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THE VOICE OF LOCAL 301
mer 8, No. 21. oe Bs ae a
2% Jno 9, 1950 |
U Eto Meet with
Induction Motors Wins 301 Fights Ruling ”
Disputes by Stoppage About Jobless Pay
A two-hour stoppage of virtually , State labor department officials » ,
~ all-650-workerg in Buildings 18, 40° at a conference with Local 301 in
and‘ 40-B Tuesday morning an-° Albany Monday refused to budge
swered the boast by an Induction from their refusal to pay unem-
Motors..executive that “there is no ployment insurancé:to’ GE .workers
union” here yet. Tha laid-off “as a result of the AFL
The stoppage was provoked by. steamfitters’. strike, without a
lengthy stalling and’ ‘refusal tor seven-week waiting period.
discuss seriously a series of piece Prank Pipito, deputy state. OMe
work grievances in_ the shafting _.missioner. of labor
gang in Building 18, ; kel, Division” of Placement and
After the stoppage, supervision Unemployment Insurance attorney,
got into active study of the.griev- upheld the interpretation of the
ances, and promised speedy action. law which. means that workers. “are
“A vepresentative .of the | works __ penalized for a strike in which
manager’s office. was brought in. they are not participating. A-com-
Wednesday afternoon the foremen- mittee of 15 UE members andthe:
- gave the.reply to the stewards. All ---301 attorney, Marshall Perlin ,pro-
allie grievances were settled to the tested” “against the obviows unfair-~
tisfaction of the men... — ness of such‘a policy, " - ;
The shafting gang first'sat down . The 301 committee also pointed
Monday afternoon, and the stop- out that probably the majority of
page continued through the second the nearly 3,000 Turbine and Motor
and third shifts and on into Tues- Generator workers laid off recent-
“To Offset 49°
Immediate reinstatement of the
‘expired, UE-GE contract,’ and con-
tinuation, of the contract: negotia-
tions broken _o y IUE-CIO dis-
—_ly.-were-not-laid=of [asa direct
result of the strike, but because of
GE’s own production schedule.
- The state officials. agreed to
meet. yesterday on a local basis
with 301 and GE on. the- question.”
GE was~ndS represented-at the
i
‘Monday ‘aaee baw, aa * =
On the basic issue. of perializing -.
workers for another union’s strike,
a conference is scheduled with La.
bor Commissio oner B.A. Corsi and
6 «of the Di-
vision of “Placement and ‘Unem- .
ployment Insurance, Friday, June
16, in New York city.
day. When, supervision still re-
fused to tall, Board Members Jo- Speedy Runt-off Decision on Toolmakers Urged
seph Kernsghan and = William
Christman got virtually all ie UE is pressing the NLRB for
groups to sit down, about 8:30 or toolmakers, if a run-off is held to
aici this paper went to press, there still.
9am, They returned to work at _ eublact. The IUR- cto “protest” of
a speedy run-off election among the
be necessary, On Wednesday, when
was no word from the board on: the
the Schenectady result may give the
‘11 a. m. after “Works Manager NERB an. excuse for stalling a decision*on the toolmakers,
o«Lewis J. Male told Leo. Jandreau : The UE 301 toolriakers’ cam-°
that. the grievances would be taken — paign committee of about 40 men
up. . from all the téolrooms is continu-
At noon the. workers in Bldgs, ing with its work in the expecta-
15, 17 and 19,.who recently were ‘tion that there will be a run-off
placed under. Induction Motors su: with the International Association
——T pervision;-met-and: pledged-support- ~of-Machinists;~ The-committee’-is—-
to 18 and 40 if’ further action was being expanded, ° a .
‘needed. Promises of support also ‘Two leaflets were distributed
came from other divisions’ |. this week by the committeee, both
# leaflets being based on statements
1 ‘Dues Books . _of the IAM itself, \y
Must Show 1 © One leaflet reproduces a letter
At Membership Meeting from the IAM local “lodge” which
Contract negotiations will be the has represented GE toolmakers in
chief subject of the June:member- Fort Wayne for years. - It: shows:
ship. meeting’ of Local 801, the © that IAM rates there - sare. lower ,
week- -after’ next atthe union:hall..... than here, and they: have no auto- .
