoting “free and responsible collective bargaining, industrial peace, sound wage and price
policies, higher standards of living and increased
productivity.”
3
1961 — Page
“They
turn
them
out
like
from Cleveland at the age of
27. Behind him were eight or
nine years
aS an apprentice
millwright.
“I told them I was a mill-
SOLIDARITY,
May,
magic nowadays.”
Speaking almost to himself
was James V: Goldsmith, 65, a
millwright in Ford’s maintenance unit since April 9, 1923.
He held in his hands
two
plastic model cars—put together by his son, Vernor—one a.
replica of a sleek 61 Ford convertible, the other of a 1929
model “A” roadster.
He
had
been
describing
wright
and
they
put me
to
work,’ Goldsmith
recalled.
“Been on the same job, same
place ever since.”
More
than
machinery
and
faces have changed.
“It seems like it happened
all in one day, but it didn’t.
Vu never forget the day it
was all right to smoke on the
the
preat changes that have come
with the years, particularly in
that part of the company
has
Ses.
THE
UAW
SPECIAL
collective bargaining
ay
convention
sustained
The ata high degree of interest and excitement throughout.
tentive group of delegates from UAW Region 9A shown above
are listening to debate from the floor on the legislative proposals presented by the joint resolutions committee. —
nd
NLRB Slaps Kohler
For Non-Compliance
CHICAGO
— A compliance
officer in the Chicago regional
office of the National Labor
‘Relations Board has told the
Kohler Co. that it has failed to
comply
with
strikers
and
order
the NLRB’s
of Aug. 26, 1960, calling for full
reinstatement of former Kohler
the
dismissal
of
strikebreakers, if necessary.
of compliance
finding
The
A. Jacobson
officer Raymond
could result in a back pay lia-
Plant Relocation
Evils Scored
At Convention
The resolution on the retraining, relocation and reemployment of displaced workers
came in for considerable discussion during the special convention.
,
Thought-provoking
comment
Stanley
delegate
from
came
906,
Local
Ford
Greenspan,
Mahwah, N.J., a representative
from
a plant
which
over work formerly
assembly
in Ford
Buffalo, Somerville,
Chester,
Said
Pa.
Greenspan:
the delegates
read of the
has
taken
performed
at
plants
Mass. and
,
“Most
of
have probably
closing of the
Chester plant, a plant which
was operating at a profit, a
quality
a high
with
plant
level, one of the best in the
country”
It was closed simply because
Ford “could derive greater profits’ by sending the work to
plant, which is
the Mahwah
Greenspan
newer and larger,
pointed out.
Those Chester workers who
are transferring the
130
miles
are having real problems, he
Somerville
Of the 150
said.
workers who came to Mahwah
three years ago, for example,
only 27 are left today, GreenHe said only 112
span noted.
Chester workers so far have
exercised their option to transfer, and of those, 15 have already given up and returned to
Chester.
He said his local has made
the.
help
to
effort
every
Chester workers get relocated and to find suitable housing for them, but they face
“real and serious problems.”
am
“One of the workers, I
sorry to say, who had moved
very
became
up to Mahwah,
serious
faced
and
depressed
problems. He worked two days,
went back to the Chester area
and committed suicide,’ Greenspan told the convention.
“T think there is a real need
here.
now,
We
but
have some coverage
it meeds to be ex-
solve
the
problems
... We need relocation
panded
and transfer allowances as well
as governmental action to help
workers
who
are
of
these
displaced
through no fault of their own,”
the delegate concluded.
for
the
Kohler
Co.
bility
amounting to several hundred
thousand dollars, according to
UAW. Secretary-Treasurer Emil
Mazey. It came after the union
complained as early as last October that the company had
failed to comply. The company
had denied the charge.
The finding of non-compliance was based on the following actions of the company:
@ It rehired strikers, but not
for a regular work week. Former
strikers worked
only 32
hours, while strikebreakers continued on the job, causing the
reduction in the work week.
