ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS.”
“Friday, March 21, 1952
The NOT So Glamourous Stor
The story they’re running about®
GE in-the March issue of Glamour
is called Profilé of Big Business—
"but talk to the typical woman pro-
duction worker in GI and: she'll
tell you it should be called A Fairy
Tale of Big Business. -
‘In ‘What is called the first in a”
series of articles about America’s
leading employers of women, Glam-:
our readers are lullabied with such
pap as “you'll find this huge com-
-pany (GI) is characterized by 2
kind of family feeling, a stronger-
than-usual sense.of belonging,” and
“you'll probably observe it most
clearly” in the Schenectady Works.
Throughout four pages | is
told the story of how wonder-
ful it is for women in GE. But
most women on GE production
jobs would tell: you that if
there is a “family” feeling it’s
sttictly of the “poor relative”
variety. “cst .
Nothing is‘ mentioned. in this
fairy tale about an UE expose in
1945 that resulted in-a War Labor
Board ruling that GE “exploited”
its Women employees and’ proposed. |
~ that GI increase its women em:
. ployees’ rate to eliminate this dis-_
crimination.
GE increased rates on sonie jobs
where discrimination was the worst,
but didn’t change its discrimina-
tory wage structure. That same
1945 expose revealed that GE. hires
women at 10 to 15 cents less than
men and.rates, in general were 32.4 :
cents an hour: below men’s rates.
What progress has been made
was due to UE, which has boosted
women’s rates from 70.8 percent of
men’s in 1945 to 78 percent of
men’s rates by 1951.
“The U. S. Departinent of La-
bor declared last year: “The
payment of equal rates to men
and women doing the same
work ... resulted from the
union’s (UE) activity ... and
the company was initially op-
posed to equal pay.” :
GE might fool the public abou
the idyllic existence of,.women in
its plants, but the women are de-
termined to fight through to secure
UE’s demaid for “elimination of
discrimination in women’s. rates,
with no rate below the rate of com:
mon labor” in negotiations now
_ going on wwith GE.
They want no GE fairy tales.
Instead they'll take equal work for
equal pay—and_ it’s the smart male
union member who. backs them up
so. that GIS can no longer use worn-
en’s.rates to undercut men's wages,
players S tiny, wu
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IT PAYS TO ADYERTISE.- GE, next to General Motors, spent
y They Didn't Tell About GE
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the most money on tax-free ads in majazines last year—a total
of $9,758,272,
It pays off in “fairy tales” such as ‘in Glamour
magazine above that paints a: picture of “pleased and proud”
women workers—but skips the facts of life. GE’s women work-
ers would trade the story for some of the $9 million to even up
their unequal rates. mg
"301 Support Pledged —
To
hica Union Drive
Mica Insulator Co. workers, at a well.attended member-
ship meeting at the Local 301 Hall on Sunday, March 16, re-
ceived pledges*of the full support of UE*members in District
3 and Leeal 3801 in their efforts to
throw off their company union and
organize a UE shop with UL
wages, hours and working condi-
tions,
The pledges were made by Lewis
King, District 8 president and Leo
Jandrenu, ‘301’ business agent.
Jandreau told of the drive he
and others led in 1941 to organize
the Mica plant. The company then
ereated fear and ‘disunity with
threats of firing and foisted a com- .
pany union on its workers.
In the 10 years since, Jandreau
said, while Mica workers have had
. a company union the UE. members
in GE’s Schenectady Works have
forged ahead to win wage oin-
creases averaging 73 cents an
hour, guaranteed ineentive rates,
10 percent bonus on average carn-
ing's for night shift workers, seven
paid holidays, time-and-a-half for
Saturday work and other. benefits,
He warned of. the new tricks the
company would pull now that over
60 percent of its workers have
joined UE. :
Their new weapon, he pointed
out, will be red-baiting and trying
to import another company union
with a new label into the plant—
the IUE-CIO. This use of red-
baiting was tried by the company
and IUH-CIO twice in the last two
years in the Schenectady Works
and was rejected. by UE members’
in two NLRB elections.
Speed-up of Porter,
Moveman Halted
Equal overtime will be distribut-
ed among workers in Bide. 69
working under Foreman J. Stinson
because of grievance action by the
group. They charged that Stinson
on Teb. 15 requested five stock-
room employees for Saturday work
and excluded two material handl-
ers. All employees perform the
same type of worl.
