Electrical Union News, 1948 May 21

Yote on Constitution Changes Slated _

For Special Called Meeting of Local

A special called meeting of Local 801.next week will vote on amend-
nents to the local constitution. recommended by the 3801 Constitution:
Committee. The meeting willbe’in two parts, with first and third shift.
workers going into session at: 7:30’ p.m. Tuesday in the union hall and’

She second shift meeting there at 1 p.m Wednesday.”

A.report will be made on the
deadlock in contract negotiations
and the recommendations. of the
conference of delegates from GE
locals which met last week in New
York. There ‘also will be the usual
order of business.

In accordance with the constitu-
tion, the proposed constitutional
amendments were sent to all shop
stewards last Friday. Frank Ems-
pak is chairman of the Constitu-
tion Committee, and the other
members are George Walker, Roy
‘Lash, Anthony Campriello and
Stanley Aldhouse. ©

Reeall_of.

The first amendment would add
to the constitution a provision for
the recall of a shop steward when
so desired by the group he repre-
sents. Removal proceedings could
be started by a-petition signed by
30 per cent of the union members
in the group. The petition would
be submitted to the Txecutive
Board for investigation’ and for
conducting a referendum vote.

In the present constitution there
is. no provision for recall of shop
stewards, except by the pressing of
charges. This is a difficult proced-
ure and consumes a great deal of
time. Very often the desire to re-
call shop stewards is not based on
‘any specific charge.

Listing Candidates

The second amendment concerns
the listing of names of candidates
on the election machine ballot in
union elections. It would provide
that groups of candidates, if they
wish, may be on the same line so
that if the membership wishes to
vote for any particular group, of
candidates they may do so without
difficulty,

“At the last election names were
sprawled all over the ballot and
made choice of candidates  diffi-
cult,” the Constitution Committee
stated in its letter to the shop stew-
ards.

“This procedure should not be at
all complicated and leaves to the
eandidates whether they wish to
be grouped together or not.”

“Union Delegates

The other amendments involve
the article on union delegates. They
provide that union delegates be

elected directly by the membership. +

In the past they were recommended
by the Executive Board. The Board
itself proposed the charge.

Shop.,Stewards._..-

GE Is Very Touchy
About Docking Vet

The General Electric Company
scems to be very sensitive about
the publicity resulting from its ef-
fort to high-pressure a World War
II veteran to repay an employee’s
discount of $183.

The company ran a long story on
the front page of last week's
Works: News attacking the EU
News story. The chief point was
that GE claims “investigation”
showed the young man was living

in..Gallupville_May_4_and_not_with..._cal_activitiescan.

his uncle at Middleburg. The com-
pany insists his home is Gallup-
ville and that he isn’t entitled to
a discount because the electric ap-
plianees he bought are in Middie-
burg. ES

Us. News checked again this
week with the 301 member at his
home“in Middleburg. He said the
company hasn’t questioned him
again about his home, since the EU
News story was printed, nor has it
questioned his uncle or aunt. He
has been living with them, he ex-
plained, since a few days before
Apr. 1. He hasn’t heard from any-
one in Gallupville about any “in-
vestigation” there.

The EU News story was correct
in every respect, he said, except
that GE is trying to collect $183.81,
not just $183.

Apparently some one at GE isn’t
as sure as the editor of the Works
News that the veteran really owes
that money. The first week after
the worker was pressured into
signing an authorization for the
company to take $10 a week out
of his pay, the money was deduct-
ed. But last week he got his full.
pay cheek! « ay

Workers Win Request
About Quitting Hour

Quitting time at the Campbell
Ave. plant's machine shop and wir-
ing room has been changed from 5
pm. to 4:30 pm. through union
efforts, As the workers wanted, the
lunch hour was reduced from an
hour to half an hour to give the
half-hour leeway.

After several previous requests
were turned down, Shop Stewards
William Coccozzoli and Carl Selke
took up the matter recently, and
succeeded,

Rehearsing Skit at Try-Out

Talent audition at 301 Hall. Mrs. Dorothy Perlin coaches David Roy-
kouff, center, and Warren Kilmer, right, in a skit. They have volunteered
to appear in union entertainments. Union members interested in theatri-

range _anditions_hy.telanhoning_M-.

