CHAMPS.
Pictured above are members of the UE Local 301 “Little
League team which is now setting the pace in the Bellevue cirenit. The
union-sponsored youngsters have compiled a 10 wins and’ 2 losses record,
and are
within a game of ¢linching the league Litle.
In. the Northside
Little’ League, “another UE 301 team is now moving just as fast. The
rthside club started slowly, but’ has new «won 6 straight and 8 of
their last 9 to go into 2nd place with an 8 and 6 mark.
Leg” Jam «
on Control Beefs
Broken at Bidg. 41 Level
The log jam which had ata settlement of grievances
«in Control “finally loosened a bit this week as management
Postal Rate Hike
- Dies in Congress
_ It won't cost any more to mail
a letter—at least until next year.
The adminstration must” bill to
raise postal rates died, in commit-
tee this weelt. as. Con, ress. rushed
toward adjournment.
Labor had- opposed the Kisen-
hower proposal which would have
raised the cost of u first class
letter. from 8¢ to 4c. Purpose of
the measure was to bring an extra
$240-million in postal yevenues.
However, a storm of protest from
back home caused, many Repub-
lican legislators to back away
from support: of the ‘pill.
Union Presses Demand for Fair Holiday Pay
Setup as Management Balks on Major Issue
“With management still holding out on several major points, UE Local 301 this week
pressed foi''a fair interpretation’ of the contract provision on holidays which fall on Satiur-
day. A meeting on the subject was in progress as this week’s BU News went to press.
Victim of Shock
Is Compensated
In a precedent making decision
the New York State compensation
uuthorities have decided that a GE
worker is. entitled to injury bene-
fits because of the shock he sulfer-
ed when seeing another worker
killed in shop accident,
The worker involved fn the case
wus Fred Angley, a crane operator,
in Building 62. Angley was present’
on September 14, 1950 when Wil- .
litim Ray was crushed to death by
a-crane hook in 52, Although badly
shuken by the accident, Angley
continued to work for more than a
yeur, and then he suffered a break-
down,
Doctors traced his condition. to
a deep-seated shock resulting from
the Ray tragedy. However, GIE
sought to prove that it in no way
responsible for Angley’s condition.
Dispite the company’s contention
that Angley’s emotional health
was in no way affected by the ac-
cident, the workmen’s compensa-
tion board ruled that the eompany
was responsible and awarded the.
worker compensation for-time lost
from the job.
The award is believed to be the
first of its kind In New York Stute
compensation history.
The case »
union by
the lawyer retained by Loeal }
to deal with compensation mutters
“supervision in
was handled for the _
Attormiey Leon wen
4 @ -Friday, July 31, 1953
Agreement was reached early in
the week on two major union de-
mands involving both Memorial
Day,and the 4th of July. These
demtinds were:
1, Payment to all people sched-
uled to work the holiday who did
not wark, regardless of reason,
2. Payment in either money or
in an extra day’s vacation to all
workers on vacation when either
of the holidays occured. .
However, the company persisted
vin its refusal to pay those men and
women who were asked to work
and who refused. The union’s posi-
tion is a clear one—that the mere
fact they were asked constituted
scheduling and obligated the com-
puny to pay for the holiday.
Another disputed point was the
company’s position that a worker
had to have’ worked four Satur.
days prior to the holidays and one
after them to get paid automati-
cally. The union negotintors de-
mand elimination of the “after
holiday” requirement.
Union — representatives also
pointed out that the holiday con-
fusion arose largely from, con-
(icting directives and policies of
yarious parts of the
plant. Ul demanded that all work-
ers be treated equally.
Even more important, the union
made it clear that its position
hadn’t changed since the recent
negotiations, and that it felt, that
there should he no- strings to, holi-
coys, repardless of the day of the
week on which they fall.
District Council
Names Delegates
The UIs District’8 Council, which
together 35,000 Upstate
New York workers, met last Fri-
wroups
day and Saturday in Jamestown.
