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Ford, Union Open 11th Hour Negotiations on Hew Proposal by Company
Wednesday, Jun 1, 195S
Company-Wide
Strike Scheduled
For Midnight
Detroit (U.K Ford Motor
Company and the CIO United
Auto Workers union called an
11th hour negotiation session to
day on a new company offer it
was hoped would avert the first
company-wide strike in history
at midnight tonight.
The new offer, reported by
union sources to have relaxed
the company's strong opposition
to the guaranteed annual wage
demand, raised hopes a peaceful
settlement could be reached or
at least enough progress made to
put off the strike.
The union alerted 140,500
workers to be ready to leave
their jobs unless there is a break
in the negotiations deadlock.
Some 48,000 members of Ford
Local 600, the world's biggest
local, were scheduled for a prac
tice walkout at mid-afternoon at
the huge Rouge plant in sub
urban Dearborn. They were to
participate in a mass demonstra
tion and hear the latest report
on negotiations.
Silence Pledge
A silence pledge by both sides
against any public statements
for 24 hours ending at noon to
day surrounded the talks. Both
aides were tight-lipped, refusing
to give any indication whether
talks were making headway or
were headed for a stalemate.
The stumbling block in the
talks was the union demand for
an unprecedented guaranteed
annual w a e e. Demands for
higher pensions, higher pay
naid hosDitalization insurance
and other benefits were put
aside until the annual wage
hurdle could be cleared. The
union said it wants the annual
wage to protect workers against
periodic layoffs.
Strong Company Stand
The company has taken a
strong stand against the annual
wace. which union President
Walter Reuther said is a goal his
union will strike to get if neces
sary. Ford, in its first offer last
week, ignored the demand and
offered a stock-sharing plan
instead.
But union sources said the
company had eased its stand in
the surprise offer Tuesday.
While thee sources said the
offer "still .wasn't adequate,"
they described it as a "hopeful
sign."
Nothing New in (Guaranteed Annual Wage Demand
Detroit U.R) The guaran
teed annual wage demand which
threatens to touch off a company-wide
strike against Ford
Motor Co. tonight isn't anything
new. It has been kicking around
for 60 years.
. More than 190-odd plans have
been concocted. Many still are
in operation in this country.
But none ever has been drawn
up and put into operation which
Coon Given Life
Sentence in Prison
Klamath Falls (U.R) Flor
in (Curley) Coon, 52-year-old
barber, yesterday was sentenced
to life imprisonment for second
degree murder in connection
with beating to death of his
wife last October.
Coon was convicted last Fri
day. Circuit Judge David R. Van
denberg, who pronounced sen
tence, denied an attempt by
Coon's defense attorneys to de
lay sentence after they produc
ed a telegram from a person
who claimed to have evidence
that would clear Coon. The at
torneys refused to make public
contents of the telegram or name
of the sender. The judge said if
there was new evidence, judg
ment could be set aside and a
new trial ordered.
Public Lands Racket
Revealed by Nevadan
Washington (U.R) Rep. Cliff
Young (R-Nev.) charged yester
day that "a new breed of con
fidence man" is bilking Ameri
cans of hundreds of thousands of
dollars in a phony public lands
racket.
He demanded a congressional
investigation with hearings in
Los Angeles and Las Vegas, "two
focal points on land racketeering
activity."
Young said the racket works
this way:
The confidence man attracts
his customers through mislead
ing advertising about "cheap fed
eral land available in desirable
locations."
The customer is charged $100
and up for the filing of his ap
plication with the Bureau of
Land Management under the
homestead law, the small tract
act, or other federal law. Actual
ly, the fee is $25 and the con
fidence man pockets a S75 profit.
Food handlers Again
Urged to Arrange
For Chest X-Rays
Foodhandlers those employ
ed in restaurants, bakeries, dair
ies, meat markets, grocery stores
and allied trades were again
urged this week by the Jackson
County Public Health associa
tion and the health department
to have chest x-rays.
Clinics for the x-rays are pro
vided at the Community hospit
al on Wednesdays, 3 to 6 p.m.
and at the Sacred Heart on
Thursdays from 2 to 5 p.m.
The county health officer, Dr.
A. E. Merkel, pointed out that
there are estimated to be over
100 unknown cases of tubercu
losis in the county and a chest
x-ray is the best known method
of protecting the public and
other employees from the unde-!
tected germ. A number of sus
pected cases have already been
discovered since opening of the
clinics.
