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Vol. 6
No.
11
November,
1963
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10
Auto
Go
gains
creases
have
in
brought
wages,
there
of
has
in-
same period of 1962,
tion’s profits
came
not
autos
since
mately
1958.
Yet company profits have been
bursting
to
above-the-clouds
heights,
M’s
first
over
after-taxes
nine
a billion
profits
dollars
year
this
months
of
for
well
same
the
is an-
1963
figures forcéfully emphasize
two glaring factors:
@ The record-pace profits of
the giant auto corporations.
@ The auto industry has raked
in these tremendous profits and
yet, despite its lush outlay for exits smaller
ecutive bonuses and
proportionate outlay for wage increases, there has not been an inflationary price increase spiral.
They've
up
gone
560
period
union- won
“Keep
It
Up,
ending
for
the
Sept.
nine
30.
Mac—Running’s
justas
dividend
for
the
year.
AT extra $2 in dividends, twice
as
much as usual, will provide
GM stockholders with an estimated
2 million in 1963.
corporation’s 346,000
For the
hourly-rated workers in the U.S.,
nine-
that would
653 each.
would
have
have
For
amounted to $1,it
each worker,
cents
80
meant
an
hour.
divibonuses — doubled
Lush
dends—it’s never been so good.
At
least,
stockholders.
for
And
executives.
Not so for consumers
who should have had lower prices
while profits soared as high as if
been
they’d
launched
Cape
from
Canaveral by way of Fort Knox.
It all adds up to this: the workers come
But
Wall
out on the short
then,
Street
as
the
Journal
end.
conservative
noted
recent-
ly, the auto manufacturing giant
has so much money on hand that
there’s a strong suspicion GM is
saving up to buy the federal gov-
month
that
Good
fared
of directors.
total
percent.
In
in the
It was double the usual dividend
Chrysler profits after taxes total
million
have
That brought the 1963
total to $4 a share.
They’re 64 times higher than for
the same nine months last year.
$101
occurred
They declared a $2 dividend, instead of the regular 50-cent dividend on common stock shar
1963 period, Ford salted away
bofor executive
$28.3 million
nuses. For the same period in 1962,
the company had earmarked $29.1
million for such bonuses.
Chrysler’s profits rise this year
Even
phenomenal.
has been
though the corporation’s auto and
is lower
now
truck production
than in five of the past 10 years,
its profits seem to be the highest
in Chrysler history.
In the past, managements have
worked hard to get the public to
inevitably
believe that inflation
follows pay increases. “More monbrings higher
ey for workers
prices” long has been a Big Business battle-cry.
period.
board
month profit was reported after
the company had set aside a hefty
for executive
millions
chunk of
bonuses, too. For the nine-month
HE
corporaapproxi-
€
richly as executives.
How much so was emphasized
by this month’s action of the GM
after taxes.
dous $346.9 million
Compared to the same period of
1962, that represented a one percent drop. But Ford’s profits before taxes were reported at $715.8
million, and this amounted to an
increase of one percent over the
same nine months of 1962.
Ford’s
which
Stockholders
Ford’s profits in the same ninemonth period totalled a tremen-
Moreover,
million.
for workers
_ No other industrial corporation
in the history of the world has
ever made that much money.
That’s a lot of purchasing power. It would stimulate a lot of
buying. It also would help create
a lot of jobs.
$15
the
to
THE astoundingly high profits of
the auto firms, therefore, have
meant lush bonuses for executives
far outstripping the wage increases
other record ,profit mark for the
corporation It’s an increase of
12.8% over the same period last
year.
If the same amount of money
had been set aside for GM’s workers, it would have given them 15
cents an hour more. That would
come to $306 additional for every
GM hourly-rated worker.
even
steady
been any general boost in the price
for the 346,000
payroll
GM’s
production and maintenance emestimated
an_
up
went
ployees
$56 million as a result of wage
.
increases.
But in the same nine-month period, the world’s largest industrial
corporation also set aside a whopping $105.7 million in bonuses for
its 14,000 executives.
That would amount to a wage
increase for those nine months
averaging $7,570 for each of the
executives. It comes to an average of about $5 an hour.
But
Up
Up
Up
months
URING the first nine
this year, General Motors had
on its payroll approximately 14,000
executives and an average of 346,000 hourly-rated workers.
though
Profits
Company
ernment.
for
Yor
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November,
1963—UAW
SOLIDARITY—Page
3
Helping Others: The Story of
"... 1 believe this with all my heart: if America
has the courage to launch a bold program, a to-
tal war against poverty and hunger in the world,
with the same courage, the same sense of national dedication, the same determination with
hungry, and send text books and medical kits,
helping them to fight poverty and hunger, the
fewer of our sons we will have to send with guns
to fight Communism on the battlefields of the
world..."
which we fight on the battlefronts in war time—
if we fight a total war against poverty, we can
—UAW
Walter P. Reuther,
Dec. 6, 1953
win.
“I believe that the more young Americans we
send to the places in the world where people are
ELLEN
BRINDLE,
a Peace
Corps volunteer who returned
from a two-year four of duty
in
the
Philippines,
shows
in-
terviewer
the
places
on
a
world map where she has been.
(This suggestion, in a speech before
a Full Employment Conference,
establishment of the Peace Corps eight
years later in 1961.)
Ellen Brindle
“EVERY young American ought
to spend some time
in the
Peace Corps,” says a pretty coed
who has returned from two years’
service
with
the
Corps
in the
Philippines.
She is Ellen F. Brindle, sister of
David Brindle, a staff member of
the UAW Social Security Department in Detroit, and daughter of
James Brindle, former director of
that department and now president of the Health Insurance Plan
(HIP) of New York.
Ellen, an early Peace Corps
unteer
who
served
as
a
vol-
teacher’s
aide in a small town on the island
of Luzon, calls her service “an unforgettable experience.”
Being in
the Corps “makes you feel that
you have a stake in the world, that
you're personally doing something
to make this planet a better place
in which to live,” she says.
“You quickly forget the hardships and inconveniences and remember only the good things: the
many wonderful friends you have
made, the things you have learned,
the affection for the United States
shown by those you have worked
with.”
Anthony Kasper, UAW Local 669,
In Central Africa’s Rain Forest
OU
can find UAW
members
who are Peace Corps volunteers in almost all parts of the
world these days, but perhaps Anthony Kasper of Local 669, Paterson, N.J., rates a special mention
for being in one of the world’s
most
remote
areas.
He’s at work
rest
of Gabon,
Republic
in the tropical rain
an area near the
in central Africa
S once part of the former
*h Equatorial Africa.
Kasper, a carpentry graduate of
Paterson’s
Tec
and
Vocaah S$
is now building
s in that area
and lending
Am
rican know-how
to local problems.
He and his fellow Corpsmen are
clearing sites, stock- piling ma-
terials, mixing cement and making
blocks, planning and laying foundations, measuring and fitting roof
beams
and
instructing
the Gabonese laborers with whom they
live and work in the fine points of
construction work.
Kasper joined the Peace Corps
because he felt he owed a debt and
because he was so proud to be an
American. Kasper, you see, was
born
Algimantas
Kasperskas
in
Lithuania, an area taken over by
Soviet Russia during World War
IL He came to the United States
after living as a displaced person
in Germany after the war.
On June
American
name to
after, he
and went
14, 1962, he became an
citizen and shortened his
Kasper. Shortly therejoined the Peace Corps
to Africa.
President
ELLEN, now a graduate student
at Columbia
University’s
School of Social Work in New
York, joined the Peace Corps in
1961,
along
with
many
other
Americans, young and old. She received eight weeks’
training
at
Penn
State
University,
including
a
course in Tagalog, the official language of the Philippines.
From Penn State she went to
Los Banos, 60 miles from Manila,
where she received another seven
weeks’ training at the agricultural
division of the University of the
Philippines.
She was then sent to her first
duty station, the town of Pili—
population 5,000—in the province
of Camarines Sur in the southern
part of Luzon. Here she taught
English to fifth and sixth graders
in a central
elementary
school
with an enrollment of about 1,000
students.
Later she also taught a course
to high school seniors in Naga
City, a larger city 15 kilometers
away, which is the capital of the
EEE
led to
in Philippines
province.
Her pay was 222 pesos
a month (about $60).
_ She and two other Corps girls
lived in a rented house in Pili,
a
town which she
described
this
way:
mye STRETCHES along the
na_ tional highway for about th
ree
kilometers (about two miles)
and
is surrounded by
eight
barrios
(villages). There is not a single
telephone in town, and the ne
arest
telegraph office is 10 miles away
.
There are only four or five moto
r
vehicles in the place, mostly Jeep
s
or cars
considered
ancient
by
American standards.
“Refrigerators or ice boxes are
unknown, despite the 100° temper
atures during the day, and food
must be bought fresh every day.
We ate mostly
fresh fish, fresh
fruits—such as Mangoes, bananas
and papayas—and canned meats,
and drank mostly coffee or warm
coke.
Water had to be _ boiled.
Fresh meat was not readily available and could not be kept more
than a day.
Fresh milk is unknown.
Some foods which were
available were too expensive for
anyone on a Peace Corps salary.”
Ellen, who is now 24, very tall
and very attractive, says she and
her teammates made many friends.
“BOTH children and adults were
very friendly to us right from
the start and very considerate of
our ‘strange ways and customs,’ ”
she said. “They were also very
pro-American.
“We brought in books and started a school library — there had
been none before—and that was
very much appreciated.
We got
the children to read more, and we
also worked with the high school
choir in Naga City.”
During summers, when school
was out, Ellen worked in Negros
in a summer camp for underprivileged children, She spent her “furlough” time in Manila.
She said
that Philippine newspapers devote
a great deal of space to the civil
rights
struggle
in
the
United
States, and that she was
asked
many questions about discrimination.
3 Peace
Volunteers
Corps
Kathy Schultz, Local 438, in Peru
sons to ever have to face an enemy
on a battlefield.”’
When she returns to the U.S.
next summer, at the end of her
HEN
Kathy
Schultz
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to
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her from the
ference.
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t
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g
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s
typical. She ru
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medicine—antibi
d
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Arequipa in
and
last
the
just
ment
will
be
how
drinking water
Even then we
safe it really is.”
The Volunteers range
in age
from 20 to 66 and come from all
sections of the States. They trained for three months or more at
various colleges; Kathy and others
studied
Spanish,
Latin
American
History and technical subjects in
a Puerto Rico university, for 10
hours a day.
In a barriada—a squatter settlement—near Arequipa, Peru, Kathy
Schultz administers oral polio vac-
cine to a child with
Peruvian
Red
Cross
the help of a
worker.
vaccine saved many lives.
The
S HE was inevitably assigned to
the medical care team because of
her background. Before going to
work™at
the Allis-Chalmers
plant
in Milwaukee she had completed a
course as a laboratory and X-ray
technician at the Century College
of Medical Arts and had worked
as a lab technician in Milwaukee
hospitals.
Volunteers.
“Six days a week we work in the
barriadas vaccinating children
against polio—at present there is
a big epidemic,” she wrote. “On
Sundays we visit other settlements
In the past year, the report discloses, Kathy’s medical care team
vaccinated more than 20,000 children in a door-to-door operation,
with a mobile clinic, where we administer and dispense medicines
and antibiotics which we have
garnered from various sources.
working with Red Cross and other
volunteers, and also assisted in a
campaign to vaccinate the popu-
lace against smallpox,
cough and diphtheria.
“The demand for antibiotics and
drugs for the treatment of tuberculosis is much greater than our
supply. Occasionally we purchase
personal
of our
out
medicines
paid very little).
all our
boiled.
she
Kathy is part of an urban development program, the largest of its
kind as yet undertaken by the
Peace Corps. A report by the
Corps lists an average of 54 Volunteers who have been working in
the barriadas for the past year,
among a population estimated at
a quarter of a million.
|
For the past year and a half
she has been living and working
in the squalid settlements as a
x
si
of
am
te
l
ca
di
me
a
of
er
mb
me
funds ... but we can’t keep on
doing this, even though it is for a
good cause.”” (Peace Corps Volunteers, she could have added, are
“Here,
must be
wonder
d
e
s
r
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p
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a
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tell them t
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free medici
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six of those years, she joined
Corps in the Spring of 1962,
one year after the establishof the organization.
assignment,
thankful for the many things she
has learned, she says. And she
adds: “I will also be thankful for
some common ordinary things
which we in the U.S. take for
granted—like being able to go into
your kitchen, turn on the faucet
and drink the water as it comes
from the tap.
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placed
two
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de
clinics
of the
whooping
have
mobile
now
re-
clinics.
Health instruction
classes
have
Inmates of the Inbeen started.
Some of the children of the squatter
settlements aided by Kathy Schultz
and other Peace Corps Volunteers.
Below is their all-purpose schoolhouse made
of tar-paper
and
corrugated metal.
