Court Hearings Explained
To Injured Workers
After a claim is filed by an. in-
jured: worker for compensation
benefits, the Workmen’s Compensa-
tion Board in Albany makes up a
file for each case and sets up a pro-
cedure which finally brings the case
to a hearing before a referee.
If the injury is a minor injury
requiring some medical treatment
and even if the worker has lost
some time from work, no hearing
will be scheduled for him if there
are medical reports that the work-)
er has fully recovered from the ac-
. cident: und- that he has no perma-
nent injury. In such instances the
worker receives a notice from the
Board on which is printed a. state-
ment that he does not have to ap-
pear at the-hearing which is sched-
uled for that case. This notice.
briefly recites the type of injury he
has had; whether he has lost any
“ time from "work; and’ the fact that
there is “no permanency” or in
other words that he has fully re-
covered, The notice goes on to say
that the case will be closed at the
hearing scheduled. Of course, the
statement that he is fully recovered
may not be an accurate one. If the
worker feels that he has not fully
recovered, the union’s lawyer writes
to the worker's doctor asking him
for a report as to the worker’s con-
dition, If the doctor reports that
the worker has, in fact, recovered,
nv protest is made to the closing of
the case. On the other hand, if the
doctor reports that the worker still
needs treatment, the Board is in-
formed of this and the case remains
open until treatment can be discon-
tinued.
In cuses of more serious injuries
or where the doctor’s report that
the worker: may have permanent
effects from the injury, hearings
are held for a different purpose. At
these hearings, the injured: work-
er’s claim for benefits is submitted
to the referee for an “award” to
the injured worker, The “award”
¢an be in terms of weekly benefits
for lost time or reduced earnings
but‘it can also be for other claims
‘such“as that the worker needs con-
tinued treatment or that he is en-
titled to w sum of money, even if
he has fost no time from work, be-
cause of a permanent injury, to
some purt of his body,
At a hearing, the referee ex-
“pects the injured worker,’ or his
lawyer, to state what claim he is
“making, He then expects the em-
ployer, or his lawyer, to state
whether they are objecting ‘to the
eluim, If there are objections to
the claim a, trial must be held so
that the referee can hear both sides
and listen to their proof. He then
makes his decision after all the evi-
dence is completed. The types of
issues which. are usually brought to
trial will be discussed in another
_ ment, an
article, What happens in other
cases, where no objections are rais-
ed will also be covered, In any.
event, because many cases present
difficult and complicated legal prob-
lems, the union’s lawyer: is present
at these hearings to protect the in-
jured worker's rights both for the
prenent and the future.
We Award a a
Bouquet of
Scallions
Once again the Union finds it-
self in the position of having to do
business with a “ninety day won-
der” who doesn't have the neces-
sary factory training to properly.
handle his job or, Tor that matter,
even do what is morally correct for
the workers under his jurisdiction.
This has happened many times
in the past and when the condition
was brought to the attention of
our workers, either the workers or °
the management corrected the sit-
uation, . 7
Under the supposition that per-
haps top management will correct
the condition in Bldg..81, under
foreman Schultz, we are’once again
bringing to light the facts. These
facts show the results of having to
work for a foreman who doesn’t
understand the fundamental prob-
lems of the average worker. You
be the judge and jury and decide
what is right and. what is wrong,
1—This foreman refused to ac-
cept into his. area, last summer, an
‘assembler with more than 164%
years assembly experience even
though his own records showed
that in the assembly group he
worked his assemblers an average
of 583 overtime hours per week for
the three month period of July,
August and September. Also, he
had working for him in this period,
in violation of our Local Supple-
assembler with .much
shorter service, IS THIS FAIR?
2—Another shining example of
this foreman’s actions is the fact
' that while our people are going
through a drastic lack of work sit-
uation in this plant, he has the gall
to work his group a total of 1,984
overtime hours in a period of 3
months, which is an average of
approximately 129 hours per week,
or more than enough to give three
more workers a job, IS THIS
FAIR?