Wecond shift members will mee matic progression, despite the fact
mediately after work Monday | that Fort Wayne area toolmaker
--~ night, June -19 (at-12:45 a.m; Tues- rates are higher than in this area.
day, June 20) and first and third The other leaflet quotes ‘directly
shift. members. will meetat 7:30 from the testimony of IAM and
p.m.-Tuesday,.June 2 :
ecutive Board -has. direct- hearing on GE, - showing that in
ed tliat’ all people attending must the IAM toolmakers would lose '
show their dues books with stamps’ their seniority on all jobs other
showing they are'in good standing. — wa, soohuanars: .
301 Asks Increase -
‘For Building Trades.
In line with demands thade last
fall for adjustment of craft rates,
-Local---301 - on—-Wednesday~-asked
the Schenectady GE management
for.a 10-cents-an-hour increase_and
automatic. progression for the
building trades.
The decision to'press the demands _
at once was niade ‘at a méeting of —
representatives of building trades
this week at the union hall. A
- committee was to. meet. with the
Schenectady ‘management, at a=
conférence scheduled for yesterday. -
The building trades had not
pressed their. case pending the
NLRB election, onthe expectation
that national contract negotiations
would start immediately ‘after the
“victory... Butiniview.
action to hold up: certification of |
‘UE, the building tradesmen felt it.
necessary to process their griev-
“, ance without } further dalay,
seyeeaine ee mr grin
ar
test),
tuption last fall, will be demanded
at a bargaining conference with
‘top GE management in, New. York
next Tuesday.”
Last fall the company’ offered a -
’ pension and insurance“plan costing
_,about 2 cents per. hour based on _.
the ClO-Steel plan. This offer was:
rejected-by the-UE membership,
‘The company ‘had indicated it was
prepared to make further offers~
and that the wage question was -
open. Then it recessed negotia-
tions, using the Carey IUE claims
as an.excuse, GE: “then Bentoned
for the. electio
to be seen whether GE will
‘use the IUR’s phony “protest” of
the election in Schenectady and -
_Erie to try some, further stalling
(see separate story on IUE pro-
* Proposals’ Expanded
Now UE goes in with a set of
proposals expanded in view of the
fact that it ‘must make up for ben-
efits denied in 1949, as well as for 75
1950.: In addition to pensions and
insurance, UE ‘is stressing the”
shorter work week with 40 hours’
pay, a general raise, correction of
rates for the skilled crafts, im-
proved grievance procedure, and
other points,
* "“Jandreau on Committee
Plans to rally GE workers in all
plants behind the UE negotiations »
were made at an enthusiastic meet-"
ing of the GE Conference Board
‘of ‘UB. Locals. last: Sunday in. New. .:-
York A: negotiating committee .
was elected including Leo Jan-
dreau, President: John Nelson of
the big Erie local, and representa-
tives of “the locals in Newark,
. Cleveland): “Tautiten, Mass.,-
Allentown, Pa,
Representatives will be added: to
the committee from the UE locals
(Continued. on Page: two) |
SEEN erent Mrs bid
TTC,
Tay
ERTL
-+ June %, 1950
“Wake up! The. lection’ is over and UE is. outside
waiting to: negotiate."
Laborers and Welders
-Being Hired by GE...
The works manager's: office has
admitted to Local 3801 that GE has
been hiring laborers’ “and welders
recently ‘with no prior GE service.
The company: clainis that they
street. only -
hired people off the..
after the jobs were turned down
by large numbers of laid-off men
to whom they were offered.
Any worker with any GE service
who is interested’ in these... jobs”
should apply. to Building 1 immed-
iately, If he is not placed he
should let the union know. .
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ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS:
,UNITRD RLRCTRICAL: RADIO. AND
MACHIND WORKERS. 0)
SCHENECTADY QE LOCAL 302 «
Published by Raditorlal’ Cammitteo™
Mary McCartin, Chairman
Adam Kolasiensk!, Secretary
» Robert Armatrongs Frank D'Amico
¥ivtor Pascha George Quick,
‘Goorgo~Roade=—-—Troy-Snines—
MERICA. |
Union: Wins Upgrading
For Bldg. 17: Die-Maker
~ Local 801 has-been notified tHat
GE, at a national level, has agreed
to upgrade a die maker.on flame-
hardened dies under Foreman’ Ray-
mond Hallenbeck in Bldg. 17 from
B toa A. The grievance was pressed
. by Shop Steward BE. J. Messit and
Executive Member Sidney, Tried-
lander.
