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1963-09-01
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Vol. 6 No. 9
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Vol. 6
No. 9
Sept.
1963
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Region
1-A
co-director
Joe
McCusker
announces
their victory to Burroughs
workers.
We Win a Big One —
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UAW
—See Page 3
Auto, Aerospace Profits Up,
But Jobs Keep Going Down
—See
Page 4
TOP Council To Look
At White-Collar Problems
—See
Page 5
OFFICIAL
PUBLICATION,
International
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attached
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Automobile,
Aerospace
and
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Table
COURSES for the UAW Leadership Training
Center are discussed by UAW Vice President
Leonard Woodcock (left), Brendan Sexton, director of the Center, and William Goode of
Union News
Big Win
Chrysler
the Center's staff. Willoughby Abner, on an
out-of-town assignment when
picture was
taken, is assistant director of the Center.
UAW Inaugurates First Full-Time
Labor Leadership Training School
for
first
leadership
union
started
training
staff
this
full-time
month
members
by
was
UAW.
The forward-looking education
venture,
Leadership
authorized
known
as
In
gram,
Its purpose is
staff members
cultivate
and
maintain
the highest level of competence
in their jobs.”
The new school’s program will
include
tutes
and
both
residential
continuing
seminars for all UAW
insti-
to
three
the
in a remodeled
ing
at
adjoining
8000
troit,
ment
East
Center,
housed
Solidarity
House
will cover
subjects,
philosophy
istration
of
and
techniques,
ization,
and
the
ave.,
off
De-
addition,
operate
a
program
the
continuing
covering
members
to
young
work
for
the
in specialized
Ford
base,
admitting
cited
a
to
subjects
Ford
sion’s
plans
short-term
fourth
this
quarter
lems,
foreign
national
policy
affairs,
courses.
ter
economic
and
in-
prob-
vary
in
depart-
Wayne
year
call
said
that,
the
auto
press
‘one
Greathouse
will deliver
WAETER
TOTAL
June,
INCOME
FOR
STRIKE
1963
FOR
.
JULY,
education
State
the
U.S.
of
last
of
Vice
year,”
year
the
was
last
International Executive Board
Members
Charles Ballard
Harvey Kitzman
Ken Bannon
Joseph McCusker
Nelson
Douglas
Bannon
of
is
by cirat the
Editor
FUND
JULY,
ASSETS
eure
1963.
TOTAL TO ACCOUNT FOR
DISBURSEMENTS IN JULY,
TOTAL
--$55,571,081.26
1,507,606.75
July,
inconsiderate
overtime,”
FUND
INCOME FOR AUGUS
$57,078,688.01
1963......
117,225.22
TOTAL RESOURCES,
JULY 31, 1963...
$56,961,462.79
There were 11 strikes in effect at the time of
this report involving 800 members of the UAW.
STRIKE
1963
route
Bannon
ASSETS
TOTAL RESOURCES,
AUGUST
31, 1963.......
&
this
were
report
Fraser
Director,
partment
Managing
Editor
and Publications
of
reckless
concluded.
10 strikes
involving
of the
Ken
Robinson
S.
Patterson
Ray Ross
Paul Schrade
Joe
Walsh
Public
Relations
and
Henry Santiestevan
and Assistant Director,
Department
Publications
UAW.
De-
Relations
Simon
Alpert, Bernard
Bailey, Jerry Dale, Jerry
Howard Lipton, Ray Martin and George Ryder
Hartford,
Staff
Members,
American
Members
Newspaper
Guild,
AFL-CIO
=
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ADDRESS?
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with your name, mailing address and local
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intend
to move,
in space
allotted
anapolis
7, Ind.
please
and
affix
label
fill in form
to this form
and
Solidarity, 2457 E. Washington
to
St., Indi-
in this area
$58,261,935.04
1963
215,623.61
members
O'Malley
Affix label from your paper
s----$58,046,311.43
in effect at the time of
1,000
Pat
E.
Bard Young
Merrelli
Public
$56,961,462.79
1,300,472.25
19
TOTAL TO ACCOUNT FOR
DISBURSEMENTS IN AUGUST,
There
and
national goal of full employment
by giving some consideration to
cor-
George
coon
to
offering
employment
to
those
unfortunate enough t be without jobs. We urge the Ford Mothe
to abandon
tor Company
E. T. Michael
Ken Morris
Edwards
Martin Gerber
Ted Hawks
Robert Johnston
Charles Kerrigan
quarter
sufficient
Jack
have provided steady work at 40
hours a week to an additional
80,000 workers for that period.
“We
urge
the
Ford
Motor
Company to consider the great
has
Presidents
Ray Berndt
George Burt
total of overtime hours
in the auto industry in
during
MAZEY
RICHARD GOSSER
LEONARD WOODCOCK
PAT GREATHOUSE
di-
University.
this
P. REUTHER
EMIL
Iowa, and
STRIKE FUND
FOR AUGUST, 1963
1963
Schedule................ 16
Secretary-Treasurer
UAW
INTERNATIONAL
Formed.
President
Goode, previously on the
rest
said.
“The
worked
of the
Ford
Motor
Company,
caught
off base, admitting
to
planned overtime in violation of
from
Council
Those Hep UAW Retirees...
Beware Private Job Agencies
in History’
the
of
industry
are
13
and
overtime is most times unayoidable—comes forward to claim
there will be near-record- overtime in Ford plants for at least
“Manage-
reports
Unemployed....,.........12,
Retirees Picnic—1963
Regional News............
4,000 Attended UAW Summer
so-
“We are only 10 days into the
fourth quarter of 1963, yet Mr.
Iacocca — apparently
forgetting
management’s stock reply that
Street
for
Advisory
all that is just in America’s
hopes for full employment.
rect— here we have a top officer
similar
length
in
“But—if
Residential courses at the Cenwill
labor
repeatedly insisted that most
the overtime they schedule
inter-
and
TOP
staff of the Institute of Labor
and Industrial Relations of
production
jects
current
William
of all that
hopes for
unavoidable, necessitated
cumstances that develop
last minute.
clude
and
division, has said the divi-
Bannon
Canada. Arranged in cooperation
with leading universities, subwill
Mazey,
rector for Illinois and
work-
the heaviest overtime schedules
in the history of the firm.’
will
education
seminars
“in-
people
Wall
the
Pay Award.
The Center’s regular staff will
include Sexton, Willoughby Ab-
planned
ment
the
Emil
Vice Presidents Pat
and Woodcock—also
Director
Single subject seminars in various sections
of the U.S. and
at
tary-Treasurer
offer
Journal article of Sept. 10 which
stated:
‘Lee A. Iacocca, general manager of Ford Motor Company’s
civil-
Center
UAW
National
Bannon
Such as NLRB
procedures and
social security and insurance.
In
pro-
an
involve
overtime in violation
is just in America’s
full employment.”
communication
specialized
are
will
as
Indianapolis,
The four UAW officers—President Walter P. Reuther; Secre-
is
Ken Bannon has charged that
a top Ford official was “caught
admin-
contemporary
grants
UAW
labor-manageprogram
and
UAW,
and
ner, formerly UAW
serving
7,
Pub-
at Burroughs
Conference.
$27,000 Back
cial security
where
collegetrained personnel is required.
‘Heaviest Overtime
three-story build-
Jefferson
will
St.,
Ind.
Profits Up, Jobs Down.
Ford Co. Admits Scheduling
regular
from the University of Michigan,
Michigan
State University and
Wayne State University.
at
which
as research
tern.”
The
while
movement
UAW staff members, the faculty
also will include 11 educators
Courses
said,
also
such
lectures to staff representatives
studying at the Center.
anxious
served as UAW’s education director and organization director.
addition
“internship”
college-trained
staff mem-
union
Indianapolis,
Washington
under
Indianapolis
Various Viewpoints
grants to five or six young people annually, with the stipulation they work two-thirds of the
time of the UAW and engage in
graduate study at Michigan uni-
ers who
education
the
an
he
versity
bers, said Brendan Sexton, Center director who previously had
In
addition,
developing
UAW
Training Center, was
by the International
Executive Board.
“to help all UAW
achieve,
the
ments
three
to ten weeks.
Sexton
said. Inservice specialized training courses, also residential, will
be about three weeks long.
school
E.
at
St.,
National News
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Big One
HEN
workers chose UAW
as their
bargaining representative at the
Burroughs Corporation this month in
more than a major
for the union.
Detroit, it marked
organizing victory
by
efforts
organizing
spur
to
pected
ex-
is
victory
UAW
crucial
The
labor unions throughout the nation.
is one of the top U. S.
Burroughs
manufacturers in the important elec-
machine
tronics - computer - business
field.
to take
eligible
workers
5,525
With
election
secret-ballot
the
in
part
conducted by the National Labor Reat the four Detroitlations Board
em2,760
plants,
Burroughs
area
ployees voted for UAW, 2,404 for “no
union,” 124 had their ballots challenged, and seven other ballots were
voided.
now
workers
Burrough
the ranks of organized
1-A co-director
Region
that
happy
have joined
labor,” said
directed
had
who
McCusker
Joseph
tremendously
are
UAW
of the
“We
“We
campaign.
the union’s organizing
welcome them.”
When the vote was announced following the NLRB’s ballot count at the
Burroughs
a
was
there
headquarters
in
Detroit,
from
cheer
tremendous
the
throng
of
there who had
organizers
during
paign.
A
far
employees
helped as
bigger
the
gathered
yolunteer
union’s
crowd
of
cam-
workers,
moreoyer,
waited
for word
of the
election outcome at the Region 1-A
office on Detroit’s west side. When
McCusker read the yote tally to them
after receiving the flash by phone,
the
prolonged
shouts
were
Some
men
ashamedly
cheers,
applause
deafening.
and
at
women
the
and
wept
same
un-
time
they
were grinning broadly with joy. Many
grabbed the hands of anyone nearby,
pumped
handshakes
of congratulations.
Others
walked
from
person, slapping everyone
In
less
than
an
person
to
on the back.
hour,
about
1,700
jubilant Burroughs workers were on
the scene, taking part in the victory
celebration.
They
auditorium,
fices,
filled the
overflowing
hallways,
into
anterooms,
building’s
and
the
of-
lobby.
cCusker
said
that
following
NLREB certification of the election results, the workers would decide
and formalize contract demands.
Following the workers’ decision on
for
negotiations
proposals,
contract
the
first
agreement
management,
“By
their
ion,”
the
said,
“they
will
McCusker
decisive
UAW
start
said.
vote
for
regional
have
with
the
un-
co-director
extended
industrial
democracy into the Burroughs plants.”
McCusker said the employees had
recognized that only through the union can they make meaningful pro-
job problems in order
security and dignity
gress in solying
to attain both
at Burroughs.
long,
company’s
the
noting
And
to unionization
vigorous antagonism
commented,
McCusker
of its workers,
“We are sure that Burroughs will find
to have been unjust,
its opposition
unfair and unworthy.”
negotiations
contract
union’s
The
“will
added,
he
management,
with
during the organizing campaign. Most
of these centered on job security and
dignity.
However,
the
fringe
benefits
for
ed
munity.”
Since
to
periodically
sought
union
of
those
None
employees.
roughs
the
lier drives was successful.
security,
job
its
claimed
roughs
as
benefits
with
good
workers
wages
and
better
or
be
ear-
fringe
in
It also charged the
union contracts.
UAW’s interest was in the amount of
dues it would collect from the workers,
disputed
strongly
emphasized
which
were
statements
company’s
Ihe
UAW
the
by
of issues
a number
stressed
and
these
were
Burroughs
that
benefits which greatly increase
financial security during their
Bur-
than
the
gains
company.
Workers
on layoff
under
UAW contracts at major corporations
receive
supplemental
unemployment
have
did
wage
ment, the union pointed out that 3,000
workers
had been laid off by the
employees
sway
the union, Bur-
to
its efforts
voting against
In
into
also spell-
Answering company statements that
Burroughs
provided
steady
employ-
had
organize
and
superior.
for
progress
and the com-
mid-1930s,
the
UAW-won
workers,
aimed at finding answers to the comemof Burroughs
pelling problems
ployees and at making
them with the company
out
union
period.
No
fect
at
that
job
The
in
such
benefits
Burroughs.
union
view
pointed
security
of
were
out,
was
a
newspaper
their
SUB
in
ef-
moreover,
prime
reports
of
issue
the
possibility of a merger between Burroughs and Ford. The heavy layoffs
and bumping out of line of seniority
were other key considerations
the workers.
The
UAW
also
detailed
among
figures
showing that members of the union
receive more in hospital-medical-surgical insurance
protection
than the
plan
in effect
for
Burroughs
employees.
UAW’s
organizing
drive,
climaxed
by
the
decisive
victory,
began
a large gronp of Burroughs
asked the union earlier this
area
at
employees
up
sign
plants,
McCusker
Members of UAW’s
partment, headed by
and
Pat Greathouse,
staff
regional
aided
in
workers
year to
Detroit
four
the
when
said
organizing deVice President
of McCusker's
campaign.
the
i
ms
le
ob
Pr
er
sl
ry
Ch
r
jo
Ma
s
nt
oi
np
Pi
ce
en
UAW Confer
problems
of
list
substantial
which need correcting in the next
round of negotiations at Chrysler was
union’s
were
work
bers
tion,
40
the
and
normally
U.S.
at
assembly
pinpointed
many
while
subcontracting
off;
done
payments
total of
Chrysler
Fraser
overtime
laid
are
employed
working;
A
issues
excessive
workers
of
the
the
Department.
Chrysler
Among
of
director
and
large
at
member
Board
Executive
International
Fraser,
Chrysler
Douglas
UAW’s National
by
this month
detailed at
Conference
by
UAW
Chrysler;
in
line
lieu
relief
mem-
foremen
of
vaca-
time.
109 delegates representing
local
unions
throughout
and
Canada
attended
day-long session at the Veterans
morial Building in Detroit,
They
Fepan (©) one _|
S49 EVE /OPENER|
the
Me
also
President
UAW
heard
P.
Walter
Reuther discuss some aspects of next
negotiaauto industry
year’s major
tions,
Fraser,
American
Conference
also director of the union’s
told
Department,
Motors
that
delegates
Chrysler
workers would have had an additional
$200 each to pay for benefits negoin
tiated
for
each
American
formula
1961,
plus
were
in
Cliff
Ralph
Ray
the
by
Parker,
Sweeney,
Sullivan,
Hank Hurlbert,
Robert Angus,
National
unton’s
Commit-
Negotiating
are:
Conference
president,
president,
president,
president,
president,
O.
Local
Hawes,
H.
R. Jensen, Lo-
136;
cal 490; Ray Lasecki, president, Local
1248, and Buford Holt, president, Lo-
Local
889;
cal
Local
412;
Arthur
by
assisted
Fraser,
Department
Chrysler
UAW
Local
47;
Local 869;
Local 1200;
1226
The
committee
be
will
headed
by
Hughes,
assistant
director.
$100
additional
an
Chrysler
te elected
the
of
Members
of stock, 1f the
sharing”
“profit
purchase
Motors
effect
at
Chrysler.
Reuther predicted that next
UAW Constitutional Convention
year’s
would
we
ingredients
“three
the
provide
barthe
at
for success
have
must
gaining
tlations.
These,
ally
just
table”
he
membership
in
auto
industry
nego-
said,
are:
realistic,
mor-
demands;
support,
mobilization
and
resources to back up both
bers and thelr demands
ol
adequate
the
mem-
he _ predicted,
summer,
next
By
UAW’s strike fund will total about $60
million to $65 million to bolster the
at the bargaining
union's members
table,
MEMBERS
Doug
of the newly-elected
Fraser
Chrysler
(center),
Department,
1EB
Chrysler
Negotiating
member-at-large
and
oo
Committee
chat with
the
UAW's
St
—
director
of
September, 1963_-UAW SOLIDARITY—Page 3
Auto, Aerospace Profits Keep Going Up, Up. . .
But Jobs in Those Industries Keep Going Down
UTO
and
its
are
ment.
aerospace
booming
but
industry
not
prof-
employ-
Both industries are making a lot
more
money
than
last year. But
they're not creating more jobs.
On the contrary, while profits have
been rising sharply, employment of
production and skilled workers in the
two major industries has been dropping.
Yet
the
nation’s
economy
and
the
ever-growing number of people in the
work force need more jobs, not few-
er.
