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1962-08-01
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Vol. 5 No. 8
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Vol. 5
No. 8
August
1962
In the Aerospace Industry:
Presidential Panel Holds Hearings;
UAW Wins Agency Shop at Douglas
Story on Page 3
In the Auto Industry:
Profits Up; Employment Down
Story on Page 4
AMC ‘Improvement Factor’ Due
Story on Page 3
in the Aluminum Industry:
v Alcoa Pacts ©
Story on Page 3
News trom Washington:
House
Passes
‘Equal Pay’ Bill
Story on Page 14
Of Special Interest:
Tougher Drug Bill
Likely — At Last
Story on Page 14
Satellite Bill Passes
But Scars
Remain
Story on Page 14
Baseball’s Bill Veeck
Makes a Wreck of Bigots
Story on Page 13
TVA Blew Whistle on
Price-Fixing Conspiracy
Story on Page 13
‘Eye Opener’ Interview—
America’s 50 Million Poor
Story on Page 2
And In West Berlin:
Reuther Attends ICFTU Congress,
Stresses Close Ties of UAW Members
To Free World Labor Movement
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EST Berlin is a torch of freedom shining over the Iron Curtain, and one of the hands
holding it aloft for East Germany’s imprisoned millions to see is the free labor
movement that insists that liberty and democracy must survive.
That fact became apparent to 35 UAW Local Union
Presidents and staff members who began a three-week
study tour of Europe witha six-day visit to this surrounded but defiant and freedom-loving city of 2.2 million people.
The extent to which West Berlin is surrounded by
tyranny was brought sharply into focus for the UAW
delegates by a day-long tour of grim stretches of the
infamous “Wall of Shame,” a 25-mile stretch of eight-
feet-high concrete blocks topped with broken glass and
barbed wire snaking through the city from northwest
to southeast, put up by the East German puppet government August 13, 1961.
The defiance of West Berlin was personalized for
the UAW delegation by talks with a man who has be-
Continued
next page
PRE-TOUR BRIEFING from
: American
Travel
Associeation staffer alerts members
on what to expect in the
way of food, lodgings and
transportation
when
they
arrive in Europe.
Delega-
tion
tional
also
reviewed
situation.
interna-
PASSPORTS
tour leader,
and tickets have to be checked
does
the
chore
at the
airport
in
before take-off.
New
York
Education
before
the
Director Hutton, the
take-off
for
Germany.
FACTORY TOURS were made. Here
three delegation members pose with
union stewoerds and supervisors after
visit to West Berlin Telefunken radio
on the tour included this
MOMENTS
SERIOUS
laying of a wreath at the cemetery where this
statue marks the graves of some of the Berlin
workers killed by the Communists in suppressing
;
the East Berlin uprising of June 17, 1953.
tube
‘PLATFORM
S
BESIDE THE
:
INFAMOUS
BERLIN
plant.
WALL
os
gives tour. members « chance
to see for themselves and to teke some memorable pictures to shew the folks back
home of this symbol of the meesures the Communists had te take to keep the people of East Berlin from fleeing te freedom.
CIFATION given by Berlin
Brigade
in recognition
of
UAW’s
help in achieving
international
understanding
is accepted for the
by Victor Reuther.
BUSES provided most of the on-theEach trip began
spot sightseeing.
with roll call and a briefing.
LAPEL
on
tour
INSIGNIAS
members
by
group
pinned
West
Berlin labor leader Annaliese Heltz emphasizes international
solidarity
the
journey helped promote.
FAREWELL
TRAINS also were used by
lengthy side
those taking
trips to visit factories.
from
West
Berlin
labor
move-
ment was expressed on a banner reading
"We Thank Our UAW Brothers for Their
Visit to Berlin.” UAW President Walter P.
Reuther came to see the group off,
UP TO THE RAMP to the airplane go tour
members
embarking
on the next leg of
the journey. Their destinction was te be
Stockholm, Sweden, for «@ study of unions
and social legislation there.
DISCUSSION with others in the
group helped a member achieve
perspective on what he had seen
and heard on the tour.
“Labor Day should not be restricted to a celebration expressing pride in the achievements of the labor
movement in the United States. Labor Day should be a
time of dedication to the goal of a strong, world-wide
free trade union .movement.
“On
Hubert
H.
Humphrey
Day,
1 wish
to extend my
tions to the United States labor movement
congratula-
for the work it is
doing in aiding the growth of free unionism in the developing countries. Realizing the importance of ties with unions
im Asia, Africa and Latin America as a helping bulwark
against Communism, American labor has expended a sig-
“I salute the achievements of America’s working
men and women for progress in this Nation. And I-commend their new and increasing efforts in the international trade union movement.”’
— Sen.
this Labor
nificant amount of money and effort in its constructive international operations. May these worthy activities be crowned
with continued success.”
—Rep.
(D.-Minn.)
Clement J. Zablocki (D-Wis.)
As yet another Labor Day approaches, Americans will take time out to listen to and heed the speeches, addresses,
warnings and prophesies concerned with the relationship between labor, management and government. And yet is is
perhaps only fitting and proper that on at least one day of the year the triumphs and trials, the progress and pitfalls
encountered by the American Labor Movement should be duly and solemnly noted.
