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YEAR’S NEWS BRIEFS
(Centiaeod from Pat* 1)
appointed head of the Mutual Security miaaion to Yugoslavia, with
the rank of minister. He was thf third labor man to b* so honored.
CIO Packinghouse Workers won a 14 H-cent packet*, including
a pension plan, for SO,000 Armour employees. IUE, after a 4-month
struggle, settled its contract for 70,000 General Electric workers.
UAW won a 46-day strike over grievances at the International Harves
ter plant near Chicago.
Douglas Aircraft, after reporting profits up to 40 percent over
the previous year, granted a 5-cent an hour increase to 13,000 IAM
members at El Segundo, Cal., who had recessed a two-week strike
at the request of President Truman. American Telephone and Tele
graph reported profits up lOVfc percent over the year, in spite of
company claims that costs had increased 100 percent or more. A
Federal Trade Commission study revealed that 65 of the/ 83 biggest
manufacturers were making profits at a higher rate (many double,
some triple) in 1961 than 1940, in spile of “ruinous taxes.” .
US Steel profits were $30,406,472 for the Sept. 30 quarter, as
against $27,936,000 the previous year, in spite of a 21 tk percent drop
in sales. US Steel President Benjamin Fairless admitted to the Georgia
Chamber of Commerce that higher taxes are passed on to the con
sumer, rather than coming out of company profits.
NOVEMBER: This was a month of deep mourning for the entire
labor movement as both the CIO and AFL lost their top officers. CIO
President Philip Murray, 66, died suddenly of a heart attack in San
Francisco Nov. 9, a week before the CIO convention was to open in
Los Angeles. The convention was postponed for two weeks and moved
to Atlantic City. On Nov. 13, Murray was buried near Pittsburgh,
within sight of the coal fields where he started work at 16 on his
arrival from Scotland.
Eight days later, AFL President William Green, 82, died in his
hometown of Coshocton, Ohio, and was buried there, also near the
hills where he dug coal as a youth. The deaths of the two leaders left
John L. Lewis, 72, president of the United Mine Workers, the lone
survivor of labor’s Big Three for the last decade.
On Nov. 25, the day after Green's funeral, the AFL executive
council met in Washington and named AFL Secretary-Treasurer
George Meany as Green’s successor. William F. Schnitxler, president
of the Bakery Workers, was elected to the post which Meany had held
since 1939. Meany immediately made a plea for renewed AFL-CIO
unity talks.
David J. McDonald, secretary-treasurer of the CIO Steelworkers,
was appointed to fill Murray’s post as union president until a referen
dum Feb. 10. The CIO vice presidents, unable to agree on a successor
for Murray’s CIO post, left the matter for the CIO convention to
decide. Leading candidates were Walter Reuther and Allan Haywood.
Earlier in the month, labor-backed presidential candidate Adlai
E. Stevenson lost to General Eisenhower. The AFL and CIO called
on Eisenhower to carry out his campaign pledges promising fair
treatment for all Americans. Republicans also won control of both
houses of Congress and predictions were made that the new Congress
would try for more restrictive labor legislation, including the outlawing
of industry-wide bargaining.
Tighe Woods resigned as price boss, saying all he had been able
to do under the ineffective controls law was hand out price increases
Murray’s report to the CIO convention, released after his death, called
for an end of wage controls because price and production controls
had collapsed. * *
Some 8000 AFL west coast sailors went on strike because WSB
had failed to take any action on a wage increase won last summer.
The strike was ended five days later after the union and employers
agreed any part of the raise not approved by WSB would be paid later.
Lewis told Economic Stabiliser Putnam the winners intended
“sooner or later” to get back the 40 cents chopped from their $1.90
a day wage boost by WSB, even if they had to wait Uhtil the controls
program fell through.
A Senate Labor subcommittee report showing that Negroes still
lag behind whites in every important economic and social aspect led
Sen. Humphrey to announce he would introduce an FEPC bill as soon
as Congress opened. The Supreme Court ruled jim crow rail cars illeal.
DECEMBER: UAW head Walter Reuther was elected new CIO
President, defeating Allan Haywood, who was returned as Executive
Vice President. The vote, at the delayed CIO Convention in Atlantic
City, was 3,079,181 for Reuther, 2.813,103 for Haywood. Both men
pledged that the campaign preceding the election would have no effect
on the working harmony of the CIO. Adlai Stevenson was principal
speaker at a convention memorial service for Phillip Murray. The
convention also authorised unity talks with the AFL and called for an
end of wage controls because price controls were ineffective.
Appointed Secretary of Labor by Eisenhower was Martin P.
Durkin, president of the AFL Plumbers, a Democrat and Stevenson
supporter. Senator Taft scored the appointment as “incredible” and
an “affront to millions of union members and officers” who, he said,
voted for Ike.
Durkin said his aims, which he was sure Eisenhower supported,
would be to strengthen the Labor Department, improve labor-man
agement relations and revise existing labor laws to make them fair
to both unions and employers. Lloyd Mashburn, California Labor
Commissioner and former executive secretary of the Los Angeles
Building Trades Council, was named assistant to Durkin.
