Electrical Union News, 1954 February 19

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McCarthy Back To Enforee ¢. E. Poliey

As we go to press subpoenacs
were being issued to a°number of
G.E. employees. to appera , before

' McCarthy in Albany on February

19 and 20. ° ‘

After holding closed hearings in
Albany last November, McCarthy
called upon the G.I. to fire any
person who refused to be an in-
former and used his Constitutional
rights to protect himself against
McCarthy’s insulting inquisitions.
One thing MeCarthy seems to have
accomplished, and that is to drive
fear into the hearts of the ‘Ameri-
cxn pedple, whereby they are
afrhid to speak out against: his
Hitler-like tactics.

With the exception of few .cour-

ugeous citizens and a few news- _
-papers in this country, McCarthy

seems to have things his own-way.
He makes no bones about calling
anyone who disagrees with him a
Communist or a conspirator, He
has gone go far-as to claim publicly
that the last 20 years of adminis-
tration by government has. been
tyranny -and, by inuendo, indicated
the Democratic Party has’ been
following the C.P. Line, but, ac-
cording to the Feb, 1st, 1954 issue
of the “Las Vagas Sun,” MeCarthy
was a former Democrat and made
specches promoting. the New Deal
under the leadership of the late
President Roosevelt. The “Sun”
says: “It is no seeret that Mc-
‘urthy “as a youth was a radical
lef't-winger, For the record he was
nu New Deal Democrat. He was in
charge of ticket sales for President
Roosevelt’s Birthday Ball in Wau-
paca, Wisconsin, on January 30,
1936, Seven months later he was
elected ‘president of the Young
Democratic Clubs of Wisconsin’s
Seventh District. He also ran as
the Democratic candidate for Sha-
wano County prosecutor, Behind
the Demoerntic Front, however,
McCarthy had the reputation of a
‘Pinko’, Ne was quick to take the
stump and deliver speeches about
the “Hoover Depression.”

The publisher of this newspaper,
H, M. Greenspun, claims MeCarthy
is a secret Communist. He refers
to an August 11, 1951 closed hear-
ing by the Senate Internal Seeurity
Committee when a witness by the
name of Albert Levitt, an ex-Com-
munist, testified that he had seen
McCarthy at Communist meetings,
The same Joe McCarthy who is
now pretending to lead the fight
ugainst Communism. Levitt’s. test-

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imony was never made public. The
publisher goes far beyond this by
making claims: coneerning Me-
‘Carthy’s character and morals and
challenges McCarthy to take him
to court for libe} if the charges are
not true. The Union has a copy of
the “Las Vegas Sun” and we have
been informed that the publisher is
writing. a series of articles on Me-
Carthy.

G.E. is not partciular whom they
employ these days, and from where
we sit, we wonder who is the secur-
ity risk,

Transfer to Lower
Rate Temporary

Members of UE Local 301, who
were transferred to lower. rated
‘jobs because of lack of work, are
entitled to be transferred to higher
rated jobs when openings occur, be-
fore those hired through the em-
ploynient office, with shorter serv:
ice,

The Union notified the company
that constant reviews should be
made of those employees who were
obliged to take lower rated jobs.
The company has agreed-to review
these people when openings on
higher rated jobs: occur, They ex-
pect such upgrading will start in
Mareh..

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IF YOU'RE LAID OFF
MAKE SURE TO
CONTACT THE
UNION OFFICE

\ WEY THERE MAWRING.NO BATHING ON COMPANY TIME /

Spy System; Pays

*  Detroit—The Ford Motor. .Co.’s-
Smoothly running espionage system

pays its spies in cash and not by

check, nor does it keep records of

who they are, it was testified in

federal court.