The union claimed the company
was trying -to- downgrade the.work..
As a result of transfers there were
only B men on the job though there
were A men*formerly in the group.
UE Wins. Gains ..
An agreement, providing for a 10
“eents.an shour package ~ ‘Increase:
has been signed by UE Local’ 628
-and- Penn. Electric Coil Company.
at Pittsburgh, Pa, It includes a
general pay taise of five. cents,
_oan_additional five cents for. motor
Editorial Offtico
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
po Liberty St... Schenectady, N. ¥.
Telephone 841386" ‘
“repair men, improved vacation,
and an insurance, hospitalization,
sickness “and. accident benefits
plan. '
‘about the
Knolls II, ‘some people have ob-
UE Members at. East Pi
_ Determined To Reunite
tisburgh Westinghouse
Plant with Rest of UE .
After staging a vicious campaign of slander, ved-baiting, ‘untiuths |
and intimidation, the IUI- -CIO company “inion "June 1 carvied--the’ ruri:,
“otf NLRB election at the East Pittsbureh Westinghouse plant by t 4
There were 5 nae votes cast. for-UE- and.5,96:
slim, margin’ of” 258 votes.”.
for 1UE. .
Sedtion’ Night."
“The section night get- -together
for workers in Buildings 65, 69,
13, 18-A, 77, 67, 71, 75, 79 and
234. will be at.8 p.m.. Friday,
June 16 at,the union hall. Mem-
berg :should get their- tickets (85
| cents) | ‘from their: shop‘ stew- cf.
ards; a Z ;
: Glassblowers Join .
“UE 301 at Knolls
How. is: this-for an- organizing
drive? | ..
At Knolls I there were 19 glass.
blowers who . tried unsuccessfully
to get. the NURB to carve out*a:”
= separate’ voting and bargaining"
unit, for: that eraft. They. planned!
“to join the APL Glassblowers Un- a
ion...
Since theMay: 25 election 18 .of
“the 19 have’ joined UE, through
Board Member Anthony Villano.
Because of newspaper -stories,
atomic workers . at
tained the mistaken idea® that UE
is no longer bargaining’ agent for
Knolls J. UE. “still represents
Knolls Fk which has far more hour-
ly workers than the atomic outfit.
UE Will Meet.GE
Tuesday on Contract
(Continued from. page one)
in Lynn and Philadelphia, where
UE lost in the NLRB election.
Representatives of these two lo-
cals, as well as Pittsfield, were ‘at
the meeting: and- reported that: ae-
‘tive UE locals are” being main-
tained at: those plants.
-the workers ‘at those plants would
‘be’ prepared to join ‘in backing the
UE negotiations through the.. or-
ganized UE- strength in the shops.
o More than 300' UE shop stew-
ards of UE Local 201 in Lynn at-
tended’ a. meeting Wednesday of -
last week, and made plans to con-
“ tinue
against company attacks’and IU2-
GIO sell-outs. William J. Kelly,:
"301 president, addidssed’ the meet: «
ing. UE obviously carried the fac:
tory.in the Lynn River ‘Works, but .
“the ofticial-vote ficliided “office as
“well as factory workers.
“ys
‘Attend Your Union Meetings.
They ‘said |
defend working’ ‘conditiotis. .
