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UAW Reprinted from ASHINGTON REPORT printed every Friday in Washington, D.C., by UAW Citizenship-Legislative Department LIDAI United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, UAW The UAW's fight against POLLUTION • in the plant • on the outside Inside this booklet is a collection of important articles which have appeared in the UAW Washington Report concerning the serious environmental problems which confront all Americans. INTERGANI O 1970, LOS ANGELES "Yes, sir. we enjoy the highest standard of living known to the world!" "We are going to talk to the companies about the question of pollution problems, both in plant and out of plant, the question of emission control because that relates directly to collective bargaining. If this industry does not find a proper answer to the question of emission control and the pollution of the atmosphere, then this society is going to suspend the production of internal combustion engines which can mean the destruction of our jobs. So we have an immediate interest in the solution of that problem." —from Washington, D.C. press conference by UAW President LEONARD WOODCOCK, May 28, 1970

“The UAW’s Fight Against Pollution”
A @uaw.org Washington Report pamphlet on the union’s environmental efforts for workers and the broader community. Circa 1970s, from the archives as the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Covers of four pamphlets about automation. Automation’s unkept promise; Why We Welxome Automation; Automation and Youth; Labor Looks at Automation.

Pamphlets about automation by labor organizations, circa 1950s-60s. From a new addition to the @uaw.org Community Services Dept: Mildred Jeffrey Records I am processing at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

In Union There Is Strength SNAP THE UAW-CIO IS MORE THAN A UNION It is 1,300,000 workers who believe in the idea that every individual has the inherent right to happiness and prosperity. However, workers have found that "belief" alone is not sufficient to secure the ideal. They have learned that they have to fight as well as work for their share of the blessings God meant for all. They have learned that they can't accomplish much as individuals. So they have joined with their fellow-workers and are proud of the fact that their great union, the UAW-CIO, has grown until it is America's largest and most democratic union. They have elected resourceful, unseltish leaders to guide them in an intelligent fight for their full rights as free American workers. The UAW-CIO believes that obtaining for its members the highest wages, the best working conditions, the largest pensions, etc, is not enough. Because the UAW-CIO is the humane institution that it is, it believes that the work of the Union does not stop at the plant gate. That is why it has the largest and best staff of trained technicians of any union in the world. That is why the UAW-CIO is able to help its members on almost any problem they may have. Because the UAW-CIO believes in the dignity of the individual and strives intelligently in behalf of all its members, it is the largest and fastest growing union in the world. Yes! The UAW-CIO is more than a Union. It is a better way to a better and finer life. You will be proud to belong to the dynamic UAW-CIO • JOIN TODAY! United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW-CIO)

@uaw.org “believes that obtaining for its members the highest wages, the best working conditions, the largest pensions, etc, is not enough. Because the UAW-CIO is the humane institution that it is, it believes that the work of the Union does not stop at the plant gate.”
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I’m sensing a theme

Accordion pamphlet for the Eye Opener radio program, titled “The ‘Eye’ Has it…”

Accordion pamphlet for the Eye Opener radio program, titled “The ‘Eye’ Has it…”

Accordion pamphlet for the Eye Opener radio program, titled “The ‘Eye’ Has it…”

Bargaining
Shop problems
Automation
Organizing
Topics of conversation on Eye Opener, a radio program produced by the @uaw.org in the 1950s-60s. Accordion pamphlet for the show, from the UAW Radio Dept Records at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

UNION PURCHASING SERVICE Motor City Co-Op Sponsored A Consumer Experiment That's Saving Our Members Money Lower the profit margin and you get lower prices. By centralizing the purchases of our members through a purchasing service office we are provided with lower prices normally quoted volume buyers. Operated by Motor City Consumers Co-op, Inc., the non-profit Purchasing Service is for union and co-op members, concerned with their role as con-sumers. TO QUALIFY FOR THE SERVICE All Union and Co-op members are eligible for this service, by registering at your Local Union or at Union Purchasing Office, 2113 Gratiot (Use St. Aubin entrance). You must be Registered to get a Purchase Order. TO MAKE A PURCHASE AT SAVINGS Call WO. 1-1477 for Purchase Order. Know the name and model number of the specific item you want to purchase. Present this Purchase Order to the store, wholesale or manufacturer who operate on a small mark-up cost. Union Purchasing Service Has No Inventory-But Can Save You Money On The Following Items: FURNITURE ALL SMALL HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES CAMERAS © Toasters • Electric Razors € Broilers © Cigarette Lighters ® Mixers • Record Changers © Deep Fryers • Recorders • Cookers • Vacuum Cleaters e Radios • Television Economy Priced and Quality Furniture APPLIANCES FURNITURE - MAJOR APPLIANCES ® Furniture—All Types • Mattresses € Carpeting • Foam Rubber € Automatic Washers © Innerspring • Automatic Dryers • Harvard Bed Frames © Refrigerators • Sewing Machines • Stoves ® Water Heaters Photography Equipment CARPETING • Clocks © Watches • Pen & Pencils JEWELRY - ETC. • Cameras • Photo Equipment HARDWARE - TOOLS - MISCELLANEOUS © Typewriters • Aluminum Windows @ Tires • Awnings • Luggage • Fuel Oil • Electric Portable Tools • Sheets and Towels • Aluminum Storm Doors • Drapes ALUMINUM NEW AUTOMOBILES at a Savings Nationally Advertised Large and Small TIRES Batteries TUBES Name Brands For Two-Way Savings Buy thru Your Union Purchasing Service Finance through Your Credi…