8—To add insult.to injury, here
is. his crowning achievement, He
issued a “lack of work” to a 1951
service boring mill operator, and a
1942 service assembler about Oc-
tober ist, and during the same
» 10-20-57 —
"10-27-57
Pricing Trouble in SAC Motor
By Bill Christman
We fee] that management should
take a look at the prevailing condi-
tions in the Small A.C. Generator
Department, especially Bldgs. 81
and 89, and see if the Gh’s slogan:
“We do what’s right voluntarily by
our employees” applies in that
case. We're very sure that the
workers in this department don’t
feel that this is true and they have
many reasons for such thinking on
their part.
Here we ‘find a product formerly
done in Bldgs, 18, 40B and 40,
known as tri/clad 44 motors, be-
ing transferred to Bldgs, 81 and 89,
and under a new design called tri/
clad 55 ‘motors, but the catch is—
the management in this depart-
ment hasn’t as yet been able to
settle ONE grievance that pertain-
ed to pieceworkers making their
earnings on the new designed mo-
tors. All this, after the manage-
ment in: these buildings have had
up,'to a year to work ona solution
to these grievances.
At the present time, there are
’ several grievances under discussion
with management on the 1st and
.2nd levels, all of “which concern
pieceworkers not being able to ac-
cept prices offered because they
would suffer a drastic reduction in
earnings if they did accept the val-
ues and time standards being of-
fered. A few such examples are:
the Packers’ case in Bldg. 81 un-
der Foreman Schultz; also in this
aurea is the attempt by this fore-
man to put the assembly of set
motors'on a daywork set-up which
is now and has for a long period
of time been on a piecework basis;
another example in Bldg. 81 are
the grievances on rotor turning
and rotor balancing) which have
been under discussion for many
months and where the operators
(both with 17 years of service and.
bac kground on this work) stand to
lose a minirhum of $1.00 per hour
if they accept the prices which
have been offered. As for Bldg. 89,
there is the shaft turning griev-
ance which has been under discus-
sion for many months and-which is
still far from being settled.
There are many other cases of
this nature in these buildings, but
the fact still remains that the rec-
ord shows there isn’t an. effort be-
ing. made by management in these
buildings to.do “what's right” for
these: worket's.
The only case that has been set-
tled in this department was the
Bldg. 81 Test:case, and only then
- after the workers had been obliged
to strike to get back a reduction of
their job rate on Test work on the
Western Electric. Set Motors.
Under, these ‘circumstances, the
workers in this department and
their Union representatives, as well
as the. Union office, feel that such
incompetent management. not only
do not know what they are doing
but in effect are trying to rewrite
our contract anddestroy the work-
ers’ rights and standard of living.
We believe that such conditions’
and’ practices by any management »
ean ‘only lead to labor trouble in,
the future. .
week worked his group a total of
225 overtime hours, which on a
regular 40 hour work week sched-
ule would give another 5 workers
jobs, plus a very impurtant pay
check, WOULD YOU CALL THIS
FAIR?
4—Since issuing this lack of
work to the workers mentioned in
item 8, he has worked his group
the following overtime hours in
this weekly breakdown:
10-1357 — 180 overtime hours
153% overtime hours
182% overtime hours
10- 8-57 — 176% overtime hours
Tt doesn’t take much of a mathe-
matician to figure out that this
four week total of 592%: hours
represents enough work to give
more than 3 workers a much need-
ed 40 hour pay, each week.
AGAIN WE SAY — IS THIS
FAIR?
There
onee again that they do not intend
now, or at any time in the future,
to be obliged to work under this
type of supervision.
; are the facts, and we are-
_ asking’ the workers in the plant to
_be the jury and tell management
Union Membership
On Increase
There were 189 national and in-
ternational unions with a total
membership of 18,477,190. Of these
16,904,328 were affiliated with the
AFL-CIO and 1,572,862 were un-
affiliated.
a “sizeable increase over 1955 for
the AFL-CIO and a further, al-
though slight, shrinkage for the in-
dependents.” ‘Since then the Broth-
erhood of Railroad Trainmen with
about 200,000 members has affiliat-
ed with the AFL-CIO;
Union’s Sidewalk on
Erie Bivd. Repaired
At a cost of $756.00, the sidewalk
on Erie Boulevard along the union
property was repaired after a low
bidder was chosen by the Building
Committee and the contract ap-
proved by the Executive Board, Be-
fore it was repaved, the sidewalk
was broken in many places’ with
the result that the insurance com-
pany which issued liability insur-°
unee to the union required the re-
pairing to avoid accidents,
The 1956 figures showed °
is
—~ Membership Mecting are as follows:
_- Christmas Party
“ing final arrangements for the An-
AFL-CIO
Vol. 3 — No. 21
The Voice of GE Workers, Local 301, Schenectady, N.Y.
