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WHY, GooD MORNING, MR.WILSON !
Miner's Son in Congress
- Calls for Repeal of T-H
The son of a West Virginia coal miner last week spear- "
headed what appeared to.be.a desperate rear guard struggle ©
for repeal of the Taft-Hartley act in-Congress.
Rep. Robert C. Byrd, a youthful
freshman congressman, appeared
as a ‘witness before the House
labor: committee and attacked T-H
as being “conceived in an atmos-
phere of recrimination, reaction
_and revenge and born ina moment
“of weakness.” :
Byrd was bitterly denounced for
his statement by Dixiecrat Gra-
ham Barden of North Carolina,
who demanded, “How do you dare
make such insulting reflections on
the members of Congress?” Byrd
replied that he believed he was
speaking the convictions of the
the people of West Virginia and
of mote than 16 million union
members throughout the nation,
However, Byrd’s courageous
position only served to further
underline the weakness of the. pre-
labor forces in Congress, a weak-
ness partly resulting from the
abandonment by large sections of
organized labor of the demand for
outright repeal of Taft-Hartley.
With the united front of labor
against T-IT broken, big business
OK $300 Donation
A. $300 contribution to the May-
or’s Going Away Inductees Com-
mittee recommended: by the execu-
tive bonrd was approved by the
membership. Monday. The commit-
tee is set up to give “send offs”
to Schenectady men inducted into
the armed. services,
_The members also approved the
designation of President James
Cognetta as the local’s represent-
ative on the committee,
members of Congress have been
able to turn their attention to the
job of writing new and more
vicious anti-union laws aimed at:
completely destroying the power
of the organized labor movement,
and at lowering the living stand-
ards of American workers.
Right now it appears that only.
a program of united — political
action by the labor movement can
prevent this big corporation
dream from becoming a reality.
Members. OK Year's
ae .
Service
Minimum for Shop Stewards
-Monday’s membership meeting adopted 2 changes in the
UE Local 301 constitution, but rebuffed. an eeremipe to insti-
tute a 3rd amendment. “
Most important of the changes
adopted was to make one year’s ©
membership in the local a require-
ment for.election as shop steward.
Chief purpose of ‘the. amendment
was to make sure that every union
member would have representa-
tion of a man or woman with sub-
stantial experience in the organi-
zation.
The 2nd adopted change formal-~
ized the recently voted 60¢ dues
inerease. It specified that the ad-
ditional monies could be used only
for defense of the union and the
construction of a new hall.
Defeated after long discussion
was a proposal to extend the terms
of local officers to 2 years. The
suggestion came to the'floor as a
minority report of the constitions
committee which had voted 6 to 1
against it. The minority report
advocated: the ‘move as a major
economy for the local.
. However, opponents emphasized
that such ‘n change would be a:
step away from the-traditional UI
policy of the greatest possible
democracy for all members, and of
granting the rank and file the
opportunity to review the records
of its leadership through elections
held as frequently as is practical.
The constitutions committee
majority said that it was seriously
studying other means of effecting
economies in the voting proce-
dures, A '
The membership defeated the
proposed constitutional change by
a 8 to. 1 ratio,
Two Hydrogen Furnac
Operators Win Boosts
Two hydrogen furnace operators
in Building 269 have been upgrad-
ed with rate increases which will
amount to 1644c an hour as the re-..
sult.of a grievance docket filed by
Local 301, . .
The men involved are William
Cain and George Bunt. They were
classified as C operators before the
wtievance was processed. The union
contended that their duties. were
strictly those of B operators. Su-
pervision refused to recognize this
the 2nd level, :
There, management maintained
supervision’s
proved. that the facts on which they
based their refusal to upgrade the
men involved were completely
wrong. Finally, management: gave -
in and upgraded the men. Their
old rate was $1.68%4. In their new
classification Cain and Bunt are on
a progression scale’ going up to
$1.85.
Helen Nichols was the shop stew
ard who handled the. case.
