Electrical Union News, 1946 June 27

4 ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS ™ * June 25, 1946 -

Boys Like These to Get Vacations Thanks to Local 301 Field Day

THE VOICE OF THE UNITED ELECTRICAL; RADIO & MACHINE WORKERS OF AMERICA—LOCAL 301 ClO:
Vol. [1I—No. 24. SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK ' June 27, 1946

0 Dominelli Enters: the Sheriff Contest

~ Joseph 8. Dominelli, chairman.of the

e e , ah nO : ete R
_ Kalli aie Ran a i ‘Local Veterans? —-Committee,——will__.

tun in Democratic, Republican and ALP

e Pi Y ut an an . : . . ‘
primaries for nomination for sheriff of
_ Fired to ay : } Schenectady County.
- . a : i The ‘“Dominelli-for-Sheriff” cam-
Y oh es .
For Field Day : : : 4 paign was started by a non-partisan

« group of veterans: William Stella,
Don Killian and his orchestra will a Stephen Zdunezyk, Rudy Ellis, Philip
play for the free dancing from § p.m. ; / Bayer, Andrew Santore, Paul Nagey,
: to. midnight at the Local 301: Field Day ; Horace Perryman, Robert Northrop,
A group of campers,in front of the main lodge of Tippecanoe, «ceeds of the Local 301 Field Day will go to this project, to oe Sunday, June 30, at Pete and Sally's : Dewey Brashear, Fred Fava, Manuel
YMCA camp in Princetown Rd. which is open to all young aid boys and girls who would otherwise miss out on vacations. © ° a Bei Greve, Upper Albany 8t. ; : ; Fernandez, Roy Cannice, Joseph Grubar,
people of Schenectady for summer outings. Half the pro- Tippecanoe will also be open for outings next winter. — ae _ The field day program will open at ne : Joseph P. Edwards, Daniel Cichy,
. - : Be 10 am. Sale of tickets proceeded at a Rr eS hae §6=6s George De Crease and Thomas Riggi.
. . E ; fast clip this week and indicated a rec- : : This group, the Non-Partisan Veter-
Free Parking aioe ord-breaking crowd will attend. ; ans Gommitien for Joe Dominelli, re-
: oo Boxing bouts and wrestling matches : _ ports widespread interest in the cam-

n

‘Money From Field Day ‘
To Help ‘Y’ Camp Fund HAMBURGERS ? ? ?

At least 500 of them at the an- 2 ayailable for automobiles at the Field ~ ere 7 will be on the sports program. The ONY paign among members of other vet-
nual Local 301 Field Day June 30. Day Sunday. City police will have “yes fighters will be Georgie Decker, Golden erans' organizations in Schenectady.

Plenty of free parking space will be

Tippecanoe, the YMCA camp which
will share in half the proceeds of the
Local 301. Field Day, will make summer

Glove champion, vs. Ray McBrotney, and (Continued on Page 2)

shwige OF imashie Aad. Panne: Dick Massie vs. Jim Tompson. The

ions possible this year to many . * The field may be reached by driving 1 | wrestling card will be Sailor Jack Adams :
ehanaeindy boys and girls who other- Bring the Kids . all the way up Albany St. to the. en- ere 3 Nay Stratus and Young Bull Mon- : Local 301 Okays
wise would have no camping opportun- Be sure to bring along your children trance to Pete and Sally’s Grove, for- . mr ' tana vs. Tony Zaban. . :
ity. Sunday. They'll love the games and merly Blessers Park, or by driving up , Bocei Game Planned : : ; Bag : i N GE ¢ t t
A main lodge has been built on the sports arranged for them, not to men-~ “State St.-to Garfield ‘Ave: and then over ; ee Vartous, will be played, in ew On reac
es one of land whieh the ee Mone aia hot dogs, fee cream and soft ateanee a SE EM ge Gsties Signs S s cluding the ammeter Italian sport af boc- sOSEPEEDOMINEME ¥ mavenal membership meeting of
bought in the Princetown et ; 7 ; ci Special entertainment has been ar- Local 301 June 18 unanimously ap-

