Electrical Union News, 1940 November 12

August. Iat°1940%

LOOKING AH EAD

By LEN DE CAUX

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ica you want to know. what would happen. to us if we ‘Gea no

“unions to: protect our’ rights and our conditions, ‘just: read: what, =,

‘some, ‘of ‘the.“best_ minds’ in the business world are saying and
Proposing,
_ “We must choose between guns and snugets between personal

_as the “gadgets” of which we must ee ourselves for the sake of

_ defense; takes‘a crack atthe eight-hour day; and criticizes the idea

that we can keep our “superluxuries”.

Superluxury to you may ‘suggest yachts, sable coats, jewelry,
palatial. estates and the-like. But not to Babson.
a x “By ‘superluxuries,” he explains, “I refer to hour and wage

benefits, old-age Pensions, farm bounties, indiscriminate relief and
other sops and paps.”

JG, of C. Too

What*Babson says publicly, many wealthy clubmen are saying
privately. And organizations of big business. like the Chamber’ of
Commerce of the United States are. actually coming to express the
same ideas in more guarded terms in their official statements.

The Chamber calls for-reduction of public expenditures for all

purposes except defense;.asks for.a “modification of labor legisla-__

tion’; and includes the following as one of its planks:

“No elements in our economic life should profiteer. This. prin-
ciple should apply to investor, manager,- laborer and farmer.”

Wage ‘Profiteers’

-, Tf you find it hard bg imagine laborers or Ravine ‘Tprotiteer-

“ing” on their average family ‘incomes of around $1,000 a year—if
- you think the Chamber just threw in these two groups for good
Measure to show its impartiality--you are due for a surprise.
For you will find that the Chamber at the same time is quite
violently opposed to excess profits taxation.
So it seems they don’t want anything done about the investor
who imakes excess profits, but only about the worker or farmer
who wants a little less poverty...

Rolls- Royce-’Patr jois

Roll on in your Shee you excess profiteers! Build

new mansions, buy néw yachts! Adorn yourselves with. diamonds- {

and other costly trinkets!

For Mr. Babson does not include such with his “gadgets” ‘dat

interfere ‘with defense.
And the Chamber af Commerce approves the taking of excess

profits as something distinct from the “profiteering” of the laborer

' and the farmer.

Superluxurious

But woe to you, you men and women of small income, who
would “profiteer” at the expense of the Rolls-Roycers|

Shame on you, old man, for expecting the superluxury of the
present $20 a-month pension in your declining years! . . ;

Go to, you dirt farmer, who would luxuriate on government
farm: bounties to keep the wolf from the door!

As for you, you unemployed, who take the “sops and paps” of
relief or a WPA job, instead of quietly starving to death, don’t ‘you
know such relief is a “gadget” to some?

And. you. workers who still have jobs, don’t you sealize the
‘wage and hour. benefits your unions have won, and even the weak
_limits-on-sweatshop. exploitation in the wage-hour law are “super-
~ luxuries” ?

All of these-“gadgets” must go, according to Bapada and his
friends, to provide for guns. Labor laws must be modified, hours
lengthened, wages cut; aged and unemployed must be left to starve;
democratic liberties must be abolished; and the great American
people must be driven hungry, enslaved, exploited, without hope of
security or pentechionh to fight—for what ?

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An Evil Dream

‘Such is the evil dream ‘conjured up by imagining an America
th: which there are no unions to curb the lust of exploiters, and no
progressive political organization of labor and farmers to make
their right to vote effective.

As it is, this nightmare doesn't make sense,

Yet ideas like Babson’s are a menace to.any real national de-
fense, if they are allowed to gain ground. For it takes a free people
not starving slaves—to protect a free country. ‘

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Tax Law
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vepay. the Reconstruction. Finance

-Gorp. loans for new buildings and

equipment within five years instead
of the usual 20 years.

If the plane manufacturers delay
until Congress passes expected tax
legislation, it-was -pointed out, the
entire: air corps expansion program
will be held up for 60 days or longer.
' Although the war department has

no power to force plane manufactur-

ers to aceept business, it-was belleved
that refusal to begin work promptly
would result in the demand for such
power,

To counteract such a possibility
representatives of plane manufac-

turers have suggested that the com-.

panies receive a guarantee that price
schedules will bo subject to negotia-
tion aftor all costs have beon deter-
mined, thus assuring a full measure

, of profits.

