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1962-01-01
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Vol. 5 No. 1
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Vol.
5,
SOLIDARITY
reed
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Kennedy, Labor Urge Congress Act
To Meet U.S. Top Priority Needs
WASHINGTON—A
heavy pileup of unsolved
major
problems, including continued heavy unemployment, medical care for the aged and federal aid to education, confronted Congress as it went back into session this month.
As Congress reconvened, UAW President Walter P. Reuther urged the lawmakers to moye quickly on enacting longoverdue legislation to meet the nation’s human needs.
Spurred by election year prodding, last year’s battles
between Kennedy Administration supporters and the conservative coalition opposition
now are expected to be re-
newed.
This is particularly likely in the House of Representatives where a handful of votes one way or an-
other can spell the difference between victory and
defeat
for an
urgently
needed bill.
Priority measures backed
by both President Kennedy
and labor include necessary
anti-recession proposals aimed at providing jobs, retraining for millions out of work,
medical care under social
PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY steps up to the rostrum to speak at the AFL-CIO Convention
as UAW President Walter P. Reuther (left) joins in the applause. Secretary of Labor Arthur J.
In his address,
Goldberg and David Dubinsky, ILGWU President, flank Kennedy on the right.
Kennedy said, “I belieye—and I say this as President—that one of the great assets that this
country has is the influence which this labor movement can promote around the world in demonstrating what a free trade union can do . . . I want you to know that I consider the house
of labor vital to the interests of this country and the cause of freedom in the coming days.”
UUM
President's Committee
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tee,
formed
by
President
Kennedy 11 months ago to
advise
him
on
policies
of
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still looms
as the nation’s “number one
unresolved problem,” UAW
President Walter P. Reuther
warned this month as figures
released by the Department
of Labor revealed the jobless
rate pushed up in December.
Secretary of Labor
Arthur J, Goldberg reported Jan. 9 that unemployment rose by 101,000 in
December, putting the to-
tal at 4,091,000.
The December jobless rate,
seasonally
adjusted,
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12
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Basic Agreement Marks
AFL-CIO
MIAMI
Th CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT
GERRYMANDER,
agreement
1962
ver-
sion — This latest version of
the gerrymander, called by
some
a
‘Rockymander,
con-
sists of flagrantly’ political
redistricting of Congressional
districts by New York Republicans, led
by Gov,
Nelson
Rockefeller. Map shows how
Staten Island has been tacked on to another and already
gerrymandered
Brooklyn
to help
district
the
GOP,
in
BEACH
on
a plan
—
Convention
Basic
to han-
dle internal disputes, adoption of its strongest civil
rights stand ever taken, and
determination to make organizing a top priority activity emerged as the most significant
accomplishments
of
the
AFL-CIO
Convention,
held here in mid-December.
The
convention’s 950
ig gates listened to a list
of prominent
Speakers,
headed by President John
F. Kennedy, honored Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt, acted
on
almost
200
resolutions
and took part in spirited—
and often pointed—floor
debate,
the
UAW
Representing
were
officers
and
board
members, led by President
Walter
P.
Reuther
and
Secretary - Treasurer
Emil
Mazey.
A highlight of the convention was the adoption of a
Continued
on
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11
senior
Unemployment,
Jobless Our
No. 1 Problem
Unemployment
for
citizens,
and federal aid to schools.
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economic growth and industrial relations, is headed by Secretary of Labor
Arthur J, Goldberg.
The
committee
is composed of seven top labor
UAW
including
leaders
President Walter P. Reuther,
seven corporation executives
and five public members.
Submitted
Jan, 11, the
committee’s report was called by Dr. Clark Kerr, a public member and president of
the University of California,
“the
most
comprehensive
statement ever made as to
private and public policy” on
the problems of automation
and full employment.
The committee unanimousContinued
Area,
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Submits Proposals
WASHINGTON — In its
first report, the President’s
Committee on Labor - Management Policy has submitted recommendations aimed
at developing automation
and other technological advance while at the same time
increasing jobs and protecting workers.
The 19-member commit-
U UU sUnntcettcnctct
security
for
ex-
ample, has stayed heavy at
6.1% of the nation’s work
force, according to U.S.
Labor Department figures.
That means that 61 out of
every 1,000 workers are
without a job.
Also headed for major leg-
{slative
battles
are
Pres.
Kennedy’s call for steppedup two-way trade to “keep
people working at home and
around the world,” tax reform, measures to help migrant farm workers and other social welfare programs.
Also being pressed for
by labor are improvements
in civil rights.
Meanwhile, Pres. Kennedy
urged action on a broad program of domestic and foreign measures in a message
to Congress.
Did Kohler
Gyp Kohler?
MILWAUKEE
— A feder-
al judge is going to decide
whether Herbert V. Kohler,
head of the Sheboygan, Wis.,
plumbingware firm bearing
his name, cheated his halfnephew, Walter J. Kohler,
the former governor of Wis-
consin, out of more than
$200,000 in a Kohler Co.
stock selling deal.
U.S. District Judge Kenneth P. Grubb will base his
decision
on
testimony
brought out in a trial which
has just been concluded here.
The long-delayed trial
came about as a result of a
suit filed by the ex-governor in December,
1958,
against the Kohler Co., the
company’s accountants,
Ernst
and
Ernst
of
Cleveland, O., and his half-
uncle,
in
which
Walter
Kohler sought to recover
$214,156, plus interest, the
alleged difference between
the true value and the sale
price of Kohler Co. stock
he sold the firm in 1953.
The former governor testified he was induced to sell at
$115 a share by ‘“misrepresentations,
half-truths and
omissions”
Continued
relating
on
to
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Matthews Will Not
Seek Re-Election
Norman R. Matthews, who
has served the International
Union as a Vice President
this
announced
1955,
since
month that he has decided to
step down from that post.
The firm, soft-spoken offilead the
helped
cer, who
union in its pace-setting 1961
negotiations
at
American
Motors
and
Chrysler,
announced he would not be a
candidate for re-election at
18th Constitutional
UAW’s
at
4-11
May
Convention
Atlantic City, N.J.
Matthews, who will be
66
years
of
22,
Feb.
age
will continue to serve the
however. He will
UAW,
work
on
Continued
special
assign-
on
11
Page
Norman
Matthews
the
11
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Solidarity Wins Four
Labor
MIAMI
BEACH,
1961 Journalistic Awards
conte: st of
Labor Press
the
International
Association.
The awards
were presented
by AFL-CIO
Secretary Treas-
urer
William
banquet
tion
Schnitzler
prior
to
CIO convention.
Judges were 12
Joseph
the
of
outstanding
men,
yard
a
held by the ILPA in
tion with their conven-
here
tion’s
at
AFL-
the
Times
first
Stark
headed
Loftus,
na-
newspaper
New
Washington
recipient
of
Memorial
SOLIDARITY’s
two
spots were won in the
article”
First
ities
a sound
for a dues
The
UAW
The
won
the
the
International
Dec.
Union,
a
top
tral
body
lar
special
clone’
“best
property
and
second
UAW
were
ular
$5
OFFICIAL
The
a
The
present
month,
3c
local
an
or
hour,
unions
the total dues.
sent
union
in
to
UAW
the
per
a
dues
little
Mazey
retain
Union.
to
to
lantic
to 10.
City,
as-
United
America,
Editorial
in-
for
“best
and
for
Automobile,
troit
to
Implement
a
14,
Michigan.
members.
60c;
UAW
of
&.
less
said.
$2 of
Frank
Winn,
cations
S.
GOSSER
Public
and
Henry
and
4
and
Jerry
tin,
Bailey. Staff
Publi
Depart
Managing
Editor
American
Newspaper
Members,
Publications
Members,
Guild,
various
men
coun-
tries.
The conference insisted that
full equality of pay scales for
both sexes should become effective as soon as possible in
of so-called
groups”
as
women’s
“light-work wage
a substitute
for
wages;
3. Introduction
and
assur
ance of a realistic wage system
and objective criteria for wage
determination, subject to union
all
countries,
in
conformity
with provisions accepted by the
influence
ropean
tions;
4. Wider
opportunities
for
vocational training for women;
5. Measures to prevent downgrading of men
and women
states
Economic
of the
Eu-
Community,
was
pointed
out,
how-
pay
scales and
general
work-
ing conditions
can
be
achieved fully only through
activity of the unions.
The conference set forth the
following recommendations for
union action:
1. Elimination
of
separate
wage scales for women in collective bargaining agreements;
2. Avoidance
and elimination
“A major assault
cer can result in
the disease—God
a relatively short
Reuther
upon canwiping out
willing—in
time.”
is serving
as a vice
president of the Eleanor Roose-
would
and
guarantee
equivalent
to
control,
which
to women
their
pay
—
qualifica-
workers as a result of automa-
tion
or
other
technological
change.
The conference
urged
IMF
affiliates to stress organization
of women
tion
and
workers and educatraining
programs
aimed at achieving equal rights
for women,
Turning
to
international
affairs, the conference voiced
strong protest against the So-
viet Union’s unilateral action
in
the
testing
nuclear
bombs
atmosphere.
Such explosions,
delegates
warned,
in
the women
must
in-)
crease the radioactive pollution
of the world’s atmosphere with
grave,
quences
The
general,
trolled
unforeseeable
for mankind.
conference
conse=
demanded
internationally
disarmament,
con-|
together
with immediate
cessation of
all tests with nuclear weapons
and
destruction
of such wea-/
velt Foundation.
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P.
contribution—
soliciation
and
of which
medical
of lo-
to
schools
will be named
program
research
and
both in the United
abroad.
Public Relations Department.
Dale, Howard Lipton, Ray Mar
Jerry
Hartford,
Simon
Alpert,
Bernard
in
dation “will build new cancer
research
facilities at various
vanced
Director,
Director,
Walter
for contributions
fellowship
Relations
Santiestevan,
Assistant
held
for Eleanor Roosevelt.
“In addition, the Foundation
will sponsor an international
ment.
Joe Walsh, Assistant Director, Publica.
tions and Public Relations Depart
ment
taxes,
_
—€each
PATTERSON
Editor
conference
the fund on the basis of 10c a
member following IEB endorsement of the campaign in midNovember.
In a letter to all locals, Reuther pointed out that the Founhospitals
KEN ROBINSON
RAY
ROSS
and
began
cal unions
DOUGLAS
FRASER
MARTIN
GERBER
TED HAWKS
ROBERT
JOHNSTON
CHARLES
KERRIGAN
HARVEY
KITZMAN
JOSEPH McCUSKER
E. T. MICHAEL
GEORGE MERRELLI
KEN MORRIS
PAT O'MALLEY
in
for
in the metal industry in both
that
a check for $100,000.
MAZEY
CHARLES BIOLETTI
GEORGE BURT
are
union’s
UAW
Members
women
of wages
ever, that equality for women
the
noted
President
tional
$1.00.
WALTER P. REUTHER
President
International Executive Board
CHARLES
BALLARD
RAY
BERNDT
women’s
Reuther presented
Mrs.
Roosevelt with the interna-
subscription
non-members,
conference
and
It
Eleanor Roosevelt.
The checks, totaling $680448.43, were the first installment of $1 million the AFLCIO pledged to raise for the
Eleanor. Roosevelt
Cancer
Foundation
in honor of her
Tith birthday.
Aircraft and
Yearly
to
Federation
and in accordance with a Convention of the Internatioal Labor Office.
$100,000, were proudly presented
here by the AFL-CIO to Mrs.
International
Workers
in
equalization
six member
of checks
in three
cartons,
ranging in size from 40c to
edi-
Biagi.
depart-
MIAMI BEACH—Fifty pounds
regular
‘Cyclone’
Metalworkers’
Labor Raises $680,000
For Eleanor Roosevelt Fund
AFL-CIO.
Published
monthly.
office, 8000 E. Jefferson, De
reg-
May
editorial,”
women’s
there had been “striking progress” in recent years toward
NORMAN
MATTHEWS
LEONARD
WOODCOCK
PAT GREATHOUSE
Vice Presidents
international
Jersey,
The
column
award
the
direc-
Special attention was devoted
by the two-day conference to
the question of equal pay for
equal work and to protection
of the working woman, taking
into account specific symptoms
of fatigue, it was reported.
classifica-
top
RICHARD
will be held in AtNew
regu-
of
Davis,
women metalworkers
free world.
Secretary-Treasurer
$125 is set aside in the union’s strike insurance fund.
UAW's
18th
Constitutional
Convention
a
EMIL
Of the $3 that
capita
“best
a
PUBLICATION,
report-
its
cen-
prize winning
Agricultural
quarterly
meeting
this
hh at Solidarity House, De-
than
is
at
councils
among
Caroline
department,
joined
in the
conference’s examination of
economic, social and- human
problems confronting the approximately
four
million
SOLIDARITY
$27,793;737.05.
recommendation
trades
column.”
The UAW International Executive Board decided to make
its
Journal
leaders were
ment, and Olga Madar, director. of the
recreation
Russ
Union
column”
tor is Charles
Sets, on Nov. 30, 1961, amounted to $57,214.64362. On Sept
30, 1959, the total resources of
the
for
place
special
UAW,
fixed
and
single
The total resources of the inernational
union, which
in-
cludes
late
award
won
987.99 in the strike fund
30, 1959, Mazey
tor
Among local union publications, UAW
Local 669’s ‘Cy-
of
31, 1961, amounted
000.00,
compared
opt.
Mrs,
in
by Bernard
Stern, UAW
ternational representative.
He said the international union’s
General
Fund
has
increased
almost
$7142
million
Since
the
last Constitutional
ation of October, 1959.
fund
year.
Bailey.
the
women
—
ond International Metalworkers’ Federation women workers’
conference held here late last
ar-
year
UAW
Denmark
among the delegates to the sec-
carries
the
byline
of UAW
Vice President Richard T. Gosser, and the Journal is edited
financial
strike
The
second
Toledo
tion. The
to a $1,231,-
the
Two
also took third
by
noted.
foreover
Bernard
publications
41843
deficit
on
Sept. 30,
1959, at the time of the last
Constitutional
Convention,
Mazey
birth.
the
Smith.
$6,227,917.33
compared
COPENHAGEN,
for “best front page” and
single editorial.”
written
in liquid assets in its General
Fund,
by
went to ‘The Cries of the
Hungry Shall Be Answered,’
adjustment.
has
written
a
row
that
SOLIDARITY
won top honors for a feature
article. Last year, first prize
position and Executive
Board
members do not anticipate any
need
representa-
and
her
It was
18th UAW Constitutional Convention next May, SecretaryTreasurer
Emil
Mazey
announced.
Mazey said the International
is in
of
staffer
spots
“best
dues not to be increased will be
made by the union’s Interna-
Union
legislative
SOLIDARITY
that UAW
to
“What's
SOLIDARITY
staff
member
Jerry Dale.
Second
place in the same
category
was
awarded
to
ITY
top
“best
Board
to
ticle was written by SOLIDAR-
No Dues Hike
Needed—IEB
Executive
of
tion, researched
among
international
union
publications,
The
category
tional
went
Happening
to Democracy
in
Our States?” (January, 1961),a
report in depth on the inequal-
classification
A recommendation
prize
tennial
and
the
Louis
Fellowship,
the judges.
feature
York
bureau
entries—92,
“Man's Moral Idealism is the
Constructive Force of Progress”
(Dec. 20, 1961), a keen evaluation of the significant contribution of Jane Addams and 4
commemoration
of the cen-
now all attending HarUniversity on fellowships.
A.
of
International
2 From UAW Discuss Pay Equality
At Worldwide Women’s Conference
attracted the highest number
Fla.—SOLI-
to the second
Copenhagen, Denmark, included Olga Madar ‘left), director of the UAW Recreation Department, and Mrs, Caroline Davis, director of the UAW Women’s Department. Alongside them are
Winnie Vadderley, Amalgamated Engineering Union, and Marian Veitch, National Union, General and Municipal Workers, both of Great Britain.
Delegates in the rear are from Norway,
Press Awards
DARITY won first and second
honors
in
one
classification
and third places in two others
in the
DELEGATES
AFL-CIO
for
ad-
training
States
and
“Cancer
can
be controlled
and perhaps wiped out in the
same way that polio is being
controlled as a result of the development and use of the
and Sabine vaccines.
The
during
Veterans
the year
Salk
Administration
ending
June
30, 1961, operated 120,580 beds
in its 170 hospitals throughout
the country.
‘FIRST LADY of the World’, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, is presented a check for $100,000 by UAW President Walter P. Reu-
ther at the AFL-C1O Convention as the international’s contribution to the Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Foundation. The AFLCIO has pledged to raise $1 million for the Foundation.
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Jobs, Education, Economic Growth, Mental Health—
Swainson Challenges Legislature to Meet Priority Problems
LANSING — Michigan’s
pres-
long-ignored
men-
problems
suring
and
cation
edu-
jobs,
of
tal health needs were given top
priority by Gov. John B. Swainson as he challenged the Reto
Legislature
publican-ruled
cooperate in providing effective
of
first apply
the legislasolutions in
ideas.
some
up with
come
our
other
—“We
full energy
eco-
the
must
and
all is necessary to achieve this
goal, to build an even greater
Michigan.”
the hope that the current Conmight
Convention
stitutional
tives session at the start of his
and
effort to the task of providing
jobs to those who are still unemployed. The cooperation of
workers,
Michigan’s
employment
EMPLOYMENT
well-be-
and
status
Swainson warned
tors not to delay
Representa-
of
nomic problems in 1962.
Here are highlights from
Governor’s message:
ing”
challenge came in his State of
the State message to a joint
Senate-House
in meeting Michigan’s urgent
problems,
be
must
action
Declaring
taken this year to improve the
in
delay
long
Legislature’s
“economic
fighting
Swainson’s
Goy.