December 6, 1957
Election Dates Set by Committee
The Election Committee that will y M0 the 1958 elections of Shop
Stewards and Executive Board Members have elected Pat Lombardi as
Chairman of the Committee and John Steslow as Co-Chairman. Miles
Moon was elected Secretary of the Election Committee.
The Committee has set. Monday, December 9th, and Tuesday, De-
cember 10th, as the dates for holding the annual election of Shop Stew-
ards, which will take place in the plant. The election of Executive Board
Members will. be held on Thursday, December 19th, at Union Headquart-
‘ers. Each Board Member and his respective Shop Stewards will:be noti-
fied by the Election Committee as to the scheduled time of the day their
election will take place. a
. Eligibility affecting candidates for Shop Stewards requires them to‘ be
a member of IUE Local 301 in good standing for at least one year, Stew-
ards will be elected by secret ballot by members of the Union in good
standing in their respectivé groups.
Eligibility for candidates to the Executive Board requires them to
be a Shop Steward, having a total experience as a Steward of at least
six months.
Proxies or substitute stewards will not be permitted to cast votes.
The Election Committee members who were elected at the November
NAME BLDG.
John Steslow .... we OTE
Ben Sharmose .... a 49
James Wilson .... ._ Knolls
Robert Murphy .. w= 273
Charles Greenburg .. et. 11)
James Curran ay 60
Larry Wilkins ....... bes 16
John Gozdzialski . ae 16
Joseph Korszun . Knolls
John Natonski’.. = - 269
Miles Moon ........... we 50
Henry Esposito ... w. 285
Pat Lombardi .... we «BT3
Sal Maetta ' 60
Gerald Condon ., \ 273
Carmen Trifilo .. we li 52
Manuel Alvarez ae 96
Luther Rasch. .... : x 52
Jerry Lumia ... adh 56
Henry Caputo . : w= 273
Roy Cannice ............ oe 60
Robert Anderson .... we «16
Robert Bieling ..... we 49,
Nickolas Fioriti ‘ ‘63 85
Local 304 Local 304
Party Nite
- The Activities Committee has set
Tuesday, January 7, 1958 as the
date for the first Local 301 “Party
Nite.” .
“Party Nites” will be ‘Tal. swodke
ly thereafter, Entertainment ind
games will be featured
from these- “Party Nites” will be
The Activities Committee is mak-
nual Children’s Christmas Party
whieh: will be held on Saturday,
December 21st, and Sunday, De-
eember 22nd, 1957,
The Shop Stewards have the
Christmas Party lists which must
be filled out and returned to the
“Union office by Friday, December
6, 1957, Any members who have
not signed for their children’s tick-
ets should contact theit Shop Stew-
ard immediately.
Roy V. Schaffer, Chairman,
. Activities Committee,
Proceeds
help pay for the new auditorium in
which these parties will be held.
Roy V. Schaffer, Charman,
. Activities Committee:
used for Local 301 activities and to -
800 Scheduled for Layoff
The Officers of-Local 301 and ‘the OF Bay of man-
agement have’ discussed the employment status of the Sche-
nectady G.E. plant and the application of the Seniority Supple-
ment. Management has notified the Union that approximately
800 employees will be laid off from the bargaining unit by
March 15th, 1958.
The Company further notified the Union that the oppor-
tunities for employees with less than 7/1/51 service would be
extremely limited on skilled jobs. The management said the
only ones remaining after March 15, 1958, with-7/1/51 service
or less will be working on jobs for which no suitable replace-
ments are available. They said that in view of these factors,
employees with less than 7/1/51 services who are affected by
lack of work will be offered only unskilled jobs with a rate of
R-12 ($1.84) or below, where the learning time will not be an
important factor. They said that according to their current
judgment, the employment. situation will become stabilized
around April 1, 1958.
