People Who Know Say . ve a
“YE Told Us The Same Lies”’
Throughout the country ... . from Lynn to Los Angeles . . . from Pittsfield to Philadelphia
. . . the National UE has screamed that GE workers “lose their Seniority” every single time a
local has moved from UE to IUE-CIO. In every single campaign UE has said that — and more!
They have also said that people will “lose their piece-work safeguards” . . . that people will
“lose their Contract” . . . that people will lose “all the gains made under UE.”
Every time they say it, but never once has it been true. For more than 400,000 workers
have qvit UE and they have not only kept what they had in the past, they went on to win
greater yains through actual Unity.
Here is what the people who know say about these UE lies:
Lyle Dougherty, Business Agent of IUE-CIO Local
901, representing 12,000 Fort Wayne GE work-’
ers...
- "Nota single thing has been lost by Fort Wayne GE work-
ers as a result of going IUF-ClO. We at Fort Wayne won our
Local Seniority agreement while still in UE and we have kept®
it in IUE-CIO, It affords full and com- :
plete protection for all GE workers as 3 ion |
regards bumping, lay-offs and rehiring, ‘a \
etc. We won that agreement locally ee Ci oe
and we are proud of*it. Our proudest Von i
gain in that Seniority agreement is one
that provides Seniority recognition for’ *
choice of shifts. In Fort Wayne’ our
earnings are‘ high because we have
enforced our Seniority and our National Contract provides -
equal protection to the UE Contract, which UE organizers
have a way of referring to as "superior." However, anyone.
who knows about a contract knows that what counts. is the
application of the Contract. “And that is one of the reasons
| extend the welcome on behalf of Fort Wayne GE workers .
‘to have Schenectady return to the ranks of CIO.. United
“100,000-strong we will all be able to do a more forceful job of .
sree the Contract on.the day-to-day grievances in the
shop. :
Earl Riley, Business Agent of IUE-CIO Local 201,
Lynn, Mass., representing 16,000 GE workers. . .
“Back in 1950 when we first threwout UE, "Lose Your
Seniority" was the whole ery from the National's crowd of
outside organizers. Up-one side of the Lynn plant and down
the other they shouted it, Naturally
_ some people believed this and were
justifiably worried about it. But after
our election was held and we were in
IUE-CIO, all of those scurrilous claims
were proved to be completely false.
In [UE-CIO we have maintained com-
plete seniority protection for our entire
membership. We have also maintained
all the gains we made under UE and went on to win addi.
tional gains that UE was never able to win, In the past four
years UE has had three NLRB elections here in Lynn and in
every case our members repudiated the UE and voted to stay
in IUE.CIO. This proves the phoniness of the UE claims
* about “losing Seniority." If those stories were true, Lynn
GE workers would have voted to go back to UE. The fact
that they didn't proves those stories to be lies."
€ “
Dave Fitzmaurice, President of IUE-CiO Local
707, representing Cleveland GE workers . . .
“To hear the ctowd of National Organizers from UE talk,
you would think they invented Seniority. You would-think that
they had a Copyright on it. The fact of the matter is, that
UE's National Contract with GE doesn't even mention plant-
‘wide seniority. “However; the IVE-CIO National-GE Contract:
specifically ‘spells out plant-wide Seniority as a right of GE
_workers.. We-have not lostasingle thing as a.result of leaving
“UES We. have: maintained all the’ gains of the past and gone
"on to win additional gains in IUE-CIO, | am sure that Sche-
nectady GE workers will not lose any
gains either. Far from "losing" any-
thing, | feel confident that in IUE-CIO,
Schenectady GE workers will go on to
win greater gains in the future. For
after your election and the outside
liars ‘have again been exposed, IUE-
ClO will confront GE at. the bargain-
ing table with the strength of more
than 100,000 GE workers in one Union."
‘ Ed Houchins, President of IUE-ClO Local 119,
representing Philadelphia GE workers .. .
"When we were going through our campaign against UE
back in 1950, that's all we heard from the UE national crowd
— "lose your seniority." ‘That is a fear technique, a scare
story, and it was the only thing UE
could offer, They had no program for: -
“GE workers. In [UE-CIO; Philadelphia
GE workers have not lost anything. As
.a matter of fact, we have won. addi-
tional strength. For just last December
we organized another Philadelphia GE
plant in IUE-CIO. This plant had been
unorganized for many years and -the
UE could never organize it. Here in Philadelphia our piece-
work earnings have been steadily increased.to the point where
they are highest in history. This is because our IUE-CIO Na-
tional ‘Contract. proivdes full and complete piece-work pro-
tection for all GE workers, Undoubtedly the National UE
crowd is telling you; too, that in IUE-CIO strikes can be called
by the National Officers. This, too, is a fabrication which
has no basis in fact. | know of this personally because | have:
been Local 119 representative on the IUE-CIO GE Nego-
tiating Committee and’ the GE Conference: Board."
John Callahan, representing GE workers in IUE-
CIO Locals 254 and 255, Pittsfield, Mass... .
"| have been following the propaganda peddled by the
National UE in your campaign. When | show it to people in
our plant, they laugh. It is just that ridiculous. For they know
» that in IUE-CIO. they have not lost a
single thing that they had under UE.
Pittsfield GE workers have kept all their
Seniority protection. They frome kept
all their piece-work protection. And
they have an even greater degree of
Local democracy than under UE, for
a side organizers trying to run the Local
the way'the National UE wanted it run. Pittsfield GE workers
know, how phony are the UE's scare stories about "push-
button strikes.’ In IUE-CIO no strike is ever called without a
vote of the membership. In LUE-ClIO no Contract is ever
‘signed: without approval of the membership. Pittsfield GE
~ workers: welcome: the return: of Local 301 to the ranks of ClO,..-
for they know that the unity of 100,000 GE workers in negotia- :
tions will end the Boulware brand of take-it-or-leave-it "bar-
gaining" and will win for all GE people the kind of gains we
won in 1946, 1947 and 1948." ; -
p
seatenese STERN UHEDARDNI HST
Cis : ‘
they are no longer harassed by out-
SCHENECTADY, N. Y.
June 17, 1954
ty
UE Local 301 now has a clear and growing majority throughout the Schenectady Works, a building-by-
building survey revealed this week. The survey was conducted in the shops immediately after the Taft-Hartley
Board announcement that it was joining the company and TUE-CIO plot against our UE contract by ordering an
TELLING THE SCHE
tt
As GE workers from every building joined the final drive to end
IUE-ClO disruption in Schenectady, those pictured above told the
story on the UE Local 30! TV program—''Schenectady Story—
1954"'—Tuesday night. They are: Front row—Ray Clark, 273; Tony
Cannici, 273; Odell Pittman, 68; Louis Passikoff, Racetrack; Gordon
Knowlton, 273; Ralph. Fischer, 46; and Bob Mott, Campbell Ave.
