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to be
the battle,
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Conn.
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Minutemen intercepted while
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drive.
of the Wallace-for-President
“Walter Mitchell gave the Chemical Workers and the labor movement unselfishly of
er
~ himself, of his vision and
”
his vitality in total dedication.”’ These were the words
of Walter Reuther, expressing
the
deep
sorrow
of
everyone
sudden
dent
of
days
x
in UAW
death
of the
the
the
the
=a
presi-
ICWU.
before
delegates
over
Two
tragedy,
to the ICWU
con-
MITCHEFL.
vention had
roared
their
unanimous approval of a resolution to join
the new Alliance for Labor Action, set up
last July by UAW and the Teamsters. He
had called on his union “to move towards the
only part of the labor movement that has
proposed meaningful solutions to problems
that all working men and women face.”
Bre
alll
ba
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Picturesque
Prose:
The
New
Yorker’s
Richard Rovere: “No matter how hawkish
he may sound, Richard Nixon, an opportunist of breathtaking virtuosity, is in an almost
perfect position . . . The administration he
served had a lot to do with our present plight
in southeast Asia, but the political statute of
limitations has long since run out... .”
Air Victory:
Reg.
1E Dir. Bard
Prices:
Chrysler
Young
and
UAW organizers won more than they’d figured when Universal Airlines, Inc. employes
at Willow Run, Mich. voted heavily for UAW.
Union’s jurisdiction now covers some 600
airline mechanics in terminals across the
country. They’re the only UAW members to
come under the Nat’l. Railway Act and not
the Nat’l. Labor. Relations Act.
Those
Car
Corp.,
dizzy
from its record profit pace, announced sockit-to-’em car price increases. “Totally unjustified,” said the UAW’s Walter Reuther.
When Chrysler blamed rising labor costs,
the UAW leader said Chrysler workers’ higher wages were made possible by the increase
in their productivity. “The UAW lends its
voice to the call that is being made to the
industry to make its contribution to price
stability and the welfare of the American
consumer.”
Washington
writes:
longer
year
columnist
“The
a
militancy
seven-day
drive.
of the
John
wonder—it
While
the
Herling
teachers
is
American
a
is no
seven-
Fed.
of
to
the
Teachers has been the pacesetter and the
leader in unionizing the teachers, it becomes
clear that the Nat’l. Education Assn.—especially
its classroom
sector—has
taken
strong initiatives in areas which once they
spurned:
tough
possibility of
leadership.”
bargaining,
strikes,
facing
bringing
up
Negroes
into
With major league baseball about over for
another season, and more cash in the club
owners’ till than ever, one
b
industry gesture stands out:
yee
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the Atlanta Braves’ hiring
of Leroy (Satchel) Paige.
The ageless hurler needed a
few more weeks on a big
league roster to qualify for
a pension.
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Baseball’s
Hall
Following
of the
clubs ignored him for eight
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page
(Continued from
2 Dir. Dan
Reg.
Emphatic:
1)
Forchione
re-
ports organizers won the support of workers
at Carbon Limestone in Hillsdale, Pa., suburb
of New Castle. Of 150 votes cast, 144 were
for UAW, just five for District 50 and one
for no union.
Reader's Reply: To the UAW came a short
note: “Read your excellent report on tax
Sept. issue). Re(SOLIDARITY,
evaders
member Jonathan Swift? He wrote: ‘Laws
catch small
are like cobwebs which may
break
hornets
and
let wasps
flies, but
through.’ ”’
To the UAW’s 1,600,000
members . .. to the union’s
200,000 retirees . . . and to
their wives ... a vital
message from President
Walter P. Reuther
Next
Light Side: Said comedian Joey Bishop:
“Wouldn’t it be funny if Howard Hughes is
really an Indian trying to buy the country
back?” Said Pat Paulsen of the Smothers
Bros. TV show at an 89-cent presidential
campaign kickoff dinner (his own): “I’m goto fight
ing to create a new department
nepotism—and my brother will head it up.
Post
U.S.
The
to turn
quests
out
stamp
a commemorative
for the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pension Safeguard: If reelected, Oregon
Sen. Wayne Morse (D.) becomes chairman
of the crucial Senate Labor
and Public Welfare Com-
mittee. He made this point:
that committee
has evidence indicating that half
of all workers covered by
a pension plan don’t stay
with
one
employer
long
enough
to
collect
their
pensions. Needed, he said:
MORSE
vesting
rights
and _ portability, as provided by Social Security—long
a UAW goal.
Expansion:
Ford,
already
pacing
the
in-
dustry in truck sales, will build two additions
to its Wayne, Mich., truck plant. Employment will increase another 500. Ford set an
all-time company high and led the industry
with sales of 326,184 units in the first six
months of ’68—an increase of 11.2 per cent
over last year’s first half.
Columnist
shame that a
is lost to the
short-sighted
our
human
Sydney Harris thinks it’s a
losing Presidential candidate
public, adding: “‘This seems a
and shameful squandering of
resources.”
He could
see,
Machine:
Ralph
Nader,
The Progressive magazine,
OFFICIAL
PUBLICATION,
Union,
United
Automobile,
writing
in
POSTMASTER:
under
troit.
From the Past: Ever wonder what
pened to the nine Negro youngsters
monthly
D.C.
Green,
Look
one
of the
Central
Magazine
nine,
High
at
20002
1126
PAT
GREATHOUSE
living
found
in New
Ernest
York
a
retirement
com-
munity. Do people over 65 pay a tax on the
profit from the sale of their home?” IRS's
reply: “There are special tax benefits for
those 65 and over in this case. The entire
profit may be tax free. For details, write
your district IRS office and ask for a free
copy of Tax Benefits for Older Americans,
Document No. 5569.”
Page 2—UAW
directly
N.W.
Washington,
President
P.
REUTHER
Vice
MAZEY
Presidents
LEONARD
International
¢
*
Ken Bannon
Nelson Jack
Executive
* Martin
¢ Robert
¢ Charles Kerrigan
° Olga Madar
© George
e
Ken
e
Ray
¢
¢
Merrelli
Ken
Morris
E. S. Patterson
Harvey
Dennis
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T.
Gerber
Johnston
Kitzman
McDermott
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Worley
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Bard
Schrade
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Joseph
Ann
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Department
Walsh
Director
Ray
Director
Martin
and Managing
Thaddeus
News
Staff
Hartford,
Members:
Howard
Members,
Alvin
Editor
Editor
Newspaper
Jerry
Guild,
Dale,
Jerry
AFL-CIO
SOLIDARITY—October,
1968
CIRCULATION
1,733,459
September,
6—our national
elections
can be weird...
1968
MOVING
SOON?
4— profiles of
Democrats HHH
and Muskie...
Ogar
Adams,
Lipton
American
DIRECT
leaders pick
leadership team...
Michael
International Trustees
Paul
M
Lawson,
Local
813,
chairman:
LeFebvre,
Local 148; Blaine Marrin,
Local 157.
Assistant
office
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¢ Ken
Robinson
Ross
Public
3—plant,
Board
Berndt
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Forchione
Edwards
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WOODCOCK
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© Douglas Fraser
© Marcellius Ivory
7—all that’s at
stake in
November...
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Arkansas?
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looked hard again
before the construction of its new plant in
the early 1960s, is reliably reported to have
had a return on investment of more than
100 per cent after taxes. One can imagine
the reaction of a Cadillac purchaser on learning that little more goes into a Cadillac than
a top-line Buick or fully-equipped Chevrolet,
in terms of production cost.”
Little Rock’s
$1
non-members,
at the auto industry: ‘‘Non-disclosure of divisional operations relates also to the spectacular profit rate, even for GM, of certain
divisions. The Cadillac division, for example,
integrated
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subscription
to
members,
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for ex-
ample, Adlai Stevenson contributing to the
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senator-at-large speaking not for just one
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and act-alikes ...
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label
16—the
people
the election
is about...
4
UAW Local
Leaders
Choose Humphrey
And they do it overwhelmingly. In
special conventions across the land, the
union’s front line leaders agree on
what's best and who’s best for America
a’s goals of peace, freedom and social justice can best be realized through election of Hubert H. Humphrey as President
and Edmund S. Muskie as Vice President.
This is the majority opinion—by a whopping
margin—of
UAW
the
course
regional
and
union’s
state
delegates
who
conferences
in
the
met
in
15
to determine
presidential
elec-
tion.
The conferences were attended by 2,638
elected delegates who cast secret ballots un-
der the supervision of the American
Arbitra-
tion Association.
The Democratic nominees, Vice
Humphrey
and
Senator
Muskie,
President
received
2,319 votes, 87.8 per cent of the total. Republican candidates Richard Nixon and Spiro
Agnew
received
27
votes,
one
per
cent
of
total ballots. George Wallace, candidate of
the American Independent Party, received
271 votes, 10.2 per cent of the votes. Eleven
ballots were cast for other candidates and
ten were blank.
The vote commits UAW to support and
work
in behalf of the Humphrey-Muskie
ticket on the Nov. 5 ballot.
P.cbabiy
no
other
political
endorsement
matches the democratic structure of UAW’s
action. The 2,638 delegates, elected in all
U.S. regions on a membership basis, constituted the largest endorsing group in the
country. Secret ballot voting, conducted by
an
outside
organization,
guaranteed
com-
working
and
have
plete freedom of choice.
The overwhelming vote in favor of the
Humphrey-Muskie ticket, said UAW President Walter P. Reuther, “shows that the vast
majority
not
of
men
women
forgotten who their friends are.
“Judging by the comments made
delegates
clared,
“it
during
is clear
these
that
meetings,”
this
vote
on the public record established
was
by
he
the
de-
based
by the major
candidates in the past.
“That record proves conclusively that Hubert Humphrey is the only one of the major
presidential
candidates
who
has
consistently
fought for the interests of the working people and who has placed the
Ifare of the
American people ahead of the special interest
groups.”
Delegates
their
by
with
agreed
action
dorsement recommendations
made to
by both the International Executive
and the Convention Resolutions Com
The
resolution
things,
that
pointed
Vice
“throughout
freedom
insecurity,
oppression.
“He has
who
President
this public career,
freedom—freedom
fear,
out,
from
from
hunger,
freedom
stood
want,
from
by
the
work . . . struggling
en-
t
among
Humphrey,
has stood for
freedom
from
deprivation
and
freedom
side
of
the
for a better
from
people
day and
a better world. He has worked with courage
and compassion for peace, freedom and social
justice.”
Richara Nixon’s career, on the other hand,
“is identified with efforts to provide special
privileges for the few and powerful and
private
monied
interests.”
Reuther told Michigan delegates the union
had “to face the Wallace problem for what
it is.
“We
have
got
to
take
this
one
on,”
he
asserted, ‘because it represents the most serious threat that this country has faced and,
unless we have the moral courage to say it
as it is, then he will do great damage to this
wonderful country
Labeling George
fear and hatred”,
have got to do is
America but to its
cause,
fail...
if we
and
are
the
of ours.”
Wallace ‘an apostle of
Reuther said “what we
not appeal to the fear of
hopes and aspirations be-
guided
vacuum
by our
fears,
of that
we
failure
will
will
be filled by a police state.”
Wallace is a “spoiler”, he said, who “knows
he
can’t
make
it. What
he’s
hoping
to do
is
SOLIDARITY—Page
3
cause enough confusion so that the election
will be decided in the House of Representatives and he hopes to be able to make a deal
with Dick Nixon.”
October,
1968—UAW
Wirmviato
Lead
America
By FRANK WALLICK
The UAW Washington Staff
Of
Hubert Horatio Humphrey—what a name,
what a guy!
When
he came to Washington, D.C. in
1948 as a bouncing populist off the Minnesota hustings, he shook the sacred rafters of
the hallowed U. S. Senate.
He was a liberal diamond in the rough.
And the conservative elders in the senate
didn’t like it. In fact, they ganged up on the
37-year-old upstart during his first senate
speech. But times have changed, even though
Humphrey hasn’t 20 years later.
The Vice President is now a beloved member of the political establishment and he’s
every
bit
as
liberal
as when
he
first
left
the
family drugstore during the depths of the
Depression in 1929 to carve out his political
career.
That
mayor
leader,
career has included druggist,
of Minneapolis,
loyal
friend
of
U. S. senator,
organized
teacher,
liberal
labor
and
Vice President of the United States.
As his party’s 1968 nominee for President,
Hubert H. Humphrey knows he has an uphill
fight—but he’s great in the stretch. He loves
people, he loves to teach and regards every
speech an opportunity to exchange ideas.
He’s doing plenty of that now.
Humphrey's running mate, Edmund S. Muskie, U. S. senator from Maine, has the same
practical approach to government which so
characterizes Humphrey.
As candidate for Vice President, Muskie
comes on like the calm, deliberate Yankee
he is.
They make quite a pair—Humphrey, the
rousing and good-natured midwesterner, and
Muskie—the tough-minded and no-nonsense
down-easterner. Both are products of the
U.S.
Senate—where
America’s
staggering
problems of the cities, the countryside and
our relations overseas are grappled with.
Both Humphrey and Muskie have been
tested for a generation on the great measuring stick of American government—the senate roll call, which calls upon senators day
after day, in season and out, to state their
views on the burning issues of our times. Tax
loopholes, consumer protection, air and water
pollution,
new
parklands,
rebuilding
our
cities, civil rights, fighting crime with programs
instead
worldwide
of
alliances
speeches,
of
and _ building
freedom—both
Hum-
phrey and Muskie have stood up and been
counted on these.
Neither Nixon nor Agnew nor Wallace can
make that claim. All their talk about “law
and order’’ boils down to loud speechifying
and nothing else.
“Let
Nixon
build
his
penitentiaries,”
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SOLIDARITY—October,
1968
scoffs Humphrey,
houses and I want
from
“I want to build schoolto save our young people
lives of crime.”
poor,
hours, far
everything
memos,
black
and
history,
white.
He
works—long
into the night. And he reads—
he can put his hands on: staff
government
editorials
articles he agrees
for
documents,
with
and
and
against
American
disagrees
him
and
with.
He’s a great listener and he loves to talk
(as everybody, including himself and his wife
Muriel, knows so well). But when he talks,
Humphrey likes to treat his audience like a
class
up
in American
the
best
in
government.
people,
never
And
he’ll call
appealing
to
their hates or fears.
Ed Muskie is another kind of political animal. He’s been governor of Maine and before
that, tramped the picturesque byways of his
state to build up the fragile Democratic
Party
in that
Muskie
traditionally
is more
Muskie
is
Control”
Wat
kind of men are Humphrey and
Muskie? Where do they come from? What
have they done that merits your support in
1968?
Hubert Humphrey is in love with humanity
and cares deeply about people, all kinds, rich
and
ate for knowing what he’s
and talking sense when he
reserved,
Republican
almost
shy
state.
in his
way with people. But he is a deeply thoughtful person who has a reputation in the sen-
“Mr.
in
the
Air
U.S.
He
talking
does.
and
Water
wrote
and
about—
Pollution
got
con-
gressional approval for the basic anti-pollution laws which will purify our sleazy environment, once private and public funds
are available to carry out the laws which set
strict
and
Sei
true
Muskie
men
high
give
they are.
Once,
primary
standards
stories
some
of
about
off-guard
cleanliness.
Humphrey
insights
and
into the
during the Wisconsin
Presidential
in 1960 when Humphrey was run-
ning against John F. Kennedy,
the Humphrey
campaign was only a few hours away from
its climax, and the then-senator from Minnesota
arrived
meeting
hundreds
some
press
that
poor
by
at
a Sunday
was
of empty
advance
this
time
a
morning
campaign
chairs
work,
was
were
and
pouring
sin to watch the closing moments
Presidential primary.
breakfast
catastrophe:
evidence
the
into
of
national
Wiscon-
of this epic
It was an embarassing situation for the
most unperturbed politician. But Humphrey
turned it around and won the hearts of the
cynical press and the few who filled the chairs
that day. He said: “They say the Humphrey
campaign is disorganized,” looking at the
ganized
many
“But
hall.
filled
sparsely
thing we ever saw
or-
most
Hitler’s Ger-
was
civilization.”
destroyed
almost
it
and
the
I say
The cheers were deafening, and Humphrey
made his point
But there's a great footnote to that story
lost in Wisconsin, lost later in
Humphrey
West Virginia. Yet he became one of President Kennedy's strong legislative rightarms
Senate.
in the U.S.
The late President came to regard Humphrey as a loyal and intimate friend, though
they scuffed each other in the 1960 primaries
and convention.
Humphrey’s own Minnesota majority for
Kennedy put the Kennedy election over the
Presitop in that extremely close election.
never forgot that. Nor did
dent Kennedy
Kennedy forget the numerous legislative favors Humphrey did for the young President
in those gallant thousand days before Dallas
A story about Muskie may tell something
about his mettle.
Once during the senate debate on Model
Cities, Muskie took the floor to make a fervent plea for support of this battered program. The largest city in Maine, a predominantly rural and Republican state, is Portland, population 72,566, hardly a metropolis
reeling from the troubles of congestion, smog,
slums and despair.
But Muskie’s eloquent speech for Model
Cities—for which there was absolutely no
political mileage for himself or Maine—is
rated by seasoned observers on Capitol Hill
as “one of those very rare times when a
speech
Model
this
votes
shifted
actually
bill narrowly
Cities
statesmanship
the
of
Ed Muskie.
Varese
bill.” The
on a
to
thanks
carried
by
order
highest
Earlier this year: in Watts, Calif.
Humphrey came to national attention first
in ’48 when he sparked the fight for a strong
civil rights plank in the Democratic convention. He was mayor of Minneapolis and a
longshot candidate for U.S. senator in a year
very much like 1968. He won that election
and came to the senate as a brash, young
a person who always did his
man—but
homework and was soon regarded as “the”’
liberal senator who spoke for the rest of
the new breed, soon to remake the crusty
traditions of the senate.
vigorous
a
after
1958,
in
Then
years
10
as the liberal’s liberal in the senate, Humphrey made a sensational trip to Europe
which included an eight-hour visit with SoThis visit got a
viet Premier Khrushchev.
big splash back in the U.S., because at that
time there was some faint, but tantalizing
evidence that cold war relations between the
U.S. and Russia were starting to thaw. The
first indications of the deep fissure between
China and Russia came out of this momentous confrontation between Humphrey and
the Soviet leader.
Aier
to
the
his loss
senate
as
in
1960,
senate
Humphrey
majority
returned
whip,
sec-
ond in command
to majority leader Mike
Mansfield. His close ties to Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson made him a natural choice for
Vice President in 1964, and for the past four
years Humphrey, ‘the happy warrior,” has
been a loyal team player who preached the
gospel of the Great Society at all times
Throughout it all, with feelings about race
and war at the boiling point, Humphrey has
been the sane voice of reason and conciliation,
trying
his
best
to
inspire
Americans
to
be their best and stand for the finest in their
long tradition of equality and freedom.