Already contracts for 4,000 Hatley
are awaiting signature but the com-
panies have refused to accept them
until the proper assurances are made
concerning the amount that will be
allowed the companies for deprecia-
tion.

It was believed that the five year
amortization period and abolition of
the eight. percent profit limitation
in favor of a new excess profits tat
would be. satisfactory,

Details of the new excess profits
tax, recently requested by the Presi-
dent, are taking shape solwly. Enact-
ment is regarded as unlikely before
September,

This is in sharp contrast to the
speed with which Congress acted re-
cently in passing the tax bill impos-
ing additional excise taxes and low-
ering. income tax, exemptions,

In the excess profits tax bill will be
provisions repealing existing profit
limitations on builders of military air. ‘
craft and naval’ vessels and specify-
ing accounting practices for national
defense industries.

THE VOICE OF THE UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO &
MACHINE ‘WORKERS OF AMERICA—Local 301--CIO

Vol. 2

Labor Fares Well
Jn Election _

WASHINGTON (FP) — Pres.
_ Roosevelt became America’s first
"third term President November
5 as.virtually complete returns .
piled, up-here.

The. President apparently col-
lected votes in 38 states for an.:
electoral college vote of 449 while .
the ex-utilities head, . Wendell
Willkie, got 82: electoral votes in
ten states.

The President’s popular ma-
jority on. the’ basis of late re-
turns was well over’4,000,00 as:
compared with'a popular major-"
ity of almost 11,000, 000 i in 1986.

‘In Washington labor union of-
tnd were concerned with con-
: ~ elections. as ‘well “as:

House and Senate.

In senatorial races, Sen. Robt.
M. LaFollette, Prog., Wisconsin,
. sneaked through to victory. over
both, Republican and Democratic |

aa opposition. LaFollette sponsored

and ‘headed the senate civil lib-
erties committee which was in-
valuable to labor. .

"Wisconsin residents were not
so fortunate in the gubernatorial
election. Gov. Julius Heil, Re- °
publican, was: reelected: bya a-nar-

TS OPGW Mier Bia.

Utah, as was expected, re-
_ placed. Tory, Sen. Wm. King (D)__
with Liberal Rep. Abe Murdock
_(D). Murdock was one.of labor’s
* stalwarts on the special House
committee investigating the la-
bor board and act.-

Rep. Mons C. Wallgren (D,
Wash.) was successful i in a race
-~geainst-former-American Legion:
Commander Stephen Chadwick
for, the senatorial post left by
Sen. Schwellenbach who became
a federal judge. Wallgren is ac-
* cointed a liberal.

In Montana, Sen. Burton K.
Wheeler (D), head of the senate
committee investigating railroad
financing and an opponent of

. conscription, was reelected. for.a

_ fourth term.
. Indiana results showed that -

‘Sen. Sherman Minton (D), one
of the closest followers of the
New Deal in the Senate, had ap-
parently lost to a’ Republican
country editor, Raymond E.
Willis.

The other senatorial‘race in
which labor avas especially inter-
“ested was in Minnesota where
Sen. Henrik Shipstead (R) was
reelected. Shipstead recently
changed his allegiance from the
Farmer-Labor party and was op-
posed by organized labor for re-
election. Former Senator Elmer
Bengon (F-L) ran against Ship-
stead.

- In contests in the House; labor
: lost some friends as well as de-
feated enemies.

; In Montana, Rep. Thorkelson -
(R), follower of the Silver Shirts
and similar organizations, was
defeated in the primaries and his
place apparently taken by for-
mer Rep. Jerry O’Connell (D)
who had a 100 per ‘cent labor
record when in the House two
years ago.

Shop Committeemen’ S

i ic Per Hr.

Conference Map Big

Increase

NEW. YORK: CITY, October 29, 1940—The GE
Locals: Coriference Board presented a request for
10c an hour. increase for hourly-rated emloyees’
of the General Electric Company at a meeting
with the Company on Monday, Octeber 28 In’
addition, the local representatives requested the
liberclization of:certain provisions governing the-.

status of employees who might be- conscripted; ’..

These points were discussed for two days, on Sat-
urday and Sunday, by local delegates beiore
_presentation-to.the-Company.