Figures recently disclosed
dustry and company profits
first six months
Major
car
inthe
this year show what's
happening.
been
on
for
manufacturing
raking in the profits
near-record levels.
firms
at
record
are
or
General Motors’ before-taxes profits for the first six months this year
approached
record.
two
billion
American
dollars,
Motors
a
made
as
much in its nine-month fiscal period
ending June 30 as it did in the 12months fiscal period the year before.
Ford’s
before
- taxes
profits
were
over a half-billion dollars, up almost
% over the same period of 1962. And
Chrysler's
profits before
taxes
for the
Same period were a whopping
million, a 533% increase.
On
a
industry
most a
$152
percentage
basis, aerospace
earnings
have gone up alarply as the auto industry.
HILE
the
auto
industry
a total of 750,000
production
employed
workers
in car
jobs not long ago, however,
the total now
stands at about 600,000.
Moreover, blue collar employment
in aerospace has dropped almost 10%
in the last 10 years. Aerospace plants
today
employ
an estimated
118,000
fewer
production
1953.
workers
than
Profits in both industries have
zooming
skyward
launched
US.
Keeps
from
Fort
its
National
gold
City
as
if
Knox,
in
been
they’d
been
where
the
reserves.
Bank
of
New
York
statistics show that profits of 27 auto
and parts industry companies zoomed
NLRB
Orders
upward
16%
for
the
first six months
ogically-improved
this year over last. Aerospace
and
railway
equipment
industry
profits
covered
by the bank’s report rose
almost
Both
as high at 15%.
were
far above
the
11.5%
increase averaged for 713 of the nation’s leading corporations, according
to
equipment.
If their
Thus, continued
economic
expansion
and
an
increasing
prosperity
depends not only on high profits but
on such other vital factors as reasonably priced products and rising employment.
Sales volume is only as good next year
as this, while productivity rises, fewer
workers will be employed.
Or to put it another way,
more
workers
will be laid off.
the figures in the bank’s report.
While these lush profits have been
moving
sharply upward,
unemployment still remains nationally at al-
most
profits
6%.
Despite
at
the
hovering around
almost 6 years.
the
same
that
high
corporate
time,
it’s
high
level
been
for
Additional millions of other workers
have
only
others
part - time
work
for
less
than
jobs.
bare
Many
sub-
sistence wages.
Together, such factors are a heavy
drag on the economy. In addition to
the economic and personal hardships
for
time
those
now
or
jobless,
for
extremely
working
low
part-
wages,
these factors also can result in heavier unemployment among thousands
upon thousands of workers who have
now.
jobs
a
move the economy toward full
employment,
the
nation
needs
every
week,
a
jobs
new
80,000
week
of the next 10 years, UAW President
Walter P. Reuther has emphasized.
To meet the need for a job for each
of the 1.2 million
persons
entering
the labor force for the first time each
year, 25,000 additional new jobs must
be created each week.
Another
created
55,000
to take
jobs
the
must
place
also
of the
be
jobs
which are lost-as the result of automation
and
other
technological
change and increased productivity.
The
total
of 80,000 needed
new
jobs
does not take into account the still
more jobs needed to reduce unemployment to a level where it will not
harm the economy.
Even though
the current year is
being looked upon by some econom-
ists
as
“good”
for
workers
who
had
jobs, unemployment can go still higher if 1964 is “only as good” as 1963.
The
have
auto
been
and
among
use of automation
aerospace
the
industries
leaders
in
the
and other technol-
While
profits go up and
up in auto and
aerospace
goes steadily down for production workers.
industries,
employment
Over $27,000 in Back Pay for 9 Workers
Fired in Organizing Drive
pes
a whopping reason why nine
employees of Research Designing
Service Inc. in Warren, Mich. have
been grinning this month. Thanks to
UAW, they received checks in a back
pay
award
The
tional
totalling
$27,624.67.
award was ordered
Labor
Relations
Winn
by the NaBoard
jin
Promoted;
Walsh Heads
583.24
$
the
UAW
president
for
PR
public
relations,
President Walter P. Reuther
announced.
Winn was
lations
and
succeeded
publications
as
public
director
has
re-
and
Solidarity editor by Joseph R. Walsh,
Jr., who was assistant director of the
department
Winn
for
has
the
been
past
six
associated
years.
with
the
UAW
since 1936. He is a native of
Dallas,
Texas
and
a
graduate
of
Southern
Methodist
University.
Before
WHOPPING
624.67
were
ren, Mich.,
National
held
CHECKS
received
UAW
Labor
Local
155’s
totalling $27,-
by
members
Relations
charges
nine
War-
after
Board
of
the
up-
unfair
labor
practices
against
Research
Designing Service of Warren. Above,
five of the men grin happily as they
show the amounts of their individual checks to union staffer Martin
Kruse
(seated, front center)
who
represented
case.
The
Page 4—UAW
the
UAW
employees,
in
the
whom
SOLIDARITY,
NLRB
the
company
also
was
ordered
state with full seniority, are
to rein-
(front)
Robert
Heatherly
and
Clarence
Cherry, and (rear) Lyle Locke, Walter Kowalski, and Roy Ligon. Others
receiving hefty
back
pay awards
and
reinstatement
were
Walter
Rekstis $3,517.14; Eugene Shockley,
$2,092.73, and William
Harris, $5,012.88.
An award
of $144.37
was
made
to
previously
statement,
September, 1963
Roman
had
Szawronski
turned
down
who
rein-
joining
the
UAW
staff
in
1936,
Winn worked for the Dallas Morning
News, the Dallas Journal and the New
York Post.
Walsh
was
born
in Youngstown,
Ohio
and
University
was
of
was
a combat
ant
director
graduated
Michigan
flier during
in
from
the
World
War
1949.
He
II and worked on newspapers in Ohio
and Colorado before becoming assistof
public
relations
for
the United Rubber Workers in 1950.
He joined the UAW as assistant director of the Radio and Television
Department
in 1954 and since 1957
has been assistant director of public
relations,
also told the
workers
with
Region
said.
The
government
firm
full
1 co-director
agency
to reinstate nine
seniority
rights,
George
A total of 11 workers
Merrelli
were
involved
in the order, part of an NLRB decision finding the company guilty of unfair labor practices. Charges against
the firm, which manufactures tools,
dies, fixtures and special machinery,
were brought
Frank Winn, UAW public relations
director and editor of Solidarity, has
been appointed special assistant to
Heat Here?
Washington.
by Local
155.
They followed company layoffs of
workers helping organize the union
at the plant, threats against active
union members,
and questioning of
workers
by
supervisors
regarding
union
membership.
Martin
Kruse,
sentative,
at
pay
ed
the
who
NLRB
award
nine
and
international
represented
hearing,
workers,
said
the
reinstatement
while
two
repre-
the
union
back
involy-
additional
workers were awarded only back pay
covering wage losses they suffered as
a result of the company’s action. The
two men had turned down reinstatement, he noted.
The back pay awards for each of
the nine workers ranged as high as
$5,917.46
for one
of the
employees
Forge Council
To Meet Oct. 10-12
The UAW
national
forge
council
will meet in Milwaukee, Wis. for a
three day session in October, Nelson
Jack Edwards, UAW Board Member-
at-Large,
announced.
Edwards, director of the UAW forge
department,
urged
all local unions
affiliated
with
meetings
to be held
full
complement
Milwaukee’s
the
of
council
to send
delegates
October
Wisconsin
Hotel.
to
10-12
a
the
at
Technicians
. . . Officeworkers
White
. . . Professionals
Collar
Worker
the white-collar worker is front and center on the
UAW
that
stage
won’t
these
come
days,
from.
searching
automated
Cou neil Formed
UAH
for answers
office
equipment.
More than 150 organized white collar workers
met in Port Huron, Mich., to form the Michigan
branch of what the UAW intends to be a unionwide white collar advisory council.
But
their
three-day
conference
went
far
esteems
determine
ulate
between
themselves
and
the
International
know,
and
of economics
white
who
should
interest
in
collar workers,
fast-rising
within the
This new
the
from
know,
and
themselves,
of
Douglas
that
the
ion’s Technical,
partment,
the
labor
Fraser,
Office
elections
’63
outstanding
who
and
of
more
NLRB
Professional
UAW
during
director
won
the
first
eight
Weber
deep
(TOP)
now
coming
to the surface
as more
He
De-
white
and
®
of
Ross,
Stores, looked
president
of
Federal
at automation,
“We
dinate
cause
and
bulge
country,
the
“Liberal
journalists
of
working
for whom
he worked,
Negroes and all men of
will
have
“They
that is
and
they
cause
for
be
major
sult
United
States
medicine,
and
. Sometimes,
drugs,
or
lines,
the
the
as
Dixon-Yates
Occasionally,
he
The
New
companies
he
even
Republic.
in
investigated
affair,
he
won
industry
crime,
earned
head-
votes.
“But often his efforts were visible only to
colleagues and to the lobbyists who opposed
“When
unsung
which
“There
but
of
fight,
would
marked
men
he
was
a
in the
‘quality
midst
in effect legalize price
are
lead
without
he
against
goods,
who
His
died
no
such
them
efforts
were
organized
legislative
the
labor,
defensive
country
visible
to
however,
a few
him
of such
maintenance’
actions
cannot
and
bill
fixing on trade-
monuments
the
an
men
in
to
in
Congress,
long
survive.”
and
the
the
women
only
im-
mediately available way possible, they have erected
a@ monument to him
The AFL-CIO Executive Council yoted to bestow
the
Murray-Green
Award
upon
Kefauver
posthumously “for his services to humanity” as “a firm
disciple
terests,
of democracy,
and
a
warm
a defender
and
of
of
a
that
abiding
Estes Kefauver, Tennessean and
ator and public servant—R,LP,
of consumer
friend
of
American,
us.
is not
fully
where
understood,
he
few
surveys
of
automated
offices
these
Introduction
additional
of
jobs are
automa-
points:
automated
effect on
result.
machinery
the
work
usually
force.”
In-
to one woman.
subor-
it
fallout
America
program
this
in
way:
to
a
@
ment
workers’
rather
than
“identification
Automation’s
with
with
unions”
easiest
is
victims
manage-
undergoing
are
those
“first-line office supervisors” whose decision-making can be done by the new computers.
growth
must
de-
absorb
the
society
Office
change.
beyond
Professor Weber said office workers who, historically, have been more pro-management than
pro-labor now find their hoped-for advancement
up through the ranks of management has developed huge gaps with automation’s easy displacement
of first-line supervisors.
which
Labor
some
of
Japan's
Federations
organizations
“The recent proposal by Walter P. Reuther,” said Productiv-
have
suggestion
made
ity,
by
UAW
President
Walter
P.
Reuther,
The Japan Labor Union Productivity
Planning
menting
Committee
tending,
according
with
some
and
Imple-
met
80 wage
to
create
Starting
joint
US-
former
in-
labor.’’
Sen-
of
assistant
the
to the
bulletin said.
Reuther made
into
“And
the
the
nation’s
questions
approached
the
more
wage
are
being
and
more
an international angle.”
the
two-day
conference,
said,
from
to
International
partment.
Victor
Affairs
G. Reuther,
“subjects
betterment
comparison
of labor
of
administra-
partment
will
as
on
now
UAW
ment,
the
Depart-
Eltra
and Mergenthaler Linotype
National Autolite Council
the
of
one
by-laws
Detroit,
ed
a
and
updated
and
UAW,
reyiew-
were
annual
the
held
officers
of
election
Co
was
80th
the
in August
At
1938.
in
session held
formed
Council
in
the
in
oldest
aré
officers
elected
Newly
Zimmerman
Charles
President
Mich.;
City,
Tobin,
liam
421,
Local
Morris
cal
922,
Graves,
gate
James
of
l.;
Sarnia,
from
delegate
and
Local
Otis
675,
Mc-
W.
Local
president
of
Secre
Trustees
Woodstock,
MacDonald,
456,
Ont.;
Sarnia,
Ind.
Unit
Office
Eltra
president
Vincennes,
Wil
Vive-President
tary-Treasurer
Mahon,
Bay
526,
Local
from
delegate
of
675,
are
Lo-
William
from
Like,
union
local
to
Prior
bein. June
completed
Corp
Autolite
Electric
merger
tween
t-
married
Local
dele-
N.
Mahwah,
J.)
since 1950 and seryed the local
as committeeman, plant chairman, COPE and safety committee chairman and as editor of
the
Secretary-Treasurer
Emil Mazey has announced
resulted from
The change
Plant,
Assembly
from
known
be
the
and has two children, has been
of Local 906 (Ford
a member
De-
Autolite
of
Greenposition
is
who
newspaper.
UAW
the
joining
staff in 1962 as citizenship-legislative
as a
New
cio.
representative, he served
merged
the
to
delegate
Jersey
State
the
on
present
its
“mod-
wage
system”
and
on “how
to raise
the average Japanese wage,” the
the secretary
tional
Federation
Organizations
in a telegram
the
his
proposal
general
to
of the Na-
of
Industrial
(Shin
Sanbetsu)
in which he said
AFL-CIO
executive
tee “unanimously
plea
from
the
commit-
approved”
a
International
of
“Reuther
Office.
Greenspan,
held
with
Free
Trade
Unions for support of an international wage research center in
Tokyo,
Depar
that
new
of
Confederation
director
Affairs
the
September 3 and will be working
Washington
UAW’s
the
in
De-
Autolite Dept. Gets
New Name: Eltra
National
and
ment, announced
span assumed his
tive assistant to the President of
UAW
UAW
International
director
were
problems.
probes
conditions
citi-
Debates
ernization
ranged
Japan
a
average Japanese wage
foreign counterparts.”
Japan wage research center is
apparently encouraging vigorous
Productivity
Productiv-
the
“to
from
At
recently
specialists at-
Greenspan,
pointed
said
when
forces
economic
zenship - legislative
representative in Region 9A, has been ap-
of
steel
normal
agreed
put
labor
Stan
“Few
of his colleagues
met
the challenge so
successfully.”
“There are probably no more than 30 Senators
who habitually place the public interest ahead of
local interests, Kefauyer was one of them...
“He opposed the AT&T in space, the drug houses
in
made
Greenspan Appointed to Statt
Of International Affairs Dept.
the
good
Senator,”
of
ity, the bulletin of
Productivity Center.
it often in the difficult days
Kefauver
ahead.”
Others among liberals were equally saddened.
“He was called, both by his own conscience and
by the requirements of the time in which he lived,
to be not merely the Senator from Tennessee but
a
forces
begun joint research on
their
nation’s wage problems, as a re-
the
reminded
employment
employment
Leaders
have suffered a loss
literally
irreparable,
will
doesn’t know
Wage Study as Proposed by Reuther
people
grief.
an
Japanese
made
said.
full
Bluestone
servant’
Nation
a
unemployed.
himself the scourge
of
the
monopolists, the price-fixers,
the consumer gougers in inThe
produce
conference
velop
With those words above, The
Nation
magazine
paid its final respects to Sen. Estes Kefauver, who
died last month
at the age
of 60 when an artery of his
heart ruptured.
“In a series of memorable
dustry,”
may
The
‘Now and then, the electorate
somehow manages to get itself
a Senator who is,
actually and in the fullest sense,
Kefauver
not let blind economic
human yalues .
the traditional
to absorb.”
hu-
Deen t hate
investigations,
must
basic
“Unless we take special measures, the lethal combination of knowledge explosition and population
man values in these terms:
“We are all bound to one another by the interrelated web of modern economic life.
We are all
affected profoundly by whether or not our democratic society workers
.
..
a public
needs
There’s a major shift in the sex composition
of automated offices. Surveys showed the ratio of
eight men to seven women changed to eight men
Department
employment
needs and stim-
@
automated machinery is moved into their offices.
“These same
people know very well the high
casualty rate that came with automated processes
Joseph
the
has a “disruptive
equities inevitably
more
out in the plant. White collar workers have
to think new thoughts about their future.”
un-
should
should
have been undertaken indicate five
away with for every job created by
ion.
un-
than in any full year since 1957.
“There’s a great deal of uncertainty among white
collar workers as to their future,” said Fraser. “It’s
just
those
of change
said
that
fone
from
months
are
planning that must be followed.
He repeated the UAW’s call for establishment of
a “technological clearing house, so as a nation we
know where we're headed.”
University of Chicago Economics Professor Arnold
there’s
the
who
Each company nurses its own automation plans,
denying
the
government
access
to information
which could help determine the course of national
organized
movement
to achieve
is leading
speed
said.
