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1961-10-01
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Vol. 4 No. 10
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Vol, 4, No.
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By a near-unanimous vote,
UAW’s National Ford Council has
approved
three-year
national
mately
ers,
strike
of
120,000
The
and
new
approxi-
Ford
improved
Reuther
pro-
job
and
Ken
tional
Ford
ters
demands
which
the union’s new contract with
RATIFYING
WITH UAW’S GM LOCALS OVE RWHELMINGLY
Heading the
sign the agreement.
General Motors, top negotiators got together once more——to
(seated, second from right) and Vice
union’s top committee were President Walter P. Reuther
the corporation negotiators signing the pact
while
t),
righ
ted,
(sea
ck
dco
Woo
ard
Leon
t
iden
Pres
, GM vice president, and Earl. Bramlett
were led by Louis Seaton (seated, second from left)
(seated, left), industrial relations director.
tional
agreement
shop
Chrysler Next
ing with the corporation has
been under way since June
not come
30, Chrysler had
up with a “Big Three” pattern proposal as SOLIDARITY went to press, UAW Vice
President
reported,
Norman
Mathews
Matthews
is direct-
or of the union’s National
Chrysler Department,
UAWweeks,
recent
In
Chrysler
bargaining
has been
carried on at the full national committee
and subcommittee levels, Matthews
also noted that none of the
union’s locals had reached
plant
level
agreements
to
this point,
labor
unfair
practice
charge
with the board.
before
contended
GM
the board that the federal
Taft-Hartley Act banned
the agency
shop. Both
the
union and the corporation
that Indiana’s
agreed
“right to work” law as
such
since
was
not
the state
an
courts
issue,
had
the
that
ruled
already
state statute did not prohibit the agency shop.
The
the
board
union’s
Continu.d
had
dismissed
complaint
on
Page
16
last
UAW
International Executive Board has directed a
new vote at Local 72, Kenosha, Wis., on the recently
- American
can
Motors
Wisc.,
72,
Local
of
to
“The
ratify
Ameri-
agreement,
that the American Motors
agreement is an extremely
both
contract
favorable
conditions,
vorking
standards,
duction
better
pro-
senior-
American
voting
number
total
the
on
Motors
the
of
workers
agreement
voted to ratify it attests that
this favorable view of the
agreement
among
workers.
“We
American
feel
Continued
held
widely
is
Motors
that
on
Page
there
16
plant,
there
went
to
to
terminated
after
that
press,
the
receiving
from
the
it would
negotiate
con-
in
good
were
Continued
on
Page
16
Contract
at Curtiss-Wright
of the union’s
two locals had
aircraft
been scheduled
calls
settlement
department.
for
a
an additional
5c
to go on strike Oct.
general
wage
one to four cents
is
seniority
and
clause
changes
other
11,
increase,
for skilled
tradesmen; increases in jury duty pay; improvements
hospital-surgical coverage, particularly for dependents;
ity, overtime, ete.
“The fact that a majority
of
and
a settle-
across-the-board;
with
dealing
Rouge
N.J.—A new one-year agreement, featuring
than 5,300
wage increases and other benefits for more
workers at the Wright Aeronautical Division of CurtissWright Corp. at near-by Wood-Ridge, has been ratified by
The
with respect to the local
supplementary
union
agreements
several
ment on economic issues
and
working conditions
that spell real progress,”
Bannon said.
With highlights of the new
agreement described in detail in the magazine section
of SOLIDARITY, here is a
rundown of some of the new
gains for Ford workers:
e They will be protected
against most of the loss rework
short
from
sulting
weeks
® Their surgical and
insurance
hospitalization
costs will be fully paid,
whether they are on the
job or on lay-off.
@ They will continue to
the
we
last
faith on the unsettled issues.
workers
Motors,
the
commitment
tinue
with
Motors
out
PATERSON,
The
and
matters
economic
Won
director
with respect to the national
American
of
is
local
union
.. . worked out
IEB
company
issues.
on
Co.
in
the members of UAW Locals 669 and 300, it has been
Vice President Leonard Woodcock,
announced by UAW
considers
Board
a
Strike Averted,
Kenosha,
the
company.”
‘Building
union
cancel
600,,
the
strike
ne-
negotiated
able to negotiate
Oct. 11, the UAW International Executive Board gave
careful consideration to the
questions raised by the failure
ever
General
meeting,
special
best
at
The Board’s statement announcing the new vote folits
to press.
achievements
held.
lows:
“At
went
the
Motors contract, because of
conditions
the unfavorable
under which the first balloting was
but
The
Ford
settlement,
reached after ten days of a
national strike and after 15
weeks of negotiations, was
the third in the union’s 1961
major auto industry negotiations.
Earlier
agreements
had been won by UAW at
American Motors and General Motors.
The new Ford pact was
described by Bannon as “‘the
A recent decision by the National Labor Relations Board
UAW
local
company
Motor
to
SOLIDARITY
Their plant
strikes continued
as SOLIDARITY
Agency Shop Agreement
Expected Soon at GM New Kenosha
Balloting Set
negotiated
on
board
still had unresolved issues at
seven
out
of 17 units
as
negotiat-
plant-level
were
Local
the
the
Ford
Over
Local
gotiations were stepped up
involving those local unions
which had not yet reached
Detroit’s
Page 3
News About
Election,
strike,
the
years.”
unre-
stamping
only mat-
“several
established
agreements
With settlement of the na-
pee
to
900,
where
issue,
upon
attempting
Department,
ing team.
were
+ . -
Local
Cleveland
where the
still at
said,
Bannon,
headed the UAW
went
union
issues
the table, and
420,
plant,
condi-
were
Mich.,
solved
still on
director of the union’s Na-
clauses will probably lead to an amendment of the new
UAW-GM agreement to inclu de such a clause, according to
Woodcock, director of the
UAW Vice President Leonar
union’s General Motors Department.
The board, in a decision late last month which reversed
a policy adopted earlier this year, upheld the agency shop
as a lawful subject for collective bargaining under federal
law.
The ruling came in a case brought by the UAW against
Indiana is one
GM and involved nine plants in Indiana.
The
of 19 states with so-called “right-to-work” laws.
Indiana Jaw, while banning the union shop, does not
specifically outlaw the agency shop.
An agency shop clause provides that non-union members
must pay a fee to the union equal to the_union dues since
they benefit from agreements negotiated by the union and
since unions are required by law to represent non-members
as well as members in a bargaining unit.
By a vote of four to one,
the board reversed a 3-2 decision handed down last Febto
settleruary and ordered GM
a national
With
at Ford, negotiations
bargain with the UAW on an
ment
with
contract
a new
for
shop arrangement.
agency
Chrysler now have moved to
The UAW had charged GM
the front line.
with refusal to bargain on
the clause and had filed an
While the union’s bargain-
Indiana
International
out
Wayne,
work-
contract,
UAW
Still
have made at one time in
some very difficult areas.”
of agency
7,
ination of the strike against
Ford at all locals except two.
tions was termed by UAW
President
Walter
P.
Reuther “the most meaningful progress
we ever
law,
St., Indianapolis
Executive Board announced
that it had directed term-
viding both wage increases
federal
at
SOLIDARITY
press,
agreement
favoring the new contract
and 4 opposed, ended the
under
paid
Bulletin
As
the union’s
with the Ford Motor Co.
The action, on a vote of 180
the legality,
postage
Contract Called
n’
at
For
d
Wo
new
concerning
class
Indianapolis, Ind.
Published monthly at
in
in
a
contract
language.
The wage sections of the agreement are retroactive to
er
18. The new contract will terminate in Septemb
Sept.
i
I
of next year, at the same time as the separate pension
agreement,
This is the first time in recent years that a
Curtiss-Wright
The
negotiating
pact
has been
team
was
led
for less than
by
Robert
two
years.
Ormsby,
presi-
dent of Local 669, which represents production and mainteLazzio, president of Local 300,
nance workers, and Tom
They were
which represents office and technical workers.
assisted by aircraft department and Region 9 staffers.
Negotiations
are
continuing
plants in Cleveland, O. and North
ing to Woodcock,
at
other
Hollywood,
Curtis
-Wright
Calif, , accord«
2
New
York Labor Backs
1961—Page
Wagner for Reelection
NEW
YORK
—Labor-backed
candidate
Mayor
Wagner who scored
October,
victory
ocratic
lar
thur
in the September
primary over his
party-supported
Levitt,
has
rival,
support
Committee
headed by
UAW
Ar-
of
receive
the
“Labor
to Reelect Wagner”
Charles
Kerrigan,
Region
9A
director,
and
UAW
the Brotherhood Party which is
composed of several New York
City labor organizations.
The
mayor
edged
from
Association.
Recreation
National
rector,
Americans
being
are
Americans
Many
in the developshortchanged
ment of facilities to meet their
Vice
UAW
needs,
recreation
Woodcock
Leonard
President
Recreation
told the National
annual
43rd
its
at
Congress
convention.
“We in the UAW want our
fellow
and our
members
be
to
generally
Americans
ultimately,
more,
leisure
of
sumers
others,”
“We
yet we
selves.”
recreation
related
in Detroit
and the use of leisure time to
the
affecting
problems
wider
entire nation.
Many current recreation programs, he said, are geared to
servicing middle-income
areas
outlying
the
in
groups
cities.
of
millions of
As a result,
within
Americans who live
city”
“inner
the
the
“for
and
eally
most
part
clared.
ness
poor
many
in an
ways,
the
to lay
tural
regimes
basis
work
recreational
of
edu-
for
cul-
and
abundance
of this society.”
urged
moreover,
the delegates to give full supintroport to a bill already
de-
duced
“They can fll afford even the
moderate fees now required for
federal
also
to
Congress
in
service.
recreation
endorsed
create
federal
a
He
legisla-
Chicago Gets 3rd
B.-Warner Meet
Pan
third
The
cago
Saturday,
on
has
Oct.
announced
been
by
of
2
number
of
is
it
Char-
made
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION, International
Union. United Automobile, Aircraft and
of
Workers
Implement
Agricultural
ly.
month
Published
AFL-CIO.
America,
Editorial office, 8000 E. Jefferson, DeYearly subscription
Michigan.
troit 14,
te members, 60c; to non-members, $1.00.
WALTER
P. REUTHER
President
the
Allied
and
the
chinery
This
Jowed
UAW,
the
Machinists,
Industrial
RICHARD
NORMAN
Employees
conference
the
Ice
International
day
Ma-
by
a
meeting of the UAW’s BorgWarner Council, made up of
locals
bargaining
with
the
B-W chain. This meeting will
also be held at the Morrison
according
Hotel,
las.
to
Chiaku-
B-W Council delegates
ning to attend have been
to
bring
their
to
with
various
provide
amount
of
mation with
ing locals.
Both
contract
progress.
them
local
for
a
exchange
other
planasked
copies
of
agreements
maximum
of
infor-
participat-
conferences will discuss
negotiations,
now
in
GOSSER
MATTHEWS
Executive
Board
CHARLES BALLARD
RAY BERNDT
CHARLES BIOLETTI
GEORGE BURT
DOUGLAS FRASER
MARTIN GERBER
TED HAWKS
ROBERT JOHNSTON
CHARLES KERRIGAN
HARVEY KITZMAN
JOSEPH McCUSKER
E. T. MICHAEL
GEORGE MERRELLI
KEN MORRIS
PAT O'MALLEY
EZ S. PATTERSON
KEN ROBINSON
RAY ROSS
Association.
will be fol-
next
Vice
of
a
current
and
“a
aspects
acquire
will
scandal
our
for
tragedy
of
Rockefel-
J.
Lefkowitz.
opposition
several
will
independent
come
can-
City ControlGerosa, run-
banner
urged
UAW
of
the
a
huge
members
election
was
to
day,
Tuesday,
November 7, 1961. He pointed
out that the importane thing
vote
for
Wagner
yote
Of Ownership
STATEMENT
REQUIRED
BY
THE
ACT OF AUGUST 24, 1912, AS AMENDED BY THE
ACTS OF MARCH
3, 1933,
JULY
2, 1946, AND JUNE
11, 1960 (74
STAT.
208)
SHOWING
THE
OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT,
AND
CIRCULATION OF UAW
SOLIDARITY
published
monthly
at Indianapolis 7, Indiana
for
October 1961
the
and
Publisher, International Union, UAW,
8000 E. Jefferson, Detroit 14, Mich.;
Editor Frank Winn, 8000 E. Jefferson,
Detroit 14, Mich; Managing Editor,
Henry Santiestevan; Business Manager,
on
re-
line his name
election
day.”
He called for all workers to
yolunteer their time and energy, wherever possible, to help
pull Wagner through.
In commenting upon labor’s
support for his election, Wagner commented:
“I appreciate labor’s support.
I believe I have earned it. I
welcome it now and will con-
tinue
come.”
to do so in the
years
1A
and
Dept.,
by
the
in
Solidarity
being
Regions
1 and
UAW
Women's
co-operation
Regions
1-1A
with
Women’s
Committee.
to
Problems,
Shop
Your
Vote,
Committee,
and
Multiply
Effective
an
Makes
and
gible
Christmas
a
Union.
your
The classes will
6 with graduation
students
certificates upon
of the series.
end Dec.
exercises
Eli-
party.
receive
will
completion
Skilled Tradesmen
To Meet in Reg. 6
The
—
ANGELES
LOS
first
Regional Skilled Trades conference for Region 6 is scheduled to be held Sunday, Oct. 22,
1961,
Bioletti
Charles
Director
UAW
announced.
of the skill-
problems
“The
ed workers
are also the prob-
union,”
entire
most
therefore,
is,
“It
and other labor groups
to
register and yote for Wagner
on
sponsored
lems of our
Bioletti said.
“The Labor Committee
for
the Reelection
of Wagner
is
not in rivalry with any other
labor or liberal group favoring
Wagner,” Kerrigan said, “the
important thing is for all laboring people to get out and
Statement
1.
The names
and addresses of
publisher, editor, managing editor,
business managers
are:
the
the
GOP,
Louis
gardless of the
appeared on.
Also taking part in the sessions was UAW Recreation Director Olga Madar who served
as chairman of a panel discussion on retired workers centers.
UAW
President
candidate, Attorney
Kerrigan
turnout
of
urgent
action
is
rewhat
preserve
our natural coastal
the
Lesser
from
ning under the
Citizens party.
on the
inland
is
General
candi-
chief opposition
didates, notably,
ler Lawrence E.
en-
private
ler-backed,
from
President
resources
The
owner
Frank
Winn,
Editor
and
Members
im-
portant that local union officers and bargaining committeemen participate in this conefrence as fraternal delegates
so they can assist in expanding
our skilled trades program and
provide a broader base of understanding of skilled trades in
all sections of our union,” the
Region 6 director declared.
the
of
view
In
of planning
amount
sary
to put
as
large
as
that
urged
wanting to
a conference
over
derway
all local unions
send delegates to
be
hall,
conference
held
at
5150
in
Bell, Calif.
Bioletti
one,
this
Office
notify the Regional
early as possible.
The
large
neces-
will
10:00
am.
East
Gage
UAW
get
and
Local
as
un-
will
230’s
Avenue,
Keep An Ear on Eye Opener
aid
to
and
Helations
American
Newspaper
and
address,
individual
a cor-
must
be
as
well
member,
as
firm. its name
that
must
Automobile,
be
of
each
given.)
Implement
Aircraft
8000
E.
and
Workers
of
Jefferson,
3. The known bondholders, mortgafees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 percent or more of
total amount of bonds, mortgages, or
ether
mone,
son
securities
So state.)
er
trustee
are:
None.
Cf
there
are
as
trustee
relation,
the
corporation
is
acting;
or
in
name
also
for
the
any
other
whom
such
of
the
per-
statements
in
the
two
paragraphs
show
the
affiant’s full knowledge and belief as to
the circumstances
and conditions
under
which stockholders and security holders
who do not appear upon
the books of
the
company
as
trustees,
hold
stock
and
that
Director,
Publi-
Department.
Guild,
by
address
or other unincorporated
fiduciary
Jerry Dale. Howard
Lipton, Ray
Mar
tim. Jerry
Hartford,
Simon
Alpert.
Bernard Bailey, Staff Members,
Members
owned
and
stated and also immediately thereunder
the names and addresses of stockholders
owning
or
holding
1 percent
or
more of total amount of stock.
If not
owned by a corporation, the names and
addresses of the individual owners must
be given.
If owned
by a partnership
company
Santiestevan,
Managing
Editor
Assistant
Director,
Publications
Public
is: Gf
4
Paragraphs
2 and
3 include,
in
eases where the stockholder or security
holder appears upon the books of the
cations and Public Relations Department.
Joe Walsh, Assistant Director, Publieations and Public Relations Depart
ment.
Henry
and
its name
America
(UAW),
Detroit 14, Mich.
WOODCOCK
LEONARD
PAT GREATHOUSE
Vice Presidents
Workers
Independent
dunes
as
mayor's
will come
people
by
as
Wednes-
is
Understanding
and Broth-
parties.
The
Sen.
to pre-
Bear
commercial interests
nation’s ocean
and
Agricultural
Secretary-Treasurer
up
international
the
the
U.S.
for the
Screvane,
five
25, in
Oct.
p.m.
Hourse
cafeteria,
Women’s
D. Beame,
Controller
for City Council
erhood
Michigan
that
croachment
United
EMIL MAZEY
unions holding contracts with
the Borg-Warner Corporation.
They
include
Steelworkers,
emphasized
2.
les Chiakulas, assistant director of the UAW’s Borg-Warner
Department.
The conference
UAW
poration,
be held
in Chi21,
The
Lake
park.
R.
regular Democratic
(D., Mich.)
Sleeping
Paul
of
None.
Borg-Warner
Union Conference will
at the Morrison Hotel
area on
national
by
Abraham
for City
Women
dayday
evening classes for
members, beginning at 7:30
What
he
running
have
been
endorsed
Liberal party as well
said.
and leisure must be viewed as
a public as well as a private
we
And
asset.
and personal
are poor in the resolve to follow where these facts lead in
order
date
his
series
How
meaningful.
and
mates,
candidate
generafuture
and
children
tions of Americans,’ Woodcock
are
for
the
the
un-
there
that
education
that
Woodcock,
disad-
Woodcock
yantaged,”
in
serve
Hart
areas,
ketplace,” Woodcock said.
“We are poor in an aware-
worthy
economi-
culturally
remain
cational,
are
areas
rich
are
introduced
“Unless
to
taken
mains of
for
aid
tion,
shoreline
scandal.”
many values and many goods
that cannot be judged by the
ordinary standards of the mar-
met
who
delegates
he added.
derstanding
President’s
Vice
The UAW
hard-hitting
far-ranging,
approximately
to the
speech
$00 congress
Federal action to bring the
“full benefits of education and
leisure must be viewed as essential investments in the future well-being and defense of
adequate
provide
education.
Woodcock declared. “We want
them to become creators of
themfor
actiyity
leisure
Wagner,
A
Families,
has
elected
laboring
most
the
and
to fight
which
consider
and
Outlets
Philip
But, he stressed, recreation
profitness
physical
and
grams are hard hit by the
refusal again of Congress to
activity
by
them
for
created
park facilities and recrehe emphaprograms,”
many
ation
sized.
this republic,”
con-
than
things
Seen Shortchanged
Recreational
By Poor
will continue
in
hard-fought
if
For UAW
Among subjects for class
Services for Union
munity
received
labor
his
that
acknowl-
he
campaign
pledged
Di-
Executive
Prendergast,
Joseph
and
Congress
Recreation
American
President,
Blaisdell,
Foster
during
primary
Reuther;
P.
Walter
President
UAW
represented
who
Woodcock
Leonard
Vice-President
help
organized
city
BEFORE GETTING DOWN to the serious business of discussing the recreational needs of the
National
of the
conyention
annual
43rd
American people, the group of participants in the
Recreation Congress recently held in Detroit, do a little bit of relaxing on their own. Shown
above are (left to right) E. T. McGowan, Superintendent, Detroit Parks and Recreation Dept.;
UAW
the
has
Night Classes Set
to
hard-hitting
his GOP and
independent opponents.
Wagner
continues to
the
Demregu-
continued
Wage
a vigorous,
campeign against
SOLIDARITY,
Robert
F.
a smashing
AFL-CIO
securities in a ezpacity
of
a
bonafide
owner.
other than
5. The average number of copies of
each issue of this publication sold or
a
distributed.
through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the 12
months
preceding the date shown above
was: (This information is required by
the act of June 11, 1960 to be included
in
all
statements
regardiess
of
the
frequency of issue.) 1,301,823,
HENRY
Sworn
this 24th
to and
day of
Notary
Public,
Gay commission
SANTIESTEVAN,
Managing
subscribed
September,
Editor.
before
1961.
me
OTHA
BROWN.
Wayne County, Mich.
expires March
26, 1965),
“FOR
UNUSUAL
CRE ATIVITY
IN
ADULT
EDUCATION”
Ad
sa ys
the plaque awarded to the UAW Education Department by the
The prize was given
Adult Education Association of Michigan.
for “The Truth About Michigan,” a series of educational conferences conducted by the UAW in conjunction with the state
Sharing the honors here are Carroll Hutton, UAW
AFL-CIO.
Education Director (right), and Brendan Sexton, former depart-
ment
director and
now
the union’s Coordinator
of Organizing.
€
Rights
Grow
° Bog
Job
MYN—E
Courts, NLRB Beginning
- To Nail Runaway Plants
is
beginning
the
way
and
to
in
the
show
which
itself
the
National
are
some
Labor
of the
the
United
now
has
volving
retain
PROFIT-SHARING
MONTHLY
A
of a new
features
Co., Kansas
Plastic
Cox,
Leland
are
hands
Shaking
City, Mo.
between
negotiated
recently
contract
two-year
as
days
election
all
and
plan,
are
holidays,
paid
Local
president
and
UAW
710
among
the
and
J. S.
local,
of the
bowling
area
UAW
in the
with
photo,
the
in
the
tournament.
Favor Aged Care
CHICAGO
(PAI)
—
“There
is rising support in the medical
profession” for medical care for
the elderly through social security, in the opinion of Nelson
Cruikshank,
AFL-CIO’s
direc-
tor
of
social
has
begun
“At
long
security.
last,
even
the
AMA
to show a little
tiny
crack in its position,’ he told
the Allied Industrial Workers.
While the Anterican Medical
Association officially “remains
adamant,”
Cruikshank
said
“more individual doctors” came
to
the
Ways
mittee
testify
and
Means
Com-
hearings just ended to
for the Anderson-King
bill.
“A committee of 1,000 doctors
on the West Coast came in and
testified that they were convinced that health care for the
aged
was
social
only
security.
