Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1954-11-05
LOCAL 497, UAW-cIo
STEVE J. NOvAK, PRES.

STEVE j. NOvAk. PkES.
ii is my sincere belief that many
of our members here at Standard
Products deserve to be congratu-
lated for their fine cooperation in
the "scrap prevention campaign"
For a year now these workers
have kept watch for waste and
have given suggestions for correct
ing it
Standard Products officials ask
ed the people to help in this scrap
prevention in order to cut down
production costs. Now, some com
panies give bonuses to workers for
their good suggestions. Most en-
ployers who ask the workers to
point out wasteful practices will
make some attempt to correct the
waste.
But complaints continue to come
in to us from our members re-
garding remarks made by differ
ent officials. The remarks of these
officials have become too harsh
and too numerous to be ignored
any longer. Needless to say, these
officials attitude toward sugges-
tions of the workers is a reversal
of the appreciation a good official
should show.
Apparently the Cmpany is at
tempting to adopt the hard-fisted
policy of twenty years ago. Could
this be anattempt to cover up the
inefficiency pointed out to them
by our workers repeatedly in many
instances?
Now just as erasers were put on
pencils TO allow for correction of
mistakes; it is no disgrace to ad-
nit mistake and correct it. But
when we see evidence of buck
passing when we hear remarks
that our workers are not produc-
ing as much work as they should
and NOT EXERTING ALL THEIR
HUMAN EFFORT - it is time to
consider. These are outrageous
charges against our workers, a
good percentage of whom have
been with Standard Products since
the company's infancy. Through
their lifetime of good, hard work,
these workers have helped to build
and expand the company into the
large corporation it is today.
But you see what is happening
here: The men who are being paid
to be mechanically-minded, to i'm
prove methods and tools, are re-
verting to the easiest course - by
demanding more and more human
effort instead.
This is contrary to our contract;
and is morally wrong.
On Friday, October %, 1854, Sue
Zofko marked her 18th Anniver
sary in this country. She came to
this country from Argentina, South
of the Equator), and her life makes
quite romantic story.
While Sue was still small girl
her parents took her to Czecho
Slovakia, where several years later
she was married. She and her hus
band made plans to build for their
future in the good old United
States. To their disappointment we
had a great depression in this
country at that time; therefore
they just could not enter. But that
wasn't stopping this young couple
from building their future: they
took one of those romantic honey
moon cruises to South America.
This cruise proved to be as eX
citing as it was romantic. The!
would stop off and stay over fol
a day and sometimes two days a
the many different ports in which
their Ship would dock. They final
ly arrived in Buenos Aires, Argen
tina, where the couple fell so much
in love with the place they decided
to stay and make BuenoS Aire
their home.
A few years later the romantic
adventure came to an end for SUI
when her husband passed away
So to recapture her girlhood mem
ories and to realize her dream o
making the United States he
home, Sue same back to this grea
country fours Just fifteel
years ago, Friday, October %.
NOTICE - LAID-OFF WORKER,
The next seniority date to b
called in will be, of the mer
APRIL 2, 1851. For the women
OCTOBER %, 1948.
INDIANS, FIREWATER AND
THE UNION
AN INDIAN can now drink
bottle of beer in Iowa withou
casting a furtive over-the shoulde
look for a skulking sheriff. TIL
Indian gets his beer and the CIt
Packinghouse Workers get credi
for dumping a 115-year-old low
law.
Sioux City, named for an India
tribe, was the locale for one @
the last skirmishes in the India