The long struggle of organized labor to bring a measure of simple justice, financial security and human dignity to
the American worker during his productive years as well as in the summer of his retirement, has been difficult and at
times bitter. But there have been spectacular successes, too.
The fight, however, is not over. It is a never-ending one which must be pressed forward with renewed vigor, strength
and wisdom. As long as millions of unorganized American working men and women on the farms and in the factories
continue to be exploited by selfish, reactionary management, the fight will continue. As long as we as a nation, with all
of our technical know-how, fail to relate the abundance produced by our fields and plants to the needs of the people, the
fight will continue. And as long as the twin spectre of automation and hard-core unemployment hangs heavy over the
land, the fight will continue.
The excerpts of addresses on this page were especially prepared for delivery on this Labor Day by public figures
familiar to American workers. For the most part, however, their words indicate they have given serious thought to the
many complex problems facing the nation today and their words therefore will continue to be appropriate Jong after this
Labor Day has been filed in the archives of history.
"I want to extend my greetings to all of you on Labor Day this year.
“T also want to congratulate you on the fine record which organized labor has established in America during
the past year and. throughout its history. No movement has contributed more to the development of democratic representative government in the United States or the other free nations of the world, and no movement promises more
for the future in preserving and improving the society and institutions of free peoples,
“It is very appropriate that a major theme in the observance of Labor Day this year is labor’s fight for a free
world. It is a thoroughly
established fact that individual labor unions are one of the first casualties under any total-
ttarian system. It is equally true that organized labor is in the vanguard of moving toward a free economic soicety in
those nations which still suffer the burden of reactionary governments established in the past.
“The work you are doing and supporting in Asia, Africa and Latin America deserves every commendation for
its contribution toward development of free and democratic
societies in the new nation.
1 am
confident that the year
ahead will crown your efforts with even greater successes than in the past.”
—Gov. Gaylord A, Nelson—Wis.
", «« We have made substantial economic progress in the United States
over the course of the years and, given
a minimum of good sense and public
spirit
ment
ment
even
on the part of labor and manageas well as om the part of governofficials, we can expect to make
greater progress in the years that
lie ahead.
“But the spirit of Labor Day, sited 3 its
traditional emphasis on the dignity and
worth of the individual human being,
should serve to remind us that economic
progress is not an end in itself; that, in
the words of Pope John’s encyclical, it
“must be accompanied by @ corresponding social progress so that all classes of
citizens can participate in the increased
productivity.” The encyclical adds that
“the utmost vigilance and effort are
needed to insure that social inequalities,
so far from increasing, are reduced to
a minimum.
‘Now is the time for labor and management in the United States to face up
to this challenge with renewed vigor
and determination. We are confident
that they will do so out of the highest
motives of justice and charity. . .”
— Msgr. George G. Higgins,
UAW Public Review Board
and Director, Social Section,
National Catholic Welfare
Conference,
“The American labor movement
has fought consistently for a better
America for all our citizens. Within
the past year, organized labor has
supported a long list of progressive
measures, including federal aid to
chronically depressed areas, public
housing programs
and urban re-
newal,
federal
aid
for
construction
of school classrooms, health benefits
for the aged, effective civil rights
legislation, tax revision for economic
growth, and natural resources development.
“The achievement of these and
other humanitarian goals here in our
own country is labor’s first concern.
It is also natural and fitting that the
American
labor movement
should
extend its ideals to the brotherhood
of
man
throughout
the
world.
For
the past 16 years, organized labor
has strongly supported the United
‘Nations as man’s best hope for world
peace.
“American trade unions have supported measures to strengthen democratic regimes in Latin America
and have pressed for economic and
social reforms as the basis of the
Alliance for Progress program.
“They have urged our government
to help the peoples of Africa attain
national independence, economic development and democracy. Throughout the world the trade union movement has been a vigorous force for
the promotion of peace, freedom and
social justice.
“Labor union members will continue to be a tremendous force for
good because they recognize that the
success of our own democratic society depends on the extension of
democratic
ideals to men _ everywhere.”
— Rep.
Henry
S. Reuss
(D.-Wis.)
Selected Features
The Vitamin Story
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Prepared by Medical Department
(H.1I.P.)
Health insurance Plan of Greater New York
holics, who drink instead of eat, need
CASES,
THESE
ALL
IN
vitamins.
PREARE
VITAMINS
HOWEVER,
SCRIBED BY A PHYSICIAN — NOT
AN ADVERTISING MAN.
WHAT
ARE
uses. Such
advertising
VITAMINS?
Because
VITAMINS?
vitamins
are
essential
doesn’t
mean
Even a budget economy provides a
family with proper food containing all
necessary vitamins if it includes meat,
fish, eggs, fruits, vegetables and milk
products.
Taken in excess, vitamins can even
be dangerous, because they mask certain diseases and can cause others.
These, of course, are relatively rare
situations.
NEEDS
diet
proper
food
prepared
steaks and richly
either. Many people who have a limited amount of money to spend on
food feel that this restricts their ability to have a healthy diet.