Menores,
a_
reform
school for runaway
boys,
have
been given medical aid. Some 115
small
were
children
bathed
dressed.
in
and
one
barriada
infected
cuts
Volunteers have transported patients to hospitals on numerous
occasions, with one slightly flustered Volunteer delivering a baby
in the front seat of a jeep on one
such occasion. A drug cooperative
has been formed, and a campaign
underway to encourage doctors in
private practice to donate samp'e
medicines regularly for use in bar- riada clinics. |
HAT, she explained was why
the Women’s Conference gift
was so appreciated by her... and
by the destitute children of the
squatter settlements of Arequipa.
Has Kathy Schultz found, among
the poor of Peru, what she ex-
pected from the Peace Corps?
Yes, she says, despite the hardships and the setbacks. “I believe
I can make a positive contribution
to the eause of freedom this way,”
she told Solidarity (March, 1962)
when she joined the Corps. “And
perhaps by so doing I may be.
making it unnecessary for my two
Besides the medical care team,
other volunteers are at work seven
days a week in such projects as
nutrition, nursery schools, credit
unions, saving'’s and loan, construction, arts and crafts, university
teaching, recreation, social work
and others.
November,
1963—UAW
SOLIDARITY—Page
5
Unemploy
- Onl
edy
michigan
uthdahnationbaietiniasaaa uu
Pages
6, 7—November,
You Run
You Run
le Ty
1963
Income from ADC
Out of Money
Out of Food
Low Incomes, No Health Aid
For Most Michigan Elderly
The
vast majority
elder
citizens
have
than $2,000 a
only about 1%
ceived
the
gram
medical
government’s
which
In its criticism of the Kerr-Mills
MAA
program,
the report
cites
these seven major defects:
of Michigan’s
incomes
of less
year.
Moreover,
of them have reassistance
1:
under
Kerr-Mills pro-
has
largely inadequate
and the AFL-CIO.
been
by
assailed
the
there
as
which
he
heads.
The
able
cites
seven
major
the
basic
needs
Senior citizens be effectively
of
4,954
in Michigan
it added.
received
up
Kerr-Mills
to last
of
people
duration,
states.
It
levels and types
received
MAA
assistance.
This is less than 1%
tion’s older citizens.
of the
Na-
- Administrative costs of MAA
* programs
remain
unavoidably
high in most jurisdictions, because
of the complex limitations on eligibility and benefits. In five states,
administrative costs exceed 25%.
our
met.”
& , Distribution of Federal matche ing funds under MAA has
been grossly disproportionate, with
a few
large
share of
from all
gram.
aid
states
getting
a lion’s
the money, while taxes
states support the pro-
e Lhe intent of the Congress to
December,
e extend assistance to a new
type of “medically indigent” persons through MAA, has been frus-
“The
findings of this report,
which are based on study and ap-
trated by the practice of several
states in transferring nearly 100,000 persons already on other welfare programs
to Kerr-Mills
to
take
advantage
of the
higher
matching provisions of MAA.
praisal of all available information,
prove
itself,
report
foresee-
“Stringent eligibility tests,
* lien-type recovery
programs
and responsible relative provisions
have severely limited participation
...” In July of 1963, only 140,000
The Committee document pointed out that an estimated 493,000
of Michigan's approximately 640,000 senior citizens had either no
income or an annual income of
less than $2,000.
Despite the low
income of the 493,000, moreover,
only
in the
that
3:
McNamara,
moreover,
emphasized that the report also confirms
his “long-standing belief that only
through the universal approach of
a Social Security - financed procan
the
one
to expect
¢ of benefits vary widely from
state to state where the program
is in operation.
With few exceptions, benefits are nominal or inadequate.
the Kerr-Mills program which, it
said, “has proved to be at best an
ineffective and piecemeal approach
to the health problems of the nation’s 18 million older citizens.”
gram
future,”
e rhe
report
defects
reason
notes that only 28 states and four
other jurisdictions now have the
program in operation.
evaluated operation of the KerrMills medical aid program in the
28 states in which it now functions.
It
is no
it will become
UAW
The figures were disclosed in a
report by Sen. Patrick V. McNamara (D., Mich.) in behalf of the
Senate Committee on Aging’s Subcommittee on Health of the Elderly
“After three years, it is still
* not a national program and
that Kerr-Mills cannot, of
solve that problem which
we have found to be the most persistent and frightening one con-
fronting millions of older people
in all parts of the country — the
problem of assuring economic access to medical care on a decent,
self-respecting basis,” said McNa-
“7, The “welfare” aspects of Kerr-
és Mills, including
cumbersome
investigations of eligibility, plus
the requirement
in most
states
that the resources of an older person must be-depleted to a point
of near-dependency, have further
reduced participation.
mara.
All eight Democratic
Senators
of the Subcommittee, which prepared the report, concurred in its
findings and conclusions.
The re-
In at least 14 states, the means
test for MAA is so stringent as to
bar many aged people who could
qualify
for other general
relief
port also contains dissenting and
supplemental views of Republican
members.
Sen. George Smathers
(D., Fla.), chairman of the special]
committee and ex-officio member
of the health subcommittee, submitted individual views.
programs
in
states have
provisions,”
pose
upon
an
those
states.
relatives
of the
en
youngsters,
minimum
ments.
‘means
test”
applicant.
UAW Marks Key Victory in UP
Among White-Collar Workers
A key representation victory by UAW marks the
first time
a union has succeeded in organizing white-collar emp
loyees in
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Douglas Fraser, Intern
ational ExBoard
member-at-large
and
director
of
UAW’s
Techni-
cal, Office and Professional (TOP) Department, rep
orted.
The win came when employees at the Harnischf
eger Corp.’s
Escanaba plant voted 34 to 8 for the UAW.
An additional 25
votes were challenged by the company which is
one of the nation’s major producers of welding equipment and
truck cranes.
Additionally, Fraser said, white-collar employ
ees of KingSeeley’s Central Specialty division at Ypsilanti, whe
re the company
produces
auto
parts,
voted
for UAW
by 27-to-2.
shelter
not
enough
and
to meet
clothing
bare
require-
_And there is nothing at all left over for
such
“incidentals” as going to church, taking
a bus
ride to a park, or going to a movie onc
e in a
very great while.
The study showed that of the 93 families:
@ 47—or half—regularly ran out of food.
@ All ran out of money before their
next
ADC check was received.
@
@
84 couldn’t afford to get to church.
83 families spent not a cent for recrea-
Milk
often
anc
no»
tion.
Determination to conduct the study
came
late last year when overstrained cit
y welfare
funds forced a cutoff in ADC supple
mental aid.
That left ADC minimum
payments ranging
from $23 a month to $116 less than Sta
te Bureau of Social Aid minimum
to families.
standards
Mee
the
oe
“starving
or out
none
in
addition,
he
bellies.’
of
on the street,”
“they are suffering
empty
ecutive
food,
was
9
for help
Twelve
“family responsibility
which, in effect, im-
additional
\\
HAT does it mean to have a family to
Support and no job and no income
except
“welfare”?
It means pocketbook poverty and social poverty, according to a jarring study of 93 Detro‘t
families whose only income has been coming
from the Aid to Dependent Children program.
The study, which deeply explored the
dayafter-day living conditions of the families,
was
conducted by Wayne State University soc
iologists Charles N. Lebeaux and David Wi
neman:
They found that the ADC help in Detroi
t of
$120 a month for a mother and one
child, to
the maximum $240 a month for a moth
er with
sev
kics a
hap!
hap:
Some
them
don’t
from
added,
families
Lebeaux
was
said,
social starvation.” But
“the
basic
problem
is
Wineman and Lebeaux noted that because
the families do not have enough money they
then do not keep up social contacts or “face”
in school, church or community.
In their interviews, moreover, they found:
@
last
One
family
six days.
with
exactly
one
nickel
to
@ 23 families which simply
stop
eating
when food runs out.
@ All 93 families fed their children by holding back rent payments or delaying payment
on their utility bills.
About half the women felt they would solve
their problems but, Wineman said, the others
“can’t think about the future because the fu-
ture
just
doesn’t
exist
for
them.”
And, said Lebeaux, poverty today not only
exists “amid amazing plenty” but it also is “all
but ignored by the ‘sound people’ in the community.”
One fame
days. We’
families
a.
UAW Tops
Missile Vote
New Lions Star Also
Carries Ball for UAW
Missile
workers
at
LingTemco - Vought’s
growing
Sterling Township, Mich., in-
stallation favored
82-to-10
Labor
vote
Relations
in
representation
set
the
to
unit,
now
a
union
Ken
Morris
election,
have
the
Re-
wil
proceed
the
bargaining
machinery
establish
National
Board
gion 1 co-director
reported.
“UAW
UAW by an
in
to
motion
workers
elect
their union negotiating committee, and seek to move into
contract negotiations with the
company,” Morris said.
“The union’s contract
mands which, of course,
cover
wages,
hours
workers
at
ing conditions,
the
and
dewill
work-
will be set by
the
missile
plant. What is negotiated at
the bargaining table will be
presented to the membership
for their
tion.”
ennnis shoes all winter. Half of
or boots; three-fourths
a
oucoat.
approval
or
rejec-
UAW Wins 3
In One Day
GRAND RAPIDS — Three organizing victories were won in a
single day by UAW, Region 1-D,
W.
Kenneth
Director
Regional
Robinson reported.
The secret-ballot National Labor
Relations Board elections won by
the
union
came
Though
know
at:
Liberman and Gittlen Metal Co.,
workers
where
Rapids,
Grand
voted for UAW by 34 to 7.
New Moon Mobile Homes, Alma,
where employees chose UAW by a
vote of 111 to &:
Holland Die Casting and Plating
Co., Holland, where the vote for
the union was 92 to 87. In this
NLRB
the
however,
balloting,
must rule on six challenged balvictory is
lots before the UAW
final.
» 8
of
eek,
fruit—but
not
every
day,
repre-
plant
homes
mobile
the
at
win
said the organizing
Robinson
into
breakthrough
sents a UAW
trailer manuMichigan’s
central
facturing industry.
All That Stock
And One Owner
that old, old man-
heard
You’ve
agement story that so many companies are owned by hundreds of
thousands of widows and orphans?
U.S.
the
Says
Service:
porations
about
Revenue
Internal
cor-
half of all U.S.
by
are controlled
stockholder.
a single
This was reported by R. L. Nixon, the Service’s Detroit District
Difector, He said the stock ownership information is included in a
new report providing financial information from the 1,141,000 corporation
the
for
through
income
period
June,
filed
returns
tax
1960,
July,
ending
1961.
Nixon said 472,000 corporations
covered by the study reported that
a single
more
other
three
er,
or
of
Of
of
stockholder
their
90,000
firms
800
firms
had
with
assets
had
half
stock.
voting
stockholders
the
owned
each.
fewer
a single
of
more while 263,000
less than $100,000,
$25
had
the
or
An-
than
own-
million
assets
study
showed,
“But the 472,000 businesses garnered more than one-third the to-
| exactly five
bid runs out,
[stop eating,
cents
23 of
to
last six
the ADC
tal corporation receipts reported
for 1960-61; they reported $290
billion of the total tally of $849
by all corporabillion reported
tions,’ Nixon commented.
it, one
of the
bers
with
people
of
the
is
1960
newest
Lions
Detroit
mem-
football
associated
Lawrence
P.
All-American
Ferguson,
the
from.
been
the UAW
He
in Michigan
closely
has
team
the
few
for several years.
is now
University of Iowa who
playing his first season of pro ball
with the Lions.
Ferguson, who is five-foot-ten
and weighs 200 lbs., has worked
for UAW Region 4 every summer
is
for the past three years and
well-known to many union members throughout Illinois and Iowa.
Ferguson
talents
his
hides
and
accomplishments behind a wall of
modesty and near-shyness — rare
in a public figure.
Perhaps his first and most important accomplishment was getting into college in the first place.
One of five children of an Illinois
three
his_
steel worker, he and
brothers and one sister all managed to get themselves a college
education—despite formidable financial and other obstacles.
Ferguson's athletic career began
in high school in his home town of
Madison, Ilinois—near St. Louisl,
where he won letters in basketbal
football and track.
To earn money for college, he
h
worked in a steel mill and a fis
market.
Ignoring several offers from a
to have
roster
of schools anxious
their
on
athlete
number
another
to
chose
Ferguson
of Iowa
versity
the
enter
Uni-
disIt didn’t take Iowa long to
talents,
man’s
cover this young
hletic
and he was soon given an at
him
scholarship which permitted
his
to complete
gave
he
him
could
which
chance
a
the
do on
was
education
plenty
In 1960, when
to
show
football
the Iowa
It
also
what
field
team was
namthe Big Ten champs, he was
he be
ed an All-American, and
2,
came
captain
of
the
team
In
196
lost one
despite the fact that he
in a game
year when he was hurt
In his
jn 1961 and tore a ligament
knee, causing him to be hospitalized for quite some time.
Last December 29, he scored the
winning touchdown for the East in
the East-West game in San Francisco, and on June 29, he intercepted a pass in the last two minutes of the All-American.game in
Buffalo, which saved the day for
his team.
