Robert Barnes
_ We would like to have you meet
Robert Barnes, an TUE Local 30 L steward.
Bob has heen with the G.E. Company
for 9 years, Since his return from service
with Uncle Sam's Army he has worked
in the Atomic Energy Division.
Here. is what he has to say about IUE-
ClO:
“We ‘as workers in the AEC know
that for many, many reasons. the IUE-
CIO is the only union that can do the
job of bargaining for the workers in our,
field, ‘The UE is: strictly out as far’ as
negotiating for us.
“We want the best union in the CIO
to take care of our problems, we also
want a-union that will be representative
of us. Not an organization that is so:
subversive: that it cannot even send. its
officers in to handle our grievances.
“It's about time that all the workers
in the GE system ‘get together as ‘they
did’ in GM and. send the UE fakers on
their way. We are all together in our
support ‘of a real trade union, the IUE-
clo! !" E
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SHORT
CIRCUITS.
(With apologies to L. F.)
NEW OATH:
The Communist Party has a new loyalty
oath: .
Cross my heart, hope to die
I'm nat a member of the FBI!
NEW SLOGAN:
The CP also has a new campaign to get
members:
If you get three members for the Com-
munist Party, or if you get three, new
subscriptions. to the Daily Worker, you
won't have to pay Party dues for six
months, OR-if you sign up five members, ”
or five’ subscriptions you will get a cer-
tifcate that younever belonged to. the:
Communist: Party. , :
WHAT ODDS?
Over atthe Campbell Avenue Plant
some brave UE steward tried to bait an
IUE group by offering 2 to 1 odds on a
UE victory. When the IVE men called
the bluff, the odds were lowered to 3 to
2.-Then-on a show of money, the UE'er
“pulled out altogether. The TUE unit: is
now offering .2' to 1 odds on its victory,
but’ still ho. tak Come, come, com- 4
rades, do you watifus to spot you 2,000 Mes
"votes 2 ,
The IUE-CIO News
oo newspaper dedicated’ ta the prin-
ciple of maintaining the highest ideals of
the Labor mavement ag expressed through
the policy of the CEO, :
CO-EDITORS.,
Kernlo Valachovie
John Marshall
LOCAL OFFICERS
Presldent ooo. cccccec eee Milton Danke.
Vieo-P resident. seeeeeee John Warren
Mecording Seeretary....... Frank Florillo
Asst. Ree Seeretury.........Ann DiCerbo
Treasurer coos Carmine DIGirolamoe
hop, Stewtrd.....cc.e ee Jolin Ref
Agent... Prank ©. Kriss
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In numbers.
Vote for a strong
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Piatt
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UE Steoge —
Speaking of stooges, get a load of this
guy. Henry’ “Kaminski, -UE> Local 301,
treasurer, : 7
Kaminski, the stalwart UE flunky, has
now taken to saving GE money, even
when. GE doesn’t want to save it: ,
Seems as if John Jeraleman. was trans-
ferred from Blig: 50. to Bldg. 76, but
continued to do the same joh, with the
same classification, :
John's sharing rate in No. 50 was 69
pereent,-and he was guaranteed, the Lop
rate-in his new place of work,
But company stooge Kaminski. went
crying to GE heewuse John was making
the best rate. .
After. 30° years. experience -at GE
Jeraleman wasn’t entitled to a decent take:
home’ pay, according to the UB. stooge,
_ GE; believe it or not, wanted to give
Jolin his rating ia the new job, but
Kaminski caused such a stink that 2 vote
had-to be. taken in ‘the department.
TUE steward Myles Barry fought for
Jeraleman, while” Kaminski tried — to
under-cut him, .
After sufficient UE: knifing John had
to take a 62 percent rate,
At last it can he seen what UE means
when it calls itself “militant” -— they're
“militant” company stooges,
» The Word or Phrase
The 301 Executive Bourd 3
Ty
Many Members Paid
PASCHE'S FIRST READER
A glossary of common UE words and phrases gleaned from
Vie and Leo's New International Dictionary
Served Notice... Leo Jandreau flexd those Jandreau. muscles and. said
“Bao,”
UE Wins Bie G toescoees UE puts two cents in the workers left packet, Phen
it-snitches 10 cents from his right. ,
SPeed stp ecco ccsseereese A thing usually caused by UE gang leaders so that
: Vie can cry great big crocadile tears all .over
his EU News, :
PARC ese cote ccctecesnesenseense cece This word is used hy Vie to describe TUE gains. He
uses it to contrast IUE gains with Real Gains—
like''the, UE's $500 package.
UE Stewards Me seoceoA half dozen stewards nodded their heads sleepily
while Vie spouted the CP line.
UE Dues ... Se ee coe Transhited, this phrase, an obscure one, means,
. “many members contributed their copies of the
EU Neves to the UE Women's Club paper drive.”
Who's Who in UE
Phis is the filth in a sevies of articles on the
big shots in UE, The material for these-articles
is taken from) authentic Gavernment information
“ RUTH YOUNG f
As Executive Secretary of UE District
‘I, Ruth Young, is one of the top Com-
~munist Party string pullers in the red
» labor movement,
. Ruth’s- married name. is Mrs. Irving
Velson, and, under this false’ front she
is a member of the New York State Com-
mittee of the CP.