Incidentally, Bunt had not been
a union member up until the time
the docket was filed for Cain. How-
ever, when he saw the grievance
machinery’ in action he was con-
vinced that he needed the union’
too, and he applied for membership.
4 ° Friday, February 20, 1953
Question and Answer Corner
Every day in the shops, stewards
and other active union members are
approached by some of their fellow
workers and asked questions about our
union, UE. Some of these guestions
keep popping up over and over again.
For this reason, the EU News has de-
cided to launch this new feature in
which some of the most common ins
quiries are put down, together with
what we'feel are honest and complete
replies,
Question: Don’t UE workers
have the full legal right to select
their own leaders, regardless of
what the employers or politicians
think of then?
Answer: It is the position of the
UE that they should have, and ~
under the ULE constitution, they
have...that... right,
Taft-Hartley act was passed at
the instigation of the employers
to take that right away from the
However, the-
working people. The instrument
for doing so.is the T-H non-Com-
munist affidavits.
Recent indictments .of
leaders on charges that they falsi-
fied their T-H affidavits because,
though not members of the Com-
munist Party,- they were “affilia-
taed with it, shows the aim of
Taft-Hartley. To employers, and
to officials dominated by employer
interests, Communist “affiliation”
includes any political thinking or
union policy that employers do
not: like.
The purpose is to outlaw any
form of political thinking: by la-
bor, and to outlaw any. oppositiori
-to-the -policies.-approved. by. the-—-
big corporations. High taxes on
low incomes, the MeCarran-Wal-
ter act, the Taft-Hartley act itself,
labor .
and. new schemes to outlaw. in-
dustry-wide bargaining,:show how
important it is to the employers
to keep -the labor movement un-
der political control.
These are the reasons why the
T-H affidavits are the most evil
and far-reaching anti-labor provi-
sions of. the T-H act, and indicate
why labor must fight endlessly
_until the T-H act is repealed.
Question: Were the non-Commu-
nist affidavits signed by UE off
cers under oath, and if so, w
is the penalty for a false state-
ment on the affidavit?
Answer: All Tatt-Hartley non-
Communist - affidavits. are~ signed
under oath. The penalty for false:
statement is 5 years in jail and
a $10,000 fine.
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
“and. the case had to be referred to |
position ‘until it was
: pw to Congress by NMU Presi-
Friday, Februaty 27, 1953
‘Detroit UE Local 907 won an
ke to We ware increase for“em-'
ployees of the Vickers plant here,
bringing the average wage in the
shop to $2.28 an hout,. The increase
was won in wage reopener negotia-
tinos which also saw the workers
gain the best insurance plan in the
city, Under this plan, sick or dis-
ubled' employees will receive $49°a
. week for 26 weeks, instead of the
previous $42 for 13 weeks. Addi-
tional improvements were made in
qbermanent disability pension, hos--
pitalization and life insurance pro-
‘ school,
Stewards Start Schooling
SCHOOL'S IN. The camera catclies ,
the shop stewards as they listen to
Business Agent Leo Jandreau dis-
cuss the job of contract enforce-
ment at 'Puesday’s opening session *
of the UE Local 301 stewards’
Jandredu is shown empha-
sizing a particular point in: the
picture at the lower-right. >
visions, ;
kook ok
Dearborn, Mich.—Ford Local 600
has elected an almost entirely anti-
Reuther slate to the ClO United
Autoworkers convention which will
- get under way in Atlantic City on
March 22.° ‘The slate, headed by
Rresident Carl Stellato, is pledged
fight against ‘secret batyaining
by national officers with the cor-
porations, and for better organiz-
ing and wage drives anda bill of
rights to protect local autonisiny,
They also will seek to pass a -con--
stitutional amendment | banning
long-term agreements similar to.
the 5-year pacts now in effect with
the big companies, Local 600 is: the
largest union local in the country
with nearly 60,000 members. ‘
ek ke
Hamilton, Ontario—UE
420 has negotiated u 14¢ hourly
puckage inerease in a new contract
with. the Brown Boggs foundry.