Porlin-at-2-N885,

Press Plays Up
Petition Stories

GIE’s efforts to confuse the nego-«

tiations with misleading informa-
‘tion-and red-baiting were pi¢ked up
eagerly by the Schenectady daily
papers during the past week. They
based their stories on statements
supposed to have been given them
by unnamed persons.

Apparently a handful of persons
at the plant fed the company cam-
paign by going to the papers with
claims about petitions. The Union-
Star first came out with a front
page story about one petition sup-
posedly from Bldg. 42. The paper
admitted it had not seen the sig-
natures.

The Gazette on Wednesday morn-
ing wrote about a petition to the
union from Bldg. 49 the previous
night, but by Wednesday afternoon
no such petition had been received,

Actually just three petitions
have been received at the hall. One
was signed by a small group in 17,
including David Fisher. It asked
the officers to sign the Taft-Hart-
ley affidavits “to secure mediation.”
(the affidavits have nothing to do
with mediation). Another, signed
by about 100 in Bldg. 50, also want-
ed affidavits filed. A third, signed
by 93 in Bldg. 58, opposed a strike.

Leo Jandreau made the follow-
ing comment:

“The fact is, of course, that the
affidavits have no bearing what-
ever on the negotiations. If we
were foolish enough to file the af-
fidavits and submit meekly to Taft-
Hartley, the Taft-Hartley Labor
Board still could not enter the pres-
ent deadlocked negotiations. The
General Electric Company has ac-

Prizes to Be Given
For Field Day Acts

A prize of $75 will be awarded
for the best entertainment act: pre-
sented by a meniber or by members
of 301..at the annual Field Day
June 26 at Columbian Park, Dunns-
ville Rd. A second prize of $50 will
will be given and a third of $25.

cepted continuation of the contract
for another year.

“Members who do not like the
present officers will have their full
chance to vote against them next
December, as they had last Decem-
ber. The anonymous persons who
give out stories about petitions are
merely giving the company a wea-
pon with which to confuse the bar-
gaining picture. They are also
helping the company in its contin-
ued efforts to get us to submit to
Taft-Hartley instead of fighting
the law. They bear out the state-
ment in our Convention resolution
on red-baiting, that the red-baiters
serve outside interests.

“The only issue in the negotia-
tions is the company’s refusal to
give anything on wages or any
other major point, despite record
profits, increased productivity, and
reduced real wages.”

Newspapers generally are very
anti-labor, because they depend on
Big Business for much of their in-
come. Both the local papers suc-
cessfully destroyed the CIO News-
paper Guild, union of their editor-
ial workers. Their editorial salaries

are considerably below those tha ©)
prevail on papers where. the Guild”
‘is established. And the editor of
the Gazette is the son of a GE.

vice-president,

WEAR YOUR UNION BUTTON

THE VOICE OF LOCAL

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Vol. 6 — No. 21

SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK

May 21, 1948

GE’S NEXT MOVE?

S ANDRNICH

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A worker in the metallurgy department at Schenectady made this
cartoon for EU News.

1 May? -to-28....Shon-stewards-will

Way

The drive to put all UE members
in GE plants on the new voluntary
dues check-off effective July 1 is
now under way. The. compromise
agreement between the union and
the company provides for the drive
to be made from May 20-to 30.

Locals. are making detailed ar-
rangements with their local man-
agements.

In Schenectady the union and
local plant management agreed to
concentrate the work in. the three
days from Wednesday to Friday,
approach the members during
working hours, letting their fore-
men know when they start. on this
union work and when they return
to their jobs. ;

Authorization cards with the
names and check numbers of mem-
bers will be supplied by the fore-
men to shop stewards. The union
also will have blank forms for new
members who want to sign up.

The signed authorization cards
will be returned by the stewards to
the union office, through the board
members. A list will be made by
the union office, and later the cards
will be given to the company.

Union officers have stressed the
importance of completing the drive
speedily, both for the efficient
functioning of the union and in
order to show the company that the
workers insist on better contract
conditions.

301 Donations

The Local 801 membership meet-
ing Tuesday and Wednesday voted
$1,000 to the UE District 3 defense
fund,

In addition, the membership vot-
ed $100 a week to the GE strikers
at Lexington, Ky., and $50 a week
to the Boston GE strikers until the
June meeting. The donations were
recommended by the Executive
Board.

