Electrical Union News, 1948 July 30

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* ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS

July 23, 1948

$850 Won for Facial Disfigurement
In Compensation Case Against GE

Workmen’s Compensation awards made recently to union members
against GE include $850 to Walter C, Chant, Bldg. 107, for facial dis-
figurement:in-an-accident last-Nov.-26 ™

Other cases, handled also by the -
Local 301 attorney, Marshall Per-
lin, resulted in the following
awards:

$100 to Armand Parravani, Bldg.
928A, for facial disfigurement suf-
fered Dec. 6, 1946,

$126 to Donald T. Caswell, Bldg.
66, for injury to his left little fin-
ger Jan, 13.

$258 to Gerard Pilon, Bldg. ~10,
for 20 per cent loss of the use of
his left index finger in an accident
last Oct. 21.

$140 to Ignatius Derkowski,
Bldg. 40, for a facial scar incurred
June_9,.1947.___ ee

$225 to. ‘Paul Santa Barbara,
welder in Bldg. 105, for a facial
scar received July 7, 1947.

$233,338 to Joseph Andreano for
one-third loss of the use of his left
ring finger in an accident June 10,
1947.

$175 to Joseph Vitrella, Bldg. 18,
for a facial scar resulting from an
accident last August. -

$28 a week disability pay to
Frank S. Guido, foundry worker,
from Apr. 80 to July 7 and con-
tinuing until a hearing in Septem-
ber. He suffered a hernia July 7,
1947,

$61.60 to Stefano Matarazzo,
Bldg. 60, to cover period from last
Nov. 14 to Dec. 8, for an injury to
his left arm, suffered last Nov. 11.
The ease was adjourned for three
months.

$28 a week to Guy U. Flatt, Bldg.
105, from June 7 to July 12 and
case to continue for two months
with compensation. He suffered a
double hernia in July, 1947.

$27.18 a week to Elsie Lynch,
Bldg. 53, from Apr. 80 to June 18.
The case is to continue at the same
rate for four more months. She
was injured June 18, 1946.

$28 a week compensation contin-
ued for Anthony Baron, Bidg. 53,
injured May: 7.

GE will pay all necessary medi-
cal treatment for Adam Griffith,
who is suffering from the recur-
renee of a hand ailment. The orig-

inal aecident to his hand was in,

1934,

$28 a week to Ernest. Carlson,
Bldg. 285, from May 28 and to con-'
tinue, for-a double hernia suffered
in March,

$656 compensation to Margaret
Calkins for the period from Apr.
22'to May 6, for an accident which
oceurred Mar. 15. The company is
to pay for all necessary dental
treatment, :

$60 to Frank Holton, Bldg. 40,

10 Per Cent Raise
For Women Welders

A. group of women spot welders
in Bldg. 19, for whom dockets were
filed early this year, are to receive
a 10 per cent price increase on
their piece work, effective as of
Apr. 8.

This adjustment was agreed to
by Louis Male last Friday at a ses-
sion with Business Agent . Lea
Jandreau after no satisfaction had
been obtained at lower levels by
the union. The union showed that
changes in working conditions had

—lowaered—the-earnines—of—the--wo--

men, Shop Steward Sidney Fried-
ander filed the grievance,

Two of the women, Mary Gerardi
and Ellen Smith, recently discuss-
ed this case, on the 801 radio pro-
gram,

Male told Jandreau that he has
hot completed investigating several .
other grievances sent to the Howell
level.

Contract Brings Raise,
Ends Bedeaux Speed-up

In addition to winning wage in-
creases through their new UE con-
tract, workers at the Yale and
Towne Lock plant at St. Cather-
ine’s, Canada, have scored a victory
over the Bedeaux speed-up system
there. Management agreed to elim-
inate the Bedeaux system within
the contract year and replace it
with a straight piece-work system,

The contract, provides a raise of
10 cents an hour for day workers
and 12 cents for piece workers.

for period from May 12 to May 26
for a finger injury suffered May 4.

All costs. for dental treatment
for Albert Prout, Bldg, 16, injured
Apr. 23. .

“$28 a week to Peter Snare, from
May 26 to June 22 for a hernia
The case is to be continued for
three months with compensation.

