Word: mazey
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Most of the auto workers are young men. These young men believe that their benefits have been "given" by the companies, not "won" for them through the solidarity of their unions and the battles of those workers who organized the industry during the 30's. Emil Mazey, Secretary-treasurer of the UAW has said these new men "don't know the difference between unionism and rheumatism." It is doubtful that Reuther and his social vision is any more appetizing to such a constituency than it is to his fellow union leaders...
...Emil Mazey, liberal secretary-treasurer of the Auto Workers, later chided Meany "for a vulgar display of intolerance" in ejecting the Vietniks. "The most precious freedom that we have is the freedom of dissent," said Mazey. "The labor movement has been the victim of people trying to silence our right of expression, and we have to take the lead and demonstrate and fight for the right of people to disagree, whether it is on Viet Nam or any other subject matter." Meany, whose life in the labor movement has left him with little patience for philosophers, retorted that the demonstrators...
...week. Kohler agreed to pay some 1,400 former strikers a fat Christmas gift of $3,000,000 in back wages. The company will also fork over $1.5 million in pension-fund contributions. The settlement, tied to a new one-year contract, was sealed by U.A.W. Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey and Kohler Vice President Lyman C. Conger with a handshake. Despite the most extensive boycott campaign ever mounted by organized labor, the effect of the long dispute on the company was hardly shattering; Kohler today is still a leader in the industry, ranks third nationwide in annual sales...
Further backing has been received from organized labor, long hesitant about disarmament activity. A. Phillip Randolph, President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and a vice-President of the AFL-CIO, has given his endorsement, along with Emil Mazey, Secretary-Treasurer of the Confederation...
...United Auto Workers has learned to invest and still protect itself. The U.A.W. buys heavily in securities dated to mature about contract expiration time, in case of a strike has the money ready. "Our criteria are security, fluidity and yield-in that order," says U.A.W. Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey. In quest of security for its $33 million invested funds, the U.A.W. has nearly 73% in Government bonds, a large amount in federal savings-and-loan associations, plus $2,000,000 in General Motors Acceptance Corp. debentures, which Mazey counts no risk. "If G.M. ever gets in trouble," says Mazey, expressing...