The witness was Manager Wm.
H. Corrigan of the’ security and
communication department of the
Ford Motor Co,

Ford gave cash regularly to
Stephen J. Schemanske, confessed
spy on Ford workers, who was a
government witness in. the trial

Union Analysis of Census Figures
Shows 4 Million Unemployed Jan. 1

A careful analysis of Census
Bureau figures by union economists
revealed Feb. 4 that 4,071,000
Americans, able and willing to
work, were. unemployed in January
1954, instead of “the 2,359,000 re-
ported by the bureau. ,

The analysis, made by econom-

ists for the United Electrical Radio -

& Machine Workers, revealed three
major statisticnl tricks used in
compiling the official figures on un-
employment:

1. Including temporarily laid-off
workers as employed.
Including workers- who are
employed as little as one hour
a week but want full-time
jobs. among. the-employed..--
‘Exelusion from. the labor
force of more than a million
persons, many of them wom-

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en and youth who really want
jobs.

The union study takes the figure
for unemployment reported. by the
Census Bureau for the weels ended
Jan, 9 this year-as-its starter, That
was 2,359,000. To this are addéd
347,000 temporarily laid-off work-
ers, 291,000 who work less than 14
hours a week but want fulltime
jobs, and 1,074,000 persons “vapor-
ized” out of the labor force by the
bureau since January 1958. The
result is 4,071,000 actually without
jobs. 7

UE Washington Rep. Russ Nixon
said these devices, which hide the
true extent of joblessness, were
adopted by arbitrary decision of

~ the Census“Bureau in1945, ~ They

were exposed by UE during ‘the
employment downturn of 1949 but
are’ still being used.

Ford Motor Official Tells of Company —

Witness in Cash

Dec. 17.. Schemanske then paid his
fellow spies, one of whom was Mil-
ton J. Santwire. Santwire per-
jured himself on the stand by con-
cealing the fact that Schemanske

paid him $75 a month for his ie

pionage among fellow workers
Ford. The government has done
nothing about his perjury.

Inv return for the cash Ford
merely vequited Schemanske to
sign a voucher that he had re-
ceived so much, without listing. to
whom the money was paid or any
other data on the payments. The
company kept no books on who was
on this cash payroll.

Corrigan has been on the spy-
bossing job only since Jan. 1. His
predecessor, he said, was Gordon
L, Walker: and the supervisor of
the department’s investigative di-
vision is Harold P, Woertink, with
whom Schemanske was. in ‘direct
contact. ; “

Motor Department
Helps Co-Worker

Charles Nelson and family send
their thanks to his fellow workers

in the ‘Small Motor Dept. for the

gift of money they sent him.

Charles and his wife and their
two. children met with a seriows
auto accident last December th.
required hospitalization for the en-
tire family, Charles expects to
leave the hospital ' soon; however,
his wife who has more serious
trouble is expected ta be: confined
there for some time yet. :

Charles worked in Bldg. 42
Stockroom.

"ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS,

Washington—The U. S. Dept. of
Commerce admitted that it tnder-
estimated unemploynient for Janu-
by nearly 1,000,000. The new esti-
mate brings the roll of jobless
above 3,000,000 and causes the New
York Times to observe the “shimp
is sharper than foreseen.”

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Milwaukee — While McCarthy
tears around the country on witch
hunts, 54,000 are officially jobless

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etroit—CIO Auto Locals are —

adopting resolutions opposing the
House Un-American Activities
Committee hearings scheduled to
be held here Feb. 22. One of those
subpoenaed, James Cichocki, presi-
dent of Chrysler Body UAW Local
742, said that the committee could
better spend its time investigating
growing unemployment in’ Michi-
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Miami Beach— Growing unem-
ployment in the auto industry is
leading the entire U. S. toward a
serious depression, Pres, Dave
Beck of the Intl. Bro. of Teamsters
(AFL) told a press conference here
Feb, 4. ’

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New York—Pres, Morris Pizer
of United Furniture Workers (CIO)
Feb, 16 described an attack on his
union by the Upholsterers Intl
Union (AFL) as “another instance
of already shopworn smear tactics”
and a “crude attempt to evade
moral obligations imposed by the
APL-CIO no-raiding agreement.”
es UIU’s exceutive board at'a
CO mi Beach meeting said it would
sign the AFL-CIO raiding pact
but would feel free to continue
raiding the CIO union, whieh it de-

scribed as “Communist-dominated.”