Humphrey’s
qualifications
for
the
high
office of President must certainly include his
long list of legislative attainments:
the test
ban
treaty
atmosphere
which
halted
and
the poisoning of our
eased
world
Federal
aid
tensions;
Humphrey
John F. Kennedy and Hubert
were both senators in ’59—and Medicare was
still denied the nation’s elderly. This UAW
rally for something called the Forand Bill
hastened Medicare’s beginning.
When the UAW needed a champion in
Washington to protect workers’ rights—
Humphrey was an eager volunteer.
{
—
ae
the
Peace Corps—it was his idea; arms control
he was an early champion of moves to end
the
arms
race;
Humphrey
way
to
just
talk
was
put
the
for
this
brake
to
from
to
the
education
soaring
start
local
as a
taxes;
crime control—he’s the only candidate with
a comprehensive program to end crime, not
phrey
about
wants
it:
rebuild
a “Marshall
our
Plan
cities—Hum-
for
America’s
cities’”’ so they can be pleasant places for all
to live in; conservation—the Vice President
was first in this, too, and he’s for more
land so the public can fully enjoy our
outdoors
parkgreat
The list is endless. Humphrey, a man with
boundless energy for all of his 57 years, has
been reaching out to understand and help
his
fellow
kind of man
man
have
a better
life.
He’s
that
October, 1968—UAW
SOLIDARITY—Page
5
Elect
ections
/ si
In this hectic political year,
who’s to say what happened
three times before can’t happen again?
A deadlock over the Presidency
could throw
the nation into neutral gear
NEW HAMPSMIRE
VERHONT
Electoral
College
Representation
By States
WYOMING
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COLORADO
6
10
By winning the electoral votes
of the 12 highly populated
states (checkered), a candidate would be elected President no matter how the other
38 states voted.
O.,
Nov.
5, voters
will
go
to
the
polls
to
elect the 37th President of the United States
—but the popular vote of the American electorate is just one of many steps in the complicated process the nation uses to elect its
chief executive.
The President actually is chosen by a body
of officials known as the electoral college.
This system was set up before the election of
George
Washington.
It survives
today
after
180 years and 45 Presidential elections despite serious shortcomings.
For instance: under the electoral college it
is possible that (1) the candidate receiving
the highest popular vote can lose the election
and (2) the President could ultimately be
chosen by the House of Representatives, not
the people.
The electoral college is made up of 538
electors—with each state having as many
electors as it has seats in Congress. The
Presidential candidate who gets the most
popular votes in a state receives that state’s
entire slate of electors. Thus, whoever wins
Indiana, for example, captures all of Indiana’s
13 electoral votes.
Since candidates receive no credit for votes
from states in which they lose, close national
elections can result in a candidate winning
more electors despite getting a smaller popular vote.
Three Presidents—John Quincy Adams in
1824, Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876 and Ben-
Page 6—UAW
SOLIDARITY—October,
1968
jamin Harrison in 1888—all received fewer
popular votes than their losing opponents. So
Andrew Jackson had to wait four more years,
Samuel
J. Tilden never ran again and Grover
Cleveland bided his time until 1892. All were
Democrats.
Eiectors officially cast their ballots for President in early December. Although not required to do so by the Constitution, they almost always vote for the nominee to whom
they are pledged. Electors are usually picked
at state party conventions. They cannot hold
any Federal office.
If no candidate receives a simple majority
of the electoral votes (270), the election then
goes to the House of Representatives a month
later where each state delegation casts one
vote for any of the top three vote-getters.
Under this system, Alaska with about 14 per
cent of California’s population can cast a vote
equal to that held by America’s most populated state.
In 1968, a strong third
could draw enough votes to
ity for either of the major
The House has selected two
past: Thomas Jefferson in
party candidate
prevent a majorparty candidates.
Presidents in the
1800 and John
Quincy Adams in 1824.
Furthermore, since the vice president is
chosen by the Senate when no candidate receives the 270-vote minimum, it is possible
for a House and Senate dominated by different parties to split the presidency and vice
presidency between two parties. Legislation
could grind
enemies.
to a halt
if the
pair are
political
Only once before, when Republican Thomas
Jefferson was vice president to Federalist
President John Adams after the election of
1796 have the two offices not belonged to the
same
party.
This
year’s election could be the last for the
antiquated electoral college, even though an
amendment to the Constitution would be re-
quired. President Johnson has recommended
changes in the system and a proposal by
Democratic Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana
would
abolish
the
electoral
college
of a popular election countrywide,
further election machinery.
But
before
the
change—if
there
consider the possibilities for '68:
in
favor
without
is one—
Democrats cannot possibly lose control of
the Senate this November. But a loss of 31
seats to the Republicans would give the GOP
control of the House. The makings of a snafu
are almost always present under the electoral
college
next
January
newly
the
elected
event
majority.
enn
of
procedure.
congressmen
3. They
a
make
deadlock,
By
are
Constitution,
seated
as
the decisions
not
the
of
in
outgoing
eee
This
Our
ress
is a year
national
toward
goals and
justice,
than
campaign
for
for peace,
ful-
the
seek
They
rights.
equal
for
and
examination
yearn
people
American
demand
accomplishment
their
consideration in this election
in any other in recent times.
The
of prog-
the degree
thoughtful
more
perhaps
of decision.
fillment of the American ideal of life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness
In the eight years of the Kennedy-Johnson
Administrations,
attainment
to
America
of history.
period
in any other
than
goals
life-enriching
these
of
closer
moved
has
America
has marched forward with giant strides on
many fronts since 1960.
e Democracy has been made more vibrant
and effective through civil rights legislation
unmatched in scope and impact in any similar
period of legislative history.
e American workers
have achieved marked
improvement in their standard of living as
beneficiaries
of
Administration
policies
that
in 1961 launched the longest sustained period
of national prosperity in modern times.
¢
Job opportunities
for all Americans
have
been expanded through Federal training and
retraining programs.
¢ Our educational system has been broadened and improved: there has been unceasing
effort to guarantee full educational opportunity to all.
@ The
health
of
all
Americans—and
par-
ticularly that of our senior citizens—has
improved
age
through
health
of Medicare
©
Positive
steps
our goal to conserve
tural resources
©
Our
urban
research
have
been
and
centers
and
taken
wisely
are
been
pass-
toward
use
our
na-
receiving
un-
precedented guidance and financial assistance
to restore their vitality
W.
further
The
have
challenges
technological
changing
mand
flicker
passed
new
on
world
many
lie ahead
bring
revolution
new
approaches.
the
clock
milestones,
problems
In
of
and
time,
what
that
unlocked secrets which have defied
turies.
Our scientists have broken
have
but
de-
a
been
the cenbarriers
which seemed unassailable only a few years
ago. We are probing outer space.
We are
conquering
of
But
the
America
science
scourge
needs
instead
of
of
disease
to invoke
its
terrors
the
wonders
We must search unceasingly for peace. In
a world rightly worried by the spread of the
deadly
atom,
we
can
do
no
less
than
pursue
under-
We need to join at all levels to make our
neighborhoods safe and wholesome and living
demonstrations of brotherhood. And we must
support programs to improve police work so
that tranquility and justice are guaranteed
to all.
We
need
to expand
our efforts to lift more
Americans—black
and
We
the
opportunity for those at
economic ladder to move
grading
and
up
to
a decent
We
must
forts
shoddy
depths
standard
strengthen
to protect
prices,
white—out
debilitating
must provide
bottom of the
of
of
of the de-
poverty.
living.
and
consumers
merchandise,
expand
from
bad
our
ef-
inflationary
meats
and
poultry, impure and mislabeled drugs.
We must add to our programs to purify
the air we breathe and the water we drink.
We must conserve and wisely use our abundance
of national
resources—our
forests,
our
lakes, rivers and streams that are so important to our leisure and recreation.
We need continuing support for research
and development of transportation systems
that will enable workers to get to and from
their jobs—and shopping areas—better, fast-
er, and more
comfortably
than they can now.
We must continue pursuit of a strengthened educational system that makes equal
education opportunities a total reality.
We
need
ways
to
to seek
build
better
homes
of all citizens—and
rates
as well
the
home
owner
and
at
reach
more
prices
we
against
within
need
exorbitant
as confiscatory
efficient
the
to protect
with
ing
at
all other
that
the
light
record
we have
UAW
can
wisely.
There has
there have
in
all
son
these
been
been
areas
taxes
the
Administrations.
Kennedy-John-
The years 1961-1968 are
legislative
accomplishment.
sharpens
on
often
the
become
tragedy
unparalleled in
These
accom-
blurred
of
tant war—a war which must
No Presidential candidate
a
when
bitter
and
focus
dis-
be ended
has a tested,
to end that war or
guaranteed formula
ways
is in many
that
unrest
domestic
the
its
and the
We can end the agony
creature.
frustration only if we choose as leaders humane, compassionate men free of the political sham and trickery of the easy answer
This
an age
bigotry,
year
we
of war
deceit
a
enter
new
In
justice;
humanity
November,
can
be
and
rancor,
bitterness
and
and demagogy.
Or it can be
an age of peace and brotherhood;
and
It
age.
we
in
and
the
compassion
freedom.
UAW,
will
should
examine
choose.
look
be
All
for and
lost
carefully
promises
performance.
fought
Mak-
won
if we
fail
in
or
the
much
through
to
choose
Better than most people, UAW members
understand that politics is to unionism what
butter is to bread. Everything we have gained
—our
union,
our
incomes,
children’s opportunities
aged in this election.
our
security,
in life—can
our
be dam-
Our union was born in a period of political
renewal. A Federal law guaranteed our right
to organize and required employers to bar-
gain. Through political action we expanded
and defended the gains won thereafter.
Nor
do
Ohio,
we
forget
Indiana
and
that,
in
Virginia,
states
reactionary
islatures denied the workers the
the supplemental unemployment
gotiated
at
only when
the
the
workers
bargaining
our
port
and
as
leg-
benefits of
plans ne-
table—and
it was
liberals were elected to office that
began
to
receive
We are not wedded
party or candidate. We
vote
such
conscience.
these
benefits
to a single political
study the record and
So,
once
again,
in
1968,
we come together in these Community Action
Program conferences to apply those standards in choosing the men worthy of our sup-
qualified
dent
and
Vice
The
differences
to
fill the
President
office
of Presi-
of the United
States.
We ask: What are the issues? What
record? What is promised?
is the
interest
significant movement and
dramatic accomplishments
during
we
and
of previous
of what
the
Americans,
choice,
Republican
plishments
a rapidly
seems
there
but
every path toward the goal of world
standing and peaceable existence.
together
between
the Democratic
parties’ performance are nowhere
better shown than in the changes
occurred in the national economy
two
parties
A
nation
in
Republican
recent
years
administration
into the worst
administrations
placed
another
Unemployment
minimum
ards,
the
more
were
labor,
bank
wage
the
programs
the Democratic
by
in
legislation,
deposit
week,
over
Social
fair
started
Party—and
majority
labor
and
October, 1968—UAW
on
of
stand-
these
child
pushed
and
by
all were
opposed
policies,
a whole
of Republicans
economy
(Continued
on
Security,
abolition
of Democratic
our
firmly
catastrophe
arsenal of anti-recession measures
guard
in
the same time
institutions to
insurance—all
the overwhelming
Congress
As a result
nation
such
insurance,
40-hour
depression
the
years, unemployment
Successive Democratic
the road to recovery and, at
built
into government
new
against
that have
under the
plunged
economic
history.
In just four
soared to 12.8 million.
guard
and
page
now
stands
8)
SOLIDARITY—Page
7
(Continued from
page 7)
The Republican administration that followed in 1953 brought three major recessions
in eight short years. In 1953-54, unemployment rose from 1.6 million to almost four
million. Four years later, it soared to over
five million. Two years afterward, 4.7 million
men and women were still looking for work.
Then, in 1960, the people voted for a
change. They voted for John Kennedy and
the Democratic Party. One month after the
took office, the
Democratic administration
economy began to move upward—and it has
continued without interruption to move upward since that time.
The Democratic administrations of the past
America
given
have
years
eight
longest
its
period of real growth, have greatly reduced
unemployment, have brought to w orking people and their families the greatest period of
material prosperity ever achieved.
how a majority of its members
vote on vital social issues.
is
few
of the privileged
interests
the special
or
people
the
of all
interests
the
represents
party
political
a
whether
of
test
best
The
in Congress
The record shows that, since the last Presidential election in 1964, the overwhelming
majority of Democrats in Congress voted for
(by 65 to 97 per cent) the public interest
while the overwhelming majority of Republicans in Congress repeatedly voted against
(by 71 to 90 per cent) the public interest.
Most Democrats voted for an education
bill which would help stop rising local prop-
erty taxes and state sales taxes.
Most
Repub-
licans voted against it.
Most Democrats voted for Social Security
financing of medical care for senior citizens.
Republicans
Most
voted
against
it.
Most Democrats voted for Federal standards for unemployment compensation, which
would mean dollars in the pockets of UAW
members in states with substandard laws.
Most Republicans voted against it.
Most Republicans voted to delay a 20 cents
an hour increase in the Federal minimum
wage laws. Most Democrats voted against
delay.
Most
minimum
voted
Democrats
wage
Most
coverage.
weakening
for
tion.
voted
Democrats
Most
minimum
voted
terests of consumers
against
to
Republicans
wage
protec-
protect
by voting
publican amendment
weakening
the
against
in-
a Re-
which would have weak-
Truth-in-Packaging Bill. Most Revoted against consumers’ interests.
ened the
publicans
Issues
Facing
America
freedom—freedom
fear, freedom
security,
pression.
from
freedom
from
want,
hunger,
from
freedom
freedom
from
from
deprivation
and
in-
op-
He has stood by the side of the people who
work
and
live
out
their
lives
struggling
for
a better day and a better world. He has
worked with courage and compassion
for
peace, freedom and social justice.
Richard Nixon’s public career is identified
with efforts to provide special privileges for
the few and the powerful, the private monied
interests who believe deep down that our
society is true to itself only when it permits
the elite to gain at the expense of the many.
Nixon
stood
against
Nixon
voted
against
the
aged,
the
blind,
and
other
the disabled when he refused to vote on a
measure which would have provided $5 more
per month for these unfortunate people.
minorities
when
tices Bill came
a
Fair
before
Negroes
Employment
Congress.
Prac-
Nixon voted against the workers and their
interests by voting for the Taft-Hartley Act.
Nixon voted against the farmers when he
cast
his
ballot
to
reduce
soil
conservation
payments by $100 million.
Nixon voted to deny a better education to
our children and refused to support legislation which would have lifted the heavy tax
burden on home owners when he cast his
ballot against the use of tidelands oil revenue
to support local schools.
Nixon voted against a revision of the Social
Security Act to increase public assistance
grants.
Humphrey’s
record concerning
the disabled, the aged, the workers, the minority
groups, the farmers, our children, has been
one of action to help them and one which
recognized that America’s greatness lies in
caring for its people.
In
matters
concerning
foreign
relations,
Nixon has been and remains the hardened,
unbending
cold
war
warrior.
Humphrey,
while insisting on a sound defense system,
has
advocated
and
worked
toward
relieving
world
He
tensions
fought
hard
and
to establish
of drugs
under
Medicare
for senior
a
interests
of all
bill
exterminate
to
rats
tion
Agreement,
Nixon
Peace
in
his
current
WARNING
UNSAFE WATER
D0-NOT ENTER
OARD
CiTY
OF
OF
our
Americans.
record makes
Republican
Party
tection of the
leged few.
it equally clear that the
is committed
vested
interests
of
to
the
the
pro-
privi—To
The
next
man who holds the presidency for the
four years must have a deep and abid-
ing
commitment
and
security
to
progress,
one
human
touched
with
humane understanding for the problems of
people.
He must move to advance the interests of
the many who have too little rather than
multiply the advantages of the few who already have too much.
He must recognize that human rights supersede property rights—that
the dignity
of
important than
nomic power.
Vice
the
President
private
being
interests
Humphrey
and
is
more
of eco-
Richard
Nixon have served long careers in public life.
We can best judge them by how they voted
on the key issues as they relate to the basic
needs of the American people and our nation.
Their
records,
their
posture
with
regard
to
the significant social issues of our era are
available for all to see, to weigh, to evaluate.
The record is clear. Hubert Humphrey
throughout
his
Page 8—UAW
public
career
has
stood
SOLIDARITY—October,
1968
for
cam-
O..: the years, Humphrey has given evidence of a much greater understanding than
Nixon of the full range of problems of world
policy which the next President must face.
He has also served notice of his intention to
chart a new course with respect to the continuing agonizing conflict in Vietnam.
In unmistakable terms, he has called for
“the end of an era and the beginning of a
new day.”
One of the most important functions of the
President of the United States, sometimes
lost sight of in the heat of a political campaign, is the appointment of Supreme Court
justices and other Federal judges and the
directors of Federal regulatory agencies such
as the National Labor Relations Board.
These appointments have a profound influence on the course of national affairs, the
very quality of our society and on the dayto-day lives of individual citizens.
The Republican candidate for President is
already committed to reverse the trend toward liberalism and progress first set in motion by President Roosevelt and continued
through
later Democratic
administrations.
He has promised to appoint to these key and
vital posts men and women
who, like the
candidate and his party, regard the first responsibility of government as advancing the
interests of big business and the wealthy elite
rather than as protecting and advancing the
interests of all the people.
slums. Most Democrats voted for it.
The record makes it clear that the Democratic Party is dedicated to advancing the
The
Corps
paign,
raises questions
and doubts
while
Humphrey strongly advocates its approval.
citi-
in
the
peace.
trol and Disarmament Agency and played an
active role in ratification of the Nuclear Test
Ban Treaty.
Even today while the world awaits anxiously the signing of the Nuclear Non-Prolifera-
zens. Most Republicans voted against it.
Most Democrats voted for a bill to give all
Americans better protection against diseased
and contaminated meat. Most
Republicans
voted against the bill.
Most Republicans voted against even considering
a stable
and the Food for Peace program. He was
instrumental in the creation of the Arms Con-
Most Democrats voted for a measure designed to keep electric power rates down.
Most Republicans voted against lower rates.
Most Democrats voted for paying for the
cost
achieving
To dignify
Camry
save
our
rivers—
HEALTH
DETROIT
com-
a
made
has
appears,
it
Nixon,
Mr.
reto Senator Strom Thurmond,
mitment
Republican from South Carolina,
actionary
to appoint to these important posts only the
men and women the senator would approve.
This was Thurmond's price for delivering to
the votes
Nixon
Republican
the
of the southern
in
Convention
to
delegates
Miami.
Through the power of these judicial and
'other appointments
alone,
Nixon
will,
if
One
may
honestly
ask:
American
of
clock
the
back
turn
elected,
) progress 50 years.
When
was
Richard
against
Nixon ever on the side of the people
the private interests of the few?
a Presidential
as
first
office
public
denied
was
changed
not
has
Nixon
his
by
the
candidate,
electorate—
then
gubernatorial candidate.
Humphrey has never lost touch with
people. His drive for full employment,
individual,
the
of
security
the
for
opportunity,
equal
he
since
views
as
the
for
the
and
dignity
old
and
young
a
alike, remains unabated. He moves invariably
to help the many rather than just the few.
