SECOND SHIFT workers arriving for their meeting find the entrance
to Union Hall blocked (above] by cops and about $0 quards under Joe
Saccocio. As word gets around that selected first shift workers on
lost time had been marched into the hall beginning at 8:00 A.M.
the locked out second shift workers plainly show their dismay. Among
those turned away by the screening squad under Saccocio was
William Hodges (foreground), past acting President and Vice-.
President of UE Local 301,
.
Membership resentiient is coming toa slow boil at the atlempt of,
James B. Carey and Leo Jandrean ta blitz away in one week the Union
that GE workers in Schenectady spent 17 years to build.
Why couldivt such a serious
question as secession be discussed
ina hall big enough for the mem:
hership to get in? Why were the
two meetings on Monday packed
wilh secession supporters on lost
lime? Plow mach did it cost the
local Treasury in last time to rail:
road through Jandrea’s deal with
James B. Carey? :
The UE Leeal 307 Constitution
comings provisions for orderly
amendments and changes, “Why
werent they followed? Why were
hundreds of loval dues-paying UE
members of many years: standing
barred from the meetings and left
to stand’ shiveriig’ otitside® in the”
wind. while the handpicked group
on Tost time that jammed the hall
voted in the name of the member:
ship? Why were Local 800 mem.
bers who wanted Lo speak against
secession denied the floor?
Look Around ‘Town
These questions are. being asked
evervivhere in the shop. Oldtimers
in Schenectady don't have to book
far for the answer. ‘They have seen
a ClO union at the other end of
town run for years hy Barbieri’s
Tivht lithe dictatorship. just the
Paid Lost Time
For Voting Twice
Day shift stewards and others
on lost time did the voting for
the second shift) mecting Mon
day, An eye-Wilness account pub:
lished by the Schenectady Union-
Star reported:
“After the afternoon mecting
the room in back of the mecting
hall, where coffee and sand-
wiches were being served, was a
busy place as union members
signed ‘lost| time? vouchers - to
collect for pay they had lost: by
leaving work.”
way the LUE crowd started to run
Loeal SOL the minute Jandreau
‘opened the door to ClO. Loce
“inotive workers have: felt the cone
ditions that come with the destriue-
tion of union democracy... with
machine control, ... Aleo men of
15 years service walking the sirects
while new people are being hired
into the Niskayuna shop.
GE workers in Syracuse could
tell something about what it means
“to shift ta TUE-CIO, In 195@. in
Ul they had the same UE plant
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UE
What Carey and Jandreau are
asking is that UE agree te termi:
uate its superior contract, whieh
has another year to run,
That's what agreeing lo au elec:
tion at this time means, A contract
ist bar to an election unless termi:
nated,
Phe company would Hke noth
ing better than to be telieved of
its contract commillments’ to UE
for the next year,
on’t Give Up
Contract Protections
The TEE contract expires in
June and everything goes on ‘the
auction Blocks pay. conditions.
benefits. everything. ;
New if the UE contract were
terminated at the same inte as
proposed by Carey and Jandreau
the company’s hands would he
-complotely free to ereawrile: 3
weaker Gontract for all GE work-
ers. The trend throughout indus:
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