@ It did not make proper of-
fers of reinstatement
former strikers.
to
some
@ Jacobson also said that
Kohler strikers had a right to
refuse the company’s offer of
reinstatement until the company resumed bargaining, as
the board had ordered. As late
as
last
month,
notified UAW
the
been “his” for 38 years.
“All that new machinery!
It just makes you wonder,”
he said. “You get the feeling
they’ll have a machine
job,”
that
|
Goldsmith
said.
“And
the day you could move from
your job onto the main aisle,
or sit down for a breather,
or eat half a sandwich on
the job without a serviceman
right there to fire you.
“The
union
made
Ford
4
good place to work.”
Goldsmith
said
he
joined
UAW
“the first day I could.
Before
I could
join,
I just
pulled hard for the union. No-
body kids me. I probably would
have been looking for janitor
years ago if it hadn’t
work
been for my union.”
Goldsmith was presented to
the
convention
by
President
Reuther. He thanked the union
for making his pension possible.
His wife
and
son were
also
introduced.
some-
day that’ll just go ‘whoo-um’
and there’s a car. Complete!”
Most
UAW
pensioners
feel
pretty much the same way—
but what singled Goldsmith’s
thinking out for special attention was the fact that in late
April he became the 25,000th
Ford
worker
to retire
on
a
UAW-negotiated pension.
A quiet, gentle man, Goldsmith
said:
‘“Nobody’s’
ever
made a fuss over me before.
Looks like I just made it.”
A sprinkling of Ford offiFord Dicials joined UAW
rector
Ken
Bannon
at
a
session of the pension adwhich
board
ministration
25,the
Goldsmith
named
pensioner.
UAW-Ford
000th
Goldsmith and his wife were
guests at a luncheon which
folliwed.
What’s ahead? “I’m staying
right
home
here
and
in Detroit.
I
love
It’s my
everything
about this city.”
Detroit wasn’t always Goldsmith’s home. He was born at
of Ford
town
the crossroads
Deposit, Alabama.
His education ended at the
to
he went
age of 10 when
work “lugging bricks and shingles”
for
his
father
who
was
a
building contractor.
Goldsmith arrived in Detroit
the
for
t
igh
lwr
mil
a
as
t
men
loy
emp
of
S
AR
YE
T
GH
EI
YRT
“THI
Ford Motor Company is what James V. Goldsmith left behind
him
when
he
recently
retired
and
beeame
the
company’s
Here, Goldsmith (left) tells Ken Bannon,
25,000th pensioner.
director of the UAW Ford department about the not-so-good
old days at Ford’s before the coming of the UAW.
TE
company
Region
10 Direc-
tor Harvey
Kitzman
that it
would not resume bargaining.
Jacobson also declared that
the company had failed to comply with the board’s order by
not offering reinstatement to
retirees and to workers who had
“termination
so-called
signed
slips” under duress, but who
had applied for reinstatement.
Two days after the compli-
‘ance division’s finding, all departments
went back
of
on
the Kohler Co.
a 40-hour week.
The company said this was a
coincidence,
that it had
planned all along to return to
a longer
have
work
done
so
week
even
and
would
without
the.
NLRB action. It also vowed to
fight any back pay claims.
In
another
development,
the Milwaukee, Wis. office of
the Internal Revenue Service announced that so far,
1,687 Kohler strikers living in
Wisconsin
have
received
in-
come tax refunds of $853,824,
including $186,581 in interest
payments.
The
refunds
are on taxes
paid on strike benefits, which
have been ruled tax exempt
- the U.S. Supreme Court.
ane
eee e
eccoll
l
cia
spe
the
for
s
ber
mem
tee
mit
Com
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tut
sti
Con
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A TRIO OF THE
t
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dep
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ize
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the
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No totals are available on tax
refunds paid to former Kohler
strikers now living in other
states.
Final Report
The final report of the
convention’s credentials
committee
showed
that
a
total of 2,510 delegates registered
for
the
three-day
session.
:
Of these, 326 were special
delegates and
(non-voting)
the rest regular
delegates.
