‘Tiffin, Ohio—UE Local 732 has
‘woul an important victory in the
fight to eliminate puy discrimina-
tion against women in. the: Gh
chain by forcing the company ty
ngree to a se hourly increase for
women inspectors and repair op-
erttors in the General Electriz
plant’ here, The Se is ine addition
lo the nationally neyotinted boost,
und paves the way for similar
hikes for women workers in sev-
eral other enteyories. An extend-
ed campaign to force these increas-
es has beensin progress in Tiffin
for many months, and it was ag a
result. of this pressure’ that the
Yompany agreed to grant them at
a meeting of the UN-GE grievance
conunittec held at the New York
level. :
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Salt Lake City—The independ-
ent Mine, Mill and Smelter Work-
ers have won a 9e hourly wage in-
crease ino a new contract nego
liated with the’ Kennecott Com-
pany. The agreement covers Ken-
necott operations. in Nevada, New
Mexico and. Utah, It follows the
pattern established by - Mine-Mill
in negotiations with the other big
torporations in’ the copper,
and lead industries, inchiding An-
aconda, American Smelting and
Refining and Phelps-Dodge.
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Toronto--Members of UF Local
423 have ratified a 18%4e hourly
package won by the union for 1,250
employees of the Page’ Hersey
Tube Co. in Welland. The pack-
age includes a $65 lump sum pay-
ment to workers, which was sched-
uled to be paid by the first of the
year,
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Detroit—The yreneral council of
UAW-CIO Ford Local 600, which’
‘represents more than 50,000 work-
ers, has asked President) Truman
to grant clemency to Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg, who are slated -
to die in the electric chair for al-
leged atomic spying during the
week of Jan. 12,
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Ornnge, N. J--UF Loeal 407 has
nevotiated wage increases averig-
ing about 10¢ an hour for workers
employed by four companies in this
city. The new agreements cover
the plants of the Thomas A. Faison
Co,, the U.S. Instrument Corp, the
Scientific Glass Apparatus Co. and
Riley and Downer, Ine.
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. New York—~A conference of
AFL, CIO and independent union
leaders to work our plans for
_aehieving labor unity ‘has been pro-.
posed hy the top officers of the In-
ternational Fur and Leather Work-
evs Union, ;
6 ® Friday, January 2, 1953
zine:
UE Fights Illegal NLRB Questionnaire
As Latest Drive on Labor Takes Shape
A new drive by the big corporations to break UE and all unions which refuse to sell out
their membership began taking definite shape in the past week as the National Labor Rela-
tions Board issued a completely illegal order asking that leaders of our union answer questions
which go beyond even the affidavit
provisions of the Taft-Hartley law.
‘The érder was issued by the
Taft-Hartley board without any
hearing,,and without anything ré--
‘ sembling American legal proced-
ure, which guarantees the full
right to be heard’in court. It was
based. on the illegal recommenda.
tions of a’ New York Grand Jury
last. month, That jury, made ‘up
entirely of corporation executives
and top management, sought to lay
the basis for decer'tification of UF
under the Taft-Hartley law.
As soon as the grand jury ac-
tion was taken, the union went to
court to.demand that the jury rec-
ommendations be wiped off the
record as’ illegal, and unjustified.
The T-H board action comes while
this UE demand is before the Fed-
eral District Court in New York,
In fact, the NLRB- move was so
raw that Chairman Pau) Herzog
refused to go- along, maintaining
correctly that the board has no
power, to act while the case is be-.
fore a court.
‘Acting on the situation, the na- .
ional . Union's general executive
hoard approved a motion made by
UE Local 301 Business Agent Leo
Jandreau to make an all-out court
fight on the latest moves inspired
hy the union-busters. The motion
made it clear that the two national
officers involved, President Albevt
Fitagerald and Director of Organi-
zation James Matles; were in com-
plete conipliance with the T-H af-
fidavits, and that. in accordance
with the actions of the union's na-
tional conventions, they would re-
main in compliance.
