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furned . over to Schenectady Polio Fund
by JUE Local 301. Signing. check. is Carmen
* DiGirolamo, Treasurer, Looking on, left to right,
“are Frank: Kriss; Business Agent: Milton Danko,
President; John Warren, Vice-President,
‘SHORT
CIRCUITS
(With apologies to L. F.}
UNION LEADERS?
We note with interest that HU Newey
is coming across with a. rather flabby
counter offensive in behalf of their mis-
leadership, It’s about ime some one tricd
to cover up the CP stained gecords of
these labour fakers. But if LU News thinks
the GE workers haven't already "Met
the Leadership’ after 10 years of dictator
ship, then they surely! met them via TUE's
“Who's Who in UE" column.
PENSIONS .
Seems as if. a UE'cr by the name of
William. Hodges is getting out. from un-
der the collapsing roof just in the nick
of time, But what we would like to
know is. this: how much pension Mr,
Hodges is ‘vetting after all thes :
of supporting UE? Well, anyway: he's
got a suitcase for 34 years service to GE,
and years of devotion to UE. Some re-
ward!
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FITZIE'S SELL-OUT
KILLS LOCAL
How would you like to belong to a
union whose leadership acted us strike
breakers for the company ?
Well, if you belong to UE that’s the
union and the leadership we re tuking
about! ;
Here's what happened.ta GE members
in the ‘Tonawanda and North ‘Tonawanda
plants of Remington-Rand. Read it and
weep.” .
While the local union members were
out walking the picket lines “htst’ year to
gain better conditions. and) more moncy
from the, company, UE President Fitz.
gerald was making a back-door agreement
with management in New York City.
The sell-out deal “negotiated” by
Matles’ front man sent the workers back
into the shop without any gains, in fet,
without a contract: .
The old contract had long before ex-
pired and, according to the QE. deal, any
new agrcement had to he negotiated local
by local.
As a result of this UE strike breaking
Reni-Rand, workers have had neither at
contrack, nor a functioning local union
for over a year.
tt scems as if Fitzic also “negotiated”
with the company. to knife the local
vresident, who was the militant leader
Mf the strike,
After the UE-company purges no onc
would assume leadership and the union
collapsed.
In order to cover up for its sell-out,
UE labeled the strike a “wild-cat” and
washed its hands of the workers troubles,
The real reason for the UR “deal” was
that the Rem-Rand local hooted-out
Maney Fried, Commie UE organizer in
“the arta. :
Walter Gaul, former president of the
local, has been unemployed for the past
1a° months, due to Titzgerald’s strike.
breaking. But he's hack in there fighting
again; this time for an honest trade
union, TUE-CIO,
The IUE-CIO News
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UE ABANDONS ATOMIC WORKERS (Page 4}
CAREY BLASTS .BOULWARE (Page 7)
Vol. 1, No. 9 Schenectady, N. Y. April 4, 1950
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WHO'S WHO
IN UE
This is the 4th in.a series of -articles
on the big shots in the UE. The material
for these articles is taken from authentic
government information.
“VICTOR ADREAN PASCHE
The so-called Assistant Business Agent.
of UE Local 301, Vie Pasche, was sent
to Schenectady. by the Communist Party in
19:46. to develop political action com-
mittecs,
Before taking over his “fixed job”
UE, Pasche made quite a record for him-.
self in. midwest. CP circles. Here's the
blow hy blow. account?
1071: Pasche was one time Executive-
Secretary of the American , Newspaper
Guild-C1O, Dropped-out as a candidate
for re-clection on the left-wing ticket.
1943: A member of CP and frequent
visitor to its St. Louis headquarters.
In. May he attended a meeting of the
Executive Bureau of the CP at 1041 N.
Grane St., St. Louis.
In December and November, Pasche
was regularly attending meetings of the
CP sponsored Workers Form.
1944: Pasche kept in close touch with
the Secretary of Missouri CP and the
Secretary of the St. Louis CP.
Tn January he and his wife were mem-
bers in good standing of the Westside
branch: of the St. Louis CP.