Vitamins are chemical substances
different from the main food groupings, fats, proteins and carbohydrates.
They are needed only in tiny quantities for the proper functioning of the
body. They help the body to make
use of food, but they are no substitute
for them.
WHO
a
And
There is no scientific evidence to
indicate that people in the United
States need food supplements in the
Unless prescribed
form of vitamins.
by a physician, buying vitamins needlessly increases your cost of living,
and the profits of drug manufacturers, It leaves you with a little less
money to spend on what you really
need—a proper breakfast, lunch and
dinner!
in
helping the body to utilize properly
those
foods
most
important
for
growth, it is our infants and young-
avoid
to
any children’s garments,
strain and for future letting out.
MARGOLIUS
Careful shopping for back-to-school
clothes this September can save you
both money and subsequent drudgery.
Especially in these days of discount
Seams should be flat and stitched
with
securely
and
closely, evenly
preferably
Edges
strong thread.
should be overcast to protect against
Generous, overcast seams
raveling.
wash-andfor
are especially vital
wear garments made partly of synor nylon,
thetic fibers like Dacron
since synthetic fibers are slippery and
tend to slip or unravel at seams.
prices, you yourself need to know how
Millions of dollars are spent for vitamins annually by families throughout the United States. For these people the only gain is the feeling that
they are doing something about keeping healthy. The fact is that proper
diet gives you all the vitamins you
need.
that they had
By SIDNEY
and other self-service retailing at low
PROFITS?
WHO
The promotion for the vitamins represented them as “a suitable corrective for all aspects of inadequate nua variety of therapeutic.
claims are obviously an
man’s dream.
Severe alco-
vitamin intake with pills.
For example, recently the vitamin
and mineral products of a highly reputable drug producer were seized by
the Justice Department
which
declared the pills were “misbranded” in
relation to claims made for -them.
trition” and indicated
How to Buy
sters who can really make use of vitaPeople with a disease which
mins.
prevents them from eating a proper
diet also need to supplement their
vitamin
“one-a-day”
takes
John
tablets for “undue stress or strain
caused by worry and fatigue.” He still
slumps in his chair after work and
he’s still too tired every morning. The
vitamins John prescribed for himself
,
have been of no help.
to tell durable, well-constructed garments from
the poorly-made
ones
that will wear through quickly, get
baggy, soil more readily, and spilt at
seams.
In
general,
always
examine
mate-
Look for bar-tacking, taped seams
at such
and other reinforcements
points of strain as placket ends and
under arms of dresses; pocket corners of trousers; shoulder seams of
tee shirts.
rials for firm, close weave.
In wool
and wool blends also look for resiliency; in cotton Knitwear, for elasticity, especially around collar and
cuffs.
Especially avoid T-shirts and other
knit garments with thin spots that
will wear through soon, or that are
loosely knitted. In all garments, look
and
at the labels for colorfastness
shrinkage
Buttonholes should be closely bound
so they won’t tear easily with a child’s
rough handling.
Parents
CLOTHES THAT GROW:
guarantees.
that
clothes
may find a saving in
For example,
grow with the child.
the “Add-A-Cuff” slacks can be let
down simply by snipping a couple of
threads. So can the “Grow-A-Size”
creepers for age one to two.
You may have seen some _ cotton .
shirts and other
garments
labeled
“combed cotton”. This is stronger and
smoother
than
ordinary
cotton.
“Pima” cotton is a high
grade
of
combed cotton.
7
“Gay Sprites” garments have seams
that can be opened up to reveal another seam, and pleats that can be let
even
But
out to lengthen sleeves.
SIMPLE STYLES SAVE MONEY
in
especially
Simplicity of style,
children’s dresses, is another important factor in saving you money and
“Sister fashions”,
work.
household
and _ spurious
bows
ruffles,
fussy
don’t
really
(little girls
waistlines
have one) divert your money, add to
the work of laundering and often are
a nuisance to the child.
without these special devices, look for
generous
cuffs
and
seams
hems,
enough to allow for letting out, and
for roomy armholes so the child will
he
as
have freedom of movement
grows.
In boys’ slacks the exaggerated narrow styles that are a current fad, are
more difficult to put on, and strain
materials and seams.
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OLLIE
OXEN
In some ways things have changed a lot since you and I were kids.
Today little boys run around wearing space helmets instead of cowboy hats
Little girls cut out Lennon Sisters paper dolls instead of
and holsters.
reading stories about the Bobbsey Twins, and Mad Magazine has taken up
where Captain Billy’s Whizbang left off.
But in other ways things haven’t changed at all.
Soup
- Back in the days when you and I were kids, little boys
I see
used to tease little girls by yelling, “I see London,
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France, I see somebody’s underpants!”
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Little girls used to jump rope to the chant of “Teddy
Nonsense
roomy,
Bear, Teddy Bear, turn around, Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear,
touch the ground!”
By Jane Goodsell
And you know what? .They’re still doing it.
