IUE-CIO News, 1951 September 13

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ITRY’S DEFENSE

Look at the dituation, Our nation is engaged in deadly struggle with Communist Russia.
The war work being done in Schenectady GE is a vital part of our nation’s effort to

defend itself from Russia's Communist aggressors.

_ We know that history repeats itself. We know that UE was barred from secret atomic
energy work. We know that war work here now is secret and critical to America's de-

fense. _ °

' Our Government has no choice but to bar UE from secret war work. Our Government
Will’have to outlaw UE from Schenectady GE because the Government has to -protect

thé’security of our country from its enemies. ‘ ‘
: “ME has been barred from one type of secret war work.

| UE WILL be barred from ALL war work.

IUE-CIO ORGANIZING COMMITTEE MEETING
‘WEDNESDAY, 2 P.M. AT 202 CLINTON STREET
HEAR JAMES B. CAREY
IUE-CIO President

f 1UE-c1o |
Local 301

EU UNOS BARN BLOAT TOR RE AE PIN NER UN ALE
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mengreeey:

ce pene EE AE

SEPEEAMBER 1. 1951

SCHENECTADY. NOY,

In Union
There Is
. Stre en eth”

ber T-t will return to the ranks of organized American labor. By

voting IWE-CHO.

Schenectady General: Mlectric workers on Friday.

munist UE,

machine industry.

[UE-CLO is the leading union in the electrical, radio and
IUE-CIO represents more thin T0000 GE

they will discard the diseredited.

workers—more than two to one greater than UE,

Septem

weak? Com

IVUE-CIO: sets the pattern

in Gi

LUE-CIO’s

negotiations,

contract Jast year won wage increases of 10 to 15 cents for GE—

workers plus 64% cents in other contract gains. LUE-CLO also won

the 9-cent escalator raise.on March 15. 1UE-C1O is right now ne-

; voliating @ new contract with even greater gains for Gh

workers.

The proven charges of Communist domination of UE place *

all UE members in. danger. The Federal Government is checking

- Perjury of Matles, Emspak to Lose UE Its Certification

NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM AND SUN, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER, 11, 1951,

Labor Today:

By NELSON FRANK,
Staff Writer.
Those 19,000 General Electric
employees ‘in Schénectady who

lations Board election on Friday

trouble by not voting Communist.

On the ballot are two unions,
the CIO’s International Union of
Electrical Workers and the
expelled Communist - dominated
United Electrical Workers, which
represents the workers currently.

But two of the three top. offi-
cers of UE, James, Mauss, “Als. a
reanization and Juli
ce lreaanaey
ably" will’ be indicted some day

this week for perjuring themselves
davits, so any victory won by UE
out if UE is formally declared to

he a union tunable to qualify” to
use the NLRB.

sor -Identified as: Reds.

f Both Matles and Enispak hav
Boeen identified as Communists be:
more numerotis Congressional com,

.@mnittees. Emspak in addition ha
Ween found guilty of contempt o

j |fellow-of ficers’ \
the Communist party. His sentence] :

will vote in a Nationa] Labor Re-|.

can save themselves a. lot’ of}

in non-Communist NLRB affi-|:

among the workers would be ruled!’

j jected or

Congress for refusing to answer)
questions about his own and his
association . with

of four months in. jail is’ now
being appealed by him. -
No one in the country has done
more to put the fear.of law into
the Communists than Federal At-
torney Irving Saypol, who by get-
ting death sentences in the Rosen-
-berg Commumnist-espionage case
let’ Moscow's local pals iknow
America was playing for keeps.
Now his assistant, Rom M, Cohn
is presenting to the grand jury
data, on the affidavits signed by

of other Commie tnion officials.
UE has attempted to influence

denouncing subpoenas issued for
Matles and Emspak as “smears”

Schenectady GE election,
Resignation Issue.
eee tt for months the. gov-
, fas be

Hinaniiee pas.
1s to the grand

Sebnn aly Rated. B86

actron fron:
Jury Brevidtisiy.
“The Isstie"to be decided by the

juries throughout the country is

admittedly a Communist ceases. to
be one by simply sending the par
ty a formal resignation.

the Distributive, Processing . gh
Office-Worker-and the Fur Wort
ers. atid’ other’ Red-led unior

jnothing that was done. to: bac
the Communist Hne. before the a

fidavits were signed has been ne
aelegied since . their

: signing.

.| Pressman, who broke with com-

the UE officials as well as a host:

‘learrying Communist, he still met

the di rand jury action by} ’
fineme Caeaetane tet z ,,| Communist leaders.

for the purpose of influencing the /toning that there was no dividing

‘alditia’ these ; along with the ‘party.

i| government has @ number of

me same type of evidence generally.
“4 And of course there is the record

whether a person identified as or'|.

In the case of the UE officials
‘}as well as thab of the officials gi

Pressman Testimony.

Has the government cases It
can show to prove that card-
‘carrying Communists were equally
or more dangerous after the sur-
render of their cards?

It has. It has a'perfect example
in the case of one man who knew
all these union officials. He is the
former CIO general counsel, Lee

munism last year.

Mr. Pressman testified before a
Congressional committee and is
understood to have told gavern-
ment authorities later that after’
he ceased to be an actual card-:

with and took directives from top
He has admitted under ques-
line between holding a party card

and not having a card, so long
as the person was willing to: go

In addition to Pressman, the

trade unionists who can give the

that the Commie unions . have
made themselves of. party-line!
pad

t
grand “jury. and Jater by- petit i | follgwing

EO riday's election at GE may,
fell mark the first case where the}

NLRB will rule that the affidavits ;

‘signed. by Commie unions ‘are!
false and that the union shouldn't!
have been allowed on the ballot:

in the first: place.

That: is, unless the workers ul

|there take things “into their ( Own .
Yhands and follow the trend of the:
-tmajority.of GE. workers’ who re-

jected theirone-time representa~

fitive, t the United Electrical Workers,

“tthe perjury of the non-

JUE because its

[Communist affidavits
falsely signed by Julius
spak and James J,
‘Matles,
| When NERB certifica-
tion is withdrawn from
national
jofficers failed to comply
‘with the law — consider
the’ predicament of UE
members without union
I protection of any sort,
helpless before the giant
(GE corporation. UE mem-
bers will find themselves
iin this spot because of the
| Communist

activities of
so-called ULE leaders.

The isstees-——unity with
the majority of GE work:
erss unity with the amaine
stream cof American or-
labor;
gains through’ militant,

ganized contract

-non-Communist LUE-CIO;

‘guarantee of certification
~and> continued — certifica-
because IUE-CLO

-pro-American, not

‘tion
pros

Russian...

VOTE AMERICAN—
VOTE IUE-C1O,

BE I uRST—

THE,

VOTE FOR
LIRST !

THE RECORD SHOWS: The story above fram: the New York/ allidavils. Schenectady GE workers are rejecting, the Communist !
World-Telegram and-Sun shows the sorry position of Conumunist |Party masqueriding asa trade union and: voting TEK-CLO. ou |
UE whieli faces loss of certilicition beewuse of the perjury of | Friday, September Th -'Phey are returnite lo. the ranks of:
fa Janies qe Matles anual Julias _fanspak in signing: on-Connnunist | American organized lahion.

Comrade Juniper

(8 Emspak, Comrade Juniper “ef the Cemnitupist Party who graduated from ‘Leo Jandreau’s
Schenectad;|: “machine to national office in Communist UE, has publicly said the members of UE have no
right to koow about ¥ nis~affiliations with the Communist Party. fF : woos '

WHAT DRE You TRYING FF | j “f° hi Em "Sehenet he is a king because the Communist machine in national Bars ‘the well oiled
Todos OVERTH M, . machine inj} Se enectady—eleéts. him year after year in a dictated convention.
RO

ca Hs,

WHE GOVERNMENT? , | FROM THE RECORD

When Emspak appeared before the: House Un-Aa
he was askled: “Oo : a ar oe

Desieed te seepa cg mater Ox 21 100, atthe px ef Lf Lak Y Ay ff Q: You don't want the: average union ° - member to know anything

: | ay, wth Wah aiek i . abdut the Communist affiliations officers, of the union may have, if they de
Vol. XVI, No. 36 eB 26 Sept. 9, 1951 . tht y/ # f | h affili o” -
In 2 Sections, Section 1 16 Pages, Price 10 Cents| ©, “| b y . awe suc ari iations? ee os

Bs Julius Emspak, the Communist scholar, who rose

7 ‘Mr. Emspak: ° I don't care, and ‘that’s is not the concern of the membet- » From Party hack to secretary-treasurer of UE with
ra a Ee gees , : the help. of GE management and the Communist
} : d ° Party. He is under jail sentence for contempt of

_ Congress and may be indicted by the time you read

this for perjuring himself when he swore he was
not a Communist Party member. -

Ems pak believes and says ‘publicly that the rilbredbsies of UE have no. right: to question’ his Com- UE’s May Day Rally

4
“munist. poli tical affiliations. He says, UE mentbers have ng right to know that he sat on he- Communist
Party -trial”

UE's Communist activities are nothing new to
Schenectady GE workers, ~UE's present national
officers were red-hot Commies in the old days too.

The record shows:

UE Local: 301 sponsored a Communist Party
May Day Rally in Crescent Park on April 27, 1937.

Main speaker—James J, Matles, UE leader na-
tionally. :

Sodio ABOUT, = ———. a = eee
_ ACTIV. ITIES BORE ME, _MATLES SAYS | on . : Director of Communism

James. J. Matles, Comninist’ direcust of organization of UE and re’ mani hha places Ghirimanntsts,
in key spots in the UE, told. the Congressional Committee in 1949 that questions about: his Communist
Party | activities and his acts of treason bored him and tired. him. : #

oe “QO: i te | you aratciated with, ‘the. fot et that that org dnivation [Interna
torial Workers. .Order} is cited as: Communist : and. subversive | by the At-
torney General of the United States?” a

(RePrin arch of Lab ia ' A Union View of the § Smith Act ‘Mr. Matles: Tam not interested | in that”

The author ia‘general’ counsel for the ; ; ta : ‘ iss i Bs 7 a
fi United, Electrical, Radio and Machina . ig : of Wy - “ j . ey ‘ ; 3 ig . 2 me
a Workers of Amarica PORN wm, e y. : : . , : TI | Ratan : a rs ; Bs : ‘ fe" op ‘ ” LOCAL 301
“A ‘Gecision of yo ; i: TS 1 eeieet iearteer o ot 8 as oe . . ag ay ag ‘
us saith the T, :

: ourt in the case of
hie eleven. Communists, ‘serapping: the:
‘First Amendment’ rights of free soeech,

-UE SUPPORTS T Ak COMMIES Soe ORT UE! -— The nae : magazine alippleiigat of the Sundk ay Worker’i is wt.
8 afentber 9, LOST issue of the ¢ ; imuay Worker sis one ; ber, UE's: gene ods also paid hy
‘ase’ conneetion with th of he Gominrunist the dues nit HB members. Tl “phates a a trained “Com ete gabat ihe Uk
Deep On Paiva lomataie is oe * ze fy . a ‘ ‘. bs . ; vy j : : ‘ : place’ ained, mmunist saboteurs -on ‘the,
P arty. On Page l-—staring UE members’ in the face’: an the conscience tha \ to contribute. work to the subversive, a | . ' - | ee < «payrolly’ia -nlso. facing ‘indictment by the Federal
ight, cartoonist, ofthe UE News whose services. ) Communist Pa Daily, Worker. Sy ; . a a x -~ 2 OX

Government. for lying: when he signed a non-Com-
munist affidavit,

IUE-CLO NEWS

Page Four

SEPTEMBER 13. 1951

Quits UE

STEWARD Quis: John
Brivus, UE steward in "Building
1 has resigned from Uk be.
cause he had a stonrach full of
U's shavish devotion to the
Communist Party, Briges pulled
out and announced his support
for TUE-CEO, a real American

UE Claims IUE-CIO GE Shop

trade union, Briggs declared GE SHOP QUITS UE: UE claims the GE Appliance CIO field representative: “We quit UE heeause of the

that UL's Communists , should

Service Center, Long falenul City, N.Y. as a part of UE-; Communist strong-arm tactics used in an attempt to

pull off the ballot in’ Friday’s - CP Loeal 1227 BUT THE TRUTH IS THAT THE: keep us from running our local union,” the shop's resolu-

election: so) LUE-CHO can do a
first-rate trade union job «for

WORKERS VOTED UNANIMOUSLY MORE THAN/tion reads. “We urge you to join with us in LUE-CLO—a
6 MONTHS AGO TO QUIET UE* AND JOIN LUEsCLO:union run by the members nota machine, Diseard Com-

GE workers in Schenectady. ; Local 463. The shop is shown with George Collins, 1UE-' munist UE.”

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me 200
RESOLUTION ON. CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
‘The sponsors of the Ciyil Rights Congress included Benjamin J.Davis,
Elizabeth Curley Flynn and Irving Potash, members of the. National
Committee of the Communist Party, and
WHEREAS: ‘The call folder @nnounging the formation of the Congress had Julius Kk
Emspak (UE Secretary SECM listed as one of its initiators, and
WHEREAS: , The Civil Rights Congress is a well known Communist front organization,
which has assumed full responsibility for the defense of Sarkart Eisler,”

who describes himself as a German Communist, and

eae

Eisler has been indicted by the Federal Government for contempt of the |
United States Congress and for perjury, and

The Genera) Executive Board o e UE & uarterly meat, rch he.
- approved’ a contribution 1 Rights Congress, and

The. Civil Rights Congress furnished 320, 000 bail for the release of
- Eisler, now therefore be it 2 8

RESOLVED: That the membership of Local 1237 condemns the General Executive Board
for the misuse of the Unionts funds, and be it ‘further | ,

RESOLVED: ‘That ‘we eal): upon the UE General: Bxectitiva Board to- Atscontinus eiaeereine
‘Communist ‘front organizations, and be it further .

RESOLVED:. That we urge the GEB to give support only to those organizations on the
approved list of the National CIO and thereby insure that none of the
nemberships money goes for the support of groups opposed to our democratic

: wo of ite and: ba. At further

RESOLVED: That copitts of this resolution be sent to Philip Murray C10, Albert J.
, Fitzgerald UE, Jamea McLeish District 4 UE and UE locala.

Unanimously adopted by the membership of Local 1237 at its goneral monthly’
penbayatity meeting on May 13, 1947.

etre Your Office Machinos Serviced By: sLintntansl r ‘Si ;

jE Supports
subversive CRC

The Communist Civil Rights Congress is one of
the first-choice organizations to receive contributions
from the dues funds of UE... Districts and locals are
pressured by the Communist leaders of national UE
to donate the duespayers’ money to the Communist
Civil Rights Congress.

The CRC is on the Attorney Gener al’s list of sub-
versive: organizations.

The CRC put up the bail funds for Gerhardt
Eisler who then jumped bail to seek refuge in Com-
munist East Germany. UE duespayers’ money—con-
tributed to CRC—was forfeited to allow this inter-
national criminal to escape trial for his treasonable
activities. ;

The CRC is now barred from putting up bail for
arrested Communists because it has refused to’ re-

WOULD LEARN THAT LARGE AMOUNTS ARE

it has never put up a cent of bail money for any but
arrested Communists.

CRC’s name. should be. changed from. “Civil”
Rights Congress to Communists Rights Congress.
UE and CRC believe that freedom should mean free-
‘lom ONLY for Communists, to carry on their sub-
versive activities. for Russia. oo

Ea iestestereeratier ie Ue ce nee

veal where its money is coming from. UE MEMBERS .

\DONATIONS FROM THEIR DUES TO THE UE.

CRC ‘claims it is out to protect civil rights: but

IUE-CiIO has given up the fight for higher wages arid

other contract improvements t

The signatures of the IU#-CIO ruling clique would be
dry on a sellout contract today if it werentt for

‘the fact that they would be exposed before ALL GE
Schenectady workers on the eve of the election ana
before GE workers throughout the country.

That's the meaning of-the IUE-CIO's announcement
yaste erday that it 4s willing to continue its pr sent
contract with GE and 18 at the same time, ready to®
settle for 22 4% or 4d - a difference of 8 tenths of
ld¢e

This means a sellout of GE.workers who need a sub~
Stantial across-the-board wage increase to meet high-
er prices and taxes.

It means a a@ sellout for all day workers whose weekly
earnings are too low. It means a a sellout of the
underpaid women workers, It means a sellout for
skilled workers whose rates are way out of Line,

It means no improvements in pensions, insurancé,
holidays and vacations.

It means that all IUE-CIO is interested in is the
dues check-off. The "Mighty" IUE-CIO!

A vote for IUE-CIO is a vote for the sellout of Gh
workers. —

Because of the desperate crisis in IUE- CIO, the ring
leaders have arranged for the indictment of UE
leaders, Matles and Enspak, to divert attention from
IUE betrayal. The IVE-CIO tipped its hana yesterday
when it let slip over their Toudspeaiers that the
Grand Jury, acting for the anti-labor Teft-Hartley

Board-and the IUE-CIO, would order a court hearing
for Matles and Easpak on a date conveniently set for

sometime after the Schenectady election. That was
yasterday, Few will be fooled,

A vote for UE is a vote for the UE contract for the
solid gains of 15 UB years, for higher wages,

abetter. conditions, for a union based on rank and

file control,

Sta tien goog TR Main TLE:

IUE-CIO has given up the fight for higher wages amd
other contract improvements!

The signatures. of the IU#-CIO ruling clique would be
ary on a sellout contract todsy if it weren't for
the fact that they would be exposed before ALL GE
Schenectady workers on the eve of the election and
before GE workers throughout the country.

That's the meaning of the IUE-CIO's announcement
yesterday that it dg willing to continue its present
contract with GE. and LB at the same tingié, ready to

“settle for” “ean or kd - fference of 8 tenths of

ld.

This means a sellout of GE workers who need a sub-

stantial across-the-board wage increase to meet high-
er prices and taxes.

It means a se ellout for all day workers whose weekly
earnings are too Low. .It means a sellout of the
unde arpaid women workers. It means a_sellout for
skilled workers whose rates are way out of line.

It means no inprovements in pensions, insurance,

holidays and vacations.

It means that all IVE-CIO is interested in ‘ia the

dues check-off. The "Mighty" IUB-CIO!
A vote for IUE-CIO is a vote for the sellout of GE
workers.

Because of the desperate crisis in IUE-CIO, the ring
leaders have arranged for the indictment of UE
leaders, Matles and Emspak, to divert attention from
IUE bétrayal. The IUE-CIO tipped its hand yesterday
when it let slip over their loudspeakers that the
Grand Jury, acting for the anti- pabor Teft-Hartley
Board and the IUE-CIO, would order a court hearing
for Matles and Easpak’ on a date aGny eaten Ly set for
semetime after the Schenectady election. That was
yesterday. Few will be fooled.

A vote for UE is a vote for the UE contract for the
gains of. 15 UE, years, for higher wages;

better conditions, for a union base sd on rank and

Pile control.

VOTE UELOCAL 301

“IN UNION
S THERE iS
_ STRENGTH”

IUE-CIO Sticks By
lis Demands In GE

IUE-CIO averted a General Electric strike which the company has been promoting
throughout the country. The company has pean sponsoring Aine talk in effort to frighten
its employees.

IUE-CIO" s conference board in the GE chain Wednesday firmly rejected. 4 the com- .
pany's unacceptable offer and demanded resumption of negotiations until the company
“meets” the union's demands. —. .. _.

TUE-CIO 9-Point Demands
IUE-CIO is sticking by its just and reasonable demands:
4 CENTS AN HOUR MINIMUM AS PART OF 2%, OFFER.
COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT EVERY 3 OR 4 MONTHS.
3 WEEKS VACATION AFTER 15 YEARS.
UNION SHOP.
STRONG ANTI- DISCRIMINATION CLAUSE, INGLUBING: SEX.
IMPROVED PROGRESSION SCHEDULE.
BETTER SENIORITY PROVISIONS.

ASSUMPTION BY COMPANY OF 2% PENSION CONTRIBUTION OF
EMPLOYEES.

‘WAGE REOPENER MARCH 15, 1952.

IUE-CIO Backs Its Demands

IUE-CIO makes no fancy promises or dreams up demands like UE's $500 package
that.can.not.be.realized.,.|UE-CIO's. proposals are realistic-and just. (UE. ClO-is- backing.
ro) them up in current negotiations. |

VOTE IUE-CIO --- Vote for Bread and Butter

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a hd me tee Feb nr Ate

UE Lost Cost of Living Adjustment 2ST eee a Mea
UE Lost Union Security 7 : of OG ment Takes
UE Lost Profit Sharing Plan | Rereae | | . | ce
UE Lost Majority of GE Workers ace ao en DO in Decertifyin

| [UE-CIO Won Majority of GE Chain | | a cs f US Judge Sylvester Ryan has been requested: by the US Attorney to order James
IUE-CIO Won Gains for All 1950 Contract ae Ae z= — Matles, and Julius Emspak and two other Commies to answer questions put to them —
JUE-CIO Wen O¢ Cost_of Living Gain in March pee a eed _ before’a Federal Grand Jury investigating ESPIONAGE- (SPYING) and_ SUBVE.SIVE_

IUE-CIO Is Now Negotiating for New Gains. oe | ACTIVITIES. a a

TR ee Te chan erred eee

ea : ; ~~ "ele og It is reported from New York that Matles and Emspak even refused to admit the sig-

SPT SS rect e

sg:

While UK Dwindles ‘and Dies, IUE-CIO Goes For- oa ry ' natures on their phony non-communist affadavits were their signatures.

ward to New Victories and Greater Gains for All . : . = i Next step would be for the National Labor Relations Board to wipe out UE certifica-
GE Workers. oy ks a ; oo © tion, thus cancelling all of UE's certifications and contracts. THE UE CONTRACT

. | WITH THE GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY BECOMES NULL AND VOID WHEN
UE IS DE-CERTIFIED.