‘Being a loyal member, Ruth also is
quite a “front” girl in her Spare time,
The partial list is as follows:
American Youth Congress, 1938.
International Women's Day, 1942, This.
outlit sent loving greetings to the Sovict
Union, gs ,
Jefferson School-of Social. Sciences.
National Council -of ‘Aimerican-Soviet
Friendship, 1944,
Committee to sponsor the. Daily Worker
ind the Worker 1945 Fund Campaign.
Civil Rights Congress, 1947, :
National Wallace for President Com-
mittee, 1948,
Back in 1938 Ruth penned her “JH”
to a Young Communist League mani-
festo which read: “Forward to build a
strong and powerful Communist Party,
Forward to the American October,”
Some Girl!
The Definition
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«WUE-CIO.
LISTS GE CONTRACT -
DEMANDS —
Representatives of General , Electric
workers in all parts of the United States
gathered in Pittsburgh, last week to map
out contract proposals to be presented to
the company at coming. negotiations.
After six hours of slugging through a
m of details and proposed recom
mendations from the various locals inthe
GE chain, a complete set of recommenda-
tions were resolved,
Based upon the. tremeridous profits
made by the GE Company, amounting to
“the sum of 125 million the gieatest in
, history, and sales amounting to 1 billion
600, million dollars, the GE Conference
considered evidence enough that the
workers are entitled to adjustments in
Wages, pensions, hospitalization and to
eliminate ‘the inequities that exist under
the present contract,
The following is a summary of evon-
omic and contract demands approved by
the GE Conference Board of the 1UL-
CIO, Saturday, April 1, 1950, at the
William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pa,
(1) A substantial wage increase,
(2) A pension plan, conforming
with the CIO and the IUE-CIO type,
including minimum pensions, severance
/pay and death benefits,
(3) A complete security and health
program paid for- entirely by the com-
pany, including group insurance, insur-
ance for persons immediately on retire-
ment, hospitalization and surgical care for
workers and their dependents, and non-
The IVE-CIO News
occupational accident and sickness pay-
ments amounting to ahout 2/3 of gross
pay for a period of 26 weeks.
Ci) Nine paid holidays, regardless
of what day they Fall on, and with no
strings attached, Work on holidays to be
paid at triple time.
(5) Automatic progréssion to the top
rate of the job and climination of the
right af the foreman to; pass on progres-
sion increases.
(6) Steps be taken to establish a
union shop,
(7) Elimination of | discrimination
ee
heeause of race, color, creed, sex or na.
tional origin.
(8) Differential for night shift em-
ployees should be 154
(9) The following vacation schedule
is recommended: one day for each month
up to 10 months; 2 weeks vacation to 10
years; 3 weeks after 10 years; and «
weeks after 20 years,
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STEWARDS ASK: “‘Where
April Fool's Day bas come and goie
with vo action on the part af tbe big,
bad UE ta eairy out Hs “Roocontract, na
work” threal, :
lpparently the oil) suvkers in UE
alpril Foal's praak were the CP laters
who Wied to ralrord the strike action
aerass, But the UT threat, and the big
propaganda cantpuign used lo build it np
fell flat on their respective kissers,
GI meaty still try to pull its irons out
of the fire with «_phouy walkout, bat if:
will be anlieclinitie now tak the elprél
be deadline bas Pasved aunoaticed,
. 1
Atea meeting the Uhursday before the
UE-GE contract’ expired, TRIE Local 301
stewards were bricfed on. what the pro-
cedure would be in the shop,
Many questions arose as lo what gricv-
ance procedure would be used; how griev-
ances are to be handled. anal what strings
were attached to GE's noble gesture to
“extend the terms of the contract.”
This is the first time since TUE peti-
tioned for representation in the GE plant
that the Company and UL were forced
to abandon their collusive deals so that
TUE can represent its membership,
Unlike any other company, GE has in-
sisted on bludgeoning TUE with a phony
and inoperative contract, and sticking to .
their labor sweetheart, UE.
In the past four months UE has had
the sole right to, settle grienvances and
represent the workers to management. No
“one needs to tell the GE workers. how
badly the UE has fumbled the ball in this
period.
Now that the contract has expired and
GE-UE can no longer hide behind their
legal lace. hankies, TUE stewards will
process. grievances ahd carry out their
rightful function as representatives of
rkers. coe
rethe days following the April l dead-
line, tUL-CIO has moved in on the piled: =
up grievances and started cleaning house.
Ins one department an TOE steward
got a worker 50 percent more on his job
rate, In other departments time studies
have been protested and adjusted, rates
hoested and many unhealthy conditions
straightened out.
Even management, following through
on its forced pasition of accepting TUE
stewards, has equipped. its foremen with
cards specifying which stewdrd the wotke(®
will he represented by,
The tone of the stewards. at their mect-
ing was one of determination, both to do
a job for the workers, and to see to it
that GE did not try to back-slide on its
* LISTEN!
