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EDUCATION
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We would like to have you meet Mary
Kelly, an IUE Local 301 steward.
Mary has worked for GE seven years,
and for the list two years has heen em- F to pik , ) —_ /
ployed in) Building 28-1. She is an todd to building « dentocratic trade fe ¢ y }
Lechner in the wiring and. assembling aniun for GE workers, when 1UK } 5 : | WHAT ARE YOu:
section, ‘ . ‘ - 3 : 4 COMPLAINING ABOUT? }
— Local 301 established an Kdues- 5 | 8 rs WERE GETTING ALL
Vor about 14 years Mary served as’ a qm if ff 2 aT FoRYOU «
UE steward, and you won't find any com- ‘ VE PIh
plaints about how she performed her AIN'T WE ?/;
duty to the workers in her section, Fa ;
elitother step was taken dong the
tional Comneittee.
Vhe new group is planing
Mary has this to say about UR: "1 comprehensive series af educational
know that since UE started its campaign chives for anion stewards, ° and
ol lies against ClO and Phil Murray, it crentually for rankstnd-file ment-
hasn't done a single, solitary thing’ for ,
the workers in my shop. UE ‘has deliber-
ately sold us down the river.” Hy
bers,
a short time sewards will be
“Instead of using the UE News to
further the interests of the working men
and women in the shop, it is used to following courses: Processing of
spread the same line as the Daily Worker, Grievances, Parlkumentary Law
Speaking for myself, and the majority of = ‘ _ ,
GE workers in Schenectady, | can say that mT
we want no part of UE's wholesale dmericm Labor Movencent, “9? ;
murder, of the labor movement, We are . BR : Schenectady, N.Y, March 17, 1950
supporting TUF-CIO,” : ; .
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SEAR RS RETREATS I
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IVE BLASTS
REDS FOR
STALLING
The IUE-CIO has agreed to sign, along
with the United Electrical Workers (inde-
pendent), stipt s demanding NLRB
representation cle tions in the General
Electric and Westinghouse chains-on or
before March 31, 1950.
At the same time, TUE-CIO General
Counsel Benjamin Sigal? in a letter to
UE, pointed cut thatthe stipulations pro-
posed hy UE. were: :
“another in the series. of empty ges-
tures you have made for the pur-
pose of hoodwinking the innocents
who may still be swallowing: the
grist of the UE propaganda mill."
Sigal charged that the UE, which was
expelled from the CIO last November as
a Communist-controlled organization, has
deliberately withheld from its member-
ship the fact that such stipulations can- |
not speed an electidn ‘hecause GE and
Westinghouse have insisted on changing
a number of bargaining units.
The IUE-C1O official also assailed UE's
responsibility for the delay in the elec.
tions and for having even opposed. any
elections at all among the nearly 200,000
employees of the two big industrial
chains.
WHO'S WHO
IN UE
This is the third in a series of articles
on the big shots in the UE. The. material
for these articles is taken from authentic
government information.
Julius Emspak
Julius” Emspak, commonly referred to
as “Comeide Juniper” by his CP associ-
ates, has a Communist Party. record longer
than the, trusty right arm of a gorilla, |
According to authoritative reports,
Comrade Juniper hitched. his wagon to
the CP mule train back in the year 1936.
Since then, he has been one of. the top
functionaties of the EP in the American
tahor movement. -
He has aided, morally and financially,
such shining CP fronts as: American
Peace Mohilization, American Slay Con-
uress, Committee to Defend America by
Keeping Out of War, Emergency Peace
Mobilization, ete.
There is rcliable information. that
Juniper was w delegate to the 1948 bien-
nial convention of the Communist Party.
Louis Budenz put the finger on Emspak'
as a CP member in testimony before a
Congressional committee. .
‘The most incriminating ‘evidence of
Emspak’s ideology can be found by
simply picking up a copy of the ui,
News, which he edits. ‘This sad excuse
for a labor paper has followed the Daily,
Worker line through every twist and
turn. Emspak's sheet has quacked every
tune in harmony with the CP organ of
Tsongas tion,
THE NLRB ELECTIONS SCOREBOARD
ELECTIONS
WORKER VOTES
SHOPS INVOLVED
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‘tough employer.
