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IUE-CIO NEWS.
April 12, “1951
‘HE GM STORY ----
It, is the purpose of IUE-CIO News
to tel GH workers: the complete truth
at all times,
Jast week, this paper carried a com-
plete Breakdown of henefits won by
General) Moters workers in’ the past
three years, This was done in answer
toa false report printed in the Ul news-
paper. Beeause this paper goes lo press
on Tuesday, if was necessary to tele-
phone the TUE-C1O) Research Depart-
meal and seeure this information through
a Jone distance call. Suhgequently, the
Research Department: mailed the infor-
mation to us, and we noticed iinmediately
that we had missed some figures.
“The totals are (he same, GM workers
have’ wen increases totaling 29 cents
per hour up until, now, and will reeeive
a four-ee i per hour automatic inereage
in May, pius.a cost of living ineréase
on June 1, 1951, ” ae
‘The infurination. we missed in the tel-
ephone conversation was a (hree-cent
per hour cost of living increase in 1948,
und two small decreases, of two cents
and one cent, early in 1949, Because we
misged both an increase and a decrease,
the totaly remain the same. It is in.
teresting to note that UI was right in
the decreases suffered by GM workers
but UR failed to note the increases
won by GM workers in this "period,
whieh is their ugual way of distorting
the truth,
IS THIS UNIONISM?
UE. has amade great strides recently
in proving that lis anything but a trade
union,
~A union shop. election was stated for
the hiy RCA plant in Camden, N. Jo A
week before that election, the great UE
put-ont a handbill urging workers to
vote against the union! ;
Despite this, Camden RCA workers
voled fer av union shop’ by a vote. of
5,170 for, and just 1,038 against.
This election incidentally caught UE
in another lie, A recent issue of UE's
national newspaper devoted a full. page
tye stét'y Saying “that the TUE-C1O~
-organizadion in the Camden RCA plant
was falling apart.
For a union that is falling apart, Ik.
CIO rolled up a pretty good vete in the
“umion..shop, election.
OMPLETED!
Quarterly Breakdown:
Period , UE Figures
May, 1948 No mention
September, 1948
December, 1948
March, 1949
June, 1949
No change
2-cent cut
I-cent cut
September, 1949 No change
December, 1949 No change
Mareh, 1950 2-cent cut
June, 1950 = change
September, 1950 mention
December, 1950 Se mention
Mareh,- 1951 mention
June, 1951: a, § mention.
“TOTALS ‘Q-cent cut
3-cent increase
True Figures
1l-cent increase
3-cent increase
No change-
2-cent cut
3-cent increase
l-cent cut
No change
No change
2-cent? cut
d-cent increase
j-cont increase
3-cent increase
5-cent increase
d-cont. increase
33-cent increase
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IUE-CIO-
On
TELEVISION
12:45 Noon, WRGB, Sunday, April 15
AND FOR THREE SUNDAYS THEREAFTER AT THAT TIME!
Hear and See
James B. Carey
International President, IUE-CIO
and
Al Hartnett — Secretary-Treasurer — IUE-ClO
DISCUSS PROBLEMS OF GE WORKERS
CORRECTION PLEASE!
Identification of the men who struck
a woman at.the subway gate during the
leaflet distribution on Murch 22 was
made by a GE worker who arrived at .
the scene just in time to see him strike
the blow. The GE worker knew the man,
~and:-believed. -his-name...to. -be.. Allan...
Waite, ag was printed in the March 29
edition of IUE-CIO News. :
By. means of a photograph, this man
who used his fists against a woman has
been positively identified as James
Whyte, who works in Building 66.
Despite this mistake in identification,
the facts in the case remain the sane,
Whyte, a typical UE goon, was x. ay
‘brave in fighting a woman, but he r }
away to. avoid fighting a man.
foo nanrna
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
The Canadian UE News and all UE's
Canadian literature is printed by the ~
Toronto publishing house that prints
all newspapers and propaganda material
sor the Canadian Communist Party.
“IN UNION
THERE IS
STRENGTH”
Volume 1 No. 5
Published by IUE-C1O EERO
202 Clinton Street
April 19, 1951
The Ham-Actors of UE Are Exposed
The Communist Party distributed a
handbill at certain gates of the GE
Works: on Monday. Much of the hand-
bill was devoted to discussion of the 32
cents per hour wage demand made by
UE.
