IUE-CIO Attempts
To Stop Lynn Vote
IUE-C1O stalling this past week
has been threatening to turn an
NLRB conference to set an elec-
tion date for. Lynn GE workers
into a record-breaking filibuster
session. As this issue of the EU
News went to press, the confer-
ence had. beén on for more than
a week, with ‘the CIO doing every-
thing possible to prevent Lynn
workers from expressing them-
selves in a démocratie, secret-
ballot election.
Ul pressed for a quick vote.
‘More than 6,200 Lynn workers,
have signed UE cards. In addi-
tion, the APL has petitioned for
Lynn salary workers. TU-CTO
has been trying to use this as
un excuse to block a vote for all
of the workers,
Ul’s position is that it wants
office workers and factory work-
urs to remain together, but that
it is willing to agree to any
legitimate arrangement to make
sure that an election is held. Ore
iM suewestion is ‘that the two
groups be “globed,” that is that
i, separate” election be held for
wich = group,. but. that they he
placed in’ one bargaining unit if
. their vote indicates that they want,
the same union to represent them.
The LUESCIO « is desperately
trying to. stem the growing. UE
tide in Lynn with its usual red-
baiting, However, more and more
of the workers ‘are raising the
slogan of “Unity of the GE Big
3—Schenectady, Erie and Lynn—
2 Pages This Week
Because of the summer vaca-
tion schedule, this week’s EU
News is made ‘up of only 2
pages. Next week, the ‘Local
olf} paper will return fo its reg-
ular 4 pages,
“Big Business Plot to Impose
Federal Sales Levy Exposed
As the House Ways and Means Committee continues. its
‘ hearings on general revision of the federal tax structure, the
. big business “drive to impose a permanent sales tax,on the
ank Reports Corporation
Profits Up 17% This Year
Corpor: ation profits ‘after taxes in the first half of 1953
totaled $2.7 billion, a 17¢¢ gain over the first half of last year,
the, National City Bank August
The ‘bank's survey showed that
profits were even higher -than in-
dicated in an earlier-report by Bus-
“merous types of other ’ durable
iness Week, which estimated the
jump in profits at 890. :
The National City Bank study
covered 550 companies, mostly in
manufacturing but also including
a limited number in the mining,
trade ‘and service industries... It
found that for the second quarter
of this year, _the companies’. net
profits of “S81 cbillion. were 89%
above those of the first quartel and
260 above the second «quarter of
1952.5 Over two out of three com-
panies made more money than last
year in hoth the, second quarter
and the first six months,
In contrast to the apening half
of 1912, a. “period of relative slack-
ness in business,” uccording to the
bank study, 8 so far “has seen
record, or near-record, activity in
residential construction, in busi-
hess outlays for new plant and
equipment, in rond building and
public works, and in. the produc-
= letter admitted,
‘lien, and
newsletter reported.
tion of steel, automobiles, television
sets, household appliances and nu-
goods. At the same time, a mark-
ed pickup has taken place in the
rautput of the textile, apparel, shoe
and numerous other
pvoods industries.”
Corporations — amassed more
profits by squeezing price increas-
es out of consumers, the news-
“In many cases,”
it suid, “an. additional factor in
aunings improvement has been in-
eased selling prices, including
steel, copper, automobiles, -house-
hold appliances and gasoline, as
well as some foods, cigurets and
textiles.”
consumer
» Big egest profit jump, 78%, was
shown by the stcel industry, which
made $343.8 million in the first six
months this year. Textile profits
were up 84¢¢, totaling $39.5. mil-
electrical equipment
showed a 81% inerense, reaching
$147.3 million,
AER Anas alent cance ANNE Dass ata ta nan tabblo.
Bldg. 16: Richard, Jandreski is
employed as°a B machine repair
man, tle is getting $2.00%4 an
hour, Ile has had this rate fora
yeu, and is) entitled to an in-
UE LOCAL 301
MEMBERSHIP
STEWARDS
MEETING
2nd SHIFT
Monday, Aug. 17, 1953
1:00 P.M, (before work)
1st and 3rd SHIFTS
Monday, Aug. 17, 1953
7:30 PM...