The UE propaganda mill has been
“doing a job” on John L. Lewis and his
militant mine boys. The object of UE's
new found love is two pronged.
First, the UE is trying to impress the
workers with the fact thatan independent
union can survive inea battle against a
This subtility is sup-
posed to imply that the independent UE
can do just as good a job!
The fact ts that John L. has a. solid
union in his industry. It is well organ-
ized and solidly hehind its leadership.
But UE, after years of internal strife, re-
hellion and.) chaos from within, is no
match fer the muscular UMN, :
UE’s’ organizational jurisdiction has
heen sadly neglected while its red-leaders
rattled CP sabers, UE, at the time it was
ousted from CIO, had only 350,000 mem-
Jbers. Tt has a potential ficld of over
600,000,
Secondly, UE has heen’ cautiously
whispering the great Mine Workers’
slogan, “No Contract, No Work." This
wentle hint of things to come will make
yood UE propaganda when Leo the Duck
decides thar GE workers can't act along
} without a contract, The UE hosses can
—" be expected to start screaming “No Con-
tract, No Work” any day now, in an
attempt to drag GE workers cut on a
suicide strike.
Hence the great UE “We Love Lewis”
campaign of recent days,
We would like to remind those who
tend to: forget that’ ClO donated. half a
million to UMW in the recent: strike.
But thére was no ten week propaganda
drive built around it.
P.S.-According to past performance
we can say that Brother Lewis whole-
heartedly hates the guts of America’s red
labor faker
The IUE-CIO News
CP or FBI?
short time ago, the IUE issued
leaflet naming the following men as:
Communists:
“Leo E, Jandreau, Victor Pasche, Emil
Radosevich, William Mastriani, Sidney
Friedlander, George Walker, Rudy Ellis,
Manucl Fernandez, «Sadie Jovanelli,
Dewey Brasher, Robert Northrup, Helen
Quirini,
Well, one of these days we'll hi IVE tO,
apologize lo one or more of the above.
Because, undoubtedly, some of them are
secret FBI agents. No question about it,
Recent revelations, by. secret. FBT agents
who worked intimately with the Com-
“munists in, Pittshurgh arid other cities
indicates that the FBI probably has rep-
resentatives deep’ inside the= Communist
party faction in UE,
So, we want to say again: that when
that day comes that the ‘true facts are
revealed, we will remove that person or
persons From our list of devoted lovers
of the Soviet Union and potential traitors
to the United States,
Aleng the same lines, we may state that:
> Jandreau recently complained to -his
Exceutive Board that there was a sertous
teak. No, Leo, not one leak, its more
like a sieve! ;
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The UE-CIO News
A dhewspaper dediented tao die pein
ciple of miintiining the shighest ideals af
the Labor tievernent as expressed through
The potiew et the Cho,
CO-EDITORS
(ernte Vilaehovde
Jolin Marshall
LOCAL OFRICERS
Presidents... i o Milton Danka
Views President John Warren
Reeording Neerelury 4 rank Ptorille
Asst, Ree Seeretat 2Ann Dieerbo
Treasure — . rite DEG Ptah ie
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CAREY ANNOUNCES G.E. EXTENSIONS OF
The announcement hy General Electric
thatthe company would: not’ meet with
the Communist-dominated United Elec-
trical Workers to; extend its contract be-
yend April 1, means. that for ‘the first
time representatives. of the TUE-CIO will
handle grievances for thousands of
workers in a number of GE plants.
"hear thé first ten stories are filled
with UE's unsettled grievances." .”
James B. Carey, Chairman of TUE's
Administrative Committee, also disclosed
that the. company had agreed not to cancel
any contract benclits during the period
between April 1, the expiration date of
the present contract, and the time a new
contract is negotiated with the union
which wins the forthcoming NLRB rep-
resentation election,
In letters to UE and to the Na-
tional Labor. Relations Board,
‘George H. Pfeif, GE manager of
union relations, declared’ that the
_ company. would not meet with UE
for the purpose of extending the
contract because of the pending
NLRB elections between {UE-CIO
and UE.
