In THe Day's News
Br FRANK JENKINS
' Epochal news:
. Th Ford Motor Company and
the CIO United Auto Workers
have reached agreement on a
guaranteed annual wage plan
along with other contract terms.
This is why it's epochal:
A guaranteed annual wage is
a wage that is guaranteed for a
year, regardless of layoffs.
fPHE Ford guaranteed wage
- plan will provide workers
during LAYOFFS with 60 to 65
per cent of regular take-home
pay. This will be in addition
to state unemployment compen
sation benefits.
This is how it will work:
Employees will be covered
through a maximum of 26 weeks
of idleness. Payments will be
made from a jointly adminis
tered trust that is, a trust that
will be administered by both the
employer and the union.
The company will pay in five
cents per hour per employee for
each of the next three years,
which is the period covered by
the 'contract just agreed upon.
This will build up a $55,000,000
fund during the life of the con
tract. ' It is out of this fund that
payments for layoff periods will
be made.
more cars in certain seasons than
in others, and during seasons
when sales have been smaller
it has been the custom of the
industry to lay off men.
What the new Ford agreement
adds up to is that hereafter when
men are laid off they will re
ceive during the layoff period
(up to half a year) a certain per
centage of the wage they would
have received if they had been
kept at work.
KEEP in mind this word LAY
OFF. It is important. It
means layoffs ordered by the
employer. It doesn't mean just
any layoff the employee decides
to take for reasons of his own.
THE Ford Company's vice-president
in charge of industrial
relations, John Bugas, says the
company agreed to go along
with the guaranteed wage plans
after considerable debate among
Ford officials.
He adds:
"We think it is significant.
-We think our plan will be par
ticularly useful in the AUTO
MOTIVE INDUSTRY."
1I7HAT he means is that the
r . automobile industry has
been a particularly seasonal in
dustry. It has changed its models
at frequent intervals, and while
it has been tooling up for new
models it has laid off large num
bers of employees. People buy
WHAT it will probably result
in especially if General
Motors and Chrysler come into
the plan is more stabilized
production in the automobile in
dustry. That is to say, fewer layoffs.
I
THINK it will be generally
conceded that the new Ford
agreement especially if it is
gone along with by the rest of
the automobile industry is a
good sign for the future.
It is a good sign because in
this modern world sensible
agreement is better than war,
and strikes are industrial war.
Like that of shooting war,
their cost is very great.
i
CJO far, we have dealt here with
J the PRINCIPALS in the auto
mobile industry that is, the
employers and the workers. We
mustn't forget that in this situa
tion, as in every similar situa
tion, there-is a THIRD PARTY.
The third party is the general
consuming public.
I think the ordinary car-buying
public is entitled to hope
that the increased cost involved
in this epochal settlement will
be offset by INCREASED EF
FICIENCY IN THE INDUSTRY
and won't just be added to the
price of cars. .
Merely jacking up the price
of the product to cover the in
creased cost of the wage settle
ment is INFLATION and in
flation is BAD in any language.
It does NOBODY any good.
Davenport, la. (U.R) A
woman rushed into the Daven
port police station to pay a traf
fic fine and an officer asked,
"what's your hurry?" "I'm
double parked outside," she replied.
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Comment On This and That
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Unit id Pratt Fatar Writar
Washington (U.R) A cen
tury ago, Washington was in a
lather over the fact that the bal
ance in xne
Treasury had
shrunk to $18,
500,000. One
paper com
mented with
considera b 1 e
alarm that this
was "the fall
ing off pf more
than $10,000,-000."
On t h e less Harman NichoU
serious side,
the Department of Navy was on
1he market for a lot of things.
It advertised it would like to pur
chase such items as scrubbing
brushes, saving boxes, buttons,
beeswax (1-4 pound cakes
"pure"), combs "coarse and fine
toothed," jackknives, thimbles,
mustard seed, and corks for bot
tles, "the best quality."
A Mr. J. Thompson advertised
that he had lost his wallet con
taining a $30 promissory note
and $14 in' cash. If the finder
would please meet him at mid
night, Thompson said, at the
corner of M. and 24th sts., the
finder could keep the $14, "and
be entitled to my thanks for the
promissory note."
