Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1954-04-16
STEVE ]. NovAk, PRES.
LOCAL 4q7, ,UAW-ClO


Unemployment Compensation, Re-
tirement and Health Program and
the Guaranteed Annual Wage.
Delegates had many questions to
ask on these subjedts--far too
many to go into here.
However, an outline of the pro
posed Guaranteed Annual Wage
Plan created by UAW after 18
months study revealed these fea-
tures:
AA workers will be on a 40
hour basis. Seniority workers will
receive guaranteed payments for
eaca,4full week Of layoff when lay
offs aresmade. Those not seniori-
ty basis will be paid on graduated
scales.
The guarantee against full week
layoffs will be effective for up to
So weeks.
The employers liability for
guaranteed payments to any work
er for any week will be reduced
by an amount equal to the basic
state unemployment compensation
benefit which the worker is en-
titled to receive.
Unless otherwise directed by
thes employer, a worker laid off
for a full week will be required
to register with the State Unem-
pIoyment Service and accept suit
able employment.
The plan was discussed by the
delegates at panels conducted in
"a various halls and hotels. De-
ciSions reached at the panels were
presented at a meeting in the
Civic Opera House Saturday even
ing.
The CAV Plan is not exactly
cure7all for industrial ills. But
it will be an effective stabilizer.
With CAV in effect, there will be
less pushing production part of
the year; then gliding Through
the remaining months at expense
Of laid-off workers and recessed
buying which hurts the entire
community.
Just as the guaranteed wage
plan has always worked for man
agement and for salaried person
mel, 1t can also work for the peo-
pie who work out in the plant
The day will come when we will
look Back on the days before GAW
as part Of our out-dated industrial
past. Likely enough the big indus
triahsts will then point proudly
to the "modern yearly wage plan
they provided their employees
just as thougis yhey had invented
the Guaranteed Annual Wage
themselves.
Meeting followed meeting dur
ing this i4-day Conference and Lo-
cal ACT delegates, Bob Calm, Steve
Novak. Joseph Verock and Local
1920 delegates Andy Shrinak
found themselves hustling to keep
space.e~
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On one occasion we all exper-
denced an uneasy feeling that we
might miss the next meeting and
perhaps all other meetings. We
had dashed into an elevator and
was on our way down when a call
came from another floor. In an
attempt to stop, the elevator girl
found the brakes had failed, emer-
gency brakes as we'll. There we
were, left bobbing up and down
between 3rd and 4th. floors in the
we'll filled elevator, hoping the
cable hook would Iiold. All oc-
cupants of the elevator seemed in
silent hysteria except one drunk
who thought it quite a joke until
the elevator girl lashed out with
harsh words to keep him still.
The elevator was in gear and as
it came again to the 3rd. floor it
was possible to pull the doors
apart. We wasted no time in
scrambling up and out.
After it was over, Bob Calm
remembered reading of similar
incident. Only in that case the ele-
vator hook gave, the counter
balance swung the crowded ele-
vator all the way to the top Of
the building and then all the way
down again, leaving the occupants
beyond recognition. Us a wood
thing Bob didn't think of this un-
til we were safely out.
Calvin Deepen is on our sick
list this week and is hospitalized
at this time.
See where the price of coffee
is supposed to go up to $150 pei
pound. The latest outcry on the
coffee situation comes from q
Bakery Union. The Bakers say
that with the high cost of coffee
cutting down the number of cof
fee drinkers, there just aren't as
many of their Union Made Donuts
being dunked.