He noted that “nothing the
(Con-Con)
delegates can do”
could result in improvements
ated
the
of
answers to the needs
state and its people.
second year in office.
approach
gloves-off
His
emphasized the GOP-domin-
EDUCATION
longer
can
we
changing
much
—“How
continue
our
short-
children?
longer
can
attention
much
we
of
at
How
was
deprive
them of educational opportunities on which their future—
and
our
these
future—depend?
children
not
be
There
is
educational
tive.”
tal
tarded
can-
retroac-
health
is
still
possible
ill and
already
for
all
mentally
in
our
...
at
a
dreds,
the
propriated
Legislature
less
than
the
re-
state
time
admission waiting lists
growing
by
the
hun-
necessary
apthe
just
to
maintain
the level and extent of mental
health
pro-
another
demanding
area
needs.
Last
year,
when adequate care
amount
HEALTH—“Men-
another
institutions
when
were
tomorrow.
of making
benefits
not
mentally
What
today
regained
no way
MENTAL
area
lose
unmet
a time
...
important
grams
already
in
existence.”
Strike Caused Shortage,
52 Get Jobless Comp
The Michigan Employment Security Commission Appeals Board
has ruled that 52 UAW Local 22 members are eligible for unemployment benefits for two weeks of work lost at the General
Motors
Cadillac
division
in Detroit
of bodies caused by a strike at’
another GM plant in the same
city.
The Appeals tribunal held
that the two plants—Cadillac and
Fleetwood—were sep-
arate establishments. “In no
instances are we treated to examples in which
the Fleetwood division determines the
circumstances of the claimants’
employment
lac,”
hopes
PROBLEMS,
THEIR
OVER
TALKING
He met the teen-agers in a personal
son.
Swainson, obviously moyed by the needs of
quiry,
came
expand
to
determined
away
youngsters
with
needs
and
is Gov. John
B, Swain-
information
proposal are
Union members, their families and friends are being urged strongly to voice their sup-
unions,
providing
organ-
or
single
Recreation
UAW’s
the proposed
While
ocean
resources.
Department
factual
Republican
a
Referee Edholding that
disqual-
ing
on
grounds
from
workers
benefits
on
separately
grievances
and
the
The
plant
and
receiv-
dispute
issue
at
ting
Michigan
under
Page
“a
said
those
atrulings are put-
false
price
tag
of
2,500,000 .. . on the CadillacFleetwood decision. That decision involves 52 claims fer
two weeks each and consequently cannot have a dollar yalue much greater than
took
OLIDARITY
—
unemployment
recent
Swainson
tacking the
place in October and November, 1958.
(Related story on
Page 4.)
1962
Swainson
Canton
compensation
benefits
case,
involve
approval
of the
to emof benefits
payment
ployees laid off as the result
of a strike in a plant other
than the one where they work.
also
each
Goy
Commission appeal board.
The
MESC
board
rulings,
based on the Michigan Supreme
Court
decision
in the Ford-
contracts
affairs.
its own
administers
JANUARY,
measure,
Interior
of
it
contract
the
—
compensation decisions of t
Michigan Employment Security
earlier
an
of a shortage
Gov. Slams
Comp Critics
cerning
the UAW-GM
shoreline
inland
and
introduced by Sen. Philip Hart
(D., Mich.), has “sparked heated controversy marred by unjust accusations . . . with definite political overtones,” Miss
the
“actually,
added,
Madar
to senators and congressmen
for the bill which would authorize establishment of
the
Sleeping Bears National Park
on the Lake Michigan shoreline in the northwest part of
the Lower Peninsula.
Pamphlets
from
quantity
and
by MESC
Rothwell
said
result
has sharply
assailed “distortions and
inaccuracies”
con-
that a strike at one GM plant
was a strike at the other.
The Appeals Board, however,
held that each local bargains
recommended the preservation
Dunes
Bear
of the Sleeping
area.”
Both the UAW and the AFLcalled
CIO consistently have
for laws to develop the nation’s
the
local
Department, 8000 East Jefferson, Detroit
14, Mich,
Miss
Madar said. The pamphlets are
entitled “Sleeping Bear: Boon
or Boondoggle?”
that
asked
made known
has
Madar
support be
in
copies
recreation
the few remaining
areas of national significance.
UAW
Recreation
Director
Olga
such
individuals
izations
port for US. Senate Bill 2153
to preserye in Michigan one of
concerning
available to
upset
GM
the
LANSING
Cadil-
said.
which
appealing,
ified
Union Wakes Support for Sleeping Bear
Board
ruling,
decision
ward C.
facilities.
and
of care
methods
The
is
investigation of some State homes and hospitals.
the youngsters and adults he met during the in-
the
at
as
$4,000.
“The falsehoods and distortions in this case, unfortun-
Three
ately,
are
old
The
1959
million
dol-
stuff.
Ford Canton decision was widepublicized
ly
lar case;
was
News
son
Administration
as
a
the total cost to Ford
precisely
said.
$42,698,”
Swain-
as
as
part of
he met
Ryan Gets Labor Support
In Special Jan. 23 Vote
Backed by the AFL-CIO endorsement and his long legislative
experience, State Senator Harold M. Ryan has opened a hardfor
nomination
to capture the Democratic
hitting campaign
Congress in the Detroit area 14th District special primary election Jan, 23. The congressional
vacant
post became
the death
recently
gressman
Louls
through
of Con-
Rabaut
the heavily-Republican State
Senate, his legislative exper-
Sr.
ence
Ryan, whose service to the
people
of the
district
has
won
him
widespread
backing, is pledged to active support of Pres. John F, Kennedy’s important
legislative
proposals,
Son
of
an
old-time
to
auto
Senate for the past 6 years,
State Senator for the past 14.
leader
top
of
people
the
importance
In
ment economy;
employment
improved
uncompensation
ards;
civil
with
federal
assure
action
medical
equal
care
minimum
on
treatment
for
ASO
rights
to
for all;
senior
needed
federal
to fight
aid
recessions,
to education,
citi-
SOOEASEUE
and
HEARTFELT NEED for speedy enactment
the social security system was spelled out
with
UAW
retirees
CIO support
election Jan,
for
23,
at
the
Local
212
Democratic
Hall,
tttcttngtrncriiinnsggnntvt ntti
of
by
Ryan,
nomination
health and medical care for the aged
State Senator Harold M. Ryan (left)
an experienced
for
tnt
legislator, is campaigning
Con gress in
for State Senator Harold M. RYAN
Democrat
Special Primary Election
AOOU SSO
stand-
zens through social security; a
G, I. Bill of Rights for coldwar veterans, lower taxes when
VOTE
In the 14th District
and
Included in Ryan's program
are his pledge of active support of Pres. Kennedy’s urgent
proposals
for*a
full employ-
savanna
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as
Michigan
Governors Williams
Swainson—into law.
enced legislator has been Dem~ocratic
leader
in Michigan’s
Democratic
of
he guided important liberal
proposals—including those of
worker, Ryan
is campaigning
on a point-filled program emphasizing specific methods for
meeting the needs of the 14th
District's people.
An attorney for the past 25
years, the 51-year-old. experi-
As
was
YOANN
U0
for CONGRESS
the
special
14th
with
District
AFL-
Primary
‘e. 19 on the Ballot
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4
1962—Page
January,
SOLIDARITY,
UAW
MICHIGAN
Sa
AFTE
their jobs, Julia
from
to and
DAILY
100 MILES
DRIVING
for
Margaret Patenaude attended the evening education classes
The three
recently with the union’s Women’s Department.
uation
en from
to Order”
Come
Now
Will
Legislature
State
“The
n Ww
the
s at
7
jobs
heir
members
350
truck
Divco
UAW’s
agreement
labor
mem-
of two
bers of a new
Settlement
been
pilot
in the
Labor
project
of
study
Detroit
Michigan
area
Department
later
other
may
parts
Mrs.
Women’s
year
by
and
the
expanded
be
of the nation.
Catherine
Auxiliary
Gelles,
to
and in the non-economic
tions of the agreement.
DAW
representa-
News
Michigan
CHECK
FOR
$9,525.28
handed
was
by
lation
representing
of a contract
ternational
three
seniority
Representative;
pay
days
provision.
Jack
Left
Boushong,
co-director
chairman; Fraser, James Finnerty,
local union committeeman.
Local
269
to right:
the
union’s
reported.
ex-service-
the
the
to be
“is not
as
Veterans
or
should
apply
as soon
to
present
pension
pers,
last
ment
showing
contract,
deed
or
they
other
are
for
pa-
and
a
docu-
buying
or own the home,” he said.
Widows of wartime service
veterans also may be entitled
to the exemption, Mazey said.
Additional information can be
obtained from the UAW Veter-
off as a reby UAW Lo-
ans
Department.
Gifts
short
has
out
and
resulted in
of a total
overcharges
15 court cases
of 116 stores
checked in the past six weeks
by Michigan food and standards
inspectors.
“Governor
Swainson’s action made people pretty well
and
of the problem
aware
a significant
noticed
we've
trend toward improvement,”
said deputy director Ronald
M. Leach of the Foods and
Standards division.
Douglas
Fraser
local’s
employees,
president,
Tom
Canter,
bargaining
and
was
for vio-
UAW
In-
committee
Thomas
Berrell,
DISCUSSING
delegates
from
UAW
PROGRAMS
Michigan
UAW
inyolving
am.
800
ke
jal
Labor
National
— A
LAPEER
Relations Board order that the
Lapeer Metal Products Co. resupporters
five UAW
instate
about $15,000 in back
will mean
George
co-director
1
UAW
workers,
the
for
Region
— The
statewide
Gov.
by
ordered
against
Swainson
weights
CKLW
Foal
UAW Wins
NLRB Order
pay
Swainson Blast
Brings Results
LANSING
crackdown
B.
John
In Detroit
6:15
as pos-
check
| i
You'll tind UAW
QO
sale
discharge
their
Emil
EVE OPENER
sible at their local tax assessor’s
office, he said. “They will have
locals in Califor-
may be eligible for
valuation of their
Secretary-Treasurer
inter-
purchase
this exemption
UAW
tax assessed
out that
pensions
assessed
Merrelli has reported.
The NLRB decision followed
a UAW complaint that the auto
illegally
manufacturer
parts
had deducted dues and ‘initiafor
fees
tion
local
Teamster
payment
also
and
a
to
ille-
several
discharged
had
workers
The
in August, 1960.
gally had
employees.
been fired
also ordered the
refund all dues,
The Board
company to
initiation fees and other money
Teamsters,
the
for
collected
not
and
mem-
discourage
to
bership in UAW, not to assist
or contribute support to Teamsters
Local
recognize
the
614,
and
contract
skilled
locals, members
of
trade
the
is
members
were
International
to
not
1960,
signed in August,
the Teamsters.
=
of 153
for each
said
valuation.”
ions and other friends.
to officials of Local 269 after it was received from the Allied Products Corp.'s
Victor Peninsular Division Plant 1 in settlement of an arbitration award. The
settlement,
preted
Solidarity House, with the remainder coming from local un-
Regions
the
of
Department,
valuation
Secretary-Treasurer
by UAW
Emil Mazey for the Old News-
of
1-A
Region
pointed
boys’ Goodfellows Fund. Mazey
by
said $406.86 was donated
at
workers
staff and office
w,
a
to
“area were collected last month
sec-
conditions,
men may be eligible for the
specified
tax
exemption
if
their property is not tax asHe
sessed more than $7,500.
totalling
Contributions
$1,789.16 to help provide a better Christmas for underpriviDetroit
leged children in the
formula
certain
director
Mazey
are in De-
Goodfellow
in supplemental
penbenefits,
vacation
the
sions,
Veterans
this
month,
under
Mazey,
Chevrolet
the
cal 1031 at
plant in the same city. Both
plants are under the same
roof.
No complaints about the
from
ruling were reported
California newspapers.
cost of medical-hospital insurance, Morris said, while gains
also were won
unemployment
this
they were laid
sult of a strike
Under terms of the new pact,
the company will pay the full
tive, has been re-elected a vice
president of the AFL-CIO National Auxiliaries at its third
constitutional convention.
A
started
rates.
study
The
the
of the cost-of-living allowance
wage
now factored into base
Secu-
homes
in
plants
nia at two GM
that state.
The California state agency held that approximately
333
of Local
900 members
employed by Fisher Body at
Oakland, Calif., were entitled
te jobless pay for the time
Morris said the new contract
follows the general pattern of
It
UAW auto industry gains.
of anprovides continuation
improyement increases
nual
proand cost-of-living wage
tection, he said, with 13 cents
U.S.
the
Employment
Commission.
rity
a
least
at
GM
UAW’s
October 2 following expiration
of the former contract.
a
involve
will
had
a
compensa-
plants
sessions.
the
wom-
other
Many
(right),
Davis
Caroline
Veterans receiving VA disability
tax exemptions on the first $2,000
Ap-
entitled
are
in
part
took
also
director
On Home Tax Valuation
DepartCalifornia Labor
ment issued a similar deof
two
involving
cision
con-
truck
strike
The
cern.
situation of workers long unemployed.
which
to
committee
The
is comJohnson was named
of
representatives
of
prised
education,
employers,
labor,
and the community. Al Barbour, president of the Wayne
County AFL-CIO Council, was
to repwith Johnson
named
resent labor.
The
firm
parent
the
of
also
But
officials of
Company,
by Morris and by
Divco-Wayne
the
the
improve
to
done
be
can
tion. Both
troit.
new agreement were announced
for “hard
the reasons
unemployment and what
mine
core”
unemployment
of
of
terms
of
Employment
decision
plant
GM
er
at-
meeting
over
50
women transferred with their jobs
Here, they get their gradmiles west of Detroit.
Disabled Vets Get Help
so-called
Commission
Department
community
idled by a shortage of bodies
caused by a strike at anoth-
strike.
unani-
members.
local’s
the
to deter-
project
end-
Local
voted
the
Women’s
ruled
Board
The
month.
that 52 GM Cadillac workers
are
90 per cent
by about
tended
of
was
climate”
Board
peals
three-year
at a special
mously
Compensation
has
new
the
of
tion
and
one
named
here,
state’s
State
Security
produc-
UAW
of
the
Michigan
of
Ken Morris, Co-Director
Region 1, said ratificaUAW
director
Department,
Safety
“business
three-month
members
889.
Jobless Study
Johnson,
against
The settlement also involved
approximately 75 office work-
ers,
throughout
from
some
moved
Michigan's daily newspapers and management pitchtheir cry
renewed
men
settlement
of the
their
ing
Johnson In
Hard - Core
Clayton
plant
manufacturing
ratification
following
576,
Local
UAW
of
certificates
at
work
they
No Bawl in Cal.
Truck Workers Win Gains
To Settle 3-Month Strike
— About
WARREN
plant
the
when
held
women
1A
1 and
Regions
and
Fuzy
Margaret
Madaroz,
it had
with
a
these
Skilled
Trades Advisory Council or Apprenticeship Committee, at their recent Detroit
Tim Foley, Local 306; Jesus Chantres, Local 600;
Seated from left:
meeting.
Elwood Moore, Jr., Local 326; Adam Urquhart, Local 160; Elmer Geroux, Local
MecStanding, Steve Yokich, Local 155; Jack
771; Harold Baxter, Local 600.
Guire, assistant director of the UAW Skilled Trades Department,
oe, i
Appointment — UN:
airs,
Affp
ld o
Worh
Cn s
YAW Work
To many people, the United Nations is not much more
than a phrase in a newspaper headline. To some, it is eyen
“controversial.” But to 220 UAW local union leaders from
all over the United States and Canada, the UN is now a living
example of cooperation between peoples and races and goyernments with diverse backgrounds and cultures and _political philosophies.
These UAW members, who spent a few days in New
York City recently to attend “Appointment — UN,” a workshop sponsored by the UAW Education and International
Affairs Departments, found out that the real day-by-day
work of the United Nations seldom gets into the newspapers,
that there’s much more to this world body than the crisis
in the Congo, important though that may be, that bitter
political enemies can and do cooperate in international efforts
such as the World Health Organization, and that it is better
to clash in debate than on the field of battle.
i
They had a chance not only to study the work and organization of the UN, but to meet with and question its
leading personalities — people like Adlai Stevenson, Eleanor
Roosevelt and Ralph Bunche. They mingled and dined with
ambassadors and technical experts and international civil
servants of all ranks. They heard such speakers as Arne
Geijer of Sweden, president of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the foremost labor leader of
the free world. And they debated the biggest issue of our
time — peace and disarmament.
After three days of tours,
UAW
key
these
and debates,
In a keynote speech to the
tor Reuther, UAW director of
fairs, observed that “we have
the atom, but we have not yet
studies,
members
conference, Vicinternational afJearned to split
learned how to
live in peace with our neighbors. The impatient
among us, including the radicals of the extreme
right, are looking for quick, easy solutions to
complex problems . . , It is relatively easy to
push the button which will start a nuclear war,
but there are no ‘magic buttons’ one can push
to bring about peace . . . We can accidentally
drift into war but we cannot accidentally drift
into peace.
“We must address ourselves to the people
of Asia and Africa, not just on the diplomatic
level, but worker to worker, teacher to teacher, farmer to farmer . . . We must invest in
the future ... It’s ‘1776’ today in many
parts of the world,” Reuther declared.
The conferees were welcomed to New York
by UAW Region 9A Director Charles Kerrigan.
”
”
”
At the dinner session which opened the UN
workshop, local union members had an opportunity to meet fellow unionists from other countries who are serving as UN delegates and amAmong these were Mrs. Agda Rosbassadors.
Frederick
ambassador;
sel, the Swedish UN
Guirma, ambassador from the Upper Volta, one
of the new African republics; Konrad Nordahl,
a member of the Norwegian UN delegation and
president of the Norwegian Federation of Trade
Unions; Andre Kloos, a member of the Dutch
UN delegation and secretary of the Netherlands
Federation of Trade Unions; Svend Vognbjerg
of the Danish UN delegation and the Danish
Federation of Trade Unions, and Bertil Bolin
of the Swedish UN delegation, among others.
