April 18, 1946
Care Centers Can Be Saved
ClO Women Ask Council
‘Vote Child Center Funds”
_ The CIO Women’s Group passed a
resolution urging the City Council to
vote funds to continue the Schenectady
Child Care” Cénters. ;
Mrs, Helmer Webb, heau of the Cent-
ers, told the group:
Over 400 families have used the
Centers since they were opened two
years avo for children two to 11 years
old.
By serving lunches to — school-age
children and arranging after-school pro-
grams for them the Centers have helped
cut down. juvenile delinquency.
Many CIO mothers would have to
give up their jobs if the nursery schools
were closed.
A young war widow, who is the sole
support of her children, will have to
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
’ Children like these are depending on the people of Schenectady to see their Child
Care Centers ore kept open. The group above was photographed at the State St.
Center, First Methodist Church. The child at the table was photographed at
Pleasant Valley Nursery School.
give up the youngsters if they can’t be
cared for in nursery school.
The Centers are also a haven for
motherless children whose fathers leave
them there on their way to work.
The fate of the Schenectady Child
Care Centers will be decided next Mon-
MAYOR MILLS TEN BYCK™
1042 Waverly Pl.
WILLIAM H. DUNN
116 N. Twelfth St.
CLARENCE BRADSHAW
48 Washington Ave,
CHARLES W. MERRIAM
1060 Parkwood Blvd.
THOMAS H. MOYNIHAN
204 Edward St.
KENNETH 8S, SHELDON
1349 Union St.
TO SAVE CHILD CARE CENTERS,
‘Write or phone before Monday to these City Council Members,
Home Phone 4-9806
Business Phone 4-8141
Home Phone 6-7284
Business Phone GE Ex, 3097
Home Phone 38-2289
Business Phone 4-7751:
Home Phone 4-7122
Business Phone 4-9801
Home Phone’ 4-6240
Home Phone 4-8260
Business Phone GH Ex, 2251,
day, Apr. 22, when the City Council
votes on providing necessary funds.
The overwhelming majority of Sche-
nectaay voters are working men and
women and their families.
They know that no city can afford
to neglect its children and that Sche-
nectady, built around one of the wealth-
jest industries in the world, can easily
give $55,000 to continue the Child Care
Centers.
The rest of the money would be pro-
vided by the state and by parents of
children using the Centers,
Local 301 and other groups have
pasred resolutions urging the City Coun-
cil to vote the funds, Let the Council
know you are vitally interested in those
resolutions by telephoning or writing
the Council members between now and
Monday. :
The latest protest against the threat-
ened closing of the Centers came from
a group of more than 250 parents at a
meeting Monday night, The group un-
animously passed a resolution calling
on the City Council to vote the neces-
sary $55,000 to keep the Centers oper-
ating for another 11 months,
THE VOICE OF THE UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO & MACHINE WORKERS OF AMERICA—LOCAL 301 CIO
» Vol. II—No. 14
_SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK
April 25, 1946
-ity Ral
Labor, Civic Leaders
Call Meeting Today
(.) On Crisis in Congress
_ A group of labor and civic leaders
-~chas-calledsa mass meeting at’4:30 p.m.
today (Thursday) at Crescent Park to
unite .the. people of Schenectady in an
~allsout~fight~to* save price-control-and—
prevent the disastrous inflation which
followed World War I.
Leaflets announcing the meeting
point.out that Congressman Bernard W.
‘Kearney, who represents Schenectady
in. the Lower House of Congress, voted
to cripple price control,
“Make Congressman Kearney change
his vote,” the announcements urged.
“The Schenectady meeting is part of a
nationwide protest against taking the
lids off prices. , Thousands of protests
‘have poured into the offices of Con-
gressmen within the past few days,
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UE-Asks GE For Contract
Proposals, Not A Letter
The first four days of contract ne-
gotiations, Apr. 16, 17, 18 and 19, were
spent chiefly in trying to get.a clear
statement from the GE oan its 1946 con-
tract proposals, according to Leo Jan-
dreau, Local 301 business agent.
The union had handed the company a
full, detailed statement of contract pro-
posals as approved by all GE locals.
The company gave the union only a
letter on its aims in the new contract.
The statement was vague and general
except for its proposal to serap the
union shop and to give the company
the power to ctit piece rates.
Management finally agreed to submit
written, concrete proposals for discus-
sion at the next meeting. This meet-
ing was scheduled for Tuesday, Apr. 23,
too late to be reported in this week’s
Lleetrical Union News, , oe
ies to Save Price Control.
Good News In Week's Pay Checks
When they looked at their pay checks last week, Lillian Bliss, left, and Mrs.