Cards with examples of furniture and beds. Fine Furniture is a Lifetime Investment - Select it with care! Motor City Co-Op 2113 Gratiot Avenue DETROIT 7, MICHIGAN Visit the RwaY display of some fifty room settings of Bedroom and Dining Room Furniture. This card will serve as your introduction to:

Catalog for the Motor City Co-op Union Purchasing Service, a program that let union members buy pricier items at discount. Using a cooperative model, this was a creative way Detroit unions worked together to serve the members. From the @uaw.org Radio Dept records at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Off-topic: today is Wayne State University’s Giving Day! Your AFSCME Archivist is also co-founder of the WSU Libraries affiliate of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. If you can, we’d be so grateful for donations. Help us get more books in the hands of the littlest Detroiters!

Thank you, Nathan. If I can be of any help, let me know. And by the way…

Pastel sketch of barrels of toxic chemicals. In front, two hands hold up a pocket sign that reads, “The right to know is a matter of life and death.”

“The right to know is a matter of life and death”
Original artwork used in the @uaw.org’s Solidarity magazine. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

The Detroit Archivists

Quick Lunch II was when the series took off, though the first Quick Lunch still holds up. And the less said about Quick Lunch III, the better.

Person wearing sunglasses and a UAW I.P.S. straw cap eats a hotdog.

"Quick Lunch II"
🌭Delegate wolfs down a hot dog at the @uaw.org's Constitutional Convention. 1974. From our collection of convention proceedings here at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Color sketch of two people in hazmat suits turning a large valve.

Original artwork commenting on worker safety, used for the cover of @uaw.org’s Solidarity magazine. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Cover of UAW Ammunition magazine. Drawing of fence covered with slogans related to union’s agenda. May 1970.

“The coal industry is run by men with dirty mines”
“D.DT. bugs me”
“If crime doesn’t pay - it’s because G.M. doesn’t run it”
Graffiti about worker safety graces a fence on the cover of @uaw.org Ammunition, 1970. From the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Dan Golodner and Troy Eller English

Very proud to write this blog post for the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social about the podcast my colleagues have been making over 100 episodes for 7 years.
Want a great listen that touches on the history of labor and the modern American city? Then check it out: reuther.wayne.edu/node/15454

CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS PENCE MATERIAL" remove from ucatien Centor Library UAW AND AFL-CIO MEN'S INTER-LOCAL BASKETBALL LEAGUE

PREFACE The UAW and AFL-CIO Inter-local Basketball League has been organized for your mutual interests. The purpose is clearly defined in this constitution. Should you at any time learn that these by-laws are not being respected, it is your duty to report such irregularities to the UAW Conservation and Recreation Department. CONSTITUTION AND BY - LAWS ARTICLE I NAME AND OBJECT Section 1 This organization shall be known as the UAW and AFL-CIO Men's Inter-local Basketball League of greater Detroit and vicinity. Section 2 Its object shall be to foster, organize and promote the mutual interests of basketball in our organization under the rules and standards of the national accepted organization for Men's Basketball Leagues.

Constitution and by-laws for @uaw.org and @aflcio.org men’s inter-local basketball league. Looked through this booklet from the UAW archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social, and great news, “ain’t no rule that says a dog can’t play basketball.”