They represented 760 of the
UAW’s 1,276 local unions, acFishman,
Sam
to
cording
chairman of the committee
and president of Ford Local
36, Wixom, Mich.
WEST COAST DELEGATES chat with Ernie West
gion 6, and Charles Bioletti, Region 6 director,
(left, facing camera), assistant director of Re-
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will rep
year.”—Delegate James Jones, GM Local 659, Flint, Mich., during
discussion of resolution on labor-management committees.
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rs
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ten
and
be much harder,
port the resolution (on reducing
Fishman, president of Ford Local
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work time)!”—Delegate
36, Wixom, Mich.
ae
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hav
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deb
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SOLIDARITY,
May, 1961— Page 10
Bold Legislative Program
Adopted at Convention
Continued
lective bargaining matters are
described in a separate story
on pages 3 and 14.)
The legislative section calis
for quick congressional action
to combat
unemployment and step up economic
vital
today’s
meet
growth,
national
SERIOUS NATURE of the discussions that went
close attention being given the proceedings by
3
Page
from
Continued
cost to the consumer,” he said.
is a tremendous
there
“But
difference between raising the
and
consumer
the
to
price
up for a vote to see if the convention was willing to consider
it, the proposal garnered fewer
than 175 votes among the 2,525
least
At
delegates.
600
votes were needed for consideration.
Reuther termed the idea “too
He pointed out that
narrow.’
the broad program recognizing
include
problems
workers’
to
answers
alternative
huge funds
the
recent
to the
Referring
company announcement that
Ford was dividing $33.6 mil-
the
lion in stock bonuses among
a small group of executives,
the UAW President said the
given
have
would
money
every hourly worker in every
plant in the United States 13
set aside
stock options and similar
purposes.
“We don’t want to raise the
cents an hour for every hour
worked in 1960.
Motors’
General
Similarly,
$88.5 million in bonuses would
UAW Dinner
"Biggest Yet"
have meant an additional 12.6
cents an hour for every hourly=
rated G.M. worker, he added.
Moreover, he
Continued from Page 3 _
among
Reuther were
speakers.
Continued
which
by the audience.
joined
Caterer Al Green told Solidarity that the dinner required
the. services
50 busboys,
60 cooks.
of
360
waitresses,
55 dishwashers
and
The
for
called.
convention also
limiting
negotiated
contracts
this
year
to
to
be
“two
years as a maximum” if they
include cost - of - living and
improvement factor provi-
sions, and to one
contracts which do
tain these sections,
“puration
Canada
the
must
fact that
that country
the right
of
eontracts
take
account
our members
in
of
in
are denied by law
to strike
life of a contract,”
vention
year for
not con|
stated.
during the
the con-
reduction
tax
e Stand-by
powers to combat recessions,
@ International Fair Labor
Standards.
@® Education for the age of
automation — expanded emopportunities for
ployment
youths and adults.
@ Protect consumers from
price
@ Modernizing
nology.
@ Conservation
ment
of
natural
@e Industry
abuses.
housing
and
ey,
we
must
tech-
develop-
resources.
labor-manage-
ment committees.
“Of most immediate
adopt
areas
of
of
areas
country,. the
our
persistent, widespread, hardcore unemployment, and the
to
movement
persistent
higher plateaus of unemployment nationally give us
some foretaste of the price
of failure to understand and
the economics of
master
abundance,” the report said.
Referring to the economy’s
effect on job.security, the report noted that four recessions
have taken place in the past
. 13
urgen-
a genuine
full employment program as
broad in its scope as the unproblem which
employment
we have to solve,” the legislative program reported by
the conventinon’s Joint ReConstitution
and
solutions
Committee declared.
“We must tackle with determination the problem of rising
years.
At
ed,
location.
administered
unemployment.
“The
distressed
the
Labor
same
time,
Secretary
it report-
Arthur
that
estimated
has
Goldberg
10,400,000 additional jobs will
to be created to wipe
have
away the nation’s unemployment.