Union.”
know,
efforts
ae
‘professor
from
a series of national work
automation
muboth
white collar ranks.
interest is borne out only in part
report
collar
an
people
fact that the nation as a whole
They discussed thoroughly—and with experts—
the social and economic ramifications of a technological revolution that finds an automated computer made more important than a human being.
If you take it from a leading businessman who
should
person,
Irving Bluestone, administrative assistant to UAW
President Walter P. Reuther, said the growing human
crisis
of
automation-caused
unemployment
has an answer but much of it is obscured by the
beyond
by discussing
information,
individual
UAW
employed
for reasons beyond their control
not be even temporary casualties.
America
the mere establishment of a new avenue “through
which our union’s white collar members can meet
periodically, develop closer ties
tual problems and exchanging
the
by
AFL-
Council,
himself
originated
the plan when he visited Japan
in November 1962 at the invita-
tion
of
four
local
labor
bodies,”
Productivity said
“He proposed, at a labor relations
conference
held
by
the
American
unions
join
and
that
Center,
Productivity
Japan
Japanese
in setting
up
labor
a re-
search center here for exclusive
study of the wages in automobile, iron-steel, machinery and
electric industries.
“The
four
Japanese
labor
or-
ganizations, The General Council of Japan Free Trade Unions
(Sohyo), the Japan Confederation of Labor (Domei Kaigi), the
Federation of Independent
Unions
(Churitsu
Roren)
and
Shin Sanbetsu studied Reuther’s
“and
said,
Productivity
proposal,”
basically
agreed
on it.”
1962 Machinery, Vehicle Sales to Japan
Provided Nearly 21,000 Jobs in U. S.
Sales
of
and
machinery
vehicles to Japan in 1962 were
for nearly
responsible
directly
21,000 jobs for U, S, workers, according
leased
United
Council
to
in
figures
recently
Washington
States-Japan
by
re-
the
Trade
In all, the Council sald, these
1962 exports valued at $349 mil30,than
more
lion, provided
200 U.S,
indirect
jobs when
the amount of
employment,
such
as
transportation and related seryices is taken into account.
of
Sales
vehicles
in
59%
roughly
of Japan's
products.
Japanese
imports
will
vehicles
and
billion with the U.
the
present
amounting
On
jobs
with
this
to over
basis,
would be
a total of
involved,
mated
ratio
the
of
Is
over
im-
total
estimates,
Council
the
to
amounted
1962
ports of these
and
machinery
S.
U.
1970,
By
total
machinery
$1.7
exceed
S, share, if
maintained,
$1
billion
60,000
U,
S.
provided directly
100,000 jobs being
trade
in its report.
council
esti-
\
‘
ATURALLY, at a picnic, a fellow is liable to get sepa-
rated from his friends.
Chuck Odell, director
partment,
and
Bud
UAW’S EMIL MAZEY and a good friend of all unionists,
John Swainson, get together informally before the former
Governor of Michigan talked to the retirees about what
the Democratic
Party would
like to do for the state’s
Senior
Citizens.
A FAMILIAR
(right),
FIGURE
Detroit
police
to UAW
retirees is George
commissioner
and
a
Edwards
UAW
mem-
ber himself, who recently was appointed a federal judge
by President Kennedy. That’s Region 1 Co-directors Ken
Morris and George Merrelli chatting with him while they
have
some
of that
good
fried
chicken.
Here he gets a helping hand
of UAW’s Retired Workers
Brooks,
from
De-
jz was a great day.
The September sky was clear and the
park
was
splashed
with
a
warming,
bright sun. But there was just a touch
of autumn in the air—enough to soften
the sun’s rays and make it a great day
for a picnic,
It was Wednesday, Sept. 11, 1963—
the day for the 12th annual UAW picnic
for retirees at Belle Isle, Detroit.
More than 15,000 retirees spent
a
happy day seeing old friends, reminiscing, enjoying a chicken lunch, playing
games or just relaxing.
UAW Secretary Treasurer Emil Mazey topped a list of guest speakers. He
told the picnickers the UAW will negotiate full
payment of retirees’ medical
insurance
by the
auto
companies
and
will continue to press for hospital care
legislation and other improvements in
Social Security.
The picknickers took time for other
serious business, too. <A petition signed
by almost all of the 15,000 asked for
Michigan state tax relief for senior citizens on homesteads, food and drug sales
and income.
“We, the senior citizens of Michigan,
700,000 strong and growing daily in
numbers, earnestly believe that we have
contributed greatly in our lifetime to
the economic and social growth of our
”
communities, state and nation...
said the petition that went to the governor and the state legislature.
It was a great day, a fine day, a day
to remember...
Retirees Picnic—1963.
oit News
e aaDeeatr
Thi
ean ee we
we ne
1963—-UAW SOLIDARITY—Page 7
Wy 9
idieintthtnn
he
oUt
August,
1963—Pages
8, | 8
Supreme Court Ruling
Slaps Down Management”
Abuse of Injunctions
i
|
f
UAW MEMBERS of Local 596 were
able to sign up for unemployment
benefits
in their
own
Pontiac,
Mich., local union office when the
Michigan Employment Security
Commission set up shop in area local
union
offices
during
model
changeover layoffs. Here, Local 596
president Jerry Kehoe (standing,
right) is an interested spectator as
MESC employees handle the compensation claims. About 1,790 initial claims for benefits were handled at the Local 596 hall alone.
Lansing —
No
burst of headlines greeted, or even denounced,
thit
unanimous Michigan Supreme Court decision of early September—bu
id—
ever since, an army of attorneys who act in labor-management case
jps:
has been pouring over each word.
Union attorneys, after months of waiting for the court’s ruling if 9)
UAW's long dispute with the Cross Company of Fraser, Mich{»i/
say they can look ahead to “a new day in Michigan labor-manageéey 4)
ment affairs, now that a most powerful weapon of the court has beeduiu
taken out of the hands of management.”
The decision, involving ‘ex parte’
injunctions,
should
shortes:
strikes and should aid union organization in a number of areass:
they said.
The court, looking long and hard at UAW’s insistence that ex parth' x:
injunctions are unjust, decided Michigan courts must not be so easil/i
used to ensnarl the labor movement whenever legal picket lines arts
established.
The language the court used was this:
“Tn labor cases, where picketing is sought thus to be enjoined o)
restricted summarily, nothing less than a clearly persuasive showinini.
of imminent and irreparable injury—beyond the power of the regui
larly constituted police authorities of the community to control—musi
be insisted upon by the chancellor (the court) to justify his exercis:
of the extraordinary power of injunction, prior to such hearing as
due process demands.”
Boiled
down,
a courtroom
it means
this:
management
can
no
longer
rush
int}
and, in five minutes and in the absence of the union, will
an injunction to paralyze a union's picket line.
The decision, written by Supreme Court Justice Theodore Sourisi
and concurred in by six members of the eight-man court, flowed fronk
the UAW’s six-year struggle with the automation machinery manus
facturing corporation.
‘
:
=
—
FIRST CUSTOMER (left) at Metropolitan
Hospital’s
newly-opened
gift shop is waited on by volunteers
Mrs. Al Barbour and Mrs. Emil
Mazey
(right),
co-chairman
gift shop committee
of the
of
the
Detroit
sat
hospital’s Women’s Auxiliary. The
shop was made possible through
donations from a large number of
unions and individuals and several
companies. It is being operated for
the hospital’s benefit.
Effect
of the court ruling can be felt from now on whenever ant
union sets up pickets, whenever management seeks to undermine an‘
union in Michigan.
At least 100 such ex parte injunctions are issued every year bi
Michigan lower courts. The effect always is the same: a picket liny
is trimmed in size, sometimes down to one or two persons. It’s a‘
invitation—quite often accepted—to
struck
management
to
ruil
strikebreakers past the one or two helpless pickets.
The Supreme Court said no court should permit itself “to be imp
pressed to arms on one side of such battle without first determining
the meritorious claims of the other side” and without evidence “thas
police protection against violence and physically coercive conduc
threatening the public peace is unavailable or ineffectual.”
When Local 155 attorney Winston L..Livingston filed the union’:
argument against the reckless issuance of ex parte injunctions, hd
had left a trail of dust behind him in his search for precedent.
Looking for legal ammunition in ancient, dusty records, as far bac!s
as the 1880s, he still found no evidence that an appeal to the hig’s
court of Michigan had ever been carried out against an ex part}
injunction.
The ex parte injunction, so easily won in court by company lawy
yers, takes many months before the Supreme Court can get aroun
to judging an appeal against the injunction.
By then, whatever labor-management dispute was at issue in thi
injunction “hearing” usually has been settled. Additional law wa:
never pursued.
Justice Souris pointed out that Congress recognized the injustic)
of ex parte injunctions back in the early 1930’s when it passed thi
Norris-LaGuardia Act.
That Act prohibited federal courts from granting ex partt
injunctions “except in such cases upon sworn testimony that polic)
officials are unable or unwilling to furnish adequate protection.”
Barred from running to federal courts, company lawyers made thi
shorter trip to state courts.
Only a few states have moved to adopji’!
what is called “Little Norris-LaGuardia Acts.”
Michigan’s
supreme
court,
squarely on the scales of justice.
ON THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL STEPS, as marchers start to assemble
during the historic March on Washington, were Detroit Councilmen Wil-
liam Patrick
(left) and Mel
Ravitz (right).
in
effect,
has
now
put
labor
cases
A UAW
GAL,
little Nan-
cy Dykstra, who is 1963's
Miss Torchlight for the
$19,750,000
United
Foundation drive in the
Detroit area, is surround-
ed by four admirers, all
members of the UF board
of directors.
They
are
(right to left) Norman
Matthews,
ant
to
special
UAW
Walter
Charles
assist-
President
P. Reuther;
Youngloye, Un-
ited Steel Workers District 29 director; Robert
E.
Forbes,
Michigan
AFL-CIO
News circulation.
manager;
Macioce,
Detroit
Marion
Build-
ing Trades Council President. Five - Year - old
Nancy is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. James Dyk-
stra; her fath
is am
emer
NS|APPING CRITICS of President
“mennedy’s civil rights bill was Vice
ident Lyndon Johnson when he
ippeared unexpectedly in Detroit
© | a Regional Equal Employment
opportunity Conference at Wayne
e University. Here the Vice
sident (center) walks to the
ion accompanied
by (left to
right)
Hobart
Taylor
Jr., executive
director of the President's Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity; Wayne State law dean
Arthur
Neff;
State
Auditor
Gen-
eral Billie S. Farnum and Mrs. Mildred
Jeffrey,
Democratic
state
committeewoman
and _ director,
UAW
Community
Relations
Dept.
stand firmly on the side of freedom of choice,” Vice
President Lyndon Johnson said at the Regional Equal
imployment Opportunity Conference. “But perhaps I think
islightly different ways of what it means.
‘I
"To me, freedom of choice means
t a man has the right to comte
on an equal basis for those
for which he is qualified.
j*To
me,
uqi@ans
that
a
freedom
man
of
has
the
choice
right
leks
u.
Javior.
=r
me, the right of freedom
Echoice means that a man should
jB able to choose those places to
He wich he can afford and which
suit his circumstances.
agree
with
other
have
atte
ie freedom
the
to
right
Delegates
Pinpoint
Goals
LANSING—Contract goals were
on target for the next round of
negotiations when
approximately
30 delegates
from
five UAW
local
unions met here in Region
Forge Plant Re eae
1-C’s
Regional Director E.
Patterson said bargaining
eine
delegates considered as “absolutely
necessary” included:
Equalizing
all
wage
rates
hourly-rated
plants;
equalizing
negotiations
on
job
in
re-
lief time and other fringe benefits
in all plants; coordinating wage
in-
new
classifica-
tions
resulting
from
automated
equipment;
Increasing and equalizing “downtime” pay in all piece-work plants,
especially as an incentive for man-
retations of freedom of choice,
matter how sophisticated those
\iterpretations may be, that some
ifople
Region 1-C Forge Plant
, DISCUSSING, asking questions,
making
points
(left),
delegates
to the day-long session mapped
bargaining
targets they consider
urgent for the next round of forge
| plant negotiations.
feat at those public establishuients which he is entitled to pasonize because of his good be-
cannot
ber of UAW Local 174
and a tool and die maker
at the Ternstedt Engineering Shop in Warren.
The Torch drive is aimed
at raising
operating
funds for 195 agencies.
restrict
of choice for others.”
to
agement
»
eliminate
greater
and
idle time;
unnecessary
emphasis
at
the bargaining table on safety conditions and the need to keep ma-
chinery
tion.
Participating
ij
i)
fe
Additional
Michigan News
on Next Page
Drop
Forge,
Melling
599,
and
WERE
up-to-date
day-long
Local
504, Jackson (LeFere Forge and
Machine Co.); Local 652, Lansing
eral
/ NEWED
the
Forge);
Drop
(Pittsburg
Lansing
FRIENDSHIPS
in
conference at Local 652 here were
delegates from Local 62, Jackson
(Oldsmobile
U)LD
condi-
in proper operating
Forge);
(Atlas
Drop
Forge,
Local
Forge,
Lansing
724,
Fed-
Drop
and
Forge,
Drop
Lindell
Local
and
Forge),
Drop
Flint
(Buick
Forge).
RE-
informa-
sion gathered when Bay City UAW
1% ives held their annual picnic at
canteen.
Fairgrounds
he area’s
» About 175 of the union’s old-timers
Forge Plant Conference at Lansing.
a
IN
A
HEADS-TOGETHER
SESSION, Region 1-C Director E, 5S.
Patterson (right) and local union
delegates to the region’s recent
ee
viftre joined by 21 guests from
Miginaw for the outing. The up-toate material was discussed for the
j Bhior citizens by Region 1-D di‘tor Kenneth W. Robinson (standMg, left), principal speaker at the
‘Went.
FLINT—It
was
all
fun,
festivity
and food for approximately 12,000
adults and
youngsters attending
their unions’ first Labor Day Picnic
in many years in this nationallyknown auto manufacturing center.
The family outing was described
by Region 1-C Director E. S, Patterson as a “tremendous success as
a result of the real cooperation to
make it so by all the local unions,
and the hard work by all their of-
ficers,”’
The
picnic,
sponsored
by
UAW
and the Greater Flint AFL-CIO
Council, featured hot dogs and
soda pop, pony rides and amusement rides, games, swimming, contests and dancing,
Reported
Patterson,
were no speeches.”
.
THAT
S
WSS
hot dog tasted good to Ger-
ald Sanchez.
WES
DARLENE
and
Chick
the camera
enjoyed
:
a
at the same
“There
THAT’S
a mouthful
of
candy for Mark Hudson.
cotton
Fun
Flint,
coke
Michigan—
time.
e
LABOR DAY OUTING games weren't just for
_ the kids. This looks like a football team line
_limbering up, but it really was a contest for
grownups at the Flint picnic sponsored at Sherwood Forest by the UAW and the greater Flint
AFL-CIO Council. The kids enjoyed their games,
too—and lots of food, candy and soda pop.
—Photos by Russ Scott;
courtesy of Flint Journal
“WHY are they waiting so long to
start this ride?”
TOO TIRED
happy to go
to stay
home.
awake;
too
“WHO ever heard of
with your shoes on?”
swimming
10
RETIREES
COR
VER
i
Those Hep UAW Retirees: A
Full-Length Portrait of One
Let’s draw up
UAW
when
a word picture of a retired
interest.
You'll write
down
that
formed
on
economic
he’s well
social
hep,
Danneisenesieinateimeisnmemmnes
cast
and
feet
— or
talk
po-
his
anywhere
else
—and ready, willing and
able to take the lead in
any
group
describing
Hicks
of
He’s working
Pompano
Council
He
World
went
to work
War I, as a line
13
of Sen-
ior Citizens, president
of the Broward County (Florida) Council,
and retired from Studebaker
Local 5 in
South Bend, Ind.
Brother Hicks was
written up several
LOREN HICKS
months ago in a local
newspaper, which described him as a “sprightly
senior citizen up to his galluses in controversy.” He has been the moving spirit behind
much of the activity and accomplishments of
the senior citizens in his county and state.
Medicare
Mich.
|
ac
1963—Page
11
retiree writes in to ex-
by representatives of the
Retired Workers Dept., in-
its director, Charles
visit to Solidarity House,
help a lot of people, Hicks
believes. It would release a lot of money to the
economy, too, he says.
_ If it wasn’t for the fear of a ghastly hospital bill, some of us old folks would spend our
money. If we had Medicare, the first thing I
might do is buy a new car, or a refrigerator.