Looking forward to laor unity talks early in 1988, AFL President
Meany said the AFL would do its utmost to make a united labor
movement a reality. Reuther said he was willing to step down as CIO
V*d i< would be a step toward effective AFL-CIO unity.
The four public members of WSB resigned in a huff after Truman
restored the 40 cents WSB chopped from the $1.90 a day hike nego
tiated by UMW.
When the NAM and C of C refused to make »•commendations to
fill the vacancies, the four public members were designated as a Wage
Stabilisation Committee to work on the 15,000 cases pending before
the board. WSC’a first action was to Approve a wage boost for 210,000
General Electric workers represented by CIO, AFL and independent
unions.
Peter T. Schoemann moved up from first vice-president of the
AFL Plumbers to replace Durkin as acting president The AFL Bakers
secretary-treasurer, James G. Gross, succeeded Schnitsler a* head of
his union. Karl Feller was re-elected president of the CIO Brewery
Workers, defeating John Hoh of Brooklyn. Appointed Indiana labor
commissioner was Alton Hess, first vice-president of the state AFL.
Robert Oliver, formerly of the Steelworkers, resigned as top MSA
labor adviser to become assistant to Reuther.
The American Medical Association let out a bias* of rage against
the final report of the President’s Commission on the Health Needs
of the Nation which praised union health plans and recommended an
overhauling of the nation's health system because it does not meet
the needs of the people.
Meany called for a UN investigation of the assassination of
Ferhat Hacked, Tunisian nationalist and labor leader. Hacked would
have been in New York at the time he was murdered but for the fact
that French authorities had refused to permit him to leave Tunisia
to attend a hoard meeting of the International Confederation of Free
Trade Unions. AFL, CIO and ICFTU condemned the trials of#Jews in
Csecboslevakia.
Steelworkers on strike at the American Locomotive plant in
Dunkirk, N. Y., lost the first round of a court battle tenting the con
stitutionality of the Taft-Hartley injunction. Texas Ironworker Grady
Ivey spent Christinas in jail bscause of « fight near • picket line,
an offense punishable by a year hi jail for a union member, but by
only a |» to 828 fine for a non-union man.
The 1882 Hillman award far meritorious public service went to
Supreme Court Justice William a Douglas. CIO ispnrHif Its not worth
at year's end as 88,188.14*44. f842.182.89 better thaa %L
(Cantinas I an Page 2)
Labor Day Talk Oa
Radio, TV by Truman
Detroit, Mich.—(AFL)—Notion
wide radio and TV coverage will
be given the address former Pres
ident Harry S. Truman will make
here following the annual Labor
Day parade, Sept. 7.
The Mutual Broadcasting Sys- j
tem, through the facilities of its
local outlet, station CKLW, Wind
sor, Ont., will broadcast Tru
man’s talk “live,” from 12:30 to
1 p. m., EST, over the facilities of
A network. Truman's address
will be rebroadcast over Mutual’s
B network—those Mutual stations
carrying the baseball game Labor
Day—at a later, .and as yet un
decided time.
The National Broadcasting Co.,
through WWJ and WWJ-TV, will
make available to NBC stations
throughout the country “delayed”
broadcasts and telecasts of the
Truman speech. NBC stations
will carry the radio broadcast
from 9 to 9:30 p. m., EST. While
the time of the delayed telecast is
not yet certain, it has tentatively
been set for 3:30 to 4 p. m., EST.
Through the facilies of station
WXYZ, the American Broadcast
ing Co., will also do a “delayed”
radio broadcast. The time has
been tentatively set as 2:30 to 3
p. m.. EST.
This will be Truman’s first na
tion-wide address since he left
office in January of this year.
AFL’S UNKNOWN SECOND
PRESIDENT; ALSO
MINERS’ CHIEF
(Continued from Page 1)
Beavers devoted himself to the
manufacturing end and the for
mer AFL president, a jovial, well
dressed man noted for his story
telling, handled promotion. The
solidly union firm employed 15 to
20 people at its peak and the
cigars soon became the most pop
ular in the area.
However, saloons were the
principal outlet for selling the
cigars and when Arizona adopted
a prohibition law in January,
1915. McBride A Beavers, feeling
that the closing of the saloons
would kill their business, shut
down.
McBride got himself elected ,
City Magistrate and served in
that office until it was consoli
dated around 1916 with the office
of City Clerk under a new city
charter.
In 1917, with labor unrest
sweeping the country As prices
skyrocketed .with no corrrespond
irg increases in wages, the then
U. S. Secretary of Labor, William
B Wilson, also a former miner,
appointed McBride to investigate
causes of labor discord in Ari
zona.
McBride, in. his late seventies,
was serving in that capacity when
he met his death in a tragic ac
cident in Globe, Arizona. Along
with Arizona’s Governor Hunt and
others, he had been standing on
the sidewalk in front of a store
when a runaway horse frightened
by a fluttering piece of paper,
bolted into the crowd and knocked
him through the store’s plate
glass window.
Several of his arteries were
severed and he died a short time
later from loss of Mood. His
body was returned to his home
.own of Columbus, where his old
union, the United Mine Work
ers, took charge of the funeral.
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