The Union notified management: that this proposal was
not satisfactory and the matter should be discussed further.
A special meeting was arranged between the officers and man-
agement, The officers offered several proposals which, in their
opinion, would help to resolve some of the current problems on
placement. The proposals were as follows:
1. A Union representative in Bldg. 1, in order that Union
members would receive the fullest consideration under
the contract. ;
The privilege for a Union Placement Representative to
investigate certain jobs where the department has said
the employee does not qualify.
Company open ‘Welding School to train long service
employees on welding to replace. short service em-
ployees.
On the above the managenient turned down the proposals,
giving miscellaneous reasons why they could not accept them.
4. The Company should give more information on the
transfer list, specificaily the occupations the employees
are coming from. (Management says they will con-
sider this request.)
5. The Officers protested the farming-out of work, par-
ticularly during a reduction in employment . period.
(Management said they were in the process of making
a survey on farm-outs and would have something to
report on this matter later.)
The Officers. complained about delays in getting an-
swers from Bldg, 41, saying the management should
put on more help on their Placement Committee.
(Management said this proposal could not be con-
sidered immediately, but Possibly after ‘the first of
next year it could be.)
Management claimed the bumping of one person affected
the moving of three employees on the average; therefore, the
placing of 800 employees would involve a movement of approx-
imately 2,400 employees. They said it would be difficult to
find suitable replacements on the following jobs (Day Work): °
Number Expected —
Employed 3/15/58
Rinilayedl
Occupation
Crane Op Operator Class A & Bu
Crane Follower
Trade Helpers
Testers
Assembly
Welders
: GE’s Outlook: Nationwide Cou't Trials in Compensation
Beat the Community Drums—predicting a strike in 1958;
and blame IUE International President James Carey, as the
instigator who is deliberately planning to strike CE for the
sole purpose of personal satisfaction—this is the theme song of
General Electric in its Community News Letters to the public.
They carefully include in: their
“blame the Union campaign”, the
Local Union officials, for their “me
too” attitude, by hooking the local
Union management disagreements, |
arising out of the grievance pro-
cedure, as part of the Union’s over-
all plan td create trouble for Gen-
eral Ilectric. The General Elec-
.tric knows very well the: power of
a well organized publicity program,
and they have the financial means
to constantly bring before the
Public through Television, Radio,
Press and tons-of printed material,
delivered regularly to the citizens
‘of our. Community, their slanted
point of view. They also are aware
of the value of distorting the facts,
by taking words out of context and
avoiding the basic positions and is-
sues between the Union and the
Company. To talk:about, this would
foree them from their lofty perch
and their “Holier than Thou”. atti-
tude when presenting their pious
position to the public.’ Let us take,
for example, the 1958 Contract Ne-
“gotiations, which will deal with
emplyyment security.
The “Union and
signed an Agreement in 1955, that
provided, in’ Article 28, “If no
agreement is reached thereon by
Oct. 1, 1958, the Union and its Lo-
eals shall have the right’ to strike
over such proposals’—The issue is
a very important one to all GE
workers, particularly in places such
as Schenectady, where people are
being laid off, as the result of jobs
transferred from Schenectady, un-
der the Compauny’s Decentralization
Program. The Union, through Pres.
Carey, requested several months
ugo that we start meeting on the
question of employment security,
and explore the problems, if any,
and take all the time necessary to
fully discuss the question and ‘at-
tempt to reach an Agreement,
The Company’s answer to this
_was that 80 days prior to October
1, 1958, will be time enough ‘to
meet. That answer does not indi-
eate un interest to avoid labor
trouble. The Company's propa-
ganda is directed at individuals,
and leaders in the Labor Movye-
ment, .Singling out Reuther of
Auto, Carey of Electrical, and Me-
Donald of Steel. They refer to Em-
ployment Seeurity as an issue of
competition between the — labor
leaders for personal prestige. The
fact is that Supplementary Unem-
ployment. Insurance benefits are
already in effect in the Auto, Steel,
Rubber and many other major in-
dustries, where thousands of work-
ers are protected and. will receive
the Company
additional unemployment benefits,
if they are laid off, as provided in
the Union. Agreements in those in-
dustries. Certainly, the workers
who. are covered by these Union
Agreements applatd’ the achieve-
ments of their respective leaders.