But you never know when you're going to be
hit by a big hospital expense.”
Hicks spends at least $30 a month for health
services for his wife and himself. He says he’s
lucky he can take care of that—a major expense would ruin him.
«
City,
cluding
hard for the medicare bill be-
would
Bay
listened to talks
UAW’s Older and
cause he thinks it’s needed. “I’ll be 73 next January, and maybe this bill won’t come into effect while I’m still living,” he remarks. “But
that’s all right with me—at least some people
will get the benefit of it.”
Loren
Beach,
Fla.,
currently
treasurer of the Florida
State
during
it was.”
activity.
Write that down about
a
UAW
retiree
and
you're
as a steward.
cons
ideration
ES
press thanks to Local 362 of that city for sponsoring a trip to Detroit for retired members
last month,
Sarah Stark, 1000 Sixteenth St., wrote that
Ed Maloney’s entertainment was “wonderful,”
the speeches
“nice” and the Detroit Tigers
game
they
saw
was
“good.”
The
retirees
“We had a very democratic union,”
says
Hicks of Local 5. “One time we met at the
football field at Notre Dame. The company was
in poor condition, so we voted to take a cut in
pay—to help out. That was the kind of union
to
on
A
setter, and retired with a heart condition
years ago, on a UAW-negotiated pension.
and
able
active
for Studebaker
probably
argumentative,
think
in-
problems,
litically
he was
your
September,
He learned a lot about leading people and
promoting ideas as a member of Local 5, where
member who was active in the union
he was in the shop and still keeps up his
for
RL
Odell, during their
Mrs.
Stark
reported,
A final word from Earl Nielsen, a UAW
retiree from ‘Pontiac, Mich., on the outcome
of a furnace swindle he reported to us earlier
this year.
The Pontiac city inspector forced the furnace
company to fix the furnace “so we don’t smell
gas anymore, thanks to him,” Brother Nielsen
said. He added that the owner of the company
finally
delay,
sent
a check
in
‘but
for
after
$100,
so we are
to pay anymore,
refused
a long
out $75.”
“We don’t mind losing a little money here
“It’s the dirty way of
or there,” he wrote.
having it slipped over on us that hurts.”
WALKING TOGETHER
o>
¥
«
By Rev, Ciair M Cook, Th 0.
efigion
nat Labor
Comet
ot heres
a
Des
Private
Job
all may eat.
Ministry
The Migrant
Council of Churches brings
Agencies
Child
Undersecretary of Labor John F. Henning
sounded the warning following a recent study
by the Bureau of Labor
Standards.
That
study
have an order from an employer before sending an applicant out for a job. In those states,
A
0
‘E
ni
p
ye
agencies
shows how few legal restructions there are to
workers
merciless
e
protect
ener’
the
jobless
gouging
from
by
private employment agencies.
Said the Undersecretary of Labor:
Feature
“Tt is time that Feder-
al and State Governments reviewed the all too
common abuses of the private agencies. For
example,
I find it shocking
no law at all
agencies.”
Those
North
and
to
that six states have
regulate
states
Dakota,
Vermont.
are
New
private
Alabama,
Mexico,
Henning
went
that he is also shocked at these
the laws of many other states:
21
states
e
30
premises
Carolina
on
to
loopholes
fail to specify
employment
the
18
so-called
in
agency
shall
states
do not
registration
fees.
bar or even
These
are
of
occupy.
pool
regulate
fees
col-
lected from the jobless before any service is performed, A lot of people have paid registration
fees and
e
2]
mum
never
heard
slates
fee an
applicant
ageney
in a
ing
hazardous
inal code,
99
e
job.
from
fail
can
to
Cases
the agency
regulate
charge
have
the
again,
max
23
for placing
been
an
reported
the
:
acts,
in
sending
labor
to
employment
laws,
statutes
of work,
New
an
are out
of other
applicants
mini-
govern-
or the crim-
fail to regulate agencies so
strikebreakers. A good law,
one
employees
Such
what-
;
recruit
from
of child
conditions
states
can’t
as
laws.
overtime
:
prohibition
referring
send
states
the worker
Jersey,
prohibits
applicant
on
require
strike.
that
of the dispute.
to any
Laws
an
firm
in a
the agency
have no law prohibiting fee19 states
e
splitting between agencies and employers, a vicious racket. Here’s how it works:
In collusion with an employer, an agency
sends a worker to the firm, The employer and
the agency operator split the fee. After a few
days
the
were
the
another
worker
fee
split.
fired,
another
hired,
victims
of this
racket.
is
Unorganized
particular
cleaning
and
women
The survey likewise revealed that laws in a
few states measure up to the Bureau of Standard’s model statute, As the study shows, seven
states meet
California,
New
York
ordinances,
all eight tests. These are
New
Minnesota,
Illinois,
and
too,
Pennsylvania.
but
these
go
Some
no
Alaska,
Jersey,
cities have
farther
than
the city line
In addition to the six states that have no
law whatsoever, seven others show up poorly.
I-
and
of
gets the
its fee.
no
agency
in violation
ads and
If the worker
have
violate
wage
number
say
kind
They've been known to operate in taverns,
rooms and rooming houses,
e
mum
be
where
require no evidence of good
states
an
could
firms.
can collect
an
which
agency
character from those who set up a private employment agency. In those, any confidence man
can enter the field no matter what his criminal
record,
‘
jobs
the newspaper
states
against
such
Mississippi,
South
ever
percentages
do not require an agency to
watch
to these
35
they
employment
can
job, the agency
inform
Undersecretary
e
states
They
shire,
and
are
Rhode
Idaho,
Island,
Missouri,
Tennessee,
New
Hamp-
Washington,
Their laws have few teeth,
t.
—From an ‘Hye Opener’ Broadcas
Wyoming,
the National
staff workers
centers,
care
vocational
experiments,
summer schools—two thirds of migrant children are over age for their grade, often as much
where agencies collected large
employees’ pay for months.
ae
21
of
500
and thousands of volunteers into migrant worker areas in 35 states, serving 200,000 migrants.
N many states, the laws regulating private
employment agencies are as full of holes asa
piece of swiss cheese,
e
you can find, ina
majority of the states of this sprawling nation,
migrant farm workers under the mid-season
sun pouring out their toil and sweat that we
Don’t Be Gouged By
If You’re
Looking
For Work:
is the season when
as three or four years—recreational programs,
and other social services are provided to help
ease the migrant family’s lot.
Other organizations have been formed to
speak up for these voiceless “forgotten people”,
whose ranks are heavily loaded with Negroes
and Spanish-speaking Americans. The Bishops’
Committee for Migrant Workers, the National
Rural Life Conference, and the Bishops’ Committee for the Spanish Speaking are led by
devoted Catholics.
Other groups working for migrants include
the National Sharecroppers’ Fund, the National
Advisory Committee on Farm Labor, the National Consumers’ League, the National Council
on Agricultural Life and Labor, area groups
such as the Pennsylvania Citizens’ Committee
on Migrant Workers and the Washington Citizens for Migrant Affairs.
The labor movement has poured scores of
into the Agricultural
of dollars
thousands
in
Committee
Organizing
Workers’
California,
of
“Harvest
CBS
notable
Murrow’s
Ed
Shame” and numerous magazine articles have
helped awaken the nation in recent years. Yet
the state of the migrant continues to be that
described by Thomas Carlyle
Worker in 1843:
“Tt is not to die or even die
Many
makes a man wretched.
But it is to live miserably and
in
Modern
The
of hunger that
men have died.
know not why,
to work now and gain nothing, to be heartworn, weary, yet isolated and unrelated,”
Living
is indeed
miserably
the fate of our 2
The annual income of an
million migrants.
adult migrant worker is less than $1,000; in
1961 he found work for an average of only 134
days in the year. A third of all U.S, counties
have 100 or more domestic migrants at one
time
or
every
another
5,000 or more
at season’s
“They have
Williams,
A.
lost
Jr.,
states
Senate
“Not
they
stop
in.
do
peak
and
there
in 28 of
are
the AT
out,’ says Senator Harrison
the
of
chairman
devoted
Subcommittee
only
year,
they
on
lack
Migratory
what
Labor,
other
citizens
call the necessities of life; they have been shut
social reform
great
every
out of practically
that other Americans take for granted,’
Retraining
Second
of Two
the
Unemployed
Articles
A federal
program
to retrain
workers
thrown
out
of
their jobs by automation was adyocated by the UAW at its
1961 Convention. Strongly supported by the Kennedy Administration, the Manpower Development and Training Act
(MDTA) was enacted by Congress last year. The program
now is in full swing. Read how some UAW workers are finding new hope and new skills through retraining.
N Lansing, Mich., MDTA classes
are training young men off the
farms as well as older men with
families whose jobs have disappeared because of automation or
Equipped with
shifting markets.
new skills, they have little trouble
finding jobs in a community where
unemployment is not as serious as
it is elsewhere.
Duane Rogers of Sunfield, Mich.,
father of two, used to work at a
feed and grain elevator for $1.15
an
hour.
He
lost
even
that
when
he was laid off. The MDTA center
at the Lansing Community College
trained him as a milling machine
operator,
and
today
Rogers
is
working at the John Bean Co. and
making $2.71 an hour, thanks to
the contract Amalgamated Local
724, UAW, has at the plant.
Like so many other young peo-
“_
ple today, Fred Kiefer, who is 22,
had never had a steady job or
learned a skill until he attended
the government
training center.
Now he works at the
Lundberg
Serew Products Co. at the hiringin rate of $2.39. He operates a
threader, a mill and a drill press
and belongs to UAW
-Local 724.
Kiefer is luckier than most young
men in America today. Nationally,
unemployment
among
youths
stands at a shocking 16% . . . but
MDTA training may help reduce
that figure.
UAW Internati
onal er Repres
entaEE
Gre
the Region
IC staff
and Elton
Tubbs,
dent of the Lansing ART-CIQ
Council and a member of GM Local 652, UAW, serve on the federal government’s local Manpower
Advisory Committee, which helps
to get training centers going. They
report that of the first 20 workers
trained at the Lansing center in
production machine operation, 17
were placed in jobs immediately,
two entered apprenticeship train(Continued on the Next Page)
DUANE ROGERS OF LOCAL ~ 724(second from left) has been retrained to work this milling ma-
rTat the John
chine
Bean Co, plant
in Lansing, Mich. Here he talks to
Local 724 President Burleigh Well.
DISCUSSING the next training program for the
Lansing, Mich. area are (I. to r.) Phil Gannon, dean
of Lansing
Community
College;
Fred Hanses, MESC; UAW Region 1C staffer
Frank
903
mon (left), stevard Robert Cappiello (center)
and
foreman
Bob
Grainger (right),
Corser;
Elton
Tubbs,
Lansing
AFL-CIO
Council president and a member of UAW Local
652, and Tom McClure of the college faculty
(Photo by Hal Bell, Lansing).
i
“From the auto plants of Detroit, from the obsolete and deserted packing plants of Chicago, from the Pennsylvania towns
destroyed by the coming of the diesel locomotive, from the misery-packed coal mining towns of West Virginia, there has
marched in the past ten years an army of the disinherited—men
HELEN HASTERLIS
of
Saddle Brook,
Ns
a
aaa
FromSohniUnvaider:
a supervisor
Bendix
plant in Te-
tebors, NIE
MDTA
Page 12—UAW
SOLIDARITY, September,
1963
at the
class
in
sh
utar
~us
wi
seat
and women who have not only lost their jobs, but who have
found that the skills they relied on to find another job no longer
have a market, or that
to pass them through
now without a skill.
jobs, but retraining to
Sts
ON
the brawn and muscle which once served
the hiring gate have little market value
They are the workers who need not only
make them ready to look for jobs.”
!
}
an
:
at the
Bergen County Vocational
High
School, Hackensack,
N.J. (Photo by Robert C.
Cosgrove,
UAW Local 153.)
|
}
Wsur
sun
txo
!
ral
.
“Nobody
training
Sellick,
Local
259, is busy chipping. Facing layoff, he was retrained under MDTA
and...
our
Washington
hard on Capitol
passed.
N.Y.
nedy
him
are
ing and only one dropped out of
the program . . . an enviable record and one which is being repeated at MDTA centers all across the
nation.
Not all the Lansing trainees are
young people, of course, There are
many like Napoleon Keitt, a 42-
former
member
the
this
office
Hill to
Congress
second
many
members
na-
“
worked
get this
for
chance,
more
like
giving
but
him
there
who
could
to do for their unemployed
what
locals
like
153,
possible
by
632,
259 and 724 have done.
“Just as we rebuild our cities
through urban renewal, so are we
rebuilding the lives of the unemployed through a kind of ‘human
has
renewal,’
made
MDTA.”
the
‘
Tuma pointed out that so far,
more
than
60,000
unemployed
workers have been approved for
retraining. Of these, 26,000 had
of
UAW Local 650, and Jack Waters,
father of six and a former member of UAW Local 602 who worked at General Motors’ Fisher Body
division and as a salesman, clerk
and truck driver.
OW much planning goes into
an
of
establishment
the
MDTA training center?
“A great deal,” says Sam Meyers, president of Amalgamated Local 259, UAW, whose Condec unit
in Schenectady has so successfully
members.
its laid-off
retrained
“We're trying to get training programs established for our members laid off from our many units
We started
in New York City.
to get
early this year, hoping
something going by this fall.
“Tt takes a lot of time, a lot of
good will and, above all, a lot of
patience. There are so many difThere’s
ferent agencies involved.
the U.S. Labor Department and
There's the
its various bureaus.
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. There are the
state agencies, such as the New
York State Labor Department and
There
the Employment Service.
are the boards of education, the
school administrators and the voAnd
cational training people.
there’s labor and management.
“They all have to pull together
and coordinate their activities to
get a program going,” says Meyers.
“Any program as big as this one
is going to have its bottlenecks,”
says International Representative
Joseph Tuma who, from his office
and
country
work. He is now learning to be a
machine operator.
So is Delbert Price, father of
a
to the
use this same opportunity. Here's a
chance for UAW locals across the
held a variety of jobs—he’s been a
fireman and a clerk, among other
things—but could not find steady
and
re-
“Trainees
like Lloyd Boudreau
are very grateful to President Ken-
(Continued from previous page)
four
answer
this
to this demand and the people in
NOW — he is a sk illed welder in
the Condec plant in Schenectady,
year-old father of three who
is THE
that
tion’s unemployment problem. But
it is AN answer to one phase of
the problem and it provides a hope
and a future to thousands of unemployed workers who had just
about given up any
thought
of
ever being able to earn a steady
living again.
“Our union has been fighting
for years for a national retraining
program.
At every UAW convention, our delegates called attention
nem
BEFORE—Richard
contends
actually
begun
training
training.
Seven
out
and
9,000
had
classes
completed
of
every
their
ten
[Mil anpower
No Longer Wasted
[D)EvELoP
U.S. SECRETARY of Labor W. WilPresident
UAW
and
lard Wirtz
MENT
meeting in Detroit, represent the
two forces which worked together
reality — the
to make MDTA a
Kennedy Administration and the
labor movement.
of our Human Resources
RAINING
of those retrained have already
been placed in new jobs.
According to the federal govern-
the Jobless for New Skills
Aler
at a
here
seen
Reuther,
P.
Walter
be
will
more
100,000
ment,
in
training by next year. But that’s
still not enough, says UAW Presiwho
Reuther,
P.
Walter
dent
points out that in Sweden, 1% of
of Statesmanship
total
the
every year.
per cent
One
to
comes
force
retrained
is
force
labor
work
U.S.
of the
700,000,
or
seven
and
Presi-
times as many as the Labor Department says will be in training
next year. To put it another way,
even if the projection for next
year holds true, only about 3% of
the nation’s unemployed will be in
in Solidarity House in Detroit, pro-
vides the liaison between the union
and its locals and the various govmanageand
agencies
ernment
ments involved in the MDTA program, “‘but it’s all well worth the
effort.
training by then.
It’s just
a beginning,
dent Kennedy has asked Congress
of another
for an appropriation
all government
$836 million for
training programs through 1968.