“This
the
group
AMA
other
shank
they
possible
of
under
doctors
the
side presented,” Cruiksaid. “The AMA Journal
has
neyer
presented
facts,
never reported on the findings
of the Department of Health,
Education
Paper
and
Welfare,
curtain,
as
and
solid
as
a
the
Iron Curtain, was dropped between the facts and the M.D.’s.
“Then, lo and
behold,
the
last issue of the AMA Journal
published an article by Senator
Hubert Humphrey which gave
the
arguments
under
social
for
health
care
security.”
named
by
Public
This is the first crack in the
wall, Cruikshank asserted.
to
the
President
Committee
Kennedy
to help guide the operations of
this six-month-old program to
put America back to work,
The pending project applications, if approved, would commit some $27 million of the
$300
million
authorized
for
loans over the five-year life of
the
redevelopment
program,
plus
lion
$18 million
in grants.
fect
on
In
addition
of the
to
$75 mil-
the
direct
employment
of new
ef-
from
plants,
the
the ex-
Staffer Tapped
For Federal Job
WASHINGTON
Lattimore,
a
international
—
UAW
16, in this city.
UAW
has
member
held
has
been
a
positions
at
since
several
1936 and
bor
management
unions.
The
personable
began
working
in
plant foundry and
and
UAW
la-
staffer
the
was
Dodge
one of
the
first
members
of
UAW
Dodge Local 3 in Detroit.
He
served
steward
was
Local
for
several
a member
of
eal’s executive
years,
At
the
3
the
as
years
board
time
of
Morris,
Region
regret
ing
M. R. LEE,
al
UAW
representative
Kan,
has
internation-
been
at
re-elected
chairman
of
view
of Kansas
ment
peka,
as
in
Security
Board
Appointed
the
1959,
labor
for the
year
by
public
he
was
the
Wichita,
Employ-
Division
his
re-elected
but
he
elected
son,”
Morris
on
that
and
the
every
and
this
between
the Glidden
Famous
Food
Divi-
Tennessee
must
offer
employees
location.
This
at
jobs
the
case
in-
Company,
car steering
of
truck
mechanisms.
and
The
judge held that the employees
had built up a vested right in
seniority over a 20-year period.
On
with
the NLRB front:
this
approach
In
to
line
job
cent
cases
sought
to
give
rights,
NLRB
the
has
in several
re-
justice to abandoned
workers
labor
unfair
in
particularly
practice cases. Most recent decision
1000 ke
Chicago
makers
the
subject
the
on
is that
Philadelphia
Dress
of
Joint
Board
of
the_
International
Ladies Garment Workers versus Sidele Fashions which shut
plant
Philadelphia
its
down
a.m,
Weekdays
and
a new
opened
Shoals,
S.C.
one
in
Ware
The Board has ordered Sidele
to provide jobs for its old em-
will
areas
redevelopment
in
have a “multiplier effect” on
employment.
“A number of additional jobs
who
Batt
said,
certain
to
ities,
such activities
generated
be
to
want
go
new
the
to
Amer-
situation
by
ruling
organize
“flags of
ships
flying
convenience.”
have
the arbitration
case
the
ordering
the
with
an
workers
Health
and
Michigan
ator Ben
foreign
z
=
=
arbitration
front
o
company
either
had
repercus-
arbitrator
its
Philadelphia
some $350,000 to
and
Welfare
Senator
to 9
front:
industry
to
re-open
plant or pay
right
The
also
on
its
the
ship
the
Pat
union’s
Fund.
McNamara,
Democrat,
and SenSmith, Massachusetts
Democrat,
have
both
protested
against the “industrial piracy”
practices
by
some
states
in
luring
industry
away
from
other
sections
Senator
troduced
would
states
sued
try
to
legislation
most
izing
munity
the
municipal
attract
while
having
the
country.
McNamara
end
of
of
has
which
tax-exempt
study
effective
the
a
is-
Smith
is
indus-
made
way
of
of
impact
of
bonds
outside
Senator
a
in-
on
runaway
the
minim-
a
com-
plant,
Saskatchewan's
Citizens To Get
Full Medical Care
REGINA,
Sask.
covering
legislation
care
cal
(PAI)—Medi-
the entire population of 930,00 of this province is being prepared by the Cooperative ComFederation
monwealth
ment
of Premier
recently
elected
T. C. Douglas,
president
the labor-supported
The
Party.
ocratic
is based
on
doctors
on
ial
for
a
govern-
report
of
New Demlegislation
by
a spec-
advisory committee calling
to
payment
of
a system
basis
capita
tion.
fee-for-service
a_
financed
and
taxes
through
general
per
taxa-
by
pow-
purchasing
increased
ployees either in Philadelphia
or at Ware Shoals, to pay for
traveling expenses of workers
that
flag”
rect
Batt
these
of
result
of
“Many
said.
new
these
jobs,”
will
businesses
supporting
in
be
be created or exwhich may
panded
firms
themselves.”
In
ARA
projects,
the
in
involved
service
to
order
in
he said, when
addition,
invests federal funds for
roads
develop
community
a
in-
an
employ-
initial
park,
dustrial
help
to
spurs
railroad
or
ment estimates are based only
locating
are
which
firms
on
there
is
the
at
undertaken,
At a later date,
other
tinued,
project
the
time
Batt
con-
firms
may
move
of
local
unions
at the Region 3 Summer School at Purdue UniCHATTING
t,
versity are Region 3 Director Ray Berndt, right, and his gues
for
scholarship
fifth winner of the UAW
Hamilton,
James
students residing at the Excalibur Club at Purdue.
into the same industrial area
as the result of ARA’s action,
without additional cost to the
government,
lo-
two
federal
was a
on the
was
be-
Lattimore's
said
that
he
takes
with
him
every
good
wish of the regional staff for
success in his new venture.
“In
the
years
that
I have
board
representative
representatives
services,
of
associated
found him
to the
first
deprived
dispute
unions
moved
director
of
1
expressed
his staff
been
have
at To-~-
chairmanship
the
business
board, and
year since,
Re-
that
and
for
appointment, Lattimore
servicing representative
staff of UAW Region 1.
Ken
UAW
chief
huge
The
have
“runaway
has
such public facilities as water
and sewer systems, access roads
the local union and international union levels.
His new duties will include
the mediating of labor disputes
between
is
workers
ican
also
er of workers whose earnings
begin or are increased as a di-
representative,
48,
sen-
pansion of existing plants and
the construction of public facilities essential to creating permanent employment opportun-
the
has been tapped for the Federal Mediation
and
Conciliation Service in the U.S. Department of Labor.
The
official
swearing-in
ceremony is scheduled for Oct.
Lattimore,
of
to
volves Local 80 of the UAW and
the
Gemmer
Manufacturing
Omar cere lone lel
are
William
long-time
levels
in-
right.
such
new
5:45-6:15
QO
of workers
old
to its present
EVE
OPENER
Ge Pat
WCEL,
case
that their
elsewhere.
has ruled
to
You'll find UAW
National
Advisory
building
told
wanted
Jr.,
a
the
sions
Another Federal judge in Detroit
last July
ruled
that
a
company moving from Detroit
WASHINGTON (PAI)—Projects which would provide
more than 10,000 permanent new jobs initially in areas of
chronic and persistent unemployment and underemployment
are now pending before the new Area Redevelopment Administration.
This is the gist of a report
by Administrator William L.
Batt,
their
sion.
10,000 Jobs Seen in Area
Redevelopment Program
More Doctors
right
Company’s
label attached, and provided 24 of the bags as prizes
union
UAW
it
into
Sidele
Court
to reimburse
those
have
suffered
ecoas a result
of
the
NLRB
On
The
Supreme
before
the Teamsters
Kiyett, company president. Looking on are N. B. Williamson, Vyerl Pierce and Cecil Sturdivant,
members helped the company become solThe UAW
members of the bargaining committee.
vent when it got into financial trouble two years ago. It produces the Regalaire bowling bags,
shown
front:
States
the
down
jority in the event
plant
is relocated
An Appellate Court
that
Regal
the
legal
The
Rela-
runaway
the past
months:
On
move.
striking
developments in the
shop situation during
few
in
courts
tions Board are cracking
on runaway plants.
Here
plant and
who
may
nomically
(PAT)
for job rights
"ALIVVGLIOS
WASHINGTON
Growing concern
capable
“I
and
am
his
new
know-how
during
sure
his
organized
with
to be
competent
said
he
will
him
I
a most
per-
bring
to
position
all
of
the
he
has
acquired
many
labor
years
in
movement,”
the
Representatives
Clinic
Richard
of
Gosser,
construction,
Local
12
12
Local
on
The
summer
in
its
Toledo
status
affiliate
camp
at
and
listen
and
other
to
on
a
groups
report
the
representatives
Sand
Lake,
from
progress
Mich,
held
Willys
with the
UAW
founder,
clinic
affill ated
of
the
the
the
adjoining
me eting
Retirees’
during
their
Diagnostic
Vice President
Center now under
Unit
annual
tour
of
the
Tc
aaa
4
1961—Page
PHILADELPHIA—Organized
to eliminate
in the battle
front
SOLIDARITY,
Mazey, the featured speaker
at the conference sponsored by
the Philadelphia AFL-CIO Human Rights Committee and La-
bor Edreation Association, addressed an overflow throng of
labor has taken
UAW
“Organized
to
lead
the
and
gation
every
life,” he
is as it
facet
of views is engaged in by a group of participants at the Labor
EXCHANGE
AN INFORMAL
Conference on Human Rights sponsored early this month by the Philadelphia AFL-CIO Human
Shown above (left to
Rights Committee and Labor Education Association in Philadelphia, Pa.
George
Schermer,
speaker;
the featured
(right) are UAW Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey,
executive director of the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations; James Jones, chairman of the Philadelphia AFL-CIO Human Rights Committee and Ronald Smith, vice-chairman,
on
dry
hardly
was
ink
UAW agreements with American Motors and General Mowere
who
critics
when
tors
choked
ment
lower
announce-
the
by
off
were
“inflation”
to yelp
aching
was going to
that AMC
prices on most of its 1962
cars and GM was going to dip
prices slightly on certain of its
models.
acknowlcompanies’
Two
with
contracts
three-year
any
require
didn’t
UTAW
price increases hardly caus-
for
journal
trade
on
headlined
dealer
was
AMC
a
News,
Automotive
that
tag.
Page
discounts
the
going
1
ident
to reduce
GM
“hold” with
would, generally,
no increases on Pontiacs, Olds-
mobiles and Cadillacs.
On the other hand, The Degone
had
troit News—which
out on its own to label UAW
demands as “inflationary” with
Page
a big, black, eight-column
July
1 headline
edged
14— acknowl-
that prices on some
1962
Chevrolets were going to be $2
to $12 lower with a meek twocolumn
headline
on Page
3
about
Sept. 26. It said nothing
AMC’s lower prices.
But, then, neither did THE
DETROIT
NEWS
put a big
headline
George
over AMC
Romney’s
nouncement
contract his
with
the
flationary,
other
UAW
“is
of
1962
declared, “and this
should be, because
two
years
of
pro-
posed
contract
unless
the
cost-of-living
increases
rise
sharply above the rate of in-
crease in recent
When
Romney
say
that
“as
a
years.”
went on
result
settlement, we will
give our customers
of
to
this
be able to
in 1962 a
had
sighted
since 1955.
for
its
a
target
Busi-
“But it was plain to the
Big Three of GM, Ford and
Chrysler that the union had
at
last
attained
sought goal
mate annual
it
members
Of the AMC settlement,
ness Week said:
its
plan,
‘ong-
of an approxiwage.”
didn’t
as-
Vice Pres-
Seaton]
ref-
profit-
any
doggedly
de-
his stock
ment,”
in the
Reprinted
from
September,
LOS ANGELES —In a comrehard-hitting
prehensive,
port, the California Fair Employment Practice Commission
summed up for Gov. Pat Brown
and the citizens of the state
of
record
impressive
an
achievements during the first
two years of its existence.
The
under
commission was
the provisions
1961.)
labor
UAW
move-
Ammunition,
created
of the
ployment
unions,
agencies.”
said,
em-
and
resented
a major
legislative
victory during the early stage
“Two years of administration
of the Act have begun to pro-
Employment
Practice
which
became
effective
on
Sept. 18, 1959, and which repadministration.
commission’s
report,
informally,
first fair
recalled
employ-
D.
Roosevelt.
that
time—21
states
such laws in one
other.
The California
essence,
have
form
prohibits
origin
for
plus
religion,
or ancestry
commission
an
adopted
or an-
statute,
in
discrimina-
tion in employment
of race,
years
on account
color,
and
educational
national
provides
enforcement
program.
During the first 23 months of
its existence
the
commission
processed
more
than
1,150
duce the kind
hoped for.
of result
this area,” Brown
said, “we
and
corrected
through
conciliation.
“But these case statistics
tell only a fraction of the
story,”
John
Anson
Ford,
fights
labor
“Organized
discrimination on two fronts,”
the suphe said, “through
port it gives to civil rights
pracand fair embloyment
tices legislation on the fedand
levels
state
and
eral
bargaining
the
at
also
tables.”
In
hailed
Mazey
connection,
this
fair
the
employment
rethe
practices policy agreement
cently negotiated between
UAW
Corp.
Motors
American
and
in their history-making
contract.
He praised
spelling
the document
in
out
would
hiring,
In
anti-disthe com-
in the
upgrading,
apprenticeship
his
forth-
specific,
follow
for
areas
layoffs
programs.
address,
Mazey
lashed out at those organibeen
have
which
zations
blaming organized labor for
the hiring policies of employers.
He singled out the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People for its
criticism of labor for actions
which were obviously the sins
of management.
at the hir-
ued discrimination
ing gates.
said,
he
appear,”
would
“Tt
contin-
for
“that some of the organizations dealing with these problems are only concerning them-
selyes with effect of discriminatory employer practices and
its causes.”
with
not
Mazey admitted that some
of the criticism of the labor
and
proper
was
moyement
some
as
justified
inasmuch
were not
much as
doing as much as
they could to end
and
unions
local
segregated
labor
organized
of
segments
discriminatory hiring practices on the part of the em-
ployer.
stressed
official
UAW
The
that unemployment tended to
and
conflict,
racial
sharpen
was
employment
full
that
needed to make the maximum
progress
discord
AFL-CIO
the
that
urged
He
practices.
biased
and
racial
out
wiping
in
Civil Rights Committee develop
a more effective program to
cope with the remaining pockets of resistance in the fight
and
discrimination
end
to
segregation.
Unit Officer Named
*60 Now" Organizer
the
of
steward
chief
C. Pifer,
O.—James
TOLEDO,
unit of Local 12 UAW,
Inc.,
NOW,
SIXTY
of
tive
has been
representa-
national
appointed
Spicer
a
organizanational
non-profit
Social
for
campaigning
tion
amendments
Security
ting
retirement
$100
for each
One
of
ers
of
ing
local
spend
his
now
with
60
plus
a month
dependent.
original
the
the
ganization,
union
$200
of
benefits
at age
permit-
full
group,
time
chapters
to
members
belong.
organiz-
in organiz-
of
which
in
will
Pifer
the
this
or-
many
area
The organization, with head-
here,
quarters
formed chapters
already
has
in many cities
Wirth
for SOLIDARITY
of
Northwestern
Ohio.
now on the road to winning a
strong point for the American
way, with opportunity in employment
fully achieved
for all
Californians.”
In
enumerating
accomplishments
mission
credit
news
other
to
gave
its
the
a great
management,
media,
civil
community
many
com-
deal
rights
labor,
groups
agencies for its successes.
Among
its achievements,
commission
following:
@
The
report
promotion
of
cited
and
and
the
the
of a Negro
@ The first Negro bus operators promoted to supervisory
found
bigotry.
and
of bias
organizations
ers’
employ-
and
management
ing
are
sion
reported,
discriminatory
practices of some
kind
were
discrimination.
In more than
one third of these
cases
already completed, the commis-
its recent convention condemn-
should be one and the same: to
establish a democracy which
evils
adopt
to
“While there is still a tremendous job still to be done in
dining-car waiter to
steward,
representing the first time
a
Negro has held this position in
requests
alleged
at
the labor movement
goal of our country
The UAW official pointed out
that labor pressed forward a
the
on
attack
two-pronged
on
any resolution or statement
the
failure
its
for
task
the
that
emphasized
Conference
Labor
a
weib
WA
I had
for
job
complaints
and
investigation
of
profit.”
and
greed
of
the
goal
and
and
Act
Fair
Mazey
of
“in keeping with the intent
the
and
of the legislature
wish,
express
Governor’s
much of the work of FEPC
has been educational aimed
at voluntary compliance by
employers,
selfish
UAW
to
own
for their
workers
exploit
pany
chairman,
commission
tion are the twin tools of division used by employers to
the
language
right
crimination policies
Goy. Brown, in commenting
upon the progress made in employment practices under
the
FEP Act, commented:
ago—21
Other business publications,
however, did indicate that with
the signing of its 1961 agreements with AMC and GM, the
reached
G.
of
door
the
open
California FEPC Scores
Gains During First 2 Years
Since
sumer.
had.
sharing
Franklin
better product value than we
have heretofore,” The Detroit
News
did
not
headline
this
brighter prospect for the con-
UAW
[GM
18,
Newsweek
Then,
Sept.
said:
“TRIUMPH: The result was
for
victory
stunning
a
he
has
only
Not
Reuther.
giant step toward his longrange goal of a guaranteed
annual wage — and boosted
ment practices
vehicle
was
launched in July, 1940 at the
instigation of
President
the
the
Reuther’s
er’s original proposal to improve wages, welfare and job
security benefits as a ‘substantial’ one.”
wedged
segrega-
and
“We cannot have a first class
country as long as we have
second class citizens,” he added.
automak-
giant
the
scribed
American
of
life,
~8710"
dis-
and
NAACP
for none.
profit-sharing; more fundaa
taken
has
he
mentally,
GM,
the
blocking
consider
to
said:
industry,
under
rendered
that the
the
or
the
The
non-in-
from
of
of Brown’s
Aug. 26 an-
that
the
new
firm had signed
either
standpoint
President
he
where
11, Newsweek
Louis
used
fact
that
and
Sept.
sault. Seaton
industry,
at
won
something
it —
win
said:
that will pretty closely resemble an annual wage for
hourly workers.”
summed
Newsweek
reports
up business attitudes.
flinch
weekly
the
—
Motors
to
had
back
with
improvement
“inflationary”
the
General
had
Reuther]
settleWal-
President
[UAW
P.
ter
magazine
the same
“He
GM
the
reporting
“SCRIMMAGE:
steel-shouldered
ed a ripple in Detroit's daily
newspapers, ordinarily so
UAW
any
to plaster
eager
eontract
ment,
new
their
that
edgment
In
in
discrimination
fore-
nation’s
our
also took
He
guarantees equal opportunities
for all and special privileges
Critics Silenced on ‘Inflation’
As Auto Firms Reduce Prices
The
segre-
out
wipe
discrimination
SS
social
and
civic
and yarious
agencies.
groups
labor
from
delegates
of
told
Mazey
this month.
Emil
early
Secretary-Treasurer
Human Rights, here
to the
of segregation
patterns
segment
every
almost
in
crimination
advanced
has
labor
$e
October,
Fight Against Bias
the history
road.
posts
tems.
in two
of a California rail-
major
transit
sys-
@ The first Negroes
to
be
hired as route drivers by several dairy companies,
‘And
I Will
Not
Run
for
—Clft
President
in
1964’
ao:
ot
'¢
iqok
toed
vol
Highlights
of New
POINTS
under discussion at the “big table” are carefully analyzed by Ken Bannon
President Walter P. Reuther.
Ford Department, and UAW
director of the UAW
(left),
SOLIDARITY
UAWFord
SOME
POINTS
IN NEW
UAW-FORD
They
Altogether
cane
AGREEMENT—
Progress
Spell Major
Economics
16c-19c
@
Hourly Rate Up
@
Another 12c Into Base Rate
®
Keep
@
Fully-Paid Health Program
Living Cost Protection
e@ Health Care
Care
@
Health
@
Lifelnsurance
Increases
°
SUBenefit
°
Short Week
Protection
e@ Pensions Rise To
®
New
Pay Upped
e@ Separation
For Retirees
°
Higher Jury Pay
Up $1,500
2
Steelworkers
Seniority Protection
®
More
@
Smoother
@
Outside Contracting
@
Workers’
Grievance
Records
Procedure
$2.80
Allowance
Moving
For Unemployed
Working
New
@
Act
FEPC
On
Incentive
Clause
Demarcation
° Tailgate Won
@
Notice
On
Overtime
Deere
Pacts
Conditions
®
UAW-
Lines
SUB Changes Lift Benefit Rate,
Remove Siting of Short Week
Ford
workers,
tl
fi
INCENTIVE
jual
benefit
on
the
rates
hourly
Ken
director
Ford depart-
1ourly
economic
anteed
inch
a
of
the
ediately
rates,
true
guar-
1 wage!”
ed
months
to
VIRGINIA
Newly
—which
60
It is expected
“averace”
Ford
benefit
of
will
take-home
equal
North
that for the
worker
this
about
pay.
workers
that
Carolina—states
outlaw
payment
Same
75%
week
of
compensation
A Vi
1
who
has
earns
paid
$2.80
as
Wase
<=
3rd
Rate
come
and
follows:
Fund
6th
ployment
—
No
be
A
special
benefit
bined
SUB
equal
“levelling
to
amounts
and
Ford
of
line
result
around
workers
of
with
a
so
laid
off
seniority
called
layoff.”
as
The
loan
clause
from
when
essary.
any
seniority
With
the
worker
rate
hours
ges
of
of
an
works
$89.60,
$104.16
hour
a
for
if
(except
four-
refor
his
a
his
becomes
nec-
notice,
commitieemen
can
now
thoroughly
examine
the
need for the deviation and
negotiate
with
supervision
on the proper method of the
loan.
during model
overs and
uations in
ceive
the
to-
short
scheduled”
benefit.)
change-
other limited sitwhich he will re-
50
per
cent
short
If he works
time
short
work
from
stock
orde
lost
three
after
weeks
Ford
(resulting
mechanical
difficulties,
short
cancellation of
etc.)
workers
will be
Come
Director
massive
Ken
display
But
negotiating
tees
in all
job
also.