_.. Management instructed the divis-
ion, which instructed the foreman,
to distribute overtime equally.
Steward P. Sgambati handled the
grievance. ‘
da lang an you can't afford.to eat, Dillingsby ... We
can dispense with your lunch hour ss.
Reporting Time Won
For 13 Workers
“Thirteen workers in Bidg. 273,
who were sent home because of
lack of work and were not: paid
for reporting in, have been paid
report time as a result of action
by the Union.
Eleven came in on a Sunday. The
contract provides there must be a
minimum pay of three hours. .GE
paid them.an hour and a half at
double-time. ‘301’ pointed out this
wasn't three hours pay, since Sun-
day work is paid at double time
and they were entitled to three
hours pay, at double time. GE
agreed to pay...
Two inspectors on Feb. 9 were
not allowed to punch in by their
foreman ‘because of lack of work.
The Union won threé hours pay.
Won in Bldg. 29
Four old jobs will be made stand-
ard, with piece work, day work
minimized, five jobs‘-will be time
studied on 18 inch machines within
two’ months (and no later than
May 1) and a foreman’s wrong at-
titudes will be corrected, as a re-
sult of grievance action by a group
of workers in mica in Bldg. 29,
The workers claimed they could
not make more than AER of their
job and were paid piece work,. day
work on the average of three or
four days a week—with. the fore-
man basing his arguments on the
fact he couldn't get an 18 inch ma-
chine time studied.
The settlement also included in-
structions to the foreman to halt
slowing “and speeding up machines
during voids in the mica tape, due
to bad mica, Steward IE. Rossi
handled the grievance,
GE’s Wage Freeze
Continued from page 1 :
—unless the men fight with the
women now to establish equal pay.
for equal work on all jobs,
There's a fight ahead—and every
.Worker. should. quickly. let. GE.-and...---
Wilson know they’re in no mood
to tolerate frozen wages’ while
prices and profits and taxes con-_
tinue to skyrocket,
: —__()
Mica Rate Beefs
News.
THE VOICE OF THE UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO & MACHINE WORKERS OF AMERICA*-— LOCAL 30t, UE
10 — No. 12
SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK
Friday, March 28, 1952
Hamilton, Canada—A‘wage boost
“of 16 cents an hour with retroac-
tive pay to Dee. 22, 1951 has been
won by UE members at the Hoover
Co. An eighth paid holiday was
also won, 4
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Providence, R."I.—Most’ of this
city’s 66 public schools were shut
» down March 10 when 800 members
of the AFL Federation of Teach-
ers went on strike to secure an
adequate cost of living allowance.
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Louisville, “—Ky.—-UE Local 236
changed International Harvester’s
mind about fiting a. steward and
four grievance committeemen after
a week’s strike by-8,000 members.
The first of the grievancemen .re- -
turned to work the day after mem-
bers approved oa reinstatement.
agreement, : ;
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Qetevetana, ‘Ohio — A two day
policy meeting of 200 CIO United
Rubber Workers leaders last week
called for wage increases and im-
proved working conditions for 200,-
000 rubber workers. It’s reported
the figure will call for 10 pereent
boosts, which would mean raises of
18 to 21 cents an hour.
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New York — A charge that the
Pentagon brass is favoring low
pay, open shop areas in handing
out contracts and thereby turning
established clothing, cotton gar-
ment and textile communities inte
ghost towns .was made here by.
Pres. Jacob 8. Potofsky, of the
CIO Amalgamated Clothing, Work-
ers.
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Ore. —- Gver
Portland, 50,000
members of the CIO Woodworkers
Union, in five northwest states, are
taking part in a strike vote, called
after contract talks hit a dead end.
The union is asking for a 20 cont
hourly wage boost.
ek ke oO
cy Franciseo — Western states
Said a new bus drivers walkout
when 264 drivers on Sante I*s Trail-
ways, members of the Brotherhood
of Railroad. Trainmen, walked out
in protest over contract violation
“ charges brought’ against ‘them by
the company because they ref'used
to load buses in excess'of a Call-
fornia. 18,000 pound limit.
SLANE CCA ; bP
GQOD TIME HAD BY ALL. ‘
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‘he kappy seene above
ria
was snapped at
a ‘party held at Ferro's restaurant on. Sunday, Mareh 23, by ‘301°
members in chemical, Bldgs. 77, 67, 71, 75 and 79 and control, Bldgs.