“We in the trade union move-
says
ment,”
“are
Reuther,
hearted in our support
principle behind MDTA,
whole-
for the
and, in
spite of our criticism of some
tails of its administration, we
lieve that it has made a start
ward great accomplishments In
at
criticisms are aimed
“Qur
both
difficulties.
of enormous
face
Act
the
solely
improving
and
strengthening
debetothe
its admin-
itself and
diistration, and any amendments
rected to that end will have our
support.”
vigorous
the
elimination
funds”
training program possible — this
one at the Michigan College of
Mining and Technology at Houghton, Mich, Left to right: Albert
Gazvoda, MESC; J. R. Van Pelt,
president of Michigan Tech, and
Ralph Noble, director of extension
services for Mich, Tech.
training center in Marquette,
instructor John
University area
provision
the
of
of
not
the
law,
provided
states have
ment
basic
literacy
of functional
work skills, which many
2)
training
for
1)
“matching
most
funds;
Mbt
ae
welding
om
fr
e
ic
dy
a
s
get
h,,
Mic
ee,
aun
ART KING of Neg
hern Michigan
rt
No
the
at
ss
cla
TA
MD
an
in
)
ght
(ri
Teigen
include
amendments
“Such
the
since
suc h
develop-
and
un-
employed need to make use of fur3)
ther occupational training, and
liberalization of payment of training allowances to youths,
‘Now Is the Time
To Make Real
oy be
em
past
the time for the
affirmatively
and
§
ties of every
Ameri-
adequately
to secure, guarantee and
make
effective
the
constitutional libercan
ocrac
long
Congress
of the
United States to act
the Promises
O
IS
without
regard
to
race,
creed
or
x
color...
“All Americans of good will . . . of
every race, creed, color and political
persuasion—must join together in the
spirit of human brotherhood and find
answers to this great moral problem
in the light of reason through rational and responsible action.”
—wWalter P, Reuther
9
Xe
if
or
ny
m
“i
Ne
THE spotlight of American ideals and morality swung from the historic March on
Washington to Congress this month.
In the aftermath of U.S. history's largest
civil rights demonstration, directed by A.
Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, important Congressional committees were considering the
crucial civil rights bill proposed by President
Kennedy.
In the Senate, the Commerce Committee
put its stamp of approval on a public accommodations section tied to the Constituion’s Interstate Commerce Clause.
In the House, a Judiciary subcommittee
okayed two sections of a civil rights measure.
*
»
BOTH the dramatic March, which brought
more than 210,000 Americans to Washington in support of civil rights, and the demands reaching Congress from all sections of
the U.S. for passage of the Kennedy-proposed
measure had strong religious support.
Numerous in the massive throng of marhers, for instance, were ministers of various
Protestant churches from all sections of the
nation and members of their congregations,
Catholic priests and lay people, and Jewish
rabbis and members of their synagogues.
Among the leaders of the March itself were
high Catholic, Protestant and Jewish churchmen. Here are excerpts from the speeches at
the Lincoln Memorial of some of the religious
leaders of the Washington March:
‘Now
‘A
is
i
special
the
blessing...’
3
time...”
E Reverend Martin Luther King
Jr.,
president
of
the
Southern
Christian Leadership Conference:
“We
spot
to
have
remind
come
to
America
this
hallowed
of
the
fierce
urgency of now. This is no time to
engage in the luxury of cooling off or
to take
the
tranquilizing
drug
of
gradualism. Now is the time to make
real
Now
and
the
promises
is the time to rise
desolate
valley
of
democracy.
from
the dark
of segregation
to
the sunlit path of racial justice. Now
is the time to open the doors of opPortunity to all of
God’s
children.
Now is the time to lift our nation
from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
“It would be fatal for the nation to
overlook the urgency of the moment
and to underestimate the determination of the Negro.
This sweltering
summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is
an invigorating autumn
of freedom
and
equality.
1963
is not
an
end
but
a beginning.
Those who hope that
the Negro needed to blow off steam
and w
ot be content will have a
Tude a
ing if the nation returns
to
‘We
business
as
usual. ,
.”
HE
Most
come
problem
in
is
faith...’
Reverend
O’Boyle, Roman
op of Washington:
“We
aliens.
Patrick
A.
Catholic Archbish-
ask a special blessing for those
men and women who have been leaders in the struggle for justice and
harmony among races. As Moses of
old, they have gone before their people to a land of promise.
Let that
promise quickly become a reality, so
that the ideals of freedom .. . will
prevail in our land.”
aie
Eugene
Carson
Blake,
executive head of the United Presbyterian Church in the U:S. and vice
chairman of the Commission on Religion and Race of the National Coun-
cil of Churches:
“We
made
and
come
us
for
in
and
our
faith
gave
His
salvation
the fears and hatred
prevented
racial
love
the
justice
revealed
reconciles into
of every color,
respond
Him.”
in
.
silence...’
Reverend
that
Son
God
will
in
faith
We
Jesus
true
race
us
overrule
that so far have
establishment
.
for
who
come
Christ,
of
in
community
and nation
and
full
that
which
obedience
men
who
to
Res
the
“The
ica
silent
;G
Joachim
American
shameful
3
most
must
not
onlookers.
q
(pi
gy
Prinz, president of
Jewish Congress:
urgent,
problem
:
disgraceful
and
is silence . . . Amer-
become
It
a
must
nation
speak
of
up
and act, from the President on down,
not for the sake of the image, the
dream, the idea, the aspiration, but
for the sake of America itself. The
Pledge of Allegiance must become an
unshakable reality in a morally re-
united
and
renewed
America.”
i
eae
ese
eS
Folks
Back
Home
Want the
Test-Ban
Treaty
urge
treaty
Williams
Harrison
Sen.
most
(D.,N.J.)
peace.”
AIL on the nuclear test ban
treaty
poured into Washington, according to a UAW check with key senate
offices, as support for an end to
atmospheric
testing
grew
on
the
of a Senate vote.
Many of the letters followed
eve
UAW’s
appeal in the August issue of Solidarity for members to write to their
Senators and Congressmen in support
of the
Kennedy
President
by
described
treaty,
as a “step toward
peace.”
A mother whose child died of cancer in an upstate New York commu-
nity was typical of the writers of letters many Senators
got asking
for
support of the treaty:
“We know the suffering our child
and our family has experienced, and
local wrote:
The president of a UAW
treaty
world
“The limited nuclear test ban
is a considerable step toward
peace.”
groups
Right-wing
Senate
Senators
where
and
mail,
with
most
although
any-
running
folders
those
Local
UAW
from
a “step
as
Hartke
Vance
Sen.
rate
gauge
over
ate
of public
staffer
told
opinion,”
the
UAW,
“But
when
of
weeks
3,000 letters during the last
before the Senate vote, and his mail
will provide helpful information and
added insight into the problems.”
McNamara,
that
reported
Michigan,
Democrat
got
he
ran 2 to 1 in support of the treaty.
got
(D., Tenn.)
Sen. Albert Gore
which
treaty
the
to
favorable
said, “The treaty gives added light to
that flickering candle of hope we call
peace.”
of
Democrat
Sen. Vance Hartke,
Indiana, reported the most signatures
he got supporting the treaty came on
local
a petition circulated by UAW
662 in Anderson, Indiana. The petition contained 1,392 names in favor
of treaty ratification.
A”
Senators in states with
by the
checked
members
hard
working
states
to
is
1,392
by
the
close
never
a
Keating,
a
sians.”
This
out
often
who
important
issue.
comments
typical
the
of
reaching Senator Hartke said:
Logansport, Indiana — “Everyone I
have talked to in this town, without
exception, is in favor of this treaty
same
But
completely
accu-
ten
write
afraid
am
I
I urge
...
none
you
will
them
of
to the voice of the people.”
generations.”
ture
and
world
the
of
population
ent
to the
hazard
health
the
change
lis-
to
strongly
repre-
it
but
“It is my
—
Indiana
Evansville,
earnest desire that it—the treaty—be
overapproved by the Senate by
whelming majority. This will accomplish something which has been the
aim of our government for some years
and it at least is one step toward
sanity in our international relations.”
Garrett, Indiana — “The eliminawill greatly
fallout
tion of nuclear
to conend
that “An
emphasized
taminating the air with radioactivity
the
poisons the earth’ was
which
most
treaty
sents an area in which the two powers can agree and perhaps work to
build a basis of mutual trust in the
future.”
many
by
take
“The
—
itself
in
step
small
a
not
may
“It
that first step...”
Richmond, Indiana
is
...”
but I feel we should
much
mean
fu-
a peaceful
—
Indiana
Hayden,
and
children
life expectancy
long
and
ture
Republican
supporters
treaty
the
of
pointed
also was
to have
grandchildren
letter
can’t trust the Rus-
that “You
theme
these
gap.
Kenneth
Often
our
want
do,
you
know
we
as
We,
children.
other
have
expect
and
son
nine-month-old
to
of New York, got the most mail—a
total of over 13,000 letters, of which
4,600 were opposed to the treaty.
Many of the letters repeated the
which
in
carefully.
Some
UAW
UAW
was overwhelmingly in support of the
right-wingers
but
treaty,
ban
test
were
very
Sen.
showed
office
Washington
petition
a
Indiana — “We have a
OCHESTER,
a Sen-
the nation is faced with a matter of
life and death, Senators study their
Pat
signed
Ind.,
Anderson,
662,
was
persons.
ing the treaty, the right-wing mail
the
during
upswing
a sharp
took
Senate hearings on the treaty.
Sen.
received
Ind.)
(D.,
which
treaty
of the
fayor
in
of mail
flood
the
In
for the
to vote
sign-
1 for
1 to 2 to
5 to
from
the
bombarded
reported
go
to
families
we do not want other
through this, too.”
in
described
Kennedy
President
which
toward
letters—and
letters,
Letters,
pres=-
fu-
3
The Skilled Trades Man Reports
the
in
tradesmen
skilled
UAW
United States and Canada are being
Internacalled to the 10th Annual
Conference
Trades
Skilled
tional
which will convene at 10:00 a.m. Jan.
23,
1964,
25,
and
24
be
The Call should
October 15.
meetings
with
to be called, along
expected
union
unions
in local
or area
regional
Many
Chicago,
at
of
meetings
Ill.
by
are
local
tradesmen,
skilled
to prepare resolutions and ideas for
the coming conference.
The period since our last Interna~
tional Skilled Trades Conference has
in_employwith Presi-
upsurge
seen a dynamic
ment opportunities and,
dent Reuther as director, the Skilled
Trades Department has revitalized its
and
program
services.
For example, the number of ReTrades
Skilled
gional and/or Area
throughout
increased
has
meetings
the United States and Canada. More~been a marked inover, there has
crease
grams
in
in
signing of apprentice
large as well as small
porations and
In addition,
partment
Aerospace
trades
shops
the Skilled
has been
working
Department
problems,
Trades
on
particularly
with
procor-
De~-
the
skilled
appren-
The Department considers
ticeships,
it important that bona fide appren-
ticeships
growing
be
instituted
industry,
in
this
Journeymen Cards also are on
increase, with a program to clear
cards in six to eight weeks,
fastthe
the
Problems
aerospace
the
at
detail
in
in
of skilled tradesmen
industry
meeting
a
were
of
discussed
Vice
UAW
President Leonard Woodcock, director
of the union’s Aerospace Department,
and
Skilled
Stevenson,
William
Department
Trade
Subsequently,
Skilled
UAW’s
Aerospace
and
Douglas
the
assistant
director.
representat ives of
Department
Trades
Department
Aircraft
Co.
with
met
to
discuss
apprenticeships
die,
and
tool
to
millwrights,
It
repair and electricians:
machine
g
did indicate an interest in developin
apprenticetechnician
an electronic
ship.
company
it “would
it
could
by
presented
was
curriculum
A
UAW.
to
have
negotiate
Management
study
this’
intelligently
the
to
said
before
Since
led,
a subsequent meeting was cancel
glas
we have not heard from the Dou
Aircraft on the question of appren
ticeship.
At UAW’s
had
enson
office in Santa Ana, Steva four-hour meeting on
Aeroour drive to organize the Ford
nautics plant, now part of the com
There seemed
pany’s Philco division,
to
be
cards
a
genuine
signed
up
bid for an NLRB
installation,
enthusiasm
so
UAW
election
can
to
get
again
at this Ford
the
by
called
a
of
purpose
Department
of
Labor
in
Training
of Apprentice
Bureau
Washington was to determine whethand
Development
er the Manpower
Training Act is interfering in estabrses
lished apprenticeship training cou
was
UAW’s Skilled Trades Department
Building
AFL
as were
represented
Unions
Trades
another
Put
the
agement
was
em-
question
be-
whether
advantage
taking
is
the
way,
meeting
of
a number
and
organizations
ployer
fore
The company indicated it is not inin apprenticeships as they
terested
pertain
basic
The _
meeting
of
man-
the
as tool
MDTA to splinter a trade such
ma~
and die, and train single-purpose
lathe
chine tool operators such as tool
hands,
tool
tool
boring
planers
Vigorous discussion
of certain
legations
unions that federal
used to segmentize
on altrades
centered
building
funds were being
certain trades
repre-
Trades
Skilled
UAW
The
and
shaper,
tool
milling,
training
that
out
pointed
sentative
operamachine
tool
single-machine
tors
was
a
definite
policy that it would
bona
with established
ticeship.
The
upgrade
to
purpose
skills
of
of
breach
interfere
appren-
not
fide
this
of
MDTA
production
Act
Is
work-
to fraged
ers. It never was intend
trade, The
mentize the Tool and Die
that
pointed out, for example,
UAW
operators
of tool machine
hundreds
in Detrolt
now are unemployed
UAW
out
to
ficlals
representatives
the
that
Department
MDTA
also
of
funds
pointed
Labor
are
of-
being
for
tool,
lathe,
and
training
institutional
used
that courses running as long as 52
weeks are being conducted to train
grinder
hands.
This
is a gross
was
act
intended
the
in
contained
violation
to do,
and
of what
the
insisted.
they
principles
the
for
is all
UAW
“The
mill
boring
mill,
Develop-
Manpower
ment and Training Act,” said William
director of the
assistant
Stevenson,
unemployed
were
or
to
supposed
was
leaving
jobs
munity.
typical
“A
have
throwing
thousands
of
skills
in
out of work.
to move into
certain
quires
Virginia
turing process,
is supposed to
order
plants
that
they
community.”
If
any
UAW
been
hun-
closed,
miners
coal
its
manufac-
MDTA
this 1s where
function
and
that
where
be
desires
If a company
this location and re-
“Classes are set
taught and exposed
production
is to
this
mines
of coal
dreds
com-
particular
of
West
in
found
automation
through
example
who
people
upgrade
their
Act
“This
Department.
Trades
Skilled
have
coal
and
to certain
assembly
can
Local
man
moved
Js not
miners
factory
lines
the
to
in
new
their
receiving
SKILLED
the
of
copies
bundle
or if any InTRADES NEWSLETTER,
not
did
Representative
ternational
the
advise
please
his copy,
recelve
Skilled
as
Trades
possible
Department
as
soon
eS
ee
ee
ee
ne een
4,000
UAW Members
went to the Union’s
°63 Summer Schools
bv
I—to learn the facts
2—to
discuss the facts
with each other
relate the facts
to the UAW’s programs
UA
members
are
more sharply
the complexities
face
their
union,
world
their
A
greater
that
the
of the
problems
their
number
simple
becoming
aware of
that
country
are
and
convinced
answers
that
once
could solve problems no longer will.
They know:
Colle ective bargaining is more com-
lation is a greater factor in
achievi g the economic growth rate
that
will
insure
prosperity
Government
must
Reactionary
forces
sponsibility
clamoring
must
be
more
assume
fed
loudly
shackled,
for
all.
more
re-
fear
are
by
that
government
labor
crim-
Ped and the clock of social progress
turned back
For these reasons and more, over
4.000
UAW
members
went
to
the
Union’s
1963
Summer
Schools,
in
Search
of facts,
solutions and new
ways to mobilize their fellow members
behind
a
constructive
range
of
by
workshops
activity
and
in
a
wide
administration
Because
of
the
“Core
program,”
these 4,000 have
returned
to their
locals, shops, homes and communities
more informed about—their nation’s
economic needs .. . the vast numbers
of
deprived
people
hidden
in
the
midst of prosperity
. the galloping rise of technology and automation . . . the complexity of international relations
. and the obstructionists they face.
Because
of
this
can
—
stronger.
and
will
knowledge,
make
In welding a program for the future, UAW
members must face certain facts...
program
That's over 1,000 more than attended the 1962 Summer Schools.
The backbone
of these schools is
the “Core program”
(see below), reinforced
Here are some challenges the UAW faces...
the
MOBILIZING THE MEMBERSHIP will be a different task than it once was (see chart at the right).