The package includes a ‘Te wage
boost and another 7c in fringe im-
provements,
we kk
New York—Amendment of the
“dL conceived .. . vicious” MeCar-
yan-Walter immigration law to end
restrictions on foreign-born sea-
men was demanded by the CIO Na-
tional Maritime Union this week.
The demand was contained in a
Stress Discrimination
anger to All Workers
The danger of discrimination to
every workers in the plant was
stressed by Business Agent Leo
Jandreau this week in his discus-
sion of U’s program to end all
forms of unfair treatment based
oti sex, color or national origin.
Jandreau pointed .out that “as
Loeal long as there is discrimination
against Negroes, women or any
other group, then every worker and
every rate is threatened.”
The business agent asserted that
as long as the company could use
discrimination to force women to
do highly skilled. work for rates
‘workers have no guarantees that
their jobs won't be cut down to
that level, particularly in the event
of a depression. He noted that
during the war, some GE plants
had women on jobs as heavy as
turbine building ‘so that workers
who say, “sex diserimination
doesn’t affect, me because a woman
could never do my job” are just
kidding themselves. —
He pointed out that discrimina-
~ At Joseph Curran,
a
Peoria, Ill—Workers at the ABC
washing machine plant here have,
approved iw new: contract providing ~~ tion:
a Te to 10¢ wage inerease. The splitting one group of workers from
_pact negotiated by UI Local 1144, another by exploiting national pre-
“brings the average amount of wage — judices are among the oldest tricks
inerenses won since as, 1 1951, to in the company book for keeping
“38¢e an hour, , all wages und conditions down.
like $1.47 an hour, then skilled men-
UE To Begin Reopener Talks
With Company on Thursday
UE negotiators are expected-to open talks aimed:at get-
ting a general wage increase, eliminating of discriminatory
rates and obtaining. payment for 1953's 2 Saturday: holidays
from GE on: Thursday, March 5,
The discussions will be on those
portions of the yeirs demands
which the Ul-GE conference board
voted to present in the Spiriigg re-
opener,
The general wage increase will,
“of course, be the leading demand
of the union, and with the wage
freeze” thing of the past, it is felt
that the negotiators will be able to
make real gains this year with the
militant support of the workers.
This year’s fight to end diserim-
inatory rates will have & goals—
the elimination of. discrimination
on account of sex, the barring of
geographical differentials und the
‘obtaining of a special wage boost
for skilled craftsmen.
The holiday question has stirred
particular interest in’ the shops.
Ul’s position will be that if the
company is not willing to pay di-
rectly for Memorial Day and the
dth of July, both of which fall on
Saturdays, then it will have ‘to
make it up to the workers through
a special wage increase,
aguinst-~Negro: -workers; and:
. Class Schedule
The stewards under the follow-
ing hoard members are sched-
uled for classes next ‘week at
these times:
Tuesday, March 3, 7:30 pam:
ay Hildreth and Henry Kamin-
ski.
Wednesday, March ‘4, 7:30 p.
mut Lloyd Perue and Edward
LaBombard.
Thursday, Mareh 5 5, 7:30 pam:
Elroy Marine and Allen Town-
send.
Attendance Near 100%
Mark at First Session
UL Local 801 shop. stewards be-
an to serve notice on the company
that they will be in fighting trim
during forthcoming neyotiations
when they -turned out Tuesday for
the opening session of the stew-
ards’ school being conducted by the
local.
Business Agent Leo Jandreau
conducted the cluss which dealt
with all phases of the contract and
its enforcement. Committee men.
and women under Executive Board
Members Charles Seott, Sadie Iov-
inella and Vineent Palhzeke were
at the session, with’ attendance
approaching the 00S mark. Stew-
ards under Frank D'Amico, Perey
Everett, James De Masseo, George
Agius, Sidney Friedlander and Jo-
seph Whitbeck were slated to at-
tend classes on Wednesday and
Thursday evenings, _
Jandreau. .covered.. .the..UR-GR.
contract article by article, pointing
out the specific duties of the stew-
ards under cach provision, Through-
out the evening, the business agent
kept the floor open for questions.