FS AAU DR aerts vetoes

rR AG GTO

Schenectady GE Workers Need Union Protection yas )
Offered in GE Only by American IUE-CIO -* “4 i i { . ’ The aetimis eden nner have gone too far in lying to our government. Now
; . fos lt ea ey are reaping their harvest.
. Be First ™ Vote For The First On The Ba bey mee aa GE WORKERS? VOTE IUE-ClIO’ FOR A REAL HONEST, TRUTHFUL, MILITANT
| | | TRADE UNION. GET RID OF THE LIARS.

PROTECT THE GAINS WHICH ClO WON FOR ALL GE WORKERS.

{UE-C10
Local 301

Oe eer aed

weer pace enemennp eaten itr

Serpent muntanaiamaapaaanernaryienainl * : ‘ Bale : ne

Unity With Majority of GE
Return to Family of 10
| Greater-Gains from GE Company

End to Communist Domination
End to Machine Politics in Schenectady GE

a ne

Ss REST

fl Aco
Weak, ‘Independe ent Or rganization
Submission to Powerful GE
Isolation from American Labor

FRIDAY'‘S BALLOT IS SECRET
No UE Hoodlums Can Dictate Your Vote

IUE-CIO
LOCAL 301

VOTE AMERICAN—

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UE Lost Cost of Living Adjustment |
VE Lost Union Security|

UE Lost Profit Sharing Plan

UE Lost Majority of GE Workers

IVE-ClIO Won Majority of GE Chain |
IUE-ClIO Won Gains for All 1950 Contract
IUE-CiIO Won 9¢ Cost of Living Gain in March
IUE-CIO is Now. Negotiating for New Gains

Se eSB es,

While-UE Dwindles and Dies, IUE-CIO Goes For-
. oo | oie: ) ward to New Victories and Greater Gains for All
meade oo 3 |. GE Workers. —"

Schenectady GE Workers Need Union Protection
Offered in GE Only by American IUE-CIO

First - Vote For The First On The Ballot

Be First mie ote for the First Union | : = | eet sor

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“IN UNION

IUE-CIO NEWS THERE!

STRENGTH”

IUE-CIO Sticks By
Its Demands In GE

IUE-CIO averted a General Electric strike which the company has been promoting
throughout the country. The company has been sponsoring strike talk in effort to frighten

its employees.

IVE-ClO' s conference board in the GE chain Wednesday firmly rejected the com-
pany's unacceptable offer and demanded resumption of-negotiations until the company
meets the union's demands.

IUE-CIO 9-Point Demands
IUE-CIO is sticking by its just and reasonable demands:
4 CENTS AN HOUR MINIMUM AS PART OF 2%% OFFER.
COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT EVERY 3 OR 4 MONTHS.
3 WEEKS VACATION AFTER [5 YEARS.’
UNION SHOP.
STRONG ANTI-DISCRIMINATION CLAUSE, INCLUDING SEX.
IMPROVED PROGRESSION SCHEDULE.

BETTER SENIORITY PROVISIONS.

ASSUMPTION BY COMPANY OF 2% PENSION CONTRIBUTION OF
EMPLOYEES.

WAGE REOPENER MARCH 15, 1952.

IUE-CIO Backs Its Demands

IUE-CIO makes no fancy promises or dreams up demands like UE's $500 package
that cannot be-realized, IUE-CIO's proposals. are-realistic. and lust. lUE-CIO. js. backing —

fram up in current negotiations.

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An Invitation to GE Workers

Unite With Fellow Workers

“Friday Schenectady GE.workers vote to join with the majority of GE workers who are

represented by IUE-CIO, an American trade union.

GE workers in Schenectady wish to destroy the UE machine which rolls through the
Schenectady plant with the help of management. We all see the machine at work - here
in the shop. We see how the machine works in’ the shop where stewards can't push a
grievance for a duespayer but can tell you the winr.ng horse in the sixth at Jamaica at

the drop of a hat.

SCHENECTADY GE WORKERS WANT THE UNITY AND STRENGTH THAT IS
THEIR RIGHT AS ONE OF THE BIG THREE IN THE GE CHAIN. THEY WANT UNITY
WITH. THE MAJORITY OF THEIR FELLOW GE WORKERS WHO NOW BELONG TO

IUE-CIO.

Unite With CiO Unions

UE is weak, independent and discredited. It is unable to represent the economic inter-
ests of its few remaining members because it is to busy promoting Communist Party

activities.

IUE-CIO is a part of the family of Clo; in which Schenectady GE workers won their
gains over the years. It was in dio that GE workers attained the strength and security
that they are now losing because of UE's inabiliy to deal with the company.

UE is about to lose its NLRB certification because Matles and Emspak perjured
themselves when they signed non-Communist affidavits.

CIO OFFERS STRENGTH, UNITY AND THE MAINSTREAM OF THE AMERICAN
LABOR MOVEMENT. IT WAS IN ClO THAT SCHENECTADY GE WON. ITS GREAT
GAINS AND IT IS IN ClO THAT SCHENECTADY GE BELONGS TODAY.

Unity Means Strength

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Led a\h neneral ware incrensewith os ae en hour mininurn to be
“affective Se Cc * mae : on ...
effective eptember 15, 1951, Aporoxinetely 6g per hour increase,

2. £ cost-of-livinn esealmtor based on a Ll, iner asc on wages for
each La incrcese in the 35S cost of living 3 index. (old. series)
for the period of “arch 1oy “oho eer tienghas er 15, 1951, to be
effective Suntember 15, 1951
é£ renerel wese reopening “ar eh 15, 1952,

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Ihe Three weeks vecation after 15 years of service,
effective Jnnusr; 1, 1952,

he “Sensi WweEeNMaAs yg ewmeie my Ip ‘ . “
@ vension and Insurance Proprain to he reonencd September 15, 1952.

CONTRACT UAL CGS

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fron 3 to l hours. - pomk in tine
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able ee tie sere nO REY? erring" os ¢ snbstitue for "rFford
- the e-plo;sdes tha apnophumin- pee aint doe _ oe
; plofess the opportunity of meintein ving evernye eerninygs.

hevislo ff OF wk 9 a . 3 : ‘
Jp, Mea oh el oer Al on -ppoyression sahec ules tondd one add-
ie nel cutor: tle step for hourly rated end sols pled winloyees,
me hourly rated empl irees to be sdvenced on x peo months soriod
and solerisd owployees on + six month oerlod.s ,

Inaddition it is understood tart noon the st ing >» now
fpr * Pag cone ay will go eas © Letter to cll;
ne ing thet there is no obfcetion on the nert
esnta tabs Wea legs > Ve: fn it +
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four union officipls to Loerla with S09 or fuwor people,
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seleteBe herring, offieer on overibor 9, 195k.

IUH~CIO LocabL 301
The Septemver cost of living is 136.5,
This is en increase of 1.08% over March 15th,
1951, entitling the Cenerel Slectric orkers
in IUB-CIO plents to a 1,035 inereasc in weekly
weres effective September 15th, 1951. This
coupled with the 2 wage increase brings aver=
arc money value of National Agreement to baht
cents ner hour,

To compute the raise you have coming,
2 = t re . © sea cat
simply multivly your prvurent rate by 3. bbs
and add the result to your present hourly
rate. , ' oes fs

"I'm really @ non- lon that has been frequently

union white collar raised by the employees in KAPL, in the last

worker by tredu-I'm few weeks is, "Whon will we receive our reise

dust doing this to in pay?" To answer this imbortant auesticn
the following, pertinent fects must be known.
by all of us.” — °

The IUE-CIO negotiated wase inercase is over the ceiling, as sot
by Wage Stabilization Board,

The. IUE-CIO and G.i. must obtein V.S.B. approval.

The W.S.B. was petitoned ten days ago by the IUR~CIO and G.E,

for anprovel,

Upon aporovel by #.5.B., all the employces in the TUS-CIO bargain~-
ing group will receive a wey inercasc avera ng 6.4 conts per hour

retroactive to September 15, 1951. .

There hes been a malicious rumor circulating through KAPL, that
a member of the Blectrical Department had informed the guards on the
third shift that a man was sleeping on the job.

Ths union checked this rumor very cersfully and found that this
rumor was an out and out LIE, Tho wnion has oxtrene confidence and
faith in the membershin and further states that thore arentt any
"stool pigeons" or "rats" in our renks, although we cannot state as
much for those in other proups.

The unison met with management and had a lengthly discussion
regarding the two week lay-off imposed on the employee that was
caught sleeping on the job. Tho following facts were presented to
management but to no avsil,

1. Tho man was ill, and since adequate medical attention ts-‘not.
f available on the "off-shifts", he did the next best thing and took
TORP LS LESEN ie pea od a short rest. , ; g

2. It is a matter of eeneral knowledge, that even. tre lowest

-eriminal in this country is given a trial: and hearing beforu

sentence is passod,

A two week lay-off is too harsh of a penalty to tmnose on a
amily "bread-winner', ~ ;

_ It isntt too late for managomcent to commute the severe
nalty that was imposcad against this man. The union will

peontinue to fight any Injustices against our mombers,

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Dear GE Worker:

This is a repor? to you on the new GE contract and .what it means to us.

The new agreement signed on October it, 1951, between the IUE-CIO and the General Electric Company
marks, I believe,. another notable victory for.the GE workers. The 22% general wage increase with a 3l/¢
an hour minimum; a cost-of-living increase to be paid off as of September [5th, together with the three weeks
paid vacation after 15 years,. represents a package worth over 6g.

This brings our total gains, excluding the pension and insurance program, to 25¢
an hour (30¢ for skilled workers) in the space of just 12 months. This accomplish-
ment by our young Union—while fighting the desperate sabotage of the UE on the one ”
hand, and the opposition of the company on the ‘other——contrasts with the total absence
of any gains by UE in the preceding two years. = - 7

In addition to the direct money gains, the IUE-CIO improved other contract benefits which UE had allowed
to slip further and further behind those won in other agreements.

@ @ The new clause requiring the company to arbitrate IUE-CIO’ demands can be extremely important as
a weapon to win better settlements of grievances all along the line.

_ @ © The inclusion of the words "marital status'’ in the anti-discrimination section will help prevent discrimi-
nation against married women. ‘

® © The revision of the progression schedule will add an additional automatic step for hourly and salaried
employees while local agreements are permitted to take care of the problems of skilled workers. Improvements
were registered to protect incentive workers; call-in pay was increased, etc.

In the face of the division in ranks of the.GE workers and the propaganda campaign of the
company, we believe our Union can take pride in our accomplishments.

But there still remains before us the tremendous task of ‘raising standards and conditions of GE workers
even up to the levels now provided by the majority of other companies in our industry. Under the UE, for
* the last 10 years, the GE contract has become out-moded, as agreements with other companies forged ahead..

. Many companies in our industry provide strong and clear anti-discrimination’ clauses including the word
sex'' to protect women workers,

The majority of workers in our industry, with the exception of
General Electric, are covered by union security clauses—either
by Union Shop or maintenance of membership.

Most of the workers in our industry have stronger provisions
protecting seniority on layoff, rehiring, promotions, transfers, —-

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The vacation and holiday provisions in terms of the amount to
be paid, pro-rating and other conditions are more liberal in most
contracts in our industry than with GE.

Most companies in our industry and in other industries pro-
vide fully paid pension and liberal insurance and health programs.
GE still requires its employees to pay 2% to 5% of their wages
for. their pension. . . ’

- We should have a profit-sharing program and Employment Se-
curity Funds to Hde us over temporary layoffs, and to provide
severance pay that many other companies give their workers.

These provisions—of vast. importance to GE workers—could easily be provided by this fabulously: wealthy
corporation. GE recently announced that it is embarking on a $450,000,000 expansion, that it will finance
out of its own profits. This $450,000,000 is exactly the amount that the undivided profits HAVE .INCREASED

‘since 1946, even after the payment of liberal dividends. A substantial part of this $450,000,000 is what we

would have received if the company and UE had not killed the profit-sharing program in 1947. for hourly work-
ers {while permitting it to be retained for executives). ‘,

GE should feel a deep sense of shame that companies one-hundredth its size and with only a fraction of its
wealth provide economic conditions and security far superior to that of GE.

Lemuel Boulware, GE Vice President in
In defiance of his national defense

We could have struck to get more of our demands.
charge of Employee Relations, was urging us on fo strike.
responsibilities, he was taunting us for not striking.

The UE, which in the Lynn campaign had played an outright scab role—frightening people
against a possible walkout—now turned completely and aided the company in attempts to pro-
voke a strike. .

While we have accepted this agreement with its substantial gains, we want you to know that we are not

. wholly satisfied with the progress made. It is our pledge to GE workers that we will continue to fight not only

until all of our 9-point program has been achieved but also until we make the benefits in the GE contract
superior to those provided by other companies as they should be.

As officers, national and local, as stewards, as rank and file members, while we can take pride in what we
have won, we must all share the responsibility for not having won moré. GE. gave. us only what it thought we
were able to wring from it by our strength and fighting power.

» We have seen clearly that the justice of our demands and the ability of the company to provide them are
not the considerations which guide GE's present management. Time after tme GE negotiators expressed
themselves as completely uninterested in the improved standards other companies have given their employees,
or their “ability to pay."

Despite all the slick propaganda issued by GE to its workers, this company will give you
exactly what you are able to wrest from it by the strength and unity and determination you
demonsirate. : ; , a

On March 15, 1952, this new contract will be reopened on wages. Make’ no mistake about it, there will
then be a battle over our pay just as there was a struggle all summer to win the contract we now have.. In

~ September 1952. there -will-be. an Inevitable-struggle. over: the terms. of -a: new contract- and-the revision of

the pension and insurance program.

We must begin our campaign for these continued advances
now by every GE worker fully understanding the issues.

We must understand in what ways our contract is inferior to
those covering hundreds of thousands of other IVE-CiO work-

ers in our industry.

We must understand the glibness and the dishonesty of the
propaganda issued by GE's Employee Relations Department.

We must understand that the company is determined to do
everything possible to help the fading UE survive so that it can
attack us at crucial times when we are fighting for our rights.
The experience of the last year-and-a-half has repeatedly proved
that UE has simply become a camp follower of GE with no mili-
tancy and no independent program to justify its existence.

We must make sure that every GE worker in our plants becomes |

a member of IUE-CIO. The company watches our checkoff lists
as an indication of the change in our strength. Every "free

_ rider" becomes a source of weakness to all of us. _

_ We must all become active in our Local meetings and fight
for policies that are dedicated to advance the real interests

of the workers in our industry.

Once decisions are democratically made, we must support them with unity and determination.

We must be on continued guard against the Company-UE conspiracy, which is becoming more and more
~open. :

We must understand further that the company is watching us continually and will utilize every evidence
of weakness that we demonstrate to carry on an offensive against our present standards and conditions.

Let the gains we have made in the iast year be an encouragement to us as a sign that we
are on the right track.

Let the gains we have failed to make be a challenge fo us.
Le? us never halt or hesitate in this struggle until every GE worker has the wages, working

conditions, protection and dignity that he deserves and that the company can provide.

Fraternally yours,

James B. Carey
President

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ATOWIC TRIAL

une Atomic Laboratory, which we operate for the rovernment in
Schenectady, is 8 constant target for union lesdcers seekine to brealx

th rou rr, -any WoOne Spank 7 1 ae tones s
BDCUE ao popper linit of what is justifiable at the tir

ane J UpT LoWnat ls justi i6 at the time as
benefits, or privileres, : oe to payy

a8 eee ES seen to feel that--more than ever in an election year
an in the midst of the country's peril from Russis~-they can force
more from such a government oneration than they ean from us as a
ein wah ee elsewhere in Schenectady--and thus with rovernnent
nD se ew patte bide we sep throucr ' i ke cai ata
ie) new patterns thet will sweep through our downtown operations,

Hence, we have a remmlar succession of attempts to set--at this
Che outlying operation--something betcer and different than is
mg red by the ion when r i 0 td oe
Sing secured by the G union when representing 50 time aa many

employees downtown in our regular non-atomic operstions.

The TUE-CIO Local 301 believes that the above statements refe
to IVE-CIG and the infomation must have been obtained from Le al "
Management. The union publicly states that the StabeMents AG
Gross oxn ration and a food example of "Rabble Rousing". “The
wosLom Gives this information as ‘an. example of "Roulwares Ties",
Since the compeny is precticinge mud-slinging and flag wavine the
IU wist to remind the enployees of the follor examples of
Gele's patrtoticm : - EES

l. GCarboloy Story.
Ue rovernmsnt : Choi Sad o4 ‘ 5
7 Uebe & ed accused Geu. of participating with Nazi Company
ee Hapeen in a world Cartel whereby in 190 diring t.$. defense ‘
re-armanont the Cartel chareed the U.S. Government 100% more por
pound for Carboloy than its previous cost. on _

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es In August 1951, a senator of The "Committee on Procurement of

os spade 4 snl iw Vins 2 ys, i

Pye cece te matemial for defense program", accused GL. of buying
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Nickel in the "Black Market" and stock-piling it,

36 In early war yee j ‘ a" .
2 Wur yeers G.4. was founda euilty of violati ae

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Anti-Trust Act in Lamp Monopoly cause’. ° “ oY Sherma

is very clear to the union thst the flag that Gel, stands

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Job Descriptions and Clascifiesations aro supplied by the Compar
as pert of the National Jc 1 ond the Gel. th inion
has presented numerous. cr : bc ions porfarmee: elt
of classification, vor fa 88 refused to peoetiry this
growing condition, in fact this practice apoverrs ta bo onco raged
by the company. This action by the company is not in road
and if this practice continues tho union may be forced to
protective measures against the companyls continued vielation of
the National Agreement, , oe

Saleried Laboratory Assistant!s NLER f - i i '
Story sista S NLEB formal hearing is tte
to November 30, 1951, at the request of GVE, § US Postrponed

Correction on Leaflet of October 30, 1951, Paragraph V "had

f informed Supervisor of the guards" instead of "had informed the puardes -

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Refreshments will be served,

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COMPANY CONSENTS TO ELECTION

; The Company yesterday at a hearing. conducted: by the National
Labor Relations’ Board at the Schenectady Post Office, agreed to a
consent election. me

The election will involve all the non-exempt laboratory

assistants employed by the company at the Knolls Atomic Power
Laboratory of the GE. Comvany, located at the Knolls, Alplaus,

Niskayuna and Peek Street, Schenectady, N.¥Y., excluding profes-

sional employees (classified as research associates, research

assistants, student engineers, engineers, and student assistants)

guards and supervisors as defined in the act.

All non-exempt Labcratory Assistanst that are on the company

payroll to November 30, 1951, will be eligible to vote in the-elec-
tion. This means that all new employees hired by the company after
that date will not be eligible to vote,

BLECTION DAT... SET FOR THURSDAY DECEMBER 13, 1951.

On Thursday December 13, 1951, the polls will be opened at
the following places and time in order that everyone will be
vieed an opportunity. to cast his ballot.

KNOLLS VOTING ARRA | TIME
PRIVATE DINING ROOM . 7:00 Aells to 9 +00 AVM.
. ‘ls00 P.M.-to 6:00 P.M,

Laboratory Assistants working on third shift will start
voting at 7:00 A.M. and those working on first shift will start
voting as soon as they come in to work, or at the end of their
shift.

Piiiy STRELT VOTING AREA TIME

DARK ROOM NwAR RuCkPTION ROOM - 9:30 A.M. to 10:30 A.M,

Laboratory Assistanst in Peel Street will vote between the
above named hours.

“ALPLAUS VOTING AREA TINE
GUARD HOUSH 11:30 A.M. to 12:00 NOON

This is the opportunity you have been waiting for.
1, JO SECURITY —— .
2. JOB PROVECTION

3. JOB DESCRIPTIONS

ALL Laboratory Assistants will automatically be protected by
QO the IUH-CIO and G.E. National Agreement upon cetification by NLRBe
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.The following are excerpt!s from the Bft-
Hartley Law, Save for future reference,

Sec, $-A of Yaft-Hartley Law; lL... Discharge
of or discrimination against any worker for tes~
tifying or filling charge under the Taft-Hartley
Lew. °S. Refusal to: bargain collectively with a
union which has been certified as a bargaining
agent for the employees,

The NLRB has frequently found violations of
law in giving an increase in-wages to forestall
union organization,

Plant pules affecting union activities must
be based on the principle that time outside work-
ing hours Gan be used by an employee ag he wishes,
even if he is on Company property. For example, a rule forbidding
union solicitation by an employee on-his own ‘time is invalid unless
special circumstances mate the rule necesssry to maintain production
or discipline. Even a rule, forbidding union solicitation during

working hours is invalid-if it was adopted to discriminate arainst
the union, - 7 ;

Here are a few examples of what has been held to be unfair labor
practices: : » 3

Employers may not spy either on the wnion activities of employees
op on the activities oF a union representative seeking to organize
employees, - < ; :

If a company makes life so unpleasant or hazardous for an employee
because of his union activities that he resigns, the employee ls en-~
titled to reinstatement with back pay. This tneludes neglect of
measures to protect the physical safety of union workers in the plant,
the transfer of workers to less desirable jobs, the riding of workers
by their foreman, ete,

_ Privileres extended employees may not be withdrawn because a
union has started organizing activities or won an election; nor for
the sane reason, may employees ba transferred from a Salaried to an
hourly wage basis demoted and the like,- Jorlersmay not be denoted,
discharged or otherwise disciplined for wearing op refusing to remove
union insipnia, ° ° .

i. After the election of December 13th, 1951, the Laboratory
‘sSistants will be given the choice of becoming members of IUE-CIO
Local 301, or the choice of having their own Local if they so desire,

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VOTE [UECIOl

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NOTICE TO LABORATORY ASSTS ‘Pa wes

Your management would. like you to know whai. pened today at the
scheduled NLRB hearirig relating to laboratory asgistants,

filed a petition seeking an eléc-
assistants, se the group sought by the union was
an indefinite one which apparently did not. include all of the people in the
laboratéry assistant group, the Company felt the NLRB showld spell out a
definite election group,

At-a conference today’ prior to the scheduled hearing, the Company agreed
to go along with an election which would inglude all laboratory assistants, ‘
The election agreed upon clearly defined the group eligible to vote and assures
all laboratory assistants a chance to vote as to whether they want to be repre
sented by the IVE or uot. In addition, the Company is complying with recent
AEC instructions whish re the holding of consent elections in preference
to contested pre lings before the NLRB, for security reasons,

There are te things we should like to draw to your attention in connec-

tion with the elections’

1. Every laboratory assistant is entitled to and should vote in
the election because the only votes that count are those
which are actually cast,

Each laboratory assistant must make up his or her own mind as to
whether he or she wants to be represented by the IUE 6r not,
Your ballot is absolutely secret and no one will know how you vote,

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Complete details of the election will be furnished you later.