Local 301 Hall
“no consider ation,
Friday, August 14, 1953
Thousands of grievances are handled by UE Local 30!
each year at all levels from the steward up to final appeal
in New York City. To keep members posted, we shall
each week list some of the grievances that have not been
settled at the steward-foreman level and have been re-
ferred to the executive board-management level.
erense to $2.0814 since his work
recard is. completely satisfactory.
The union demnnds that he im-
mediately be given the proper in-
crease,
Bldg. 29: G. Marcello is classi-
fied as an A mica sheet maker, job
rate $1.021%, This rate is too low
for the skills and responsibilities
invelved., ‘The union. demands that
the rate be increased,
Bldg. 60: Paul Francis is classi-
fied a B production follower,
Voreii gis utiliziny him
to operate fork lift trucks and pas-
‘senger trucks, to ‘lift and carry
heavy objects -and even to sweep
the floor, This is a complete vio-
lation of the UB-GE contract. The
union demands that management .
immediately stop these practic
‘Bldg. 81; About 2 yenrs ago, the
mune plate job was increased one
step to $1l44vs, Recently, other
Tow rated’ jobs were reviewed ‘and
increased, but this job was given
mands a proper evaluation and
rate increase for this jab,
The union de- .
Bldg. 269: C. Juno is classified
usa factory accumulator. Her du-
ties are those of a production fol-
lower, The union demands that
she be reelassified with proper rate
_ adjustment,
Bldg. 2738: John A. Miller was
bypassed and another worker with
shorter service > was upgraded.
Miller has 11 years service, while
the upgraded worker has only
about one year. The union demands
that management immediately cor-
rect this violution of the seniority
guarantees of the contract,
ELECTRICAL’ UNION NEWS
UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO & MACHINE
> WORKERS OF AMERICA (UB)
Local 30)
: = GPF 2 -
Publishad by the Editorial Committee
Prosident.....-~ James J, Cognotta
-=--.Loo Jandreau
701 LIBERTY ST > SCHENECTADY 5, N.Y.
<Amevicun people and fur ther ease
the relatively light tax burden t -
“corporations has come putt into th
open,
President Charles R. Sligh of the
National Association of Manufac-
turers, one of the first avitnesses,
asked. Congress to revoke all pres-
ent excise taxes except on liquor
and tobacco and impose a uniform
and = permanent manufacturers’
sales tax on everything © except
food products. & &
The tax, he said, should’ become
permanent and the rate should be
adjusted from year-to-year ae-
cording to government money
needs. He suggested a vate next
year of 4.1/4% to 59¢, which he
said would raise $10 billion.
President G. Keith Funston. of
the New York Stock Mxchange
then led a parade of Wall Strect
witnesses seeking widening and
deepening of present tax loopholes,
which allow big operators to hang
on to millions of dollars that other-
wise would go to the U. S. Treas-
ury. They want the rate of the
‘apital gains tax cut in half and
the time which capital gains mist
he held cut in half,
Under the present law, b
money men can qualify for the
capital gains tax by holding profits
for six months. They pay 26%
under the gains tax, whereas un-
der the income tax they would
have to pay as much as 92% on
big profits,
The public testimony ot the big
business: spokesmen was the cul-
hiination of a long and carefully
planned campaign. For months
Treasury experts have been work-
ing with the big business represen-
tutives on tax revisions. Sources
close to committee chairman Dan-
iel A, Reed (R, NY) said these pro-
posals: will be pretty much re-
peated when Treasury Secretary
George M. Humphrey comes up
with the ‘official administraiton
proposals,
Organized labor has denounced
the general sales tax as hitting
low-income fnmilies hardest,
Move to Oust ILA
The AFL executive council this
week recommended that the AFL
convention which meets Sept. 21,
oust the racket-ridden Intl. Loy |
shoremen’s Assn. ‘ ’
The council acted on a report by
a three-man subcommittee, which
found. that... the... longshore... union.
under the leadership of Pres.
Joseph P. Ryan had not taken
adequate steps to meet an earlicr
council ultimatum to clean house.