Wallace
George
that
conceivable
not
is
I.
could win enough electoral votes to become
President.
It is his aim to play the spoiler, to take the
' choice for President out of the hands of the
people, throw it into the House of Representatives and then attempt to negotiate a
deal in a power play that would give him the
veto over judicia) and administrative appointments.
each
In
such
state would
have
a
tragic
circumstance
one vote. Thus
Alaska
with the smallest population (272,000) would
east a vote equal to California, with the larg-
est population
(19,000,000).
In this way
he hopes to bring about nation-
ally the kind of brutal and unjust society he
promoted when he was governor of Alabama.
Since Hubert Humphrey has declared that
he will not horse-trade with Wallace should
a situation result from this election, a vote
for George Wallace is simply another way of
voting for Richard Nixon.
And
a vote for either is a vote for reaction,
repression,
educational
greater unemployment, reduced
opportunities for our children,
less security and dignity for our older citizens, less protection for consumers and less
concern about problems of air and water pollution and the quality of American life, and
less effective tools needed to help America
solve its problems and fulfill its promise.
George Wallace clearly favors the methods
of the police state rather than the techniques
of freedom and democracy.
On Sept. 12, 1968, speaking in Springfield,
Mo., George Wallace made his commitment
to a police state crystal clear when he said:
“Tf police could run the nation for about
two years, they would straighten it out.”
There are problems
will not
or the
be solved
bayonet.
disorder,
in Mobile,
in our cities—but
by the gun,
Such
rather than
tactics
the nightstick
will cause
less. The
Ala., is greater
they
than
more
in the City of
E..amine the conditions in George Wallace’s
Alabama.
When
he became governor,
the
average hourly earnings of production workers were 38th in the nation. By 1967, they
had slipped to 39th.
Between 1962 and 1967, the average Alabama factory worker slipped from 33 cents
tory worker
cause
mula
tional
each
child, a chance—
of the crisis we face. The
of divide-and-rule
disaster.
The
hatreds
and
—To
Wallace
is a formula
fears
he
for-
for na-
is trying
to ex-
ploit would be worsened, not cured.
America should again turn, as it always
has, to the fundamental wisdom of the Conlinks
which
stitution
tranquility
domestic
with promotion of the general welfare.
A true American solution to the problems
of our society cannot be found in trying to
arouse fear and distrust and frustration but
rather by solving democracy’s problems by
democratic means—by the establishment of a
just society. In this way, and in this way
only, can we realize the promise of freedom
with justice.
In
this
critical
election
year
we
must
re-
ject those who claim to have easy answers
to complex problems. We must understand
that human freedom is indivisible and that
no
one
can
truly
be
free
until
everyone
is
free. We can make human freedom secure
only as we work together to make it universal.
There are no white or black answers to
America’s problems. There are only American answers—answers that must be found
in the solidarity of our common humanity
through
common
constructive
action
to cure
the causes of our difficulties and to unite
America in the splendor of its diversity.
We must work together to make America
whole to build one nation united in the belief
in the worth and dignity of every person.
This is the only way to build a just and
stable social order in which justice provides
the foundation for peace and social stability.
homicide rate
New York.
Order prevailed in Stalin’s Russia and Hitler’s Germany—but at the price of justice.
to 43 cents an hour behind
—To
the average
in the rest of the country.
fac-
And
on
unemployment
compensation—
only eight states have lower benefits.
Alabama is one of only three states which requires workers to make a payroll contribution to the unemployment insurance fund.
The reasons for this are clear: Wallace’s
principal support has always come from antiunion employers. Why do they like George
Wallace? A key reason was summed up by
a white southerner, William Bradford Huie.
Writing in True Magazine, Huie said:
“The oldest and cruelest political trick in
The
Vice President is “only a heartbeat
away” from the office of President, therefore,
a careful examination of the qualifications of
the two major candidates for Vice President
are of more than passing interest.
Senator Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, the
Democratic candidate for Vice President, is a
liberal Democrat who gets elected in a predominately rural and Republican state because of the unquestionable integrity of his
character, the irrestible logic with which he
argues the need for social reform, and the
driving energy
and
intelligent
analysis which
he applies to the task of improving the quality of American life.
Both as governor of his state, the office he
held before being elected to the Senate, and
our
elderly,
protection—
as senator, he has been tested on such crucial
issues as the problems of the cities, civil
rights and education, and has passed every
test with the highest of marks.
His most notable work has been in the area
of control of air and water pollution. He
wrote and won Senate approval of the basic
laws which will ultimately clean up America’s
polluted air and water once funds for
their implementation become available. His
voting record in the Senate, and all his activities as both senator and governor, show
him to be a consistent champion of human
rights and human welfare and an enemy of
special privilege.
Governor Spiro Agnew,
the Republican
candidate for Vice President, is virtually an
unknown quantity.
been
He
has
In
summing
governor
of
Maryland
since
1967 and before that was an executive of
Baltimore County. His public career, therefore, has been very limited and he has never
been tested on great national issues.
up
the
contrast
between
Muskie and Agnew, it is clear that Muskie
has far more experience in government at
both the state and national level. Agnew’s
experience is very limited and he has never
been compelled to stand up and be counted
on the great national issues which test the
mettle of a chief executive.
Any evaluation of the 1968 presidential
and vice presidential candidates and their
parties must be based not upon emotion but
upon the facts and the record. That is why
we have attempted a comprehensive review
of the issues, not of appearances but of facts,
for the decision to support a candidate for
President and Vice President of the United
States requires sober, intelligent, objective
consideration.
I, the light of the record of the presidential
and vice presidential candidates and their
parties and their programs to help meet the
problems of the nation and its people—programs historically advocated by the UAW—
and after careful review and evaluation, the
International Executive Board and the Resolutions Committee have reached the unanimous conclusion that the most qualified candidates for President and Vice President are
Hubert H. Humphrey and Edmund S. Muskie,
and urge all members of the UAW and their
families to vote for Hubert H. Humphrey and
Edmund S. Muskie on election day, Nov. 5.
the south is to inflame the poor white man
against the poor Negro and then exploit
them both.”
This is precisely what George Wallace did
as
governor,
and
this
is
precisely
what
he
stands for today. George Wallace’s policies
helped to divide his state, keep the poor poor,
which
cities,
inflame
led to the migrations
and
the
did
more
hatreds
than
which
to our
anything
are
northern
the
else
to
prime
October, 1968—UAW
SOLIDARITY—Page
9?
The Record
As Americans deliberate their crucial choice:
It
Makes
for President, the candidates’ records —
point to Hubert Humphrey
A Clear
who best can lead the country
BH iteytes
to peace, freedom and social justices
When UAW members go to the polls on
Nov. 5, UAW President Walter P. Reuther
told delegates who met in a special Michigan
convention, they will make what “is perhaps
the most serious decision that we have made
since we have become involved in the political process of our great nation.
“In 1968 we carry with the people in this
great country of ours the heavy responsibility of choosing leadership that will guide our
nation in the period ahead.
If we choose that leadership
wisely, then America will be
equal to meeting the complex and challenging problems that we face and we
will be equal to realizing the
bright promise that tomorrow holds.
“The issues are clear in
must
We
campaign.
this
choose people based on where they stand on
the great issues—and the record is there.
“IT believe that each of us must take on
the responsibility of being a missionary worker spreading the truth, answering the demagogues who will exploit the fear of people
and raising the level of understanding of
what the great issues are and why Humphrey offers the best hope and promise for
America in this critical hour.”
‘By Their Friends
Ye Shall Know Them’
FOR
HUMPHREY
Sen. Edward Kennedy
of Massachusetts,
who
strongly
endorsed
the
Humphrey-Muskie
ticket.
The Vice President, said
the senator, has been “in
the forefront” of every
vital domestic battle in the
United States “in the last
20 years.”
FOR
NIXON
Sen. Strom Thurmond
of South Carolina, onetime Dixiecrat candidate
for
President,
who
engi-
neered the deal between
old-line
Southern
politicians and Nixon, was a key
man in picking reckless
Spiro Agnew as Nixon’s
running mate.
FOR
as the man
b
WALLACE
H. L. Hunt, Texas oil
billionaire,
who _ openly
supports George Wallace.
Hunt joins members of the
John Birch Society and
the Ku Klux Klan in backing the former Alabama
governor.
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Page 10—UAW SOLIDARITY—October, 1968
Reprinted with permission from Che N ew i ork Eimes
The
Wallace
Millions of Americans today are angry or
exasperated or vaguely frightened. The targets
of these emotions are as varied as the people
themselves. Many, perhaps a majority, are
angry that the Vietnam war drags on in an
increasingly pointless stalemate.
Young
men
are
resentful
of a draft
system
which is unfair and erratic and which sends
them to fight in a war in which they have no
interest or belief. Older people are exasper-
ated with radical students who are more
intent on disrupting universities than on getting the college education which earlier generations dreamed of and sacrificed to obtain.
Still others are upset by the hippies with
their long, dirty hair and their apparently
aimless style of life. Among the discontented,
too, are many Negroes with their ancient and
legitimate grievances still unsatisfied. Ranged
against the Negroes are those whites who,
though
prosperous
and well-treated themselves, believe that economic gains and justice
for others somehow threaten them.
Underlying these turbulent, conflicting emotions, there is probably a delayed reaction to
the tragic murders last spring of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. Both
men were “‘disturbers of the peace” in the
good, creative sense in that they spoke out
against injustice. But their deaths have had
the ironic effect of strengthening the forces of
inaction and reaction
against which
they
fought. Many voters in this country today do
not know what they want in the way of foreign
policy or domestic social policy. All they know
is that they want, above all else, in the words
of the Constitution, “to insure domestic tranquillity.”
*
*
*
The political beneficiary of this troubled
mood in the country is George C. Wallace,
former Governor of Alabama. Public opinion
polls indicate that one person in every five
may vote for him. He is likely to carry eight
or nine Southern states and may also become
the deciding factor in some border and Middle
Western states. In short, the Wallace movement has become a major factor in national
politics.
Yet Mr. Wallace is totally unqualified to be
President of the United States. Indeed, he
offers
his
ment.
Referring
ignorance
and
inexperience
as
cre-
dentials. Any ordinary citizen, he argues, could
do better than the “pointed heads’ in both
parties who have been running the Governknows nothing
recently to an
to
critics
who
say
that
he
about foreign policy, he said
audience in Cape Girardeau,
Mo., ‘‘Well, I ask you, what do the Republicans
and the Democrats know about it? They’ve
been in charge of the Government in the last
fifty years and we've had four wars, we've
spent $122 billion of our money (on foreign
aid), we're about broke, and we've got less
friends that we've ever had, and we've got the
Communists
running
wild
in the
United
States.”
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Sickness
The country has heard this loose talk be-fore, although Mr. Wallace probably has the»
distinction of being the first candidate for
President to promise that if anyone lies down im
in front of his car he will murder him by driv--~y
ing over his body.
This lurid threat which is part of Mr. Wal--!)
lace’s standard speech epitomizes his call too!
violence. He speaks of law and order, but it is ai
the lawless order which the vigilante imposes 2:
with his rope and the Ku Klux Klansman with?
his bullwhip. Mr. Wallace does not attack Ne- =
groes by name, but he promises, in effect, to c
curb radical students and hairy Yippies and bh:
liberal Government officials with the same ®:
harsh physical force which the white South.c
once inflicted upon the Negro. He is the poli- -i
tical expression of the school burners and the ©
church bombers and the night riders.
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*
*
Americans have now to ask themselves
whether their discontents are so fierce, their
grievances so woeful, that they are prepared
to follow this apostle of violence and anger as
he leads them they know not where.
There are businessmen, the so-called “fat
eats” of Dallas and St. Petersburg and Los
Angeles, who have made great fortunes in the
last thirty years while the country was under
political leadership which they scorned. Some
of these men are now contributing to the Wallace campaign. They have to ask themselves
whether in their insensate greed and political
recklessness they are prepared to imitate the
German industrialists of the early thirties and
go on financing a demagogue whose ultimate
aims they cannot foresee or control.
There are industrial workers who
have
achieved in these last years real advances in
2
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¢
>
+
+
%
-
;
+
their standard of living and in economic secur-
ity. They have to ask themselves whether they
want
New
vote
so
badly
to
“zap
the
Negro’’—as
Jersey labor leader put it—that
for this smooth-talking
There
are
young
people
they will
adventurer.
who
one
attend
the
Wallace rallies. They have to ask themselves
—whatever reservations they may have about
Hubert Humphrey or Richard Nixon—whether they really think the man poking his head
above the bullet-proof lectern even remotely
approaches
the
integrity,
the
intellectual
breadth, the charity or compassion required
of a President of the United States.
There is a sickness abroad in the land. It
cannot be cured by looking away from it or
pretending that it does not exist. The Wallace
movement is an evil phenomenon. George C.
Wallace is not fit to be President of the United
States. He is not fit even to be discussed in
Presidential terms. This country has no need
for his falsehoods and his slick innuendos
and his invocations to violence and unreason.
Every man and woman who casts a vote for
him
will
bring
shame
Americans decide now
for all with
upon
this
country.
Let
to have done once and
this demagogue.
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HUMPHREY
PEACE
Humphrey has pledged to seek
a “swift, honorable and lasting
peace” in Southeast Asia. His efforts for peace include support of
Nixon has always been a cold
war warrior. He proposed intervention in Vietnam in 1954 to
clear
spread
the nonproliferation
ban
CRIME
CONTROL
EDUCATION
weapons,
the
treaty on nu-
Nuclear
Test
Ban
Treaty,
the
Disarmament
Agency, the Arms Control] bill, the
the
PROSPERITY
WALLACE
Peace
weapons
Corps,
the
in outer
treaty
space.
to
In the past eight years, under
Democratic administrations, the
nation has enjoyed the longest uninterrupted period of economic
prosperity in the country’s history. Unemployment is now lower
than at any time in the past 17
years.
save French colonialism.
he favors the treaty to
of
nuclear
urges the
it now.
Senate
He says
ban the
weapons
not
but
Auto
industry
centers
par-
ticularly were hard hit, with Michigan’s unemployment
at 16.1
per cent, Detroit’s at 18.2.
To combat crime, the nation
needs economic growth producing
the revenue to pay the police,
eliminate slums and create job
opportunities, Humphrey said. To
assure civil order, he proposed
tougher anti-riot laws, improved
and better paid police forces, a
campaign against narcotics.
Declaring that he does not consider poverty to be the cause of
increased crime, drug addiction
and a crime rise among suburban
His first vote in the Senate was
for Federal aid to education and
the first law bearing his name was
Voted to cut Federal funds for
school districts crowded because
of Federal
installations,
voted
for aid to school construction.
Also, he authored the first Federal Aid to Education Act and coauthored
the National Defense
Education Act, National Science
Foundation Act and Vocational
Education Act.
solution to the Vietnam war other
than to say he would “lean heayily on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.”
to approve
America suffered three recessions during the eight years of
the last Republican Administration which Nixon served as Vice
President. In 1958 alone more
than 5,000,000 people were out of
work.
Labeled a “domestic issue” candidate, Wallace
has offered no
youth, Nixon’s suggested cure is
“doubling the conviction rate...”
Among
southeastern
states,
Alabama is one from the bottom
in new manufacturing jobs. The
state has no minimum wage law
and union membership in the state
has dropped even while increasing
everywhere
else in the south. An-
nual income in Wallace’s Alabama
is more than $900 lower than the
average in the U.S.
Wallace’s
solution to crime is a
police state. According to the FBI,
Alabama’s homicide rate is the
highest in the nation and its aggravated assault is higher than in
46 other states. Wallace said he
would kill anyone who lay down
in front of his car.
rn
against a bill to aid education with
revenue from Federally-owned oil
deposits, killed a Senate bill that
would have provided emergency
Federal assistance for school construction and teachers’ salaries.
Last
spired
year, under Wallace-inpolicies, Alabama
spent
$389 per pupil on education. The
nation as a whole spent an average of $581. Alabama paid its
teachers an average of $5,725.
The national average was $7,296.
More than 40 per cent of the
state’s male citizens called for
military service were disqualified
for illiteracy or health reasons.
a
WORKERS
Humphrey supported a John F.
Kennedy move to extend unemployment compensation payments
by 16 weeks; voted against a bill
to cut the minimum wage and
against a move to deny workers
protection of Federal laws.
He voted to protect the wages
of farm workers and to include
them under the minimum wage
law.
Nixon said in 1947 “I was
elected to smash the labor bosses...” and then went on to vote
against a strong minimum wage
law, supported a measure to take
away minimum wage protection
from one million workers, helped
round up votes for the Taft-Hartley law. Just last month, Nixon
taunted grape strikers by eating
California grapes in front of TV
and newspaper cameras.
Wages of Alabama citizens rank
48th among those of the 50 states
and almost 40 per cent of Alabama’s families earned under $3,000 a year, according to the U.S.
Dept. of Commerce.
The unemployment rate in Alabama is among the highest in the
nation, and the top weekly unemployment compensation benefit in
Alabama is $44. Alabama’s workmen’s compensation is the lowest
in the United States.
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SOCIAL
SECURITY
TAXES
A consistent champion of Social
Security, Vice President Humphrey has proposed to increase Social Security payments by 50 per
cent and make future retirement
benefits responsive to the cost of
living, with benefits going up automatically when c-o-l goes up.
In the Senate, Humphrey voted
for Social Security benefits to disabled workers at age 50 instead
of 65, and for a 21 per cent increase in benefits.
Voted against expansion of the
Social Security system to 11 million more people, against increased
Humphrey voted in the Senate
to make taxes fairer for the indi-
Supported legalized price-fixing,
high utility rates, weakening of
relief for
tax
laws,
anti-trust
wealthy individuals and corporaordifor
increases
tax
tions,
vidual taxpayer and to plug tax
loopholes which are profitable to
big business.
He has supported measures to
combat inflation and opposed an
excess profits tax bill that would
help only big business.
benefits,
against
better
eligibility
for retirement benefits, against
coverage for disabled under 65.
Voted to take away Social Security protection from a group of
workers already covered. Failed to
break a tie vote which killed increases for the blind and disabled.
In 1962, Wallace promised to
for
increase old-age assistance
those not eligible for Social Security. Between 1963 and 1967,
pensions were increased—by 36
cents—from $69.30 to $69.66.
LL
nary taxpayers. Opposed low-cost
public power, improved protection
interest
on GI
for consumers
rates, bank loans and meat and
manufacturers’ prices.
As governor, Wallace turned
his back on workers to favor big
business. He raised the sales tax
on food to six per cent, raised the
tax on beer and tobacco, doubled
the cost of drivers’ licenses and
tripled the cost of auto tags—
taxes which hurt workers.
He changed the state’s constitution
from
to
protect
tax increases.
October, 1968—UAW
corporations
SOLIDARITY—Page
11
LIVING
OUTDOORS
Fishermen
|
Name Their
_Top Spots
By FRED GOETZ
SOLIDARITY Outdoors Writer
H.