Date of eleetions December 13, 1951

K. H. KINGDO
Technical Manager

The membership of local 301 have a serious’ question to decide in the coming N. Le RB. election to deter-

mine the bargaining agency that will represent you.

‘The two main ‘contestants are U. E. (useless independent union and the IU. B.C: 1. Q. an affiliate of the
Congress of Industrial Organizations). -Let us look at the record U. E, useless Independent}.

Former affiliate of the.C. 1. O. expelled at the Nat!

ional C. tO. Convention. in’ November 1949, because

of its complete and absolute domination’ by the Communist party.

This was a most significant historical event because it was really the most effective body blow delivered
to the Communist party in removing, their principal base of operations in this country.

When you realize that in the Eastern Countries of Europe where they were completely overrun by the Com. .

_ Munist party and are now under the complete domination: of Soviet Russia, that in these very countries the
first step in the Communists gaining control was accomplished through the trade union organizations.

This is an important fact to remember, because if you vote for U. E. you are casting a vote to belong to:

I. An independent ineffective union dominated completely by the Communist party and in effect a branch

of the party.

2. A union-whose leaders-have failed miserably to provide the type of leadership necessary to bring the benefits
to the workers in our industry comparable to that of workers in other industries.

The average rate of pay in our industry is $1.44 per hour, in auto $1.70

rate for all durable. goods industries combined is $1.48, The electrical worker's average hourly wage is therefore
33 cents below the average hourly wage rate for all durable goods industries.

Let's look at the record of a couple of |. U. E, Locals covering employees in. the Sperry Corp., who have
opposed the leadership of U. E. and did not permit tham to aid in negotiations.

LOCAL 425 |. U. B.C. 1. O.

Average rate of pay $1.84 per hour.
Nine paid Holidays. ~
No. strings. attached.
2 weeks vacation.
“1 day for each month of employment.
Employee employed for !0-months entitled to full va-
cation. ‘
Hospitalization Insurance, including Surgical, Accident,
Sickness, ;

‘Insurance — Life Insurance paid on 50-50 basis with |

50% participation by members in dividend refunds
from Life Insurance, Accident & Sickness Insurance.
Accident & Sickness Insurance. provides $40.00 per week
in case of sickness. . .
Sick leave pay of one week paid by Company whether
you use it or not.

LOCAL 450 1. U. EC. 1.0,

Average rate of pay $1.78 per hour.

Nine paid Holidays. -

No strings: attached.

2 weeks vacation.

i.clay for each month of employment. - -
Employee employed for 10 months entitled to full va-
cation. :
Hospitalization: Insurance, including Surgical, Accident,
Sickness, . " ,
Insurance — Life Insurance paid-on 50-50 basis with
50% participation by members in dividend refunds
from Life Insurance, Accident & Sickness Insurance.
Accident & Sickness Insurance provides $40.00 per week
in case of sickness. ; ;
Sick leave pay of one week paid by Company whether
you use it or not. ‘

Pension plan that provides at age 65 approximately $200.00 per month including Social Security at present

average rate. These are just only a few of the benefits contained in the above contracts. Compare this with .

our G, E, contract. Do you have these benefits? We know you haven't, There is no reason why you shouldn't
ave them. — You will never obtain them under the U. &. Communist leadership.

What happened to the $500.00 Xmas package? {i was opened and found completely empty. We know
that the G. E. workers didn't get anything despite negotiations by U. E. for many months.

Despite their Ballyhoo of setting patterns we know
of the C. 1. O- in the initial package of 18l/2 cents,

that they double crossed the rest of the Internationals

Therefore, in the face of these facts, what would a vote for U. E, mean? ‘It would be a vote for a weak,
useless, independent and corrupt outfit. It would be a vote for (leadership?) whose only boast ‘is that, through
their double crossing of P, A, C., they helped to defeat pro-labor Congressman and thereby helped to retain
the rotten Taft'- Hartley act, In a pamphiet entitled “know your Union", the U. E. itself tells you what you can
expect from an independent union. The U. E. states in this pamphlet that an independent union is a company
union. . In this same booklet the U. E. also states that only thru the cooperation and unity of the C. I. O. can
effective gains be realized. WHAT THE U. & SAID THEN IS STILL TRUE TODAY!

At the Organizational Convention of the I. U. B - C. |. O. in Philadelphia, ‘November 27th, 1949, you

_ in steel $1.67, The average hourly .

ig ee

LOSER!

were given a program of which you canbe proud. The delegates to this convention did not waste time on
phoney "$500.00 packages", firmly and clearly they notified the employers that the days of endless negotia-
tions and political deals were over. They put themselves and the people they represented on record for pen-.
sions, adequate insurance, and a program ‘for job evaluation which would bring to the electrical workers the
same high level of. earnings now enoyed by trades requiring the same skill and effort. The provisional Con-
stitution drawn up by these delegates gave complete assurance that the members would really. run this union!
This Constitution provides that no officer can be elected EXCEPT BY POPULAR REFERENDUM! No major
issue can-be decided or adopted until it is voted upon BY ALL THE MEMBERS! OUR union will be run by
OUR members, not by any outside organization. We will make the decisions and 6,000,000 members of the
Cyl. O will: support-the decision’ we" make! Don't allow a small group of treasonable fakers to seperate YOU |

from the milliohs of workers banded together for YOUR protection.

Vote [UE

Stay ClO)

JUs
| aN | | Oy

After numerous queries from the members of Local 301 it was
found necessary to make oun position known with regards to the
Teamster Strike, Primarily, it must be understood by all the
members of Local 301 that the National Agreement between the IUE
and the G.E. clearly states that there will be no work-stopyages,
strikes, ete., unless the steps in the grievance procedure have
been exhausted. In the case of the Teamster Strike, it is clearly
a dispute between the Teamster A.F.L. and the G.L. Company, but,
unfortunately the IUl-is indirectly involved due to the ."respect-
ing or "non-respecting' of existing picket lines. ‘There ‘are many
‘in the. IUE who feel ashamed for having crossed the picket line, but
it is evident that the A.F.L. Steamfitters and I.A.,-A.F.L. were”
lacking in their support of one of their affiliates, the Téamsters
A.F.L. The IUE is policing the plant so that none of its members
perform work that is normally done by the Teamsters,

The Grievance Committees met with management on Friday October
16, 1951, and protested the cancellation of Saturday's work, The
TUS stated that it appeared to be a means of "pitting" one union
against snother, Management claimed that this was not the intent,
Shortly efter this meeting, management stated that a letter would
be issued to the employeus explaining that this cancelled day would
be made up in Leeembor, The IUVE~CIO Locel 301, must keep a "hands-~
off" policy in the dispute between the Teamsters and the Company and
can neither advise the "respecting" or "non=respecting" of picket
lines, What over action an individual takes is strictly his or her
business, although they are not expected to expose themselves to
abuse or threats of physical violence, .

ow
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PAROS SANG SE UR ESUGR ECS OTTRLLE

WELDING DEPARTMENT: /

fe
Last weck G. Williams.a weldor was questioned by Supervision
about the amount of work performed by him while working with the
Steamfitters at Peek Streot. It was very obvious that he wags
"turned in" by J, Eldredge a so called food union man and A, Phillips,
of the Steamfitting Department, in order to cover themsclves. The
welders wish to make public the following statement,

-B. Tuttle) and he will tell-us what we
working with other departments -we will be
© done and We will decide how it is to be

We will cooperate with all service groups and wort with
them not under them!'t, 8 a

5 ETRE A A RRNA OER pact CERES

» IUL-CIO Local 301
lixecutive Board

WORKERS
COMPANY CONSENTS TO ELECTION.

The Company yesterday at a hearing conducted by the National
Labor Relations Board at the Schenectady Post Office, agreed to a
consent election, ;

The election will involve all the non-exempt laboratory
assistants employed by the company at the Knolls Atomic Power
“Laboratory of the GE, Company, located at the Knolls, Alplaus,
Niskayuna and Peek Street, Schenectady, N.Y., excluding profes~
sional employees (classified as research associates, research
assistants, student, engineers, engineers, and student assistants)
guards and supervisors as defined in the act,

All non-exempt Laboratory Assistanst that are on the company
payroll to November 30, 1951, will be eligible to vote in the elec
tion. This means that all new employees hired by the company after
that date will not bé eligible to vote, oe

ELECTION DAT. SET Fon THURSDAY DECLMLER 13, 1951."

On Thursday December 13, 1951, the polls will be opened at
the following places and.time in order that everyone will be pro-
vised an opportunity to cast his ballot.

KNOLLS VOTING AREA TINE

PRIVATE DINING ROOM | 7:00 Aalt, to gree A.M.
7 . to Os:

h:00 PVM, :00 P.M,

Laboratory Assistants working on third shift will start
voting at 7:00 A.M, and those working on first shift will -start
voting as soon as they come in to work, or at the end of their
shift, -

STREDT VOTING ARIA - TINE
DARK ROOM WAR RuCEPTION ROOM 9:30 AeM. to 10:30 A,M,

Laboratory Assistanst in Peek Street will vote between the
above named hours,

ALPLAUS VOTING ANA TINE
GUARD HOUSE 11:30 A.sM. to 12:00 NOON
1. JOB SECURITY

26 JOB PROTECTION
3. JOB DESCRIPTIONS Sa

This is the opportunity you have been waiting for.

All Laboratory Assistars will automatically be protested by
ithe IUH-OIO and GeH, National Agreement upon cetification by NLRBe

VOTE IUE-CIO} . Laboratory Assistants
= * Organizing Comittee

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UNION WORKERS Pay UNION DUES.

Lee em int TT bern EM ETN ei

NON-UNION WORKERS PAY NON-UNION DUS,

WHO PAYS THE MOST ?

U.S. Department of Labor reports that unorganized white collar
workers pay at least “15 a week, or $780 a year for the privilege of
NOT belonging to a union,

IUE-CIO dues are 42 a monthe...less than 50¢ a week,
white collar workers receive an average of 'i

Unorganized

48.95 in weekly earnings
Whilo unionized factory workers average 465 a week...

UNLESS YOU CAN AFFORD

$15 A WEEK NON-UNION DUES
JOIN IUE-CIO!!

. VOTE IUE-CIO}}
1246/51.

- Laboratory Assistants
(Union mimeo) Organizing Committoe

Senta ese gn
on Py

LABORATORY ASSISTANTS

In a letter of December 7, 1951, which was sunt to cach Tabs
Assistant, Manaremont states that on December 13“th, an cleetion will

> be held to determing whether you wish the IWl-CIc to act as your rope
resentetive or whether you would prefer to continue to discuss your
problioms with mane goment directly and- individually as in the pet
This letter also status, that the Goal. Compeny iS provided its.c
ployses with identical company benefits, whethor or not they have

chosen to bargein through a union.

Don't be misled by the above misleading statements, “It is a
known fact that in unity there is stre ength anc divided we'fall, It
is true that all Union Nogotiated wage benefits arc granted to all
the omploycus, but when it borigs to vey raisus effective on the date
of classification changes, we Le aboratory-Assistants have to wait
to mines months or a yosr, while the ox a ele hourly cmployces
bay raisss cffeetive ‘on the date of classtit ication Changes.

VOTE YES ON DusapyE

. ay

just and reasonable orgenization as odicated to the prupose sof |

ising the are tats of Labor ratory assistant to nis or her rightful
i in the laboratory organic ation.

Open and frequent discussion with your supervisor in regard to
your job and future with the company's © infreauent use of the
rating shouts dovs not give an individual any opportunity to
core himself in the performance of “iis job. Tt is wsed- pri-
marily to theart a pelse or change in clacsificati Lon when it .is
duc.

Automatic nrogréssion fh thu erades thru Class 9.

An actual scale comparable with the higher skilled orgentzed
workurs of thu lab, While thu top rate a lab. assistants is
$2.50 per hour, to the knowledge of & this committee no one receives
uighor than 2,0. a the orgenized workers many are making the

too rete in thoir class fication. fon of twelve wolders ary malting
top rate for cReLe ALOUD.

Job deseript ion so thet people doing work

far above their class-
iflention will be adequately c compunsatud fo

rp doing same.

Additionsl compensation for lesb, assistants w are acting as
leodurs, |

Job protection,

‘cestion awards,

Up until the filing of our putition to the NLRB it was. impossible
So ascertain your class ification, proprossion schodule or any other
pertinent facts about your Joba- At Peck Stroct, two years ago one
of section heads even went. go far as to deny the existance of rroup

lassifications Tmntaistely following the filing of our petition

dnforme Ltdon- movtings wore hold to explain the uxisting systome
Fel bring about the vacgquisd

[no simple fact of filing a publbign ea
_feton of here rae secrut infornat! on our organization,-cen-certeainly
r badly needed forms in the

ESERIES eT

bring about othe administration of the
ab, éssistants. . ;

YES on December L3th. Romomber your b ballot ‘is SECRETE!
Join: rmcotoe If you have any question regarding the formation a

‘Labs essistants organigetion for thu purpose of, collective be perine
Me, contect the committer,

; 3 _ ; * ng Committee
e/11L/51 ssistants, LUE-CI0

‘ORY ASSISTANTS!

“A Discussion of Llection Issues

First let us clear up acontroversial issue thet Fee ee tia
vie Lously slanted by supervision, A ae vont Goes spot oO ton
‘ at sey peycnp te afi s . U ake . Per 5 3 Ny
to compulsory membership in the IUE PtEr &1ec .
we laboratory pesistants will have the opportunity of Joining i
CIO Local 301, or the opportunity of forming our own ioca e
“This de-cision will be made following todays election.

The real issue that is to be‘resolved today is whether or not
the Laboratory assistants wish to have collective bargaining as
desicnated under National Labor Relations Act of 1947»

Remember a majority voting yes merely allows the SE
assistants the opportunity to join a union, f he SO Gen Nees _
vote no would deny yourself and your fellow laboratory i eee oie
the primary right to organize for the common welfare. Zou yor i
certainly not deny a fellow citizen the right to join ae etn °
civic organization, Would you then deny him the right to. $
labor organization? ©

If the majority votes yes, (and this seems to be the Sap ee
result since the organizing committee has counted approximately ren
persons with affirmative intentions), the laboratory assistants wi]
automatically be covered by the contract of TUE-CIO and Gels

Also remember that wetre desling with Bip Business. The in-
dividual can not readily bargain on Ais own. Fi | 3. a Big Union
to_match the size of Big Business,

Can
VOTE, IVUE-CIO}

VOT YES!

FOR EMPLOYS

General Electric Company - Schenectady, New York

This ballot is to determine the collective ba
resentative, if any, for the u

If you spoil this
newone,.

rgaining rev-
nit in which you ars employed,
ballot return it to the Board Agent for a

MARK AN "XIN TH SQUARs OF YOUR CHOICE

Do you wish to be represented for purposes of collective bar.
gaining by---

INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ELECTRICAL, RADIO £ND MACHINE
WORKERS, CIO, LOCAL 301? as

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“LABORATORY ASSISTANTS “ooo
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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sults of the P.L.8.3. Supervised Llection of December 13th
1951; sh oan 77? Leboretor, stants expressed their desire for col-.
‘lective Gerpatine presentetion and 115 not wishing such pepresenta-
tion. The ccollent electioA turnout of the. Laboratory \esistants
‘indicates the interest shown in the election, and the number voting
for Petlective Bargating showed thet there wes cause for this xtion,.

We hope that menagerent will not adopt the attitude that "The
j Laboratory Aesistatits heave boen put in their place, -but that manare=
mont will strive tovcorrect the unrest. which brought about thie peti-
‘tion for an vlectiony so thet we may work together under favorable
and harmonious -¢onditions. ea a
to thank cll those who particineted in the elections
the voting Laboratory Arsistants and sneclaily to
én eetive oart in the cernpolpn and openly exoruss sod

f ssiw of i Schenectady Union Sta
os 5 i is fa ; for all those who so vividly expre ena
Man: is prond of his right.to say what
D pluapea. upage.te do sol,
Laboratory Assistants
Oreanizine Committe

The IUVE-CIO congradulates the Laboratory Assistants for their
Preet showing on the EVL.R.B. election of Uceembur 13th, 1951, end

the Leboratory Assistants tiet the service

és and support of
2-CTOQ will be available to then at.their convenicnee,.

potiating ¢ of ti. Lthl-0rg Bocal 301 wants to
makes clear to the members, “ig position on the arranpemcnts of the
working schedule for Nmas Eve. The union emphatically ré jected the
comp vanyls proposal for the Xmas Evo oreiag scheduls, stating thet
the, employees who wished to work until le 30 P,i, were being deprived
of their richt to varn a full days pay. The tnfon has filed a priuve

ance. charging the company vith violation of the National Arreement
Article VY Section 1 (a),

last Tuesday tho members of the M.A. wore miven a ballot
with a choices of nine candidrtes for M.B.A. Directors instructing
the members to vote for six (6), and thet the ballots were to be
returned by the following dey. Ths ballot itsclf was Cluerly a
"loaded bsllot", as the members thems elves did no participate in
the. nomination of condidehes & revision of the present rules and
By-Laws of the M.B.A. is definitely mandatory in order to make this

a dumocrstic organization in which the membuershave a full velee ana
are not treat.d as "second class citizens";

Executive Board
IUE~CIO. Local 301

TOM

“hor Membe ership of the po, Local 30L-

8 Yourndisnute rege ine sub f& of contracts at the Knolls
is now in the hanas rit she Interationel Union,
ames B.Carey.
Carey and Cheif Genimrest i ra ave been in
Chairman Osear Smith of t: oo “Leni ane] request
vention in this vital matters
The result of this Giscussion wes the recommendati on bb: *, Smith
that the union contact MP meee the ALG Repy
aka an were he won’ clear j LT 3 al
or ibacted ee, eta md te assured usthat
moet with ‘ al SIN Op Giulia ie 2 es commnyds rec:
an’ would .be only Wr im: to ¢ our cues
ingismsory eteted i 2 TON GLEE of
Sor all const: ms and new inetells
Informa ation piven us by M anderson shows ¢ he Genera
Coes has not been givir as & true ynicture of. eir resvonsit
the Knolls, :
. The Aut Washin rfice f bod tha "be yr Would’ explore
possibilites of 3 Ing he ; y rn
This informati Is E LEMinformation given to u
COMDENY » 3
' In view of
by the ¢C.8., in
Tf the compauy
policies, this aie :
Instead, the Gow romis vcdine a Overt ANS Wore Le questions
relsed by the { i

In view of the’ certainty of ¢ cel strike end the
effect it will have en industry ay “ts particularl
we can forsee ser! 3 Ss im ti] “ie Bee plants
Our reasons for anticipating lax fs are. - orm
suotations Prom e lettc to Gell. Hanerement L
Avril B,"19523

strike by VYodnesday seems prectically certain as we go to
Vhen it nes, He ; 2 COMy mets oversall plane
le ALL overtine
@e Cutting up, fabric ntl on. fond m1 “bly will continue es long as
‘work in process can be kept in | : This gnonlc,
wecks ar an average across the country, but our
greetly by locations.
. 3. When work in can no lonmey be kept in balance on a given
product, some finishin: “ad final assembly operations. mey continue
treifly if the is criticel, but al Ling up and intermediate
fen pricating operations will cease, Wh is for ae obvious reason
Ab continuinn, somé operetions until bac ecd hee proved
— produce such a tangle that more total. Lon is lost, and
ere men hours of lay-off result, than whe ry ot shutdowns and startups:
Lake place under conditions where the distribution of material over
tre whole process has heen kept more nornel ;
itt Wilew of the eb athabenent and local manasenents petty 2x
for not meeting wi th on, siubetatiates cur belicf
ple : Lke dm order to deprin
inemrance and reloive the company of the rosp
y heir cnnloye
e registered by the members of Local 301 has served its
IAG a has focused national As attention on General slecty
indifference of their ages area § wolrare.