ELECTRICAL UNION. NEWS.
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Vol.
SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK
Friday, August 21, 1953
¢ _ictory SIGN. Celebrating Mica
workers gather in front of a black-
board which tells the story of UE’s
victory at the Mica: Insulator Co.
Hundreds of Mica workers came
to UE Local 301 hall right after
the election Friday night to cele-
brate the end of company unionism
at the Broadway plant. -
UEVotes Bury Com
pany Union
And IUE-CIO in Mica Election.
Many 301 Members Help ed UE Organize
Workers at Mica Insulator into Union
Mainy Local ‘301 members made important contributions toward UE’s
These contributions helped to end the threat to UE wages’ and conditions at GE
last week.
that existed | as long as a large company union aliog was operating within a stone's
Many Buy Admissions
To Sept. 13 Clambake
Tickets for the UE Loeal 3801
clambake were selling well in the
shops this week as many members
sought to make sure that they
could take part in the September
13 event by getting their admis-
sions early,
Tt will be possible to aweonimo-
date only 1,000 persons at the
clambake so that it appears likely
‘that only those petting tickets
quickly will be able to attend. All
shop stewards now have the due-
ats, which sell at $4 cach.
Tieket sellers are under instrue-
ms to give exch purchaser a re-
“voip,
posed to turn the stubs into the
union hall, The first thousand
stubs will be exchanged for tickets.
After that, the union hall will
“make sure that any persons who
will not be able to get in, will get
their money refunded.
The ‘event is to be held at Re-.
publican Park on Princetown Road,
on Sunday, September 13,
Then the stewards are sup--
of GE,
A number of sol ‘atioors, execu-
live board members, stewards and
runk-and-filers went down to Mien
in. the morning's and at lunch time
to help ‘distribute leaflets, and. to
tell about théir union over the UR
loudspeakers. . Among these who
played active roles were Bill Mas-
triani, who devoted a week of his
racation to the Mica campuiyn,
doséph Whitbeek, William Stew.
it, Henry Kaminski, Vincent Pal-
azeke, Manuel Fernandez, Charles
Scott, Anthony Villano, Jim White
and dames Cognetta,
Special mention should be made
of the vole played by 801 women
in the campaign. The women’s
committee prepared and distrih-
uted a special leaflet to Mien work-
ers telling them of the job being
done by UE to end pay diserimin-
ation. because of sex. Nearly 2
dozen women workers took part. in
“this aud iv other distiibutions. ~~
Perhaps the most important job
was that done by.801 members who
told their'friends at Miea how Ul
operates, and what it has meant
to the men and women at GU.
victory at Mica
thr ‘ow
Union Hall Receives
Half of Survey Cards
About one half of the UF Local
301 stewards had turned in job sur-
vey cards to the union offiee by the
beginning of this week, Those stew-
ards who have not’ yet brought the
sands down to the hall ave urged to
do so as quickly as: possible.
Purpose of the survey ecards is to
determine if any 80 members ‘are
not receiving their proper rates.
The cards provide spaces for the
names. of the workers, their job
classifications and either their day
wok job rates or piece work ARS, '
Each worker is expected to fill
out his or her own card, In this
way, the union will have a com.
plete record of all jobs in the plant,
and avill be able to determine If
the company is living up to the
contract on wages. inall cases.
The survey was undertaken att-
er several “reports had been re-
eeived that the payroll department
Was not properly applying the Int«
est wage increase negotinted by
UM on the mites,
“showing the UR
Six hundred Mica Ingulator, Co. —
workers rallied under the UE ban-
her this week after evushing a
company union and the IUE-CIO
under an avalanche of UE votes-in
un NLRB election on Friday.
The Mica -workers voted for UE
by a 2 to 1 ratio over the company
union, ‘and by 7 to 1 over the IUE-
CIO. “The actual vote count was
UE 330; company union 177; and
IUE-CIO 48. . a
With ‘their ballots, thé-.Mica
workers brought to an end the 12
yeur reign of company unionism in
the Brondway plant. This. reign
had been marked by. low waves und
swenlshop conditions. During the
years when their 20,000 GE neigh-
bors) had been making great ad-
Vanees under the UE, the Mica
workers ‘hiul been held back.