73,-73A and 69.
‘301’ Chief Shop Steward William: Mastrianni was
presented with a handsome travelling bag far his services over the
last 16 years as a steward and officer.-
'301' Calls Stewards Wage
Conference for March 31
With a national wage conference of all UE locals through-
out the country called for April 5,and 6 in.Buffalo, N. Y., UE
Local 301 has issued a call to its over 600 stewards to attend
it dress’ yeheursal on “where do we
go from here” for Monday evening,
Mareh 81, 7:30 pam., at the Union
Hall. ‘ :
This Stewards Wape-Conference
will review GI's position to date
in negotiations and map out a. pro-
gran to change GE’s position of
not giving a cent more than its for-
mer boss Charles Wilson has de-
creed—a 1.86 percent increase.
It will also deal with the threat-
ened attucks on UE by Sen, Hubert:
H. Humphrey (D, Minn.)
Underscoring the im portance
of this conference by UE’s
largest local is the invitation
Local 301’s executive board
has extended to UE’s three top
officers, Pres. Albert: J. litz-
_ Berald, Seey-Treas. Julius Ems-
pak and Director of Organiza-
tion James J. Matles, to at
tend and participate in’ the
conference's deliberations.
They have beetr requested to
place hefore the stewards the
national union's program and
recommendations for action.
All second shift stewards will be
compensated for lost time to nt-
tond this important conference,
The conference will elect Locul
301s delegates to the national UR
conference In Bulfalo,
Support Elmira
Rate Cut Strike
A pledge of assistance in what-
ever manner is necessary and that
Scheneetady GE foundry workers
will not handle seab work was sent
lo “striking GE Elmira foundry
workers by the ‘801’ executive
board last Monday,
Elmira molders struck Mareh 18
against a cut in price on a standard
job, A UE Local 810 meeting
on March 23 voted that the rest
of plant would join the 180 work-
ers on the pieketline if G12 ‘didn’t
settle the beef by midnight, March
24, GE's refusal-provoked a gen-
eral strike on March 25. ‘
GH cut the -price because of a
minor change on castings, adding
four small holes and cutting the
Job from $5.76 per hundred to $5,
adding up to a 26 to 80 cent hour-
ly cut. The moldings are sent
to the GE Fort Wayne plant to
machine and drill the four holes.
Fort Wayne clean up men were
also eut, from 18 to 14 cents per
hundred, .
Considered a part of a generel
GE attempt to slush rates, the
grievance was handled all the way _
to the national level before the
stoppage, UR members at Hite
and Ft. Edward GE plants have
-also promised full support. |
Craftsmen’s
Rally Spurs
Wage Fight
The demonstration held by tool-
makers and building trades crafts.
on Wednesday, March 19, is one |
that will be remembered for a long.
time—but to these workers ‘it was.
just the beginning of a%fight to
secure rates which they deserve.
There were meetings at Camp-
bell Ave. and Knolls but the big
one was outside the Works man-
ager’s offices at Building 41—and
their determination to fight was
clearly shown when they held an
hour-long® meeting in’ a driving
snowstorm. 7
They heard. “301% Pres, James J.
Cownetta and Chief Shop Steward
William Mastrianni tell them they
were the Union and it was up to
them ta convinee GE they wouldn"t
accept its arrogant attitude that
nothing will be done on their rates,
‘When GE photographers set
up. cameras to take pictures
they raised a sea of hands in a
vote to strike, if necessary, to
win their demands.
Speaker after speaker, Frank
Diehsner, tinsmiths; George FP,
Griffin, iron workers; Charles Fer-
ris, electricians; Henry Caputo,
masons and Anthony Esposito,
toolmakers, expressed their burn-
ing resentinent over the narrow-
ing gap between their wages and
others, with the margin now less
than three percent in a compari-
son with 52 shops in the area,
. GE was blasted for hiring
‘contractors who pay outside
building trades workers 40 to
50 cents more an hour for work
they can do. and buying and
building plants in small com-
munities, paid by their taxes,
“to set a low wage pattern for
Many jobs now performed in
the Schenectady Works,’
The meetings set the pace for
the kind of fight that will be need-
ed aguinst GE in negotiations to
secure their demand for a 45 cent
an hour increase-—the amount ree-
ommended by the government wage
freeze board last. fall and killed by_.
pressure of employer members of
the Board, as Charles Wilson. is
now trying te kill the reeommenda-
tions for steel workers.