Inte national President, Jenus Py carey and your local of:
sherefors urge the members to return to work with the assurance +
svarything possible will be done by the International and local net
to “boring this disnaute to a satisfactory conclusion. - omer

raternally;
‘Jack Rs Suarez, Presid
Vincent §. Deley, Chel
Stewards ——

ATOM C WORKE -

PRCGRESS OF NECOTIATIONS Bal vy IUE<C1O AND GE

Fursuant to written notice datcd Fubruary 26, 1952, sent to Gen-~
cral Eleetric Compeny by the Intcrnational Union of slcetricel, Redio
and Machine Workors~-CI0O, in accordence with srttcelc “MITT wet, LEP tg
represents tives of the Compe ny and the Union met. in the office of the
Company in New York City cn March 5, 1952, Mr. Lemucl kK. Boulware, a
Vice-President of the Gohoval Blcetrice Company, was the pained peil rep-
resentative for the Company, end Mr. Jamus B. Cavroy, President of TUE.
OlO: heedad tho Yeogotiating Commit too for the union,

the IVE-CIO presented to the Company j é : calling for:

tv ing increase cqual “the sréase in living
ptumbsr 15, 19S1--he 52%

of the GE incentive systom to factor into the ba
ae bhi wege incercasts which heve taken place sineu 19hle
t present these were “increases ar. merely” eddicd on to the

lig en hour fund to make a stert in providing caual vay for
equel work.

ay * ie
A PR hour inercase for skilled workurs end a lad en hour
fu mt ‘for a bonus for deyworkurs end clerical workers who are
not on inccntive,. ,

&n. imnediate agroemcent to recsteablish a ee eee program °*
and to sut up a joint comnittoc to develop e« plan

An Employment Sceurity Purid. to provide compensetion for-Laid-
off workers end for sivurancs paye

Absorption by the Company of the ae of their wege
workens now pay for thir pesnions =

4n cffective "no discrimination" clause wrich would include
the word "gcex",

on March 10, in order to make sure thet th. position of the Union
wes fully Eee and to solicit.s responsive reply, President Ca aris,
scent Mr. Boulwar a lottcr, making ths following pointss

Th. cost of living inercase was tho lorst important of the Union's
demands In eny cvent, it wos mcorcly designed to unsure that the wor-
leors standards do not dcteriorstc. It deus nothing to "solve the pro-
bloms of incquitics which nana accumulated in CH wage payments in the

Mast cloven yoers, Nor doss it give workers a proper share in their
‘srcasing praduction nor in the profits they hulp to crests’,

Tho union proposed that the cost of living bu naid and get thet
metter out of the way so thet wo could conecentrets on the more im
“ortant issucs,

NEGOT TATIONS ON MAY 5.

_A now twist wes given to the company's proposals at this moctings
The company statods

le The cost ofliving incroase of 1,03% was its ontire ocffor and
the unton must accept it as closing out the entiro reopening. Tho
company rofused to pormit on eercomont on the 1,03% as being simply
the aah of living part of tho reopenur, and then to go on to discuss
other wags’ issues, . ns

25 The effective dete of this cost of living inercasey would not
bu March 15, but would be the date on which it wes.signed. In con-
trast to this the company provided.its. non-union em Loyoo s with the.

eost of living inerense offoctive March Sthe

Continued. in next edition, . :
LUR=-CIO Local 301°
..Lxceutive Board

ATOMIC WO

The pitiful wage offer made by Gols, amounting to only 1% has
now been further restricted by the Conpany in a hishly provactive |
manner. The Comoany demands as e condition of even giving this 1%
increase thet the Union accent it as full settlenent of our ware
reopening, furthermore, that the effective date, instead of being
March 15, would be the date of acceptance, ®

The Company officials told us thet the only people who wanted
a further wage increase were "the people in this room"'--meening the
negotiating committee. The meaning was clear--the renk snd file
workers, according to the Company, did not want one, ;
John Callahan I[UH-CIO Gonference Board Cheirman, challenged
the company to a jointly conducted secret allot of all Geli, em-=
ployees to see if this wore true. The Company officials declined
to accept. It is up to your membership to inform the Gets Officials
whether they are correct=-that only. the negotiating covsittee wants
a further wage increase, and thet the renk and file members are
satisfied, : , ;

The decision as to whet the Negot* ating Comittee shall do is
clearly up to our membership,

The Executive Board of IUE-CIO Local 301 is therefore calling
Special Plant Gete Meetings on Tuesday Mey 13th, 1952. A full re-
port .on progress of negotiations will be made by Vincent Daley and
deck Suarez, <A Secret Ballot vote by membership will then be con-
ducted. The purpose of this vote is to instruct your Local Cons
ference Board delegate on the instructions he is to give the Con-#
ference Board in New York on Mey lth, 1952. It is important that
all attend the nectings and cast a Ballote —

‘The Second Shift omplovees will vote at Uston “eaddauerters
at the reeular scheduled »ssetings of 122h5 £.é, end L:hS A.M,

The Third Shift employvecs will vote at Tnion Headquarters,
comneneing at 7:30 *.M, Tuesdsy May 13th, © «

BOR MEETINGS

KNOLLS II =. Tuesday May 13th at 3:00 P.M,

Parking Field

ADLPLAUS Tuesday May 13th at 2:
PLACE: Parking Iiocld
PEEK ST. -- Tuesday Mey 13th at 3:15 P.M,

PLACE: Perking Ficld

ATTENTION: You must be present to vote. You must be a momber

in good standing.
URGENT ALE ATTEND! !

Executive Board
IUVE-CIQ Local 301

TOMIC WORKERS

app WEAH A An LL CORKS LIKE

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Mee

Dear Uncle "Miltiels

(Not to be confused with uneLe MALES en of T,.V. fame or Uncle
Miltie of race=tracl fame).

This is in respons e to your anti-labor and highly slanted letter
of May 19, .1952. You state that a little over one- ohird of the eme
ployees represented by the IUB-CIG voted on"strike action", For your
information the result of the secret bellot vote thet was conducted
by a membership elected "committee!" was: 20h, YS, 97 NO, Also, for
your information we have |\80 dues-paying menberse *

We deplore the in accuracy of your figures, but understand that
you have no way of determining the actual number of people that pare
ticipated in the vote,

By now, cur members hive all received their copies of your
v

letter of instructions, (a la Bullware) on how you would Like to run.
our unione

We hone they were not unfortunate enough to have read it at the
dinner table.

It is wry evident thet you are far from pleas ed with tke peport-
ing..of events at..the. Knolls. by- the ~Locel newspapers - ‘the newg 7
servines, ' _

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a BS very evident thet you do not Gere to, expose ‘your malicious.
and slanderous ‘attacks on- our: union to the monest and propaganda-wise
lediting of. the city editers. Instead, you chose to invade our hones -
with union busting pYrovpagance, ss
: According to you Mr. Milton, our members aié not heve van honest.
=" and representative vote because we. did not: let all. hourly. employees *

vote. You contend that all employees. be allwwed to vote regardless
of whether they belong to the,wnion.or.not, Enticisating thet’ the
few non-union members would throw the: vote your “wayi 0 8

Mr, Liltoa, are thé employees ellowed a vote on the Geli, Board
of directors, when spcetal dividends and bonusés sre voted to the
Executives of Gek? als : a ee me

In telling our members
vote within the plant,

tin the plant. This you did the
(G6 be teken, but not before you had
such action and: not before. you had real-
be conducted to the compeny!'s advantage,”

You did not‘’mention the strings that were attached to your gen-
erous offer. That, would not have beer Company. policy.

If we had accepted this kind offer, it would have resulted in
the following curbs on the legal rights of the union members,

l. The officers would not be allowed to speak to the membershin
regarding the reasons for the necd of a strike vote nor the
application of such authority, ;

Our members would. not be allowed to ask questions,

The union members and officers would be effectively sanced.

We would cast our Dallots under the critical starels or
slupétrvision., ; ~

We would not be able to select our "election committes", as
this would constitute. a meeting, and of course the company
could not agree to that, .

We would not be able to challenge the votes of mombers not in
good standing nor those of non-union members as this would
defeat your purposc,

_ The mombership would havo a company controlled strike votc--not
a union vote,

A perfect cxample of your version of democracy is your captive
audiences meeting to be hold Friday.

How many employees do you think would attend this mécting if you
were to hold it after hours, with no compensation?

In recent months some of the publicity resulting from the Unions
constructive activitios at the Knolls, has caused you and your ase-
soclates considcrable embarrassment, (as thu truth in such cases usually
docs). It seems that your integrity end infallibility was badly shaken,

In reply to your expression of concern as to whethor our membor~
ship is gotting all the facts in this and other important issues, Wwe
have but this to Sayo

No momber in good standing is barred from the mémbership meetings.

ALL groups are fully represented ‘at the ixecutive and Shop Steward-
Councils. ; _

Mombers. aro: roprosoutud ‘by bhotr “officers (Of*icors’ oloct wd
themand not by Unele Milty) at all levols of tho TUa=-CLlO.

/ Memburs are all capable of reading our lesflots and the newspapers,

Mr. Milton, if you will recell the™dispute of April 7th end 8th,”
resulting from the company's attemot to prevent the union. offleers | 7
from obtaining the .true facts concerning the "letting! of contracts
and the future sceurity of your employees, yeu will find; that. the
“Company alone was guilty of with-holding the truth from the employecs,

If the Company had given a tric picturc:. of their
lssuance of contracts to outside contrretors, the work sto:
April. 7th and 8th wonld have been. averted, Instead, the Gok, Company:
by misleading and evasive answers to the Questions. ratscd by the ome
“ployees, instigated a strike re Me eye

We-refor you the findings of the meotings held betwoon AyEeC.««
IVE-CIO. andthe G.E, on April lth and April 23rd, 1952, and published
by thu Union: on April 2th, 19526 °. This raport on the FACTS, have not

been disputcd by eithur tho habeCe or. Geile
- From the findings of ‘the past fow months, it has become’ quite
“Epparent to the employees and tho public, that while there is'no ines
ateation of an "Atomic. Pile" raving been assembled at the Knolls, thore
is considerable evidence that tho typo of "pile" found bencficial to
lawns end gardens has reached the mass Production stage,

6 should also be more kindly towards you, Mr. Hilton, beécause
you have done ane cxeellent job of Supporting our reasons for the
strike vote. :
We stated to our moemporship that if they gave their negotiating
miltter the authority ta strike--it would bo used first as a
strike proventative--bt-at it would male ‘the company aware of the fool»
& of the members and show the company. the munborships resentment of
& company's failuro to bergain in good faithe Facts that you, Mr.
i.lton abtempted to minimize in your letter, A letter that is an ine
sult to the momberships intelligence, :
The company up to now Rag dered. the IUE-CTO to strike and have
_tricd.te give the impression tuat a strike or the tureat of strike
would not change thoir-attitudo, “gd
Anyone reading your letter can soo thet you and the company are
vory much concurnéd over the ducision of the mumbership of Local 301
to support: it's hegotiating committec, ‘

You would ‘have our membership believe that you do not want a
strike for tHéir sao, | .

. We ask you Mrs Milton, what have you and the company dons to
prevent a strike--other than your attempts at union busting?

With regards to your concern for the employees lost half-hour
of pay and production last Tucscay, may wo romind you that the hourly
amployecs aro annually treated to 8 hours loss in Day and production
“a either Lincolnts op Washinatonts Birthday. Also, that we have lost
hundreds of dollars in profit sharing sinee tho UieGH wodding. of 197
dow about it Uncle Miltic? a

In N.Y. Company officials told us thet the only people who wanted
a furthor wage incriese wore "the people in this voom"=-mvaning the
negotiating committco, Ths moaning was cleare-the rank and Pile
workers y according to the Sompeny, did not want ONGs .

The IUVE-CIO Confcrence Board challongod tho company to a jointly
conducted seerct ballot of all Gu employees to seu if this wore true,
The company officials declinod to aceont.

©) THE OFFICERS oF pH TUL=CIO CHALLENGE ‘OU, HR, MILTON TO AN OPEN
DEBATE ON ALL ISSWS. THIS pMSATE TO BE BELD IN & PUBLIC sant. Via
~ TELEVISION oR RADIO, AT A TIME AND PLACE MULTALLY AGREED UPON,

Wo ol ogtemeay = fault ahamney 7
Jack/R, Suarez, PYosident

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Vincent S. Daloy, Uniof Shop stoward

Atomic Workers TUR<CT@ Local, 301

ATOMIC WORKERS —

Hol, tit Nos 3 — May 26, 1953

The company filed a petition on April. 15, 1952, for 1.03% cost of
living odjustment_covering 177,000 employees. Not only non-union, but
ell union employecs would be covered by said petition, The compa:
did this without consultetion with us. Furthermore, there is no WIS
regulation that permits a conpeny to petition for a wage adjustment
for union employees prior to negotiating with the union,

Our negotiating comaittes rresented to the company our proposal
in the form of two "wage petitions," either of which could be signed
jointly by the company and the union, and submitted to the Viage Sta
wilization. Bosrd in addition to the cost of living incrcase,

Petition No, I, would call for’ a general wage inercase and would
oe used if the company insistcod that only a general wage inervase was
possible under our reopenings ":

While.the sronosed petition did not indicate a specific cents
.figure it was built on tho following points.

‘ae Lo snableo GE employces to enjoy the averase of 217
increaso in real eernings since 19),0 that Amoricen workers arse entitled
tO, would require a 12¢ an hour increase. ‘ «

be To give GE workers the benefits from thoir 147% in
productivity since 19/0 wuld require a 20¢ an hour inceroa

Co To enakle Gl workers to enjoy the samc Sercuntasc increase in
‘Waecs as were obtained by workurs in cluetricel machinery, and other
manufacturing industries since 1940, would require.a 3-137 an hour
increasds ; . , wggee-

an hour.

Petition Noo. TT. could be submitted to teks cero of the specific
incquitics of the Verlons -groups such as the iuneentive workers, womon
workers, skilled workers, ober day workers, slariod employees, cote, °

The total renge between 9.9 and 11.3¢ pur hour,

The final tally of the vote of Tuvsday Mey 13th was:

For taking positive action 20h,
Against action 96

~ The LUd-CIO-conferonee board on May Luth unanimously voted to
reject the company's taku it or loave it offcr of 1.03% and closing
of wagu re-opener, and voted to intensify the cemoaign among the GE
Workers for the wagc domands set forth in the two wage potitions.e

The conferones board also called for a nation wide demonstration
June Sth, to protest the company's take it or leave it offer.

The time for these dsmonstrations will be announced in the near
Puture .

IUE=-CIO Local 301
Executive Board

(Union Mimco)

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ALOMI!

GE AND WESTINGHOUSE I
"REWARD* EFFORTS OF WwW

WIHT You fam ae SOR KE bevy ARE
hPRORITS Wouk HAVE HREM isres , jek oy yt INCREAS Sit | ete SOUCTIV Lvs

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PLANT GATE RATLY
JUNE 5th, 1952

KNOLLS II PARKING LOT

PEEK ST, PARKING Lo?

ALPLAUS - PARKING Lov
TIME: 12:00 NOON

URGENT THAT ALL ATTEND? t

Executive Board
IUE=CIO Local 301

THE EMPLOYERS OF LIQUID METAL TEST, D2+i,A.P.L. -AND ALPLAUS ..
APPEAL TO YOU IN THE INTEREST oF ONs OF THEIR F&LLow EMPLOY GBS ,
GLORGi: HEATH KING.

GEORG He KING HAS BEEN A PATILNT AT THs VA HOSPITAL IN ALBANY
FOR THE PAST THIRTEEN WEEKS, . a

iRe XING'S CHANCS. or RECOVERY ARE SLIM,

, Hh IS THE SOLL SUPPORT OF HIS WIFE AND HIS TWO CHILDREN,

DURING THESE MANY ‘S OF ILLNESS, THE KING PAMILY'S HOUSE
JOLD BILGS HAVE CONTINUED TO GROW AND I? HAS Bul NECHSSARy FOR
MiG. KING TO TRAVEL FROM HE HOMH IN SARATOGA TO ALBANY AT LiASt
FOUR TIMES A WEEK, ;

ae pol Bi IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE KING FAMILY TO MAX A PAYMENT
ON THEIR HOME THIS MONTH, 7 |

«Re KING'S ONLY INCOMZ IS HIS $32.00 PER WEEK DISABILITY

INSURANCE, :

NATURALLY, NO HOME CLN BE MAINTAINED IN A HEALTHY MANNER ON
SUCH A SMALIL INCOME,

THE PURPOSE OF THIS LELFLET Is TO INFORM YOU OF THE NEED FoR
THIS APPEAL AND AISO THE MANNER IN WHICH TH COLLECTION WIL, BE
TAKEN, .

ON MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1952, PLANT Guta COLLECTIONS WILL BE-
TAKEN AT K.A.P.L., ALPLLUS AND PERK ST., BY THR EMPLOYEES OF
LIQUID METAL TEST,

THE TIME OF THisE COLLACTIONS WILL BE FROM hi30 P.M. UNTIL
P.M.

THE EMPLOYERS OF LIQUID METLL TEST WILr APPRACTATH YOUR COOPER«
ATION AND ANY AMOUNT you WISH TO GIVE WILL BE MORE THAN WELCOME,

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Saray saguscemnmnere

The Instrurient Mechanics voted today to return to work at the

“request and only at the request of Federal Mediator John Rooney and

there will not be a general strike at the present time,

This will result in a meeting with Federal. Mediator John Rooney
and the company on July 28, 1952, ©

The company has been granted two weeks in which -to make a
study of the Instrument Mechanics! rates and possible corrections
in same,

In the event that the meeting on Tuly 28th does not result
in a satisfactory settlement, Mr. Rooney assures the Instrument
Mechanics that the Davis Panel will intervene,

The officers of the union and the Instrument Mechanics! wish

“to, thank the membership for its pledre of supvort as shown in the

following strike vote returnse

Result of vote talen by members of IUH=-CIO Local 301 on
Thursday July lOth through Friday July llth, 1952 on the motion:

"The members of the Atomic Workers IUE-CIO Local 301 do hereby

vote a general strike in support of the "Instrument Nechanics'", in

the event that the General Electric Company refuses to abide by
the findings and recommendations of the Federal Mediation Board or
the Atomic Energy Commission Labor Nelation Panel,"

Result of ilembership Vote:

YES 292

NO 87

Absent due to vacations and illness 110,

The officers of the Atomic Workers will keep the membership
fully informed on any progress of this dispute.

I.UoH. = C.T.0, LOCAL 301

7/14/52

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“ATOMIC. WORKERS —

Facts, History and Progress of the Instrument Mechanics Case,
will bea presented to the membership by Jacek R, Suarez and Vincent
5S. Daleye ;

LOCATION ~= Peek Street Parking Lot
DATE: Tuesday July 22nd
TIME: 12:00 Noon

LOCATION -= Alwlaus Parking Lot
DATE; Wednesday July 23rd .
TIME: 12:00 Noon

LOCATION «= Knolis II West Entrance
DATE; Thursday July 2lith
TIMEs 12:00 Noon

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ATTEND! ATTEND! ATTEND! ATTEND! ATTEND! ATTEND! ATTEND
PLANT GATE MEETINGS

KNOLLS ALPLAUS AND
We Inesday . PEEK STREET
September 3, 1952 September 1, 1952
2 Noon . 12 Noon Thursday

HEAR THE TRUTH ABOUT THE "GENEROUS ELECTRIC'S" 21--JoR
DIVIDENDS .

"GENEROUS ELECTRIC" REFUSES. TO MEET WITH TH UNION WITH |

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A GUN IN THEIR BACK, BUT DOS No? HESTTATR To " BROW=BEAT"

EMPLOYEZS Into ACCEPTING THEIR MISERLY OFFER.

LET'S SHOW THE COMPANY THAT WE ARE TOO INTELLIGENT TO BE
HOODWINKED BY THRIR "CARNY HUSTLER" TacTICs,

TREE e RISES

TET OUR ANSWER TO "GENEROUS ELECTRIC!S"~"OR ELSE OFFER

ER rh ow a ee eee ote tn te ne pn ee

Ps pete, . CERES URETEE aon ~ _ ~

ALL G.E. EMPLOVESS ARE
INVITED TO ATTEND THIS
MEETING |

_. (UNION MIMBO) __ sexy antl gnswoe tobe marasens te Se
-» <SSYED BY: Local 301 I,U.a. » C.I,0 ATOMIC WORKERS

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ATOMIC WORKERS

Recently the company inveded your homes with copics of their
propaganda=publication, "Commentators" “
The. company sought to panic you and your femilies into bringing
pressure “on yourunion!s officers in order: to’ force them into accepte
ing the company's miserable offer and consenting to their union-
busting contractual changes. .

Here are the 21 added benefits the company claims they GIVE to
yous ‘

(1) GUARANTEED KETIRENENT INCOME OF $125 A MONTH AND UP,

(THE COMPANY HAS REFUSED T0 ABSORB THE 2% UMPLOYSE CONTRIBUTION
WITS THE RESULT THAT THE EMPLOYER RETIRING AT 65 DcuS NOT RECEIVE
ANY OF THE COMPANY'S CONTRIBUTION UNTIL HE REACHES TH AGE OF .70,)
(RECENTLY THE GOVERNMENT INCREASED SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS BY
$5 TO $8 WITH THB INTENTION OF BaNEPITING THE PENSICNER., THE COMPANY
DID NOT PASS THIS INCREASE ON TO THE EMPLOYEE on RETIREMENT, BUT Saw
PIT TO PUT IT IN THWIR OWN POCKET..: THIS AMOUNTS TO 150,000 ANNUALLY,
(WE CLASSIFY THE ACTION IN THE SAME CATEGORY AS THAT OF "ROBBING
POOR Boxas,."). . . ae ;

(2) $25.00 UP To $ho.00 A WEEK WHEN SICKNESS OR ACCIDENT TAKES
‘EMPLOYEES OFF THE JOB, - ;

(IN NW YOR THIS PLAN NEVER EXCEEDS TUR wonKMants COMPENSATION, )
(3) LIFE INSURANCE--ABOUT 1 1/2 TIMES ANNUAL PAY--l2,000 MINIMUM.
(,) ADDITIONAL $2,000 ACCIDEWTAL DEATH BENEFIT, ;

ANY REASON YOU ARE FORCED TC DROP THIS INSURANCE AND YOU DO NOT
RECEIVE ANY CASH SURRENDER PAYMENTS, THE COMPANY HAS RECEIVED SucH
PAYMENTS) ) | a .