Back Row-—John Green, 66; Chester Salinski, 10C; Edna Miller, 285:
Elsa Ferguson, 69; Audna Pitcher, 69; Mabel Barnes, 60; and. Ray
Ewing, 89. Not present at the time the picture was taken—Siggy.
Golombiski, «17; Helen Quirini, 81; James Cingregrano, 109; Percy
Everett, 18; Paul Giebitz, 16; P. Hardindorf, 28 V. Suto, 285.
ro
UE-GE BOARD TO DISCUSS
COMPANY'S NICKEL OFFER
The UE Conference Board of GE Tocals will meet on
Saturday and then with the company on Tuesday. Pending
these meetings, the contract situation stands this’ way:
The company has made the orn nana
same nickel offer to all unions contract itself runs to April:
representing GI employees and 1955,
rh profits,
GE even refuses to give sis. June 1. ;
assurances that it will not - AN take-it-or-leave “package
pocket any. increase in Social S4-offeris' the
Security-which-may be voted ' Kk
“Hy Goapes.
“The WIE-GE negotiations ate
ve Tabt-Hartley
on a contract re-openers the © Board, ; —_
SHSKTUN AE RRO PEARY
* ho * . ’
IOs to improve on it despite ‘Phe inferior LUE-CIO. con-
tract. went on a-day-to-dity bas:
; JECT ive vears “ago with:
election here. .
The reports from the shops
came as. no surprise to ULE
Local SOT headquarters where
UE pledge cards signed by a
majority of workers. have
‘poured in, where worker after
worker has been coming in to
report his | departinent ~ has
swung to UE, and where hun-
dreds of (workers lave been
meeting every week on their
“cerievances, on the fight for
“jobs, on the protection of the
ULE Contract.
After the attempted Carey-
Jandreau “blitz” in, March,
the wildest claim made by
the IUE-CIO was that 11,307
workers had signed IUE-
CIO petitions (IUE-CIO
301 News, March 16, 1954).
_ This means that, by. the
- raiders’ own admission, 9.000
workers had refused to back
the split from the beginning.
Even using the typical
Carey ‘tmathematics,'' a
swing of only a little more
than 1,000 would have given
the UE its majority. Since
then, everybody knows that
the swing has been. not of
one but of many thousands.
Greatest breakthrough, of
course, was the ‘decision of
Turbine workers ‘to ed -alenut
in defense of the UIE contract.
Tt was the fight: for jobs whieh
ssparked thes UI upsurge in
Blilg. 269, Seniority was one
of the key issues whieh carried
VUE to its) big amajerity. cin
“Bldgs. 18. 17 and 19 as well
asin 12) and 16.
. Among the dozens, of other
‘huildings and divisions in which
GAS Has commanding najoritie
. (Coutinwed on Page 2)
| thousands of dollars into the
are Bldg, 285: Bldg. 50, Bldgs:
UE ROUTS CAREY
RAIDERS AGAIN
UE this week crushed
another raid by the IUE-
CIO, this one at the Cor-
coran Metal Co, in: Wash-
ington, Indiana
~Corcoran metal.-workers
voted for UE by a vote of
145 to 95 for the raiders, al-
though Carey’s gang poured
attempt to take this. key
shop. IUE-CIO claimed that
the shop had “seceded” from
the UE, but when the votes
were counted it turned out
to be just another case of
the IUE-CIO members’
money being poured down
the sewer of raiding.
FAIR PRACTICES
COMMITTEE SELECTED
The first step toward mak-
ing sure that the Ule National
Tair practices and anti-diserim-
ination program is carried
forth in UI Loeval 301 was
taken by the Policy Committee
when it reconstituted the Pair
Practices Conmnittee last week.
As Tur.
b
e3)—
“ALL ISSUES LOST
~ THE “MIGHTY” C0"
CIO Textile Union has
just approved a 9!4-cent-an- °
hour pay cut for their mem-
bers in 11 mills of the Amer-
Carey-GE Deal Sabotages
a 3-Week Strike in Trenton
has ‘just negotiated a con-'|, a rune
tract with Bigelow-Sanford WILBUR D. HAYWARD, A three-week strike by GE workers in Trenton, N. ()
—no wage increases, . ‘This’ Bldg. is — StewarH, 14 years which began as a fight against the company extending of the
follows a no-wage-increase service — "It's UE for me be-
Turbine is the healt of the Schenectady Works and Turbine is UE to the core
Pictured on these pages are some of the UE Local 301 committees rejireseniting all shifts. aad bays of Tur- |
bine where more than 5,000 workers turn out the world’s largest turbines. | - ;
pact “between CIO-TWU/ “cause UE is a union that's, run
Local 489. and the Mohawk
Carpet Mills. by the members and fights for
the members." °
WHAT THE AUDIT
SHOWED
The Official Auditor’s report made at the direction of the
court contains the following evidence of mishandling of UE
Local 301 funds by the Carey-Jandreau clique:
$30,304.58—spent on lost’ time during a period of ten
weeks,
$21,440. 72—grabbed by Jandreau, Atoveile Marshall White
‘and. several others: of ‘the Jandreau clique for 14 “weeks
advance salaries. — :
$54, 900—Jandreau sent to > Carey. it’ violation of the UE
Local 301 Constitution and without the’ knowledge of the
membership. i yo
$3,000—Jandreau gave to Attorney Blodgett who has
now gone ona trip to Europe.
$1,432.64—-was spent by the Jandreau clique on confer-
ences including secret sessions and junkets to Washing-
ton and-New York to meet Congressman Kearney, other
politicians and Carey.
$5,000—in'..a petty cash find which was “spent by. the
IUE-CIO clique. The balance left is 58 cents.
$5,644,50—Jandreau gave to a printer as an advance for
future IUE-CIO printing.
$1,300—spent to purchase postage stamps.
IUE-CIO says: “No Evidence of Any Mishandling’ of
Funds” !!
©) ENDORBEMEAT Ime CHICA WHEN PAD Ie AC CERTED
IN PULL PACMERT OF LOE POMLUMING AC COURT
cant { ewoune : UNITED. to Leon SAS RADIO
i AND MAGEE W ORKE RS
OF ANERIGR LOCAL NO. 301
“be > segue prs py ¥
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betel
CHUSICOr Wasiilte '
Cordiner firing policy to four workers “guilty” of ceed a
grievance fight; ended last
week when the LULE-CILOr lead-
ership made a baek-deor deal
with the company. “Phe deal
‘resulted ino a complete failure
of the’ strike and in the four
workers: remaining’ fired, P
GE management fired the
four workers after: accusing
them af “leading a slowdown”
en arate grievance, This move
completely) stripped the mask
from the Cordiner —puticy’s
claim that it is directed against
“subversives.” :
‘It is interesting to note that
a orecent unton-busting | bill
backed hy GIE in’ Congress
would have defined subversion
as “slowdown of production,
repeated and concerted absen-
teeism, limitation of production
ay
by daily or hourly quota .. .
(HJ. Res. 247.)