UAW
Ford
85
commit-
units
locals
Their
of
were
the
on
important
diction.
he
figuratively
to the horiwords
of
UAW
ust a few
local
matters
CAW
ed
democracy
locally—and
it worked
Because
record
minutes
all
says
should
it’s
of
that’s
be
L
own
purely
resoly-
impossible
the
lay-
regula-
will be paid benefits,
them,
but
of insufficient
they
Workers
will
even
jobs
still can
because
which
in
the
cannot
be
if
plant
qualify
seniori-
paid
they
to remain
from
bene-
accept
or
laid off rath-
unemployment
are
the
compen-
sation
because
they
received
military terminal leave pay or
because
they
ernment
sation
them
are
which
they
Workers
will
if
they
matically
pension
they
on
paid
were
collect
retired
were
started
a
Sunday
Workers
auto-
without
benefits
reduced
because
whose
fraction
paid
a
of
full
shift
receive
full
remaining
credit units entitle them
a
pre-
midnight
will
benefits.
bene-
been
whose
to
working.
benefits.
Workers
viously
compen-
were
have
gov-
disability
or workmen’s
while
fits
receiving
pensions,
benefits,
found
to only
benefit
will
benefit.
in
all
bargaining,
be
sets
the
of
Ford
local
worker
and his wife (as they study
the nationally-won gains re-
ported
all
here)
the
again
earlier.
the
their
should
gains
and
add
in
improve-
negotiators.
They'll
quickly
realize
this
is the year the spirit of the 30s
hear
seen
off work-
ments
chalked
up as a result of the work of his local
plant maas they t
gained, as
sented
the major
s
of
workers
they'd
the
task:
finding answers to the
many
working
condition
problems
within their juris-
nds
ms best
y could
57
its
Laid
terms of the UAW-Ford agreement.
Workers will collect benefits
even
if they are disqualified
“a
plant
it or a We
y plant — knew
workers.
other
union
3
more
er than take a job they
permitted to refuse under
teamwork
a Kansas
but,
elimination
the
compensation
ty.
on the plant floor.”
GAINS
WIDESPREAD
Mich.,
generous,
perform
for
Four or 500 union bargainers
working for the good and welfare of 120,000 men and women
back
bene-
at ‘Big Table"
Bannon,
of
new
reporting
jobs offered
days
in unscheduled
Credit Locals - —
All Successes Didn't
in-
even if at the time of layoff or
recall they are unable to work
on their regular jobs, or other
week
(24
hours),
his
benefit
of
$29.12 will
bring his total income for the
week to $86.32.
For
(24
be
to $89.60.
the
of
Workers
“un-
work
only
days
will
total
week
more
many
ment
tions.
not
veek
results
from
a
ement
decision
to
schedule him for fewer hours
been
to
choose
at $2.80
who
short
vary from state to state because of differing unemploy-
regular
week {
ours) will
ve a benefit
of $14.56
ek in addition to
tal
deviation
advance
e
a
improved
calling
for
advance notice to committeemen
A
work
off may thereafter report by
mail, though procedures will
will
EXAMPLE
“turn
has
result
fits,
out
Loaning Is
Improved
a
ers
from
the
“waitwill be paid
regu-
of $100.80.
his
For example:
SUB
workers
of
their
FOR BENEFITS
are
much
paid
when
Ford
week of few-
pay for all
up to 40.
ployment
compensation
in
ing week period”,
to
com-
due
65%
of
sd
week”
the
unem
paid
hours,
short
time
of many “fishhooks” from the
old
agreement,
they
will
be
Unem-
Compensation.
40
the
for the
only
as
SHORT WORK WEEK
BENEFITS
than
the same
unscheduled
Not
fits
ith Week—$112.88 from SUB
Fund
And so on through the full
period of lay off.
er
paid
be
will
draw
QUALIFYING
SUB
from
$32.00
In
any
week
schedules a work
week
at
bringing
come
Unemploy-
112.88
—
required
work
short
work week of three
hours)
his benefit
will
from
tion.
Week
an
$22.40
Week
$32.00
Con
Weel
be
for the week
In
the
hour,
Week—$72.44
Fund
4th
ment
Sth
40.|
of
$2.80 per hour wage rate who
works four days
(32 hours)
during the week will be paid
$11.20 giving him a total in-
nd Week—$72.44 from SUB
Benefit
work-
dependents
an
Waiting
not
If the short work week is
“unscheduled” a worker at a
for exam-
two
rate
EXAMPLE
SUB.
ia worker,
not
for
base
unemployment
and
pay
week.
which
during
will
workers
lar
paid
N.C.
in Virginia
hours
Benefits
previously
AND
all
for
apply
regular
maximum
a
to
up
the
automatically,
negotiated provisions
to date have been in-
protect
for
benefits.
cluded only in the UAW-Ford
agreement — will more amply
four
of
Workers
preceding
as was
50%
pay
rated
Ind
al benefit rates
to ine
e work
lated to their “aver
ings” rather than to their
Bannon,
he UAW’s
wage
current
the
of
will
highest
s
t
paid
WORKERS
way
to
answers
inspired
That’s
when
marily
in
joined
a
men
industrial
depressing
search
The
ing
fact
...
women
unions
necessary.
conditions
remedied
of
had
that
UAW.
and
working
Automation
return
the
ans
rs
to
made
such
conditions.
so many
promise
plus
pri-
the
fact
workto
be
that
autoworke
are
now
within
hailing distance of a guaranteed annual wage or salaried
status
...
will
Ford bargaining
tory books
put
1961
into
the
UAW-
his-
AFTER THE LONG, HARD PULL, victory came: Top photo, the UAW
Standing, left to right, John
National Ford Negotiating Committee.
Robert
chairman;
Prato,
Gene
Bishop,
Garcia, James
Alex
Galvin,
Kirb
am
President
Second
Local
Local
baby.
919
400
Third
Fishman;
Walter
row:
strike
picket
row:
ted,
Reuther,
Ford
Ford
Council
ortside
Local
and
gets
Ross
meets
assembly
551
Dorosh,
Walter
the
Doyle
Baldwin,
Harold
Prat
behind
Ford
to
Reilly.
plant
at
for
Director
agreement.
study
Highland
ready
Ford
Williams,
Norfolk,
Park
strike
Va.
plant
against
An
Carl
Ken
Stellato
Bannon,
Members
of
hat
on
unidentified
admires
Ford’s
Chicago
et ee,
%. rate!
oY ST
Nene
eeseseeeay
st
are
ie
5
Mazey
Report OF SECRETARY IREASURER EMIL
This
is
a
report
of
our
semi-annual
audit
of
financial records of the
ternational Union, UAW
the
six-month
June 30,
Clarence
fied
ending
1961, conducted by
H. Johnson, Certi-
Public
Total
period
the
Infor
Accountant.
RESOURCES
Resources
of the In-
ternational Union as of June
20, 1961, amounted to $57,752,878.17.
crease
of
December
This
is
$9,214,303.33
31,
1960
an
when
since
Total Resources amounted
$48,538,574,84.
in-
our
to
LIABILITIES
Liabilities as of June 30,
1961,
amounted
to
$544,-
909,29
represented
paid Bills and
Capita Taxes
CIO
and
Congress,
tions and
NET
by
Un-
Accounts, Per
to the AFL-
Canadian
Labour
Payroll
DeducExchanges,
WORTH
Net Worth, which represents the excess of Resources
over Liabilities, amounted to
$57,207,968.88 as of June 30,
This is an increase of
1961.
$9,082,706.58
ber 31, 1960
Worth
262.30.
Decemour Net
since
when
to $48,125,-
amounted
Included in our Net Worth
Liquid Assets of $44,were
297,636.55
in
and
and
Banks
Loan
and
on
(Cash
Hand
Savings
U.S.
Associations,
and
Bonds
Government
Notes, Dominion of Canada
Bonds,
Debenture
GMAC
of
Certificates
and
3onds
and Other Assets
Deposit)
of
$13,455,241.62
Suilding
Union
ments
in
tures,
Vehicles,
Corporation,
(Invest-
Furniture,
Fix-
610,197.79,
INVESTMENT INCOME
Interest and dividend income from investments for
the first six months of 1961
from
$161,866.49
Notes;
Banks and Savings and Loan
$25,478.10
A ssociations;
Mortgages
Notes and
from
from
Receivable; and $496.25
GENERAL
The
469.30
LIQUID ASSI
30,
Liquid
1961,
297,636.55,
Assets
as
amounted
an
Mort-
of
to
increase
June
$44,-
of
$7,687,438.76 since December 31, 1960 when our Liquid
agreements.
bargaining
tive
Supplies
Receivable,
gages
for Resale and Stocks).
and
with
companies
has collecUAW
in
Stocks
which the
1961
General
FUND
Fund
of
Assets
as
which
is an
$1,426,199.28
of
1960
31,
cember
General
amounted
During
ending
made
Fund
the
et
<
increase
since
when
Deour
Liquid
Assets
six
months
$3,689,270.02,
to
June
June
$5,1
to
amounting
shows
30,
1961,
expenditures
we
of
Region
our
on
$146,475.53
Headquarters in Chicago.
We made additional loans
Health Asto Community
4
STRIKE
Strike
Our
30,
as of June
Fund
1961
amount-
of
This
$6,238,-
31,
Strike Fund
1960 when our
amounted to $32,390,845.17.
pe-
six-month
the
During
riod ending June 30, 1961,
we made strike expenditures
totaling
which
given
strike
the
local
unions
rep-
also
made
loans
from
69
Strike
amount
of
this
plants.
Fund
$1,091,000
Metropolitan
ing
was
assistance
to 57
resenting
We
from
$2,080,065.09
period.
in
Hospital
MEMBERSHIP
monthly
Average
to
com1,008,187
was
1961
pared to 1,136,140 for the
calendar year 1960, a deaverage
crease of 127,953
dues-paying members.
We currently have 124,000
who
privileges
without
enjoy
the
of dues.
In the
this
of
be
cers
in
the
membership
full
hands
of your
in
local
are available for
of any member of
I urge
you
payment
future
near
report
retired
are
members
and
(Liquid)
December
since
995.01
of
FUND
increase
an
is
amount
$38,629,840.18.
to
ed
the
in
sociation
$100,000.
and
follows:
as_
received
Wwe
$703,271.33 from Bonds and
Liquid
Notes
to $891,112.17
amounted
Accounts
Receivable,
$36,-
to
amounted
Assets
to
of
copies
detail
the
union
will
offiand
the study
the Union,
study
this
report carefully so that you
may become better acquaint-
ed with the financial strucof our
functions
ture and
Union,
submitted,
tespectfully
the
Bail Whats
dur-
dues-
paying membership for the
first six months of the year
International
Secretary-Treasurer
INTERNATIONAL UNION
UNITED AU TO MOBILE,
& AGRICULAIRCRAFT
IMPLEMENT
TURAL
WORKERS OF AMERICAU.A.W.
for the six months ended
What
1961
830,
JUNE
Had on Hand
UAW
$16,496,427.90
15,951.850.00
10,000.00
127,000.00
6,512,358.65
5,200,000.00
175,493.72
$13,664.23
2,897.776.27
56,125.35
607,233.89
8,883,131.10
21'817.06
Cash on Hand and in Banks ....
U. S. Government Bonds ......
Dominion
Bonds
of Canada
State of Israel Bonds ..........
GMAC Debenture Bonds
Certificates of Deposit
.
Accounts Receivable .
Mortgages Receivable
Notes Receivable ...........
Inventories—Supplies for Resale..
Furniture, Fixtures and Vehicles
Land and Buildings .....
Stocks
ae
:
ii AN
Finances at a Glance
UAW
Hitbow Atiies sale aaa
Trustees
i
a;
SS
;
International Executive
Board
International Union
United Automobile, Aircraft
& Agricultural Implement
Workers of America-
U.A.W.
8000 East Jefferson
Detroit 14, Michigan
Gentlemen:
UAW
tee
Seana
AFL-CIO
AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department
Canadian Labour Congress .......
Accounts and Bills Unpaid .........
Payroll Deductions and Exchanges
$
..
...
$
What
UAW
Members
Own
Free
of
Debt.
128,107.28
18,944.74
6,234.00
93,602.27
298,021.00
STATEMENT
544,909.29
LIABILITIES
AND
NET
WORTH
June 30,
1961
June
Cash on Hand
1961
and
30,
in Banks .....0.0000.......... $16,496,427.90
U.S. Government
December 31,
1960
December
1960
PSECHIETLIES 1 5.0 .ccccss0esnseads 15,951,850.00
Dominion of Canada Bonds
10,000.00
24,172,162.50
10,600.00
—8,220,312.50.
—
Certificates of Deposit ........_
1,535,000.00
3,665,000.00
Debenture
Bonds....
6,512,358.65
State of Israel Bonds ........
Accounts Receivable ..
127,000.00
175,493.72
Mortgages
Notes
Receivable
Receivable
-
................
Inventory—Supplies
for
Jin) re
Furniture, Fixtures and
“pie
eee
Union Building Corporation
RSA
oon pace cscteg enon
Union Building Corporation
See RAA
|.
eee ae
Stocks in Corporations ......
2,473,514.90
5,200,000.00
27,000.00
178,970.73
813,664.23
829,662.33
2,897,776.27
1,732,970.51
—
—
1,164,805.76
613,079.03
8,767,875.85
8,392,200.32
375,675.53
115,255.25
21,817.06
115,255.25
21,463.56
—
353.50
Total Resources
...$57,752,878.17
TAADTNCS 5s
0a oct eneevenare
544,909.29
$48,538,574.84
413,312.54
$§
$48,125,262.30
$ 9,082,706.58
Minus
(—)
orc co.
denotes
cocccsassence $57,207,968.88
11,350.03
—
5,845.14
9,214,303.33
131,596.75
June
1961
30,
December
1960
$ 3,689,270.02
32,390,845.17
15,817.22
17,636.96
$44,297,636.55
$36,610,197.79
denotes
INVENTORIES:
Supplies for Resale .............000-
—
44,729.06
20,129.23
302,359.70
218,868.55
Increase
—Decrease
$ 1,426,199.28
6,238,995.01
25,693.46
—
7,445.60
9,095.46
1,845.09
12,607.27
19,551.21
—
$ 7,687,438.76
red figures
Comparison of Strike Fund Resources
June
1961
30,
December
1960
31,
$ 1,151,395.77
15,345,032.13
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;
{|
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5
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|
$16,496,427.90) 1,
$10,318,412.50
5,633,437.50
10,000.00
127,000.00
6,512,358.65
5,200,000.00
|
27,801,208.65F a at
$44,297,636.55 FG
36,941.50
133,185.15
5,367.07
ae
813,664.23 | ob
2,897,776.27 [ved
56,125.35 |cas!
$ 1,629,018.98
7092.72
$ 1,656,111.70
ue 1048'877.81
607,233.89
PROPERTIES:
Union Building Corporation—U.S.A. . . $ 8,767,875.85
°"415'955.25
Union Building Corporation—Canada _”
_ 8,883,131.10
LESS—Reserves
OTHER
for Depreciation
INVESTMENTS:
Increase
—Decrease
Cash and Investments ......$38,629,840.18
Notes Receivable ................
1,674,710.00
$32,390,845.17
583,710.00
$ 6,238,995.01
1,091,000,00
$40,304,550.18
$32,974,555.17
$ 7,329,995.01
CURRENT LIABILITIES:
$
Accounts and Bills Unpaid ....
AFL-CIO Per Capita Taxes ..
Industria] Union Department
AFL-CIO Per Capita Taxes ............
Canadian Labour Congress
Per Capita sTaxed 27.ieteuysisccvsovtsesven
Payroll Deductions and Exchanges .....
Total
Liabilities
93,602.27
128,107.28
18,944.74
6,234.00
298,021.00
$
.............:.000
544,909.29
NET WORTH
NET WORTH REPRESENTED BY EXCESS OF RESOURCES OVER
LIABILITIES ALLOCATED AS FOLLOWS:
Represented by Liquid Assets:
...$ 5,115,469.30
General Fund
38,629,840.18
International Strike Fund
41,510.68
Citizenship Fund
10,191.36
Education Fund .........
Fair Practices and
—35,633.60
Anti-Discrimination Fund
21,974.32
Recreation Fund. .........
314,966.97
Retired Members Fund ..
$44,297,636.55
199,317.34
Councils Fund
Represented by Other Assets:
Genera] Fund ........
International Strike Fund
Total
Net
$11,235,622.33
1,674,710.00
TOTAL LIABILITIES
NET WORTH
MINUS
(—)
denotes
red
12,910,332.33
$57,207,968.88
Worth
AND
figures.
!
21,817.06 | 0)
$57,752,878.17
neem
nee
Stocks
7.6
175,493.72
ae
FIXED ASSETS:
Furniture and Fixtures
Vehicles and Equipment
‘
‘
5
LIABILITIES
des
atl
RECEIVABLE
1
€
:
LIABILITIES
31,
General Fund ......................$ 5,115,469.30
Strike Fund ...... ;
. 38,629,840.18
Citizenship Fund
41,510.68
Education Fund
—
10,191.36
Fair Practices and AntiDiscrimination Fund .—
35,633.60
Recreation Fund ................
21,974.32
Retired Members Fund
314,966.97
Councils Fund ............-:..0
199,317.34
(—)
=‘
AND
Assets
RECEIVABLE
€
‘A’
....
red figures
Comparison of Fund Balances
Minus
NOTES
15,998.10
607,233.89
UTNE NE
MORTGAGES
100,000.00
3,477.01
44,775.32
Liquid
30, 1961
EXHIBIT “B” — Statement of Cash Receipts and
ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE:
Miscellaneous Advances .....
Rotating Funds
Local Unions for Supplies and
Literature 25... cit toraete
4,038,843.75
56,125.3.
PONE
Total
—Decrease
$ 8,103,907.51
Debentures
Certificates of Deposit
Increase
$ 8,392,520.39
GMAC
Corporation
Increase
—Decrease
31,
bilities June
INVESTMENT SECURITIES— (Cost):
U.S. Government Securities—
Bonds and Certificates
of Indebtedness
Federal Land Bank Loans
Dominion of Canada Bonds
State of Israel Bonds
General Motors Acceptance
Comvarison of Total Resources
as a re-
ment of Resources and Lia-
RESOURCES
OF
and
EXHIBIT “A” — State
ASSETS
CASH ON HAND AND IN BANKS:
Demand Deposits ....
Time Deposits
$57,207,9638.88
...................
1961,
Exhibit
Owes
Per Capita Taxes
30,
sult thereof the following
have
statements
financial
been prepared:
Avenue
In accordance with your
instructions, a detailed examination has been made of
the Cash Receipts and Disbursements of the
$57,752,878.17
What
June
q
$57,752,878.17
Statement of Resources and
Liabilities of the
INTERNATIONAL UNION
UNITED AUTO MOBILE,
AIRCRAFT
& AGRICULTURAL
IMPLEMENT
WORKERS OF AMERICA-
De nents, Six Months
ine 30, 1961
thir
“Cc”
Funds,
—
Six
ae 30, 1961
State-
Months
“B-1"—
Receipts,
ZDULE
i i of Fund
: of Fund Disburseended
Six Months
TIFICATE—
International
of. the
the
making
a de-
accounting
records
of
the International Union and
other supporting evidence by
methods and to the extent
deemed appropriate.
In my opinion, the accompanying
six months ended June 30,
1961; have reviewed the system of internal control and
the
accounting
procedures
1961
))1 examined
tested
as of June 30, 1961, and the
Statement of Cash Receipts
and Disbursements for the
“B-2”—
BDULE
without
tailed audit of all the transactions, have-~ examined
or
U.A.W.
30,
June
ths ended
and,
Statement
of
and Liabilities and
Statement of Cash
present
fairly the position of
the
Union
and
the
ing
principles
applied
as of June 30, 1961, and
result of its operations
the
preceding
year.
U.A.W.
30,
1961,
months
generally
the
for
truly
Very
ended
in conformity
accepted
basis consistent
June
with
account-
with
on
a
that of
yours,
php
Disbursements
INTERNATIONAL
six
Re-
sources
related
Receipts
UNITED
AUTOMOBILE,
AIRCRAFT
& AGRICULTURAL
IMPLEMENT
WORKERS OF AMERICA-
=
Certified
UNION
Public
Accountant
;
Exhibit
STATEMENT
OF
‘C’
FUNDS
GENERAL FUND:
Balance—December 31, 1960 ................ $ 3,689,270.02
Add—Outstanding Checks Cancelled ..
2,271.67
Adjusted
BM
yVy
py
Y
isry
AUDITS
|
Citizenship
$ 8,410,715.21
Education Fund
Fair Practices and
Anti-Discrimination
Fund
Recreation Fund ..............
Retired Members Fund
Councilse und Gancnssss
Sale of Investment
Pt
$39,793,639,.78
Together
General
Hund
International
Citizenship
Education
Fair
Strike
Fund
Fund
Fund
Practices
and
Anti-Discrimination
tecreation
Fund
Retired Members
Councils Fund
Fund
Total
$ 9,196,181.69
2/080,065.09
277,461.84
189,319.26
scrisssccaciversncesess
..............
Fund
..
Disbursements
Purchase of Investment Securities—
U.S, Governnient Bonds and
Certificates of Indebtedness
State of Israel Bonds .........::s+ee00++
Genera]
Motors
Corporation
Certificates
TOTAL
CASH
ON
Acceptance
Debentures
of Deposit
...
sec
DISBURSEMENTS
HAND—June
30, 1961
PRACTICES
1961
30,
.........605
318,972.52
277,461.84
41,510.68
ke
17,636.96
400.00
18,036.96
181,473.66
RECREATION
199,510.62
189,319.26
10,191.36
...cccercersseereereee
........c::sccseerseeereeene
1961
60,491.22
15,762.16
$
51,395.76
—
.cecceseererseree
3
..............5
Balance—December 31, 1960
0
Add—Outstanding Checks Cancelled ..
S
20,1
Adjusted Balance—December 31, 1960 $
ee 60,491.22
AGdU—RECEIPES vrssccccssesssereeserseneesseceeatenenss
.ccccceesssrserreserecreeeass
80,668.95
$
58,694.63
21,974.32
30, 1961 wisssserseresersseeees
MEMBERS
FUND:
31,
Less—Disbursements
;
...
1960
.....ccsecssseeeseerererrerss
314,966.97
Balance—June 30, 1961
COUNCILS FUND:
Balance—December
Add—Receipts
$16,496,427.90
Sel
35,633.60
st
FUND:
Add—Receipts
23,297,211.88
g
44, 129.06
.$—
31, 1960.
30,
Balance—December
4,038,843.75
4'800,000.00
16,516.42
302,456.10
ANTI-DISCRIMINATION FUND:
AND
Balance—December
RETIRED
2,288,750.00
100,000.00
“
15,817.22
699.20
....-csssscrceessseeeeeeees
Disbursements.