The company’s decision was. inter
preted “asa victory for TUE insofar as
IWE ‘leaders have repeatedly protested
GE's, refusal to deal with IUE shop
stewards, thereby giving a partisan ad-
vantage to the minority union,
The 1UE, which has a majority of Gen-
cral Electric production employees, ex-
pects that, despite its efforts to obtain
an carly determination of the representa-
lion issue, NLRB clections in the. huge
GE chain may not oceur until sometime
after April Ll.
In. rebuffing UE's démand for a
meeting and extension of contract,
Pfeif declared that ‘After April: 1,
1950 the Company, in handling
grievances, is required to accord to
‘each employee in. bargaining units
now represented by UE the right
to present his grievances of the
Company individually or through
such representatives as he may
"Make it fast Joe, I'm going to UE's
funeral,"
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designate, including representatives
of those Unions which are parties
to the pending NLRB proceeding."
IUE leaders) emphasized’ that there
would be little or no individual bargain-
ing in any of the GE plants because IUE
representatives are already prepared to
process grievances and replace the UL
Apparatus with immediately functioning
IUE grievance machinery,
Carey. also. pointed out that Genersl
Electric gave the lie, in effect, to Uli
propaganda claims that if the. contract
were not extended beyond April 1, the
expiration date, seniority and other con-
tract benefits would: be-destroyed. In-ts
letter ‘to the NLRB, GENERAL
TRIG declared that it:
“will voluntarily continue-in effect,
during the interim. period, after
April J, 1950, various employee
benefits and company practices
which are currently in effect under
the present contract, including such
matters. as vacations, paid holidays,
seniority rights and progression
schedules."'
Carey said that “We consider this
statement of the company a commitment
that it will continue in effect after April
1, 1950, all the terms and conditions of
the current’ agreement, except the pro-
visions regarding exclusive representation
hy the UE until a new agreement is nego-
tiated by the union swhich wins the elce-
tion, We shall do everything in our
power to hold GE to this commitment,”
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aN rm A RSENS AMNION
FOUND: One
For the past two years 350,000 Ameri-
can. electrical workers have heen left hold.
ing a hag. Tt was not just any old sack,
in Fact, it was supposed to contain a grand
total of $500.
Well, everyone knows that the fabu-
lous $00 buck fake disappeared when con-
tract talks rolled around last year, and has
never heen seen since, @
But. low and: behold, just a couple of
weeks ago the UE bosses got together
again to -talk, about. contract demands.
Their little grouprassembled in New York
City, with the intent of setting down
the economic proposals that UE would
make: to GE. ;
All this-contract jabbering was, based
on’ the" very. very, very thin’ assumption
that UE will hold the bargaining rights.
for GE employe (Don't look now
Beo, but it was just a lot of waisted
effort.)
But at least “the New York moaning
session tried--but failed---to impress the
workers with the fact that UE is still -a
functioning trade union,
AND — you guessed it — the wonder
boys of UE re-discovered that magic
sack, that much touted, that infallible
500 dollar package.
This time it was disguised a little dif.
ferent-—it was broken into a hundred
little pieces---but one of UL's master
propagandists at the Erie GE plant gave
away the gag when he wrote that all these
little pieves would total 300 dollars per
year, per worker.
Apparently the misleaders can't he con-
vinced.of the fact that “you can't fool
all the people all the time,”
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"Pardon me lady, but have you seen
the $500.00 package?"
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$500 Package
G.E. Employment
Down in '49
Despite record high sales and profits
for the General Hlectric Corporation in
19-19, clase to 30,000 workers were Laid
off during the year.
The latest: financial report, published
last week, indicated that 168,000. workers
were employed on Jan. T, 198 as against
198,000 a year before,
With 30,000 less workers on the joh,
GE's: sales were only 266 less than in
1¥i8., Reductions in price sof many GE
products, resulted in the slight loss in
sales in 1949 over the previous year, -
GE profits stood up well, according to
the published report. 1949's record of
$125,639,051 compared well with the
19:18 high of $131,600,000.
UE Wins In
Corning Vote
The IVE-ClO gave is red-rival a
44 to | beating last week in a secret
ballot vote at the Hilliard Corpora-
tion, Corning, N. Y. :
The vote, not an NLRB election,
was conducted by the local union on
the question of disaffiliation. The
result was a smashing victory for
IUE-ClO.
Local 310 has now officially pulled
out of UE with only one dissenting
voice,
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