Weekly UE Broadcast

Don't miss the Arthur Gaeth
broadcast, sponsored by the nation-

“al UE, It’s at 10 p.m, every Mon-',

day over WOKO, Albany; WKBW,
Buffalo} WGLN, Glens Falls;
WKIP, Poughkeepsie; WSNY,
Schenectady, and WAGE, Syrac-
cuse,

Wurlitzer Workers

Get Pay Increases

Settlement won by UE Local 308
at the Wurlitzer Company, Buffalo,
brings a3 12% cent general in-
crease, including six paid holidays
negotiated several months ago.

Five cents of the increase was
effective May 1 and four cents will
be paid Aug, 28. Other gains in-
clude time-and-a-half for Saturday
and double time for Sunday for all
employees, and improved vacations.
The two year contract can be re-
opened for wages next May and
for six months later.

‘Pay Raise Obtained

A 10 cents an hour wage in-
crease has been won by UE Local
423 for 880 workers at Presto Lock
Company, Clifton, N. J.”

Political Action
At Right Moment

Ranks of the UE strikers at the
Durez Plastics plant, Tonawanda,
are strong as ever. The 450 work-
ers have been out for over a month
now to fight for a 15 cent wage
increase and other improvements.
And the union has defeated em-
ployer efforts to prevent distribu-
tion of leaflets explaining the
strike issues to the public.

Early in the strike President
David Lozo of UE Local 312 was
arrested for handing out UE leaf-
lets without a permit, The night
before his trial, the North Tona-
wanda City Council, which has

heavy labor vepresentation, repeal-

ed the antiquated ordinance which
required a‘permit. The ease against
the union leader was dismissed the
next days’

In Deadlock
n Contract |

* Contract negotiations remained in
suspense this week because of the
inability to make progress on any
of the major points. A radio and
advertising campaign was under
way in GI. towns all over the coun-
try, to win support from the gen-
cral public for UE’s proposals.

In Schenectady, Leo Jandreau,
Local 30T business agent and pres-
ident of District 3, will go on the

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report to the community on the ne-
gotiations, Mon., May 24, at 7 p.m.

Local 301 coneluded a series of
group meetings of stewards on the
issues, and started holding meet-
ings with craft groups on their
problems,

In a letter sent to the ‘entire
membership of 301 on the check-off,
dandreau said:

“Here are the real main issues on
which the company has said NO, as
to each one and all.

“1, Wage increase,

“2. Eight paid holidays without
strings (GE refuses to pay for two
of the six holidays this year, be-
snuse they fall on Saturday).

“3, Stronger seniority provision
(company wants to eliminate sen-
iovity under five years).

“4, Minimum $120-a-month pen-
sion. ,

“5. Correction of wage rates
that are out of line, particularly
tor skilled trades and women’s jobs.

“6, Higher earnings where more
production means greater effort
(company wants to take away even
the present guarantee of same
varnings upon change of method).

“2, Temporary prices to become
standard in six months.

Ҥ Apprenticeships in the skill-
ed trades.

“9, Hight hours’ pay guaran-
teed per shift in three-shift opera-
tion,

“10. Better grievance procedure.

“The company's only concession
has been time-and-a-half for Sat-
urday and Sunday for continuous
process workers.”

Speaks at Waterford

President Andrew Peterson of
Local, 801 addressed a meeting of
the new Waterford GE local of GE
May 18.

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Strike Resumed

At Boston GE

Service mechanics of the GE-
‘Boston Service Plant went back on

strike May 14 after GE broke the
strike settlement promises it made
in April. ‘

The Boston workers first walked
out Mar. 15. hey returned to work
Apr. 26 on.the strength of promises
made them by “responsible GE
officials.” Every promise was
broken, the strike committee re-
ports,

They had been assured of wage
increases and improvements in
various working conditions. A few
days: later the Howell letter, sent
by the Schenectady management to
all Schenectady GE worker's; made
a erack about the Boston strikers
winning nothing by their walk-
out. Local 801 promptly inserted

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settlement. On May 10 GE ran an
advertisement in Schenectady
papers upholding Howell’s claim
and attacking Local 301.