Remember when.we used to place our fingertips together and singsong, “Here’s the church and here’s the steeple, open the door and here
are the people?” They’re still doing that, too.
your
heart
are still extracting
and
hope
to die?”
promises
from
each
saying,
by
other
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or even
WATCH
THE
and size,
struction.
take
are still taunting
other to the tune
each
beggerman,
and
a
“Peter
a peck of pickled peppers ....” They’re still singing,
of Orient are, tried to smoke a rubber cigar ....”
“We
Despite child psychology, the
much the same as they’ve always
“Cross
:
AUGUST,
1962
the
order
retail
stores
houses.
of
the
large
mail-
CHECK DISCOUNT STORES
con-
The fast-spreading discount department stores often are lowest priced of
all, in fact, some of the large, moder-
—
ate-price chains operate the shoe deand
stores
discount
in
partments
charge 10-15 per cent less than in
For example, shoe
their own stores.
the
tee
departments in the Topps discount
chain are operated by the Morse shoe
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chain of New England.
ae
bain
cs
Piper picked
three
kings
At the head of Shubert alley, in the heart of New York’s theatrical
district, is the Hotel Piccadilly and its outstanding restaurant, the Scandia,
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featuring Smorgasbord.
We present a specialty of the Piccadilly chefs, headed by Executive
The chefs
Chef Eric Baltzerson, to bring you the spirit of Smorsgabord.
are members of Local 6, Hotel & Restaurant and Bartenders Union.
They
SWEDISH
Y,
lb.
beef
Y lb. pork
¥ Ib. veal
Cup onions, sauteed
10 slices white bread soaked in milk
still think
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MEATBALLS
(Serves large family)
space age and television, kids are pretty
been. And I'll bet if we ever discover life
SOLIDARITY,
at
In comparison, children’s shoes sold
by chain stores are $5-$7. The chainstore shoes are likely to be medium to
good quality. But the real difference
is in fitting, sometimes more hurried
)
at the chains.
The large national shoe chains considered to offer particularly good values include Thom McAnn, Kinney, J.
C. Penney, Miles, Father& Son, and
shirts are than those of cheap ones.
Always look for generous seams in
da!
dadadadadaof
e
tun
the
to
us
et
gre
will
s
kid
n
tia
Mar
the
on Mars,
Page Twelve—UAW
look
wider
much
Also notice how
well-made
of
shoulder seams
It never made
Then there’s the Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me business.
the
me
on
it
led
pul
old
ar-ye
six
My
le.
ctib
stru
inde
it’s
but
e,
sens
h
muc
t
wen
Me
chPin
and
Eve
and
am
“Ad
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goes
it
how
er
emb
Rem
day.
r
othe
?”
left
was
Who
d.
wne
dro
got
Eve
and
m
Ada
m.
swi
to
r
rive
down to the
So you say, “Pinch-Me,” and the kid pinches you, and howls with
to
n
tio
era
gen
m
fro
on
er
ling
to
that
is
joke
of
kind
t
Wha
.
hter
laug
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generation?
There’s another one, and it’s no better: “Look up, look down, look at
your thumb, gee, you’re dumb!”
k
crac
a
on
p
“Ste
ng,
bli
mum
et,
stre
the
n
dow
g
kin
wal
Kids are still
s
gue
ton
r
thei
ng
gli
tan
still
e
y’r
The
.”
back
’s
her
mot
your
k
and you'll brea
over “How much wood woulda woodchuck chuck ....”
Pudd’n Taine!”
it’s funny to say, “What’s my name?
good
,
cut
are
garments
Better-made
one
brand
You can lay
roomier.
and notice differanother
against
put
garments
Skimpily-cut
ences.
more strain on seams and materials.
of da-da-da-da-da-da.
they’re still jabbering,
*
CONSTRUCTION
Mar-gie is —
(Jim-my is a sis-sy!
The lyrics vary to the limits of infinity.
a do-ope! Bar-bie got a spank-ing!) But the melody is immortal.
Kids are still counting their buttons by chanting, “Rich man, poor man,
thief ....”
and a wide range of lasts and sizes.
But they often cost $8-$11 nowadays
(Buster Brown is a little more reasonable than some of the others).
a size larger.
“Fenie, meenie, minie, mo” is still around, and always will be, although
It’s the
the words have been improved significantly since I was a child.
only way to decide whether to spend that penny on a jawbreaker or a
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licorice whip.
Kids
erbird, Peters, Jumping Jacks and so
on, provide high quality, careful fit
In addition to fabric quality, design
There is a sort of subculture of childhood that has remained unchanged
since we were kids, since our parents were kids, maybe even since Mesozoic
I'll bet they, too, yelled, “Ollie, ollie, ollie,
kids played tag in the swamps.
,
oxen free!”
The rituals, chants, jokes and taunts of childhood are passed on from
Did any
child to child, and adults have little or nothing to do with it.
parent ever teach his child to sing, “Teacher, teacher, I declare! You forgot
And did any child ever grow up without. learning it?
your underwear!”?
Kids
The _ shoe
SHOES:
CHILDREN’S
The nationallyproblem is toughest.
