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UAW Solidarity
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1963-02-01
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Vol. 6 No. 2
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1963
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Organizing Program
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SOLIDARITY
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International
PUBLICATION,
OFFICJAL
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and
Aerospace
Automobile,
United
Implement Workers of America, AFL-CIO. Published
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E. Jefferson, Detroit 14, Mich. Orders should be accompanied by a money order or a check,
approval
(left). The
24
buys
to the conference,
of
Region
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a set with
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replicas of the famous
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halls or offices. Sets can be purchased for only $3.25
First Week-Long Conference Devoted
Solely to Communication Is Scheduled
The first week-long winter education conference
in UAW history devoted exclusively to a study of
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Rapidly Getting Underway
Study-Vacation
underway.
The UAW 1963
is rapidly getting
program
Tours
announced
Association
The American Travel
that the chartered Detroit Local Union Leadership Tour Flight to Europe will depart Sept. 13,
1963.
UAW also announced that several Local Unions
have expressed interest in sponsoring tours for
groups of 35 during plant shutdowns.
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Tour
in New
includes
Presently estimated costs for a week
York, for instance, is $79 a person. This
hotel lodgings, some meals, sightseeing and a tour
the
of
United
Nations.
This $79 figure does not include transportation
to and from New York, but should a group want
to work out group transportation, the department
will help.
Similarly, five days and four nights in WashC.
D.
ington,
that
include
hotel
accomodations,
some meals, sightseeing and a tour of Mt. Vernon,
can be arranged for $48.
Again, this does not include transportation to
and from Washington, but the department will
help arrange group transportation.
Those interested in tours, either overseas or
within the U. S. should fill out the blank below
and
send
Detroit
Vacation
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it to
the
Mich.,
Tours.
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Israel
Scandinavian
Countries
Week
in New
Study-
spouse
M.
Carroll
Hutton,
conference is another new activity in the
is
and
program
education
stepped-up
The
UAW’s
aimed at assisting UAW local union presidents, |
education committee chairmen and editors in improving
communications
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ment today.
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Is
‘Communication
“The challenges facing the labor movement today make it imperative that the members of local
unions understand
s these isthe ramificationof
sues,” Hutton said, “and the sharpening of communications is essential to this broader, deeper
understanding.”
The week-long conference will be held at the
Michigan
Gull
Lake,
State
of the UAW’s
University
under
Michigan,
co-sponsorship
the
six Michigan regional directors and
with the
of Mich-
Education Department, in cooperation
School of Labor and Industrial Relations
igan
State
at
center
conference
University.
The Michigan UAW
soring the conference with the Education Department are: George Merrelli and Ken Morris, Region ~
1; Joe McCusker and Bard Young, Region 1A; E.
S. Patterson, Region 1C; and Ken Robinson, Region 1D.
Complete
will be for-
details of the conference
warded to Michigan local unions
few days, Hutton said.
the next
within
INTERNATIONAL STRIKE FUND
FOR DECEMBER, 1962
STRIKE
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DISBURSEMENTS IN
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Vice
Presidents
RICHARD GOSSER
LEONARD WOODCOCK
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Executive
international
Members
Harvey Kitzman
Joseph McCusker
E.. T. Michael
Ken Morris
George Merrelli
Pat O’Malley
E. S. Patterson
Ken Robinson
Ray Ross
Paul Sehrade
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Charles Ballard
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Ray Berndt
George Burt
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Douglas Fraser
Martin Gerber
Ted Hawks
Robert Johnston
Charles Kerrigan
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partment
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Heward
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Hutton said.
Complementing this, he added, workshops will
be devoted to examining the latest techniques in
communicating information in these areas.
Nov. 30, 1962.
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“THIS UNION CAUSE” posters which were displayed
at the UAW Appointment — UN conference in New
York attracted considerable attention, Here, Bert E.
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Woodcock Urges Planning
To Make Economy
Development of a democratic national planning program
to enable
corporations to mesh their economic
decisions with the overall needs of
the economy was urged this month
by
UAW
Vice.
President
Leonard
Woodock before what was described
as a “largely pro-management, proRepublican audience.”
Woodcock
told
his
listeners
the public as to how its interest is being served.”
5. Legislation similar to that in
Great
Britain
which
guides
new
plants into areas of serious unem-~
ployment.
Pointing out that prices charged by
coroprations for their products today
are set through the administrative
decisions of executives rather than
that
the free competition of the market,
Woodcock said neither price competi-
such national planning, recognizing
interests,
private
and
public
both
would give direction to the economy
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and establish goals for it.
It
also
would
integrate
“the
that such administered price decisions
a
goals
tures
of
the
Grosse
Pointe
speech
of. lec-
ings before a government
(Mich.)
explained.
recommendations
The
public scrutiny also would
unions when corporations
public
agency
would
not
compel
added.
have
ions.
The UAW Vice President also emphasized that corporate power now
has gained “a new dimension” with
the growth of international corpora-
tions
which
have
throughout a number
were:
tionally, a developing practice of such
corporations has been to buy “whenever in the world they can get the
cheapest bargain, even if this depends upon paying workers only a
fraction of what workers with the
same productivity earn in America.
“This is a policy of buying human
labor in the cheapest market and
selling the product in the dearest
market,” Woodcock declared. “It takes
away the jobs and undermines the
living standards of American workers.”
To curb such unfair competition,
over
a
federal
Woodcock stressed the union’s proposal for establishment of an International Fair Labor Standards agreement,
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of persons
represent
corporate
report to
zation
Food
to boost
American
Foundation,
& Agricultural
farm
output
overseas.
Hunger
from
Freedom
headed by James Patton,
president of the National Farmers
Union, is directing the program.
Also spotlighting efforts being made
to feed the world’s millions
of under-
fed people will be a World Food Pro-
gram, June 4-18 in Washington, which
will mark the 20th anniversary of the
conference in Hot Springs, Va., where
FAO was born.
States
United
the
in
Farmers
produce so much food, several agencies — national and international —
have been created to use American
food surpluses wisely.
Probably the three most prominent
of the agencies are Food for Peace,
Freedom from Hunger and the World
Food Program.
Food for Peace is a U.S. effort. Its
purpose is to use U.S. farm surpluses
Food for
in the best possible way.
Peace now reaches 92 million persons
every day in more than 100 countries
Richard
world,
the
throughout
Reuter, its director, reports.
Most of the food is sold for “soft”
That is, it goes to councurrencies.
tries that pay rupees, or piasters, or
francs, or lira but can’t pay dollars.
The U.S. uses these foreign currencies
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World Food Program is also an international effort, also under FAO
It was launched a year
leadership.
ago to use the world’s farm surpluses
in the best ways.
as
is food
emphasis
major
One
For
wages for economic development.
government
Morocco
the
example,
might pay highway construction workers partly in corn that came from the
United States through the World Food
Program. Also, while some of the
smaller neutral nations are skittish
about taking U.S. help, they will acfrom
help
tion, FAO.
their
own
organiza-
is a threeWorld Food Program
year experiment with a $100 million
The U.S. has pledged half of
budget.
this—$40
million in commodities
$10 million
services,
SOLIDARITY—February,
1963
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cash and
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Burden
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shipping
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to Congress:
Messages
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Stressed
President John F. Kennedy started
major
two
pressing for action on
fronts as he urged Congress to give
high priority to a stepped-up federal
aid to education program and to a
bold, new attack on mental illness.
programs
President
This campaign is financed largely
organizations.
-non-government
by
They provide funds, for example, to
introduce hybrid seed corn into Pakistan, or educate a Nigerian agronomout hoof-and-mouth
ist, or stamp
disease in Ecuador.
cept.
“We
were
contained
among the first of a series of messages the President is transmitting to
Congress outlining programs and legislation he believes the nation needs.
Freedom from Hunger is an international effort.
United Nations Food
& Agriculture Organization launched
it 2% years ago.
It’s purpose is to
remove the causes of hunger, to increase farm output. in the underdeveloped countries.
Organi-
THE WASHINGTON
The
to pay technicians overseas, finance
U.S. embassies, and buy lumber, irriand other
gation pumps, cement,
goods made overseas.
President John F. Kennedy has declared March 17-23 as Freedom fro
Hunger Week.
effort
of the week-long
Purpose
will be to increase public awareness
of what. is being done by the United
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plants
spread
of countries.
‘Freedom from Hunger’
Spotlights Aid to Underfed
Nations
ents?e
“Irresponsibilbe action by such a
company can seriously affect. whole
national economies,” he said. Addi-
charter of incorporation subjecting
them to carefully devised standards
matters
all
“in
accountability
of
where use of their power significantly
affects the public interest.”
4. Inclusion on the boards of directors of major corporations
appointed independently to
the public interest “when
decisions are made and to
i
power to control prices, but would
simply bring out the facts to permit
the public to draw its own conclus-
2. Public hearings before any major
corporation in a key industry could
raise prices.
corporations
a
to obtain
agency,” he
claimed their demands would
increasing prices, Woodcock
1. An ethical practices code for corporations similar to that adopted by
both the UAW and the AFL-CIO.
3. Requiring
specified size
.
Similar
apply to
Speaking on “The Community, the
Corporation and the National Purpose”—subject for the six-week forum
—Woodcock included national planning in a series of six recommendations aimed at restraining the power
of
giant
corporations
which
now
dominate the nation’s economy.
other
with the public in-
nent facts as to its costs, profits, and
other relevant factors in public hear-
War Memorial Association. Many residents of Grosse Pointe are upper inRepersonnel.
management
come,
maining speakers in the series include
Henry Ford II, chairman of the board
of the Ford Motor Co., and George
Romney, former president of American Motors who now is Governor of
Michigan.
The
be in accord
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:
erest. .
“We in the UAW have been urging
for some time the adoption of a price
hearings procedure which would keep
the public informed,” he noted. Before a corporation which dominates a
key industry could boost its prices, “it
would have to produce all the perti-
utilized for the national purpose,”
added Woodcock, director of the union’s National General Motors
Department.
Vice President’s
inaugural series
assures
tion or any other mechanism
of the corporation with the well-being
of the nation, the community and the
individual, and the vast productive
powers of the corporation can be fully
The UAW
came in the
Grow
Kennedy
said a stepped-
up aid-to-education program is vital
to the nation’s security.
His recommendations
for attacking
problems
affecting the mentally ill would, he
said, eventually result in discharge
of hundreds of thousands of patients
from mental hospitals.
The President’s education package
wrapped up his requests for new or
public
aid
to
programs
widened
schools, junior colleges, and public
and private colleges and universities.
He urged that the measure provide
funds for teacher training, manpower
retraining, libraries of both schools
and communities, vocational training
and adult education.
Additionally,
he called for more
scientific study fellowships, full-scale
programs of loans and loan insurance
for college students, and a work-study
setup subsidized by the federal government in similar fashion to the
New Deals’ National Youth Administration.
Declaring that the education program
is “clearly
essential
to the
growth and security of this country,”
to
said failure
President Kennedy
raise education standards amounts to
“poor
economics”
social policy.”
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as
well
2
as
“poor
The price of “ignorance and illiteracy,
unskilled
workers
and_
school
dropouts,” he said, is “delinquency,
unemployment ... a loss of produc-
tive power
and
purchasing
—
centers,
ing the
described as a key in bringmentally ill back to a useful
—where
possible—the
life; more pre-natal care for mothersto-be to help avoid mental retardation among infants; more child care
to provide earlier detection and treatmore
for threatened cases;
ment
trained personal, facilities, and reremore
and
centers,
habilitation
search centers to uncover causes and
In
cures.
calling for a national program
retardation, the
mental
combat
to
President’s
message
pointed
out
this affliction “ranks as a major naeconomic
tional health, social and
problem. It strikes our most precious
asset—our children.
“Mental retardation strikes children
without regard for class, creed, or
conlevel,” the message
economic
tinued. “Each year sees an estimated
126,000 new cases.
“But it hits more often—and harder—at the under-privileged and the
poor; and most often of all—and most
severely—in city tenements and rural
slums
where
centrations
ucation
and
there
are
of families
low
heavy
with
income.”
poor
His across-the-board program called for new community mental health
con-
ed-
message stressed
President’s
The
that prevention should be given the
highest priority.
“More adequate medical care, nutrition, housing and educational opportunities can reduce mental retardation to the low incidence which has
‘been achieved in some other nations.
“..New programs for comprehensive maternity and infant care and
for the improvement of our educational services are also needed.
"particular attention. should be diof
the development
toward
rected
such services for slum and distressed
areas...”
power.”
Kennedy’s
message
on mental
health was the first on this subject
ever sent to Congress by a President.
that
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February,
1963 —
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5
Oklahoma’s Supreme Court
Gets ‘Right-to-Work’ Fight
OKLAHOMA
groups opposing
“right-to-work”
called
amendment
explained
in detail. Here, a UN
guide who
of the island of
is a native
on
an
Citizens
— _
to put a so-
constitutional
Oklahoma
ballot
have carried their fight to the State
Supreme Court.
They have urged the court to apfinal
to supervise
a referee
point
examination of signatures on an inthe
for
calling
petition
itiation
amendment to go on the ballot.
Of the 213,000 signatures claimed
on the petition, about 78,000 would
if the
invalid
ruled
be
to
have
petition is to be thrown out, Region 5
Director Ted Hawks noted.
Thus far more than 50,000 of the
signatures have been challenged.
That came at hearings conducted by
former Secretary of State William N.
However, he went out of
Christian.
office on Jan. 14, before the hearings
were completed.
UAW DELEGATES to the union’s recent “Appointment—UN” session in New York
toured the United Nations where functions of various councils, agencies and offices were
CITY
efforts
Jamaica explains Security Council operations to a group which included delegates
from Region 3.
C. Kessler, attorney for
“right-to-work”
the
of
William
opponents
move, said he hoped the court “will
grant us sufficient time to prove that
fraud and coercion were commonly
used in obtaining a high percentage
of
He
signatures “to
the
added:
:
this
petition.”
done to
checking we have
“The
are
there
that
indicates
date
enough illegal signatures to invalidate the petition.”
Kessler charged that the “right-towork”
backers
“knowingly” padded
their
petition
with
“illegal
signatures” and used “unfair pressures and
coercion” to get names.
“When the boss circulates such a
petition, for example, only the most
daring among
his employes
fail to
Sign,” Kessler declared.