Minally, the. Mien workers be-
“came completely fed up with: ‘the
company union and its broken
promises. Despite company intims
idation whieh mounted as the UE
organizing drive progressed, and
despite: the vicious red baiting of
the IUE-CIO disrupters, they
flocked into the Uh;
Particularly ‘signifieant: was. the
stunning. defeat suffered by the
TUE-CIOL- On the eve of the elee-
lion, LUKE spokesman Jack, Suarez
predicted a 8 to 1 victory’ for the
Carey splitters. When the ballots
were ounted, the TUE had must-
ered only 48 votes, tess than 10:
of the total cast.
In its campaign of disruption,
the TUE had poured in thousands
of dollars to ply Miea workers with
large doses of red-baiting poison,
However, the Mica workers, {heir
eyes on their tieighbors’ in GE, re-
fused to, be diverted from the basic
issues,
These issues, higher wages and
decent working conditions, were
stantly spotlighted by, the UR
in its organizing drive, The UR
record in GE wast held up for all.
Mica workers to see, Copies of the
UEN-GH contract Were distributed
to all Mica workers, as were’ lists
vates it the Mie:
Division of GU,
UR’s campaign was headed up
by. Fiekl OrganizerJoseph- €. Ins
fante. He was assisted in the late
shiges of the drive by Tnternation-
ul Representative Michael Jimenez.
and by Organizers Ed Landy and
Hal Povitaz. David Pisher handled
the UE publicity.
OKAY, as 4 LON AS THEY INSISTON A BIGGER PAY ENVELOPE...
BUT NoT A PENNY MORE PAY IN IT
Women’ S ‘Committee to Meet Next Thursday
ULE Local 801’s women’s . coms
mittee will meet in the union hall
next ‘Thursday evening at 8 pan.
On the agenda of the meeting
will be? au discussion of various
wriovanees filed by women through-
out the works, and a report on the
Completed job review avhich has
- resulted in. the rates of 362 jobs
being maised.
he served, .
Thursday’s gathering will be the
Ath women’s meeting held since
the UE national women's confer-
ence in May. ‘These meetings have
helped greatly ta mebilize women
workers for the ‘frht to end pay
svimination because of sex. .
Refreshments will .
Bidg. 77 Workers
Breaking of Union Accord
The company's so-called decentralization policy proved
this: week to be nothing more than an excuse for supervision
in the Chemical division to violate agreements reached he-
tween the union and management.
The result was the equivalent of a
work stoppage in Building 77.
First signs of trouble in the
building came when supervision
announced’ that there was a lack
of work situation, and that all
workers would have to lose several
days a week, This would have
meant a loss of earnings over an
indefinite period of time for the
workers, without the opportunity
‘to get-unemployment insurance.
Shop stewards in the building
immediately brought the case to
the union hall, and negotiations
with management were undertak-
en, This is when the decentraliza-
tion buck-passing began. However,
Local 301 was finally able to pin.
Change September
Meeting Schedule
Local ' 301’s
Monday to change the date.of the
September nieeting of. the union
from. September 21 to September
14. The session was moved up be-
cause most of the union officers
are delegates to the UE national
_convention which is sluted for Sep-
tember 21 to 25 in Chicago.
Sinee the first Monday of next
month is Labor Day, this will have
the effect of combining the stew-
ards’ meeting, normally held dur-
iny the first week, and the moved-
up membership mecting,
-membership voted"
management down to an agree-
ment under which any rotation”)
would be on a week-by-week basis,
with the entire force working one
week and off the next.
In this way, workers who lost
time would get credit for waiting
time toward unemployment insur-
ance, and if the situation continued,
they’d get the jobless pay itself.