On May 11 the GE manager of
the Boston Service Plant called’ all
the mechanics to a meeting and an-

- nounced the wage increases agieed

on would not go into effect. (14 of
the raises had previously been an-
nounced and others were pending).
The mechanics were told that the
right to make wage adjustments
had been taken away from the Bos-
ton management by top GE offi-.
cials, that there would be no more
vacations and that “profit sharing”
(still owed in Boston) would not
be paid, The returned strikers, in-
cluding a man with 21 years serv-
ice, were to be considered as new
employees.

After this doublecross from GE,
the mechanics set up their picket
lines again.

Win Wage Gains

A meeting of 6,000 Singer -Sew-
ing Machine workers at Elizabeth-
port, N. J. recently ratified a UE
eontract. Wage increases ranged
from 10 to 15 cents an hour.

BUILD THE UNION

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Shop Stewards Discuss Real Reasons
Why GE Refuses to Grant Pay Raises

The real reasons that the General Electric Company has refused
to negotiate a pay raise are discussed in the following quotations from
material provided by the union for the special meetings of shop stew-

ards’ groups at 301 hall.

“Obviously the company’s explanation that it feels wage increases
are inflationary is not true since the company has profited tremendously
from inflation and has been one of the main fighters for inflation through

the killing of price control.

“Also it granted widespread rais-
es to foremen during negotiations.
It also has fought just as hard
against provisions which have
nothing to do with purchasing
power,, such as correction of wage
inequities, pensions, holidays, and
those which do not even directly
atfect its costs, such as grievance
procedure, seniority, ete.

GE's Campaign Against Union

“Any company is opposed to.’

wage increases. since they reduc
profits. But that is ‘not the ma

purpose of the company in refus-
ing. The purpose stands out when
you consider the company’s fight
over the past year to discredit the
union, its refusal to settle griev-
ances and to let cases go to arbi-
tration, the objection to such seeur-
ity provisions ‘as shop evievance
procedure and seniority, and the
Boulware campaign of the last six
months to sell the workers on deal-
ing directly with supervision in-

stead of through the union.
Nation-wide Fight —

“Also, it must be considered in
relation to the overall fight of Big
Business to crush the labor move-
ment in all industry, the enact-
ment of Taft-Hartley, the refusal
of the wage increase in steel, the
fights in which the Railroad Broth-
erhoods, auto workers, packing
house, etc, have now been forced.
GEE has been one of the main or-

‘ganizers of the Big Business fight
all along the line.

“GE is out to destroy this union.”

RCA Strike Vote

UE locals at the RCA plants at_

Pulaski, Va.; Camden, N. J.; Lan-
caster, Pa.; and Hollywood, Calif.,
have voted to strike if neccessary to
win their wage demands, The vote
authorizing strike action, on call
of the RCA Conference Board. of
UE, was by a nine to one majority.

May 21, 1948:

Real Price Story -

Buried by Times

-The same‘day that. the front
page of. the New York Times -hail-
ed: U. S. Steel’s $25,000,000 price
cut:as a “blow at inflation”, the
financial page of the Times ex-
plained it was no such thing. But
the’ paper devoted 44 inches on
Pages 1 and 2 to the “blow at in-
flation” story and the factual finan-
cial item om page 85 was only four
inches long. ”

The short item, which complete-

‘ly contradicted the page 1 story,

said that though every price cut is
helpful the $25,000,000 cut “hardly
will be felt among the millions of
users of these products.”

“In fact,” it continued, “the re-
cent rise in freight fates ... will
cost the public some $300-million
annually, or more than 10 times
that involved in the-steel-price re-
duction.” The item then listed a
recent increase in oil prices. whic.
added $3-billion more to living
costs, and concluded:

“When these and

other price

‘rises in recent years are taken into

consideration, the steel price reduc-
tion can play only a very minor
vole in the cost of living.”

Pay Raise Won by UE
At Spaulding Fibre

UE Local 306 at Spaulding Fibre,
Buffalo, has won a 18% cents an
hour package increase. The gener-
al wage increase is 11 cents. “Ad-
justments of inequities accounts
for one cent and increased vacation
benefits and other improvements
are covered by the other one-and-a-
half cents.