But.more than that, they are re-
ceiving necessary and important
benefits which help them and their
families, at least temporarily, until
they .can find other employment.
Furthermore, this helps to soften
the economic blow to the Commun-
ity “by providing additional’ pur-
chasing power. So one can see that
the issue is whether. the employees
of GE are entitled to the same Un-
employment Insurance protection
as thousands of other workers in
the’ country. GE Management
avoids that issue by, refusing to
start early discussions on the mat-
ter with the Union, but GI spends
unlimited time ‘and money propa-
gandiszing the Public that if there
is a strike in 1958 on this question,
the blame rests on the Union and
its leaders. :
GI! is not content to sit back and
do nothing until 80 days prior to
October 1, 1958. 7 .
They are also. constantly” en-
gaged in a propaganda war on the
Labor Movement by direct attack
in publications such as “Let’s Talk
Shop”. This. publication is mailed
to thousands of business and pro-
fessional citizens in our Commun-
ity. In the November 18, 1957 issue
they charged | the - International
President and Loeal Union leaders
with fomenting a strike for 1958,
Using more subtle methods, Mr.
Philip Reed, Chairman -of the GE
Board of Directors, told a meeting
of the Public Relations Society of
America, that industry should re-
strain pay inereases in 1958, and a
30 hour week would produce. in-
flation almost immediately. He ad-
vised this advertising group,” to
start a campaign against both of
these economic issues. ,
Mr. Reed conveniently forgot to
mention in his talk some of the
problems and issues that have a
bearing on the two points he so
vigorously discussed. For example:
1)--There are
100,000 unemployed workers in the
electrical industry,
2)—A 36 hour week in our in-
dustry would provide jobs for all
these people.
3)—The General Blectrie’s pro-
duction program is expressed by
GE Vice-President Vinson when he
enlls for doubling General Elec-
trie’s share of the Gross National
approximately.
Cases Explained
The right of an employer to object to the paying of
claim for compensation is limited by law to cases where he
can show a legitimate reason for objecting to the claim. Where
such an objection is raised it is called a “controversy” and the
case itself is earmarked by the
Workmen’s Conipensation Board as
a “controverted. case.” The pro-
cedures which ure followed in such
cases are uniform.
At the very first hearing, in a
controverted case, ithe employer
“must state for the record what is
‘the basis for his objections to pay-
ment. Anyone of the following, or
a combination of them can be giv-
en as a basis for objections:
1. If the injured worker claims
injuries from an “accident,”
the employer has the right to
prove that no accident took
place.
If the injured worker claims
that he is disabled not from
an “accident” but because of
the nature of the work that
he was performing, in other
_words, that he is suffering
from’an occupational disease,
the employer has the right to
challenge thé7elaim that the
nature of the work could have
resulted in an occupational
disease. .
The. employer has the right
to challenge compensation on
the ground that the worker
failed to give timely notice of
the accident or disease and
therefore lost his rights ‘to
make any claim even if the
accident took place or the
disease came from the work.
The employer has the right
to challenge the relationship
of a worker’s physical dis-
ability to the particular: act
cident claimed. Where this
objection is raised by an em-
ployer, usually it takes the
form-of an admission that the
worker does in fact have ‘the
this disability arose
other and private sources and
not from a work-connected
incident.
disability claimed by him “oO ,
The employer can raise a fur-
ther objection that the claim
should be thrown out because
it was not filed in the time
limit prescribed by law.
These are the more usual objec-
tidns raised’ by the Company where
they are controverting a claim, but
whether they are raising some of
the objections or all-of them it all
leads to the same objective-——name-
ly that the union’s lawyer in repre-
senting the injured worker. must—
prepare the case for trial. ‘
At the hearing where the Com- ~
pany raises its objections to pay-
ment both the employer and the
Company are asked to name the.
witnesses, whom they propose to
produce to prove, its side of the
controversy, Once these witnesses
are named, a date is then picked
for the trial and the case is ad-
journed for that date.
Examples of what happens at
such atrial, for each type of ob-
jection raised.by the Company, will «
follow in future articles.