Durkin Group Meets to Plan
» Amendments to Taft-Hartley __
A 15-member.committee of top leaders representing labor,
industry and the public met this week under chairmanship of
Labor Secretary Martin P. Durkin, in an effort to reach agree-
ment on what changes should be
_ Boulware Worried Plenty
- About ‘Danger’ of Unity
Growing demands for unity among the workers in the GE
chain have management worried plenty. This was revealed
‘recently by no less an authority than L. B. Boulware, the com-
pany vice-president in charge of,°” . -
~ Stewards’ Meeting
. Scheduled Monday
Monday’s meeting of the UE Lo-
cal 801 shop stewards will be the
ist session to count toward ‘the
banquet to. be given for committee
STEWARDS
MEETING
men and women gt the end of the
year. - .
Under a procedure recently
adopted by the, executive board,
_ stewards who attend 8 of the 10
remaining 1953 meetings, will’ be
entitled to-attend the banquet. This
will be an added incentive for the
stewards to attend their meetings.
The 1st two stewards’ meetings
“of the year have been among the
best attended sessions in recent
years. As a result, the committee
members have been able to do their
"jobs as representatives of the men
and women in the shops.
. The 2-meeting allowance for the
stewards. was set to‘enable them to
send alternates when it is .com-
+ pletely impossible to attend the
sessions without losing out on the
banquet,
UE Gets Dues Award ©
UE will receive $46,843 as a re-
sult of a court-decision on dividing
‘dues ‘monies ‘/held..in escrow since:
-, the 1949 split in the Westinghouse
chain, The -award divided, the
Inoney among UE, IUE-CIO and
the company. It was agreed on by
_attornies for all 3 parties,
‘2nd SHIFT
Monday, March 2, 1953
1:00. P.M. (before work)
ist and 3rd SHIFTS
March 2, 1953
.. Monday,
z 7:30 PM,
* Local 301 Hall
Tax Cut Talk Seen
As Strictly Sham
There were increasing’ signs this
week that talk about eutting in-
come. taxes for the working -peo-
ple is just talk and nothing: more.
Persons clese to Congress pre-
dicted that the only 1953 ‘tax cut
would be. the ending of the excess
profits tax, on the bigywar earnings
of large corporations.
that. the move to reduce personal
income -taxes, proposed by Rep.
Daniel Reed of N. Y., will be
pigeonholed., - a
They said,
mide in the Taft-Harley law.
In announcing membership’ of
T-H Board Chief Seeks
New Union Frameup Law
Chairman Paul Herzog of the
Taft-Hartley board this week re-
vealed that he wants new laws to
frame labor leaders.
.° Herzog told a Congressional com-
mittee that the old T-H non-Com-
munist. oaths had failed in their
job. of building frame up causes
against union officials ‘and there-
fore should be discarded. He said
that some new gimmick should be
written into law. ,
While Herzog wasn’t specific,
presumably he was proposing the
legalizing of the recent NLRB or-
der which attempted to forcesUE
leaders and other union people to
sign new and completely unlawful
affidavits. This NLRB inove was
thrown out. bya federal court in
Washington alter UE sought an
injunction to stop it. a
wY
wwiea nat ciatetnnetenclete
Bldg. 11: Several months ago,
Robert Gordon requested a trans-
fer from.2nd shift to lst shift.This
has never been. granted although
several other workers have receiv-
ed such transfers. This is diserim-
inution-<and the union demands that
it be stopped.
Blde. 16: O. TE. Daviero asks a
transfer to Ist shift. He necepted
a ard shift job at the convenience
of the company, but his doctor has
told him that he must return to
day work, Since his job can be
done on the Ast shift, the union
demands. that he be given the
change of shift he requests.