The council elected its delegates
to the coming UE national con-
vention, and also dratted a set of
resoulutions to be presented to the
Chicago gathering. ;
Chosen to go to the convention
were District President Lewis
King of Jamestown, and Harold
Buck of UE Loeal 831 in Rome.
Buck is vice president of the
district.
Resolutions adopted by the meet-
ing dealt with such. vital problems
as civil rights, Taft-Hartley repeal,
peace and jobs, labor unity, farm-
er-labor cooperation, fair employ-
ment practices, speedup and legis-
lative action, All of the resolutions
were adopted unanimously after
being worked out in a resolutions.
committee,
Local 801’s deleyates to the
Jamestown meetings were James
Brown, 2738; William Kelly, 273;
and William Mastriani, 73A.cKelly
worked on the resolutions group.
Unable to attend were Business
Agent Leo Jandreau and William.
Templeton, 63. Both dele gates were
unable to go to Jamestown be-
vause they were on vacation,
“moved on two of the 14 dockets which had been stalled’ by
division supervision, for week,
Movement came, after the -unioi
had gone into Building 41 and d
manded an end to the buek-p:
ing between supervision and: ‘man-
agement that had featured recent:
grievance discussions,
One of ‘the’ grievances settled
this week involved workers in wir-
ing groups. | Supervision ‘had
created a lack of work situation
in one of these groups by. moving
‘jobs from small to large panel,
thereby paving the way for a lay-
off in the small group.
Local 301 claimed that there
was no real work shortage, and .
that as long as work moved from..
one group: to another, ‘then both
groups should-be treated as one
for ‘purposes’ of distribution of
work and with regard to seniority.
in layoffs, Management agreed to-
this and pledged that all seniority
violations would be halted.
in the second case, the. refusal
‘ot supervision to accept a time.
study price on the hermatiec relay
line in Building 58 was involved.
The women. working’ on this line
had been unable to make out on a_
$1.98 operation price, but the con
$2.27 price resulting from a nor-
mal. time study. Instead super-
«vision tried to get away with pay-
ing only $2.18, which the union
had refused. Management agreed
to look at the breakdown of the
time study’ within the next few
days, .
Local 301 is now pressing for
quick settlements on the other
dockets which have been pending,
us well as for guarantees that
supervision in Control will bar
gain in ‘good faith on. future
grievance, cases,
IUE Fears Lynn Vote
1UE-CIO this - week virtually
unnounced. that it would do every-
thing possible to block a National
Labor Relations Board election at
Lynn GE, UIn has petitioned for
the Lynn plant and backed its peti-
tion with the signatures of 6,200
GE workers,
Apparently, the possibility of an
clection so scares the 1UE leader:
ship that they have publicly a
nounced that they would go ini#
the slated’ NLRB conference in
Boston next week and seck to have
the vote put off.
__dlowever, UE
ure moving rapidly to press the
NLRB for as quick an election as
possible. . |
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
pany had refused to install thi
__Vepresentatives _.
&
T SCHENECTADY, NEW, YORK
Friday, August 7, 1953
New Haven, Conn. — Sargent
Hardware Ca” workers won wage
iuereases af de te Te an hour plus
nonumber of fringe benefits iy a
new contract negotiated by UL
Loeal 243. The pact was-won only
after the workers had voled over-
whelmingly for oa strike. Among
the gains were restoration of sev-
eral pigee work. cuts, removal of
“strings frany the .seven paid hali-
days and special boosts for skiled
workers. | Wage’
made retroretive to July 1.
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Philadelphia — The federal cir-
cuit) court’ of
threw out the contempt conviction
of Mrs. Sylvia Neil, former seere-
tary of Local 80A of the CLO pack-
inghouse workers. The woman
trade unionist had been framed for
refusing to answer questions in re-
gard to her ‘Taft-Hartley affi-
She had been sentenced to
Cy J 4 3 7
year in prison for standing on
her constitutional rights.
