Electrical Union News, 1954 June 10

Raiding Doesn’t Pay!
ited Action Does!

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Today Jandreau not only“ ‘condones raiding and secession,” he joins those who are “hell Bene 2 to bust this union up,” and pro-
claims that he does it for the sake of “unity” and “strength” — but raiding has never brought either.

AFL-CIO RAIDING
COST $114 MILLION

‘Workers i in the alsciti¢el industry aren't

ing. The May 27, 1954 issue of The Ma-
chinist, official publication. of the IAM-AFL
reports that from 1951 to 1953, AFL unions
raided CIO unions791 times, while. CIO
unions raided AFL unions 936 times,

Total Cost of these raids —
$14,418,000.

Net Results—44,000 workers switched
from the CIO to the AFL. ;

40,000 others switched from the
“AFL to the CIO ;

4,000 went "no union."

In other words, after an expense of
$11. million, each labor federation lost

the only ones to suffer the effects of raids’

It is no accident that. GE workers in the IUE-CIO havé lost their plantwide sen-
jority and their piece work guarantees, won under UE and still protected by UE.

It is no accident that wherever the IUE-CIO has raided, it has been the com- .
, pany. which has reaped the harvest, through rate’ cutting, downgrading, « destruction
of conditions,

It is no accident that wherever the TUE-CIO has come in, the workers have
been disorganized and split, not organized and united.

‘

In Fort Wayne GE, IUE-CIO has meant iat a once-united local has only 2,500 mem-
bers out of 1 10,000 workers.

In Syracuse. GE, Tess than half the workers are in thé IUE-CIO local.

In Lynn GE, the workers in the plant are split right down the middle,

13—No. 21

June 10, 1954

Within 24 hours after the U. S. Dept. of Labor revealed that rising unemployment had placed Sclicticotady ,
on the nation’s “distress” list, UE Local 301 took action on six different fronts to mount an all-out fight against |

GE PLANS NEW FACTORY

ployment list along with Sche-
neetady. The following actions
were taken and. endorsed by the
union's membership Monday.

1. Rushing.a telegram to Gov,

the unemployment crisis. Albany, Troy and Gloversville were added by the Labor Dept. to the enftieal unem-

peswent will go to 10,000,

UL called on the Schenee- .
ral City Council to urge the
Governor to put unemployment
on the special legislative program,

: ; 7 Dewey and all area state legis-
as much as they gained, and the organized TURBINE WORKE RS. SA i see lators urging that the unemploy-

RAIDING DOESN'T PAY EXCEPT FOR GE!
labor movement as a whole lost members. - ment situation “be - placed on the 3. UE Local 301 Pres, Ern-

fabs Companion, a9 2 wi stined . yo a 1") RIN THE JOBS HE a” Agel da of the special session of est \W, Kopper wrote to Plant
a While Carey-and the [UE-C1O haye been cing millions of Alattaed on futile raids, oC. the’Senate and Assembly begin-” Manager A.C. Steyens“demand-

~T 3 ; ~ UE has fought hoitestly for unity ofGE workers in the shop, in negotiations, in the ning today in Albany.’ The wire ing to know, “In view of the

pointed out that 3,000 workers incre:
everyday fight on-grievances, Time after time, UE has proposed united action,around a program for the workers as the only way to rkers  Mereasingly serious layoff prob-

( ~On the heels of an announced 32 per cent cutback in have already been laid off inthe lem itt-the Se ae
2 oF yy . y ‘ be already been Tad o ele sthe Seheneetady orks”
stop GE. from playing: one union off against another, united action like that new being forged in Turbine. _Abine and growing unemployment i in GE Schenectady, the Schencetady GE plant with man- and the indietted one. third eae

company vexealell tlvat it plans to build a $5,000,000 heavy agement indicating that unem- back in ‘Turbine, how ean. the

furnace plant in Shelbyville, campany justify by contract or
Indiana. ; community responsibility an ex-
pansion program that is under-
mining the employment and eon-
ditions in the home plant of GE 2”

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Such a proposal for united action was miade last week by UE Local 301 policy committee in a telegram to Jandreau.

This brought. demand from
UE Local 301 that GE provide
work in Schenectady and stop ! é
undermining local employment | - , . 4.
and conditions. :

Everyone agrees that the GE offer is inadequate — “the worst in five years.” The best way to get the company to change its nickel
‘tune — to provide needed increases for skilled workers, day.workers, | women and pensioners, would be for the raiders to abandon their
futile disruption.

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The «t fight for jobs moved

. ; | ahead in department after de-

It also caused the Turbine - ~ pokeg aN partment within the shop as

Unity Committee to declare in : TN Be rank-and-file workers setup

. _ a hard-hitting leaflet on Mon? A r . Unity committees pledged 10 the

This would be real unity spelling a better'life for all GE workers and their families. | day that, “we can do the work | ENA | Re OF uniting all workers: to

i here... we have the skill and ae ‘ " % | fight to keep jobs, fight speed-up,
the manpower!” uphold seniority and the contract,
fight downgrading, ete. The Tur-

: bine Unity committee issued a
statement pledging to “continue
lo fight for unily on every griev-
ance to stop the campany drive
an our conditious, ..,”

‘Let the IUE-CIO and the UE National, GE Conference Boards get together behind a united program to win a decent con-
‘tract offer and guarantees against runaway shops and joblessness from the company.

DATTA A

The proposed Shelbyyille
ie plant would take jobs from
1@ Schenectady and Pittsfield, ac-

Fe : cording to Aloody’s Industrials,

UE Local 707—Cleveland, Ohio i  £ the “who's who” of industry,

UE Local 713—Bellevue, Ohio In a letter to Plant Manager f \ /
' . A.C, Stevens, UE Local 301’s 6 : Tn Washington, the UF
UE Local 731—Conneaut, Ohio ia , ‘ 7 | dt '

Temporary President, Ifrnest f M atta office stepped up its
UE Local 732——Tiffin, Ohio Ww, ‘Kopper challenged the com- 4 & ; drive for tax relief for wage
: , earners to inerease » purchasing

UE Local 506—Erie, Pa.
UE Local 507—Toronto, Canada
(Davenport St. Plant)
UE Local 515—Toronto, Canada

UE Local 30!—Sche enectady
UE Local 115—York, Pa. —
UE Local 120—Baltimore, Md.
UE Local 125—Scranton, Pa.