FACT: Between a quarter and a third. of JAW
members in two of the major auto companies have
less than five years’ seniority . . «
FACT:
same
Nearly
companies
16%
of the UAW
are over 55 and
over 20 years’ seniority.
FACT: Many key local
about membership apathy
meetings.
members
1614%
in these
to 20%
AGED 55 Yas.
MORE THAN
AWD OVER
20 VRS.
Yas SENIORITY
“19,686
18.1%
“23,094 mrs
21,2 1a
sole |
13.4
19,682
15.9%!
$9,558
er
sinys
ae
AGED 25 Yas.
ano UNDER
GMi
3.327
TESS THAN
§ YRS. SEMORITY
16,5 9 |
15.3 %|
=
97,391
[ne
25,a"
120.3%
37.985
96%)
130.8%
have
union
officers
complain
and lack of attendance at
they
UAW
COMMUNICATION
WITH
MEMBERS and the
community present new problems (see chart at the
right).
FACT: Realiable survey shows that the average
American adult watches TV almost 37 hours a week
—and only 7% of them mistrust TV.
FACT: The conservative business interests that
dominate newspaper publishing also are encroaching
on TV. As shown in the chart on the right, based on
statements of former FCC Chairman Newton Minow,
three newspaper chains own 45 daily papers, 25 magazines, 17 radio stations and 12 TV stations.
WORKFORCE
IN MILLIONS
60
a
WORKFOR
Tora
FOR UNION MEMBERSHIP
se
ORGANIZING NEW WORKERS has become
creasingly difficult (see chart at the right).
FACT: Union membership
between 1955 and 1962.
FACT:
increased
Job opportunities have grown
industries, while unionized
only
in-
“as
30,000
in non-union
industries have declined.
FACT: Between 1945 and 1962, organized workers
dropped from 35.5% to 31.4% of the eligible workforce.
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seat caasesnee
reer
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Second
the
vast
now
technological
occurring
tions.
—
The
in
changes
office
three-day
occupa-
conference,
collar
dustry,
workers
also
will
in
class
paid
postage
It
14
and
Labor
about
be
15
held
at
September
the
at
13,
FDR-AFL-CIO
Experts from top educational
institutions, industry, labor, and
ment
state
and
local
govern-
agencies will be on hand
give
their
cussion
group
than
local
and
views,
sessions,
stimulate
take
part
Fraser
in
collar
employes
attend.
As
we
Chairman
go
are
to
dis-
said. More
UAW
white
expected
press
of
to
buzz
130 delegates from
unions and units of
Dick
the
to
Rockwell
are scheduled to attend from
Local 174, UAW.
In addition, other unions are
being
invited
to
send
representatives, the UAW
official
added.
day
THEME
session
of
will
the
automation
and
its
white collar workers
jobs,
he
Fraser
said.
charged,
trying
effect
on
and their
In
the
industry
deliberately
to
main,
has
been
minimize
the effects that automation
is
haying
on the jobs of office,
technical and engineering em-
ployes
“Moreover,
ing
newer
can
ment
faced
said.
is
on
acute
future,
and
propose
a
us
to
begin
new
elect
UAW
White
a
a
it
Im-
it must
stepped-up
will
as
in the
be
basis
THE
three-day
conference:
Weber,
Joseph
Davidson
operates
Brothers,
some
50
ness
at Roma
industry.
the
professor
at
dele-
officers
Security
of Chicago
Local
member
of
the
Wood,
John
of
Man-
coordinator
the Manpower
and
national
government
in
of
Collar
Steward
Committeemen’s
start
Training
Thursday,
September
at
the Local
Hall, 6495
Warren
The
class
wil be six
two-hour
P.M,
to
The
9:00
sessions
course
P.M
will
How
to
write
grievances;
How
with
management
from
deal
and
will
19th,
West
weekly
17:00
with:
and
process
to negotiate
representa~
tives; The art of effective bar-
gaining;
How
to
present
Scholle Al
Cavanagh,
Reuther,
Dingell,
John
Phil
Ed-
George
Hart,
Victor
Mc-
Pat
Namara, G. Mennen Williams
and Ted Ogar.
Reverend Hugh White of the
Detroit Industrial Mission will
give the Invocation.
Tickets are available at $5.00
each
through
your
plant
com-
mittee and at the Local Office.
The Committee who planned
the program and who will conduct the party are: Floyd Bolda,
Alex
f
Penman,
Sec
ee]
tion
Dr. Mel
councilman
ciology
Wayne
State
Univer-
sity, Detroit—spokesman
local community.
Irving
tive
Bluestone,
assistant
Walter
to UAW
P. Reuther
In
addition,
Regional
son,
Directors
Kenneth
Morris, George
McCusker
and
who
are
W.
Merrelli,
Barden
Joseph
Young
Robinson,
are
scheduled
the
to
Ken
Con-
take
part in an “open
forum”
discussion of servicing and organ
izing techniques as part of the
Conference.
your
HARRY
throughout
that
Council
Michigan,
they
will
petition
Governor Romney and the State
Legislature
for tax exemptions
on
the
first
valuation
of
$3,000
the
elderly
65 or over,
of the
the
home
retired
actually
assessed
in
people,
live.
views;
other
Human
factors
ing process,
The class is
Local
174 and
Industrial
in
Relations
the
The
clubs | will
an-
which
age
and
bargain-
field,
was
Paul
Hammer,
John
retary;
Ed
lLewkowicz,
John
Staples,
Fred
Lockridge,
Albert
Laws,
Wilton
Gretka:
Stanley
Cole,
James, Charles Stewart, James
Robson and Blaine Davis.
of Senior
affiliated
tions
also
and
state-wide
seek
all
on
point
tax,
out
senior
that
if enacted,
deductions
persons 65
and
and
a
Institute,
174
ren, at 7:00
tember
Hall,
19th,
6495
West
p.m, Thursday,
War-
Sep-
Nov.
raises
oper-
for
195 agencies, will
iar
receiving
is
torchlighter
chosen
organization
of
exemp-
drugs
personal
citizens
state
should
also
to
are
who
represent
of
Dykstra,
of
persons
benefited
tens
the
the
by
all
wé
of
ages
1960
°
include
exemptions for
over consistent
WHEN
ton which
the
from
the
SHE
sets
top
PRESSES
a flame
the
of
the
but-
roaring
§4-foot |
her
to use
ability
lower
in the mus-
tension
of abnormal
not
because
adequately
extremities
cles. Both of her legs are inher arms are
volved, although
She cannot walk or stand
not.
position.
upright
in an
e
wears
a pel-
TORCHLIGHTER
THE
full-length leg braces with
vie
learn-
has
she
Recently,
belt.
ed to walk slowly with the aid
of crutches
In addition to therapy at the
ated by her
3
i
every day
at home
annual
|“give once for all” fund-raising
She has been an outcampaign.
patient at the hospital’s Physical
March,
since
Clinic
Therapy
income
under
law,
James
Mr
of
daughter
the
thousands
pist
believes
and,
quite
ally
thera-
and
doctor
Nancy’s
eventu-
will
she
crutches
without
walk
likely.
braces, She will start
this fall at one of the
paedic
therapy
part
where
schools
will
of her
without
school
ortho-
physical
be continued
program,
daily
as &
visits to
Nancy’s weekly
year
last
Hospital
dren's
Chilwere
or
out-
torch at the foot of Woodward
in downtown Detroit, on }/among 100,567 visits to the hosue
en
Av
|
s,
osal
prop
r
thei
of
ort
supp
In
15, Nancy | pital’s out-patient
clinics
of October
night
the
said
cil
Coun
zens
Citi
or
the Seni
of the
| will be a universal symbol
Children’s Hospital, at 5224 St.
|
this
all
on
appear
will
She
Detroit,
ve
downtown
dri
|
in
Antoine
prop
that
“We are well aware
literature and adver
sick or inmpaign
ca
cares for all children,
esnec
are
es
erty and other tax
in the campaign films
the age of 12 who
tisements,
under
jured,
ice
serv
lic
pub
ary to support
sion
| that
society.
us and
benefit
But
to
respect
the
do
feel
housing,
and
we
of
rest
that
in
and
be
given
special
re
consideration
whose
chance
dollar
er
should not
of
earning
indeed
is
be denied.”
anoth-
remote
on
The
in |
|
|
Wayne
University.
If ability to pay is given the
in erecting
it deserves
The class is free and open to priority
who
we,
then
all, No advance registration will la tax
structure
live
be neces:
. If you plan to atare 65 and older and who
|
and
s
ome
inc
d
tend these free classes, come to on sharply reduce
|
Local
through
which
$19,750,000.
Mrs.
and
for
with those applied
federal income tax
15
Oct.
funds
Nancy,
use
The
seek
“torchlighter”
treatment at Children’s Hospltal, a Torch Drive service.
purchases
intended
food
ating
August
on
old
the
does
she
that
means
Beacons- |That
Farms, who have
1322
15th annual Torch Drive,
Drive,
The
as
named
held
be
The
tax
sales
7.
years
five
for the
to
Pointe
Grosse
was
24,
69
citizens
Michigan
to
spect
ex
drug
and
food
older,
d
lan
co-sponsored
by
are needed and should |
the Labor
and emptions
Relations
Special
Dkystra,
Nancy
SOUTHWELL
Senior Citizens Ask Homestead
And Sales Tax Exemptions
The Detroit
Citizens,
and
Nor-
;and
Of Member of Local 174
Michigan
Patter-
Di-
District
Torchlighter is Daughter
for the indus-
co-sponsoring
ference,
a
S.
America
of
Workers
Manager,
Circulation
Younglove,
Charles
Detroit
President,
Macioce,
E. Forbes,
Torch-
1963
5, the
Dykstra,
Founda-
Assistant to Walter P. Reuther, President, International Union UAW 7. Nancy’s “crown” indicates the
amount of the goal for this year’s drive. Nancy is the daughter
of James Dykstra, a tool and d ie maker at Ternstedt Engineer
ing, Warren Division, Local 174 UAW.
spokesman
E.
AFL-CIO News;
29 United Steel
Matthews,
man
President
UAW’s
Robert
Council;
Trades
Michigan State
réctor, District
administra-
—
at the Conference
trial union view.
for
left, Marion
are, from
They
Nancy
met
of directors,
board
Building
Ravitz Detroit city
and professor of so-
at
Four smiles for a smiling Torchlighter.
Four Labor leaders who are members of the United
lighter.
agency.
to Start Thurs., Sept. 19th
course
wards,
Pat
De-
Course in Steward Training:
A
conduct
Woodcock,
Swainson,
B.
Chairman;
of
Research
to
Greathouse, August
Mayor
Barbour,
agency.
Helen
Leonard
Mazey,
power and Training Commission
—spokesman for a state govern-
ment
Council
affair.
The inyited guests include
Emil
P. Reuther,
Walter
and
Michigan
Joint
the
Inc., which
department
Commission
September
A full evening of entertainment
starting with dinner at
7:00 P.M. followed by refreshments and dancing is planned
by the Committee set up by the
of
president
evening,
25th,
Max M. Horton, longtime director of the Michigan Employment
1963
Hall, 27777 Schoolcraft,
Wednesday
stores
in Michigan,
Ohio
and
New York—spokesman for busiand
September,
PLETED)
A testimonial dinner honoring
Harry Southwell, retired President of Local 174, will be held
deliver the conferpresentation.
Ross,
Ind.
Testimonial Dinner
relations
at the
Business Administra-
will
main
Sela ile 9
To Be Honored at
par-
for
Mel Ltt
EDITION
Harry Southwell
by-laws,
MAIN
scheduled
nounced
doing
Conference.”
addition, Conference
also
1s
employes;
squarely,
“We
“This
with
as
more
mediate
the
computers
and
will get
gates
model
that
nation
the
In
for Install-
Fraser
problem
this
plans
eause
drastic
displaceof white collar person-
nel,”
ticipants
three-
white-collar
be
ARE
IMPLEMENT
partment of the U. S. Department of Labor—spokesman for a
Hug,
Standard Office Division, and
Steve Borovich, Chairman
of
the
Massey
Ferguson
Engineering
Laboratory
Division,
MAIN
HERE
up
& AGRICULTURAL
Indianapolis,
Dr. William Stirton, vice president and director of the University
of
Michigan’s
Dearborn
Center—spokesman at the Conference for educational institu
tions.
Center near Port Huron,
60 miles north of Detroit.
national,
Fraser said.
—who
ence’s
the
Department.
will
draw
tion of the University
founding of the union’s Michigan
White-Collar
Advisory
Council, said Douglas Fraser,
UAW International Executive
Board
member-at-large
and
director of the union’s Technical, Office and Professional
(TOP)
and
industrial
School of
in-
mark
Council
Dr. Arnold
a
landmark
in the
U.S. by a
major
union
representing
white
;
{
if
7
AEROSPACE
UAW White Collar Council
To Meet at Labor Center
White collar workers will be
talking about new, threatening
automation-caused
job problems when the UAW
holds its
first conference this month
on
|
AUTOMOBILE,
televi
torchlighter’s
father
is
na tool and die maker for Ge
Eneral Motors at Ternstedt
is
a
He
Warren,
rineering,
He
Se NaE AL UAW Local 174,
and his wife have three other
have
children, none of whom
They are Ruth,
any disability
Donna,
14; and
Jr,
Jim
16:
attend
Jim
and
Ruth
nine,
Grosse
Donna
High
School,
studies at Grosse Pointe
Christian
Nancy
Pointe
Country
Day
is a spastic
School,
paraplegic
hospital
}need
care,
|patient
or
residence,
pay
All
diseases
inpatient
regardless of race,
to
financial ability
from
}childhood
are
adolescence
accidents
and
of
through
birth
Refertreated.
are
}ral arrangements
communicable diseases,
pital is open 24 hours
tor
made
The hosa day
parwhen
charged
are
Fees
Services,
pay.
to
able
are
ents
however,
all
who
locations
are
need
from
made
them
the
available
through
Torch
to
al-
Drive,
8
ee
a
ee
Page 2
West
CONVEYOR
Avenue,
Side Local
ROLAND
CAL
MAX
GEORGE
President
BLAINE
Vice-President
DAVIS,
MARTHA
BRADLEY,
Member
AFL-CIO
Trustees
Sergeant-at-Arms
Labor
Press
Council.
REPORTS
Labor Endorses
UF Torch Drive
By ROLAND
HUBBARD
GARLAND
Many of the members and families of Local 174 and the
UAW have been helped through the agencies of the United
Foundation.
It is our opportunity of
2
helping make our community
Ss
RS
ability to give.
A payroll
deduction program
has
been designed to lessen the
burden of the giver, whereby only a small amount will
be deducted from the pay
check each time. The employee
gives
only
when
working.
No
deductions
are made if’he is laid off
or ill.
ourselves
and
our
families?
Have we lived life to its fullest?
Have we fulfilled our dreams?
Has
the
desire
for material
things over-shadowed our real
goals?
One
beautiful blazing
sunset is worth a million dollars.
In
short,
haye
of
1963.
We
beautiful,
you
enjoyed
luscious
golden
certainly
the
hours
hope
so!
And if you haven’t, it still is not
too late.
We
have
val,
the
wild
our
great
grapes,
fall
the
festi-
pump-
kins, the harvest moon, the autumn haze, the beautiful fields
of wheat and shocked corn, the
frosty mornings and, last but
not
least,
the
of old man
ply
have
admire
“crowning
glory”,
gesture
winter.
to
them,
get
in the
teeth
We just sim-
out
don’t
there
we?
and
Michigan is one of greenest,
most
fertile,
most
beautiful
states in our union—to me, anyway, and
no matter
where
I
might go I would leave a part
of me here—and sing its praises.
e
AND YET OUR LEGISLATORS,
conservation, labor and industry
leaders seem content with mere
slogans such as water wonder-
land,
can,
ete.
and
There
is much
should,
be done
port and promote
to attract tourists.
We
must
build
that
to ex-
our state and
up
our
wild-
life, stock our streams and
lakes with all varieties of fish,
AS A RESULT OF THE shortage of funds in the Detroit
School system, the tuition fees for apprentice training
has
been greatly increased.
Tuition fees for apprentices are spelled out in most
contracts, with the company paying the fees, however,
they are
not required to pick up the increase.
_ This could cost apprentices many hundreds of dollars for
their class room studies each year, a sum many
of them cannot afford.
___A delegation from the skilled trades departmen
t of the
UAW, Local Union Presidents and AFL Building
Trades
representatives met with Dr. Brownell, head of
the Detroit
—
system, to try to work out a solution to this pro
bem.