Trenton, GE workers, angered
by this anti-union action, hit
Howe despite Carey's
boast t the strength that
conies. from “unity” with “the
imiehiy “CIO,” the - LUE-C1O
leadership was: unable: to gain
a sihgle concession. fromthe
company in the deal that. 4-
nally sold out the strike and
sacrified the jobs of four active
union Jeaders.
Key man. in ‘the emptying of
the UE Local 301 Treasury was
bookkeeper Marshall. White.
The check below underlines
White's role in the huge finan-
cial grab bag,
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AJORITY
FOR UE 301
(Continued from Page 1).
81, Bldg. 89; Racetrack ; Cump-
bell Ave.; the Foundries Divi-
> sion and the Chemical Division.
Some of the most ‘startling
developments in the growth ol
UF strength in the last weeks
have emerged from. Welded
fodiuets, home division of
tta, and Bldg. 73, where.”
tiand works,
In the light of these facts
and figures, the TUE-CLO claim
to: having 906, support inthe
plant. has become ra liughing
stock.= TUL-CTO claims now
are tchoes. of the claims. made‘
‘O50.
claimed huge majorities, bef
the votes were counted. Muore
recently, inthe election at Mica
Insulator in 1953, the TUJ-CIO
claimed that it would win 3
tov | — this on the eve of the
election (Schencetady Onion-
Star, Aug. 13, 1953), When the
ballots were counted, ULE wag
the overwhelming victor and
“the TULE-CIO had only 48 out
of 600 votes. a
The fact is that Schnee:
tady GE workers know that
the UE contract is the only
one with GE providing plant-
wide seniority, which espe-
cially today means the very
jobs’ of thousands;. that- UE
is the only union ready and
able to wage a fight for jobs
and against runaways; that
UE is a democratic union
where the members make the
decisions, while the IUE-
CIO. members are victimized
by push-button decisions by
the Carey clique.
In short, there is no questiqn
that, the majority .of SehC )
tady ¢ GIs workers are. deter.
mined to keep the union that
has) protected ‘them’ and im-
proved their wages, their work-
ing conditions, their job secu-
y for 17 years. They” will
vote UTE, °
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
The committees went into — ——S : os
all-out action this week after
the. Taft-Hartley Board — or-
dered the, election requested by
the IUE-CIO and the company
acting. together.
Determined to protect the
UE gains of 18 years against
this third LUE-C1lO raid, ‘the
Turbine committees have, un-
dertaken to, guarantee an over-
whelming UE victory.
They know the score from
their own experience. . The
TUE-CIO raid was the signal,
for an outbreak of rate cutting,
doubling up, seniority viola-
tions and such. arfogance fy
supervision.as Turbine workers
have not known. since UIE or-
ganized the plant 17 years ago.
Turbine has already, paid: for
TUE-CIO°. pushbutton ~ stop”
pages.
On the other hand, UE urged
- unity .te tur back the com-
Repany-attacks. “No polities with
Turbine grievances,” UE de
clared. “An injury to one is an
injury to all.” >
In one situation after an-
other, Carey's TUEers showed
that they were not interested
in unity, in protecting rates
and seniority. liven the diselo-
sure by ULE that the company
plans a one-third cuthack in
Turbine, already hard hit by
layoffs and short: work. weeks,
failed to move TULE-CIO
raiders..
The endorsement of united
action by 1800 Turbine work-
ers In’ one plant meeting alone
was kicked aside by the [UE-
CIO, ‘ ,
For these reasons, and many
others, Turbiné is overwhelm-
ingly—UE.
Compensation Service
UE Local 301 maintains a
free compensation service for’
all. Schenectady GE em-
ployees.
Workers. who are. injured
_ in the plant who suffer from
work-connected. illnesses
should contact’ UE, either
directly from any plant |
“phone or by selling 3+ 1337.
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS -
ALL SHIFTS FOR UE
UE Local 301 Turbine com-
inittees from all shifts met this
week and reported that the VDE
majority was growing in every
hay of Building 273.
» Pietures of the comnittee
neetings appear at the right,
with the first shift meeting at
the top, the second just below
and the third shift at the bot-
tom. Included in the pictures
are the following:
FIRST SHIFT — Stephen H.
Matura, A-28; Joseph P. Fava, A-29;
John C. Mazur, D-28; H..Hansman,
C-22; R. Schlansker, C-20:. F,
Kriapf. C-32; H. Lawrence, F-22;
Charles’ Burnley, F-20; -G. Ross,
B-29; Rudolph Smith, A-32; ‘An-
thony A. Cannici, C-34; William AL
‘Banack,.B-27; Paul F. Hacko, D-28;
John Martucci, B-6; Norman ‘Ward,
C-14; Eugene F. Stevens, B-4; Stan-
ley Parazynski, B-13; Adam Lewan-
dowski, A-13; Mike Monsour, D-17;
Ch- rles Croll, C-33; A. Kotarski,
Bais L. J. Ritchie, B- 26; K. Brant.
ley; J-27; G. Knowlton, K-21; D.
Feldman, jJ-27; W. Wilkolaski, 5-29:
W. DeWire,: J-28; George S. Cran-
dall, G-22,
SECOND SHIFT—H. Chamber-
lain, H-30; J, Nichols, K-30; C. E.
Gibson, K-2; J. D, Smith, J-30; M.
Lurie, A-1; B. Sommers, H-18; J.
MacGregor, G-29; J. Weissman,
D-14; Clarence Willie, J-25; Starks
Goodrich, H-23; Graciliano Rohe-
naz, F-24; John §. Brooks, G-18;
LeGrand Hines, C-8; Arthur Cana-
van, B-17; Ray Blesser, B-14; Joe
Zotara, K-25; E. J. Patten, A-10;
Harold G. Johnson, G-29; Coleman
O'Neal, C-20; Ray Clark, J-22; Tom
Mosklyak, C-20.
THIRD SHIFT — F. Natole,
G-15; W. Harris, H-29; F. Ford.
G-27; H. Darrow, G-29; WwW. Stuart,:
F-12; W. J, Rockford, F-12; Ray
F, Ward, G-31; Lloyd W. Perkins,
G-30; George A, Pelletier, B-3;
William Delos, H-10; D, Edick,
A-32;.P,. W. Bowers, B-22; F. W.