However, the current questions
being posed before Fitzgerald and
Matles are actually violations of
eve the anti-labor Jaw, and as
such the latest procedure should be
fought by the entire labor move-
ment.” Without such a fight, the
strategy of the big corporations of
destroying organized labor by first
attacking the most militant unions
and then going after those whieh
ave weaker,.is likely to succeed.
Defeat IVE Raid
New York--For the second time
workers of the Anchor Wire Co.
have defeated a raid launched by
the TUE-CIO. The’ Anchor em-
ployees are members of UF Loeal
1227,
‘used by
Readers Digest Calls.
Grievances “Red Plot”
UE Local U1 is once again “hon-
ored” by an attack in one of the
big corporation house organs which
masquerade as national magazines.
This time the labor-hating pub-
lication which devotes its space to
attacking our union‘is the Reader's.
‘Digest, which runs an article un-
der the fancy title, “We ure pro-
tecting Spies in Defense Plants!”
in its January issue. The. article
is by none other than Rep. Charles
Kersten, the congressional union-
buster whose witch hunt conimittee
wis given‘its lumps in Schenectady,
when it tried to do a.job on the:
local five years ago. ,
Kersten apparently now feels it’s:
safer to attack 301 at-a distance.
He drags out all of the same shop-
worn lies about the union that were
Post ‘recently. The main theme of
the Digest piece is that all. shop
stewards are potentially or. actual-
ly Communist spies, and that there
is nothing more un-American than
processing a grievance. :
Kersten’s pitch, like that of the
Saturday, Evening Post, is thar,
since the workers insist on voting
for UE in democratic clections, the
only solution for the bosses is to:
outlaw the union.
Santa is Union Man &
Out in San Franciseo, Santa’
Claus is a good union man, and
this year he found that it pays
of...
The 25 ‘men who don red
robes and white beards to work
as department store St. Nicks
in the Golden’ Gate City each
year belong to the AFL Guild
of Variety Artists. In 1951, the
pay for the job of entertaining
the kids was $75 a week. This
year, under a new contract ne-
gotiated between the union and
the stores, the scale was upped
to $100 weekly.
the Saturdaly Evening ~
Nervy Free Rider
Threatens UE Man
. Free riders are born with plenty
of the wrong kind of nerve, -but
few can equal the gall shown by
Bonnie Bonesteel, a non-union
member who works in the Building
285 shipping department.
Bonesteel is not content with
just tuking all of the benefits won
hy the union without paying a cent _
for them. His. litest stunt is to
try und act the big shot by threat-
ening good union members. Re-
cently, the free rider warned a ue,
ion member that he had “bettS—
behave if he. knew what-wah good
for him.” ,
The UIE man: immediately re-
ported the incident to steward Lou
Riano. Riano protested to. Fore.
man Frank Luther, but Luther. re-
fused ‘to do, anything.
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Friday, January 9, 1953
Meeting Sets Mark
More than 550 of UE Local 301's
» 680 shop stewards took their oaths
of office on Monday in what was
believed to. be’ the ‘best-attended "
stewards’ meeting since the war
years. oo,
The swearing-in ceremony. was
conducted by Guide Mario Bagnato
at both sessions of the meeting.
One‘hundred of the committee men
and- women pledged themselves to
work in the interests of the union
and its membership at ‘the 2nd
shift mecting in the afternoon. The
remaining 450 were sworn ‘in at
the night meeting. "
Brief statements by Local” 30r
President Jim Cognetta and Chief
‘Shop Steward Bill Mastriani mark-
ed the ccremonies, Both union
lenders stressed the importance. of
. the steward’s role in processing
grievances and in loyally repre-"
senting the interests of the work-
ers he'or she represents. They
a7\so pointed out that the function
ce ) the steward made him a guard-
“ian of both the contract and of the
union’s constitution. As such, the
steward must be an “active, effect-
ive leader and not just a messenger
boy,”’*Mastriani pointed out?