UE Local 128—Allentown, Pa. °
UE Local 204—Taunton, Mass.
UE Local 205—Ashland, Mass.
UE Local 21 1—Bridgeport, Conn.
UE Local 224—~E, Boston, Mass.
UE Local 297—-Lowell, Mass.

(Royce Ave. Plant)

UE Local 516—Toronto, Canada
(Ward St, Plant)

UE Local 524—Peterboro, Canada

UE Local 526—Toronto, Canada
{Carboloy Plant)

UE Local 537—Toronto, Canada

UE Local 751—Niles. Ohio Neat . pany’s right under the contract

UE Local 924——Decatur, Ind.
UE Local 1012—Ontario, Calif.
YE Local 1412—Oakland Lamp Plant

UE Local 4) 2-—“Gatklianel Transformer
* Plant

oat

“UE. Local. 14..2—San. Francisco, -..

to lay olf workers for alleged
“lack of work” while it is mul-
tiplying plant facilities.

job moving in time of

iaits alfects wetieral employ-
ment, Kopper- pointed out,
since it reduces the opportuni-
ties of bumped wor kers tos lind
other work,

power and to improve soetal se-
curity, jabless benefits and other
assistanee for victims of unens
playment. The UE. demiind for
ww investigation of the “rans
away” shops is gaining headway,

_ 6 UIE continued’ to step up
is program oof mobilizing the

“people "oF the strkounding: area.

UE Local 310—Elmira, N.Y. {Lamp Plant) .
UE Local 332—Ft. Edward and UE Local 538—Toronto, Canada Product Service Plant

Hudson Falls, N. Y. (Air Conditioning Plant) UE Local 1412—San Francisco,
UE Local 422—Bloomfield, N. J. UE Local 618—Erie, Pa., office ee Service Plant -
‘UE Local 429-—Newark, N. J. UE Local 704—Bucyrus, Ohio UE Local 1421—Los Angeles, Cali

. Most directly affected by the < a In addition to the Capital. Dis-
“proposed expansion in Shelby- 4 AS - a Me ie communities, the’ Utiea,
ville is Industrial Tfeating in. § : % a0 ; Buffalo and Rome areas have
(Continued on Page 2) heer placed-on the distressed list:

teense tam NaN an AtgUNR RDM YNUe ne nmin nen mat

NEW PLANT

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Bldg. 105, Other jobs scheduled
tu move ilo. new out-of-state
plants this year are from clec-
troniés and controls, divisions.

The ‘Turbine Unity. Commit. «

“tee leaflet’ on the jul situation
was ‘issued by :,. ‘

Art Canavan, B-17; Alex
Kotarski, B-27;. Anthony
" Cannici,; C-34; W. R. Tan-
zel, B-7; John Martucci, B-6;
Arthur Yerden, F-12; Ray.
Clark, J-22; Clarence Wilkie,
J-25; H. Chamberlain, H-30;
Starks Goodrich, H-3; James
MacGregor, G-18;. Charles E.
‘Gibson, K-2; Frank Natole,
G-10;. Thomas Moskalyk,
C-20; John S. Brooks, G-25;
Archie Christian, H-3; Ken-
neth Girard, G-15; Robert 8S.
Durie, G-15; Géorge Cran-
dall, D-32; Gordon Knowl-
ton, K-25; Ken Brantley, J-
27; Charles’ Sabey, -J-22;
Harry . Darrow, G-29;. Dan
DelPevo, G-15; Wm, ‘Van
Dyke, ~A-30; Chas. Green,
B-19. ,

: States Supreme Court this week ordered new arguments a6)

JULIUS EMSPAK

UE LOCAL 30!

MEETING ._

FOR ALL GE WORKERS
- LIVING IN|

SCHOHARIE COUNTY.

TONIGHT
7:30 P.M.
LEGION HALL
Cobleskill, N. Y. ;
“REPORT ON JOB FIGHT"

SAVE JOB OF NAVY VET

UE RESTORES MONTH'S SERVICE
TIME LOST TWELVE YEARS AGO

UE Local 301 this week won back a month’s service lost
hy a Navy vet 12 years ago—and thereby saved that worker
from taking a layoff on his job as milling machine operator

in the Campbell Ave. Racetrack.

The grievance was filed by the
union on behalf of [Sdward [fp-
ting. [pettrig first went to work
for GE on June 1, 1941., On
Dee. 11, 19-42, he left work and,
+ days later volunteered for the
U.S. Navy. He was placed’ on
hiamediate call and was ordered:
to boot camp on Jan. 30.

The company took the position
that the month’s time between his
induction and his leaving for
camp Should be dedueted front
his seniority, and in a letter that
reached [pting at Sainpson Nav-
al Training Station, he was told
that his service date was being
ured up from June 1 to July

, 19H, h

” Raul this did not seem
af major importance to [Epting
while he was in the Navy or
after he came back to work
“However, when the Tayofh” as
began to fall in’ Racetrack arid
Epting was hit, it turned out that

Thursday, June 10, 1954

“the “recent™ Un

the month's lost service would.
mean loss of his job “and his
$2.00% rate.

i told his story to UID Stew-
ard Lou Passikoff who brought
it to UE 301 headquarters, The
union immediately took the case
to Bldg. 41 where if won baciss,
the month’s service and saved *
the job of Brother Epting.

ato the

the | shocking
“loyalty to GE

Bligh Court: Emspak Ruling
Shows Anti-McCarthy Tide

Recognizing the growing fightback by the people against
McCarthyite ‘attacks on American democracy, the United

Court Upholds UE

In Firings Case

“MeCar- ;

GE's

thyize"

attempts to.
its- employees received

ot, setback last week when Fed-

eral Judge Edward: A, Tamim
refused:a GE demand that he

dismiss a; legal action brought

against the company by UE.