Product between the years 1953-
1968, which means doubling pro-
duction. Mr. Vinson also points out
that the employment of workers
Will not be anywhere in proportion
to the increased production, The
Kngineering Outlook, as reported
in one of the publications of GE,
and not fur public consumption,
sums up the future employment
outlook fairly well: “This chart in-
dicates that if we can increase the
productivity of ‘our workers by
100% in the next 10 year period
(1953-1963), we will not need to
increase our labor force over the
present level.”
4)—Other major industries have
reduced the work week without
major difficulties.
5)—Mr. Reed uses the example
of 40 hours to 80 hours to illustrate
a rise in labor cost, However, he.
offers.no consideration for a more
modified approach in the reduetion
of hour, whieh, in our opinion,
places him in a position of oppos-
ing any reduction in hours.
Mr. Reed’s opposition to the 30
hour week reminds us of the same ,
fears and protest voiced by indus)
trialists all over the country when
the work week was reduced from
48 to 40 hours.
NOTICE
MEMBERSHIP
Meeting
Monday, Dec. 16, 1957 _
2nd Shift—1;00 p.m.
Ist and 3rd Shifts—7:30 p.m.
_ Union Auditorium
“121 Erie Blvd.
Regular Order of Business
Report of Committees
ff "
front: 3
)
Jandreau Speaks to Young People’s
Group on Community Responsibility
Addressing a meeting of the Young People’s Group of the
Eastern Parkway Methodist Church, Leo Jandreau said the
program of Organized Labor is designed to provide economic
security and a progressively higher standard of'living, through
adequate wages and good working conditions and protection
during periods of illness and old
age. He further stated that Labor
feels this ‘is a necessary program
for working people and their fami-
Hes. It is a program that benefits ”
our Community and other Com-
munities throughout the country.
f ‘Ability affecting our own economic
way of life.
The Union Business Agent de-
plored the quarter, page. ad of the
GE, featuring a question asked by
County Commissioner of Welfare,
Leo Vosburg—“Is employment in
Schenectady GE up or down since
decentralization?” Mr, Crawford
replied in the ad: —“Employment
is up since decentralization.”
Why use tailor-made éxamples to
justify a: wrong-doing? Why mis-
represent the facts to cover up a
GE program that is doing harm to
our Community, Jandreau — said.
Mr. Crawford used 1949-50 as his
On feel‘ it is a program of respon-
OF to-justify his statement that
eurrent employment -was_ slightly
higher at present than the period
conveniently picked. _ Jandreau
pointed out. that 1954-55 would give
a better, pieture of a peace time
base. It would make a difference
in Schenectady of nearly 5000 jobs
in the factory alone.” It is hard to
follow some of the public state-
ments made by GE officials from
time to time, in their effort to
cover up the real. reason why em-
ployment is gradually getting
smaller
plant.
Giving some examples, the Busi-
ness Agent referred to the, Cord-
ner alibi of lack of cultural facili-
es in Scheneetady. Other Com-
Dany Representatives indicated the
labor supply, transportation and
housing were not adequate to meet
the needs of a large plant.
Mr, Vinson, a vice-president of
the GE said at a meeting held in
Schenectady during 1954; “SiGe of
at the» Schenectady GE
our people are in only 7 plant
cities, where we employ 10,000: to
40,000 people. (Schenectady, Lynn,
Evendale, Erie, Pittsfield, Syracuse
and Fort Wayne).” ;
“So far as decentralization of
people, we have merely scratched
the surface. The tiend is definitely
toward smaller ,,plant—smaller
town operation”. Viee-Pres. Vin-
son gave the real:reason and fore-
cast Schenectady’s future employ-
ment situation. However, the pub-
lication that carried these rema:
was not for publi¢ information.
Getting back to Crawford's re-
marks and employment, Jandreau
‘said the question that was asked by
Comm. .Vosburg should have been:
“Is Schenectady receiving its share
of General
peacetime employment?” . Let’s
take the total employment. figures
of GE over the period of 1954°
through 1956. Employment on a
company-wide basis increased from
‘approximately 243,000 in’ 1954 to
approximately 280,497 in 1956.
This is approximately a 15% in-
crease. The employment in Sche-
nectady was reduced during this
same period by over 20%. Another
period of comparison is 1987 vs.