“The fact ‘thad over 5,700 siete 7
remained solid for UES in: spite of ©
terrific pressure, means that UE:
Local .601 ‘will remain .a strong.
fighting force at the plant, Many
workers who voted. UE have pledg-
ed to work unceasingly to bring the
big: Westinghouse plant back un-
der the banner: of. UE, to protect”
and improve the wages, working
conditions and security of all West-
inghouse: workers, under one con-
tracts hehe
“The East Pittsburgh workers
were subjected to PYORSUTE by the
“company, the press and-r
ticians, certain clergy, and other
forces, . They ‘were threatened with
eviction from their homes and werec
courted with bribes. Here are: some
highlights of the campaign:
At-noon of the day of the run-
off ‘election, IUE-CIO sound trucks
blared forth that President- Tru-
man had just announcedthe with-
drawal of all contracts from UE
plants. _:
“course completely untrue. eg
Philip Murray- received’ ‘permits
for plant gate meetings, but UE
Was refused such permits.
_ Murray arranged for the Nation-
al Guard in full uniform, with rifles
and bayonets,-armored cars - and:
machine guns,,to parade . through
East Pittsburgh for TUB, as. a
build-up for a noon gate yally, A.
fudge, who is: candidate for lieu-*
‘tenant governor and was. dressed
an Navy uniform, spoke for TUE.
at'the meeting. - de :
CIO representatives offered : “ate «
tractive bribes to UE members,
and threatened them. when: turned
One--UE---member;~~ who
‘switehed to IUE, frankly admit- .
‘ted that he was. paid $800 to
change:. He explained that he nev-
er saw s0. much money in’ one clip
and couldn’t afford to turn-it down,”
Murray imported goons and sev- ,
eral hundred. payrollers from all’
over the country. They ..were
equipped. with large suis of money
and were lavish
_ quer: :
“"“he FUE-CIO dsont ico
just on billboards in a 40 nif
areas: wary se wane
Pensioners: Meeting.
The UE- 301 Pension. Organiza’.
tion will’ meet at 2 p.m, Thursday,
June 22, at the, union hall,
The aninouncement® was a) .
~. ests or do they work
eu
* June.9, 1950
ELECTRICAL, UNION NEWS
144 Years Old — and Not Dead Yet
Red-baiting: existed long ago in "America, long before there was
Communism in Russia or the atom. bomb was ever dreamed of. .
Look over the following list of things that “have been called’ “com-
*munist,’ and.see how employers have labeled as red. the. measures that
‘yould be in, the interes
1806— A UN 1ON—Philadelphia
~Shoernakers —struck....for !
wages but the court ruled ‘that
their union was an illegal conspir-
acy.
“were bound to prosecute “conspir-
© acies so subversive to the Feople’s
interests of the country.”
1857--ABOLITION OF . SLAV-:
_» ERY—A spokesman for-the 8 outh- = turned. over’ to’ the court last wine. .
a ‘ern slave holders said “we warn ,
the North. that every one of. the
leading “abolitionists, ‘is agitating °
the Negro Slavery question merely’
‘aga means to-attain their ulterior-
ends ... a surrender to Socialism
and ‘Communism.” :
- + -1904=8- HOUR DAY:
tional Association of Manufactur- .
ers declared that these who fav-
ored a shorter work day were’
chasing the “horizon of commun-
“ism.” é
“1920- o1--STRIKES _ Headlines
of employer newspapers of the per--
lod: “Coal strike is nothing less
-than.an open defiant revolution.”
“Picketing is Un-American”. “The ~
Labor Strike*is-an- Enemy to our
(yen. Civilization’. “Bolshe-
3m fights its. way into Muskogee _
Street Car. Strike.” oe
1928 — AFL—"The veal menace
to Americari. institutions does not
eome from the relatively small
number ‘of communists . . . but
from that organization (the AFL)
which proclaims its right to speak,
for labor.”
1988--CIO—Tom. Girdler of Re-
public Steel Corporation —_ “Must
» Republic and its men submit to the.-
terrorism of the CIO? If A‘nerica
is to remain: BS free country; the
answer is no.’ :
Tok nnn. tienen of the Un-
. American Activities Committee
~~gaid: “This. is the beginning--of-
communist dictatorship the like ‘of:
which America never dreamed.”
1946—-UB-—-Phelps' Dodge Com-
pany, trying to break” UE. workers: ..
strike, said in a leaflet: “Do your
leaders aim to serve your inter-
for " Com-
munists ?”