UlE's lawsuit states that Gle’s
policy of firing workers who
refuse to cooperate with Me-
Carthy is illegal and contrary
Constitution of. the
United States and GE's. con-
tract with UIE and other unions.

_ Albert J. Fitzgerald, Presi-
dent of UE which represents
300,000 electrical and machine
workers, ‘immediately  fol-

' -lowed up Judge Tamm’s. ac-

tion with the demand that
GE reinstate all employees
illegally fired from two UE
and two IUE-CIO. plants of”
the company.

Tn trying ta keep Ul's law-
suit Gut of the courts, -GIt fur-

ther exposed its defiance of the:
Constitution of. =the

United
States. The Constitution guar-
antees access to the courts to
every American who believes
his constitutional rights have
been violated. °
Ata. point’in the proceedings
before Judge Tamin, GIF made
assertion
is the’ same as
loyalty to the ‘country, GIE
workers will reject the doc-
trine that a profit-hungry cor-

“poration and the United States

are on an equal footing.

WOMEN’S COMMITTEE MEETS

Ule Local 301 will bring the
“Second Round” of the fight
to eliminate diserimination
against women workers to
Schenectady tonight at a spe-
cial meeting of the ‘union's
Women's Committee.

A feature of the meeting will
be a report .by tie delegates ‘to

ference on the. Problems) of
Warking Women in New York

Nuitioinal Co a

City. The gathering will be
held in Dining Room A on the
lobby floor of the Hotel Van
Curler beginning at 7:30 P.M.

Guest speaker of the evening
will) be Margaret MeCartney,
former “UID Nat'l,
Board member, ‘Sister MeCart-
ney is secretary of UIs
Od9 Which represents the wer
ers at the big Sylvania plant in
Kmportum, Fa,

blocked the

that,

presented next fall in the ¢

tempt case of Julius Emspak,
UE National Seeretary-Treas-
urer and. charter’ member of

ULE Loeal 301,

The Supreme Court action is

-a forward step in our union's

fight to help re-establish the
full force and_authority Of the
Bill of Rights. All the aimend-
ments known as the Bill of

“Rights are fundamental to our

form of government -but the
Kirst and Fifth are of special
importance: to. working’ men
and’ women ‘since they protect
our-rights to organize, assem-
ble, speak and worship as frée
Americans.

UE is proud te lieu been
able to carry the fight fur these
rights before the highest court
in the land. ;

The high tribunal decision
attempts of the’
MeCarthyites to carry through”
aShlitzkr against the liber-
ties ofthe American people and
against unions which defend
those liberties: “y

Emspak chad been cited “ror
contempt because in 1949 he
refused on the basis of the First
Amendment of the Bill of

Rights before’ the Mouse Un-

American committee to iden-
tify a list of active union mem-
bers and associates, In a pre-
vieus court) decision, Federal
Judge Dickinson Letts asserted,
“Coneern for his union was Up-

permost in his mind.”

“MeéCarthyisny may stand or
fall on the Supreme Court deci-
sion in the Emspak case,” is
the way the issue was put by
the century-old liberal maga-
zine, The Nation.

The Jamestown Post-Journal
has commented, “Only four
cases at most in the whole his-
tory of the Republic are of
such vital and fundamental im-
portance as the [Emspak]
case.”

Executive -

Local:

TUNE IN
TOMORROW NIGK’ )

VE ON TY
‘7 P.M.—WRGB—Channel 6

“UNIONS IN DANGER’

ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS

The job fight means. many things at different times. But
first and foremost it mearis —

® A STEADY JOB — THE RIGHT TO. WORK.
® Being paid the proper rate of the job.

® Working a normal work week.

® Working within. the classification ‘of the jah
id Being protected against speedup.

C)

Having job security through plantwide seniority.

But the company at all times, and especially during periods
of layoffs tries to break down conditions. The job, fight then
alsa becomes a fight against:

Layoffs out of seniorily.

Violations of the bumping procedure.
Downgrading and rate cuts.

Short work weeks and rotation.
Doubling up and climination of jobs.

® Favoritism and back-door deals.

‘The job fight means ‘making GE live up to the UE contract
with ils superior plantwide seniorily, rate protection and griev-
ance procedure. But a fight must also be made for JOBS and
that’ is why UE Local 301 demands: a

® Keep. GE jobs in Schenecta say — Bring Work to
Schenectady.-

® Slop Sub-contracting and Farming Out. of Jobs.
® A 35-Hour Week for 40 Hours Pay,
® “A uniform wage scale in GE plants to discourage
job moving.
-A nationwide recession is deepening into depression. Under-
paid and overtaxed, working men and women simply canuol

buy back the goods they imtodhee. This means less work, more
layoffs, sliding deeper into depression.

THE

"HIGHER WAGES

HIGHER MINIMUM, WAGE LAWS
LOWER TAXES ON WORKERS

A NATIONAL 35-HOUR WEEK

LOWER ELIGIBILITY AGE FOR IMPROVED
SUGIAE SECURITY BENEFITS

ot ke *
This is:the UE way.

The UE way means struggle, stepping on the toes of ithe com-
pany and politicians, bucking. the tide at times.

The alternative is to team up with the company and any and
every politician including MeCarthy, taking the path of least

resislLance, giving up any idea of a fighting independent union. *

The IUE-CIO leadership represents this altefnative. — *

This is why you don’t see an TUE-CIO job fight.

This is why James Carey, the IUE-CIO. President, can tell
the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce that he will help put
over “cost reduction” schemes even if they mean a “50 per cent
layoff * (Schenectady Gazette, April 1).

This is why the Carey crowd worked with “eflivienc ty experts”

_in National-Radio to dump one out of four LUE-CIO members

(Business Week, March 6). = :
This is why the [UEers try to divert attention from Schenee-
lady layoffs by falsifying the facts of layoffs elsewhere (sée
page 5). :
The alternative represented hy the IUE-ClO means, in prac:
lice, letting the employer and other outside forces :take over
and smash the job fight. For example:

SENIORITY

j Si .
lhe ‘seniority idea was developed by unions to give members
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BUMPING...