Friday, March 28, 1952 Friday, March 28, 1952 —— ELECTRICAL’ UNION NEWS
Call for Enforcement
Of Fair Employment.
Terming i¢ a “national scandal
that Negro people.and other min-
ority groups have ' been denie
equal . employnient onportentick
and rights,” the ‘301’ executive
board last Monday unanimously
Community Figures
Out Against Humphrey
: : While Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D, Minn.) is conducting his one man hearings in Wash-
show illustrating’ Civi niger 24 H. D, Min g arings in \
ued Aid chowias pate ington, D. C. for the purpose of launching attacks on the labor movement, with UE singled
American “people may take |» out as a special target, the people who know UE Local 301 best over’ the 16 years of its exist-
greater part in the activity, will ence—the citizens of the communi.
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
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Hit GE’s Korea Blood
Donor Drive Laxity
“ UE Local 301's. executive board =4
last Monday. reaffirmed its previ-
ous decision to lend full coopera- °
“tion on the part of its members
for the humanitarian purpose of
securing blogd donations-for sold-
iers in Korea, but at the sanie time
‘Alert America’.
Show ‘Here
April 3, 4,5°
NA dort America,” a giant road
Urge Westinghouse ‘Bulb Boycott
The UE_ Westinghouse Conference Board has: called for a,
“Don't Buy Westinghouse Light Bulbs” campaign among. consumers
until’ a satisfactory settlement is reached at the Westinghouse,
Trenton, N. J. lamp bulb plant. UE Loeal 443 members voted to
strike after a three weck lockout stemming from® resistance to
company orders to speed up winding operations and jumped the
rate from 880 to 1,464 units. Workers who couldn't make. the new
rate were fired.
Westinghouse’ has tried to make the“workers submit to this
speed up by threatening to move the work to Little Rock, Ark.,
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was sharply critical of GE’s failure
to carry through the drive on its
part. « so
Williant J. Kelly, ‘3801’ labor-
management committee campaign
representative, pointed out that in
‘Bldg..278 the drive has been a suc-,
cess, with 2,300 pledges and the
current Red Cross ‘quota of 180°
donors fulfilled’ But in'the rest of
the Works, he said, GE has fall-"
-ed to carry through, with cards
gathering dist on foremens’ desks
in: various divisions.
where wages are as low as $30
a week,
out was “in-yiolation of our national contract.” » Nearby UE mem-
bers in Locals 426, Newark and Local. 107, Essington, Pa., have
joined the picketlines in support of the 750 workers, |
UE has charged the lock-
Boost Timing Rate
As a result of a grievance filed
by Mary Felano and A, Di Thomas,
Bldg. 69, management will pay 78
cents timing rite to anyone work-
ing on Job R2-83, which was pay-
ing 57 cents, though the job con-
tent is the same as Job R2-97,
which pays 78 cents. Steward D,
Pitucci handled the grievance.
Rate Restored
The clean terminal and tap job«
in Bldg. 285 is once again paying’ a
74 cent timing rate. “When it was
moved a short distance ‘with no
change in method, management re-
duced the timing rate to 60 cents,
The grievance was’ handled by
Steward A. Carrara.
went on record calling upon Con-
gress, state and local legislatures
to enact fair employment practice
legislation. _ _
» Pending such action, the Board
called upon President Truman to
use his authority and establish
FEPC machinery by Executive Or-
der. “Such legislation or orders
should include:
Enforcement of fair practices
must apply equally to all jobs,
whether in private industry. or
governnient. ae
Campbell Ave.-Race Track: Mill-
wrights charge movemen are -mov-
ing heavy niachine tools, which is
millwrights’ work. “They demand
that.GIE live tp to its agreement an,
this work,
Louis Passikoff, who is doing A
work, demands reclassifieation and
an“inereased rate... '
A. I, Bocici demands a, retroac-
tive one step incrense to- March 3, .
1952. “He was reclassified A on
that date but management says
~he’s not entitled to higher pay rate
for two or three months.
Norman Wentworth and Ray-
mond Van Allen, doing electrical
work on. test and wiring produc-
tion machines, deniand a revalua-
tion and reclassification in line
with their work and responsibili-
ties. ;
Fred Roy, J, who has not se-
cured an increase since Nov, 26,
1951, feels his normal perform-
anee on job entitles him to a job
‘ate of $1.81 immediately. :
Jack Hogle, clectronics, demands:
reclassification to B machinist with
inerensed rate because he is now
doing a good grade of B machinist
work.
