Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1955-07-29

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as he used to.
Last week we talked about the
contract signed between Gaylord
workers, UAW-CIO Local 388 and
the Standard Products Company.
In their package plan we listed "a
modified Guaranteed Wage Plan"
We would like to point out diff
ference between Gaylord's modified
plan than that of Ford and GIN.
Gaylord workers held out for an
opener in their plan that will al
low them to negotiate for a higher
percentage of guaranteed pay in a
year.
This, we agree, is wise decision
for the Gaylord workers. At the
present they are guaranteed at the
same $3.50 percent as Ford and
,, GIN. But when it comes to actually
making guarantee payments it
would cost Standard Products
much less per worker than it would
Ford or GIN because Gaylord's wage
scale is much lower. The opener
that allows Gaylord workers to ne
gotiate higher percentage of guar
antee pay may help them to bring
their guaranteed pay more in line
with the payments guaranteed
workers at Ford and GIN.
Gaylord's Local 388 Committee
men are in high praise of the fine
work done by their international
Representative Ora Fox in helping
them work out this agreement with
the Company.
We can't help feeling just little
sorry for the harassed toilers in
the NAM vineyard, as they look
around for some way of halting
the trend towards guaranteed al
nual wages.
Having gone all-out against GAW
the NAM suddenly found some of
its more important members in the
auto industry signing guaranteed
wage contracts. Already Ernest
Beech, board chairman for Ford,
is going around telling people that
the GAW Plan is good for the
workers, good for the company,
good for the whole country"
True, the NAM goes On making
the same childish noises it always
has, but if its big employer mem
bers are putting on long pants,
how much longer can the NAM
get away with short pants, sling
shots and peashooters. 1t gives a
person reason for hope!
An NAM booklet comes UP with
100 alternatives to guaranteed an
nual wages. 1t gives 100 "result-ful
ideas and practical techniques"
which may eliminate SHARP peaks
and valleys of employment that
have always been considered nor
NAL in business operations"
So they finally admit that un-
employment isn't the fault of the
worker, not due to his sloth, inef-
ficiency union membership but
unemployment is something that
employers can do much to prevent.
This is big step forward. If
the guaranteed wage is stimulating
employers to eliminate sharp
peaks and valleys of employment"
then the union through GAW is
accomplishing exactly what it set
out to do. Workers want steady
work, not the pay for idleness.
When a newly appointed vice
president Zone of seven) was given
a lengthy lecture on his duties by
the chairman of a large Midwest
corporation he was asked by the
chairman, DO you now understand
what your duties are?"
Eyes sir" said the new vice
president, "if you make mistake,
i cheerfully take the blame"
One of our hospitalized friends
says he isn't getting well as fast
as it is costing him!
Members of the Cleveland Res
taurant Workers Unon AF'L have
a new way to picket those "haSh-
houses" which refuse to permit
their employees to join the union.
Just before meal-time rush hour,
the pickets enter the "sweatshop"
occupy every seat il the place and
take their good old time slipping
iced tea.
The new merged labor union will
be named "The American Fedora
ton of Labor and Congress of In
dustrlal Organization" (AFL-CIO).
1t sure makes for a long title but
maybe that's what it takes to keep
everyone happy. Wonder what hap
pened to all those suggestions of
a name for the merged union, file
l3 | suppose. Just hope everyone
agrees to use initials only for it
takes full length of a page, type
written, to spell out the new title.
Local 497 members are saddened