Blood Donors Needed _
© Wolunteers are needed to replace
A feht pints of blood which John
“DiCoco,--Building 40-B. assembler,
received in transfusions in. May
at_Ellis Hospital. He had to have
mergendy treatnient fora hemor=
‘rhage. People willing to ‘donate
blood aze asked to contact the
union office. .
The manufacturers said they:
‘he Nas
= bers and on reserves,
of’ the people.
Court Hearing Ju na lb” )
On UE Check-off Money
There will be a ‘hearing ‘before
Fedetal Judge Knox:in New York
City Friday, June 16,. on the-ques-
“tions of what happens to.the UE
dues check-off funds’: which GE
ter.
* UE, IUE atid the company ‘have
agreed that at ‘each plant the
check-off money should go. to-the
union that. won the NLRB eleétion
at the plant. Over $75,000 of Lo-
cal 301’s money is involved. :
With paychecks - last week. the
company -enclosed—individual-—no-
tices to'people.on the,check-off list
. that they-legally have the Hight to
appear at the hearing:
“ Since the, money: was. tied
Local: 801 ‘hag been operating on
dues collected directly from mem-
The local's
‘expenditures have been within the |
$3,500 a week limit set.by Supreme
Court Justice Alexander. =
Boosting Boys’ Baseball
The 801:.Executive Board this -
week voted. to authorize the sale
of Schenectady Little Léague do-
nation tickets in the shops, The
league is raising funds to pay for
a baseball diamond
Ave, and equipment for. boy base-
ball players, 8 to-12 years old.
in ‘Michigan’
pacer
lets play tm the boss and [il think of w ways
fo speed you Up
Pay Increase
-UE Local 1109 and the Line Ma-
terial Company at Milwaukee,
“Wis. have signed for a. package
inerease of over 14 cénts an hour.
This includes a general wage
increase, other pay improvements,
and a company-paid pension plan
of $115 a month including social =
security. °
‘ence=Boar
@
craft rates. °°
OR
rates.
tions. =
= eT, Union shop.
UE Bargaining Program for GE |
These are the demands on ‘which UE ‘has ‘asked the General
Electrie Company to negotiate immediately. ;
1. Immediate extension of. the expired contract. -
2. Negotiation on the changes ©
‘GErlocals;-including:—
“AG Shorter work week: with 40 hours pay, to provide
jobs, and also to-solve the third shift problem.
B, 10-cents per hour raise.over and above. what is
: needed to maintain take-home on.a. shorter: work week,
A pension “plan guaranteeing $125 a month, to
increase as Social Security is improved...
D. .Company-paid. hospitalization and insurance plan.
kK. A separate wage ma jogenent to correct one skilled
Removal: of remaining diserimination in women’s
--G: Improved grievance pic ee ;
HH Sunday double time to apply. be continuous ‘opera
J. Anti-diserimination clause.
calle -And_improvement_ in--various
_ stronger: seniority and piece work guarantees, better provisions on :
» holidays and.vacations,’ promotion opportunities, transfers, and
service breaks and removal of geographical differentials, :
. contract _ provisions, including...
roposed: by th GE Confer.
Ir
- proposing
vations,
“Westinghouse Wants. to
Drop Steward, System
UE contract’ negotiations. with
stinghouse resumed this week,
“but. no word had been received ‘on
developments when. EU News went’
to press:
The company on : May 22, aaine
advantage of the split, IUE caused ©
among Westinghouse workers, pro-
a posed:that UE grievance proce-
“ dures be done away with, and that
some serious changes affecting -
, piece work be made.
Instead of ,the presetit grievance
system,and shop.stewards, West-
“singhouse wants all: grievances to
be handled by a ‘committee of two
ox three union members ‘at. each
|---plant.- This. proposal. follows-.the__
pattern set by Sigel and other clo
unions.
While Westinghouse has nee
this drastic change,
workers at several Westinghouse
UE plants have by their firm stand
compelled the company to main- .
tain the shop steward system pend-
ing ‘and during contract negotia-
These. UE_ plants include «
Essington, -. second ‘largest * “plant =
and only turbine plant i in the West,
inghouse aystenn.
Union Shop Victories
"Sixteen “tool and” “diss jo
shops at Philadelphia have voted ”
for a UE union shop. The vote was
460 for and 44 against.