$28 a week to Sanora Blakely,
Bldg, 28, from May 7 to June 25.
$28 a week to James Vernacchio,
Bldg. 60, from Mar, 17 to June 21,
for a head injury suffered Mar. 15.
$15 a week to Wayne Crandall,
Bldg. 66, from Mar, 25 to Apr. 23,

.for.a. back injury. The compensa-

tion is to continue at that rate.

$28° a week to Dominick Dom-
inico, Bldg, 60, from Apr. 8 to May,
“18 for an injury to his right hand
suffered Apr. 7.

His Blood Type Is UE-301

John Sammler, second shift worker

Bank Committee’s call to. donate
blood to the Ellis. Hospital Blood
Bank to replace blood used in

transfusion for a 301 member. The

. nurse is Jane Mitchell.

"301 Votes To Drop

Expulsion Cases
On recommendation of the Exec-

utive Board, the 301 membership .

and stewards’ meeting this week
voted to drop all proceedings con-
cerning the case of three members
expelled by the local and reinstated
under a temporary injunction,

The Board pointed out that the
case would tie up the union offie-
ers and staff for weeks in legal en-
tanglements during a trial and ap-
peals, and that the time could not
be spared.

The three members involved are
Frank Fiorillo, Martin Stanton and
Carmine Di Girolamo.

301 on Air

The Local 301 broadcast’ is at
7:30 p.m. every Wednesday over
WSNY.

Attention Vets!

Veterans who have allowed
their National Service lite insur-
ance to lapse have until the July
81 deadline to reinstate it with-
out undergoing a complete medi-
val examination .

Until July 31, all a veteran
has to dois to file a Veterans
Administration form in which
he states that his health is as.
good now as it was when the in-
surance lapsed.

Biood Bank Request
Turned Down by GE

The GE hospital facilities are not
great enough for the company to
type the blood of Local 301 volun-
teer blood donors, Louis Male, gen-
eral superintendent, told Business
Agent Leo Jandreau recently.

Jandreau brought up the ques-
tion at a session in Bldg, 41 after
the union office had received no re-
ply. to a request, made some weeks
before, that management cooperate
with arrangements for a 301 Blood
Bank.

The Blood Bank committee has
given shop stewards forms for
members to sign if they are willing
to volunteer as blood donors. The

- committee wants to have their blood

typed, so that the file can contain
this information. Then if a partic-
ular type of blood is needed in an
emergency there will be no delay
in locating a suitable donor.

With the Works hospital unavail-
able for these tests, the committee
is taking up the matter with Ellis
Hospital.

Out lowa Way

Wage increases ranging tron)

eight to 17 cents an hour were won
by the workers of the Automatic
Washer Company at Newton, Towa,
The UE contract will also cover the
new Automatic plant which will
be operated in Mason City, Iowa.

THE VOICE OF LOCAL 301

“Vol, 6 — No. 30

July 30, 1948

Peterson-Gross
Campaign Needs

Many Volunteers

The 801 Executive Board this
week issued a call to the union
membership for individual money
contributions and volunteer work-
ers for the primary campaign
of Andrew Peterson and Dr.Walter
S. Gross, The membership and
stewards’ meeting last week. en-
dorsed President Peterson as can-
didate for Congress and Dr. Gross
for State Senate, and pledged all-

——--—ant..supnortfor_thein..campaign.

Primary Day Aug. 24

€ Volunteers are wanted from every

“building to devote a few evenings
to canvassing for Peterson and
Gross and to work Primary Day,
Aug. 24. Both are fighting against
Democratic machine candidates..in
the primary.
— A meeting of Local 301 volunteer
workers. for the Peterson-Gross
campaign has been called for 7:30
p.m. ‘Tuesday, Aug. 3, at the union
hall.

On the basis of a report made
at the Executive Board meeting
Monday night, the Board decided
that money raised at the 301 Field
Day can be used for campaign ma-
terial of a general educational na-
ture on election issues, but can-
not be used specifically for the
Peterson candidacy. The union
membership has authorized spend-
ing up to $1,500 from the Field
Day funds for the political educa-
tional program.

Must Rely on Volunteers

Officers pointed out that political
machines rely on paid. workers, but
that the Peterson-Gross campaign
must depend on people who volun-
teer because they know they are
working for their own interests,
for ‘the welfare of their families,
for lower prices, lower taxes and
security, and for the preservation
of their union.