Stride-Rite,
like
advertised brands
Buster Brown, Little Yankee, Weath-
You also have to be careful to fit,
Too,
since manufacturers’ sizes vary.
sometimes children take one size in
one type of garment, another in another type. You have to be especially
careful about fit in the new self-service discount department stores, where
shirts and other garments often are
cellophane-wrapped.
and _
packaged
Size is a particular problem in slimIn tee shirts,
hipped Western jeans.
you can expect even superior ones to
shrink as much as five per cent, and
Tee
to ten.
poorly-made ones up
bought
shirts especially need to be
FREE!
IS TOUGH
PROBLEM
SHOE
ee
AS
3 eggs
Salt and pepper
Ground nutmeg
Allispice
Brown gravy
Season
Grind the meat, mix thoroughly with onions, bread and eggs.
Form into rolls approximately 34 inch by 1%
.with ingredients to taste.
(To make brown
inches. Saute in clear butter, then broil in brown gravy.
gravy, use bouillon and Maggi sauce with butter in which meat balls
The Scandia makes its own basic brown gravy from beef
were sauteed.
bones.) Serve hot.
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DHE DANAE
The following is an article taken from
reprinted
by permission
of The
Detroit
the book, “Veeck—As
Free
articles from the book, and G. P. Putnam’s
colorful baseball showman-executive, owned
Louis Browns and Chicago White Sox.
Press, which
Sons,
the
By BILL VEECK
When
I signed Larry-Doby,
the first Negro
player
in the American League, we received 20,000 letters,
most of them in violent and. sometimes obscene
protest.
Over a period of time I answered all. In each
answer, I included a paragraph congratulating them
on being wise enough to have chosen parents so
If everyone knew their
obviously to their liking.
everyone
precious secret, I told them, I was sure
Until that happy
would conform to the majority.
day, I wrote, I was sure they would agree that any
man should be judged on his personal merit and
allowed to exploit his talents to the fullest, whether
he happened to be black, green, or blue with pink
dots.
I am afraid irony is lost on these people, but
that’s not.the point I want to make here. A year
later, I was a collector for what is now called the
This time I got someCombined Jewish Appeal.
thing close to 5,000 violent and sometimes obscene
letters.
In
answering,
something
very
interesting
hap-
pened. The names began to have a familiar ring.
I became curious enough to check on our files and
I found they were to an astonishing degree—about
95 per cent—the same people.
A year after that, I converted to Catholicism.
About 2,000 anti-Catholics were concerned enough
about my soul to write me violent and again often
obscene letters.
All but a handful of them were already in our
anti-Negro and anti-Semitic files.
In Wreck,”
ran
a@ series of
publishers.
Cleveland
PAUVALAUEVAVTU
CHEAT
Veeck Gets Best of Bigots
Veeck,
Indians,
a
St.
he. was going to help
—
Series money.
And
ag
when
us
ahead
Doby
them
slice
a
hit a tremendous
in
the fourth
game
cut
of
of
home
that
run
the
to
World
‘Series, it could be observed that none of the. 81,000
persons
who
were
on
their
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When I came to Cleveland, I was almost sure I
We had four or
was going to sign a Negro player.
five Negro friends sending us reports from the beee
g
THE PLAYER whose
was Larry Doby, the
ark Eagles.
In his first day in
saw action as a pinch
that whole first year,
name kept floating to the top
second baseman of the Newuniform; July 3, 1947, Doby
hitter and struck out. During
he was a complete bust.
The next year, however, when
and Bill McKechnie converted him
fielder, Larry
positions
began
suddenly
to hit and
became
one
Tris
into
Speaker
a center
one of our weak
of
our
strongest.
New Jersey
Newark
Trenton
Ohio
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Cleveland
1300
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by Roscoe
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Pottstown
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seven strikers fired by the company
cases re-examined by the NLRB,
briefs have already been filed.
“cordial” climate.
Effort to escape the twentieth century was both
-costly and futile; a contract will be signed after
all, with terms about as they would have been
aired
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. without
the strike.
But there is no compensation
for all the suffering of these past years.
Perhaps the chief significance now is simply the
warning*to any feudalistic employer tempted along
the same road: “Free unions of their own choosing
are the workers’ right under the law of the land.
The industrial democracy of collective bargaining
must not be destroyed.”
A.M.
only.
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will have their
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which
Other strikers not yet reinstated after the August, 1960, NLRB ruling will have to be taken back
with full pay from the date of their application for
restoration. Housing will have to be restored to
strikers ousted from company-owned Kohler homes,
The tragedy is that, after all the aches of head,
heart and pocketbook, after all the bitterest disruption of work force and community, Kohler is
now back to its ante bellum status: its surrender .
at long last gains nothing for anyone, except the
chance to begin over after eight years in this new
:
Cincinnati
Some of the players who had not seemed overjoyed at having Larry on the team became increasingly fond of him as it became apparent that
VETTE
Out in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, a near-miracle
occurred last June 28. The Kohler Company’s Lyman C. Conger, major general of its eight-year
fight against the UAW and Local 833, sat down at
a table with ten of his associates to engage in collective bargaining.
Opposite sat UAW Secretary~ Treasurer Emil Mazey and eight union colleagues.
