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“IN UNION
THERE IS
STRENGTH”
Published by IUE-CIO 202 Clinton Street
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(Below is a reprint of an article which appeared in the Communist
Party’s Daily Worker for August 28, 1951. It points out that the Taft-
_ Hartley Non-Communist Affidavit is not worth the paper it’s written on.)
GOLD RESIGNS FROM CP TO COMPLY WITH T-H
“Ben Gold, president of the Inter-
national Fur and Leather Workers
Union,. yesterday announced his resig-
nation from the Communist Party in
order to comply with the ‘Taft-Hartley
law.
“Gold at the same time made it clear
that he did not abandon the convictions
gained in nearly 30 years of member-
ship in the Communist Party.
““Men’s rights, their thoughts, con-
vietions and beliefs are sacred,” he de-
elared. “They are the foundation of civ-
ilization. They are the highest law. They
are inalienable.”
“As a member of the Communist Par-
ty for 30 years, I found the thinking of
the members of the Communist Party,
} Oo program and activities determined .
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one, and only: one, burning desire--to
serve the best interests of labor and the
people, to end the cruel exploitation of
the working people, racial-hatred and
bigetry, and to build up an econoom-
jeally secure, politically free, united,
democratic and peaceful America,
“Ivhave resigned from the Communist
Party,” he went on, “but I do not give
up my bel’ef in true democracy.”
Pointing to his 30 years membership
in the Communist Party, his 40 years
as a member of his union, 25 years as
an elected officer and 15 years as inter-
national] president, Gold asserted that
now, “the Congress of the United States
denied me my constitutional right to be-
long to the Communist Party and at the >
same time hold. office in a trade union.”
THESE. ARE SOME OF THE
THINGS BEN GOLD SAID WHEN
“HE SIGNED THE NON-COMMUNIST
AFFIDAVIT. :
BEN GOLD ALSO ATTACKED ALL
THE REST OF LABOR, EXCEPT OF
COURSE THE LEFT-WING UNIONS.
LEO JANDREAU. SIGNED. THE
NON-COMMUNIST AFFIDAVIT, JUST
Quis at DID. LEO JANDREAU
\LIFIES ALL, THE REST OF LA- |
oBOR, EXCEPT. THE LEFT WING U-
NIONS, JUST AS BEN: GOLD DOES,
BEN ‘GOLD SAYS THAT EVEN
THOMNGH HE RESIGNED PUBLICLY,
“HW STILT) BELIEVES. IN THE PRIN- ”
. CIPLES AND AIMS OF THE COM-
MUNIST PARTY. HOW ABOUT -YOU,
LEO JANDREAU? me .
SHOP TALK
All of us have heard a lot of talk re-'
cently about’ UE’s 32 cents an hour
raise. Well, workers down at the Bom-
mer Spring Hinge Co, members of UE’s
Local 475 in Brooklyn heard a lot about
il, too. In fact, they wot part of it--they
got the two cents of that 32 in the way
of a wage increase not long ago. That's
better than the $500 package promised
in 1949. Nobody in UE got any part of
that deal!
Charles Campbell who works in
Building. 73-A, suggests that UE. Board
Member Mastrianni ought to stay
around his own building and wateh his
own stooges for a while.
William Mastrianni has been awfully ,
busy, according to UE's newspaper,
trying to frame innocent workers on the
charge that they are harming the health
of other workers. Naturally, Mastrianni
wasn’t sucessful in this, but here’s what
Charles Campbell has to say,
Al Dorries of Building 15, Second
Shift, calls attention to the fact that UE
and company finally broke down to tell
the truth in the May 11th issue of Elec-
trical Union News. In a breakdown of
rains made, UE made just one nustake,
and here’s how Al corrects it.
AH the gains: made for-GE workers
were made while UE was still in CIO.
In 1949, when UE broke with CIO, the
workers made no gains, In 1950, IUE-
ClO won the bargaining -rights for 65,
000 GE workers, and immediately won
a ten-cent hourly inerease and an extra
paid holiday, plus another increase based
on living costs, which became effective
_ March 15, 1951. UE, unable to stand on
its own feet, has accepted everything
TUE-C1O has won so far.
Al Dorries says: “These figures prove
GAINS MADE
Under CIO
1946: 18% cents per hour
1947: 11% cents per hour
Extra Vacation and paid
Holidays
1948: Eight per cent per hour
1949:
‘1950: Ten cents per hour
1951: Nine cents so far (Schenectady
workers are still waiting for this.)
GAINS MADE
Under UE
Nothing
“Willie should stay a little more in
his own building, 73-A, and try to con-
trol his own hero-worshipers who like
to drown all those who wash up at the
end of the day. Although fire pails are -
not to be used except in case of fire, one
of the UE boys went outside the build-
ing and poured water through the win-
dow -into the washroom last’ Friday, In
fact, Billy, this particular member act-
ually. and deliberately caused “injury to
“another dues-paying UE member inthe
course of his work, which, don’t forget,
is defense work. The word: sabotage has
a nieaning inthis country.”
that as long as we fought under the ban-
ner of CLO, we gained, because we had
the support of all the rest of organized
labor. Under the banner of UE, we have:
no support except:from the Communist
Party, and the Party is too busy buying
white-wash to cover up its red treason.
ULE therefore hitched its trailer: to TUE-
CIO, in order to” make gains, but since
IUE-CIO is in a deadly struggle with
the giant corporation, GE, we must get ~~
rid of free-riders. by wnhitehing that
trailer and getting into the front. lines
in the battle, by joining IUE-CIO!”
May 31, 1951:
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