Edward
member
UAW
Grisa of Milwaukee, Wis., a member of Local 261 for close to 19
years and a fishing guide for
equally as long, is an avid pursuer of that finny tiger otherwise
muskellunge.
as
known
producer for me
is the Creek Chub
No.
lure,
model
3001.
“Enclosed
is
a
pic of a lunker
eased
ay
Ed’s
to all in the outdoor
known
as the ‘Muskie
fraternity
Maniac.” He writes:
“In line with my guiding activities in Wisconsin, I’ve been
fortunate in getting a good number of muskies,
61 in fact, from
through
Pikie
¥
from
Big
I
Arbor Vitae Lake
in the northeast-
PK
HOBBY
ES
*
UAW
retiree Sam Rotella of
Detroit, Mich., writes: “The sea
trout fishing was tops this year
in the saltchuck off St. Petersburg, Fla. Thanks to the UAW,
there are a lot of retirees down
Florida way, fishing and taking
life easy.”
Top
smallmouth-bass
record
for
this
summer
waters
out
border.
large.
PK 1681
It can
be
made
in sizes
small,
medium
and
PK 1681—This crafty cardigan moves into jacket
territory. Knit of cotton yarn, it is light and comfortable for mild outdoor wear or indoor lounging. A
combination of two yarn colors and a pattern stitch
make a rugged tweedy texture. A ribbed shawl collar, set-in sleeves and wooden toggle buttons with
loops will win masculine approval.
Free instruction leaflets for any or all of these
sweaters can be obtained by sending a stamped selfaddressed long envelope together with your request
to Needlecraft, UAW SOLIDARITY, 8000 E. Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich. 48214.
FEATURES
Cabinets,
Pictures for
Your Walls
By STEVE ELLINGSON
SOLIDARITY Hobby Writer
One of the handiest decorating
devices for dressing up dull walls
is shelving.
Pretty
china,
antiques, rare books, knick-knacks
or anything that intrigues you
gives a personal flavor to a room
along
catch, as nice a limit of brookies
as we've seen in many a moon.
B 203
SOLIDARITY
ae
When a camp chore requires
that a flashlight be held at a certain angle for a time, tape it to
the handle of an axe driven into
the ground or a stump. It is helpful when dressing game at night
away from camp.
*
es
Top
producer
of trout
this
summer for Anthony Lonzi of
New York, a member of Local
686, has been Wiscoye
Creek,
N.Y. Here's a pic of one day’s
PK 4727
It’s variety galore in sweaters this month. Take
your pick:
PK 4463—This cardigan—ideal for wearing with
nubby tweeds and bold plaids—is ribbed to look
lean and fitted. It has long set-in sleeves and crocheted buttons. You can make this sweater in misses’
sizes 10-16 of knitting worsted.
PK 4727—The cardigan by night is lacy and elegant for pairing with a special skirt or over a simple
dress. This one has the fineness of old porcelain, knit
of pale super fingering yarn in an open leaf pattern.
The sizing is misses’ 12-18.
B 203—This V-neck cardigan is knit in an unusual
rib pattern of knitting worsted. The basic color is
light oxford outlined with a black and white striped
ern
section
of
Wisconsin.
It
measured
51
inches from nose to tail and
tipped the scales at 34 pounds. I
put a thousand miles or so on the
old jalopy each weekend in quest
of
muskies,
and
loved
every
minute of it.”
2)
4463
4iit
with
being
decorative.
The wall shelf is an inexpensive
project you can easily complete
in one evening. All you need do
is trace
the pattern
parts on
wood, saw them out and put them
together. The little compartments
may be varied in size in case you
have larger or smaller items you
want displayed. Wall Shelf Pattern No. 432 costs 75 cents.
The three-dimensional picture
is inexpensive, may be made in a
single
any
piece
evening
room.
ground,
of
The
and
celotex
is suitable
materials
for
molding
for
the
the
are
for
a
frame,
No.
79
No.
No.
No.
you
coffee
377
Magazine
rack
35¢
426
C-2
Corner cabinet
Assorted comic
T5¢
table
tapestry
75¢
Regulation size
pool table
booklet picturing all
patterns
................
Van
Send
75¢
35¢
Nuys,
currency,
Calif.
check
or
91409.
money
order.
Allow two weeks for delivery.
For speedier air mail service, add
25 cents per pattern.
35¢
pictures
417
2383,
will enjoy:
Colonial
No.
Lion
Order patterns by number from
Steve Ellingson, UAW SOLIDARITY
Pattern
Dept.,
P.O.
Box
tern—even the location of each
tack. Nautical Abstract Picture
Pattern No. 452 is 75 cents.
patterns
400
New
back-
map tacks and yarn. Every detail
is explained in the full-size pat-
Other
No.
Send a stamped, self-addressed
envelope for a free folder picturing
the
outdoor
75¢
complete
Christmas
assortment
displays.
of
column
can
be
credited to Bill Zaker of Midlothian, IIJ., a member of Local 588.
He eased a 4-lb., 4-oz. specimen
from
the
of
“View
UAW
mem-
Pint” near Minong, Wis. Anybody
have a larger one to report?
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Active
and
retired
bers—and the members of their
families can earn a pair of fishing
lures, All that’s
Gl
i
required is a clear
snapshot
of a
fishing or hunting scene—and a
few words as to what the photo
is about.
to Fred Goetz,
Dept. LO, Box 508, Portland Ore.
97207.
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SOLIDARITY—October,
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It’s not too early to start on your Christmas projects. This display is
two-thirds life-size (the camels are over five feet tall) and the figures
come in rich vibrant colors on waterproof paper. All you need do is glue
the
pictures
included. The
if you wish
1968
on
plywood
complete
and
Nativity
air mail delivery.
cut
them
Scene
out.
Detailed
instructions
are
No. C-7 costs $4.50; add 50 cents
:
HERBLOCK'S
A Legal Look at Platforms
AT:
LOOK
How
Democratic,
By
STEVE SCHLOSSBERG
UAW General Counsel
Since
this
column
is
about
Republican
keep government participation in channels
defined by the Congress, and prevent back
workers
and
the law, we thought it only proper to report
the content of the Democratic and Republican platform planks on labor. Now that the
convention oratory has faded, we ought to
know what the two parties promise to do
about labor. Of course, the pledges of political parties are often dishonored, but they
should give at least a general idea of the
party’s
programmatic
goals.
The Democratic labor plank is understandable. In plain English, it pledges support of
collective bargaining and a “free and independent
labor
movement.”
These promises are clearly
spelled out: (1) Repeal of
14(b)
which
laws
oral contracep-
tives have been faced with more than 200
lawsuits since studies in Britain prompted
America’s Food and Drug Administration to
require stricter warning labels as of July.
Attorney Paul D. Rheingold of New York
of these cases. He
told lawyers attending the recent
Trial Lawyers Assn.: “British studies reported within
the last year have finally
presented positive proof that
there is a much higher incidence of clotting, including
pulmonary embolisms in
American
7
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users of these oral contraceptives than in women not using them.”
Research
the British Medical
In May,
Council and the Committee on Safety of
Drugs announced that the risk of certain
diseases is nine times greater in women
taking the pill than in those not taking it.
Side effects that have led to lawsuits include eye changes, migraine, strokes, pulblood
damage,
colon
embolisms,
monary
pressure changes, thrombosis in the legs,
fibroid growths, jaundice and fetal deformities.
Rheingold said: “Often these are devastating injuries, occurring in young women just
starting out in life.’
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f
The FDA warning labels are a step in the
right direction—but are based on information that has been available since 1964. Another attorney made this point: When oral
contraceptives were
being developed
(between 1957 and ’59), the attitude among the
drug makers was ‘“‘do as much testing as we
have to do and get the pill on the market.”
Three cases have been settled out of court.
BRIEFLY:
Americans
but
It doesn’t mean
in Africa,
Asia,
much
to North
South
Amer-
ica and the Pacific islands this news must
sound as though a miracle maker is on earth:
the culturing of the bacillus of Hansen’s disease (leprosy) has been announced by Dr.
Toyoho Murohashi of Japan’s National Institute of Health. It’s a major advance toward a
vaccine
the ages-old disease.
ean
he
More in brief: If doctors don’t do something to stop the spiralling cost of medical
care,
the
against
government
will
do
to farm
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VE ip
workers,
contracts
to employers
who
per-
sistently violate Federal labor law.
The Republican Party’s labor plank is a
different story. We found it cryptic—that is,
obscure, not readily understood and filled
with veiled, hidden meanings. The Republican
plank has so many concealed meanings that
Side Effects
Of ‘The Pill’
|
|
Federal
labor
of
government
Lawsuits Air
City is handling a number
the
compulsory open shop
(2) Extension of the
©
it, warned
Dr.
James Z. Appel, past president of AMA .. .
Montreal
General
Hospital’s
experimental
new diet seems to be preventing many deaths
that follow shock . . . The British Medical
Journal, reporting nasal cancer is high among
furniture workers, blames wood dust and not
polishes, lacquers or varnishes.
it does
not
lend
abolish
unions.
itself
to easy
summary.
So,
as a labor lawyer with a point of view, your
columnist will tell you what he thinks it
means. The only way to do this is to print
the text followed by my translation:
“Organized labor has contributed greatly to
the economic strength of our country and the
well-being of its members. The Republican
Party vigorously endorses its key role in our
national life.”
Translation:
The
Republicans
will not
“We support an equitable minimum wage
for American workers—one providing fair
wages without unduly increasing unemployment among those on the lowest rung of the
economic ladder—and will improve the Fair
Labor Standards Act, with its important protections for employes.”
Translation: There will be no raise in the
minimum
wage.
“The
forty-hour
ago
needs
=
=
door
intervention
labor laws.”
Translation:
If
in
the
the
administration
government
gets
of
into
strikes, it will be on the side of the employer.
*
8
«©
“Repeated
Administration
promises
to
recommend legislation dealing with crippling
economie
strikes
have
never
been
honored.
Instead, settlements forced or influenced by
government and overriding the interests of
the parties and the public have shattered the
Administration’s own wage and price guidelines and contributed to inflation.”
Translation:
Contract
settlements
have
eet
that.
9
(3) Removal of unreasonable restrictions on
peaceful picketing, (4) Speedier NLRB decisions, (5) Greater equality of remedies for
violation of the labor law, (6) Effective opportunities for unions, as well as employers,
to communicate with workers and (7) No
The apt pupil
producing
permits
state
laws,
protection
Drug companies
now
ERS
2
Labor Planks Compare
too good for workers;
they
will change
*
*
«
_ "Effective methods for dealing with labor
disputes involving the national interest must
be developed. Permanent, long-range solutions of the problems of national emergency
disputes,
public
employe
strikes
and
pling work stoppages are imperative.
solutions cannot be wisely formulated
crip-
These
in the
heat of emergency. We pledge an intensive
effort to develop practical acceptable solutions that conform fully to the public interest.”
Translation: Tougher laws on strikes, especially by public employes.
ss
Believe it or not, the above text is the
total, word-for-word, language of the Republican
Party’s
platform.
We’ve
told
you
how
those fancy words translate for us, but even
more important is what the plank does not
say.
Unfortunately,
there
is no mention
of
farm workers, long excluded from Federal
protection; no mention of state compulsory
open shop laws; nothing about picketing, no
improvement in union rights to communicate
with workers, no promise to equalize remedies and not a word about remedies or about
denying government contracts to flagrant
lawbreakers like J. P. Stevens.
But then, Senator Dirksen was chairman
of the Republican platform committee. And
he wrote a labor plank for Nixon. Enough
said.
ES
Y'S LOOK AT:
=
week
re-examination
adopted
to
30
years
determine
whether or not a shorter work week, without loss of wages, would produce more jobs,
increase productivity and stabilize prices.”
Translation:
The
shortened.
work
week
will
not
be
es
2
«6
“We strongly believe that the protection of
individual liberty is the cornerstone of sound
labor policy. Today, basic rights of some
workers, guaranteed by law, are inadequately
guarded against abuse. We will assure these
rights through vigorous enforcement of present laws, including the Taft-Hartley Act and
the Landrum-Griffin Act, and the addition of
new protections where needed. We will be
vigilant to prevent any administrative agency
entrusted with labor-law enforcement from
defying the letter and spirit of these laws.”
Translation: They will crack down on unions and force the NLRB to favor employers.
.
“Healthy
sponsibility
*
private
by
“... I'm aiming for a design that'll go as
fast as my two-week vacation just went!”
.
enterprise
government,
demands
re-
management
and labor—to avoid the imposition of excessive costs or prices and to share with the
consumer the benefits of increased productivity. It also demands responsibility in free
collective bargaining, not only by labor and
management,
but
also
by
those
in
govern-
ment concerned with these sensitive relationships.”
Translation: Lower wage settlements in
collective bargaining.
7
«8
“We will bar government-coerced strike
settlements that cynically disregard the public interest and accelerate inflation. We will
again
reduce government
intervention
in
labor-management disputes to a minimum,
“Give you guys an inch and right away
take 1.015625!"
October, 1968—UAW
SOLIDARITY—Page
you
13
—
3,000 PLACED
IN NEW
JOBS
Retraining
Training,
Project Is Expanded
UAW’s Dave Miller receives a plaque designating him Senior Citizen
of 1968 from Gertrude Croff of the Senior Citizens Division of the
Michigan Recreation and Parks Assn. Thousands attended the ceremony which was one of the highlights of the Michigan State Fair.
UAW Retirees’ Leader
Senior Citizen of 1968
Dave Miller’s 77th year may go
down in his personal history as
one of the more momentous in a
long life of service to his fellow
man. Miller has been an energetic
union member for 66 years—he
first joined at age 11 when he went
to work on street cars in his native
member
Scotland—and a UAW
from just about the inception of
the union. Some people believe he’s
more active now—as he nudges
the age of 78—than in the early
days of UAW.
One honor after another has
come his way during the past
year. He was elected chairman
of UAW’s new International Retired Workers Advisory Council.
He headed the first group of retirees
to be delegates
to any
union convention when he was
seated at UAW’s Atlantic City
convention. He is an official retiree representative to the International Executive Board.
During Oldtimers Day at the
huge Michigan State Fair he was
Yolton Appointed
Aide to Madar
John
Yolton,
a member
of
UAW
Local 1304, East Moline,
Ill., has been appointed administrative assistant to International
Executive
Board
Member -at Large Olga M. Madar. He had
been
assistant
director
of
the
union’s
Education
Dept.
since
1964.
Miss Madar, who is director of
the union’s Departments of Conservation and Resource Development,
Recreation
and
LeisureTime
Activities
and
Technical,
Office and Professional Workers
servicing, said he will be involved
in all of these departmental activities.
The 39-year-old Yolton is a native of Moline, attended school
there and later attended St. Ambrose College in Davenport, Iowa
He has been active in the labor
movement
since the late Forties
and served as an in-plant UAW
organizer
at
the
International
Harvester plant in East Moline.
Page 14—-UAW
SOLIDARITY—October,
Coming
as the state’s Senior
honored
Citizen of 1968. And less than
three weeks following that, some
350 past and present UAW leaders honored him at a luncheon
and presented him and Mrs. Miller with
an
all-expenses
paid
round trip to their native Dundee, Scotland.
Miller was an officer of the
street car union in Dundee when
he was only 17. When he immigrated
to Detroit in 1920,
he
into union organizing.
plunged
He
became one of the first members
of West Side Local 174 as an employe of the Cadillac division of
General Motors. When the Cadillac unit secured a charter as Local 22, Miller was elected its first
president.
Miller’s acceptance speech at
the State Fair ceremonies was
typical. He said a brief ‘thank
you” and then proceeded to talk
about the problems of senior citizens in particular and all Americans in general. He urged all in
the
crowd
to
register
and
The UAW’s year-old Manpower
Development and Training Dept.
will expand its anti-poverty acLos
toward
westward
tivities
Angeles, buoyed by success in the
east and midwest in helping more
than 3,000 rural and Appalachian
Mexican-Americans,
whites,
Puerto Ricans, upstate Michigan
Indians and big city Negroes secure and hold jobs.
MDTA Dept. co-directors Nelson Jack Edwards and Douglas
Fraser disclosed the union’s plan
at the same time they selected
as departWashington
Jeffrey
mental assistant director. Washington, former metal finisher at
Ford’s Wayne, Mich. plant, joined
the MDTA staff last December.
The union’s MDTA Dept. has
two major assignments:
(1)
to
help the hard-core
unemployed
qualify for employment in plants
and offices and (2) to help those
working qualify for better jobs
with their employers.
In these endeavors, the union
works with the U.S. Dept. of
Labor, state employment agencies,
employers with whom the UAW
has collective bargaining agree-
vote.
Sept.
Council
Ohio.
Sept. 28—Region 10 Conference, Minneapolis, Minn.
Sept. 28—Region 3 Women’s
Sept.
Sept.
ship
Weinberg
Economic
Nat
our muscles
has
begun
study
for
of
the
Ford
Foundation
the economies
on
a
a
re-
search projects at Williams College in Massachusetts before journeying to India, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines.
1968
announced
largest
Martin
officials
by
in
East
Gerber.
announcing
ects, Gerber said: “It
tive of Region 9 to
new
our members
residential units, at
Mazey
program
Region
it
9
Orange
both
is
being
committee
tional
proj-
is the objecconstruct for
and modern
a cost work-
for
institute
1
of
cenwill
by
public
of
of 200
the
spon-
interna-
figures.
Concept
East
Orange and Paterson would include the new, modern residential
units, plus an advocate center for
for
training
job
poor;
elderly
contractors,
improvement
home
sales and clerical personnel; comfor
tunities
establishment
local
of
oppor-
with
development
mercial
ownership
day-care
and
and
recreational centers for youth and
the elderly.
Under Federal statutes, a community must grant tax abatement
before
most
is
the work
can
In
instances, the tax abatement
illusory.
example,
out that
collect
East
In
Public
more
which
Orange,
for
after
the
UAW
officials pointed
the community
would
in
taxes
project is completed
at the present time.
at
progress.
hearings
time
than
have
UAW
it does
been
held
officials
presented details of the program.
Action by each community is ex-
pected
soon.
c
b
-s»;
¢ {
|
a
[isi
~:
&
+
107
Is
>
for *
is one
subscribed
is chairman
soring
ers can afford to pay, within a
total community complex which
would enable each citizen to attain his fullest human and spiritual potential.
“Our
president
unions, business firms and individuals.
UAW Secretary Treasurer Emil
mem-
twin
Israeli
mainder
of New Jerare currently
the
UAW
continue the Reuther Chair in
perpetuity. Half the sum will be
provided by the institute; the re-
considering the UAW’s proposals
to construct new apartment units
for both family and elderly members.
In
too
PROJECTS
towns,
here
and Paterson, two
sey’s largest towns,
of under-
developed nations
He will spend ten weeks
Jersey’s
the
the world’s leading research
ters. A $500,000 endowment
to two of
bers has been submitted
leaders
Reuther Dinner
To Boost Israeli
The
Jersey—A
UAW
for
housing
socialli
the-job training. The elevation
most always opened the way for
new hires to fill vacated jobs.