As.if this were not miracle enough—even though
forced by a U.S. Supreme
Court
decision three
weeks earlier—Mr. Mazey called the atmosphere in
the bargaining room “cordial.”
Even-as the Hundred Years’ War had to come
to an end, so has the longest and most expensive
industrial strife in American history subsided.
In Kohler’s last gasp of opposition, the Supreme
Court refused to overturn a Court of Appeals decision upholding the NLRB 1960 strike-ending decision that the company was guilty of unfair labor
practices.
Only by such federal government protection of
the rights of workers, together with monumental
efforts by the union, has the conflict been forced
to its final conclusion. The union’s direct cost from
its strike fund alone was $12 million.
Most of the action now forced upon the company is no more than restoration. of conditions
existing in 1954 before the strike began.
Seventy-
(Copyright 1962 by Mary Frances
Veeck
and Edward
Linn.
reprinted from “Veeck—As in Wreck” by Bill Veeck with Ed
Linn, by permission of G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Ine.)
.
WPBU
So I am one man who has documentary proof
that prejudice is indivisible. The jackal, after all,
doesn’t care what kind of animal he sinks his
teeth into.
All this is background, a presentation of credentials to the signing of Larry Doby and Satchel
By Rev. Clair M. Cook, Th. B.
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Fleming:
TVA Blew Whistle on Price-Fixing Conspiracy
Roscoe
In one giant stroke the Tennessee Valley Authority, owned by the people of the U.S., has saved
its owners more than TVA’s total cost — that is,
if the people will insist that the saving shows up on
their electric bills.
For it was TVA that blew the whistle on the huge
price-fixing conspiracy that had feloniously raised
the price of everything that goes into an electricpower system whether public or private — with
yourself, the consumer, paying the bills in higher
costs and rates.
The great electrical-supply companies, ‘cued
by General Electric and Westinghouse, pleaded
guilty to indictments that accused them of getting
away with billions of dollars in illegal overcharges,
through price-fixing and identical bids.
The
full story, hitherto
untold,
in two recommended books: “The
spiracy” by John Herling; and
Conspirators” by John G. Fuller.
is now
available
Great Price Con“The Gentlemen
The books were needed, because the conspiracy
news faded quickly. Herling, whose book is the
more thorough, says that only half the nation’s
newspapers
made
Page
1
news
even
tencing of a score of big businessmen
gest anti-trust story of the century.
of
—
the
the
sen-
big-
And these companies have gone right on smothering the public in their multi-million-dollar “public
relations” programs — at public expense.
The TVA story is especially sensational, because
TVA has been the No. 1 target of the private-power
combine. In “fact, the Eisenhower administration
poldly moved to cripple TVA in the so-called Dixon-
Yates deal, though
this backfired.
Fleming,
noted
newsman
and
free-lance
writer, is a columnist
Private power companies are in effect merely
regulated agents of cost-plus contractors hired to
do a-job for the public. They hate TVA because the
latter is owned and run b; the public itself, and
was set up in part as a yardstick of the job private
companies do, and of the price they charge for
doing it.
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Denver Post.
a howl from the same companies that were later
revealed to have been systemically cheating the
public.
—
Finally the U. S. Department of Justice’s antitrust
division
under
a vigorous
young
head
named
Robert Bicks, reall) went after the conspirators.
The evidence was so overwhelming they saw there
was nothing to do but plead guilty.
“The only thing the sons of bitches didn’t warn
them about was ‘Burn this letter’,” said President
Eisenhower when he saw some of it.
But all responsible heads of the big ididciniion
escaped. They said they knew nothing about a
conspiracy by people reporting to them, that had
reaped their companies many millions of dollars
and had gone on for years.
TVA has doubly fulfilled its job as the public’s
automatic
guard against extortionate rates, but
partly in a way nobody could have foreseen. This
is a gigantic piece of unexpected good fortune (or
“serendipity’”’) for the people of the U. S. who own it.
Its officials first began to smell a big and very
dead rat years ago, when all bids on big equipment costing millions of dollars, would run identical down to the last penny. They’d run high, too —
up to double what the same equipment would cost from foreign companies.
If private power companies ever noticed the same
thing, they didn’t care. For all they had to do to
collect would be to show the bills to their regulatory commissions. Cost of equipment goes into their
“rate-base” on which they collect a good profit
after paying all expenses — so they pass it on to
you, the consumer. Why shoud they care?
It was all a very fine game, with the public the
goat. Every user was being mulcted alike, but only
the people running public-power or cooperativepower suppliers had reason to care, as being direct
agents of their owner-customers. TVA, the biggest
of all, did care; and began probing, aided by some
conscientious
reporters.
TVA and the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, the
two biggest U. S. suppliers of power, even began
buying lower-cost foreign equipment. This brought
for the
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But, says Herling, G. E. later organized teams to
go out and plead with 400 cities not to file suit for
damages. G. E., he says, promised to be “nice” and
maybe locate a new plan* in a community that
would thus submit to being robbed. Just one city
caved in, Herling adds.