DOWNGRADING --.| LAYOFFS

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~ ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS

Thursday, June 10, 1954 o

WAY. TO KEEP AMERICA WORKING IS TO IN-
; CREASE PURCHASING POWER THROUGH:

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—GéE READIES

ROBOT SHOPS

General Electric plas shortly
to install more antomatic: tma-
chinery similar to the Bldg, 85
punch press with the built-in
electronic “brain,” it was re-
vealed in the Mall Street Jour-
nal, Jaume 2.

The new push-button machines

Soon to.go inte operation, accord-
ine to, the Hall Street’ Journal,

avill perfor m such functions as

drilling, riveting, stapling, even

electrical testing on many dif-

ferent prodticts.

Wholly automatic machines
will throw miiiy out of work
unless: GE workers unite be-
hind UI's program for.a 35-
héeur work week at 40 hours
pav and other GLE proposals to
build up employment and pur-
chasing power.

Describing the Bldg. 85° set-
up as another step toward’
push-button factories, the Hall
Streel Journal says ‘admiringly
that ‘wholly rebot-like ma-
chines” are doing “machining
and assembly work, formerly
done by many men.”

The operation of Gle's auto-
miattic punch press which di-
rects and adjusts itself to. dif-
ferent production problems is
deseribed by the fournal:

“Here’s how it operates: An
electronic device receives in-
structions from perforated
cards, whose perforations rep-
resent a code describing the
size, number and location of
holes or other shapes to be
punched. The electronic de-
vice, or ‘brain,’ then feeds im-
pulses based on this informa-
tion to the press’s mechanical
parts, causing the automatic
positioning of the materials to
be punched and ‘the perform-
ance of the punching chores
with great accuracy.”

C10 SOLUTION.

Do wage cuts and speedup
save jobs, as claimed. by ClO
leaders? ‘Phis newspaper: re-
ported on April 29° that
GAWECTO officials agreed
to sell payeuts and Speedup
to W illys ita workers as a

“job saver 7) ‘

Here is tle. list results as
reported in, the: Hall. Street
fourtial of june 3:

“Willys Motors: Inc. ‘laid
off about 900 production
workers for one week begin-
ning yésterday.” p

dg. 273 Man
Wins Bump Case

Vhe right of .a worker to
exercise his seniority and bump
tights on a plantwide basis was
successfully defended this week

hy UI otal 301 ina grievance
forSanford L ippman, Bldy. 273,

“Lippman was handed hisday-
olf notice on Mity 28, On June
1, he was offered a job as a
sweeper, [Te protested this be-
cause his < seniority « (service

date-— 11/19/51) entitled him

to a better joh. However, in
Violation of the UIE-GIE: ‘na-
tional contract which guaran-
tees plantwide seniority, the
company refused to let him go
to Bldg. 1 personnel,

Uls Local 301 won agreement
that Lippman's plantwide sen-
jority rights would be respected.

GE's Latest
Layoff Figures

Latest company layoff figures
covering two weeks ending
May 21 show a total of 180
new “out the gate” layoffs and
18+ transfers, the vast majority
invelving downgrades,

r

Plenty of Work — Few Workers

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rae

ANOTHER JOB VICTORY

UE SAVES 2,700 JOBS

AT BALTIMORE PLANT
UE. did it. again! ‘The Navy had announced that it wa

lifting a $30 inillion contract from Westinghouse in Balti-

more and was giving it to a California, sweat shop. Baltimore,

hard hit by mass layoffs in the ae aak ean
shipyards and stvel mills, fo save some 2,600 Lurbine
groaned, jobs from moving out of West-

inghouse's plant in Essington
UE Local 130 raised a storm 8 ys cee

P Pa, ta a low-wage area in
in the plant and in the com- > yeas Bey Saye Stews

. : a - Iwansas City,
munity, Workers and citizens C 5 UE ; re

. “ ; arey's fers of course
rallied. “The Navy changed its gneured at the Le soxdem os
mind. Some 2,700 jobs were 2° a et co RO
sauteed tory, in .effeet, discouraging
ae oO, ‘ e, : . i .

workers from taking ‘action, to

~ save their jobs from sliding out
from under them.

This job vietury-cameon the
heels of U's stiecessful fight

" THE FIGHT FOR JOBS ©

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job security. UE carried this fight to its farthest point to date
PLANTWIDE SENIORITY.

This is the first contract clause the TUE-CIO surrenders to
the company —a down payment for company help in a raid.
Bitter strikes sometimes follow as in GE Syracuse and Westing-°
house Cheektowaga plants ina vain attempt to win-back UE’ 8

plantwide vendoblty: ans 4
BUMPING fg

Once plantwide seniority is given up by the IUE-CIO, workers
find they can no longer bump in accordance with UE’s strict
plantwide seniority. Their bumping rights are limited to ‘a
department, section group or altogether ignored as in Lynn,
Pittsheld, Syracuse. Workers accordingly “Gnd themselves out
the gate that much sooner or at the bottom of the labor grade.

RATES

UE’s contract clause protecting piecework rates especially
in methods, changes and transfers is never so valuable as when.
there are layoffs and increased pressure on rates. The inferior
piecework rate clause in the IUE-CIO contract with GE repre-
sents the ‘price of accomodating the company, Only the UE:
contract ‘guarantees strict payment ‘of previous earnings in
methods chariges or when operators are temporarily maken off
their jobs.

LAYOFF PROCEDURE

Under the UE contract, the company has to give the union

'. advance notice of layoffs, the MPEG, the seniority lists covering

all affected workers..
The IUE-CIO surrendered this clause.

Under the UE contract, an employee selected for dismissal
must be advised personally, given reasons and the right to hay
a union representative present. ; *

The IVE-CIO surrendered this clause.

DEFENSE OF THE UE CONTRACT IS AT THE
HEART OF THE JOB FIGHT

ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS

. ¢ oe Kelly, | ‘Uls

took up a complaint hy Dave.