The Company is now gousidexine the- -WCliv-
ing: of the 40 day re-employment clatise in the

conscription regulations providing that the em-.

ployee can present satisfactory. reasons; such as

‘illness, for not applying for reemployment within
the specified 40 days. In. addition, the applica-.
tion-of the entire vacation plan as agreed upon |

between the Company and .the Union to those —
conscripted rather than confining such benefits to
those drafted after June 1.

Profit-sharing, meth- |

ods of profit. sharing payments; a better pay al-
lowance provision-and: handling-cases th ht
come up under these provisions were aso: ais
cussed. ‘Within a-short time, complete answers
“will be received. from’ the Company on these
points and presented to the locals.

The 10c an hour 'tequest for a wage increase
was discussed at some length both by.Company

and Union representatives.

No conclusion was

reached and it was agreed that aricther meeting -
‘between the Company and. the Union would be
held during the first week in December.

The delegates representing _ Schenectady
were E, Wallingford, President; A. Chrestien, ex-
Board Member, and L. Jandreau, Business Agent.

Local Executive Board
Recommends Support

To Transport Workers

The local executive board rec-
ommends to the membership of
Local 801 unqualified support in
the struggle of .the transport
workers. for higher wages.

It is the opinion of the board
that. the demands of the trans-
port union are just and should
be met by the traction company.

The transport workers union,
in postponing the. strike for one

“week, did so-at the request of -

the mayor, in order to give every
available means an opportunity
to bring about a settlement.

’ The transport workers receive
60 cents per hour at present and
work 54 hours per week. They
are asking for 75¢ per hour and

a 48-hour week. .

City Councilman Dunn, who is -

also a foreman in the G.E. and
in a position to know a fair rate
for a job, stated his views in the. .
local papers, pointing out that
the union demands were reason-
apie,

The railway company is using
its financial position—being in
receivership—as an excuse ‘for
not-paying: a.decent: wage. How-
ever ,the company has been able
to support considerable overhead
at véal fat salaries for a period
of years.

Thes Capital District Council
has voted full support to the
transport workers.

_ mittee:

The Shop. Committeemen | in 7
Conference .at Union Headquar-
ters on Saturday, October. 1
adopted’ plans for a definite or-
ganizational drive. i.

In order to have a cbuidtesit
check-up on the: progress of the

‘drive, the following: committees

were set up:

1. That the: ‘Union Com: itte -
men ofeach’ building: or section
compose the ‘organizing commit-
tee for a given building: or ‘sec-
tion, and. that: this Committee’

nay? elt ~~ Chairman “fio:
among themselves, who shall-be

_ responsible for the. drive in his

area, and make progress. reports
to the /regular’ shop .committee-

_men’s ineeting wice: a A Month vat

the Union.

2.-That a. permanent organiz-
ing committee of ten be elected
from among ‘the section chair-
men of ‘the general organizing

. me tt on«a: Plant basis, and’ °

“this committee: meet on ”
Monday evenings, previous. to ~
the Shop Committeemen’s meet-.
ings, and generally supervise the

cial Secretary will furnish ad
gress reports to the Committee,
so. that: it ean-be constantly “in
touch with the situation, This
Committee will make regular re-
ports to’ the Shop Committee-
men’s meetings;

This’ Committee a eall in
op. Representatiy
“Monday meeti nes to ‘dis.
cuss organization in the Com-
mitteemen’s: section. Further
duties of the permanent organ-
izing committee shall be’ out-
lined from time to: time by the
General Assembly. No present
member ofthe Executive Board -

shall be a. member of this Com-
mittee.

The-E Executive- Board-will recs

“ommend the following commit.

teemen to the membership to
compose this permanent com-

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A. Peterson, Bldg. 66
Jos. C. Bank, Bldg. 16
Steve Miller, Bldg, 42
Sydney Webb, Bldg. 46

~ Dy Fishey, Bldg. 28°

Arthur Cotton, Bldg. 40
Joseph Corsetti, Bldg. 58
Fred Matern, Bldg. 60

( Chas. Aussiker, Bldg..95  -
“A: C. Thwaits, Bide. TOL ~~

OUR DRIVE SLOGAN

‘One Country —The United
States

One Union — Tt
Local 801. aU,

Every GE, Employee a
Union Man—for 10. cents an
hour increase.

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. - 82-0. Published. by:
UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO. &-MACHINE WORKERS
OF AMERICA, LOCAL 301
301 Liberty Street, Schenectady, N.Y.

SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK NOVEMBER 12th; 1940°

amy eae :EDITOR BOARD ‘

> William Turnbull :

~ Thomas Caulfield
Benjamin: Geersen “
Fred» Schoeffler,

Seymour: Schreiter :
Sidney Webb, Secretary .
« Michael Tedisco ;
‘Fred Matern, Chairman

_L, JANDREAIL.

~ EDITORIAL

"UNITY AND DEFENSE PROGRAM

_ Now that the Presidential Election is over, and the majority.
of the American voters have again chosen Franklyn D. Roosevelt
for President of the United States, we'can forget our differences

~*~and unite for a-comiion cause. That cause isthe preservation of

the United States as. the most. democratic country, and today that
means building a defense for our ‘Country that will discourage

anyone from attempting to invade our shores and change our Amer: ,

ican way of life. oo ees bs f ee
7 It is true that much more progress can be made in this country
along democratic lines, especially in putting more teeth in our la-
bor laws, and make them .applicable to the big industrialists as
well as the wage earners. ae 4 : '

. Nevertheless, ‘this cotintry today is the best country, in the

world for the working people, and. the. American..working—pesple""~ : = ar:

(of which the members of Local 301 are an integral part) are
ready to defend it to the last ditch,

We were happy to read the statement of Earl 0. Shreve, a-

~ viee-president of the G.E. Company, in the Union-Star of November
6th, pledging support-of the members of the National Electrical
- Manufacturers: Association to the Roosevelt Administration’s..D

trie -Comnany-whese-snokeaman-tales:-ou

“fense Program: We-are proud-to-be-employees-o
whose) uch=2:

the Company, we know we can do an
of our Country,

. In the same issue.of the Union-Star that featured the Shreve
article, there was an editorial“commenting on the Presidential elec-

‘ to'get their information of things that happen at our Union meet-

"Good Lord! T've lost my election promises.”

- . SECOND-HAND INFORMATION

i aac

_ There is still room for much education among our members
along lines ‘of Union loyalty. and. procedure.

-One of the harmful practices among some of our members is
ings second-haiid and usually distorted, and carry this same niis-

‘construed information all over the lot, causing much’ confusion and

disharmony-among-our-members-

—  F. Your Dollar

By Consumers Union

' & Coca-Cola’

Cola contains 10 level teaspoon-
fuls of sugar, C.U. found in test-
ing five leading cola drinks. The
other brands. contained. about
four-fifths as much. If you’re

reducing,, remember the sugar.

content. __. :
The main difference between

Coca-Cola and similar drinks: is”

in Coca-Cola’s*smaller size (6:02.

forsde).2€ “alter
blindfold “taste tests on Coca-
_Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Double. .Cola,
' Lime‘Cola.and Royal Crown Cola.
The only flavor which: even half
the staff members could consis-
tently. tell from other flavors

was Pepsi-Cola’s, and that was

mainly because of. the. extra’
Conclusion: If you.

sweetness.
must have colas, try the brands
that give 12 ounces for 5e.

Grade Labeling

The U.S. Department of Agri-
. culture:announces an experiment
of importance. It is now provid-
ing continuous inspeetion and
grading of four canneries’ 1940
pack of cherries, peaches, pears,

.corn..and. tomatoes.--Goods- thus:

inspected will be sold under the
U.S. grade label - a shield-shaped
insignia, with the: words: “U.S.
Grade A” (or B or C). “These

goods wére packed “under. the.

constant: inspection of the U.S.
Department of. Agriculture, and
this grade officially certified.”

: i oO _ > ‘This statement.is not the same

_ as the simple Grade A, B or. C
statement which now appears on

some canned foods as the distrib- °

utor's guarantee. The U.S. grade

label is a government certificate

of quality.
Whether the experiment con-

tinues depends on the public. °

Distribution will be onan exper-

-meeting, we-usuall

force.
~

We hear that only members belonging to a particular political

for the proper defense of our country.

When the utmost unity is needed among the people, such eédi-
torials are nothing short of treason, and an outrageous abuse of the
freedom of the Press. Certainly it is not American. sportsmanship. :

Without a question of a doubt the majority of the American
people have cast their vote for four more years of the New Deal
and the furtherance of the Social Security measures that have been
initiated. by the New Deal administration.- a

Liberty is an empty bubble without the protection of collec-
tive bargaining, the protected right of the wage earners to belong
to a Union of their own choosing. " .