All stewards who attended the
meeting were given red and white.
buttons designed.to inform the men
and women in the shops that they.
were represented at the January
stewards’ meeting,
tons will be issued every month.
Those stewards who were unable
to tuke the oath at Monday’s nieet-_
ings will be given the opportunity
to do so at next month's meeting,
which is slated to be held on Feb, 2.”
Aq
TAKING OATH. A sea of raised 1
the oath of office as UE Local 301 shop stewards, ‘This picture w
100 other persons had been sworn in as stewards,
Similar. but.
“As ‘long as we fight for wages
and working conditions, and as
long as we'fight for the people, our
unjon and its leadership will be
: attacked,” UE Director of Organ-
i n James Matles.. declared -ini
‘-an-address to 550 cheering UI Lo-
cal 801 stewards on Monday, .Mat-
les added, “However, ‘these’ cat-
tacks don’t worry us becnuse wo
know that as long as the corpora:
~tions hit at us for these reasons,
our members’ will stund together
With us, and we will win.”
The packed union hall was rock-
ed with appliuse time after time
as ‘Matles outlined the union’s' po-
sition ‘in. the face of the current
illegal attempts to set up decertifi-
vation proceedings against UE, and
to: strip the union’s organizational
director of his citizenship.
Discussing .the Taft-Hartley
board demand that .UE officers fi!
‘ out new affidavits, the union lead-
er pointed out that for the past.
four.years, this union has signed
the regular affidavits required by”
law, He noted that the last set
was signed only a few weeks ago,
and that the national office has on
file statements from the NLRB
that UE was in compliance with
the law for the year, 1952.
“What ‘then is the object of the
new affidavit which ‘doesn’t ask
“us to swear to anything that we
haven’t sworn to in the others?”
’ Matles demanded, Answering: his
own question, the. Ul leader as-
serted:
“The different thing about this
is that it has absolutely no basis in
luv. Tt stéms out of an illegal
publicity ‘presentment? by a grand
jury made up of corporation execu-
8
ight: hands confronts the cameras ¢
| Stewards’ Pledge Matles Sees Continued Fight
tives,
set a precedent by which the Taft-
Hartley board can issue orders of
any kind, without any regard for
the law. Today that order is .to:
sign affidavits. Tomorrow it may
_be to stop fighting grievances.
“It is important to realize that
after four yoars of having the un-
American committees, the corpor:
~ation-controlled courts and the
press drag out stoolpigeon. after
_informer after professional per-
jurer in efforts to frame our union
leadership, the board has not been
able to. produce:one shred of evi-
_ dence against* any: of us. That’s
why they have to go after us with«-
these illegal affidavits, ;
“And« that’s exactly why we're
fighting this business in court. If
we have to sign these: affidavits ©
to continue to protect our member-
ship in basic economic and legisla-
tive fights, then we will, but not
without a battle. We eall on all of °
labor to recognize ‘the danger. in
this new ‘government by decree,’
and to fight it ilongside of us.
Turning to his own case, Matles
told the stewards how he had come
to this country before his 19th
birthday, and how he had applied
for his citizenship only three days
safter getting off the boat.
“Nothing would be worse to me
than to be deprived of my Amer-
ican citizenship,” he said, adding:
“All my adult life, I have work-
ed alongside of hundreds of thous-
ands of others to build a better
America, an America in which the
working people would be able to
live decently, eat> decently and
work under decent conditions.
(Continued on Page 3)
more than 450 men and women take”
as taken Monday. evening. In the afternoon,
making 550 who took the oath on one day.
The object’ is obvious—to-
‘Choose 11 New
Board Members.
leven newcomers joined 21 vet=
_erans on the 1953 UE Local. 301
executive board as a result of elec-
tions conducted in the union hall
on Monday. The union’s 680 stew-
ards cast the ballots. that decided
‘the makeup of the key body,
In all, the executive body is
made up of 23 persons, However,
“one seat in the Turbine division -
‘remained undecided. ‘This is the
position occupied last year by Jo-
seph Alois, now loral vice presi-
‘dent,
* Building 273 committeemen
chose four other members of the
board, William Linka, William Mes.