Amancia Blanco, right, both of Bldg. 68, broke into smiles. The checks for thous-
ands of GE workers in Schenectady contained the 1834 cent an hour pay raise on
a retroactive basis, won through the strike. Schenectady merchants had something
to smile about too, — the increase in purchasing power in Schenectady, Figure
it out. About 13,000 factory workers at GE get increases of $7.40 a week, and
the same raises go to about 10,000 office workers. That adds up to about $8,850,000
in raises for the next year.
Ask Ball Field
For Tenth Ward
CIO members and their friends in the
hOth Ward have started circulating a
petition asking the Schenectady De-
partment of Parks and Recreation to
provide a ball field in Hillhurst Park,
John Saecacio, Local 301 committee-
man, heads the committee in charge of
getting signatures.. The petition backs
a demand made by the Independent Cit-
izens Committee of the ward for the
ball diamond.
UE-Steel Veterans
Plan Joint Meeting
Meyer Bernstein of the National CLO
Veterans’ Committee will be principal
speaker at a meeting called by the joint
UL-United Steel Workers . Veterans’
Committee for § p.m. tonight (Thurs.
day) at 301 Liberty St.
He will report on the Congressional
drive against labor and against the best
intevests of veterans. As the problems
concern non-veterans, too, all GE and
Alco workers are invited.
a Wee found it
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
April 25, 1946
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
Unitep. Evectrica,, Rapio & MACHINE
Workers or America, CIO
Scuunectapy GE Locat 301
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Published by the Editorial Committee
‘Dewey Brashear Ray Flanigan
Milo Lathrop. Fay Marvin
. William Mastriani
Editorial Office - Electrical Union News
301 Liberty St. - Schenectady, N. Y.
SCHENECTADY PRINTING CQ.. INC,
Kelly Criticizes.
Kearney on OPA
William Kelly, vice-president of Local
301, spoke recently on the Local 301
radio broadcast with Milo. Lathrop, ed-
ucation director. He reported on his
efforts to find out how Congressman
Bernard Kearney was going to vote on
OPA.
very difficult to get
down-—to—brass--tacks
with Mr. Kearney,”
Kelly said. .
“He was pretty
vague on the whole
price gontrol situa-
tion. At one point
he said he hadn't
made up his mind—
and a little later he
he... said that he
didn’t know what
amendments would
be offered.”
Kearney ended up by voting to crip-
ple price control, Kelly pointed out.
“That was directly contrary to the
interests of 99 per cent of the voters
who sent him to Congress.”
Wm. Kelly
State Draft Office . |
Waits For GE Reply —
. The GE is responsible for the delay
in State Selective Service arranging for
a meeting between Local.301 and the
company on the GE policy toward re-
turned veterans.
Col. William H. Boughton, executive
officer of the state Selective Service ..
office, told the union that GE has nat
yet answered his letter asking the com-
pany to set a oate for the meeting. —
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, U. 8.
draft chief, directed state officials to
arrange the conference as the result
of a talk he had in Washington with
Leo Jandreau, Frank: Emspak and Ed-
ward Wallingford of Local 801.
New Applications Pour In
As Local 301 Checks Lists
Lash Helps Organize
Gloversville Workers
A UE organizing campaign is under
’.way at the General Battery Drive plant
at Gloversville. The plant
300 people of whom
about 290 are eligi-
ble for the bargain-
ing unit, according
to Roy Lash of Lo-
cal 301. who. has
been assisting in the
drive.» Lash is also
secretary- treasurer
of the Capital Dis-
employs
games
—--trict--C10..-Counceil._.._.
“The campaign
is going well and
these Gloversville
workers ought to be
under the UE ban-
ner in a short time,” he reported.
Fort Edward Trip
Local 301. officers who went to
Fort Edward to help install the new UE
local’s charter included James Kelly
and Albert Davis, trustees... Their
names were left out by mistake in last
week’s Electrical Union News.
Roy Lash
Union Calendar
Thursday, Apr. 25 (today) .4:80
p.m. Save Price Control, mass
meeting at Crescent Park.
Thursday, April 25 (tonight)—
Joint UE-USA Veteran’s Commit-
tee meeting with Meyer Bernstein
of National CIO Veterans’ Com-
mittee as speaker. CIO Hall,
Monday, May 6 — Activities
Committee.
Tuesday, May 7, 7:30 pm—
Regular committeemen’s meeting
for all shifts.
Tuesday, May 14-—Special mem-
bership and committeemen’s meet-
ing. Report of Constitution Com-
mittee on proposed changes,
Tuesday, May 2l—Membership
meeting.
_...Wednesday, May 22—Capital
' Distriet CIO Council meeting, CIO
Hall.
More than 500 union membership ap-
plications. were submitted to GE at -
Schenectady this month.
