The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1956-09-08
Vincent Murray is
Chairman of Labor
Group For Eisenhower

Tuesday night August 2sth, nearly GOO rank and file
working men and women met in organizing conven-
ton in DerotS Masonic Temple to set up permanent
organization support President Eisenhower In ms
bid for reelection and promote the Presidents pro.
gram for labor = MNAaE
The organization, to be called the Wayne Coun
ty Eisenhower Labor Committee adopted constitu
ton, elected permanent officers and adopted plat
form of pro-labor resolutions.
In their resolutions, the 5000 delegates unanimously
advocated following steps to be taken nationally:
l. Reelection of President Eisenhower.
Support of the free enterprise system.
3. Opposition to the "right-to-Work' laws.
A Revision of the Taft Hartley law in line with
President Esenhower's 1854 proposals.
s. Increasing the federal income tax exemption to
g. Action by all branches of federal and state gov
ernments to enforce the Supreme Court decisions on
racial segregation.
Z. Elimination of all poll taxes
In Michigan. the delegates called for:
l. Enactment of a 81. per hour minimum wage law
comparable to the federal law.
2. Revision of the States unemployment compen-
sation law to provide for each individuals primary
benefit to be less than SO per cent of his average
gross weekly wage.
g. Revision Of the States workmans compensation
law to provide rate in the amount of 66 23 per cent
Of the workers average weekly gross wage for the
duration of incapcity and elimination of the word ac-
cdent form the present law.
A. single Department of Industrial Relations for
Michigan, with commissions to study automation and
seasonal ay-offs in the Automobile industry
s. workers educational program comparable to
the farm euucalOnal program.
g. A study of ways to permit worker to transfer
his pension rights from one job to another.
T. Tenure rights for all public school teachers.
Officials Elected Were The Following:
Chairman: Vincent ]. Murray Local ss9-CIO
Vce-chairman: Walter Warren, Local 306-CIO
Recording Secretary: Margaret Van DerZiel
Corresponding Secretary: Lucille White
Treasurer :Claudius Rowe
Directors Ann Muffoletto, Nathan Brdges-AFL
William Brooks George Harrison, Iris Mcmillan, Mich
o1a Earl 1hart
Erene Boyd Norman Kapcia Jack Jacobson, and War
Doan.
speaker for the evening praise President Eisenhower
as frendd to labor and "a leader who gets the job
done in the field of civil rights.
Senator Case characterized the Democrat Party as
two irreconcilible teams dominated in Congress by
Southern Conservatives, call Of whom dedicated
to White Supremacy and Union-busting through enact
ment of "right-to-work' laws.
Return Eisenhower
Case called upon the labor delegated present to re-
turn Eisenhower to the White House in 1856 by swell
ing the ranks of his chosen Party and providing the
force with which to make the Republican Party "the
party of the future"
Local 800, UAW-CIO, Patterson, N. j., and member
of the New Jersey State Assembly list the legislative
and executive accomplishments which make Presi-
dent Eisenhower the greatest friend labor has
had in the White House."
Among the achievements listed by Lazzo were: the
high weekly wages being paid to labor fewer strikes,
decisions by the National Labor Relations Board favor
sons employed, better contracts between labor and
management and less governmental interference in la
bor-management negotiations.