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Washington—The Bureau of La-
bor Statistics estimated that two
million persons ‘suffered disabling:

work accidents in 1953..

« The largest membership meetings in the history of UE Local. 301 were
held yesterday at the Schenectady GE Works to condemn GE-McCarthy at-

tacks upon the union. The meetings held during the lunch period, unanimously

LEO JANDREAU
Business Agent

WILLIAM MASTRIANI
Chief Shop Steward

in a dramatic move to show that the issue in the GE-
McCarthy hearings is not communism but union-busting,
Jandreauand Chief Shop Steward William Mastriani made
public affidavits giving the lie to McCarthy charges against
the union and against them as officers. As the only officers
to-be subpoenaed, Jandreau and Mastriani are alone required
by Tatt-Hartley law to issue affidavits. (see pages 2 & 3)

adopted motions assailing the
McCarthy smear sessions
scheduled to be held in Albany

today and tomorrow for the.

purpose of breaking down
union conditions in GH.

The largest ‘meeting was
held in front of Building 40
and was addressed by UE Lo-
cal 801 President, James Cog-
netta. Security Officer C. A.
LaForge and Paul “Lathrop,
Superintendent of Motor Gen-
‘erator, heard Cognetta ex-
plain to the massed workers
the union busting purpose be-
hind the Company and Mc.,
Carthy attacks upon UE. :

An estimated 2,000 GE
workers gathered atross from
Building 60 on Works Avenue
to hear Chief Steward, Wil-
liam Mastriani, who is one of

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More than 600 stewar

quarters. The meetings
union were termed “unpre-
cedented” by GE spokesmen.

But Business Agent Leo
Jandreau, one of two union
officers scheduled to. clash
with Joe McCarthy in Albany
today, retorted that “the com-
pany is lying like hell.”

Stewards are called out for
briefing whenever substantial
interests of the members are
involved, Jandreau pointed
out.

The Business Agent bared

the. GH-McCarthy. conspiracy ..

against the workers. °

The company, he told the
stewards, is selecting union
people who fought for gains

enjoyed by all GE workers

icCarthy Tactics

ds punched out of the GE Schenectady Works
last Wednesday and Thursday to attend special meetings at union head-

called to mect the latest company attacks on the

and is moving to fire them as
“subversives.” GE, with the
help of McCarthy, has already
begun to fire militant mem-
bers of several unions in Lynn
and Erie, he pointed out.
Tracing the GH-McCarthy
conspiracy, Jandreau recalled
that Manager A. C. Stevens
and Security Officer C. A. La-
Forge sat with McCarthy in
closed_ sessions last Novem-
ber. The company’s Lynn of-
ficials also were closeted with

the . Wisconsin. politiciaii .be- -
fore the public smear session.

Noting that McCarthy who
has the worst anti-labor rec-
ord in the Senate is making

his latest attack'on UE on the

eve of 1954 contract negotia-
tions, Jandreau expressed the
union’s determination to make
further progress this year.
“Our union has been ‘able
to add $1 an hour to the pay
envelope of every GE worker,
$40 a week,” he told the stew-
ards. “That’s why the com-
pany is attacking our union
and fingering people for Mc-
Carthy.
_ “The company wants to get
rid of our piece work safe-

‘guards, automatic. “progres-

sion, seniority regulations,"
he added. “And that’s why
it is. trying to get legislation
branding unions: who fight
back “subversive.”

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Here Is PROOF the Issue

SWORN AFFIDAVIT OF WILLIAM MASTRIANT,
Chief Shop Steward, U.E. Local 301

STATE. OF NEW YORK
COUNLY OF SCHENECTADY: -SS

WILLIAM MASILHLANI, being duly sworn, deposes and ‘says.

I am Chiet Shop Steward of Local 301, United Electrical, Radio and
Machine Workers of Amarica, known as U.E.

