PAGE 8 UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKER—DETROIT, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1940 Studebaker Profits Were Moderate FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION Consumers Power REPORTS 6.13% AVERAGE FOR Organizing Drive 11 YEARS FROM 1927 TO 1937 Is Pushed By CIO Pepped up by a favorable U. S. Though Studebaker is a leader among the socalled independent supreme court decision Jan. 2 the auto manufacturers it has never grabbed the exorbitant profits that Utility Workers Organizing Com- marked Nash and Chrysler in some years. Nor has it earned average mittee (CIO) is conducting a profits anywhere near Nash, Chrysler or General Motors. whirlwind organizing drive in the The federal trade commission’s Michigan plants of Consumers exhaustive report on the motor Pow'er Co. industry, from which vehicle the FACTS ON STUDEBAKER Organizing Director Allan S. this taken, facts in article are Haywood of the CIO and Director profit on The facts on Studebaker, as - gives an average net the Harry Straub of the committee for the 11 years 1927 well on all other motor -P investment as head a large staff of organizers manufacturers, are given in to 1937 inclusive for Studebaker who are enrolling power workers Corp. only (p. 809 of Federal Trade Commission Re- ' of 6.13% all over the state into the union. the report). port on Motor Vehicle Industry, \ |g «.'C' This drive is preliminary a It is true that many of those House Document 468, 76th Con- Hl' 11 to labor in years were Hoover depression gress. runoff board election years. But in that same period Send $1.25 to the Superinten- which the Consumers Power em- Nash and General Motors aver- dent of Documents, Washington ployes willhave a choice between or ' ‘‘no The AFL DC, invaluable J the CIO union.” aged 6 times much as Stude- and get this book - „v ‘ 1 ,1 \ in a previous elec- baker, and Chrysler times as of 1077 pages. Every local offi- r-Vvi’/ was eliminated much. The profits averaged: cer and committeeman should tion in which the CIO got the most have access to it. Alllocal union votes but not a majority. The PERCENT PROFIT 1927-37 libraries should have it on their supreme court decision approved form the runoff de- Peak Low Avg. shelves. Send money order as the of ballot spite AFL protests. Nash Motors 75.63 33.0* 36.9 stamps arc not accepted by the The CIO expects to get Motors 66.24 0.28* 35.5 government. sole Gen. bargaining rights for the entire Chrysler 74.46 0.64 28.59 when the Studebaker ..16.21 6.59* 6.13 system election date is * fixed by the labor board. I iOSS 1933, where UAW-CIO Local 5 has a contract. An assembly plant While Nash and Chrysler made was opened in Los Angeles in about 75c profit on each dollar 1935. Local 255 has the contract Aircraft Local invested in their best year for this there. Opens 2nd Office period, Studebaker made only SALES PROCEDURE about 16c on the invested dollar Studebaker tried directly owned The west coast campaign to or- in its best year, which was 1928. retail outlets from 1927 to 1935 ganize the aircraft workers took THROUGH THE WRINGER but lost over $4,500,000 on them, on a new phase when Amalga- The commission points out that the commission relates. Now it mated Aircraft Local 683, UAW- the Studebaker organization went deals through wholesale distribu- CIO opened a second office to El Segundo, th rough the financial wringer tors who get 3% discount on the serve North American with total loss to common stock- cars sold to dealers by them. Dis- Interstate, and Northrop factories holders in 1935. • tributors pay the corporation list in the Los Angeles area. ‘The holders of the common prices, less 22 to 30%. Surplus The new' branch office is at stock of the Studebaker Corp. cars after model changes are dis- 11413 Inglewood av, corner Im- Regional Director (New Jersey),” says the report posed of to distributors at further perial. L. H. (p. 800), ‘‘did not receive any discounts. Michener and Aircraft ’ Sub- equity in the new company Advertising expense for the 11- director Wyndham Mortimer in- formed in 1935 with the name year period 1927-37 equals 4.46% m jU& ' vite all workers to drop in and The Studebaker Corp. (Dela- of total net sales, the commission get acquainted with the union and ware).” This means they were reports. Subsidies to finance com- Fifi d’Orsay refused to go through the picket line in front its purposes. The at frozen out in the reorganization. panies from 1923 to 1932 totaled of ti->o Bowery. Michigan’s biggest night club, until the main' office continues 212 W. 3 st, Los Angeles. Except for Chairman Walter C. $5,728,427. management settled with the unions. She’s a union gal. Teagle of Standard Oil of New The UAW-CIO warns all work- Jersey, the largest in ers in other parts of the country stockholders chop suey 1938 were chiefly Wall Street unionism. that there is a big surplus of Norwood Workers Tired of Some the stock brokerage houses, the com- of officers and trained workers already un- mission reports. committeemen are sending out employed in California. Anybody feelers on coming back to the going out to coast in hope of HISTORY OF COMPANY Rump, Switching to CIO the UAW-CIO. The sincere union an aircraft factory job is pretty The Studebaker Corp. and its The CTO dues payments at the John They Eldon. are back to the men among them are facing the sure to be disappointed, and predecessors first began experi- Fisher and Chevy plants in Nor- days “Get ’em of or get out.” The issue and have the courage to tell California is pretty hard on the menting with “horseless car- wood, O. and the failure of the AFL complain officers that all us of their convictions. unemployed, as the book Grapes nages” in 1897 when an AFL leadership to adjust griev- they big is electric get from the boss There will be no problem in of Warth has pointed out. auto was built. In 1902 production ances show that the rump is well chilly receptions. “What’s the Norwood regarding the labor of gasoline arutos was begun. on the way out. use?” the men ask in despair. board election. The way the men “Studebaker is now one of the The workers are taking a terri- The concessions won in con- are paying dues to the UAW-CIO Midland Steel mo r e important independent fic shellacking from the