There has been a shortage of
work on job being performed by
John Gaydushek [ov several months,
Since this shortage continues, the
union demands a proper reduction
in forces.
Bldg. 19: Prices on annealing
operation were based on the layout
‘af. 8 blanks seross the annealing
belt. About lL year ago, 2nd shift
workers were ordered) by super-
vision ‘not to lord more than 2
blanks, This order was never giv-
en to Ist shift. As a result 2nd
shift group has suffered an approx
imately 8266 toss in earnings. Re-
cently the foreman. ordered the -~
group to run 8 blanks at a time,
Apparently, someone in supervis-
don blundered, and the workers
2 ° Friday, February 27, 1953
Thousands of grievances are handled.by UE Local 301
cach year at all levels from the steward up to final appeal
in New York City. To keep members posted, we shail
each week list some of the grievances that have not been
settled at the-steward-foreman level and have been re-
have been paying for it. There-
fore,’ the union demands adjust-
ment in price on all work done by
Qnd shift group within the year
that the incorrect order was in ef-
fect. .
Bldgz. 24: Mary Malik is classi-
fied as a C assembler, Her fore-
man admits that she is. doing B
work, but refuses to reclassify her.
The union demands that she be up-
graded with a proper rate adjust-
ment,
Bldg. 66: C. Smith -does not, feel
that the price on -stator frame
drawing 148D669-1L" is adequate.
Supervision has refused to either
time study the job or to apply the
proper table.” The union demands
that a proper price be assigned to
this job. e .
Bldg. 78A: Assemblers working
on large enclosing cases protest
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO & MACHINE
WORKERS OF AMERICA (UE) —
Local 301
SR 2
Published by-the Editorial’ Committee
Prosidont...-.--..---.-James J, Cognetta
Vico Presidant...n.e-enene-Joseph Alols
Troasurer..---- aeeneceenadosaph Whitbeck
Roceee ing Secrotaryananncan--Roy Schaffer
» Asstt
Chief Shop Steward..en.William Mastriant
Businoss Agent..--.--.4.-.-leo Jandreau
301 LIBERTY ST. SCHENECTADY 5, N, ¥. §
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ferred tothe executive board-rmanagement level.
the ‘failure of supervision to as-
sign proper service help on Satur.
‘days. During the week, they work
with 3 stockroom accumulators,
hut on Saturday,s when the entire
group warks, only 1 uecumulator is
‘alled in. The union demands as-
signment of full complement of ac--
cumulators on Saturdays.
Bldg. 2738: Although .an A open-
inv existed on Ist shift, R. Mon-
tanaro was forced to take a 8rd
shift job to get the A classification,
Lesser service workers have been
given, Ist shift A jobs. Therefore,
the union demands that Montanaro
be put on Ist shift.
A helper is needed on the 7”
G&L horizontal. Similar machines
have helpers issigned to them else-
where, The union demands that a
helper be added: .
Group of crane followers are be-
ing forced to list the starting time
of cach. lift. This is not a part of
their job duties, and the union de-
mands that supervision assign
praper personnel to-list the times
if it feels that such lsting is
needed.
Toolmakers’ group protests the
farming oul of work when they are
not being fully utilized. The un
ion demands that these workers be
~ given the~same- consideration: :as
other workers. in the Lurbine divis-
ion, and that the practice of farm-
ing out be stopped, :
the committec, Durkin said he wag, 1
carrying out: pledges made fj C)
President Eisenhower if his speech
to the AFL during the clection
campaign that he was going to
get advice of labor, management
and the public on changes in ‘the
law. a
Some labor leaders retarded: the
move as an attempt, to demon-
strate to Congress that organized
labor is content with amendments,
alone. All, however, agreed to go
along with the committee and. see
what happens, :
» Labor members are AFL ‘Presi- ,.
dent George Meany, CIO Presi-
dent, Walter Reuther, President
John L. Lewis of United - Mine
Workers, President George . M.