“Measures which only go
‘far enough to start the economy on the upturn will not
additional jobs
create the
needed
to solve
the
unem-
ployment problem,” the convention report declared.
“After meeting the present
crisis, we will
unemployment
have to continue creating new
jobs at the rate of about 4,100,000 a year in order to keep un->
increasing.
from
employment
programs
develop
must
We
that will continue to create 80,000 new jobs every week over
the next 10 years.”
adequate
Without
planning
‘to meet these and similar basic
needs, the report indicated, unemployment and job insecurity
of workers and their families
will
remain, .
workers,
of
rations, ‘abandon: your historic
double standard of economics
and. morality. Sit down at the
bargaining table and give your
workers that measure of justice
and security to which they are
due and which: the abundance
of automation makes possible.”
Valentine
it was
about.”
’ talking
to manage this, it added, “it
will clog the wheels of our economy and create serious. dislocations, recessions and more
“would hold the line” against
the. workers, and added:
“we say to the great corpo-
3: A firm affirmation by the
‘Rey. Martin Luther King Jr.,
of the South’s foremost
one
anti-seggregation leaders, that
wage-earners gain in the campaign for Negro suffrage.
will .sow
“inevitably
This
the seeds of liberalism where
un
flourished
has
reaction
were read from President Kennedy, United Nations Undersecretary Ralph J..Bunche, Sen.
in
Ford executive will buy out of
$720,000 additional inthat
come? But you give that $720,to
workers,
000 to the Ford
the unemployed, and they will
go into the butcher shops and
buy the things they need for
their kids. That is what we are
e Plant
pro-
- developing plans and programs
announcements the companies
Reuther, father of the UAW
president, and R. J. Thomas,
now
president,
UAW
former
assistant to AFL-CIO President
George Meany.
UAW Secretary-Treasurer
served as toastEmil Mazey
master.
Congratulatory telegrams
ever,
do you think a Ford.
hamburger
employed workers.
@ Security for defense
duction workers.
is not yet
The UAW President referred
of
announcements
to recent
huge management bonuses
coming at the same time as
who was CIO Regional Director.
during the early days of the
Richard T. Leonard a
UAW;
former UAW vice president now
the singing of Solidarity For-
more pounds of
un-
the nation
resolve to find @ solution.”
Germer,
New
UAW-sponsored
The
entertained,
Chorus’
World
finishing its selections with
many
Reuther
share,’
compensation standards.
@ Debt moratorium for
Because
tions. We are inflexible in our
Many veterans of the UAW
and the labor movement were
John
including
introduced,
with the AFLBrophy, now
CIO- Industrial Union Department; George Edwards, now @
Sujustice of the Michigan
s0n,
“How
12,for
one
not
that
our
@ Early retirement for displaced older workers.
@ Public reinsurance for private pension plans.
unemployment
@®Federal
Noting the role of automation and technological progress
in developing a growing “hard
the
unemployment,
of
core”
legislation section said .that
is being used to
automation
produce abundance,
are flexible on the solu-
“we
gress,
(D.,
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minn.), Eleanor Roosevelt and
UN Ambassador Adlai Steven-
their
tion:
e A National Planning Agency to help build and Keep a
healthy economy,
@ Flexible reduction of the
workweek with no loss in pay.
@ Retraining, relocation, refor displaced
employment
workers.
“He could have sold the
000 shares the other day
$81 a share and made in
day $720,000. I say we are
going to stand still for
deny
and
sort of thing
workers
said.
employment
and
economic
health,
provide
new
world
leadership
in science
and
the
regain
and
technology,
prestige we have lost abroad.
Here
are the 16 legislative
economy, and of chronic un-~
growing
in the
employment
number of distressed areas,” it
added.
said.
National Urban League, and
well-known
such
including
figures as Sen. Philip A. Hart
(D., Mich.) and Donald Mcsecretary - treasurer
Donald,
of the Canadian Labour Con-
IUD;
3
stock at $21
share.