Coll, William’ Stewart and Ralph —
Vitallo, Of this’ group, all but.
McColl were on the 1952 body. ,
The -important ‘post. of “woman
hoard -member-at-large owas won
by Helen Quirini, former local
treasurer, who replaced Sadie Iov-
inelfa. the latter re.
mained on the board as a result of
her election in Buildings 81 and 89.
Two others were chosen in at-
large capacities, Fred Pacelli of
2nd shift, and Larry Gebo, third
shift. The following were reclect-
ed to the board:
Vineent Di Lorenzo, 69; Paul
Rosa, 60; Sidney Friedlander, 15,
17, 19; Frank D'Amico, 40; James
DeMasseo, 49; Fay Hildreth, 59,
269; Miles’Moon, 85; Edward La-
Bombard, 97; Ilenry Kaminski, 68,
72, 76, 80, 94, 227, 238, 241; Vin-
cent Palazeke, 60, 107; George
Agius, 22, 28, 24; Edward Marine,
57, 98, 05, 95A, 101, 105; Harold
MeCloan, Racetrack; Anthony. Vil-
Jano, Knolls; and Webster Bath-
rick, 18, 87, 60 Test, 61, 68, 265,
Nowly board
Were;
However,
elected members
Chiles Scott, 648, G63 1. Everett,
18; Lloyd Perue, 12, 14, 16, 20: Al-
(Continued on Page ob)
Members Meet Jan. 19
UE Local 80's next: membership
meeting is seheduled far Monday,
Jan 19 The 2nd shift will eon-
vene at 1:00 pan. with the Ist and
_ 8rd shifts getting together ag 780
pan,
Under the schedule in elfeet tor
1953, membership medtings care
held the thind Monday of each
month,’ and stewurds' gatherings,
oh the first Monday,
~ White House Rips
~ New McGarranLaw
A report ripping the new Me-_
Carran-Walter Immigration Law
as un-American was issued last
week by the President’s Commis-
sion on Immigration and Natural-
ization, which has just completed
hearings on the measure in .11
cities, ‘
The un-American measure is the
one under which the lame-duck: At-
torney-General McGranery is now
secking: to denaturalize, and event-
ually to deport UE Director of Or-
ganization Jim Matles. Its auth-
ors are Rep. Francis. Walter of
Pennsylvania, a member of the
witch-hunt un-American commit-°
tee, and Sen. Pat MeCarran of Ne- |
vada, possibly the most notorious
enemy of organized labor in Con-
gress. ;
This piece of legislation has been
denounced by church groups of all
denominations, the entire’ labor
movement and virtually all liberal
and progressive organizations in
the céuntry. Among other things,’ .
the law sets up a vicious system of
discrimination against Negroes,
Italians, Jews and many other min-
orities,
, The act, which went into effect
Dec. 24, has caused a storm of pro-
test at home and abroad, The com-
mission found the new law “rests
upon an attitude of hostility to-
wards and distrust of all alfens,”
flouts “fundamental American tra-
ditions and ideals,” displays “a
lack of faith in America’s future,”
damages American prestige among
other nations and ignores “the les-
sons of the American way of life,”
Furthermore, the report said, its
countless provisions adding diffi-
culties to naturalization and mak-
ing naturalized Americans “second-
class citizens” are downright cruel.
After detailing its charge that
the act is “an arrogant, brazen in-
strument of discrimination based
on race, creed, color and national
origin,” the 319-page report out-
lined what commission members
believe should be substituted. by
Congress for the new law.
It recommended abolition of the
present limited quota system and
substitution of an overall quota ‘to
be administered by a permanent
‘commission of three, five or seven
members appointed by the Presi-
dent with consent of the Senate.