“When the Oklahoma public sees
the complete picture, I am convinced
that most petition signers will turn
against the extremists, many from
outside Oklahoma, who are the real
promoters
of this
falsely-named
legislation.”
CONCENTRATING on points made by a speaker during an Appointment—UN
discussion were, left to right: William McGlaughon, recording secretary, Local
919; Milton Brickhouse, financial secretary, and William E. Scott, vice-president.
In the photo below, delegates are, left to right, Paul Nunn, president of Local
663; Ross Drennon, shop committee chairman, Local 662; Frank Teague, Local
662 president; Richard Dennis, Local 663’s education committee chairman, and
Marion
Manlove,
financial
secretary
of Local
Region
Work
tee’s activities. A report also was presented on the recent International
Union Skilled Trades Conference at
Chicago. Indiana AFL-CIO President
Dallas Sells also addressed the session.
The
firm
vision of
where,
the
is the
Power
National
noted,
Labor
has
Sources
Di-
Corporation
Telecomputing
Hawks
Hawks
UAW
has
Relations
asked
Board
in unfair
labor practices.
The charges were filed before emvoted 29 to 25
at the firm
ployes
Eldon
against union representation.
Cooper, UAW international representative, said the company laid off 27
employees after the union requested
the
election.
Almost
signed
all
UAW
workers
cards
laid
and
off
had
attended
union meetings. While the company
asserted that its workers had
had
seniority even without a union contract, the layoffs disregarded seniority, Cooper added. The firm makes
solar batteries for space satellites.
Old Couple’s Suicide Shows
Medicare Needed,
“But,” the newspaper insisted, “it yet is a story
which needs to be told when it can be shocking—
told now in order to get its message through before
Congress reconvenes ...
“That Congress, yet an unknown quantity because it is a new one, could act at least to wipe out
Theodore
gion 5 Director
charged.
gaged
representing skilled Chrysler workers,
and Carl Daniels, representing independents, reported on the commit-
“The question is necessary,” the newspaper said,
“because just south of Hallandale lives Dr. Edward
Annis, president now of the American Medical Association, and the organization’s leading spokesman in opposition to such assistance to any kind
of medical help that would not include the purchase of private medical insurance.”
The News-Journal acknowledged that the story
of the couple was a harsh one to be telling in the
Christmas season, “because Christmas is celebrated
as a symbol of life, not death.”
DENVER, Col_—A company making
space age products here is carrying
on a stone age labor policy, UAW Re-
The union said management had en-
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—Current work
of the International
Union
Skilled
Trades Advisory Committee was discussed here at the regular quarterly
meeting
of Region
Three’s
Skilled
Trades Council. Two Advisory Committee
members—Evans
Lininger,
BEACH, Fla—aA grim tragedy has
DAYTONA
given a Daytona Beach newspaper clear evidence
of the urgent need for a medical care bill that will
aid the elderly in meeting their health care costs.
the
said
E. T. Michael
8 Director
Region
question raised editorially by the Daytona Beach
News-Journal was “right to the point”
Sunday
when it asked, “Will it be done in 1963?” in an
editorial on the suicide pact of an elderly Hallandale couple in despair over the heavy burden of
unpaid doctor and hospital bills.
Space Age?
No, Stone Age!
to set aside a representation election.
3 Tradesmen
Eye Committee
662.
5 Director,
Region
HAWKS,
TED
charged that a Denver firm making
space age products has a stone age
labor policy. (Story below).
“A debt-ridden couple .. .
whose hopes for future relief had
been dashed ... by a special
interest group.”
the cause for the Hallandale tragedy.”
The man and wife were found dead of overdoses
of sleeping pills in their apartment in the suburb
,
north of Miami.
Nearby, the newspaper reported, was a mass of
medical and hospital bills, some paid, some unpaid.
The major paid ones were for doctors’ services;
the largest unpaid bill was for the wife’s most recent stay at a Fort Lauderdale hospital.
Beside
the
bills were
ter’s
forgiveness
now
and
for
notes
the
continued, and indicating
step because they simply
future.
saw
no hope
act,
asking
the
their
daugh-
News-Journal
that they had taken the
could not meet the bills
of
being
able
to
in
the
“As you can see,” the paper said, “these peovle
are a cause for the Administration’s projected medicare program — a plan that would take care of
society’s neglect of its nearly 17 million elderly
people in their last days on earth.”
great
exerted
had
AMA
the
that
Charging
pressure to block enactment of the social security
health program by the last Congress, the NewsJournal noted that the organization nevertheless
failed in its election campaign to defeat all candidates favorable to the program.
It recalled that Annis had given this explanation
of the failure: “The siren songs of the politicians
were more appealing than the voices of reason and
public
the AMA’s
“Although
And:
experience.”
relations reserves were substantial, they were not
sufficient.”
To this, the News-Journal commented:
“Christians—in fact, all Floridans—can hope Dr.
the story of the tragedy
Annis
stumbles
across
“On
Tuesday
(Christmas
in
Hallandale, and, pondering it, questions whether
he is giving the AMA proper leadership...
Day),
particularly,
we
only can hope Dr. Annis may find a new definition
of the word ‘sufficient’ as he thinks of the debtridden couple who did not want to be a burden
to the young, but whose hopes for future relief
had been dashed by pressure on the last Congress
by a special interest group.
“Perhaps, then, Dr. Annis would
along these lines: ‘Sufficient unto
evil thereof.’ And the new Congress
the pressure from money spent on
tions war to perpetuate a great
America.”
use the word
the day is the
would not feel
a public relaevil in
social
;
s
e
i
D
s
a
m
E. L. McCom
Kulogized by Texans
AUSTIN, Tex.—In a rare action, the
Texas House of Representatives has
eulogized UAW International Repre-
sentative
E. L. McCommas,
who
died
during the inauguration banquet here
has
and
Connally,
John
Gov.
for
placed its memorial in its permanent
ee ©
records.
At the same time, Region 5 Direc-
tor Theodore
Hawks
said McCommas’
.a
of
loss
death “is a tremendous
man
a dedicated
was
who
friend
spending all his adult life working to
better the lot of all people.”
Gov. Connally said
he was deeply grieved
by the death of Mche
whom
Commas
described aS a wonderful
citizen
and
good friend.
:
McCommas, 42, was
the _ bestof
one
known and respected
labor leaders of Tarwhich j;
County
rant.
includes the city
of|
Ft. Worth. He and his
wereE.L. McCommas
Penny,
wife,
at the inaugural
ball when he was stricken by a heart
attack. He had attended an earlier
all-day legislative workshop conducted by the Texas AFL-CIO.
A. strong Connally supporter, the
staff representative had long
UAW
politics
in Democratic
active
been
here and had held several party posts.
Born in Bynum, the son of a bank-
of
was a graduate
er, McCommas
Texas A&M where he starred on its
1939 championship football team. Af-
Referee Is Reversed,
Jobless Benefits Paid
ANDERSON,
Ind.—Because
fused to cross a UAW
they
re-
picket line, 19
members of Local 357, AFL-CIO Retail, Wholesale and Department Store
Employees, were turned down for unBut the
compensation.
employment
Indiana Employment Security Comreversed
of Review
Board
mission
that ruling by a referee and ordered
jobless benefits paid for the entire
period
of the
graduation,
ter
he
to work
for
came
from
all
“truly
was
the
went
General Motors, becoming chairman
and
committee
bargaining
of the
president of Local 816. He joined the
UAW
staff
in
1955.
Messages
of
tribute
Texas
the
In
state.
of the
parts
House, Rep. Howard Green described
him as an outstanding citizen and
said
County
Tarrant
loser in his death.” McCommas,
he
added, was “more than a labor leader.” AS word got around that the
UAW staffer had been stricken, several inaugural parties were cancelled,
In .addition to his widow, Brother
McCommas is survived by three children, Robert Eugene, 22, Ronnie, 10,
and Rickey, 6, and one grandson. The
family residence is at Hurst, Texas.
Indiana Polities
Seen Changing
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—Region 3 local unions are considering a proposal
to centralize citizenship council activities around the region, Director Raymond H. Berndt said.
The recommendation stemmed from
the
January
at
meeting
Analyzing
the
Region
Severin
results
3
Presidents’
Hotel
of the
here.
November
election, Berndt emphasized that Indiana’s political makeup “is undergoing
a change.”
Although the state still has a Republican-dominated state legislature,
he noted, it now has two liberal Democratic U.S. senators in addition to
a Democratic governor.
“We supported these officials because of the programs they propose
and endorse,” Berndt said, “because
in
are meaningful
those programs
terms of working people and their
families.”
strike.
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the
final assembly area for
veillance of Cuba. Below, a view of the crowd as Johnson spoke.
two officers of Studebaker Local 5 join with President
-Reuther in greeting the man they once faced across the bargaining table—Paul
Hoffman, former president of the Studebaker Corp. and now a UN official. The
Local 5 officers, from South Bend, Ind.,
and Woodrow Frick, right, president.
are
Fox,
Lester
left,
vice
president,
Laws Sought In Colorado
wide-ranging
Col.—A
DENVER,
program which includes bills to improve workman’s compensation and
compensation and
unemployment
covers importation of strike breakers
into the state and bargaining rights
for government employees has been
proposed to legislators here by the
Colorado
The proposals
members of the
Assembly
attended
Democratic
|
Council.
Labor
for
outlined
were
General
Colorado
meeting here
of both the
at a dinner
by members
the
and
Republican
Par-—
ties and Labor officials from all parts.
:
of the state.
In
workman’s
to the
addition
and
procompensation
unemployment
posals, the unions’ program calls for;
of
Inauguration
program
Colorado
at
Colorado
State
‘Establishing
DO
Page 6—3-5-8 SOLIDARITY, February, 1963
AT APPOINTMENT—UN,
a
labor
education
University
University.
publicly
and
supported
college program in the Denver Metropolitan Area and implementation of
the
Southern
State
Colorado
program. —
Vocational, technical
programs.
|
College
ree eres)
and retraining
Non-discrimination in employment
policies for all employers of one or
more
including
and
all apprentice
training programs—not just manage-~
labor co-sponsored proand
ment
grams.
Administration of the State Medicare program for the aged by the
State, itself, with full utilization of
Kerr-Mills funds for all aged persons.
No less than $8 million additional
implementation of the State School
Foundation Act in 1963-64,
Implementation of Constitutional
Amendments approved by the voters
in November including court reform
and tying state income tax returns
to federal returns without loss of
and
basic individual dependents
medical and transportation exemp=
tion as well as capital gains and corporate federal income tax deductibility gains of 1959 State income tax
reform program,
Calling
convention.
of a
Metropolitan
State
constitutional
op ee
area government.
ion
ept
rec
a
at
e
com
wel
of
ds
wor
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spe
N
SO
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JO
B.
ON
ND
LY
VICE PRESIDENT
o
als
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and
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the
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Har
ce
was held for Sen. Van
Director Raymond H. Berndt was warmly welcomed at both. Above, left to right:
ohn
J
ent
sid
Pre
e
Vic
h;
Bay
O;
CI
LAF
a’s
ian
Ind
of
ent
sid
pre
s,
Sell
las
Dal
Berndt;
son and Hartke.
,
UAW
Walter
President
P. Reuther
Paul Hoffman
- .
Managing Director,
United Nations Special Fund
270
OME
UAW
tended the second
ment— UN
gram
of
annual
conference
month, testifying to
throughout the union
study
of
and
members
the
in
UAW
New
staff
at--
nor of Michigan, now Assistant Secretary of
last
Another speaker at the session at which
Assistant Secretary Williams spoke was S. O.
Adebo, Nigerian ambassador to the UN.
Appoint-
York
the growing interest
in this continuing prorole
and
influence
of
trade unions in international affairs.
The increased number of delegates—some_
De
in
ce
en
er
nf
co
al
in
ig
or
e
th
ed
nd
te
180 at
sdi
of
e
ng
ra
de
wi
a
d
te
la
mu
ti
—s
61
19
,
cember
de
ma
s
se
es
dr
ad
l
ra
ve
se
by
ed
ok
ov
pr
n
cussio
of
s
ve
ti
ta
en
es
pr
re
,
als
ici
off
nt
me
rn
ve
go
by
trade unions from abroad and spokesmen for
foreign nations.
Reuther,
UAW
Hoffman
Spok
President Walter
P.
Reuther
and
Paul Hoffman, managing director of the Unitad
l
pa
ci
in
pr
ve
ga
,
nd
Fu
l
ia
ec
Sp
s
ed Nation
g
in
ss
re
st
t,
ue
nq
ba
ce
en
er
nf
co
the
at
s
se
es
dr
.
trade union participation in world affairs.
Others who
came
to New
York
to preside
Secretarysessions were
over. discussion
Treasurer Emil Mazey, Vice President Pat
Greathouse and International Executive
.
Board Member-At-Large Douglas Fraser.
Other speakers at the various study ses-
sions included Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of
Minnesota, Democratic Senate whip and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and G, Mennen Williams, former gover-
State for African Affairs.
At the session devoted exclusively to dis-
cussion of the role of trade unions in international relations, Adolph Graedel, general secMetalworkers
International
retary of the
Omer
_ Federation, was a principal speaker.
Becu, general secretary of the International
Confederation
Trade
Unions,
attend but was prevented by illness.
was to
In that and other sessions, discussion was
| led by Victor G, Reuther, UAW international
affairs department director, and Carroll M.
Hutton, UAW education department director.
The conference was co-sponsored by those
|
two departments.
_ As in the first Appointment—UN conference, discussions dealt both broadly and deeply with such vital subjects as U.S. foreign
policy, peace and disarmament, the extent of
trade unions around the world and their areas
of influence, the economies of the newly-em-
erging nations of Asia and Africa, conditions
in Latin America and the work of the UN.
In addition to the four days of discussion
sessions
at
the
Belmont
Plaza
Hotel,
dele-
gates toured the United Nations building and
‘We Must Familiarize
ee
of Free
Ourselves
interviewed representatives from a number of
various UN agencies, among them, the Special Fund, the International Labor Organiza-
tion (ILO), the educational, scientific and cultural organization (UNESCO), the children’s
organization (UNICEF), the Division of Hu-
man Rights, the Bureau of Social Affairs, the
Trusteeship Council, the Technical Assistance
Board, the Disarmament
Commission
and the
Commission on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.