(YOU PAY_FOR THIS INSUPANGs AND Wu YOU LEAVE. THE COMPANY FOR

_ (5) UE TO $700 FOR HOSPITAL ROOM FOR ANY ONE CAUSE, PLUS UP TO
$1,600 FOR EXTRAS,

(YOU WILL PAY &XTRA FOR THIS SERVICE)
(6) UP TO $175 FoR SURGICAL BILLS,

(7) UP TO $175 FOR PHYSICIANS! VISITS WHILH IN A HOSPITAL, TOTAL
PAYMENTS WILL NOT EXCKED $3 TIMES THE NUMBER OF DAYS (UP TO A MAX~
TMUM OF $175) FOR WHICH. SUCH HOSPITAL EXPANSH BENEFICS AR PAID,

(43,00 PER DAY DOKS NOY COVER A DocToR'S VISIT. TH UNION REQUESTS
AN INCREASE TO $5.00 HIR DAY. THE COMPANY HAS TiruSRD,)

(8) MATERNITY BINEFITS(P UP To $2254

(THIS COVERS APPROXIMATELY S@ oF THE EMPLOYEES. THE WIVES: OF THE
MALE EMPLOYEES WHICH ACCOUNT FOR 95% OF THE Map=RNITy CASES, RECEIVE
A MAGNIFICENT SUM OF (860,00. THE COMPANY DOZS THIS WITH RELUCTANCE
AS THEY HAVE STATED THAT NO MATERNITY BENEFITS SHOULD BE PAID “AS
THsY FEEL THAT CHILDBIRTH IS "SELF-INFLICTED," Is THE COMPANY AD«
VOCATING BIRTH CONTROL?) °° yD
(13) $1),,000,000 UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANGE PAID FOR ENTIRELY BY
GENERAL ELECTRIC,

(REFUND ON STRIKE OF 1946 RAN INTO MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.)
(14) $11,000,000 SoctaL sEcURTITY PAYMENTS .
op} jOUPAY’ TANGE PORTION OF SOCAL SECURITY. THE COMPANY WANTS »

13 rai? THEY PAY IT ALL. AGAIN WE ASK THEM WHY THEY
Pog VOT AD SECURITY INCREASE, INSTEAD OF PASSING IT ON THE

PwUTLH VORWIiOR ID WAS INTENDED.) é
_ ee ab rvbudee ob ga€h olen
2 (5) 221,000,000 FOR PAID Hob DLYS 9. te —— -

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(15)? 7 . |.
(IST PHAT NICH OF THEM? TYLY PORCOT TO MENTION PIT TH 1953

AS THE FOURTH OF JULY AND MEMORT.L DEY PALL ON SATURDAY, Dy sei

WILL TANE ADVANTLGE OF THIS LOOPHOLE TO POCK2T 46,000,000 OF THIS .

AMOUNT; THE UNION HAS FL QUES TED THAT TRY COMPA’ GRATE TEs EMPLOY

GOOD FRIDAY /.ND-ON@ OF THE PRESID:NTIAL HOLDIDAYS OR CR CSLSaRATR

THE ORIGINAL HOLIDAYS ON FRID.:.YS.). _—
(THE COMPANY WILL 4LSO DiNY S..L.RY EMPLOYEES Til.SH HOLID.YS,) Beco

(17) $5,000,000 EMPLOYER “LND PENSIONER ‘PURCH:SH PLLN«

‘ (THE 3 =MPLOYEE DISCOUNT Wes FORMRL LY how on MaJOR LPPLLACHS, rt
IS NOW 207, MANY GE A eiaNes tS CaN BE PURCHASES OUTSIDE THH COMPANY
oT 4. GREATER DISCOUNT, ) ‘

(18) $700,000 MILIT..RY DUTY ALLOWANCES,

(ALL LARGE INDUSTRIES PLY THIS 4.ND MANY PLY GREATER BENETTTS, oO)
SUCH ..8 SPERRY, STAND..RD OIL, PHILCO, ERIE RESISTOR, ETC, NOST OF =~
THES# COMPANIES HAVE SEVERANCE PLY, )

(19) 3,000,000 WORKMuENTS COMPLNS.ATION PAYMENT Se
F) 9 eM

(OTHANWISH THUY WOULD Bl LIAELL TO CIVIL SUIT, SUCH 48 THE NEW
YORK. CahiRAL RAILROAD, )

(20) | "500, 000 PoTD OUT POR SUGGESTIONS AND J AWARDS «
(ANPLOVEES | RE VB 10% OF THE SAVINGS FOR THE FIRST YEAR. THERE

PORE, TE COMPANY RECEIVES 90% OF THE SV.VINGS FOR THE FIRST VELR
AND 100% THBREAPTER .) “ , :

St EIST ASST ONE ALL IEEE RE HEN RL aA TS DENS REE TORR

Stat habe aN

WAT THE COMPANY DID NOT TE 3 THIS:

(1) THE COMPANY PROPOSES TO INSERr i, CL.US& IN TEE CONTRACT PER.
TNC Dts SCIPLIWARY ACTION JGLINST PERSONS PARPICEPLYING IN $0“CiLL-
SZORP AGES, ) —
itis UM LON HINCTuD THIS 1.8 IV WOULD MAt& IT POSSTBLE
fae TO DISCHARGES LOLIVE. UNIONISTS ON Ge PRETEXT YLT cypy
; DALDERS o TRESE LLLEGSD WORK SYVOPPLGES,)° ~

RELL. BGs, RTI 1S His Bilal best NTs: D8 TAR
XC LUST Vii nae ! WE RS pet ve EF Y a'3 oe tt. TNING
UNITS OF COMPANY isit is a TIVE SHALL BE
RECOGNIZED AS PROVIDED GBOVA JND BECO 1 as “Pa. ‘REY hoTO TO UH

LRT NT GND IN Tet MANNER DoTanINED BY THE COMP. WY » THs UNION ND
SUCH CEETIFIED Loc.l, IF “ay, IN COLLECTIVe BARGLINING. :

(THIS WOULD MudN THAT gMPLOYLES TRIANSFSRRING TO Waist MILTON WOULD
NOT SE COVERED BY THe NAPIONLL AGheaMeN? BUT INSTEAD THEY YOULD Have
TO NEGOTLy. ALL OVER JG.IN ALL THE BLNEFITS THAD THS INT sR TIONLL
ae OnPatsal FOR THaM OVR THU YEARS. IT WOULD ALSO BE 4 GRast

ut, /TV.G TO THE COMPANY'S DEC CENTRALIZATION PLANS 2S IT WouLD BE

Tah PROPIT.BLE FOR. THLM TO MOVE art J THEIR DuPARTMENTS OUT OF
THIS REL, INTO Low WaGi STu.t

WE HAV 2 PICHT \
RAFFLE TICKETS, . SELL «8 Mi 8 -YOU GN L 3D BUY Ls Pe NY re) vou ‘cH.
Gul YOUR RETURNS INTO YOOR SHOP ST.si.ND SO Hi CN PASS. THIM-ON TO

ae ~ CHATEAN OF (HE DEPENSS FUND, . THIS IS YOUR FIGHT i.ND YOUR DE PENSE
UND.

YOU CAN EXPaCT .. VISIT FROM YOUR I.U.i.-C.1.0, Pitz ENT, JAMES B.
CAREY, IN THH Nek PULURE, eres

PRESIDENT C.RuY WILL DISCUSS THE Naot? Te0t ONS JND MANY OPHsR SUB.
JECTS OF VITAL INTEREST TO ALL OF. aS, As .

Jack Ry Suarez, President.

Vincent 8S. -Daley,
Chief Shop Steward,
T.U.uyC0, 1.0.

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THE BIG ONE.

GOT : es Local 301 TeUete - ColsOe

ATOMIC WORKERS

Dear Members: ©

Regardless of the indifference to the needs of GE employees. and
pensioners as manifested by the U.Ee, ITeAeM. and other so-called
unions, the IeUek. = 4.1.0, is continuing to negotiate an equitable
sereement with-G.k, ,

While we continue negotiations with GeH. and conciliation service

we must be sware that the tremendous propaganda machine of GeE. both
within and outside the plants will BS UNLEASHED 10 AN EVEN MORE
FURIOUS PITCH TO ATTEMPT To DEMaaT US o
Therefore, our message of truth, as compared to the company
message of lies, must be brought home to every G.E. Worker, every
person who lives in our communities.

We do nothave the resources, for limitless full page ads paid
for by the taxpayers. We do not have the Gak, supervisory force,
But we do have our own faith and confidence and that of our member-
ship and we will continue to have it as. long as we tell them the
truth and keep them warned about the company's purpose, lies and
tricks. °
The U.Ee and IeAeM, national leaders can allow their names to
be put to a shameful contract without a struggle because they have
no princiuales., ,

Sade otal
TTS

On Sept. 17, 1952, the I.U.le = 0.1.0, negotiating conmittee
recommended that our 7point proposal be submitted to arbitration
and agreed to abide by the decision of such a body.

The union recommended that the panel be chosen from such names.
as follows: re % ; ‘

Former Presidents of the General Electric Company, Charles E,
Wilson; Gerard Swope: Former Vice-President Burroughs; Prince and
Bernard Baruch.

The company._refused,.

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‘ On Sept, 16, 1952, Loca I.U.He = C.IO. was granted itts

, petition for-an eleetion to determine what union will represent the
‘toolmakers at the Knolls and Peek Ste The TeAsMonAaP el. now repe
rosents the O toolmakers involved. a

The election will be held October 15, 1952, with polling places

and times as follows: .

Dining Room "a",

Dark Rooms. .

WILL FOLLOW!

JACK Re SUARKZ, PRESIDENT =» VINCLNT S. DALEY, OHTEF suop STEWARD
— ROCAL 301. T,UsEe = ColeOe oy: ge weet ee

WORKERS LOCAL 301° IUE-CIO

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This.is the first edition of "The Lie-Detector" ‘end if the compeny
persists In invading your homes with their falsehoods, it will not be
the Laste

On September 20, 1952, LJ. MALE, Schenectady Works "Manager,
picked up the "audgel" dropped by the former manager of the Knolls,

Mr. Milton, and is attempting to do the job tuat Mz. Milton bungled.

Mr.-Male has not profited by the mistakes of Mr. Milton,

He is resorting to the same ignominious atteck on your union.

Evidently, Mr. Male, is a firm believer of the old adage "that
if you tell a lie often enough. people will bolieva you;"

What is this job that Mr. Male is undertaking?

It is an attempt by the company to injees into the membership ,
distrust of each other and of their union officers,

It is also a tostimonial to you and your officers, that the
Atomic Workers Local 301 T.Usiis = 6.1.0.) is a militant union and is
petting. into the company's haire.

Therefore, the company is suddenly deeply concerned about your
weltares ~~ :

You might ask the company if they were just as desply concerned
about their pensioners when they pocketed the-five-dollar Social
security incroase intended for the pensioners, ‘

You are being eriticized for your refusal to quit, as 67 so-
called unions ‘have dono,

, You are baing criticized because you recognize the moral obliga-+
tion. of..protecting your pensioners. : Sea pee See SR

You are being criticized for your demand for seven paid holidays
in 1953. Holidays for which you contribute thres cents every hour
you works, —

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IT IS ‘JUST AY onten ADPE MPT BY HE COMPANY TO DESTROY YOUR: UNION,

THE COMPANY IS ONLY INTWRESTED IW DESTROYING GOOD: ENTOUS «| THEY a

CAN: “AMASS - ‘HUGE PROFITS WITH. BAD UNIONS.
“Mr, Male quotes, (not by ane} Vineent §. Deley, Chicf Shop

“Steward, as seying in a press release "he did not know. whether bs Llot=

ing would be neccessary here" at K.ALPVL,
The reason for that statement by Mr. Daley was based on tte
possibility that the resolution of the Conference Board might cohtain

some point not included in the resolution of Local a Atomic Workers!”

Executive. Board and Shop Steward Council. ° ee
There is no need for another vote at KeA.P.L. as all melee
were covered when the membership was given an opportunity “o vote on:
the following resolution by Parlismentary. Lawe :
The resolution. read as follows: :
"Phat the membership of Local 301 I.UsEe = CelsOey authorize
the Conference Board and Negotiating Committee to take whatovor action
is decmed necessary to bring negotiations to a successful conclus sion,
including the authority to strikes"
All members wore notified by leaflet of the time and place of.
plant gato meetings at The Knolls, Alplaus md Peek:Strecte
Shop Stewards were instructed to got their members out to votee
Voting also took place at the Knolls, Alplaus and. Peck Strect,

during the sccond shifts
The statement by Mrs Male regarding the nuinber of members voting

_is untrue. He would have you believe that only 100 members voted on

the resolutions
The officers of the “I,U. Ee ~ C.Ia0, challenze Mr» Male to-a

debatc on the issue via tolovision, radio or public halle

The number of mumbers voting at cach plant was a follows:
The* Knolls, First Shilbessssrndvevbesveswieveaea eb
The Knolls, Second Shiller es 60. oe vee OO TTR EAT ae oO 26
Peek Street, First SHALL severe oarecevenecsennceve él
Peek Street, Second SHLCtsccesesdecactserpesseeeaces 12
Alplaus, lst shift and continuous SOHC MENG a wns 65

- TOTAL _ 275

HERE WAS. NOT ONG DISSENTING VOTE,

Of those not participating in tho voting,-we must apply the
same reasoning the company used in thoir interpretation of the 600
or one third of the umployocs who did not bother to fill out. and
return the company's recent questionnaires

The eonpany stated that "we consider these precllogretoi, as sate
isfied with the way we do things" and "if these 600 cmployous wore
dissatisfiod with the way wo do things, thoy would have returned the
questionnaire and told us sot, ©

The union fods tho same way about the-200 members who are
evidently sotisfied with tho way we do things and wo are positive
that if thoy did not wish to support their union by striking, they

most certainly would have oxercised their privilege of voting NO.

This ils a higher percentage than those participating in national,
state and city elections. -

In national, state and city elostions thoss not exercising
thoir right to vote are bound by the decision of those voting.

Are we to becriticlzod for practicing domocracy?

Noone regrets the indiffercnes of the non-voting mombers

than the officers of your union, : oS

Mr. Male contends that thero are 600 omployees eligible to voto,

We hare 75. members in good standings

Who are the othor 125 employoces that Mr. Male would like to
have vote?

They are 125 non-membors. They are cligible to become members,
but until they sign application cards and pay dues thoy will not have
a voice in-the union that you and only you support e

We are all eligible to become stockholdcrs in tho company and
any decision this a body might. reach effects us all, but dontt try to
vote at a stockholders mucting until you have pursues smo voting
stocks

‘Your voting stock in your union is your mombership cards *

Mre Male foeis that you should have a secrot ballote

You had a seerot ballot on the strike vote in May and’ the turne
out was no better than it was with a parliamentary” show of hands.
“Nor was ‘the rosult: any difforeunte. ~ m Ee

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You voted: in

"gonerous" offer to ballot. ."
when they would not allow.
Goorgo He King within the plant
public address system to -appcal to
the omploycss from the highway. = ;
The enswer is simple. This company controled ballot would have
bonefited the company. The collection for Mr. King would havo bon=
efited an omployee.- .
In order to ballot on Mre Meals s torms, we would have had to
agrees to the following:
(1) We must allow all non-members to voto,
(2) You would not be able to ask quéstions of your officers
as to the necd for a strike vote, (although there was no assurance
that yoremen would not bo allowed to advise you on how you should
Voters ‘ °
(3) You would be compelled by supervision, or as the company
would put it, advised to vote whether you cered to or not.
At no time.are the people of this eountry compclled to vote.
The company is netod for itts "captive employoe eudilinec"
mectingse Now they want "captive elections", 7 ;
_ Let us hopethat Mr. Male will desist from insulting the in-
telligence of our momborship and realize the futility and stupity of
his actions.

Yesterday some misled shop stewards and mombors, circulated
a company inspired petition for another striku vote, We .regret -
that some of our membors were duped by the company,

After roading this letter wo are. confident thet all sincore
‘pnion mombers will pecogniac the company's hidden motive in regards
to your strike vote.

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Hore again is proof of tho urgent need flor a local defense
fund. Give your Dofense Fund Raffle all the support that you an
afford. vo
Get your returns in. Pay your shop steward, This is your
fights

ATTENTION TOOLMAKERS: To cloar up a misconception that is
circulating Ih the machine shop :the I,U.H. = GsIe0. Local 301 takes
this opportunity to announce that: In the ovent that the toolmakers
vote for the I.U.Be = Col.O. on October 15th, 1952, the "Toolmakers"
will not lose any economic gains thet they had accepted under the
TAM, but instead will be in the position of making additional gains
negotiatod by the I.U.R. = GCel,O, In tho event that the IT.U.E, =
CoI.O. has not reached a sottloment with tho ¢.E. by Octobor 15th,
1952, (which is possible .but not probable) the 5,76% addition to
the wages of the "Toolmakers" will then be held in "eserow't, until
the I.UsHe = C-I.0. and GE. roach an agreement on a now National
Contracte In any ovont the "Toolmakers' will not suffer any loss
in income by voting I,U.sE. = Cel.O. on October 15th, 1952, but
instead they will be in a position to cnjoy all the gains made
undor the I.U.E. - 6.1.0, i

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“Jack Re Suarez, President

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Atomic Workers I,U,Ey = Col. Oe
Local 301

WESTINGHOUSE uss voxe
wary nor GENERAL ELECTRIC?

IUE-CIO has ‘just signed a new contract
and more profitable GE to,.shame.,
This Westinghouse contract Was a
with the Communist-UE leadership,

with Westinghouse that puts the ‘richer

He poy

greed to without any company blitzkrieg: or deals:
or company ultimatums,

It shows what can be done by good will and real collective bargaining.

This Westinghouse-I[UE-CIO agreement

of the GE workers by the UE leadership.

stands in contrast with the shameful sellout

HERE IS THE COMPARISON OF T

AGREEMENT

Conditions

present straight time wages
(with shift differential)

» Proposed wage increase

Effective date

Holidays

(under the old contracts workers
would lose Memorial Day and
July 4th as paid holidays in 1953,
because they fail on Saturday) .

“ Pensions and Insurance’

Union Shop

Westinghouse
$1.92

75 to 13¢--wage reopening in 6
months. : ;

At termination of old contract. ,

No delay in effective date.

Will substitute two other holi-
days to guarantee 7 paid holidays.

“Reogeninis in. January 1953 for

necessary improvements includ.
ing taking account of problem of
passing through to old age pen-
siouers the inerease in Federal
social security benefits,

Agrees to extension of union
shop to all IUE-CIO locals.

HE IUE-ClO-WESTINGHOUSE
WITH THE GENERAL ELECTRIC OFFER

7 General Electric
$1.75

6.8 to 13¢—wage reopening in 6
months.

On signing of contract.. Com.
pany delay in settling saves com:
pany money.

Refuses to substitute two other
holidays. Will give only 5 paid
holidays in. 1953, (Loss to GE

; workers 1%¢ an hour.)

Insists on closing discussions for
3 years (reopening only by mu.
tual consent), which would de-
prive needy old age pensioners
at $125 a month of Federal social
security increases and other nec-
essary improvements.

Calls union shop “un-American”
and refuses to even discuss it
seriously. ‘

Why shouldn’t the GE workers kee

union security and other benefits?

p abreast in their wages, holidays, pensions,

he September 13 “deal” between GE and the Communist-controlled UE was not

only a sellout of the UE’s members but an atter
bership. That blitzkrieg has failed.

"The GE story that “57 or 60 unions have signed u
more people in GE than all “60 unions” combined.

mpt to blitzkrieg the TUE-CIO ‘mem.

p” is a hoax since [UE-CIO has

THE NEXT STEP IS UP. VO GE—TO STEP DOWN FROM ITS UNTEN.

ABLE POSITION AND MATCH WHAT WES

. ‘THE GE CONFERENCE BOARD OF IUB-CLO MEETS ON OCTOBER 1 'TO
TAKE WHATEVER ACTION IS NECESSARY T

TO A SENSE OF ITS RESPONSIBILITIES.

‘TINGHOUSE HAS GIVEN.

O BRING THIS COMPANY

WEST. INGHOUSE HAS DONE I'T-WHY not GENERAL ELECTRIC?

INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ELECTRICAL, RADIO AND
MACHINE WORKERS..CIO

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Sponge 73415th SPREET, N: W.,' WASHINGTON: 5, ‘D..G.0

~ Seprimper, 1952

ATTENTIONS ALL SHOP STHWARDS AND MEMBERS ATTHNTION!

STRIKE PROCEDURE

In the event that the company continues it's provocative dtitude
toward union proposals and employees welfare and a strike is necessary .
the following procedure will apply: -

Tt is the duty of all officers and members to revert! to the
picket lines at the beginning of the strike,

All shop stewards and officers are automatically designated
cas “picket captains't and must shoulder the responsibilities of such.

