Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1954-12-03

LOCAL 497, uAW-cio
STEVE ]. NoVAK, PRES.

~ LOCAL 497, UAW.cio
STEVE J. NovAK, PRES.
Congratulations to all the peo-
pie who helped make our Second
Annual Feather Party a success.
Especially we thank Lawrence
Lucas, Committee Chairman and
his hard-working Committee for
the fine job they did Committee
workers were: Steve Arhutich,
Cliff Franck, Steve Adams, Lam
bert Dodway, Joe Blaskis, Bob
Calm and Willis Lehman.
Margaret Mickie) Cernek was
lucky enough to take home the
285 lb. of pork from our Feather
Party. ~
Last week we talked about the
Kohler workers and their eight
month strike against the Kohler
Co., of Wisconsin. These members
! of Local 833, UAW-CIO had tried
to reach peaceful agreement.
When the Governor of Wisconsin
asked for arbitration to settle the
strike, the Union members we're
willing but the Kohler Co. retained
its same arrogant attitude.
The Kohler strike was effective.
In. fact the Kohler Co. had been
able to recruit only enough nom
union workers to work at 2O% ca
pacity and was actually losing
money. At this rate the "Bathtub
Baron" would surely have been
willing to arbitrate before too
long.
But / suppose you heard of the
"stab in the back" Kohler workers
suffered when the Government ac-
tually aided the Company's strike
breaking power by granting a
$2,000,000 defense order to the
Kohler Co.
Emil Marcy, UAW secretary
treasurer, in a letter to Charles E.
Wilson, secretary of defense, ask
! ed that the order be Cancelled.
Marcy said, that the order to Kohl
er can only be construed as evi-
dence that the Government is ac-
lively participating in strike-break-
ing and union-busting. a
AT last Sundays membership
meeting, members of Local 497
voted to cancel December's mem
bership meeting since it falls dur
ing the Christmas Holidays. So our
next membership meeting will be
held next year Jan. %, 1865.
Operation Reindeer"
Is Rolling
CLOS Operation Reindeer,
which is making Christmas food
packages available for overseas
trade unionists, picked up speed
as new contributions came in from
a number of international and To-
cal unions.
The food packages, which cost
SO cents each contain from 13 to
Is pounds of basic foods from U, S.
surplus food stocks. CARE distrib-
utes the parcels to free trade
unions which, in turn, distribute
them to individual members.
=. Dur Safety Committee reports
several minor accidents in the
splant here at Standard Products.
Katherine Sterling who was just
recently called back to work had
a close cali while feeding rubber
into a tuber. She. suffered slight
injuries to her fingers.
j. Fitch reports to have hurt
himself while pushing a mold.
Evelyn Masing stepped into a
hole, fell and injured her hip.
Johnny Kovac was working near
the oven when a stack of pans
tipped over on him. We are not
sure as to the extent of his in
juries at this time.
Several working in the Range re-
ported sick from gasses.
A Wife's Revenge
Lunch time came.
HE pulled out his lunch and be-
gan to eat sandwich.
But wait, there's piece of card
board in it,!
SHE had written on It: "Next
time ask you to stop by the
STORE FOR LUNCH MEAT -
mean the grocery store, NOT
YOUR CLUB!
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Did you know that during the