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Hlizabeth, N. d.--Ul Loeal 406
has negotiated a new contract pro-
viding a Te hourly pay boost for
workers at the Wilcolator Co. The
agreement iso provides. improved
vacations fur long-service workers,
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Detroit—Ford Local 600 of the
CLO autoworkers this week hailed
the end of the Korean War and
expressed the hope that the truce
would bring a “sound, lasting and
honorable peace.” The statement
appeared in a front- -page editorial
in Ford Facts, weekly newspaper
of the 60,000 member local. The
editorial called on organized labor
-and the working people through-
out the world to “launch an. of-
fensive for a just and lasting
peace.”
koko ok
Toronto—Workers at the Can-
adian’ Westinghouse Supply Co.
voted last week for UE represen-
tation by a nearly unanimous bal-
The count in the vote was
6) to 2. UE represents almost all
nadian Westinghouse workers.
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Pittsburgh-—A new contract be-
tween the AFL Teamsters and the
paint “and” glass manufacturers ine
this area provides a°124%c hourly
wage boost for 170 truck drivers
and helpers. Invelyed were em-
ployees of the Pittsburgh Plate
Glass and Watson-Standard Cos.
increases were,
appeals last week ©
‘leaflet,
301 ‘Mop Up’ Organizing Drive Moves
Into High as Board Members Get Lists
Local 301’s ‘mop up”
organizing drive, aimed at bringing all - non-union people in the
Schenectady. GE works: into thé loeal, moved into high gear this week as the office oa
complete lists of those notin the union, and distributed them to: the executive board miembers
Women's Committee Picks
Three to Serve as Officers
In their regular monthly meeting last Thursday night,
members of the UE Local 301 women’s committee electect
three officers to°direct the fight against pay discrimination
on account of sex. The vote took’
pluce at. the fourth gathering of
the group since it was. organized
following the UE national women’s
conference in New York last May.
Elected. to serve were Msther
Porter, Bldg. 68, chairman; Char-
lotte Passikoff, 69, seeretary; and
Alice Crowningshield, 28, treas-
uver, ‘They will work closely with
Helen Quirini, 81, woman. excet-
tive board member-at-large.
In another importiunt netion, tlie
women's committee voted to dis.
tribute ‘a leaflet to help the UE
organizing drive at Miva. This
stressing the accomplish-
ments of UlS in fighting for equal
pay for equal work, was slated for
yesterday morning, Many of the
women were also enlisted in the
‘ampaign of visiting Mica work-
“ers and telling them of the opera-
tion of Ul and of. Loval 301,
Next scheduled meeting of the
women’s committee is on Thurs-
day, August 27, at 8:80 pan. All
women members of the local, and
all men, who as stewards or board
members ‘represent large numbers
of women, are invited to attend,
Board Launches
Survey of Rates
A special survey to-see if any
union. members are not getting
their proper
hy the executive board Monday.
The survey was proposed, be-
exuuse of reports that some work-
ers have not been given their
proper rate under the new con-
tract. All bourd amembers took
enough survey cards to cover the
mumbers in their sections.
These survey cards, which are
to be distributed to shop stewards,
provide space for each worker to
list bis job classification and rate.
Piece workers re to list’ their
ALR’s, while day workers. will
give their job rates.
Where incorrect rates are dir-
covered, the union will immedti-
utely wo into action to furee the
company to adjust the wages of
the workers involved.
Ciredation of the enrds in the
plant.should be completed by next
week except in sections now on
veeation shutdowns.
stewards. to the’ job of
rates Was inaugurated -
Next step-in the drive will, be a
series of meetings in which the
bourd members ‘will assign their
making
every group ous «close toe 1c
UE vas possible.
Although up to now, the drive
has only been in its) preliminary
vaces, it has alrendy produced
substantial results, A mimber of
new union cards have been re-
ceived at the hall. In most cases,
these were cards of new workers
who signed up as seo as. they
were approached, Right now, Local.’