Assignment of pickets and picket captains on a four hour basis
will be determined by individual prefererice where possible.

It. is imveritive. that the picket lines be fully manned at all

times.

SVARD COUNCIL AND EXECUTIVE

H BEE 1952 AT UNION HALL, 7:30 P.M,

IT Is OF vinost INPORTANGE THAT ALL MEMBERS ARE REPRESENTED BY
THEIR STEWALDS AND OFFICERS

ANY OFFICER OR SHOP STEWARD FAILING TO ATTEND THIS MEBPING WITH.
QUT SUFFICIENT KBASON SHALL BE ANSWERABLE TO HIS MseMBERSHIP,

THIS IS NECESSARY AS oo OF FLCRRS AND SHOP STEWARDS HAVE THE
RESPONSIBILITY OF KELPING THE

Committees must be formed as follows:

Committee for supervision of picket lines

committee for publicity and picket signs

Committee for refreshments and entertainment of pickets
‘Comittee for transportation of pickets

Committee for membership welfare

AS T0 THE LEFRECTIVENESS. OF THIS STRIKE, Wi MUST AGAIN "PUT
OUR CONFIDENCE IN GENERAL ELECTRIC CO, PRODUCTS, "AND ASSURE YOU
THAT THIS WILL BE A GOOD STRIKE: AS IT IS A PRODUCT OF THE Gd,

Support the Atomic Work ers ys Local 301 Defense Punde It is for
“pum “benefit alone.’ Pot

“JAOK Re § SUARA, PRESIDENT _nn VINCENT Sy DALEY, CHIEF SHOP S'TEWARD

‘Lodal 302 T.UeBe = GT.0s:

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Dear Members:

al newspapers.
publicity given to sich a
newsworthy evente

The local press implied that your International President, James
B. Carey, claimed an affirmative vote onthe 25¢ ver= capita tex
resolution only to be over-ruled by the delegates and that the per-
capita tax inersase was defeated, 4

“Here are the true facts:

The first vote on the per-capita tax resolution wags held by a
parliamentery show of hands by over 700 delerates.e. The resolution
was carried by a large majority, but a motion was made from the floor
that a roll=call vote be held,

A vote by roll-call gave each local repr_sented one vote for
each one hundred members and thus gave some locals anywhere from one
to 113 votese: ;

This type of vote gave additional voting power bo some of the
larger locals who wished to continue the defense fund contributions
by members instead of the payment of perscapita tax,

The result of this vote was 1121.42 No and 1068.9 Yes,
The, resolution was then re-committed and was then re=proposed

as a 15¢ per-capita tax increase with continuation of the voluntary
Defense Funde

Tho result of this vote al soby roll-call, with some locals
obstaining was 1376 Yes and 770 No,

A referendum vote will be hela by. tha membership of all locals
on November 11, 1952: for ratification of this constitutional. amend»
ment ;

All delegates at the convention recognized the need for additional

financial support for the international, but thore was a difference
of opinion as to the mothod of obtaining such support. ‘This was
finally resolved with thea above resulta

We of Local 301, are weil aware of the local assistance we
receive form the international, |
Saturday - October 18 “Steelworkers Hall--1)0 Clinton Sta
9:30 AwMe ~ T2:30 PUM, ; i
“Organized Labor and the Fight Against Discrimination"
. ~eSpcakersare
Al Hartnett = Director of Civil Rights. Committeom-[UEeCGIO
Theodore Brown == Inte R€pe Brotherhoad of Sloepine Car Portors-AFL
Frank C,. Shane == Dir. Civil Rights Coms--United Steelworkers CIO.
Russel Allon #=« Int. Education Dir, Brotherhood of Papermakers AFL
Herbert Hill -= Labor Relations Asst. National NAACP Staff

All Members are requested to attend this mootings -
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Recently Vice-President Boulware made another of his ignominous.
statements when he contended that he considered "the. IUE. a grcater
threat to national security than the communist Ul!

AS usual this: statemort backfired causing much embarressment to
Mra Boulware. he tee via, g

This time: it was not only your union putting the lie to Mre

Boulwarets statement but the New York Times, Fortune Magazine and

The Saturday Evening Post pointed. their editorial fingers at Mre

_ Boulwereand.took-him to-task,

_ The following is’ the editorial that appedred in the New. York —
Times, Friday October 10, .1952: Me way ar ees

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DEFEESE CONTRACTS

The resignation. of James Be Cerey, president of the Internat iorgl
j;Union.of Hlectricel Workers (C.1,.0), from three Government security
groups in protest against the award of defense contracts to the
jGeneral dlectric Company focuscs attention on the vital problem of

~gwnat to do about Communist-dominated unions in, security-sensitive

_idefense Plants. i

Four years ago the Atomic knergy Commission handled the problem
of Communist infiltration effectively. It directed GeE, to ‘with

hold recognition from the United Electricel, Hadio and Machine Workers,

now a rival to Mr. Carey!s organization, having been ousted from th
C.I.0, on- charges of following Gommunist party policies. The A.E,G,
order. applied to the u.E. in plants where its members were engaged
on AeHsCe installations in the Schenectady area. The officers of the
U.Ee rejected the AcE.Ce!s invitation to give full and candid date-
ments on the Communist issue,

Since then a Senate Labor subcommittee has gathered the views

-points.of employers, unions, public officials and others on the
problem of Communist=controlled unions in defense plants,

Therefore, just as the AeEoCe acted, after evaluating Government
adduced testimony of the U.Eats activitics and afforded this union
ample opportunity to clear itself, so can the Defenss Department end
otherGovernment procurement agencies take prompt steps to compel
withdrawal of unton reeqmition by contdators from plants dealing
with the UH. and unions similarly situated,

Assistant S,cretary of Defense Coolidge has advised the Sonate
Labor subcommittée that if his department took the "Severe attitude”
that no contracts would be placed with contractors who had facilities
where allged Communist=domin'atod unions happen to be collwetive bare

gaining agents "it might present no other alternative than to pass
up the only qualified producer of important military items,"

This may be partially truo concerning some future contracts,

But where contracts have already been let, as in the case of the
AsHeCe and General Blectric, what objection can the Defense Depart»
ment and other Government procurement agencies have to notifying. the
contractors that they must pofrain from bergaining with the Gommauniste
dominated unions ? Certainly proof of the Usiiets adherence to the
‘prosCommunist Line available to the AaHeC, is also available to other
Government gencies, It is not cnough to reply, as -doos Mr, Coolidg:
_that the Mational Labor Relations Board had advised him "that a dope

“tificate otherwise validly issued to a union under that (Taftefartley) -

Act cannot be withdrawn or voided simply onthe grounds that the wmion
involved prosents a sécurity risk," : °
Withdrawal of-the recognition of such unions at Government bo»

hest is nevertholess a short-term aPpraach to the problom. A more
satisfacoty solution might bo an amendment to the Labor relations
law banning employer recognition of Communistedominated unions, just
as it now bang recognition of company=dominatcd Labor organizations.

The tafteHartloy provision requiring unton officers to Sign
affidavits that they are presently not Communist party members has
proved Ineffectivoese Saveral Score casés referred to the Attorney
General by the NeLeR.Be in weich such afSidavits were signed by union
officers known widely for thoir support of: Communist party policies,
still slumber in the files of tho Department of Justice, Péwhaps
Attormey General Me Grenery might dust them off and investigate the
possibilities of porjury or, better still, discover how to plug up a
loophole which permits a man to "rosign" from the Communist party one
day and soon thereafter obtain a Governmental impimatur on his status
as a legal bargaining agent for employes. ,

t Portune Magazine. October 1952, had the following to say about

re Boulwarese

In its October, 1952 issue refers to the September, 19),8. "Plague
on Both Your Houses! advertisoment of GEe You may, remember thet
period as the time not only of the struggle in the CIO between tho
Communist and non=Communist forces, but also when the CIO was holpe
ing to break up the Communist control over world: labor in ths WETU,
and when tho fight for the Marshall Plan was boing sabotaged by Come
unist labor the world ovor ineluding her@e: Yet the GR ad doclared at

“we do not think boing tormod an tanti-Communist! in the
case of one or a 'doon openort for the Conmunist Party in

tho caso of the. othor makes any difference <"

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Fortune czlls this an “astounding advurtisoment" and thon goG
‘on to declare with soft. words that: “While GE has retractéd some
what this bald position, nevertheless it hes mainteinsd a certein
sin-.
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deceivingly. simplc,." what Fértuno is seying is that Soulware hag

“been trying to protend that he docsn!t know tho facts and is attompt-|

ing to;,deccive the sAmoricen people on the question of the charactor

of the UE leadership... a :
"Thus, at the Sgnate.cCommittco hearings on Communist unions in

May of this year, "Fortune goos on to sayy "GEts Boulwarc seid that
there was no way of telling from tho activitics in the plant twhich
unions wero Communist:dominated md which-woro not."

Yet, after a prodding and tongue lashing by the Scnato Committce
“members on his ovasivencss, Boulware finally confessed, after the UE
has boon in GE plents for 12 years, his "strong presumption" that UE
was Communistecontrollod. Hc later ropoated that statoment on a TV
program "Man of the Week,'!! me ;
. Thus, thors sooems to be no doubt, despite Boulwarets rcoluctance
to admit it completely, that he knows that UE is Communist-controlled,
And knowing that, he knows that the leaders of UH are mon whose first
loyalty is to a foreign powere=a powcr which is the enemy of our froe-
dom and democracy. And yet'to heve’ the fantastic situation that, with
GE having $2 billions of defonse contracts fcr that struggle, it yet
allics itself with the cnemics of ‘our natione *s

We refor you to this weeks Saturday Evening Post for its article
on communist in unions, It will reach thu noe stands today, It is a
very completo story on the communist activitios in the Schenectady
arcee It is the result of several months of roseerchn in this aroa’ by
the author, Lester Vclic, Saturday Evoning Post staff writor,

It has boon necessary for the Dufonse Fund Committeos to poste
one the -drawing for the raffle until the mMumbership mocting of
2 sa

‘November 11, 1952 a8 returns have. beon far from satisfactory»

= Wo'appcal to the membership to recognize their responsibility in
this matier end roquest that they support this fund to the utmost.

Romember, that this fund is for your bencfit and it will only be
a suceess becéuso you have suppertcd it, °

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IUE-CIO Conference Board mot in Pittsburgh on Octaber 9th, 1952.
Voted to continue negotiations with GeEe for prosent time, “Conference
bo.rd chairman John Cellahen announcod that CeHe ‘Vilson will appear
on behalf of GeH, on invitation, by Attorney Genersl Me Granery to
answor charges by IUB=CIO of collusion betwoon GvE.’ and communist
dominated UeE. Appearing for IUE=CIO will bo Chief Attonsy Ben Sigal
and John Callshane ae :

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ATTINETION TOQLMAKERS }
. If you wish to perpstuate thro disunity: that now exists bcotween
the toolmekors and the machinist, and if you boliove in inactive and

free riding unionse-Voto IgAoM,
If you believe in unity with your follow machine shop omployeos
and your follow cmployoos in othor KeheP. Deg occupations, and if you

believe in s wion thet will gut for the rights of its momboras
rogardless.of- the cffort=-VORE LOCAL 301 T.U.HenC.l.0,

Jack Re Suarez, Prosident Vincent’ S$, Daley, Chicf Shop Stoward
Atomic Workers Local 301 T.UsBom Cs lo 0

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Ce TE RE SO PEETETE PAERSOE

Yue following is the report of the IT.U.E.-C.1,0-9G.E, Conference
ry, /jon the proposed terms of settlement of their negotistions with
w@heral Blectric Company. -

nerease equal to the percentage increase in the cost
of living (based on the BLS Glad Series) between September 15, 1951 ‘and
either September 15, Getober 15 or November 15, 1952 on the option of
: Teele Cut. 0s , : : . .

é. A wage increase of 23% with a 34¢ minimum, .

. 36 The above increases would be effective October 13, 1952, ° In
the event that I.U,E.-C.I.0, chooses either the ‘October 15 or November
15 index, spplication would be made immediately upon. the signing of an
fareement for approval of the 24% by WSB and would be paid as soon as
ap -rovede -

le A reopening: on pensions, the date to be fixed by mutual con=
sent prior to September 1, 1955, :

5. A reopening on wages in March, 1953.

6. The agreed-on contractual’ and insurance provisionse

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7. * termination of the eoitract on September. 15, 1953, °

RIT PRT LEIS ESET ESTOS

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AerrIngrade Progression =

An hourly rated employee on daywork who is classified in a specif-
ic grade--such es A,B, or CG -~ of any of the below listed occuoations
shall be progressively. increased to the job rete of such specific grada
Such employee will progress one step at the end of osch sixemonth
beriod, starting with his classification in such specific grade.

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_ Occupations covered are limited to the following: Tool an&® Die
Maker (incliding Jig, Fixture, Model and Instrument Maker and Dies~

inker); liLectrician: Carpenter; Flumber-Steamfitter; Millwright;
Rigger; Tinsmith; Structural Tron. and Steel Worker; Painter and Mason.

SFaLetinanr,

seer eects

Be==Vacations ;
If the employee's absence was due to illness or injury, the fol«
lowing procedure will apply:

Such employees who return to work prior to the vacation shutdown
will be paid the vacation allowance for which qualified at the time of
the shutdown.. Where no shutdown is scheduled or where such ennloyees
reburn after the vacation shutdown, they shall. work for one (1) month

6nd then be eligible for their vacation allowance unless scheduled for
“vacation later in which case they shall be paid at the time of their
vacation, Any such employee re-employed too late to work a -oeriod of
one wonth in' the calendar year will be paid his vacation allowance end
may have a portion of the time out considered as the vacation to which
he is otherwise eli¢ible. ;

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An employee who desires a transfer to another shift may so advise

his Foremen in writing with a copy to the Personnel Department. As
-Openings occur in his department on work for weich he is presently

qualified, consideration will be given his request along with others

in accordance with. his relative seniority. Such tronsfors, however,

Shall not takw preccdence over the normal upgrading of qualified longer

servirc employees, kxeeptions te the above may be made in certain

Suceial cases by'mutual consent, a ; oe

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De~-Reduotion or Increase in Forces pS

n employee with continuity of service out duo to illness
period not exceeding one (1) yoar who returns te work shall be:
employed on‘his former job providing he is able to »erform the
end normal seniority provisions permit, (ova).

eS a ee

-- Communist UE forces, -

_ EsseArticle XII, entitled "Union end Local hepresentrtives end , ope
Stewards" ishall be emendcd by substituting the following Scetion POP
Section 3.(a) (1).. a ; of ene paige

i ee : , * f-

| During. €ach.fiseal month, the number of .woeks in such General

‘Electri¢ fiscal month multiplied by 1% hours per week for those

stewards whose namés and sections have been furnished to the Conpenyt
pursuant to.the provisions of Section Three hereof, while engaged in
processing grievances at. Foreman level Pursuant to the provisions of®.
Article XII, Section.3. , -
aE 6
Where any phlent is. regularly scheduled ona forty-eight hour pur
wevk basis, the above allowances will be based on 2 hours por week,

Payment to stewards will be made on a weckly basis within the
aoove limits. ee mF '

We, ‘the ixcoutive Board of Local 301, wish to express our thanks
to the Stewards and Members for their suport during these negotiations )

We believe firmly, by all the.evidence we have seen and by the

-actions. followed by GE in the past fow years, particularly in the last

year, that GE is cngaged in a drivo.to weakyen and make ineffective any
free and agarcssive trade unions in its plants... GE's purpose, as
directed by Lemuel Boulwere, is. not only to do this for the marrow

sad selfish purposes of the corporation itself, but caually important
to try to prove to corporation officials clscwhere that the policy of
'Boulwarism™ as applied to labor reletions is successful and should be
copied. ‘

Wo have talked to many péople who know Boulware and his. goals,
and they are all agreed that his aim, gndorsud by the Gi management,
is to weaken unions in America, And to do this, he-is using GE as
his base. not only to spread his gospel, but also to demonstrate that
-+hée can accomplish this goel within GE itself,

His mcothod ‘in GE is to make sure first that there is no pre
dominant union that can effectively challunge the menagement. That
means thet whon a-union gets too strong it must be weakencd and pro-
vented from growing. Thus IUE-CIO as a strong union has to bu weak
encde ° “

The sécond method is to convinces workers in unionized plants that
they gain nothing by belng in « union. This will bu done by ‘demon~'
strating that only ono offer is made to union and non-union locals
vlike and that offer must be accepud.

The third method is to play off the unions against one anothor,
This is done by getting the smaller and weoakor-Locals to accept an
offer and then gradually building “up pressure upon the stronger ones
to also accept, until the really streng ones such as TUE+O10 can be
isolated. in the workers! and in the public mind as ¢ "holdout."

We have seen in tho past year how. all these methods have bee
used. in addition,

UE to use its own forces to try to pantie the IUR-cTIO membership.

GH did not hesitate to usu the Communists who control UE. GE is

‘willing to do what many shortshighted, selifish employers have done+-

to use any forces whether they be Fascists or Communist, to. destpoy -
froe trede unionse ;

_. GE is therefore determined to enforce its own definition of
colloctive bargaining, a definition that.would@ kill bargaining. While
we dontt. suppose that GE at present.would dare to try to smash unions
completely, it can try to make thom-so ineffective that that would be
ovtter than having no union, GE has in Schenectady Main Plant just
whet it wantse=a "union" presumably controllid by Communists who dare C)
iot bo militant. But, in reality, the unton is controlled by a combin- ‘~
ation of Communist, company stooges and numbers racket .agont. To the

-world there isa "union! in the plant. But in offect it-is a compeny

VELEN e 7 ae
We are absolutely convinced. that. we have a'cold war'on- our hands, **
with Gu having the:same objectives as the Russians have for thé free
world--our weeskening.and: evertual destructions We simely must roalize
this md adjust our present and future strategy té6 mect that situetion.
lmlcss we do we will. be ovorwhcmed by a combination: of company and

I.U.He-0,1.0. Executive Board _

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“the Following is the report of the 1 Conference
Board, on the proposed terms of settlement their negotistions with
ithe General Electric Company. : : “

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1. A wage increase equal to the. "percentage increase in the cost

of living (based on the BLS old Series) betwee eotember 15, 1951 and»

either. September’15, detober 15 or November 1551952 on the option of
T.U.enC.I.0, i : ar

2. A wage increase of 23% with a 34¢ minimum. -

34 The above increases would be effective October 13, 1952,y. In
the event that I.U,E.-C.1.0,. chooses either the October 15 or November
15 index, application. would’be made immediately upon the signing of an

egreement for approval of the 24% by WSB and would be paid as soon as
ap roved.s i as 7 ; ms :

‘

hea reopening on pensions, the dste to be fixed by mutuel cons
sent prior to September 1, 1955,

5. 4 reopening on wages in March, 1953.
6, The agreed~on contractual and insurance provisions.
7. 4 termination of the contract on September 15, 1953.