”
*
*
Subdivided into groups of 20 to 30 people, the
UAW conferees toured the UN buildings; including
the tall Secretariat building—which houses the
administrative offices—, the General Assembly, the
Security
Council
of the UN.
and
the
other
deliberative
returned
neighbors and fellow workers.
questions
to their
Following are some of the highlights of the conference.
number
of attractive young ladies in blue UN
uniforms, hailing from many different countries.
The UAW groups also had an opportunity to listen to the debates of such UN bodies as the Trusteeship Council, the Economie and Social Council
and various committees.
ized
The UAW teams also visited the various “specialagencies”
in
the
Secretariat
building,
where
they were briefed on the agencies’ work. Prominent
among these are the United Nations International
Children’s Emergency Fund,
better
known
as
UNICEF,
the World
Health
Organization
(WHO),
the International Labor Office (ILO), the Food and
Agricultural Office (FAO), the
UN
Educational,
Scientific and
Cultural
Office
(UNESCO)
and
others.
In the WHO offices, for example, briefing officer
Dr. Michael Sachs told the UAW group of the work
WHO-affiliFor instance,
of that organization.
ated laboratories in strategic spots throughout the
world keep a check on virus diseases.
The most serious international health problems,
according to WHO, are: 1) malnutrition; 2) unsanttary conditions, and 3) malaria—about four million people died of this disease alone in 1950.
*
Adlai
A
Stevenson,
*
the
countries.
“There are now less than 100 million people
in colonial territories under the supervision of
the UN Trusteeship Council, and five years
from now there may be none,” he declared.
“Much of the world’s population knows
misery as a daily fact of life, and the UN is
doing everything possible to alleviate this
condition,’ Dr. Bunche continued, “but much
more could be done if funds now used
by
member nations for armaments could be reallocated for peaceful purposes.
“Much of the-UN’s work you
don’t read
about. in your daily paper.
You'll read about
the political crises, but not about the social and
economic accomplishments of this
organization,” he told the UAW conferees.
a
Meeting
2
*
in the auditorium
of the World
Af-
fairs Center, directly across the street from the
UN, the UAW delegates had an opportunity to
hear Arne Geijer, who, besides being president
(Continued
to
ambassador
U.S.
Speaking of the accomplishments of the UN
since its inception, he pointed out that 850 million people living under colonial rule when the
UN was created are now citizens of independent
on
Page
Eight)
delegates in an
the UN, met with the UAW
“off-the-record’’ session, even though he was
badly pressed for time because of the Red China
The audience showed its appreciation
debate.
by giving him a long standing ovation.
Stevenson, speaking in the huge Trusteeship Council chamber, reviewed the work of
the UN
during the past year and cited the
many crises successfully weathered by the
world organization. He also answered questions from the floor,
His informal talk was filled with typical Stevenson quips. Perhaps the one best remembered
by the delegates was: “I would rather have a
headache than lose my head.”
bodies
Serving as gutdes and lecturers were a
SOLIDARITY
speeches,
homes and local unions better informed, better citizens
and better able to tell the “UN story” to their friends,
*
Dr, Ralph
political
“
Bunche,
affairs,
Nobel
UN
Peace
*
undersecretary
Prize
winner
for
and
foremost international civil servant, also met
with the UAW group in the same chamber
“The UN is ‘your house,’ ”’ he declared, “Its
strength is measured by the amount of support
it generates from you . . . People everywhere
want a better life. That’s the basis for the
existence of the United Nations.”
crowd
almost
STANDING
ROOM
ONLY
overwhelms World Health Organization brief-
ing
as
officer
UAW
WHO
Dr,
Michael
conferees
office.
more
Sachs
than
(center
fill the
rear)
small
“In the future days, which
secure,
upon
we
four
is freedom
where
every
in the
world.
expression
and
The
second
in the world,
want...
The
everywhere
first
The
—
every-
is freedom
person to worship God in bis own
everywhere
from
speech
of
freedoms,
human
essential
founded
a world
to
forward
look
we seek to make
of
way—
third is freedom
in the
world,
The
fourth is freedom from fear... anywhere in the
world.” —Franklin
Delano
Roosevelt,
Foe
de
ee ee
ade
SOLIDARITY
DEMO’
A UAW
(Continued
from
Page
5)
Workshop on World Affairs
of the ICFTU, also heads the Swedish Federation of Labor and is a member of the Swedish
Senate and “one of the most influential people
in that country,” according to Vic Reuther.
Geijer discussed the work of the ICFTU,
an international federation formed in 1949 by
the world’s free, democratic and independent
trade
unions.
The ICFTU today covers over 56 million
unionists in 107 countries and territories, Geijer
(The government-run “unions” in
pointed out.
countries are not eligible to join).
Communist
“The ICFTU’s budget is limited,” he said.
“Tt’s less than one million dollars a year.” This
means that the federation’s “technical aid activities” to the new unions in the emerging areas
in Africa and Asia must be financed through
voluntary contributions to the ICFTU’s International Solidarity Fund (ISF).
OQe@oee
vides the only means in the world through
which we can TALK about our problems.”
This is terribly important, she pointed out,
since, given today’s weapons, the whole world
can be destroyed in a nuclear. war which
could get started through a mistake or a mis-
understanding.
“The realization that we are capable
of
totally destroying civilization is the cause for
much anxiety,” she declared. “In my lecture
tours and travels around our country, I find
>,
uu):
mh
‘There are plenty of projects to replace arms
production which will keep people at work’.”—
A delegate from Hudson, O.
“There can be no winners in a nuclear war—
only
losers,”
UAW
Secretary-Treasurer
Emil
Mazey said in a speech on “Peace, Freedom and
Jobs.”
“Tt is time the American people are given
the facts concerning the arms race. The Soviet’s 50-megaton bomb is 2,500 times greater in
destructive force than the bomb
which
de-
This fund helps support, among other
things, a number of schools, including the labor colleges at Calcutta, India and Kampala,
Uganda, Africa.
“From
the very beginning,” said Geijer, “we
have concentrated on leadership training in our
schools.
“We have spent, in round figures, -$100,000
a year on the Calcutta program and $120,000
on the Kampala program, in addition to the
$350,000 building costs for the Kampala College.
“We have had similar expenses for the Latin
American education program, and we are now
embarking on a new educational program for
French-speaking Africa. The educational activ-
ities in ORIT—the inter-American branch of
the ICFTU—and in our Asian region will likehe
considerably,”
wise have to be extended
declared.
“T for one must underline the importance of
the activities of the ICFTU in the economically
underdeveloped countries of the world.
The
workers in Africa, Asia and Latin
America
place great hope in the ICFTU for the building
of their trade unions.
“In my view, strong trade unions are also
important promoters of a general democratic
development in the new nations,” Geijer said.
UAW SECRETARY-TREASURER Emil.Mazey addresses UN conference in New York. Platform listeners include (1. to r.) Education Director Carroll Hutton, Region 9A Education-Cit-
izenship Representative John Dillon and International Affairs Director Victor Reuther.
that most people want peace; but some of them
think they can get peace by being ‘tough;’ they
want a ‘don’t-budge-an-inch’ attitude.
“T‘m sure you people don’t negotiate a labor
contract that way.
I’m sure you realize that
‘negotiations’ don’t necessarily mean ‘appeasement,’”’ Mrs. Roosevelt pointed out.
On entering and leaving the auditorium, she
received a standing ovation and had difficulty
getting through the crowd because so many
wanted to shake her hand and get her autograph.
s
*
*
The conferees spent most of an afternoon in
panel discussions on the topic, “The World
and
Your Job,” in which they considered the effect of
foreign
trade
director
for
Discussion
the
a UN guide, talks to group of UAW
members
in one of the huge meeting chambers at UN.
Following Geijer’s remarks, UAW Education
Director Carroll Hutton made two presentations
to the ICFTU leader—first, a framed copy of a
UAW education poster which includes portraits
of Geijer, UAW President Walter P. Reuther
and Kenya labor_leader Tom Mboya; and, sec-
ond, close to $2,000 in cash and checks for the
International Solidarity Fund. Of this amount,
$235 in voluntary contributions had been collected from those attending the UN conference
when the “hat” was passed following Geijer’s
speech. The rest came from contributions from
students attending last summer’s UAW summer
schools
s
s
foreign
aid
on
American
jobs.
leaders included Russell Allen, education
AFL-CIO;
the
Industrial
Everett
rector, and
Reuther.
Lewis
Region
9 Director
Session.
FORMER PRINCESS from India, serving as
and
Union
Kassalow,
Carliner,
Department
IUD
assistant
Martin
Gerber
*
°
t
of
research
di-
chaired
the
to
Victor
Most of a Sunday morning session was spent
in buzz group discussion of peace and disarmament.
Here are a few representative quotes:
“There are forces within the governments
of the United States and the Soviet Union which
are in favor of
peace
and
disarmament,
but
there are also forces within both governments
which oppose disarmament.”— Sam
Meyers,
president of UAW Local 259, New York City.
“Nuclear war through deliberate intent is
less likely than nuclear war by accident. To
prevent an ‘accidental’ nuclear war that nobody wants, we need to keep negotiating; we
need to keep talking.”—Sam Fishman, president of Ford Local 36, Wixom, Mich.
“Some people ask, ‘What good is peace and
freedom if you're out of a job?’ My answer is,
s
The biggest thrill of the conference, according to many of the delegates, was the
impromptu, unscheduled and totally unplanned
and unforeseen appearance of Mrs.
Eleanor
Roosevelt.
This is what
happened:
FRAMED
in a less serious yein, amusing the audience with
a few anecdotes.
by Education Director Carroll Hutton (center) and International Affairs Director Victor Reuther. In the poster, Geijer’s portrait
an
hour talking about the imUN, answering questions and,
Mrs. Roosevelt, who is a special adviser to
Ambassador
Stevenson,
said
the
UN
“pro-
“It is not coincidence that the people of
Japan feel so strongly about the nuclear arms
race.
They have seen what an ‘ordinary’
atom bomb can do. The last time out, we
were protected by two oceans. These oceans
pe eae
afford protection,” Mazey pointed
out.
“Let's get our people thinking about the
problems of peace and war. Just suppose that
Sen. Goldwater, who is always talking about
‘total victory’, were to be elected president of
the United States. Would he start a ‘preventive’
nuclear war?
“Suppose some military man pushes the
panic button and starts a war by miscalculation?
“Although both sides already have more
than enough nuclear weapons, the pressures to
resume and continue testing is increasing, and
the more countries develop the bomb, the
harder it is to reach a controls agreement.
“The peoples of the world need to exert
counter-pressure.
They must tell President
Kennedy and Premier Khrushchey that no
nation has the right to use the sky as an open
sewer,” Mazey declared.
°
°
*
“You have had an opportunity few of your
fellow Americans have had, to study the United
Nations and to meet important
people,’ Vic
Reuther told the delegates at the conclusion of
the conference.
“Now you will be able to return to your
local unions and your plants and to discuss
with your friends, your neighbors and your
fellow workers what you have learned.
“We know now that there can be no solid
basis for world peace without world order.
“We know now that there are no magic
wands we can wave to solve all our problems,
but we also know that the UN is much more
than ‘just a debating society,’ as its detractors
would have us believe.
“We know now about the important work
of the ICFTU and its fight to create a free and
independent labor movement throughout
the
world.
The conferees were on the street in front of
the UN, gathered for the taking of a group
souvenir photo, when Mrs. Roosevelt happened
to walk by. She was spotted by someone in the
group and Education-Citizenship Representative John Dillon of Region 9A promptly approached her, told her the purpose of the conference and invited her to address the group.
Without hesitating, Mrs, Roosevelt accepted
the invitation, saying she was “always glad to
talk to auto workers.”
The First Lady of the World then spent
more than half
portance of the
stroyed Hiroshima. The United States, in turn,
has enough nuclear-armed submarines to destroy leading Russian cities in minutes.
“Let
us
engage
in
a
peace
race
between
free and closed societies instead of an arms
race for bigger and better bombs, but let us
never forget that in a democracy, there are
no buttons to push to win public acceptance
of our views. It takes hard work.
“That’s
why
we
into our community,
church, our club.
ORIGINAL
POSTER
is presented
to Arne Geijer (left), president of the ICFTU,
appears on the left, (Photo by Region 3 staffer Don Ballard, New Castle, Ind.)
must
carry
our plant, our
the
local,
issue
our
“The issue of peace must be placed first on
the agenda of every UAW. member,” Reuther
concluded
i
a
|
aBeg
AAVN—S
‘ALINVGIIOS
“No piece of unfinished business,” President Kennedy said
in his State of the Union address, “is more important or more
urgent than the enactment under the Social Security system of
*
health insurance for the aged.”
1s now
that
Bill
King-Anderson
The
before
the
to
date
to their Senators and Congressmen,
views known
up
brought
be
to
needs
membership
local
If your
7961
union
‘Aienuer
Congress embodies much that organized labor has enaged
the
for
care
dorsed in the way of medical
through Sdcial Security.
But if any legislation at all is to be enacted, local
members once again are going to have to make their
on this vital legislation, one method would be to show them at
your next meeting the 18-minute film “Cast Me Not Off,” that
Department’s film
Education
is available through the UAW
This is a revised, up-dated and shortened version of
library.
the film made several years ago.
This new film presents the views
AFL-CIO
and
Reuther
P.
Walter
President
UAW
by
pressed
as ex-
labor
of organized
Equally important, the film shows
President George Meany.
the opposition that can be expected and from whom it will come.
Opposition views are crystallized in a speech by former Presi-
Sen.
by Republican
given
answers
by the
and
dent Eisenhower
Everett M. Dirksen, of Illinois, in an argument with James
Carey, president of the IUE.
The film can be ordered from the UAW Education Depart*
*
fee is nominal.
Rental
ment, 8000 E. Jefferson, Detroit 14, Mich.
*
It is becoming more and more apparent that if
the
groups,
subversive
the U.S. is in danger~from
greater menace today comes from the extreme right.
The growth of such virulently extreme rightwing
it
makes
Society
Birch
John
the
as
organizations
more important than ever that the local union member understand what motivates the men and women who join—and work
for—such
groups.
A pamphlet that can be of great help in understanding the
thinking and feeling of such people as Birch Society members
A libis “Report on the ‘Rampageous Right,’” by Alan Barth.
eral of deep convictions, Barth has written extensively on many
subjects during his career as an editorial writer, a columnist
His prose is simple, clear and direct.
and an author.
A single copy of the pamphlet can be obtained free upon
request from the UAW Education Department, 8000 E. Jefferson,
Detroit
14, Mich.
*
right
would
one
than
similarity
away suspect between the labor moyement’s struggles
and the Negro’s striving for recognition of his fundamental Constitutional rights.
This similarity was spelled out by the Rev. Martin
King
Luther
at
gave
he
address
an
in
Jr.
anniver-
25th
the
sary banquet the UAW held during its special collective bargain
Excerpts of that address have
ing convention in April 1961.
been collected and published by the UAW Education Department
in a pamphlet titled: “Side by Side.”
Rey.
the
of
one
that
out
points
King
of
of
needs
greatest
legislation.
liberal
organized labor is Congressional passage
Negroes, he says, have the same need.
“In these circumstances,” he says, “the campaign for Negro
suffrage is both a fulfillment of Constitutional rights and a fulfillment of labor’s needs in a fast-changing economy.
“We, the Negro people and labor, by extending the frontiers
of lib-
seeds
the
inevitably will sow
to the South,
of democracy
eralism. . . a new day will dawn which will see militant, steadfast and reliable Congressmen from the South joining those from
the northern industrial states to design and enact legislation
for the people rather than for the privileged.”
A single copy of this pamphlet, “Side by Side,” made from
Rey. King’s speech can be obtained upon request from the UAW
Education Department, 8000 E. Jefferson, Detroit 14, Mich.
ay
EN RELATHODELUOAODOU
OUOO
ANSEH
HANNAN VCVEALUUNSSAEOUANEOU
MONTHLY STRIKE REPORT
INTERNATIONAL STRIKE FUND
FOR OCTOBER, 1961
TOTAL
STRIKE
FUND
FOR
OCTOBER,
September
COME
er
30,
1961:
Investments
on
.
eoe$1,238,857.75
237,859.20
FOR™
TOTAL TO ACCOUNT
DISBURSEMENTS IN OCTOBER,
There
involving
24 strikes
were
24,961
members
in effect
of
$36,975,552.97
1961...
31,
Oct.
RESOURCES,
oo $39,352,787,.51
2,377,234.54
agree
1961.....,
the
at the
UAW.
time
of this
FOR
INTERNATIONAL STRIKE FUND
NOVEMBER, 1961
Fag
following
are
the
Strike
Fund
Assets
$36,975,552.97
$ 3,241,319.57
TOTAL TO ACCOUNT FOR: ....06.
«$40,216,872.
DISBURSEMENTS IN NOVEMBER, 1961
. 1,149,965.53
TOTAL RESOURCES NOVEMBER 30, 1961........ $39,066,907.01
There
involving
*Money
=&
Ee,
were
5,600
termination
25 strikes
members
returned
by
of strike,
as an expenditure,
in effect
of the
Ford
These
By
and
at the
UAW,
time
General
funds
were
of
BILL
this
Motors
report,
‘locals
previously
at
shown
ENTHUSIAST
Gosser,
ABBOTT
Education Director
United Rubber Workers
Akron,
in
gathering
a
realtor
Republican
a
Ohio,
quietly told me he had just
heard Walter Reuther give a
“he
any
speech and, he added,
than
sense
more
made
man I’ve heard in years.”