Balance—June
., $12,069,618,13
- 38,629,840.18
Rise
in the
EDUCATION FUND:
Balance—December 31, 1960 .............-. $
Add—Outstanding Checks Cancelled ..
Adjusted Balance—December 31, 1960$
Less—DisburseMent
51,395.76
58,694.63
47,883.95
168,615.91
Fund
2,080,065.09
Balance—June 30, 1961 ...
Balance—June
31,382,924.57
........
$40,709,905.27
........
Add—Receipts
10,509,062.50
| OU0;00
sLoo
LESS—DISBURSEMENTS:
14,775.45
Can
Checks
Less—Disbursements
.
$32,390,845.17
..
1960
31,
Adjusted Balance—December 31, 1960$
AGU—RECEIPES ...:...ccesseresccosvesecsseceersonrsesre
$
Less—Disbursements
FAIR
Securities—
RECEIPTS
FUND:
Amount
allocated to International Strike Fund
$1,674,710.00
Balance—June
$19,738,862.07
U.S. Government Bonds and
Certificates of Indebtedness
Certificates of Deposit .....
TOTAL
STRIKE
Less
60,491.22
60,491.22
60,491.22
149,064.70
Receipts
Fund
Total
INTERNATIONAL
Add—Receipts
8,304,284.65
302,456.10
181,473.66
Fund
30, 1961
CITIZENSHIP FUND:
Balance—December 31, 1960
Add—Outstanding Checks Cancel
...$10,620,109.30
General Fund) .............:c000008
International Strike Fund
$ 5,115,469.36
........cccsveecceseeres
Balance—June
of
‘B’
1960
ADD—RECEIPTS:
Less—Disbursements
Balance—June 30, 1961
*_Does Not Include Notes Receivable
ciate
31,
10,620,109.30
$14,311,650.99
9,196,181.69
Less—Disbursements
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS
CASH ON HAND—December 31, 1960 ..... $ 8,392,520.39
ADD—Outstanding Checks Cancelled .......
18,194.82
Balance—December
196C $ 3,691,541.69
Adjusted Balance—December 31, 1960 $32,405,620.62
8,304,284.65
AGG—RECEIPES cevccccsctssecsecssassenssesccsscessedsers
erst
Adjusted
31,
25 ccspsvesseressazecsssssense-nveverss
Add—Outstanding
JAN, 1, 196I- JUNE ,30,1I961
Exhibit
AGd— Receipts
Balance—December
REPORT
a
Balance—December
31,
1960
1
367,$
__168,615,91
Less—Disbursements ....:+:01:++4 SC TETAGiNiss
Balance—June 30, 1961 vsscsssesserssrsesereers
GRAND
TOTAL
MINUS
(—)
ALL
FUNDS
assesses
denotes red figures,
7
APONTE,
$44,297,636,59
Schedule ‘B-2’
GENERAL
SUMMARY
FUND:
OF
DISBURSEMENTS
DEPARTMENTS:
Office of the President ..........cccceeeee $
Office of the Secretary-Treasurer ........
Office of the Vice-Presidents:
Gosser ......0..
Greathouse
Matthews ..
:
S
:
4
80,857.05
Council
Auditing .....
Auto Lite
Bendix ..........
a
6,913.23
134,199.40
18,623.91
7,744.75
By-Laws
.........+
re
7,306.89
Chrysler
.........
a
81,200.86
13,633.80
Competitive Shop
Dana Corporation
95,224.55
17,734.38
.
Relations
.............
Council
13,155.45
7,329.90
12,761.92
ores
crctests
Castings
Foundry ..
General and Administrative .
General Motors ............:.00:00
eens
es..as,ssceceistenpcestieeet
ty
Readmission
Fees
$
Rentals
Dividends on Stocks
..
Advances
..
Receivable
Mortgages
Notes Receivable ...
and
TOA
Credit
se
Strike
Interest on Investments
Misce
Iscellaneous
aa
INCOME
isa
oi
«.
...cereccssserserrecssersecees
Women’s
$10,620,109.30
RECREATION FUND:
Per
Capita
PRPTIP
ames
Pier’ Capita
General
P
92
joe
426.969.93
3.
ae
202,351.23
217,498.52
ial
213,854.59
=
2
8,304,284.65
302,456.10
FUND:
In
2
and
Council
er Capita Taxes essoeensneeeensseecenn
iternational Harvester Umpire and
Council
Per
Capita
Taxes .......c:cccc0000
ees
fle Or i an Research Bureau
OED
Retired
SITOIE
7
Members
Council—
onoeek gins
tptcdnaera
Regions 1 and 1-A o......ccssssssseie Bs
RT,‘ots6)
GRAND
TOTAL
ee leah
era Ren
RECEIPTS
Fc
.osecscsccessssresarsoos
tee
Ee
167,178.76
217,101.81
164,930.38
243,574.60
24,009.95
TOTAT-
ASSET
EXPENDITURES
bana
...... $
:
.
:
Union Building Corporation—USA
Investments—Stocks ........
See
:
Notes Receivable .......
Miscellaneous Advances .........
Rotating Funds .............
Mortgages Receivable .......
TOTAL
he
FROM
EXPENDITURES
OTHER
(PAYABLES):
FUND
GENERAL
~
and
Payroll
GENERAL
FUND
Exchanges
42,339.05
32,372.10
TOTAL
EDUCATION
FAIR
14,323.27
—_——-—
7
149,064.70
$19,738,862.07
m=
=
FUND
at
PRACTICES
.....
AND
FUND
TOTAL
a
ANTI-
ea
..
__ 370.394 23
.
c
$ Bante
as eg
He
080,069.
277,461.84
j:
ae
51,395.76pe
Sree
:
4 (000.90
__ 168,615.91
$12,069,618.13
DISBURSEMENTS
ee
Be
189,319.26
FUND .
RETIRED
COUNCILS MEMBERS
FUND
cccccccssssmece,
GRAND
370,882.697
-™
DISCRIMINATION FUND
RECREATION
193,825.28
353.50
100,000.00
Zee
13,142.30
36,000.00
......
Deductions
STRIKE FUND. FUND . . . . . 4.
CITIZENSHIP
9,994.43
.
ieee
ie
.....:::secc1sseoreseee
EXPENDITURES
ASSET
2.973 877.88
_ $ 8,454,904.77
FROM
GENERAL FUND:
17,393.38
9
REGIONS
eee)
3
‘
TOTAL DEPARTMENTS AND REGIONS ....
60,491.22
32,642.47
$ 5,481,026.89
155,699.27
181,473.66
60,491.22
Umpire
Motors
......:0.0::::210
aa
524.50
oe
2) cicocsosscenedsiosne
sceceteeerees
ae
Zin
60,491.22
os
97,648.81
166,422.68
ee ees css cxteaattics
Teta
a
...
DEPARTMENTS
454.684.28
1
steno eines
ciel
eee
a BCR
ARS scares civeercesectertetaruytoncpne
la
COUNCILS FUND:
Chrysler Umpire and Council
Pari Cani
© Capita Taxes net
ct cativeeso $
Ford Umpire and Council
pee
3,908.25
FAIR PRACTICES AND ANTIDISCRIMINATION FUND:
rae ee
25,827.30
1
_
(ayia
9152.00
104,384.82
aaa
$11,451.40
|
47,126.67
"
+
Per’ Capita Taxes 6a
s tess ce seecentores
Ber
TOTAL
REGIONS:
j
1,076.56
690,802.67
Payroll Taxes—Employees
A
}
ween
Per Capita Taxes .......
cccpro cenaceasastescgsbocieeton
se
24,098.76
Employees’
397,879.38
|
7,476.83
.......
Auxiliary
|
|
yadU.
31.219.66
Union Building
Expense
Benefits .....
CITIZENSHIP FUND:
EDUCATION FUND:
Per Capital ares
286,645.58
113,684.07
eae
Trustees
51,998.10
$ 7,488,400.50
...
Dues
Fund
23,433.47
Women’s Department
2,762.91
Per Capita Taxes ...
Supply
Workmen’s Coupensat
Weterine
Washington Office ...
14,000.00
INTERNATIONAL STRIKE FUND:
30,786.67
382,209.84
25,478.10
14,102.56
ee
.
....
Unemployment and
26,194.24
Sco aos lausstptean tetas
and
61,192.17
590,732.44
Public Review Board
UAW
41,208.06
Te
263,714.45
Radio). sicccse tertecrsste
Research and Engineering
eos ee
a
ocia
curity ...
Special
Projects
and Economic
UAW
53,686.42
Memos
Purchase
|
7,975.48
7,011.97
Spring Council
496.25
Rotating Fund Advances ..
Exchanges
:
4,370.00
ane
:
Aircraft ..
Organizing Department
Relations
Public
228.00
18,453.92
33,802.71
30,772.30
.
.
Office Workers ......
1,338.00
Interest on Mortgages and Notes
arene
Receivable
...........00...-Miscellaneous Income ....
National
National
mest
....
Interest on Investments
40,963.06
85,839.17
General Motors Umpire Department ....
soci vetonensdprisersertecksosht stan
Deepal = i recastotccccucsst
McQuay-Norris, Walker and Houdaille
|
a
30,350.58
Maintenance ..
5 Le
...
13,735.99
673,168.24
124,245.48
General Motors Board of Review ...........
Industries Council
Mack Truck ..
9,881,066.
Charter and Supplies ....
sca stots Parse teenseeeeee
cin aoe ccaensoSecpes
PES
Health Institute Per Capita Taxes ........
>
.
fait
.
Escrow
Fund—Balance
in
Treasury ....
Miscellaneous
=
SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS
GENERAL FUND:
Per Capita Wares
See
if
|
i
6,727.52
103,781.88
Eaton Manufacturing
Bord esses
4
|
9,038.23
.....
Community
Dies
_-:10,044.72
~
Clerical Center ...
=
2
37,838.09
114,681.94
Circulation.
JAN,
1, 196I- JUNE, 30, I961
me
39,802.17
29,645.13
aye
Champion Spark Plug .
=
41,041.58
we
Borg Warner .
:
REPORT
AUDIT
...........
Agricultural Implement ...
American Motors Intra-Corporation
:
}
,
vt
=
Woodcock
Accounting
81,984.09
39,210.10
Da
a
ec
ak
a
a
a aaa
Wage Gains, Health Cost Savings
Shoot Up Workers Take-Home Pay
ise
Add
the UAW-kept promto
win
company-paid
hospital-medical
workers
to
and
wage
care
their
for
families
increases
and
you
find Ford workers able to
enjoy higher than ever takehome
pay.
Workers’
saying
as
a
sult
of
fully-paid
hospitalmedical care will be roughly
$11 a month
(average mar-
care
coverage
sion
ried
workers’
three-year
will
rise
For
Ford
serve
workers
on
But
a heavy
JURY
it
nearly
cut
Under
PAY
are
juries.
always
new
to
means
pay.
agreement,
Ford will match the court fee
for
jury
duty—but,
in
any
event, will not pay less than
$10
a day
any
for up
calendar
Total,
ceed
to 60 days
year.
however,
the
worker’s
may
not
daily
in
ex-
wage.
that
the
of
tion.
And in carrying out their
respective
obligations
under
the agreement, neither party
will discriminate against any
color,
on
account
national
creed.
origin,
of
race,
sex
now
Ford
around,
work-
improve-
means
7c
worker
16c
a
PRIME
took
UNION
one
any
if
But
and
goal
see, it was
stuck out for all
determinamembership’s
the
tion to have Ford pay the full
cost of such health protection.
this
in
through
break
To
to
UAW
the
area;
important
agred to divert 1c of cost of
living adjustment (due in Sept.,
but not yet paid) and 2c from
the 1961 annual improvement
factor
increase.
for this 3c, Ford
In exchange
had
or
«=
Ford
had
of
of
been
if
in
3c
the
escaped
hospital-
INCREASE
a
with
worker
Ford
family
a
factor)
4.
Sept.
for this 2c, Ford
an
of
equivalent
the
pay
re-
will
to
retroactive
5c
to
hour
additional 6.7c an
cover the cost which workers
otherwise, would have had to
pay for their medical-hospicoverage.
tal
same Ford worker who
normally have received
This
would
an
of
living
ment
factor and
gain
12.04c
clause
an
adjustment).
improve-
the
via
hour
ie
1c via the cost
will,
hour
instead,
$20.83 a month.
an
means
of
pay
home
take
in
increase
tax
(after
This 12.04c an hour
Diversion of the 2¢ from
the annual improvement fac-
apply in future
’62 on, the imfactor
increase
tor will not
years. From
provement
will be either 6e an hour or
2.5% of base rate, whichever
is greater,
UAW
with
up
+ Keep
Opener”
“Eye
with
up
Wake
received
Michigan
families,
their
and
workers
have
example,
For
agreed to (1) paying the full
care
cost of hospital-medical
for
a
greater
be
will
would
and
will
au-
union
they
it
In return
hard
nego-
workers
their
for
pen-
pensioners’
(widows).
workers
ceive
begin paying the
- hospital
medical
to
of
wives
starting
for
improvement
rank-
the
plus
re-
(who would, be entitled to a
7c increase under the annual
GOAL
persuade
could
their
increased
plan
Ford
in
care.
unmistakeable
health
future
and
RETROACTIVE
hour
health
on
hour
same
the cost of
paying
medical
protection.
for many and 19¢ for most
on the annual improvement
factor plus a saving equal to
6.7¢c an
and
benefits,
wages
wages
an
paying
than
roll
negotiations
risen
have
will
families.
the agreement
apply to all
employes
covered
by
the
contract, without discrimina-
employe
annual
’64
time
the
care
union
provisions
of Ford
(3)
the
Despite
this
diversion
pay
take-home
the
3c,
im-
Putting
just
the
annual
improvement factor and the
insurance
health
saving on
together,
it means
that by
tomakers
full cost
agreement.
agree
25%
tiators
ment clause has been written
into the new
UAW - Ford
and
factor.
present
survivors
ac-
annual
for
benefit
the
in
feeling—plus
and-file
bargaining—before UAW
An improved fair employ-
company
the
increase.
It
FEPC Clause
Is Best Ever
Both
with
factor
year
proud
in take-home
the
ment
of
half
workers
and
his
September
a majority
the
life
paying
tired
agreement — wages
provement
re-
the
each
cordance
of
Michigan.)
Plus—during
ers,
BOOST
in
share
(2)
In
addition,
a
letter
of
company
employment
practices policy will now become
part
of
the
the
first
agreement—for
time.
Agreement
will
thus
clear-
workers
both
ly define all the rights (including
hiring
and
promo-
tion)
of
present
all
and
future.
Ford Now Pays Full Cost Of Health Care Program
Protecting
Seniority
The
way
has been
for giving workers
seniority protection
local
level.
opened
broader
on the
Agreement was reached
Ford
on language
that
permit
local
management
with
will
unions
and
local
to resolve
layoff
problems
that
have
caused
high seniority employes
to be
laid off
in one
occupational
group—or
low
while
continue
group.
Now,
in
the
working
locals
are
locally
gotiate
group
—across
labor
seniority
are
working
laid
off,
higher
employes
in
another
to
this
issue
designated
classifica-
employes
junior
qualified,
nd
employes
seniority
ne-
and
lines
without regard to
undesignated
or
tions—where
pool—
free
on
are
tinue
insurance
protection.
them
Shield
Michigan
Cross-Blue
by
High
ant
on
Ford
gin
of
the
Agreement
int.
‘Fourth
‘search
‘rector
‘rector
Local
Ford
row:
Council
and
listens
Members
Engineering
of
to
comments
Local
Center
in
254,
on
of
Dearborn,
left, was
standing
Samp,
Nelson
explains a contract
Bannon
Ken
in
plant
Ford
the
862 picketing
strike
agreement,
‘Bottom row:
si members of
Mich,
against
Be
member,
the
Assistant
Ford
Ford
as Ford
listeners
among
members
Among
clause.
Fred
Ky., was
Louisville,
retired, he
Now
aze, holding sign at left.
Ford
‘st bargaining committee at the plant,
jtional
unidentified
was a member of the
Council yotes to ratify
Los Angeles smog partly obscured
Local 923 picket the main gate,
Ford
assembly
on
reached
plant
has
A
cident
this
the
time
premium for midnight or #1
shift workers who normally
‘Tuesday-througha
work
Saturday schedule.
are
employes
these
If
called into work for the #1
shift
night)
time
as
they will
and a half
such,
Any
continue
time,
(Sunday
Monday
Sunday
to
be
now receive
for Monday
hours
at
will
double
_——$———
their
be
share
a
50-50
of
anything
—
negotiations
company.
insur-
—
effective
and
a
monthly
ac-
across
that
pay
Blue
Shield
splitting
sick
from
for
the
what
schedule
won
also
of
of
provides
will
their
new
benefits
ever
be-
in
health
insurance
board
now
home
insurance,
Blue
and a half
take
month
import-
negotiated
can
completely
life
for
Ford
bargaining
- paid
company
cost
ance,
ums
been
to
of
gains
workers
paycheck
used
list
insurance
to
paid
company.
the
UAW
owas
health
cost
Pay
the
economic
by the
team
of
Shield)
in
match
union
major
the
half
Cross
premi-
and
for
protection
all Ford workers now retired
and for those who retire in
the future.
U.S.
the
Should
legislation
act
Congress
providing
en-
hos-
pital and medical assistance to
retirees, Ford will nevertheless
for supplementary
arrange
coverage
half
for
Cross-Blue
and
premium,
Widows
tire
under
benefit
pay
Blue
retirees’
the
monthly
Shield
of
retirees
the
provisions
agreement
to
continue
will
new
of
be
who
survivor
UAW
the
able
re-
to
con-
Shield
Cross-Blue
Blue
Ford workers and their
families will now have the
full cost of hospital, surgical
and medical insurance (Blue
Ford
Premium
ALSO—
UNEMPLOYED
RETIREES,
AID
ADDED
PROVISIONS
The standards of protection
Cross-Blue
Blue
by
provided
in
regarded
as
(generally
“standard”)
will
workers
for Ford
be provided
in states where available plans
this
to
up
measure
not
do
standard
by
Benefit
period
for
days.
to 365
extended
As-
Health
Community
is
Shield
Cross-Blue
Blue
The
coverage
will be
(CHA)
plan
sociation
offered to all employes in the
Detroit
area
on
a
qualify
for
half
dual
choice
basis.
who
are
not
now
Retirees
Cross-Blue
for Blue
enrolled
PROTECTED
be fully paid
UNEMPLOYED
Premiums will
for
ing
credits
to
the
earned
er.
If
the
earned
credits.
a
a
on
periods,
lated
number
off
laid
the
sick
sufficient
six
company
months
Employes
exhausted
benefits, or
of absence,
tection
at
remainder
of
for
for
a
their
re<
SUB
work-
number
of
maxi-
a
be
paid
workers
maximum
who
fully
has
premi-
for
layoff
on
vary<
worker
insurance
his
leave
scale
the
by
will be paid
of one year,
will
Premiums
ums
mum
for
workers
off
laid
company,
the
by
premium
the
of
payment
-
by
on
of
have
paid
leave
on
employes
continue promay
group
of
12
rates
months
for
the
Highlights of
a
ae
Deere
At John
IN A MEDITATIVE mood were Region 4
Director Robert Johnston, left, and Vice
President
Pat Greathouse, who led the ne-
gotiations for a new contract for the 15,000
SOLIDARITY
benefits
to
agreed
Company
The
workers at John Deere & Co. The agreement, providing breakthrough gains similar to those made in the auto industry, was
the first won in the bargaining underway
in the agricultural implement industry.
similar to General Motors, which are
regular benefits, for employees laid
off under the regular seniority proAgreement,
of the
visions
of 62%
of
gross earnings plus $1.50 dependent
allowance, up to four depéndents.
Credit
Improved Hospital-SurgicalOe
ve
Fully Paid by Corporation
They
the
full
ings
of
three
also
and
years,
the
last
for
provide
accidental
for
indemnity
double
for
employee
an
earn-
year’s
highest
to the
amounts
which
insurance,
life
of
cost
to pay
will continue
Company
or dismemberment.
the Company
addition
death
In
gross
work
weeks,
with
the
ereased
120
to
365
days.
may
Employees
demn
will
net
the
of
half
work
A new
for people having
and up, of $3
A
person
fits
who
will have
period
of
cost
Retirees
covered
expense
and
for
by
the
one-half
mately
Company
The
bracket
was
earnings
exhausts
of
his
their
spouses
at
the
group
payment
Employees
after
may
group
pay
the
the
new
increases
base
rate.
of
continue
employ
of
6c
on
cent
since
rate and
of
minimum.
the
first
the
FACTOR
»
ent
hour,
on
plant
the
25
establish
base
1955
into
base,
Increase
Monday
will
Compensation
maximum
of
payments
State
$40
laws.
per
the
under
plus
the 62%
however, there
is no maximum on any of the short
work week benefits.
averages
The various options for taking
with
of
come
ured at a minimum
of
$3.00
will
in
Present
Cost-of-living will be
continued
with each
of living.
42% increase in the cost
All of the cost of living
be subject to future
the cost of living.
Improve
the
decreases
3
percent
on
the
in-
1955
average wage of $250 an hour also
yielded 75 cents an hour but al-
lowed no
also now
future increase).
We
have a
6c
minimum
which was not provided
3 percent formula.
under
the
less
but
years,
for the rest of
Local unions were given the option
to cover local union officers who
have lost time under the procedure
earnings
their
of
all
that
so
the minimum will be protected
percentage pension.
above
for a
limitations
guarantee
in
of
make
it available
1.05
to
ployee
1.08.
future,
to either
incentive
from
the
present
a transferred
a day
classification,
work
who
em-
or an
has
transfer
or
held
whichever
the
in
rate
the
is higher.
which
he
pre-
classification,
If the
classi-
fication transferred to has a lower
maximum
than his present rate,
he will receive the maximum.
Improve the protective clothing
provision.
to
incentive
employee,
Program.
Pay
tain a Jury
kind.)
At
tions
the
it
SANITATION
was
as
not
did
of the
that,
agreed
improvements
Agreement,
would
we
on the
to
1.25c.
1.
This
%
of
1955 rates and
in the
that grievances
of this
Safety and Sanitation Article with
a provision
step
type be entered in the third
of the Grievance Procedure,
ARTICLE XI—UNION
REPRESENTATION
The shop chairman will be given
two additional hours per week in
which to process grievances.
Time study representatives will
be allowed to pool- their allowed
time over a four-week period.
Time study representatives will
have
the
right
to
investigate
time studies, standard
data
all
charts
and other necessary material.
ARTICLE
XII——GRIEVANCE
PROCEDURE
The limit for the filing of disciplinary action grievances was in-
from
three
to five days.