Scary afternoon because of all the people that work in there, including the amazing people at my union, Wayne Academic Union. I have a clear view of the Maccabees Building from my office and thankfully, the smoke has completely stopped and no one was hurt.

letterhead for the Detroit Convention and Tourist Bureau

Art of the Motor City’s skyline, years before the Renaissance Center and new Hudson’s building. 1948. From a letterhead for the Detroit Convention and Tourist Bureau, found in the @uaw.org Radio Dept Records at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Federal judge finds Trump violated free speech by ordering NPR defunded A U.S. District Court judge found that President Trump's executive order calling for the defunding of NPR and PBS violated the First Amendment.

Important to note that the judge doesn't have the power to restore funding that Congress clawed back in its recission bill. Public media is still defunded and your local station simply will not survive without your help. Many are barely hanging on.

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Transcript for Loosegoose Fulsome speech. “ADA -- Washington -- May 16, 1964 Good evening, friends: This is your pari-mutuel network reporter, Fulsome Loosegoose, Junior, with the slop of the news from Washington. It has come to our attention (thanks to an inadvertent wire-tap of some J. Edgar Hoover remarks at the fifty-dollar window at Boowie the other day-- you see this perhaps over-zealot young agent of the Attorney General had been told to "tap everything that Rat says anywhere", but didn't realize that the reference was to James Hoffa, rather than to the saviour of the country) it has come to our attention that the capital is again suffering its annual infestation of Americans for Demogogic Agitation, that rag-tag collection of professional losers, sore winner egal beagles (some with sore ears and others with sore backsides) and defrocked pedagogues. The occasion for this secret conclave, we are informed, is to commemorate the organization's descent”

Transcript for Loosegoose Fulsome speech. “ADA -- Washington -- May 16, 1964 Good evening, friends: This is your pari-mutuel network reporter, Fulsome Loosegoose, Junior, with the slop of the news from Washington. It has come to our attention (thanks to an inadvertent wire-tap of some J. Edgar Hoover remarks at the fifty-dollar window at Boowie the other day-- you see this perhaps over-zealot young agent of the Attorney General had been told to "tap everything that Rat says anywhere", but didn't realize that the reference was to James Hoffa, rather than to the saviour of the country) it has come to our attention that the capital is again suffering its annual infestation of Americans for Demogogic Agitation, that rag-tag collection of professional losers, sore winner egal beagles (some with sore ears and others with sore backsides) and defrocked pedagogues. The occasion for this secret conclave, we are informed, is to commemorate the organization's descent”

Transcript for Loosegoose Fulsome speech. “Good evening friends: This is your pari-mutuel network reporter, Fulsome Loosegoose, Jr., speaking from Washington. It has come to iny attention through an unusually reliable source, a battalion commander in the third regiment of the fifth corps of the seventh Continental Army of Mr. James Hoffa's legal staff, that a dinner is taking place this evening to commemorate 40 years of escape from his just desserts of one August Scholle, Michigan President of the AFL-CIO. (The initials of this organization, which has been, I understand, largely clandestine and underground these past several years, stand for Ample Free Lunches-- and Communism In Our Time. It was decided, am informed, to hold this affair well in advance of inauguration day in the state capitol because it was figured that Jackson Prison--AFTER inauguration day-- would hardly offer a suitable site. The dinner is being attended by numerous trade union piecards, porkchoppers, politicos in search of non-endorsement by Scholle next election, kept legal beagles (known as kennel dogs in some quarters and as plain SOB's in others), members of Michigan's packed Supreme Court (loaded was the word my informant used, come to think of it, and a rag, tag and bobtail assortment of other enemies of the Republic, including, I believe, an only slightly used Governor, (1960 model) who lost an election narrowly when it was discovered that he was too young to vote. (That, and the Bowman Bill, cost him 78, 00l votes. ) Many of you have written to ask how it is that a man like this Scholle could, in a law-abiding country like ours, rise from total obscurity to total disrepute in less than forty years. Well, I have the answer, friends. This man is exclusively the product of a slavishly friendly press. If that great American Richard Nixon had had one-tenth as good a press as this man Scholle, he'd long ago have been president of both the United States AND Venezuela... and he would never have…

“This is your pari-mutuel network reporter, Fulsome Loosegoose, Junior, with the slop of the news from Washington.”
Long before the Colbert Report, news briefs from this satirical right wing pundit would play during @uaw.org radio shows in the 1960s. From the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social. 📻

Did you know...
1. The @reutherlibrary.bsky.social has a podcast?
2. That it has been going strong for 7 years?
3. Each episode features real experts who know what they are are talking about?
4. It has a theme song that slaps??
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Reuther Library archivists Dan Golodner and Troy Eller English, co-hosts and producers for the Tales from the Reuther Library podcast.