A conservative businessman
overheard him. He quickly ad-
month
of
founder
of the
new
the
new
Retirees’
Center,
built
by
the
center
was
clinic,
the
and
absent
be-
sible.”
This reminded me of a conversation the famous journalist, Lincoln Steffens, had with
Milwaukee
conservative
some
businessmen at the beginning
very
was
he
reasons
in
man
dangerous
this
What
servative once
is
he
America,
of conkind
said about Latoday
saying
AFL-
UAW,
the
Reuther
Walter
what
For
has to say does make a difference in this country. And
numwhat
bit to say about a large
is
ber of things. This
Papers, edChristman,
makes his Selected
M.
ited by Henry
valuable
so
to
wants
trends
of
the
understand
our
Wallace
Mike
who
anybody
for
a
quite
has
Reuther
Walter
times,
Walter
called
Reuther a “prophet” and he is
a little of that. Many workers
unions all over the
in many
country call him “our spokesman,” and he is some of that,
of
he
and
American
deserves
of the
one
call him
liberalism,
credit
His conservative
opponents
society—and
does
of wanting
cuse him
have
he
thoughts
a few
here.
ac-
to remake
seem
about
to
this
matter, But what many of his
miss,
foes alike
and
friends
and what this book captures,
is Walter Reuther, an original
thinker.
The
man
in
book
love
shows
him
as
others
collects
them
covers,
While
lect
stamps
terror
of
a
with
or
ideas.
match
many
new
as
social
a
He
col-
book
live
in
idea,
Reuther enthusiastically takes
ideas into his hands like a
sculptor
who
lovingly
molds
just
as
his
He
useful.
useful
The
the
to
If
book
reviewer
him
is
is
took
a
the
strike
of
you about it. He goes to work
cork workers. They were fighting for Supplementary Unemployment
Benefits, and Reu-
ing the thought
Guaranteed Annual
has
a new
thought.
He
energetically,
idea.
Reuther
he orates.
ers.
He
tells
rework-
into his ma-
converses more than
He wants to share
his experiences with
mingles
his listen-
these
conver-
sometimes by sadly
fellow
humans
themselves
with
ob-
strang-
their
In the pages of the book
Reuther
warns
that
far too
many
of us fear abundance
good
when
tells
sense
common
us we should welcome it. He
tells us about the bull owned
by GM's C. E. Wilson which
was better cared for than GM
workers who are “too old to
work and too young to die.”
Readers might enjoy his fencing
Reuther,
P.
Walter
of
most
the
with
angies
prejudices.
these
for
people—and
the
book
several
ling
lar, too articulate, too dedicated
to
the sculptor
muses over
developing work of art.
from
serving
too
said he was
positive, too popu-
lette. They
honest, too
are
ny,and
LaFol-
Robert
Senator,
ideas
sations with some picturesque
language, sometimes with iro-
of this century. They were denouncing the Progressive Wis-
consin
Reuther
spoke,
the
need
more urgent than ever
How useful is the book?
jor
so
him
so plau-
makes
sounds
what
“That’s
dangerous. He
his
clay.
Then
he
works
them
over, talking
to you
all the while, creating out
loud. He glances at the idea
again
worth:
cents
two
his
ded
Scholars
November,
last
Selected Papers’of Walter Reuther,
Prophet, Thinker and Liberal
leaders
for
TOTAL STRIKE FUND ASSETS,
OCTOBER, 31, 1961 srcsisssssessercseceoseerieses
INCOME FOR NOVEMBER, 196
$1,361,260.50
Per Capita
arieiie
r
58,189.43
Interest on Investments ,
"Unused Strike Funds .,..... ve 1,821,869,64
report
dedication
Review
clo,
$1,476,716.95
TOTAL
Book
President
se$37,876,070,56
1961........csccssecsssererssene
riicscssacctecocccsrsare
Capita
Interest
ASSETS
the
cause of illness. Together with the Clinic and a proposed adjacent hospital, the million-dollar
center will provide complete health services and recreational facilities for Toledo retirees.
about
1961:
at
Richard
President
Vice
UAW
Follette,
Assets for October,
The following are the Strike Fund
SPEAKERS
Willys unit of Local 12 UAW adjacent to the Willys Unit Diagnostic Clinic in Toledo, look
From left they are Ivan Nestigen, U.S. Undersecretary of Health,
over the dedication program.
of
president
Kaiser,
Education and Welfare; UAW Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey; Edgar
Kaiser Industries, parent company of Willys Motors, and Region 2-B Director Charles Ballard.
At
.
is a greater
There
PRINCIPAL
skill
with
the
best
of
pro-
fessionals. For example, he once
told Nixon: “The essential difference between the CIO and
the Republicans is that we criticize the Truman Administraits
for
policy
foreign
tion’s
deficiencies and the Republican Party criticizes it for its
virtues.”
Perhaps
Reuther’s
greatest
speech was his address accepting the Presidency of the CIO
in 1952. His description of the
War
Cold
with
as it was
as true today
didn’t
lution
the
us.
just
is
then.
gohe
a revolution
world,’
the
“There is
in
on
ing
tells
Russia
Communists
“The
start it. It is a revoof hungry men to get
their
of
out
wrinkles
empty bellies.” He warns us
that we must “take the price
efpeacetime
tag off our
forts,” and we must embrace
the aspirations of people all
over
the
world
for
advocated
He
justice,
this
but
Corps,
Peace
just
we
one
of
the
Americans
ing to win
men around
many
should
the
the
social
the
was
things
be
loyalties
world.
do-
of
But still more important, he
said the challenge we Americans face lies within ourselves.
We must find the same sense
of urgency, the same creative
power and fight we seem to
muster when we wage war, to
do
battle
for peace,
And
since
ther’s
thoughts
tained
in
the
about
the
Wage, con-
book,
were
help-
ful in adding basic philosophy
to a 1961 cause of a local union.
The Radical Right is on the
march, and Reuther’s speeches
can be used
on Communism
today to mow Right Wing ex-
tremists down with some common sense about the subject.
Unfortunately,
have
too
ment,
we
much
and
still
unemploy-
Reuther’s
ideas
about an expanding economy
are important, They are
worth study and they can
be adapted by writers for local union papers.
So little in Reuther’s Selected Papers is out of date, and
editor Christman is to be congratulated for not only having
Walter
of
much
so
captured
Reuther, the man of ideas, but
also for helping us to use these
ideas,
not
for
following
the
them
purpose
blindly,
of
but
for
use as aids for our own personal thinking
through prob-
lems
which
us.
affect
each
one
of
Training Program
Urged at Ford
The
Ford
by
asked
for
company.
UAW
Bannon,
Ken
to train
a program
ers
Co. has been
director,
Dept.
Ford
Motor
jobs
better
to institute
work-
Ford
within
the
the request
on
Discussions
this
begin
to
expected
are
month,
the
raised
had
UAW
The
training
of in-plant
question
negotiations,
the 1961
during
and the company then had inits
minded
Ford
the
cuss
should
now
officials
Co,
possible
to make
begin
dis-
Bannon
problem,
Motor
“Ford
to
willingness
dicated
a
through
vancement
the
period
sire
The
time
of
training,”
program
and
Bannon
would
be
plement to the UAW
tice program at Ford,
recognized as one of
{f not
he
the
added.
best
in
the
ad-
training
people
all
for
program
have served the company
a
re-
who
a
who
over
de-
wrote,
sup-
apprenwhich is
the best
nation,
1962—Page
10
U.S. Opposes Paying
Strikebreaking Bills
Accounting Office has told Ko-
Congressman
Frank Kowalski
(D., Conn.) and the International Union
against
federal
costs were
based largely on
advertising for workers to replace strikers, spoilage, overtime,
retraining
persons
for
striking employees’ jobs, and
similar activities.
January,
protest
by
UAW
subsidization
Local
of
1234,
management
SOLIDARITY,
strike costs has brought assurance from the Navy that it is
not that U. S. department’s
policy to pay such company
bills.
The
assurances
public
by
tween
Navy
UAW
closed-door
Bring Drug
Cost Down,
UAW Urges
Reuther
Reuther
WASHINGTON — Congress
has been urged by UAW Presi-
dent
Walter
new
P.
Reuther
licensing
and
to pass
inspection
legislation which will help to
“bring the. cost of prescribed
drugs within the reach of all.”
In a statement to the US.
Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, which has
been
the n
ying the practices of
n’s drug manufactur-
. Reuther
pointed
out:
that
$200
million
a year
is
spent
for contract-pro-
health care and protection of the 1,200,000 UAW members and their families.
Blue Cross Asks
CHICAGO
Medical
foe
—
The
Association,
of
medical
American
die-hard
for
the
social security,
lost some of its
allies in
sons
in
meetings, called for
of
all
Blue
over-65
per-
Cross
with
the
US.
Government
paying
the
hospital
insurance
premiums. The organizations ad-
mitted that millions of older
men and women are in need of
medical cadre but are unable to
pay
for
any
kind.
medical
insurance
of
Observers
interpreted
.the
action to mean that the two
organizations, recognizing the
dimensions
of
the
problem,
mig
endorse
the
Kennedy
Administration’s bill financing
aged
medi-care
security, if a
on the issue.
dy’s
of Labor Arthur J
to a 10-man labor
committee
which
in efforts to “prosound
labor
pro-
Alliance
for
in
of
of Sen-
through
social
came
showdown
city area
turers,
re-
6,
groups
Represent-
The
are church
the
tories.
voted
Social
the
In
9
reported
for
for UAW
and
vote was
In
Region
9A,
the
UAW
the
1937
vic-
67
no
Security.
Setino
Rambler.
on
and
Machinists
an
Whit-
Union
also
General
government's
GM
WORKERS
are
negotiated
ever
pact
in the hisend of the
strikes
sit-down
at GM.
by GM and left the plants they
had occupied for more than a
On that day
recognized as
gaining agent
17 struck GM
immediate 5%
was announced
vote
1 at
6 to
and
Pratt
month.
dealers’ shops
N.Y.—11 to 2
Chevrolet
of
For it was on Feb. 11, 1937
that UAW workers finally received recognition as a Union
at South Bay Pontiac, 6 to 3 at
Amity
the
other major event
tory of UAW: the
at Tubotron, Inc., Newark, NJ.,
was unanimous.
It was nearly
so at three auto
on Long Island,
Frazer
with the company —they will
pause a moment to take note
of the 25th anniversary of an-
N.J., the
101 to 43.
Aircraft
Julius
million.
cessful
to 42,
19 for
National
still evaluating the gains made
with
contract
1961
their
in
General Motors—the most suc-
Co.,
N.Y.,
by
WHILE
no
two
Rochester,
Local
pany.
the UAW was
exclusive barfor workers in
plants and an
wage increase
by the com-
Thus ended the many months
courageous
by
struggle
of
workers in the face of firingsto a union
for just talking
‘Eye Opener’ by Guy Nunn
we hate to raise
this
especially at this time
year, but about the time you
of
recovering
have
r’s.
your
u dot
to
eve,
own
start
from
what-
urself on
you're
going
thinking
income
New
to
about
tax,
one
of
life’s twin unavoidabilities. (At
least, it’s unavoidable for wage
and salary earners.)
This
year,
form
been
revised.
pler and
you
is
streamlined.
will still find
when
It
1040
new,
it mighty
make
out
But
your
And it’s
hensive.
Tax
Guide
for
re-
1962.
amazingly
compreIt answers, clearly
age
question
taxpayer
which
can
the
raise.
Tax
postcard. Address it to
Guide, care of UAW, Detroit 14
—and of course put down your
which
a
great
taxpayers—year
many
after
year—just never seem to learn
about—and they wind up paying a larger tax than
they
need pay.
We're not
these
would
going
exemptions
take
more
to
go
now—
time
aver-
have
TAX
or we have)—but
than
into
(that
you
you
and concisely, just about any
tax
average
taxpayers
New Year's present to yourself,
by addressing a post card to:
turn, to have this little booklet at your elbow.
This is called
the Employees
we'll be happy,
has
handy,
you
maybe
There are a great many exemptions available to average
have
sim-
and
this
tax
guide,
GUIDE, care of
Detroit 14
you can
free,
as
a
UAW—
We don’t say itll save you
two hundred dollars, or
even
one hundred, but it will save
you time, it will save you un-
certainty,
the
trouble
than
five
—and
it MIGHT
of
being
if it saves
dollars
you
or
save
called
you
in
no more
ten,
well,
will,
too.
OWN
cause
Year
think
a
GUIDE—for
Free— TAX
name and address, beit would start the New
very
off
there
indeed
badly
someone
was
who wanted it and
know who it was.
there
didn’t
something
Here's
to know
Those
deficits
about
nessmen
taxes.
to
out
we
ought
you
budgetary
annual
busiabout which
are
always
com-
plaining could be pretty well
eliminated
if
those
same
businessmen would pay their
full
taxes,
That
can
ment
be
is the
conclusion
that
statistics
which
show
drawn
from
that federal payment of any
such costs amounts to a government subsidy of management’s activities in fighting a
legitimate strike.
This gives the company in-
centive
for holding out for a
settlement
that
will
the
officials
favor
only management instead of
one that is fair to both sides,
union
sized,
Kowalski
away
to
be
empha-
‘i
also hammered
for government
payers
drafted
from
to
contracts
protect
such
added
tax-
costs,
He said the assistant Navy
secretary
gave
assurances
that Navy
subsidizing
policy is against
or
paying
the
assurances,
he
costs
of strikes.
Other
said,
recommendations
Navy
involved
concerning
strike expenses
claimed by
the company, and recognition of the need to safeguard
taxpayers against such
claims in future government
contracts.
Corey
a
said
govern-
firm
ment policy against subsidizing
is
costs
strike
management
reeded urgently because other
it upon
“taken
to follow the bad
had
firms
themselves
Aircraft’s
of United
example
labor policy.”
~
25 Years Ago in GM
workers
83
parts plan in Newark,
Council’s program for
care
for
the aged
through
was
Corey,
The Union officlals and Kowalski insisted at the meeting
UAW Workers Sat Down
for
at R. H. Versh
Wis.,
Conn,
walksi that the added cormpany
Remember?
Mich.,
52
Reginald
The
union at Bell Aerosystems.
At
the C. B. Christianson aircraft
Council, either with their total
membership or through their
pension committees or retired
National
medical
UAW,
10 reported.
Region
National
workers’ programs.
The UAW is supporting
vote
Region
Engine
for
Plymouth,
All local unions in the UAW
have been asked by President
Walter Reuther to consider afwith
Built
Haven,
has protested the Pratt and
Whitney-United Aircraft claim.
On the West Coast, in Region
Dura
North
The
Ia.
voted 57
union.
groups, city councils on aging,
departments of welfare, labor
groups, social service councils,
state committees on aging, and
consumers leagues.
filiating
$10
Region 4 reported a 23 to
12 vote at National Stamping
and
Manufacturing,
Jefferson,
Kowalski;
the claim that a strike by UAW
and Machinists
Union
members from June to August, 1960,
at its Connecticut plants had
raised target costs of the company’s Navy contract by about
in
voted
Jackson,
offi-
ney division of United Aircraft
to collect about $7.5 million on
The vote was 14 for the union and 9 for no union, at Mil-
ler Industries,
in Region 1C.
be-
Chamberlain, president
UAW’s
effort
Region
Mich.,
Mo.,
BeLieu;
Washington office.
The protest centered
the
UAW
representation,
in
Region 5 election there.
of all ages «nd background affiliations have reached a total
ed in this category
City,
a
the Aircraft Department staff,
and Ralph Showalter of UAW’s
manufac-
1.
Kansas
dividuals, members of the National Council now reach out to
include
46
States
including
Alaska and Hawaii.
of 825,000 members.
trailer
here
Department
Department;
months
Ill, in
the
of
Every one of the nine eligible
workers
at
General
Motors
Truck and Coach warehouse in
councils
member
by
two
at Marlette,
Region
each of which, in turn, comprises many separate Golden
Age clubs and senior citizen
centers.
Together with interested in-
Supporting
last
Woodstock,
Industries,
chairmanship of retired Congressman
Aime
J.
Forand,
Democrat,
of
Rhode
Island,
now claims a membership of
and
the
meeting
following
1234 recording secretary who
represented
the New
Haven,
Conn., area’s industrial unions;
Wise Stone, assistant director
The vote was 277 for UAW,
72 for no union, at Guerdon
the
state,
in
conducted
E.
local;
4, 346 of the 580 eligible workers in the Die Casters Division
of the Electric Auto-Lite Co.
yoted for UAW, 193° voted for
no union and 10 ballots were
challenged.
under
national,
1961.
At
for Citizens for Health Care
through Social Security formed
1961
elections
NLRB
Council Growing
in early August,
of
shops were able to win UAW
representation
for themselves
Progress.
The National Council
Warren
Workers in a variety of small
Senior Citizens
gional
the dispute — the American
Hospital Association and National Blue Cross.
The
two
organizations,
at
enrollment
by
gram” for Latin America in
line with President Kenne-
include
grip on two important
concurrent
named
have affiliated to date. These
care
aged through
apparently has
been
400,000.
A total of 179 senior groups
U.S. Pay Cost
Of Aged Care
Secretary
Goldberg
advisory
will assist
mote
a
has
P.
Walter
neth
Small Shops
Vote UAW
Named
President
UAW
Navy.
with
meeting
Washington
a
before
Reginald Corey, the local’s financial secretary, huddle
Department officials.
Kowalski
made
Attending the meeting were
assistant Navy Secretary Ken-
the government's paying management costs during a strike, Con) gressman Frank
Conn.), Warren Chamberlain, president of Local 1234, North Haven, Conn., and
(D.,
Kowakki
were
cials and Local 1234 officers,
International Union representatives and ‘he congressman.
=
PROTESTING
<d
strong
WASHINGTON
—A
govern-
reported
not
were
$4,000,000,000.