He also played in the
Hula Bowl in Honolulu January 6,
and in the All-Star game August
2. He reported to the Lions after
that.
Ferguson
first
ed in the UAW
an
Johnston,
became
interest-
after meeting Bart
Bart
classmate.
Iowa
is the son of UAW Region 4 DirecThe latter
tor Robert Johnston.
invited Ferguson to attend a Region 4 fair practices conference in
Peoria, Illinois, in December 1960.
Many other appearances followed
the
young
that
time,
soon
and
was
has
been
in union activities.
knee-deep
Since
athlete
he
part of the recreation program of
the regional summer camp at the
Ottawa Union Center and he has
worked for the union on voter regorganizing
and
drives
istration
Illinois and
campaigns all over
Iowa.
worked
he
This past summer
Commiswith the Illinois Youth
sion, handling recreation at commission camps for juvenile delinquents.
successful
very
“He has been
working with kids,” says Johnston.
He
them.
“He has a way with
likes youngsters—and he likes to
That’s what attracthelp people.
ed
even
to
him
though
the
he
labor
himself
movement,
belonged
to a union (the Steelworkers)
only a short time.”
for
he
met
his
Ferguson
wife,
nurse,
football
is
married
an
Linda,
while
hospitalized
injury—and
the
Iowa
with
City
father
his
of
His
a vear-old girl, Lori Lynn.
the
at_
father, Sam, still works
American Steel Foundry in Granite City, Illinois, where he is also a
member of the Steelworkers Un-
ion,
The
Fergusons
siding in Detroit.
are
currently
re-
~ “= AUTOMOBILE, AEROSPACE& AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS OF AMERICA
November, 1963-——Pages 6, 7
THE
NEW
Point
ghar supedtted
Medical
Center
East
will
set
a
Ultra Right Endangers Ou
pattern for better health for the
Baltimore
community,
Region
8
Director E. T. Michael said at
““groundbreaking” ceremonies
Vice President
(above) as UAW
Leonard
gional
Woodcock,
Director
Bert
Assistant
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—Free discussion is a
basic need in every area of the nation if
democracy is to survive, UAW Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey emphasized here.
Mazey was among the key speakers at an
Indiana State AFL-CIO conference on “Dangers on the Right.”
The conference marked
the first use by a union of the Indiana War
Memorial since the public edifice was constructed.
Mazey stressed that ‘“‘the right of anyone to
speak out on any subject” has been increasingly opposed in the last decade by ultra-conser'vatives whom, he said, ‘‘fear the_right of dissent.”
Re-
Bothe,
and
Elliston Stockton, president of Lotreasurer,
center
and
239
cal
listen closely.
Unions Back
New Clinie
In Baltimore
BALTIMORE, Md.—With top
other
and
civic
UAW,
ical,
medlabor
leaders in attendance, groundbreaking ceremonies were held here for
the new East Point Medical Center,
the first community health care clinic
in the Baltimore area.
Because of heavy winds and muddy
soil, the ceremonies were moved from
the site of the new center in the
1000
block
of
Old
Point
rd.
to
hall occupied by UAW Locals 239, 344
and 678 at 1010 S. Oldham.
There, UAW Region 8 Director E.
T. Michael told the gathering of
approximately 110 persons that the
GOP Presidential nomine
Dallas Sells, Indiana
discussed the
the rights of
gree, in order
Dr. Robert
importance
those witl
to preser
Risk, pres
Civil Liberties Union,
det
“Why are the ultra-conservatives so afraid
of everyone having the same right of freedom of speech?” Mazey asked.
‘Can it be
because they are-afraid their ideas will not
stand up in the spotlight of facts and dissentoS
ing ideas?
“This nation must be both the land of the
the years of the Indiana
mission to permit the Li
meetings in the building.
organization has been act
tect the constitutional rig
claim for yourself.”
U.S. Senator Vance Hartke pointed out the
parallel between the program of such ultra-
against the forces of opp
Congressman Ray Mi:
efforts of the right-wing
free and the home of the brave,” he added.
‘‘And in our American democracy, that includes
both the freedom to speak and being brave
enough to openly champion the rights of all
people to enjoy the same rights you enjoy and
the
right groups as “Americ
Action” and their distr
principles on which Ame}
The attitude of “hate
rent national issues an
solving civil rights prob
were emphasized by Phi
can banker who is. the s«
groups, both right-and-lef
Dr. Risk said that Am
dom as seen by the rest «
be tarnished either from
outside, if the U.S. is to
ning the struggle for lil
health care center represents labor’s
interest “in the welfare and progress
of the community as a whole.”
UAW Vice President Leonard Woodcock said the concept of health care
has been changing from merely the
prevention of disease to “concern with
physical, mental and social health.
“In this broadening out, to meet
these challenges, we have a need for
more than doctors,’ Woodcock said.
“Citizens’
sented
care.”
skills
must
also
in the organization
be
repre-
of medical
Group health care teams, he noted,
“nermit doctors to pool their skills.”
But with rising medical costs, partly
as a result of improvement of wages
of very low-paid employees, shorter
expensive. equipment,
and
hours
Woodcock said the nation needs “the
most rational kind of organization of
medical care to keep costs down.”
Group medicine is one such major
factor, he added.
vice
executive
Daily,
Edwin
Dr.
Insurance
of the Health
president
Plan (HIP) of New York, said statistics show families in group health
plans get more and better medical
care.
A survey, he said, showed that
98% of the children of HIP mempers received complete immunization after their first year, while a
Baltimore study with solo doctors
showed only 30% had complete immunization.
Declaring “there is no unnecessary
surgery in prepaid group practice,” Dr.
Daily said the rate of hospitalization
among group health care members is
20-to-25% less than for people of the
same age and sex getting medical
care under a fee-for-service solo prac-
tice system.
Presiding
at
the
ceremonies
was_
Leonard Lesser, president of the Board
of Directors of the Center and Social
Security Department director of the
DepartUnion
Industrial
AFL-CIO
ment.
also
congratulations
of
Speeches
Goldstein,
Louis
by
offered
were
comptroller of the State of Maryland;
Congressman Edward Garmatz; Oliver
Singleton, AFL-CIO
regional director;
and Charles Della, president of the
Maryland AFL-CIO. Officers of other
unions also attended the ceremonies, ©
including
of
tion
the International AssociaInternational
Machinists,
Union,
Workers
Garment
Ladies
Bakery and Confectionary Workers,
and National Maritime Union.
Above, Dr. Oscar B. Camp, medical director of the new East Point
Medical Center at Baltimore wields
a gold-plated shovel for the symbolic groundbreaking. Because of
ground
muddy
high winds and
from a storm, a bucket of earth
taken from the site was brought
indoors for the ceremony.
GETTING READY for the program sponsored by the Indiana AFL-CIO on
Right’—-UAW Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey; Barta Hapgood; Indiana AFL
Sells; Floyd Sample, Local 933; Frank Spiggle, Local 933; Henry Krusemeyer,
Elkhart Citizenship Council; Jacob Roberts, vice president of the Indiana A
Wilkie, Rushville, Ind., banker and son of the 1940 Republican presidential :
UAW’s Ray Be
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.
Berndt this month.
—
The
people
hono
More than 2,000 persons from many walk
joined together at a dinner in tribute to the |
UAW Region 3 Director who has been an acti’
leader for 30 years.
Principal speaker was UAW President W
Reuther who told the gathering that labor
THE TELEPHOTO CAMERA reaches ac
giant hall at Indianapolis’ Murat Temple t
UAW President Walter P. Reuther as h
with Indiana State AFL-CIO president Dall
(center) and U.S. Sen. Birch Bayh (right) |
fore the speeches start at the testimonial
honoring Region 3 Director Raymond H.
seated just to the right of the group. Mrs.
is seated next to him, and at the right is t
Mark J. Fitzgerald of Notre Dame Univer:
Martin-Marietta Ratification Set
edition
As this
went
of
Solidarity
to press, a tentative
agree-
pact
ment for a first national
Martinthe
was reached by
Marietta Corp. and the UAW,
reports Vice President Leonard
Woodcock, director of the union’s aerospace department. Details were withheld pending local union ratification meetings
scheduled for November 16.
Settlement came after a threehour strike which was 100% effective at the three Martin Di-
vision plants in Baltimore, Md.,
Denver, Colo., and Orlando, Fla.
Woodcock
tor
T.
E.
8 direc-
Region
and
Michael
headed
the
national negotiating committee
bargaining for 8,500 UAW members in the three plants.
They called the agreement “a
great victory which was due to
the solidarity
of the
Martin
workers and the effectiveness of
the strike.” Details of the pact
as ratified will be published in
the December issue of Solidarity.
Our Basic Liberties: Mazey
is
“Americans
their
distrust
yhich America
for
and
Conservative
the
of
fear
stands.
. of “hate groups” toward curissues and the importance of
ights problems without. evasion
ed by Philip Wilkie, a -Republi10 is-the son of Wendell Wilkie,
jal nominee
and
laws
“right-to-work”
so-called
porting
other legislation to hamstring unions.
He challenged labor to ‘do more than ever
before” to overcome such opposition to “the
advancement of our community and our soci-
ety.”
in 1940.
s, Indiana AFL-CIO President,
importance of labor defending
those with whom unions disa: to preserve the rights of all.
Risk, president of the Indiana
Union, detailed the refusal cver
he Indiana War Memorial Commit the Liberties group to hold
JAPANESE union officials started their tour of the U.S. in Baltimore. Above, looking over a factory
“push-button”
the
sup-
The
nation’s
food
stamp
cash at his bank, or uses them to
make his purchases from wholesalers
~who, in turn, redeem the coupons.
plan,
Congress-~
(D., Mo.),
whose prime sponsor was
woman Leonor K. Sullivan
has proved a success, according to the
_ New
esidential
nominee.
and
York
the
that in
The Times reported
year ending last June 30, needy families were able to get $1 worth of food
Additionally, the newsfor 40 cents.
paper said, the system reduces the
cost of former stamp programs.
Times:
Families in need along with retail
have
businessmen and employment
been aided markedly by the stamp
plan. Mrs. Sullivan, who has reprein
sented a St. Louis, Mo., district
the
sponsored
Congress since 1952,
program and pushed for its enacteconomic
the
with
ment. starting
.FL-C1O on “Dangers of the Far
ndiana AFL-CIO President Dallas
Crusemeyer, chairman of UAW's
AFL-CIO,
left,
Re-
2 Japanese
Tour UAW
Food Stamp Plan Is Proving Itself
Both Humanitarian and Economical
Indiana
At
gion 8 Director E. T. Michael (center) explains a plant operation to
the Japanese unionists as Region
8 Citizenship - Education representative Paul Wagner (right) sights
the next point on the plant tour.
The Civil Liberties
e building.
as been active in striving to proutional rights of all persons and
ight-and-left-wing.
d that America’s image of freey the rest of the world must not
ither from within the nation or
U.S. is to be successful in winrole for liberty and democracy
‘ces of oppression.
discussed
1 Ray Madden
right-wing political groups
setup.
downturns
Philip
of the
Most
retailers
who
viewed said they wanted
were
inter-
the program
In eight pilot areas, food
continued.
program
the
after
8%
rose
sales
started, with some stores .reporting
they hired additional workers as a
result of their increased sales.
|
mid-1950s.
The program provides that a family certified by a community welfare
agency can exchange the amount of
money it normally would spend for
food for stamps having greater value.
The family uses the stamps to purchase food at authorized stores.
The
retailer then turns in the stamps for
Additionally, said the Times, “the
diets of the
participating
families
showed a marked improvement” and
the program also is reported enlarging the market for farmers’ products.
BALTIMORE,
Md.—It was worker
talking to worker when five Japanese
trade union officials began a crosscountry tour of the U.S. here.
The Japanese, who also will be stop=
ping at Knoxville, Tenn.; New Orleans,
La., and Dallas and El Paso, Tex., on
their trip, toured factories here and
talked with UAW regional and local
union officials in an exchange of information and understanding.
| Their trip is being made under auspices of the U.S. State Department.
The
UAW
is cooperating
with
the
Bureau of International Labor Affairs
in
programming the visit.
In
Baltimore,
they
were
accompanied
on their factory
inspection
trip by Region 8 Director E. T. Michael
who previously had visited Japan in
behalf of the UAW.
The Japanese unionists are Toshio
Tanaka, general secretary of the Nis~
san Automobile Workers Union; Kozo
Branch,
of Ikeda
president
Okuda,
Union;
Workers
Industry
Daihatsu
deorganization
Hasegawa,
Mitsuo
partment chief, Aichi Prefectural Federation of the Japanese Federation of
Trade Unions; Tatsuhiro Koge, presi-<
dent of the Toyo Kogyo Workers Union, and Masao Seya, organization de=
partment chief and central executive
committee member of the All-Japan
Workers
Automobile
of
Federation
Union.
y Berndt Is Honored for 30 Years’ Service
people
honored
Ray
many walks of life
bute to the longtime
geen an active union
President Walter P.