The MDTA Dept. has worked
with the Detroit Board of Education in four high schools to help
students qualify for apprenticeship training. Most had no manual
or shop training to help them
meet pre-apprenticeship tests.
Washington has worked on all
phases of the MDTA Dept.’s activities. Before joining the International Union staff, he was a
UAW member and an employe at
Ford’s Wayne assembly plant for
24 years. He served as a Local
900 district
committeeman
for
eight years.
ment.”
$10 million proposal for the conand _ middlelow
of
struction
income
religious
of
whom the distressed often turna
for help.
f
Some
750
long-time
unem- =fis
ployed have passed through basic5 I
education
courses
on
to jobs ado}
found for them. More than 2,5000 (
workers have been elevated byy ad
their employers as a result of on- =r
Housing
New
number
“his imaginative, innovative contributions
to
human _ advance-
Manchester,
APARTMENT
CRANFORD,
City
year’s leave of absence as UAW’s
director of special projects to con-
duct
9’s
and
honoring
1—Modine
New
Director
Begins
Mich.
N. H.
Oct. 5—Region 10 Women’s
Conference, Milwaukee, Wis.
Oct. 19—Weizmann Institute
Dinner honoring UAW
President Reuther, Detroit, Mich.
Oct. 27-29—Regions 1, 1A,
1B and 1E Women’s Conference, Warren, Mich.
was
Study
Weinberg
30-Oct.
Conference,
New
Now
Pontiac,
Wom-
Council meeting, LaPorte, Ind.
Oct. 3-6—Region 9A Leader-
may be a little soft but our brains
are as good as they ever were.
Let’s all go out and use them,
come November!”
nation.
1B
Ind.
Sept. 29-Oct. 4—Region 2B
Summer School, South Haven,
Mich.
REGION
rich
29—Region
en’s Conference,
He promised an active political
campaign
by
UAW’s
retirees.
“There is a song we sang when
we were workers in the plant,”
he said. “One line goes: ‘without our brains and muscles not a
single wheel can turn.’
“The people sitting here turned
a lot of wheels in the last 50
years. We helped build a great
and
Cleveland,
Indianapolis,
a
DETROIT—A_
dinner’
which
will be attended by government,
labor, business and civic leaders
on Oct. 19 in Cobo Hall will mark
the establishment of the Walter P.
Reuther Professorial Chair in the
Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy
at the Weizmann
Institute
of
Science in Rehovoth, Israel.
The American Committee for
the Weizmann Institute will be
26-27—Midland-Ross
Conference,
agencies
and
Research Work
Events
meeting,
ments
earing Aid Test Data
uit Seeks to Unlock
Break Ground for Region IE dhe
.§. Product Ratings
UAW
ther
President Walter P. Reu-
announced
has
go
will
ion
port of a suit
ae
court
into
the
that
to force
sup-
in
Fed-
the
pral government to release test
information on hearing aids. If
the
cessful,
force
could
suit
“We
by Consum-
suit was filed
ers Union,
eports,
Weterans
to
seeks
and
test
nalease
publisher of Consumer
the
force
Administration
information
re-
to
the
on
supthe “UAW
Reuther eld
orts the position of Consumers
Union
in this legal action and
“intends, at the appropriate time,
aii§ito
file
notice
for
to
leave
inter-
public information the
entitled to have and
vitally
important
earned
money
sumers
overtime
_ Labor Specialist
Post
Michigan
and
Wayne
State
to spend
a
it.
public
which
their
If
intelligently,
‘good
said
the
what
buy,’”
the
is
is
con-
hard-
they
he
prod-
union
de-
was
‘“friend-of-the-court”’
brief
tion
the
Mav
under authority of a resolupassed by the delegates to
UAW
Convention, held last
in Atlantic City.
the
government
constructed in Taylor, Mich., a
southwest Detroit suburb. The
modern structure—as sketched
by the architect—will serve not
only members of 32 locals in
the region, Young said, but will
also provide space for civic and
social functions. An auditorium
seating
350
and
conference
rooms will be part of the building scheduled for completion
next year.
That resolution, entitled ‘‘Protection for the Consumer,” said
in part:
no
are
choices
“Intelligent
longer possible without the help
of impartial experts who have
access to laboratories. Exploration is needed of means whereby
will
can
assure
be given,
characteristics
they
that
in clear
unifor-
Uni-
versity. A member of the UAW
since 1945, Moon served in many
local union posts before his appointment to the institute post in
1966.
He will assume the duties of
Edgar Lee who will retire next
January after 22 years of UAW
staff service.
are
not
of
products
in a position
to evaluate for themselves in advance of purchase.”
The Freedom
of Information
Act, which went into effect in
July 1967, provides for judicial
review of a Federal agency’s refusal of access to, or withholding
of, information. Consumers Union
had exhausted the administrative
channels outlined in the Act when
the VA, on June 26 of this year,
refused its final appeal.
The VA conducts its tests on
hearing aids to assist qualified
veterans who require use of the
devices. The actual testing is carried out for the VA by the National Bureau of Standards.
Local
Stimulates
City ‘Face Lift’
1 Director
relli spoke
monies.
at
George
dedication
Mer-
cere-
The UAW International Executive Board has called for U.S.
Senate ratification of the nuclear
non-proliferation treaty.
In a letter to all senators, signed
top officers, the
that “no single
legislative act
could
more
_persuasively confirm our country’s
moral leadership in the quest for
peace or more effectively open the
way to negotiations curbing a nuclear missile race whose further
pursuit is a widening invitation to
global disaster, whether by accident
or design.”
Copies
of
the
letter
Sixteen
new
unions
local
were
chartered between June 21 and
Sept. 25, UAW Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey reported to the
Board.
Executive
International
They are:
Region 1D—Local 1545, CaseMaster Body, Holland, Mich.; Local 1546, Preston Products, Grand
Mich. and Local 1554,
Rapids,
office and
Refrigerator
Gibson
Greenville,
employes,
technical
Mich.
Region 2B—Local 1556, Huffman Mfg. Co., Delphos, Ohio.
Region 3—Local 1553, Coated
Mettalic Products, Beaver Dam,
Ky.; Local 1559, Arnolt Corp.,
Warsaw, Ind.; Local 1560, Active
Products Corp., Marion, Ind. and
Local 1562, Hobart Mfg. Co., Mt.
Ky.
1543, InterRegion 4—Local
national Harvester tractor techIl.; Local
nical unit, Chicago,
Retiree Chapters
Near 400 Mark
The number of retired workers chapters is nearing the 400
mark, UAW Secretary Treasurer
Emil Mazey reports.
have
new chapters
Thirteen
been chartered in Locals 133, 153,
179, 207, 216, 222, 344, 435, 477,
790, 919, 1175 and 1183.
That brings to 385 the number
of
local
38 area
councils.
chapters
councils
affiliated
and
with
18 regional
1551, W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co.,
Fort Madison, Iowa; Local 1552,
were
also
sent to President Johnson, Vice
President Hubert H. Humphrey,
Secretary of State Dean Rusk,
U.S. Ambassador to the United
Nations George Ball, UN Secretary General U Thant, Richard
Nixon and Gov. Spiro T. Agnew.
“The tragic Soviet occupation
of Czechoslovakia, while instantly
condemned by our union with all
of the vigor at its command, acthe urgency of
tually sharpens
Senate ratification of the non-proliferation treaty rather than diminishing it,” the board declared.
“Delay in ratification cannot,
unhappily, either undo or amelio-
Frank
1564,
Local
Towa;
Burlington,
Electric,
Sylvania
Foun-
dries, Moline, Il. and Local 1569,
International Harvester parts depot, Bedford Park, Ill.
Region 5—Local 1558, North
McAlester,
Rockwell,
American
Okla. and Anadite, Inc., Texarkana, Texas.
1561, MonRegion 9—Local
tone Mfg. Co., Hazleton, Pa.
Letter Campaign
Boosts Registration
Jersey—
New
CRANFORD,
Region 9 Director Martin Gerber
has urged every non- registered
member in Newark, N.J.
UAW
to become eligible to vote in the
November elections.
Gerber made the plea in a letter to every Newark UAW member whose name did not appear
A
on the official polling lists.
check of the UAW’s entire membership in Newark, New Jersey’s
largest city, was completed by
Region 9, and Gerber sent a personal letter to each non-registered
member.
“Tt is vital,” he wrote, “that
member
every
of the
UAW—and
every other eligible citizen in his
family—exercise one of the great-
est
free,
demo-
in the November
elections.”
presi-
privileges
cratic
voting
dential
of Nuclear Control
Urge OK
by the union’s
board declared
16 New Local Unions Chartered
Sterling,
NEW
HAVEN,
Mich.—Members of UAW Local 429 may have
prompted a stimulating “facelifting’ on Main Street with the
dedication of a local union hall—
a completely
renovated,
older
commercial building.
Local
President
Harry
Lee
Boglin said he hoped “this practical example of urban renewal
will be followed by others .. .
interested in improving the appearance of New Haven.”
At least one neighboring merchant began a similar “facelifting” improvement, local union officers reported.
Region
mer vice president of UAW Local
22, has been appointed education
| representative for UAW Region
| 1K, it was announced by Regional
Director Bard Young and Education Dept. Director Carroll
M.
Hutton.
_ The appointment becomes effective Oct. 6. Moon now is a labor
specialist in the Institute of Labor
and Industrial Relations, a joint
| venture
of
the
University
of
|
are
which
staff
Dept.
Women’s
UAW
preHaener
+ | ) member Dorothy
4 ‘| sented the union’s views at a pubthe
by
conducted
lic hearing
i Michigan Occupational Standards
| Commission.
on
practices
current
Calling
}
employe overtime a “very trouble_ some area,’”’ Miss Haener, a UAW
International representative, said
'the union urges the commission
to take action toward three goals:
e Place strict limitations on the
overtime hours that can be required of any worker, regardless
of sex, race or age;
© Permit individual workers, as
to decide
matter,
a voluntary
whether they want to work overtime; and
all
for
overtime
e Control
health,
for
primarily
workers,
safety and welfare reasons, and
for reasons of morality and economics.
Historically, efforts by states
to protect workers from excessive
hours of work have been “discriminatorily distorted . . . into
laws applying solely to women,”
Miss Haener said.
DETROIT—Prince Moon,
versity labor specialist and
filing
to
be able to know
clared.
Reuther
ance
voluntary.
_In Education
be-
;
and simple form, reliable information on the essential perform-
has
Mich—UAW
LANSING,
called for state regulations to
restrictions
overtime
‘eliminate
|) based on sex and to make excessive
ucts
are
consumers
Ask New Laws
On Overtime
this action
cause of this Federal agency’s refusal to divulge to the consuming
must
The
are taking
UAW
Secretary Treasurer
Emil Mazey took over the controls of a power shovel to assist
Region
1E
Director
Bard
Young, at left, in ground-breaking ceremonies for the new
regional
headquarters
to be
society,
of
by
a
registering
and
Pact
rate the consequences of this madly misguided Soviet attempt to
throttle freedom, but delay can
endanger the treaty itself.
of inde“Any demonstration
cision by the U.S. would be almost certain to infect other nations, both those already in possession of nuclear capacity and
those which have pledged themselves to forego the acquisition or
use of nuclear weapons. . . .
“Ratification . . . in no way involves either concessions to the
Soviet Union or approval of any
aspect of Soviet policy.”
October, 1968—UAW
SOLIDARITY—Page
15
ON
Tata
Camera
Prities needn’t be dry—if you keep in mind
it’s about people and their simple dream
for a decent life.
Above, Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D., Conn.)
listens hard as UAW’s Walter Reuther discusses
the
gigantic
needs
of
our
and
cities
their inhabitants. Dennis Brack captured the
study of the courageous senator.
The disgrace of poverty is very much a
political issue. The Poor People’s Crusade to
Washington, D.C. is now history. The poor
tried to awaken America’s conscience. One
of the last of 700 or so photos by Jim Pickerell (top right) shows a foot-weary
two friends who had also marched
port of the cry from the poor.
At
right,
a
face
from
Watts,
lady and
in
sup-
Calif.,
by
Gene Daniels. His future will also be decided
on Nov. 5.
Page
16—UAW
SOLIDARITY—October,
1968
Millions of Ameri
young people are becoming increasingly involved in politics—for
they know that their futures will be deter-
mined by the quality of people they elect to
public office.
And quality is an apt term to describe
Iowa’s
Gov.
Harold
Hughes,
below
left,
dorsed by just about everybody in his
this year for the U.S. Senate. Hughes
en-
race
was
photographed by Black Star’s George Cealla
at a Des Moines rally for young voters, some
of whom are pictured below listening to the
governor.
The young lady, below right, is deeply involved in Project 21, an organization of firsttime voters who are supporting another highcaliber candidate for the Senate, California’s
Alan Cranston. The photo was taken by Jack
Eyerman of Black Star in Los Angeles.
News
and
WY
Notes
7)
Canada
‘Discovers’ IIMA
Law and Order? Conn, state police reported fighting a gun battle with an armed
wgang of far-out Minutemen intercepted while
ing to burn down a private camp. After
the battle, two of the six arrested gunmen
turned out to be area campaign chairmen
Hof the Wallace-for-President drive.
mM
|
“Walter Mitchell gave the Chemical Workers and the labor movement unselfishly of
|
his vitality in total dedication.” These were the words
of Walter Reuther, express-
of
sorrow
deep
the
ing
October, 1968
Vol. 11, No. 10
and
vision
his
of
; himself,
everyone in UAW over the
sudden death of the presiTwo
dent of the ICWU.
before the tragedy,
days
delegates to the ICWU cona resolution
of
approval
© unanimous
roared
had
vention
MITCHELL
to
their
join
» the new Alliance for Labor Action, set up
» last July by UAW and the Teamsters. He
had called on his union “to move towards the
| only part of the labor movement that has
proposed meaningful solutions to problems
that all working men and women face.”
Picturesque Prose: The New
Yorker’s
Richard Rovere: “No matter how hawkish
he may sound, Richard Nixon, an opportun-
ist of breathtaking virtuosity, is in an almost
| perfect position . . . The administration he
served had a lot to do with our present plight
» in southeast Asia, but the political statute of
' limitations has long since run out .. .”
_
|
\)
‘)
if
Air Victory: Reg. 1E Dir. Bard Young and
UAW organizers won more than they’d figured when Universal Airlines, Inc. employes
at Willow Run, Mich. voted heavily for UAW.
Union’s
»
jurisdiction
now
covers
some
600
airline mechanics in terminals across the
country. They’re the only UAW members to
come under the Nat’l. Railway Act and not
the Nat’l. Labor Relations Act.
Those Car Prices: Chrysler Corp.,
from its record profit pace, announced
it-to-’em
car
price
increases.
“Totally
dizzy
sock-
un-
justified,” said the UAW’s Walter Reuther.
When Chrysler blamed rising labor costs,
the UAW leader said Chrysler workers’ higher wages were made possible by the increase
in their productivity. ‘The UAW lends its
voice to the call that is being made to the
industry to make its contribution to price
stability and the welfare of the American
consumer.”
Washington.
writes:
longer
year
‘The
a
columnist
Herling
militancy of the teachers
seven-day
drive.
John
wonder—it
While
the
is
American
a
is no
seven-
Fed.
of
Teachers has been the pacesetter and the
leader in unionizing the teachers, it becomes
clear that the Nat’l. Education Assn.—especially
its classroom
sector—has
taken
strong initiatives in areas which once they
spurned: tough bargaining, facing up to the
possibility of strikes, bringing Negroes into
leadership.”
|
With major league baseball about over for
another season, and more cash in the club
“im
Owners’ till than ever, one
industry gesture stands out:
the Atlanta Braves’ hiring
of Leroy (Satchel) - Paige.
| The ageless hurler needed a
few more weeks on a big
z
league roster to qualify for
> a pension, Nineteen other
' clubs ignored him for eight
years.
Still
overdue:
his
Pie
PAIGE
|
Baseball’s
Hall
Following
special
appointment
of Fame.
is the
latest
monthly
to
summary
of the UAW’s Strike Fund report as issued
by Sec. Treas. Emil Mazey:
Total
Income
fund
assets, July
31
for August
$64,890,503.66
$ 3,413,409.02
Total to account for
$68,303,912.68
Disbursements,
$ 2,074,184.61
August
ee
Total
effect,
resources,
involving
Aug.
14,000
(Continued
31
ee
$66,229,728.07
members.
on page
2)
Sh
owdo
In
wn
Wallaceburg
to
entitled
is
er
helps make higher
profits possible.
a GM
For
provisions
higher
his
family’s
to
that’s not counting the
will now be getting.
$1.74
17 cents or more
Nixon Administration and America, wallowing
like a wounded
whale,
plunged
sickeningly
of
years
rates.
wage
Jun 10 years ago, worry held the land.
It was the sixth year of the Eisenhower-
two
those
in at least
his
his
standard
20
their
Year 58
rising
increase
increases
Republican
work-
with
par
a
resulted
added
and
work
his
on
alone—during
being
hour
work-
for example,
worker,
existence—have
each
keep each
increases
and
power
purchasing
of living.
productivity
wage
AIF
and
prices
since
share
power
purchasing
er’s
his
wage
COL
Thus,
that
profits and
growing
steadily
cession—its
an
licans
And
enced
lead
negotiated
and
workers
ment
a
as
such
the
that
first
benefits
step
clogged
the
White
been
hadn’t
Depression
of
on at least
year,
according
experi-
the
°30s,
13 million
to a
study
(SUB)
toward
in ’55 bargaining
a guaranteed
as
annual
unemployment
compensation
of-
fices in every auto, farm equipment and
aerospace center in the country.
It was a Big Three bargaining year for
UAW also. With more than a million new
autos in inventory and thousands of workers unemployed, GM, Ford and Chrysler
members.
The UAW was not immune from this attack, either. The auto industry tried hard to
do away with COL but the UAW successfully
resisted these efforts in ’67 and the COL
protection principle was kept intact—and so
the
Repub-
wage. SUB was a lifesaver to the hundreds of thousands of UAW members who
In 1959, for example, more than four million U.S. workers were covered by COL provisions. This year, only about two million
are so covered—and most of these are UAW
was
of
since
re-
the University of Michigan.
Alert to the coming storm, the UAW
had negotiated supplemental
unemploy-
and gave
past few
cumbed to this heavy pressure
them up completely during the
years.
dive
control
its cold hand
by
suc-
clauses
COL
such
taken
since
placed
early ’60s, this all-out assault netted some
victims. Many unions which had followed the
UAW
had
Joblessness,
the
in
Beginning
allowance.
third
of another
House in the elections of ’52.
By May of ’58, 86 of the nation’s 149
major areas and 161 smaller areas reported unemployment of over six per cent.
he
provisions
these
of
success
very
The
brought on a slashing industry attack upon
them in recent years—particularly on the
cost-of-living
into the trough
cancelled their agreements
UAW members, in a
solidarity refused to
AIF.
walkouts
and,
at
model
with
the union.
superb display of
be provoked into
change,
emerged
with new contracts.