JOHN GREEN, Bldg. 66,

Says—''l'm for UE. because it's
the union. worked for, fought
for, earned. by many people 17,
18, 19-years ago. | can: see. no

“reason. for supporting the IUE-

CIO which is a paper union,

unearned, but created by the
CIO and. taken. off the hook by
GE for the sole purpose of de-
stroying UE. i the present
IUE-CIO group are so sure that
the IUE-CIO is the proper union
for Schenectady workers, why
didn't they support James Carey
back in 1942, 1950 and 1951,
instead of waiting until 1954?"

WIN INCREASE.
IN BLDG. 16

Steward,

George that the prices on a
particular grinding lathe job
were not right, The foreman
said they were based on a table
used on other jobs, Kelly
showed why the tables’ should
he revised. Brother George now
has a better rate.

‘to give the

Fights for efter Offer
s GE Counts on [UE Raid

UE is battling in negotiations ‘with GE for a better general wage increase and for recog:

nition of the special needs of day workers, crafts, women and pensioners.

The company.

taking advantage of the Carey-Jandreau deal to disrupt Schenectady GE, so far refuses Lo

improv ¢ its offer and insists on eal =
I5-month extension of the GE, which runs until April, 1955,
chiibrack, withottt a reopener. IUKE-CIO negotiators were also
meceting—-but witha gun at their
heads. The JUE -C1O contract
is now.on a ‘day-by-day basis and
can be cancelled by the company

Negotiations are continuing.

As UL negotiated for im-
provements int .its contract with

Expose Erie Layoff Story
As Latest IVE-CiO Hoax

To the rigged meetings, the mis-appropriated funds, the
faked photos, you can now add the phony Erie story.

On June 2 and again on June 4, the 1UEers s published the
false and. vicious statement ania
that 7,800 GIE workers were
laid off in [Erie The TUE-C1O
gang actually jeered over what
would have been, if true, a
great tragedy in the lives of
thousands of GI workers and .
their families. ;

Fortunately, it was only an
other FUR-CTO hoax.

ports that most layelfs in erie
are in steel, auto and electrical
plants represented by-C1O
‘nions.

This teint TUE-C1O. fraud
Was fitst passed out as a leaflet
at the ‘Turbine gates ta” divert
attention from Ulé’s disclosure
that the eompriny plans a one

The TUE-CLO. simply tools ‘third euthaek in ‘Purbine, The
the total unemployment figure [U's leaflet advised Turbine
for the city of Erie which was apiece not to worry, the PULE-

7500 and added 300 GE layoffs, ClO knows politicians.
impression that ‘The CrO Steel Union also
workers are out On knows politicians but — that
doesn’t help 4,000 jobless
ALCO workers,

7800 Gt
the street.

The Irie labor bureau re-

Here cme Seniority Dea

One of the facts of life that has been pl aguing the IUE-CIO. raiders is that UE is the
only union whose national contract with GE provides plantwide seniority.

In order to try and throw up a smokesereen about this and about the fact that virtually

every TUE-CIO GI shop has

departient seniority or worse -

the Carey-Jandreau clique an-
pained recently that the [UIs-
had won plantwide senior-

in a supplement covering’

Nahisville ak,

Since the 1Uers very care-

fully ‘did NOT give a’ single

line of actual text of this sup-
plement, UE. Local 301. decided .
to do some investigating” on its. +
“awn hook.

Here are’ some of

ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS

ina Broupy

are. Jaiolf,

the Thetis nndavereils
1 Any worker who is
bumped hy another employee
has no bump rights at all. He
t she goes right. out’ the gate.
2, Workers with over one
year's service can bump, but

only the shortest service worker : - Sc
This means. that 4. Tf TUL's: Louisville “sen-

ivrity” were applied here, hun-
dreds. ow, :
an the street, a UE Lucal 301
survex showed.

3 Under ‘the ‘serup sorters
with under a year’s
aiuew plant like Louisville, this
includes the majority of wark-
ets) have either no bamp rights
at all or the most: limited: de-
partment bump rights.

regardless of your rate, if you
dt almost always
means taking the very lowest
piying jobs in the plant.

‘that of the UIe’s.

service Cin’

working would. be’

hy giving 10-days fhatied

At best Carey can hope to get
a new contract fare interior to
The LUE-ClO
agreement with Glf has no. pro-
vision «for guaranteeing plant-
wide seniority and no effective
piece rate protections.

The situation tears the
mask from Jandreau's pre-
tense that his splitting. of
Schenectady GE workers
was -aimed. at improving
the ITUE-CI1O contract.
The fact is that as the re-

“sult of the split, GE was
brazen enough to make the’
worst offer in five years.

(In trying to carry out
the act about IUE-CIO
“strength” Jandreau first ._
hailed the contract as the ©
“best in five years” but
when even Carey was
forced to condemnin the of-
fer as ‘inadequate,’ Jan-
dreau changed his line.)

One thing is clear. GE
is happily taking advan-
tage of the Carey-Jandreau
raid in these negotiations.
Not only has the company
offered only a nickel wage
- raise, but did so on a “take
it or leave it” basis.

Another indication of GI's’
profiteering on the split is the
company announcement that

‘by cutting pensions it would

continiie to pocket amy in-
ereases in social security,

Addressing the UIE Local
Sol membership meeting. Mon-
diy night, UL Secretary-Treas-
urer Julius’ Emspak ‘branded
the company offer as a “cheap
and rotten thing.’ He urged
joint action between the Ul
and LUE-CIlO General Metric
Conferenee Boards” behind a
united program to win a decent
offer,

This proposal feiltongy eda sim:
ilar call for united action nave
hy the UL Logal 301) pulics:
comunittee in a telegram to Teo
Jandreau, Jandreau has often
said thas union differences
should net stand in the way of
united action when the wages
and working conditions of the
workers ane at stike,
has a chance to prove that in
this at least he avas- sincere

Thursday, June 10, 1954 ©

“Me anaw... .
) , roup oS
nited Fight in Bargaining |

Pushing aside differences between UE and IUE-CIO, the UE Local 301 Policy Comn
. tee last week called on the.TUE-CIO group to do the same so that GE workers could get’
better ‘offer from the company- in the current national negotiations. es
ee ka an he Specifically, the UIE policy .
cummittee urged the LUI-CLOQ wage and contract. proposals ‘ es