- that labor cannot
reaches across the
at Temple to catch
uther as he chats
ssident Dallas Sells
tyh (right) just betestimonial dinner
symond H. Berndt
group. Mrs. Berndt
1e right is the Rev.
yme University.
solve its problems without relating them to the total.
community.
“The labor movement in a complex industrial society cannot act as a narrow pressure group,” said
Reuther- “We can’t solve our problems in a vacuum.
We must relate them to the total community prob-
|
lems.”
Berndt long has realized “that the labor movement
is important because it is about people; he knows they
need the fulfillment of their hopes and dreams and
aspirations
added.
about
tomorrow,”
the
UAW
President
Berndt, who has served as Region 3’s director for the |
past 18 years, also is a member of the UAW Interna-
tional Executive Board and is chairman of the Indiana
AFL-CIO Community Services Committee. He also is
active in a large number of other community, civic
and labor posts.
3
He became active in the labor movement after he
went
to work
for Studebaker
at South Bend,
Ind., in
1928.
The list of those attending the testimonial dinner
for the UAW Region 3 Director reads like a ‘“‘Who’s
Who” of the state and nation.
Among
those
present were
ernment, education,
other professions,
labor,
leaders
in religion,
journalism,
.
gov-
medicine, and
Co-chairmen of the dinner were Dr. John W. Hicks,
assistant to the president of Purdue University; F. J.
“Pat” McCartney, director of the AFL-CIO’s Region
10, and Dallas W. Sells, president of the Indiana State
AFL-CIO.
|
- Other speakers lauding the UAW official were Indiana. Gov. Matthew Welsh; UAW Secretary-Treasurer
and
Hartke
Vance
Indiana Senators
Emil Mazey;
Birch Bayh, and Congressman Ray Madden (D., Ind.).
Invocation for the dinner was offered by the Rev.
Clinton Marsh, of the United Presbyterian Church.
Benediction was said by the Rev. Msgr. John J. Doyle,
:
director, Tribunal Archdiocese of Indianapolis.
AFTER the testimonial—Region
3 Director Ray Berndt and some of
the gifts presented to him.
November,
1963—Page
8
A U.S.
Senator
looks
at a
by Caued States Senator
| NY Ftag ine bt Neuber ee
burning
A US. Senator pennies
the controversial facts
question
Sen.
about cigarette smoking
By GERDA
Senator
Maurine
RANGE
Neuberger’s
new
book
Smoke Screen should be of intense interest to
smokers, ex-smokers, and non- smokers—possi-
bly in that order.
Smoking cigarettes causes cancer, heart disease, and other painful and fatal diseases—of
this, Senator Neuberger is convinced.
She
presents her case strongly, drawing from such
landmark studies as that by Drs. Hammond
and Horn of the American Cancer Society and
the report of the British
Royal College of Physicians.
because
of her personal
huge,
Feature
—70
that users
million
of cigarettes
people
smoke
pie
1)
Education of both the pre-smoking adolescent
and
the adult
members who belong to
group health plans such
as HIP in New York, CHA in Detroit and
Kaiser-Permanente on
the West Coast know from their
own experiences the great value
these plans have for them and
their families.
UAW
of
than
A
they
are
more
getting?
You probably have in mind the cost
of medical care, and that is one reason why many people do not get the
care they need. But there are two
other important reasons.
One is availability. If you live in a
small community and suddenly need
a specialist in a particular kind of
heart disease, you may have to go a
long way to reach one.
can best answer
them.
and
informative
packages.
labeling
of
this by cit-
|
Health Association of Detroit is an
example. Though it is open to everyone, the UAW
took the lead in organizing it.
©
tive,
do this—a
group
any
—Can
* farmers’
marketing
cooperafor instance?
A
—Yes, a farmers’ market coop® erative, could do it. We think
that most any organization involving
Significant numbers of people can be
the active nucleus for a health plan.
Prepayment health plans have been
formed
with
only
one,
two,
or
three
doctors.
Generally
speaking, however,
the
larger the group the more complete
can be the array of specialties that
can be included.
tions and enter into agreements with
physicians to provide them comprehensive care through group practice
Dr.
care
—I think one would have to answer that. question, Yes.
®
get this kind
sumers of health services.
The fourth of these principles is
the one by which people can do something about their own medical care.
They can form group health associa-
of Am-
medical
cigarette
They are (1) prepayment, (2) group
practice, (3) comprehensive care, and
(4) control of policy and administration by or in the interest of the con-
people in the United
need
—I
and
Cautionary
® ing the four principles represented in the Group Health Associaelition of America. Organizations
gible
for
active
membership
in
GHAA must be based on one or more
erica, in the interest of broadening
public
knowledge
about
group
health plans.
© States
can people
© of care?
A
Solidarity prints the following
interview
by
Cooperative
News
Service (CNS) with Dr. W. Palmer
Dearing, executive director of the
most
Reform of cigarette advertising and pro-
This includes the kind of care often
described as “preventive medicine.” In
and thorough
addition to complete
treatment when people are ill, it includes the regular, systematic checkups that keep them from getting sick.
—How
technology
Nearly a million anti-smoking posters have
been distributed in Britain.
smoker,
0
the
This fact of economics may be the main
reason why other countries have been able to
move ahead in warning their citizens about the
dangers of smoking while we have not. The
Danes, Italians, British, and Russians—for example—have programs of education or control
that would make an American gasp.
Smoke Screen suggests that some changes
be made and lists four areas of government
activity in which remedial action is both ‘“‘justified and tardy”:
Group Medicplans—A Road
To Better Health for All
—Do
country—
gives the individual smoker the unjustified
feeling that tobacco can’t be seriously harmful.
Smoke Screen describes how and why smoking does its damage.
Association
are everywhere
in this
3 )
motion,
into
There is every reason to believe that Mrs.
Neuberger’s
moderate
suggestions
will be
fought by the tobacco industry, an $8 billion
a year operation. In our interview, Mrs. Neuberger pointed out that the U.S. is handicapped
in coping with the smoking problem because we
are a tobacco-producing country.
It is of particular concern to the Senator
that cigarettes are sold and advertised without
a word of warning to the user. The very fact
that advertising is unrestrained, that sales are
Hammond
and Horn
found the death rate of
regular cigarette smokhigher
ers to be 68%
than that of non-smokers
and the death rate for smokers of two or more
packs a day 123% higher. Dr. Horn estimates
“there would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 300,000. to 500,000 fewer deaths per
Group Health
interest
in the effects of tobacco.
Special
Solidarity
year if it were not for smoking
question
Expanded research
of safer smoking,
Mrs. Neuberger emphasizes the importance
of getting to the non-smoker, particularly the
young one, with a warning, at the same time
that tobacco advertising is persuading him to
smoke. It is so much easier not to start than
it is to stop and about 65% of smokers develop
the habit during their high school years, 10%
before their teens.
“T didn’t start out to write a book,” she
told me, when we talked in her Senate office
recently. She started investigating this burning
Neuberger
2)
4.)
For one thing, it’s hard to quit. Mrs. Neuberger has great sympathy and understanding
for the smoker.
After all, “she was there”
herself. Up to half a dozen years ago, she
smoked. It was her own experience with cigarettes that led her to investigate and collect the
information that resulted in this book.
Maurine
W.
Palmer
on a prepayment basis.
I want to emphasize, however, that
in these associations the consumers of
medical services: have a voice in the
organization
and
costs
of medical
Dearing
The other is the organization of
equipment
Particular
care.
medical
or skills may exist in proximity to
your need but yet not be available
for lack of organization within the
medical
profession.
Each
of these
three is important.
Oo —What
® ple need
- do not get?
A
—I’d
say
® hensive
kinds of care do peothat they most
what
care.
we
often
call compre-
care, but not in the practice of medicine. That remains the business of the
doctors.
©
A
the
—How
do
people
go
about
* ting this kind of care?
get-
—First, I would say it is neces* sary to have. the cooperation of
doctors. They, at least some of
them, need to be in on the planning
from the beginning.
Then our experience seems to show
that an organized body of consumers
is almost essential to be the nucleus
of a medical care plan. Community
—How
can interested
®* get more information
general subject?
A
persons
on this
—We have a new pamphlet just
® off the press. It describes some
of
the
characteristics
of
modern
health care and our program to help
people get it. Anyone may get a copy
of the pamphlet by writing to Group
Health Association of America, 704
17th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
—
euther Youth Center Plays big Role —
In New Israel Labor Social Program
HOLON, ISRAEL—Ready to take its place
this December among the fine public buildings
of Israel is a youth center in Holon, a busy
suburb of Tel Aviv.
Its
name:
“Beit
Reuther.”
In
Hebrew
it.
means “Reuther place’, and it was named in
honor
of the UAW
president,
Walter
P.
Reuther.
An American visitor to the construction site
in Holon recently told Solidarity:
“The Reuther Youth
looking modern
Center will be a good-
building of brick, concrete and
glass. More important than its looks, though,
is the fact that ‘Beit Reuther’ is located in the
right place for the right purpose.
“Tel Aviv and its surrounding suburbs have
grown tremendously fast in recent years. With
heavy immigration of Jews from many countries, Israel has been hard put to build homes,
let alone recreation centers or community
buildings—for which there is a very big need.
‘'
“The Reuther building is in the middle of a
working people’s neighborhood. It will have
place for a library, game rooms, study rooms
and meeting rooms. All of these are in short
supply.
“There’s every reason to expect that the
Reuther Youth Center will become a really
popular meeting place for the people of this
neighborhood.”
The building is valued at more than a quarter of a million dollars. Reuther expects to be
present for its dedication in December.
Histadrut, the Israeli labor federation, is extremely influential in the country. In addition
to usual trade union functions, it also operates
a health service, co-ops, housing projects,
schools and cultural programs.
ALMOST COMPLETED is Israel’s new Reuther Youth Center which, an on-the-spot observer said,
is certain to become a popular meeting place. Reuther expects to be present for the building’s dedication
in December.
Because it was in existence many years before the state of Israel was created after World
War
II, Histadrut had started on many
-an industrial union, UAW
recognizes that a special problem exists for skilled tradesmen.
As a result, the officers of UAW
set up in 1940 a special department—the Skilled Trades Department. This Department negotiates
skilled trades agreements, works
on problems, and seeks to establish apprenticeship programs
jointly with the companies under
the union’s jurisdiction.
Here are examples of the successful joint effort on the part of
the union and managements to implement apprenticeship programs:
Chrysler Corporation
1. 400 apprentices on course.
2. 1697 graduated to date.
Ford Motor Company
1. 870 apprentices on course.
2. 10,366 graduated to date.
General Motors
1. 2,300 on course.
2. No figures available on the
number of graduates.
Detroit tool and die job shops
1. 404 on course._ 2..426 graduated in the last 4
This has been of some help. But
in the long run, it has been proven
a bonafide apprenticeship program
is the best and most complete
method of training journeymen.
How to get more apprentices in
training is a joint venture for
management, labor and the proper government agencies, both federal and state, to impress upon all
—either in management or labor
—the fact that the future training of skilled tradesmen lies in
the proper apprenticeship training program.
SKILLED TRADES MEETING
SCHEDULED IN NOVEMBER
Region
Region
Region
Region
Region
With an ever-increasing population and an expanding economy,
the need for machine tools in this
day of automation is growing by
leaps and bounds.
Thus, the greater the need must
be for skilled workers to build and
maintain the tools and machines
of industry.
Many companies have relied on
training programs and upgrading
of in-plant emp:oyees as a source
of manpower in their tool and die
departrooms and maintenance
ments.
1-C Lansing, Michigan
1-D Muskegon, Michigan
3, Indiana
9 Buffalo, New York
9-A Bridgeport, Conn.
SKILLED TRADES
SCHEDULED FOR
MEETINGS
DECEMBER
Region 1 and 1A Detroit, Dec. 1
Region
2-A
Columbus,
Region 9, Linden,
Dec. 8
years.
SPECIAL
New
Ohio
Jersey,
NOTICE
When the new Skilled Trades
Procedure was set up, the International
Skilled Trades Department had the task of administering four skilled trades councils—
Parts, Miscellaneous, Independents
and Tool and Die Jobbing Shops.
Since these four Skilled Trades
Councils are scattered all over
the United States, the only time
they can meet is on the day preceding the Skilled Trades Conference
proper.
four
skilled
Past
activi-
ties that in other countries usually are handled
by the government.
In recent months Histadrut has been placing
The Skilled Trades Man
AS
emphasis.on the matter of community centers,
youth centers, and sports areas to serve rapidly
growing communities throughout the country.
As one of the first of these new projects, “Beit
Reuther” will play an unusually important role
policy
has
trades
been
for
councils
the
men-
in this new kind of labor social program.
Reports
tioned above meet to hear a report
from their respective delegates to
the International Skilled Trades
Advisory Committee.