Delegates
from
All
Over
Local Union and staff delegates to the
conference came from as far north as On-
tario, Canada, as far south as Georgia, as far
west as California and as far east as Massa-
chusetts.
Ck
Acting as hosts for the conference were
Region 9 Director Martin Gerber and Region
9A. Director Charles Kerrigan.
Other Regional Directors who came to
take part in the program were Ken Morris,
co-director of Region 1; Bard Young, co-director of Region 1A; Ken Robinson, director
of Region 1D; Ray Ross, director of Region
2A; Robert Johnston, director of Region 4;
Paul Schrade, director of Region 6, and Harvey Kitzman, director of Region 10. Interna- tional Executive Board Members-At-Large
Ken Bannon
attended,
and
Nelson
Jack
Edwards
:
also
with World Problems’
‘We have said many times that the UAW is important because it’s
about people ...about the people we represent, about their problems and
their hopes and their dreams. The UN is that kind of organization. It’s
about the hopes, the dreams, the aspirations of the whole human race...
9
With those words above, UAW President Walter P. Reuther, who spoke at the UAW Appointment—UN dinner, explained why the UAW works
so closely with the United Nations, and why each
UAW member must become well-enough informed
about the work of the UN to become an ambassador and missionary for this international agency.
Other
excerpts
address follow:
from
President
Reuther’s
“If you were to go, as I went, to the distant
places of the world and talk to a worker in Asia
or to a peasant in Africa, a textile worker in
Japan, a worker in Southern Italy—talk to anyone on the globe, and no matter what language
he may speak or what the color of his skin may
be, you will find that while they may look different on the outside, deep inside there is this longing for the same things for which we long.
People
Want
Peace
“They want to live in a world at peace with
They want a job that is meantheir neighbors.
ingful and creative so they can give their children
a decent start in life and a chance to grow up in
a world in which they can be given the advantages of education, so they can help meet their
‘
problems in a world at peace.
“The United Nations is the only instrument in
the world which gives an international dimension
to this
peace,
in his
“We
for
family
deep longing of the human
for social justice, for the dignity of man
|
relationship to his neighbor.
have been moralizing about human broth
erhood for many centuries and we now face the
either the world can live in
practical challenge:
the spirit of brotherhood or it will perish, because
we now have the capability of total self-destruction. The UN will become more and more important in finding answers to these problems.
“Here is a world assembly of all nations, where
It is more than
communication is possible ...
If you read
just an agency working for peace.
the preamble of the United Nations, it sounds like
it might have been the preamble of our union. It
It
talks about social justice, the dignity of man.
talks about all of the elements essential to build
ing a just and lasting peace ...
“Those of us who believe in the UN have work
to do, because there are forces at work in the
world and there are forces at work in America
who would like to destroy the United Nations...
We have to counteract that force by building—not
the
for
attachment
a vague and sentimental
United Nations—but by building the kind of support in depth based upon understanding of the
role which the United Nations is playing in our
And part of this job is the task
troubled world.
of the American labor movement.
“The reason we initiated a UAW Appointment:
UN Conference last year, and are holding it again
this year and next year, is to develop more missionaries.
“When you go back home, your job is not just
Your job
to make a report to your local union.
is to mobilize your local union so that you can
help raise the levels of understanding of the peo-
—
“Sa.
When the United Na~ ple of our great country.
tions is under challenge and when it needs support, we must be able to tap the great wellsprings
of understanding and mobilize effective support
behind the UN.
“The United Nations has been a kind of guardrail between the people of the world and the abyss
We have to strengthen
of nuclear catastrophe.
that guard-rail and make it so indestructible that
no
matter
what
the
mistakes
and
the
tions may be, that the human family
be thrust through that barrier ...
“TI think both the United States and
Union, that all of us, must understand
choice before the human family is both
Either the human family
compelling.
firmative
steps
toward
ending
the
provoca-
will
never
the Soviet
that the
clear and
takes af-
nuclear
arms
race or in due time, the nuclear arms race will
There is no middle ground
end the human race.
There is no halfway stabetween war and peace.
tion. We either find a way to live together or we
will destroy the world together.
U.S.
Can
Provide
the
Initiative
“Only the United States has the resources and
the ability to provide the initiative and the leadership to get the contest out of the ballpark of
the nuclear rat race into the ballpark of a peaceful, constructive competition between two social
And if time permits, the world is going
systems.
to choose the social system that can best deal
with. the basic problems of the human family.
“And the United Nations can play a decisive
role in that effort ... because when you work
through the UN, you can do things because people
They don’t
are not wondering about motives.
think you are trying to make them a part of a
spent
a dollar
power block combination, and
many,
through the United Nations will bring
many more returns in many places than a hundred dollars spent by unilateral action.
“But some people have not understood that
d
an
e
ac
pe
th
wi
ls
dea
y
onl
not
s,
on
ti
Na
ed
it
the Un
the Congo crisis and the Cuban crisis, but the
great structure of the UN and its practical work
en
ag
d
ze
li
ia
ec
sp
.
ny
ma
the
by
d
le
nd
ha
g
in
is be
od
Fo
the
n,
io
at
uc
ed
th
wi
g
in
al
de
CO
ES
UN
s:
cie
th
al
He
d
rl
Wo
the
,
on
ti
za
ni
ga
or
al
ur
lt
cu
ri
Ag
d
rn
er
PRINCIPAL SPEAKERS at the UAW Appointment—UN
dinner were Paul Hoffman, managing director of the
United Nations Special Fund and UAW President Walt-
Organization has 825 projects in 137 countries.
“Tt could do a great deal more fighting malaria,
Do you know
fighting disease all over the world.
what its budget is? A $25 million annual budget.
“The whole budget of the United Nations last
That sounds like a lot of
year was $210 million.
oR
money but it’s a relative figure.
“¢910 million is less than what we spent in 10
hours in the last war.
“The General Motors Corporation in the last
three months of 1962 made a profit of $375 million.
UN
Budget
Not
Excessive
P.
Martin
|
—
“The UN’s budget was only a fraction of the
Don’t
General Motors profit for three months.
We create a great
you see this is what’s wrong?
We house it in a splendid building
organization.
in the City of New York, and then we give it a
budget as though it were just to talk about these
problems, instead of dealing with them.
“We are paying 32.2 per cent of the UN budget.
Now is this a heavy burden upon the American
Even if we add to the regular UN budget
people?
the special assessments like those for the Congo
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All
Reuther,
Gerber
huddled
who
was
here
the
with
host
at
Region
the
9
Director
dinner.
services
for
contributions
voluntary
and the
handled through the UN, like the UN Children’s
fund, it costs each of us only $1.06 a year.
“This is why, at our last convention, we took a
We earmarked for our own
very historic step.
‘foreign aid’ what will amount to almost a million
and three-quarters dollars for 1962, and it will
We put that money into
be even greater in 1963.
a Free World Labor Defense Fund, not to advance
our interests but to help other workers advance
their interests.
“There are only world answers to these kinds
of problems and you can only find these by working with people all over the world because like
peace, these problems are also indivisible.
“Abe Lincoln understood this very well. A hundred years ago he said in his very profound and
simple wisdom that “America could not prevail
half free and half slave.” Our world cannot prevail with the world divided between those who
have enough to eat and the other half who are
Those who have enough to eat have got
hungry.
to work to help those who have got too little to
get their share.”
Newer Nations Have Same Task the U.S. Had:
annual
The 270 delegates to the second
UAW Appointment—UN conference had an untwo
discuss
usual opportunity to hear and
viewpoints on the very vital U.S. foreign policy
toward the emerging nations of Africa.
One of the speakers at the session presided
over by UAW Vice President Pat Greathouse
to the United
was the Nigerian ambassador
Nations, S. O. Odebo, who is himself a former
trade unionist.
.
.
The other speaker at that session was G.
Mennen Williams, former governor of Michigan
for
who is now Assistant Secretary of State
African Affairs.
“T am glad to have the opportunity of directing this appeal to the representatives of
your great union,” Ambassador Adebo said.
“The UAW is well known far beyond the
Your influential position in
shores of America.
American public affairs is common knowledge.”
In outlining the problems facing Nigeria, a
for at
striven
UNDERSTANDING
conferAppointment—UN
UAW
by handclasp
ence is symbolized
shared by S. 0. Adebo, Nigerian
Mennen
G.
UN;
to
ambassador
of
Secretary
Assistant
Williams,
Stete for African Affairs, and UAW
Vice President Pat Greathouse. The
Nigerian ambassador is a former
trade unionist, having been general
secretary of his country’s Federation
of Railway Unions,
new nation of some 35 million people on the
said
Ambassador
west coast of Africa, the
“there is aid of another kind which we need
just as desperately as financial aid, and that
is an understanding of our problems, a realizawill
and
tion that we shall make mistakes
learn from them as other countries have done
before us...
“Give us time to show what we can do.”
One of Nigeria’s major tasks, he said, “is to
raise the standard of life of our people. I would
are
we
that
be the last person to suggest
achieving
anything
like a phenomenal
success
these objectives.
“Does not even a more experienced country
like the United States still have a similar prob-~lem on its hands?”
“We have devoted huge resources to education, health and communications development,”
he said. “More, however, remains to be done.
We aim to raise as much as possible of this
in
SOLIDARITY
INTERNATIONAL
here
is shown
to right), Douglas Fraser, UAW IEB memberat-large; Adolph Graedel, of IMF; Victor Reuther, UAW international affairs director, and
assistant to
administrative
Bluestone,
Irving
UAW President Walter P. Reuther.
The
increased
attendance
SUT
at the second
national affairs director, because “any proeram, if it is to be successful, must be
something more than a leadership program.
“Tt must be one that is fully understood
and actively participated in by the key
leadershinv in the local unions
their help,
we
cannot
. , . because
the
mobilize
kind of interest and support and streneth
national consciousness on the part of labor,
if we wish to preserve the gains we’ve made
and extend them for people like us who
work for a living around the world.
“Only by making the fruits of our free
society and our industrialized economies
universal, can we build a solid foundation
for peace and freedom in this troubled
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Another speaker at the same session,
which was presided over by Douglas Fraser,
UAW International Executive Board member-at-large, was Adolph Graedel, general
secretary of the International Metalworkers Federation, with which the UAW is affiliated.
After tracing the international structure
of manufacturing and wages and working
free
“the
declared
Graedel
conditions,
world ... must be capable of avoiding the
return of worldwide or partial economic
crises, bringing in their train hardship and
social injustice.
“Tf the free world could not do this, if
it were unable to organize human societies
in an order of dignity for workers, it
would lose the battle against communism.
“With these aims in view,” Graedel said,
the IMF “stands side by side with the UAW,
which is carrying on among its members
and in this country a magnificent campaign of international solidarity for which
it merits congratulation in public.”
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through the
various
Council
terviewed
tock the 270
United Nations,
chambers
(above).
such
Later,
representatives
as
delegates
including
all
the
groups
in-
the
smaller
from
sions in the..Belmont
Plaza
Hotel was Region 9A Director
Charles Kerrigan, greeting dele-
.
gates.
the
left
are UAW
Education Director Carroll
gad bow Pasliods.
sic
eftairs
national
agencies,
which
living
;
BANQUET
FOLK SONGS from around the world
for the delegates by
sung
were
accompanied
who
Ohman,
Kajsa
herself on the guitor. Her songs
showed that the problems of men
are the same for any race in any-
country.
wouldn’t
be complete,
Ronnie recorded in the UAW album,
RONNIE GILBERT and The Weavers
entertained at the conference banquet
with
of course, without
lebor
songs,
including
M.
ass
slshant' tb en disbee of inkek
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(below)
such as the Special Fund
do the UN’s vital work of raising
standards in the new nations.
To
0
that is reouired to make a success of this
great effort.”
Reuther reminded delegates “employers
have become internationally minded, and
we had better match that with an inter-
world.”
handclesp shared
in the
annual UAW Appointment—UN, where 270
and
problems
world
discussed.
members
labor’s: stake in them, will bear fruit, according to Victor G. Reuther, UAW inter-
without
Solidarity’
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some
“Songs
for
which tells
a photograph of everybody.
a
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labor's
history
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in
song.
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Finances Right- Wing Extremists
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SOLIDARITY articles blueprinting the close financial
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and various Right-Wing extremist organizations
which are busy peddling fear, hatred and bigotry.
From these articles it can be seen that there is -
Gen.
Dwight
David
Eisenhower left
may
be up
to, one
thing
is certain:
They
Leading
ROGER
Southern
MILLIKEN
Textile
the
for
‘GOP
travel on the same track with such as Milliken as
their chief engineer, here’s a bit of recent labor
history concerning Milliken’s major firm:
Like
Young
this society
works
Americans
©
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the
collegiate
Freedom
campuses
for the
right-wing extremists and tries to indoctrinate
college students with the shibboleths of 18th cenIt promotes the formation of
tury economics.
society chapters, conservative clubs or discussion
groups on various campuses and arranges lectures
It also
by well-known ultra-right-wing speakers.
sets up conferences and summer schools.
The president of the society is Frank Chodorov, an extremist affiliated with a long list of
Economic
National
hate groups including the
Council, For America, We, the People, Congress of
Freedom
and
the
YAF.
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vice-president
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editor
The
Individualist,
is
firm,
this
Reg-
Henry
:
Gwinn,
Ralph
from
New
ultra-reactionary
York;
Electric
General
Lemuel
R.
Co. executive
include
trustees
society’s
A.
Prof.
Roger
T.
Bouscaren. of Syracuse, N.Y., writer for various
hate. sheets; steel magnate Ben Moreell; retired
Brig. Gen. Bonner Fellers, a prominent Birchite,
and M. Stanton Evans, editor of The Indianapolis
_ News and former writer for Human
ee
the
- Washington hate sheet.
Indianapolis
News,
yeaa?
one of America’ s most
the
and
the UAW
movement
labor
©
in
Events, is in “good” company there, too,
Other
charter subscribers include industrialists William
J. Grede, Walter Harnischfeger and Philip Mc-~
Kenna, whose activities were discussed last month.
Milliken
—
Is a Contributor
Pegler
Human Events may also be judged by the type
of people who contribute articles to it. These include such rabid anti-labor propagandists as Fulton Lewis Jr. and Westbrook Pegler; Walter Trohan, chief of the Washington Bureau of the Chicago Tribune, and a wild-eyed rightist; Tribune
staffer Willard Edwards, and the “labor” columnist, Victor Riesel.