Voluntary donation receipt books
were distributed this week to shop
stewards who will collect contribu-
tions in their shops, for the elec-
tion of the candidates endorsed by
the membership. These donations

(will be made to the Local 801 In-

dependent Political Action Fund.
What little money remains from
last year’s PAC voluntary contri-
butions will be used chiefly for
leaflets.

The officers of the union, who

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it wasn *t for the union you would have ihe same
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“were named as the 301 Political

Action Committee by the member-
ship, have appointed a sub-com-
mittee to handle 3801's day-to-day
work in the primary fight. This
sub-committee consists of Morton
F. Lewis, Bldg. 46, an experienced
Demoeratie political worker, Chief
Shop Steward William Mastriani,
and Business Agent Leo Jandreau.

They were to get in touch ‘this
week with union and farm leaders
and other groups to organize
Peterson campaign committees in
Montgomery, Fulton, Otsego and
Hamilton counties.

Humorous Note
In Craft Dispute

J. M. Howell’s letter to craft
members, July 28, said:

“Last Saturday we suspended
overtime work for all who had
walked out the previous Wed-
-nesday.”

This was after the men them-
selves had decided they wanted
no overtime during the dispute.

And then, after all, several
days. after Howell’s. letter,
supervision in Welded Products
still was pleading with the men
to work overtime.

in’ Palestine, Aug. 23;
Czechoslovakia, Aug. 80; Berlin,

Gaeth Will Broadcast

From Foreign Capitals

What do plain people in Europe
think about the prospects for
peace, American aid, and other
issues?

Arthur Gaeth, who broadcasts
the national UE radio program,
has gone to Europe to ask these
questions and report the answers,
Starting next Monday night, Aug.
2, he will broadcast from foreign
capitals weekly through Sept. 13.

The program will be at 10 p.m.
over WSNY, Schenectady, and
WOKO, Albany.

Next week’s program ‘will come
from Paris. The schedule is: Rome,
Aug. 9; Athens, Aug. 16; Tel Aviv
Prague,

Sept. 6, and London, Sept. 13.

Stewards to Meet
With Membership

The 301 Menem and shop
stewards’ meetings for August will
be combined, as they were in July.
This means that the stewards’
meeting which would ordinarily
take place next Tuesday night will
be held jointly with the member-
ship meeting Aug. 17. :

MAKE YOUR SHOP 100% UE

GE Will Meet

With 301 on >
Craft Rates

Negotiations on the rates for
skilled crafts will begin Monday
afternoon in Building 41. Business
Agent Leo Jandreau will head the
union committee. The joint craft
steering committee will attend.

The apparent break in the dead-
lock came after the building trades
members had refused overtime for
six weeks, and the toolmakers, tool

oom. machine_operators, machine...
ists (non-production), and welders
had held three successive weekly
protest meetings during working
hours. These crafts also had been
refusing overtime for two weeks. :
Howell. Writes to Union

In a letter to the union agreeing
to the negotiations, Works. Man-
ager J. M. Howell said that if the
union had ‘evidence to support the
belief that the rates of these
groups are presently out of line.
with the wage level of industry in
this community for comparable
work,” then he suggested that “we
begin discussions for one of the
groups immediately after a week
has elapsed during which there
are no work stoppages or other
demonstrations. by the members of
your Union.”

Howell added:

“I wish to make it clear that in’
agrecing to discuss the wage rates
of these groups of employees, we
are not making any promises —
either explicit or implied—to give
further increases, but will be guid-
ed by the facts and evidence pre-
sented at the meetings.”

Union's Position

Replying in the absenee of Jan-
dreau on vacation, Vielor Pasche
assistant, told Howell that the
union would «discuss area rates but
would not “confine our evidence
to the so-called community rates.
In view of the position of the GE
Schenectady plant in the industry,
we shall naturally go into rates
of competitors which offer a rea-
sonable basis of comparison and
which show that the rates here are
too low.”