Wake Powerhouse ita ake Wigegusareg Mh Neg a al ee oe : ISSUED BY UE LOCAL 301, 201 BROADWAY oo 7 JUNE 14, 1954

UIE Conference Board’s long

ELSA FERGUSON, CIC
aa art Fe o: oe D : % eo. standing proposal that two .~ icy ca saa iar has
2 red i a ; nN y boards meet to map out acum- brought “the worst. offer in
pressed and thrilled by the Cmanas in Mo Ho © bvards meet to map out a com g

; J ia mon program in national nego- — five years.”
Second “UE: National Confer- Leo Cummings, Ul Steward © tiations. ]
ones on the Problems of Work- in Bidg. Ol, went to New York “The only sensible way is to greeted GI’s nickel offer as : ee i
_ing Women. | attended the first to join the UL national neg work. together in negotiations “the best in five years” but iss a ee \ ine ‘i A ees few me)
UE national women's conference —tiating committee in stating and not allow the company tu * switched after Carey announced : "es oo, ~ :
as-an observer and | know that the demands of the powerhouse take advantage of our dilfer- from Washington’ that it is a . Schenectady GE workers think before they act, and they think before they vote.
va sation’ fiat a is a iene “hwo of the lngy de. ences,” the UE policy body’ “the worst.” ; Ne That’s ‘why the raiders have been twice crushed in 1950 and 1951 by the votes of Schenectady GE workers.
“bailing og sna spreseling' vk fade ate: doublets far all, stated, : Both unions now agree, said a When we go to the polls, there'll be plenty to think about — the UE Contract which has protected us and our
| know how important this fight Sundays worked and pay for ~The meeting of the two fle UE Leto that the o fer 1s ae families® for more thar 17 years — the drive by the company, the 7 aft-Hartley Board and the IUE-CIO to destroy that
is because | remember when | _ @ll holidays not worked, ‘boards was proposed in a otally imacequate. ae contract — our jobs, our seniority, our working condtiions, and yes the ability to feed and clothe our families decently,
worked in CAP how | had to do Demands of the continuous - wire to. Leo Jandreau, as _the ULE Local 301 Policy . ; 4
service workers were drawn up Business Agent of IUE-CIO | Committee composed . of GE
man's pay. | am fighting for UE at meetings im UI Local 301 Local ool. Jandreau was re- workers from every building of
; ae headquarters, ‘The workers at . Minded that he had urged — the Schenectady Works. mét
because | want to remain united these meetings voted to pit the workers. to switch to Wednesday. Present and voting
with the wonderful people their demands-in petition ; FUE-CIO..on, the grounds . fora joint approach to current
throughout the nation who are. and circulate them throughout, that this “would force the. negotiations were: : :
fighting against discrimination." - the powerhouses. . ‘company ‘to make some real

The Jandreau group at first’

a ‘man's job’ but never received

: Bete WIE ee  ~IWE-€16
JOVERNORS OFFICE GIVES LIE To)aNDREAU) | secu BE _ CONTRACT .

Member 3 _ Bldg.

Max Stoliaroff ... oo Contract Running Uniil April, 1955 Inferior Contract on Day-to-Day

‘ ila Fiera vas Reef . +. Protecting All the Gains of 17 Years. Basis Since.June 1,
corge B fev ; : .

— scm i : : i cia isha — James LaGrange . . ey , : : e es re) yW
SCHENECTADY GAZETTE, FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1954 0. = J. L, Pettinger ......, : ~ E Nid Fee i

Helen Quirini ........ : ( )

C ° t P f NI RB V ii Bradford M. Sommers = Full Piantwide Seniority Guaranteed Lost Plantwide Seniority as in
orsl 0 ress ror A ote ee Clayton. W. Kelley ... ye By the UE Contract. ' Lynn, Syracuse, Pittsfield.
[lareld G. Johnson
assigned bles . ‘ Roy oe \ “ SS a ss, / of ; .
gy Salvatore Castiglia iad ‘ —_ ‘ Workers . .. Lower PW Earnings...
hehalf of 1UR-C1IO Loeal 301, Leo ; : ,
and other officers of the Schonec-(t 8 4 Je * im AS t0s a i Austin H, Grann ...
s Ro + Desire

ik NEW f ye _
euss Ue Inbor problem here, + Se ‘ NO po fA tne ed N1lig A « .
ev Garal's role, dandeeni alt “te Reustoig, 18 fo en » | William C, Gibson . And Strike Settlements. “Bush Button Strikes’ Have Taken Place in
Bin Murch, HT interven Qhr hag geet ar tion aye i ol Al Delefano ........

x eneotagy i nat t Hicge ed Toe laren La Ss Myrtle Seastrand ...

. : Ray Clark ........00: .
Behalf of IUE-CIO Hex Arte Christian cl ae ON | WAGES
on e a. 8) : = e & : Archie Christian ... Be ; . : ,

A BBtg wird Cori, New Yank stagey| aaa, 2 UO TE LORe, * Clarence Wilkie ...... Best Wage Rates of Any UnioninGE.. .. Wages 20c, 30c 40c an Hour Below UE Rates
int gommissloner, his bed join D. Smith .... = fp Fs Protection of Piece: Work Earnings. - .. Lower Rates for Toolmakers, Crafts, Day
Dewey to inter ea) Terai < . ,

@ tional Labor Relations Bourdon pmpaliov oe Julius J. Weissman . * ;
ena or eG tae 7 Lg} ¢ Colemin O'Neal 2. eos . _ No Effective Rate Guarantees.

woe , ; ape te soe, eo i Dorie Paaallke oft . . —

§ JANDREAU, who ix hisinoss } s too ‘; Louis I assikoft vit

Hakent Tor the Tocul, added that hel] . Vie ; ° George M. Criscione [ a ; . :
tudy unit wil meet with Corsi Mon- G ; : ameiet roe : oo .

any at ii ate iy attapy vo diel ks Eler CFP iormine eS OMe So P Nicholas Fioriti .... . Membership Must Vote on Strikes NO Right to Vote on Strikes!