manage- tinuous negotiations by the UAW- indicates that the AFL will be of days, Inti. Rep. manufacturers motor vehicles,” ment these reports CIO with top officials of GM stand dead by election day. The men Local Certified the report continues. out in bold contrast. are settling the issue now by pay- announced in baker’s sales of motor vehicles The labor board The men are realizing AFL ing dues to the UAW-CIO. 11: increased from 15,300 cars in 1910 Anti-Labor that Washington Jan. Court Local 131 is practically the same finding objections to a maximum of 145,167 passen- “After that as the old company works the election did ger cars in 1923, which was Ruling Criticized council. Buckeye to the conduct of All men got from the works Tackle any and slightly more than 4% of the the not raise substantial The anti-labor decision of the council was “the works.” organizing drive at Buck- today national sales. In 1938 approxi- The material issues, the NLRB U. S. circuit court of appeals at Some days ago one of eye Bumper, Springfield, O. is in of Local mately 2. nr;, of new passenger the local announced certification Chicago that the Wagner act does officers made an appeal charge of Inti. Rep. Paul Pruett, as sole collect- car registrations were Studc- to the 410, UAW-CIO, the not require signed contracts is Spring & by bakers.” men to give the new assistant president of the Gen. ive bargaining agency selected poor law, labor lawyers agree. The manager full cooperation, who in Bumper Pruett majority the production and When the Corp. was Local 332, Detroit. a of Studebaker court set aside a labor board order return “would and stay on job till it is employes of Midland formed in 1911 almost $20,000,000 make Fisher will the maintenance that the Inland Steel Co. must a good place finished, UAW-CIO competi- Co., engaged at the of water was pumped into the Chevrolet to work the Steel Products sign an agreement with the SWOC boys call this shop department announces. pressed division, De- concern, according to the com- in.” The Norwood tive Detroit steel (CIO). An oral agreement had following a secret mission. troit, Mich., been reached. Dec. 12, 1939, The company’s purchase of ballot election held “Iwould say that the NLRB has FORD AUTHORIZED ATTACK ON resulting in a count of 711 votes Pierce-Arrow in 1928 caused an full power order re- the 529 votes eventual loss of $8,740,244 before to affirmative for UAW-CIO and lief, finding prac- UNION MEN, NLRB MAINTAINS UAW-AFL, with 29 for it got rid of the white elephant in after unfair for the tices,” said Boudin of New 1933. Its acquisition .of White Louis The Ford Motor Co. impliedly defense plea “a sham and unten- neither.” board in a much company is bargaining Motor stock at a cost York. “The is authorized its agents to attack able.” The now of almost position exclusively 410, UAW- $27,000,000 was another loss bc- better than the courts to union organizers at the River In secret deals with Ford lieu- with Local say constitutes necessary re- as Local 486, cau.se it was given to creditors in what Rouge plant on May 26, 1937, the tenants a former UAW officer CIO, the same with lief.” UAW-CIO, in Cleveland, where the receivership proceedings that NLRB charges in a brief filed in tried to get injured unionists to A. J. Isserman predicted that against another com- began in 1933. U. S. circuit court of appeals in drop their damage suits the CIO defeated the decision would be reversed pany union in a labor board elec- I INK NKW PLANT Cincinnati, accusing Ford of Wag- the company. He was exposed and by the supreme court. ousted from the union. tion. The commission notes that ex- ner act violations. perts regard the new manufactur- “The decision said that the Wag- On day, ing layout in South Bend as ultra ner act made collective bargain- that when the UAW- modern. It quotes Joseph Gcsche- ing mandatory, but not the results CIO distributed its leaflets, -lin as writing in Automotive In- of collective bargaining,” he said. “Unionism, Not Fordism,” at Plant CIO Hits Anti-Union Hospital dustries for April 1 1939: “The terms of an agreement are Gtae 4, Richard T. Frankensteen “Visualization of the machine far too long and complicated to and Walter Reuther, union of- In a letter to the Council of Social Agencies of Chicago, Van shop layout and equipment from be trusted to memory; hence the ficials, were badly beaten up. A. Bittner, chairman of the Packinghouse Workers Organizing the factory routings must indicate company was evading collective Members of the women’s auxiliary Committee (CIO), demanded an investigation of Michael Reese to the seasoned factory executive bargaining in the full sense when aiding the distribution were Hospital before the institution gets its share of the Community on that the manufacturing scheme it refused to put the agreement knocked down and kicked in the Fund. paper." receiving funds speial ranks with that of the most ad- stomach by Ford service men. Bittner accused the hospital of from vanced plants of the industry. In agencies supported by the CIO and at the same Refusing to fact Studebaker shopmen are WEST SIDE LEAGUE Charging the company with “in- bargain collectively with the Social Service Employes Union inclined to believe that not a few The Detroit West Side branch terference with fieedom of the (CIO). press,” brief of the operations mark a definite of Labor's Non-Partisan League the also described He pointed out that the CIO has no representation on the how reporters and photographers contribution to machincshop prac- is meeting at 3320 Humboldt Wed. Community Fund board, nor has organized labor a voice on the Jan. 17 at 8 pm to form a per- had been driven away from the board of Michael Reese Hospital. tice.” plant’s gates “in Studebaker used to operate in manent 15th congressional district and several in- The union asks adequate pay for office employes and genuine had their and notes Detroit, Port Huron and Pontiac, unit of the league, announces stances films collective bargaining. Food of questionable quality is being stolen.” Mich., as well as South Bend, but acting Chairman Walden Wells served to employes at excessive rates, and Negroes are com- Concentrated in South Bend after Wilkins. The brief called Ford’s self pelled to eat in a separate diningroom.