George Lyons, Education Director of the Local, and myself attended this session. We discussed the possibility of
receiving help through the Federal Aid to Educat
ion program
for these classes.
We also pointed out to Dr. Brownell that this cou
ld be
subject of negotiations when the contracts are reo
pened next
year. We requested that the school board cancel
the increase
until the matter can be negotiated with the companies
next
year.
Dr. Brownell promised to take this request before
the
school board and we are hopeful that we will get
a
the raising of tuition fees until a solution can be delay in
found.
Mediation Service Aid
Joins UAW Legal Staff
Washington
Stephen
Ljwho was recently named UAW
Schlossberg has resigned as spe- general counsel.
In announcing the resignation,
cial assistant to the director of
Dir. William E. Simkin
the Federal Mediation & Con- FMCS
ciliation
Service
to
become
as-
said
Schlossberg
would
be
suc-
by
Herbert
Schmertz,
sociate general counsel for the ceeded
who has been the agency’s genAuto Workers.
eral counsel, and that Schmertz
A one-time organizer for the }in turn would be replaced by
Ladies’
Garment
Workers, |H. T. Herrick, for the past two
Schlossberg will handle UAW le- years special assistant to Asgal matters in Detroit under Jo- sistant Sec, of Labor James J.
seph L. Rauh, Jr., of Washington Reynolds,
ete.
pollution,
in
the
plants
smog,
and
Now hear this—Come out from out
of them. We love our people
under that beautiful fall harvest and
want to keep them.
moon and give a listen to your
Actually, what we want is for
old Firestoner once again.
Real Michigan to be the grea
test, not
cool, man—the evenings ‘that is. only to
us who live here but to
Fall is a time for enjoyment. our whole
country.
We want
Fall is a time for reflection. Fall beautiful
clean
cities,
picturis a time for remembrance, for esque, gree
n, lovely countrysides,
nostalgia.
Fall is a wonderful, neat homes,
cultural surroundglorious time of the year.
ings and these are not beyond
What have we done with the the
realm
of possibility.
We
spring and summer? What have need only
to work at it,
last gallant
We in organized labor completely endorse the United
ROLAND GARLAND
Foundation. We are a part of
the UF. Team, an important
part along with management, religious groups, and
civic organizations to do our fair share to help those less fortuna
te.
air
smoke,
the never to be forgotten fall
colors, the color tours, the red
oaks, maples and birches all in
their beautiful new suits, their
A fair share contribution
is based on a member's
September,
against
we done to enrich the memory
of the “golden days” of 1963, for
The 15th Annual United Foundation Torch Drive, to
raise funds in support of the 195 community health and social agencies in the tri-county area, is scheduled for October
15 through November 7.
a better place to live.
SOLIDARITY
1963
|
—
FAX
By OREN
Secretary
Guide; ED KWASNIEWSKI,
Editor,
PRESIDENT
TERRANA,
Secretary
Recording
8B. LOCKRIDGE,
LYONS,
PHIL
OF
a
Our State is Nice in All Seasons
But Fall in Michigan is the Most
174
10. Phone TY. 8-5400,
Financial
THOMPSON,
ZANDER,
ALBERT
THE
GARLAND,
FLETCHER,
JAMES
Detroit
EDITION
FIRESTONE
West Side Local 174 Conveyor Edition is the official publication of
Amolgomoted
West Side Local 174, UAW-AFL-CIO,
6495 West
Worren
eS
turtles, ete.
Fishing
is almost
done in lower Michigan, as we
know.
We want Michigan to take the
lead in legislation against wilful
water
pollution
individual,
and
I.
We
by
which
want
industry
means
strict
or
you
laws
demand
and
it!
e
SILHOUETTES:
to learn
Hale,
who
of the
was
well liked.
Glad to hear
We were sorry
death
of Henry
our egg man
Brother
Cox
Leo”
Kickman denies that he drives
a road grader on his days off,
Says he was only sitting on it.
Have
you
collected
any
of
those silver dollars Simpson dug
out of his back yard?
Late
(but
good)
vacations:
Wayne
Huff to Colorado
(watch
those altitudes Helen).
Walt Antosic to Florida.
Jack
Walt
De-
why can’t you go there?
says you never get further
than Bay City.
And that Farmer has to have
a ball of twine to find his way
home.
Blaine Davis—somewhere in
northern Michigan.
Looking
for wall-eyes. I told you where
to get them Blaine.
Go there,
man.
in
And
Ted
for
you
Gronda
Canada
some
Stony
too,
went
to pray
Canadian
to Las
Jarvis.
somewhere
(in
French)
pickerel.
Vegas
(his
hasn’t consented yet).
Line #9 Joe spent a week
New York
them Joe.
GOOD
City.
There,
°
(REAL GOOD)
I
wife
in
told
HOUSE-
KEEPING:
As we have often
said before, we are in favor of,
and will do everything we can
to help, any and all good housekeeping programs, not just the
sporadic intensive kind, gener-
ally instituted in slow times, but
rather
regular continuous
main-
tenance of a good clean shop
each and every day, good times
or bad.
Work clothes, shoes,
‘Is Anybody
Home?’
safety are expensive
5
Possible91 cf
We cannot have this with ar
skeleton janitor force or, where>
oil and water leaks are not re--sr
paired, if janitors are laid off tio
or not replaced for sickness orto :
vacations,
it
puts
too
much
of to
¢
a load on the department. We ow
are not too concerned here with tly
cigarette butts or paper cups,
but oily, slick, wet floors, coyered with burrs, bolts, timbers,
etc. that rot our shoes and
cause injury are the concern
of our union officers.
Rest
room—since
I
Incidentally,
there
talk of getting the
back,
We welcome
new
our
business.
locker
But
room
2c
-yas
azar
brs
irs
under-
stand it has been approved,
why don’t we get that layatory on the first floor by the
Production Office?
We need
it, believe me,
Shipping has
one—much time saved,
is
lately?
and
and deserve the best
working conditions.
and
on the mend.
Dolinsky wants Vern to spend
that dime or he won’t meet him
at the Roostertail.
Have you talked to “Convention
health
has been
~19
fia
-aY
ont
hss
end
css
“mutt” job dof
it, and all{fe |
don’t
forget loox
and
parking gia
additional employment.
We need fsen
in
we
lot
facilities
are
inadequate
for tof :
more room in both.
There isi
plenty room for expansion in
ab f
the locker rooms south of the sot
main aisle. There is also room :o
o
the
parking
lot
to look ahead.
DRINKING
have
not
some
cross
but
have svar
e
FOUNTAINS
nearly
— we ow -
enough.
Inad
cases employees have toot
(at. the risk of bodily in--at
jury)
two
a drink
or
three
of water.
lines
Lost
lost production—fatigue.
to
get isy
time——sa1
economics,
time
clean
uniforms.
the
Mechanical
for the excellent
pickler,
The
Each
trees are
bright,
bush
a
And
decked
gay
it.
—-ino:
#gBy
-938
of ¥
of 5
tien
ort
in
colors exolos
bright
cloak 2isoin
does wear,
The earth smells sweetly
rant,
And fall is everywhere.
Enjoy
to
Department
job on the
Autumn:
ezeti
yoril
far ,
so! 4
narita
and‘ina
money saved!
Congratulations to the committee for their recent wage
negotiation.
And to Management for the opportunity to
have
¢
Mod- bol!
ern industry places great stress
on the fatigue element.
They.
prefer first floor rest rooms, not
out of any great compassion for
the working
man,
but rather
strictly
«
frag- -g:
September,
1963
CONVEYOR
EDITION
OF SOLIDARITY
FEDERAL SCREW WORKS
S oftball Champs!
The
s
Skilled Workers Needed
At Federal Screw Works
By NORMAN
Hi
folks,
J. MELOCHE
well
here
we
Just
to put
Teast
are
and
everyones
assure
you
mind
one
at
and
that there is no collusion
all
in this,
again
back
at the same old | allow me to state that this instand in the same old business.| sertion has the full knowledge
It seems that our swan song has and blessing of our organizer
turned into nothing more than and newly elected Veep at the
a@ wild goose revelie, for some local, Phil Terranna.
reason or other no one except
If anyone
who
reads
this
myself took it serious.
column has the necessary skill
Please
that at
steps I
for all
volved
umn
believe me
when
the time I felt
was taking were
concerned. The
in my return to
are
too
I say| to
that the
the best
steps inthis col-
myriad
and
folks, things
different
at
Screwe
off
This
AVON
called back
ae
Lincoln
Brass
team
the
won
season
championship
title
in the
To Work at Avon Tube
are in full swing
here
at
the seniority list back
We have had the
time.
this
best
now
year here
There
a motion
was
’57.
and
56
since
on
everyone
have
we
and
the July membership
made
meeting
ct
to
cancel the August meeting. There
was such a protest that the moWe had to
tion was withdrawn,
rent a hall for August because
ee
the Township
Hall 1s closed dur-
ing July and August. We rented
the American Legion Hall on 5th
Street for $10.00. So what happens?
We have about 15 or 16
people at the meeting. This just
doesn’t
THE
make
good
sense.
CHILDREN’S
PICNIC
Park in Utica. Everyone
and
they
said
a
at
he
knows it now, they were in the
office three times in one day.
It’s a shame that the same thing
doesn’t happen to Castleberry.
minutes
the
meeting
the company-union
month.
Ayoy
blew
we
if
that
Mr.
month
This
his
were
and
top
last
Mac-
decided
to
going
of
insist
the
in
that we have our say
we
grievance discussions, that
had better have a secretary take
We were in hopes that
notes.
would
minutes
the
no such-luck.
version
own
but
our
verbatim,
be
So we typed
posted
and
get more
We
them this month.
formal all the time.
their chil-
a
such
serve
people to
mittees.
on
time
better
Brown,
Al
hard
these
com-
"'So,,.,
is
This
me,.."
to
tempt
raid
gas
tax funds to balance
general fund budget
by
voiced
the
to
and
any
at-
weight
the state's
been
has
Good
Michigan
Roads Federation.
announced
Federation
The
that
proposals
it will fight
motorist taxes be used to flnance state police roar patrols
or
driver
education,
diverting
funds which have been constitutionally earmarked
since
1938 for highway purposes,
gas
declared
The Federation
and weight taxes collected from
be used only
motorists should
mainten“administration,
for
ance and construction, including
of
acquisition,
right-of-way
highways,
roads
and
streets.”
The
new
January
Constitution,
1, 1964, permits
effective
the
leg-
islature to define highway purposes but the Wederation wants
against
5130
Michigan,
ration,
was
filled
hue,
A.
Strecker,
Robert
in
the
Dona-
they
that
contends
also
failed to maintain adequate and
accurate records of hours worked
and wages paid employees.
that about
It is estimated
$15,250 in back wages are due
al-
of the
because
the
the
re-
and
enjoin
permanently
fur-
from
defendants
rsion
ti
- dive
an
traditional
principle maintained.
“Raids totaling in excess of
$20,000,00 are being discussed
and, if permitted, they would
wreck
and
Michigan’s
state, county
road
municipal
and
street
de ~
programs,”
construction
clares J. Gardner Martin, Lansing, Federation president.
“It
would
to halt state
provement
a costly
be
at
and
a
local
time
blunder
road
when
im-
in-
creasing traffic and congestion
establishes a need for speed-up
rather than a slow-down of construction.
“Modern roads, right In Michigan, have proven capable of reducing accidents up to 73 per
cent when compared with
quate roads they replace,
is no wiser investment
achieve
to
good roads
safety,”
inadeThere
than
traffic
noted
Quigley
1963,-the
wage
the
is engaged
corporation
that
Federal
employees
for
in
as of Sept.
minimum
engaged
in
interstate commerce, or in the
for comof goods
production
is $1.25 an hour. The
merce,
Fair Labor Standards Act also
of time
requires the payment
and one-half pay rate to these
employees for hours worked over
40 per workweek.
Bank Pays $24,700
To Employe Fired
During Union Drive
of
Vancouver,
Montreal
B.C.
has
made
settlement
of-court
The
of
an
Bank
out~-
$24,794
Bluck, an official of
W.
to M.
or to
the bank for 27 years pri
1961
in October
his dismissal
during
at
a
union
organizing
the branch here
Bluck was president
Employes
Association
of
Local
drive
Bank
387,
the Office Employes,
a unit
In adwhen he was discharged,
he redition to the settlement
pay,
ceived $1,850 in severance
of
none
orable
An
The complaint alleges that the
defendants failed to pay many
employees the required time and
hours
for
rate
pay
one-half
worked in excess of 40 per workweek since April 11, 1961. The
suit
of
this
opportunity.
foregoing
put
blacklist
me
as
turned
I
down
on
paragraph
some
peoples’
have
previously
requests
to
give
notices for everything from wed-
ding
laid
have
showers
to orchestras
that includes used
been
cars
and
and pro-
duce. Ah well, that’s life in a big
quite a few new
shirts are now
man,
Charles
of Labor
will
city.
As of this writing, our softball
team is deeply involved in the
final stages of the playoffs. Win,
so preval-
lose, or draw fellas,
tions for going as
In line with the above we have
requested by our plant chair-
US. District Court. The action
was
taken
under
the Federal
Wage-Hour Law by Secretary of
Labor W. Willard Wirtz through
solicitor
the
ers.
R.
here
employees
our
please
congratulafar as you
did. It is no small feat to wind
up fifth in the regular season
glasses on the job to protect standings and then forge on to
their eyesight. Next step? Blind- | the finals in the playoffs, espe-
—
and
that
ent that some
of our people
have
taken
to
wearing
sun
Cousino, President of the corpo-
3,
Roads Federation
Oppose Raid on Gas Fund
opposition
White
the construction, repair and expansion of concrete foundations,
floors, loading docks and paving
for companies producing goods
for interstate commerce.
Good
Strong
suit
Inc.,
Dearborn,
The
as
out
finding
is
“Lingenfelter,”
what it’s like to have a steward
who knows the whys and wherefores of being a union representative frontwards and backwards,
I don’t know if anyone ever told
her
served
him that Gernith
MICHIGAN
of
positions,
Yon will be doing both them and
us a favor.
There 1s no doubt in my mind
in-
eschelon have more than kept up
with the actual working people.
of the corporation by the Detroit
West office of the U.S. Labor Department’s Wage-Hour and Public Contracts Divisions under the
supervision of Francis M. Quigley. This office is located at 1910
Washington Boulevard Building.
getting
known
League.
ther violations of the law. Legal
action followed an investigation
committee to put in all the time
and effort that goes into one of
these affairs and then have so
This is why we
few show up.
have
Cousino,
strain
the
for
injunction
to
in the attend-
a shame
It seems
ance.
Softball
leged failure to comply with
law.
An injunction is being sought
that at-
dren had a wonderful time, but
was
the Recreation Committee
very disappointed
DETROIT,
44 employees
10th at the State
held on August
tended
was
time on the committee
as
steward and also negotiated
I bet
least one contract.
I mentioned
174
Firm Cited
For Violating
Wage Hour Law
All Employes Back
By JUANITA STICKLER
Local
them
aren’t too
Ye
Olde
All
and
vise
faces have been added. Needless
to say the hirings in the upper
A
“hah
TUBE
Things
male
Shoppe.
these
call. If you know anyone who
might be interested, please ad-
volved to comment on. Suffice
it then to say that I have been
conned into it and you are once
more stuck with my prattling, at
least for a while.
Well
much
fulfill
other
Steve
than
the
Danke,
hon-
and
management to insert
lowing in this month’s
plant
back
It’s
millions
month,
trend
of
time
school
youngsters
tronics
tween
young
inestimable
bear
in
mind
is wan-
summer
God, the hay fever
for
departed
om
UNION LABEL AND SERVICE TRADES DEPT,, AFL-CIO
in School
easiest
for
this
This
Dropouts”.
without
school
quit
research there
40%
and
30%
leaving
Americans
elec
and
control
computer
without
LOO#7Kthe,
UNION
LABEL
even a high school diploma must
be curbed if our economic problem of unemployment is to be
solved,
In this day of data processing,
of
the
folks,
that
now
that
it,
it
PRODUCTS
“School
to
That’s
of
do
season will have
another year.
MARSHALL
to
the
help
“Weiners.”
you
us and, thank
Keep Them
By TOM
when
the fol- jing, the most beautiful season
column: of the year will soon -be upon
HELP WANTED
MACHINE REPAIR
MACHINIST AND
INTERNAL GRINDER
HANDS—CALL VI. 1-8400
AND ASK FOR
JERRY TOMSIC
AFTER 9:00 A.M.