At least half the applications resulted
from a check-up on lists of workers
drawn up by Committeemen,
The union office majled each .Com-
mitteeman a form requesting the name,
check number and address of each em-
ploye in his jurisdiction, in order to
have lists to check for non-members,
‘From returned lists, the office has
already checked sections under the fol- »
lowing Board members: Joseph Gatling,
Michael Tedisco, John Myers and Frank
Emspak. Committeemen’' have . been
notified of the result of the check-up
in these'sections. Many ‘free riders”
_(employes..not._.paying dues) were
found.
Some Committeenién have not” yr a
turned in their lists. A reeord is being
kept of these Committeemen to give to
the Board members,
Committeemen are asked to get their
lists in at once.
City Rallies to
Save Price Control
(Continued from Page 1)
according ta labor representatives in
Washington,
Today’s meeting will map plans for
saving ‘price control from the same
kind of treatment in the Senate that it
received in the House.
Action also will be taken to have the
whole question reintroduced in the
House. ; ec suis ioe ws
The group who issued the call to the
meeting consists of the Rev, Leon M,
Adkins, Anthony Barbieri, president of
Local 2054, USA; Lewis Benedict, pres-
ident of Local 159, TWU; Mrs. James
P. Boyle; Leonard Colasuono, president
of Local 432, Laundry Workers Union;
Thomas Dunn, president of Local 8180,
USA; Leo Jandreau, business agent of
Local 301, UE;. Dr. Burges Johnson;
Mrs, Harold A. Larrabee, Herbert M.
Merrill, secretary, Schenectady Feder-
ation of Labor, AFL; Andrew Peterson,
president of Local 801; Mrs, T. A. Rich
and Rabbi Aaron M. Wise.
Remember to listen to the Local 301
radio broadcast at 7:15 p. m. every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday over
WSNY 1240 on your dial. ;
#
‘the Ballston Spa” Leather
April 25, 1946
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
They Know a Few Facts About Hi
This Schenectady family. went to Washington, D, C. yesterday to testify bef,
“mittee on first-hand knowledge of the need of continuing price control.
his wife, Rose, and their sons, Fred, right and Richard, left.
to help save price control.
They are
gh Cost of Living to Tell Senate
Local 301 arranged for the trip as part of a national ClO drive
Ward Commiitees
To Name Olticers
The Independent Citizens Committee
of the 10th Ward will elect officers at
a meeting at S p.m. tonight (Thursday)
at headquarters, 2337 Turner Ave.
The 13th Ward group will have its
election meeting at 8 p. m. tomorrow, at
648 Schenectady St.
Speak at Ballston
Andrew Peterson, president of Local
301, and William Mastriani, chief shop
steward, spoke recently at a meeting of
Workers
Union, on strike against the American
Hide and Leather Company at Ballston
Spa. The. strike started over seven
weeks ago.
The Leather Workers local sent both
food and money to Schenectady this
winter for the GE strikers.
RETURN YOUR STRIKE
FUND BOOKS, PLEASE!
Many Committeemen have not
yet returned their Strike Con-
tribution Books.
These must be returned to un-
ion headquarters at once, the bus-
iness office has announced.
Tosa arene ice, ANAL Uma et mateo
UE Board Finds Kearney
Has Black Voting Record
Representative Bernard W. Kearney,
Republican, of Gloversville, is one of
the 42 U. S. Congressmen whose bad
voting records were recently pointed
out by the General Exceutive Board of
UE. He is representative from the 31st
Congressional District which includes
Schenectady County. ,
Kearney’s “black record on major
domestic and foreign issues should be
thoroughly examined by the -union’s
membership,” thé UE General Executive
Board said,
The UE-CIO legislative report linked
the political scene directly with wage
negotiations and with the current strike
by 75,000 UE Westinghouse workers.
“It is absolutely essential that our
membership recognize today,” the
Board said, “that if they wish to obtain
the benefits of the 1844 cents-an-hour
increase already won in GE—and if
they wish to hasten victory in the strug-
gle against the reactionery Westing-
house Corporation, they will have to
begin to: organize immediately to deal
with those politicians who have sided
with the corporations against them and
to help their public officials who have
proved their devotion to the needs and
welfare of the American people.” ‘
$76 for Strikers
The Capital ‘District CIO Council
voted to give the $76 remaining in its
strike relief fund to Local 410, Leather
Workers, for their strike against the
Americiin Hide and Leather Company at
Ballston Spa.
Needs Help
Paul Canders, Board member, has
charge of distributing the Electrical
Union News. He needs volunteers to
hand the’ papers out every Thursday
morning, You ean reach him at Build-
ing 278, phone extension 4676.
i's Still Urgent
To Write or Phone
City Councilmen
‘Maybe the City Council voted
$10,000 for the Child Care Centers
before you had a chance to write
or telephone asking $55,000 to con-
tinue the Centers 11' months.
It’s still important to write or
phone or the Centers may be clos-
ed after two months. And you
may want that list of names and
phone numbers from last week’s
Electrical Union News for other
. messages to Council. members.
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