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Union Doesn't Want To Renew
Long Term Auto Industry Pacts
Detroit U.R) The auto in
dustry and the CIO United Auto
Workers, knee-deep in negotia
tions for new labor contracts,
agree on one thing: The five
year contracts signed in 1950
worked out fine for everyone
concerned.
The industry enjoyed un
interrupted production. The
workers lost little time from
strikes. Most of them averaged
better than 40 hours of work a
week. Their pay envelopes grew
fatter from automatic cost-of-living
increases.
Now, as the 1950 contracts are
about to expire, the industry
would like to negotiate similar
long term agreements. ,
But the union doesn't want
them. It would like the new con
tracts to run for one year, or at
the most for two years.
This is one of the major areas
of disagreement in the negotia
tions now under way between
the union and the auto pro
ducers. How firm either side intends
to stand remains to be seen.
UAW President Walter Reu
ther admits the union made a
wise decision in signing five
year contracts in 1950. The
union made steady advances
under the contracts.
Through the c o s t-of-living
formula and the automatic "im
provement factor" increases,
auto workers got pay boosts
totaling 44 cents an hour during
the period.
At General Motors, which
turned out half the nation's cars
200 Eighth Graders
Visit Crater High
Central Point About 200
eighth graders from School Dis
trict 6 and four elementary dis
triets toured Crater High school
yesterday afternoon during the
annual Eighth Grade visitation
day.
Students from elementary
schools in Central Point, Gold
Hill and Sams Valley, and from
Howard, Lone Pine, West Side
and Oak Grove elementary
school districts toured the build
ing after a short program. '"
in the five years, the workers
lost an average of only 33 min
utes per man each year because
of work stoppages. In 1954, only
three minutes per man were
lost.
For the industry, sales and
production boomed between
1950 and 1955 and the auto com-
Youth Legislature
Delegates Leave
Four Medf ord delegates to the
annual Youth Legislature at Sa
lem left here by car this morn
ing for the three-day session at
the State Capitol.
They were accompanied by
Bob Jones, secretary of the Med
ford YMCA. The youth govern
ment program is for delegates
from Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y clubs
throughout Oregon, who prepare
bills for introduction to the mod
el legislative session, and follow
them through the same pro
cedures used by the real legisla
ture. Medf ord delegates include
Charles Langston, reporter for
the group; Larry Tolle, sergeant
at arms, and Pat Johnston and
Johnny Vale.
The group will return Satur
day evening.
Lowell Edwards (few
Crater Lions Leader
Lowell Edwards was elected
president of the Crater Lions
club at a recent election, it was
announced today. He and other
new officers will be installed at
a meeting at Tally Ho inn in
June. .
Also elected were Dan Dwyer,
Paul Shaffer and Marvin Hart,
vice-president; Jim Armson, sec
retary; Jack McCray, treasurer;
Cliff Ouellette, tail twister; Lee
Mmkler, lion tamer, and Dr.
Jack Ingram and Lon Skinner,
directors.
Lloyd Evans is immediate past
president of the club, and served
as chairman of the election com
mittee. "
panies experienced their great
est expansion in history. Gen
eral Motors, for example, re
ported it had created 141,000
new jobs during the period de
spite a decline in defense jobs
the last two years.
The manufacturers have left
no doubt they would like to
sign five year contracts with the
UAW again. GM President Har
low H. Curtice said recently:
"When it was signed in 1950,
it was the hope of both, parties
that this agreement and the ad
ministration of it in good faith
would bring about an era of in
dustrial peace; that it would
mean stable jobs with good pay;
uninterrupted and high volume
production, and would, in short,
be beneficial to the employees,
the shareholders, the suppliers,
the customer and management.
Fulfilled Promise
"That it" has fulfilled the
promise held for it is now a mat
ter of record."
The union doesn't dispute
this, but doesn't want any new
long term contracts. Why?
Reuther said the five-year
agreements wouldn't be a good
buy for unions at this time. Be-
ca use of automation, the rapid
shifting of job classifications
and other-factors, a union would
be unwise to tie itself to more
than a one or two year contract,
he said.
Despite Reuther's stand, there
could be a compromise, The
union wants a guaranteed an
nual wage plan even more than
it wants a shorter contract.
There is a possibility the com
panies might yield a guaranteed
annual wage in return for
another guarantee of five years
of labor peace. Right now, how
ever, this is only speculation.
ROUGH RIDE
Miami ' Beach U.R) Stafford
L. Perpall, bank messenger for
the Saks Fifth Avenue branch
store, told police the worst part
of being held up for $6,000 was
the ride three robbers forced
him to take in his own truck.
"They stuck a gun in the
back of my neck," Perpall, 37,
said. "One sat on me and every
time we hit a bump I was jabbed
by the gun.
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Industry's Biggest
Pay Hike Demand
Being Considered
Pittsburgh 4U.R) Possibly the
highest wage demand ever made
in the history of the CIO United
Steelworkers today faced the
nation's basic steel industries.
The industry, currently oper
ating at near capacity, was asked
to grant a "substantial" wage in
crease for some 600,000 basic
steel workers represented by the
USW now earning an average
$2.23 an hour. The industry was
also asked to give earliest pos
sible consideration to a guaran
teed annual wage.
Indicates Wage Demands
USW President David J. Mc
Donald indicated demands adopt
ed by the union's wage-policy
committee here Wednesday may
exceed 18V4 cents an hour.