The policy of U.Z. Local 301 is unequivocally opposed to any nets of |
espionage or sabotage. I have never engaged in esplonage or sabotage. Any.
imputation that the steward system of U.E. Local 301 1s an instrument for
sabotage or espionage is a lie. During the history of U.E. Local 301 of more
than 17 years, I have not known of a single officer of our Local Union who
has been legally charged, much less convicted, of spying or sabotage. All
employees in our plant, working on secret work, are screened by ‘the Army, Navy
or FBI.

In 1949, 1950, 1952, 1953 and as recently’ as February 1954, rT swore te
the following in Taft-Hartley Law affidavits: °

“tI am not a member of the Communist Party or affiliated with gucu
party.

"I do not belie ve in,. and I am not a member of nor do I support’ any
organization that believes in or teaches, the overthrow of the United States
Government ‘by force or by any illegal or unconstitutional methods.”

Any false statement in such affidavits carried with it a penalty of
ten years' imprisonment and a $10,000 fine.

These non-Communist affidavits are true and I am not one now.

° Assistant Attorney General J.M. McInerney testified as follows con-
cerning the U.E. Officers' affidavits in response to a question by Senator:
Joseph McCarthy during the course of hearings on March 7, 1951, by a Senate
subcommittee on aippnepria tions:

"I have ‘looked at the UEW cases myself, and I recall statements in
the FBI reports which are unusual in FBI reports, such as 'No evidence of
Communist Party activities since execution of non-Communist oath',"

Sworn to before me this:
19th day of February, 1954.

EILEEN B. FRUMKIN
COMMISSIONER oF peeve
SCHENECTAD’, ‘
COMMISSION BNE RES JAN. 5, 1955

Uni on-Busting,

SWORN AFFIDAVIT OF LEO E. JANDREAU,
Business Agent, U.E. Local 301

STATE OF NEW. YORK
COUNTY OF SCHENECTADY: -SS

LEO E. JANDRE REAU, being duly - sworn, da pos66 and says:

z am the Business Agent of Local 301, United Electrical, Radio and
Machine Workers of seated , known as U.E.

. The policy of. Ue E.. Local 301 is unequivocally opposed to any acts of
espionage or sabotage. I have never engaged in espionage.or sabotage. Any
imputation that, the steward system of U.E. Local 301 is an instrument for
sabotage or espionage is a lie. During the history of U.E. Local 301 of more
than 17 years; I have not known of a single officer of our Local Union who
has been legally charged, much less convicted, of spying or sabotage. All.
employees in our plant, working on secret Work, are screened by the Aray,
Navy or tts

Ta 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953 and ag recently as February 195hy =
swore to the following in Taft-Hartley Law aftidavits: ;

"T am not a member of the Communist Party or affiliated with such»
party.

"I do not believe in, and I am not.a member of, nor do I support: any
organization that believes in or teaches, the overthrow of the
United States Government by force or by any illegal or uncon-
stitutional methods «"

Any false statement in such affidavits carrtked with it a penalty of
ten years’ imprisonment and a $10,000 fine.

These non-communist affidavits are true and I um not one now.
Assistant Attorney General J.M. McInerney testified as follows con-

cerning the UR Officers' Affidavits in response to a question by Senator
Jogeph McCarthy during the course of. hearings on March 7, 1951, by a Senate

subcomaittee on appropriations:

"T have looked at the UEW cases myself, and I recall statements in
the FBI revorts which are unusual in FBI reports, such as ‘No evidence of
Comnunist Party activities since execution of non- ~Communist oath. f

In 1952 I was summoned before a Federal Grand Jury for questioning on
my non-Communist Taft-Hartley affidavits. After investigation, the Grand
Jury refused to indict.

The above factual statements should be sufficient answer to the

avowed purpose of the Senate Sub-committee on Investigations of the Comuittee
on Government Operations.

ed

andreau
Sworn to bet'ore me this

19th day of February, 1954.

EILEEN B. FRUMKIN
COMMISSIONER. OF. DEEDS
SCHENECTADY, N. Y.
COMMISSIDN EXPIRES JAN. 5, 1995

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