Weaver, B-22; 8. C. Merendo, 4-29;
Robert Ww. Lee, G-18; C. J. Cull,
G-29; H. E, Bach, B-27; C. E. Sa-
bey, Irs j-25; R. fon Snyder, F-32;
Ww. G. Berenz, H-29; H. J- Newell,
H-29; S. Spurgas, D- 13; William
L. Abbott, D-12; Anthony S. Gar-
watoski, C-15; B. MacDonald, K-10;
J. Gaspara, K-4; Robert Dunwoodie,
F-23; Joseph T. Zbozanski,- G-6;
C. Green, B-19; L. Martino, K-5;
“ECD, Criscualo, G-5; Michael Poni
pay, G-29,
Thursday, June 17, 1954 «
‘UE 301 Women Launch Drive YE Seeks Equal
_ To End Pay Discrimination
In the biggest meeting in its history,’ the
Olle feeal 301 women’s’ committee Jast Thurs: °
day evening launched the second round of the
fight to end. all pay discrimination against
women workers, ;
[t was a down-to-work meeting, with full
reports on the National Ule Second Conference
onthe’ Probletis ‘of, Working Women, election
ofenew officers and a repurt.on the UE fig
“against sex cliserimination by former Ui
‘tonal board niember Margaret: MeCartiey. |
Iktsa, Ferguson, Bldg. 69, was elected asthe
new chairinan of the committee. Idna Miller,
Bldg. S53 was chosen as secretary, and Audna
Pitcher, Blde..69, as treasurer. All three have
heen active in the Ul Local 301 women’s fight
since it wis first launched.
In reporting on the, Nationak Women's Con-
ferences Sister Ferguson discussed the legisla-
tive aspects of the UE program for working
women, She declared: ee
“Just as women fought for the right to vote,
now they must fight to see that-it is used
-tight ... they must carry the battle on every
legislative front to make sure that laws. are
passed to assure women workers equal treat-
ment on the ‘jobs, to gain: the_passage’ of
‘measures guaranteeing decent .safety meas-
“ures, adequate child care allowances, weight
limits;"and, of course, equal pay. . TE, a
““We must Aght for every part of our UE -
|’ program and make sure we are victorious.”
sie Castlen, Bldg. 69, reported .on® the
program of UE.tu fight all forms of diserimina-
tion, She stressed the importance of this to all-
women workers, particularly to Negro women
who are the victims Gf the worst discrimination,
“Qnily acfighting union like UL can fight this
vicious discrimination: by. the company,’» Sister
Castlen declared;
In a report on the fight to assure adequate
safety and health, proteetion, Sister Pitcher hit
at the cumpany drive to get “piece work produe-'
tion fur day work pay.”
Sister MeCartney, who is secretary of UE
Local 689, which represents the 1,800 workers
at the Sylvania Electrics plant in) Emporitim,
paid tribute to the big delegation from Schenee-
tady which attended the recent National
Women's Conference, She said: .
“It-was wonderful when the 301 delegation
walked in. Everyone was proud of your local.
“We need Local 301 as a. strong ‘effective ”
UE local, just as UE Local 301 needs the
strength and the fighting spirit of UE across
the country.”
The guest speaker also told’ of her area‘where
women workers came. 30° and 35. miles ‘to work -
in her shop-rather than work in TUE-CIQ plants
in’ their, owi tewn beeause “wages under UL
are 35¢ and 40¢-en hour higher, conditions are
better, and seniority: really “‘nveahs something.”
es
. WOMEN’S MEETING SCENES. Here's what the camera recorded at the meeting of the
UE Local 30! women's committee last week. Newly .elected officers (top left) were Chairman
Elsa Ferguson, Bldg. 69; Secretary Edna Miller, 85; and Treasurer Audna Pitcher, 69. Camille
Malgieri, 81, tells how her building stands. behind UE and its fight to end pay discrimination (above
right}. Margaret McCartney, former UE national executive board member tells the delegates of
her plans to return for the UE 30! victory celebration (bottom left). The men have a stake in the
fight to end ‘pay discrimination too, Nick Fioriti, Bldg. 285, asserts .(bottom center). "Everything
that has happened has convinced me that |. was right when | stuck with UE," Helen Quirini, women's
~ executive board’ member-atlarge, declared (bottom right), ~ |
“to the
Pay for Matrons
Ul Local 301,.aided by the
national UIE, is filing an-equal -,
pay grievanee-aimed at ending’.
one af the worst cases. of, pay
discrimination because of sex
in Schenectady GE. The case
has been fled on Behalf of
women matrons who are being
paid 13¢ an hour Jess than men
doing similar work.
UE is determined to fight
this case through, if neces-
sary, under the New York
State equal pay law. The
decision to make the all-out
fight was voted unanimously
by the UE-Local 301 women’s
committee at its meeting last
Thursday evening.
Women matrons are . paid
$l4lY% an hour, Men wash
roum attendants, with almast
identical duties are paid $1544,
UIE has been waging a fight
nationally for equal pay for
equal. work and for the climina-
tion of all rates below labor.
In. order to-bulster the case,
_ltrnest Thompsun, seeretary of.”
Ule’s : national’ fair. practices
committee, is helping. Local
301 to prepare a brief protest
ing the discrimination’ against...
the matrons under Article VI
Section 199a of the Néw York
State equal “pay law which
states, “No employee shall, be-
cause of sex, be subject.to any
discrimination in the rate of
her or his pay.” ;
Block Downgrade
Of Woman Wirer
UE Local 301 has helped a
woman worker win a job as
good as the one’on which she
had been laid off after the cam-
pany had attempted- to. foree™
her to take a downgrade, --
When Eula B, Slaughter was
laid olf from her wiring job in
Bldg. 53 on June 2, she went
LUTE-CIO “steward,”
and asked for. help. The
[Ulfer's answer was “nothing
canbe done." :
After this, she went up to
the Ulf Local 301 headquar-
ters. The union went into ac-
tion, «As a result, the woman
worker was able to exercise her
plantwide seniority tights un-
der the UL contract and. this
-weeksshe-got-acwiring= job-in-
Bldg. 69-at the same rate as
her old job. + *
ELECTRICAL UNION. NEWS
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: THE “WATERLOO” OF RA
After four long years, the end of the Carey raiding
‘om the TUE-C10 disruption is finally in sight.
There can ‘be no mistake about it. The defeat that
Schenectady. GE .workers will hand to the raiders will
be the
only in Schenectady, but throughout the. country.
‘In the last two years, the demand for united action
by GE wworke
Conference Board. ... a
In the IUE-CIO. shops, the Carey leadership has
done everything possible to sabotage and balk the desires
of the workers for united action. ;
¥et, the need of the FUE-CIO membership for unity
is much greater. They have paid a higher price for the
Carey disruption and splitting. They ‘have lost their
plant-wide seniority, and, for many, this has meant loss
of jobs; they have seen their piece work rates slashed;
they have been speeded up; they have been forced into
long and futile strikes in efforts to win. hack the condi:
= tions they had*known under UE.
This is why more than 6,000 GE workers-in. Lynn
defied Carey and voted: for united action with UE. This
“ts why the TUE-CIO membership at Cheektowaga West-
oe) ghouse voted for united action; and this is why every
TUE-CIO shop in the major chains has a strong rank-and:
file movement which demands united action with UE in
the face of the company attacks, the growing layoffs, the
increased. tempo of political attempts to smash all unions.
The eyes of all of these workers are on Schenectady!
They have seen UE Loéal 301 counter the Carey
disruption by building real rank-and-file unity in’ the
shop on grievances, in the jobs fight, behind the UE
contract.
’ GE workers everywhere now know that united ae:
tion can be achieved, and that united action is the only
road to real unity.