' The Department of Agricul
ture took advantage of the fact
that . Congress was not in ses
sion, and therefore taking up no
space in the public prints, to
plug, four "new varieties" of
wheat. The. Hungarian, the Neo
politan (south "too tender for
the north") and the Saumer and
Early Moe.
The latter two, the depart
mentment allowed, were right
fine for the north. They would
ripen in the land of the wheat
a week or so ahead of the other
varieties and would "surely se
cure a good crop."
Franklin Pierce, the President
in 1855. was reported in the per
sonal notes to be enjoying him
self in "pleasant confines" in
New England. The chief execu-
Thuridsr June 9, 195S
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
Girl Scouts
tive wrote a personal note to one
editor, who was "kind enough"
to publish it. "I trust." said the
chief executive, "that everything
is all right down there. If it is
not, it would please me if you
would let me know by return
post."
The papers were great , hands
in the old days to clip and print
items from other papers. One
sheet pilfered an item from Cali
fornia, which reported that "a
Col. Holly lately pulled a vege
table out of his garden weighing
70 pounds which he calls a beet."
The ugly mug of inflation was
on the Washington scene, and
the papers let the folks know
about it in editorials. The fact
also was magnified in ads. One
landowner sort of apologized
when he offered a 10-room house
for rent near the Department of
Treasury on F st. There also was
room on the premises for a store
or office, the owner said. The
rental was $500 per year.
A city ordinance was passed,
reluctantly,, perhaps, allowing
refund to B. F. Stewart in the
amount of $50 for an unexpired
license for keeping billiard ta
bles. "Mr. Stewart," the ordi
nance said, "is out of business
and doesn't have any billiard
tables in his place any more."
Makers of Vaccine
Get Confidence Vote
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va
U.R) The six drug firms pro
ducing Salk polio vaccine had
an. informal vote of confidence
today from the American Phar
maceutical Manufacturers Assn.,
which also selected Dr. Robert
K. Cutter, Berkeley, Calif, as
its next president.
Cutter is the head of the Cut
ter Laboratories, whose, vaccine
was the first ordered withdrawn
by the Public Health Service for
rechecking last month.
The manufacturers group,
winding up its 48th annual
meeting, said . it opposed "any
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Court of Awards
Troop 14 held a Court of
Awards Monday evening at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Prough, 1019 Mt. Pitt avenue.
Mrs. Prough, leader of the
troops, conducted the candlelight
ceremony, and awarded badges
for hospitality, : homemaker,
cook, and second class rank to
each girl. Conservation badges
were also earned by four girls
who attended Girl Scout camp
last summer at Low Echo.
Members of the troop are
Cherie Paulazzo, Loretta Tur
man, Marvi Wayburn, Diane
Myers, Beth Wilcox, Patty
Shorey, Cheryl Potucek, Judy
Alder, Devonne Prough, Mary
Lou Powell, Nola Robbins, and
Julie Latham.
Parents were invited to at
tend, and a potluck dinner was
served prior to the ceremony.
Piano solos were played by De
vonne Prough, Marvi Wayburn,
and Beth Wilcox.
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Americans Divide on Pay-as-You-See TV
Washington (U.R) The Am
erican public, responding gener
ously to an invitation to speak
its mind, flooded the Federal
Communications commission to
day with nearly 16,000 separate
"comments" on pay as you see
television.
Opponents and proponents of
pay-TV expressed equally strong
convictions. The commission's
files contained thousands of
postcards and letters from in
dividual viewers who asserted,
"we pay enough for television
now. Don't make us pay more."
On the other side of the arrgu
ment, there were thousands, of
individuals who said subscrip
tion TV would bring better pro
grams and should be given a fair
trial. ; '
The FCC invited "all interest
ed parties" to submit their views
last Feb. 11. The response was
so overwhelming that early in
April the commission was com
pelled to extend the deadline
for filing from May 9 until 5
p.m. today. While no tabulation
has been made, spot checks in
dicate pro and con replies were
about evenly balanced.
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tion or regulations" in sale and
distribution of the Salk vaccine
beyond the PHS' safety standards.
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