301 membership is at one af the
highest points inthe history of the
union in’ Schenectady.
Chief ainy of the drive is to
strenéthen the union's position in
dealing with GE management, I
is an-old rule in the labor meve-
ment that the more solid the union
organization, the stronger the. col-
loetive bargaining position.
As of now, the position of Laval
80f is a very strong one. The Sehe-
nectady union is the largest loenl
in the eleterical industry and, of
course, the largest in the GE chain.
The 801 drive is closely linked
with the move on the part of Lynn
“GE workers to come back inte the
LEO! this move is successful, the
GE “Big 4,’? Schenectady, Mrie
and Lynn, will onee more be
united, and the union’s position in
next years negotiations will be
tremendously strengthened.
MEN'S LEADERS: Pietured above are lea iders of the fight to end pay discrimination « on account of sex.
wo
They. are Alice Crowningshield, Bldg.
28, elected last week as treasurer of the women’s committee; Esther
Porter, 68, committee chairman; Helen Quirini, 81, woman executive board member-at-large; and Charlotte
© Passikoll, 69, women’s
committee secretary.
sed
THAT SOUNDED L2utclous, BEAR, NOW READ THE.RECIPE FOR
TARTE CHOCLAT A LA CREME AUX GLACE WALDORF FoR DESSERT!
Corporation Profits Zoom 7
Toward New All-time Mark |
A golden flow of profits in the first half of 1953 is carry-:
ing industry toward its biggest money-making year’since 1950,”
when profits after taxes reached an all-time high. of $21.2
0K Applications
For Jobiess Pay
Attorney Leon Novak, acting on
behalf of Local 301, has contacted
the New York State Unemploy-
ment Insurance offices’ in many of
the cities of the area, and gained
assurance that all persons who are
out beeause of vacation shutdowns,
but who do not get full vacation
pay, will be allowed to apply for
unemployment insurance benefits,
Oviginally, a number of persons
who tried to apply were not al-
lowed to do ‘so, This refusal was
based on a‘ court decision row be-
ing: awpealed.
Tt is important for persons in-
volved to apply now sv that they
can get jobless pay if the appeal.
is won,
Bldg. 24: Group working under
Foremiun H. Scott is classified as
Bo magneti¢ assembly bench with a
$147 job rate. Assembly operi-
tions require considerable Knowl-
edge and skill, and merit a higher
classification, The union demands
upgrading of members of) this
group from B oto A, with proper
rate increase.
Bide. 46: .D, Mysyk and W. Raw-
land uve classified as Bo jig bore
operators. Although they have
been setting up and performing A
bore werk for the past year, the
foreman claims that they are not
qualified for thé higher classifien-
tion, An agreement exists with
management that any jie bore
operator being: fully utilized for A
work should wet un A rating. The
union demands that these two
workers be upgraded in accord-
ance with the contract and with
the agreement, and that their rate
be retroactively increased. °
Bldg. 63: .C. D. Perris has been
assigned the responsibilities, but
not the rate, of a working leader
for some time, The union demands
that he be given his proper rate.
Bldg. 66: After welding a rotor
spider job, I, Harding’ found the
price wholly inadequate. The union
demands a time study with a retro-
active rate adjustment. u
G. Loucks protests the price on
assembly of job 482-3020, drawing:
1G4C134-1, This price has not been
properly adjusted to compensate
for a change in method. The wnion
demands. either payment of at
least $14 forthe. job. ot a-time-
study.
Bldg. 69
Peter Sgambato is
classified
sou DB production fol-
2. © Friday, August 7, 1953 °
Thousands of grievances are handled by UE Local 30!
each year at all levels fromthe 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. - .
lower, He is doing A ‘work. The
uniun.demands that he be reelas-
sified wilh proper rate adjustment,
Group working under Foreman
Snezmatek is entitled to upgrad-
from B to A. production fol-
lowers. ‘This group formerly had
the higher clussification, The union
demands restoration of classifica.