“Harrison of Brotherhood of Rail-
way Clerks" (AFL) -atid President
David J. McDonald of United
Steelworkers, (C10).
Public. members are Sumner H.
Slichter, Harvard
Cyrus §. Ching, ' former federal
mediation chiefs” Jean T. McKel-
vey, Cornell University; . Maurice
T. Van Hecke, University of North
Carolina; and Paul A. Dodd, Uni
versity of California .
Industry members are Harry M.
Moses, head of the Bituminous
Coal Operators Assn.; President
David Zellerbach,
bach Corp.
O’Donnell, Nat'l Constructors
Assn.; Vice-President Ben Morell,
Jones & Laughlin Steel Go.; and
President Frank Rising, Automo-
tive and Aviation Parts Assn.
Durkin said all members had ae-
cepted appointment and agreed to
attend the opening meeting. After
that session the gtoup will be
broken up into sub-committees,
The labor secretary said the sub-
committees plan to meet in daily
sessions until each has reached
agreement on what changes should’
be imide in tl@ Tabor law or until
“they have decided they can go no
further toward agreement,
VE Routs Raiders
UE has defeated 2 raiding un-
‘ions at the key Copeland Refriger-
‘ation shop in Sidney, Ohio. The
union retained bargaining "t)
by a substantial majority over
IBEW-AFL, while. the IUE-CIO
got only a handful of votes. The
count was UH 472; IBEW 3862; and
TUE 29, a
~~" Copeland is one of the most im-
portant shops in the 4,000-member
Sidney-Piqua amalgamated local,
ELECTRICAL UNION: NEWS
University; -
_ Crown-Zeller-°
President John J."
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“action are greatly ine
Ube s
SeRvck
IM SURE IT'S SPITE-- EVERYTIME. PROFITS INCREASE ‘THOSE.
JEALOUS WORKERS WANT Higher WAGES! -
| UE's Call for United Action
Hailed by IUE Rank and File
' UE's call for united_action has been. distributed at shop
gates of a’ number of General Electric~ plants where other
unions have bargaining rights. “Among them are the Lynn
works, where the IUE-CIO is bar-
ining representative.
According to leaflet distributors
at. the scene, the appeal was @X-
tremely well received by: the rank
and file, and “has brought incress-
ing pressure from the workers on
union:leaders who have up to now
been unwilling to recognize * that.
their members, like’ all GE work-
ers, have suffered beenuse ef the
split in the industry.
The UE eall for unity was is-
sued by the union’s GE conference
board early this month. it pointed
out that most major .benefits in
the contract .were secured before
the 1949 split,-and that as long as
’ the compiiny and its agents can
‘prevent the adoption of a united
action” program, the job. of the
workers in making any real gains
is. going to be increasingly tough.
UE’s proposal is for joint action
around a minimum program on
which all unions can agree. Such
things as a general wage increase,
holidays
payment for Saturday
d ending discrimination in pay
aid form such a mininnim -pro-
am, Both the UE and IUE-C1O
have asked for these things in
wage réopener demands on the
company. ~
The possibilities for united
wised by the
faet that both UE and IUE are
beginning the reopener talks with
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS’
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the company on the same date,
March 5. The company will un-
doubtedly try to play one union off
against the other as they have
been doing for the past 8 yeurs
during these talks.
_ ‘splitting. the workers into as many
splinters as possible.
Boulware’s deep concern over
the mounting response’ of the rank
and file in all unions to UE’s calls
for united action is contained in
the Feb. 17 GE Employee Relations
News Letter, sent by Boulware to
management brass throughout the
chain, He reports that the unions
“seem to be toying: with the idea
of joint action,” and warns that a
“big united push” may be a reality
by fall negctiations time, and that
there is even a “danger” that com-
pany splitting tactics -will be
knocked down by the workers dur-
ing forthcoming wage. reopener
discussions.