So far more than 1600 suits, seeking billions of
dollars in all in triple ‘amages under the antitrust act, have been filed. Any damages recovered
certainly should be subtr: cted from rate-bases
public and private — and the public should see that
they are — so as to reduce el-*tr* rates.
But if it hadn’t been for TVA, the game of robthe-public would still be going on and with these
same big companies telling the people how good
and honest they are at a public expense of millions
of dollars yearly.
UAW SOLIDARITY, AUGUST, 1962—Page 13
Foes of Medical Care
Defeated in Tennessee
ever, gave him a 289 vote margin.
The same story took place in the
Eighth District, centered in Nashville.
Former State Senator Richard Fulton topped incumbent Rep. Carlton J.
Loser, Jr. by less than
100 votes.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (PAI) —The
medical care. issue in the 1962 Congressional elections got off to a flying
start in Tennessee.
It carried down to apparent defeat
two House members who had refused
to support President Kennedy’s medical care bill.
Rep. James B. Frazier, whose Third
District
encompasses
Chattanooga,
was seeking his eighth term in the
As a member of the House
House.
Loser,
care the key issue
medical
in his campaign, 41-year-old attorney
Wilkes T. Thrasher, Jr., clashed with
He was a
Frazier in the primary.
political unknown.
Organized labor, consumer and senior citizens organizations threw their
TENNESSEE
support
experts
3s &P
chance.
CONGRESSIONA
didn’t
The
Thrasher.
give
him
Still
much
the
of
to come
out
and
a
unofficial returns, how-
particular stress.on medical care for
the aged.
Both Loser
and
Frazier
received
strong support from doctors.
Many
individual physicians worked in their
campaigns as part of the American
Medical
Association’s
Committee.
In
many
Political Action
cases
political
notices
asking patients to support
Loser and Frazier were enclosed with
bills to patients.
Doctors also made
speeches
in
behalf
of Loser
and
Frazier.
GOP Bloc ‘Dry Gulching’
Helped Kill 11 Good Bills
+eERRLOoSkK.
O9EF THE GASHINGTON Poser coe
“A
behind
refused
support King-Anderson, then demanded a recount which gave him a slight
edge. The dispute is now before the
state election commission.
Fulton pitched his campaign on the
entire Kennedy program but placed
Rules Committee he was an important factor in the bottlenecking of the
King-Anderson bill.
Making
who
funny thing happened on the way back here — we were just telling the voters why we had opposed the Kennedy Program when —
Here’s How to Collect COPE $
In an early morning appearance at
the gates of a Chrysler plant in the
Secretary-TreasDetroit area, UAW
urer Emil Mazey (left) collects voluntary dollars the way it should be
done—by going after them. Here he
explains
the
issues
to
Leonard
member, who
212
Local
Adamek,
reaches for his pocketbook and turns
his
over
while
contribution
receipt.
writes out the customary
Emil
Most of the Republican “outs” in
Congress
have
been
“dry-gulching
good legislation for strictly political
reasons, without regard for the nation’s needs,” the AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education (COPE) has
charged.
Here is the record of the GOP on
the 11 key official votes selected by
the AFL-CIO
on which
records of
members of the 87th Congress will be
judged:
In the Senate—an
amendment
to
cripple the depressed areas bill: two
Republicans voted right, 29 wrong. A
move to weaken the unemployment
26
right,
five
bill:
compensation
wrong. Curbing filibusters: 15 right,
18
wrong.
amendment:
A
13
bad
minimum
right,
19
wrong.
wage
Aid
right, 22 wrong.
to education:eight
Housing; four right, 27 wrong. Power:
six right, 25 wrong. Retraining the
jobless: three right, 30 wrong. Helping farm
workers:
eight right,
20
wrong. Public works to help lower unemployment:
one
right,
28
wrong.
Health care for the elderly: five right,
31 wrong.
In the House—on
the important
fight to liberalize the Rules Committee: 22 right, 148 wrong. Depressed
areas aid: 43 right, 125 wrong. Higher
minimum wage and expanded protection: 33 right, 138 wrong.
Housing:
NLRB
action:
12 right, 153 wrong.
Power:
eight right, 155 wrong, Department of Urban Affairs: 13 right,
153 wrong. Better public welfare programs: 18 right, 144 wrong. Protect-
ing
workers’
welfare
and
pension
plans:
42 right, 126 wrong. Taxing
dividend and interest income: NONE
right, 163 wrong. Foreign trade: 43
right, 127 wrong.
‘Awakened’ Voters in 22 States Have Turned to Courts
In Demanding Fair Reapportionment of Their Districts
(In 1961, Solidarity published a series of four articles exposing the evils of malapportionment of our state legislatures
and our Congressional districts. “What’s happening to U.S. Democracy?” was the question asked in the series. Since
that time, much HAS been happening in this regard, as the story below indicates.—Ed.)
More
than
one-third
of our
states
are now in the middle of bitter legal
and
political disputes
concerning
legislative apportionement and Congressional re-districting.
Yet only a year ago, most Ameriicans did not even know
what the
word “reapportionment” meant.