The joint steering: committee of
craft representatives held 'a special
meeting Tuesday night and ac-
cepted the letter from Howell as
a basis for negotiations. It un-

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ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS

301 President Greets Hoover Strikers

July 30, 1948

301 Gives $500
To Hoover Strike

A $500 donation to the UE strik-
ers at the Hoover Company plant
at Canton, Ohio, was voted by the
30i~ Membership” and™ stewards’ ~~
meeting last week. The meeting
also voted to cooperate with the

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ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS _ 3

Resolution of 301
On Foreign Policy

The following resolution on for-

2. July 30, 1948

drove to kill price control and pass
the Taft-Hartley law—are putting
over the war and re-armament
drive “by the same red-baiting
methods on the international field
eign policy was adopted by the 301 as they use at home. The labor
membership and stewards’ meeting movements of France, Italy, China,
last-week—for=introduction~at-the — Greece--and--other--countries—are--—
national. UE. convention: called Russian agents and built up
into a threat of “Russian aggres-

Government Figures Show Profits,
Not Wages, Push Prices Sky-High

Below is a chart showing how industrial wages lagged behind both

the. cost of living and corporation profits (after taxes) from Jan, 1,
1944.to Apr. 1, 1948. ;

=== Prices “are” heading higher” every-day" now. The-Pederal Reserve

Board admitted recently that corporation profits’ during 1948 are “likely

to be higher” than in 1947 when they broke all

GE Security Corp.
Calls in All Bonds |

Details about the dissolving of
the GE. Security Corporation and
the -disposal_of_its funds were re-

“ ported to last week’s membership
and stewards’ meeting of Local
301 by Fred Matern, Bldg. 60,

machinist. Matern has been an em-
ployees’ representative on the
Security Corporation board for
three years. He has been a mem-
ber of 801 since its start.
The corporation will go out of
existence Aug. 81, he reported.
Workers gwho have invested in
Sécurity Corporation bonds have
been asked to turn in their bonds
sat Bldg: 2 by that date. They will
receive the money invested plus 15
per cent, and also regular interest
for the past six months.

‘lion dollars will be left after th
corporation repays all investments
and pays the 16 per cent. This
money will'be.set up as a hospital-
ization fund for al] present and
future pensioners. '

From this fund any pensioners,
while in a hospital, will be able to
get five dollars a day, up to‘a
total of $250, toward his hospital
room. He also can get $25.for extra
‘hospital expenses.

Matern was asked from the floor
whether a pensioner who is ill at
home, instead of at a hospital,
can’t get help from the fund to-
ward his doctor's bill.

“GE insisted that only hospital
expenses be covered,” Matern ans-
wered, “and that nothing go toward
doctor’s bills.”

Getting the hospitalization fund
in any form was a struggle, he
added, ;

Vice-President William Hodges
said the union’s fight for increased
pension benefits helped pave the
way for the hospitalization fund.

In describing a proposed new GE
savings plan, Matern mentioned
figures based on saving 10 dollars
a week.

“How can a worker save $10 a
week with prices what they are
today?” a member asked. “How
can we save anything.”

ELECTRICAL. UNION NEWS

United Electrical, Radio & Machine
Workers of America, CIO

Scutnectapy GE Loaat 301

Published by Editorial Committee
Mary McCartin, Secretary
Arthur R. Bertini Clayton Pudney
John G. Grasso Victor Pasche

Editorial Office
Ececraica, Union News
301 Liberty St., Schenectady, N. Y.

Telephone 3-1386

President Andrew Peterson welcomes two UE strikers from the Hoover
Company, Canton, Ohio: Marvin Clines, at left, and Robert Hukill, right.

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animously recommended to the

craft groups that the demonstra-,

tions be suspended immediately,
with authority to the steering com-
mittee to call the demonstrations
again if necessary. It also recom-
mended that the -men continue to
refuse overtime work.

Last week’s protest walk-outs
were the laigest yet held. They
eame after those who took part

-the previous week had received a
letter from Howell warning of

“more drastic disciplinary action”
and of “resulting lay-offs for those
involved” in further demonstra-
tions. Later Howell wrote Jan-
dreau that he had not meant lay-
offs in retaliation for the walk-out.

The welders’ protest meeting last
Friday decided, with one dissenting
vote, to continue the demonstra-
tions until the company was ready
‘to negotiate. .

The tool room and machinist
groups had taken similar action
the previous Wednesday, by a si
to one vote, — 6

Also involved in the craft dis-
pute and pending negotiations are
the millmen in the carpenter shop
in Bldg. 76.

Softball Game

The 801 girls’ softball team,
which was defeated by the Pitts-
field UE girls at the 801 Field Day
game, will have a chance to even
the score Aug, 22. The Schenectady

Paterson to Attend

At the direction of the 301 Ex-
ecutive Board, President Andrew
Peterson will go to Washington
next week to attend the emergency
legislative conference called. by
the national UE in connection with’
the special session of Congress.
The conference will be Wednesday
and Thursday, July 4 and 5.