XITI—UNION
if
SECURITY
1%
con-
do
negotia-
return
was
would
However, when you add
which all employes receive
to
XIV—SENIORITY
the
to qualify
rights
on
of
oper-
any
at
a job
em-
time
of layoff or promotion.
(A better
understanding on the workings of
the break-in-procedure.
long
agree
Shop
in Iowa.
ployee
an
made
Agency
Clarified
of any
in
an
ARTICLE
in
to
drop the %2% cost-of-living increase
on Sepreceived
employees
which
tember
made
were
Improvements
Provide
based
amount
the 212%
(an aver-
age of 742c,) the employees will receive an average of 6.25c now, in addition to the 1.25¢ which they got on
September 1. This is an average of
7c,
plus a savings in their pay
check of the money which they have
been contributing for hospital and
surgical care.
that
years.
two
a minimum
ority at time
to
employees
ARTICLE
remain
It was
previously
AND
minute
lunch
Uniform
operations,
language
Union
at
plant
in
Improved
Para-
represent-
work
when
a
twenty
previously
varied
language
period
to
at
of seni-
length
OVERTIME
It
for
seniority
are sent home.
XVI—HOURS OF
WORK
from
employees
of layoff.
D to allow
atives
off
of the
the
Improved
graph
laid
their
lose
not
least
for all of the
this
for
provision
conclusion
AND
IX—SAFETY
ARTICLE
ate
in this capacity.
contract
old
(The
earnings
average
as he is serving
the standard data charts which
are used to set standards.
Add
“defective
equipment”
to
delay
also
Company
the
ployed, and
agreed to give the shop chairman
regarding
information
complete
Apprentice
the operation of the
allow
work
Duty
will get make-up pay to his regular rate if an hourly employee,
and
em-
be
would
Apprentices
which
pany and Union will jointly petition and request permission to
An employee absent from
because of serving on Jury
fore-
and Union agreed
in
classifications
The Company
upon a list of
All employees in Illinois are required to join the Union after a
period of thirty days. The Com-
DUTY
JURY
the
Paragraph B, which is when average earnings will be paid.
Increase
the
fatigue
factor
in
VITI—APPRENTICES
ARTICLE
creased
connection
in the
The Company agreed to remove
warning slips from an employee’s
record after one year.
ARTICLE
in
viously
of
former
ten
money was
placed in
the
base
rates and only 142% of this will
crease
(The
than
who
employees
to disability pensions
previously worked in the classification, will receive his rate before
years
disabled
surance or freezing the life insurance and collecting an amount equal
with
a new
formula
developed
which will give a %2% increase in
wages, based upon the new rates,
In the
75
of service, rather
their life.
prés-
average
base of $3.08 per
than 15, can now have the option of
collecting the value of their life in-
COST-OF-LIVING
PROTECTION
inherent
per
years
times
month
be
will
the
a
of
a pension were left in the agreement
with the added provision that any
employee who exercises an option
ean do so by haying his benefits fig-
cents an hour at present, and increase as rates are increased
in
future
there will be a minimum Pension of
$2.80 per month times years of service and, for persons who become disabled, Pensions of $5.60 per month
times years of service:
who
All service for employees
leave the employ of the Company,
after the age 40, will be vested.
man’s office or in the department
where the job is run.
In addition,
local unions
will_ have access to
the
of October
cent
increase
the
under
regular provision of
$1.50 for dependents;
and
have
new
per
SUB
week
that
a provision
with
be continued,
Company agreed to keep all elemental time used in a time study
which
1961,
1962 and
1963, and
compounded annually.
Based
on
a
is
minimum
rates based upon this new rate.
Give an annual increase of 25
per
waiting
The present formula for figuring
pension based upon a percentage of
earnings times years of service will
with downtime.
Added
time
study
representatives to Sections 10 F and H.
IMPROVEMENT.
granted
a
ARTICLE IV—DISCIPLINARY
ACTION
weeks
temporary
during
line of seniority
layoffs or the inventory period, will
be given a full 65% of gross earnings
the first week even though this may
a
Company.
PAINS
been
work
40
be
cost
may
leaving
all
short
under
such as breakdown, material shortages, etc.
Employees who are laid off out of
$3.50
of approxi-
the
surance
Add
hours
earn-
gross
more
Company may convert their covjer
an agreement with the
the
of
short
have
indefinitely.
rate
scheduled
added
in-hospital
except
employees
which
unworked
in-
insurance for
employees
who are
disabled for the first six months,
after
unworked
of
of
$2.80.
bene-
renewed
will
65%
pay
than
weekly
of
cost
of
to
one-
contribute
year.
all
50%
and
benefits
out.
them
one
40 on
unscheduled
week
of hospital and surgical from their
six
first
the
for
treasury
own
months, and the other 50% from the
They will then pay from
SUB fund.
the SUB fund the cost of hospital
and medical care for a period up to
an additional
six
months,
based
or length of servupon SUB credits
ice, as we
for
There
the
the
of
50%
pay
will
Company
earnings
under
these
up to a total of 52.
agreed
Unemployment
in-
employee
an
of
layoff
Upon
maximum
day
on
be
cost of the present
program,
surgical
total
and
pay the
hospital
will
also
the
ings
The
accumulate
would
hours
for
units
plant.
provision
on
on three shift
on
holiday
pay to allow for payment of holidays which fall on Saturday and
Sunday
ing the
within
and also payment providemployee works any time
the week
iday falls.
in which
the hol-
More on ‘The Wayward
By
whether
(1)
are
topics
These
brought
out.
is: “Resolved:
jurisdiction
the
are
But
a
this year
analysis
an
Meany,
George
President
AFL-CIO
by
statement
up to date a number
in compact,
against
stand
labor’s
to
subject
it
making
easily-read
form
anti-trust
suits.
is the
to hamstring
attempts
a
a
by
further
Here’s an opportunity to make the college debater an effective*voice for unionism—in a forum where labor’s point of view
the
is far too seldom presented.
*
2
—are
Here, those with the most
an
to discuss
going
bers with children.
issue
mem-
to union
concern
of grave
themselves
students
at stake—the
Again, the UAW Education Department has a kit containing
three documents that can help present labor’s side favoring
education.
to
aid
federal
Education.”
Public
ship—Federal
Good
has
try,
to
Aid
Another
in making
understand
Step
The
Toward
contention
labor’s
Real
“Fair
possible
much
that
to
14,
the
UAW
Mich.
department
Education
Arrangements
also
can
.
*
be
8000
made
for getting a bulk order from
than
It’s hard
E.
to find a better way
with a vivid poster.
Now, it’s easy to obtain
a
coun-
must
more
by
writing
Jefferson,
the
through
AFL-CIO,
*
for
Taxes
this
in
be done—and can only be done through federal aid.
Here, again, a single kit can be obtained simply
Department,
Partner-
the role labor
for himself
education
free public
is
third
of AFL-CIO.
can read
debater
The high school
and
Education.”
“A
All are publications
Schools.”
paid
is
of
“Labor—Champion
titled
is
One
Detroit
same
to get a point across
of
collection
posters
that make a variety of points important to UAW local
union members.
The UAW Education Department is
offering a group of 15 posters for $2.50.
Large and colorful, with short, clear tests, they deal with
such vital subjects as voter registration, the Bill of Rights, fair
employment
practices,
elimination
of
racial
prejudice,
the
ICFTU, UAW’s film library, the relationship of farm and factory
wages, automation, inflation, union goals as opposed to management’s aims, the problem of the work week, women workers
and the relationship of high employment to national prosperity.
The bundle of 15 can be obtained simply by ordering it from
pevew
Education Department, 8000 E. Jefferson, Detroit 14,
ch.
tithe.
oS
o
S
x
os
=
-_
el
say
to
“great”
pO
oa
pub-
They
are,
for
and
the
their
.
fer a rendezvous at the back
gate.
“Mr. Samuel I. Newhouse, the
archtype,
specializes
in
dis-
gruntling heritors, or profiting
by this disgruntlement. A family feud is grist to his mill, but
if he can’t get a paper that
way he will talk beautifully of
a
UAW’s RADIO AND TY shows serve up thought-provoking and
stimulating comment upon anything and everything of inter-
est to workers.
As an example, Mrs. Esther Peterson, U.S.
assistant secretary of labor, appeared on a recent UAW “Telescope” program for an interview by Paul Morris of the UAW
the satisfactions of cash, rapidly quoting sections of the
Radio
capital-gains law as he accepts
resentment.”
°
s
and
week
no
exhibits
night
of owner-
ship, it is no wonder that anything liberal or pro-labor gets
the full treatment from most of
the press either on the political
labor
or the
front
ling cites chapter
verse.
always victimizing the
“not, I could not help
the management.”
the Long
Analyzing
public,
noting,
cers,
Island
rated the railroad unions for
callously using “their power to
cause intolerable disruption of
the daily lives of myriads of
bystanders
rows.”
management
labor-
in
a
not
But
word about management and
its “power to prevent intoler-
and
ber,
The
following
The
following
Expenditures
1961:
is
for
are
a
the
FOR
Capita
Per
Interest on
month
of
ASSETS,
SEPTEMBER,
Investments
Strike
of
Fund
1961.
for
Assets
Income
Septem-
$42,438,479.96
SeaDale
1961:
$1,198,885.75
105,460.79
.,
$ 1,304,346,54
TOTAL TO ACCOUNT FOR:
DISBURSEMENTS IN SEPTEMBER,
TOTAL
There
RESOURCES
involving
were
SEPTEMBER
14 strikes
120,850
1961:
30, 1961
in effect at the time
members
of
the
UAW,
11
railroads.
$ 43,742,826.50
5,866,755.94
$37,876,070.56
of this report,
LLL L LOCC
LULL
ULLLLL CLL LLL L
LULLL
TU
by
town
a dispute
“was
a kind
had
has
working
on
1936
is
press
man
this
not
for the
about
since
The
point.
but
lopsided,
—soli-
monolithic,
unilateral,
dary and unanimous.”
of
story
Newburgh
The
cracking down on relief recipients for the benefit of the
taxpayers even if it means tak-
chilhelpless
ing it out on
dren is an old one to Liebling.
He was writing about the same
sort of thing in New York back
in
when
1947
wealthiest
headlining
“woman
living
how
came
on
the
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nation,
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every
were
to figure out for himself.
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newspaper
“No
in
air
Detroit
local
by
should
ehairmen
education
and
editors
“The corollary, that 11 railbeing
were
presidents
road
stubborn,” Liebling
equally
added,
September,
Fund
Strike
the
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AUGUST 31, 1961 ..,,
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tieing up the
stubborness in
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the
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cites the editorials that be-
innocent
9,
show
If your membership is within listening distance of any of
the 17 stations on which EYE OPENER is broadcast, offi-
strikers are
The
television
Channel
on
reserved
are
deyoted
is always
to “principles.”
over
.The
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30 Minutes A Week
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Labor is always “stubborn”
in the press dictionary, while
management
Dept.
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front.
and
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supposed ioe ance
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there to analyze the reporting
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old
with a torn lining, the
wanted,” Liebling declared after the strike was over, “and
newspapers
the
what
that
?
aC
pain-
able disruption.”
“The truth appeared to be
that neither side had got all it
BELtAND
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who
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storm, but the new men pre-
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Similarly, debaters in high schools throughout the
nation are going to argue the pros and cons of anThat educational oppor“Resolved:
other question:
tunity should be equalized by means of federal grants
to all public schools.”
people
to
been placed in modest hotels =
for emergency reasons and the w
grand jury “investigation” that O
coat
mangy,
out
men of the new order
meddle with the locals
as they come up with
public,
A single kit for the college debater can be obtained free.
Just write to UAW Education Department, 8000 E. Jefferson, Detroit 14, Mich. If you wish to obtain the kit in larger numbers,
Education Department will help you order it from
the ea
AFL-CIO.
today’s
about
lishers:
“The
do not
as long
by
he
what
Take
gist of organized
it even
a
of
turned
i
ticles and republished them in
called
form
book
paperback
The Press, issued by Ballantine
Books at 75 cents a copy. It is
a big 75 cents worth.
AFL-CIO of anti-trust laws and union activity and a discussion
of right-to-work laws titled “Facts vs. Propaganda.”
Here,
just
has
Yorker,
New
a speech by Franklin D. Roos-
evelt Jr., an article by Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg,
pamphlet issued by the United Steel Workers of America,
to be
“mink”
handful
is told by
ironic,
master-writer,
the
taxpayers
people who had been “living in
hotels”
at the expense of the
columns
the story
when
END
chiseling
A. J. Liebling, caustic author
of “The Wayward Press” in the
A kit filled with printed materials that present
organized labor’s viewpoint on this issue can be obtained from the UAW Education Department to present to college debaters in a local union’s area.
In the kit are six documents:
garment
anti-
and
out
were
Press’
stakingly accurate and utterly
devasting, then it is a new and
lively story.
legislation.”
anti-trust
of
facts
turned
reflect this, is an old, old story.
shall be under
organizations
labor
That
not
for college debaters
subject
national
The
or
whether
its
that
and
liberal
organizations
all the
to it that
see
help
can
unions
local
(2)
and
should be subject to anti-trust laws,
federal aid to education is needed.
UAW
labor
not
or
anti-labor
generally
“clients”
the city.
IN THE
Republican,
overwhelmingly
is
relief
UHL
fact that the American
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1961—Page
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SOLIDARITY 1 October,
MN UAW ‘61 Summer Schools
A
famous
that
his
won
country’s
in
its
once
said
battles
were
schoolrooms,
where
leaders were trained.
Much the same could be said
about the role the UAW’s 1961
UAW
its
general
summer
schools
played
in
union’s 1961 collective
ing achievements.
The
UAW’s
table
sible,
triumphs
in
the
1961
informed
membership
bargain-
bargaining
were
great
the
made
pos-
measure,
and
by
mobilized
that
backed
up
the
program
drafted
by
the
Special Convention last spring.
The
and
(1)
A
class
at a regional
held at FDR
Huron,
(2)
Port
GM
under
Huron
outdoors
summer
Camp
Mich.
This
goes
time
school
near Port
the class at
is indoors,
collective
where
bargaining
is
discussion.
(3) Economics is the topic
for this buzz group at the
Canadian
regional
summer
school at Port Elgin.
(4) Every summer school
had its song leader.
(5) Vice President Leonard
Woodcock talks to a summer
school assembly
about
the
1961
UAW
collective bargaining program.
(6) Vice
President
Nor-
man
Matthews
follows
up
a
summer school speech with
some barbecue shared with
Region 8 Director
E. T.
Michael.
(7)
Some very high ranking guests come
to UAW
summer schools. Here Michigan’s Goy. John B. Swainson
tours with Region 1D Director Ken Robinson and staff
members.
(8) University
educators
come,
ses
too.
problems
Here
with
one
discus-
UAW
Ed-
ucation Director Carroll Hut-
re
ton.
(Continued
below,
right)
the
of
urgency
solutions
economic
for
to
the
conveyed,
in
great
formation
made
that
workers
the
members
the
22
schools
in
act
the facts.
The
basic
course —the
was
problems
faced
were
part,
to
the
in-
available
weeks
from
life
finding
through
of
in
until
late
because
they
got
The
members
summer _ school
Core
program —
designed
to
explore,
ex-
plain and blueprint the UAW’s
1961 collective bargaining goals
in terms of the needs
union’s members.
In
mer
tack
every
UAW
of
region’s
the
sum-
school there were brassdiscussions of such vital
problems
as
ployment
general
and
employment,
job
come
security,
unem-
long-term
un-
security, intechnological
changes,
inflation and
sion.
But the ’61 summer
reces-
school
delegates
—
about
3,000
all
told
—
explored
much
more
than
the
bread
and
butter
collective
© bargaining
issues
that lay on the table
The UAW’s legislative program was analyzed in depth,
too.
all
These
the
way
medical
aid
of
the
subjects
from
nation’s
Security
the
nation’s youth
to education.
and
civil
cussed.
So
international
need
rights
elections.
trade
aged
need
for
Social
of
the
for federal aid
Civil liberties
were
reapportionment
The
the
ranged
through
to
were
dis-
and
union’s
in
(through
and
the
pursuit
scanned
the
union
tackle
tasks
of
world
and
Discussions
not
foreseeable
it faces
peace
debated.
only
covered
problems
and
this
nation
in years to come.
also
tried
to
anticipate
the
must
They
pro-
grams
that
may
have
to be
drafted for problems that can
only be guessed at — such as
the
extent
automation
may
reach.
Delegates
held
group
discus-
sions, took part in workshops,
attended
assemblies,
heard
guest
speakers
who
are
experts
in various fields, watched
and
took
side
trips that
films
helped
deepen
their
knowledge
and
widen their first hand experi-
ence.
Along
with
this,
newer
the
day-to-
members
studied
cussed
some
of
they
will
face
and
disthe
tasks
in
day work of their local unions — such jobs as grievance
handling,
arbitration,
local negotiations, community service, local union pub-
lications
and
public
rela-
tions.
But there was a lighter side
to
the
1961
UAW
Summer
School
There
program,
were
too.
swimming
and
boating,
softball
and
other
games,
barbecues
and
group
singing — in fact, a well-balanced recreation program.
If,
said,
as the
famous
general
battles are won in class-
rooms,
then
the
UAW’s
1961
Summer
Schools helped build
shock
troops
that
will stand
the union
in good
collective
stead
bargaining
for the
struggles
that are sure to come
As one newspaper, the Los
Angeles
Sentinel,
said
after
sending
a UAW
a
reporter
Summer
to
School:
attend
“As a result of the sessions,
the student is a better citizen
as
well
as
a
better
equipped
union member. . . The school
itself was a dramatic demonstration of democracy
in action
..
. Los
this
training
upcom-
role
the
were
for
legislative
affairs
in
summer
June
September.
could
ing
(7)
facts
ICFTU)
in
is
richer
citizenship
and
Angeles
valuable
inservice
community responsibilities. Our
is richer for this
community
fountainhead of leadership.”
(9) Region 6 Director Charles Bioletti discusses UAW’s
programs with a visiting labor leader from Ceylon, Other regions also entertained guests from overseas at their summer
schools,
(10) Every summer school happily winds up this way—
with a regional director (here it’s Region 3’s Ray Berndt,
center)
awarding
diplomas.
MINNEAPOLIS
Members of two
The
refusal of station WLW in Cincinnati
to renew
the
UAW
radio program,
prompted
an
Commission
and
by
triggered
UAW
protest
and
amounted
to
sorship.”
featured
Guy
DURING A QUIET moment at the Racine,
Workers Council 3rd annual picnic, Region
poses
standing)
(center,
Kitzman
with
of
group
a
over 1,000 retirees and their families attended
on the grounds of the Racine Labor Center.
Well
held
When
and
UAW
point
sought
event
Membership Praised
For Backing Union
was
and
companies
a “very dangerous
threat to
freedom of communications.”
that UAW
the
and
tionary
demands
Agricultural
nature.
Greathouse
were
firms
Auto
infla-
an
of
not
“liberal
view.”
last month.
cil conference
which
in
prepared to back it up in
any way necessary,” Greathouse said.
He pointed out that planning
for
had
current
the
been
and
months
going
for
on
many
was an
that there
to
tendency
understandable
take
once
talks
contract
granted
achieved.
for
successes
they had been
“If we had been willing to
accept the old General Motors
agreement
with
a
perhaps
few
minor changes thrown in, Iam
sure the company would have
bought it right away.
“But because we said that
we have got to make additional progress for the mem-~bership of this Union as we
have in the past, we had to
our
to
solutions
demand
workers problems and be prepared to back it up in any
Greathouse
necessary,”
way
said.
Duriing the eyent-filled three
day
heard
conference
reports
delegates
the
local
the
of
unions represented at the conference and reports from Paul
M. Russo, assistant director of
the UAW foundry department,
the
of
Humphries
Bill
and
foundry department.
Russo reviewed the problems
which continued to face foun~dry workers in the U.S. as well
as Canada.
“This
sider
the
organized
organized
council
problems
has
of
to
the
con-
un-
plants as well as the
plants,” Russo said,
“for the poor working conditions existing in the unorganized plants affect us all.”
Ralph Showalter, UAW legisthe
updated
director,
lative
delegates
by the
thus
on
the
Kennedy
far and
progress
made
Administration
what
labor
might
from
future
the
in
expect
Congress.
the delegates
assured
He
some good
that labor had
noin government
friends
tably in the persons of Robert C. Weaver, administrator
of the Federal Housing and
Home Financing Agency; W.
Willard
tary
of
Wirtz,
labor,
undersecre-
and
of
Frank
W.
WILLARD
—At
Foundry
McCullough
of
the
NLRB.
James
chairman
the
their
his
The
which
times
sissippi jails.
W. Willard Wirtz praised
the
and
general
in
labor
in particular for the
UAW
ticed down
William
Racine,
the years.
through
James
president of the Council;
O., was elected vice-president
Local
Alexander,
James
and
Presbyterians
Still Anti-RTW
an
Oct.
Industries
compared
for
the
union.
UE
with
689
UE
had
and
The
10
for
for
the
repreelection following
of
the
UAW
con-
approve
Was
running
personnel.
some
of
the
members
weekly
questions
by
union
94
lieve
tion
who
are
all
believe
nation’s
crossing
Fair
lines.
picket
employment
economic
yes.
Fair
a.m,
lieve
from
press:
unions
the
Political
approve
51
get
press.
office:
and
38
per
vantages
per
60
per
The
of
UAW
gains
in new
Motors
are openand more
ad-
the
to
membership,
Robert
John-
registered
in the
auto contracts, and then voted
for UAW in elections conducted by the NLRB.
Among them were
Iowa
the
social
cent
—
workers
in job security
practices:
per
have
ston reported.
Workers in several plants in
the region heard of the gains
be-
fair treatment
54
Il.
4 Director
Region
action
cent
corrup-
it.
favor
non-union
These answers were given
by non-union members:
94 per
to organize:
Right
cent support the law guaranteeing the right to organize.
Md.
be-
leaders
and General Motors
ing the eyes of more
at home with their
50. per cent answered
problems
children?
of
made by UAW members
contracts at American
cent
and_
cent
work-week:
CHICAGO,
96 per cent support equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color or creed.
discuss
members
union
Do
labor,
per
Aid Organizing
Violation of picket lines: 74
their
that
believe
cent
per
levy fines for
should
unions
adver-
office.
Gains in Auto
conducted
unions.
their
through
39
union
against
cent
98 per
invest-
political
in
public
accusations
estimated.