19-45: Pasche was elected as a mem-
her of the Missouri CP State Board.
19:16: After coming to Schenectady
he attended a meeting of the CP City
Committee in May,
1947: In February Pasche received
orders from the CP, as did many other
labor front men, not to publicly associate
himself with CP front groups, etc,
However, he had a mecting of the GE
branch,of the CP in his home in F ‘cbruary,
(This i is just a spot-sample. For reams
more of the Pasche-CP record drop in at
TUE headquarters. )
Page Two
Ode to a Corpse
It was one of those UE meetings,
And a motley crew was there.
Stinko-pinkos by the score,
And reds with shaggy hair.
When in. strede the leader;
With baggy, popping eyes:
To seream of an infamous “pack-
age.”
But the membership eried ,“lies.”
This-‘made poor ducky angry,
And he shouted through his nose:
“It any member wants to object,
Then ont"of the-union he. goes.”
So let's all join in the chorus,
With a plea for unity.
For that's all they've got left:
In the weak and uscless UE;
We've’ seen the’ trend established,
The handwriting is on the wall.
They'll go into hibernation,
And wait for Statin’s Lcall,
They'll call in Mike the shyster
He's never won a case.
They want him in St, Louie,
To take. poor Victor's place.
We know the UE's useless.
So hear our plaintive cry:
“Do any of UE's stooges
Belong to the FW)
Dues Blues
UE Local 301, which seems to be suf-
fering from a bad case of the galloping
inertia, is trying unsuccessfully to pull
itself together, ;
In Building 273, UE calls in its 15
stewards every Monday to find out how
many more votes it lost during the week.
The sad report of the sad stewards,
went something like this, last week:
Ten UE'ers-got-rid of 185 dues books;
5 passed out none; there was not one
cent of dues actually collected by any of
them,
Keep at it hoys! If you talk a little
longer you might convince each other to
pay-up.
The IUE-CIO’ News
WHY CAN'T YOU
WIN ELECTIONS
UE lise 7. T-H i eect:
UE’s at it again,
Acting just like Taft and Hartley, UE
has filed. suit against General Motors de- .
manding checkoffs from that corporation
which has signed a contra act with TUL-
clo.
UE just doesn’t think the workers have
minds of their, own. UE officers are so
used to taking orders from the Com-
munist’ Party that they feel the workers
should take :those orders too, willingly
and without argument.
The fact that GM. workers voted by
better than eight and one-half to one to
dump UE and name IUE-CIO as their
collective bargaining agent doesn't mean
a thing to Matles and Fitzgerald. Democ-
racy is not part of their makeup.
The IUE-ClO News
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‘The new contract with GM is a mile-
stone in the fives of GM’s workers. Now,
they are an integral part of CIO, march-
ing side by side with the UAW-CIO,
which represents.the autoworkers.in GM,
It’s something to be proud of.
102% Maybe?
News item from the “UE 201° News”
of Lynn, Mass.: “Careys gang has con-
trolled the GM locals, but they never got
more than a bare majority to join the
union.’
Come, come, Comrades! IUE got 84¢r
of the total vote; UE got 10%. What do
you consider a majority in UE... the
gee by which Comrade Stalin won
recently,
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The workers at the Knolls Atomic
Energy Laboratory. have been without a
certified ‘collective bargaining. agent for
over two years. ‘They have had no-union
representation, no union contract.
“The Atomic Energy Division of Gen-
eral Electric handles what the government
calls ‘classified materials.” In other words,
materials and information that cannot be
‘publicized because it might, endanger our
military security, ; ;
Due to the nature of the Knolls work,
the, Atomic Energy- Commission has
fused to let a Communist dominated
ufiion, like UE, have its representatives
roaming through the plant.
Uncle Sam realized a long time
into the plant, as let Jandreau and his
Commie crowd snoop around on the pre-
tense of servicing the workers’ contract.