The Carey lie that unity can .be achieved through
raiding and red-baiting has been completely exposed.
Our victory ‘in Schenectady will be the signal for
GE workers everywhere, regardless of union affiliations,
to rally to the cause of united action.
Our victory will doom the. Carey leadership and
its policy of spending millions of dollars of TWE-CIO
members’ money on splitting and disruption.
©) Schencetady GE workers have never let themselves,
‘Geir families or their fellow workers: down. Twice they
have crushed the Carey raiders.
.
_ Now raiding is about to go down for the third and
Cane ee as
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS -
> GE AD
IDING
“Waterloo” of the raiding and disruption; not
s has been growing in every plant‘in the:
chain. In UE plants, this demand has heen éxpressed
through the local unions and through the national UE-GE.-
> out the plant,
| ne ITS BI GGEST pee :
The company has thrown sharp light on why it is trying
to rid itself, with, the:help of .the TUE-CIO, of the UE con-
tract without waiting until April,.1955, the expiration date,
Big layoffs’ are ahead and:
the company wants a free hand
over who goes, who stays: and
what rates: are paid. UE, the
UE) contract “and UIL's job.
fight stand in the way.
The disclosure that GE plans
Ahigger, layoffs thane we have
known’ since the 1930s came in
a statement by F. HH. MacIn-
‘tosh, Manager Employee and
Mant Community Relations to
the Schoharie Review, June. 10,
“Ttois important to 2
nize,” he wrote, “that. this
change in employment ‘is. pri-
marily the result of the general
economic conditions, has been
affected only slightly by any
opérational moves.”
“THE SIGNIFICANT.
MOVES WHICH ARE CON-
TEMPLATED HAVIE NOT
AS YET STARTED, AND
WILL NOT UNTIL LATIER
THIS YEAR.” a
FORM UE COMMITTEE
TO LEAD JOBS FIGHT
‘The fight-for jobs ‘in Schene
ady GE has been growing
on iw) oO
building by building under the leadership of UE Local 301.
. Starting in Bldg, 269, it ‘spread to Turbine, to the Racetrac
to Bldg. 285 and then through-
Everywhere, Scheneetady) GI
workers showed a determina-
fion to stop GE trot moying
their jobs to. low wave sweat-
shops while laying off the men:
and women who helped build
GI sand ta make possihle its
huge profits. Phe work
have been bolstered ino their
fight by support from the
community and from surronnd-
Ing tuwns whose prosperity
UE NAILS GE LIE
ON SHELBYVILLE
UF Local 301 last week con-
tinued its fight against moving
Industrial Heating work to
Shelbyville, Indiana, by nailing
a company lie that the reason
for the proposed moye is due
to “limited space” here,
The plant to be built in Shel-
byville, UIE pointed out. is
about the size of or smaller
than, Bldg. 60, ‘The company
could put the Industrial Heat-
ing work in one of the nearly
empty buildings such as Bldg.
49 or build a plant of that size
in Schenectady:
This bears out the statement
made by Ut Toeal 301 Presi-
dent Ernest Nopper to, Plant
Manager A. C. Stevens - that
“wechave’ the Taetlitigs Tere wt”
Schenectady to handle the In-
dustrial Heating work.”
“hinges
on ~the . employment
level of GE here. . te
Tn carder to ctnite all of the
activities that have-sprung up
behind the jobs fight, the UIs
Local 301 policy committee
last week established a special
jobs committee. :
8 oO
ED HEARN, UE Local 301
Steward, says, "I listened. to .
both sides and I'm for UE be-
cause the members have a vote *
on all dacisions and actions, in-
cluding strikes and contract is:
RY
FLOYD E. WARNER, Bldg.
16.—Former UE Local 301
Guide, a steward for 17 years,
29 years service — ''I'm for UE
~becauseit-is"a strong, fighting
union and. the workers have a
democratic vote at all times."
Thursday, June 17, 1954 © 5
A7 &
ri UA
K€ as officially cons
demmred CEs polio at firtirg
workers who stand on their
constitutional rights.
The TOE propaganda. in thre
shop isa very different matter,
There, they say, the pal i
aimed “only at Ul Whatare
the facts? ane
Under GE's MeCarthyite
policy, six UIE Local 301 mem-
hers and one AL. member
were fired in violation of both
the union contract and. the
UL S, Constitutions The others
10Q) Local 9201: }
Gregory, PUE-CLO > Taocal 2012
vider the Gs: po
Jonusetor 1
I. 320 stews
ard) Wagner, former ,
— CIO: Lieal’ 320. steward:
Staber, UIE Local 506. John
Nelson, ULE Loe) 500; llenry
Archdeacon, LUTE-ChO) Liecal
20k: | Donald Morrill, PUT
Alexander
Roberts Goodwin, Ulf Local
201: "Pheadore Pappas, TUE-
ClO Local 201: \Witulad Pie-
karski, ALE. Draftsmiuti: sNa-
thaniel Mills, PUE-CTLOO Local
201. Vietor Bolys, union alli-
liation’ unknown,
Bill Sentner Fram
Among the latest vietims of
the anti-labor Smith \ect is ULE.
International — Representative
Willian Sentner, Sentner has
been sentenced to five years in
jail by a lederal Court in St.
Louis ona phony “conspiracy”
Trameups ,
(The use of the “conspiracy”
charge is the oldest stunt in
the union-busting = book. Th
1806, a group of Philadelphia
shoemakers were indicted for
“conspiracy ta tiise wages",)
The persecution of Sentner
has been extended to his: fam-
ily with attempts to deport his
awifer Poni who veame tov this
country when she was 8 years
old and has raised 3 children,
6 © Thtrsday, June 17, 1954
The Smith’ Act, under whieh*
Sentne# wits: Sconvieted, has
“been condemned by? all” of
labor. Smith Act indictments
have already been gotten
against leaders of the CIO
woodworkers, the ALL paint-
ers, the International: lLong-
shoremen’s and ~~ Warehouse-
men's Union, and the Fur ane
leather Workers, ‘as well as
David Davis, outstanding CE
local leader in Philadelphia,
CIO has called the Smith
Act—"A SPER EAT. TO. THIER.
FREE SPEECH OF ALL
MIEN.”
SUED RAI AEN ZUNE AN SEM ARN
WE TAKES COMPANY SIDE
AGAINST POISONED WORKER |
‘Here: is: the hitter experience -of .inereury poisoning
victim, Tom. Stangle, a‘Gear Hobber. ue
Stangle contracted mercury poisoning about three a)
apo in’ Bide. 40-8 while tear-
ing dawn. vertical motars tram
a mercury plant, Heowas hos-
pitalized” five: times and has
been under medical care ever
since,
Tollawing a layoff notice on
June 1, Stangle with 13 years
service Was alfered second and
third shifts despite a statement
from the company doctor that
he must only work days.