Corsi's role, Jandrenu added, will ‘ 8
he to press the NLRB to eal a Omissions Bh Cors; ct! Comme Raymond Ewing ..... af biancks
i imrgaining eleetion In Schonveludy, ‘ E Ts nt sean na E Anthon: F I olik ° x ‘ , : . Lynn and Pittsfield.
Which waa requested by Loca, 301 ; ‘; . . in satin ti : , r
Warning of the danger it the tiongy G8 dn py eetled * Scheneotady telat Bye eet Ralph Lasher-. oe...
. H f i ‘ Ernest L. Constanzo . “3 . ‘
, . °
eS ’ ancy ent Tee list aS B. Cavanaugh ...... : ; Tr ke | : a f 7 ff
ii ee, et eee | P! Rasiteh : o Kee our 17 years’ contract gains!
| oh ‘ Ar Mis mon 6: Te & : are :
1 *aul M. Hardendorf
F, J. Melrose .......
os - — Bat ” Albanese RO S. Rusazezyk oo. eae

Harold S. Rolling ....15-17-19
Ernest W. Kopper ...... 77

v 5 1°) BEFORE RN “i tsa eo ames 8 : . R.S. Simmons’
IS EXPOSED BEFORE NIGHT! Mere Sy Mit [RSS Sines
: -_ eb t' mM iy cite | eC to AN

Seniority
OE spoke:in Lynn, Mass., to. GE
workers two weeks agos-they are
represented by the TUE. They told
me that speedup and, transfers out

ram epant through-
“Lynn plant.”

dreaiu. letter io President, '

..3, Feb. 26,1951"

Unit
“There are forces who urge us to
substitute for the principle of unity
and democracy . within. our own
ranks, divisions, aiwitchhunts and
purges.”

Resolution “Against Red-Baiting”
presented by Jandrean to 1946" UE
National Convention,

rolled by ihe semberahy and the membership: alone, in ac-

Secession

“No. honest. trade unionist-can condone raiding or secession.’
—~ Speech to. 1949-UE National Convention, page 220

IUE- CIO “Big Lie”

tei issa pity cute any *garsible person would Become dittiled
over poison. prot winda issued by a-union-busting outlit such as
the LUE-CIO, especially after “being No ps on the, hit: parade of
‘telling the Big. ie? Hie.

Jandreau letter 1: James]. M: aules, Jan. 26, 195]

%

f living and. better working conditions for our members.”

fice rs Report, 1949, Signed by Jandreau, Mastriani, White.

fale) “Help”

“We never got one minute of help or one penny of money from
CIO: when we.organized GE, or in all the long years since.”

Jandreau Letter to Members, Sept. 8, 1951

Outsiders

“Once againa group from outside Schenectady, the HUL-CIO,
has come to-town to try to break up our Union, UL? Local 301,
Mostiof the people TUF has brought into town for this job-are not
the sort you would want to have in your home.”

: Jandreau Letter To Member’, Sept. 8 1951

“UE has nearly ‘doubled the wages of GE workers and established an effective grievance procedure, paid
holidays, time and a half for Saturday work and double time for Sunday work as such (regardless of the num- .
ber of hours worked during the week), automatic job progressions, seniority that provides length of service shall
be'the determining factor in layoffs and rebirisigy vastly im proved working conditions.”

Message to Mica Insulator Workers, June 24, £952, signed
by Jandreau, Cognetta, ‘Mastriani and others,

PRISE T EES

A Message From Essington
Westinghouse Turbine
Workers To Schenectady
GE Turbine Workers
Sy eel
eee

hy pod

Hoes

pte hh
pe

i

threatened when top leaders of our local, UE 107, headed by busi-

' ness agent Bradley, made a deal to switch us to the IUE-CIO, The
Westinghouse management félt this was an opportune moment to move
in on our conditions, destroy our incentive earnings and our seni-
ority rights. We were faced with the prospect of 2,600 jobs mov=
ing out of our plant... The IUE-CIO raiders, led by James B, Carey,
tried to sabotage. our campaign to save our jobs.

“UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO AND MACHINE WORKERS OF AMERICA

— ~ os". Carey*s sabotage failed, Essington workers defeated
sas Gen iea i avenue) 3: the IUE-CIO raiders by an overwhelming vote of 5,046 for UE to
only 1,048 for the IVE; Now we can report success in protecting
; nao. 3.9221 our jobs, and the wages and conditions we have won in our 17: -
TINICUM 3-9 net years under the UE bamner, Our local union, UE 107, with the help
and cooperation of the International Union and of the UE Washing-
ton Office, stopped the move of 2,600 jobs from our plant.

ESSINGTON, PENNA.

1954 — . bo Now you in Schenectady are faced with the same kind of

IUE-CIO raid, You are faced with Carey's sabotage of your fight.
against company job moving and attacks on your wages and conditions,

UE Local 301, | ‘ . . : ; We are confident that you will do what we have done ~ re-
Turbine Division Workers, . ject the Carey IUE-CIO raiders; protect your UE contract, wages,
201-1/2 Broadway, . ao ‘seniority, conditions, the best in the industry. - —
Schenectady, New York. eg ot er "4 7 ae a He =

We are looking forward to the time when once again we can
Dear Brothers and Sisters: ; ; ‘move forward together =.umited Turbine workers = to improve our jobs;

- : Lo : ‘our wages, and: our conditions under the benner of UEe
We, at Essington, Pennsylvania, Westinghouse, members = : oe
of UE Local 107, wish to take this opportunity to speak to our In the meantime, we want you to know that Essington Tur-

fellow Turbine workers at Schenectady GE about the problems that . bine workers are ready to give you any help you need in winning com
we all share, a ’ plete victory over the Carey raiders and the General Electric Company.