Here’s what Human Events says about UAW
President Walter P. Reuther:
“It ig scarcely a secret that Reuther is @
ruthless labor dictator and one of the most
mischievous Socialist leaders in the country.”
The
Kennedy
No
publication
is the
wonder
also believes
“tool”
of “labor
millionaire
that
bosses.”
anti-union
—
Clarence
President —
E. Manion
and The Darling
—e
‘like Milliken support Human Events.
.
GEORGE W. ARMSTRONG, JR. of Fort worth,
Tex. is the head of the Texas Steel Co, and a former president of the Texas Manufacturers Associ=
His ultra-right-wing affiliations include
ation.
the Birch Society, the Manion Forum and Amer,
icans for Constitutional Action.
of these
to which
(YAF),
H.
example,
retired
_ Westbrook
Groups
for
family
publication,
He isa member
contributes. financially.
The Birch Society, the Manion Forum and the
Citizens Foreign Aid Committee were discussed in
the first article of this series (Solidarity, January
That brings us to the Intercollegiate So1963).
ciety of Individualists, Inc., of which Milliken is
an “adviser.”
he
Pew
general—and not just on its editorial page).
Milliken, listed as a charter member to Human
—
ism.”
“chamThe only “unionism” this company
pions, ” as textile workers can tell you, is “antiunionism.”
In addition to these ties with the extremists,
Milliken is also a former Republican state finance
chairman, which should surprise absolutely no
.
one.
closely some
belongs and
Charles
Congressman
smearing
youthful wing of the extreme right, for its sponsor-ship of “patriotic” programs on television and .
for “consistently championing voluntary union-~
examine more
which Milliken
(The
conservative daily papers—it’s akin to the Chicago Tribune—is
owned by
Eugene
Pulliam,
an
The paper, as UAW Region 3
arch-reactionary.
specializes. in
Director Ray Berndt can testify,
lated the law by closing a subsidiary mill in Darlington, S.C. after the AFL-CIO Textile Workers
The
had won a bargaining election.
(TWUA)
NLRB ordered the firm to reinstate about 500
workers and give them back pay for the six years
of the dispute.
It is no wonder that this company received an
“award” from Young Americans for Freedom, the.
us
to
for
late
the
(The
Board ruled that Deering, Milliken & Co. had vio-
Let
groups
1961,
The
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. On Oct. 18, 1962, the National Labor Relations
to Many
f\
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¢
and exponent of the “take-it-or-leave-it” theory
of collective bargaining, and former Congressman
Samuel Pettengill, another anti-labor stalwart.
—
of Individualists, Inc. and a trustee of the American Good Government Society. He has solicited
Roger Belongs
Society’s
include
Educa-
If further evidence is needed that the anti-labor train and the pro-right-wing extremist train
reais
H
can governor of Utah and mayor of Salt Lake
City; Clarence Manion; Hollywood actor Adolphe
‘Menjou, and, of course, Milliken. Other advisers
tion, Inc., an advisor to the Intercollegiate Society —
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president,
Boulware,
funds for the National Right to Work Committee
and is a charter subscriber to Human Events, a
Washington publication written and edited by an
His company
assorted group of wild extremists.
also runs full-page ads in
William
Buckley’s
right-wing magazine, National Review.
Ss
mol INC.
IQR
i
(
bs
~The society’s board of advisers include the following Birchites: J. Bracken Lee, former Republi-
Tycoon
Economic
Jr.
point of view.)
of South Carolina is one of
Foundation
;
i
r
nery Co., published a book on the UAW’s Kohler
strike written, of course,
from
the
company’s
of Spartanburg, S.C.; a textile concern with a long
record of anti-union. activity,
He is also. an mah
cer in several other. companies.
He is a strong supporter of ultra- right-wing
causes. His organizational affiliations include the
John Birch Society, the Manion Forum and the
Citizens Foreign Aid Committee.
He is also a
of
bank
(In
appear
this country’s leading textile tycoons.
He is president and director of Deering, Milliken & Co., Inc.,
trustee
G. Pew
the
}
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/
.
y
a
William Regnery III, member of a family publishing firm that specializes in books by ultra-rightists.
to be in firm control of the extreme right. The
names of a number of industrialists and military
people are closely associated with this country’s
leading peddlers of political filth.
Last month we began listing the names of
these “Respectables,” together with their organizational affiliations, their financial contributions
We
associates.
far- from-respectable
their
and
continue that listing.
A
John
of
.
pa
AS
*,
es
most of them are millionaires).
The executive vice president is Victor Milione,
who also belongs to the YAF and other extremist
groups. The secretary-treasurer is a Pennsylvania
office.as President of the United States he
warned the country of the dangers posed by what
he called “the military-industrial
complex,”
a
combine of powerful industrialists and high-ranking generals and admirals.
The warning
was
doubly noteworthy because it came from a man
who had many friends who might have been part
of this ‘‘complex” Eisenhower spoke of.
Whatever else the members of this “complex”
+
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very active members in several Ultra-Right groups.
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ans
.
a network of interlocking. directorates by which»
these same ultra “‘respectables” turn up as
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and philosophical links between some of the most
‘respectable’ Big Businessmen in the United States
EFORE
AES
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st
—
of the editorial advisory com-
mittee of American Opinion, the official John
Birch Society magazine, and a member of the national board of the Committee Against Summit
He is
Entanglements, a Birchite front group.
also a sponsor of the Manion-Forum and a fundAction
Constitutional
raiser for Americans for
The nature of all of these groups—with
(ACA).
the exception of ACA, which will be discussed in
detail later in this
series—was
revealed
in
last.
month’s article.
The main function of ACA is to “rate” mem-~
bers of Congress on a percentage basis according
to their voting records. ACA rates people like Sen.
Barry Goldwater (R., Ariz.) and Sen. John Tower
(R., Tex.) highly but gives “poor” ratings to Senators like Michigan’s Philip Hart and Pat McNamara, both liberal Democrats.
F. GANO CHANCE of Centralia, Mo. is president of the A. B. Chance Co., a former president
of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and a former head of the Associated Industries of Missouri.
Like so many of his fellow industrialists, the
Continued
on
Page
12
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Sen.
Barry
Goldwater
of The Ultra-Right
Many of Our “Most Respectable’ Big Businessmen . .
from
Continued
- burgh Courier and an apologist for the brutal
Portugese colonial oppression of natives in Angola.
Schuyler, by the way, is also:a member of the
head of this medium-sized manufacturing company has a penchant for extremism. His ultraright-wing affiliations include:
@ National Council, John Birch Society;
Advisory .Committee,
® Editorial
Opinion, the Birchite magazine.
@
@
tian Crusade;
-
e Committee
Against
|
American
:
the Birchite front.
This same
|
Chance has also appeared on a Harding College Freedom Forum and as a speaker at the St.
Louis “school” of Fred Schwarz’ Christian Anti|
.
Communist Crusade.
The nature of most of these groups has already
The activities of Harding College
been explained.
and of Fred Schwarz
3
article.
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7
who see a Red under every bed.
Davis’ affiliations include the Birch Society,
the Platform for Patriotic Americans, the American Progress Foundation and the National Eco-
gan
nomic Council. Most of these groups have already
et:
been discussed.
gaining
The
permitted.
International
Union
of
Electrical Workers (IUE) and other unions which
deal with GE have been the primary victims of
7
—
this bargaining “technique.”
Boulware is affiliated with the Intercollegiate
one—Manion
Forum,
American
Committee
for
Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters and American‘Asian Educational Exchange Inc. (of which he is
7
chairman).
Every one of these groups is on the extreme
:
ti
right.
The anti-United Nations, pro-Katanga Amerim
Freed
can Committee for Aid to Katanga
Fighters, for example, was organized in December
Marvin
1961 by a small group which included
Liebman, a busy press agent for many rightist
causes, and William F. Buckley, Jr., the editor
of
the
ultra-rightist
magazine
National
Review
(Solidarity, January, 1963).
At least 10 of the sponsors of this committee
are, like Edison, leaders of the Birch Society. They
include
Spruille
Tennessee
Roosevelt,
Braden,
publisher
Clarence
J. Bracken
Lee
Thomas
Manion,
and
J. Anderson,
Archibald
J. B. Matthews.
B.
board
include
Prof.
Bouscaren
(see
Forum
above); .
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Welch
_
THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY: Currently the
leading ultra-right-wing group. Its head, Robert Welch, holds absolute control over this
semi-secret organization. The John Birch So-
allies.
1963).
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.
.
YOUNG AMERICANS FOR FREEDOM: Col- |
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Wing
Heinsohn
_
>
—
3
The publisher of HUMAN
EVENTS
is Frank C. Hanighen. NATIONAL
REVIEW is edited by William fF.
Buckley Jr. A couple other sheets
that spew ‘the same subversive -phi:
:
of Goldwater
compliment.
ence
‘Or Besinesy mi mounts
Ming
BL
p99 Whar?
ysicay
wnStoh Tea OF the
"rade — Tun the i
Orga, ME:
“Communist
tools.”
(Solidarity,
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Jan.
JR. of Sevierville, Tenn.
is
unsuccessful).
Is Another
3
Birchite
Here is a partial list of Heinsohn’s affiliations
with extremist groups:
@ He is a leading member of the John Birch
to the society’s national cornSociety, belonging
cil and executive committee, as well as to Birchite
:
front groups.
@ He is a member of the Citizens Foreign Aid
- Committee, which opposes aid to our allies.
movement
losophy are AMERICAN OPINION
John Birch Society)
(published by the
$
;
:
and : THE INDIVIDUALIST
(Intercollegiate Society .of Individualists) .
nevertheless
-. Heinsohn is president of Cherokee Mills in Sevderville and Spindale Mills in Spindale, N.C. Both
are non-union. (Organizing attempts in 1955 and
EVENTS and NATIONAL
HUMAN
REVIEW (the covers of which are
shown) are two of the “bibles” of
Ultra-Right
are
4. G. HEINSOHN
AUOEAOOUUTAUCEAAAA
AT
UTAGOOTE
UAE ER
OEE AU EAUUAGC
GAUUNEAUOUEEAAUUNEAUONOAVUUNEAUE
the
Approves
1956 were
ment; opposes integration of schools, unions,
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the UN, all taxes.
NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL: Created
by the late Merwin K. Hart, Franco lobbyist
and anti-Semite.
he
“one of the foremost anti-union textile barons in
the South,” according to the Textile
‘Workers
Union of America. He is‘also one of the foremost
promoters of extremist causes, outdoing many of
his fellow industrialists. His affiliations with various hate groups make up a long list.
?
AMERICA’S FUTURE, INC.: Another name
for the Committee for Constitutional Govern-
as an “extremist,”
tremists, who believe that everybody in America
from Presidents Eisenhower
and
Kennedy
on
.
like the Post Office, the Veterans Administration and the Social Security Administration
;
to “private business.”
at the Human
Birch “fuehrer” Welch returns the
In his Blue Book he wrote:
“1 know Barry fairly well.
He
American ...I raised around $2,000
and sent it to him early in 1958 ..
down
lege branch of the extreme right, close to Sen.
npr sa;
:
Barry ‘Goldwater.
NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC
FREEDOM: Wants to sell government agencies
and
see him President of the
UAW members are not too surprised that Goldwater is the Birch Society’s leading candidate for
President.
After all, any politician who can call
UAW President Walter P. Reuther “the most dangerous man in America,” as Goldwater did in 1958,
must lie close to the hearts of these far-out ex-
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ciety believes democracy is bad, our government is—and has been—run by pro-commu-
to our NATO
(YAF),
is a_ great
in my state
. I’d love to
United States.”
series:
economic aid
Freedom
has very kind words for members of the Birch
Society.
In 1961, Time Magazine quoted him as
saying:
“A. lot of people in my home town have been
attracted to the society, and I am impressed by
the type of people in it. They are the kind we
need in politics.”
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Here is a quick-reference list of some of
the extremist groups mentioned so far in this
nists. Only members of the society are free
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from suspicion.
MANION FORUM: Anti-labor, ultra-rightist
group run by Birchite Clarence E. Manion;
specializes in broadcasting.
AID COMMITTEE:
CITIZENS FOREIGN
Successor to the old America First Committee
of pre-World War II days; opposes military
(Solidarity Jan. 1963)
Robert Welch
Right-Wing Checklist
and
for
Events Political Action Conference as a speaker.
While the Senator has disavowed Birch leader
_
Party of New York, which is made up mostly of
ultra-right-wing Republicans who think Gov. NelS.
George
and
son Rockefeller is too liberal,
_ Solidarity
Americans
Katanga Freedom Fighters, which we have just
discussed.
He has appeared many times on the: Manion
man, who is connected with the new Conservative
-
of Young
also known as “College Boys for Goldwater,” and
a sponsor of the American Committee for Aid to
Other rightists affiliated with the pro-Katangroup
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BARRY M. GOLDWATER, the Republican Senator from Arizona and leader of ultra-conserva~<
tive forces, is one of the heroes of the extreme
right.
He is a member of the national advisory
ler, head of the Kohler Co. of Sheboygan, Wis.;
Arthur G. McDowell of Philadelphia, who is a
staff member of the Upholsterers Union and a
professional “anti-Communist;” retired Gen..A. C.
Wedemeyer; Dr. Max Yergan, committee chair-
Society of Individualists (see above).
CHARLES EDISON of West Orange, N.J. is the
son of the famed inventor, Thomas Edison, and
He was Secre»
a former governor of New Jersey.
tary of the Navy from 1939 to 1940 and is a past
Edipresident of the National Municipal League.
son is chairman of the board of the McGraw-Edison Co., a giant manufacturing company in the
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electrical field.
These positions sound impressive and respectable. Let us see now what groups the respectable
Mr. Edison belongs to. Here are just a few:
Birch Society, Young Americans for Freedom
Action
(YAF), Americans for Constitutional
(ACA)—he is the treasurer and trustee for that
Congolese.
cated column on economics which appears in whe
Detroit News and other dailies;. Herbert V. Koh-
is a retired executive
of the General Electric Co. and foremost exponent of a method which has come to be known as
“Boulwarism.” Under this technique, a company
comes to the bargaining table and tells the union
that it has a contract “offer.” This “offer” is not
the first or the final offer. It is the ONLY offer,
and the union can take it or leave it... no bar-
gian and British economic interests to exploit the
novelist Taylor Caldwell; editor M. Stanton Evans
(see above); Lawrence Fertig, writer of a syndi-
Is a Right-Winger
R. BOULWARE
LEMUEL
the committee is referring to the freedom for Bel-
CHARLES EDISON, son of the famed
inventor of the light bulb and himself
an industrialist of some magnitude, has
served his country in many distinguished
posts—as Secretary of the Navy, as Governor of New Jersey and as president of
_ the National Municipal League.