Your
local
union
will,
undoubt-
edly, get a letter from the Skilled
Trades Department advising your
local that you have been assigned
to attend the meeting designated
for your particular local at 3:00
p.m. January 22, 1964, at the
Sheraton-Chicago Hotel for the
purpose of listening to a_ report
from your delegate and in some
instances to elect a new member
or members to the International
Advisory Committee.
This notice does not apply to
General Motors, Chrysler, Ford,
Agricultural Implement and Aircraft and Aerospace local unions
which have skilled trades councils
in existence.
If there is a question as to what
skilled trades council your local
unions should belong, International
Representatives
from _
the
Party,
and
Skilled Trades Department will be
available to advise you what meeting to attend.
.
Get Ready for ’64,
Ag-Imp Delegates Told
TORONTO—An
outline of possible
collective bargaining goals for 1964
was given the delegates to the UAW’s
International Agricultural Implement
Workers
Equipment
Industrial
and
Wage
and
Hour
Council
by UAW
Vice
President Pat Greathouse.
|
Greathouse, who is director of the
deunion’s agricultural implement
partment, asked those in attendance
to start now to think about possible
demands for next year, well in advance of the union’s April convention which will set the UAW’s official
bargaining goals for 1964.
for next
to prepare
time
“The
year’s bargaining is right now,” he
you
what
about
“Think
declared.
want and come prepared to discuss
and defend your views at the UAW
convention in Cleveland next spring.”
Other speakers at the council meeting held here late last month included
Canadian
Regional
Director
George Burt; David Lewis, national
vice
president
of Canada’s
labor-
backed
New
Democratic
William Oliver, co-director
ion’s Fair Practices Dept.
of the
un~
A highlight of the session was a
presentation of a plaque to Morris
Field, assistant director of the ag imp
dept.
who is retiring at the end of
the year. The plaque, preserted by
Greathouse, honors Field as a veteran
of the labor movement and for his
services to the membership of the
. UAW.
Field
became
active
in
the
union
movement in the early Thirties and
was on the UAW’s International Executive Board from 1937 to 1939. A
member of Dodge Local 3, Detroit, he
served on the staff of the union in
various
capacities
including
stints
with the National Ford Department
and the Washington office.
He has been with the ag imp dept.
since
1945,
working
out
of Chicago.
Massey-Ferguson Local 439, Toron=
to, was the host local for this council
session.
:
November, 1963—-UAW
SOLIDARITY—Page
11
-
A New
‘Domestic
_ Peace Corps —
s
t
h
g
i
R
n
a
m
u
H
for
te
ee
s
for
concept
the
dorsed
Americans wishing to enter
BOLD, imaginative plan for training a “peace corps” to work to
improve human rights throughout the
the
by
U.S. has been announced
Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation.
of improving community
tions, Stevenson said.
-
The plan is a major concern of the
Foundation’s overall program directhuman
of
ed at the advancement
international
of
promotion
rights,
peace, furtherance of cancer research
and
dren.
aid to emotionally
troubled
chil-
12—UAW
intern for training. The program will
Anbegin Jan. 1 with 25 “interns.”
training each
start
will
25
other
month
enson
as long as funds
said.
permit,
Stev-
Among the “other persons” for whom
the program is expected to become
en-
SOLIDARITY—November,
workers.
Cost will be shared by the Foundation and the agency accepting the
GOALS
THE
WORK,
THE
HONORING
of Mrs. Franklin D.
THE MEMORY
AND
Roosevelt, ceremonies recently were held at
the White House. There, President Kennedy
talked of her devotion to the value of each
Page
staff
Under the Foundation’s program, 2
series of $5,000 annual “internships”
will be awarded qualified Peace Corps
veterans and other persons for specialized training in inter-group relations work.
“peace
human. rights
new
The
corps” pilot program was announced
jointly by Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations who
is chairman of the Memorial Foundation, and R. Sargent Shriver, direc-.
tor of the federal government’s Peace
Corps.
has warmly
frela-
The critical need for trained intereroup relations specialists has been
identified by the Foundation as one
of the keys to a peaceful and connation’s
structive resolution of the
racial crisis,” Stevenson said.
trained
To aid in financing the programs of ».
the Foundation, which is seeking toraise $25 million to carry on its work,
affiliated unions
the AFL-CIO and
are opening a drive for $5 million
through voluntary contributions from
each member of an hour’s pay.
Kennedy
race
OHN G. Feild, a consultant to the
Foundation, who helped plen the
new program, said many of the biracial committees formed in communities throughout the nation, including
some 70 in the South, lack adequate,
Each is a project with which Mrs.
Roosevelt, who died a year ago this
month, was deeply involved.
President
training
the field
1963
human being, and of her deep and abiding
concern for human rights, Attending the White
House ceremony were the nation’s ambassador
to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson, UAW
President Walter P. Reuther, Congressman
possessing
those
be
available will
work experience in community relations or organization, labor relations,
teaching, law, adult education, social
work and allied fields.
Most of the internship will be spent
working for agencies which set up
‘The
programs.
training
supervised
in
training
“interns” will undergo
developmanpower
as
such fields
ment, housing, education, urban renewal and other areas.
eee
Kennedy
likened
the
aims of the human rights leadership training program to “the spirit of
public service and concern for human
values that has characterized the life
of Eleanor Roosevelt and Peace Corps
service.”
President
Kennedy
added,
“As
you
know, Mrs. Roosevelt had a deep and
abiding concern over every erosion
She was aware,
rights.
of human
long before most other people, of the
dimensions of the problem and the
need for solution.
“Legislation in this area, although
necessary, must be implemented by
skillful leadership, both lay and professional, by hard work in the neighborhoods and factories, and by informed and dedicated people.”
James Roosevelt, son of the late President and
Mrs. Roosevelt, and Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Halsted, their daughter. At Ambassador Stevenson’s left is the new U.S, postage stamp honoring “the first lady of the world.”
UAW
Real
Would
Up House Costs
In Meeting Health Needs of Aged
a
time
every
applied
be
Republican|would
under
a home
on inadequate ate,” with a few wealthy states
based
WASHINGTON—A study of the, judgment
| getting “the lion’s share.”
Five
Kerr-Mills Act’s first three years| evidence.”
states having 32 percent of the
a
produced
has
of operations
aged received 88 percent of the
a
strongly critical report from
THE
REPORT
DREW
the
federal MAA grants through last
charging
subcommittee
Senate
praise of the National Council
takes
transaction
estate
Gov..Romney’s proposal fora 1%|real
place on the property—including
real estate transfer tax.
raw land by @
Leaders of the building and|the sale of the
developer, the sale
real estate industries are pro-;farmer to a
testing
proposal
the
be
would
to the
ee the eat
| house.
buy
to
order
in
home
would
aded
transfer
The
cost
the
AFL-CIO
by
covered
AFL-CIO
correct
hance
Housing
Commit-
Housing
Senate
tee, told the
subcommittee that legislation to
make the words “FHA Insured”
truly meaningful “is long overdue.”
apcover of FHA
the
the homebuyer
where
is forced to assume the burden
of costs to correct faulty construction.
by Sen.
A bill introduced
Ernest
Gruening (D.-Alaska),
4
Local
class
mittee
ft
i}
|
was
lations,
and
co-sponsored
the
Wayne
19th
Institute
State
by
other
or
the
usefulness
Local
SHISHKIN
prevalent
been
the
rant
and
and
to
“en-
in
the
October
174
and
24th.
Education
Shown
Industrial
above
This
Com-
are
Re-
the
students in class, Those who graduated were: John
Preston Anderson, Laurence E. Barret, John Borushko,
James
Brenton,
D,
Richard
A, Bozynski,
Richard
Cox, Otto W.
James Finch,
Cromp,
Gisella
|
for
December.
its “hon-
thoroughness.”
organization,
0
abundant
| strained
Health
seyen|
said
evidence
financial
John|
% Congressional
that
offers)
which
itself,
by
not,
did
consti-
one-
war-
Mills
already
well-in-| the Kerr-Mills
program
to reap
gram”
the
R.
Litak,
Stanley
Jewel
Omer
ation
|
the
report
“confirms
belief
i that
universal
and
my
The
MAA
of
con-
cluding that, on the contrary,
Kerr-Mills has been an ineffective
substitute
was
signed
by
all
eight Democratic members. Redissented
publican members
sharply, charging that the report
premature
“a
represented
benefits.
to state
state
ceptions
ent
or
are
J.
McAllister,
Parzych,
Frank
Robert
Newby,
Phillips,
received
widely
vary
% Benefits
with
and
“nominal,
inadequate.”
case-
*% The
“welfare”
aspects
of
Kerr-Mills,
including
cumbereligibility
investigations,
many
of aid
seeking
aged
from
few
from
ex-
nonexist-
‘Starts Jan. 13
A class
Com-
and
in Steward
mitteemen’s Training for second
will
workers
shift
third
and
| start Monday, January 13, 1964,
% Administrative costs remain | at West Side Local Hall.
too high, exceeding 25 percent)
by
co-sponsored
class
The
of benefits in four states and
Region 1-A will
ranging up to 59 percent of ben- Local 174 and
be held from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
efits in Tennessee.
and
will
six
of
consist
% Distribution of federal funds sessions and will be open
has been “grossly disproportion- | members in Region 1-A
The
enough
Robert
Watch
your
the
of
UAW
boards
for
times—so
Frank
Marquart
to all
be
two or three times, while
enough
Frank
weekly
only Education
have
will
Russians
Department
H Bombs to kill us all | the instructor for the class.
to
W. Jeffries, Richard Johnson, Earl Johnston,
Jubenville, Leo Kedziorek, Tom Knight, Leo
John
federal
Steward Training
148,For 2nd Shift
—
65
over
Americans
securitythe
can
report
subcommittee
increasing
pro-| jhave
discouraged
to be- | persons
in need
;
tic
i ipation . Lost t July ] only
000 persons — 1 percent of all
only
ap-
opponents
other
higher
tests
eligibility
% Stringent
|and “lien type” recovery provisions have severely limited par-
Chairman
commented
have
financing
security
social
insisted that Kerr-Mills, suppleinsurance,
private
by
mented
of the
the needs
fully meets
aged.
E. Reed,
Samyn,
Shelton,
Sneath,
Stecker,
loads.
Kerr-| | some
ae
Coe
without
of
to
programs
welfare
advantage
grants
and
one: (Only, 28) states
national solu-| come
tate/anitetfective
the|
have
jurisdictions
other
four
health}
pressing
the
to
tion
Fodor, Alvin Grady, James L, Holland, Margaret Holland, Percy G. Hughes, Nick Innello, Julian D. Iwan-
ski, Louis
James T,
that:
likely
not
is
and
other
Of|on
Sen-
a national
“is still not
nearly y
persons
years,
three
* After
has
elderly
of the
were
subcommittee
ate
transferred
s
e
have
the| 199900
resources
findings
chief
The
intent
been “frustrated” by some states
of the Kerr-Mills
aims
tentioned
it
the
make
states
many
our
of
needs
health
basic
be effectively
citizens
senior
met.”
The American Medical Associ-
AFL-
the Steward
at the
held
not
program
of a social
proach
program,
financed
an
Citing
could
and
MAA
long sta
S ndiing
the
through
have
to
the
that
that
abuses
enough
bonds.
the
t
18 million older
Subcommittee
McNamara
Pat
also urged
CIO resolution, he
of provisions to bar
inclusion
accepting uncompletso-called
ed housing.
of Labor
Browning, Tom Canning, Hugh
Jack Delk, Benjamin F. Dobbs,
much
defects
e
said
Citizens
W. Edelman, acting president of|
problems
health
Senior
esty and
problems of older citizens.
sponJavits
of the FHA mort-
major
of
of wide
participation
to high
administrative costs. It declared
that its findings “confirm the
studies
earlier
of
conclusions
to-four-family homes covered by
FHA-insured mortgages.
It would also require builders
to post indemnification bonds on
new construction of such homes.
through
University.
this situation
new
declared.
Seventy-eight students graduated from
Course
Training
Committeemen’s
and
September
the nation’s
at) of
bill would auThe Gruening
thorize the housing commissioner to pay claims for structural
of
examples
HE CITED
and shoddy
practices
“shady
performances” by ’some builders,
Hall
the
to
tax) proach
gage insurance system and to
its coverage,” Shiskin
expand
e
“under
proval”
do
would
effectiveness
mortgages
insured by the Federal Housing
Administration.
of
Boris Shishkin, secretary
the
(R.N.Y.),
for
the Aged program is “at best an
ineffective
and
piecemeal
ap-
|
and a similar measure
sored by Sen. Jacob K.
bills
has endorsed two Senate
which would protect homebuyof
ers by authorizing payment
in
defects
major
claims for
houses
Assistance
e|
Seaita
of
ible
imposs
law
MAA
lls|
Kerr-Mi
in
”
defects
or ons, ranging from lack tion as a national program.”
an older| | operati
|
Back Law to Protect Buyers
Against Defects in FHA Homes
WASHINGTON—The
Medical
the
with the) citizens.”
point
transfer
each
|puyer footing the entire bill.