Of
as
they
have been, costing the
about
States treasury
should
United
the
amounts
for themselves a
economic security
measure of
and human
dignity.
The 25th
celebrated
throughout
In
anniversary will be
in
several
cities
the nation.
Flint,
Mich.,
for
exam-
ple, site of some of the most
dramatic
sit-down
demon-
strations,
a
gala
celebration
of the event is scheduled
for
Feb. 4, 1962. A special newspaper will be published setting
forth
the
history
of
those Flint UAW local unions
which took part in the 1937
sit-downs as well as other
labor unions in Flint today.
A banquet
and
a pageant
play will be presented depicting a panoramic view of the
period in which the sit-down
strikes took place.
Qi
approximatein income
that during 1959
ly $24,400,000,000
by
sympathizer, and beatings
company-hired
and
police
goons bent upon breaking the
will and determination of GM
workers to organize and obtain
that
have been reported:
*34% was on
interest
individuals;
should
lin told the
Iowa
Bar
Associa-
tion that the loss represented
“a tremendous extra financial
burden
our
honest
citizenry
must bear because of the
rors of their neighbors.”
on
annuities
and
FCC Studying Union
Statement on WLW
*28% was on
farm profits;
business
and
Communications Commission
*29%
pensions;
*11%
income;
*8%
was
was
miscellaneous
on
was on
paid
dividends, and
Only 3 per cent was
on
wages and salaries where deductions are made before the
average
workingman
even
sees his check.
Commenting
on
tics, Commissioner
Revenue Mortimer
these
statis-
of Internal
M. Caplin
WASHINGTON—The
er-
Federal
is
studying a brief filed by the
UAW, asking the FCC not to
renew the broadcasting license
of the powerful,
clear-channel
radio station WLW
nati.
in Cincin-
The UAW says the station re-
fuses to carry the union show
‘Eye Opener’ or any program
presenting
the
labor
- liberal
viewpoint, and is thereby not
serving the public interest,
value
from
of the
stock.
sold his 21,415
for
stock
Co,
he
than
claimed
their
said
he
Page
He
shares
said
actual
$214,156
Paul
been
given
the
Vollrath
In
Sheboygan
firm,
Co.
reply
to
Conger,
Lyman
torney
and
long-time
from
$124
Unions Agree
On Basic Policy
Among
Continued from Page 1
new
gates of the plan came after
vigorous insistence by the AFLCIO Industrial Union Department that the convention take
action to resolve the problem
of disputes
tion.
With
within
Reuther,
IUD;
Al
the IAM
special
worked
federa-
head
Hayes,
and
the
of the
president
chairman
committee
on
the
internal
of
of a
which
dis-
putes
problem,
and
other
IUD leaders playing
key
roles, the plan was finally
worked
out
at
an
8%
hour
meeting of the federation’s
executive council.
The plan provides for mediation, determination by an imif mediation
partial umpire
proves unsuccessful,
and
for
authority
council to impose
executive
the
sanctions
for
non-compliance.
~
It also provides for appeals
machinery to a subcommittee
of the executive council, Members of the appeals board are
AFL-CIO President George
Meany;
presi-
Beirne,
Joseph
dent of the CWA, and James A.
Suffridge, president
of the Re-
tail Clerks,
Machinery of the new plan
was set into motion soon after
the convention
by AFL-CIO
President George Meany with
the appointment
ber mediation
The
panel
of a 42-mem-
panel.
of
mediators
in-
cludes all members of the AFLCIO Executive Council except
the three members and three
alternates of the council subcommittee which will hear appeals.
In
addition
members
—
Reuther—19
ated
to
the
which
council
includes
officers of affili-
internationals
were
ap-
pointed to serve on the panel.
was
The plaintiff also contended that certain reserve funds
should also have been added
to increase the value of the
Conger
the
A
civil
ducted
Vice
resolution
was
attended,”
ever
without a dissenting
vote.
A. Philip Randolph, president
of the Brotherhood
and
Porters
Car
years
a
nationally
leader
rights,
in
said
the
it
of Sleeping
many
for
recognized
fight
was
show
governor
for
“the
certain
Kohler
called
by
Meany
“the
most
comprehensive on the subject
ever presented to any conven-
tion I
adopted
former
to
that
was
fa-
miliar with the firm’s bookkeeping system
and that he
knew that the company
de-
UAW
rights
sought
as
civil
best
Co. lawyer
reserves.
The
pictured
the
ex-governor as “a man who
sold his stock in an arm’s
length deal . . . and later feels
he didn’t
for it and
get enough
money
wants to renege on
the deal.”
Walter Kohler testified
one of the reasons
he
that
sold
his Kohler Co. stock in February, 1953 was the “imminence”
of a
UAW
strike at
Local 833.
(Actually,
the
the
plant
by
did
not
local
resolution on civil rights the
AFL-CIO has yet adopted.”
go on strike until April 5, 1954,
The strike lasted six years),
Reuther,
who
gave
effective support to demands
“As governor ,..I1 did not
want to be in a position of
having to act in the strike,”
he testified. “I did not want
to be appearing
to protect
my own interest.”
that
the
convention
adopt
a
broad, meaningful civil right
position, said he hoped the
policy statement “can be the
first step in a whole series of
vigorous steps to give meaning and
purpose
and
sub-
stance to these noble
in the resolution .. .”
words
Machinery
for enforcement
of AFL-CIO’s anti-discrimina-
strengthened
tion policy was
by the resolution, which also
set forth the responsibilities of
organized labor in the field of
civil
rights,
and
broad
legislative
aimed at assuring
for all Americans.
outlined
a
program
equal rights
Proclaiming
the drive
to
organize
the
unorganized
as
“the major unfinished business
of the American labor “move-
ment,”*
structed
courage
inconvention
the
the AFL-CIO to entop-level conferences
among
affiliates to work out
camorganizing
cooperative
paigns,
Urging the convention to revitalize labor’s determination
to organize, Reuther told delegates the UAW
was ready to
contribute $1 million for a joint
orginizing
the
ment
people
drive
in
to get on
“and
this
join with
labor
move-
the march.”
He
also
governor,
busy”
the
a
he
testified
was
at the
time
accounting
fair
as
“extremely
and
firm
appraisal
value.
that,
of
to
trusted
make
his
stock’s
Donald
R.
Jennings,
an
Evanston, Il. accountant
testifying as an expert
in
the
ex-governor’s behalf, said
he
didn’t
think
in which
counted
it paid
Mutual
was
the
for
the
manner
Kohler
$2,174,416
Co.
ac-
which
to the John Hancock
Life
Insurance
Co,
proper.
Jennings said the firm deducted the premium once from
net worth on its balance sheet,
and then deducted 10% of the
premium
each
year
years from earnings.
for
He
this was “sort of a double
alty.”
ten
said
pen-
Jennings said the premium
should properly have been car-
ried
as
company
an
asset.
properly
He
said
carried
the
the
amount on its internal books
as an asset, but on the audit
reports
holders
furnished
it
was
the company’s
In
his
to
deducted
net worth.
tesetimony,
stock-
from
Walter
Kohler also declared that the
firm had a “very different”
earnings record for the five
years previous to 1959 than
it did the five years before
1953.
The
younger
testified
that
“some
things
Kohler
also
he
discovered
which
puzzled
me” in company balance sheets
five years after he sold his
MRS, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT’S joke is thoroughly enjoyed by
Victor Reuther, director of the UAW’s International Affairs DeShe spoke during a UAW-sponsored United Nations
partment.
workshop in New York,
stock and
discovery
1958,
was prompted by the
to file the suit in
Herbert Kohler testified during the trial that he made the
attempted
testimony
the
record,
to
but
the
® seg
to
wid-
his
was
The
born
two
of~
branches >
of the Kohler family have been 3
feuding for many years. They o§
do not speak
The
to each other.
Kohler
Co,
plant
at
_,
was
the
bitterest
by
the
scene
strikes
UAW.
off
the
The
of one
of the
eS
ever
The
in
strike
1960
ments
from
Page
was
after
the
found guilty of
labor practices
National
Labor
Board.
company
has
Re-
refused
Walter
Walter Kohler, while governor, made several attempts to
an
1
mediate the strike, but was rebuffed each time by his relative.
other
considera-
of whether or not I should run
for election this year.
After
many months of serious and
thoughtful
consultation
with
my family and with my fellow
officers, I made
my decision
not to run and have so informed the International Ex-
at
its
regular
quarterly
meeting
in Detroit
in January.
“My
assignments
as
vice
president have been
for the
last
several
years
extraordin-
and
physically
taxing
arily
have kept me away from my
home
and
family
over long
periods of time: In justice to
my
family and to myself, I
concluded
I
could
make
no
Organizing
MIAMI BEACH—UAW
dent Walter P. Reuther,
move
paign
here
a
ers.
The
push
Presibacked
leadCon-
successful
such
tensify
to broaden
a
work-
and
campaign
in-
was
climaxed with adoption by the
delegates of a resolution calling on the federation and all
affiliated unions “to lend their
support
to
the
agricultural
worker organizational effort.”
Reuther
unions
to
give
are
announced
aid
going
to
the
to
that
be
all
asked
campaign.
“We are going to come to you
and we hope that you will contribute to the raising of funds
to carry on this fight,” he said.
President
The AFL-CIO
George
tion
Meany
had
workers
said
revised
organizing
the
the
to make.
part
of
capacity
good
part
of
or
the
is
a
another,
my
deep
I have
UAW,
adult
It has been a happy,
ing experience,
It
deciin
a
life.
reward-
satisfaction
to
feel, as I do, that one has
made some contribution to a
fine and constructive force in
American society,
the vast majority
zens
have
from which
of our citi-
received
meaningful
benefits, spiritually and
culturally, as well as materially.
“Tt is a further source of
satisfaction that even having
made
this
cutting
decision,
myself
I am
loose
not
from
the
UAW
and the great work it
accomplishes.
_I look forward
to my new work with great
anticipation and I expect to
realize the same satisfactions
from it as I have from my
work
in the
past.”
Matthews
He
is a native of Eng-
came
to this
country
Company
where
he
be-
the
in-
came a journeyman electrician,
He has played an active role
farm
organize
one
Car
to revitalize labor’s camto
a
easy
I
went to work at Packard Motor
played a
AFL-CIO
in
an
one
pleted
a four-year
electrical
engineering course and in 1925
by the full force of the Industrial Union Department which
vention
not
the
and to Detroit in 1920. At Cass
Technical High School he com-
Labor
he also heads,
ing role in the
been
land.
To Step Up
Farm
was
than
sion to have
tion for some time the question
Board
made.
“It
In announcing his intention
to retire next May, Matthews
ecutive
decision
have
P. Reu-
said:
“T have had under
to
obey the orders of the NLRB,
and the case is still in the federal courts.
out of the office of
President
ther.
2
fought
Will Not Run Again,
Norm Matthews Says
Continued
2
Kohler, Wis., near Sheboygan,
lations
de-
M. Kohler,
again
70,
second,
by
Kohler Co. treasurer Anton
Braun testified that the firm
had to borrow money to finance the purchase of Walter Kohler’s stock.
The Kohler Co. was founded
by John
married,
married
company was
many unfair
from
judge
was
now
called
have
stricken
nied his motion.
in 1873
stock,
President Leonard Woodcock,
constitutional plan for set-
tlement of internal disputes. Resounding approval by the dele-
them
a million dollars received. by
the company in January, 1953.
in
resolution
the
supported
ident Walter P. Reuther strongly
a talk to the convention,
this
half
than
more
of
rebate
tax
the
Walter
it.
and
Kohler,
governor
at the time
sold
Conger
a
of
told
not
was
and
former
to $133
Kohler
spokes-
that the company’s books were
“crooked,” but he simply was
not given earnings figures for
1952
in
on
study which caused him to believe that the stock was worth
man for Herbert Kohler, Walter Kohler said he did not claim
Secretaryproblems are discussed by UAW
CIVIL RIGHTS
Treasurer Emil Mazey (left) and A. Philip Randolph, president
of the Sleeping Car Porters, during the AFL-CIO Convention,
The convention passed what Randolph called “the best resolution on civil rights the AFL-CIO has yet adopted.” UAW Pres-
the
who
metal
widow’s sister.
Walter
J. Kohler
Sr,
the
plaintiff's father, was born of
the first marriage. Herbert v.2
told
of this before completing the
transaction.
Another expert witness for
the plaintiff, Frank R. Anderson, testified that he made a
Co. at-
Kohler
owed
company’s profitable 1952
inform
the
a question
firm
immigrant
worker,
earnings and knew
of the
tax refund of over half a
million dollars, but did not
the
Walter Kohler, a former officer and director of the Kohler Co., asserted that the stock
was worth at least $10 per
share more than what he got
for it. He is the head of another
accounting
Austrian
of the de-
the court that he was
possession of information
He
about
F. Johnson
fendant
less
value.
hadn't
he
which
$2,462,725,
was
decision to offer $115 a share
for Walter Kohler’s stock.
of Kohler
enough information
company’s worth.
Oe
1
MYN—|L
Continued
luvailos
aes
Ex-Gov. Walter Kohler Sues Uncle
Herbert Kohler Over Stock Deal
federa-
farm
campaign
and intended to carry it into
various areas,
Meany said that “any newscan
in
listening
paperman
carry the news to California
that the AFL-CIO is not getagricultural
ting out of the
campaign,”
in
union
ception
ard
in
eral
affairs
of
the
1937.
since
UAW
After
minor
at
Pack-
holding
local
sev-
union
posi-
tions, he became president
the Packard
local
early
1943
later.
and
He
was
re-elected
first
ternational
when
he
became
was
International
Board in the
has been a
Board since
re-elected at
convention.
to
the
vice
delegates to
Union
elected
of
in
a year
an
In-
official
to
the
Executive
fall of 1944, He
member
of the
that time, being
each succeeding
He was elevated
presidency
by
the UAW
con-
vention in 1955.
Matthews
has
been
best
known in the union and to the
public as
Chrysler
director of the UAW
Department.
He has
also been director of the following departments and councils:
American
baker-Packard,
facturing,
the
Office
Eaton,
Workers
and
Stude-
Budd
Manu-
Bendix
many
years
and
Technical
Organizational
partment
For
Motors,
he
has
De-
been
Education
the
of
chairman
Committee of the UAW International Executive Board and
and
Policy
the
of
member
Skilled Trades Committees,
Still Our
1962—Page
12
Unemployment
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Bowles
Judge
McCree
Michigan Judge Named
To Public Review Board
Judge George E. Bowles of
Judicial
Third
Michigan’s
Circuit Court has accepted
to the UAW
appointment
Public Review Board, UAW
President Walter P. Reuther
announced.
The Detroit jurist replaces Judge Wade H. McCree who was appointed to
the Federal District Court
by President John F. Kennedy.
In
Review
the
accepting
Board post, Judge Bowles
said in a letter to Reuther:
President's
Committee...
Continued
ly
agreed
statement:
on
from
the
“Achievement
Page
1
following
of
tech-
nological progress without
sacrifice of human values
requires a combination of
private and Government
action, consonant with the
principles of a free society.”
While reaching what Secretary of Commerce Luther
Hodges called an “historic”
accord, the committee noted
some points of disagreement.
The labor leaders felt the
report’s language on shortas
week
the work
ening
work
means of spreading
should have been stronger
and more urgent.
“Only the fact of full employment — not a statement
of its desirability—can properly serve as the premise for
the statement that the necessity for shortening the work
period will only develop ‘in
the future,’ ” the labor leaders said.
The labor leaders added
should
report
the
that
have said that if unemployment is not substantially reduced in the near
future there would have to
be a general shortening of
work week “through col-
lective bargaining and by
law.”
Henry Ford I disagreed,
claiming that an arbitrary
shortening of the work week
unemployment
to decrease
would be “a confession of
defeat . . . a poor remedy
. . a harmful one.”
Shorter work weeks must
come “as our growing economy can afford them and
not as expedient solutions to
unemployment problems,”
Ford said.
Ford and Arthur F. Burns,
National
of the
president
ReEconomic
of
Bureau
search, filed dissents to the
report’s premise that automation is itself a significant
cause of unemployment but
the other management members of the committee agreed
with the report's position.
crea-
tive effort to assure that individual rights and minority
interests will be adequately
protected
through
in
your
an impartial
unchanged
at
6.1%,
the
union
proce-
dure.
“Tt stands as a milestone
self-governto responsible
ment and labor relations. It
has given a healthy impetus
to voluntarism in our society.”
Public Review Board appointments are made by the
International ExecuUAW
tive Board from a list of
nominees proposed by the
Public Review Board itself.
Judge McCree, whose resignation had been accepted regretfully by the union, was one of the original
members when the Board
was established in 1957.
“It is with deep, mixed
emotions that we accept your
draw
we
and
resignation
some consolation in knowing
that our loss is the nation’s
gain,” Reuther’s letter to
Judge McCree said.
UAW Board
Conference
Postponed
SOUTH BEND, Ind.—The
6,500 members of Local 5,
on strike against the StudeCorp, since
baker-Packard
New Year’s Day, were waging a strong fight as Solid-
postponement
Indefinite
of the UAW’s Ninth International Skilled Trades Conference has been announced
by Secretary-Treasurer Emil
Mazey.
The conference, scheduled
in Chicago Feb. 8 through
10, was put off by action of
the International Executive
Board because of the illness
Richard
of Vice President
arity went to press to retain
work rules and pay scales
they have had for years in
the plant.
At a meeting Jan. 7,
the members overwhelmingly rejected company demands for further concessions, and voted to continue their strike. Federal
mediators immediately
Gosser, director of the skilltrades
department,
called union and company
negotiators together for
further bargaining, which
had been broken off when
unemployment is with a total
effort: the labor movement,
itself, must make a total
effort.”
the
A blueprint for such a
total effort by organized
labor was set forth by the
AFL-CIO Industrial Union
62 $ Drive
With election of liberal
a
this year
congressmen
“must” to assure passage of
urgently needed liberal legislation in Pres. John F. Kennedy’s program, the union’s
1962 COPE dollar drive has
been set to take place sometime during the period of
May, June and July.
this
for
schedule
The
year’s top priority COPE
campaign was decided by the
International Executive
its regular
during
Board
this
meeting
quarterly
month in Detroit.
