Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1954-10-29
LOCAL 497, UAW-cIo
STEVE ]. NOVAK, PRES.

STEVE J. NoVAK, PRES.
Local 497 members will join
their friends, neighbors and fellow
citizens at the polls this Tuesday,
November 2. The decisions made
there by ballot will have a tremen-
dous effect on each of us-work-
ers, farmers, business and profess
SIGNAL people, homemakers, the
unemployed, the sick, our children
andithe aged.
In this column we have urged
you to get to know the candidates
and their records. Many workers
don't have the time nor inclination
to study each candidates voting
record SO from time to time we
have discussed points in politics
here. We had much rather praise
a good candidate than to criticize
his opponent. That's why we have
been pointing to the candidates
whose apparent sincerity and good
record are convincing evidence
they are the outstanding candi-
dates.
You may have agreed with us
many times and you may have dis
agreed at times that is your
privilege. But the important thing
now is that you cast your vote.
When. you go into the voting
booth in complete privacy, no one
can tell you how you must vote
the decision is all yours. 1t is good
to live in country where we still
have this right and privilege to
choose our representative in gov
ernment. So many people in other
countries have no choice at all.
Let us make the most of our vot-
ing right. Irregardless of how we
vote - let's be sure to GET OUT
! AND VOTE.
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sRVe wish to welcome back Jo-
sephine Hyde, after a long illness.
AS result of an accident about a
year ago, she broke her leg when
she slipped and fell.
Johnnie Zibert's mother passed
away last week. She has been i'll
for quite some time. Johnnie
works on the second shift as a
Kon Cure operator.
Helen Wicrzbas mother also
passed away this week. Helen
works on the second shift.
In a letter to all Local Unions,
Walter Reuther states: "As you
know, the auto corporations have
planned sharp set-up in produc-
tion. following the model change
oversperiod.
The. timing of this production
squirt suggests that it is aimed at
getting as many workers as pos
sible back on the payrolls by Elec-
ton day in hopes they will there
by be persuaded to forget about
the layoffs, short work weeks and
hardslllpS they have suffered and
to look more favorably on the
various Republican candidates for
office.
Thre are also indications that
the competitive race in the in
dustry for larger shares of
shrunken market may lead, tenn
porarily, to production schedules
so high that they could only be
met by recruitment Of additional
workers not normally attached to
the auto industry. Such workers,
IT recruited, would be dumped on
the streets when the production
squirt was ended, and, as a result
OF their temporary employment,
the industry'S regular workers
would have less work during the
remainder of the model year.
This, you will recall, is what
happened in 1853.
/ have, therefore, written to the
presidents of the automobile and
truck corporations under. contract
with our Union warning them a.
gainst repetition of such ire
sponSible recruitment policies"
= Walter p. Reuther
Pres, UAW-CIO
Quote of the Week:
I'VE can't have status quo
policy on hunemployment We