funds are needed to pay for the mess : fees p ‘ th ae : . . proved recommendations for the new
hall and to provide camping and play OES a Fatiged. fot childkets No Pints of Milk . General Electric contract as agreed on

he }. There are picnicking facilities, the aun
facilities. , . ae ‘ by negotiators of UE and GE after 10
Here are some of the groups invited FUEL DAY PROGRAM ! Activities Committee has announced, For Sale at GE ww Weeks..of disenssion,--—————---. +=
and encouraged to use Tippecanoe: less i Lge ee = —-~~and- refreshments” will be~sold~ all day ; = Ratification has been reported by
~~“privileged boys in “Y" Buddy Clubs, 10 a.m. to noon__Soft ball games, two girls’ champion teams of GE. ‘|e _ and evening. Till Price Rises several other UE locals at GE plants
Schenectady Boys Club, colored boys 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.—Games and contests for boys, girls, men, women. we Highlights of the Field Day celebra- and other votes were scheduled for this

and girls in. the Carver Welfare League 2 p.m. to 4 p.m,._..---...-__--------------Boxing and wrestling. OS tion will be the awarding of the grand General Electric Co. will not sell pint week. The Manufacturing Committee -

rw ayje) or b a A 1947 Studebaker, and the crown. CONtainers of milk at the plant cafe- ae A
Te er the pak ‘ caumunity ‘Cent. | 4 Pm. to 5:30 p.m.—Games and contests, boys, girls, men, women. ' i. a ie Tield Day Queen, Table ‘elas unless OPA grants it permission of GE, which ‘also: had “ty Fass bi ‘the

: . : . ‘ ’ contract, has approved it,
er, YMCA boy members, Boy Scouts and 6 pim._.-..- Presenting of prizes to entrants in Queen contest. .~ tadios and other prizes also will be giv- to charge 10 cents instead of nine cents. ’ PR

: zl . . AB ne One of the terms of the cantract is
Girl Scouts, boy members of the ‘Y” f PAM oe wenn eee e ne -e+---+++--Drawing of gate prizes, * ! C en. OPA has turned down the request that ig will be effective as of Apr. 1,

Mont Pleasant branch, youth groups of 8 p.m. to midnight-.......--....-_...._...-..----Free dancing . Starring in the floor show at 9:80 °NC@ but SE has filed an appeal, ; _ 1946 and continue until Apr. 1, 1047. >
churches and members of core Clubs 9:30 pm,...----------- enn --eeeene ee e---------Floor Show ; p.m. will be Otis and Eleanor, radio en- vad claims ‘hat under bot oe a Both the national UB office and Leo
sponsored by the YM and YWCA. arr yep “ ‘ . is : tertainers, and a troupe of dancers, ow has to pay for pints of milk, i wi Jandreau, Local 801 business agent,

Tippecanoe replaced Camp Mohawk Picnicking facilities will be available all day and there will be ; | singers and acrobats led by Tony Geat- suffer financial loss by handling the described the contract as a veal’ union
which had a far less satisfactory loca- | refreshments at all hours. : : te : - AMO, . ; pints. _ _ |. .Nietory in the face of GE efforts to
tion. ; Half the proceeds of Tield Day, will Half-pints will continue to be sold weaken the union and the current anti-
go to'the YMCA camp, Tippecanoe. for six cents each at the cafeterias. labor drive in Congress,

“ ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS

2 June 27, 1946

ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS

Unrrep Evecraicat, Ranio & MACHINE
Workers oF America, CIO

ScHenrorapy GE Loca 301
WAR
Published by the Editorial Committee —
Dewey Brashear Ray Flanigan:
Milo Lathrop William Mastriani
Editorial Office - Electrical Union News

301 Liberty St. - Schenectady, N. Y.

SCHENECTADY PRINTING CO.. INC,

$1000 for Strikers

The general membership meeting of
Local 301 voted June 18 to give $1,000
to the Tonawanca UE locals on strike
at the Buffalo Bolt Corp. and Spalding
Fibre Corp.

The donation doubles the $500 recom,
mendation of the Executive Board.

The-Tonawanda~locals-gave-$2000-to—

the Local 301 strike last winter.