Importance of the drive,
which will seek voluntary
COPE dollar contributions
from each UAW member,
was underscored when Republican leaders in Washington reported they will
seek to make heavy gains
in this year’s Congressional election in order to defeat such liberal legislation
as medical care for the
work rules, The contract had
indefinitely
extended
been
from the Nov. 30 expiration
date during the bargaining
talks.
The company, taking its
arguments to the community
with newspaper ads, is pointing to its small share of the
resources;
2. General tax reform concentrating on providing relief for low and middle income
began.
wage cuts and changes in the
gram for Full Employment”
which contained the following points:
1. Establishment of a Cento
Agency
Planning
tral
make the best use of our
national
strike
The workers were forced
to go on strike when manin the midst of
agement,
negotiations, terminated its
agreement with UAW as of
Dec. 30 and put into effect
Department at its convention in Washington in midNovember.
The IUD offered a “Pro-
Maps COPE
aged, aid to education
Studebaker Workers
Fight Wage Cut Try
in
automobile centers,” he said.
“The only way to deal with
the basic economic facts of
ed
+
more than in November,
It is this “hard core”
unemployment that causes
tation facilities, ete.;
the deepest concern of la5. Extensive programs for
bor leaders. Reuther and
retraining workers and
other labor spokesmen frestrengthening the new Area
quently have warned that
Redevelopment Agency;
“recovery” from
after
6. Reduction of the workeach recession, the rate of
week through amendments
unemployment has hit an
to the Fair Labor Standards
even higher plateau.
Act and through collective
For example, after the
bargaining;
unemployrecession,
1953
7. Enactment of essential
ment was 2.9% of the labor
social welfare legislation
force. After the 1956-57 resuch as medical care for the
cession, unemployment was
aged through social security
and Federal aid to education. “ at 4.3%, and in 1960, it was
5.6%.
Latest figures released by
Today, with business inof Labor
the Department
dicators rising and talk of
showed that the hardest hit
“prosperity” increasing, unamong the unemployed —
employment is at 6.1%.
those out of work 15 weeks
ther said.
The UAW President said
that some economists are
predicting that the auto industry will have the best
year since 1955.
“But we can do that and
there will still remain large
residues of unemployment
or longer—numbered 1,233,000 in December — 100,000
4, A sharp pick-up in
public construction — low
cost housing, schools, hospitals, municipal transpor-
1
Reu-
unemployment,”
of
tremendously
a
Page
against the broad problem
“The establishment of the
Public Review Board repre-
sents
from
same figure as recorded in
November. The figure had
dropped to 6.19% in November from 6.8%, after hovering near 79% for 11 months.
Reuther pointed out that
the drop in November indicated the Kennedy Administration had made some progress in efforts to reduce the
unemployment rate.
“But we must realize
that no real, substantial
movement has been made
SOLIDARITY,
UAW
Judge
Continued
automotive market — curand claiming
rently 1.2%
that Local 5 members are
getting better pay and working conditions than many of
families;
3. Lowering of high, longterm interest rates to permit
greater economic expansion;
the
the
workers
industry.
in the
rest
of
through
The union,
Region 3 Director Ray
Berndt, chief negotiator
for the International Union
UAW, pointed out that the
so
made
had
workers
many concessions to help
that their
the company
wages and working conditions are below the rest of
in almost
the - industry
every respect.
“Studebaker workers recognize the financial difficulties of the company and have
been prepared to give their
full and frank cooperation in
them,”
meet
to
helping
Berndt pointed out. “They
have already made substantial concessions in pensions,
SUB and medical insurance.
“Despite this, the company
has continued to insist on
submission to unnecessary
changes in work rules and in
unreasonabl pay cuts. The
company is demanding that
only the workers bear the
management’s
of
burden
failure to sell Studebaker
products.”
Round-the-clock picketing
at the plant continues despite below-zero
weather,
as
to press.
went
Solidarity
Pickets kept from freezing
by use of empty oil drums
converted into stoves as the
local set up a kitchen. Local
officers reported morale was
high among the members.
and
similarly needed laws.
for the COPE
Kickoff
drive is scheduled for the International Union’s Constituwhich
tional Convention
starts May 4.
At
the
same
time,
plans
are under way by some Regional Directors to call area
leadership meetings during
February and March to plan
the local dollar drives.
aa
Despite
Local
bitter
winter
5 President
weather,
Woodrow
morale
has
stayed
Frick, at right, talking
high
with
among the
strikers,
Studebaker
pickets,
reports
I
January,
directly
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Send
label to 2457 E. Washington Street,
POSTMASTER:
under mailing
Indianapolis
Second
class
Labor Arthur J. Goldberg, addressing a meeting of the Chicago Medical School, urged “a
cound system of medical care”
for the aged.
Declaring that every American family will at some time
face the problem of making probers, the Secretary said:
“In these days of high taxes,
developed
tary
elderly—
the
upon
burden
countries,”
said. “In
the
the United
ready, As medical costs rise,
and the need for medical servives grows, that burden will
doctors
great one al-
country.”
is financially sound; as one of
the trustees of that system I
can vouch for that. The proposal to insure our citizens
through the prepaid social security system is the logical,
sound
fiscally
and
sensible,
way to provide for the medical
costs that we all face or will
The
Board
may
lead to “socialized medicine.”
“The Federal Government has
no intention or desire to control
SECRETARY also urged
in meeting the mounting
systems
—
on
known
the
as
to
of scholarship
schools
of
the
ruled by a 4-0 vote
under a union security
be
union
The board held that there can
little
layed
security
members
payment
Packard
if
defeat
dis-
collec-
of
Local
dues
717.
to
IUE
Finally the union asked the
company to discharge one of the
dissident workers. Even though
osteo-
pathy, and dentistry.
“This bill needs the support
of every citizen in the Nation,”
he said.
Discussing the
doctor shortage,
due.
An NLRB trial examiner found
that a group of rebel Electrical
Workers in Warren, O., had used
as an harrassing tactic the de-
grants
medicine,
his
fired.
Health Professions Educational
Assistance Act, would authorize
a@ program
workers
tive bargaining agreements by
delaying payment of dues until
the last minute before they are
basis of race, color, or creed —
used by some medical schools
in selecting students.
He said an Administrationbill,
pays
if the
dismissal
contract.
satisfied
shortage of doctors. This would
include a program of scholarship grants and an end to arbi-
supported
he then paid his dues, he was
dismissed,
and
the board
said
the employer was acting as re-
extent of the
Mr. Goldberg
quired
under
a
with the IUE.
yalid
agreement
Mich.-Support
for
Council of Senior
campaign
to
get
med-
ical care for the aged through
social security was pledged this
week by the Michigan AFL-CIO
COPE.
George
Brown,
the
UAW
want
from
charity”
the high
member
Retirees
of
Steering
Committee told COPE meeting
at Civic Center the “aged don’t
care,
but
cost
only
relief
of medical
they are simply
the full cost,
medical
unable
care,
to afford
land Park General Hospital. A
specialist was called in by my
doctor.
“Blue Cross paid my doctor
Brown
specialist’s
by me.”
told
of
the
bill
had
case
of
nations
of
the
widow
the
to
a
able
to
from
blood,”
blood
bill.”
arrange
unions
he
for
said,
struggling
to
adds
short
our
nine
of
income,
to
what
financed
through
care,
“The
in
support
American
“but
do-
some
the
to
pay
$10
but
a
still
medical
social
for
medical
Medical
Asso-
ciation
is spending
millions of
dollars to kill the bill and
its
members are deluging Congress
with
“We
protest
that we
passed,”
must
letters,
mean
inform
to
get
by
delegates
to
many
veterans,
area
redevelopment
combat
ic
primary
1940s.
late
ton
cases
Detroit wards
Grosse
years.
in
for
Congress
the
bill
or
as
valuation).
sale
make
veterans should
These
application for this tax exemption at their local tax assessor’s
soon
as
office
after
which
or
they
$2,000
wartime serbe entitled to
exemption
tax
tax
requesting
are
exemption,
Widows of any
vice veteran may
this
on
home
the
own
also,
residents
Detroit
of
City
Asshould apply at City Tax
sessor's Office, Room 810, CityCounty
of
corner
Building,
AveJefferson
and
Woodward
before
Michigan,
Detroit,
nue,
March
is
PM,
open
If any
22,
1962.
from
This
8:00
further
AM
tax
to.
office
4;00
information
desired, please contact the
Department.
Veterans’
improvement
and
in
medical
civil
care
for
that
he
in the Ford-
that
for
compen-
he
had
better
who
al-
work-
understands
machinery
legislation,”
of
the
govern-
said
give
is
UAW
every
wants
“And
American
if they cannot,
who
and able to work
in the
American
prepared
Tom
Si-
ment
then
“Just
the
weak
we
are
lack
the march.”
the
in
strong
those
prepared
helped
days...
to
help
Un-
a tremendous orpotential, but who
AFL-CIO Organization Director
John W. Livingston, who opened
the
labor
convention
discussion,
said
standing
been
“not
has
still” in its organizing activities.
The 1.5 million workers organ-
ized since the 1955 merger have
been largely offset, however, by
membership losses from technochanges
he
and
said.
plant
shut-
the
need
emphasized
for
agreement
put
its own
among
before
the
staff
organizing
competing
AFL-CIO
to work
has
been
payments
ject
to
of the
are
ruled
Federal
earnings
have
amount
that
you
SUB
and
Income
not
can
helping
drive.
Taxable
If you
—UAW President Walter P.
Reuther at the AFL-CIO
Convention at Miami.
Sl
the resources.”
It
has a job
economy.”
as
ions having
ganizational
SUB
is willing
down
Referring to help the UAW had
received from other unions in
the Thirties, Reuther said:
in an
we
to “lay
to get on
unions
who
P. Reuther
convention
Auto Work-
million today” for a joint organizing drive “and join with
the people in this labor moye-
Meany
a job a job at 40 hours.
American
ers—is
downs,
ought to fight to reduce the
level of the workweek until
every
President Walter
told the
AFL-CIO
that his union—the
logical
“We ought to say to them
that we are prepared to work
40 hours a week if you can
1,
January
as
1962, as possible, inasmuch
has
or township
county
each
a different tax review period.
They will have to present their
discharge papers, their last pension check or a letter from the
Veterans Administration, certifying entitlement to a pension,
and a contract deed or other
are
they
showing
documents
buying
a leader of proven
QUOTE:
valuation
interpreted
be
Harper
senior
citizens
through
social
security. Also the GI bill for cold
be eligible for tax ex$2,000
first
the
on
to
east side and
rights
All veterans who are receiving
a pension from the Veterans Ador more
10%
of
ministration
for either a service connected
or non-service connected disabil-
not
and
Delegates conceded that Ryan ,|
a Democrat, was most capable,
and best qualified to represent
the district’s population in the
House of Representatives.
He
has
14 years
of active
experience
in
the
Michigan
State Senate and is presently
minority leader.
A lifelong fesident of Detroit’s
families;
For Tax Exemption
assessed
17, 19 and 21, the
ability, Ryan has pledged himself to work vigorously to combat unemployment by helping to
bring work to the Detroit area.
His program calls for a provision for unemployed and their
Disabled Veterans
May Be Eligible
(tax
Pointes
Woods.
because
contested
are
that
out
State
UAW Will Donate
$1 Million Toward
Organizing Drive
HAROLD M. RYAN
em-
considerably
awards
pay
the
District COPE
Committee,
“Ryan is just such a man.”
of unlawful discrimination. Inincrease
could
charges
terest
back
and
Ryan’s
mon, delegate from UAW Local
306 and secretary of the 14th
general
lost wages
ployes having
a man
ment
be
awarded
is
pay
to
compensation.
have to send to Washing-
complex
by workers.
Back
in
pointing
worked
man’s
‘We
counsel of the National Labor
Relations Board (NLRB), announced his office henceforth
will demand payment of interest on illegal wage losses suf-
fered
increase
cited
record
case
ways
fair labor practices soon may get
6 per cent interest along with
Rothman,
delegates
unemployment
sation
Workers found to have been
deprived of work because of un-
Stuart
to
activities
the leadership
Canton
Back Pay Suits
their back pay awards,
The
took
late
will
election
taxes
and
growth.
Senate,
Louis C. Rabaut, a Democrat,
who served continuously from
1934 with the exception of one
in the
recession
excellent
cre-
the
of
death
the
by
ated
lower
modernize
neighborhood
communities and stimulate econom-
the
District
Congressional
14th
purchase
security could do.”
John Barkley, also an official
of the Retirees group, urged union members to write their congressmen
in the
war
Central Labor Body concurred
in the recommendation of the
COPE Committee and Executive
Board to help elect Ryan to fill
the vacancy in Wayne County’s
is
He
praised
the
UAW
national negotiators for getting
partial payment of Blue Cross
for retired workers,
“This
unions,
$7,500
who was given 31
before he died last
is still
care
“T was stricken with an emergency illness last April,” he explained. “I was taken to High-
but the
be paid
was
falls
ary working man, and although
they are willing to pay a cetain
toward
“I
month
He said retirees are 75% more
liable to illness than the ordinamount
working man
pints of blood
August.
EDITION
held in the District on Jan. 23,
with the final special election
on Feb. 13.
The district, one of the largest
congressional
districts
in
the
United States, covers east side
assesed valuation of their homes
provided their property is not
than
more
for
assessed
tax
For Senior Citizens Council
LANSING,
the National
local
endorsed
ity, may
emption
State COPE Pledges Aid
Citizens’
Ti
ind.
Interest Charge
To Be Added In
charge, does not prevent a valid
ical care.”
quota
even
District.
A
that a belated payment of dues,
after a union request for dis-
responsibility for providing med~-
trary
so
The NLRB
sion, or to dictate its conduct or
THE
action
do
14th
term
National Labor Relations
has ruled that a union
subsequently
profes-
medical
the
the
may ask an employer to fire a
worker who js delinquent in his
union dues, and
the employer
He termed this proposal an
“insurance program,” one that
would in no way constitute or
way
in
For Lateness
In Paying Dues
face.”
in any
100,000
Okay Firing
system
security
social
for every
140
about
to patients,
of doctors
as Congressman
Already
States,
those who can least among us
our
afford it — and upon
families is a very
M. Ryan
Secre-
the present
rate
will merely
maintain the present proportion
“Our
Indianapolis,
The Wayne County AFL-CIO
has given its endorsement to the
election of State Senator Harold
out 14,000 doctors a year and
even exporting some to under-
mem-
aging
for its own
grow.
at
Labor Backs Ryan for Congress
In the 14th Congressional District
pointed out that this year the
nation graduated about 7,000
85 medical
from
physicians
schools. It is estimated that
the equivalent of 20 new medical schools must be added by
1975 to increase the annual
number to 10,000.
However,
“Russia
is turning
of
Secretary
Ill. —
CHICAGO,
the
paid
7, Ind.
Medical Care for Aged
Urged by Labor Secretary
visions
postage
1962
kept
a
sub-
Tax.
record
received
last
year in-SUB
benefits, we suggest that you request this information
from your employer.
State AFL-CIO Reaffirms
Support of Equal Vote
LANSING,
igan
AFL-CIO
unanimously
Mich,
The
Mich-
executive
passed
board
two
reso-
lutions Tuesday reoffirming their
staunch
support
of
the
oneman vote principle,
The first resolution called for
labor to stand fast in its fight
for
based
in
legislative
both
mously
on
regular
the
voted
apportionment
House
to
representation
and
take
Senate
a
firm
Thus
the
highway
sioner,
treasurer,
secretary
subject
to
confirmation,
The
Senate
auditor
by
by the
tion,
State
The
Michigan
the
the
i
Board
of
representation”
rule,
public
of
grounds
further
be
and
in-
Educa-
AFLICIO
rejected the proposal
these
officials
who
ity
of-
would
Legislature
superintendent
ficlals.
state
six
general
named
elected
on
would
create
of
of
state,
attorney
general
would
be appointed
by the governor,
position calling for election of
State Administration
Board
The
executive
Branch
Comthe
Con
Con
to
recommend
appointment
commis-
board
to appoint
are
now
through
that
it
“unequal
minor-
ia
AI
dl ie
cee Ar
CONVEYOR
EDITION
| FIRESTONE
OF
January,
SOLIDARITY
1962
FAX
1962 Could Be a Record Breaker
For Work and Profits at Firestone
By
West
Side
Local
at Amalgometed
Warren
Ave.
174
West Side Loce!l
Detroit
SOUTHWELL.
AARRY
CONVEYOR
10.
Phone
President
Edition
TY
174,
is the
official
UAW-AFL-CIO,
8-5400.
CAL
FLETCHER.
though there is a lot of care and
work, is fun too.
Your Editor sincerely trusts
West
Vice-President
that you
MAX
MARTHA
DAVIS,
BLAINE
ZANDER
Trustees
proposals that President Kennedy
and
the
Democratic
Convention adopted as a national program.
One of the most important
“Bills”
now
before
Congress, a bill which af-
are
retired,
independence
approaching
A course in steward and com-|
mitteemen training will start at|
the Local Hall, 6495 West War-}|
January
7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
The course will
weekly
two-hour
23rd
consist
sessions
from
of
Of the increased earnings of our
production employees, and of the
all-around
friendliness
which
existed; and of our new revised]
parking
lot, which
is much
bet-
ter, thanks to Cabell Kirkman
and others who worked for it.
In my own small way, I would
like to extend my congratulations to everyone at Firestine for
a job well done.