However, no sooner had the
agreement been reached, then the
“decentralized” supervision took it
on itself to violate it. At the end
of last week, the company repre-
sentatives in Chemical went: around
to some of the workers and asked
them to come in, ,
Building 77 members immediate-
ly spotted this as ‘a scheme to try
to do the work with a smaller force,
und to lay the basis for a perman-
ent speedup and layoff. As a re-:
sult, all the union members in the
building’ refused to’ come in this
week,
However, ‘supervision. .was ‘not
done demonstrating its lack of:
good faith, This week, a number
of the foremen were put .on: pro-
duction jobs, in violation of the
UE-GE contract. In addition, thy
company tried to ship materials ¥
to be worked by the “seabbing”
fovemen, However, union truck
drivers refused to deliver the ma-
terials when they ‘learned of the
situation, en
+ Raacalrn a ceianidecittia tsi
Bldg. 49: The union protests be-
cause prices on jobs in the group
under Foreman Cooley. are being °
changed,’and the old AER’s, with-
out, the recently negotiated in-
vrenses, are being used* to westith-
lish the new prices. The union -de-
mands that managenient correct
this situation,
There is not sufficient worl for’
the piece -work boring mill oper-
ators. Recently the group was in-
creased, und at the times supervis-
ion promised to reduce the group
when production dropped, The un-
ion demands that this’be done.
Bldg. 60: Donald Bennett has
been a tinsmith’s helper for sev-
eral years, although workers with
less service have been’ given the B
tinsmith’s ‘classification, ~The un-
ion demands that Bennett be given
this upg rading to which he is. en-
titled,
Bldg. 66: Group under Foreman
Cook ane a reduction of forces be-
— -eause..of a prolonged. lack of work...
situation, The union demands that
Iminagement comply with this’ re-
quest
Bldg. 68: Job 9221226 was timed
B lagmer,
2 © Friday, August 21, 1953
} kvusands of grievances are handled by UE Local,301
each year at all levels from the steward up to final appeal
in New York Gity. To keep members posted, we shall
tach week list some.of the grievances that have not been
settled at the steward-foreman level and have been re-
ferred to the executive ‘board-management level.
recently and a standard price was
arrived: at without the agreement
of either the steward or operator.
The operator finds it impossible to
maintain average earnings on the
job. Therefore the union’ demands
a price adjustment in accordance:
with contract article VI-5d,
Bldg. 269: Jacob S. Unser op
erates a highly diversified. stock-
room which includes an adjacent
platform. The stockroom is classi-
fied as B. The union demands that
it be properly classified as A, and
that Unser be upgraded with prop-
er rate increase, ©
Bldg, 273: Edward Hornak is‘a
Supervision -has. now
hired in an A lIhgger, although, pre-
‘aula Hornak was told that he
ils qualified for the upgrade, The
anton demands that management -
tuke action to remedy, this situa-
tion. . i
dames Tourtelott is employed as
a tractor trailer operator, He hauls
anywhere.from, one to, 8. tractors
between buildings, work 1 formerly
done by Transport tution. Elis pres-
ent rate is $1.69, that of a tractor
operator, insted of $1.73% tract-
or trailer rate to which he is en-
titled, The union demands that this
worker be reclassified with proper
‘vate adjustment,
Hand and. are welders are being
sent to do stator frame work which
properly . belongs to the special
hand Welding classification. The
union demands that management
correct this situation,
R. Montanaro should have re-
ceived his full A job rate on March
2. Although he was not reclassi-
fied from B to A until Feb. 2, he
was eligible for the upyr iding
long before, but had to wait for
tin opening on 1st shift. Since his
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO & MACHINE
WORKERS OF AMERICA (UE)
Local 301
aca Ee?
Publishod by the Editorial Committee
Prosidant. James J, Cognetta
Vico Praviden Joseph Alols
Treasurer 1. -----...Jaseph Whitbeck
Recording Sacretary..-—..--.. Milos Moon
Ass't Recording Sccrolary.-~Rudy Rissland
Chief Shop Steward... William Mastriani
. Businoss Agent-.—-..-----.leo Jandreau
201 LIBERTY ST. SCHENECTADY 5, N. Y,
upgrade, he } has been sent out of
town to work, He did not get his
full A rate until July 13. The un-
ion demands that the A rate be
made retroactive to Murch.