One of the reasons for the emer-
gency UE meeting is the danger
that the Mundt Bill will be revived.
The union members will visit their
representatives and senators to op-
pose any such repressive bills and
to demand that Congress enact
price control and housing meas-
ures, repeal the Taft-Hartley law
and safeguard civil liberties.

Marshall Perlin, 801 attorney,
pointed out to the 301 Board meet-
ing Monday night that the renewed
attack on political minorities is in-
tended to clear the way for putting
over the Mundt Bill. /

The Board voted to attend a
meeting on the Mundt bill and civil
liberties called for last night at
the Van Curler Hotel by the Sche-
nectady Committee for Democratic
Rights. The Board urged that all
members of 801 write their Con-
geressman and U.S. Senators Rob-
ert Wagner and Irving Ives to de-
mand that they vote against the
Mundt Bill, against any legislation
repressing civil liberties, and for
price control.

_contempt-of-court charges.

national UE boycott of Hoover
products.

The 301 Executive Board decided
Monday to send a delegation to the
Schenectady Hoover agency to in-
form it of the 301 action and to ask
that it urge the company to settle
with UE, ‘

Two strikers, Robert G. Hukill,
a rank-and-file member, and Mar-
vin Clines, a trustee of Local 709,
gave a vivid report of this fight
against the vacuum cleaner manu-
facturing concern at last week’s
meeting. .

They saidt “has se
goons to beat up the strikers an nog
that 22 Pinkerton men follow strik'
ers around Canton and out of town.
A court injunction has limited the
union to 10 pickets, six at the main
gate and.two at two other entranc-
es. Strikers don’t get any unem-
ployment insurance. Company fore-
men have been made deputy sher-
iffs. And the union is involved in

previous records, The GE record for the first six
months of 1948 bears out that prediction.

The chart is based on figures from the Bureau
of Labor Statistics and the U. S. Department of
Commerce. A glance at the chart shows that the
workers are sharing very little of the record-
breaking profits of the corporations. The small
wage increases industry has. been forced to grant
since April of this year will in no way change
this picture,

You can see by the chart that in the period
of over four years, from Jan, 1, 1944, to Apr. 1,
1948, wages rose only 14 per cent. This increase
was from an average of $45.29 a week to an

nereased 36 per cent to a new all-time high.

o¢'And in that same period corporation profits (after
taxes) jumped 116 per cent, from an-annual rate
of 10 billion dollars to 21 billion, 600 million
dollars,

These profits have.come out of the high prices
set by industry in the last two years. Notice
how the profits and prices climbed after the end
of OPA. The chart shows clearly ‘that profits,
not wages, are the cause of: price increases.

Hukill and Clines are visiting i140:

fe

“The so-called bi-partisan foreign
policy today affects the income and
living standards and the lives of
every American It is being ex-
pressed-2A a government program

iW Oy,
of huge expenditures for arma-
ments and for payments to foreign
governments. This program is re-
sulting right now in skyrocketing
prices. Even its strongest backers
recognize that it will mean still

' further price increases, and before

long heavy taxes on the whole
people. It will of course guarantee
new record profits for the big
corporations, paid for by higher

eastern UE locals asking for finan-
cial support for the strike and urg-
ing that people stop buying Hoov-
er products until the strike is won.

The workers walked out June 10
after the company proposed a pay -
eut.

CTSA EES EE INDUSTRIAL WAGES

SSS COST OF LIVING
(ERUMAERA MERE! CORPORATION PROFITS
Soe

END OF
ORIGINAL,
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U. S. Steel Grants —
July 16 Pay Raise

The United States Steel Corpor-
ation granted a pay raise July 16
to the United Steelworkers. The

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union said the increase averages
13 cents. UE and the Auto Workers
had previously obtained raises in
their industries.

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EQUALS
100

10S

The Steelworkers could not join
with the other two big CIO unions
in bringing pressure to bear for
pay inereases because they were

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INDUSTRIAL
WAGES

tied to a no-strike provision - in 0
their two-year contract. UE and |

Auto defeated the “no pay raise” JAN)
policy of General Motors first, and Lai

JAN)

1945 1946

then other corporations agreed on

wage increases, ship

Strike Threat Wins

okayed the

agreement the

“taxés taken each week out of the

pay checks of the working people.