"In the' past we've gotten in
creases of 18V4 cents an hour (in
1946) and 16 cents an hour," Mc
Donald said, "but I don't say that
is a substantial figure as of to
day." The powerful policy group's
demands paved the way for nego
tiations with the steelmakers
producers, headed by U. S. Steel
Corp., traditional industry pace
setter, are currently operating
at 96.7 per cent of practical ca
pacity. McDonald said he will serve
as chairman of a union nego
tiating committee for all of the
"Big Six," which in addition to
U.S. Steel includes Bethlehem,
Republic, Jones & Laughlin, In
land Steel and Youngstown
Sheet & Tube.
"We will definitely press' for
settlement with all six companies
at the ' same time," McDonald
said. '
The 'steelworker chief said he
hopes "to have agreements writ
ten before the June 30 deadline."
The USW will be free to strike
after that date if its wage de
mands are not met.
Guaranteed Annual Wage
While present basic steel in
dustry contracts with the, union
allow discussion only on wage
rates in this year's negotiations,
McDonald said wherever per
mitted the union "definitely"
will demand a guaranteed annual
wage.
A number of fabricating steel
companies whose contracts ex
pire this summer do not have
such a ban on demands outside
wages. The USW ' represents an
other 600,000 workers in the fab
ricating industry. :
In adopting its undisclosed
wage demand, the 170-man wage
policy committee said the "eco
nomic needs of the members of
the USW, their increasing pro
ductivity, the prosperous state of
the industry, and the economic
situation of the country as a
whole" require the basic steel
industry to give "favorable con
sideration" to the request '
Child Guidance
Group To Meet
The second annual meeting of
the Southern Oregon Child Guid
ance Clinic association will be
held at 7:30 p.m. Monday, May
16, in St. Mark's church guild
hall, Fifth st. and Oakdale ave.
All members of the association,
many of whom joined during
the recent membership drive, are
invited to attend.
The speaker will be Mrs. John
Hills Gubser, assistant superin
tendent of the state department
of education, whose topic will be
"An Ounce of Prevention." Her
talk will be at 8:30 p.m., follow
ing a social and business meeting.
Officers and directors of the as
sociation which is organized to
operate the Child Guidance Clin
ic here, will be named.
Dessert will be served at the
beginning of the meeting, and
music will be furnished by the
Ashland High school orchestra.
No admission will be charged,
but a collection will be made to
defray expenses of the refreshments.
Total U.S. milk production
for the calendar year 1955 :will
probably equal that of 1954, the
U.S.D.A. has reported. " ;
Jackson County Men
Qualify as Engineers
Six Jackson county men have
received certificates for practice
of professional engineering, it
has been announced by the state
board of engineering examiners.
There were 101 certificates . is
sued this week by the board in
Portland. .
, Medf ord men are William War
ren Brawn, Elwood Brewster
Hedberg, Robert F; Scherzinger
and Robert Mathias Smith. Dale
Cobleigh,. Phoenix, and Allen A.
Akin, , Ashland, also received
their certificates.
The certificates were issued
after the men succesfully passed
the state engineering examina
tion. -
Colored Pictures
Of China Slated
Colored pictures of South Chi
na and Hong Kong will be
shown tonight at the Medford
Assembly of God, 1108 West
Main St., by the Rev. and Mrs.
Harland Park who have served
as missionaries in China for
more than 24 years. The service
will begin at 7:45 p.m.
Mr. and Mrs. Park expect to
return to Hong Kong early in
June after having been in the
States for. a year on furlough.
For nine years Mr. Park served
as superintendent of the South
China field for the Foreign Mis
sions Department of the Assem
blies of God. The public is Invited
to attend the service.
Margaret's Romance
Back on Front Pages
London KU.R) A statement by
the Queen's chaplain that he was
"not very happy" about the
Church of England attitude to
ward divorce brought Princess
Margaret's reported romance
back to the front pages today.
The tabloid Daily Mirror re
ported the statement by the Rev.
Charles Earle Raven under a
front-page banner headline. Next
to it was a picture of Princess
Margaret as she appeared at a
folk dance festival Wednesday
night. : "
Reports of Margaret's rumor
ed romance with RAF Group
Capt. Peter Townsend, a divorc
ed man, have periodically made
the British front pages for the
past two years.
. The Church of England doesi
not recognize the remarriage of
divorced persons and the juxta
position . of Raven's statement
and the princess' picture revived
all the Tumors. '
TOUGH CODGER
Bronte, Ont. (U.R) -Alfred
Wright, 100 years old today, re
called that during his "pretty
good life" $ he ; ' smoked,, drank
JAIL BREAK
Columbus,' Miss. U.R) The
next time a jail break is reported
in Columbus, authorities are
going to ask, "Which way?"
Sheriff C. E. Farmer said Harry
Burjis and Lewis Montgomery,
after escaping the county jail,
broke ito the city jail to free
their suspected accomplice and
fled after almost succeeding.
Ther4 are 64 mountain peaks
in the United States 14,000 or
more feet above sea level.
NO FALSIES ALLOWED
Washington U.R)-- "Falsies"
won't be allowed in this year's
Miss Washington contest. Radio
station WWDC, the contest's
sponsor, said "current styling of
swim suits is so graceful that
the insertion of extra padding
would detract rather than add
to the overall picture."
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