8. Contractual Changes-=A 50% increase in Health Benefits retro.
active to September 15, 1952, .
_As--Ingrade Progression
An hourly rated emvloyee on daywork who ils classified in a specif-
io grade--such as A,B, or GC =- of any of the below listed occupations
shall be progressively increased to the job rate of such specific grada
juch employee will progress one step at the end of esch six»month
period, starting with his classification in such specific grade,

Occupations covered are Limited to the following: -Tool and Die
Maker (including Jig, Pixture, Model and Instrument Maker and Dies-
inker); Hlectrician} Carpenter; Plumber-Steamfitter; Millwright;
Rigger; Tinsmith; Structural Tron and Steel Worker; Fointer and Masone

Ben=Vacations . afk xr 4
If the employee'a absence was due to illness Or injury, the fols
lowing procedure will apply:

Such employees who return to work vrior to the vacation shutdown
will be paid the vacation ellowance for which cualified at the time of
the shutdown, Where no shutdown is scheduled or where such employces
return after the Vacation shutdown, they shall work for one (1) month
and then be eligible for their vacation allowance unless scheduled for
vacation later in which case they shall-be paid et tre time of their
vacation. any such employee resemoloyed too Late to work a period of
one. month inthe calendar.year will be paid his vacation allowance and
may have a portion of the time out considered as the vacation to which
he is otherwise eligible, ‘ :

Co--Transfers os

An employee who desires a transfer to another shift may so advise
his Foreman in writing with a copy to the Personnel D partment. Ags
openings occur in his department on work for wiich he ig presently
qualified, consideration will be given his request along with others
in accordance with his relative seniority. Such transfors, however,
shall not take precedence over the normal upgrading of qualified longer
service employees, -kxeeptions tu the above may be made in certain

Socclal cases by mutual consent,

DenrReduction or Increase in Forces -
-, An cuployee wi th continuity of service out duo to illness a
period not 'excesding onw (1)
- eurrloy ed. on -his- former:
and normal ged

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TST NEN ER Hr aE SEA te AE EC ISLE

ceases

SUES PEASE EMRE,

acest

rma

SSSI

- Wevk basis, the above allowences will be based on 2cho

a. eg ° 6 ied 7 aes gore
s entitled "tmion and Local Kevresentrtive
be ameridcd by substitutin# the following
1). e sg By

end . %-
Getion for

2 # o
oy a “

During each fiscal month, the number of weeks in such. General
Electric fiscal month multiplied by 14 hours. ‘per weck for those .
Stewards whese-nemes- and sections have been furnished to the Company§
pursuant to the. provisions of Séction Thrée hereof, while.cngaged in
‘processing grievances at Foreman level pursuant. to the, provisions. of
Article XII, Section 3, i fe

co Plt Sek GREE eg

‘Where’ any pleht is regularly scheduled on a forty-eight hour pur
urs" por.wedk,

ah *

'. Payment to stewards, will be made on a weekly basis within the
aoove. limits, . ‘ fe . We Pg a

* We, the Hxecutive ‘Board of Local 301, wish to exprogs our thanks

“«to the Stewards and Membérs for their suprort’ during these negotieatiog.s

We’ believe firmly, by all the évidence we have seen and by the
actions followed by GE in the past few years, particularly’in the last
year, that GE is cngaged in a drive to weaken and male ineffeetive any
“frec-and aggressive trade unions in its plants, Gh'ts purpdtsé, as

- divcetud by Lemuel Boulwrre, is not‘only to do this for the narrow
sad selfish purposes of the corporation itself, but seqially important
to try to prove to corperation officials. clsewhere that the policy ‘of
"Boulwarism" as applied to labor reletions is suecessful. and should be
copied. +” ate —_ :

We -have talked to many people who know Boulware and ‘his‘goals,
end they are all agreed that his aim, endorsed by the GE management,
‘is to weaken unions in America, And to"do this, he is using ‘GE as
nis base not only to spread his gospely but also to demonstrate ‘that
hé can accomplish this goel within GE itselr,

His method in GE is to make sure first that there is no pre~
dominant union that can effectively challenge the mensgement. ‘That
means that when a union gets too strong it must be weakened and pre-
vented from growing. Thus IUE-CIO as a strong union has to be’ weatte
CNG Oy’ : “2

“The second method is to convines workers in untonized plants that
they ‘gain nothing by being in a unions This will bu done by demone
strating that only one offer is made to union’ and non-union Locals an
vlike and that—offer must be accord, oF 4 )

The third method is to play off the unions, against ono another,

“This is done by getting the smaller and weakor locals to aceupt an
offer and then gradually building up prossure upon the stronger ones
to also accent, until the really streng ones such as TUE-CIO cen be

isolated in the workers! and in’ the public mind as a "holdout,"

We have seen in tho past year how all these methods have been
used. In addition, GE went further and created its collusive agree-
ments with UR, to draw it. into line at thy right mowent and to pot -
UE to use its own forces to'try to panic the LuE-crTo memberships

GH did not hesitate to: usu the Communists who conirol UE. . GE is
Willing to do what many shortshighted, selifish employers have done--
teocuse any forces whether they be Fascists or Communist, to destpoy
Pres trede unions.s

GH is therefore determinod to énforeée its own.definition of
colleetive bargaining, a definition that would kill bergaiting. | While
wo dontt supnose that GE at present would dare to try to smash unions
_somplotely, it can try to make thom so ineffoctive thet that would be
detter than having no union, GE hes in Schenectady Main Plant. just |
whet it wants-«a "union"! presumably controlled by Communists who dare
ot be militant. But, in reality, the union is cottrolled by a combine (>)
ation of Communist, company stooges and numbers rackut agent. To the -
orld there is a "union! in the plant. But in effect it is a compeny
mMicne ‘ te 2 . mT ,
. We are absolutely convinced that wé have a"cold wart on our hends,
with Gis having the same objuctives:as the Russians have for. the..freg...
world--our weskening and eventual destructions We Simply must tealize
this ‘end adjust our Prosent ard future strategy to meet that situation.
Unless wé do wo will be overwhdmed by a combination of company and
Communist UW forces. | .

IT.U.He-O 1.04 Executive Board

ne ed

It’s Time For A Change ! !

If you want a real "LOCAL" Union...

If you want "MONEY" in the treasury...

lf you want to pay "LOWER" dues... |

If you want “MORE MEMBERS" in your Local ae 3
If you want a "STRONGER UNION" .

Af you want "REAL REPRESENTATION"

If you want the above, which is part of our platform, then VOTE FEBRUARY 10th for
the following slate of officers:

“President —. FRANK MEIER
Business Agent — JOHN McNAMARA
Vice-President — BILL MORRISON
Treasurer — HAROLD HODSON
Trustee — ALAN COOPER |
x Kk
After mentioning at the last membership meeting (2nd Shift) that we intended to

run a clean campaign.and hoped the opposition would do the same, for the good of the
Union, the expected happened! BLACK LETTERS .. . just like the Black List that was
_ printed when some fed-up Union members quit! This was to be expected — but we will
continue to carry on a clean” campaign. We were aortas a mailing list at that meet-

ing, but to date we have received none.
MEMBERS 'Remember' this will be a TWO YEAR TERM ! ! If we are elected, we will
clean house. All books and records willbe checked by an auditor and reports will be

. given. We promise you an honest and fair administration to ‘epretert you.
PLEASE Vote our ticket STRAIGHT, $0 this can be done. _ een 3

~ NO PLEDGE MONEY was EVER COLLECTED. This pamphlet was paid for by the

Candidates ... On the Candidates tire enc fhe Paper, ‘too, was. paid for by .the

os CY ‘Pandidates.

Pan

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LOCAL 301 “. OSGHENECTADY, NeYe o's
Jack H. Suarez we. CosEditors oe ivinoent Se Daley
Vole III’ Now 5 ae oe pitereho a, 1958

A i

ao thé hegular Monthly hembership weeting held’ on March 10th,
“1953, the following resolution was approved by. the memberships ,

‘Resolution on Schenectady ‘Payroll. Tax

WHEREAS, One of the primary reasons for the American kevolution wag
taxation. without representation, and
WHRKEAS, Our forefathers resisted and were finally successful in de=.
feating this vicious practice, and
WHEREAS, The majority of the workers employed in the G.E. Company and”
American Locomotive Gompany, live outside: the City and County
of Schenectady, and
WHEREAS, The Schenectady City Council is abbempting to. "push! through
a Bill in the State Assembly, which would give Schenectady —
the right to tax the earnings of all those employed in Sch= —

enectady, and
VHGREAS, The Ge. Company has recently announced that their (1952 profit.
was 9.8% greater than the previous year,
PTREFORE HE IT HESOLVED, That the scehenectady City Council be urged
to explore the feasability of increasing the tax on profits
of Big Business, maznly G.E. and other industries: of Nation
al Scope Situated in Schenectady County,

IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the membership of IUE-CIO péser 501 con=
dem the proposed Payroll Tax and urge the workers to send
statements in support of this resolution to their represen»
tatives in the N, Yo State Legislature, and

IT BURTHER RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be sent to
Governor Thomas E, Dewey and iiayor archibald Msiie ls 5 and
Oswald Heck,

IT bURTHER KESOLVED, That active support of this resolution. be

Solicited from the IUE~CIO International, District 3 of IUR@
OL0; the State Cro and all -other bonaf ide Labor (Organizations,

bea money approved by Hembentivta of Local 301 IUE- CTO on arch 10,
1953.

We therefore, urge all members of the IUE-CIO to send statements
to their representatives in the. -tate Assembly and State Senate con-=
damning the Schenectady City Councils proposed Payroll Tax. We wele
come the BEpport of non=members and those interested.

Write to the following representatives in the. State Senate and
State Assenblys

STATE ASSEMBLY
Thomas Ha Brown, (R) -
549 Marshiand Court, Troy -

John Le Ostrander, (R)
100 Broad Street
Schuylerville

Oswald Da Heok, (R)
i. Tabner, (R) 2146 Union Street
Lathang : Schenectady

Joserh Ke Younglove, (R) | . William J. Keid, (R)
14 Hoosac st., Johnstown RD Noe 1, Hort. Edward

STATE SENATE

tte di Dalessandro, (D) — Thomas F, Campbell, (R)
804. th Sto, Watervliet - . 1503 Union Ste, Schenectady

Gilbert T, Seelye,. (BR) oo. .. .Aenry.. Neddo, CR)...
;Barnt Hills ey xa, "9: LEEEYe bbe Sties: hhitensll

LOCAL 301°

Jack he Suureg

IUE=CLO NEGOTIATING COMMITTER ‘
ASKS CONFEcENCE BOAKD FOR AUTHOR
TY T0 CALL YOR STRIKE OF LOCALS:

New York, March.ole The IUE=CIO,
CE Negotiating Committee, : atoa
esting of the IUE-CIO GE Confer.
ente Board hela at the Belnont’
klaza Hotel, today voted unanin-

ously recommending that the folle .

owing Program of Action be under~
taken by the Conference Board and
that the members ‘ef the Conference,
Hoard review this program with I
their local meinberships. and obtain’
the authorization for such actions:

LUis-CIO Program of Action

le. That we reject the cempangtts
wage offer in its bMarch.18 letter
and insist upen real collective
bargaining upon our 21g demand of:
Marcn 34 which the company admits
it has not seriously considéred.

“That the Negotiating Coxmi ttee
be enipowered to detertiine the. date
for a strike unless a satisfactory
settlement is ‘offered in the méan=;
ti dine 2

Se All locals should begin to set
up strike comuilttees and make
their plans for the conduct of,
und Local problems eonnected with,
‘carrying out a. strike.

4. We call upon’all locals to ad-
vise their members td inniediately
Cease all overtime.

5. The orrad and intensive educa=
tional cumpaign should be speeded
up ta acquaint our membership and.
She comunity with the nature of |
the ‘company's eifer and the facts °*
underlying eur own proposals, so |!
~this information will become "under-
stood by everyone concerned with
our struggle with GE. In partic. =

ilar, we uust answer the misleading

aoa deceptive propaganda put out

by, Gis The facts about-compara

tive wages, productivity, prof its, |

vtee, etce, that sm thoroughly ex-!
«se the company's case, must be

wi idely publicized by use

& We undertake ta consult and are!
ive at agreements with all. non-
_cokuuunist unions: in GE for Cone

(Cont. page &, cole 1.)

: _venlidibend,

See aceite Pere Ae ne tsi sie mt ise IRS gz

if ‘ae .

‘Se

om 000 MEM EERS AT PHILALSLPELA
ee VOTE SUNT KE.

Bheiaagrplad, march @6— Yesterday,

the membership of Local 119, IUE-
ClO left their jobs in a driving
rain und walked blacks to a roll-
er skating rink and voted’ 5,000
strong for a’strike. against GE.
President Janes B. ‘Carey’ addre-
ssed the meeting and’ gave a report
on our negotiations with Gk, With
only one dissenting vete, the nem
bership of Local 119 rrared out
its rejection of the’ company's |
offer, and then with only three
dissenting votes it authorized the
eificers to call a atrike as soon

“as the Conference Hoard calls for

such action.

GH OvlER &N INSULT TO IUB

The compuny's offer to us is an
insulting one that no selfrespect-
ing union or-union member could °~
possibly accept.
1.40.% ubove present wages, and~
if. we deduct frow thet the loss

of two holidays ond what the Goup-
any chiseled last fall, it will
amount to a net increase of $¢_
per houre a
“yor this Gg demunds that we ex-
tend.our contract for an additions
al six menths, that.is, to Murch
15, 1954 and give up our right to
bargain on wages, holidays, vacu-
tlons, incentive systems, eriev-
ance procedure and many other is«
sues duiportunt to our locals.

While GH is making us this offey
here 1s what GH is efiering other
groups:

To. the Lvendule, Ohio, jet en-
gine werkers, a 4% incoreus¢, “They
rejected this offer and went on
strike.

To the-draftsmen and designers in
six plants, an average of 6¢ an
hour ever and -above the ofier ee
us, This offer was. made since ha

18 and ONLY srlER THE DRacTShEN

AND’ DESIGNERS HAD VOTED 16 STRIKE.

at the GE Minnéapolis X«Ray
plant, now being organized by IUE«

-Gioy-the company had offered the,
-euployees "Good #piday" asa paid
heliday.

This is one af our de~
munds that has been rejected by
the cempanys

anes

It amounts to eS

EAE ADR EIEN

Seta tbe

eat ae ee

RS TEE AS MEETS AE EE GOLDEN SA RNP COME ee en in eee ae naan

(Puge twa) eee

‘certed action, ‘This to be done
locally'as well us hati onally,.

7. Wo nate with gratificution
that the Internaticnal President
will call a speciul meéting af
the IUE~CIO Executive Beard to
determine how sur finuncial und
arganizational resources are to
be inobllized. in support of. the GE
workers. during u passible strike.
We agree that s struggle by the.

“. GE workers against the reactionary

policies ef that company is part
of a strugzle ef ull workers in
nur industry.

TUECLO AGRLES TO CONTKACT REOPEN~
ER 4S OrbERED BY GE sCTION

On March 30, 1955, President
Juues B, Carey sent the Pollawing
letter to G's Mre Le. Rs Boulware
ond Mr. Ge He Pricf: .

Gentlenens " a!

By letter dated rebruury 14, 1953
I advised you that the Internation-
ul Union of Electrical, Kadina and
Machine workers*CI0, desired to
reopen collective barguining neg»
otlutions concerning adjustrent
of wages for all emplayess in bare
saining units covered by the cure
rent GEeIUE (CIO) National agrece |
mont, This notice was sent to
you puguant to article XXIII of
thut Agreewent which provides in

‘part thats ;

"Qn or after February 15, 1953,
she Union may reopen callective
burguining negotiations by written
notice to the Company, solely for: .
Cellcoctive barguining concerning
adjustment of wages (rates of pay).
for all employees in. burgaining
units cavered by this agrecnent."

The IUH-CLO Negotiluting Creme.

ttee net with your representatives -

on Merch 35, 1953 and presented the
Union's wuge proposalse
By letter dated Marsh 18, 1955,
the caupany respanded, setting
‘forth two wage proposals. In the
second of these, or. the seecalled
LLtcmutive wage prepesul, the
“ouipany offered o small wago ad-
yastment conditioned on our accept
Cg un extension of the Gk-IUE
_ CIO) National agreement for six
Months, that is, to March 15, Lod4e.
t<is alternative proposul gees fur
Osyond the scope of a general wage
-n4PeUuge.,
Monthy obvinusly affects aaah and
Svery torm of the Netilonal agresc=
Ment,
~8, in effect, an offer for u gen~
stal reopening of the agresuent,
WE accept your efiler fnr a goner=
ul Yespening of the GH-IUE (CIO)
Natlonel agrecments
at sur next meoting we shall,
presant te you eur proposals fer
revislay of that ugrédoméents
Tery Truly Yours,
Junes B, Caray
prasident

An extension for 6 La

Consequently, your propesal. .

ENERGUNCY. MELTING OF LOCaL 301,
’ PUESDaY, APLIL'7, 1953 AT. UNION

HaLL, £02 CLINTON ST, AT 7350 PN

“sll officers, shop stewards and
_nienbers are urged: te uttend this
Liuuyportant niccting at which we
will review the reports ond-re-
~Ccotmicndutions of the .IUE#CIO GE
Negotiating Committee und. the

' TUE-CIO Conference Board, ..
cat this. tine. we will wake, all.

arrehgelicnts for the strike vote

‘including voting places and tiniss
‘There will also be c meeting
for the second shift members at’
23:00 P.lu., Tuesdcy, april. 7,195.
&ll officers cond shop stewards
must alert their members us. te
the impertunce of ‘this meeting
and see to it thet all riembers

nuke every offort te uttend,

nanan 1 ene naw

WaRNING TO MEMBERS Ob « DELUGE
Os COWPANY EBLUL LETTERS, ThWi#w
PaPEK «DS aND OTR FOh,S Of"
GENEL BLLCTRIC PROPAGANDA

The afficers of Lecal 501 wish
to prepare the wembership for
company's attack on them and
the issues for which they are
fighting, | ;

In the pust it has been the
coupuny!s Poul prectice to in»
vade our hones with their lying
propagund: in the form of Employ~
‘eo Blue Lettorse The officers
of this local are confident that

, this membership will consider
the source end the notives bo».

. hind such letters: end will’ ins

. form GE: of ‘their ~ resentiaent
of such an insulv to the intel-
lgones of a unton member, :

Upon receipt of such lctters,
thé officers sug,gest thut you

- mail them buck tn the company
“with a note «or letter protesting
this invasion al your home.
address then to Mr. L. Re
Boulware, The Genorcl Eleccric
Coe, S7O'Lexington Ave., Now
York Oe) NeXe .

Ke Te LalLY, GE WAGE RATE »UTB~
ORITY QUIS COMPANY.

Many ef the members of Local
SOL will long romembor’K. T.
Lally sf Building #41 «os the
'eiss of De:.th" for more than

ane justified request for correc~
tion of inequitiss in GE wege
rates. ;
kvidently hre Lally did too
good 2 jeb for the GE as it Is
very apparent that’ he could not
abtain an adjustment of his own
wage rates ‘

BOR eURTHLK INF OHiAT ION, aT TEND
“YOUK PLaNT GaTh MkLTINGS, Us TN
HaLL Mui TINGS sND Kab YOUR Iie
GLO LEar LETS AND NEWoOPsAPLHS.

GETPOST EN BR NTE AE CLINE Tn et tne nn

sal

erences

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NOWUVaW “df

N HALL

ATOMIC WOKKEK'S NEWS
“EXTRAS

DUE TO THE UKGENCY Oi: THE SITUATION, THE MWUMERRSHIP WILL BE

CALLED UPON TO VOTE ON HE SEVEN (7) POINT PROGRsn Ov ACTION hii-
COMMENDED BY THE GE IUE=CIO CONFERENCE BOARD ON WaAKCH 51, 1956,

DISCUSSION aND VOTING ON TH COURSE OF ACY ION TO BE TaKEN BY

THE MEMBERSHIP Os IUkeOL0 LOChL 301 WILL BH HELD sT THE SPKCIAL
WEMEBRSHIP MaETING SCHADULED OK TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1955.

POINT OF INVOKMATION TO sLL MUMEBRS Qs LOCAL S01 |

ARTICLE XVI OF IUB-CIO LOCAL $01 CONSTITUTION UNANIMOUSLY
ADOPTLD ON NOVENEER 11, 1952.

"LT, STRIKE VOTES TO BK TaKEN OF COMPaNY PREMISES."

TURSDaY, PAIL 7, L95Soecee,802 CLINTON ST., SCHDY.
: UNION Hi. DQlUshkTLRs.
SECOND SHIFT...2:00 Palue .

BIRST AND THIHD SHIrTS...7350 Pole

THE LXECUTIVE BOARD

TUL=CLO LOCAL 3Ol.

£ LOCAL SOL:
Jack: he Suarez

Vol.

TIT Now 5

ca-Laitors

>) RECEIVED»
toh 21 1053

J. P. MePARTLON
Te Veo Hen. ie Oe

us ~ i on a

Vintent So Duley
&pril 21, 1958

Gk AGKELS TO NEGOTLTALIY NeW NaATION=
AL AGIGBiaNT WITH IUE-CLIO. wabTs
Fi. ack

Lew York april 17-GE's Le HK. Boule
Ware y today recognized the LUE-Cro's!
“liums that GE in its "take it or
Save it" ofter had oifered u gen-
vel reopening of the National a-
peement 4
This was brought to GE's ate
vention oy James b, Curey in his
Areh 60, 1955 reply to the com-
peny's ofier, President Curey at
buat time stated "That this alter~
native proposal gees fur beyond the |
seope of a general wage increases
‘an extension of six months obvi+
ously afvects cach and every berm
of the National agreeuent., Conse~
quently, your proposal is in efrect
en. otter for a general opening of
the agreement, we accept your of-
fer for 4 general reopening of the
GH-IUE( CIO) National Agreement."

_ At meetings held between tue
Regotiuting Committee and soulware_
wud Pfeif ub the company's request,
GH agreed to negotiate a new con-
tract from April 1956 to april 1064,

Gk ugreed to negntiute for 5
days between now and way 20 in un
effort to tind modifications of the
Rutlonal agreement autually agree
uble to both purties,

ir. Boulware stuted that the

company hud agreed to nexobiute a
new contract becuuse ot “their —
desire for friendly relations with
the LUH-CIGe"

alt

IUE-CIO COND ERENCE BOD Kighsls

UB OrlER OF JOINT NEGCT I at IONS. IUE-
CIO CONSTITUTION BakS COmmMUNISTS -
ACh TkPRES ENS La a TUL-Cc Io MBs BERS HIE

New York April L'7--In reply to &
telegram received from UE'ts Cons
ference Bourd Chuirmnrfoe Dermody,
requesting IUE-UE Joint Nezgotiue
tlens, the [UN=-CIO Conference soard
invoked the LUE-CLO Constitution
which burs communists from represen-
ting IUH members, and ununimecusly
voted non«conecurrence on UK's apyedl
for united action,

However, this wil not prevent
the Ul from tuking militant uetio
uguinst Gi if they so desire

oes oh ee ’ Ch ee
We a % tT at

the Atomie workers News will parenert
Ly report any further developments
in GH-IUE(CIO) Negotiations. Do
Not Be Whisled by Company Statements

che

i; SHOP STE

enviable record as &

UE SAKMKD. INTO GIVING MEMEERSHIP
( THE FACTS aAcOUT NEGOTTATICNS, :

“Schenectady--lmburras.ied by the
i proapt and efficient reporting

by Local S501 ITUE-CIO to its mem-~
bership of ull the fucts rugard-
ing IUEK=GE Negotictions, the UE

has been shemed into udmitting

thet their negotiations hive
"bogued down" snd they have noth-
ing to report to the UE members,
At meetings scheduled for
this week, business agent -dendresu
will resort to "Operation Vasoline
in en eliort to eaplain UE'S "Bog»

| ged Down" attitude and their fail-

ure as trade unionistse
To date, the only informa ‘tion
regurding GH negotiations received
by tue UH members, wos given to’
them by Locsl 601 IUH-CIO.