But UAW members, despite the success
of their tactics, still were not able to receive their full equity that year thanks to
Republican policies that had plunged the
nation into its worst economic crisis since
the 30s.
Meee what COL and AIF have meant in
terms of increased purchasing power for
UAW members is illustrated by this example:
An assembler in a GM plant was paid $1.44
an hour in 1947—before COL and AIF came
into existence. Twenty years later, that same
assembler was getting $3.44 an hour, including 81 cents in COL money and 97 cents in
AIF money. His 1947 pay would have bought
$2.2114 worth of goods last year (because
prices went up). Subtracting that amount
from $3.44 gives you $1.2214 an hour. That’s
the amount by which this GM assembler’s
standard of living and net purchasing power
has been increased.
those
as__
negotiations—such
Contract
gaining COL and
which resulted in UAW
AIF—do not occur in a vacuum, however.
Does it matter what political party controls the White House and the Congress, or
who the President is, as far as success at the
bargaining table is concerned? Recent history shows it does! For example:
If the country suffers from a recession or
depression, contract gains are often not only
minimal, they are irrelevant to the worker
who has been laid off. He won't get the bene-
fits of a new contract because he’s not working.
During the Republican Eisenhower-Nixon
period, America went through three major
recessions
in eight
years.
five mil-
than
More
lion workers were without jobs—a staggering seven per cent of the work force.
Since 1961, starting with President Kennedy,
Democratic
to 3.5
per cent.
gave
administrations
the
the
want
to
government
be
neutral, especially when there’s a strike. But
what happened in auto talks in 1958, for
Eisenhower-Nixon
the
during
example,
regime?
was
There
a recession
and
inventory
an
of
a million unsold cars. GM, followed by the
UAW
contracts.
UAW’s
cancelled
others,
members
all
tract
were forced to work without
summer
could be reached
duction began.
long,
when
until
the
new
a
a con-
settlement
model
pro-
Would GM have dared to do what it did—
try to provoke an untimely strike—had it
not
been
White
secure
House
was
in
the
knowledge
in GM’s
corner?
that
the
members
UAW
are the factors
These
should keep in mind as they go to the polls
on November 5. Their jobs could depend on
their memory of those sad days just 10 years
ago.
Hep
does
it
seek or want White
collective bargaining
He
but
UAW does not
intervention in
3
The
House
epee
nation ever-increasing employment and prosperity and an uninterrupted period of economic growth. Unemployment is now down
What a difference that new occupant in
the White House made in 1961!
President John F. Kennedy began—and
President
Lyndon
Johnson
followed—pol-
icies which gave America new life, new
faith in itself. Unprecedented prosperity
took hold, and UAW members shared it.
Ken Bannon (smiling at left) with UAW
President Walter Reuther had every reason to be joyous. They were announcing
“the
most
historic
agreement”
ever
reached in collective bargaining.
Said Bannon, looking back: “In ’64 and
again in ’67 we could be miracle-makers
for our members. In ’58 we had to struggle
to keep our union together. We should
never forget those dreadful times.”
penEarly retirement, $400-a-month
sions, record pay increases, the guaranteed annual wage, unheard-of health care
protection—all won in these Democratic
Richard
when
all “impossible”
years,
Nixon had a key to the White House.
November, 1968—UAW
SOLIDARITY—Page
5
Showdown in Wallaceburg
343 members of Local
The
North American Plastics Co.
laceburg,
Ont.,
had
their
at
251 UAW
Ltd. in Wal-
four-month-old
strike raised to the level of “a holy war’’ at
the mid-September meeting of the Canadian
UAW Council.
To dramatize the take-on of what Wallaceburg strikers have been insisting is the ‘“‘mad
dog” management of Plastics, the Canadian
UAW’s Big Three council assemibled here
the next day to plan strategy.
Dennis
making
by
McDermott,
his appeal
the UAW,
Canadian
director,
for Canada-wide
in
support
commented:
“This is not just a strike to the management of this company, it’s a crusade to defeat and humiliate our union. So be it. If
Michael Ladney Jr., of Detroit, president of
the company, who has written a booklet and
goes around making speeches entitled ‘How
to Break
a UAW
Strike’,
wants
a holy
war,
that’s what he’ll get from today on.”
Six or eight strikers from the Wallaceburg picketline attended the UAW council
meeting in Port Elgin. The council voted a
special
grant
of $5,000,
in addition
to regu-
lar strike benefits. It also endorsed
mott’s ringing plea to battle.
McDer-
The Plastics strike began last May 18. Of the
343 in the plant, all but 20 joined the picketline. Over the months, the company has replaced most of the others with strike-breakers, many brought in by bus from Chatham,
18 miles away. Many of them are itinerant
workers attracted to the area by seasonal
farm work. Dutiful Ontario provincial police,
sometimes numbering as many as 80, escort
them to the plant and through the picketlines,
About 75 per cent of the strikers have
some kind of charge against them arising
out of picketline incidents. Many
of the
strikers are women.
On May 27, company president Ladney
made his first public appearance in Wallaceburg. He personally escorted a cavalcade of
strike-breakers’ cars into town and through
the picketline under heavy OPP guard.
The whole labor movement in Wallaceburg responded with a one-day demonstration in which an estimated 1,500 workers
filled the main street and marched to see the
mayor.
About 90 per cent of production from the
plant goes to the Big Three auto makers.
The big bulk of it goes to Ford at both Oakville and the U.S.
The plant opened for business in 1965. In
1966, the UAW spent eight months trying to
organize it, but failed, mainly due to the
vicious tactics of management. On Novy. 27,
1967,
after
a four-week
than
55
certified—without
more
per
a vote
cent
blitz,
the
(having
signed
and
UAW
was
presented
paid).
Ladney, whose main plant is in Detroit,
never accepted the ruling of the Ontario
Labour Relations Board. On Jan. 10 of this
year, Management
representatives met the
union for the first time, but did no bargaining. In fact, in 12 meetings from Jan. 10 to
April 28, the company did nothing that could
be called bargaining.
Ladney, who broke a UAW strike at his
Detroit plant in 1963, went around bragging
he would break this one.
Page 6—UAW
SOLIDARITY—October,
1968
l., order to get a first contract, “even if we
had to hide it under the rug” (as McDermott
expressed it to the Canadian UAW Council),
the union reduced its demands to three items:
checkoff, representation and grievance procedure before the strike.
The company
would have no part of
check-off, no way. It said it would allow two
grievances a week to be taken up, and committeemen would be limited to 15 minutes
per day on union business. Its main interest
in the talks was a long list of company rules,
the sum of which would effectively remove
even
the
two
grievances
which
were
os-
tensibly permitted.
Int'l. Rep. Ted Oana said it was plain from
the beginning that there was “no living with
this guy Ladney. He wasn’t out for a labor
agreement. He was out for blood.”
Early in August, in a move to get things
off dead
centre,
McDermott
asked
the
Ontario Dept. of Labour to get the parties together
again.
He
sent
in his assistant,
Herb Kelly, to trouble-shoot.
The company faced the conciliation officer
with two pre-conditions before it would meet
the union: 1) the union must agree to pay
all ‘damages’ (that is, whatever the company
decided
to call
damages)
arising
out
of
the
strike; 2) any worker who had any charges
against him during the strike would not be
considered
for re-employment.
The
talks
ended before they began.
Said McDermott to the council: “In 1968,
we are not going to stand still and be
slaughtered. I am prepared to lead this fight
—from the front.”
While not detailing his plans, McDermott
said flatly that “some of our people may get
hurt. Some of us may go to jail. Whatever
the cost, we will have to be prepared to pay
it.
“This is not a moment for emotion,” he
cautioned. “I have thought about this a lot.”
The council unanimously adopted a motion
that McDermott be supported.
Reaction of the Wallaceburg delegation
was delight. “We are out of the valley,” commented Oana.
we
:
!
;;
In the unanimous opinion of the 250-man
Canadian UAW Council, the Rand Report on
District
Labour-Management
“is
the
collective
most
Relations
serious
in
Ontario
encroachment
bargaining
in
the
on
history
free
of
this
Council
country.”
i
Said Canadian
Director Dennis
McDermott: “It’s a mental aberration.” He will
Rips Report
common
meet
with
other
stand
the report.
The
union
leaders
against
council,
Ontario’s
representing
members in Canada,
of hand.”
to promote
adoption
110,000
Here
a
The
of
UAW
rejected the report “out
Esinent
‘OUR ConTeACT
“2IS S
Come
former jurist Ivan
ing,
the
right
to sue
unions
and
some
con-
trols over strikebreakers are key proposals
of Rand Royal Commission into Labor Disputes.
Ivan C. Rand, the 84-year-old former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, also
suggested some restrictions on the issuing
of injunctions in labor disputes.
Even in industries not considered essential,
the industrial tribunal would have wide pow-
ers to pressure
strikers
or management
into
settlements. But the pressure would appear
to be most effective against strikers. In fact,
Rand appeared to see organized labor as
some kind of villain who needed to be policed
for the good of society.
He said the tribunal should be able to require management to justify automation that
threatened serious unemployment problems.
The
Ontario
government
appointed
the
one-man Royal Commission in 1966 after a
mass-picketing
demonstration
at
Peterborough’s strikebound Tilco Plastics plant.
For breaking the court injunction, 25 trade
unionists were jailed.
Labor leaders generally agreed that the
report would sabotage industrial relations
and union organization by a vast extension
of lawyers, regulations and legalistic procedures in the labor field.
tribunal could fix the number and locations
of pickets.
Each picket line would have a “picket captain” whose name would be known to the
Each
captain
“will
have
the
au-
thority and the duty to make every reasonable effort to maintain lawful conduct on the
line or group and to dismiss any employe
from
the line or group
for misconduct.”
Picketing anywhere but at the struck plant
would be banned, except that it would be
allowed where the employer had his work
done at another location. There would be
bans against picketing to organize a union
or in sympathy with strikers.
Only strikers or their officers could picket.
The industrial tribunal would have wide
powers to adjust these and other rules—
particularly when a strike lasted a long time,
a union
or employer
in good faith
reasonable.
was
or either
failing
was
party
to
bargain
being
un-
Rand devoted much consideration to protecting the right of a striker to get his job
back after the strike. He said the law should
specify that anyone hired to replace a strikhave only temporary
normally
er would
status.
An employer would be allowed to replace
permanently a striker guilty of misconduct
or one who took anything more than “‘casual’ employment during the strike—working more than 24 hours a week.
If an employer paid strikebreakers better
pay than that offered to the union in negotiations or if he tried to defeat a strike by
The
Squeeze
On
M..:; picketing would be banned. Pickets
would be allowed only in legal strikes and
in numbers needed for ‘“‘obtaining and peacefully
communicating
information.”
The
employer.
Workers
making
such
an
offer
to some
strikers,
the
union could ask the tribunal to order a settle-
ment
contract
on
those
terms.
The tribunal could order a secret ballot
vote of the strikers on continuation of a
strike once it had lasted 45 days.
After
a strike
or
lockout
lasted
either side could ask the tribunal
a settlement. If the other side
settlement, the tribunal could
rules about picketing and hiring
ments.
90
C. Rand
dis-
again
about
graced himself with his report to the Ontario government on labor law.
Examine any of his recommendations
and you find the old lawman looping his
lariat around organized labor’s freedom of
operation. What is damnable about it all is
Rand’s reputation as a “labor expert,”
gained from his Rand Formula union security settlement in the 99-day strike of
Local 200 UAW at the Ford of Canada’s
Windsor plant in 1946.
The Rand Formula worked only because
the UAW (and other unions later) knocked
the penalties and restrictions out of it. The
same kind and more—of penalties and restrictions are in the Rand Report of 1968.
In other words, this Bourbon, as Bourbons
do, has learned nothing and forgotten
nothing.
The Canadian UAW, through its leaders, has complained
A,
all-powerful industrial tribunal, outlawing of strikes in essential industries or by
) public employes, tight restrictions on picket-
Judge!!!
days,
to propose
refused the
change the
of replace-
time
and
Big Brains from the academic world pontificating on what’s good for labor-management relations. Our beef, simply put, is
that they rarely know what they’re talking about.
How say such a thing about a learned
judge? That’s exactly where the Establishment has got the labor movement. Select
a person so learned in the law and so generally esteemed that it will be impossible
to charge him with bias. And then let him
deliver the goods!
This is not to say that Mr. Justice Rand
was party to a game. He wasn’t because
he didn’t have to be.
In his ‘formula’ in 1946, he recommended—for instance—that referendum yotes
be taken in strike situations. In 1968, in
the same
his report, he recommended
thing. Know a guy well enough and you
know what his report will be—whether he
does or not! So you pick the guy you want
for the report you want. And, by all
means, pick someone whose credentials are
impeccable, as they say.
There is nothing basically wrong, of
course, with referendum votes in strike
situations. The idea of making sure that
as many people who are eligible to vote
do vote is essentially sound. The only
thing is that it is a measure of democracy
that doesn’t apply elsewhere.
None of the members of Parliament
who formed the government who named
Rand a Supreme Court justice got elected
that way, for instance. Why just plain
democracy for everyone else and superdemocracy for the labor movement?
As any UAW member can testify, any
eligible worker who wants to ballot in a
strike vote situation can easily do so.
There is no situation crying out for a
Justice Rand to correct. Then why has
he recommended correction?
It should not be forgotten that what led
up to the Rand Commission being appointed was organized labor's fight to rid
itself of the ex parte injunction!
The Robarts government of Ontario,
instead of addressing itself to that prob-
lem—which did ery for correction—appointed 84-year-old Judge Rand to put together a legal straightjacket for organized
labor. He has done himself proud.
If the ordinary worker wants to know
what political action is all about, let him
look at the Rand Report. Every Tory vote
helped to write it.
October, 1968—UAW
SOLIDARITY—Page 7
NYG
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.
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By FRED GOETZ
SOLIDARITY Outdoors Writer
H.
Edward
member
UAW
Grisa of Milwaukee, Wis., a member of Local 261 for close to 19
years and a fishing guide for
equally as long, is an avid pursuer of that finny tiger otherwise
Ed’s
muskellunge.
as
known
to all in the outdoor
known
fraternity
as the ‘Muskie
Maniac.”’ He writes:
“In
tivities
fortunate
in
orev’
my
with
line
Wisconsin,
in getting
=
guiding
I've
a good
ac-
been
num-
ber of muskies,
61 in fact, from
June
through
September. Top
producer for me
is the Creek Chub
Pikie lure, model
No. 3001.
“Enclosed is a
pic of a lunker I
eased
from
Big
Arbor Vitae Lake
in the northeastern
section
of
Wisconsin.
It
measured
51
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Sar
*
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HOBBY
FEATURES
Cabinets,
Pictures for
Your Walls
SNe ia a
fishing
and
taking
By STEVE ELLINGSON
SOLIDARITY Hobby Writer
One of the handiest decorating
devices for dressing up dull walls
is shelving.
Pretty
china,
antiques, rare books, knick-knacks
or anything that intrigues you
gives a personal flavor to a room
along with being decorative.
The wall shelf is an inexpensive
project you can easily complete
in one evening. All you need do
is trace the pattern
parts on
wood, saw them out and put them
together. The little compartments
may be varied in size in case you
UAW
retiree Sam Rotella of
Detroit, Mich., writes: “The sea
trout fishing was tops this year
in the saltchuck off St. Petersburg, Fla. Thanks to the UAW,
there are a lot of retirees down
way,
month.
*
catch, as nice a limit of brookies
as we've seen in many a moon.
Florida
this
rib pattern of knitting worsted. The basic color is
light oxford outlined with a black and white striped
te
Top
producer
of trout
this
summer
for Anthony
Lonzi of
New York, a member of Local
686, has been
Wiscoye
Creek,
N.Y. Here’s a pic of one day’s
i
PK 1681
nubby tweeds and bold plaids—is ribbed to look
lean and fitted. It has long set-in sleeves and crocheted buttons. You can make this sweater in misses’
sizes 10-16 of knitting worsted.
PK 4727—The cardigan by night is lacy and elegant for pairing with a special skirt or over a simple
dress. This one has the fineness of old porcelain, knit
of pale super fingering yarn in an open leaf pattern.
The sizing is misses’ 12-18.
When a camp chore requires
that a flashlight be held at a certain angle for a time, tape it to
the handle of an axe driven into
the ground or a stump. It is helpful when dressing game at night
away from camp.
*
PK 4727
It’s variety galore in sweaters
your pick:
PK 4463—This cardigan—ideal
inches
from
nose to tail and
tipped the scales at 34 pounds. I
put a thousand miles or so on the
old jalopy each weekend in quest
of
muskies,
and
loved
every
minute of it.”
9
4463
have
want
larger
or smaller
displayed.
Wall
items
Shelf
tern No. 432 costs 75 cents.
you
Pat-
The
three-dimensional
picture
No.
400
Lion tapestry
is inexpensive, may be made in a
single evening and is suitable for
any room. The materials are a
No.
417
Regulation size
pool table
.
Z
ek
te
15¢
patterns
35¢
piece
of
celotex
for
the
back-
New booklet picturing all
ground, molding for the frame,
map tacks and yarn. Every detail
79
No.
377
No.
426
No.
C-2
Colonial coffee
table
Br vattiiets
GOOG,
Magazine rack ...... 35¢
Corner cabinet .
75¢
Assorted comic
pictures
creastacs
«.
aware
Order patterns by number from
Steve Ellingson, UAW SOLIDARITY
Pattern
Dept.,
P.O.
Box
2383, Van
Nuys,
Calif. 91409.
Send currency, check or money
order.
Allow two weeks for delivery.
For speedier air mail service, add
25 cents per pattern.
Send a stamped, self-addressed
envelope for a free folder picturing the complete assortment of
outdoor Christmas displays.
is explained in the full-size pattern—even the location of each
tack. Nautical Abstract Picture
Pattern No. 452 is 75 cents.
Other patterns you will enjoy:
No.
........ 75¢
(oe
Te
}
Top
smallmouth-bass
column
record for this summer can be
credited to Bill Zaker of Midlothian, Ill., a member of Local 588.
He eased a 4-lb., 4-0z. specimen
from the waters out of “View
Pint” near Minong, Wis. Anybody
have
a larger
one
to report?
Active and retired UAW members—and the members of their
families can earn a pair of fishing
lures. All that’s
=<
Snapshot
of a
fishing or hunting scene—and a
few words as to what the photo
is about.
to Fred Goetz,
Dept. LO, Box 508, Portland Ore.
97207.
Page 8—UAW
ti
required is a clear
SOLIDARITY—October,
Ue
It’s not too early
Rese
ake)
ae Bia
1968
two-thirds
life-size
to start
(the
on your
camels
are
Se
8
Christmas
over
five
projects.
feet
tall)
This
and
display
the
is
figures
come in rich vibrant colors on waterproof paper. All you need do is glue
the pictures on plywood and cut them out. Detailed instructions are
included. The complete Nativity Scene No. C-7 costs $4.50; add 50 cents
if you wish air mail delivery.