The CP called on UE to “break the
_ wage freeze” and win its demand.
‘Then the Communist paper began
disctiss ng matters which certainly do
not. concern the outfit. Just how does
the CP get its information about com-
pany ‘attempts “at rate cuts and speed
up? These “are matters which union
officers should ywuard as confidential,
but the Communist Party, seems to. know
the details regarding recent trouble in-
Buildings 89, 273, 69, 17, 269, 18 and 40.
. ios it be that the UE leaders in cer-
ain of these shops have let the Com-
munist Party know about’ these. union
matte .
Have men like Sidney Friedlander,
Dewey Brashear, -William Mastrianni,
whose records certainly are not clean
with regard to Communist activities
know certain facts about the problems
of GE workers?
If such is the ease, then there is noth-
ing about the GE plant that the Com-
munist Party could not find out.
GE workers do not need the advice of
the Communist Party of Schenectady at
“this time whether UE will admit that
or not. GE workers in Schenectady need
trade unon leadership, not Communist
advise.
UE has been very busy trying to find
ways and means to stop IUE-CIO from -
-distributing literature. atthe plant gates,
but it has never turned a hand to stop
the Communist Party. In fact, there are
definite indications that UE helps the
party collect its, material.
Just how long do GE. workers want
“to put up with. a situation like this?
“ADMITTED SPY WAS
‘RGANIZER FOR UE
David Greenglass, under | indictment
for atom-spying in the interest of Soviet
Russia, is a former UE organizer!
This man, who admitted his guilt as
“a spy and-then: turned. gov ernment: wit--.
ness in the trial which resulted inthe:
Rosenbergs-Sohell spy convictions, and
his. wife both had connections with ‘the
UE not too many years ago. His wife
did clerical work for two UE locals,
while Greenglass himself made at Teast
one altempt at organizing for UE be-°
fore he went into business of treason
to his nation.
UE LYNN PETITION |
DECLARED ILLEGAL
‘The National Labor Relations Board
has announced that the UE petition for
an election among certain yroups of
workers at Gin Lynn has been declared
iNegal. The’ Board refused to give
reasens; but spokesmen said ‘that. UE
presented no cards with its petition.
The NLRB has wiven UE until June |
to make its petition legal
For some unknown reason, the UE
petition does not cover all the workers.
at Lynn. The petition requests an elec:
tion for hourly production, M&K and
shop clerical employees in ihe River
Works, but salaried workers are excluded
as are Die Room workers.
The only explanation we can find for
this is that UE is working hand in hand’
with GI in an effort to split the unity
of the workers in Lynn, Why else would
_their petition have excluded a large
group .of workers in the River Works
at Lynn?
UE did not file for an election in the
West Lynn plants. There seems to:be
no explanation for this either, except
that again UE, would -prefer to have the
- workers split completely, so that they
can make no gains.
[UE-ClIO CONTINUES
NEGOTIATING WITH
GENERAL ELECTRIC
Jack Suarez, president of Atomic
Workers Local 301, IUE-CIO, has an-
nounced that the strike which members
yoted to hold on Monday, April 16, has
been postponed long .enough to give
government conciliators an opportunity
to attempt to settle the issues.
The Atomic Energy Comniisson sent
in ‘Conciliator Charles Ray on Friday,
April 14, After a long session, the com-:
pany indicated it would agree on certain
points. Negotiations were to continue
at the time IUE-CIO’ News went to
press on Tuesday ‘afternoon.
The Iscal is demanding a wage ad-
_-Jusiment to compensate for the special-
ized type of work done at the Knolls,
change in hours from eight to five to
7:30 to four, and automatic progression
schedule,
AL these matters are part of the local
supplemental agreement which is being
negotiated? All other issues in the local
supplement have been won by the union.
“The international union has backed
up the local 100 per cent in its demands.
The issue of change of hours has a long
history. Workers at Knolls One and
Two, and Buildings 5 and 37 demanded
such a change in hours several years
ago through UB, but were not backed
up in their demand by UE leaders.
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