SOS

Volunteers are still needed to help
with arrangements at the Field Day
Sunday.

There are dozens of odd jobs to do.
Contact the Activities Committee.

. dust in Case .

The Merey Ambulance will be at the
field all day Sunday with qualified at-
tendants to handle any case of illness
or accident.

No Time Like the Present for Registration

The voters taking advantage of central registration to sign up early for the right
to vote in the November elections are: left to right, Mrs. Alma De Cesare, GE
office worker; Mrs, Lucy Zeppetelli, Local 301, and Art De Lucia, Local 301. As-
sisting them are Mrs. Virginia French, left foregrounc, of the Board of Elections
office, and Earl J. Copely, extreme right, of the Board of Elections. Central
registration will continue until Oct. 1 at the Board office, Schenectady County

Courthouse. ‘

Dominelli Enters the Sheriff Contest

(Continued from Page 1)

Dominelli, an enrolled Republican,
will be 31 in August. He was born in
Schenectady and attended Central Park
Junior High and ‘Mont Pleasant High
‘School.

In 1934 he went to work for the Gen-
eral Electric Co. where his father had
been killed’ in an accident when Joe
was seven years old.

Candidate Dominelli, worked at GE

until he entered the Army in 1943. Aft-
er taking basic training at Camp Croft,
S.C., he went overseas with the Infantry
in Apr. 1944,

He went into action with the 29th
Division in Normandy, June 10, 1944,
Wounded July 18 of that year at St.
Lo, France, he spent a month in an
evacuation hospital in France. Then he
rejoined the 29th and fought at Brest
and in the invasion of Germany. He
was seriously wounded again Oct. 7,

. 1d at Bergden, Germany.

From that: date until his~ discharge

from the Army June 18, 1945, he was

hospitalized in France, England and the
United States.

In addition to receiving the Purple
Heart, he holds the good conduct medal,
ETO ribbon, three stars and presidential
unit citations. —

Since his return to his job at GE last
July, Dominelli has been active in union,
veteran and civic affairs.

He was chosen vice-chairman of Sche-

Union Calendar

Today, Thursday, June 27—
Shop meeting of 98 A under Board
Member John Polak’s jurisdiction,

Sunday, June 30—Field Day at
Pete and Sally’s Grove,

Monday, July 1—-Activities
Committee meeting at 8 p.m. Fos-
ter Campbell, chairman.

Tuesday, July 2—Regular Com-
~mitteemen’s’ meeting. °

nectady Post, Veterans of World War |

MH, and chairman of the Local 301 Vet-
erans’ Committee. He is a leader in
the joint AFL- CIO. Veterans’ Commit-
tee,

Dominelli went to Washington with a
Local 301 delegation to ask Congress
for action on housing, the strengthen-
ing of OIPA, and veterans’ legislation.
He has led two delegations to ask the

~Schenectady—City ~Cuuncil for emerg-

ency housing units for veterans.

Joe is building a house on a GI loan.
He and his wife, Florence, have a three
year old daughter, Carol Lee Dominelli.

His campaign managers have issued
an appeal for veterans and non-veterans
to circulate Dominelli petitions, to as-
sure his name getting on the primary
ballots.

The Republican machine candidate
whom he will oppose in the Republican
primary is William Dunn, member of
the City Couneil and a GE general fore-
man, :

June 27, 1946

ELECTRICAL. UNION “NEWS®

3

Small Home Owners Join PAC Places Shifting
Protest; Fear Raise in Taxes In Queen Race

The Ninth Ward Citizen’s PAC led the other PAC groups of the
city in protesting proposed jumps in the assessed valuation of small
homes in Schenectady. Joseph Krone, Local 301, was chosen chairman
of a special tax committee of the Ninth Ward group and Alberta Lenta,
also Local 301, was elected secretary.

_They were named at an overflow.

‘at. whieh many home owners
responds to the PAC invitation to come

q sation vadaeimended to the city
> the Cleminshaw Co. of Cleveland.
Bans were made to organize a dele-
gation from combined ward groups of
the city, to appear before the City Coun-
cil on the tax matter. ,

Many cases wer reported of valu-_

| ngalows and. houses _
keting from $3,500 and $4,000 to
30 and $6,000 in the “scientific” sur-

On the other hand, both General Elec-

tric and American Locomotive, have:

had their assessments cut through court
actions.