Under the new vacation schedule
present employees get two weeks
after one year’s service; new em-
ployees get one week after one
year and two weeks after three
years. There is extra vacation pay
for employees with five years’ serv-
ice or more, on a graduated scale
so that after 15 years’ service there
is three week’s vacation pay.

Paid Holiday May 31

As Memorial Day falls on Sunday
this year, the GE plants will be
closed Monday, May 81, and work-
ers will have a paid holiday in ac-
cordance with the UE contract,

UE has asked for eight paid
holidays, instead of six, in this
year’s contract negotintions. The
company has not only refused ta

that it won’t grant holiday pay for

May 21,1948:

ELECTRICAL -UNION “NEWS

$1000 for Fight
On Mundt Bill _

The 3801 membership meeting
Tuesday and Wednesday authorized
spending $1,000 on the fight to de-
feat the Mundt-Nixon bill, as a
threat. toevery labor union and
liberal org’ jon in the country,

Members “approved another
Executive. Board’ recommendation,
to cooperate with the Capital Dis- '
trict Committee for Democratic .
Rights, organized to oppose this.
bill. This committee has called 4
public, meeting for Thursday night,
May 27, at Nott Terrace High
School to protest against the. legis-
lation. It also is organizing dele-
gations to Washington, and post-
card, letter and telegram cam-
paigns.

A resolution passed by Local 801
declares that the bill, “under the .

--» . puise-of attacking. .-Communism,--

strikes a body blow at the basic

fyfreedoms of which America has so
“long been so proud.”

The resolution also states:

“The purpose of this legislation
is not only to outlaw the Commun-
ist Party, but rather its real intent
is to intimidate and subject all de-

-eent American people and organi-
zations to the fear of criminal pros-
ecution if they dare express views
contrary to those held by the ad-
ministration.

“Trade unions would be perse-
cuted if they fought for higher
wages and better working condi-
tions. This legislation carries even
further the vicious effects of the
despised Taft-Hartley Law.

“The Mundt-Nixon Bill would
silence protests against higher
prices, against exorbitant profits
made by the big corporations at
the people’s expense. It would at-
tack our Hving standards, our civil
rights, and would prevent the ex-
pression of the people’s private
views. By means of this evil leg-
islation, constitutional government
and the guarantees of the Bill of
Rights would wither and die.”

At the end of, the stewards’
meetings, several hundred stew-
ards chipped in to send telegrams
to Congress opposing the bill.

Lumber Brings $60.50

Shelving left from the 301 Food
Center has been sold to Anthony
Benaquisto of Bldg. 107 who sub-
mitted the high bid of $60.50. Nine

offers for the lumber. The sealed

‘ ane other uni 's made lower
increase the number, but insists @") Cotten union members e

any holiday falling on a Saturday.
This would mean there will be no
paid holiday for Christmas or New
Year’s next winter, Both holidays
will fall on a Saturday.

bids were opened May 6 at the un- °

ion hall by the Food Committee.

BACK THE NEGOTIATIONS
WITH A 100% UE SHOP

Members Answer

Blood Bank Appeal
By the middle of this week the
Local 301. Blood Bank Committee
had received 34 cards from union
members willing to become~blood
donors.. Shop stewards last week
started asking workers in the shop
to sign up as volunteers. '
The committee, of which Jack
Mele is.chairman and Helen Quir-

Mele Quirini

-ini, seeretary, is trying to make ar-

rangements for having blood typed.

Need of a Local 801 blood bank
was again shown when an emerg-
ency call was received last week
for blood donors for a Bldg. 273
worker about to undergo an opera-
tion at St. Peter’s Hospital, Al-
bany. The union was informed of
the type of blood needed. Fellow
workers in 273 offered to donate
blood, but there wasn’t time to
search for the right blood type.

In the end the hospital arranged
independently for a transfusion, re-
quiring three pints of blood at a
charge of $35 a pint. The Mutual
Benefit paid for $25 a pint (the
limit is six pints under MBA), ~

Shop stewards in the building
collected enough to pay the differ-
ence, and to give an additional gift
to the patient.

Union-Star Prints

Anonymous Letters

The Union-Star “letters to the
oditar? column has recently carried
a free flow of letters attacking the
union's wage position in high-
falutin’ language. Since all are
signed with such names as ‘Work-
ers Wife? and“ CIO Wife,” it
is not possible to. know who writes
them, A similar anonymous let-
ter was received last week at the
union office demanding that these
letters be printed in this paper.