The subcommittee on
of
be|
would
buyer
same
The
cited
Elderly
; the
|
7.
the Rom-
ney program. The buyer
pay the extra $150.
owner.
the
to
_ of existing houses.
an extra $150 under
that
er to a builder, and the sale of
the finished home by the builder
say will boost the prices on all
homes and slow down the sale
This is how Romney’s proposal would work: A 1% transfer tax is added to all real
estate sales. A used home selling for $15,000 would be taxed
develop-
the
lots by
of improved
they
which
1963
November,
Act Shown Ineffective
| Kerr-Mills
Tax
Estate
The same value home in a new
families
LANSING—Michigan
would have to shell out hun-| subdivision would be taxed sev-|
dreds of extra dollars when they | eral times that amount. The tax
buy
Qe em aaa
Second class postage paid at Indianapolis, Ind.
11
No.
6,
Vol.
AMERICA
OF
WORKERS
CT
Bo Col
Col
Cote
fol y (ol ees
IN
UNITED
UNION,
— INTERNATIONAL
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5
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5
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Odom,
Raines,
Willard L. Reynolds, Norman C, Sadler,
Billy
F. Slavin,
Stanley
Segura,
Joe
Sydney Smith, Harold
A, Smith,
Raymond
A.
Speir, Richard
Snelson, George
Denver
Arthur H, Thiessen, Curtis L, Thomas, Ben-
kill
why
of
all
aren’t
son
we have
them
we
ten
happy?
Thompson,
further
Gerald
details
M, Tyrrell,
bulletin
of
Ron
his
course.
Wall,
Grover
F,
s
White, Johnnie J, Whiteman, Chuck Williams, Jame
W. Zebley, Rose Tindle, Ruth
R. Williams, James
Robert Pp.
Goolsby, Una (June) Elandt, Edward Powell,
Virginia
Neil, Alexander Penman, Corbet R. Griffith,
Dyson,
Joan
Bert
Seymour,
Golick, Thelma
Junior
Rogers,
F. Phifer, Myrtle
Edward
B. Litwin,
Sanford,
Charles
alko,
J. Dennis, Ronald Lusnia, Theodore Eugene McK
John
James Wielkerwicz, John Micu, Gerald J. Mahl,
J. Tobin, Elaine Paszek, Fred Barton,
Page
2
West
CONVEYOR
FIRESTONE
Side Local 174
CAL
GARLAND,
FLETCHER,
JAMES
Financial
THOMPSON,
MAX
ZANDER,
ALBERT
BLAINE
LYONS,
Editor,
TERRANA,
Vice-President
Secret ory
Recording
B. LOCKRIDGE,
GEORGE
PHIL
President
Secretary
DAVIS,
Guide;
MARTHA
BRADLEY,
ED KWASNIEWSKI,
Member
AFL-CIO
Trustees
Press
teachers,
to
and
détlare
—
Urging
the
war
news
on
1963
hope
}to
Council.
HUBBARD
most
read
and
the
of
you
took
several
had
the
fill-ins,
some educated
and influential,
Now, we believe that securing | be so
trusting and naive to even
a man’s seniority on two jobs is dr
eam that we had a
the
time,
articles
sufficient and that anyone
on
to
find
just
how
that
On
supervision
on
fill-in, especially for a period of 60 days
| automation in the October issue
of Solidarity.
It is really dis-
turbing
going
or
much
less,
should
be
charged
we
would
|I didn’t,
When
with
chance or
get a fair shake.
they
say,
“We
have
worked
are being hurt—about 40,000 overtime
and
return | everything” they must mean
only in a material way, for
| With
the
highest
jobs per week!
number
of
we
hou
rs
ar
in
e
the
gi
dep
ve
We
art
n no credit for our
ment.
have been lulled into a
“This is just the start, and there
| fine traditions, arts, cultural
e
feeling
of
security
or
is bound to be more unless ev- false
INKSPOTS:
our
Understand Rosy | development,
beautiful
eryone is made to realize that} apathy by the myth that autoro
matio
parents,
media!
carbon
November,
FAX
OREN
opportunity,
Warns of Carbon Monoxide
LANSING
By
I
Sergeant-at-Arms
Labor
OF SOLIDARITY
Supervisors Get a Good Break
From Our Union at Firestone Co.
West Side Local 174 Conveyor Edition is the official publication of
Amalgamated West Side Local 174, UAW-AFL-CIO,
6495 West
Warren Avenue, Detroit 10, Phone TY, 8-5400.
ROLAND
EDITION
mon-j
we
n will create jobs for workads and country
will have a “grease pit” in N.C.
scenes.
carbon: monoxide
is a deadly
Th
ei
ers, not
|
r
Far
mi
only
mer
nds were made up —
in Tunning
does pretty good with
the
enemy one that lurks in wait
in advance,
but
in
maintaining | his “hobby”. New car, corn pickfor unsuspecting victims in machine,
er, new truck, 100 suits, etc,
|
It should be even more
many places — homes, garages,| them.
apThe
Wh
y
hard
truth
is
is
DeJ
that
ack
these
)
tak
Par
in’
ent
danger of the lethal gas which } cars, schools, factories, motels,
now — what other nasquare
mac
hin
dan
es
ce
requ
les
ire
sons?
very
little
tions want from us — and all
last winter claimed more than }house
trailers,
and
fishing
oxide;
State
Health
Commis-}
sioner Dr, Albert E. Heustis to-|
day called for an all-out effort|
to warn the public against the|
60-lives
“An
in Michigan.
intensive
| shanties.”
educational
|
campaign with constant repetition is the only way to prevent
“If everyone
whether it’s canned heat, gas
refrigerator, furnace, or automobile engine—and that to protect against it requires adequate
ide poisoning,” the commissioner said. “We must impress upon
people—especially young people
—the importance of being aware
of this danger.”
“The
tragic
scene
of
a
young boy and a young girl
found in a parked car with
the windows closed, the ignition on, the gas tank empty
and the battery dead, was repeated at least 16 times last
year resulting in 18 deaths.
In eight of these
instances
both
persons
involved
were
killed—that’s
a pretty
high
mortality rate for any cause
of death,” Dr. Heustis said.
Although
accidental
carbon}
monoxide deaths happen at all}
times of the year, the majority}
of them occur during the winter
months, starting with the ap-|
of cold
fall.
“The
weather
at
least
one
draft,”
sioner
he
recommended
annual
competent
and
prompt
service
personnel,/ where
replacement
in
} parked
cars—they
are
going
to} you take a
the Commission- supervision,
them not to turn on the car
motor when it becomes too cold,
sessments,
in the first year|six
premium
of
years, F.
Van
Woodrow
still
who
have
now
to
pay
$52.
been
for
A. Van
$36,
Atta
the
mittees
persons,
paying
$26.
Two factors
the price cut.
tion
Single
Atta,
will
also
head
will
|
were involved in
Costs of opera-|
and
department
boards
on
dealing
worker health and safety.
LAW
NEEDED
Blind Man Buys
Hunting License
half
experienced
less
Province’s
of
5
which
than
per
See
cent
is
sales
earmarked
has
the
tax,
A
bill
that
would
hunters
com-
with
Sales
tax
and
receipts
cal Care
left
Commission,
ministers
with
costs
a $9.5
the
increased
the Medi-
which
insurance
million
surplus
ad-
funds,
after
the first year.
About half is
being
returned
to
the
public
in the form of lower premiums,
and the remainder is being retained as a reserve fund.
Lioyd
pointed
out
that
the
premium
ma
fluctuate
from
time to time
as a result of varithat
to
he
in
expe
remain
time.”
The
in
boom
provincial
Treasurer
ported
million.
ng costs and in
conditions, but
he new rates
a
J.
forc
had
for
a
finances
H.
surplus
good
“some
effect
generally.
Brockelbank
of
nearly
re-
in
1962
there
killed and 218
ing
proper
caused
by
use of guns.
im-
At
the
present
time,
such
courses ‘are conducted
by the
National Rifle Association on a
voluntary basis without cost to
either the hunter or the state.
Mr. Gerald Eddy, Director of
the Michigan
Conservation
Department said, “This department
has
in
trained
over
7,000
hunters
voluntary safety
classes
The
Detroit
lawmaker,
who
has been totally blind since the
age of 15, said, “This
is
endorsed
by
the
United
Conservation
would save lives.” Rep.
emphasized
$10 | deficiency
this
has
a sayings
on
dressed up,
on
supervision.
A case in point: Let’s say a
Man goes on supervision in the
diesetting, jobsetting, mechanical, etc. department, either permanently or filling in for sickness
or vacation. He has the highest
number of overtime and Saturday hours (in other words, he
has made more money than the
rest of the
department.)
He
works overtime and Saturdays
with his men
but he is not
check
Blue
bill,
point,
sizes
(4”, 6”, 8” and
screened in fast color,
yellow felt, and can be
shirts,
|
blouses,
Water
no
more
out
was
supposed
Clubs,
Mahoney
and
etc. Sam-
@
6”
@
8”
10”
@
@
Orders
with
Art
Brush
Michigan.
3-7411
must
or
27c
38¢
45c
55c
could
that
THEY
you
stand
long?
the
be placed
e
IN
Display
Street,
Phone
—
Service, Inc.,|
WOodward
Detroit
26,
WOodward
3-6379.
and
certainly,
e
WILL
TAKE
ALL
out for more,
and
showing
gratitude,
no
Mrs.
why
OLYMPIAD
1968??
verily.
What
How
FISHER
DETROIT
a
could
she
Jerome
wants
can’t
to
assume
the
know
in-
Surance fees and retain it. I’m
sorry that I cannot reassure you,
Mrs. Jerome, we know how rough
it must
be.
But we are all looking for that
answer,
revolting
so
many
May
for
hold
idea,
yours.
people,
the
“Horn
of
all the goodies
Plenty”
for you
and
bi
Buenas Dias
LIVONIA
People Should Speak Up
To Make Democracy Work
By MARTHA
Everyone has
to have his or
operation
union
when
of
BRADLEY
an
her
the
democracy
people use
speak
their
up.
piece
meetings and to speak out
Cause they feel that they
equal right
say in the
union,
speaking.
would
only
works
this right to
and
when
you
in the plant, you
your committeeman
write
a
I HEAR
problems
re-
can
be
met
by
a
normal
oper-
of you
might
won't
say
like
that
this—
per
hour,
and
NO
ONE
any respect for us if we
to defend our rights on
or any other problem.
has
fail
this
I know many of our members
hesitate to attend their union
heart
of
a few
the
others.
words
average
FROM
e
SEVERAL peo-
ple that one of our recent prob
lems in the plant is that people
should
call
or commit-
grievance
the
hear
and
wash of a polished speaking politician
trying
to
beguile
the
people.
have
furnished
the
now
they
being
partment
their own
Medical
de-
with statements from
doctor in the past and
are
told
Medical has no such letters.
When one gets a letter
statement
their own
required standard on it.
This |
is the amount of pieces you are
person
I
person than to hear all the ho
g-
to speak
have
But
rather
from
By this, I not only refer to
attending your union meetings
and speaking as you feel, but
also,
beare
not polished in the art of publ
ic
but
well, management will expect
and will try to pressure you
to make
the posted
amount
directly
reach
old
Rosy wishes to thank everyone
for the kindess and consideration they have shown him, not
only at the last, but over the
years. Well, he earned it,
management
each
each
each
each
rub-
not even respect.
“bowling shirts.” (Sorry
for the |
The city of Detroit is too well
typographical error — Conv
eyor
known, too rich and prosperous,
Editor.)
has too
much
pride
to ever
Our
nomination
for
the
again “cheapen itself” in such a
“smartest man of the ye
ar”
manner.
Clarence Rose.
Sorry: The loss of “Tony”
Hurry back, Carl, we miss you
.
Jerome, who died suddenly on
Sorry that poem was so messed
November 2nd, will be felt for
up, I had it in neat, separa
te
a long, long time. Tony was
Stanzas.
ever cheerful, a good worker And Mary Jo, I didn’t kn
ow
and a real nice guy.
you were in N.Y. for two week
s.
Some
4”
etc.
our money.
be
on| questing that the standard be
on lowered to a fair standard that
prices:
the |1025
in the present law by
purchasing a hunting license.
jackets,
blue
used
packages,
of
to
our corn, our
ber, our cars, our tractors, our
protection, our technical training
and
know-how,
our
care
off to Cali-
to send
want.
Our wheat,
that alien
This
ple can be seen at the Local hall.| | 2tor
7 is spelled out in
Minimum orders are 12 of a| Paragraph 78 of the National
size available at the following | 4&reement.
which
Michigan
10”), is silk
they
up
,; expected to produce each hour.
If you cannot produce the reThe UAW Recreation Departquired
number
of pieces
per
ment has complied with the re- hour, call your committee perquests of local unions and in- son and have
them
help you
|
| dividuals and arranged for the check the job, and if there are
| manufacture of a standard UAW
no hidden
gimmicks
and
you
|| are not able to make the posted
}emblem.