@
full
whole
of insecurity, of unemployment, by stating the probJems and pointing to a num-~
ber of possible solutions,” he
Whitney M. Young, Jr. of the
the
problems
man
betically from Rabbi Morris
Adler, chairman of the UAW’s
to
Board,
Review
Public
with
Page
from
“We are trying to find angswers to these compelling hu-
The guest list read like @
“Who’s Who”, ranging alpha-
Adolph
Ford
one
sound approach to put your
union in the strongest possible
position to do the best job possible* for our membership and
their families.”
years.
Court;
noted,
Two-Front Drive
the other
the
celebrated
dinner
The
at its
founding of the UAW
first constitutional convention,
held in South Bend, Ind. from
April 27 to May 2, 1936, and
respeaker
one
than
more
achievethe union’s
counted
ments during the intervening
preme
production
of
options.”
stcok
for bonuses,
by the companies
cost
of an item. It is called ‘setting
aside.’
“The Ford Motor Company,
$2 billion
put
example,
for
worth of it in new expansion.
It is in bonuses. It is put in
proposals
of the
idea
basic
that were being suggested.
that
emphasized
Reuther
cost
the
wants
union
the
of contract gains to come out
of the
the
raising
executive recently exercised his
stock option to pick up 12,000
shares of company
restore
priorities suggested in the program adopted by the conven-
Approach
Bargaining
Wide
the
in
is reflected
on during the convention
delegates of Local 5.
needs,
the
in
unemployment
3
Page
from
challenged for decades,” said
the Rev. Dr. King who reovation
a standing
ceived
from the 5,700 delegates and
:
guests at the conclusion of his
- speech.
4: Spelled-out praise of UAW
as “a powerful force for good’
which is honest, clean, democratic and dynamic. The praise
from
came
Secretary
Arthur Goldberg
speech
four
in
major
which
areas
of Labor
in his banquet
he.
of
detailed
responsi-
the
like
unions
bility. that
UAW will be asked to assume.”
o
phot
ten
the
in
&
s
ete
dot
—
on.
enti
conv
¢
the
of
e
en
t
eren
diff
at
ds
wee
“in
A ‘CONTRAST
ntly
inte
n
liste
o
phot
tom
bot
the
in
e
thos
lull;
on
enti
conv
a
ng
duri
on
xati
enjoy a bit of rela
as convention business gets underway.
with
negotiations
UAW’s
The
Three
the
Big
the
members
mai
auto
this summer for new contracts will be made a little
makers
smoother
of trailblazing
because
by
in the
aircraft and missile industry.
That was the consensus of feeling among the delegates
from the locals in that indus-
try to the Aircraft and Missile Conference in Detroit
just before
Hard-Core Figure Up;
Jobless Drop Seasonal
WASHINGTON — A decline
in unemployment between midMarch and mid-April was only
jobhard-core
and
seasonal,
even
remains
still
lessness
higher than before, the Labor
|
Department reported.
With an unemployment drop
of 533,000 last month, the total
stood at 4,962,000, slightly under
the post-war record set for the
month in 1958. The number of
persons out of work 15 weeks
or longer rose by 266,000 during
April to reach a total of 2,128,000. More than 900,000 of them
— Negroes, unskilled and older
workers — have been seeking
work in vain for a half-year
or
more.
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$1.25 Minimum Wage
Law Passes Congress
ers, was passed by Congress
May 3. The law calls for $1.25
minimum hourly pay by Sep-
tember, 1963, and extends the
an
additional
to
protection
work-
3,624,000
in retail estaers, mainly
blishments.
The bill, which had been
heavily backed by the AFLCIO, was a compromise between a liberal Senate measure, which would have coyvered 4,086,000 new workers,
and a more restrictive House
only
under
tion,
the
workers
new
preotec-
minimum
EUNVAAEROUOUUUUAUOUUUUAUUA4V4NON900000TDRERELEOELE
Convention
Bargaining
tive
last month. And that was their
feeling, too, as they participated in the deliberations of the
convention and helped formulate proposals for the bargaining table.
|
ETH OREAEE
Rail Men Lose Fight
For Jobs in Mergers
tion—the
workers
in the aer-
ospace industry have
already
faced some of the problems
and developed some new apdelegates
the
proaches,
pointed out.