EVERY SUNDAY
WSNY The Polish Hour
EVERY MONDAY
LISTEN!
IUE-CiIO ON THE AIR
The Italian Hour
WPTR A Report to the People of The Capital District
at 6:15 to 6:20 PM
LISTEN!
1:10 to 1:15 PM
6:35 to 6:45 PM
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Fiorillo, IUE District Director; Milt Danko, Local 301 President; Joe Swire,
International Representative; Ralph Light, Cl@- Representative.
IUE Local 301 stewards met before the April’! contract expiration to
learn. what the new procedure would be. They made it clear that
under-cutting by either UE or GE would not be tolerated.
promises,
The stewards made it clear that if Ci
should start playing footsig with the UE
again, of underscutting conditions there
would be trouble,
They affirmed,” however, that if GE
lives up to its promises, LUE would do
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the’ same, ; Bs
TUE-CTO and UE have both) com.
inithed themselves to a democratic vate of
the workers, Until this vote is held TOE
will do everything in ils power to uphold
and maintain the conditions of the GE
workers,
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The Education Committee of IUE Local 301, pictured above, put the first
part of their extensive program into operation last week. ‘Left to right
are: Art Rost, Sy Cohn, staff advisor; Dave Fisher, Mike DeLavilla, Dr.
Murphy, professor at Union College, and John Rei.
if
The first class in Parliamentary Procedure was held at union headquarters
last Wednesday night. Other courses in Grievance Procedure, Public
Speaking and Labor History are regularly scheduled during the week.
Come in, sign up, and. get in the educational swing of things.
IUE VICTORIES . |
IUE-CIO chalked up two more ¢lection victories against the defunct UE.
The vote last week at the Fomica Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio, was: [UE-
ClO, 814; UE-Ind, 244. This week at Eagle Lock Co., Terryville, Conn.: IUE-
ClO, 253, UE-Ind, 174.
To steal one of Party:Man-Pasche's favorite expressions: "You didn't
see nothin' about this in th or UE News!"
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per gans MENARD RAE EAN RENT ATRT
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The second and final report of auditors
inspecting UE Local 301 finances was
issued last week. The auditing of the
hooks was ordered by the New’ York
Supreme Court to determine if UE-301
had violated a restraining order limiting.
its expenditures to $3,500 per week,
For over a month now Certified Public
Accountants have been pouring over the
records. Some of these auditors were em-
ployed by UE, some hy TUE-CIO, A court
appointed referee was present at all times
to make sure everything was fair anid
legal, &
Several wecks ago‘ the TUE received a
preliminary report on the finding of the
“auditors, Tk showed that UE had- de-
likerately spent more than the $3,500
limit. for 8 weeks out of 13 weeks under
investigation, .
One of the weeks UE spent $11,049.65,
an aver expenditure of $7,549.65, The
report also’ revealed that UE has failed
to keep a proper account of “lost time”
expenses. And has failed to pay UL S.
Government income tax and social se-
“curity deductions made during 1949, This
oversight may cost the membership a sub-
stantial amount of money in penalties
and fines.
The first report was -hased jon the
actual amount of money spent each week
hy the Local. In order to further check
on the state of affairs, the court auditors
investigated UE’s “incurred expenses.”
Tn other words, how much money in un-
paid debts UE piled up each week,
Aguin, out of the 13 weeks period, UE
has incurred more than its share of debts
for seven of the weeks.
But the significant factor is that
UE refused to give the auditors a
certified statement that it had
turned over all the records of its
outstanding debts. . ~
Tt is obvious that the picture of UE’s
finances is even blacker than is -painted
in the .official report. Any organization
that operates openly and above hoard; in
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"Finances Still Fuzzy in UE Auditing
an honest and straight forward fashion
would not hesitate to give such a state-
ment to an accounting firm,
UE has been squandering and wasting
the membership’s money. But even more
important it has shown a callous disre-
gard for the orders of a free American
Court. ;
The court order was issued to protect
the workers, to insure that their hard
earned money was not poured down the
drain,
By its action UE has demonstrated
how much respect it has for the rank-
and-file; how, much it thinks of the mem.
hership's hest interest.
Sperry Votes
IUE-CIO 7 to 1
Over two weeks ago nearly 6,000
workers at the Sperry-Gyroscope Corpora-
tion, Long Island, N. Y., voted ine an
NERB clection.
Have you heard the: results?
The NLRB impounded all the votes: in
order to give ULE an opportunity. to ap-
peal its) phony . unfair labor — practice
charges to the labor board in Washington,
UE was in For another horse whipping
at Sperry, following true to form it filed
charges to held up the elections; to play
for time in the hope of picking up 4
lew more votes, :
UE filed similar- charges in ‘General
Motors.,: and: they were throwa out. It
filed charges at Wurlitzer, with the same
results,
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As We goto press we have received
otlicial election results at Sperry, they are:
LUE-CIO, “1,016; UE, 622,
IUE-CIO: 4,016.
UE-Ind.: 622 —
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