Shorter
87 per cent
activity:
Political
for
members
been overestimated; 36 per cent
believe they have been under-
Labor
per
union
Corruption:
an-
were anmembers
meetings:
of
cent
dis-
Industries,
Champion
workers
at
Plug
Co.
division
a
Spark
of
in Burlington, Ia. where 164
voted for UAW and 140 voted
for no union.
At Radio Steel Co. in Chicago,
scooters,
cast
of
motor
chose
UAW,
manufacturer
votes
187
Oct.
while 66 voted
of
6
the
260
who
for an independ-
additional,
Seven
union.
ent
votes were challenged.
At
Co.,
the
Manufacturing
Bopp
Ia.,
Waterloo,
26
voted
UAW and 23 voted no union, of
the 54 cast. Five votes were
challenged.
has
assembly
to
opposition
general
173rd
its
reaffirmed
“right-to-work”
a
Motec
expiration
tract.
a
cir-
survey
ly managed.
air and
680 K.C,
Baltimore,
the
in
United
its
at
WASHINGTON—The
Church
Presbyterian
In
liberal-
the Cincinnati and
WCBM
with
the
Union officers: 88 per cent
believe their unions are honest-
coverage
extensive
of
trained
believe
they
democratically.
r radio dial
reelected sec-
306, Detroit, was
retary-treasurer.
“the
as
6:00-6:30
Bucyrus,
1222,
Local
Slaughter,
which
to
urging
through
the
Union
Eye Opener program
was
broadcast
five
a week from 7:00 to
QO
reelected
was
Wis.,
553,
Local
Troestler,
the
and
Union
membership:
cent think it is a good
ment.
EWE OPENER
prac-
it had
unionism
trade
of
brand
mature
responsible,
areas.
Ohio
in Mis-
incarceration
own
on
WLW,
well beyond
of
and
ordeal
Mississippi
has
which
during
riders
freedom
was
the
are
only:
same
the
by
These
swered
station,” is a powerful, 50,000station
channel
clear
watt
cial Equality, told the delegates
of the harrowing experiences
of
itself
tises
Ra-
on
only
if
Station
di-
national
Congress
the
of
rector
labor
view
express
neither
Picket lines: 87 per cent of
the union members and 66 per
cent of the nonunion members
said they honor picket lines.
would urge air time for the
sharply conservative voice.”
Conference
Farmer,
would
concern
WIRTZ
new
“I
two
Charman
Citizen, 94 per cent read
or part of it each week.
concerns me is the
whether the termi-
system,
in the
plants,
objecting
The
Teceive
labor point of view off the
air and thus threatening the
freedom of our communications
follow
FCC
Of the union
a
pronation of Guy Nunn’s
gram is keeping the liberal-
were
to
swers:
Hart
important,’
is
“What
question
“I want to give complete
credit to the rank and file
Union,”
this
of
members
the
“for
said,
Greathouse
manner
point
action
Here
thoughful
the
for
airwaves
consideration of the American
people.
future.
they
labor
and
from
of
petitioned
sentation
to
voted
12 NLRB election for continued UAW
representation
Minow
made
said, “is that all points of view
should be presented over the
represented local unions presently engaged in collective bargaining with either the auto
or the ag imp companies, lisGreatas
attentively
tened
house reviewed the course of
negotiations to date and what
in the
commentary
“What
The delegates, most of whom
to expect
and
news
International
UAW
Annual
Foundry Wage and Hour Coun-
cast,
Newton
questions.
He pointed out that the Eye
presented
Opener program
16th
total
cast
written
of
A total of 1,079 members,
nearly
two-thirds
of
the
these and a number of other
posing
one
as
WLW
of
action
more
to the
delegates
100
than
Implement
addressed
Big Three
to the
presented
realization
and
understanding
of the AFL-CIO because
Communist infiltration.
AFL-CIO
Kircher,
1148
_ FRESNO, Calif. (PAI)—Do union members read their
union newspapers? Do they honor picket lines? Do they
support their unions? What about nonunion members?
An opinion survey sponsored by the education committee of the Fresno-Madera Labor Council brought answers to
A.
Hart (D-Mich.) in a speech to
the U.S. Senate described the
for the quick
than
be
Local
here,
overwhelmingly
defeated a raiding attempt by
the UE, a union thrown out
at
higher
Hop-
Support Political Action
PHILADELPHIA—UAW Vice-President Pat Greathouse praised
the Kennedy Administration and Labor Secretary Arthur J. Gold-
berg in particular,
hun-
and
in
Unionists Read Labor Papers,
that
Phillip
several
full investigation
cumstances.
ville said he considered more
in the public interest would
be substituted.
Sen.
next
1132
Minn.,
director in Cincinnati,
FCC
program
sustaining
new
a
which manager Robert Dun-
Meanwhile,
percent
WLW’s
to
program
“unacceptable”
the
program
and
kins,
Cincinnati
Local
regional
has
piration of the one then in
effect, the union was advised
that the Eye Opener
hour,
William
news
labor
that
popular
in
a.m, These hours would
little value to the UAW.
cen-
“rank
presented
and
the
arbitrary
renew its time purchase contract with WLW at the ex-
retirees.
the
Nunn
the
UAW
program
commentary
of
The
the
from a liberal
of view.
Wis., UAW Retired
10 Director Harvey
was
action
station’s
than
rating
unions,
Home
other programs.
However,
when
the
UAW
sought
another
time slot for
its program the station offered
the union a Tuesday night spot
only between 12:30 a.m. to 5:30
pro-
that
higher
dred
tests from congressional figures
and liberal groups.
followed a
move
FCC
The
formal
50%
most
has
investigation
a Neilson
coverage
Communications
Federal
the
Eye Opener,
7:30 p.m. had
MYN—SL
—
7199020 “ALLY KAITOS
D.C.
Minn. —
UAW
local
L96L
WASHINGTON,
252d
Motec Locals
Defeat UE Raid
laws.
study-paper
detailed
giving the Church’s attitude,
the decision was reached that
bers
be
tive
a
of
taken
put
and
employer
between
should
union
“out
bargaining
of
shop
union
a
of
negotiation
the
mem-
collec-
process
of the
in the hands
ernment.”
not
and
gov-
The study points out that “a
the
uses
law
right-to-work
power
to
State
of the
produce
compulsory
industries,
government
that
in
State
a
in all
shop
open
regardless of their
size or nature. The absence of
permits
law
a right-to-work
management
each
industry
and
to
union
bargain
in
and
the arout voluntarily
work
rangement that is a workable
compromise
spective
between
interests,”
their
re-
PS
A
to
BEAMING
climb
the signal
await
1 A anxiously
1 and
Regions
from UAW
group which left
a irliner, The lucky gals are part of the
European-bound
t to right) are Mrs.
UAW European tour. Pictured above a’ t the Airport (lef
Lulham,
Alma
nski; Mrs. L, F Clapper, all of Detroit; Mrs.
QUINTET
aboard
a
for Europe on the
Charles Sporman; Mrs.
Grand
Rapids,
a
Mich.
OF
ladies
A. F. Wici
and
Miss
Mary
E.
Platt
of
Ann
Arbor,
Mich,
SOLIDARITY, fictober, 1961—Page
16
New Pact Won at Deere;
First in Ag Imp Talks
Bulletin
(left), presidents of
Chrysler locals were
THEWS
UAW’s
national
current
on
report
ment
transfer houses. In the past,
under
these have worked
separate contracts.
The corporation, manufacturing farm implements,
related equipand
trucks
ment, is the fourth. largest
UAW
local
talked
negotiations,
bargaining, asked questions,
answers.
Balloting Set
Continued
from
Page
by
the
contract.
Local 72 ratification meeting
Sunday,
October
8,
was
held.
“This was an open air
meeting on a Sunday afternoon at a time when the
World Series, pro football
games and the extremely
fine weather sharply reduced the number of members present, so that bareWORKERS
UNEMPLOYED
at
Chrysler—some
them
of
as
with
much as 27 years seniority — picketed the corporation’s headquarters in Detroit to protest layoffs and Chrysler’s overtime
policy.
Here were two of the hundreds of workers on the
picket
line.
O.—The UAW
TOLEDO,
Federal
in
suit
filed
has
the
500
the
Court here to protect
seniority rights of some
members laid off when
Electric Autolite Co. moved
their jobs to Alabama.
The suit parallels another
in
case in Detroit,
UAW
which a Federal judge ruled
last July that union members retain rights to their
jobs extending beyond the
life of the contract. In that
case, he ordered the Gemmer Mfg. Co. of Detroit to
~~ take its workers along with
their jobs when it moved
South.
The Toledo suit, filed in
the names of five Autolite
Unit members of Local 12
behalf
charges
lated
its
of
the
500,
the company
moving the
edo to a
Decatur,
giving
its
right
to
vio-
agreement
in
work from Tolnew
plant in
Ala.
without
members
the
transfer
with
their jobs. The
UAW
con-
tract here provides for job
security and protection
seniority rights,
of
and
for
the
community
in which it has prospered
over many years. We regret
that we have been forced to
take this action, but the
rights of our members under their contract with the
company must be protected.”
The UAW
has had contractual relationships with
Autolite since the founding
of the union a quarter of a
century ago. The jobs moved
South included manufacture
of automotive
distributors
and
other
components
of
auto electrical systems.
senior-
wages
for
their
jobs
under
rights,
at
prevailing
the contract, and with the
full protection of the Toledo
agreement.
UAW Vice President Richard Gosser, director of the
Autolite
Union
get
the
Dept,
has sought
company
said
in vain
to
live
the
to
up
to its agreement, and finally had no recourse but to
file the suit.
“We have been hoping
that this company would
ship thoroughly
with
the
provisions
of
the
agreements,
and
the
Board
has
further directed that following
this
campaign,
a
new
vote be taken under the supervision of the International Union that will assure
maximum,
participation
of
Local 72 members so that
the true sentiments of the
majority of the workers will
be expressed.
“The decision to hold a
new vote under these more
favorable
circumstances
is
made
in
keeping
with
the
democratic tradition of the
UAW even though the International Executive Board.
has the Constitutional authority to rule that the contract
was
ratified
since
a
majority of AMC
workers
who voted have approved it.
current contract expires
Nov. 1. The central bargaining team of the union is
seeking an agreement with
the company as to which issues should be negotiated
centrally, and which locally.
The eight bargaining units
with 15,000 workers, are under separate contracts.
MOLINE, Il. — Negotiating on four fronts simultaneously, the agricultural implement workers in the UAW
won their first breakthrough
in the industry with a pacesetting settlement with John
members
in
eight plants in Iowa and Ilgains
economic
linois won
equal in scope to the imthe
in
made
provements
auto ondustry, and in addicontheir
improved
tion
tracts in many non-economic
areas,
The long bargaining sessions here were led for the
union by Vice President
Pat
Greathouse,
director
of the Agricultural Implement Dept., and Region 4
Director Robert Johnston,
whose region includes all
the Deere plants.
“John Deere workers can
be proud of achieving this
settlement without the need
said
action,”
strike
for
Greathouse. “They have won
many
in
improvements
areas, building from a solid
base and adapting the General Motors contract gains
to their own needs.”
The settlement came as
ment
NLRB
from
Page
but the UAW
general
1
and
ity
full
campaign to
72 member-
At Allis-Chalmers Co., the
said Greathouse, director
of the UAW Agricultural
Implement Department.
“It represents a maturing in labor relations by
the company.”
Deere & Co,
Some 16,000
counsel
asked
for’ reconsideration.
Supporting briefs were filed
by the AFL-CIO,
the Indiana
In its latest decision, the
board cited a 1954 U.S. Supreme
Court
decision,
which said:
“This
legislative
history
clearly indicates that Congress intended to prevent utitization of union security
agreements
for any
purpose
other than to compel payment of union dues and fees.
“Thus
Congress
recognized the validity of union’s
concern about ‘free rides,’
ie., employes who receive
the benefits of union representation
but
are
unwilling
to contribute their share of
financial support to such
union, and gave unions the
power
to
contract
to
meet
that problem while withhold-
ing from unions the power to
cause the discharge of employes for any other reason.”
In a related development,
the
U.S. Supreme
Court
earlier this month refused to
review a Kansas
Supreme
Court decision that agency
shop agreements were illegal
in that state under its “right
to work”
law,
Highlights
are
in
of
the
the
mas-
under contract to the UAW.
At the Caterpillar Tractor
chain, plant-by-plant negotiations are going on at the
company’s seven plants and
depots. Each bargaining unit
is under separate contract
with the company, although
has
bargaining
centralized
been sought by the workers.
February
Continued
Building
and
Construction
Trades Council and several
international unions.
The
board then voted to re-consider.
their
an educational
acquaint Local
benefits, short work
Clause at General Motors
On Agency Shop Seen Soon
The suit seeks the right
of the laid-off workers to
transfer
to
the
Alabama
with
explained.
in existing
seven parts depots anfi three
the Deere contract was expiring Oct. 1, and was ratified overwhelmingly by the
members the following weekend, with less than 75 voting
against ratification.
the
plant
was
“In view of these considerations,
the International
Executive Soard, in accordance
with
the
authority
granted by the International
Constitution, will undertake
show decent concern for
the plight of its employees, who have spent long
years in its service,” commented Gosser.
“But thus far the company has shown a brutal
disregard for both its workers
of the membership
participated in the vote.
“Furthermore,
many
of
those who did vote cast their
started and before the agree-
ment
UAW Sues to Save
Runaway Autolite Jobs
on
ly 25%
provements
cation by UAW Harvester Locals by Oct. 22. Its
terms will then be retroactive to Oct. 1.
“This is the first time
that the UAW has reached a settlement with Harvester without a strike,”
We noted the unfavorable
conditions under which the
on
negotiators
have
a new,
three-year
The contract is expected to be put up for ratifi-
as to the benefits
provided
a strike
Racing
week protection and comimprovements
pany-paid
in medical-hospital coverimother
among
age,
provements.
1
widespread
misunderstanding and lack
of under72
Local
standing among
members
—
press.
The new
ment follows the “pattern” settlement recently won by the
union
at GM _ covering
wage
increases,
better
supplemental
unemploy-
up-to-the-minute
an
given
got
«
contract covering 35,000
workers
employed
by
Harvester
International
Corp. in 11 cities, UAW
Vice President Pat Greathouse announced just as
SOLIDARITY
went
to
ter contracts for production
workers,
maintenance
and
and for clerical and technical
employees. A third is seeking to write a master agreement for the first time, to
cover some 1,200 members
working in the company’s
UAW
won
VICE
MAT-
for more
deadline,
against
WITH
M E ETING
PRESIDENT NORMAN
at Harvester
work
at
been
than two months, Two of
them are negotiating for im-
CHICAGO
S
have
teams
gaining
New Contract
Won at Ford
Continued
from
Page
1
receive the annual improvement factor wage increase of
214% or 6c an hour, whichever is greater,
@ Their real wages will
continue to be protected
against increases in the cost
of living.
@ When they retire, their
pension benefits will be increased by about
$12 a
month on the average, over
the benefits now paid retired
workers.
@ In addition, for them
and for the already retired
workers,
premiums
half the monthly
for hospitaliza-
tion and surgical insurance
tion and surgical insurance will be paid.
Moreover, Bannon said,
working agreement improvements “have real meaning”
in
Included
for workers.
for
provisions
are
these
smoother handling of griev-
ances,
tice,
out
proper
overtime
strengthened
safeguards,
farming-
opening
implement
widespread problems of lines
of demarcation,
and more.
agree-
magazine
corporations
International Harvester
—
35,000,
about
with
Corp.,
and Caterpillar Tractor,
with 24,000 — were continuing to work under present
contracts, extended beyond
the Oct. 1 expiration date.
As Solidarity went to
press, the UAW negotiating teams
at Harvester
had served notice to the
company of cancellation of
the contracts as of 7 a.m.
Monday, Oct, 16.
Three separate union bar-
of
the way for broader seniority protection on the local
level, new ways to solve the
section of this issue of Solidarity.
Meanwhile, the membership of two other agricultural
no-
See
Magazine
Section
:
Help Wanted—
YOUR
With
Detroit’s
urgent
election
Noy. 7 voters have started
which candidates they will
_ Both
Pointed as
dorsements
dates
economic
on
actions
grams.
to spotlight
support.
neighborhood
their
and
records,
their
and
plant
other
are
urged
to
their
bors
gate
to pass
the
pressing
city
the
need
to
add
to
working
Detroit’s
of
Detroit
the
and
top
has
recent
years
nation’s
largest
industrial
been
by
three national
hit
areas,
hard
the
lican administration.
As a result, about one
eight
workers
in
Repub-
the
of
city
were on layoff during the last
recession’s
height.
Its heavy
impact
still
many
lies.
Big jobs are ahead in Detroit.
They involve urban renewal, housing development, school improvement, port expansion, tax problems
and much more.
Those jobs must benefit YOU. To
do this, the Wayne County AFLCIO is endorsing candidates in the
city election Tuesday, Nov. 7.
your
want
candidates
Those
help. They need your votes so, as
council
members,
for the programs
they
can
that mean
jobs, more income, more security
for people.
You'll get word on the endorsements in plant gate leaflets to be
distributed by the union. Pass the
leaflets on to your neighbors; talk
up the endorsements in your shop.
To build a better future, we must
begin
now.
Start by being sure to
vote Tuesday, Nov.7
dates
endorsed
by
County AFL-CIO,
work
more
for the candi-
the
Wayne
ITLR ULL
TNT
LOLLLULCLCOO OULU
workers
Among
being
and
the
their
felt
by
fami-
programs
backed by candidates likely
to receive labor’s support are
urban renewal, neighborhood
conservation
ment,
port
housing
of
Other
expansion,
would
economy
and
compelling
yolve
human
rights
city’s
senior
citizens,
zens,
problems
surfacing
the
jobs.
issues
for
traffic,
smoke
improved
library
each
in-
all citi-
involving
and
facilities,
and
and
spur
street
the
re-
parking
abatement,
recreational
facilities
for
well as children.
adults
and
as
Aime
name
decide
‘ALINVGITOS
pin-
on
en-
New
is
because
and earnest
public
familiar
work
and
An
expert
active
committees
the
city’s
Commission’s
After
De-
on numerous
in urban
Organization
to
his
y was
in cha
economist
Plan
of
private
and boards in
munity
life.
com-
planning,
senior social
of the City
Community
Division,
years
of
studying
De-
troit’s
many
problems
and
working as a private citizen to
help
solve
them,
Ravitz
decided he could help even more
as
a public
official,
making
policy. This, he says, is why he
seeking
election
public
Develop
to
Council.
federal
here;
to
any
goyernment
back
outlaw
federal
industrial
end
state;
more
encourage
growth;
ic
facilities
port
Detroit's econom-
to encourage
contracts
legislation
by
piracy
discrimination
apprenand
employment
in
tice training; reduce or eliminate the personal property tax
workers;
work
encourage
school
strengthen
industry
To Hear Forand
Congressman
to
being
His experiences have led him
into new
ideas and new
approaches to many of Detroit’s
are:
Some
headaches
biggest
improve-
development,
which
city’s
and
met
troiters
is
Seniors Rally
Vote Tuesday November 7
MUTI
is
His
of
out
were
deciding
r
A new
face
among
candi- a
dates for Common
Council of 93
Detroit
is Mel
Ravitz,
Wayne
State
Uniy
y
sociology “
under
Eisenhower-Nixon
every
in
impact
recessions
in
professor.
human
economic
development.
endorsements will specify
cities
the
year’s
officials
improve
them.
One
this
is
the
shop.
in office—and
—those
and
The
neighup
the
of
issues
continue
to
in
hub
along
and
as talking
endorsements
Voters
these
friends
as well
At
matters
Tuesday
For Council,
Is City Expert
leaflets
material.
on
issues
Ravitz,
pro-
Word on the endorsements
is to be distributed to voters
through
ahead
vital
labor’s official represntatives
of specific candi-
based
their
and
looming
HOPG
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Detroit Heads for Nov.
AVN
Compelling Issues in Spotlight As
troit.
and
efforts
training
of
program;
to
business
attract
to
De-
J. Forand,
retired,
author
of the
basic
legislation
to provide
health
ULLLLLLLLCULULLLLLCLULLLLLLLCOL LULL
aged
the
for
care
security,
will
speaker
at
curity,
which
be
a
social
under
the
rally
principal
of
senior
citizens to be held Wednesday,
November 15, 1961, at 10 a.m.
at Cobo Hall in Detroit.
Congressman
Forand is
National
the
of
chairman
Council of Senior Citizens for
Health Care Under Social Se-
Steering
The rally
sist and to
the
co-sponsor
the
with
rally along
Area UAW Senior Citi-
of the
Detroit
zens
the
is
growing
Committee.
will be held to asfocus attention on
need
for
basic
leg-
islation of the type originally
proposed by Congressman For-
and
and
now
King-Anderson
in
embodied
Bill.
the
Senators
and
Congressmen
of
success
that
noted
haye
for
through
cal care
depends
roots
SWORN
IN
as a new
federal
judge
was
H. McCree
(second
from left), a member
of UAW's
Public Review Board and a circuit court judge in Detroit until appointed to the new post by
President Kennedy. Before Judge McCree took his oath of office, his nomination was approved
by a U, S. Senate Judiciary subcommittee following a hearing conducted by Sen, Philip A. Hart
Machrowicz
Thaddeus
Congressmen
were
(third from left). Endorsing McCree at the hearing
(left), now a federal judge also, and Charles Diggs, Jr., (right), both of Detroit,
Detroiters - Go-Go-Go
on
social
developing
medi-
security
the
for
support
grass-
bill.
For
man
Congressreason,
this
Forand has organized the
izens
and
National
Wade
providing
legislation
Council
has
of Senior
asked
for cooper-
ation and support from
ganized groups of older
All
retired
Cit-
members
all orpeople,
of
the
and their retired neighUAW
bors, relatives and friends are
invited to the rally.
FORWARD
VOTE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER
OPPORTUNITY — JOBS — SECURITY
SHOWING
cern
for
the
his
deep
problems
of
con-
peo-
ple, Detroit Common Council
candidate Mel Rayitz joined
the picket line of unemployed
protesting
workers
Chrysler
the
and
layoffs
large-scale
corporation's overtime policy.
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10
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Torch Fund Drive Opens October 17
a Top Goal of $18,350,000.
Lipshaw Mfe.
Co. on Strike
As One Year Contract Ends
sion
October
Monday,
strike
on
A
2nd, at 10:00 am.
The issues are reinstatement
of the Plant Chairman, a new
contract, wages and working
conditions,
one
The
thirty
Picket
ex-
(1) year contract
Central,
manufactures
hospital
and laboratory
equipment
and
employs
workers.
lines
are
manned
on
a
Cal
basis.
twenty-four «hour
Fletcher is the Local Representative assigned to the plant.