As for the new
infant
faith, confidence
and
we
can
only
these
face
same
year of
it
hope.
with
that this form
retirement
or
six|
and|
|
Human
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DEPARTMENT
Retiree Has
A Problem
By
I
GEORGE
met
well-liked
intent, our appointments, etc.
can we instill confidence, build
We were ashamed that we should
morale and keep
in our program
one
“our,” because
encounter
worker
difficulty
of the
truck
in
and
getting
drivers
off to
serve as pall-bearer for someone
who had served Firestone faithfully for over twenty years. So
long, Smitty.
Best of luck and good health
to “Chris” Snyder who
tired
a little
early.
His
ployees.
has remany
up
by
Forgive
me
It goes without
each
the faith
the emif
it does
us too,
year,
I
belong
saying
many
say
to
that,
families
spend an enjoyable time at the
Annual
Party.
a
LYONS
retired
worker
the
“Fine,” he said, “fine, except for
one thing. You know, we used to
have a big house and a
little
garden
and
it kept
Mama
quite
busy. Well, sir, we sold the house
and moved into a small apartment,
so Mama
doesn’t have
to
do anymore. Now
likes to read and she reads a
“But
my
problem
Also,
all
the
best
to
Johnny
has been
Best of luck to J. Jornson who
retired with “Chris.”
e
HAS BECOME
PORKY
quite a
“Hymn” singer, we hear. Is he
paid by the cafeteria?
Why did the Engineers get all
those
mas
flashlights
Party?
Who
is
at the
Christ-
Firestone
Christmas
However, our boys do feel that
is—if
insofar
as
allowed
that
either—so
leave
of employees
party, simply
this is published. In any eyent,
I will duly record the happy occasion,
its sidelights,
etc. for
posterity. Have fun.
e
(AGAIN):
It
seems
that we are going “overboard”
in
some
instances,
putting
guards on operations which do
not need them, putting guards
on machines which are actually
making the job “more hazardous” at the same time turning
down good safety suggestions, by
the employees, involving areas
where
people could really get
our
actions,
our
Hopkins To Seek
Jobs For State
work
CIO
get
more
for state plants,
Hopkins
the
to
outlined
meeting
executive
of
defense
at
board Tuesday.
in
the Civic Center.
took off for the
for a chance at
State
our
way
at the
a huge
plant
would
corporation
Firestone can’t see their
clear to give each em-
turkey, as is quite
then why not give
ployee a
common,
away
some
100 or more turkeys in
form of raffle at the
plant so that many of our employees who are ineligible now
could benefit,
Perhaps
with
safety
it could
somehow,
be
tied
or
HAZEL.
“anything
for.” I'll
THEY
e
DO
Our
yet?
nomination
young
“Martindale’s
for the “out-
man
of
Decem-
AFL-
line merely handle the prod~
uct.
The
inspector
has
to
handle them plus inspect them
—takes time,
Afternoons: For safety’s sake
—turn those machines
run all night.
off—they
It’s good to have money and
the things that money will buy.
But its good too, to check up
once in a while, and be sure you
hayen’t
lost the
things
that
money can’t buy.
Buenas Dias.
the
she’s not my slave and get inde-
of
an-
“But,” he continued, “If the
husband is a kind loving fellow,
then she treats me like a king
and waits on me hand and foot.
“Now we live near a branch
library but Mama
doesn’t get
around good anymore so I go to
the library to get books for her.
“You
know,
son, I spend
a lot
of time thumbing through the
books to see what kind of a husband is in the plot.
“But
sadly,
bands
the trouble
is” he said
“books
with
good
husare getting mighty scarce
at our branch
library!”
that
good is worth waiting
wait. See you
next
Christmas. »
Haye you seen
Hearse”
SAY
ing is a domineering guy, Mama
makes up her mind that I’m not
going to treat her that way, that
evidence
clock
cussed perhaps more than any
other single one in our plant.
husband in the book she is reéad-
coat collar for
| other female.
in
card numbers, etc, It could be
worked out. This topic is dis-
she
lot.
pendent and tells me to wait on
myself.
“If the husband is a guy that
runs around with other women,
she is suspicious, wants to know
where I am going, what kept me
so long and sniffs around by
like
ber—George Dolinsky.
Kavya wants the boys to read
No. 4 of the Firestone Safety
Rules, All other operators on a
his plans
the
If
work
standing
Barney Hopkins will meet with
Senators
Pat
McNamara
and
Philip Hart and other congressional leaders this month in an
attempt
NUMBER
addition—what
The Annual Credit Union Party will probably be over before
by
e
does
be crippled and there wouldn’t
be room for the kiddies at the
theatre.
Only
or
one of the twelve turkeys given
for
& man!
Remember the place: P.A.C.
Club, Saturday,
January
20.
Where everyone always has a
“ball”!! Be there!
hurt.
us?
where
IF A SUBSTANTIAL
away,
SAFETY
a turkey
are over fourteen they cannot
go, and grandchildren ‘are not
fountains and clocks now? Congratulations to Ed Reno and his
wife for the new
winning
the
responsible
LANSING,
Mich. — Michigan
AFL-CIO
Secretary-Treasurer
other day and I asked him how
he was enjoying his retirement.
of much
you
Relations—How
with people.
FROM
Christmas Holiday was saddened
on learning of the loss of Pau-
Dealing
with
Management
Representatives.
The
Art of Effective
Bar-
gaining.
lines—next
e
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At West Side Local 174 Hall
Tuesday,
of our new
emseemed to “fit in”;
Christmas.
have parents in one of these groups, you should be vitally
interested in the passage of the Anderson-King Bill. This is
election year; write to your Congressman or Senator and
tell him so.
It would help if a flood of such letters were addressed
to: Wilbur Mills, Chairman, House Ways and Means Committee, Washington, D.C.
ren,
high-caliber
ployees who
along
MONEY NOW SPENT on health care will be released
for the purchase of consumer goods and indirectly provide
many thousands of jobs for unemployed workers. But the
most important effect on both the Aged and their children
you
to
do your share in this also.
And, I will be back writing
e
If
relates
On the International aspect,
we can only offer our prayers,
our hopes and our energies to
make our country strong and
to support its leaders. You can
The slight increase in Social Security deductions which
the passage of the Anderson-King Bill would cause is the
cheapest form of insurance for a younger worker, who is
raising his own family, against the added burden of caring
for his aged parents.
The effect of the passage of the Anderson-King Bill on
the 16,000,000 retired people, most of whom are barely able
to get by on Old Age Benefits even when supplemented
by benefits from a company pension, is incalcuable.
creates.
it
in that.
AT THE PRESENT TIME children of retired workers
who become indigent through sickness, hospitalization or lack
of income are legally responsible for their support and the
cost of care by a community institution.
insurance
as
your
ON THE DOMESTIC SIDE, the
“home-front,” things look great
for a record breaking year, and
we will certainly have a hand
e
steady
was
knew
Firestone,
Iam proud of our employment
1962
some.of
e
HARRY SOUTHWELL
a hard
She
all
any other award is concerned.
You see; at Firestone (unlike
other plants) if your children
1962,
fects almost every worker
and
his family,
is
the
Anderson-King Bill, better
snow as a Bill to provide
Health Care for the Aged
ander the Social Security
Plan.
Many people have failed to
show much interest in this
proposal because of the mistaken belief that it will only
benefit retired workers.
and
as “Smitty.”
we
Fronzak’s wife. Johnny
having it real rough.
for
way,
made during contract negotiations for our employees; Of the
legislative
whom
wishes came true.
Generally speaking, I am quite
proud of 1961 and of the out-
your
level which we maintained rather constant;
Of the advances
By HARRY SOUTHWELL
With the reconvening of Congress on January 10th and
President Kennedy’s message stressing the need for adoption by Congress of several important legislative matters
already introduced by the Administration, once again the
attention of the nation will be directed at Washington.
1962 being an election year for all Congressmen and
one-third of the Senate, incumbents who intend to run for
re-election in November will be very sensitive to the feelings
of their constituents regard-
is the feeling of relief and
this
Smith,
the great majority of our senior
employees,
those
with
many
years of devoted service to Firestone, are left out in the cold
look
Your Letters Will Help
Get Medical Care for Aged
Through Social Security
important
enjoyed
line
co-workers wish him well.
Also wishing for a speedy recovery for K. Harris, Poncho,
Chet Daniels and Fred Pruitt,
who are ill.
|} came
THE PRESIDENT REPORTS
the
yours
| year 1961 was prosperous and
rewarding for you, that at least
some of the “good things of life”
DRVEL (GENE) KELLY Guide, ED KWASNIEWSKI, Sergeant-at-Arms
Member AFL-CIO Lobor Press Council
SEORGE LYONS. Editor
ing
and
holiday season and also that the
ROLAND GARLAND, Finoncial Secretory
tAMES THOMPSON, Recording Secretory
BRADLEY,
HUBBARD
And so we pass another milestine in our lives, as we bring to
}a close the great year of 1961
with its final significant, joyous
and festive holidays which, al-
publication
6445
OREN
COPE NOW
FOR 62 CONGRESSIONAL
CONVEYOR
1962
January,
—_——
EDITION
OF
SOLIDARITY
FLASH
TERNSTEDT
FEDERAL
Addition of Brown-Lipe-Chapin
To Ternstedt Might Mean Jobs
PENMAN
ALEX
By
endeavoring
to fill
7 merger
“Auto Industry Poised for
Million Car Year” is the headline in an article by Fred Olmsted, Detroit Free Press, and we
fully believe this to be a real
posibility this year. All along
the line, automotive sources, the
to
this
will
more
jobs
space. Maybe
the
be beneficial to us
in this respect
since
to
field
a wider
jobs.
get
it will give
for
compete
We hate to be repetitious; our
last articlé dealt almost entirely
pay 65%
paid for
THE
UAW-GM
Administration
we
one
sibly
scheduled
are
for
de-
Yet,
more.
or two
pos-
spite the rosy outlook, overtime
- work, etc. we already have had
two lay-offs and probably are
faced with more.
It is true that these lay-offs
have not been big ones, but to
the employees concerned, they
spell disaster. Most of them have
only
worked
entitle
to
enough
not
short
a few
weeks,
here.
e
IS A FANTASTIC
IT
that
over
and
still
nation
a
in
situation
having
million
unemployed
in
unemployment
four
with
Michigan still among the highest in the nation that this situation is allowed to go on.
Chairman
Walter
Cabaj
and
have
protested
bitterly
to
don’t
this situation.
diate change
we
run
do
look
believe
it will
Ternstedt
for
any
imme-
on this merger
be
that
the
beneficial
Detroit
e
THE MOVING
in
Plant.
OF
but
long
to our
ENGINEER-
ING and Research to the Tech
Center has left us with space
available
for
manufacturing
operations
and
and
for three
management
Friday.
days
His
earnings
would
disqual-
ATTENTION
Before
tract
must
can
be
Internal
the
By
SUB
not
Board
has
just
of
com-
pleted an excellent booklet explaining these changes in the
plan very clearly. We hope that
new
SUB
Con-
Revenue,
This approval has not been
received at this time, therefore,
the
union
and
the
com-
pany have agreed to operate
under the old plan until ap-
proval is received.
company
records
has agreed to
on
all
new
the
when
and
will
received
plan
if approval
back
is
SUB
is retroactive
Ist.
ify him from unemployment
compensation. He would then
be eligigle for a Short Work
Week Benefit, but—here is the
fish hook—if Management of-
fers
work
him
(makes
available)
on Saturday and he re-
fuses, it would affect his eligibility for short work week
benefits.
If
it
was
an
unscheduled
Short Work Week, he would disqualify himself by refusing Sat-
urday work. But if it was a
Scheduled Short Work Week, he
would receive a small amount.
Unscheduled
Short
Work
Weeks pay 50% of hours lost but
not
paid
is Scheduled
for
or
Short
made
Work
notice
explaining
how
long
Blue Cross will be paid by the
Company
and the procedure
to follow in making cash pay-
ments.
sent
Note:
Similar
to
notices
those
The
on
company
leave.
pays
only
record for retirement this month.
available.
Weeks
have
any
retirement
proof
who
of
do
their
age.
not
If
you do not have a birth certificate,
birth
record,
baptismal
record,
to
family
give
you
bible
or anything
proof
of
your
you should do something
it as soon as possible.
CITIZENSHIP
migration
e
PAPERS,
papers,
Midwife’s
a
statement,
age,
about
Doctor’s
Im-
or
Military
record, passport, school records,
vaccination
record,
insurance
policies, union records, marriage
records or signed statements by
persons
having
knowledge
of
birth.
Failing any of the above,
write the Department of Commerce,
Bureau
of
Census,
Washington,
D.C.
enclosing
check of money order for $3
and ask for a search of the
records. You must enclose evi-
dence
of
you
have
1950
and
census
the
lived
years,
1960.
The folowing
in
December:
George
various
Brown,
1910,
during
Harry
Joseph
Weed,
the
1940,
members
Joseph
Rita
way
Del
back
new
say
again
year
too
this
J. MELOCHE
ahead
much
one
with
has
tablishment.
us,
for
oldest
the
started
trying
an
to go
the
escalator.
Well
now
folks,
since
almost
trust that
your
wrong
a
this
batch
have
perchance
we
brok-
of new
you
ed
is
old,
liy-
are
still
these
my
solemn
advice
After
all,
Many
and
it
took
years
to
vows,
forget
you
be
comfortable,
and
rumor
shop.
anyone
even
in jail
AS
in
A
Haven’t
spending
recent
e
MATTER
OF
Seems
a
of
and
for
FACT
him,
we
that
ap-
proximates a record.
A new high in something or
other was reached at the end
AVON
TUBE
Frank
in
the
shipping
he finished
up his
time.
He had one of, if not the most,
enviable attendance records in
the annals of the company, bevery
seldom,
Frank
if ever,
emulated
late
or
the wise
he kept his eyes
and his mouth
may
you
years
live
many
in
long
your
re-
e
WELL
FOLKS,
just
in
the
event that any of you may have
forgotten, as if you could, this
is
the
of
time
the
when
year
old
uncle
Sammy
our
good
accomes
in for his annual
counting. True it may seem like
a long time until the 15th of
April, but please believe me, it’s
later than you think.
night
don’t think that our good friend
“Duffy” of the wire mill has had
a shiner in the past four or five
weeks,
door.
after
heard
weeks.
retired. Frank
in February of
been with us
started out as
screw machine
and happy
tirement.
as though
all of us were too
badly bent if not broke from
the holiday season spending to
get into any
extra
curricular
difficulties.
up
where
friend,
all, nobody lives forever and
we might as well enjoy our
stay here on earth.
Things
have
been
rather
quiet of late around
the old
serew
of
bad
your
all
friends are use to them. So
off with the new and back to
old,
years
shut. If ever a man deserved a
pat on the back and a congratulatory word, he was that man.
So good bye and good luck old
good
those lovely comfortable
habits and
by now
all
the
in
the
old owl in that
and ears open
them.
formulate
of
winding
absent.
take
a
Gardian,
then
ran
the gamut
of jobs
up and down the line, finally
ing
persisting and perservering in
an attempt to live up to and
with
out
room
year’s
to
employee,
nut
es-
operator
and
stayed
in that
capacity until the last of these
oil spitting monsters was roll-
on
year
month
all of you
new
way
Frank
service that is,
came to F.S.W.
1924 and
has
ever since. He
an automatic
out
few days, felt as though we were
walking a greasy treadmill or
All of us get
into the act and
gripe
and
moan
when
this
period arrives, but let us all
bear
in mind
one
pertinent
point.
If we
wouldn’t
didn’t
have
to
it. So let’s thank
to
earn
pay
God
live in a country
free
earn
and
where
it we
tax
on
we
are
that we
pay
taxes.
The main question in my mind
is where the hell did it go?
NEWS
Your Letters Will Help
Get Medical Care For Aged
PeseMorFav-
Jones, Wm. White, August Klein
and Alexander Chiszar. We wish
them all a happy and healthy
retirement.
a
of
good
of December in our little
and
bolt manufacturing
though. Frankly we have never
previously done quite so much
slipping and sliding around as
we have been doing these past
retired
Porch,
ero, George
Dombrowski,
Wm.
McHenry, Wm. Purcell, Eugene
Let’s Get It on the Road
can’t
Wroblew-
ski, Adam Martin, Louis
neck, Frank Walas, Anna
ris,
places
1920,
whole
folks,
If
for six months for those on
sick leave.
It looks like we may set a new
plating
WORKS
resolutions and are back
ing a normal existence.
will be
sick
NORMAN
Hi
en
The old record is twenty-one.
We still meet people contem-
become effective it
approved
by
the
to January
The incorporated plants wil now
become a part of the Ternstedt
We
day
pay
with the Ternstedt Division.
Division.
nesday and was laid off Thurs-
bers
You
probably
recelved- your
letter from Management dealing
with the incorporation of the
Brown-Lipe-Chapin
Division of
GM
contract
approved by the Internal
Revenue, our laid off mem-
are laying off. Chairman Cabaj
has
also
contacted
the
GM Department of the Union
to see if something can be
to solve
one—the
states that you must accept
hours made available to you
by the company. Here is an
example—John Dough worked
Monday,
Tuesday
and Wed-
claims
Management against scheduling Saturday work while we
done
is
The
keep
the Shop Committee are much
concerned about this situation
and
Here
to
them
compensation
unemployment
do not qualify for
and many
SUBenefits—sooo where do they
go from
on the fish hooks.