Firms Cooperate
Tuberculosis statistics show
that a number of cases have
developed in the food service
industry and an effort is, there
fore, now being made to x-ray
all empoyees of this trade. Firms
who have aready complied with
the request include Fluhrer's
bakery, the Groceteria, Big Y
Market, Quality Market, the
Top Notch, Franklin's Town
House and the Crater cafe.
There is no law requiring
physical examinations for food
handlers, Dr. Merkel stated,
and it is hoped empoyers and
employees will comply with the
lequest on a voluntary basis.
"It is a protection to the in-
dividual as well as the public,"
Dr. Merkel stated. "By discov
ering tuberculosis, lung cancer
and other chest disorders eary
before symtoms deveop,- the in
dividual may be saving himself
long hospitalization and even
death," he added.
Honor Demanded
For Leif Ericson
Washington (U.R) Colum
bus "didn't discover America,"
and it's about time the govern
ment honored the man who did,
Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D
Wash.), feels.
Magnuson told the Senate yes
terday that Leif Ericson, the
Viking voyager, landed in New
England in 1002 A.D., 490 years
ahead of Columbus.
Magnuson said his Scandinav
ian constituents are disturbed
when they come to Washington
and glimpse a massive memorial
to Columbus in Union Station
Plaza but see no statue of Erie
son. Magnuson said he and 11 oth
er senators are sponsoring a res
olution to appropriate $53,000
for a site and pedestal or an
Ericson statue which already be
longs to the government but is
in storage somewhere.
"We aren't mad at Chris, but
he didn't discover America," the
senator said.
affect so many workers or have
such a strong guarantee.
The automobile workers, who
have been hit by seasonal lay
off." throughout the industry his
tory, want the automobile com
panies to guarantee them that
wage checks will keep coming
for as long as 52 weeks, despite
layoffs.
The union first demanded that
the companies add enough to
the unemployment compensation
checks to give workers the same
take-home pay during periods
of lay-offs as they would receive
Reuther offered Sunday to scale
this down even further.
Nothing quite like that, in a
huge industry where production
fluctuates so much, ever has
been tried before.
Other Plans
The closest approach to that
was the "fixed weekly wage
plan" tried by the Decatur, 111.,
plant of General Electric in the
late 1930s. The plan had achiev
ed a pretty stable production
pattern, and a plan was set up to
give the employees a guaranteed
fixed wage" for six months,
if they were working. The union : based on production estimates.
later reduced this so that work
ers would get only enough to
give them 80 per cent of their
gross pay, before taxes. Walter
In 1936 and 1937, sales ran far
ahead of estimates. But sudden
ly they slumped in 1938, inven
tories mounted rapidly and the
SALUTE WAR DEAD Vice President Richard Nixon
places President Eisenhower's wreath at the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery to high
light the nation's observance of Memorial Day.
plan was discarded.
Some of the most widely-publicized
plans have been the
Nunn-Bush plan, the Procter and
Gamble plan, and the Hormel
plan.
The Nunn-Bush plan guaran
tees 52 weekly pay checks a
year to some 600 employees. But
the "guarantee" varies accord
ing to sales, and the employes
actually are guranteed merely
52 paycheck a year. Size isn't
guaranteed.
The Procter 'and Gamble plan
"guarantees" 48 weeks of work
each year. It has been in effect
since 1923. But the company
has retained the right to termi
nate the guarantee at any time,
or reduce the number of hours
in the work week.
Hormel Plan
Under the Hormel plan, in ef
fect since the late 1930s, most
workers are guaranteed 38 hours
a week for 52 weeks a year. But
overtime worked in some weeks,
instead of going to the employee
at premium rates, is saved and
meted out to him during slack
periods.
Most of the guarantee plans in
effect also are limited to the
calendar year also. As the year
runs out, the employee's guaran
tee runs out. Near the end of
the year, there is little guaran
tee left.
The United Auto Workers
plan, with a definite guarantee
and no provision for offsetting
short weeks with overtime pay
in other weeks, also would ig
nore the calendar year. A work
er would have 52 weeks of pay
guaranteed from any date of the
year when he was laid off.
The idea of the guaranteed
annual wage isn't something
new. But the United Auto Work
ers plan is in scope, size and
method.
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Holiday Death Toll
Sets All-Time Record
By UNITED PRESS
A final tabulation showed to
day that traffic accidents killed
372 persons across the nation
during the Memorial Day week
end to set a new all-time record.
The total of 576 accidental
deaths and 136 deaths by drown
ing also rivalled or passed pre
vious marks. In addition, there
were 15 deaths in plane crashes
and 53 in miscellaneous acci
dents, the United Press survey
showed.
The old record for a three-day
Memorial Day deekend was 364
traffic deaths, set last year.
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