Planning
Pre-Retirement
in Pre-
Retirement Education started at
1-A Headquarters,
the Region
8222 Joy Road, Wednesday evening, October 11, from 7:00 p.m.
to 9:00
This
pm.
free
workers
nearing
to
open
is
course
retirement
their wives,
There is still time
and
get
the
discussed
in-
to
major portion of this course
you attend the next session.
years
ment
and
Work
be like;
in a changing world;
Mon-
and
Family,
in retirement;
happiness
retire-
Health
retirement;
and
ey
will your retirement
What
clude:
be
to
Subjects
if
friends and living arrangements;
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tirement,
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(Detroit
and Max
Standard)
(Revere Copper).
RECREATION
Edward
can
Brass),
(Rockwell
ilow
Lee
Joe
Glass),
neering
plant.
who
are
(Ternstedt
Spring),
cision
(Rockwell
Zander
that
James
John
Bradley
Mildred
(Ternstedt
Mfg.).
Mfg.)
WOMEN'S
J.
and
Mel Ravitz
Has Labor's
Endorsement
County|
Diam-|
and
Hoy
Traylor,
Labor
of Local 174 endorses the drive
and urges all units to give full
Manager, Electric-!
cooperation
in
meeting
the
by
Wayne
the
for election
mon Council
to
is
17
Sears
County
endorsed
AFL-CIO
Detroit’s ComMel Ravitz, as-
oa
Michigan
dent,
Council:
Szur
Alex
(Tern-
Penman
Szur
Mildred
and
Martha
Livonia),
Building
Detroit
Trades
=
Interna-|
McFarlane,
Andrew
Treasurer,
ing
Trades
Plant
Guard
Detroit
Council;
goal
set
for
Many
174
have
the
Torch
x
SRT een
money
the
by
e
EVERYONE
to help the
goal,
members
supported
oer
Ser
plants.
themselves of the many
offered
by the various
agencies
Drive.
} IF
|part
the
Local
availed
services
United|
President,
Workers.
Co-Director}
AFL-CIO:
Lucien!
Mike
1, UAW;
Region
Wayne
Vice-President,
Council
i
James
Merrelli,,
George
does his or her
:
fund reach its
will
raised
be
its
Detroit
The
United
can
aie
be
well
Foundation
give-once-for-all
tradition,
idea origi«
here and has been
most communities
nated
Novak,
County | ed by
Canada
and
States
United
of
proud
adopt+
In the
=
de
Course in Steward Training
To Start Thurs., Oct. 26th
MEL
C
(Rockwell
Presi-
Masons
and
Bricklayers
Macioci, Presi2; Marion
dent,
Local
retary
Lewkowicz
Livonia),
AFL-CIO
Johnson,
Fergus
Council;
Participation.
for Labor
Robert}
58;
Local
Mat-
Clinic;
Orthopedic
Detroit
starts
vital services
these
make
tional Labor Union Representa-|t9
Sec-| available to all who need them
tive; Thomas McNamara, Build-|
in the coming year.
(PreMar-
the
is the drive’s Chairman
treasurer
COM-
Max
at
is a patient
Ann
Holmes, Vice-Cchairman, Team-}
sters Joint Council.
SecretaryHopkins,
Barney
non-incumbent
Only
with UAW
to preview
which
Drive
Torch
Foundation
United
annual
Workers
al
Unt-
(Avon
Retell
Thais
Metal),
(American
Belcher
Tube), Mary
(Fisher
Detroit’s
Ernest
COMMITTEE:
Products),
Metal
(Ternstedt
Mfg.)
UAW
THAT’S LITTLE MISS TORCHLIGHTER, Ann Rule,
Vice President Norman Matthews at a get-together
Dan-
Li(Fisher
Schultz
Frances
vonia), Bessie Fuller (American
Bradley
FOUNDATION
Savitskle
(Fisher
Thompson
Labor;
Local 174
a
Metal),
Copper),
Standard),
stedt
Alex
Standard),
(Revere
the
Eric DeRoss,
iin
Kapanowski
(Detroit
W.
of
drive.| Workers;
DRIVE
(Ameri-
.WORKERS
James
MITTEE:
the
porn
(Roberts
Mfg.)
RETIRED
same
McGahey,
Frank
and
versal)
inthe
(Shatterproof
Nizio
Treas
deadline but voted to support
their brothers in Product Engi-
Zander
C,
(American
Joe
strike
Universal),
Mfg.),
Monday
in
members
Business
thews
Barney
Hunter
(Ternstedt
A.
the
(Rockwell
Standard),
Secretary
their
Spring),
Joseph
Heath
ond,
COMMITTEE:
Herman
Weir,
the Labor Partici- | Director, District 29, United Steel
bour, President,
Wayne
AFL-CIO
Council;
Dan
Oct.
Joseph
Kwasniewski
Tube),
that
DETROIT
Stamping).
(Precision
Criscenti
International | «pBoots”
Participation
Committee
are:| Representatives, United FoundaThomas Badoud, Representative, | tion.
United Mine Workers;
Al BarPresident
Harry
Southwell
METROPOLITAN
Zygman
Products),
Neu
en-?———————
Engineering
to
UNITED
COMACTION
POLITICAL
William
(COPE):
MITTEE
Metal
(American
Thompson
Products), Arthur E. Smith (Au-
tomatic
the
full
cost
for low
and
(Detroit
Jamroz
the
Committee
Other
reach-
settled
prior
services.
Controls)
was
Product
If you are over 50, why not
bring your wife to these helpful
classes at the Region 1-A Office, 8222 Joy Road, Wednesdays
at 7:00 p.m.
troit
pation
September
agreement
of
airman of
12 in support of the Product
Engineering Division returned
to work Friday, September 15,
an
has
an ~ ocal
Unions. UAW Vice-|
yrerer, Car
ae District
i
2
Carpenters
CounEresigent Bonnan Matthews is| c¢jJ: Charles Younglove, District
re-
September
on
drive
dorsement
recalled
Division
strike
The
Seplocal
September
were
Ternstedt
housing for the elderly; Retirement living in the South and
the West; Union drop-in centers
and
program
recreation
and
Community
strike
plant
to work by Monday,
tract gains for retired workers;
Health insurance under Social
Security; Widows and survivors
Prospects
the
employees
con-
New
under Social Security;
benefits;
Divi-
out on
on Monday,
Ternstedt
Local Standing Committees
Elected by Joint Council
were
The following members
elected to the Local Standing
the
from
and
by
Committees
Local Joint Council:
18.
and
$18,350,000 to operate the 198 agencies in the tri-county area
of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb Counties.
retirement
Early
as:
questions
Livonia
walked
problems,
to such
will be given
Answers
opened
ed
and Your
worker;
and plans for re-
the retired
experiences
who
demands
after
Classes Start at Region 1A
A seven session course
Body
at the 10:00 a.m, deadline
tember
11, settled their
Lipshaw Manufacturing Com-}pired on September 28, 1961,
The company located at 7446
pany, a Division of Local 174,
went
and
GM Strikes End
Fisher
The United Foundation Torch Drive opens October 17th
runs through November 9th, this year, with a goal of
Hy
With
sistant
and
State
Dr.
KRAVITZ
professor
of
at
anthropology
University.
sociology
Wayne
his
received
who
Ravitz,
of
University
the
from
Ph.D.
Michigan held the post of senior
social
City
economist
Plan
is
an
the
Commission
1953-1960 while
Wayne State.
He
of
Detroit
teaching
executive
from
at
board
member of Local 1295, AFSCME
and was alternate delegate to
the
Wayne
County
in Steward
A course
AFL-CIO,
mitteemen’s Training will start
26th at the
October
Thursday,
Local Hall,
class will be six weekly
The
sessions from
wo-hour
:
iY 9 nin
deal
will
rak
eaa
The1
ea
I
‘Si
C
to
How
grievances,
write
How
and
to
7
p.m
;
with: :
process
negotiate
vanced
be
across,
other
of
How
to get your
Human
factors
getting
in
along
relations
the
with
views
and
business
people,
this
situations
playing
used.
training
Role
course.
and
bé
other
techniques
ad<
wilk
This class is sponsored by thé
the
of
Committee
Education
»e and
ope n t a
and ope
Bacacall ¢and is free
|~""
No
representawith management
tives. The art of effective bar- | sary.
gaining,
during
shown
will
films
fine
Several
Com-
and
registration will be
to
plan
you
If
neces+
attend
these free classes, come to Local
174 Hall, 6495 West Warren, a#
|7:00
26th.
p.m,
Thursday,
Octobem
Frere
Page
174
Local
Side
West
:
er
FIRESTONE
SOLIDARITY
OF
EDITION
CONVEYOR
2
FAX
Would Give Our Youngsters a Chance
OREN
I pointed
HUBBARD
out
in my
last
umn that even though our
mittee
was
experiencing
difficulty
in
negotiating
Side
Locel
ot Amclgamoted
Worren
HARRY
174 CONVEYOR
Edition is the officiel! publication
Ave., Detroit 10. Phone TY. 8-5400.
CAL FLETCHER.
SOUTHWELL. President
West
6445
UAW-AFL-CIO,
174,
Locol
Side
West
Vice-President
ROLAND GARLAND, Financial Secretary
AMES THOMPSON, Recording Secretory
‘
MAX ZANDER,
BLAINE DAVIS, MARTHA BRADLEY, Trustees
GENE)
KELLY Guide, ED KWASNIEWSKI, Sergeant-at-Arms
Member
THE
PRESIDENT
AFL-CIO
Labor
Press Council
SOUTHWELL
All through the recorded history of the world nations
have risen and fallen periodically and these movements have
always reflected the results of inspired leadership or the
lack of it
The organized labor movement throughout the world has
recorded similar declines and advances for the same reason.
STRONG EFFECTIVE UNIONS built by positive dedicated leadership have declined and finally disappeared under
negative and weak leadership. ,
What is leadership? Webster Dictionary defines it as,
“one
who
goes
before
and
shows the way, who proceeds
or directs in some
action,
opinion
or
movement
and
|
is
followed by others in conduct
and undertakings.”
Every union official from
line steward to president of
a national organization
there
functioning
them
guidance
and
procedure
and
actions.
e
evidenced
se-
by
proved
the
majority at our meeting
September
The
24th.
2
committee
as
we
happy.
all
are
quite
pleased
of
leadership
and
e
YOUR
EDITOR
and
apologizes
sundry—I
was a
to
little
mixed up on the clause I mentioned in my last article, although it did not prove a factor,
to
accept
men,
were
also
quite
pleased,
present
bad
economic
fevere test in this year’s contract negotiations.
A
weak
negative
leadership
that
is
trolled will refuse to initiate or recommend
politically
to a
con-
but will invite
the membership to make decisions on important issues that
they
to
are
not
always
fully
informed
on, and
if things
go
wrong, he will insist he was “only carrying out the
decisions of the membership.”
The membership of.any unit has the right and the duty
demand
that
their
elected
leader
give
a full
explanation
and make a recommendation on all important issues, If he
won't do this, he is not worthy of leadership and should be
replaced at the first opportunity.
What
Does
Labor
Want?
Samuel Gompers put it this way:
“What does labor want? It wants the earth and the full-
ness thereof. There is nothing too precious, there is nothing
too lofty, too ennobling unless it is within the scope and
eure
TounDATOm
Physical and
early death.
mental
In fact, early retirement
tnally may conserve health
leisure
and
less
greed;
more
justice
in fact, more of the opportunities to culnatures, to make manhood more noble,
womanhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and
childhood more happy and bright.”
That statement is as true today as ever.
In labor’s
searching to bring it to fulfillment, we all need to understand
one another, to reconcile our differences, and to work together
for
the
common
good.
needed
nice,
the
lot.
but
we
front
They
still
I
WAS
to
learn
only
This
the
tragedy
further
im
points
such
must
ture
early retirement)
look forward to
on
earth,
this
prove
or three
years
Hard
this,
He
and
deserved
many
YES, WALTER
e
fate,
CLEM
can
only
and
could
and.
go with
we
security
of
for the fu-
then
become
all the
responsibilities
it.
could
their
whom
citizens, with
i
get married, have
own
corners
and
homes—to
into
hold
country
their
their head
to belong.
can
do_
this,
they don’t need money, There
are
billions
in
our
Social
Security Fund. We only need
leaders with enough foresight
we
need—where
the
see
to
are headed and to provide legislation.
must
work
a future,
HOPE
together
e
ITS NOTHING
Rosy’s
on
hurried
trip
serious—
to
North
Carolina.
“Bill”
Wentzel_
is on his
annual world series vacation.
places.
and
for
this two-pronged objective.
Let’s give the oldster a future,
and the young a present with
statistics
a better
class
benefit-
retirement,
upon
progress
We
of life
other
early
lean so heavily
street.
up
Walter Clem worked hard all
his life; in the coal mines, Firestone,
greatly
youth,
nation,
despond-
necessary to a full life-and a
rewarding one to their community.
r
.
e
THEY COULD GET off the
to
cases
live on
usually
the
pension,
These
Our
where the average man, upon
retiring at 65 (most cannot
one, two
full
be
an
elders.
and respected Walter and regret
not having had the privilege of
“paying my last respects”.
My
condolences
young
would
high—and
of the death of Walter Clem
while I was on vacation. I liked
apologies
and
his family.
the
children, bank their money, buy
cars, furniture, all the things
Cross says he would like to
see more hand trucks and those
that we have put in such a condition that a man’ can shove
them.
e
SADDENED
very
who
by
They
to have those mud holes filled
up and some straight lines.
How
about
a black top—we
can afford it?
broke,
at
ted
that
like
the
home,
could
privileges
would
at
and
first
very
youth,
ent,
the
restless
of
our
country,
are
the
American
embittered,
our
of
token, the mil-
the
improye-
Pete
clock
See
Every
the
millions
of Walter
Clems
all
over the country
and
in all
walks of life deserve. a better
versity
of
Michigan
Gerontology.
In
1953,
for
p.m.
The
or
of
when
than 100 executives showed that
retirement
had
no effect
on
though
or
some
mental
tensions
health,
were
ment.
In
a third
study
health
and
mortality
a large
showed
women
on
the
al-
ap-
period
retire-
involving
data of
communicano evidence
that retirment hastened
death
or led to a decline in health. Instead,
the
findings
suggested
that mortality was lower in the
Period following retirement, regardless of the age of the individual involved.
course
sessions
and
will
will
be
six
deal
with the following subjects:
Community
Services for
Union Families (How to Secure
Them—Policies and Services—
Public and Private Agencies).
What
Women’s
acand
researchers interviewed elder
members of the International
Ladies Garment
Workers’
Union
in New
York, almost
half (48 per cent) said their
health improved after retirement. One-third said it was
the same. Only one-sixth reported it was worse.
Similarly, a 1959 study of more
Physical
free
weekly
Division
example,
for
in the Cafeteria of Solidarity
House, 8000 E. Jefferson at 7:30
extend life, says Wilma Donahue
(Ph.D.), chairman of the Uni-
Pensioners
tion firm
more
on
the
will have to buy an alarm
now,
you next month.
man’s life is a fairy tale,
Written by God’s
Buenas Noches.
union, its program
and
gous|
will start Wednesday, October 25,
decline
and less revenge;
tivate our better
crime;
appreciate
Classes
ANN ARBOR
— Contrary to
population
opinion,
retirement
doesn’t generally result in major
parent in the transition
immediately
following
less
you, Johnny.
of
faces
delinquents,
the
near-delinquents, those whose help is
that
clothes
in a
forgets which
which
fingers,
Starts Wednesday, Oct. 25
At UAW Solidarity House
comprehension of labor’s aspirations and wants.
.. We
want more school houses and less jails; more books and less
arsenals; more learning and less vice; more constant work
and
diesetter
that
Union Class for Women
Early Retirement
have this May
Save Health
situation
by inde- And Extend Life
that confronts the membership who are employed
pendent or supplier companies will put this leadership
the
Thank
parking
one.
Remember you people on the
afternoon shift: It was quite
a notable achievement getting
you paid on Thursday nights.
If you abuse this privilege by
too much absenteeism on Fridays, you may lose this advantage. So, count your bless-
lions
union.)
e
is
ments
I had it wrong anyway.
I always try never to be too
big to apologize—Or
too small
national respect but went on to fill
the
We
and
highly important positions in state and federal offices.
type
one?
Some gains were
made and
some concessions given, but all
all
your
than
them today.
By the same
at an ordinary
it is that kind
leayes his work
local “Bistro” and
able
comments
were
made
upon
the
fair
manner
in
which the company dealt with
the Committee.
not only build organi-
IN MOST OF THE UNITS of Local 174 we.still
Who
whole
’
e
ing:
were
treated
to a round
of
applause deservedly and favor-
in
makes
fate-
MIKE
GRABOWSKI
has
a
new Pontiac—with power steer-
en-
out
who
that
Sunday,
a
surprised, to see Clar-
we never see
meeting
(and
to
tosca
and women
zations that commanded
comsome
our
endorsement’ of the committee
and the ratification of our new
contract
by an overwhelming
We in the UAW, and parHARRY SOUTHWELL
ticularly Local 174, have been
very fortunate in that we started with an abundance of dedicated leadership, men
col-
plant.
ULTIMATELY
as_
We
direction and to initiate and
recommend
of our
some
ence Rose. We thought perhaps
that
driving
without
power
steering might have tired him.
And, man, the faces we saw
at that meeting! way out! faces
too practical, too human,
too
fair and too honest to allow anything to interrupt our good relations and the normal efficient
leader in his particular
field of activity. He was
elected by his constituents
to give
and
I expressed the belief that’our
negotiators, on both sides, were
ings,
is a
would be no
rious trouble.
true
REPORTS:
HARRY
contract
THIS
Strong Positive Leadership
Makes for Effective Unions
By
1961
Farlier Retirement for Workers
ee
By
West
October,
Makes
An
Committee
Programs — Projects
how).
Effective
Shop
Problems
—
(Goals—
Know-
(Griey-
ance Procedure — Collective
Bargaining Gains—Policy—Job
Rights, ete.). How to Multiply
Your Vote (Recruiting Methods—Campaign Activities).
~
Understanding
the
Union
(Structure and Administration
—Role of the Local Union—
Your
Role
in
the
Union).
The classes are sponsored by
Regions
1 and
1-A
Women’s
Dethe Women’s
Committees,
partment
junction
of the UAW in conwith
Local
Women’s
Committees.
Refreshments
at these sessions.
will
be
served
Settlement at Lyon, Inc.
The
contract,
approved
and
signed,
at
Lyon,
Inc.,
we
feel, is something new in bargaining at the Local and plant
levels. Men with one to ten years seniority are picked up
in the severance plan (which is something new) and also
have a right to quit and still draw out their severance.
The five-man committee, Ed Reno, Harry Southwell,
and the Union Lawyer, John Fillion, feel that the contract
negotiated at Lyon, Inc., is something new in negotiations
where a plant is moving South.
People up to ten years seniority can have severance.
People with ten years and more can have severance plus
option in pension plan or cash above and beyond the severance
plan. Also, vacation pay is not lost due to severance with the
company. A three year contract, six cents (6c) raise or
annual improvement factor, cost of living with 12c
2%%
added to the base rate and six cents (6c) float. Insurance
paid,
plus
one
addition
month
after
lay-off.
All production is moving in a matter of a few months—
then the best answer is a severance pay based on loss of
jobs—plus a job until the plant moves and a chance of getting
to remain at the plant to work on missiles for the government
in
the near future.
All the above was considered in negotiations with Lyons,
Inc, management. We feel a job was well done by the above
people
to the best of their ability.
CONVEYOR
1961
October,
EDITION
OF
SHATTERPRROF
4
Page 3
SOLIDARITY
GLASS
‘We're STILL
All New Stewards
To Attend Classes
By
ROSS
PATTON,
Plant
Fonveyor:
in the Red
Jr.
Chairman
Well vacations ,are over and
everyone is looking forward to
the holidays.
Contract
negotiations
will
start on our new contract right
after the holidays, so anyone
who has any suggestions, please
turn. them into your committee
so that we can get an idea of
what you think we should include in our negotiations.
e
ALSO,
PLEASE
attend
all
fu-
ture
meetings
as the coming
months will be very important
to our
contract,
We regret that due
cost of negotiations we
Colvin,
doctor, Wallace
to the new
is introduced
board member,
O.D., at the Co-op Optical Service by Dr. Sidney G. Gilbert
(on left). Mr. Litwinski is the Local 174 delegate to the Co-op
Advisory Council which includes representatives from all unions
Nick
affiliated with the Co-op.
chairman
Service,
to give a first quality service to union, credit union and Co-op
members.-Local 174 members have used the Co-op Optical more
than any other single union. The Co-op Optical is at 1320 N.
Dearborn,
Telegraph,
steward has optical
phone number.
WOLVERINE
the
with
cards
service
Road
Ford
between
and
address
hours,
soon
JOHN
YOUNG
couldn’
Well, as you know, our contract negotiations are practical-
ly at a standstill
this
at the time
writing.
of
Our strike vote turned out
yery good. About 89% fayored
a strike.
The
strike deadline
was set for September 16th.
A special meeting was called
for the 16th of September and
@ motion was made to reject the
company’s
latest
proposal,
which carried overwhelmingly.
A second proopsal was made
to extend the contract indefinotely with a clause that either
party
has
to
notify
the
other
30 days before we could strike.
This proposal also carried oyerwhelmingly.
This, I think, was
a hairbrained proposal, especially the thirty-day
clause,
but
our committee recommended it
100%
and the members
went
along
(the
and
that
majority
is
what
anyway)
counts,
majority, that is.
But remember,
the
went along in ’58 on
Cross
by
which
an
was
incapable
the
majority
our Blue
recommended
committee
and
you can see at the end of each
month when about $6,000.00 of
our
Cross
money
goes
which
hefore
be doing
to
the
and
which
now
pay
company
they
in ’61.
Blue
paid
should
I didn’t
go along
with
the
contract
extension
because
a
remark made at the bargaining
table is not binding on either
party and
when
the company
made
would
the statement that if we
wait until the other com-
panies
settled
they
would
equal
or better their settlements.