Knolls: Erick T. Schubert, re-
search lab., demands time-and-a-
half pay for time worked on Feb,
25, 1952, as the contract provides.
Bldg. 10: A group in carboloy
demands a time. study due to a
change of method that added stock
to a casting, -Poreman R. Biclhart
refused the request. /
Bldg. 14: Battery truck drivers
demand. that foreman halt practice
of permitting accumulators drive
trucks, which takes away. their
overtime and is not part of aceum-
ulators’ job. .
Bldg. 16: Stanley Levine, test, 2
B tester; is performing A test work
and demands reelassifiention and
adjustment to A rate. °
Bldg. 17: H. Nutz, punch press,
when laid off as crane operator in
“Bide. 49 was promised that when
work increased he'd be transferred
back, Since a number of crane op-
erators ‘with less service were piv-
Thousands of grievances are handled by UE Local 301
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 lo the executive board-management level,
en jobs in 49, Nutz demands a job
in 49. .
A. group. of Blanchatd. surface
inder. operators protests. super-
vision’s .insistence that they. clean
cut sludge and emory_dust, work
ulways done in past by a porter,
N. Falvo, punching, tool & dic,
demands .overtime be equalized in
his: group so he’ll get his. proper
Share, ,
-* A group in.punch press demands
management live up to its agree-
ment of Jan, 15, 1952 that-on filing
and stacking job the filing will be
climinated but would pay the cost
of stacking and unloading” the
‘stackers. _
A group in punch press, assign-
ed to enamel furnace in iron shed -
are now required to open bundles
of iron as part of their job. They
charge this is added operation and
request payment. retronuctive to
when the change was made. :
Bldg. 46: George Wronkowski,
Arthur W. Anderson and Ellsworth
Miner are serving in capacity of
leaders and being paid only AER
of joh—S1.97, Since it is violation
of contract, reclassification as lend-
ers with a two step adjustment in|
rate is demanded.
Bldg. 49: Edward Zampella,
classified xs C tool crib keeper, de-
mands a B classification because he
is doing B work. ‘
W. D’Arneau, an internal excello
grinder, demands a one step ad-
justment te $1.70 because of nor-
al performance. The foreman re-
fused on grounds of slack work.
A group of toolmakers became A
inspectors on superviston's request).
with a promise they'd receive AA
rating of $2.13 an hour as soon as
they went into production on. gas
turbines. The promise was. not
kept and the AA rate is demanded
on basis of AA work they’re per-
forming. ;
William Geely: and R. Parker, ex-
perienced welders, were. transfers:
red_ from’ Bldg. 52 with AER of
KLEGY and. given $1.65 rate in
Bide. 49, a violation of contract,
Retroactive pay to date of trans-
fer is demanded.
Bldg. 52:'A group charges there .
is not ehough work to keep three -
shifts working for any length of
time and demand an early discus-
sion of the problem, -
Bldg. 69: A group of. spot weld-
ers protest the price of $1.26 per
thousand on job 9397109 as being
inadequate and demand a_ time
study be taken, . a.
Mary Morrett, a piece worker off
her break-in period, protests get-
a ting only $1.17 when changed to
other* jobs of short duration and
demands $1.29 for this work.
A group charges a deliberate cut .
in standard prices, citing one job
paying $1.21 per hundred and an-
other paying $8.24. Since beth jobs
are identical, the $3.24 should be
paid for both,
Dominic Pitueci was issued an
unsatisfactory progress report al't-
cr issuing literature at plant gates.
He charges he was penalized for
farrying out his duties as Union
representative,
Bldg. 77: A group charges that
Poreman Palmatier ignores safety
hazards, though admitting that
crowded condition’ of warehouse
center aisle is a hagzard. He's
stalled remedying problem for six
weeks, pending construction of
shed and platform. The workers
feel their safety should not be dis-
regarded even temporarily.
A group objects to Foreman
. Sharke assigning porter to paint
shop work that infringes on over-
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atime of painters.. They. demand if
porter works there he be reclassi-
fied and upgraded and that over-
time be equally distributed.