A Legal Look at Platforms
How
Democratic,
Republican
By
STEVE SCHLOSSBERG
UAW General Counsel
Since this column is about workers and
the law, we thought it only proper to report
the content of the’ Democratic and Republican platform planks on labor. Now that the
convention oratory has faded, we ought
know what the two parties promise to
about
labor.
Of
course,
the
pledges
to
do
of poli-
tical parties are often dishonored, but they
should give at least a general idea of the
party’s programmatic goals.
The Democratic labor plank is understandable. In plain English, it pledges support of
Coen
bargaining
and
a
labor movement.”
pendent
These promises are clearly
spelled out: (1) Repeal of
14(b)
state
laws,
which
compulsory
Lawsuits Air
Side Effects
Pill’
Of ‘The
Drug companies producing oral contraceptives have been faced with more than 200
lawsuits since studies in Britain prompted
America’s Food and Drug Administration to
require stricter warning labels as of July.
Attorney Paul D. Rheingold of New York
City is handling a number of these cases. He
told lawyers attending the recent American
7
Trial Lawyers Assn.: ‘“‘British studies reported within
the last year have finally
presented positive proof that
there is a much higher incidence of clotting, including
pulmonary embolisms in
users of these oral contra-
aa
|
ceptives
than
not
women
in
using
them.”
Research
the British Medical
In May,
Council and the Committee on Safety of
Drugs announced that the risk of certain
diseases is nine times greater in women
taking the pill than in those not taking it.
Side effects that have led to lawsuits include eye changes, migraine, strokes, pulmonary
damage,
colon
embolisms,
blood
pressure changes, thrombosis in the legs,
fibroid growths, jaundice and fetal deformities.
Rheingold said: “Often these are devastating injuries, occurring in young women just
starting out in life.”
The FDA warning labels are a step in the
right direction—but are based on information that has been available since 1964. Another attorney made this point: When oral
contraceptives were being developed
(between 1957 and ’59), the attitude among the
drug makers was ‘‘do as much testing as we
have to do and get the pill on the market.”
Three cases have been settled out of court.
BRIEFLY: It doesn’t mean much to North
Americans but in Africa, Asia, South America and the Pacific islands this news must
sound as though a miracle maker is on earth:
the culturing of the bacillus of Hansen’s disease (leprosy) has been announced by Dr.
Toyoho Murohashi of Japan’s National Institute of Health. It’s a major advance toward a
vaccine against the ages-old disease.
*
*
*
More in brief: If doctors don’t do something to stop the spiralling cost of medical
care,
the
government
will
do
it, warned
Dr.
James Z. Appel, past president of AMA .. .
Montreal General
Hospital’s experimental
new diet seems to be preventing many deaths
that follow shock . . . The British Medical
Journal, reporting nasal cancer is high among
furniture workers, blames wood dust and not
polishes, lacquers or varnishes.
permits
open
Extension
(2)
of
protection
The apt pupil
now
the
of
shop
the
“free
a
and
inde-
GERD
©
aS
&
g
VE LS
Federal
labor laws to farm workers,
(3) Removal of unreasonable restrictions on
peaceful picketing, (4) Speedier NLRB decisions, (5) Greater equality of remedies for
violation of the labor law, (6) Effective opportunities for unions, as well as employers,
to communicate with workers and (7) No
government contracts to employers who persistently violate Federal labor law.
The Republican Party’s labor plank is a
different story. We found it cryptic—that is,
obscure, not readily understood and filled
with veiled, hidden meanings. The Republican
plank has so many concealed meanings that
it does not lend itself to easy summary. So,
as a labor lawyer with a point of view, your
columnist will tell you what he thinks it
means. The only way to do this is to print
the text followed by my translation:
“Organized labor has contributed greatly to
the economic strength of our country and the
well-being of its members. The Republican
Party vigorously endorses its key role in our
national life.”
Translation:
The
Republicans
will not
abolish unions.
ie ee
“We support an equitable minimum wage
for American workers—one providing fair
wages without unduly increasing unemployment
among
economic
those
on the lowest
ladder—and
will
rung
improve
keep
government
participation
intervention
in
defined
door
by
the
Congress,
labor laws.”
and
the
in
channels
prevent
back
administration
of
Translation: If the government gets into
strikes, it will be on the side of the employer.
“Repeated
Administration
promises
recommend legislation dealing with
economic strikes have never been
Instead,
settlements
government
and
forced
crippling
honored.
or influenced
overriding
to
the
interests
and
price
by
of
the parties and the public have shattered the
Administration’s
own
wage
guide-
lines and contributed to inflation.”
Translation:
Contract
settlements
have
Dee n too good for workers; they will change
that.
2
2
S
Labor Planks Compare
*
=
*
_“Effective methods for dealing with labor
disputes involving-the national interest must
be developed. Permanent, long-range solutions of the problems of national emergency
disputes, public employe strikes and crippling work stoppages are imperative. These
solutions cannot be wisely formulated in the
heat of emergency. We pledge an intensive
effort to develop practical acceptable solutions that conform fully to the public interest.”
Translation: Tougher laws on strikes, especially by public employes.
ae
eke
Believe it or not, the above text is the
total, word-for-word, language of the Republican Party’s platform. We’ve told you how
those fancy words translate for us, but even
more important is what the plank does not
say.
Unfortunately,
there
is
no
mention
of
farm workers, long excluded from Federal
protection; no mention of state compulsory
open shop laws; nothing about picketing, no
improvement in union rights to communicate
with workers, no promise to equalize remedies and not a word about remedies or about
denying government contracts to flagrant
lawbreakers like J. P. Stevens.
But then, Senator Dirksen was chairman
of the Republican platform committee. And
he wrote a labor plank for Nixon. Enough
said.
of the
the Fair
Labor Standards Act, with its important protections for employes.”
Translation: There will be no raise in the
minimum wage.
“The forty-hour week adopted 30 years
ago needs re-examination to determine
whether or not a shorter work week, without loss of wages, would produce more jobs,
increase productivity and stabilize prices.”
Translation:
shortened.
The
*
work
*
week
will
not
be
=
“We strongly believe that the protection of
individual liberty is the cornerstone of sound
labor policy. Today, basic rights of some
workers, guaranteed by law, are inadequately
guarded against abuse. We will assure these
rights through vigorous enforcement of present laws, including the Taft-Hartley Act and
the Landrum-Griffin Act, and the addition of
new protections where needed. We will be
vigilant to prevent any administrative agency
entrusted with labor-law enforcement from
defying the letter and spirit of these laws.”
Translation: They will crack down on untons and force the NLRB to favor employers.
“Healthy
sponsibility
private enterprise
by
government,
“|.
. I’m
fast as my
aiming
for a design
two-week
that'll go as
vacation just went!”
demands remanagement
and labor—to avoid the imposition of excessive costs or prices and to share with the
consumer the benefits of increased productivity. It also demands responsibility in free
collective
bargaining,
not
only
by
labor
and
management, but also by those in government concerned with these sensitive relationships.”
Translation: Lower wage settlements in
collective bargaining.
“We will bar government-coerced strike
settlements that cynically disregard the pub-
lic interest and accelerate inflation. We will
in
intervention
reduce government
again
labor-management disputes to a minimum,
“Give you guys an inch and right away
take 1.015625!”
you
October, 1968—UAW SOLIDARITY—Page ?
the Bundle
Harvester Strike Produces
took a seven
CHATHAM—It
and one-half week strike to convince management of the International Harvester truck plant here
it would have to come up with
zs
wage parity.
When it finally did, the 950
striking members of Local 127
UAW insisted on the goodies from
both the auto and “ag imp” settle-
Effective Jan. 1, 1970, the new
range of basic pension benefits
will be $55.50, $5.75 and $6.00 per
month per year of credited service.
Bridge and transition benefits
were upped to $150, from $100.
and GAIC
The pattern SUB
Ontarios Tax Game
Riles NDP Experts
ments.
Retroactive to June 3, 1968, a
17-cent-an-hour general increase
was added to all daywork rates.
Three per cent annual improvement factor increases are due on
the anniversary dates.
pieceFor both uncontrolled
line
jobs and controlled
work
piecework, the first year increase
was 20 cents. In addition, employes on controlled lines will receive 13 cents an hour parity increases. Special inequity increases
will be added to certain daywork
and skilled trades classifications.
Shift bonuses have been increased to 15 cents and 23 cents.
The parity increases for daywork ranged from 25) cents for
inspector-receiving to 4814 cents
benefits were included.
Weekly sickness and accident
benefits will range from $70 to
$140. Life insurance ranges from
$6,000 to $13,000. New AD&D
benefits will run from $3,000 to
$6,500.
Windsor Medical, Ontario Hos-
Ontario
TORONTO —The
government is getting ready to
restructure the province’s tax
system so that the black beans
are on top.
Party
Democratic
New
spokesmen Cliff Pilkey and Pat
Lawlor said the Tories were
just refunding over-taxation on
incomes.
scription of the credit as a
“negative
income
tax’’
was
nothing more than an attempt
to cash in on a currently popu-
lar phrase. The Tory proposal,
he said, had nothing to do with
the basic idea of a negative income tax which was to provide
people with a guaranteed annual income and thus reduce
general increases in the first year
of from 30 to 47 cents. Their par-
tive income tax and guaranteed
income with a method of returning to people what the government extracted from them
by over-taxation.
.
.
,
Py
cents to $1.04. The carpenter
classification got 47 cents increase
retroactive to June 3, 1968, plus
tions on food and children’s
z
clothing.
The committee was supposed-
ty iereges added another S11,
“We mustn’t confuse a nega-
ac" "Peote hal thes || tcndty Cau see
sor, gaining wage increases averaging 48 cents over the next two
years.
-1
0
Report on Taxation to reality. _ oyver-tax on food and clothing
would be those on welfare. The
James Renwick, NDP financial
critic
(Riverdale),
had
ordinary
workingman
would
get it in the neck.
some scathing comments. He
Economists estimate that an
hit hardest at the so-called inaverage Ontario family of two
come tax credit by which the
that only 22 workers are covered
at present, but in view of Trailmobile’s recent purchase of Brantford Trailer and Body Ltd. a
larger work-force is expected in
the near future.
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vad
&
&
children’s clothing.
Renwick said the report’s de-
overtime,
holidays,
Nineteen cents of the 24-cent
cost-of-living bonus was factored
into the base rates, except for in-
Tories would compensate for
the abolishment of the sales
tax exemptions on food and
adults and three children would
pay about $130 a year more in
provincial sales tax if the pro-
centive pay calculation purposes.
A
cost-of-living
table
ranging
from eight to 12 cents effective
June 3, 1969, and from 10 cents
to 20 cents on June 3, 1970, was
included in the agreement.
Any COLA not picked up during the life of the contract will
be adjusted on the first full pay
period beginning on or after June
3, 1971.
The $75 summer vacation and
$25 Christmas bonus first won by
the UAW in the ag imp industry
will apply, beginning in 1969.
Workers with 20 or more years
of service will get five weeks vacation. There
will be a paid
Christmas shutdown of eight days
in 1968, 11 in 1969 and 10 in 1970.
Pensions followed the auto pattern. Effective March 1, 1969, the
basic $4.25 pension becomes $5.25.
Local
one-week strike by the
Specialties members of
195
general wage
UAW
ended
with
raises of 45 cents
over three years, with an addi-
tional 18 cents for non-incentive
and non-skilled. Skilled trades
workers got a total of 85 cents.
The total for non-incentive
employes retiring during the
over the life of the agreement
(including
16
cent
cost-ofliving maximum) is 79 cents;
for skilled trades it is $1.01.
For all present retirees and
life of the contract, the monthly
pension
benefits
will
be
in-
creased: from $2.50 to $3.25
effective Jan.
1, 1969; from
$3.25 to $3.75 on Jan. 1, 1970;
and from $3.75 to $4.50 effective July 1, 1970.
SUB
improvements
to 95
per cent of after-tax straight
Page 10—UAW
SOLIDARITY—Ocfober,
The
PORT ELGIN—Some 100 seniors, representing retired workers
from 25 UAW locals, plus top officers of a number of larger locals,
assembled
at the George Burt
UAW Education Center here to
talk turkey.
The
occasion
was
the 1968
Canadian Region UAW Retired
Worker Council and Conference.
Delegates combined three nights
of social activities with three days
of serious
business,
discussing
mutual problems and drafting a
program aimed at establishing a
time pay less $7.50 per week
plus 80 per cent during short
work-weeks, an 11th paid statutory holiday, life insurance to
$6,000, weekly sickness and accident benefits to $55 immediately and $60 on June 1, 1969,
Ontario Hospital Windsor
Medical and Green Shield
drugs
for
retirees
and
dependents and many
other
fringes rounded out the monetary part of the contract.
Int'l. Rep. Joe Hiller reports
that
language
clauses
were
strengthened extensively.
Assisting Hiller were Sam
Dowell, chairman, Fred Touluse, Wilfred Russell, Lucien
Rychlik,
Paul
Bonneau
and
Archie Drouillard.
Prior to the one-week authorized strike, the plant was
out two weeks on a wildcat.
close liaison relationship between
the worker in the plant and the
retired member in the community.
Theme of this year’s conference
was the role of the retired worker in developing a community
services program within the retiree chapter and how to implement such a program for the betterment of members and their
families within the community.
Canadian Director Dennis McDermott was scheduled to speak
but had to beg off because of a
call by Canada’s Prime Minister
to a meeting in Ottawa that day.
Other speakers included Andy
Assistant
Director,
Com-
munity
Services
and
Retired
Worker Department; and Frank
Quinlan, co-ordinator, Citizenship
and Legislative Dept.; also participating was
Dave
Miller,
chair-
man of the UAW Int’l. Retired
Worker Advisory Council.
included
adopted
Resolutions
the demand for:—
Pensions of $150 a month,
able
test,
at
come
and
age
tax,
at
65
60
with
without
for
$4,000
pay-
a means
females;
national
ai
~
4
1
nine and one-half
bereavement and
paid
jury
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Nine Strikes
For Justice
There were nine strikes in progCanadian
2,139
involving
ress
Solidarity
at
members
UAW
presstime.
One other strike, involving 200
workers at Rubbermaid Canada
Ltd., Cooksville, had just been
settled but no details were in yet.
They are members of Local 252.
On strike were: North Ameriean Plastics, Wallaceburg, Local
251; Torrington Corp., Bedford,
Que., Local 956; Fruehauf Trailer, Montreal, Local 698; Dominion
Forge, Windsor, Local 195; Daal
Specialties. Windsor,- Local 195;
Dominion Auto Accessories, Toronto, Local 252; National Steel
1008;
Local
Petrolia,
Drum,
Windsor,
Induction,
Standard
Local 195; and Steel Master,
Windsor, Local 195.
in-
deductible
Medicare
first
z
duty pay were included. A costof-living formula which starts off
with a 10-cent-an-hour float was
added; so was $25 settlement pay.
Assisting Hogan in negotiations
Paul
were Arsene Berthiaume,
Bouffard and Herb Meloche.
Lay Off Grapes
for married, $2,000 deductible for
single;
a
signed
°
Union shop, grievance procedure, plant-wide seniority, job
posting, time and one-half for
posals of the legislature’s com‘mittee come into effect.
Brown,
UAW
Int’l. Rep. James Hogan reports
Retirees Set a Program
Auto Spec. Pact Ends
Strike: Everything Up
A
Auto
In Agreement
Shouldueshaventakenrtrom
them in the first place.”
In the NDP view, the only
ishing the sales tox exer
people who would get back the
plant electricians got 47 cents and
;
Tee
9514 cents:
Low rate (janitor) in the plant
goes from $2.55 to $3,42. High
r stay ounab er) goes from $3.30
to ° 9.04.
Trailmobile
F
ly adapting the year-old Smith
money.
pital, Blue Cross Supplement andons
the Green Shield Drug Programs"
will continue in effect with thea?
company paying any new in- «ti
creases in cost during the life ofto +
the agreement.
pay
provisions amo!
Bereavement
were liberalized and ‘crown wit- -tiw
ness’ pay added.
Grievance procedure steps were 919)
shortened and many other basic dias
contract clauses improved.
Art Shy, assistant to UAW WE
Vice-President Pat Greathouse, ,9at
headed the UAW’s negotiating gai
team. Stan Green, president of to
Local 127, headed the plant bar- -1e
gaining committee.
Harvey
Barber 1s
Int'l.
Rep.
pointed out that a long-term dis- -ail
ability section was added. Pay- able after weekly indemnity ends, ,
it is for length of time equal to «
plant service, at 50 percent of *
base pay. The new agreement fol- -|c
lows the UAW’s 1968 pattern in ni
every other detail, Barber added. .b
conSane
The
in parity
$1.04%
+
poverty.
Pilkey (Oshawa) and Lawlor
(Lakeshore), both members of
the legislature’s select committee on taxation, filed objections
to 20 of the 350 committee recommendations.
One they objected to: abol-
for tumble mill operator.
The semi-skilled and skilled had
£
pro-
and
housing
stepped-up
gram;
consumer protection.
Lloyd
were:
elected
Officers
Little, Local 676, chairman; Herb
Bennett, Local 112, vice chairman; Fred Blair, Local 200, secretary treasurer; Jack Ainsworth,
sergeant-at-arms; Jack Stephen,
Local 200, delegates to the Int’l.
UAW Retired Workers Advisory
Council and Joseph Nolin, Local
195, alternate to Stephen.
PORT
ELGIN—The
Canadian UAW pledged to set up
special committees in all its
local unions to promote the
boycott
of
California
table
grapes
on
behalf
of
the
farm
workers’ organizing committee
of Delano.
In addition,
the Canadian
UAW Council voted $1,000 to
the cause.
1968
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CANADIAN
NEWS
Rejoice at DeH:
Parity, Annual Wage
OTTAWA—Canada got a poverty message in the fifth annual
review of this country’s Economic
Council that should knock the
average Canadian’s complacency
into a cocked hat.
One Canadian in five—4,200,000—suffers from “the sour atmosphere of poor health and bad
housing, accumulated defeat,
alienation and despair’, and “a
sense of entrapment and hopelesslessness”, the Council reported.
Poverty and regional disparities
are the twin social and economic
evils besetting Canada, the council pointed out.
Disparity in incomes is so bad
that one Canadian in five can’t
earn a decent living. The council
termed this a “disgrace”.
Indians, Eskimos and Metis get
it worst, which may go a long
comway to explaining the
placency of the affluent—including unionized labor.
But for that one-in-five, many
of whom are hard-working Canadians, living would be better on
welfare!
The national economy just isn’t
meeting the goals set for it over
four years ago. What’s worse, the
failure happened in 1967 and this
year.
Typical of the council’s findings
is this: in metropolitan Toronto,
there are 100,000 people on welfare;
but
twice
earn enough
that
many
don’t
to live in health and
decency.
Canadians had better quit talking about “pockets of poverty”,
as though it is all in somebody
else’s backyard.
It is right in
everybody’s town and on most of
the back road farms.