On April 14, 1953, Local 501
distri buted over 4,000 copies of

; our poport at the gates or the
| Schenectady Warks ,

STH:LING CONAWAY KLECTED CHIEF
WaRD sa? PERK S''RERT
The membership ot Peck Ste,
have clected sterling Conuway as
tneir Chief Steward. ir. Conaway
was un-opposed as all other Shop
stewords hed declined the nominu-
tion in recognition of sir. Conuwyts
: militnbt trade
unionists. :

eee

()

LOCal 501 Mi BEKS WARNED TO BE

WAKY Ok GE OreaR--GH MAY Bh

STALLING

Although the prospects for a
settlement with G" uppeurn slightly
brighter, the sefest attitude for
tue membership to take, is one of
watenful waiting. Let us hope that
tuese perce overtures by GE ure
not used as stull for time un«
til the strike «6 Evensdele is
settled, ‘There hi.ve been tines in
the past, when GE's stalling-tac+
tics while in negoti:.tions with
this union would hive put Russis«ts C. +)
Vishinski to shame,

The weuwbership. of. Lacel- Sol
must not be c:ught of f guard. We
must continue wi th our preparations °
fora strike, in the event that
strike is necessurys

a
uh

ATOMIC

- Y MAYA 1V53.00
ALPLAUS - ~ PEEK STREET-~ KAPL
GIVE GENEROUSLY -~ FIFTH WEEK OP STRIKE

IUVE=CIO GE Conf erence Hoard, New York, NeYe

kesolution on Syracuse Strike

In no place. has the anti-labor policy of GE revealed its real
face more than in its Syrucuse plant. With-low wages, bad working
conditions, an outmoded ‘and unjust incentive system, the company has
been carrying on a consistent campaign to undermine our Local 320
and deprive the workeis of any protection.

Company representatives sent into Syracuse by the New York
management admitted that they: had’a'fund, esti:.ated at. one “million
dollars: to spend on propaganda and other purposes’to attempt to *..

erush our union in that plant, oO Ug .

The Syrucuse workers, after maiking many attempts to reach any
honorable and self-respecting understanding with the company on many
important locul issues took the action they nad a mght to take under
the contract Goaling with their locul problema, and.went on strike on
April 6, 1953, : -

The company, by almost daily full page lying advertisements and
With the support of the press, has been whipping up the community in
an attempt to break the ranks of the GE workers and force them back
to work on the company's terug, :

Thus far, the ranks of the Syracuse workers have held firm. and
even though this strike was purely on local issues, it is a testing
Bround of the ability of the Colipany to carry forward its- campaign
of wage chiseling, refusul to properly settle grievances, and to une
dermine further the Syracuse workerst starderds. It is a teating
ground for the anti-labor policy of GE.

Be It Therefore Resolved, that this Conference Boara go on
Le of the Syracuse workers, organized

wage and working conditions in their
plant, and; ;

. Be It Further Resolved, that we call upon all GE locals to adopt
Similar resolutions, and by plant gate collections and all other means

to render all possible tinancial Support, immediutely to the gullant
Syracuse GH workers orgunized in Local 520, IUE-CIO.

ToUsHe~ColeQc Local Ol,

(Union Mimeo)

ATOMIS « (NORGE HAPS
; REGRIMED | _ Vincent s. Daley

MAY 28153
I. P. McPARTLON

Progress: of National Wegotiations as. of May 19th, 1953

Jack it. Suarez

Vol. IIL No. 8 May 29, 1956 —

Union Program
‘Union Shop. ne te Eg ji
knforce.ble no discrimination clause including the word. "sex,"
Paid leave for-sickness and for death in the iumediate family.
The assurance of 7 paid holidays during: tre life of the proposed
contract. ae < Sed :
Improvenents inthe vacation provisons as follows:
ae our weeks vacation after 25 years service.
b. Additional days of vacation up to 4 days between 5 and 15
years of service, 7 Bea”
¢.o Improvement in the method of calculating vacation pay to
prevent losses and when the job is changed just prior to the,
Vacation periad. mo oo 4
ad. Changing the pro-rata vacation payment from 1-12 to 1-6. for
each fronth of service in the calendar year. — ,
¢. Counting as tine worked for the purposes of vacation when the
worker is absent due to illness or injury. soos
_Wiaintaining a worker's service credit over. a period of lay-off
“equal to the length ot service but not to exceed 5 years. a
bmployment Security rund to supplement Un-employment Compensation { i)
up to 4.50.00 a week for temporary un-enployment; and severance
pay of §100.00 a year ior each year of service tor workers per-.
manently displaced, . -_
A wage program to provide the following: - . "3
ao Hevision of the incentive system to provide 1% increase take-«
home ‘pay for each'1% inexsease in production, |
be an inequity-bonus for Day, skilled and Salaried workers whose
wages have not kept pace with the incentive workers,
Co qual pay for equal work for womens _ . a
Gs. A Y1l.25 an hour corporation-wide minimum. ©
- "@o A general wage increase. _.
9. Pension and Insurance modifications.

SHEAR catcoremanncane: _— Sic ntrsearcctonealle

With the exception of the iew matters which follow, G.E.'s reply
“to these requests, in the main, was that 1t did not feel that Gj.
-,Snould comply with them, Boulware stated his belief that the present
program of Gol. Benelitgs was adequate. Concerning the pension and In-
surance modifications, Boulware merely informed the IUE-CIo that he
would listen but.would not negotiate on theu at this time.

(Sac Nonte Eenarte gee ae ELT

. The only proposals madé by Goi. were as followa::
‘le Vacations

S» Credit toward hours Worked would be given for tine spent on
jury duty and in sumer military tralning camps.

b. People who would otherwise qualify for a vacation ard were out
ill enddid not return until the next calendar year would, when
they returned, get pro-rata vacation in an amount based on theé_
number of months worked in the calendar year before they. be-~:
came ill, ‘ g .

ET WARE TROBE OT TOE NE:

Continuous Service

In accordance with the actual practice of the Pension. Board, :
persons laid off would maintain service credits for a pe-
rlod equal to thé length of service, but not to exceed three
years. ° . oo ;

Termination Pay on Plant Closing . ie"

Qe If a plant is. closed prior to the time of vacation an employee
would get the full. vacation for which he is qualified at that

“be One day's poy for eacn full year of service up to 5 years, plus
one week's pay for each full-year of service over 5. years,

ce The re-omployment rights in line with service credits listed
above under point 23 - : ( OVER)

Overtime for Lxempt Employees . oa eae oo wh ey

‘In aceordance with what is now the actual practice, arts .V, Sec--
‘tion. 5, would be umwended to provide time and a half for work pere .
formed on tne sixth day of the work-week.

5. A provision that-a person who worked overtine from his own shift”.
into the second end the third shift would get time and a half for the
second ‘shift hours: and double time. for tne third shift; if, however,
he continued to work further and so into the first shift again, he

would revert to strurght time..

proposal remains the. samee-an increase

6. On .the wage issue the GoEe ; "
or about 1.50% bused -on current

of 1.68% based. on liarch 1951 wages,

wages, to last until the spring of 1954.

At the time Ge. made these proposals Boulware admitted that he
Goubted that they would be accepted by our membership as the basis
for.a year's agreement. The Company!s position has been taken in spite
of the following extraordinary situation concerning its projits:

1. For the first quarter of 1953, General Electric showed a profit
‘fore taxes of 4150 million or 4,38 million more than the same quarter
cf T0862.” This increase in profits wus equivalent to an increase of

- 6¢ un. hour in wages of all GeE, employees.

ce, The profits efter taxes for the first quarter amourited to 44508
villion or 417 million more than the first quarter of 1954, This in-
.rease in profits after taxes was equal to an increase of .17¢ an hour

in wages of all GoE. employees.

_5, In the Go. Employee helations News Letter of April 25 there is
the following statement concerning these profits:

tie cantt take too much pride in the newly high first quarter
earnings. First there were abnormal factors here, too, suchas
the excess profits taux. Second'and more important the earnings
were only 5.8¢ out of euch dollur of seles. Tiet's a long way
from the LOg out of each dollur that the employees and the public
believe fair for the owners of ordinary business to achieve, if
they can, for the work which their savings doo"

4, In order that this goal of 10% profit efter tuxes on sales be
achieved, the first quarter’ 1955 profits would have to have been 4,220 :
-million or equal to 4128 million more than in the fairest quarter of 1952,
This increase would be equivalent to an increase of 41.08 an hour in’

WEBESo

5. On the sume basis, profits after taxes for the first quarter of
{.78 million would have beon required or 449 million more then in 1952.
This would have been equal to an increase of 40¢ an hour in waged.

re ee ee

Although generul contract negotiations hav been terminated, the
wage question remains open and unresolved. On hay 22, 1955 a new de-
velopment took pluce. General Motors Gorporation, in the gace of a 5
yeur eagreenent which has @ more yeurs “to run, on that day ugreed with
TUR-CLO to change the unnuul productivity increase, from the present 4 .-
cénts an hour to 5 cents un -hour, to @ive an additional increuse of 10 C)
‘cents an hour to skilled workers, and to make other substantial adjust ( )
ments. Because of that action, and because in the past Get, has close~
ly followed the wage increases granted by Generel Motors, IVE-CIO sent
Boulware a telegram on bay 22 requesting the immediate resumption of
wage negotiations, The telegram stated:

ttn view of the ability of | 3£O and General hotors to surmount
all the great difficulties facing’us and arrive at mutuolly satisfac-
tory modifications of our S-year agreement, we see no Peuson why with
good will and common sense there cunnot be a just solution to the pres-
- ént negotiations between our union and Generul Electric, As you will
‘pecull our negotiutions were suspended on Tuesday hay 19, with no a-
ereement arrived at, but subject tocall. Since we still have u wage
‘reopener, we. propose that the negotiations be resumea at the .eerlicst
possible moment and we keep at them until we have arrived at a settle-
went which represents justice for tho GH workers, the Compuny und the
needs of the nation. A siunilar attempt snould be made to settle the
‘labor disputes outstending, such as that in Syracuse. I await word
from, you as to your views on au date for u meeting») 0
area Very truly yours,
Juues Bo Carey, Preident

a SERN. TEES RADE ERE SPINES

PT RTE Pe eR

ted

FETE TATE IIR RAE et a ert nnn ne

-ATOMIS WORKERS NWS.
Jack R. Suarez” poe Co-Editors .. Vincent S. Daley
Vol. IIL No.9 | a - mm June 9, 1956 ..

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SYRACUSE SETTLEMENT

Seven thousand worlters at the Syracuse. Genéral Electric plant...
represented by the International Union of Kleétrical Workers, CIO, |.
returned ‘to work June érd. Their return’ to. work concluded an-eignt-
week strike, as a result of which the union successfully negotiated

/@ local supplement agreement providing a number of major contract im-
provements for Syracuse G.E. workers.

“+ "Phe new agreement was overwhelmingly ratified at a meeting of _.
‘the membership of IUE-CIO Local 320 in Syracuse June lst. Local 320
is the bargaining agent for the 7,000 workers at the Syracuse G, E.
Electronics Park, 2 .

.. Present for the ratification meeting was James B, Carey, Inter-. ,
national President, who announced the settlement terms. “Carey par-
ticipated in the final stages of negotiations that brought about the.
settlemente na

SAFES me TOR crete mre tn nae nen em cennttetnntnenet 4

eRe,

The major contract improvements, Carey disclosed, are:

See a ae ae

le <A Sd¢ increase in the automatic progression schedule, Yals-..
ing the top of the schedule for automatic increases to fl. 59d. ;

- Several hundred workers will reap immediate wage gains as a
result of this contract addition, Carey noted.

AP:

2s "On the union's dembnd for a general wage increase and add-
itional adjustments for skilled workers, the company agreed that if
no agreement for wage increases is reached ih the current negotia-
tions between the International Union and the GoE. Company for all
plants represented by IUE-CIO, the company, will negotiate a wage ine ©
crease locally for Syracuse workers,

Sacre ems

EMR ee

arena

‘Oe The company acceded to tne unton's demands for contract.
language guaranteeing that up=grading- shall be decided on the basis —
of seniority where qualifications are equal. Prior to this, manage~
ment. had a free hand in the matter of up-grading»

“4. When lack of work on certain jobs requires reassignment of
sertain employees, the employee to’ be remassigned and his foreman
shall decide a mutually agreeable transfer. Previously, the company
had insisted’ on having complete freedom in making such transfers,
even though ‘they meant a rate cut of up to 10¢ an hour for day workers,
.or even 50¢ an hour less for incentive workers,

an ee TITEL BS ETE TET

Se Regarding the issue of re-assignment within classifications,
the. company agreed to the union's demands for making these re-assign~
ments ‘on the basis of seniority, Oat eee

2 EAR
. 6 “A union representative shall participate in the discussions
of the committee that formulates the apprenticeship training. program.
Prior to the conclusion of the strike the. company had refused .to give
any consideration to such union representations = % ;

7e The final terms of the new agreement between the local: and,
the company provide contract guarantees which keep student trainess
from displacing regular’employees. .Prior to the strike tnat wags a .-
serious issue with members of the union,

"Those were the uwajor contract improvements won by IUE CIO Local
e240 through its militant action against the company," Garey said, . 4...
"The local also won several. other minor contract improvements which .«...
Will do much to stabilize conditions in the plant," ,

"The major significance of this settlement, with GVE. -in.the..
eighth week of the strike," Carey declared, "is that 1b is the first
Jime a union. has won .a.major. strike against -G,H,-sinee 1950.--In- 1950 «:
iUH~CIOQ, through a shorter but chain-wide strike against the General

Cover)

, \ .

Electric Company, won a cost-of-living esculator clause that, paid off
9¢ to every G.E. worker, In that same agreement IVE-CIO also won an
across«the-board wage. increase of 10¢ an hour. (with an* additional 5¢
for skilled workers) -an-extra paid Noliday,:-and company contributions
to a pension plan for retiring workers. — Fe :

"In the mecntine, " Carey continued, "G.B. has broken several

_ strikes by other unions. In fact, in the first six weeks of the
Syracuse strike, GaE. refused to engage in true collective barguin-
ing. “ae oe rs ae

'Thia settlement is a tribute to the militant trade union spirit
of IUE=CIO members in Local 520 and their leaders, Their action also
brought about cityewide labor unity among ull labor unions in Syracuse
who supported the striking G.E. workers in their fight for fair treat-
ment from their employer. ° me

"We are gratified by the terms of the settlement.’ It fully

justifies the splendid struggle waged by Local S20.

We sincerely

hope that this new agreement will open up a future of more amicable
and effective labor relations with the.General Electric Company."

IUE-CIO CONTRACT SETTLEMENTS
May 22, 1953

RCAs -

After a militant strike vote
by the members, our negotiators
in RCA won a_ precedent~setting
contract .for 11,000 workers in
four plants in Camden and Moore-
estown, Neda, Cincinnati, Ohio,
and Los Angeles, Calif.

“" Qerms include: 6¢ to 8¢ for
all production workers, with

boost added to base rate on ine
centives, whicn automatically be~
comes 7.d3 inequities make major~
ity of non-skilled workers re-
ceive 13¢;. skilled . workers get
17¢Z to 30¢.

' Overtime becomes double aft-

er 12 hours; ‘severance pay is two .

weeks for each four years! ser-
vice, instead of five; improve-~
ments in sick leave and hospital-
lzgatione

wwe ew eH He

Chief Shop Steward Elected

Recently, at an election for
Sectional Chief Shop steward, par=
ticipated by IUE-CIO members ins
Bldgs. AL=V, De2, Ded, Ded, Gel,
GeG, Hand Hel, Mr. Tany stagnieg
tta from Non-Destructive Test Dew .
partment emerged victorious.

Hesults of Elections

19 votes
40 votes

Mr. Willard Morrison =~
Mir, Tany Stagnitta =

All Shop stewards.in these
areas should contact Mr. stagnitta
in matters pertaining to grieve»
ac ONCO Siecieumae rum eure er nee ye

Phone: Ext. 473

Ln a ee ey

| Syeiiled tradesmen} -the

GMs

CIO International. Union of
Electrical, Radio and Machine

Workers reached agreement cover-=

ing 40,000 workers with General
Motors on contract. terms similar
to the GM agreement with the cro
Auto Workerse

The settlement calls for an
increase in the annual product-
ivity factor from 4¢ to 5¢ an
hour; 10¢ an hour increase for
¥ conver=
sion of the cost-of-living for-
mula to "today's ° realities"
based on the new revised Féderal
cost-of-living index issued by
the Bureau of Labor Statistics,

| and placement of l9o¢ of the 24¢

in past cost-of-living increases
into the base rates where they
cannot be affected by future
changes in the BLS Index. Pen-=
sions increased from 125.00 per
month to 137.60 paid for solely
by the Company and Social Secu»
rity. Loo ;
IUE-CIO President James Be
Carey said the agreement ia "com-
pletely justified by the produce
tivity of Gensrel Motors workers,
the company's profits “and: the
need for economic stability."

He said; "This settlement
will. comé as a jolt to some big
employers in the electrical in=
dustry who have been refusing to
bargain seriously with our union
in 1953. These employora, like
General Eleaucs gowged with
tremendous inetea,es in profite
mage largely as a result. of the
inereaged 4
worlrers , chliged: : to
change their exrogant \ attitude

~ end provide -a-more-realistic:so-".

lution than the pitiful 1%° to

13% wage offer they have,made,"

soivity of their. <o*

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Jack. Suarez — Co-Lditors L
oly Tt : | = = June 19, 1953

Vol. III No. 10

tor

{UE CIO -- CE CONTRACT “SIGNED

“LOSS, the

‘contract
Companys This
t, 1954, °

‘Effective date of wage increase to be ‘June 10th, 1953.00 >

HERE'S THE PROOF
OF IUE-C10 LEADERSHIP!

Aggressive, far-seeing leadership-=backed by 76,000 men and women in
44 militant, demooratic IUE=CIO locals across the country--were re-.
sponsible for winning the new precedent-setting contract just nego

tlated with General Electric$

While small eraft unions and splinter groups surrendered early in the
year to General Hlectric--swallowing management's first offer like a
bunch of company unions==the 76,000 workers represented by I[UE=CIOoO
held out for more and refused to be brow~beaten by GE's propaganda
barrage e ee

- IUE-CIO MEMEERS INCREASED THEIR UNITY aND CLOSED RANKS BEHIND THEIR
NATIONAL LEADERS AS THE STRUGGLE FOR GREATIEK CONCESSIONS FROM MANAGE}
MENT CONTINUED. , tk

IUE=CIO!$ LEALEKSHIP WAS RIGETI!
IUE“CI0'S MEMEBRSHIP WAS RIGHTIE 9 ~

Working together and fighting together, IUE-CLO leaders and mémbers.
found that their militancy and solidarity pata offhh =

HERE'S PROOF%

What GE Offered and What . What IUE-CIO Finally _
The Graft Groups Accepted ; Won I'rom General Blectric

1. 1.68% pay raise . le Sel5% pay hike with a 5,.3¢

. — average — sf :

2 No raise for skilled workers 2. 1¢ to 8¢ hike for skilled
workers

3. Wo change in incentives 5. ~Improved incentive system

4. Nothing on-plant closings 4, Severance pay on plant
closings -

i ene — e cee penere,

TOTAL--1.68% or 24¢ per hour TOTAL~-5.3¢ to 16¢ per hour

YOU ELECTED YOUR IUE-CIOQ LEaDERSHIP DEMOCRATICALLY$ GIVE THAT LEADER-
SHIP YOUR ULL SUPPORT Fok EETTLR CONTRACTS IN THE FUTURD--FOR BETTER
WAGES, FOR MORE SECURITY; FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE!

Por all job rates under 1,65 per hour, 1951.-base there will be a

5o15% increase across the board with aminimum to. be calculated
according to the following "Example! :

Employee worked 40 hours == 1951 Base rate $1.30 per hour
Gross earnings. 40-X 61.80" aa = $52,007

Total new gross A ~ 58928

(over)

a a a
ena oe Ee ak a | .

o “he following tables are from TYAS PL O=ee Contract covering.
hourly and salaried SRP LOVERS s,

ad 7 i

: Table I -- Daywork Kates |

ca 3
a _— a a

Base Rates as of Increase in Presented Adjusted Adjusted
‘Sept. 14, 1951.) Base “7 - Rate (Column 1 Plus Adjusted.
From To (Cents per Hour) 885% Hadden") _ Rate

Up: to ~ 1.645 No change

1465 (21.695 |

1,70 . 1.75
1.756 1.805
1.81 1,86
2,865. 1,915
1,92. ° 1.965
OF . 2,02
2,025 » B,075
2,08. - 2els
2.185 -. e185
29 29205
2 s24 2.29,
2<e95 and up

1.795 ioggnie Vg SB
. LBS ce we 1.925
1/2 1.91. ; 2.005
: 1.97 “e 22085
1/2 2,03 - - * 2e16
2209 : 2ek4
20145" 20295
2.805. |... 2.56
2.265 . a 2040 |
‘ 2,025 _ 2248
22585 . Bed
2044 2,60
(Corresponding

ODODMBOMDWMDMOMOWNDE

Table III -- Salaried kates

Equivelent salary Hates. (Example)

2 4

3 A.

Sept. 14, 1951 _inere ase -(Column 1 Plus Adjusted.
From . Le y per week 8.85% "Adder") Rate

66,00 + 67699 4° 240 ot hy 66075 - & 74076
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