Bde. 4h even threatened at
one point to write on Stangle’s
‘ayoll slip that he had refused
third shift work which would
have disqualified hin trom col-
“lecting unemployment iisur-
anee,
The workers of Blde. 46-3
where Stangle last worked he-
gan to circulate a grievance
statement of, his behalfs That's
where ‘the TUE-CLO “caitie in.
Vhey, denounced that petition
Communist’ propaganda,”
the Air Corps in Africa, is still
caught between the company
hammer and the anvil of the
TUIE-CIO,
Union Fights
Scab Foremen
Foremen seabbing on work-
ers followed by TUE-ClO dis-
ruption, has now heen added
to the reasons Turbine is over-
whelmingly for GI.
The company used foremen
to do the work of the Lrectors
on the Rotor Vest job after
the men-had tefused ta work
overtime while there were lay-
offs and work rotation.
The same scabbing trick was
used- against the. Shippers in
G-3+ and H-3+4 following a dis-
pute over ao wage payment,
Not. only did -foremen act as
shippers but General Foreman
Rossi caine in toanake sure the
seab work was moved out,
> AE Local 301 said this outs
rage calls for united action, no
polities, no backing dewn,
Bldg. 18 United
in Safety Fight
Angered by company negli-
gence which caused serious in-
juries to second shift worker
Guy Carlone, Bldg. 18 workers
demangled financial compen
tion for Carlone and the disei-
plining of those responsible for
the negligence,
Carlone was taken. to the
hospital June 9 when he was
Shit by steel bars falling trom
the gallery in Bldg. 18 tp the
main floor. :
“Tt had heen pointed out to
the company a year ago that
somebody was going to. get
hurt if dangerous conditions on
the gallery were not corrected.
“After Carlone was. injured,
“UE Local 301) appealed far
united action, Workers on
shifts including an. PUL-Cro
steward, Carl DeMarea, joined
in demanding: (1) immediate
relieffrom the danger of heavy
material falling from the gal-
lery: (2) disciplining those in:
management responsible for
such nevligenee: and (3) that
Brother Carlone be given his
full. pay while off the job be-
cause Of the injury. :
Several Bidg. 18 workers
have since made the point that
united action on grievances as
in the Carlone case is the way
Ule will re-unite the plant af-
ter the TUL raid is smashed.
Saratoga Committee
Has Meetings Today
The UTS Committee of Sara-
toga Springs is holding meet-
ings toddy at the Rip Van
Dam Hotel, Saratoga Sprigeey.
at 12:30 P.M, and*7 330 pr
The meetings were called to
acquaint residents_of Saratoga
Springs with their stake in-de- ,
feating the third> raid by “the
IUTE-C1O and keeping work in
Schenectady.
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
_ The best recommendation of Local 301’s fight for its women members to win
“equal pay for equal work” is the solid support of the women workers in the ap-
proaching election. _ a
~ Women workers in Schenectady GE know that their own unity and the ‘ability
of their elected leaders have made the gains of past years possible. None of the
significant gains for women workers were ever won by the National UE. In fact,
National UE simply tried to put into effect the outstanding gains won FIRST here
in Local 301."
LOCAL 301’s RECORD ON WOMEN’S RATES SPEAKS”
FOR ITSELF: | capensis ke?
Local 301 initiated the fight for equal pay for equal work in 1936. Consistent support
of that principle has resulted in the highest women's rates of any UE local in the GE
chain. (Five years after Local 301 started its fight, the national UE reluctantly agreed
to adopt the “equal pay for equal work" principle.) i
Local 301's vigorous campaign in 1943 to ‘end discrimination against women resulted
in upgrading of hundreds of women's jobs. This local 301 project was the first plant
survey of women's rates in the GE chain.
Second survey of women's jobs made by Local 301. Hundreds of grievances filed°and
won. When management balked, Local 301 took the case to the War Labor Board of
the U. S. Government. The Government upheld Local 301's position and ordered GE
to end discrimination against women. Again, hundreds of Schenectady women workers
won upgrading wages. (Local 301's precedent-setting victory on this*case opened the
‘way for thousands of women workers all over the country to win similar wage cases.)
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det
pote:
5
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~ On May 7, 1952, we served notice on the company that the time had come to end dis-
crimination against women. A mass demonstration at the subway dramatized this de-
mand.
Local 301 conducted a thorough survey of the women's rate structure in June, 1953. ° ~
Result — MORE THAN 1300 WOMEN WORKERS RECEIVED INCREASES OF FROM
3¢ TO 22%¢ AN HOUR. >
®@_ 229 jobs increased to the.Common Labor Rate or above. .
@ . 76 jobs already. at the Common Labor Rate got additional increases. :
-@ 47 jobs were increased to within 3¥2¢ of Common Labor,”
® 21 jobs were increased to within 642¢ of Common Labor.
TOTAL — 373 JOBS — 1300 WOMEN WORKERS — RECEIVED INCREASES FROM
3¢ TO 22!4¢ AN HOUR. Majority of the increases were around 8¢, l0¢, 13¢ and | 4¢
an hour.
LOCAL 301’s RECORD ON WOMEN’S RATES O
COMMANDS RESPECT OF LABOR MOVEMENT
. The outstanding performance of Local 301 in serving Schenectady GE workers from 1936 to. 1954
has won our local union the respect and praise of the entire labor movement. Even National UE has
tried to get into the act by claiming the Local 301 record as its own even though National UE leaders
were unable to achieve anything for other GE women workers.
This record of gains for women is not important for women alone. It is of just as great impor-
tance to men, for by enforcing the principle of equal pay, we protect the rates and conditions of men
and prevent GE from exploiting one group which could eventually take over many men's jobs and work
them for much lower. wages.
Local 301's on-the-job record for Schenectady women workers has set the pace in the electrical
industry. That job was accomplished by the unity of Schenectady women and the. ability of their
elected leadership. . a 4 4.
"An even greater record is promised for the future when we unite our strength with the 80,000 GE ~
workers in IUE-CIO where a chain-wide fight will be made for “equal pay for equal work" for all GE
women workers. _
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It isn't easy to stop a corporation
from laying eff workers, especially when the
company is as big and influential as General
Elecinde or Westinghouse, But UE does it. -
\ again, hes @ «
This time UE Local 107 stopped Westinge
. house from laying off some’200-workers from the
Philadelphia Works, UE alerted. the workers to °
the threatened layoff and the workers voted to
picket. if necessary]
(This 1s the UE local that stopped Westings
neve GE's chief "competitor", fron moving 2,000
jobs from Essington, Pa, to a Kansas City sweat
shop.) ° ; ~ . f "
_. The company agreed to REVIEW ALL SUB-CONTRACT=
TUG AND CANCEL ANY OUTSIDE CONTRACTING WHICH COULD
. ULab TO A SLACKENING OF WORK,
WE CAN DO IT HEREJ-
UE Local 301 and its thousands of members
have demanded of the company and municipal offi-
cials and couneils that: GE MOVE WORK IN INSTEAD -
OF MOVING WORK OUT. '. ,NOT A JOB =~ NOT A MACHINE
GOES OUT AT THE EXPENSE OF A SINGLE GE SCHENEC-
T4DY WORKER, ,. »NOT-A GE PLANT SHOULD BE BUILT
WHILE GE SCHENECTADY WORKERS ARE BEING LAID OFF!