Campbell Ave.: Second
workers demand that an armed
guard be assigned to the rear
parking lot during their working
hours, There have been 4 major
thefts there in the past 4 months,
In addition, whenever an employee
is forced to leave work during the
shift because of ilness or another
emergency, he or she-has to walk
around the entire building—about:
one mile—in order to get to the
parking area,
the assignment of a guard,
Racetrack: Raymond Smith is
doing the work of a B machinist,
The union demands that he be giv-
en the B classification and rate,
The union demands that man-
shift
agement correct the situation in,”
the Racetrack under which. super-
vision claims to have no knowledge
of any settlements reached throu
41 negotiations. It takes ‘at le
a week for the foremen. to come &
with answers to any: questions
asked by the stewr rds, and there
is constant contusion, - -as well as
repeated violations of. agreements
between the union and the com. -
pany, This situation can fot) be
-allowed to continue; and the union
demands that management im-
mediately straighten things out.
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
Protest.
The union demands:
communism in
San Jose, Calif. _GE sale
in the plant here have voted by
3 to i to migiaeamn te as their
“an TUE-CLO raids The “count was
168 votes for UE Local 1007 ‘and
only 58 for the IUE raiders. This
marked the second time in recent
weeks that the IUE splitting ac-
tivities. have been crushed by Cali-
fornia GE workers, Earlier, the
TUE-CIO had been fareed to with-
draw an election petition in’ the
1,000-worker Ontario, Calif. plant
because, of inadequate support.
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Chicago —- The Butcher Work-
ian, official publication of the
AFL butchers and meat cutters, .
this month called on Sen. Joseph
McCarthy to follow the example
of his assistant, J. B. Matthews,
and resign from his job. The labor
magazine took McCarthy to task
for his recent attacks on the
clergy .and ‘commented, “Give the
wood senator a little more dime
and he will have the people. be-
liéVing that the Pope in the Vati-
ean is the real power behind the
Kremlin in- Moscow.”
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New York--Uln Local 475 has
Aevotiated a le hourly economic
packnee inerense for the * more
than 1,200 employees of American
Safety Razor The ASR workers
will.veceive wage boosts of 6l4c to
ide an hour and a number of
fringe improvements,
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Pittsburgh — More than 1,000
ClO brewery workers in Western
Pemisylvania have voted. by better
than 4° to Eb to turn down a pro-
posal which would have provided
‘a 1244¢ hourly pay boost this year
and another 74¢ next year. The
union leadership had condemned
the offer as inadequate.
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Cincinnati — Wesche Electric
Co. workers here*voted 48 to 32
to maintain UE Local 766 as their
collective bargaining agent. They
repulsed a raid by the CIO steel-
workers.
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Washington — The United Mine
Workers Journal this week con-
demned-the proposed Butler hear-
ings on labor as a “plan to grab
sy headlines.” Sen. John Butler
#4 Maryland, a close friend of
Wisconsin’s MeCarthy, has an-
nounced that his Internal Security
subcommittee will probe so-called
the. labor.
ment., Butler is the author of a
bill ‘to establish complete govern-
ment dictatorship over unions.
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
move
Review of Women’s Jobs Brings Raises
Of 3c to 21c for 361 Classifications
A total of 361 women’s jobs have been raised from 3c to 21¢ an hour as the result of the
just completed review of all women's work in the Schenectady GE works.
The review was
undertaken by the company in response to the mounting UE pressure for equal pay for
Two Unions Agree to Fight Runaways
equal work. Up to now, it has been
impossible to figure exactly how
many women are working on the
raised: jobs, but indications are
that it will amount to a large per-
centage of the 2,700 women in
the plant.
In’ many" cases, the raises
brought jobs from below common
labor rate ($1.54%4).to either the
labor rate or higher. In other
situations, the gap between the
women’s rate and common labor
was narrowed from 9c. down to
only 3c an hour, ‘
Many departments and divi-
visions in the plant were reviewed
including Carbon, Cable, Elec-
tonics, Chemical, General Engi-
neering Laboratory, Research Lab,,
Porcelain, Screw Machine, Large
Motor and Generator, Small and
Medium Motor, Aeronautics, In-
dustrial Control, Industrial Heat-
ing and Carboloy.