1956. 1987 was considered at the
time -us a very good year for GI,
equal to the -1929- pre-depressian
high year, At that time Schenec-
tady employed nearly 259 of the
total GE workers. In 1956 Sche-
nectadys employed “approximately
1OGe of the total, Schenectady is
being deprived of: its share of GE's
growth, declared Jandreau, This
his been caused largely by GI's de-
centralization program. It results
in an act of irresponsibility to “our
community, it’ has created injus-
tices to employees, who lose their
jobs through lack of work, or are
forced to be transferred to lower
rated jobs due to lack of work.
mmTwo more General Hleetrie
aris Join the ranks of LUE as the
result of N.L.R.B. elections held
lust week—one plant: located in
_ Roanoke, Virginia, and the other in
Jonesboro, Arkunsas. One of the
significant points in these two yic-
tories is the fact that they are new
GE. plants and are located in the
South, _—
The victory in Roanoke, Virginia,
is important to the Schenectady
G.E. Union members beexuse part
of the products manufsetured in
Roanoke was formerly made in
Schenectady.
_ IVE Wins G.E. Elections
Tn both plants the management
of General Bleetrie put on a “No
Union” campaign, but their anti-
union propaganda was not aceepted
by the majority of the cligible vot-
erse Both plants are new and ane
in the process of expansion,
The results of the elections were |
as follows:
Roanoke, Virginia ;
UE... 676 votes
No union 869 yotes
TBIEW oe 15 votes
Jonesboro, Arkansas
IUE 188 votes
113 votes
Electric’s , increasing
Carey Reports IUD Assets Serve as.
Resources for All Members
IUD Secretary-Treasurer James B. Carey told delegates to
the Department’s Second Constitutional Convention that the
Department. had total liquid assets of $3,084,733.88, as of
‘September 30, 1957.
In submitting an oral financial
report to the convention, Carey
pointed out that a*detailed financial
analysis was included in the Presi-
dent’s Report and that a supple-
mental report had also been distri-
buted to all delegates. ;
Carey spoke with pride of the
“lusty account” built up by the
Department. He said that ‘these
are the funds and the resources of
all the members of the IUD.”
The Department — Seeretary-
Treasurer stressed the fact that
the IUD is the third largest labor
entity in the entire world. He said
that only the AFL-CIO, itself, and
the British Trade Union Congress
have larger memberships.
Carey. declared that the ITUD’s
‘resources have made it possible for
the Department to contribute $147,-
000 to worthy organizations, both
inside and outside the labor move-
ment. He said that affiliates have
received financial aid for orguniz-
ing purposes and strike assistance.
He also pointed out that the re-
port showed that the Department:
aided the Indiana State Industrial
Union Council in its “valiant and
critically important struggle
against right-to-work legislation.
“T have no doubt,’ he added,
“that should: a similar situation
und need arise in some other state,
or in that state, the IUD will again
contribute, because this issue is
vital not only to industrial unions,
but to all unions.”
Carey spoke of other contribu-
sand women
tions made by the IUD and speci
fically referred to the aid given to
the’ ICFTU > “Solidarity Fund”
“wich helped the Hungarian ftee-
fighters following their revolt
He declared that this contribu-
tion, along with financial aid given
to needy organizations in this coun-
try “may be considered at least in
part as fringe benefits growing out
of the very healthy situation repre-
sented by this financial feport.”
The Secretary-Treasurer also
discussed the many conferences and
meetings held by the Department
since its inception, He stated that
all of the IUD’s: undertakings were
mide possible “because of the con-
tinued financial growth and the De-
partments expanding capacity to
meet its ever-growing and new re-
sponsibilities.”
In concluding his report, Carey _
thanked all of the Department’s af-
filiates for contributing “propor-
tionately and indispensably: to the
magnificant organization which we
have -constructed here within the
larger house of labor. ;
“When we speak of the larger
house of Inbor,” he added, “we con-
tributed as the 1UD to the econ-
omic strengthening, of the APFL-
CIO, and we contribated—in that
way—to the causé of working: men
everywhere in the
world and to the human dignity
and democratic brotherhood that
we will inevitably establish.”
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