This emblem, available in four standard, have your committee
were
21 people
injured in hunt-
accidents
he
at
Better
That
immediately
UAW Emblems
Now Available
for | short course
in gun safety before
meeting the expenses of the pro- |
a hunting license could be issued
gram, occurred
because of the!
Was introduced by Rep. Robert
general economic boom.
D. Mahoney
(D-Detroit).
The combination of less-than- |
Rep. Mahoney points out that
anticipated
on
hours
held
charged (he gains there). And
yet, upon returning to the work
teewoman and get their help.
force, he takes only the average
They
do not know
when
you
hours which puts him way down | have a problem unless you speak
(he gains there also.) And this for yourself.
| happens every year on vacation
For example, each productive
person
in the
plant
has
(or
should
have)
a
card
posted
require inabove their operation with the
to take a
even though critics had claimed
the plan would be abused and
that it would cost more than
expected.
|
A jump in receipts from the
were
he
goes
Antosic
town than the house next doo
r.
at| man
In other words, enjoying all
the benefits and, in the case
of supervisors in upgraded departments, gaining while giying up nothing.
| offices safety programming and
activities, and
a research
repre-
family during the first year was|sent
reduced
who
costs
better| How
one, but two classifications while
a major|been appointed deputy director|
$72
a
of | he is accorded certain privileges
or | not available to others and he
may accumulate seniority in, not
cut in the annual insurance pre-|in the Dept. of Labor’s Office of|
mium has been announced by/| Occupational Safety.
The
man
work clothes, he goes
care - hospitalization
Washington — An
program,
industrial
which covers everybody in the |safety expert with
the United
Canadian province, worked out | Automobile Workers for the past
Lloyd.
get
he| er said. “But if we can convince| quits paying union dues and as-
medical
Premier
supervisors
four
was
fornia to live with his daughter.
You retirees: If you do
not
get this paper —
Holler, it
“Transferobot
of|break from the union than
sys- Firestone—and
we like it that
UAW Safety Expert
Joins Labor Dept.
Provincial
the
spection of home heating sys-|
SUPERVISORS: There is simtems
and
gas
appliances
by | ply no place that we know
of
Canadian Health Care
Plan Cuts Rates
that
called
for
why
registration Walt.
“Bob” Gildersleeve
can’t do my job.” Well, they have
just come up with a new ma-
chine
And
Bridge?
they
in-
they would go home instead
being taken to the hospital
morgue.”
of its existence
“Well,
emphasized.
was found dead in a car and his
girl
companion
Fees?
alive but in critical condition.
so successfully
say,
faulty automotive exhaust
tems.
| way.
“I don’t suppose it would do
However, there are one or two
any good to try to discourage} small items which do not sit
the| young people from sitting in| quite well with the men. Now,
life,”
Saskatchewan
don’t
except perhaps to show that we
|Poor
unautomated
people
can
As another means
of safegive considerably more producguarding against the hazard of
j tion and with feeling.
carbon monoxide, the commis-
strong
said, referring to an incident in|
Macomb
County where a boy|
The
ing.
And
|
ventilation, we could eliminate 200” which can pick up and turn
most of the accidental expo- | Over pieces, transfer or rotate
sures to carbon monoxide,” Dr. them, weld, stake, rivet, oil or
Heustis said .
glue them and ONE MAN oper“And by adequate ventilation, ates it.
I tell you these things but am
I don’t mean having the window
open a crack—I mean a good sorry I can’t offer any remedy,
‘silent killer’ has already | do it anyway,”
claimed
that
carbon
monoxide
is _ present
wherever there is combustion—
the annual toll of utterly needless deaths from carbon monox-
proach
recognized
maintenance, For if it required
an equal number of people to
build
and
maintain
there
would be no point in automat-
get
an
own
that
or
of any kind from
doctor, they should
extra
use and
copy
let your
for
their
commit-
tee person read it. Your committee should be informed of
all
such
things.
By
having
a
copy of such letter you can
show
it if the Medical
department misplaces their copy.
This
will
back
saye
you
a
trip
to the doctor for another
copy.
I
our
also
would
plant
like to congratulate
chairman, Ed Laws,
| on his recent election as Chairman
Also
of GM Sub-Council
congratulations to
No. 3.
after-
noon shift shop committeeman,
Fred Hodges, on being elected
| as Alternate Top Negotiator of
| Sub-Council
For
you
what
a
| GM
No. 3.
who
Sub-Council
sub-council
Cut and
Attend
your
may
No,
made
Sew
not
Avenue,
owe
~The
-193
MBI
bass
10)
vor
1
all
meetings.
ant
up
of
it is
Time: 2:30 P.M. the third Sunday
of each
month.
Place:
Local 174 Union Hall, 6495 West
Warren
38!
“aA J
(lp
3 is;
plants.
union
know
™
Detroit.
~ru
1938
JzaW
November,
AUTOMATIC
-
CONVEYOR
1963
EDITION
OF SOLIDARITY
PRODUCTS
The Mystery of The Lost Law
By TOM MARSHALL
for the Advancement of Colored
People is seeking a court test to
Did you know that a whole
section of the American Consti-
never
has
tution
it’s
Well,
out?
carried
been
Section
true.
enforce
will
2
of the Fourteenth Amendment,
which was adopted in 1868 and
deals with the voting rights of
American
citizens,
enforced.
been
has
never
}
population
to
Amendment
send
House.
only
state
a quota
the Furteenth
should
“X”
to the
eight members
If Section 2 has never been
carried out, it is not because
there were no grounds for it.
Negroes
contrary,
the
Quite
have been denied
their voting
rights in some states ever since
the Fourteenth
first adopted.
one-fourth of
in 12 Southern
tered to vote.
heavy
with
10%
than
less
about
only
Today,
non-whites
the
states are regisIn 129 counties
populations,
Negro
of adult
to vote
registered
are
was
Amendment
famous
Negroes
the
was
moves
separate
two
submitted
has
Michigan
it.
implement
to
National
the
courts,
And
the
the
re-
1970,
why
will
the
chance
be
the
South,
is so
taken.
who
of
to vote
important
to
into
the
battle.
the long run, both measures
guarded.
in
this, I will get
sweat shop.
over
olde
bill
the
Hi
Folks,
and
vember
the
season,
holiday
here
start
is
it
of
with
yet
are
even
buying
consider
No-
the
the
at
any other time of the year is
just around the proverbial corn-
er.
Well folks, things are still going along at a merry clip at “ye
olde
nutte
bolte
and
shoppe,”
quite a few new faces in evigeneral
in
things
and
dence
a merry
at
along
humming
pace. Still, there is a general
feeling of dissatisfaction prevalent throughout the entire plant.
This
does
not
only
production people,
on up the line.
e
THERE
SEEMS
embody
it goes
the
right
to be a general
feeling of “The hell with it.” In
the past two weeks I made a special point of talking to quite a
few individuals in the various
the
throughout
departments
and
expecting
the
worst.
Perhaps I am being a little overly pessimistic yet I can truthfully say that never in all the
bounced
&
largest | MORE
the
ity
construction?
Detroit
That
dis-
be
area’s
of
share
is,
it
here
Well,
joyous
that
color blindness, a love of frantic
crowds and not one shred of sale
resistance.
see
I
some
has
“blossoms,”
new
very
for
policy
working
new
The
By
On
alent.
Well
boom
the
folks,
is still going
|
so prey-
full tilt. Our
swing.
in Michigan
Judging
by
will
the
years that I have been an employee of F. S. W. have I ever
seen morale at the low ebb it Is
today. Absolutely none of the old
de
“esprit
and
comradeship
By
be in full
number
SEAS
THE
mean
seem,
They
not
could
be
stated
also
accepted
is the
of
that
it folks,
time
snow
to
remember,
get
shovel.
the
rust
a
to
and
Novak
of the County
STICKLER
now
have
we
and
we
are
Male
and
John
almost
converting
y
than
work
out
off
on
one
another
jig
its place.
f
iPotke
U
9
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employees
of
Telephone
year|American
a
completely
to take
Wh
were
the
mighty
Tele-
&
ago. The Company is deliberate-| graph Co. recently found themly violating our contract by re-|selves “on camera” when they
the ninth floor men’s
fusing to let the employees go| entered
rather
home
Dep't
na-
in a ceiling
air-
Lines
Long
at
of|room
New
in
headquarters
is a|tional
their classification. This
right we have under paragraph| York.
46 of our contract.
|
Investigation
of
clicking
Communications
by
Many of the people were ready |SOUN ds
to walk out of the plant regard- Workers Local 1150 revealed a
or
whether
of
less
the| members
the
in
them
it | keep
requested
hidden
was|c@mera
is
not
The
The
plant.
a special |
off
every
reaction
union
resulting
The
go
camera
held Novem-| blew up a storm which ultimateto pledge
ly led the company
|
Loour
Lyons,
George
5th.
ber
Committee.
that there would be no more
for
e
vot
a
to
put
n
present
cal Representative, was
It was the
It
in the washrooms.
}cameras
ept
acc
her
eit
to
grievat the meeting. Several
the employees
|turned out that the cameras had
rely
ous
nim
una
are
and
was
ances have been signed
or reject. It
been installed by the Pinkerton
n
the
was
e
vot
time.
ike
this
at
str
being processed
jected, A
| Detective Agency. The company
by
p
shi
ber
mem
the
by
taken
|__after much publicity and aland
yes
ed
vot
377
,
lot
secret bal
the
give
to
OUR ANNUAL MASQUERADE | tercation—agreed
the comOffice
24 voted
no. This gave
mittee
majority
2/3
the
the contract
to reject
and
needed
month
the
up
Keep
of
the
DANCE,
to set | very
at}
October
good
work.
much
a_
costume.
More | Pinkerton
success.
awa
im
away.
him
ce gave
y
worcenenye ‘
Tess=
to
t
wen
Third prize
|
few
America
Miss
as
ell
recognized
wig.
20S
ea a
the
in
her,
here
scooter.
.
The
plans,"*
managed
to
get
thé
Very}
sombrero]
Spanish
honorable}
about
Coyle’s
Tom
It’s a shame
could
have
write
4 Mor
black)
your
motorized
a Union
because
a grievance
and
all have
in
the
Jig
guys
fore-
the
ation
Guach ates
we
pic-
no
that
saying
the
with
only
who
lav-
| the
the
throughout
tories
orangs
lavldi
| bui
;
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The local has
if the ; See
meee
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also }
was
Ment
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lavatorie
> s.
women’s
the
who R would review : such
ask
"
S0**ed
be-
company
if the
and
films
means are justves that any
lie
,
|
easIt’s
for next year.
25
| ified to achieve a stated end.
25
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facts make us wonder,”
se
he
“T
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nd
ou
ar
on
ti
ac
tr
newest at
wsletter,
don't
men
they
is
Ret
Also, George |
thinking
Start
:
1890.
deserves
assles
The
on
affidavit from
of an
every year.| tures had been taken.
e
tales
pitysntion
as Goldie
l e
as wel
aaand tha: t (beautiful?)
ris
investigating
a copy
The second prize was won by| oratory walls Local 1150 reporty imaginative— if
Bill and Helena Wagner as a|ed that highl
— anticompany slogans
doctor and nurse. Helena could} obscene
on
drawings had appeared ens
have fooled everyone, but Bill's}and wall
s of men’s and wom
Shick
is
local
it was caught in
When
First prize was won by “Cheney”|
itself
cleared
and his wife—dressed as Indi-|act, AT&T
it was
ans. They were so good that no the pious excuse that
a pervert
one recognized them until they) trying to catch
scrawled obscenities on the
unmasked.
y
"Congress
how
was}
2nd,
November
in
|| come
|
was
which
meeting
for.
now
en
that they don’t
about their work
up
are
negotiating
we
where
to
for awhile |
White
gave
over
impasse.
are
Morgan
back
Gar174;
by
id
being
taken
away
by
Fulton
Tube. After being worked on by
our jig builders for two weeks,
had
we
because
improved
Gillespie,
held
why
Kenny
AFL-CIO,
satisfied
to worry
over negotiations | they
step of our griey- and
complete
now
em-| with
always
Someone once said, “I felt bad
that I had no shoes, then I
met a man who had no feet,”
That's
took
apes
may
thankful
be
to
life
Sister
NEWS
JUANITA
come
and Bargaining
Regional
for
still
is
there
something
in
lot
your
Mike
We seem to go in cycles as
labor
relations
are concerned.
About a year ago McAvoy, plant
date if nothing could be
ike
str
a
|
ng
headi
are
that
of fellows
d from further bargaining
che
rea
|
W.,|
S.
F.
north this year from
the meeting ended.
this
h
wit
and
|
a
for
in
the deer population is
e
We wish the
terrific beating.