Kaicevae
Retires at Fe deral Screw
with the matter of SUB, and a these booklets wil be’ available
papers and other sources look considerable portion of that to to employees in the Company’s
for a real boom in 1962.
the new short work week bene- literature stands in the near
‘The outlook in Ternstedt’s 1s fits. These will be a boom to us future.
equally good. We already have in the months ahead but we
If and when you are laid off
January
in
y
Saturda
one
worked
omitted to caution our members
the company wil give you a
.and
SCREW
3
Oldest Seniority Employee
of hours lost but
or made available.
e
Paze
By
JUANITA
STICKLER
As this session of Congress
draws nearer, it becomes more
important than ever to write
your Congressman in support
to
of
made
joked
as a joke. You may have
with
supervision
for
spending}
eager
beaver
the
or
the Anderson-King Bill that will
provide medical
care for the}
aged.
The
AMA.
is
more everyday to defeat this bill
because it will take money out of
their pockets and give
ple a break instead.
peo-
One hand-written letter or
post card carries more weight
than a thousand printed letters. Let
your
Congressman
hear from you,
We
the
have
last
tubing
blown
Mill
six
from
out
area
had
complaints,
months,
into
with
the
the
about
Mills
nothing
for
the
ately,
THE
PEOPLE
e
ARE
years,
but
there
is
always
foreman
an
around
to add a feather to his cap by
repeating
anything he hears
sees.
really
We
tries—for
can’t
figure,
pitching,
your
but
Save
fellow
not
have
who's
he’s
your
that
job,
in
jokes
laugh
as
loud,
for
has
foremen
think
may
but
neither
it that
two
knifing
Scuttlebutt
I
there
workers. They
will they be
they laugh.
our
one
you
while
they
are
to
talk
of
still
being | slave driving at Wilson Foundry.
Secondary
to catch
the residue blown out. The company finally, after many grievances, put exhaust fans with filters on two of the Mills, They
are still running the mill that
produces
three-quarter
inch
tubing
without
anything
to
catch the residue. The company
anything
isn’t
there
insists
harmful
in it even
though
it
makes a thick black cloud everytime they blow out a piece of
tubing. I’m sure if it was being
blown
out anywhere
near the
front office, they would find a
solution to the problem
with the supervisors. Supervision denies what they say,
but turn around and clobbers
the
employee
for
remarks
immedi-
LEAVING
the cans and containers from
the new machines on the tables.
This was the main objection the
company had when we asked for
the food machines before. Please
throw them in the trash barrels
before they do complain,
We
have
repeatedly
cautioned our people about joking
Forbidding
people
to
part of their
tactics. Also getting
each other and threatening the
low seniority fellows with a layoff if they don’t go on a deadrun the whole night seems to be
the people to do part of their job
for them is another, Its a foreman’s job to see that the employee has stock and that their
machine
when
you
is
it
start
running
breaks
down.
running
or
over
fixed
The
to
day
an-
other
machine
without
being
told, because the foreman has
sold you a bill of goods about
his efficiency record, you are doing his worrying for him.
remember that is what he
paid for.
Just
gets
1 WAS
HOPING
THAT
Southern
might
convince
office
workers
upstairs of
Bob
the
the
e
benefits
union,
ers
like
of
There
unton,
there
ought
it
well
belonging
is an
office
enough
to
but
I
guess
he
to
the
work-
didn’t
stay
up
very long, That in itself
to be pretty convincing,
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4
ever did happen to Fred Hardy's
famous suit? Did he donate it to
the T.V. people for their UNTOUCHABLES filming? Because
I’m sure I’ve seen that suit con-
FERGUSON
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By
Now that Christmas (Ho, Ho,
and the New Year's Eve
Ho!
Holidays are only a pleasant (?)
memory,
through
like
more
many
that
assured
Rest
live
will
be sit-
will
us
of
many
LAPSE.
and
it
it.
So, I think we all owe Charley
RE-
POST-CHRISTMAS
HAPPY
you
Brault, our Financial
—Howie
Secretary — and Tom Clifton,
a vote of
our Chief Steward
thanks for a contract that is one
e
taing back dazedly and reflectOUR CONTRACT negotiations
ing nervously on the sorry state
to a successful
brought
of our defisted wallets. For, ah,| were
lusion in 1961. Our Bargainyes, Ol’ Kris Kringle came and} conc
Committee persevered and in
Kris Kringle left, but his jolly ing
laughter
we
as
again
contemplate
and
say,
and
lest
And
body?”
“Twist,
I forget,
our
tions),
markably
Any-
from a little
ex-
fact,
and
of a contract is more than just
the job of a plant steward. It’s
EVERY
OF
DUTY
the
also
I
various union papers, the statement, “A Union is only as strong
as its weakest member.” I agree
bewholeheartedly
that
with
Order Situation Changes
After Signing of Contract
The
up
them
picked
engineering
to
ing
section.
would
section
hearty
thanks
the
general
they want
to do and
a
extend
like
Alabama.
from
to management on the way they
have been running the Engineerto
According
opinion
knows
they
management
arounc,
what
it is feasible or sensible. Logic
and clear thinking are words of
the past They are just going to
do darn well as they please —
whether anyone like it or not.
THE
how
work
the
way
e
BIGGECT
arrive
they
To
on a Saturday.
to
is
who
at
lead to
no set
know of
confusion
general
or psttern that we
they
where
point
control.
undes
thing
every-
their mind two, three, aud four
on
times on who is to work
Saturday or Sunday. Yes, it has
happened and in all probability
will continue to happen. That's
what is known as “ising the “old
noodle” or confusion. Confusion
seems
and
workers,
“he
Confuse
pattern.
general
to be the
increased
work
because
wasted,
being
makes
ignored
a
do
per
products
price
of
days
full
and
certain
in price. When the price increases, or when it was much
never
we
price,
in
higher
about
comment
an,
heard
the
amount of profit.
Everybody please shed a tear
for dear old Wolverine now be-
are panicky and don't
they
cause
forget, as a part of Calumet
Hecla
climbing
year.
that
Our
they
have
assets
the
and
more
personal
and
been
more
every
and
panic
are panicky
opinion
is
leads to confusion, and confusion
leads to chaos, and that’s where
of the Woiverine
management
Tube Divis' n is today.
e
AS OF THE E RLY
everybody
December,
Jaid off was
the
with
people in
partment.
called
back
exception
of
to work
three
laid-off for over a year and one
man just recently. The effeciency
expert
to
be
deems
called
not
back
necessary
to
work
whether they are needed or not
the
that
see
is as
was
the
problem
of
dowm;
could
and
But,
he
of your
can
steward
only
solye
NOW
FOR
A LITTLE
adequate
to solve.
if
of that
“In Our Plant News.” The other
day, Shorty Albright, one of our
old-time employees, asked me a
There
foregoing
do your
must
you
of, but
question that I feel deserves an
answer. Brother Albright walked
up to me and said, “Mike, what-
that
you
-n connection
would
news
any
like
A quarter of coverage is a cayou
in which
quarter
lendar
earn wages of at least $50 in
turn
it
gainning
to who
in
ing.
me
or
committee.
Let’s have
out
to
sent
at YOUR
your
wage.
tax
next
Union
Meet-
increase
new
The
$4,800
first
the
on
to
of
served
by
Recreation
years.
the
for
year
The
rate
an
taxation
of
of
increase
It
"By the way, can | borrow
five bucks till payday, Joe?
| just remembered I'm flat
busted. ”
your
authority
on
rassment
for
you
WISH
TO
sult
avoid
|
income
compiling
Department,
Metal
Sheet
the
died last week. Our deepest symOllie.
back
welder,
Ruttrell,
Sid
home recuperating after a stay
in the hospital. Get well soon,
Sid.
WE
reliable
a
real
this
and
matter.
trouble
°
competent
and
later
It may
embar-
on,
acknowledge
e
THE PAY
receive on
WITH
BEGINNING
check that you will
the
1962,
5,
January
Friday,
symbols showing the various deductions and totals on your pay
check
changed
as
follows:
N—Charity
Social
and
Program
Benefit
week.
V—Security
figure for
been
have
stub
receipt
tax
GL—Income
Security tax.
S—Insurance
P—Union
F—Premium
HM—Bonds
DK—Gross earning
figure for week.
1968.
con-
family,
your
and
to you
pathies
each
tax,
from
Committeeman
Bargaining
on
Cheney,
Ollie
of
yard
condolences
15th. Our
Mother
The
away
passed
is
prom-
retired
Goddell
family.
in
of tax that you pay and remits the total amount to the
Government,
While on the subject of taxes,
it has been proving in the past
to be wary of cut-rate tax advisors who rear their ugly heads
at this time of the year.
If you think you need help in
where
LeRoy,
to his
A—Gross earnings
figure for week.
SBP
plus
SBP
Earn-
X—Accumulated
Gross
Earn-
Y—Accumulated
Income
and
Bond
Bal-
ings
for
year.
Security
Social
year.
Z—Accumulated
ance.
Under
SBP
is
plus
Gross
X—Accumulated
ings for year.
amount
the
matches
Sawicki, Hers-
John
operator
At the 1968 ceiling the percentage paid by you on $4,800
of earnings will be 45s°*. Your
company
capable
very
Committee — com-
crane
provide
and
1966
1963,
for
refreshments
that spot of tea you have
ised yours truly?
em-
12%
friends
our
way,
the
By
34%
changes
future
old
with
chel Humphries, Fred-ThompLeand
Dixon
son, George
Roy Cole.
several
next
the
over
upwards
of
posed
ployee earnings which is efpay
first
the
with
fective
check of 1962 will be revised
in
for 1962, a big turn-
get
does mean that you are eligible
for Social Security benefits as
monthly
your
by
determined
items
bar-
will
benefits.
monthly
highest
not
does
you
mean
necessarily
the
e
INSURED
FULLY
be
will
which
Conveyer
the
strictly confidential in natcre, as
regards
by Social Security.
a job coyered
with
it in, please
age 65.
reach
you
which
in
year
share
to insert
of
the law “fully insured” means
“three
earned
you must have
for each
of coverage
months”
year after 1950 and before the
I greatly appreciate the comments of satisfaction that have
way
in-
revisions
1961
the
Under
gesture
enjoying
December
it
fully
be
to
is necessary
sured,
visit
Charles
entitled to rethe provisions
Act,
could
while
that
Security
your
on
both
in newspapers
are worth re-
Security
Social
the
a nice
if you could plan to transport
some of the retired people to
They
meetings.
plant
our
will
people
most
and
be
retired
our
from
would
It
sent
cards
greeting
employees.
in their selective
away
plant
the
to
care-
been
have
holiday
the
lights
assorted
the
tree,
of
completely.
My
McKEOWN
Social
garding
appeared
have
bulletin boards;
and pamphlets,
peating here.
In order to be
tirement under
by letting your Steward know.
The strength of Organized Labor
is obtained only by a United
the slogan of let
with
Front
George do it being eliminated
come
So,
agree it is a wonderful time of
the year
A few items of interest re-
ill be taken care
attention, they
ever-
BRASS
ornaments
the
you give him your whole-hearted support. Show management
that you are tired of written
and oral promises. Demand action and see to it that you get it.
to
tion.
compartments. There is always
a note of sadness is dismantling
always
them
con-
the
suit.
Huh?”
and
fully put
relief time, the problem of_cold
air in the area of the west dock,
etc. All of these are the responsibility
we
.
gratulate Sub-Council No. 3 on
welt wise choice of representa-
Now the holiday season is behind us, the tree has been taken
done by hourly personnel. There
are other problems. The probwith
lem of being overloaded
work,
—
WILLIAM
By
measures on working conditions
are strictly enforced, and I can
say without any doubt, if such
conditions are brought to their
.
PART of | ™Y editorials
If you have
was
who
the Engineering DeTwo men have been
them
to
mittee
recently
until
which,
is no such thing as a Preffered
List for Wolverine Tube, Furthermore, it is the responsibility
of your Steward and the Com-
decreased
have
an
on one
I’ve only touched
Sub-
boys,
these
Knowing
of
Changes in Social Security
Start With the New Year
and
problem in the plant — that of
salaried people performing work
as
right
industry.
any
in
factor
cop-
of
items
Now,
Safe and Sanitory working conis a recognized
that
ditions,
The
work,
a
have
Members
Union
done.
can be sent out to
Is it cheaper to send it out?
conscientious
be
Remember
be
vantage.
isn’t
that
sure
darn
is PRODUCTION — and
PRODUCTION—you
unionism
Fred
AMERICAN
seniority it gives him is not only
doing his people an injustice,
but he also weakens hs union
to a point where an alert manthis
upon
seize
will
agement
weakness and use it to their ad-
are still- being strictly ignored,
the only thing that the company
cut-backs at present in the
mill.
the
in
shop
Machine
Money spent training them is
Huh,
job for the super-
takes the
who
measures
safety
grease—oil—and
makers on the apprentice program. There are roughly eight
good
at
that
of
fate
indestructible
lasting
begin with and could end with
the department steward. A weak
steward, a scared steward, an
inactive steward or a steward
first and the hourly employee's
are secondary.
Working conditions such as
foreman
Good money has been spent
training Machinists and Tool
that
to
exhibited
the
know
to
member-
militant
answer
told,
been
stock-holders
the
please
to
the
and
being
No. 3.
Russ
have to give him one, but for
the sake of posterity, we deserve
be
plain as the concrete that surrounds Dave David’s heart. It
the
through
militant
becomes
efforts of an educated and dediBecause,
body.
steward
cated
you've
to everything
contrary
how they do things whether
they be right or not, as long
as they do it their way, which
sometimes is right, less times
than wrong. You can bet one
thing, every angle is looked
been
if any have
into and
missed they will be used in the
future for the betterment of
stockholders ir egardless
the
of what the “union members
has
think. The management
change
may
They
worked.
become
Council
Trustee
is
Linseman,
is
this
know,
GM
of
Shorty an answer. I know
you
say
doesn’t
contract
owe
the
sense.
does a weak
membership
The
ship?
give a
just don’t
they
and they just don’t care
that
darn
from
sure
not
are
They
Wednesday afternoon until Saturday morning if they worked
have
should
that
people
the
been
effectual
immedithe higher echelon
atly under him. It seems that
they have the background to
be more efficient but we think
is followed—because to do that
would be sensible and it is toa
have
placid
his offensive unit, mainly
from
must
common
... how
Now
We admire Ed Walters for
his courage in taking over the
running of the Detroit Plant
and we believ- he is trying to
do an efficient job and we
think that he as quarterback
is not getting the proper cocoordination
and
operation
is
JOKER
such,
it
you
Smithsonian with other artifacts
I feel that you
of Gothic Art
Because militancy without the
restraint of common sense can
be equally as dangerous and
as detrimental as no militancy
at all. They counter-balance
each other so that the end result is usually the right answer to any problem.
in another.
as well
out
to do it—whether
going
are
as
with
tempered
will, and
have
decided
how
many are needed in the various
Engineering sections. We, as a
group, are all for it, but how
inarrive at how many
they
dividuals should be in this dept.,
or that dept., is a deep mystery
to all concerned, maybe that is
how Alabama’s working force is
broken down also. What is done
in one plant can’t always work
he
maybe
“WOLVERINE”,
for
Militaney,
He, with the help of his co-herts,
Santa Claus must have dropped
off a big consignment of orders
is
As
BRADLEY
Or
UNTOUCHABLES?
T.V..s
on
will make it function ineffectively, if at all. A strong militant
union is composed of a strong
and militant membership.
CANFIELD
LEONARD
By
link in even the
chain
strongest
cause a weak
and
thickest
MARTHA
quite an honor,
Also, our Vice-Chairman,
Anyway, to get back to BrotherAlbright’s question, I’m afraid I
can’t answer that question,
Shorty, but I'll field it to Fred
it thusly,
phrase
and
Hardy
“Fred, whatever DID happen to
that post-CRO-MAGNON set of
Is it true that your
threads?
suit is playing dangerous rolls
in
read
OFTEN
HAVE
YOU
TUBE
WOLVERINE
IN THE PLANT.
e
MEMBER
and
history
seniority, should remember, this
famous suit that Fred Hardy,
the maintenance foreman wore
for years and years and years.
because
to,
miraculous
— at
You may all remember
least those with six years or so
contract
the
serving
suit, still
mankind.
effective policing
the proper and
if anyone
I doubt
perience,
let me
re-
In
well.
humbly
speak
did
committee
agreed
they
terms
negotia-
constant
of
ALL
to
up
lives
Hardy’s
this is Fred
Inc. Now let’s all work together
and see to it that the Company
and the obstacles they had to
four
(in almost
surmount
months
beer spot or a bullet hole showing anywhere on it. I’m sure that
in-
tractor
the
in
finest
the
By
anLivonia
Fisher
of
We
our
that
pride
with
nounce
Chairman, Carl “Ed” Laws, was
elected as Top Negotiator for
G.M. Cut and Sew and Stamping
Plants in GM Sub-Council No. 3.
a
without
it
wearing
be
would
dustry ... and particularly when
it pertains to the whole of M. F.
end EMOIGED TRUMPANT.
But, all kidding aside, concircumstances
the
sidering
So let's;
why, don’t we
know
see those smiles — let's show
(and our creditors)
the world
that even if it hurts, we can
still laugh as we turn to our
friends
of
the
us
we
But,
WHY?
WHY?
again,
haunts
and
remains
Secretary
our Recording
Knight,
enjoy
Tom
—
Chairman
our
Stewart,
Ed Laws Elected
Negotiator In
GM Sub-Council 3
smashing
barrel
Ness in beer
awful
those
sequences and in
machine-gunning episodes. One
time I seen that suit shot full
Yet on
of holes ... big holes.
somebody
program
next
the
better,
1962
LIVONIA
FISHER
Elliot
frustrating
and
fronting
any
done
have
could
| be the first to wish you A MOST
NOWAK
January,
SOLIDARITY
OF
EDITION
V
above
to
your
figure
added
for
the
Tax
is shown
week.
gross
for
the
This
earnings
for the week in order to compute income tax. It is then deand
total
that
from
ducted
credited to your Security Benefit Account.
Attend your
Plant
Meetings.
- Item sets