There is nothing that Boulware
fears more than a program ‘of
united action by General Electric
workers, especially now with the
wage freeze a thing of the past.
Such united action would. return
GE. employces..to the strong bar-
‘gaining position they: had before
the Boulware-inspired, , Carey-led
split in. 1949, ,
Incidentally, Boulware has' his
answer to labor unity in the news-
letter. He issues a frantic appeal
to fellow bosses to hotfoot it down
to Washington and throw their
weight around in favor of new
anti-libor legislation.
eateching Harrington’s hand,
company. over payment,
the area clear,
cial times that are ahead for. it.
Worker May Lose Hand as Price of Speedup
Jim Harrington, 32-year-old father of 3 small children, suffered
the possible loss of his right hand ‘Tuesday in an accident while
working on a speeded-up punch press in Building 17.
" Harrington, a former shop steward, was ir Albany Hospital
where the full extent of his injury had not yet been determined
when this edition went to press. ei
he would at least lost all 5 fingers, and possibly might have to
undergo amputation of his: entird hand. ‘
The tragedy oceuvred when Warrington attempted to separate
2 sheets of metal whieh had «stuck
; Union spokesmen in the division charged that the tight prives
‘and specdup in the department were largely responsible | for
the accident, ‘They pointed out that the union has beew constantly
struggling’ against attempts to tighten prices so much that work
ers would:haye to risk their limbs in order to make out.
Harrington, long an active union fighter, has played a major part
in fighting the unsafe speedup of which he was the victim. .
Another factor in the accident was the faulty materials.
cently, the union had to take 2 cases all the way up to 41 to win
payment for time lost beeause of such faultyimaterial, and there
was a tendency to tryand makeup lost time on the presses, despite
the risks involved, rather than to-get into long wrangles with, the
Another safety hazard has been created in-punch press. by the
refusal of management to- provide adequate service help to keep
~ Shop stewards in- 17: have taken up a shop collection to try to
give some help to Jim Harrington’s family during the rough. finan-
However, indications were that
together. The press tripped,
Tronically,
Re-
«pal housing authority,
Whitheck, Cognetta
Get Community. Posts
UE ‘Local :301, President James.
Cognetta will be the union’s repre-
sentative on the executive board of,
the Schenectady Community Chest.
This will give the union a spokes-
man on the coordinating body’ of
the major charitable, health’ and
welfare organizations in the area.
» A second local officer, Treasurer -
Joseph Whitbeck, was also ap-
pointed to an important commun-
ity’ post. ‘Whitbeck was named as
a member of a‘special 12-member
advisory committéé*to” the munici-
This group
will seek ‘to, obtain housing for
Negro families being displaced by
a slum clearance project east of
city hall, One of the big ‘jobs of .
the committee will be to dent Jim
Crow -housing policies which shut
“ Negro, families out of most s
tions of the city. :
In his position as 2 committee
member, Whitbeck will have an op->
portunity to. work for the UF pra. .
gram to end discrimination, wheth-
er it ke in housing, hiring ar any
other phase of community life. The
“committee will also seek housing
for white families displaced by the
slum clearance project.
Members Grab Tix
For Giveaway Loot
Showing that they have .sharp
eyes for a bargain, UP Toeal 301
members this week bought tiekets
on the union’s big 6-prize giveaway
program just about as fast as they
could be printed. Many stewards
reported that they had completely
sold out on: their original allotment. -
of tickets and that they: necded
more. Ei . .
The tickets were selling at § for-
only 25. At that price, purehas-
ers become eligible to win one or
more of the following prizes:
1. A complete $100 Easter outfit
for cither a man or. woman.
A $75 8-piece luggage set.
A $50 ease of assorted liquor.
A $87.50 electric roaster.
A $25 machinist’s tool box,
A $12.50 Shakespearian fish-—
ing reel,
“<In'addition, $5 will be given cach —
man or woman who sells one.of the
winning tickets.
Friday, February 27, 1953 ° 3