Hon with proper rate adjustment,
Bldg. 269: Two jobs. are im-
“properly classified ‘as Bo machine
glass work, with AMR’s of $1.59,
They shotid have A ratings and
AIR's of $169. The union -de-
mands that these rates be prop-
erly adjusted, oe
Leader of second shift exhaust
maintenance group is working on
production work overtime, .. The
union demands that this practice
be stopped and that an operator
be assigned to this group on third-
shift. : :
Bldg. 278: Leland Keyser was
transferred permanently to group
under Foreman Gertshaw just be-
fore woing on vacation. On his re-
turn, Keyser was told that he
would have. to. go back to work
under Foreman Knorowski, Since
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO & MACHINE
WORKERS OF AMERICA (UE}
Local 301
Published by the Editorial Commitioe
Prasidont........--, wnandames J, Cognatta
Vico Presidont.........-.-.--Josoph Alots
Treasurer sown neceneentosaph Whitbeck
Recording Secrotary....n-....-Miles Moon
Chief Shop: Steward...-Wimmian Mastriant ,
Business Agent... w Lao Jondreau’
20) LIBERTY ST. SCHENECTADY 5, N. ¥.
Ass't’ Rocarding Sacrotary-..-Rudy “Rissland> |~
this work was originally trans-
ferred to fill a permanent opening,
tnd since his work was completely
sitisfnetory, the union demands
that Seyser he returned to the job ,
he hekt just before his vacation.
Price ofered oon drawing
fO8M2Z1-8, 8.0. 71-413 for
BT. was 88.60. This) price is
entirely inadequate, It was estab-
lished for ca Vertical turret lathe,
while the machine involved is an
engine kithe. Past practice has
been to pay a special price in such
‘ages. The union demands that the
price be adjusted.
T. Pawlik is an A erector us-
sembler, -He has not been con-
sidered for upgrading to jobs sub-
sequently given to shorter-service
workers, The union demands=that
the company live up, to{the con-
tract and give Pawlik a chanee at
upgrading.
Henry Roice was told when he
took his: job that. hes would be
made a special hand welder, He is
doing work in this classification,
but supervision refuses to give
hini the proper: rate. The unton
demands that Roice be made a
special hand welder with rate ad-
justment.
Group ‘of laggers protest the
-health and safety hazards created
by spraying paint in their work.
ing’ aren, Members of the “group
have cooperated with the company
for some time because of obvious
overcrowding, However, they have
been moved and, instead of. being |
improved, the situation has been
further ageravated. Phe union ‘des
mands tmmedinte ntiunagement
netion te correct the hazardous
conditions, i
billion. bg
“ Early reports from corpo rationge™,
on first-half profits showed. th fr)
were running about 8% ahead of
last year. Reports on secorid-
quarter earnings, April-June, were”
more spectacular, A Wall Street
Journal survey of 416 companies
in 27 industries showed-net profits
of $1.2 billion for the ‘three
smonths, un inerease of 24.2% over
the second quarter of 1952.
Biggest boom in 1953’s second
quarter was scored by the steel
industry, whose profits soared
167%) above the similar 1952 quar-
ter. U.S. Steel Corp reported July
28 that its net. profits for the first
six months of this year were $105
million, compared with $65.7 mil-
lion in the opening half of 1952.
Its 53 second quarter profits were
$55.6 million, compared with $22.2
million in the second quarter last
year, which . reflected the begin-
ning of the nation-wide. steel’
strike. , Coo
The . financial journals did not’
report onthe pre-tax profits of the
‘corporations, but Business Week
Aug. 1 provided a clue to the profit
heights reached this . year, ae
menting: “Pre-tax profits = i§ ce
crensed more,
than siles.”
