Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1952 — Page 9
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offer to the Union in an effort to get a prompt settlement of the steel
strike.
This offer includes higher wages and other benefits adding up to the biggest increase in the history of the steel industry.
It places the pay of steelworkers far above the average of all manufacturing industries.
_ It includes an average wage increase of 16 cents per hour plus substantial increases in fringe benefits, making a total direct cost to the companies of approximately 25 cents an hour. That would be about $500 yearly per employee based on the average hours worked in 1951.
Workers lose $10 millions daily - Every full working day that this
strike Continues means the loss of approximately $10,000,000 in wages to some 600,000 steelworkers and their families.
It means the daily loss of about 260,000 tons of steel production.
Why does the strike continue?
Why do union leaders refuse the
offer which would mean substantial increases in take home pay for the steelworkers’
STEEL COMPANIES
The companies believe. the rea-
= fandonabisy refusal is. the TTnign’s
demand for compulsory Union
membership.
Granting this demand would force every future applicant for employ-
ment in the steel mills to join the --
Union as a condition of holding his job.
Steel Companies’ Offer to Union June 9, 1952
1. General Increase in wage rafes ym 16 cons an. hour,
2. Six paid holidays, double fime for holidays worked, with appropriate provisions as fo eligibility.
3. Increase shift differentials fo 6 cenis per hour for second shift and 9 cents per hour for third shift,
4. Three weeks vacation affer 15 years of service, effective January 1, 1952.
5. Decrease Southern differential of the two companies concerned by 5 cents an hour.
6. Above adjustments fo be_effecfive upon execution of ~ complefe agreement and refurn fo work, excep! thal general Increase In wage rafes fo be refroactive fo April 1, 1952.
1. Agreement fo run fo June 30, 1954, reopenable by either party as of June 30, 1953, on the subject of general adjustment of wage rates.
8. Union security provisions of - presen! agreements which provide for freedom of choice of individual employees fo join or refrain from joining the Union will not be changed. =
9. All other matters must be safisfactorily resolved.
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The steel companies have refused . 2 ci grant 4his Ri not be a party to coercing any individual, who, for reasons of his
own, does not want to join the Union.
Opposition of the companies to the Union Shop cannot be construed as opposition to the Union itself.
Since 1942 the labor agreements with the steel companies have contained provisions that gave the Union stability and security.
Free choice is basic
The companies believe it is up
to each man to decide for himself whether he will or will not join any organization.
If the companies signed a contract forcing all future applicants for em-
ployment to join the Union, then
we as an industry—and we as a nation—would be surrendering one more right of the individual, one
" more freedom.
In a world of encroaching dicta- - torship we are trying to preserve freedom in Europe, freedom in
Korea, and freedom at home. The freedom of choice, no less than the freedom of speech and of the press,
is important to the life of every
American.
IN THE WAGE CASE 5400 Empire § State Building, New York 1, N. Y.
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