“This policy is said to be carried
out for the defense of American
democracy against Russian aggyres-
sion. Actually it is beginning to
destroy American democracy and
living standards, for the Taft-
Hartley law and the Mundt bill
are part and parcel of the war
drive. ;

“This foreign policy is contrary
to the interests of the American
people, regardless of how they may
feel about the Russians or their
form of government.

“The explanation for our dis-
astrous foreign policy was given
last year by the 12th convention
of UB, when it pointed out that
since the death of President Roose-
velt, the government had fallen

under the control of Big Business. .

Wall Street bankers dominate the
cabinet. Foreign policy is made by
these bankers, and. by the bi-
partisan senators and congressmen
who enacted the Taft-Hartley law,
and the administration which uses
it viciously tot break one strike
after another. Naturally their
policy can no more be democratic
abroad than it can be at home.

“Behind a cover of flag-waving
there are many-who support as
American the profit-grabbing, un-
democratic acts of the same Big
Business forces that try to destroy
unions at home. We will not join

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sion” because they happen to ‘have
different social and political views
from those prevailing in this coun-
try.

“While our foreign policy is sold
to the people as a defense of demo-
eracy,.it is being carried out in the
rebuilding of the Nazi trusts in
Germany, the backing of reaction-
ary governments, and the betrayal
of the Jewish people to the oil
trusts, even while these oil trusts
rob the American taxpayers on oil
sold to the Navy. And how it is
proposed that our tax money be

of profits reaped by Wall Street
trusts in foreign markets.

“Por the sake of our standards of
living, of our democratic American
liberties, and for the lasting wel-
fare of our country, we must fight
for the return of our foreign policy
and of our government to the hands
of the people,”

Westinghouse Agrees
To Rehire Two Men

Westinghouse Electrie Company
has agreed to put back to work in
the South Philadelphia plant two
men whose recent dismissal caused
a complete work stoppage for 26
hours, The two had been fired after
the Navy announced it didn’t want
them to continue on “classified
jobs”, on the grounds they were
“poor security risks”,

UE members at the plant walked
off their jobs immediately in pro-
test against this violation of the.
contract and of civil rights. After
meeting with a union committee,
management decided to reinstate
the two men. They are to be placed
on “non-classified” jobs for- the
present,

The company assured the union
it will review with the Navy the
whole subject of government pro-
cedure in such dismissals. As in
many other cases around the coun-
try, the government agency made
no specific charges and made no

effort to back up its “poor secur’

301 Broadcast

The weekly radio broadcast of
Local 301 is at 7:30 p.m. every
Wednesday over WSNY.

girls have been invited to play in
Pittsfield that day.

8 Per Cent Raise

An eight per, cent general wage
increase was negotiated with Bas-
sick Company, Bridgeport, Conn.,
by UE Local 229, The raises range
from nine to 15 cents an hour, ~

‘Pensioners to Meet

The UE-301 Pension Organiza-
‘tion will meet at 2 pm. Wednesday
at the union hall,

ers there,

The U. S. Steel pay raise is ef-

fective as of July 16. Fund for Inequities

Westinghouse Electric Company

CD nas: agreed to set aside a fund
totaling $270,000 for reclassifying
jobs in the Buffalo plant. On the

strength of this settlement, mem-
bers of UE Local 1581 called off a
strike set for July 19. The member-

Raises at Peabody ©
UE has signed an agreement
with the United Shoe Machinery .
Corporation at Peabody, Mass.,
bringing pay raises of nine to 17
cents to the more than 2,000 -work-

morning the strike was to take
place.

About $70,000 of the fund has
already been spent on reclassifica-
tions following an agreement
veached on a national level Apr. 22.

However, the Buffalo workers felt

the company was stalling in ad-
justing many inequities and voted
to strike to force a settlement,

in that hypocrisy. The foreign
policy of the James Forrestals and
other Wall Street bankers serves
to take over foreign markets and
oil fields for their greater profits.
It is real patriotism to recognize
thal this poliey hurts the American
people.

“The mouthpieces of Big Business
—the same press and radio that

risk” claims, The company told the
union it was not informed by the
Navy of the basis for the charges.

A joint statement by the West-
inghouse management and UE
Local 107 declared that if a similar
case ‘should occur, they “will at-
tempt to develop a procedure
whereby such cases may be pro-
cessed in a more orderly mannez.”