Bidg. 81: A group demands that
10 resistors be classified as revular
resistors instead of resistor board
and where resistor board is used on
a panel with resistors on it that
they. be paid as oné and given‘same
consideration. for check and trace
purposes. 2 7 ,
Bldy.. 89: A group in heater asag
sembly requests average earning’ *
in payment for lost time due :
shortage of help in stock room and
generul shop conditions.
Bldg. 95: A group of foundry
moulders request payment for re-
porting to work March 4, since
slinger had broken down. They re-
fused to hand ram - because. no
prices were available and they
should be, . ;
Bldg. 273: Walter T. Patrick
charges price of $10.67 is inade-
quate for outer ring job time study
and demands payment for 10 hours
involved in the time study. ,
H.- Gray’ protests downg fading:
from turret lathe and serew ma-
chine, ‘automatic AER $1.81, to tur-
vet lathe and screw machine, hand
-AER $1.70, and that work he is
performing should be ’ properly
classified as A,
James Teahan protests he was
improperly credited with IR for
back work and says it took place
on first shitt..
A-group of machinist helpers. re-
quest revaluation and increased. job
rate because of. ‘responsibilities
udded to their job.
G. 1. Cruickshank, hired as are
welder with previous experience,
was given starting rate of $1.42
instead of $1.65, two steps below
job rate of $1.7514. Retroactive
pay to Oct. 80, 1951 is demande?+
with proper adjustment in rate. "y
John Homkey charges he dots’
not get equal share of overtime as
contract provides. The day man
has worked three consecutive Sun-
days. : ‘
A group of B inspectors:in tur-
~~bine: stoek::toonr demand> revlagsis ~~
fication to A rate. because work and
responsibilities have been added
since their job was originally class-
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be in Schenectady at the State
Armory on Washington Avenue
on Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday, April 3, 4, and 5,
The show is sponsored by the
Valley Forge Foundation, 2 non-
profit, organization which ad-
ministers national programs in
the public interest. Shows in
Schenectady and Albany will be
the only ones in this part of
| New York State.
‘Fhe show will he brought to
Schenectady by a motoreade of
trucks. It will be open to the
public, There will ‘be no ad-
mission charge.
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List ‘301’ Program
4 : Fi a Bea _
Of 52 Activities
A projected program of. activi-
ties for UE Local , 301 menibers
was announced Inst week by the
Union’s Activities Committee.
Chairman O. B: “Bucky” Phillips
as
Ou the following projected pro-
qa: :
A dance in May. A UE Loeal
301 Night at MeNearney Sta-
dium this summer to watch the
local Blue Jays in actions A
family outing sométime dur-
ing the sumer in the form of
a picnic, with basket lunches
and games.
Revival of the UE Local 301
Field Day at a date in late
summer, A raffle, which would
help raise funds for the com-
mittee, with a prize of one
week’s vacation with all ex-
penses paid., A Halloween
party in the ‘801’? Halk A
Christmas Party for children
during the holiday season.
Cemmittee membership includes:
Phillips, 285; Ann De Celli, secre-
tary, 28; Philip Cognetta, 52; Ralph
Pipe, 52; Michael Rakvica, 53; Fred
Pacelli, 46; Willfam Garrison, 69;
Anthony Rossi, 60; Michael Rigyi,
60; and LilHan Kendall, 37.
ties within a 50 mile radius—are
testifying back home that ‘301’ has
“made America a better place to
live in.”
.. Executive board’ members of
*301’ were all last week securing:
signatures on a statement by busi-
nessmen, lawyers, doctors, political
and civic leaders that will be sent
“to all methbers of Humphrey's sub-
committee.
The statement cites the fact.
that Local 301 has been the
certified collective bargaining
representative at the GE Sche-
nectady Works since December
15, 1936. and as the largest la-
hor organization in ‘the Capitol
Area district “has contributed |
immeasurably.towards improy-
ing’ the conditions and enhane-
ing the dignity of every work-:
er-in General Electric.”
Pointing out that GI workers
have “twice in the past two years,
in government supervised elections,
democratically reaffirmed by in-,
ised majorities that they de-.
sire UE Local 301 to continue as
their collective bargaining repre-
sentative,” the statement adds:
“Its record of collective bargain-
ing, during which time it has
doubled the wages of its members,
has contributed vastly to the pros-
perity and well-being of thousands
of families, businessmen and pro-
fessions in the many communities
in the area,” '
To launch disruptive, ‘split-
ting attacks and try to end col-
lective bargaining by govern-
ment dictation, the signers
say, “could only bring a result
of chaos and disruption of the
orderly collective bargaining
that has existed for so Jong.