- . In effect, these are the problems of American Turbine Fraternally yours,

workers since between our two plants, we produce over 90% of the : -
turbines made in the United States, Many times in negotiations, 4 £ aA/f

the Westinghouse Company has tried to put us against you, and

we're sure that GE has done the same. They have failed only be- - (Paxcgitent }

“cause we have stood united in UE,

Only a few short months ago, that unity was first . (Business Representat, ve)

TCC TCAL 07 RES 7 . | 7 (
BOWINS. EVIE. a , | ae, | | To
70d | ! ESSINGTON WESTINGHOUSE WORK- “7 ef a1 COR . = MAGE Chie? Steward )
ERS PICTURED AS THEY CELEBRATED ; “ee fg fp 7
THEIR OVERWHELMING VICTORY
OVER THE IUE-CIO RAIDERS. THIS VIC-
TORY PAVED THE WAY FOR AN EVEN
GREATER TRIUMPH — SUCCESS IN
KEEPING THE COMPANY FROM MOV-
ING 2,600 JOBS TO A NON-UNION
SWEATSHOP IN KANSAS CITY.

RCRA gies r see AC | e ‘ ; : : : : 4 ‘ 7 ‘
or BARC SOS RSS ANS SG ; .

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE EMPLOYEES OF THE WESTINGHOUSE
ELECTRIC CORPORATION AND RELATED ACTIVITIES AT ITS SOUTH PHILADELPHIA WORKS .-

SASS
EXQUNNSS
SANG
RY

RN
we a
Ran
tae Sy HEN

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NOAM Sie

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Kasay |

a i
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BS HIN

in IVE-CIO Schenectady GE workers will keep the same seniczity
agreement we have won over the years. There will be no loss
whatsoever in IVE- CIO. . _ ae

IUE-CIO’s National Agreement with GE SPELLS OUT

ERIE BSIPIS RV TIED CL

that GE Workers ‘shall work out their Seniority ar-

Sate

‘angement “locally.”

FREES TRIONIT PIS TET:

i

UNITING 300,000 WORKERS IN 900 PLANTS. FROM COAST-TO-
COAST IN A DEMOCRATIC RANK-AND-FILE UNION WHICH
STRIVES TO BETTER THE WORKING AND LIVING CONDI-
TIONS OF ITS MEMBERS AND THE AMERICAN WORKING
PEOPLE.

AINA TRAR SE ie ne

WE THE ELECTRICAL, RADIO. AND
MACHINE WORKERS (UE) form an organ-
ization which unites all workers in our indus- ; pee Note that IVE-ClO’s National Contract is “subject to all Local
try on an industrial basis, and rank and file :
control, regardless of craft, age, sex, nationality,

Understandings.” This guarantees that our Local

race, creed or political beliefs... .. . ae vy - Seniority Supplement remains in full force

— Preamble, UE Constitution and effect in IUE-CIO.

ARTICLE XKI
Loca UNDERSTANDINGS -

he provisions of this Agreement are ubje
2 resent local: understandings E

remain

Senn Resend

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ae a ae
syew dy

yee aay tine ¥

daiapssed eA aI i eR are nif

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Re ‘ eae : i Bes feat

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In 1UE-C1O Schenectady GE ¥ orkers Will Keep Our Same Local Seniority Agreement
The Same Way as all These Other GE Workers Who have Quit UE and Joined IUE-CI0

M

/

1. Layoff and Rehiring Procedure

The provisions of Article XI and Article XII of the said GH-IU" (C10) National
coi a By Agreement shall be deemed to be a‘yart of this..greement. The provisions of
tite yy PR % : Article XI, Sect.1 shall, pursuant’ to this jsreement, be specifically applied

1 Pare op Nation” 2 i within the -Fort Wayne Barzaining Unit as follows:

a

a. The factors of continuous service and ability shall be applied; first within

groups; second, within divisions; and third, on 9 nlant-wide basis, 911 as here-
inafter set forth, Tor the ‘“urposes of this Peart the tenn Terou." shall

mean a unit of employees who are under the supervision of a foreman or his equiva
lent; the term "division" shall mean a number of crouns under the supervision of
a genersl’foreman or his equivalent; and the term "plant-widell shall mean a unit
of employees coverine the following four plants located a ort Vayne: ,

AGREEMENT

hetween Se, : me an: ae Bs 2 Broadwey Plent 1635 Broadway ° “Minter Street Plant 1605 Winter Sti" ¥
General Electric Company (Philadelphia Plant). ee, € : ¥ avlor Stree ant 2000 Taylor St. . Fairfield “Avenue Slant 1512 Fairfield §

b,. When it is necessary to reduce the size of a groun, emplovees taken out of such
groups ‘shall be those generally having the least continuous service, providing
the remainine employees can do the job with no more” than. incidental trainin:

i

@ Quring any reduction in working force or
the layoff of employees from their regular jobs,.

chal be applied Re ae es —_ a oc, Group surplus employees, selected as provided above, may be placed on other jobs
specified. herein and then on a plunt-wide basis, Buy : : 4 within the division, by assigning them to the existing vacancies or by displacing}
, employees having less continuous service who are assigned to jobs which the sur- |
plus employeés sre cualified to nerform. Thus, those employees retained under the
jurisdiction of the veneral foreman shall be those havine the reatest continuous®
service and able to nerform the work with no more than incidental traini‘g, “m-
ployees not retained in the division, after the foresoing procedure has beer

followed, may be referred to the employment office for_niant—wide disposition.

a:
P rq,

b, q re : z oe ; ,
J 7} ra ore i rm \ NS) . | ‘ee
Matgg ale Sd 3 ORs # Font OSU Le FAL ESN go poe ; LL OOR The above Supplement between Fort
4 ry i
e Boo gate “an : 3 rie ; . : : : s 4 : :

Wayne GE and IUE-CIO Local 901

é ; proves that not only is Seniority
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY é

Lunges Blanks) | ot a . f | ae ! hiring Atter ot oe a a ‘plant-wide, but it is City-wide be-
— . . a tween the four big G-E Buildings,

along the same pattern as it is here -

A(b) In re-hiring employees after layoff, an Schenectad

applied on a planb-wide basis, shall emai tor i
hiring if the employee'is able to do'the available work in a satisfactory
manner after a minimun amount of tralning.

f Sea ART Ry eH

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