Behind the-big profit-climb were
such factors as increased output
by workers, higher prices, war
contracts and the huge subsidies
from ordinary“American taxpayers
that have enabled private industry
to expand plant and equipment
under the rapid 5-year tax write-
off program,
pereentage-wise,
The Wall Street Journal survey
of second quarter profits showed
24 of 27 industries had made gains.,
Among the three that lost ground,
the worst showing was a minus of
16% suffered by drug manufact.
urers, whose market for highly
publicized “wonder drugs”
slipping, Movie industry profits
were olf 7.7% and farm equipment
-companies profits declined 1.267.
Was
After steel, the best showing
was madesby radio. and television
set makers, whose net profits
jumped 1286 from the ‘see
quarter of 1952 to 1958) In
sume period, the ‘electrical manu-
facturing industry made a strong
comeback from the sales recession >
“itv experienced last” year “Tts~ net:
profits Were up 48.66, with con.
sumer products selling well.
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
<| land area. | i
CQ The 301. executive board voted
_ the -plant.
To Go to Bosten -.
Helen Quirini, UE Local -301
woman executive board mem-
ber-at-large, will attend =a
Women’s Conference to be held
by UE District 2 in Boston on
August 22. The gathering will
map p s to Wipe out sex dis-
crimination in the ‘New Eng-
Monday to-aceept an invitation
from Distri¢t 2, and to send
Sister Quirini to the Boston
conference. The’ Schenectady
‘delegate will tell of the gains
made by this local in ending
the “pay the - women less”
racket in GE:
~ Jail 14 WE Pickets
in Arma Plant Strike
Fourteen pickets: were arrested
last week after police herded man-
agement. personnel, through picket
lines at the \striké-bound Atina.
Corp. plant.on Long: Island,
Five thousand’ workers are on
strike for wage inereases © and
seniority protection at the ‘com-
pany’s Long Island and Brooklyn
plants. They were called out July
27 by the IUE-CIO after contraet>
hegotintions deadlocked. »
As 2,000 -pickets surrounded the
sprawling plant here, the Nassau
county police foree Was placed on
emergency status and. almost 200
éops were on-hand to escort the
supervisors through the lines, A
yumber of workers were hurt as
company officials drove their cars
through the picket, ines, One con-
pany official was arrested on. a
charge of felonious assault. He
was Richard C. Smyth, vice presi-
dent in charge of labor relations,
who wus aceused of having run
down two pickets with his ear,
Six of the 14° arrested pickets
were accused: of congregating on
the street outside the plant. The
others were charged with detain-
ing and, molesting cars entering
IH! Locals Unite
Seven Inbor organizations at the ‘
International Harvester Co. plant
have formed the Louisville Council:
af Harvester Workers to push de-_
mands for wage concessions from
the company, The demands include
one that
cost-of-living pay
the basic wage structure, as was
done in the, auto industry,
Groups forming the council are
Farm Equipment Local 286, United
Nectrical Radio & Machine Work-
Js: Falls Cities Carpenters Dist,
Souncil (APL) and these other
AFL. affiliates: Machinists Local
569, Pipe Fitters Local 622, Mlec-
trical Workers Local 869, Firemen +
& Oilers Local 320 and Millwright
Machine & Conveyor Erectors
Loven! 2209, ;
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
Harvester incorporate -
inererses into
With $225,000 T-H Suit Fine
A USS. district court at Abingdon, Va., last week ordered
the United Mine Workers to pay $225,000 in damages to the
The Dickenson county company
sued the union for $300,000 under
T-H, claiming that a secondary
boycott forced it out of business.
The company suid it had a coal-
land lease agreement with Clinch-
field Coal Corp. and also sold its
coal to Clinchfield. In April 1950,
the company = suit claimed, the
UMW. went on. strike against
Clinehfield and as part of its set-
tloement won agreement from the
company, to. end its relationship ©
with Laurel Branch, whieh oper-
ated With non-union’ inbor.