The overall quota would be fixed
at 1/6 of 1% of the current U. 8.
population, The McCarran-Walter
act fixes the overall quota at, this
percentage but uses the 1920 cen-
sus, instead of .the current one,
and counts only the white popula- ”
tion.
Friday, January 9, 1953
" minutes.
Bldg. 10: A new setup for draw-
ing vouchers from dispatch cage, ‘
under which operators are required
to contact foreman and make out
new card before turning old vouch-
ers in, is resulting in excessive lost
time without compensation for ex- .
tra effort. The union demands pay-
ment of extra work for this.
Production ‘ grinders ‘are being
required to: work to tolerances far
closer than the normal machine re- ,
quirements. The union demands
that the workers be compensated.
for this through an upward ad-
justment “in rate’ on the plug
gauges,
Bldg. 24: Deflection coil group
on assembly and wire job is work-
ing with skills far in excess. of
those. which they should need for
the $1.87 rate they are receiving.
Infact, the work is strictly A
classification, and. the union. de-
qmands that it -be given this status.
Bldg..46: Under article XIV-8b
of the national. UE-GE agreement,
executive board members are au-
thorized to contact stewards: pro-
viding only that the foremen in the
‘board member’s departnient and in
the steward’s department are noti-
fied: On Nov. 18, Rossiter Light-_
hall was called in by a steward to
help work-out a solution to a prob-.
‘lem which had led to a stoppage.
Lighthall notified the. two. stew-
ards involved, Bowen in his own de-
partment, and §. Hall in the stew-
ard’s aurea. However, Hall and an-
other. foreman, T. Honan, harassed
Lighthall while he was ‘in on the
grievance. They admitted that they
were doing so under instructions
from top supervision. Supervision
went even further, issuing Light-
hall a warning notice holding him
responsible for the work stoppage.
‘This is the second time that such
n notice has been issued to Light-
hall, ‘There can be no question but
that this is an outright attempt
hy top. supervision to intimidate a
union leader, The union demands
that these tacties be immediately
halted and that the two warning
notices be rescinded.
» Bldg. 49: Arthur P.-Abbale is a
steward working under TForemar
Mankowski. He went to Mankow-
ski to discuss a grievance, but the
foreman refused to either, recog-
nize or discuss the merits of the
case.- Instead he resorted to abu-
sive language and issued an ulti-
imatum to Abbale, demanding that
he return to his machine within 5
The union demands that
management instruct the foreman
on his responsibilities in a griev-
ance procedure, and order him to
refrain from all coercive tactics.
Although tool inspectors are re-
sponsible for all tools ground in
49, and it has always been the cus-
tom. to have inspectors work over-
time with, grinders, supervision re-
cently has called in the grinders on
overtime without calling in the in-
spectors, and as a result tools have
been issued directly onto the floor
without inspection. The union ‘dé
:mands..that inspectors be called in
on all overtime with the grinders,
and that overtime be equally dis-
tributed.
Williarn Ceely was discussing .a
. grievance with Foreman Mays re-
A BFEN RTs ena nenne:
Thousands of grievances are handled by UE‘Local 301
each year at all-levels from the steward up to final appeal
in New York City. To keep members posted, we shail
each week list some of the prievances that have not been
‘settled at the steward-foreman level and have been re-
ferred to the executive board-management level.
cently, when they were interrupted
by Asst. Gen. Foreman Schneider.
Schneider, using abusive language,
ordered the foreman to keep a rec-
ord of the steward’s union activity
time, This is a clear case of. in-
terference and attempted coercion,
and the union demands that such -
actions be halted immediately.
Lathe operators are protesting
supervision’s utilization. of machin-
ists to do lathe wotk on Saturdays
and Sundays while regular operat-
ors are not called in. The union
domands an end to this diserimin-
ation. .