The vote of confidence is a mandate by the American People .
to the present administration to strengthen the Wagner Labor Act,
which allows us to collectively bargain through our Union for wages
and working conditions. The members of Local 301 and the G.E.

ee @ploy-ees. generally, know what this means and has meant to then.

It has meant higher wages, better working conditions, and a hap-
pier life for themselves and their families. ;

The vote of confidence was a vote for the protection and
furtherance of ‘the Wage and Hour. Law, of the Social Security
Law. which has_guaranteed. old-age pensions. to forty-two. million
American workers, and most of all a vote of confidence in the
American way of life—equality before the law for the wage earner
as well as big business. oy

~Again-we-wish.to reaffirm our -faith-in: America~and pledge :
100 per. cent. cooperation to. the Roosevelt Administration’s defense
“program,

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The creed of our Union . . wet
. “One Nation, the United Stites; _
~ One Union, U. B Local No. 301.”

rty-are-allowed-to-dallat-the-meaetings,

imental “basis, through “selected”

_stores. If the buyers’ response
is good’ ,the experiment may be
extended to other plants. next
year, and-may eventually result
in the government service C.U,
has been asking for since 1986—
grade labeling of almost all
canned goods.

Grade labeling provides two
important benefits: If you wan!

-We hear of the thousands of dollars the Union is squandering.

We hear

of the smail clique or gang that controls the Union
meetings!

- Members attending Union meetings know these things are not

-true, and know that they cannot happen under our present way
of doing business, ‘ ‘ ;

Every. good..Union. member. owes it to- himself and-the Union ;

he believes these rumors he owes it to himself to attend the Union
meetings and register a protest against these practices,

We should always bear in mind that every single Union mem-

ber is a part of the Union, and anything said or done that injures
the prestige of the
single member.

to get first hand information by attending Union meetings, and if

Injuring the prestige of the Union, injures our working con-—

ditions, injures-our- wage structure-and. injures the-faith--in-our-—--

selves. |

‘Our Union is the only protection we have on our jobs, and any-
thing harming the Union will harm this protection to you and your
family. ok

You owe it to yourself and the welfare of your family to do
your utmost to maintain a strong and efficient Union on the job;

and the best way to do this is never to repeat any rumor that will

harm. the Union,,.and further..expose, anyone-that spreads--these
rumors, 3 .

A v

Our first loyalty is to our Country that protects our right to

Union or its leaders is only injuring every

belong to a Union of our own choosing, and our second loyalty is f

to our Union that protects our working conditions and the wages fi
that make it possible to give our families a decent American Stan. §

‘dard of Living.

to pay the Grade A price, you get
Grade A quality. If you prefer
equally wholesome Grades B and
°* GC, you get them at lower prices.

Furniture

Look before you leap inte those.

August furniture sales, C.U. ad-
vises in the first of a series of
articles on wood furniture in the
~~ “August C.U. reports. It’s ‘pos-
sible to get your money’s worth.

It’s also possible to squander -

money’ on’ furniture that will
hold together only: until you
start to use it, Usually the fur-
niture advertised as a bargain
special is actually the poorest
value. Furniture that warps,
cracks, or falls apart in.a few
months. can’t be a bargain, The
5 - * shiny ‘finishes that look so..well
~ el ~ 6 “~“iit the shop window may not re-
NS tain their gloss if they’ve been
; . sprayed on unfilled wood.

Furniture Workers

' About 170,000 furniture work-
ers are employed in’ the U.S.
They receive 26 pet cent: of the
amount you pay for furniture—
a relatively high ratio as com-

\pard with some other industries,
but pretty slim in-terms of actu-'

al . earning’s..- Average. hourly. .

wage is about 58c. Average
weekly earnings — during em-
ployment—aie around $20. Sum-
mer and winter are slack sea-
sons.

The main unions in the indus-
try are the United Brotherhoad

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7 hasvet

Request the Old |
Craft Set-up —

Each 12-ounce bottle of Pepsima The N.L.R.B. held a hearing
i pues, potile of Fepah~ at ‘the Schenectady. Post Office, ..