When AEC first issued its ultimatum
to UE and. GE, it invited front-man Fitz-
gerald to Washington to defend his
union against the accusation that it was
Communist controlled. But Fitzie. never
put in an appearance after two requests
from the Commission,
Fitzie knew that his outfit was Commie-
ridden, and rather than make an effort
to maintain decent working conditions in
the Atomic Energy Division, he backed
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down and let the workers struggle along
without a union. ~ ;
In the last two years GE has treated
the Atomic boys like a bunch of: un-
wanted. stepchildren, “Ihey have been
pushed-around, and gencrally given a raw
deal,
The starting rate for laborers at Knolls,
even. those with previous’ GE experience,
is $1.19 per hour, Outsiders who. start
right in at the Atomic plant get six cents
an hour less than those hired into the
main GE plant.. Welders transferred
fron GE have no ‘““A-B-C” classification,
the company pays them as it sees fit, The
odd pact is that no matter what GE gives
the. workers it gets paid hack, dollar for
dollar, by Uncle Sam.
Therefore, the complete blame for the
plight of the Atomic Division — rests
squarely on the shoulders of the corrupt
and bankrupt UE,
But the company pushing around, and
UE's calloused disregard for the workers’
rights will come to an end after the
NLRB elections.
According to a stipulation signed by
IUE-CIO, UE and GE at the recent
NLRB hearing, the Atomic workers will
be given a vote in coming: elections.
Needless to say they are solidly for the
unien that can and will fulfill their needs,
IUE-CIO.
Here are four of the six IUE Stewards in the Atomic Energy Division. -
Rear, left to right: Frank Meier, Chuck Rost. Front row: Robert Barnes
and Jack Suarez. Not pictured are Henry Burk and Dick Crandel.
PASCHE'S FIRST READER
Dictionary of Common UE Words and Phrases
(Editor's Note: . It's all your fault if you can't understand the fruity
nuggets found in nearly every sentence of the UE News, because you haven't
done your homework--you didn't read your Daily Worker every day like you're’
supposed to. But we're helping you anyway with this little dictionary, in high
hopes that you will be able to squeeze the list drop of enjoyment out of the
ULE News.)
Traly Democratic Union: A union in which
the membership’s word is law, so long
as the membership agrees with Jandreau,
Emspik and Matles. :
Collossal Flop: Describes IUE-CIO. meet-
ings attended by only ten times as many
as attend UE mectings.
Company Unions’ A phrase usually applied
to TUE-CIO, [t means any union whose
members would rather bargain with the
employer than the Cominform,
Exposeds [co sid he didn't like it.
Imitation UE: Jandreau always describes
the IUE-C1O. this way, because he likes
to think that Jim Carey and Phil Murray
were created in his own image.
IVE Distraptions The act of questioning
Jandreau’s wisdom in all things.
Aliny Menebers Said (or. TVeld Stewards):
Emspak, Matles and Jandreaus said (or
toll stewards).
Red Buiter: Any General Electri¢ worker
rude crough to say he doesn't want his
dues used to support Joe Stalin and his
People’s Democracies.
The UE Membership Voted For: _ Matles,
Emspak and Jandreau approved, °
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Frank C. Kriss, Local 301, Business
Agent, outlined the economic program of
TUE-CIO before a group of 50 students
and teachers at Union College. this’ week.
Kriss was: invited by. the «Economics
Club at Union to explain the basis for
the present TUE-UE fight at the Schenec-
tady GE plant. Does
Tn the course. of his speech he pointed
cut how UE jeopardized the economic -
hetterment of its membership by adhering
to.its Communist line, :
Using the wage scale of steel, auto,
rubber and other major C1O unions as
iJlustrations, Kriss drove home the shock-
ing wage inequalities that: exist in the
electrical industry...
He’ predicted” that TUE would. ‘defeat
UE in the General Electtic Chaiiv by a
majority equally. as good ‘as General
Motors.” ee aa
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In.a democratically conducted elec-
tion in William Mastrianni's strong-
hold, Bldg 73A, IUE Steward Al! Dor-
ies past the defunct UE opposition
to I.