Bldg. 50: Frank Viccio and Pas-
quale Giaquinto are classified as
tractor operators but are receiving
only’ $1.56 day rate instead of
$1.6044,.the established rate for
the job-throughout the plant. The
- union demands proper rate adjust-
ment.
Bldg. 52: W. Burdick, R. Inco-
bueci, M.. Mone, J. Pochily and J.
Steuart demand a procedure sheet
on job. 109D339. This is a new job
and the price does not cover .plan-
ning, i
‘The 5 workers listed in the above |
case are classified as hand weld-’
ers but also do assembly: work,
Therefore, they are entitled to re-
classification and. adjustment of
rate. . oo
Bldg. 60: Eugene Ellis protests
the breaking of his service while
he was on granted Jeave-of-ab-
sence, As a.vesult, he was given a
lower rated job than he had had
when he returned to. work. The
union demands restoration of serv-
iee and return of Ellis to his for-
mer job and rate.
Bldg. 66: C. G. Smith protests
the change in method and cut in
standard price on stator frame job
for assembly and weld.’ The union
demands standard price in accord-
ance with contract VI-5d-5e.
Job evaluation in“group under
Foreman Houck has always been
almost entirely on. a comparative
basis. On the upper bearing bracket
job in question, the original price
of $49.30 plus a $20 adjustment is
being ‘paid. However, $11.00 ex-
tra work, to which the operators
are entitled, is not being paid. The
union demands payment of the ex-
tra work money.
Assemblers’ group demands
equalization of overtime as pyro-
vided in the contract. The union
demands immediate management
action on this situation.
Bldg. 69: Test group protests
the assignment of inspection duties
outside of their classification. Wom-
en workers are being forced to
combine test and inspection work,
and they feel that either the speed-
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up shoyild be ended or that they
should -be paid for additional du-
ties.
ficution or rate adjustment.” j
Bldg. 73A: Spot welders’ group
demands’ that management live up
to its agreement, made at a joint
sub-committee meeting, to furnish
atomic tables for their operations.
Spot welding. group objects to
the techniques used by supervision
to. try and justify a change in
method on a case enclosing job.
. The old price was $3.19, and the
present price is $5.70 temporary.
“The union demands a time study on
this job under normal conditions.
Bldg. 105: A radial drill press —
operator was timed 9 months ago.
Although the methods are fully de-
veloped; the prices are still being
issued as temporary. The union
demands that. the prices be made
standard in accordance with con-
tract article: VI-5b.
‘Bldg. 107: Vincent Palazeke de-
mands an investigation to deter
mine why -his foreman refuses to
transfer him to the cable :gang.
He is entitled to this transfer on
the basis of service, ability.and job
performance, ‘ ;
Bldg. 2738: Albert Petronia. re-
quested upgrading from C to Bon
floor stator frame job on Nov. 23,
This, request: was based on the fact
_that-the majority of his work’ was
_B. He-now has been notified that
will be Dee. 22, and even frem thy.)
date he will receive no increas»
Under contract article V-2a-3, he is
entitled to the B classification and
rate" increase from Nov. 23, and
the union demands he be given
them.
Shop Steward R. Squillace is the .
vietim of a vicious campaign of
discrimination on the part of Fore-
man W. Krug. Krug continuously
checks the work of this steward,
although there are regular inspect-
ors to do this job, The: foreman
has done everything possible to
foment trouble between first and
third shifts, and it was when Squil-
luce protested and warned he would
expose these tactics that Krug
threatened him, The union de-
mands that management immedi-
ately put a stop to the coercive
actions of Krug. :
A group is protesting the major
health hazard created by the con-
stant opening’ of doors in . their
work area. There has been consid-
erable resulting illness and lost
time. The union demands man-
agement correction of this situ-
ation. : .