Now, he devotes much of his time,
energy and considerable fortune to a
string of Ultra-Right Wing hate groups.
in this sort of business are also involved in groups
Boulware
firm also handled public relations for
Communist revolutionaries in such places as East
Berlin, Hungary and Cuba ... unless, of course,
RALPH E. DAVIS of Los Angeles is president
of a concern called General Plant Protection Corporation, which furnishes guards and “investigaIt is the largest such firm in
tors” to industry.
It
the L.A. area and its employes are non-union.
is perhaps not too surprising that people engaged
Surprise!
YAF,
heretofore has been used ‘to describe genuine anti-
will be detailed in a later
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the
and
Party
Kohler
long
during the
the Kohler Company
strike.
There is no explanation why the Katangese
mercenary troops are referred to as “freedom
which
term
fighters,” an otherwise honorable
Entanglements,
Summit
Conservative
among other ultra-rightist groups. His daughter,
_ Philippa, was employed by the public relations
firm of Selvage & Lee, which is the registered
Portugese group.
foreign agent (lobbyist) for a
of the Chris-
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York
New
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Citizens Foreign Aid Committee;
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Destiny of U.S.
1963
14—February,
Page
Internist—Mystery
The
[*
of Medicine
Man
begged
same
The internist is expert in the management of
diseases of the heart, lungs, blood and organs of
digestion. Sometimes an internist specializes further in the diagnosis.and treatment of a particular
He is then said to have a sub-specialty,
organ.
such as cardiology (heart), hematology (blood), or
SOLIDARITY
Fleming
the
training, experience and examination; is he certified as a poate of the Board of Internal Medicine.
|
ly
the Council
of
GOODSELL
Relessed
by
hitherto
hate to sound suspicious, but I think there are a lot of im-
posters running around these days. Hardly
right to me and hardly anybody acts right.
anybody
looks
For instance, take the man who comes to my house every
week to sell vegetables. He looks like a poet. He has dark,
brooding eyes, a sensitive face and delicate hands. What’s more,
he talks like a poet. He likes to discuss life in philosophic terms,
he reads books I can’t understand, and he knows the names of
just about every flower in the world.
|
I met a real poet once, and guess what he talked about? The
traffic problem!
At a party a couple of weeks ago I met a man dressed in
a loud plaid shirt, loggers’ boots and beat-up old pants. He
chewed a corncob pipe. He turned out to be a university professor.
Another guest was clad in faultless tweeds, and he smoked
the cigarette of the discriminating minority. Who was he? A
:
There are a lot of women tootling around these days, pretending to be grandmothers. Well, they can’t kid me. I know
what a grandmother looks. like. She has snowy white hair, and
she has basting pins in her mouth and an apple pie cooling on
her windowsill. She does not have a deep suntan, nails lacquered
with Scarlet Poppy and a firm grip on a no-trump hand.
Or take movie actresses. I’ve never actually met one, but
I read about them. And all of these glamorous creatures, according to the movie magazines, are homebodies at heart.
They’d rather spend their evenings baking cookies or playing
parcheesi then dressing up and trooping off to a fancy night
club.
way
I can
figure
good old-fashioned grandma
it is that
in disguise.
~
they
are really my
Even criminals aren’t genuine anymore. Instead of looking
like Jack the Ripper or Dangerous Dan McGrew, they simply
look worried and uncertain. They might as well be dentists or
opticians.
It is all most
io cettion:
Morticians
flippant and burlesque queens brag about
of Plato.
Can it not thus be said that the vote of a dying
man in the hills of a backwoods county in Indiana
made Texas a state, and Andrew Jackson’s mighty
union plan a reality?
it. If
approved
claim several have
enough do so, Congress would have
to submit it to the states.
Govern-
State
of
and
research
a fed-
body, to demand
act
jolly,
eee
doce
act
the Dialogues
rights
under
can appeal
justice.
the
to
states such citizens have
many
resorted to federal courts. In some,
they have won. The whole issue is
awainting specific Supreme Court defair
constitutes
as to what
cision
representation.
The
this.
new
Citizens
state
own
their
beyond
have
would
stop
would
movement
all
recourse
no
courts.
In
such matters they’d be prisoners of
their US.
states only, surrendering
constitutional rights in this most vit-
al
regard.
:
by
third ODDUS proposal,
a bare majority of the
approved
Assembly
of
States,
so-called.
A
got the Assemb-
U.S. constitution, and
the federal courts for
In
Han-
accept
Senate when Hannigan took his seat was the reconsideration of the Texas treaty of annexation,
placed before it again by President Tyler. Texas
sentiment had grown, but in spite of that, the
_treaty was ratified with the necessary two-thirds
majority by only one vote: that of the new Indiana
senator, Edward A. Hannigan.
a sober
of American
prived
to
constrained
felt
Democrats
nigan. He was elected by a single vote: Kelso’s!
THE FIRST great issue before the United States
The U.S. Supreme Court holds that
a citizen deprived of fair representation in his state legislature, is de-
PRESS ASSOCIATES—PAI
only
The
to
amendment
constitutional
eral
stop citizens’ appeals to the federal
courts against unfair apportionment
,
of their state legislatures.
Py
© NONSENSE *
The
group
ODDUS
One
coordination
farmer.
sociates that he would bolt and vote with the
Whigs—thus electing a Whig to the Senate—unless
they supported Hannigan.
US.
ments,
|
a new candidate: Edward A. Hannigan. And in
the party caucus he notified his Democratic as-
see the ODDUS people everyYou
where these days—those of Organizations to Dismantle and. Dispose of
after he has successfully completed all this
made his move. He proposed
KELSO
Watch Out for
The ODDUS People
Roscoe
He then practices his specialty for two years to
become eligible to take a difficult written examinIf he passes he takes an oral examination
ation.
concerning his treatment and study of patients.
(BY JANE
FINALLY,
By
tract).
To qualify as.a specialist in internal medicine a
doctor is required to have three years of special
after
residency training in an approved hospital,
completing the regular hospital internship.
Only
road
Counting Kelso, the Democrats in
States senator.
A
the state senate had a majority of just one.
caucus was held and it developed that a majority
of the party delegation favored a man who, it was
has to the youngster.
(digestive
he
But
over a mountain
his sons to carry him
But Kelso refused to vote for the party choice,
A deadlock resulted between the Democratic and
Whig candidates which continued for days.
Freeman
Sitting at Indianapolis, the state senate had a
task of high importance: the election of a United
kind of relationship to the adult as the pediatrician
gastro- -enterology
ill in bed..
lay seriously
Texas
the
against
Congress
known, would vote in
annexation, if elected.
The old farmer voted,
HIS WISH was obeyed.
was carried home by his sons, and. the exertions
David Kelso was
of his journey caused his death.
elected to the Indiana state senate by a single
vote: Freeman Clark’s!
operations or dethe
of
fall
Destiny,” the life
in “Magnificent
and times of Pres. Andrew Jackson, by Paul
I. Wellman, published 1962 by Doubleday.
Thus, gratitude was a motive to Freeman Clark.
But even more impelling was the fact that he was
a long-time backer of Pres. Andrew Jackson, and
Kelso, running for the state senate, was a Jackson
man also.
which is defined as the diagnosis and treatment of
all medical diseases of the various organs and SsysIt
tems of the body, and of the body as a whole.
emphasizes exact diagnosis and non-surgical treatment.
the internist has
a farmer,
that
old
1844,
recounted
The candidate for whom the old man wished to
vote was David Kelso, who once had defended him
on a murder charge and obtained his acquittal.
An internist is a specialist in internal medicine, ~
In a way,
day
election
County.
area of Switzerland
farmer changed the course of our nation, as
lay
of Indiana
corner
southease
to the county seat, so that he could vote.
He also is NOT the doctor who does “internal examinations.” That man is usually a gynecologist.
liver babies.
the backwoods
Clark,
IS an internist? What does he do?
Unlike other medical specialists, such as the
surgeon, obstetrician, or pediatrician, the internist
often seems like the mystery man of medicine. Few
people are able to describe his field of interest and
activity, although the most frequent misconception
is that he is a doctor who is “Just learning.” The
young man who is “just learning” is an “intern”’—
not an internist. “
extreme
THE
On
Wy
The internist does not perform
One vote can make all the difference. For
example, the one vote of a dying Indiana
|
Court
would
of the
legislatures
submit this
create
Union.
a
If enough
state
must
Congress
approve,
one also.
The Court of the Union would be
composed of the 50 chief justices of
the state supreme courts. A bare ma-
jority of them could decide that any
issue
the
before
Court
Supreme
U.S.
is a matter affecting the states. This
an
such
Supreme
itself.
take
could
majority
bare
from the U.S.
issue away
Court, and decide the case
This
might
take — jurisdiction
away from the U.S. Supreme Court
in many more vital areas than would
seem obvious, since the Court of the
Union
itself would
decide what’s a
state matter. The plaintiffs would be
allowed both to define the issues and
settle the suit, in other words.
This has been called the two-headed monster amendment;
for opponents say it would create a two-headed
monster
at
the
summit
tional judiciary. It
many matters away
U.S.
Supreme
Court
of
the
na-
as to leave
the
would snatch so
from the present
Another ODDUS proposal has been
around for years. This is the one that
would abolish all federal income, in-
latter
at the same time compel the US.
by forced sale to get rid of all properties and activities not specifically
mentioned in the U.S. constitution—
i.e., to go into bankrupty.
could become a. disunion, little more
than a quarreling congery of wouldbe sovereign entities, like the original
states under the Articles of Confederation.
The first provision would deprive
it of more than $40 billions. yearly
income, or the cost of national defense. The second would require the
sale at panic prices of hundreds of
billions of dollars worth of the nation’s property, since only a short
time would be given for disposal.
The
-heritance
and
gift taxes, and
would
Included would be all public works
dike TVA and the vast Western reCa
ma
na
Pa
e
th
m,
ra
og
pr
n
io
at
clam
s,
rk
pa
s,
st
re
fo
al
on
ti
na
us
pl
,
c.
et
l,
na
n
io
ll
bi
a
of
ne
tu
e
th
to
,
ds
an
el
rang
e
th
of
s
er
ck
Ba
c.
et
,
ys
wa
gh
acres; hi
0
70
on
es
ey
r
ei
th
ve
ha
amendment
specific federal properties.
How
to feast
Wealth
the
on
buzzards
a dying
would
would
American
gather
eagle!
more
concentrate
ra-
pidly than ever, and small business
and an economically independent cit-.
izenry
would
be
smothered.
. This amendment is also pending in
state
legislatures,
and
its
backers
The
like
a mere
hollow
great
federal
effect.
the
shell.
previous
of
perilous weakening
union in
this
ones,
effect
amendment,
would
of the US.
be
a
itself
—beginning
with
the
fights
over
these amendments themselv
— es
and
in the face of a world that is only
waiting for any sign of U'S. faltering,
to shove us off the hill.
The ODDUS
amendments are already before many state legislatures.
One danger is that these bodies often
pass meaningless resolutions almost
automatically
resolutions
to
then
satisfy
filed
and
members—
forgotten.
But
these
new
ones
are different.
They use federal constitutional pro-
visions to attack the federal constitution. Congress must submit these
proposals, if enough states ask it.
Actually, a fourth proposed
ment
would
permit
states
amend-
to submit
constitutional
amendments
themselves by two-thirds vote, by-passing
Congress entirely. All in all, the
ODDUS people are having a field day.
These excerpts from Guy Nunn’s
‘Eye Opener’ interview of Langston Hughes
in recognition
are published by Solidarity
of Negro History Week, Feb. 10-16
will not come
Democracy
Through
I have
compromise
as much
and
today, this year, or ever,
fear.
right as the other fellow has
To stand on my two feet and own
I tire so of hearing people say,
the land.
“Let things take their course, Tomorrow is another
day. 9
I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
Freedom is a strong seed,
Planted in the great need,
I live here, too,
I want freedom, just as you.
Hughes
—Langston
Will Keep Protesting
Poet Hughes Says Negroes
Have Lost Fear
Youth
Of White Police, Klan
Brutality, Says Writer
We now face the prospect that some
NON:
millions of Negro children can grow up over
the next couple of decades in relatively desegregated social circumstances. I wanted to ask you yet at
about what age based upon your own experience
does the fact of being a Negro become significant |
to a Negro child?
Well, I can only speak in the light of
FIUGHES:
my own growing up. And I was quite conscious
of being colored from the time that I was conscious of anything. I was born in Missouri, but I
grew up in Kansas, which is certainly not a South- :
o
theater
picture
motion
one
had
We
Lawrence, and one day I put my nickel] down,
those days it cost only a nickel — imagine —
in the
back
way
in
in
to
theaters
The
tirely,
movies,
and
you
to draw
decided
couldn’t
any
in Lawrence
go
more.
to
the
the
color line
theater,
of
chancellor
university
the
told me that they had succeeded
at
that
could get
people.
So
the
them,
en-
the
theaters,
to open
it up
that
fearing
time
New
Illinois
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Chicago
Indiana
Anderson
Maryland
1963
—
Kansas City
St. Louis
New Jersey
Newark
Trenton
New York —
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Ohio
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Pennsylvania
Pottstown
oh
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of
the
trades.
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Time.
K.C.
There’s come about almost a kind of desperation,
I mean a kind of feeling of, ‘If I have to fight in
Korea, why don’t I fight in Mississippi?—see what
I mean—among the younger Negroes. So I’m going
to be drafted in the army to protect the Berlin
Wall from going up, why don’t I break down the
:
wall of segregation here?
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I have recently been at several Negro campuses
in the South, not this year but last year and the
year before. Among the youngsters there is absolutely no fear any more.
In Atlanta, for example, a couple of winters ago
the drugstore across from the Atlanta University
The post office
campus was a student hangout.
was there and they would run over between classes
to get
thing.