Ever if the EU News -had the
space to print letters it would cer-
tainly nut print anonymous letters,
The editorial committee is a re-
sponsible body, .

Now It’s Final!!

48 : ,
Field Day July 10

The date of the Local 301

. Field Day has been changed
again. Thé new and FINAL date-
is Saturday, July 10, at Colum-
bian Park, Dunnsville Rd.

This is positively the last shift |
in date, the Activities Committee
announced. The change was
necessary to avoid ‘conflicting
with a Sesquicentennial celebra-
tion event. Earlier the date had
been moved from June 27 to

June 26 because of the model
air derby.

Pay Raises Secured
For 3 in Bldg. 46

Union grievance action has

e----brought-retroactive-raises--of -five——,

or “Ws Kesponsibie’ Tor Ril

cents an hour. to three workers in
Bldg. 46. The company had nege
lected to raise their rates when the
men were changed to a higher
‘classification.

Shop Steward Rossiter Lighthall
handled the cases of two of them,

who weren't getting the proper pay

for working on B-86 computers.
Their increase is retroactive to
Mar, 18, the date of their reclassi-
fication,

The third case, involving a test
man moved Apr. 1 from Class D
to Glass C, was handled by Shop
Steward Willard <Kuschel, the
Board member for the building.
The back pay is retroactive to Apr.
dy

rank Schaaff, at a meeting in
Bldg. 14 with union representa-
tives, coneeded all three men were
getting five cents too little.

Changes Approved
In 301 Constitution

Three amendments to the Local
301 constitution, recommended by
the Constitution Committee, were
approved Tuesday night’ and Wed-
nesday afternoon by the 801 mem-
bership at a special called meeting.

One amendment provides for the
recall of a shop steward by major-
ity vote at two successive meet-
ings of the workers in his group,
after a petition has been filed.

A’ second amendment concerns
the listing of names of candidates
on the election machine ballots in
union elections, so that groups of
candidates may appear on the same
line if they wish to.

The third amendment provides
that union delegates are to be
elected by and report to the mem-
bership.

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Affidavits Don't
Bring Pay Raises |

With the 75,000 Chrysler work:
ers on strike for a decent wage in-
crease, the United Auto Workers,
~strilke=warning-
on General Motors. The 225,000
UAW members in GM wiil walk
off their jobs unless a pay settle-
ment is reached with that company
by May 28.

Tha Ford Motor Company greet-
ed the UAW demand for a 30 cents
an hour wage increase with a pro-
posal to cut pay as a matter of
“public. security.”

UAW offered to withdraw its pay
demand if the Ford Company
would press for “a substantie] roll-
back in the cost of living.” That
means the pay demand still stands,
of course, because the Ford Com-
pany, with GE and other big cor-

ing price control and for creating
today’s high prices. Now they are
trying to stall off pay increases
with phony talk that raises would
be “inflationary”, and by a few
small prices decreases,

The expericnee of the UAW is
another proof that filing Taft-
Hartley affidavits has nothing to
do with getting a pay raise. UAW
was one of the first unions which
rushed to file. It’s a union which
corporations and newspapers have
“praised for its “anti-Communist
leadership.” Henry Ford II even
made a highly advertised visit to
the union office.

There’s just one issue in today’s
wage fight. Chrysler,. Ford, GE
and the-rest of them are determin-
ed not to grant pay raises out of
the huge. additional profits they
have rolled up in the past year,

Retroactive Pay Increase
For 4 Girls in Bldg. 81

Management has agreed to make
retroactive to June 12, 1947, the
10 per cent table price increase
which the union obtained two
months ago for four girls in Bldg.
81 for assembling electronic pan-
els. As the old timing rate on the
job was GO cents an hour, they will
get six cents in back pay for every
hour spent on this type of work
from March back to June.

Orginally ‘the case was part of
a larger grievance case involving
many girls and filed by Shop Stew-
ard Helen Quirini in April 1946, All
the other questions were settled
“over the months excent this.

The workers have been very, pa-
tient during the company’s long
delay in adjusting the piece rate
table, Business Avent Leo Jan-
dreau has pointed out,