Thursday, October 24th, as-a.re-
sult of a petition made: by. the

Pattern Makers which--claimed’.

they were denied the privilege of
collective bargaining. The hear-
_ing revealed that the Pattern-
makers had benefited as much

‘the efforts of our

testimony the

they had received more in bene-
fits in the past four yéars than

they had. for many years prior

to 1987. However, they did at-
_ tempt to‘establish some:proof of
. bargaining for themselves that
“dated back to the early nineteen
hundreds. © : ;

It ‘was proved: that crafts
were adequately .and success-
fully represented netting: ‘in-

» creases in wages. Copies. of cases
that. were negotiated by the
United Electrical, Radio and
Machine Workers were. intro-.
duced as exhibits for evidence.

The mémbership of Local 801
has. expressed themselves many
times as to their feelings on the

_old.craft setup in the.plant. They
will not go back to it. The mould-
ers have taken a firm stand say-
ing that they will consider the
‘patternmakers unfair to organ-
ized labor in the ‘Schenectady
plant if they should establish a
precedent‘for craft unions to en-
ter the plant. :

Four years-.of successful col-
lective bargaining with increases
in pay, better. conditions, and.no

of lost.time due to labor trouble,
is. something that the C.I.0.
members.in the Schenectady G.
E. treasure closely and will not
stand by and see taken.away... -

Daliimore Newspaper
Settles $9,000 in .
Back Wages

BALTIMORE (FP) The
Afro-American, bi-weekly news-
paper that welcomed the CIO
with open arms until the Amer-

ican. Newspaper Guild (CIO)
started to organize its employes

pay due under the wage-hour
law, a federal district court set-
tlement revealed, 7

Eleven ‘employes have received
about : $8,000 in. straight back
pay, including some overtime
due,. Virgil H. Williams Jv., who
was listed as “apprentice. re-
porter” but actually worked as
pressman’s helper -and-composi-
tor for a year without pay, got
$431 due in straight pay. In a
separate civil suit pressed by
Atty, Harry J. Dingle he won an
additional $300. Williams had
been promised a job after his
apprentice period. but was fired
instead, Dingle said.

of Carpenters & Joiners (AFL),
United Furniture Workers (CIO)
and” Upholsterers’ Intl, Union
(AFL). Workers in organized
plants work shorter hours, earn
more than in nonunion plants.
Even before wage-hour legisla-
_tion, the unions had helped. to.
bar such abuses as 55-hour week
or wages under 25¢ an hour.
Much union-made furniture
can be identified by union labels.
Ask.for the union label when you

‘buy. \

YOUR DOLLAR is a regulary monthly
feature, The facts and opinions
givon are bnsed on Consumers Union
Roports, the monthly magazine of
Consumers Union, 17 Union Sq. W.,
Now York, N,Yi, & non-profit organi-
zaution whose muin object iy to snfo-
euard buvors by tosting and revort-
Ing on consumor goods. ‘Note aspo-
‘elally the Information on labor oon-
attlons under which products are
made, d

cuts in pay, without one minute.

avly.$9,000_baék___

Shipping has been ‘badly hit by
the war. One New York seaman
says things are so. bad the ships
are following the scavengers.

-They say Henry Ford is so
Nazi-minded: that when he's

step.

chilly, his goosé pimples keep in--

Initiations Hit New. .

High in Local 301

for October . oh oh
The financial secretary report- . ;

ed.that the October dues pay-..

ments were the highest in the

history of Local’ 301...
The October dues show a 10

as arty.craft in the plant thnereh ;

can’t make deniocracy
less the unemployed work.

So many injuries - resulted

‘from the: speedup in an automo-

. bile: factory. that some ‘wag

posted this ‘sign near the com-

pany gates: Hospital’ Zone...
Quiet.

* Still Alive
The cast of Paramount’s new
film, D:0.A. (police blotter term
'-for ‘déad on arrival’), wants the
~ title changed, ;

Whenever “an actor tells a
friend he’s working in D.0.A.,
the friend congratulates him. on
landing a government job at
ast.” ae

It seems the U. S. Army Re-
cruiting Journal recently ran a
yarn about the life of the typical
rookie. While weididn’t read. it.
ourselves, a friend swears that
the rookie in the story was

. called John Dope. — :

A quiz program the other day"
stated that the phrase “Now is
the time for all good men to
come:to the aid of the party’

_is a typewriter exercise only and
- has no-historical origin, -John:R. -
Chaplin says he thought.