MURRAY ASSURES
SUPPORT ON
ELECTIONS
Among. the letters received by TUE
Local 301, in reply to its plea for quick
elections in the G.E.. chain, is the follow-
ing message from CIO President, Philip
Murray:
Dear Sir and Brother:
Jam in receipt of your communication’
of March 9 stressing the necessity for
an early NLRB election for the employees
at the General Electric Company, and
soliciting my assistance to that end.
Picase be assured that I personally, a
well as tHe. CIO,, will do everything
‘within, our power to assist inebringing
about such an carly: election.
Tam confident that when the employees
at G.E."are afforded this opportunity to
_¢lect their bargaining representative that
they will ovérwhelmingly vote for TUE-
CIO to represent them.:
(Signed) PHILIP MURRAY,
President
LADIES NIGHT
For All IUE-CIO Gals in the G.E. Plant and also the
wives and. sweethearts of male IUE'ers
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1950
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Fashion Show - Movies
Talk and Refreshments
SPONSORED BY
The Ladies Auxiliary of Local 301
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The. IUECIO News
| Carey Cuts Boulware to Size
James . B. Carey, Chairman of the_
Administrative Committee of the Inter-
‘Y/nattonal Union’ of Electrical, Radio and
Machine Workers-CIO, denounced as
“vicious and irresponsible a statement
‘attributed’ in the daily press to Lemuel
M. Boulware, General Electric labor re-
lations head, that''no union on a national
level is any good.” :
“Such. a “categoric and completely
labor-baiting viewpoint could not have
heen. expressed’ without the sanction of
GE President Charles E. Wilson," Carey
declared. “Only last week Mr. Wilson
was named national director of the na-
tion's Community Chest fund drive. Pre-
sumably in a short time President Wilson
will appeal to organized workers through-
out the country, including the 120,000
employed in GE, for contributions to the
Chest campaign. ;
“Does President Wilson honestly ex-
pect the nation’s labor organizations to
give him theit wholehearted cooperation
when he permits his vice-president in
charge of labor relations to tell these
same workers that none of their unions
‘is any good’ ?”
Carey asserted that “If Mr. Wilson
and Mr. Boulware have so little concern
about the success of such a worthy and
needful undertaking as the Community
Chest, organized labor nevertheless is
aware of its social responsibility. We will
not permit Boulware’s vicious and irre-
sponsible statements to undermine this
humane cause by alienating the millions
of men and women in American unions.”
The IVE-CIO. News
Carey pointed out that the report of
Boulware’s remarks, which appeared in
Drew Pearson's column.on ‘March 20,
disclosed that they were made at a secret
meeting called by the National. Associa-
tion of Manufacturers to inaugurate ‘a
campaign “by big business to. defeat the
Triman. Administration.”
This NAM _ meeting, it was reported,
“discussed plans for a propaganda drive
through employe magazines and by put-
ting slips into employe pay envelopes.”
Boulware, Pearson reported, was “the
chief speaker at the closed door, meeting,”
and announced that GE ‘was actively cam-
paigning for the Taft-Hartley Act, against
the unions. and, above all, against social-
ism." Boulware .was. further quoted as
saying, ‘Roosevelt, Truman, Reuther and
their ilk are the avowed enemies of
American business.” + ;
ey declared that “Tt ‘is typical of
_GE's cave;man philosophy of labor rela-
tions to launch war on the American
labor movement a few days after GE re-
ported the hugest net profits in the his-
tory of the electrical industry.
“We suggest," Carey concluded,
“that GE President Wilson, for the bene-
fit of such agencies as the Cornmunity’
Chest and in the interest of amicable
labor relations, instruct Mr. Boulware to
keep his mouth closed for once and for
all. It is also President Wilson's obliga-
tion to disavow, if he can, Mr. Boulware's
announcement that GE had declared war
on American trade unionism."
OUR COVER GIRL
When Candyce Warren saw her
Dad sporting the new king-size 1UE-
CIO: button, she decided to come
down to Union headquarters and get
into the act too. In her own way
Candy: is a one girl publicity com-
mittee for IUE. Her father is Vice-
President of Local 301.
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