The local is now going over
the report on the job review to
yee if any jobs which should have
heen raised have “beer omitted by
the company. Also being studied
ure the next steps in the drive to.
completely eliminate sex diserim-
ination in Schenectady.
U.S. Survey Reports
Earnings Below Needs
United States “government fig-
ures revealed last week that the
average factory worker in the U.
S, eurns: $10.17 2 week less' than
it takes to support a family of
four on a “modest but adequate
budget.” :
The Bureau of Labor Statisties
reported gross weekly earnings of
production workers in factories
averaged $72.04 in mid June, an
increase of 41c a week over the
mid May figure and $5.21 above
the June 1952 figure. -
In announcing the increase, BLS
bousted that it represented a gain
of $13,19 a week over earnings at
the start of the Korean war in
_ June 1950 but added: “This 2214%
gain over the 8-year period was
partly offset by higher prices as
well as steeper income taxes.”
Using standard minimum family
budgets and the latest government
figures on. prices, the Bureau of
National Affairs, a labor-supported
research organization, demonstrat-
ed that a worker with a wife and
two children needs $82.21 2 weck
to achieve a modest but adequate
standard of living. Thus the week-
ly earnings ofsthe average factory
worker are $10.17 a week short of |
nu decent standard of living.
A no-raiding. ‘agreement an-
nounced last week by the AFL In-
ternational Association of Machin-
ists and the CIO United Rubber
Workers pledged the unions to
joint action in combating employ-
ers who. operate runaway plants.
The agreement followed the gen-
eral pattern of the no-raiding com-
- pact signed earlier this year by the
machinists and the CIO United
Auto Workers, but the runaway
plant clause was something new.
“The parties to. this agreement >
recognize the danger from reéac-
tionary and recalcitrant employ-
ers who attempt to escape their
collective bargaining responsibili- .
ties to either union by a relocation
of their plant or business .to an-
other section of the country,” the
agreement ‘said. q
“Where this circumstance arises,
each party hereto will assist the
the. union affected by -such run-
away tactics in its efforts to re-
e ablish If as. the bargaining
agency in the new plant or prop-
erty of said company.” The agree-
ment, announced by IAM President
A. J. Hayes and URW President
L. S. Buckmaster, also provides:
1. Each union-will respect bona-
fide bargaining relationships es-
tablished by the other and refrain
from “soliciting members among
employes in plants represented by
the other. ;
2, Each union will refrain ‘from
encouraging other AFL or CIO un-
ions in raiding plants organized
by the other union,
3. Organizing campaigns in un-
organized plants. where the unions
ure competing will be conducted on
a basis to: build union loyalty and
parties will refrain from tactics
“detrimental to overall interests of
the labor movement.”
4, The unions will conduct joint
negotiations with employers when
such 2 course promises ‘to bring
1 alts:
301 ‘Mop Up’ Drive Bringing Results
Many more cards were received
byethe union this week as the Ul
Local Sol
tinued in high gear, Biggest in-
flux of curds in the “mop up” cam-
piign up to date came on Monday
organizing
_when many who attended the com-
bined stewards’ and = members’
meeting brought cards in. with
them. ”
drive cons
Aim of the campaign is to mnke °
the works as close to 100 “UIs as
possible. Normally, ubout 350
hew members sign up each month,
but the August total, not yet fully
compiled, will far exceed this num-
ber, :
All stewards are urged to sign
up non-members in their groups
aad bring in the cards us soon as
possible.
NEW STEWARDS. Seven 301 mem-
bers. took the oath of office as shop
stewards at Monday’s mecing of
members and stewards. Pictured on
the right are John Bubela, Bldg.
46, and Edward La Mora, 273,
sworncin at the 2nd. shift meeting.
Below are John Glywa, 40; William
Maszdzen, 60; John Pasquerella,
81; and Peter J. Strock, 269, all of
whom took the oath at the. 1st and
8rd_ shift session. Not shown is
Edward Moony, 273, who was in-
augurated as a 2nd shift steward.
me
pate
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