The IUE~CIO says "nothing can be done td
save jobs," Thousands of workers are walking
the streets because the CIO leadership refused
to fight for the jobs of the ALCO workers and
the textile workers in nearby towns, While 3,000
‘workers were laid off here in GE, the Jandreau
group stood by, saying nothing, doing nothing,
Meee 301 is determined to win the fight for
ObS » om
The fight to keep everybody working is the
most important fight of all because jobs mean
food, clothing, shelter, your family's fate.
ALL TURBINE MEETS TODAY
BEHIND SHIPPING AREA G=3h
(Rice Road)
~HEAR FROM UB LOCAL 107° ~~
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of the turbines made i
in UE. ‘
IUE-CIO.
and the GE chain.
The successful election victory
inspiration to us in GE Schenectady
stoppages in operation here in Turbine.
We. know that GE is. sharpening u
' As we did in 1950 and 1951, we in Turbine are votin
and working conditions by voting UE in the i
WE WILL NOT GAMBLE WITH OUR WELFARE!
We know that our UE,dontract and its protection of plantwide seniority, wage rates and working con-
ditions is endangered by the Carey raiders. Our jobs are now threatened by
production. Only UE has advanced a program to fight for jobs.
G
We in Turbine want our fellow workers at GE Schenectady to know that. Turbine will vote overwhelm-
ingly for UE in the coming Labor Board election.
We were happy to receive the message of unity and solidarity from the Westinghouse Turbine
workers in Philadelphia who are members of UE Local 107. Between our two plants we produce over 90%
nthe USA. We are determined to keep and strengthen our unity of Turbine workers
_ Like our brothers in Westinghouse, we too experienced the threat to our unity when some of our top
officers made a deal in an attempt to switch us to the IUE-CIO. We saw the IUE style of push-button
We saw our legitimate grievances used as a political football by
p the knives to cut our wages in Turbine, the highest 'in the plant
a 32% cutback in Turbine
of Westinghouse Turbine workers by 5 to 1 over IUE-CIO was a real
g to protect our UE contract, wages, seniority
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David R. Brewster
Harry T. Darrow |
Conrad Borra ;
Rudolph Macejka |
Earl Jackson
William W. Kosboth
Donald--L.-Dyrulf
Ken Lyon
HL, Bull
G, Sipirica
N.- Benjamin
T..Mericle, Jr.
f. J. Brown
K. D. Robinson
Ray W. Weber
Joseph J, Coon
Josepli Grose ~*~
Ray Floyd Ward
Anthony J. Rinaldi
Roscoe Hayes
Leo N, LeBuis
W., Beaulac
William J, Rovaback
Herman. Mero
L. Kettny
Andrew Ward
W, Rockwood
C. Eklund
L. Middleton -
C. Remillard
Alex Jablonski
Daniel. Gordon
LeVerne Coonradt
-M. Wilkolaski
P. Smith
J. Hughes
A, Leonard
P, J. Gaffney
A. Borowski
ine Goes Se Goes Schenect ely
OW. Sparks
S. Starobie
K. Ripley
C. Potter
Frank Natole
Frank Donnelly
Ernest Hulett
N. McCane
J. Ford
J. Moakler
E. Wyash
Roland Spaide
John L. Shiffin
Anton J. Piller
Robert See
Lester Ramsdill
Richard Gall
J. Brezino
R, Fulton
Lloyd M, Perkins
John G, Ristina
Daniel O, Viall
Michael J. Pompay,
L. Welcome
Harold Johnson
Leland Keyser
W.L, Stevens
H, Whittingham ~
Floyd A, Kelly.
E. G, Thompson
Thomas J. Donato
Frank: W. Butkus
R, Van Patton, Sr.
L. Cates
George 8, Crandall
Anthony Brooks
EF. Schlicht
E, Smith
S. Vedder
A. J. Teresko
J. F. Ronski
J. Williams
Berton $, Smith
KE. J. Kurta
TH. Van Natten
¢. D. Kuebaugh
H. Haverly
I, H, Siebert
Henry M, MeMaster
John Baillie
Arthur DiGhoram
Walter Wouk
David $. Crosby
C. Airto
W. Drake
" John §. Brooks
E. D. Criscualo
HW. V. Adams
WeR. Baestlein
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E, J. Cull, ,
H, J. Newell
W, Ferenz
N,N. Smith
L. J. Gathe
HH. Bukoff
J. Whitehouse
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F, H, Coon
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D. Feldman . William Moore a E. Travers
Hee W. Wilkolaski . L. Comanzo Joseph .Zotara
John Sweeney W. DeWire ~ H. Stowell To Mickel
Edward McNulty , £. + H, Stowe . e
Sidney Burlingam , D. Devereaux J. Rossett H. S. Sommers
~ Anthony Merendo a George Allen HH. Coon v4 R, tL Harvey
Fred Carls . —_ H. B, Monroe 3 . Minn a 3, F. Glionna
M. Perry Sylvester Thamas . HI. Psyk 68 W. Paddock, Jr. ;
W. Harris : . Dalton R. Mather Bourdeau Edmund. Boryszewski
E, Landieville Harold L. Rost, Jr. F A. Nadeau a Ww. Newell
J.D. Smith . Hubert F. Hourigan
D. Sanders ; % , th a : -_ F ‘
Italo V. Congiano i aaiiie / Re Chasette AWW, Pratt . : A carpenter working under the UE Contract in GE Schenectady earns $488.80 a year
". Sabey oS C ) more than a carpenter working under the IUE-CIO i in Syracuse GE.
“J. Lupino : » R. Norton : Jankowski Das F. Gocheski
Here’ $ a comparison ‘of rates between Schenectady GE and Syracuse GE. You be the judge!
Is there any difference ee the UE and the IUE.CIO? The Carey- Jandreau dligiie : tries
to put over the idea that there is.no real difference. But: there’s a difference, a difference which
-reflects itself in our paychecks, For example —
* “ae ., ©: Fowler ; . Dowd 2 * R, Kessinger
H. King Av Knickerbocker Davenport x ~ Gordon F, Knowlton
Ahbalutto Sam Musto *. Sandsh : ‘Tony Surracci
:; D, Adinolfi ; G. Willinett W. Gilbert aS nga
Bradford M, Sommers , 9 .