Group. does not feel that the
$1.31 timing rate is adequate for
the 10" Sellers horizontal boring
mill in K-Bay, The size ofthe
mill and the nature of the work
justify ‘a higher rate, and the un-
ion-demands an increase to $1.5
’, Group is protesting prices ¢:
edges on job 170-3626-107D3)
parts 1 & 2, Offered prices have
been $6.75, $9.77, $18.75, $12.00
and $10.75. The last figure was
arrived at as a result of a produe-
tion check that was entirely out of
order sineé no effort was made to ~
thaintain normal conditions. The
union demands that. management
instruct supervision to price the
job correctly, :
the effective date of his om tn
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UE members.
workers and piece workers.
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Complete Pay Raise Chart
. Many.‘questions are being asked in the shops. regarding the
new pay rales established by the recently negotiated: increase for
For this reason, the EU News this week prints
this chart containing all of ‘the old and new rates for both
he day work increase is calculated by taking the rate pre-
vailing before the increase of March, 1951, and adding 8.74% to
that. .The system for calculating the increase for piece workers
is mathematically much more complicated, so that we are present-
ing all of the rates without giving the formula used to arrive at
DAY WORK RATES.
day
Labor
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March 1951
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Matles
(Continued from page 1)
Through UE, I have helped to ac-
“mplish a great deal in this di-
ion, and. I. am proud of this.
“We, the working people: of this
country have a far greater invest-
ment in America than the big cor-
porations, and a far greater _invest-
“ment than “lame-duck ” politicians
like (attorney-general) MeGzan-
' ery who are rushing to pay off
. corrupt debts to the likes of Carey
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS _
through actions like the denatural- |
ization proceedings against me.
“We will fight back by refusing
to allow our union to be diverted —
from its main job, waging the fight '
' for our people on the economic and
legislative fronts.” .
Following Matles' speech, the
stewards unanimously approved a
yesolution pledging ‘support from
“this local both in the fight against .
the illegal affidavits, and in the
struggle to protect the organiza-
tional director, :
UE Court Actiori Gains Delay
On Illegal Affidavit Deadline
. UE this week won a postponement of the deadline date set
by the Taft-Hartley board for signing illegal affidavits. The.
delay was obtained through action in a Federal Court in Wash-
ington.
The union presented’ the court
with its arguments in a day-long
session Monday... UE attorney
David Scribner urged the court to
nullify the NLRB affidavit order
on the ground that it was com-
pletely illegal, and would set up
a precedent for “government ‘by
deeree.” A government attorney,
acting on behalf of ‘Lame Duck’
McGranery, opposed the union, and
two other unions which took sim-
ilar court action.
After hearing the arguments,
Federal Judge Dickenson ‘Letts
conceded that there was sufficient
merit in the union position to jus-
tify further study:" He" gave the
lawyers’ 12 days.in which to file
- briefs’ (written legal arguments).
Since it is probable that the court .
will need additional time to study
the briefs, this makes it unlikely
that any action on the NLRB ‘or-
der can be taken for at least three
weeks,
At the same time, the “union
acted In a New York court this
week to try and wipe off the rec-
ord the grand jury publicity “pre-
(Continued on Page 4)
Control Workers Hit ©
Farming Out of Jobs
For the second time in the last
few months, top supervision in the
Industrial ‘Control division has
taken to farming out work to non-
union shops while workers in the
shop ‘here are being sent home.
The latest incidents involve arc
welding and. painting groups in
the sheet metal department. - Last
Friday, the painters were ‘sent
home, and there were indications
that more time might be lost this °
week. .
At the same time, GE is sending
jobs to. low-paying shops in New
Jersey and in Western New York,
The union has protested that all of
these jobs could be done here, and
that they belong in Schenectady.
- When the same ‘thing happened
last year; the. EU News reported
the farming out after receiving re- ,
ports of protests by shop stewards’
in control. The practice -by. top
supervision was halted almost im-
mediately after the protests were
made’ known.
“REVISED BLE INDEX MARES (T MORE DIFFICULT
To GET LIVING CoST WAGE. INCREASES,
Friday, January 9, 1953 © 3