AUTOMATIC
cially
bethe
are
of
school
ployment
ness,
so
they
instances
again
hit the
many
quickly
OUR
jobs,
automated
lines.
in
very
unem-
e
along
UNION,
and
government
busi-
with
industry,
urge every young person who is
of
out
dropping
of
thinking
school to give it a second, a third
evaluation
decide
and
never
You'll
school.
back
Meanwhile,
re=
complete
fourth
a
even
and
in
to stay
sorry!
be
ranch
at the
queries are floating
without even a high school dip- —numerous
Science throughout the shop wondering
President’s
The
loma,
“Kookie”
and
“Hollywood”
we lif
says
Committee
Advisory
are being paid for comneed double the number of en- Elkins
mercials advertising Fuller
gineeds with higher degrees.
an en- combs. If not, they’re missing @
requires
Automation
bet.
tirely new group of skills which
Since Cal Fletcher's election
much be developed if we are to |
as Financial Secretary of the
these new processes. Reman
a new
has
unit
our
Local,
training is vital for those who
Harold
representative,
union
find their skills are no longer
the
to
Welcome
Gillespie.
econuseful in an automated
Young people must be trained
for these higher skilled techniques so they can find a place
in the work force.
e
of
DEPARTMENT
THE
economists
we
estimated
have
that
net
average
an
expect
can
Labor
gain in 1.3 million workers in
the work force for each of the
next ten years. The number of
will
18
reaching
youngsters
in-
to
crease from 2.6 million In 1960
3.8
million
by
1965.
obvious
The
question which faces them and
will
the rest of us 1s—where
gainful
useful and
find
they
jobs?
to
podner!
herd,
omy.
So far we have not been able
find
young
tute
for
jobs
people
one
third
them
under
of
25
because
unem-~
the
only
earn
wage.
fully
an above average
Uneducated
cated
hired
other 4999 are
employed
young
for
the
but
not
they
annual
poorly
or
are
people
least
Dave
skilled
edu-
only
and
of
our
young
of
those
harness”
by
cowhands,
of
way
“double
in
Congratulations,
road.
joined
recently
Waroway,
ranks
the
do”
“I
the
and
Dave
our yery best wishes to you both.
Mary Neky and George Athens
ailin’
our
still on
are
back, ole buddies,
list. Hurry
accident
our
on
Also,
was
lst
Dorothy Hell, who cut her finger
after
dishes
the
doing
while
making coffee to keep the em*
ployees happy — automation
Dorothy,
work:
always
doesn’t
you can still wash dishes the
way grandma did.
So Long, podners, don't take
any wooden horses.
ODE
consth
st
ployed, Of this number almo
drop80% of them are school
college
one
than
Less
outs,
m-~graduate out of 5000 is une
ployed, The
One
THE
FROM
Congratulations
So
now
For you
So
you'll
took
“Boots”
happily
be
you
a real surprise,
They hate long
we
may
Good
and
thee
vacation
That
EDITOR
TO THE
GANG
doing
a wile
must
wishes,
dishes,
take
named
roots,
was
honeymoon
engagements,
surmise
us here
best
luck
from
all
at Automatio
ag
of
Page 4
TERNSTEDT
CONVEYOR
EDITION
OF SOLIDARITY
September,
Beginning
FLASH
General Motors Profit Picture
Should Mean A Good New Contract
By ALEX
The
last
holiday
is
and
of
now
PENMAN
most
summer,
over
and
settle
down
Thanksgiving
the latter of which
Labor
year
the
can
is now
Wayne
AFL-CIO
decided
to drop the
Labor Day Parade preferring to
Save the money spent on the
parade for a Voter Registration
drive at the next election. We
feel this was a mistake even
sentation
and
we
feel
that
and
unionism.
If we
in
Ternstedt
future
is
looks
bright
fairly
in
We
program
year,
will
cost
the
first
6
months
G.M.
made
of
this
profits
of
all
7,700
private
and
public
utility companies ($8.6 billion V.
$6.7 billion. More than all the
telephone
companies
in
the
United States ($8.6 billion V. $5
billion)
much
and
as
nearly
all
the
twice
railroads
billion V. $4.6 billion).
as
($8.6
These figures are only a few
more
reasons
why
we
should
come up with a real good contract next year.
OUTLOOK
good.
full
$400 million less than G.M. made
did
have
and
This
the
ing sales, G.M. sold more in the
the first half of the year than
°
IMMEDIATE
1963-64.
for
of every hour of every day of the
181 days in that period. Check-
no parade, this spirit will gradually fade away, and what is a
union without a spiritual side, it
is just another business organization. Maybe the unions should
consider moving Labor Day to
sometime in the spring and hold
the parade at that time.
THE
of 1964
$7,166 a minute for every minute
parade had a spiritual significance, it typified the spirit of
labor
the
that will be spent
$1,450-000,000
Finally,
the
WE
the
e
ABOUT
HAVE
FIFTY
members
who
have
been
sick leave for three months
will
be able to give a much better
forecast next month after we see
what kind of reception our 1964
GM.
models are given by the
public.
on
or
more and who may be eligible
for total disability pension, if
their illness
is likely
to be of a
prolonged nature and is of sufLast month we gave you a re- ficient severity. If these members would like further informaport on the astronomical profits
made
by GM.
in the first 6| tion on the Pension Plan, they
months of this year, some $878 may receive same by calling Alex
million after taxes. Here is a Penman at the Union Office—
further
breakdown
on _ these VI. 26133 or at LU. 2-3757 or by
calling Mr. Tiffany in the Emprofits:
ployment Office—VI. 1-4300, Ext.
S $878 million after taxes]
353.
nes
$1868
million
before
The
Local
is arranging
taxes,
this is 1 billion, eight
a
:
5
:
hundred
sixty-ei
ght million
nomen
or jormiet
dollars.
residen
T
outhwe
arry
W
©
be
held
at the new Roma Hall,
Let’s translate these profits
27777 Schoolcraft near Inkster
into something
more
under
Road,
standable than billions. In the
LY
ON,
Livonia,
September
on
Wednes-
25th, at 7:00
Chairman
See
poummietee:
The Testimonial
Committee
is
London, Paris and Rome on her
trip. How will Karbon keep her
on the line after she has seen
all these places,
e
SYMPATHIES
TO
THE
families
and
relatives
of the
following: Asa Moore, formerly
of Plant #14; Joseph Wanick,
Dept. 7; Lawrence Wood, Dept.
7; Elmer Upton, Maintenance;
Carolyn Kururka, Dept, 5; An-
thony Cerato, Plant 5; and Sam
Dozzi,
Main
Plant.
Nice to see Sophie Pastelnik,
Dept. 7D, back on the job again.
Hope your Mom is a little better
Sophie.
The following members retired
in August:
William
Banks,
Ragna
Foxworth,
Elsie Hess,
Nick
Lazar,
Leona
Samborski,
Julia Wygonik,
William
Allan:
William
Seay,
Howard
Spiers
and Clara Day.. We wish them
all good
luck and
their retirement.
On
behalf
of
good health in
Julia
Wybonik
and the rest of the members
re-
tiring, we wish to thank the entire
membrship
for
the
nice
send-off these members received.
Thanks a million folks.
AFL-CIO Kit
On Colleges
Ready for Parents
Juniors
who
want
for the AFL-CIO
to
last
article.
under twenty
plant.
In
the
There
people
left
last
are|Chairman
at
two
of
the | Committee
the
and
was
known
There will be a complete din-
125 left on|*efreshments
the seniority book.
I have resigned
from
the|
all for $5.00. Don’t
forget, Wednesday,
2th’ at 7:00 a
Gian
|
,
a
ee
e oa
job
at
the
plan
elsewhere now. Frank Vargo has | ow ine
done the same thing. So
now,
Jake
Kelly
Bigetie
and
taking
care
of
345.91
of
left
Oswald
the
now,
of}
Brother
Lawrence | Wife,
Robert
Ness at the plant.
As
as
there
in the
is
busi-
$174,-
Lyon,
Tom
Myrtle;
are|/Alternate
union
| Plant
5;
Vetterani
Stanley
8 C, who
off for some
and
his
MORE
JOB
SECURITY
of
ballot
feat
and
sion.
Douglas
I want
that
sible
d
each
for
he
Rice
ne
went
to say in my
wish all of
who
leave,
just
returned
from
all
Wil-|papa,
Sillifant,|
congratulations
Koscielski,
of
Dept.
7K.
to
John
P.S.
It
pen-| was a baby girl 7 Ibs. 2 ozs. Ethel
Snyder,
Dept.
last article | grandma
my
a
friends,
at Lyon,
Inc,sf
the Local Union Hall.
former
and
at|
year
a
to
for
7K
the
just
6th
became
time.
a
Con-
Nice
7
partment
after
a
nae Betty
8A,
trip
to
back
Ross,
on
Europe.
the
De-
job
Betty
skills.
—and
the
thus
.
The
kill
bill
bill
to
committee
passed
doub
youth
lish
a
drew
ate
de-
to
it.
as
the
key
motion
for
a
com-
which
has
the Senate
This would
the portion
of the
program
earmarked
from
5
basic
literacy
pro-
told
Sen-
to
15 per-
new
gram
for trainees who lack
the reading, writing and arithmetic skills necessary to qualify for job training.
These
improvements
have
been strongly supported by the
AFL-CIO.
Legislative Dir. An-
under
as of
legis-
44-19
for
cent, lower the age at which
training allowances could be
paid from 19 to 16, and estab-
authorize
decisive
hopes
Committee.
step up
training
legislatures
a Republican
recommit
With this amount,
J. Biemiller
committee
act passed
that
the
the original
last year gave
“insuf-
ficient attention” to the problem
of training workers with inadei
the | #0use last spring and then begin
fi
Administration estimates more | C°™Sideration of the nuclear
test
than
100,000 persons
can
be | 220 treaty on Sept. 9.
.
BILL
was
Kennedy’s
adécietent chy
one-third
it.
With
of the Senate
by
ease
bill's pas-
?
Michigan
.
Underpaid
employees
southeastern
of
and
e
Union
$1,011,069
found
Michigan
agreement
and
i
"
reached
Great Britain,
ar explosions
would
the atmosphere,
was
in space.
urged
tive Board.
$1
overtime
were
the
by
for
to|
in|
”
’
5
nucle-
be banned
underwater
It¢ ratification
AFL-CIO
Execu-
|
ae
Workers
e
wage
ap-
proved the treaty by a 16-1
vote, declared it represents a
“net advantage to the United
States” and strongly urged
ratification by the full Senate.
Under
,i
“if
absent, | by the United States, the Soviet
13 Republicans
of the
ans eeaets
which
about
motion was SUP-/
only
a
Foreign Relations Committee.
The committee,
training for Negroes and was]
hailed by Sen. Joseph S. Clark|
(p-pa) its floor manager, as a|
“significant” civil rights meas-|
ure, a number of southern Dem-|
ocrats supported
re
The treaty, which requires
A ane
sro chi
ney ie
a r
, amoy ea
al to ise
| port
civil antrights message LAs an im-|
means
of
providing
7,775
e
e
Million
gan, underpayments
t
of $1,248,695
to 9,709 workers were found, and
511 minors were
discovered
TOBE
8
as
4
the|having been employed in viola-
fiscal year which ended on June | tion of the child labor provisions
30, 1963, by investigators
of the]
US. Dept. of Labor’s Wage-Hour
and Public Contracts Divisions
They also found 422 cases where
minor chil
dren were
emplploy
oyed
a aie
=
ed in
industry in violation of the child
lab
at
¢ the Fair La-
sick
individual is respon- | gratulations Ethel, but you don’t
his or her
benefits|look that old, just another one
contract. Goodbye and | of these young
grandmas,
SSoAL mek te
state
underpayments
Nice to see Stella Kaplaniak
and Grace Botkin, of Depart
ment 7, back on the job after
extended
spell
John
Wozn
y, poplsick
ar Skill
eds. Trad
es
“
‘
Committeeman, is another
Yurke,|
on
of
was
Minimum
has been
time. We
Labor
forced
1, 1965, passed
voice vote.
The
e
in
Miedlow
a pro-
have
raised
Ppanion
measure
been approved by
life by
year
in needed
this
until July
Senate by
The
.
Mar-|
Popp,
one
would
four
Publicans.
abor
nice to see you back,
Novella
Davis:| John.
Howard Noffsinger,
One of our new members from
yingstone,
Tedd
| Cadiy
llac
just become
a proud
Edward
which
for
on
training
by 39 Democrats and five Re-|and
Murphey,
Committeeman
Genevieve
Department
;
i
garding
th
cee
areAraing
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Bonner,|
Charles
vision
lease
Sage
and six Democrats and opposed|in
Inc. | Ԩ۪ 4 speedy recovery and may
Swek,
a new
postponing
ported
Pens
ion Fund. Please contact | ‘&Y be back in the plant with
one of the three abov
e about | US Teal soon.
k, Ernest
program
the recommittal
September
fem weeks back and am working| SORRY areTO REP
ORT
that the
oe on sick aye
hairman’s
manpower
Senate
latures do not meet again until
1965.
The labor-backed bill, to
extend
full
federal
financing
awards, which|
pop-
pension and severance plan. As|er plus music for dancing plus
there is but
the
The
les | ate erocan
=
|are wort
h up to $6,000 over the | federal traiini
ning funds author =
THE
SENATE
WAS
expected
four years of college, must take ized for the 1965 fiscal year from
the National Merit Scholarship
$161 million—a figure based on to approve the aid to medical
education
bill passed
matching
by
the
state funds
to
$322
acremination on March 10, 1964. milli
on.
Constitution
weeks | Ularly as Mr. Constitution.
many have cashed out under the|
of now,
gave
—
matching funds—which
existing law are required
next July 1.
Most state
compete
mee
Votes to Extend
WASHINGTON
acted
AFL-CIO
Sai
Federal Job Training Program
Only
this fall and who
are interested in the
scholarship program.
Senate
less workers
Washington — The AFL-CIO
Dept. of Education has prepared
a kit for the parents of youngsters who enter their junior year
of high school
os ato
abandonment
of the program
in statés which failed to pick
up half the cost of training job-
aryranging a real nice evening}
A
will be sent free to any|
Lyon
in honor of Brother Southwell, | unionkitmem
ber who sends a post-|
who was Local President for 16|card to the AFL-CIO Dept. of|
By LOUIS WM. TURY. J
years and was probably as well|Education,
815
16th
Street, |
y
ae
» IR. | known as Walter Reuther at the | Washington 6, D. C.
There isn’t too much to write| UAW
Conventions.
He
was
my
the Fence
Glasgow
tacting Brother Tony Stan- |ships, and other sources of} trained that
year.
iszewski in the Union Office or | Scholarships and low-cost finanyours truly, Al Penman or by |Ccial aid, makes suggestions for
ALTHOUGH eTHE
contacting members of the ecu. the ee Cece
endorsed in Pres.
Leaves
in
Edinburgh,
P.M. Tickets are $5.00
The kit
udes complete inand may be obtained by each
con- | formation incl
on AFL-CIO scholar-
INCORP.
F
Plant
in
day,
first 6 months this year, G. M.
made 2n amount equal to $10
yisited
sistance program of the United
States to all its allies will cost
year.
though we did not have a tremendous turnout in the parade,
we always had a few represent
ing Ternstedt.
Other Locals had better repre-
and
by the Department of Justice,
the Department
of Commerce,
the Department of State and the
Peace Corps combined.
The entire foreign military as-
of
County
woman
in this entire fiscal year
only
time
man,
entire amount
plan
for
Christmas,
1i4
days
from
the
writing this report.
This
Day,
now
every
child in the United States.
Profits were greater than
important
we
and
and
for
to Mend
1963
provi
ae
of
7
bor Standards Act.
§
i oat
of the law.
tn
i
a
This
Ors
mation was Teleased
today by
William S. Singley, Regional Director, for Michigan and Ohio.
Most of the underpayments,
$782,707
due
ers
for
to
to the
to
pay
hours
4,783 workers,
failure
time
worked
were
of employ-
and
i)
one-half
over
40
{
per
work week. There were $228,362 ba? rec
Saute
at:
cause 0:
e employers’
fail-
saree
imum
owns
ure to pay the applicable min:
wage.
For the entire State of Michi-
Hels a very
essiu
lyg Out
«steof
chain “succ
of
‘Goin
Business’ businesses.’
th
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