It refers to the redrawing of boundary lines for legislative districts so
that one state representative—or state
senator or Congressman—represents
as many people as another.
Under
practices
long current
in
many of our states, one Congressman
may
represent
80,000 people, while =
another represents 800,000—yet both
exercise the same one vote in Conbe
may
senator
state
One
gress.
elected by 55,000 voters, while another
is elected
by 700,000
voters,
yet both
senators have equal voting power in
.
their state senate.
But a recent decision by the U. S.
Supreme
Court
has
become
the
first
step in changing all this—although
some of these changes will hardly be
. of
the
Last
“overnight”
variety.
March 26, in what
is sure
to
become a landmark decision, the high
court. ruled, in the case of Baker vs.
Carr, the
federal
courts
had
the
power to inquire into the constitutionality of state systems for distributing seats in state legislatures.
Since then, challenges to existing
apportionment
systems
have
been
started in the courts in 22 states. (A
the high
before
started
were
few
court’s decision).
In at least a dozen states, these
challenges have resulted in decisions
by federal and state courts declaring
existing apportionment and districting systems unconstitutional.
In four states — Maryland, Alabama, Tennessee and Virginia—token
or provisional reapportionment and
redistricting has been achieved.
In some states the courts have set
a deadline for the legislature to reapportion. In others the state legis-.
lature acted without
court orders, as
in Virginia.
The reapportionement issue has a
powerful potential for changing the
legislative makeup of the states and
of Congress, altering the balance of
political power
between
rural and
the
affecting
and
areas
urban
strength of the two major parties. It
could also have an impact on the
political careers of people like Gov.
Nelson Rockefeller (R) of New York
and
Gov.
John
Swainson
(D)
of
Michigan.
It must be noted, however, that the
high court, in Baker vs. Carr, did not
set any
guide
lines for the lower
courts as to what is and what is not
fair apportionment.
This
is leading
to a variety
of ap-
courts have simply
proaches. Some
directed their respective legislatures to
meet and change the apportionment
formula. One—in Wisconsin—has appointed a special master to devise a
new system. Others have just marked
time, waiting on the legislatures to
act at their next regular session.
Financial Editor Tells Businessmen:
Don’t Advertise in Liberal Papers
A way
of silencing
the
small
num-
ber of newspapers that still occasionhas
programs
liberal
endorse
ally
been proposed by the financial editor of the New York Herald Tribune.
“If I were a top executive of a
company,” said the editor, Donald I.
Rogers, “I would quietly lay down the
policy that prohibited advertising in
any publication or upon any TV show
leftish
which has a predominantly
tinge to it.” —
Three papers Rogers says have this
“tinge” and carry heavy advertising
among
considered
generally
are
the more fair-minded and editorially
The
country:
in the
distinguished
Washington
the
Times,
York
New
Post and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The New York Times, Rogers says,
“supports most of the welfare-state
gently
only
at most
and
program
chides the administration.”
UAW
He describes the Washington Post
as “the journalistic flagship of the
New Frontier,” “liberal” and “welfare
state loving.” It “rallies behind anything that is advocated or even suggested by Kennedy,” Rogers says.
As for the Post-Dispatch, Rogers
finds
it
“liberal—sometimes
wildly
liberal.”
Rogers assured businessmen the job
of stifling any expression of liberal
policies shouldn’t be too difficult.
“Only a few newspapers have to be
eliminated,”
he _ said,
for
“thank
heaven, American newspapers by and
large
are
predominantly
conservative in their editorial policies—that is,
on their editorial pages—as President
Truman
was
wont
to
complain
and
1962—Page
15
FDR before him.
“President Kennedy has even commented on it, opining, ‘I am reading
more and liking it less’.”
SOLIDARITY,
August,
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medical care for the aged is this:
far
the
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of
road
their
lives,
when
their
,
ly
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co
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r
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m
d
an
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si
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pr
health needs become more
their income is sharply reduced.
to
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p
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p
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A long illness can reduce
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th
,
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old
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see become law. This is the proposal fought by Big
American
the
Business,
Medical
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We
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This
COPE Needs Your Buck NOW!
COPE
UAW Citizenship Dept.
Solidarity House
8000 E. Jefferson
Yes, I want to help. Here’s my
ds
Address
City,
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The old gentleman in the picture above thanks you from the bottom of
his heart—if you’ve already filled out one of the COPE blanks shown at the
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an
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vote by Republ
the Senate.
This proposal can be made into law, as President
Kennedy has fought for, by electing a _ better
Congress.
Detroit
President
COPE
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dollars are desperately needed
Representatives and Senators
Security—as well as the other
Congress isn’t acting on.
to elect the kind of
who will vote for Medical Care through Social
liberal legislation President Kennedy wants but
If you haven’t filled one out yet, now’s the time.
If you’ve been on vacation, or haven’t been able to make your contribu:
tion at the shop, just fill out the blank.
Send it to COPE, UAW Citizenship Department, Solidarity House, Detroit
14, Mich.
bring an
above.
You'll receive a COPE
appreciative
gleam
into
button
the
to show
eyes
of
that you’ve
those
like
|
the
helped—and
old
to
gentleman
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