That is why the UAW aerospace locals have insisted that
the companies keep them informed about developments in
President
Vice
automation,
Leonard Woodcock, director of —
the UAW’s Aircraft Dept., told
delegates to the conference.
.In response to a major proball production
facing
lem
workers, because of the inroads
aircraft
the
of automation,
workers came up with the idea
of extended layoff benefits, he
per cent drop in employment
of production workers in the
prewas
industry
aircraft
conference.
the
to
sented
From July 1957, when 574,200
production workers were em-
ployed in the industry, employment dropped by 203,200
to the February 1961 total of
365,600.
os
WASHINGTON — The SuWhile thousands of producpreme Court has repected a. tion workers have
lost their
’
ep
ke
to
ns
io
un
jobs in the industry, more and
ad
ro
il
ra
by
suit
employees
railroads
of
that
THE UAW MEMBERS of North American Aviation at the National Aircraft
REPRESENTING
ra,
came
to
back
t,
fron
In
s.
gate
dele
e
thes
were
th
mon
last
oit
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in
ce
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and Missile Conf
of
rer
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etar
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iden
pres
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are
left,
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Jack
and
.,
Dept
raft
Airc
onal
Nati
the
of
n
Ster
Jim
Rep.
l
iona
rnat
Inte
the NAA Council;
president of Local 887, Los Angeles, and the Council.
where
In the one aren
auto workers will be facing
perhaps their gravest probautemalems—the area of
tions come up,” he explained.
showing. the 35
Statistics
bill which would have brought .
1,200,000
Collec-
Special
This approach to the
added.
layof “permanent
problem
offs” may serve as a guidepost
in the forthcoming auto industry negotiations, delegates said.
contribution
“hidden”
One
by the aircraft workers to the
auto industry negotiations was
pointed out by Vice President
In last year’s negoWoodcock.
tiations, a determined assault
managements
aircraft
by
against the cost-of-living esin the UAW
calator clauses
contracts was turned back by
negotiators. “The
union
the
that fight
fact that we won
will help all other segments of
our union when their negotia-
Presi—
WASHINGTON
Kennedy’s minimum
dent
by
es
is
ra
ng
ri
su
as
l,
bil
wage
September for 2,500,000 work-
minimum-pay
the
more
white
collar
profes-
and
OF
PROBLEMS
AIRCRAFT
THE
gates from the Douglas Aircraft
Detroit.
Left to right are Wise
Womac
Keck, Local 148; Otis
_ B. Keever, Local 243.
provided they
compensated.
properly
were
The railroad unions’ argument
was
based
on
Commerce Act
provision -which
requires protection
ployees
Interstate
an_
of merged
:
roads.
SNNUUUUEnETEecUvUUg nants
New
em-
for
LTE
Law Gives Aid
To Depressed Areas
— Federal
WASHINGTON
aid for 110 economically de- pressed areas in the nation
— including many auto and
aircraft cities — is expected
to
begin
flowing
out
this
summer
in the wake
of a
$394,000,000 bill signed into
law
by President
Kennedy
May 1.
The law will provide funds
for
construction
of
public
utilities and industrial sites
and
for retraining
of displaced workers, in communities designated
as chronic-ally
depressed.
William
IL.
Batt, Jr., Pennsylvania’s secretary of labor and industry,
was appointed administrator
of the new agency.
SUDADNGAUUIGGHOGRASEDNEAEUEGOUASOUNEDOAOGAEOAERDENLAOUAOOEOUEAOH
were
two
ratio
is
every
white-collar.
about
— technician
jobs
blue-collar
and.
one
“Now,
other
sional employee for
duction worker.
for
the
UAW
locals
came
these
in for serious discussion among
to the National
Aircraft
and
Missile
dele-
Conference
Stone, assistant director of the National Aircraft
and Virgil Bowden, Local 1093, and O. W. Reynolds
in
Dept.; John
and Walter
Detroit Rally Asks Quick Action
s
ay
St
s
es
sn
es
bl
Jo
’
re
Co
dar
‘H
As
With a somber backdrop
of continuing near -depressome
unemployment,
sion
7,500--unemployed workers met
last
Coliseum
Detroit’s
in
from
action
to urge
month
Congress and the state legisla-
ture on the nation’s greatest
problem.