IS STILL urgently|
BLOOD
and
you
of
best of luck to all
Blood
Revere
for the
needed
|
es.
licens
hope all of you fill your
If you are interested in
Bank,
before
n,
Just a word of cautio
a pint see Doc Kramer,
donating
|
e
pleas
you squeeze that trigger,
is in charge of the Blood
who
g
lookin
be sure of what you are
Donation Committee.
at through your sights.
am also happy to report that
I
e
re were no disabling accidents
the
|
|
over
is
ON
WHEN
Pres.
in the third
ance procedure
was
Snider,
Members Have a Ball
At Masquerade Dance
at 2:00 p.m. at the Local Union
Hall, Bard Young, Regional DiDoddie, Assistant
Jim
rector;
tract.
his lovely
and
maintenance
wife Margaret, Patrick will be
his name and quite a broth of
a lad he is we've been told.
Congratulations you two nice
people and thanks again for
the cigar, just love those El
Pros,
By the time this column goes
into print the rifle season for
deer
TUBE
manager,
the
E.
/conditioning duct.
perof
bit
a
quite
took
It
legal.
gave)
ie
Dodd
Young and Jim
to
was triggered
to
e
itte
Comm
the
by
n
atio
their views on the proposed con-/|su
seven seconds.
of
Santavy
AVON
Phillip Terrana, Vice-President
and Representative of Local 174
and our Bargaining Committee
were present.
read the conPhil Terrana
proposed by Revere. Then Bard
population
John
of
It
Revere.
of
ployees
for
held
W.
‘
Vice
30, 1963, a special
was
(left to right),
CSA Staff Rep. Whitey Dancey.
DeRoss;
LESZCZYNSKI
Regional Director; Roland
Local
of
President
land,
newest addition being a seyen
pound two ounce baby boy by
courtesy
October
| meeting
to be
used
that
corps”
JOE
are
the Wayne
raise fad om
other equipment for
Looking over some
Service Activities Staff Rep. Eric
Proposal
Rejected
Our sick list has expanded to
include James Burk and Eddie
McCray as well as George Athans and Mary Neky.
in Detroit donated $3,772 to “Opera-
Foundation director, Community
Company
lot
blue.
and
white
red,
patriotic:
parking
the
that
100 LOCALS
of the purchases
$7 millionp
will
THAN
tion Wheelchair,” a campaign sponsored by
AFL-CIO Community Services Committee 5
purchase of wheelchairs, hospital beds and
union members in need of such equipment.
of
taxes,
Michigan this year
and hospital facil-
tributed in
for medical
the really big deer start
and
Revere,
getting shot, (All the really big,
plant, People who have as much ;deer are shot in conversation|
as thirty years seniority and| you know) we faithfully promise
as little as to listen to your tales. Remempeople who have
is ber, we don’t promise to believe
attitude
The
days.
thirty
much the same, no enthusiasm.
them, just to listen to them.
to
situation
up the
Summing
This about winds it up folks,
the best of my ability I have
your officers and myself would
conclusion
the
with
up
like to avail ourselves of this
come
to
of wishing
opportunity
that the whole thing adds up to
all of you and yours a very
a loss of morale.
happy and a blessed ThanksEveryone is apprehensive and
giving. Always bear in mind
seems to be waiting for somethat no matter how small and
thing to happen, hoping for the
best
funds
Federal
of
for Deer
beautiful fall we had it seems
as though summer was just last
month. The fact remains that
the time for all of us to go in
debt for items that none of us
would
Com-
been
takes
as
of current potato
That 12%
crops of 1963 will be made into
in
WORKS
J. MELOCHE
well
in-
Cross
Insurance
has
hard
production
auto
the nation’s
time of year, Thanksgiving upon | has dropped from 40% to 26%
just around in the last ten years?
us and Christmas
That our Torch
Drive total
Hope all of you
corner.
the
started sum including the office force
have
girls
guys and
$1,216.00—away
short
of
This is a} was
Christmas shopping.
thing—all that is re- last year’s quota with less emsimple
quired is a fistful of twenty- ployees?
dollar bills, an extreme case of
Go Hunting
NORMAN
subscribers’
after Federal
income?
share,
family
Many Federal Boys
By
been
free
and
Blue
food
That
to the
back
against
Romney?
by
long
the
missioner,
PONDER
YOU
WHILE
NOW
be
to
are
Americans
all
that has
in every
of| potato chips?
safeThat aproximately
rights
voting
the
if
needed
protect
so
Michigan’s
right
But,
fought
terest
now. It at least provides effectice relief until the full weight
of
the
Constitution
can
be
brought
idea Is
of| country in the world, and has |
out'| been thriving for 114 years?
next
That Sherwood
Colburn,
adoption
of registering
maker—also
Union
of the few
found to work
NAACP}
the
the Credit
in| one
provisions
when
census
That
the
And
if the
coffee
laws
to abolish the national origins quota system?
President Kennedy’s civil rights
bill, which
boosts the Negro’s
Association
SCREW
FEDERAL
in
after
That’s
afoot
a
eyen
suit,
national
it out. In the
McNamara of
to begin to carry
Congress, Senator
its
until
adopted,
are
of
and
Democrats.
new
well.
those} tion
Section 2 cannot be carried
counties not a single Negro is
registered to vote.
Now, 95 years after the Four-
teenth Amendment
twins,
by
working
known as Smily Woodson?
DID YOU KNOW:
That President Kennedy asked Congress on July 23,
1963,
to revise the Nation’s immigra-
word
short
Republicans
courts,
wins
in 23
and
justice
The
is that
gold-dust
Southern
of 10 congressmen, but 20% of
its citizens are denied the right
to register because they are Ne-
groes, then under
delayed.
best,
to be strangled
actionary
gressmen in the House of Representatives reduced proportionately. Thus, if state “X” is en-
by
at
Congress
tined
or denying its citizens’ rights to
vote shall have its quota of con-
titled
be
But,
is
Our
an avalanche of popular support
for the McNamara Bill it is des-
al provision, which was one of
many
adopted after the
Civil
War
to give
full
citizenship
rights to the former slayes, provides that any state abridging
||
still
from
constitution-
this
Specifically,
it.
women
room
for
one
camera;
detect
building
claim
It
the real
ithat
that
ment
UNION LABEL
AFL-CIO
how
what
and
Ne
1150
one
of ihe
purpose
cams ra ane
goes on all
over
the accuracy
that
only
one
added
that
while
will now
LOOK for
@
the
,
UNION LABEL ANO SERVICE TRADES DEPT
‘about
eed
| us
ar
ae
Local
said
condone
of the
was
camera
“any
the
he
union
indecency
members,
our
threatens
includes acts of manage-~
that
cency- as
question,”
are
the
as lacking
supposed
in de-
acts
in
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someone has to
race track that
(Eng.)
has
been
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a compound
214-
released
after 5 weeks
leg fracture.
THE
NEW
INDUSTRIAL
lations Department
be here sometime
His
name
is
Forrest
speedy
con-
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this month,
Forsythe.
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on
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Pot
and
you
could
Powell
have
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too
their
sum-
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mer home in Marine
City and
are now residing in the vicinity
of the plant.
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is a supervisor
who brings his lunch with him
3rd.
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WOodward
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p>
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meeting,
z
60
is
Dilemma
7—sec-
away
on,
6 o'clock
Mom and Dad are glad to have
the little tyke back home again.
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Edison Co., Duns Scotus College, The ACappels, University
to the family of George|
Martin,
ly recently.
fun,
Sickness
an
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e
Detroit’s
for
of
at
morning
drive
Phil
“An inspired triumph in music” is the way many describe
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cently;
they|
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Sunday,
organization.
of
Clayton
Russel
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must | Brien) who passed away sudden-
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ond
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If you do
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Hilda and Chairman
Frank
of
re- | ditional
here
Lawrence
Joe
7
FEW
month,
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in
Emma
retirement| this album—a
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and may they long be spared to} produced in limited quantity.
enjoy it
a collector’s
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Violet
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7K, wishes to say a big “Thank
blasts
Gardens—that
this
A
McKechan,
Hatchig
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the
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names:
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some
planned,
serve
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outings
creep in here,
continu
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We
the
y
know
today,'Because
SCHEDULE
we
no
needed
n Insur-|
ful land.
have is not|And
a wee
bit
ind
western
years;
go out and buy another one (a
battery, that is.)
Marlene
Theys
(office)
has
returned to. work from a maternity
leave.
This
ought
to
make Ray happy.
i
e
tirements
a month in Largo we meet,
the
pot-luck
dinners
are
really a treat
.
a
cost- | Picnics
is
years;
safety
terrible
Kate Madison is preparing to
return to work after a long pe-
Zack
;
idgewood Recreation
HAD
about our aching | Mussel.
poe moreecod
aati
the best in the world, it is one of
the
peas too,x
are due.
you
t
While the Metroy
ance policy you now
blanke
= t
Chevrolet,
and
which
pr
that
shovel
back.
Insurance
and
the
rate
to
crack,
pub-
this,
rates
snow
for|#/00ming
you may be
this policy
these
here,
glad
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rates
your
worth
are
male
are
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new
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22
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“Mr. Bang.”
the
All of us here at the “Lube”
join in wishing Cal Fletcher a
two
fae ae one Goodall
c
WE
the
She always starts right away.
Roses, Snapdragons and Sweet-
and
check
what
now
a
We
Dinning,
to
Ward Marsh—anyone
driying 62 miles an hour on North-
progress.
, don’t wait to | spare battery. Or better yet, win
the
J
welcome.
| And no moans
increase
affected
Remember,
on
|
east
female
:
to under
based
-
into
schedule
If
$6500
it is:
Ternstedt Retirees Club
ae
are Floridians most of
| And
Sickness
not
information,
lishing
|
ae
aes
would
were
your
eg
37 ieg aneaA a
bracket.
7
Several other
groups
their
Sit7e
rate
the In-|,
have
pe
and
|so here
raises
make
Wednesday night bowling league
had
batteries
removed
from
their cars while they were bowling.
Maybe they should carry
ber. This was because of the an-/| Jean, have written a poem about | C&M "er, aves: Florida, at
12
nual improvement factor raise|it and we think it is quite good, ealne and
Ternstedt visitors are
which
Department
incentive prob-
years.
COUPLE
we will win
ontiens
wereihore
MEMBERS | However, what we started out to]
Ist of Novem-/
I. E.
wear
hint
when you kick those shop
around.
You may
bruise
“pinky.”
Rela-
fined in Grand Rapids General
Facilities in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Our deepest sympathy to the
| family of Ray Buck,
who passed
fish.
was a
jn
Annenind)
made
this
the
noticed that their Metropolitan | tell you is that one of the mem- a
Caer a
e Club
Insurance rates were increased, | bers, Vice-President of the Club, | “e “i ah ae urday
of
effective as of the
17
for
away
°
ae
Pas
174 President,
his
Peg
Bull
at Engle-
with
all hope
one.
giant
bridge
<) ie
Bavied
Incidentally,
and
we
a
Our officers do a nice job of running the show,
And help to make our friend-
and we have written
of our Retirees Club
Largo,
to say|our
said
paragraph.
and}
Ternstedt-|
refuse
Beauty.
Brown
WE RECEIVE MANY letters/
from our retirees in all parts of
have ques-/the world
extent
frequently
of
Fishing
improve-|
expect to do even more
me if they prove wrong. But our | ~
co. ming
5
_
=
new contract.
present membership is over 3,500
e
and that is the highest in sev-|
eral years
Chairman
17
32
riod
SSN
Colin was formerly a jobsetter in Plant 18, and
tary in Plants 16, 14, and the Main Plant,
blame
don’t
so
not
embarking on those golden years
of happy loafing.
Good health
and lots of luck to all.
Ed
Koppitch
is confined in
Trumbull General Hospital. Ewing West is also in the hospital.
Stanley “Fats” Drainville is convalescing at home.
S
.
to another recare their fore-
mine
not
casts
Byrns,
Gilbert,
firm or deny
the rumors,
are}
very optimistic about our future}
in
Ternstedt-Detroit
and
are}
looking forward
These
ord year.
to
Hugh
Tom
Like we said before, G.M. can}
well
afford
to modernize
our
plant, and our Local Manage-|
though
has
sometimes
Labor
safety
| tempered
The following are leaving on
retirement this month:
Charlie
Moon, 40 years;
Ed Liszka,
37
1962. Net profits of $1,086 million|
for the same period also a new
record
ment,
some
continuing
12%
set
Committee
with
the
A
lems.
Well,
let’s put it
this
Way, several of these problems
have been resolved and we are
rebuild}
year,
and
regarding
our plant. Net sales amounted
to $11,681 million in the first 9
months
BOLDA
once,
weekly
tions
rumors
to
meeting
twice,
include plans for expanding our
present
operations
and
sound
like good news for our Ternstedt
membership. But we would like
to emphasize the fact that they
are rumors, and as Sister Milly
zur said, “they are building a
plant to take care of them.”
According to the recent.3rd
quarter report
issued by G.M.
they
FLOYD
Bargaining
been
rumors
changes
By
The
but
plant
CONTROLS
On Incentive Problems
PENMAN
are
STANDARD
1963
Committee Is Working
“To move or not to move, that
is the question.” No, sisters and
brothers,
November,
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