They
may
equal
some
little
“hole
in the
wall”
company’s
settlement
if
any
sonable
am
big
to hold
the
company
settlement
not a big enough
I
line,
gets
a
but
rea-
personally
of a wish-
ful thinker to believe for one
minute
that
Wolverine
Tube
will hand over a 10 or 15 or 20c
raise
without
After
two
a fight.
months
of
meetings.
where
asked
Especially
would
the
one
at
company
representative
the International
out here
and offer some advice. As far
as I know there hasn’t been a
request up to this point for a
representative
help us,
I think
committee
proven
yet but
to come
that
now.
to
few
a
a
They
good
haven't
completely
are trying,
They
are
peaceful
settlement
placed
beside his machine so he
not have to spend too
a fajr
son
day’s
who
work,
goes
should
but
any
around
per-
trying
to
set records to get a pat on the
back is lacking somwhere and it
isn’t his shoe soles,
Well,
I see
Ray
Staggs
is get-
ting in shape back in Dept. 30.
He must be expecting to be put
on production permanently the
way he transfers coils and works
on
machines.
put
guess
the
him
the
union
to him
made
After
ones
they?
Our
back
oath
hall
past
on
salary,
he
meant
regardless
Two
be
of
I
to
at
whether
he
something
of
represented
more
but
swore
the
boss
mad
all, the members
to
steward
our
or
not.
are the
aren't
and
Stanley
Noworol,
and
of poor
Let's
from
which
all
union’s
ts another
leadership
for a better
be,
the
join
ranks
future,
fight for it,
in the
sad
Health
and
and
if need
accepted
social
security
that
in
sinister
some
about
mysterious
federal
way
programs
such
programs
for
the
threaten
If anyone is in the slightest degree frightened by this chorus,
he owes it to himself to become familiar with a study just released
by
the
security,
country
covers
study
The
by
country.
casual
the
even
to
and
countries
41
of sociai
cost
comparative
the
on
Organization
Intl. Labor
reader
The countries spending the largest percentage of their income on social welfare programs are the highly industrialized,
progressive states of western Europe.
e The United States, which ranks 25th in the listing, is in
shots.
persons over 65; and
women,
Those who
Michigan,
fluenza
In
deaths,
tributory
was
could
have
OF
vaccination,”
significant
e
THESE
of
in-
con-
DEATHS
prevented’
Dr.
Heustis
by
said.
fluenza usually strike in fairly
consistant cycles, but we are
Type
B
flu
out-
breaks, which come in four to
six year cycles, and we may
be in for a major assult from
Asian
strikes
years.”
flu,
which
every
two
usually
to
three
The
commissioner
recommended routine annual immunization
against
must
have
tries
are
semi-public
influenza
for high
risk groups, as well as infants,
for the care
those responsible
of the sick, and those providing
essential public services.
been
or
Here
spent
income
them
by
top
the
the
since
into
a
For
security
in western
health
insurance
such
Countries
Europe,
as
the
Under
lowing
Deal
item:
a
Off,
“A $200
urday when
picked
we're
unton
labor
prepared
for
it,’*
to
PEACE
FIGHT
and
the
6.6
6.6
5.7
5.7
»=Tunisia ........
South Africa
GOVT OM i catccssscsssssve<ivccavesserovesess
Guatemala
.....
Turkey
Viet Nam
India .
Taiwan
53
5.2
44
41
2.9
12
10
10
03
when the question of
security is developing
in the world, this addition to social
relatively minor. Most of our allies,
have
which
long
proyide
United
adopted
since
protection
West
Kingdom,
programs
for all citiGermany,
they
France and Italy are regarded as free democracies and yet
have found that freedom Is better safeguared when a high priori«
citizens.
ty is placed on the health and well-being of their
Line;
want
of
8.2
Tt
7.6
......
Smart monkey
“we
percentages
expenditures:
country,
many of the nations
would be considered
of national
zens.
this
statistical
the
Japan
114
114
10.8
99
9.8
9.5
8.8
85
H
in
the
coun-
Curtain
Panama
Portugal
U.S.A. ..
. 11.6
issue
major
consider
with
study is realeased at a time
for the aged through social
ILO
care
particularly
security
Israel
12.8
12.5
11.6
....
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Treland
Norway
Luxembourg
Yugoslavia
Australia
Canada
....
Chile
not
listed,
Iron
few
by a public,
Switzerland
Poland
Iceland
14.2
....
a
administered
as sufficient.
. 20.0
. 17.9
.148
New Zealand
.
Sweden
Finland ..
The
medical
did
social
on
....
Denmark
ILO
Only
countries
33
West German,
aeetehentint
France
BBBTIA iiss cnrciaccon arses
Italy
body.
autonomous
available
are
and
set up by legislation
included,
made
national
many
se-
as social
curity programs such things as sickness and unemployment insur~
ance, pensions, family allowances, public health services and so on.
To be considered for inclusion in the ILO study, the program
onset
been
for
with such countries as Portugal and Panama.
It should be explained that the ILO study ranks
the
great
“But once influenza appears in
the community, it is too late to
protect high risk groups.
“The various strains of inoverdue
step
data
factor.
“MANY
@
commissioner
a
a
of legislation.
the
case
hope
have
He recommended immediate
vaccination
of persons
with
heart or pulmonary
disease,
diabetes
and
other
chronic
Albert
E.
people con-
con-
past,
Americans
something
our freedoms.
Engineering.,, Our
.heartfelt
sympathy goes to the families
passed
is
of
tract,
the money in December or January to give us a raise if they
don't have it now and another
question
was
asked—why
we
there
aged
members
get
about
that
passed away in the last month,
Charlie
Kolonis, of the Tool
Ctib
most
sidered poor health risks to consult with their physicians about
other
do
years
certain well-founded conclusions are immediately apparent:
e@ Practically every country in the world has some form of
social security.
e@ Most countries have medical care programs, the product
explained.
would
much
many
| as a civilized approach to erasing the financial problem of growing old.
Of late, however, a small but vocal chorus—devoted to
the ideals of the 19th Century—has been preaching the philosophy
State
Commissioner,
Dr,
Heustis, who urged
in
time going to get a drink. I am
sure the company
joins me in
these three cheers: They
also
cheered the boys in manufacturing
for
their
outstanding
performance, then shipped them
out the next week.
man
warned
U. S. Lags Woefully in
Social Security Program
For
Persons
in these
categories
were the primary victims among
the 657 deaths attributed to the
flu during the past four years
teemen for breaking the record
on the Breakdown Block. They
even gave him a water cooler
every
start.
have not had previous influenza shots should have a second injection in two months,
I would
like to give three
cheers to one of our ex-commit-
I think
they
illnesses;
pregnant
trying
with the least hardship
on the members,
as
winter
flu
than I can say
have had in the
years.
reach
here and
have
themselyes
I think they
which is more
about some we
last
we
The
increase in flu cases this fall and
the
with
a strike
threat
hanging
over their heads,
I think some yery Interesting
were
a
meeting.
LANSING
— Michigan
residents can probably expect an
of Charlie and Stanley,
.is scheduling
Company
The
midnights and days for Saturday work and leaying afternoons
at home, We had equalization
but
MacDonald,
Alex
under
it
line
the
along
somewhere
negotia-
tions,
the
best
they
came
up
with was about a 34c¢ raise, even
questions
from
get
ont
Flu Increase
In Michigan
This Winter
TUBE
Contract Extended
At Wolverine Tube
By
October
turn
All new stewards and comMitteemen
are to attend
the
training classes at the Local as
Your
Cheryhill.
and
our
a large
and hope that they attend the
union meetings each month.
The business part of the meeting will last only one hour from
4 to 5 pm.
1960,
April,
in
organized
was
cooperative,
a consumer
to see
Committee would like to welcome all of the new employees
Optical
The Co-op
of the council at the June meeting.
Hope
at
elected
was
Ternstedts,
Sahlaney;
to the
will no
longer be able to send our
sick members the checks that
we have been sending to them.
executive
and
Chairman
Plant
Litwinski, Detroit Brass
Stanley
:
line,
headline
reading
the Toronto
Star
Monkey
recently
Can't
Cross Picket
the fole
published
monkey business deal flopped in Toronto Satit brushed up against the Royal York hotel
Toronto
circus
performer
Bob
Logan
was
in a
shoul«
hotel near the Royal York with his pet monkey on his
der, when he was offered $200 for the animal.
was staying
“When the prospective buyer mentioned he
. ‘This is a
at the Royal York, Mr, Logan cancelled the deal
et line if
union monkey,’ he said. ‘He wouldn't cross that pick
you offered $500.”
nveyor
—Avu.. .JBE NEWS
By
for
$250
now,
cash
cost
There
of
years.
three
other
as
have
in Fab.
friends
from
slippers
and
and Bending. Earich’s friends in
collecthe Mill had taken up a
tion as a special gift for him.|
WE
our
e
A GOOD
HAD
Compensation,
International
the
from
out
up.
these
their
class
Training
and
George
those
9:30
about
attending
Conners,
dall,
Charley
Flanigan,
Gernith
October
new employee.
B. Eligibility
man
long
before
to
initiative
University
to
ought
acquire
he
of
ist maintains.
in
Michigan
marketing,
U-M
retraining programs
employed offer little
instruc-
to
|
retraining
does
“crash”)
Nearly
that
there
everybody
is need
the
must
we
ourselves,
ing
and
next
view
always
both
job,”
additional
iority.
C.
make
this
further
responsibility — not
ment’s
the
nor
that
nor
that
of
we
want
better
for retrain-
velop
|
as
to
act
on
scored
our
own
flexibility.”
CITING
an
prevent
THE
se
example,
it
FARM
our
own
and
one
seniority
application
employee
for
lose
our
These
to
if
|
have resulted.
|
“We
also
|}same
taken
| where
for
won
you
a Metrecal
break,’’
|
able
face
problem
workers
“and
re-
present
the
contract.
E,
During
the
life
of
this
under-
per-
to
whose
over
in
by
jobs
the workers
find
new
essentially
the
case
have
machines
jobs
and
is laid off from
said Ordnance
shall
be
Department work,
considered
eligible
for
severance pay and may exercise
his right in accordance with the
above provisions,
F.
During
the
life
of
this
Agreement, any employee who,
while still employed
by the
Company, secures employment
elsewhere
—
seniority
thereby
status as
quits—shall,
tain
the
right
the
date
he
eation
haye
to
appli-
normally
would
for severance
been
laid
pay
he
off
of
the
re-
date
presumed
and
the
as
he
terminated
quits.
G. The
as
parties
tlement
in
loaded
with legal loopholes.’’
The opening of the fall term
in one Southern city, reports the
Lansing Labor News, saw the
start of desegregation in the
grade.
one
When
the
seven-year-old
up
her
day,
daughter
she
was
happened.
answer
“There
mother
came
on
to
open-
eager
to find
Waiting
lay
came
was.a
sitting
next
little
to
Cautiously
employee
of
the
agree
lieu
un-
me
promptly.
all
Negro
girl
day.”
nonchalant,
the
mother posed the next question:
“What happened?”
“We were both so scared.
held hands all day.”
we
date
that
the
of
any
past,
By NORMAN J. MELOCHE
Hi
its
folks,
autumth
blazing
personally
most
swing,
in Michigan
We
because
mornings
and
consider
beautiful
year
is here
colors
use
on
to
what
season
the
word
we
be
the
in
full
the
swing
clear
everyone
with
of
is now
these
crisp
seems
to
havea little swing to their walk.
Sort of an its great to be alive
type of step.
Well folks, by the time you
read
this
our
contract
negotia-
tions should be well underway.
As of this writing we have not
yet
met
with
Your
management,
committee
has
one
meeting
with
representative, Phil
to
go
consider
people
at
our
over
the
the
contract
indicated
last
that
were
plant
in
and
you
order
have
tiated a
fair and
successfully
GRIM
THE
anther
nego-
good contract
that
equitable to all.
pass
e
through
our
ranks
recently and brother John
icky is no longer with us.
been
1948
an
employee
and
was
is
made
REAPER
ZewJohn
of F.S.W.
well
known
and liked by all of us. Our deepest sympathy to his family,
Poor
health
has
been
the
fortunate lot of several of
good
brothers
and
sisters
cently.
sick
the
are Bros.
as
list
un-
our
re-
this
of
Cecil Ritchie,
Bujalski,
All*
Harold
are
Rumor
friend
Ed
of
the
with the
Balozy
and
We
has
now
on
the
sincerely
back
it
on
that
Lapinski
above
exception
and Cecil
out
of
road
hope
the
our
turned
hand to carpentry recently
constructed
a dog
house
problem,
Several
of
Fred’s
good
friends
moying
bee
Ed
and
staged
a
and
eventually
THESE
house
suc-
ceeded’ in moving this canine
castle from Ed’s to Fred's.
ONE
OF
movers
Swears that they had to raise
the power lines to get it through.
We
frankly think that this is
an
exaggeration
of
you
have
Fred,
however
a pooch
for
the
if any
to peddle,
rumor
persists
the
to
to
job
good
his
and
for
Works
at Ye Olde Screws
ment
September.
of
last
the
of
as
employ-
his
terminated
repair
meeting.
management and have at it. We
sincerely hope that by the time
our
next
column
is published,
will
house was of such immense proportions as to pose a moving
that he really has the room.
Another of our good broththat magic
ers has reached
Thomas
retirement.
of
age
“Scotty”
Fisher
of machine
Our next step, now in précess,
is to arrange for a meeting with
we
Fred Barton, for Fred’s dog that
is. Rumor also states that said
see
had
our
local
Terranna,
changes
see them all
real soon,
proposal
all,
Committee Prepares for
Contract Negotiations
recovery.
company’s
the “UNION.”
After
FEDERAL SCREW WORKS
hospital
the
meetings.
above understanding is entered
into as a full and complete set-
Ritchie
find
and come
For
purpose
of
determining
severance pay, the employee’s
seniority
shall be considered
mentioned
Mary
of
**.,., After a careful study, we
FOR NOW
So Scared
The
must make application within six (6) months after receipt of said notice, or forfeit
his right to severance pay. For
Balozy.
and
Grenada,
til the child was home, and settled
down
with
cookies
and
milk, the mother asked: “How
did everything go in school?”
mained in the employ of the
company. In such event, the
company shal notify the em-
ployee
are
out what
as of
off had
plant
YOU
ing
re-
make
to the
te
e
SO LONG
pick
he
nevertheless,
cessory operations
Mississippi.
of
losing
of date
existing or future claims by the
Union and/or any of its members resulting from the Company moving its automotive ac-
secong
Wielkopolan,
Frank
Stane,
Reece Easton, and sister Mary
been
| up on relief or the welfare rolls
or some other form of charity.”
thereafter
Anthony
of|
end
who
writing
the
have not been
em-
pany
after completion
of the
moving of the Company’s automotive accessory operations, and
On
|
seniority
nance Department who shall remain in the employ of the Com-
since
de-
any
ployee (as of the effective date
of this Agreement) in the Ord-
had
suade
the
politicians
to do
something for them—and you
know the farm surpluses that
|
|
also
a
had
rises.
unneeded
as
shall receive same shortly after
recipt of their application, but
not before June 1, 1962.
nor
farmers
find themselves in economic
difficulty and are able to per-
|
girls....we
productivity
may
severance
seniority
suading
unneeded
farmers
to
| leave the farms at the same rate
| that
shall
of sen-
full month
problem
“in
or
(1)
D. All eligible employees making request for severance pay
anyone
we
Wilhelm
difficulties
the
of
our
else. Each one of us is going
be outmoded eventually and
agrees
1, 1961, or
lay off, as
sult of continuous
provided for in Paragraph 64G
govern-
the
of
with
eligible
An
would
he
for
company’s
the
union’s
is
em-
the
pay at any time between
time of his lay off from employment in the automotive accessory operation up to the date
technically
stresses.
he
the
on
receive Fifty ($50.00) Dollars
for each full year of seniority,
plus ($4.00) Dollars for each
be prepar-
psychologically,
“And
not fail in|
workers.
Wilhelm.
says
years
more
essential
flexibility
However,
fact
for the unreal hope.
every case, he notes some 2
rible examples”
that
have
resulted from recent “quickie” programs to meet the needs of un-
employed
survival,
Employees
“erash” retraining is the only
answer must be dismissed, “in
ACKNOWLEDGING
WHILE
the
velop
a
following:
the
with
are
de-
programs
such
way anyone can
long-run
the only
skills
econom-/
says
e
that
extra
the!
is unemployed,
Ross J. Wilhelm,
tor
have
based
aogrt peywrsides
ing
shall
off,
last lay
of his
date
on
in accord
is later,
whichever
in the
that
and
programs
ing
pay
on October
had
ployee
as a
status
seniority
of
years
the
work-;
here-
employees
severance
receive
Gash’ Retraining Programs
Of Little Use to Unemployed
R s
— Today’
ARBO
as
pay
same
in the
sidered
We had a nice lunch furnished |
ANN
laid
are
who
inafter described, with the understanding that upon the exright the emercise of such
ployment of said employee shall
be considered terminated with
loss of all seniority rights thereafter. In the event he is rehired
at a later date, he shall be con-
|
day.
severance
secure
|
for the
a guest
Com-
the
of
result
off as a result of the Company
moying its automotive accessory
operations to Grenada, Mississippi, may exercise the right to
|
|
Porter.
Betty
and
Boettcher
Mary Crandall’s daughter,
was
our
a
As
ANCE PAY PLAN:
A. All employees
|
|
Eula Barton, Ed Smith, Tess
(who
Wilder
Retell, Chester
arrived in time for lunch), Pat
Rosemary,
and
they visited
things are
at
there
Meeting.
Union
Thor,
Bob
Moore,
over
done
will
that we probably
is as follows:
hereto
the parties
Mississippi,
agree to the following SEVER-
about
us
tell
to
the different places
and
how
different
Cran-
Mary
Europe
of
promised
has
were:
Clyde Morris,
McBurney,
Whipple, Ruth Bradbury,
some
with
THE
OF
PART
MAIN
pany moving its automotive accessory operations to Grenada,
find a little Italian instead.
She wouldn't tell me why she
didn’t bring him home tho! She
a-m.
Ron
Vern
contract
be using
It sounded awfully exciting
and she said she didn’t find
the little Frenchman but did
Harvey,
Earl
tales
THE
Edie
GAL,
home
is back
wonderful
her trip.
Stewards’
the
started
We
e
VI.
TRAVELIN’
Sorgen,
out. It will be
as we get it set}
while to come
posted as soon
we
credits racked
e
OUR
Uni-
on
are experts
on that
things. Let’s make it worth
that
Repairman,
and
maker
Mask
and Dingman.
maybe
so
yet,
the pension
up.
men
get
to
and
to
the watches
need
have
We hope to get this class set up
for the first or second Saturday
December
a while
Repairman,
and
Maker
Rack
will give them upon their retirement after all. They sure will
Social Security and Unemployment benefits and possibly SUB
in
jobs:
following
the
perienced,
Towmotor, Stockroom and Tool
Utility, Plating
Crib, Ordnance
Hig-
by Mr.
quite
have
around
they'll
set
class
They
hang
out
turn
another
Workmen's
on
up
get
we
bettter
a
for
hope
bie.
but
23rd,
Homel-
Grela
watches
with
sented
Session
September
Saturday,
Seniority provisions for some
jobs were changed and you may
now “bump” Inspection and office cleaning; and if you are ex-
back have hit the 25 year mark
with Higbie Mfg. They were pre-
turn out for
Training
Stewards
when
ones.
pleasant
be
Tube
man,
and
Walsh
Tom
Avon
of
memories
their
may
we
to both
luck
Good
dressed
be
to
is
Plan
Pension
amended so that your vested
after
automatic
are
rights
ten years of credited service.
woman
dressed
funniest
the
and the fanniest dressed man.
See you there.
and
of them
best
increase of 24%; twelve
of the cost of living al-
The
dressed
best
the
the
woman,
fun-
factor
improvement
annual
transferred
been
has
lowance
to the base rate, leaving the cost
of living at six cents (6c).
the
the
couple,
couple,
niest
wage
cents
behind
Auburn
for
given
be
will
dressed
best
the
4th at the Legion Hall,
Prizes
also
robe
enjoy life. Marsha
a lovely
money,
«= — to really
received
costume.
years
pleasant
more
many
have
and
years
a few
quite
is be-
It will start about 7:30
every one be there in
Heights.
p.m. so
they
hope
out and
(right
Road
Churchill
the Old Dutch Mill) in
retirement
their
worked with them
ing.
Your committeemen and
stewards will have copies for
information on changes, so if
see
questions,
any
have
you
them.
e
SOME OF THE CHANGES are:
membership
for the
planned
November
presented Marsha
the members
Heichel and Everett Earich their
watches
gifts. We
majority of those who attended
the Sunday, October 1st, meet-
Lyons
dance
MASQUERADE
ing
Company,
the
with
negotiations
e
A
the
finishing
were
we
While
is for an-
which
decorated
Solidarity
George
Agreement,
Well, folks, our contract has
at least by a
been approved;
Retell
Tess
taking the time to come
teach the class.
were a few changes made
in the contract
and
cake
appreciated
We
clause.
escalator
living
and
factor
improyement
annual
German
luscious
a
Forever.” Everyone said they felt
they had gotten a lot out of the
class.
the
keeping
while
brought
brought a beautifully
cake with “UAW-CIO
Credits,
Pension
and
by Milton “Scoop” Brooks
baked
Flanigan
Gernith
Chocolate
Life Insurance, $55
and Accident bene-
SUB, $3,500
weekly Sick
$c
acof
to
voted
membership
offer
Company's
the
The
cept
the
|
New Contract, Severance Pay Plan
Approved by Membership at Lyon
Committee;
Education
by
while
are over.
negotiations
Contract
fits.
STICKLER
1961
LYON, INC.
New 3 Year Contract
Signed at Avon Tube
JUANITA
October,
SOLIDARITY
OF
EDITION
CONVEYOR
Scotty had been with us since
1937 and
known
was
and
one of the better
respected
employ-
health,
wealth,
ees in the plant. He had served
both as a bargaining commita pension and
and
tee man
retirement committeeman and
done right well at both jobs.
The.
and
of
best
retirement,
It seems
brothers
good
the
on
ing
show
an
yeloped
Scotty.
that some
have
“Roaring
teleyision
to
urge
of
our
watch-
Twenties”
deand
visit
one
a bit of tippling one
After
of
re-
talked
finally
they
into it and gaily set
A.M.
cent
themselves
forth,
been
joints.
after hours
these
your
in
you
to
happiness
at
the
in the bull pen.
consensus of opinion
now
arrival
Their
sightless swine was followed, in
very short order, by the arrival
of a raiding squad from headquarters, The next twenty or so
hours were spent in silent medi-
tation
The
is that
not
it was
worth
hardly
Ray,
sworn
during
very
expensive
it. So now
Gil,
have
Wieners
and
Joe
to do all of their imbibing
“Roaring
legal
hours
Twenties”
and
live
the video screen, That's
remember, now is the
patch
and
your
galoshes.
let
only
the
on
it, folks,
time to
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