It would undoubtedly . contri-
bute to a harmful effect on the
well-being of all communities
in the area within a radius of
50 miles,”
In Springtield, Mass. the
the AFL’s Electrical Union has
pretension to trade union honor
Look Who's Talking
_ The TUE-CIO, which has done more raiding of other unions
-than any union in the American trade union moyement, may be able
to dish out disruption and splitting but it seems it can't (ake it,
1UE-CI0's paper complained that
of IUE-CIO time and again and their lacties—particularly their
libelous claims that the HUE-CLO and the UE are the same Com.
liave stripped the IBIW of any.
and decency.”
Evidently when 1U2-CLO els some of
finds the shoe uot only fits but it also pinehes. .
“nrunist-controlled: organization—|
attempted to raid the jurisdiction
its own medicine it
Humphrey Starts ‘Solo’
Attack Against Labor
» Sen, Hubert H. Humphrey.
cember he’s out to “wreck” UE;
(D, Minn.), who said last De-
opened his hearings last week
—but it turned out to be a one man.show. He was the only
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“Now if you could only prove that Communists
cause hayfever you'd have ne trouble geting
an uppropriativn.”
Back Pay Won on GE
a 8 J a.
Hiring Rate Violation
Two workers, hired as’ alreraft
mechanics in flight-test at the GE
Airport for less than the UE can-
tract permits, have -secured retre-
active pay and: proper rates of pay
through Union grievance. action.
Stephen Cheresnowsky. was hited
on May 23, 1951 for class B work
und Richard Hannay was hired on
April 23, 1951 for class C. ‘Both
were hired for less than the two
steps below the regular job. rate
that the. Union contract specifies.
By enforeing the contract hiring ,
rate, back pay on’ the following
‘ates Was won, Cheresnowsky got
$1.81 as of May 23, 1951, $1861
to Aug. 28, 1961 and $1.92 back to-
Nov. 11, 1951. Hannay got $1.65
as of. April 23, 1951, $1.70 as of
July 28, 1951 and $1.7544 to Oct. :
23, 1951, ‘ a
Steward J. Miller took up and
handled the grievances.
Timing Rate Corrected
Grievance action by Steward D.
Pitucei’s group in Bldg. 69 has |
changed. an.-improperly -elassified
burr and chanfer job’ from a 5?
cent timing mute to the 78 cont rate
pald for the same operition on a
dise grinder job. .
one. of the seven members of his
committee to show up. .
Despite the fact that CIO Pres.
Philip Murray and AFL Pres. Wil-
liam Green have strongly urged
their “friend” Humphrey to halt
his drive against so-called “red?
unions as_a threat to all unions,
Humphrey held a week of hearings
und then recessed until April.
Boulware Geis In Aet
When L, R. Boulware, GE vice
president, a longtime foe of UE,
wasn’t called in to testify during
this first week of -hearings, he
rushed into the press with a long -
statement that urged Humphrey
to devise legislation which would
sel up a government board to bar
selected unions from bargaining,
not permit them to yo to court to
contest such decisions, not collect
dues, not conduct strikes and not
permit such unions to even ap-
proach an “employer for recogni-
tion, All of this Boulware’ pro-
posed, regardless of whether work-:
ers Want the union or not,
Among Humphrey’s witnesses
ut this first Week of hearings were:
Seeretary of Labor Maurice
Tobin, a pal of [UE-CIO Pres,
James B. Carey. Tobin open-
ly campaigned for the IUE in
an election at the GE Lynn
plant last summer, Tobin
wants unions he considers
Communist to be barred from
bargaining, which he said are
those that “do not aet in the
ultimate interests of the em-
ployees they represent,” which
to some observers sounded like
an unintentional description of
his pal Carey’s IUE-CIO.
NLRB Chairman Paul Herzog
thought no new legislation is need-
ed. NLRB. Genl. Counsel George
Bott agreed and ‘said the problem.
_is “one of preventing strikes,”
John D, Small,“head of the Muni-
lions Board, said no one in the De-
fense Dept. “had-any specific plans ~
for legislation.’ A Justice Dept.
ulficial said they’d found only one
“pod” to get-un indictment against
in all of labor.
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