@-adage that lik
times of ‘stress. ;

They’re saying of a certain
Hollywood columnist: His father
was a dirt farmer in Kansas, and
the sou is carrying on the fam-
ily. tradition in Hollywood.

Guilty!
controlled by a foot pedal. We'll
soon hear this one in court: “I’m
solry, sir, but I stepped on the
radio instead of the brake.” .

Membership Cooper-
ation and the Union
Demand for 10c Hr. ,

Can we win our demand for a

10c an hour increase from the

_ General Electric Company with-:
out the full support of all of our
members ?-

Definitely not! If you. want
from $4.00 to $5.00 a week.more
in your pay envelope, you must
do your share, Mi

Are you helping your Shop
‘Committeemen and Dues Collec-
tors keep the members in your
Section. up in their due??

Is everyone in your section in
the Union?

What are you doing to bring
the non-union members into_the

Union? *- a
Do you cooperate and \itssoci-
ate with non-union members
who definitely refiise to join our
Union ? . ;
- -Livery: eligible -G.E. -employee, .-
not in the Union, is-helping to.
keep us from getting the 10¢ an
hour increase!
Every employee, not in the
Union ,is keeping your standard ,
» of living dawn! ;
What are you going to do
about it?

Heard This One Lately?

“per cent increase over the month

of September, and October initi-

ations show.a—40_n

m1 1) ees

_ shop committeemen. and’ dues

collectors deserve. much“ praise
for this excellent work. *' ..
With the union drive opening
up for general 10 cents an“hour
increase,’ we need the support, of
every G.E. employee and the siie-
cess of our, drive will depend on-
the amount of support our union |
demand receives. ts
.. Exceptionally good work was ~
‘done by the ‘following commit- -
teemen in rounding up new mem-
bers keeping their members up -
In. their dues: .
* Charles White, Bldg. 10.
‘James Kelly, Bldg 10
V. Urbano, Bidg. 9-
L. Shannon, Bldg. 11
John Jarzebowski, Bldg..16
Charles Wahl, Bldg. 16.
David Belott, Bldg..17. :
S: Schreiter, Bldg. 24
. M. Simeon, Bldg. 28 | -
John Hicke, Bldg. 37
. Arthur Cotton, Bldg. 40
~ G. Straub, Bldg. 46 ;
* Philomena DeSiena, Bldg. 58
‘Joseph Corsetti, Bldg. 53
C. Herbeck, Bldg. 53 .
' Leland Bellinger, Bldg. 49
A. Richelieu, Bldg. 60° -
B. By Sackett, Bldg. 49
Frank Wahl, Bldg. 60:
_ Wm. Muddle ,Bldg. 89
John Gage, Bldg. 105
John Polak, Bldg. 57
-» John King,-Bldg: 95°:

cbor‘Pares-Well
In Election.

In California, Rep. Frank Ha-.,
venner (D), accounted a labor
friend, was defeated, as was for-
mer Rep. Byron Scott (D). Rep.
Jerry Voorhis (D) was reelected.
Rep. Lee Geyer (D) also came

ack,

st—tyne.of.auto_radio_is:_

' tee, was reelected. Rep. Caroline
“O'Day (D

, N.Y); labor friend,
was reelected.
In Minnesota,.. congressional

elections went badly for the’once

dominant’ Farmer-Labor party,
Rep. Richard T. Buckler (FL)
being the only Farmer-Laborite
elected. Lok

The South returned all.of la-
bors enemies, including Reps.
Howard Smith (D, Va.), Hugene
Cox (D, Ga.), Martin Dies (D,
Tex.). and Joseph Starnes (D,
Ala.); Their return was. assured.

_ following the Democratic pri--

maries. : ‘

In Ohio, Rep. Routzohn (R), a
member of the Smith committee, ©
was apparently defeated by la-. .
bor votes but in Indiana,Rep.....
Halleck: (R), atiother.member of. .. .
the Smith comimittee, was. re-
elected. . He

It was expected that labor's
-greatest gains would be shown in:
local and state elections. In Mich-
igan,. as-an-instance,-the-candi-
date. endorsed -by.-Labor’s~Non- -
Partisan’ League for governor,
was elected while CIO carididates
Mor. city commissioner in Flint

“won six out of nine places on the

commission. Two candidates of
, Henry Ford tor Congress were
beaten. s

at STE
TEEN