A.M.
P.M.
and
coffee
or a hot
donuts
or some-
dog
The day that I was there the Atlanta police force,
two squad cars, drove up to this drugstore with
police dogs because the students had put out this
manifesto of student rights and such, rushed into
the campus and said, no loitering here. It’s against
the law to loiter. Get out. Not a student got out.
THEY wanted to sic one of the dogs on a student and the student said, “If you sic that
dog on me [’ll kick the dog in its teeth...” Well
they didn’t sic the dog on him; the police withdrew.
The students and faculty immediately got together and they went down to see the mayor and
asked what right police had to invade a student
drugstore lunchroom, and order everybody out that
had been going there for years, and so on.
The
was
mayor
most
and
his police
afraid.
Ten
now
developed
this
%
%
are
kids
yet
it was
to treat
courtesy they treated others.
Negroes with the same
see, the
apologetic
requested
not his doing, he had
You
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things like in the south where segregation is hard
and fast and legal, but enough to make you know
that you are definitely in a social minority in
America.
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difficulty in the
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Baltimore
Michigan
Detroit
Flint
Grand Rapids
Muskegon
learned to swim due to segregation, you see?
And all these kinds of little things any child in
any American city who is colored, I think, picks
up very early—the fact that being colored makes
you subject to different kinds of conditions, you
know. They may be little, minor things, not major
Page
Britain
Waterbury
then
UNS: We've had a very heavy drift of population
both Negro and white out of the South into
some
Station
Connecticut
ming test in order to pass your Freshman year
or
six
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cou
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kid
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and
eight times. I couldn’t make it once. I just hadn’t
a
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Los Angeles
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grades, in Lawrence, the kids were taught swimg
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dropped the colors bars, and now it seems that
colored people can sit anywhere in the theaters in
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Lawrence.
’
training
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towns-
competition,
Oh, yes. Of course I would, and that
My feeling is that they wi]] continue. My
feeling is that the younger Negroes of the South
are no longer afraid, that there was for a long
time this fear of physical brutality of the Ku
Klux Klan, of police brutality.
North?
The schools don’t train them, the employers
often times can’t hire them on account of union
regulations . ,. . their incomes might be much
higher if they were in some of the skilled trades,
you know. It’s partially a problem of unions.
in breaking
to the
HUGHES:
applicants.
circle.
pictures before the other theaters
and
Negro
Some of the industrial trade high schools have
almost no Negro students and they’re not enThe Principal, if I remember
couraged to go.
correctly, in one of the Chicago schools, said: well,
we can’t guarantee the Negro kids jobs because
many of the building trades unions have this
It’s very difficult to get
colored line, you see.
in, so they don’t take welding, for example, because the welders won’t admit them to work after
they graduate. You, see? So it’s kind of a vicious
down this color bar in the motion picture theaters
in Lawrence, (I think there are three there now),
by threatening to build a first-class motion picture
theater on the University of Kansas campus to get
first-run motion
the
apprenticeship
color.
THE
be
fact that there has been so much
Out there a few years ago, they were fighting
this old battle of segregation in theaters, because
Negroes could only sit in the balcony. Negroes,
Orientals.
And the University of Kansas tipped the battle
off, because they had many African students comSegregation was being there, Indian students.
coming quite a problem for the university students
of
to
seem
is one of the problems I think that has been
brought to the fore recently by the NAACP—the
admitted.”
not
in
P{UGHEs:
At any rate, one day I put my nickel down, and
cashier—and she
the lady pushed it back—the
pointed to a little sign in the box-office which said,
“Negroes
there
than
children
of Rudolph
days
Do you feel that these forms of protest, organized and pinpointed protest, are going to be a part
of the pattern of American Life in the South until
there is something approaching full equality, or
is it just something that is likely to subside in the
next few years?
Would you see the need of a lot more or a greatly
improved form of vocational guidance for Negro
go to a motion picture theater—in the early days
of Pearl White, you know, and the early days of
Charlie Chaplin,
Valentino.
HUGHES:
Well, I think the outflow of population is an economic thing. I mean, people come
looking for jobs which they don’t have in the
South, the South not being an industrial area to
any extent. The reason why you’ve had such a
large inflow of Negroes into Detroit and Chicago
and Los Angeles is because of the job opportunities
‘there.
I don’t really think that the freedom struggle
in the South will change that very much. If we
have an industrial upsurge and Negroes find out
that better paying jobs are available in the North,
they will leave Alabama and Mississippi to get
Laue Jobs.
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But as a very small child, I remember my Grandmother used to give me a nickel to go to the
movies.
NON : We've seen in the past severa] years, Mr.
Hughes, a tremendous acceleration in such movements as the Freedom Riders and similar demamongst the
onstrations in the South, ey
young people.
NUNN:
Speaking of jobs, Mr. Hughes, in some fields
apparently there is considerably more oppor-
state.
It’s a midwestern
ern state.
a
the northern urban centers in the past couples of
You’ve described a fundamental change
decades.
in Negro morale in the South; do you feel that
this determination to stay there and fight it out
may arrest the outflow of population?
not
years
ago
they might have left the drugstore, they might
have obeyed the police, they might have been
They just don’t care any
frightened by them.
more. And since they don’t care any more and
since
they
have
Freedom
Riders’ movement, the protest movement, all over
the South and places. where I never thought I
would see it develop—in Jackson, Mississippi for
example—I think it’s going to continue and grow
and become stronger and bigger and better.
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Mr. Hughes, we’re very grateful for your
NUNN:
patience with this. I’m afraid we’ve kept you
Could
longer than you reajly could have stayed.
we close with a reading?
UGHES: Well, I’ll read to you one of my older
and better-known poems, which expresses much
of what I’ve been trying to say here this afternoon,
a poem called, “I, Too.”
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I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes.
But I laugh, and eat well, and grow. strong.
“Tomorrow,
comes.
I'll be
at the
table
when
company
me, “Eat in the kitchen,”
Nobody’ll dare say
then.
Besides, they’ll see how beautiful I am, and be
ashamed.
I, too, am America.
McNamara Investigates:
Swindlers Prey
On Elder Citizens
If you
you
are
target
are
lined
over
in the
swindlers
and
up
chances
65, the
are
as a “sitting-duck”
sights
army
of an
of
quacks.
Evidence collected by the Senate’s
Special Committee on Aging, during
three days of hearings last month in
Washington,
chaired
by
Sen. Pat
McNamara (D., Mich.), showed
that
elderly persons are the favorite targets
for crooks and shady hucksters for
several good reasons:
Senior citizens have intensified fears
which swindlers can exploit — fear
of ill health, fear of disability, fear
of poverty,
Older
fear of death.
people
may
have
a
fairly
good sum of ready cash, perhaps the
painful accumulation of a lifetime of
saving, or of paying into real estate
or insurance.
THE
auto
Retired
people
are often
lonely,
searching for assurance and human
companionship; sometimes not as well
informed as they used to be of the
shenanigans, which
money-hungry
sharpsters
pull;
sometimes
not
as
sharp as they used to be in detecting
the phonies.
It all added up to revelations of
some pretty fantastic schemes for separating
older
people
from
their
money,
to the
tune
of
some $2
billion a year, the Senate special committee estimated. .
Worst of all; the money stolen from
the elderly often reduces them to
poverty. The cannot replace the lost
money — most people never earn another dollar after they retire.
And, some
swindles
amount
to
murder. Desperately seeking to avoid
or ease the sicknesses which can come
with old age, our elders will rely on
nostrums and “remedies” which remedy nothing, may delay real help or
even hurt or kill their victims.
Fraud schemes of every variety were
described to the committee in testimony and by letters from the victims,
such as:
@ Lifetime
dancing
lessons,
for
which a 79-year-old widow paid more
than $8,000.
@
Phony
advertisements
for
habitable “retirement havens”
Arizona deserts.
unin-
in
the
e@ “Vitamin and mineral” tablets,
sold by door-to-door salesmen at 100
times
their value
as a_ protection
against
heart
trouble,
rheumatism,
impotency,
senility and “premature
death.” The product was merely a food
supplement and didn’t protect against
anything, Federal drug officials reported — although you could say, at
least, the product didn’t hurt anybody.
@ Eyeglasses available by mail
$3.95, worth no more than 25c.
for
@ An expensive electronic device -ts
backers claimed could detect cancer,
arthritis, heart trouble and kidney
disordérs. All it really detected was
perspiration on the patient’s skin. -
@ Phony work - at - home schemes,
stock swindles of all kinds, con men
posing as Social Security “helpers” to
gain admittance to the homes of retired persons — a sordid, pitiful tangle of deceit and heartbreak.
The Senate committee is trying to
learn what legislation might be needed
to beat back the swindling horde.
But, as federal officials warned, laws
alone cannot protect the
the swindlers. New laws
elderly from
may bolster
the present inadequate protection and
may help get fake drugs off the market and phony schemes out of advertising and the mails. But self-protection is still the only really workable
defense.
Unions are mobilizing their resources
to defend their retired members. Retired UAW
members
are being in-
formed by their local unions or plant
committees of their rights, and are
being urged to consult union advisors
before making any important moves.
Consumer education, say UAW officials, is the key to the struggle. Retired workers will avoid some of the
worst onslaught of the swindlers if
they read their union papers, keep informed, and know where to turn for
guidance when it is needed.
ing program. The UAW grant was made from the union’s
International Free World Labor Defense Fund established
at the last UAW Convention by diverting the interest
from UAW’s strike fund to projects which will contribute
to the strengthening of free trade unions, democratic institutions and the improvement of the standard of living
of people throughout the world.
FIRST 16 of 20 young Arabs receiving training as
mechanics under a UAW grant are learning skills
at the United Nations’ vocational training center at Kal-—
andia in Jordan near Jerusalem (inset). The union’s International Executive Board had donated $10,000 to the
UN Relief and Works Agency to provide scholarships to
young Palestinian Arab refugees for the vocational train-
Ford Foundation Grants $200,000
To Assist ILO Institute for Labor
GENEVA
(ILO News)—A grant of
$200,000 from the Ford Foundation of
the United States to the International
ILO’s
for
Organization
Labor
Institute
International
the
for
Labor was announced here by David
A. Morse, Director General of the International
Labor
Office.
The grant will be made over a twoyear period to enable the Institute
international
additional
hold
“to
training courses and to conduct spe-
cial research on labor-management
problems in developing countries.”
Hilary A. Marquand, Director of the
Institute, said the grant would have
a very positive effect on the Institute’s expanding activities. The Inbe
now
undoubtedly
stitute would
able to hold two study courses in
1964 instead of one only, as in 1962
contemplate the
and 1963, and to
holding of regional study courses.
It was also proposed to organize a
research conference on industrial relations and economic development in
1964, with expert participation from
countries at various stages of development, as well as to proceed with
other research projects in the field of
which
problems
labor-management
were in an advanced state of preparation.
for
Institute
International
The
Labor Studies was set up in March
1960 by a unanimous decision of the
ILO Governing Body. Its purpose is to
of
further a better understanding
labor problems in all countries and of
for their _ solution,
methods
the
through educational courses for per~
sons with responsibility in the formurelation of labor policy, through
and
conferences,
study
or
search
of informadissemination
through
tion.
The Institute’s first course, held in
Geneva from September 17 to December 7, 1962, was attended by 29 participants selected from 28 countries.
These were persons who had already
Social Security
Staffer Named
UAW President Walter P. Reuther
has announced the appointment of
Ted Goldberg as a program consultant on insurance and medical care
in the union’s Social Security Department.
3
For the past. eight years, Goldberg
was assistant research director in the
Canadian national office of the Steelworkers Union in Toronto. In that
capacity, he helped to establish the
USW
health
center at
Sault
Ste.
Marie, Ont., now under contruction.
Goldberg has also been an instructor at the Universities of Toronto
and Buffalo, N.Y.
He is a native of Buffalo, married
and
the
father
of two.
acquired a certain experience in labor
problems and who were likely to rise
to position of greater responsibility in
the years to come. They were drawn
from mangament, trade unions, government service, universities and the
professions.
The Institute’s program for 1963 includes:
@ A seminar on Problems of Plan-
ning
the
Labor
Force
and
its.
Em-
ployment,
with
the
to
be
Institute
ning, Cairo.
;
@A round-table
organized
of
National
fointly
Plan<«
conference
of
Ministers from African countries who
will be in Geneva
in collaboration
with the International Economic As~«
sociation.
|
The Institute’s second study course
will be held from Sept. 16 to Dec. 6,
1963.
State Legislature Group
Wars on Supreme Court
(Read “The ODDUS People,” Page 14)
With little fanfare to alert the public, a major national organization of
state legislators has declared war on
the
U.S.
Supreme
Court.
It
has
ene
a three-pronged campaign
0:
1. Create a super court, or “Court
of the Union,” made up of chief justices of state supreme courts, with
power to over-rule U.S. Supreme Court
decisions involving states’ rights;
2. Reverse the Supreme Court decision in the Tennessee reapportionment
case by declaring federal courts have
no authority to rule on arguments
concerning apportionment of seats in
a state legislature; and
3. Give state legislatures more power
in amending the U.S. Constitution.
The campaign was formulated, and
is being waged, by the potent General
Assembly of States, comprised of legislators from the 50 states. The organization apparently is under ultraconservative domination.
Already, senates in at least two
states have approved one or more of
the three resolutions. Goal of the
General Assembly is to have them introduced in all 50 states.
Each of the three proposals is loaded
with dynamite. The first would sabotage the authority of the Supreme
Court
in
almost
sues, notably
all
school
controversial
desegration.
is-.
The
second would destroy whatever potential gains may result from the historic reapportionment decision of last
spring, and would commit most state
to a horse-and-buggy
governments
status by perpetuating rural domination.
3
The third would practically assure
state control of constitutional amendments. Presently, amendments must
be proposed either by a two-thirds
vote of Congress or by a national convention called by Congress at request
of two-thirds of the states. Amendments then must be approved for final
the
of
three-fourths
by
adoption
states either through state legislatures or state conventions.
February,
The General Assembly of the States
wants to change this to by-pass Cone
gress or a national convention any
time two-thirds
the
same
This
of the states propose
amendment.
all sounds
very
|
technical,
but
in practice it could create havoc. One
example of what could happen: sev-
eral years ago two-thirds of the state
legislatures approved a resolution to
amend the U.S. Constitution by clamping a 25% limit on taxable income,
' obviously a windfall for the well-to-do,
Fortunately,
they
were
rebuffed
on
a legal technicality. But that proposal,
or something equally bizarre, could
well become law before anyone knew
what was happening if the present
resolution to by-pass Congress or a
national convention ever received ap‘-proval.