Edward M, Rozell ue Fan ong ake Aireslan : ed ‘an 5 cee JOB : UE SCHENECTADY : 2 TWE- Cle SYRACUSE
. 7 aPieee oP. i FN, Furnare | : . Nor DS oe : : : . ; : "
ee Le LaPicere : R. C. Madx H. Hubbard = - L. Robbins a . : : ate - . $1.69 . . ; $1 59
j. L..MeNei : ‘ ares : : *
Tosenty Sullivan Allen C. Holzhanes A, L. Baumes ; , . :
Everett L. Lepiere F, Fusco . Bernard Q enbach at J. Francis : : i ‘ : ; «$2.24 : $2.00!/.
somnteltl Kaalanoey. Ray Clark Howard L, Ostertroit 0". Mary Cartel i ¢o: ’ .
eee George F, Kern Robert Neander 9. F. Max ‘ be ae x $2.00//, . $1.9214
coo Marcel LaVallee an i Joseph, T. Cuimer ee ‘ $2.24 $2 00l/,
: i Yea a . . . 2
‘Thomas FP. Murray ‘ . i. : _ . P. Belden
BAY J. Oswald . . K BAY K. Bunzey.
Lawrence Michalee
A. Lohner -
J. Daniels
Lewis J. Benton
Clarence Wilkie
™ YJ. Nianik
_. William Bosy
R. Endries
R. LaMere |
Guy -G, Sheppy
Thoward S:-Covell, Jr
J. Costanzo +
J. Weetzel
A, J. Robert
Av). Bullinger
Frank Nitis
Fred J, Rapp
PAINTER, MAINTENANCE .... d $2.08!/, $1.86
_ STOCKROOM KEEPER ~
TINSMITH
~ $L9Ie
$2.24
$1.78l/y
$2.00!/,
Burd __A, Nelson : : . i _ 7 , < roo °
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Crate FR. Inamied S Gabals, poe, alee Reema op — jou, . sven
cone” Fe Nam digits | a a ae | O82 $1.78V/,
R, Deckel comin “Charente Valk BAY.-UNLISTED a $2.24 - $2.08
* Mills R. Gorxzalino - Mike Patrick Whalen Gat N. Krall ee OR $1.73Y, $1.69
Aurey D.R. Osburn J. Hoff i : P.D, Farina a MASON (
SS a ‘ SON oe ’ $2.24 $2 00!/,
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. Havansky J: Dwyer A. som : _— . Frank J. Garwalaski
_ Jones Fo Suninskit lL. Galarveau.. , 4 Nathan. Suckaman Ef ee MILLWRIGHT . . $2 24 A $2 08l/,
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a a er ° a LABORER
(The Above Is A Partial List of Signers) - om aTRON | car ssn
} a _ 1.64 to $1.86 $1.59 (all trades)
ELECTRICIAN oo. cccceccccecccccesssssecauecncyctevecseestecteeserceseec cee “ $2.291/ $2.16
fo pr ofect your jo s! 7 . | . . - 7: PCH ASIA secssssttentntntteetieeuee | Snap fo $2.16 _
7 , $1.92\/p
JIG BORER A (PROD) .......... : $2.08, $2.00Y%
__ To protect your wages! =f ferent ee
L To keep rank-and-fi le Democracy! |
MILLING MACHINE A . . "$2.08Yy $1.92I/,
DON'T WASTE YOUR VOTE!
DON'T CUT YOUR THROAT!
PROTECT YOUR WAGES!
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In just ‘ight days" the IUE:CIO raiding and digtuption will .be finished*in Gelonscthdly: for. the third ;
and the last time. On June 30, Schenectady GE workers will vote to keep the superior UE contract which @ ‘
runs until April, 1955, rather than to ad saddled with the inferior IUE-CIO ‘contract yack since. ‘une 1 has.
been on a day- to- day basis, =. : 3
The Labor Board yesterday set the election for next ednesily. All ce on. the page t as of
June 6, 1954 will be eligible to vote in a-secret-ballot election conducted by the government, ' “Polls: will. be,.
open from 4 A.M, to 7:30 P.M,
UE Local 301 iited that all GE workers on military leave, on short work weeks, on rotation or-on sick
leave must be able to cast their ballots to defend their UE contract, their wages, their seniority rights, their
’ working conditions and the future welfare of their families.
HOW TO VOTE TO PROTECT THE SUPERIOR UE CONTRACT
“Place an "X" in the right hand square marked UE Local 301.
HOW TO VOTE FOR PLANTWIDE SENIORITY
Place an "X" in the right hand square marked UE Local 301.
HOW TO VOTE FOR THE UNION WHICH HAS SHOWN THE FIGHT. FOR
JOBS AND AGAINST COMPANY RUNAWAYS CAN BE WON
Place an "X" in the right hand square marked UE Local 301.
HOW TO VOTE°FOR THE UNION RUN BY THE MEMBERSHIP
~ Place an "X" in the right hand square marked UE Local 301.
HOW TO VOTE FOR THE UNION WHICH HAS PROTECTED You FOR 17 YEARS
Place an "X" in the right hand square marked UE Local 301.
On Monday, General Electric had to reveal to the Labor Board the full extent of the layoffs since last
October, confirming the facts brought out by UE Local 301.
On June 6, employment in the Schenectady GE Works stood at 16,741 (factory).
In October, 1953, the employment here was reported at 20,500.
THERE HAVE BEEN 3,759 LAYOFFS IN THE PAST NINE MONTHS.
UE Local-301 smoked_out a statement from F. H.,.Mac-
Intosh, Schenectady GE Manager of Plant Community
Relations, to the effect that the company plans to reduce
employment to pré: “Korean levels. “This would mean an-
other 4,000 ta 5,000 layoffs (Schoharie Review, June: 10,
1954).
NEVER BEFORE IN THE 18-YEAR HISTORY
OF UE LOCAL 301 IN SCHENECTADY HAS UE
_ PLANTWIDE SENIORITY BEEN SO IMPORTANT.
NEVER BEFORE HAS THE FACT THAT THE
UE NATIONAL CONTRACT RUNS UNTIL APRIL,
1955, WHILE THE INFERIOR IUE-CIO CONTRACT:
IS ON A .DAY-TO-DAY BASIS BEEN SO, IMPOR.
TANT. | ~
We don’t have to go to Lynn, Syracuse or Fort Wayne
to see what CIO department and job seniority means. All
we have to do is to look north on Erie Blvd. to ALCO or
over to the carpet shops of Amsterdam and the textile
mills of Cohoes and Troy. Thousands of workers with 20,
25, 30 years of service are out on the streets (for many
unemployment insurance has run out), while a few others
with one and two years are still working.
EMPLOYMENT.
Que. SCHENECTAPY PLANT
OCTOBER A953 - - 90, 500,
JUNE, 1954~ 16, 741
The Carey-Jandreau clique is desperately trying to cover
up the full extent of the GE layoffs because under the IUE-
CIO contract with GE, the door is left wide open to lay-
offs — ALCO style,
In their aifares to fool Schenectady GE workers, the
[UEers printed a part of the Syracuse GE seniority clause
which provides plantwide seniority on rehiring only.
They hide the much more important clause which offers
only department and job seniority in layoffs,
(Over)
PROTECT OUR CONTRACT!
KEEP PLANTWIDE
15 | SENIORITY !