Aovtrial jury awarded Laurel
Branch $140,000 for’ actual dam-.-
us and $75,000 in punitive
charges on the charge thatthe
union’ had. wilfully destroyed the
eompany’s business. The union ap-
pealed, and the district court up-.
held the jury’s verdict.
The Laurel Branch case was one
of A number of suits fled against
the union under 'P-H which UMW
Pres. John LL. Lewis charged were
aimed at bankrupting the miners.
In an appearance: before w Senate
labor sub-committee Jan, 80, 1952,
Lewis estimated that about a
dozen T-H ‘suits were then pend-
ing against the union for a total
ot more than $2,750,000, Included
in those he listed was the Laurel
Branch, suit. In recent’ yeurs the
union has paid $8,720,000 in court
fines imposed under the Tatt-
Hartley act and its predecessor,’
the Smith-Connally act.
The damage suits, Lewis said,
stemmed from Taft-Hartley har-
assment, “the harassment of labor
unions and the wearing down of
them by bleeding them white in
the courts of the land.”
.New Canadian Pact
St. Catherines, Ontario — UB
Local 529 ‘has won a new contract
for employees of the Canadian
Warren
hour, . and muurantees ao? ion
of present job ‘classifications in
favoreol the workers,
Pink Co. The paet -pro- ’
vides wage boosts of Ge to Ile an,
‘non-union Laurel Brarich Coal Co. under the Taft-Hartley act.
Local to Stage Drive
For Eye Bank Pledges
VE Local 301 will launch a
drive to. get’ more than 3,000 eye
pledges: from members on Sep-
tember 27. The. pledges involve
donating of eyes after death to
the Sight Conservation Society of,
Northeastern N. Yo ‘The eves are
to be used to restore the sight. of
blind) men and women, and to
further research on eye diseases.
Slogan of the drive ‘will be “Let)
your eyes live atter you.” Bach of
the 630 UE shop stewards will be
asked to ~obtain at least five
pledges: from _members in ‘their
groups.
Special leaflets have been. pre-
pared by the Sight Conservation
Society for distribution among the —
301 members. These leaflets bear
the joint signatures of Local 801
und the society. .
The decision to launch the drive
was made after the union’s mem-
bership approved the idea of giv-
ing full cooperation to the society
in its efforts to aid blind men and
women throughout the United
States. Full. information on the
drive will be published in future
editions of the EU News.
“was cited
-eress after he refused to cooper-
York, Local 301 was able to
settle all but. one important ques-
tion in Schenectady. me
The outstanding. issue, is man-
agement’s position that- it won’t
pay those workers who were asked
to work and who refused to.do so
in advance of the holiday. The
union position is that, asking these.
people to work was the same 4s
scheduling them; and _ therefore
they should be paid. 4
In the discussions on the New
York level, UE. International Rep-
resentative Joseph Turkowski wil]
present the union’s case. ‘James
Burnison will act for, GE man-
. agement.
“UE-GE locals _ throughout the
country referred their holiday pay
to New York. In this: way, it is
hoped that a uniform. policy te
cover the entire. chain can be
worked out, ‘
Union Hits McCarthy
The CIO Oil Workers’ Interna-
‘tional Union disclosed here that
it supplied State Dept. overseas
libraries with free copies of a his-
tory of the.union written by Hit
yey O'Connor. ‘The labor writer
for contempt of Con-
ate with Senater Joseph R.. Me-
Carthy’s permanent investigating
committee. Copies of the OWIU
history und other hooks) written
by O’Connor were found in the
overseas libraries by MeCarthy. |
“In a page one news story in the
duly 27 International Oi) Worker,
the union reported sympathetically:
on O'Gonnors tangle with -what
it ealled “bookburner? MeCarthy’s
“mfamous mudslinging commit-
tee.”
Let Your Eyes
DRIVE. SLOGAN, A facsimile ‘of .the cover of a. special leaflet ‘to be
used in the UE Local 301 eye pledge drive is shown here, See story
: above for details, '
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Friday, August 7, 1953 © 3.
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