The fact that some state legislatures already have swallowed part of
the bait, that others probably will,
and that most will at least consider
the proposals indicates they can’t be
laughed off as too far-out to get anywhere. They’re already getting somewhere.
W hat’s Good for. .
Henry
Ford
II went
into
stately
Grosse
Pointe,
Mich.,
early
in
February to utter his latest classic remark:
“A businessman serves
the public interest best
when he tries to set his
prices at a level that will
best
contribute
to the
long - run
profitability
and growth
of his enterprise.”
In other words: what’s
good for Ford is good for
the nation.
1963—-UAW
SOLIDARITY—Page
17
| Anti-Labor Proposals
Mount in Congress
dealt
GROUP
PREPAID
HEALTH plans—such as
CHA in Detroit, HIP in
New York, and KaiserPermanente on the West
Coast — now guard the
of millions of
health
from birth
people
Golden
the
through
|
Years.
Group Health Plans
Show Fast Growth
practice
group
health plans.
How does such a
plan work?
fund
welfare
or an employer—
or without
with
employee contri-butions—pays pre
miums to buy medA
from
rectly
M.D.,
munity Health Association in Detroit,
the Health Insurance Plan of Greater
Foundation
Kaiser
New York, the
Health Plan on the west coast, or one
of the many other plans operating in
the United States.
third
one
About
of
the
paid
both
serving
large
numbers
of UAW
prepaid
other
150
over
members,
group health plans are in operation,
some sponsored by doctors, some by
cooperatives, many by labor unions.
In Detroit, CHA’ serves over 40,000
UAW members and their families as
well as a large number of non-UAW
workers. .Initiated and assisted by the UAW,
CHA is the newest and fastest grow-
ing of the prepayment group health
plans. In three years of operation, it
(2)
has attracted nearly 50,000 members.
complete
virtually
provides
CHA
care. Members choose their own family physicians and pediatricians from
the staff of specialists, are free to
when
the need
they
UAW
arises.
President Walter
P. Reuther is
numbers among its group minsters,
university professors, investment brokers, teachers, and social workers as
well as industrial. and business employees.
groups
scattered throughout
the New
York Metropolitan area.
The Kaiser Foundation Health Plan
on the West Coast presents a different type of organization, having near-
ly 20 of its own hospitals and over 40
medical group centers. Medical part-
not
use
of
,
personnel
and
prehensive, health services are proTypical exceptions are dental
vided.
care, mental health, prescriptions, and
:
cosmetic surgery.
Preventive medicine is stressed
(5)
Brindle, formerly
director of the UAW’s social security
Insurance
Health
the
department,
Plan of Greater. New York is an inand
non-profit
company,
surance
community sponsored, which provides
comprehensive. physician services to
its patients, as well as lab, x-ray, and
services to nonother therapeutic
hospitalized patients. It does this by
medical
30
over
with
contracting
practice
medical
Many group health plans give
the consumer a more vital role than
do most other: methods of medical
care organization. In some, the board
of directors may be elected by the
membership; in others representatives
of unions, churches, and the com- munity are involved in policy making.
Comprehensive, or nearly com(4)
CHA however is community-based and
by James
Group
(3)
chairman of CHA’s board of directors.
Headed
Among
and economic
equipment.
The family physicians and pediatricians are backed up by a large staff
which includes nearly all of the medi-
cal specialties.
health
only brings together conveniently all
of the specialists, nurses, and technicians which today make up the medical team, but encourages consistently
high quality care and at the same
time provides for the most efficient
wish, are hospitalized when necessary,
emergency
world-wide
receive
and
care
group
in nearly all the major plans in ope-
-
ration. It is argued that it is easier
on the patient and cheaper for the
plan if the patient is seen often
enough while he is well to enable the
doctor to catch in its early stages any
condition which might lead to illness
later on.
in comIdeally. enrollment
(6)
prehensive, prepayment group health
plans should be voluntary, according
to GHAA. The pattern which is emerging is the offering of two or more
qualifying plans (such as CHA and
Blue Cross-Blue Shield in Detroit, for
example)
groups.
age 18—-UAW SOLIDARITY, February, 1963
mostly by legis- |
hisanti-labor
per in this Congress,
long
lators having
‘tories.
Sen. John L. McClellan (D.-Ark.)—
any strike by
S. 287 would make
Federal
a
workers
transportation
crime unless it was by a single local
union acting alone or it had no sub-
or for-
on interstate
stantial
effect
Under
strikers,
transportation
plan,
the
or those aiding them, “shall
:
eign transportation.
be punished by a fine not exceeding
$50,000 or by imprisonment not ex- .
ceeding one year.” It would also open
unions to suits by carriers.
with
measure
the
Co-sponsoring
McClellan are Byrd (D. Va.), Goldwater (R. Ariz.), Bennett (R. Utah),
(D(D. Miss.), Robertson
Eastland
Va.), Curtis (R. Nebr.), Stennis (D.
Miss.) and Tower (R. Tex.).
A second McClellan bill, with almost
the same sponsors, S. 288, would outlaw all strikes at defense plants.
health
to
dition
plans, are labor uncooperatives,
ions,
credit unions, and several insurance
Sey
firms.
GHAA lists six basic principles as
guides for organizations and commun- |
ities which may be considering the
formation of a plan.
Through prepayment of basic
(1)
most
costs,
hospital
and
medical
GHAA-type plans have lowered the
major financial barriers to general
medical care. In addition, prepayment
means that the family which is covered by such a plan can budget its
health-medical-hospital costs over the .
months and years.
plans,
call on them for help whenever
direc-
member
supporting
organizations, in ad-
pelong to either HIP in New York or
the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan in
California and Oregon.
In addition to these two huge
executive
care plans.
million
4
result in legislation giving organized
labor a better break—or a worse one.
Following are some of the more extreme proposals dropped in the hop-
tor of the Community Health Association in Detroit, is an
association of pre-
services dias the Com-
ical
a plan such
ment are toying with action in the
emergency disputes area which could
nerships and staffs include nearly 700 —
full time doctors.
The plan provides virtually complete care to its subscribers—over
650,000 of them—in the San Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland areas.
The Kaiser plan arose out of an inhealth
dustry-sponsored war-time
the
At
plan for shipyard workers.
present time it provides health-medical-hospitalization benefits to UAW
members, Steelworkers, Retail Clerks,
and dozens of other union groups in
the West Coast area.
.
Group Health
The
Association of America, whose president
Mott,
is Frederick
Approximately 4 million people today get high-quality medical care—
and pay practically no doctor bills. —
These 4 million—a vast majority of
them union members, including the
get all or
UAW,
of their
most
care
medical:
prepaid
through
WASHINGTON (PAI)—Proposals to
impose harsh restrictions on the trade
union movement, introduced in the
still-young 88th Congress, are mounting.
Some may be merely going-through
on the part of some
the-motions
members of Congress to appease certain constituents or pressure groups
but many have a deadly serious ob:
jective.
in
duplications
are
there
While
some of the proposals, they cover a
wide range, including restrictions on
making
strikes; jailing of strikers;
labor a commodity by placing it unof
laws; outlawing
anti-trust
der
strikes in certain industries; nationwide so-called “right to work” laws;
loyalty oaths, etc.
-These are all being introduced bymembers who have traditionally fa| vored anti-labor legislation.
On the other hand, those who haves
long been friends of the labor move-
to members of participating _
Sen. Barry Goldwater (R. Ariz.)—
S. 87 is an omnibus bill which would
require balloting under Federal supervision before a strike can take place,
”
rk
wo
to
ht
ig
“r
al
on
ti
na
a
establish
law giving states the right to pass
union security legislation. It also outlaws the union shop entirely for un-
their
of
any
that’ spend
ions
dues
money for anything except collective
bargaining.
Sen. Everett McKinley Dirksen (R.
would
21
MH).—S.
the
end
right
to
strike for America’s “ocean-going seamen or officers.” Maritime labor disputes would be decided by government-appointed board, using compulsory arbitration.
Rep. Ralph J. Scott (D. N.C.),—H. R.
2426 would prohibit strikes by employees “in certain strategic defense
facilities.” The Secretary of Defense
would have power to name an emergency board which would issue “binding” decisions on “wage rates and
other conditions of employment—in
dispute.” H. R. 2428 would make it
jllegal for unions to act “in concert”
in strike action.
Rep. Walter Rogers (D. Tex.)—H. R.
122 would require loyalty declarations
from employees of Government suppliers and from labor organizations
representing employees of such sup-
pliers.
Rep. Bruce Alger (R. Tex.)— H. R.
264 would place workers and trade
unions in the category of a commodity so that “it shall be unlawful and
contrary to the public policy of the
United States for any labor organi-
zation
to
strike
or
engage
in
any
other course of action” to win benefits from employers if it restrains
trade.
Rep. David T. Martin (R. Neb.) —H.
labor-managemake
R 333 would
ment contracts, in effect, “an unreasonable restraint of trade or com-
merce”
and therefore
a monopoly
to
be declared illegal. Workers could apply economic pressure only by “leavfrom
themselves
or absenting
ing
their employer’s premises.” It would
make it unlawful to strike over work
rule issues.
Rep. James B. Utt (R. Calif.) —H. R.
2437 would amend the Judicial Code
on the anti-trust laws so that unions
that interfere with business would
be considered a monopoly and illegal.
Rep. Mendel L. Rivers (D. 8.C.)—H.
R. 1698 would amend the Railway La-
bor Act so as to authorize the President to establish a board to resolve
jurisdictional disputes in air transportation industry.
g
n
i
t
h
g
i
F
r
o
b
a
L
g
n
i
m
o
y
W
p
o
h
S
n
e
p
O
Compulsory
rwe
Po
—
)
AI
(P
o.
Wy
,
E
N
N
E
Y
E
H
C
in
es
rc
fo
or
ab
-l
ti
an
d
an
ss
ne
ful busi
Wyoming
campaign
labor
their
in
succeeding
are
to place the state’s tiny
working
the
and
movement
people generally, in a strait-jacket.
Both houses of the state legislaure have passed a compulsory open
“right-toso-called
bill—the
shop
work” law—and the expected signa-
ture of Republican Goy. Clifford P.
in
e
at
st
th
20
e
th
it
ke
ma
ll
wi
en
ns
Ha
the nation to have such repressive
legislation on the books.
The anti-labor measure passed the
Senate 16 to 11 and later the House
by 32 to 22. It was largely supported
in both houses with
minority and a few
by Republicans
the Democratic
Republicans opposing it.
The vote in the House brought a
record crowd of spectators and fol-
lowed three hours of bitter debate.
Rep. Walter B. Phelan (D. Laramie)
declared: “I want to tell you what it
(the bill) is—it is called a right to
work
piece
strong
law
of
but
damn
words
it
is
a
union-busting
legislation.
but
this
is
Those
a
are
strong
buy,”
- He added that the bill was taking
free choice away from workers rather
than giving it.
Rep.
Richard
A.
Forsegren
that
charged
Sweetwater)
a symbol
controls an
of
increasing government
“was not needed in Wy-
oming.”
in
newspapers
Several
tried to fan the anti-labor
state
the
flames by
l
ia
rs
ve
ro
nt
co
a
at
th
g
n
i
g
char
n,
se
en
st
ri
Ch
l
Va
,
an
ym
ir
da
e
nn
ye
he
‘C
he
if
t
ot
yc
bo
a
th
wi
ed
en
at
re
th
s
wa
did not withdraw his support for the
measure. He claims he lost 400 cusany
denied
leaders
Union
tomers.
threats of boycott, however.
The law as passed is directed at
‘poth the union shop and the agency
shop since it providees that “employment shall not be conditional upon
or non-membership in,
membership
nor upon the payment or non-payment of money to, a labor organization.”
In addition to the right-to-work
group, those most actively supporting the compulsory open shop law
the
and
contractors
building
were
Wyoming
Bureau
Farm
Federation.
HOP ON THE UNION LABEL
is BANDWAGON!
(D.
the
Wyoming Citizens for Right to Work,
Inec., prime backer of the bill, was
businessmen
of
entirely
composed.
are “concerned
and employers who
primarily with their own interests.”
of the speakers noted the
Many
labor-management
of good
history
relations in. the state but supporters
of the measure spoke of “abuses” by
labor.
Paul Shafto, president of the 15,000-member Wyoming AFL-CIO, declared after the vote that the bill is
ony
BUY UNION MADE PRODUCTS & SERVICES
JNION
LABEL
AND
SERVICE
TRADES
OFPT
| AFL
CIO
Is Narrowed
But Margin
Cloture Fails Again
WASHIN GTON—Racking up a majority vote,
Senate liberals came
closer this month to ending the filibuster than
ever
before.
But
they
were short of the twothirds vote they needed
to win.
The tally of 54 votes to
invoke cloture—a parliamentary
move
to end
filibusters
— and 42
against marked
the first
time a majority of Senators had gone on record
in favor of the move. A
total
of 67
votes
was
needed to carry the proposal.
The anti-filibuster acaction was considered a
key measure in advancing civil rights legislation in Congress. It was
strongly supported by
the UAW
and other labor
unions,
_
When
the
88th
Congress
convened
early last month, liberal forces in and
out of Congress were heartened
- by
the surprisingly easy victory the Administration scored in retaining the
15-man
House
Rules
Committee
which is calculated to give President
John
F. Kennedy’s
legislative program a better chance of reaching the
floor of the House of Representatives.
Over in the U.S. Senate chamber,
however,
a different situation pre:
sented itself.
Humphrey
The
Led Liberals
liberal
bi-partisan bloc in
Senate, led by Sen. Hubert
the
Humphrey,
to change
sought
had
(D.-Minn.)
Rule 22—which permits unlimited debate—to cut off debate by a simple
majority
voting.
of 51
Senators
present
and
During the Senate debate, liberal
forces outside
of Congress
held a
on Civil
Conference
Leadership
urged
and
Washington,
in
Rights
passage of the Senate majority rule
proposals.