Shortly after the “Get America Back to Work” rally, sponsored by the UAW .and the
Wayne County AFL-CIO Coun-
cil, the U.S. Dept. of Labor is-
that
show
to
figures
sued
“nard-core” long-term unemployment was staying high. The
April pick-up in > employment
was seasonal and had been expected, the department’s report
noted.
|
|
The
workers
at
the
rally
heard both encouraging and
warning words
about
the
state of the economy from
President
Walter
Reuther,
O’Hara
John
Congressman
(D.
Mich.),
Michigan
Gov.
Detroit
and
Swainson,
John
sional workers are coming in.
merge at work after-the merMayor
Louis
Miriani.
|
Ten years ago there were three
ger.
They
then
_
unanimously
The court, by an 8 to 1 deci- - production workers for. every on
calling
resolution
a
adopted
white collar employe in the insion, said workers could be disPresident
support
to
Congress
reasons
Five years ago, there
for economy
dustry.
missed
after the merger
INDUSTRY
Kennedy’s.
program
for
full
employment, as well as a tem-
Reuther pointed out that un-
porary suspension of withholding taxes to provide for greater
purchasing power by workers,
and a moratorium on debts and
installment payments.
,
the imbaland
Automation
caproductive
ance between
pacity and purchasing power,
were cited by speakers as the
cause of the mass unemploy“ment which has gripped the
employment is inevitable when
the workers — the great bulk
of the consumers — are unable to purchase the products
and
factories
automated
of
farms, Congress must work toward correcting this imbalance,
|
he said.
Governor
Swainson
told
the rally that many of the
nation’s
unemployed
wilt
never return to their jobs
nation.
Bearing Council
Airs
Problems
TOLEDO
— Mutual
problems
of workers in the bearing in-
a
at
discussed
were
dustry
three-day
conference
of the
Bearing
International
UAW
Council last month: at headquarters of Local 14, the Bunting Brass and Bronze unit of
which
is affiliated with the
Council.
their
re-elected
Delegates
President
present officers:
Vice PresiStewart;
Thomas
Financial
dent Allen O’Hara;
Secretary-Treasurer John Riley
and Recording Secretary Norman Meilink. They chose Baltimore for their next meeting in
_
October.
_
because
of automation.
“They have been displaced by
machines
that
faster and more
said. “We’re in
cause the worker
and the machine
do -the work
efficiently,” he
difficulty beis a consumer
is not.”
“Here We Go Again”
On Pricefixing Caper
WASHINGTON
—
The
Goy-
ernment rejected 15 identical
bids on $1,250,000 of electrical
equipment sought by the In-
terior Dept., and Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall said he
was “amazed” that the electri-
cal equipment makers were still
offering identical bids, despite
recent U.S. court action against
pricefixing practices.
engineer,
profes-
every
pro-.
To meet the growing probConvention
lem, the Special
adopted a section of the reso-—
lutions calling for a national
committee to plan for reconversion of defense plants, and
industry
by
for the payment
and government of the cost of
relocating and retraining displaced defense workers.
In addition, Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey urged local
unions in the defense industries to establish committees to
of
the _ possibilities
explore
peacetime production in their
plants.
NLRB Gives More
Power to Regions
RelaLabor
National
The
tions Board, in a move to speed
delehas
up its procedures,
gated to its regional directors
broad powers to handle and de~
cide
cases,
representation
|
election
REFLECTING THE SERIOUSNESS of the unemployment situation were these workers, among
the 7,500 who attended the Unemployment Rally in Detroit’s Coliseum last month
by President Walter Reuther, Michigan Gov. John Swainson and others.
to hear talks
(Story above)
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