Reuther Library archivists Dan Golodner and Troy Eller English, co-hosts and producers for the Tales from the Reuther Library podcast.

We are so proud to announce the 100th episode of our podcast, Tales from the Reuther Library. Hosted by Reuther archivists Dan Golodner and Troy Eller English, each episode is a conversation with a history expert as unique as our one-of-a-kind archival collections.🎤🎧
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Pamphlet cover with a big green dot that reads, “BLOW ON THIS SPOT IF IT TURNS BLUE, then some day you'll be a millionaire. IF NOT, then the way to a better life for you is to.”

Pamphlet interior that reads: JOIN OTHER YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE CCF YOUTH! Group Discussions Join with other young people your own age, in friendly discussions about current events and social problems. What are YOUR opinions about unemployment? Voting at 18? A National Health Plan? Do you think Canada needs more immigration? What are your ideas about how to avoid a third world war? CCF YOUTH clubs talk about questions like these. We have speakers, study groups and movies on these topics. Socials! Dances, hay rides, wiener roasts, holiday weekends, bowling and roller skating parties, popular and classical music sessions, movies, skit nights... these and many other socials are run by CCF YOUTH clubs. Why don't you join in the fun? You are welcome to our activities whether you are a member or not! For Your Own Sake Every young Canadian wants a good job with decent wages...and freedom from fear of losing that job in a depression. We want an equal chance to get a good education regardless of income. We want free health care like that in Britain, not as a charity but as the right of everyone to enjoy the benefits of modern medicine. We want good housing at a price the average person can afford to pay. The CCF YOUTH is campaigning for improvements like these in our way of life. It's in your own interest to support the CCF ! How Will You Vote? What party will YOU vote for? Your vote is precious ...people in many lands have no voice in how their countries are run. So VOTE INTELLIGENTLY! Before you decide, find out what a CCF government could mean for you. EVEN IF YOU CAN'T VOTE YET, you can still help the CCF... and yourself! Find out how at a CCF Youth meeting. Working Together You don't have to be sports-minded to know that TEAMWORK usually produces better results than "every man for himself". If you are sincerely interested in the welfare of your "fellow man", you should join with the CCF Youth in its efforts to improve the welfare of ALL Canadians, and of other peoples thro…

“🟢BLOW ON THIS SPOT, if it turns blue then some day you'll be a millionaire.”

Pamphlet from the youth wing of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, a Canadian political party. Circa 1950s or 60s. From the @uaw.org Radio Dept Records at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

What I've been up to for the past month, processing
@uaw.org departmental office records while listening to Shoegaze music.

Radio contest winners hold their prizes, radios, in front of a WDET FM flag.

Individuals speaking into a microphone in the WDET radio studio. With WDET FM flag behind them.

The @uaw.org Radio Dept Records reflect a time of possibilities in the American media landscape, when labor could carve out a space for programming to benefit working people rather than corporate interests. It’s a fascinating collection now open to researchers.
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Guy Nunn and Emil Mazey on the UAW tv show, Telescope. 1960s.

The @uaw.org's first TV show was titled Meet the UAW-CIO, and it was likely the first television program totally written and produced by an American labor union!

UAW's the Roving Eye broadcast truck for Eye Opener radio program.

The @uaw.org hired the established reporter Guy Nunn as a radio host when they felt other stations were not adequately covering the union perspective during a 1949 Chrysler strike. Nunn was soon put in charge of the UAW Radio Department, and helped expand its efforts into TV.

WDET The Voice of Labor sketch art for UAW newspaper.

One of the first labor unions to use broadcast media to communicate its message, the @uaw.org founded WDET in 1948. The radio programs on the station (later syndicated nationally) brought worker-centric news and entertainment to the masses, options the UAW felt listeners sorely lacked.

Pamphlet for "Eye Opener" radio program, with list of stations that syndicate the show. "Eye Opener, your UAW early-morning broadcast, is produced to serve both the International Union and all UAW local unions. Officers and members are urged to mail, wire, or telephone the UAW Radio Department any information concerning local union activities which it is desired to publicize. ("Eye Opener," UAW, Detroit 14, Michigan... telephone Lorain 8-4000) Following is the list of stations currently broadcasting "Eye Opener.""

Pamphlet for "Eye Opener" radio program, with descriptions of what's on the show.

Proud to announce the opening of an addition to the UAW Radio Department Records here at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social! The collection sheds light on how the @uaw.org ran the @wdet.bsky.social station as well as produced syndicated radio and TV shows.📻📺

Learn more: reuther.wayne.edu/node/15450