In a nutshell, the council found
we're one of the richest countries
in the world, with an incredible
amount of poverty, which causes
crime, disease, lost industrial output and stop-gap welfare schemes.
It even suggested that maybe
the baby bonus isn’t such a hotdog idea.
What we have to do, it commented, is take a long hard look
at a guaranteed income plan.
It also said subsidies are a lousy
industry to
of attracting
way
underdeveloped regions. What the
areas need is a comprehensive
plan attacking their basic problems.
In fact, the council recommended, what Canada needs is a
basic plan.
What’s to be done? Generally:
high employment
e@ Maintain
and “strong and stable” economic growth;
e A wide sense of public commitment;
© Local participation in antipoverty
programs;
e Anti-poverty plans oriented
towards people, not resources;
e A blend of “income-maintenance” and other plans to
let people participate more
fully in the economic life of
the nation;
e
Better
business
management
and more stress on development and research;
e Price stability.
Taking its program out of the
realm of the “Big Think”, the
simple
few
“a
gave
council
statistics’ to document its case
about the poverty crisis. One of
them: the life expectancy of the
average Canadian Indian woman
is 25 years.
Which, perhaps, for the average fat cat Canadian puts things
back into perspective.
If you don’t care what the life
expectancy of Indians is or how
they live, why give a damn about
poverty?
As the Economic Council of
Canada’s report so bluntly puts
it, it is happening here!
TORONTO—Without
a strike
and without having a US. plant
with which to demand wage parity, the 3,200 members of Local
at DeHavilland Air112 UAW
craft Co. of Canada gained full
equity with their counterparts in
aerospace
the North American
industry.
Over
the next three years,
hourly rates for the lowest paid
in the plant will rise a minimum
of 56 cents an hour. About twothirds of the plant will get at
least 66 to 81 cents, and skilled
trades will get a minimum of 86.
First year increases of from 20
cents to 50 cents are retroactive
to June 23. Also retroactive to
that date was a six-cent an hour
boost in the off-shiff premiums:
to 18 cents afternoons, 24 cents
midnights.
All DeHavilland workers will
get 15-cent-an-hour increases on
June 23, 1969 and 1970. The
UAW’s new guaranteed three-toeight
cents
was adopted.
Aerospace
cost-of-living
skills
were
formula
recog-
nized by granting 30-35-40-45 cent
increases (instead of 20 cents) in
the first year to grades 5-6-7-8,
respectively of service. Credited
years of service picks up broken
service of former A. V. Roe workers to March 1, 1955. Early retire-
ment at full pension is now available at age 62. The supplemental
pension remains at a maximum
of $127.50
The company agreed to pay
full present cost of PSI, Ontario
Hospital and Blue Cross semi-
private for workers
and depend-
ents and half the cost of any
increases during the life of the
agreement. An 1ith paid statutory holiday was added.
Pre-paid prescription drug care
goes from $10-$20 deductible per
annum to 35 cents per prescription.
SUB benefits were improved
and the guaranteed annual income written into the contract.
DeHavilland workers will now get
75 per cent of their gross pay on
layoffs lasting up to 52 weeks and
80 per cent during short workweeks.
were
numerous
other
There
benefits.
Fairchild
Frank
Rep.
Int'l]
headed the negotiations, assisted
by Wise Stone, of the union’s
Aerospace Dept. The committee
inNeilson
by Frank
chaired
112
Jerry Dias, Local
cluded:
president, Bill Bloxam, Clete McNorm
and
Bettes
John
Coy,
Smart. Int’l Rep. Dominic DeAngelis assisted Bettes on skilled
trades.
Bendix Office Scores
a
without
A first contract,
the 69-member
strike, brought
Bendix of Canada unit of Office
Workers Local 240 UAW not only
standard language clauses such
as union shop,
ance procedure
seniority,
but full
grievsalary
parity with the U.S.
For some of the staff it meant
salary boosts of around $150-aincreases
inequity
in
month
alone.
recent plant settlement
The
seven-week _ strike)
a
(after
71 cents an hour inbrought
creases for production workers,
This
trades.
for skilled
$1.06
translated into hikes of $122.83
and $183.38 per month in the
office.
The contract is for 34 months.
Settlement came just hours before a strike deadline.
the cost-of-living
It contains
formula featured in the UAW’s
1968 pattern, with a ratio of one
cent for each .6 change in the
index.
Then
range
month
ment.
general
from
about
in each
increases
$9
to
will
$14-a-
year of the agree-
Pension boosts were the same
as in the plant, from the former
$3 times years of service per
month to $5.75. The company also pays the insurance program for
pensioners.
Automatic progression within
the grades of the various classifications
guarantees
the new
rates.
An 11th paid statutory holiday
was added.
Life insurance, scaled to income, ranges from $4,000 to $12,500. The company pays the full
cost in the lower grades; employes
pay part of the cost in the higher. Off-shift
premiums
follow
the
plant at 10 cents on afternoons
and 12 cents midnights.
Int’l. Rep. Joseph Hiller headed
negotiations, assisted
by
chaired
mittee
Cormick. Asst. Reg.
Kelly helped out in the
October, 1968—UAW
by a comMceKen
Dir. Herb
final talks.
SOLIDARITY—Page 11
WTA ata
Camera
Praities
needn’t
be dry—if
you keep in mind
it’s about people and their simple dream
for a decent life.
Above, Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D., Conn.)
listens hard as UAW’s Walter Reuther discusses the gigantic needs of our cities and
their inhabitants. Dennis Brack captured the
study of the courageous senator.
The disgrace of poverty is very much a
political issue. The Poor People’s Crusade to
Washington,
D.C.
is now
history.
The
poor
tried to awaken America’s conscience. One
of the last of 700 or so photos by Jim Pickerell (top right)
shows a foot-weary
lady and
two friends who had also marched in support of the ery from the poor.
At right, a face from Watts, Calif., by
Gene Daniels. His future will also be decided
on Nov. 5.
Page
16—UAW
SOLIDARITY—October,
1968
Millions of America’s young people are becoming increasingly involved in politics—for
they know that their futures will be determined by the quality of people they elect to
public office.
And quality is an apt term to describe
Iowa’s Gov. Harold Hughes, below left, endorsed by just about everybody in his race
this year for the U.S. Senate. Hughes was
photographed by Black Star’s George Cealla
at a Des Moines rally for young voters, some
of whom are pictured below listening to the
governor.
The young lady, below right, is deeply involved in Project 21, an organization of firsttime voters who are supporting another highcaliber candidate for the Senate, California’s
Alan Cranston. The photo was taken by Jack
Eyerman of Black Star in Los Angeles.
St Louis-born Thomas F. Eagleton bears
several badges of honor.
One, from the nationally respected St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, says:
“Tom
Eagleton
is a
progressive,
running
for the Senate at a time when a wave of
reaction is sweeping the country. In these
circumstances, it might have been a temptation for Mr. Eagleton to abandon his principles and join the pack of politicians who
seek to exploit the public sense of frustration.
“That he has not done so is the highest
recommendation for his nomination.”
He’s become the pride of UAW members
and most other workers across the state and
UAW Region 5 Director Ken Worley says:
“He’s a stand-up guy. We're lucky. He'll
make an outstanding senator.”
The 40-year-old, handsome Eagleton graduated with honors from Amherst College in
1950 after a three-year stint in the Navy.
Three years later, honors came again, this
time from the Harvard Law School.
He ran for circuit attorney of St. Louis in
56 and was elected with a majority of better
than 75,000. He married the same year.
After four years as circuit attorney, he entered
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general
of Mis-
came the limited statewide exposure
had and won by 283,832 votes.
he had
souri
UAW
e
Missouri
ey
the
race
Fa
Tom
g
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leton:
in 1964
million
e
attorney
and—with the strong backing of the
and other liberal organizations—overelected
was
Eagleton
S
for
by a majority
votes.
At
35,
lieutenant
governor
the
youngest
of more
he
was
than
half a
man ever elected to that high state office.
Early this year, with the winds from the
radical right beginning to blow in strongly
from the south, Eagleton felt he had to lay
everything on the line to keep Missouri liberal
and progressive. He challenged the 60-yearold incumbent Senator Edward Long and
Dixiecrat businessman True Davis and ran
up an impressive plurality.
A year earlier he pointed out: ‘““We cannot
continue being the policeman for all the
world.” He advocates an end to the bombing
of North Vietnam and says priority should
and-Up
.
Libera
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S across Missouri
his
side
U.S.
is
°
have
standard-bearer
courageous
race for
Guy
the
1
s
In
a
senator. Marching
UAW
Al
be
given
to
reaching
at
ceasefire
at Paris, phased or immediate.
favor unilateral withdrawal.
He
agreement
does
not
A winner of the St. Louis Civil Liberties
Committee Award in ’60 while still St. Louis’
circuit attorney, he became suspicious of the
catchwords “law and order” as a method of
stirring up latent racial hatred or providing
an excuse to deny civil liberties.
“Law and order,” he says, “is not a complete slogan for a democracy. To those of us
who cherish liberty, the slogan should be:
law and order—with
the
a
justice.”
He is a supporter of Federal policy to
stimulate action through incentive programs
to save our cities: adoption of the Heller
plan—by
which
the
Federal
government
would return to the states a certain percentage of taxes for state use. And for Missouri’s many small farm owners, he supports
Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale’s proposals for “farm bargaining to permit the
individual farmer to have a voice in the price
of his products.”
“U.S.
His next badge could well read:
Senator.”
4
October, 1968—UAW
SOLIDARITY—Page
15
A
man
of contrasts,
this
He
A small-town boy, he
gt
champion of those condemr
ban ghettos.
A one-time crack sold
“dove” on the war in Vie
escalation in the cities of
A dedicated hunter and s
owner
of some
40
guns),
cate of gun registration a
And a staunch, courz
the
of
first
his
party
to
live
ir
h
I
be elected three times
was considered a conse
And now in 1968, Harold Hugh
spoken champion of liberal causes,
of the poor, the small farmer, the
the small business man, the young, the aged,
to buck
figures
successfully
what
some
pre-
dict may be a conservative trend in the m
west this year and become the junior United
States senator from the State of IowaIowa-watchers say that <his record—as a
vote-getter (he holds the record for the largest majority ever given a candidate for statewide office) and as an enormously popular
and successful governor and administrator
of the state’s affairs—makes
ite in the race this year.
him
the favor-
Harcia Hughes was born in Ida Grove, a
tiny community in the western part of Iowa,
46 years ago. In high school, he was what
used to be known as a BMOC or Big Man on
Campus. He played the tuba jn the all-state
band, was the Iowa high schdol disetss eham-
pion
team.
and
an
guard
all-state
on
the football
He wanted to go to college, and did, but
left to get married and go off to war.
Hughes ended up an infantryman in the
U.S. Army and slogged through victorious
Allied campaigns in North Africa, Sitily and
Italy. Nazi bullets didn’t stop him but a bout
with malaria and yellow jaundice did. and
hé was returned stateside where he was mustered out of the service.
He got a job as a truck driver, later became manager of a trucking company and,
after a short time, representative of the state
trucking association.
I:
didn’t take Hughes
long to learn that the
comthree-man Republican state ‘commerce
mission took a dim view of the problems of
small truckers. His complaintto Democratic
Governor Herschel Loveless led to his decision, (on the advice of the’ governor) to
run for the commission himself. He did and
as is usual with Harold Hughes, he won,
That was in 1958 and in the next four
years, he showed the character of his leadership as a crusading member—and far four
years as chairman—of the Iowa Commerce
,
Commission.
Then came the run for the big prize—the
governor's chair—in 1962. At the age of 40,
he become the only Democrat elected to state
office.
He began that year constructing a record
that is unmatched in the state’s history. He
persuaded voters to reject a legislative reapportionment plan that favored only rural
groups; he fought the state’s odious right-towork law; he tripled state aid to grade and
high schools; he led the fight for withholding of the state income tax; capital punishment was ended; mental health in Towa became a matter of rehabilitation.
And so it is that this man of paradox:
and. contrasts with a superb record as gov
ernor now comes before the people of Iowa
seeking their support in his campaign
hard
Harold Hughes has always fought
for what he believes in—and he has alwa
say he won't, again in
won. Who is there to
1968?
October,
1968—UAW
SOLIDARITY—Page
15
—t—te
ism of Dirksen, “My
“has always worked
and oil interests,’
opponent,” said Clark,
on behalf ‘of the steel
j
Among Clark's aecomplishments as Illinois
attorney general was his sponsorship of the
act to prevent consumer) fraud and
creation under his office of a fraud bureau that
has recovered more than $2 million dollars
for consumers bilked by deceptive sales prac-
tices,
,
Clark’s campaign has the youthful modern
touch complete with college students, guitars
and mini skirts.
He has also changed the pace of Ilinois
campaigning by using canoes, buses, trains,
airplanes and a paddle wheel river steamer
to meet the voters.
He tells them about his “bill of rights for
the poor” which includes ‘the right to a
meaningful
job, a liveable income,
health, a complete education and a decen
home.”
OTA L
Clark:
(A em
Wie
myth
is challenged
record
much
_ By DeWITT GILPIN
--\
Region 4 Staff Writer
See
ormer Illinois Governor Otto Kerner described William C. Clark “as the greatest
attorney general in the history of the state,”
then did a double take at the banquet table
|) podium.
©
_.~ He added: “Bill, I just realized what a
great attorney general you must be. My
father once held the job!”
regard as the biggest job in the 1968 U.S.
‘senatorial campaign: he is out to unseat
Senator Everett Dirksen,
the Republican
»Party’s most venerable cornball and gregarious defender of last century ideas.
Clark made one of his opening campaign
|
- speeches at the UAW Region 4 conference
and told delegates: “What the senate needs
dedicated
en like you and me who know
of 43
with
on
domestic
issues
hasn't
changed
since he opposed Social Security’™
tion, Clark isn’t making an issue of Dirksen’s
72 years, “only his old ideas.”
Opposing Dirksen’s ideas takes vigilance,
however, because as Clark points out his op-
ponent
“has switched
on basie foreign
his position 45 times
policy issues.’’ The Dirksen
tactic, according to Clark “is to oppose a
controversial issue until it becomes popular
and then vote for it.” Examples of this in-
clude Dirksen’s conversion to the civil rights
law and the nuclear test ban treaty.
:
an
Irish flair for politics in the Kennedy tradi-
Ciark is advocating a Vietnam bombing halt
and giving the voters a clear choice of the
peace issue between his position and that of
super-hawk Dirksen.
Sun-Times,
Chicago
the
to
According
Clark’s peace stance has united dissident
elements of the Illinois Democratic Party behind him and increased support for Hubert
Humphrey.
Clark drafted the first Illinois anti-trust
act and his record as a crusading attorney
general contrasts sharply with the Bourbon-
at
for
the
Democratic
Senator
George
convention
McGovern
(he
for
President)
is exploding the theory once
pushed by insiders that “he’s a nice guy with
a beautiful wife who was picked to lose.”
Clark was slated with the support of Mayor
Daley, a man who has lived politically with
such opposite types as both Adali Stevenson
and Otto Kerner, and to whom the name of
the game is winning. The fact is that Clark.
led all Democratic state candidates in the
1964 election, winning the attorney generalship by 520,418 votes.
He also polled more votes than Dirksen
in the 1968 state primary.
When Clark declared legislative war on
consumer
frauds,
cheating
charities
and
price-fixers he was told by-seme-old-party
pros that it might cost him votes. But his
audacity paid off in election to three terms
as a state representative, one term as a state
senator and two terms as attorney general.
_~ Clark is now tackling what many observers
ut people.”
looking man
missile crisis hadn’t
Clark’s energetic campaigning and his ex-
>,
and worry
A youngish
politicians,
Kennedy.
“Aside from foreign policy where he’s
been lucky and agile,” Yates said, “Dirksen’s
voted
men and
Illinois
given Dirksen an opportunity to declare his
support (temporarily) for President John F.
posure
and more
many
torial race if the Cuban
IU ayes
_ is less so-called experts
by
among them Congressmen Sidney Yates who
might have beaten him in the 1962 sena-
For
Js
of Dirksen's viability as a senator
=
philosophy is that everyone is an
Cine
individual with the right to his own ideas
and he resists being labeled himself and dislikes pinning labels on other people.
“We've overemphasized everything with
labels,” he said. “We call people hawks and
and
blackie
yippies,
hippies and
doves,
whitey. These labels have only made our
differences more intense, harder to resolve.
Until we understand that the label American
is woven out of the fabric of all our people
the strange divisive obsession that grips the
land will not end.”
To UAW
members at factory gates, Clark
says: “Give me the same support you gave
Walter Reuther in the contract negotiations
and we'll both win.”
October,
1968—UAW
SOLIDARITY—Page
15
PRUJECT
Alan Cranston:
Man for California
First-time voters, like these
Project 21 members; and the
think-young, think-dynamic
members of UAW are working to
elect a thinking senator
Gators
is a state with remarkable
achievements and remarkable problems.
Its economy is a great as its size; separated
statistically from the rest of the U.S., it
would by itself rank fifth among the nations
of the free world.
In just seven years, 1.3 million new jobs
have been created in California. The Golden
State also is where the battle for justice and
dignity for the disenfranchised farm workers began because, despite an immense industrial growth, it still maintains its position
as America’s leading agricultural state.
But the statistics of growth and prosperity
are shadowed by evidence of poverty, shattered family units, loss of productivity and
loss of pride.
T o more than a million Californians, the
Golden State isn’t very golden. And since the
number of employables grows by 200,000
each year, the problems of unemployment
continue to worsen.
California sends more young people to college and to plates of employment than any
other state. It also sends more to the unemployment lines and to Vietnam. Its complex problems demand responsible solutions
in every branch of government.
That is why UAW in California enthusiastically supports Alan Cranston’s candidacy for
the U.S. Senate on the Democratic ticket.
Cranston served as state controller for
eight years and still holds the_record for the
highest
vote
majority
ever
accorded
a can-
didate for state office.
An alumnus of California’s Stanford University, the 54-year-old Cranston also has
experience in Federal government, having
served in the Roosevelt Administration. Prior
to his Washington service he was an international reporter and magazine author.
Qnemiding
issues
paign are peace at
in the California ‘camhome and in Vietnam.
Cranston has made his positions clear: ‘“The
arrest and conviction of lawbreakers doesn’t
solve the problem of equal justice,
of equal
opportunity, of rebuilding our ¢
Viet“And the escalation of the conflic
nam by American troops will not solve the
politicial complexities in Southe
th
tha
“The realistic fact of life is
ciple of violence is not a cure for vio
Cranston says in sharp contrast
down
can
approach
opponent.
to the
of his conservative
«
Re; publi-
In a state where the population includes
the very wealthy and the very poor, millions
with jobs and a million with no jobs, the people need senatorial leadership that understands the reasonable role of government in
helping meet the reasonable needs of people.
state
biggest
has America’s
California
is pledged to its coneconomy—Cranston
tinued building.
California
also America’s
has
biggest
wel-
fare rolls—Cranston is pledged to policies
designed to provide jobs for all who need
them.
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