‘It is estimated that the over-all in-
evease in the valuation of the city’s tax-
able property runs between ‘five and six
million dollars.

City officials have tried to quiet wor-
ried home-owners with a hint that the
tax rate might go down, so ‘that even if
the valuation goes up. on a piéce of
property the actual tax paid would stay
the same.

Speakers at the Ninth Ward mecting
said the little property owner will prob-
ably be squeezed by the revaluation ane
the large corporations will manage to
keep their assessments down,

There has been too much mystery

-about the tax survey, it was pointed out.

The group asked that the city at onee
give a full and detailed explanation of
the proposed changes.

Union Justice of Peace
Takes Refresher in Law

Justice of the Peace Leland S. Thom-
as of the town of Rotterdam, a member
of Loeal 301, recently attended a four-
day training program at Albany Law
School under the cirection of the New
York State Association of Towns.

Town officials took refresher courses
in the traffic law and-the handling of
misdemeanors in’ general.

Thomas said he was particularly in-
terested in the new “youthful offender”
law in which cases of youths from 16 to
19 can be handled without a court rec-
ord.

Davis Named

To 301 Board

The Executive Board of Local 301 has
appointed Al Davis as acting Board
member to replace Joseph Garling who
was transferred to another division of

‘the plant. «

A charter member of Local | 301,

committee of .the
union which met
with a three-man
committee of man-
agement in 1936 to
decide what em-
pioyes were eligible
to vote in the Na-
tional Labor Rela- .
tions Board Elee-
tion.

Davis has been a
committeeman dur-
ing practically. the
entire existence of
Local 3801. He was recording secretary
of the local for three and a half years
and is now serving his fourth year as
trustee. He has been a member and
chairman of the Legislative Committee.

Section I which Davis now represents
includes Bldgs. 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 12,
22, 28, 24, 25, 26, 28 and 37, He works
in Bldg. @f, GE telephone extension
2571.

Last week Davis took office as a trus-
tee of the Capitol District Industrial
Union Council, CIO.

Al Davis

Sale of tickets is so brisk in these
final cays before the Local 301 Field
Day Sunday that the rivals in the Queen
contest shift position frequently.

Therefore the Activities Committee
released no report today on the stand-
ing of the nine girls...

“Theh ~places
might change by
edition time,” Fost-
ey Campbell, chair
man, said.

The girls are
competing for the
title, the cup pic-
tured léte “arid “a
$109 bond. Smaller

._bones will be given

to several runner
up. © :

Candidates ‘in al-
phabetical order
are: Betty Colandra,
Bldg. 69; Doris Dissosway, Bldg.
Corinne Eddy, Bldg. 97; Bea Jenings,
Bleg. 10; Lee Napolitana, Bldg. 269;
Sophie Pajak, Bldg. 14; Jénnie Puglia,
Bldg. 58; Tillie Skrocki, Bldg. 77, and
Marie Sweeney, Bldg. 69.

A girl wets 50 points for each 50
cent ticket sold in her name.

Milo Lathrop will broadcast the. scores
of the candidates to-date over the Local
301 radio program tomorrow, Friday,
on WSNY.

Queen’s Trophy

Here’s a Nice
Strike Set-up!

There’s an interesting political angle
to the strike of the Fur and Leather
Workers, CIO, at American Hide and
Leather Co., Ballston Spa.

The mayor of Ballston, Perey Ball, is
a foreman of Amevican Hide and Leath-
er.

The Capitol Distriet Industrial Union
Council, CIO, vated $50 to the strike at
its June meeting.

North of the Border

After signing up a large majority of
the employes of the GE plant at Peter-
boro ,Canada, UE has applied for cer-
tification as collective bargaining agent,

UE has also organized three GE
plants in, Toronto. Strike votes are
now being taken in two of them,

The union seeks an increase of 25
gents an hour and a 40-hour week at
all these’ plants,