Spokesmen for more than 50 nacivil
and
tional civic, labor, social
rights agencies, including the UAW,
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People and the
Anti-Defamation
League
of
B’nai
Brith, met in Washington Jan. 6-10
to press for the
ate debate rules.
Rule
21-Day
liberalizing
Sen-
of
Sought
While these groups hailed the retention of the 15-man House Rules
for
pushed
also
they
Committee,
which
rule
a 21-day
of
adoption
would enable bringing bills to the
the
by
if obstructed
floor
House
,
House Rules Committee.
They further asked for passage of a
rule designed to prevent
seven-day
House
stopping
the committee from
and Senate conference members from
considering
bills
passed
by
both
bodies, but in different forms.
That
the
hopes of
the
nation’s
liberals were not completely crushed
was evidenced in the remarks made
by UAW President Walter P. Reuther
in an address to the more than 300
delegates
attending
the
Leadership
Conference on Civil Rights.
Reuther
pointed
out
that
year’s vote of 235-196 to retain
15-man House Rules Committee
a marked
improvement
this
the
was
over the 87th
Congress’ slim margin of a 217-212
vote.
He asserted that while ‘the 53-42
forces
anti-filibuster
defeat of the
on a _ constitutional
Senate
in the
question was deplorable, the fact reof
restoration
the_
that
mained
majority rule in the Senate remained
the key issue and the fight to correct
the injustices of the filibuster would
continue unabated.
Votes
More
Than
on
CONFERENCE
LEADERSHIP
in Washington,
held
civil rights,
D.C., during the Senate debate on
some
together
Rule 22, brought
of the nation’s strongest voices in
the civil rights and civil liberties
fields. Shown above, addressing one
of the conference sessions, is Rep.
Seated
Chet Hollifield, (D.-Calif.).
Doubled
“During the 83rd Congress, antifilibuster forces could muster only a
mere 21 votes to limit Senate debate,”
Reuther
reminded
the _ delegates.
“Now, 10 years iater we have had as
many as 49 Senators voting to limit
debate.”
On the surface, at least, the Sen~
ate’s decision by a 53-42 vote to table
debate on Senate rules changes centered around the age-old question of
whether the U.S. Senate is a continuing body from session to session and
bound by the same rules, or whether
it had the Constitutional right “to
terminate debate at the beginning of
a new session and proceed to an im-
mediate vote on a rule change notwithstanding the provision of existing
Senate rules.”
Beneath the surface, however, is a
powerful political coalition of Senate
GOP
conservatives
and
Southern
Democrats united in an unholy alli-
ance to prevent civil rights and liberal
social
from
and
economic
becoming
the
regardless of whether
majority is. thwarted.
And
the
law
the
contention
of
of
legislation
the
will of
this
land
the
group
that it was the intent of the nation’s
founding fathers to provide “an embattled
minority”
in the Senate
a
means — the filibuster — to keep
from being beaten down by a major“emotional
in the
up
caught
ity
passions of the moment” has a hollow ring indeed when one considers
the countless times this group has
used the filibuster to beat down civil
almost
rights and. social legislation
exclusively.
Lawmaking
Has
Suffered
In past Congressional
sessions it
has
become
increasingly
apparent
that even
aside
from
purely
civil
rights legislation, the nation’s lawmaking processes have suffered as a
result of the filibuster directly or its
threatened use.
“unarticulated
the
Seemingly,
Wage
Minimum
WASHINGTON
(PAI)—The old, old
Chamber of Commerce cry that minimum
wages destroy jobs once more
has been refuted by the facts.
The Labor Department in a report
to Congress on the impact of the
1961 increase in the minimum wage,
says that the boost not only did not
have a harmful effect upon the nationwide level of employment in the
industries concerned, but employment
in those. industries has risen.
3.6 Million
In
1961
000,000
Upped
to $1
the minimum
workers
was
wage
increased
for 24,from
$1 an hour to $1.15..An additional
3,600,000 workers, principally in the
retail
and
construction
industries,
were
brought
under
the
minimum
wage system at a minimum rate of
$1 an hour. As a result, more than
2,000,000
low-paid
workers. received
wage
increases which
added up to
more than half a billion dollars a
year.
The
effects
of
these increases
have
been carefully watched by the De‘partment
of Labor,”
Secretary
W.
“Two
told Congress.
Wirtz
Willard
the
from
emerge
clear conclusions
studies so far made. First, the 1961
minimum wage increase had no dis-
at the speakers’
of the UAW fair practices and antidiscrimination Department; Joseph
associate counsel and
Rauh, UAW
prominent Washington civil rights
and civil liberties lawyer and Andrew Biemiller, director, AFL-CIO
(partially
department
legislative
SecreExecutive
. hidden). NAACP
table to Hollifield’s
Clarence
right are, left to right,
Mitchell, executive director, Wash‘ington branch, National Association
Colored
of
for the Advancement
People; Roy Reuther, director, UAW
department;
citizenship-legislative
William H. Oliver, co-director with
UAW President Walter P. Reuther
premise” of a _ possible filihas led many lawmakers to
major
buster
limit or dilute the substance of sponsored bills on the assumption that a
weak bill will not run so great a risk
of being filibustered to death—parit deals with those
ticularly when
social and economic issues vital to
the welfare of that segment of the
nation’s
strong,
tion.
citizens
positive,
in
most
meaningful
need
of
legisla-
Delegates to the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights came to grips
with the realities of the situation en-
gendered
22.
Delegates
in1 the Senate
Not
fight On Rule
Discouraged
conference
set-back,
the
Despite
leaders and delegates were not disthe
to renew
vowed
and
couraged
struggle for majority justice in the
U.S. Senate with increased vigor, said
William H. Oliver, co-director of the
Anti-Disand
Practices
UAW Fair
crimination Department.
participants
conference
Among
were Roy Wilkins, executive secretary, National Association for the Adand
People
of Colored
vancement
Joseph
and
president
conference
Rauh, Jr., distinguished civil rights
and civil liberties attorney.
Proves
Itself
Again
cernible effects on average wages in
the economy generally. There is no
indication that these increases produced any general upward pressure
on the wage structure.
“Second, the 1961 minimum wage
increases had no discernible effect
on the nationwide level of employment in the industries affected. On
an overall basis employment has risen
in these industries.”
The study pointed out, for example,
that about one-fourth of the factory
non-metropolitan
the
in
workers
to.
increases
wage
received
South
bring their earnings up to the $1.15
inemployment
factory
yet
level,
during the period
ereased by 14%
7
involved.
Communities
Benefitted
“On balance,’ the Labor Department report said, “the data lead to
the conclusion that the changes in
the law which became effective on
substantial
brought
1961,
3,
Sept.
benefits to low paid workers in many
areas of the country, and that the
increases in their incomes and purchasing power had beneficial effects
in
the
communities.
AgencyShop
Ruling Due
WASHINGTON — The whole problem of the “agency shop” as a means
of eliminating “free loaders” without
forcing them to join a union in order
to hold their jobs.is now before the
Supreme Court.
The case hinges on a ruling by the
NLRB that General Motors was guilty
of an unfair labor practice in refusing
to negotiate with the UAW
on an
agency
shop
clause.
This
clause
called for payment by GM workers of
union initiation fees and dues even
though they do not have to join the
union.
AFL-CIO
Defends
Legality
The AFL-CIO in briefs to the Court
of the
the legality
defended
has
agency shop in “right-to-work” as
well as non-“right-to-work” states. It
is receiving partial support from the
National Labor Relations Board, which
of the
the principle
is supporting
agency shop but has hedged on the
kind of payments.
Both the AFL-CIO and NLRB
briefs
are in full accord on the point that
there is nothing in Taft-Hartley that
would bar the agency shop in non“right-to-work” states despite a ruling by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Detroit that the agency shop
need not be negotiated.
and the
The AFL-CIO, the UAW
“agency
that the
all argue
NLRB
shop” is a “lesser” form of union security than the union shop and so
cannot be barred by Taft-Hartley,
which permits the union shop except
in “right-to-work” states.
T-H
No
Bar to ‘Fees’
The AFL-CIO also has contended
that the “agency shop” is legal even
in “right-to-work” states on similar
grounds. It held in a separate Florida
case that while Section 14-b of Taft-
Hartley
authorizes
states
to
forbid
“compulsory membership” in a union,
it does not authorize the states to bar
“the mere obligation to pay non-disfor
fees”
nonexcessive
criminatory,
representation in bargaining, in arand similar
bitration of grievances
union activities.
Without arguing the Florida case
case,
GM-UAW
in its brief on the
the NLRB raises the question of the
character of payments made under
an “agency shop” clause.
It makes a distinction between a
“service fee’ which would be strictly
held to collective bargaining services,
and the payment of full dues.
February, 1963, UAW
19
SOLIDARITY—Page
tk
Weve
On the
March,
Walter
Reuther
Tells
Press
With
him,
as he
announced
1UD’s
organizing plans, were Jacob Clayman, at right, administrative assist-
ant; Jack Conway, executive assisttant (see story bottom of page),
and Nick Zonarich, left, organizational
IUD treasury and another $1 million is
The
being contributed by the UAW.
remainder will be paid by participating
unions,
through
contributions
commensurate with their resources.
The IUD hopes the success of its. coordinated drives will get the parent
labor body, the AFL-CIO, to initiate
its own campaigns.
Reuther said the program, if successful, could get organized labor off
-dead center in “this important task
of organizing the unorganized.”
a shoulder-to-shoulder drive.
Squabbles
in
Department
Washington
early
of
the
this
month.
The plan is simple but
participating unions will
bold: The
contribute
on
predeter-
and will direct
organizers and money
Of Jurisdiction
AFL-CIO,
these
mined
To
which
joint resources
targets.
avoid
the
jurisdictional
have plagued
disputes
the labor move-
ment for years, policies and decisions
will be made in advance by all par-
ticipating
leadership,
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as
to
targets
Reuther explained.
and
Reuther, who is also president of
IUD, announced appointment of Conway as his executive assistant,
appointment,
the
In announcing
Reuther made the following statement:
,
20—UAW
“Mr. Conway brings to this newly
ereated executive position a wealth >
of experience in the broad fields of
labor and government and I am conhe
fident
ably
in
will
contribute
strengthening
immeasur-
the
work of the Industrial Union
over-all
Depart-
the _ services
broadening
and
ment
the department provides its 60 affili/
ated organizations.
“Mr, Conway’s
important
SOLIDARITY—February,
From this latter committee, the IUD
president will select a small represteering comoperational
sentative
mittee to work with the IUD director
by
mittee
at
a
IUD
the
Com-
Executive
subsequent
of organization, who will supervise
the day-by-day operation of the proeram.
meeting
in
Washington Jan. 15, 1963.
‘An expenditure of $4 million over
the next 18 months has been author-
- ized to finance the drive.
dollars
of
this
will
come
In each
a coordinated
drive is undertaken, there will be an
area
coordinating
committee
composed of a representative of each participating union.
One million
from
area in which
the
UveUnecteevevcuieeugnuicte escent
Jack Conway Comes Back
Jack Conway, administrative assistant to UAW President Walter P. Reuther from 1946 until early 1961, when
he became deputy administrator of
the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency, has been named to a
key spot in the AFL-CIO Industrial
Union Department.
Page
unions
this
the .
and
the.
very
meeting
held in Washington,
D.C.,
last Dec. 12. A detailed program, prepared and submitted by Reuther, was
adopted
a coordinator
The Executive Committee of the
IUD will serve as over-all organizational policy committee for purposes
There will be an
of the program.
operational committee in which each
participating affiliate will have representation.
by the
regular
The drive was authorized
IUD Executive Board in a
supply
1963
decision to leave an
government
post
to
join
to the Labor Movement
Assistant from the time I assumed
the presidency of UAW in 1946 until
early 1961, when he became Deputy
the Industrial Union Department was
In response to the challenging new
opportunities
for
meaningful
and
constructive work provided
prehensive
organizational
intensified
effective
legislative
with
liaison
Administrator
by a comdrive, an
Home
more
program,
UAW,
Conway,
served
as
a
government
my
member
of
the
Administrative
Finance
of
the
Agency.
Housing
and
“The Industrial Union Department
Mr.
in securing
fortunate
is most
agencies and other expanded activities recently authorized by the unanimous action of the Executive Board
of the Industrial Union Department.
“Mr.
UUUNUU TANNA
On
Union
Walter P.
Industrial
will
In addition to area coordinated organizing projects, the IUD will undertake drives in four industrial groupings. These are: Furniture, wood and
related industries;
office, technical,
professional, and public employees;
textile; and DuPont.
explained,
Reuther
problem,
The
“has never been the workers. It has
always been in the leadership of the
labor movement. I think the leaderand abship was so bogged down
sorbed with little things that they
never got on with the task of dealing with the big things.
“There is every indication that
can be changed, and I think what
AFL-CIO is doing in Los Angeles,
what the IUD is going to do on
front, marks a
- organizational
important change in attitude.”
IUD
who will be in charge of each area
project, and participating affiliates
will supply the necessary organizers.
Refusal of any IUD affiliate to participate will not deny the right of
other affiliates to advance any coordinated drive.
He said there had been a “lack of
will on the part of the leadership of
to get
the whole labor movement”
moving on the organizing front, adding, “I include myself in that.”
"THE INDUSTRIAL unions of the US.
and Canada are turning their backs
are
and
disputes
jurisdictional
on
of
benefits
the
bring
to
seeking
unionism to unorganized. workers in
This was the pledge of
Reuther,. president of the
The
Conway for this post. His competence
|
and broad administrative experience
will be most helpful in carrying out
the over-all responsibilities of coordinating IUD activities.”
j
9
front.”
Industrial Unions Demand
IUD Turns Back
IUD already has pilot projects in the
Carolina
South
and
Philadelphia
broadened
are being
These
areas.
Into major projects.
x
Organize the Unorganized:
“We merely are trying to mobilize
the labor movement so we can get
on the march on the organizational
Five areas have been selected for
coordinated organizing drives. These
are: The Greater Boston area ,Greater
Chicago area, Greater Philadelphia
area, South Carolina area, and the
Houston-Dallas-Ft. Worth area. The
rey,
‘Mo bil ize Labor Movement,
“Tf they do,” Reuther said, “if they
apply it to any area where the IUD
has already launched such a _ drive,
we will then substitute our drive for
theirs and become a part of the AFLCIO drive, because we’re not trying to
compete.
director.
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