ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS .
» November 10, 1945-
a
801
‘Yhe a falling is the 3 pro- | members of th is union,
gram for Schenectady which It ‘was submitted. to candi-
was drawn up by the Legis-|dates.in last week’s election
lative Committee of Locatland received full endorsement
which is ‘designed to{from many iiicluding County
meet most adequately, the /Clerk Carrol “Pink” Gardner,
needs of the citizens of this his opponent Les Jensen and
ommunity y as well as the] othe
Jobs
’ Full support for local efforts to: bring new industries to Schenec-
fady. .Encourage existing industry to expand its production and em-
ployment. Set up a Job Planning Committee; the Common Council
to take the lead in building a committee whieh js made up of repre-
fentatives of management, Jabor and the public,
Price Control
‘ ; Continued and increased support for the national price contro]
program, Passage of a local price contre] ordinance to strengthen
enforcement of price regulations.
Veterans
Full support for existing veterans! legislation and amendments
fo provide such benefits as these: (1) medical care at convenient
public and private institutions at Government expense, where Vet-
¢rans' Adininistration facilities are inadequate or unavailable; (2)
Jow rent housing facilities; (3) loans at interest rates not exceeding
2 percent; (4) unemployment benefits for full‘ period of involuntary
unemployment; (&) the term “veteran” to ‘be defined to include those
serving in the Merchant Marine, Red Cross and similar Wartime
Services; Obviously, ‘much more with be required.
Education and Recreation
! Tmprovement and expansion of all oxisting “educational facilities,
qvith particular attention to the needs of adults and revurning vet-
@vans. More and belter equipment and increased personnel for all
year public reereation. j 4
areata ne ete gota
Wages.
i Bring wages of city employees into line, with wages paid for
similar work in the community, Support for such wage inereases
as may be required to compensate for inereases in the cost of living,
ghorter hours, change of jobs, down- grading, ete.
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Unity
[ Full support to all efforts for penceful felations between labor
and management, such as the ‘“Labor- -Management Code of Prin-
Riples” endorsed by the United States Chamber of Commeree, the
“AFL and the ClO; equal treatment of all, in every department of
pity life, xegardiess of race, religion or national origin. «
Social Security
T Active support for and public. education on the revised
Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill, which would amend the Soeit]l Security
Act to provide for a 10-year program of new hospitals, health cen-
ters ,cte,, grants. to slates for health services, maternal and child
welfure, aid to the aged, blind, dependent children, etc, The bill
would also inerease unemployment benefits and extend the benefit
period to 26 weeks; it would include prepaid personal health insur-
ance and retirement disebility and survivors’ allowances at a. mini+
mum of $20 a month and a maximum of $120,
Federal and State Aid toCommunity
. Recognition and support of the need for increased federal and
state aid to education and projects serving the Community; and: an
inereased share of slate collected taxes to be returned - the city of
Schenectady.
Building and Construction
1 1, Build a downtown auditorium with equipment for large and
small public meetings, to ‘be available withoul charge to all groups
of Scheneetudy people
2 Remove present sub-standard housing and build low rent
homes to be occupied by Schenectady fanuhes, without diserimina-
tion as to race, religion, national origin or political atiliation.
3, Provide a new health center for the city, with full facilities
for niediail, dental and ‘child health: care,
4, A. comprehensive program of hignway and street improve-
ment, with plans for. se- routing: of, truck traflie,
5. An ‘adequate flood control: program!
6. Expand Airport facilities to establish Schenectady as a regu-
Jar stop on main lines.
2, Construct a central Ynarket place with facilities to accormmo-
date fnrmerg bringing their produce to the ¢ily,
Favorable
kien.
miritierts
exactly where it was pefore, r)
That is, unions demanding a
just wage increase without per-
mitting run-away prices that
would lead to inflation and indus-
try sticking to its determination
not to grant increases unless the
lid is taken off prices further
swelling its enormous profits.
The sincerity of the President
cannot be questioned but the. ef-
fectiveness of his proposed solu-
tion of the wage problem seems
PRESIDENT TRUMAN
doubtful when the attitude and
present jactions .of vindusiry. are
considered.
; Highlights
Among the highlights of the
Presidlent’s speech were these: He
told the country that millions of
workers have suffered “a deep
eut” in their pay envelope and
that “wage increases are there-
fore imperative.”
The’ President .said also that
while positions of different indus-
tries vary greatly, “there is room
in existing price structure for
business as a whole to grant wage
increases.” He also spoke of the;
‘posts during the month of
Truman’s Wage-Price Position
to Labor But Fails —
To Provide Selston | to 0 Problem
“very favorable profit position”
that industry finds itself in today.
(General Electric’s position is
among the best with the greatest
profits in its history.)
Truman then, in effect, told in-
dustry and labor to agree on wage
increases through collective bar-
gaining. Collective bargaining is
the all important backbone of
labor- -management relations as we,
know them today. Throughout the
history of Local 301, all ‘griev-
ances, problems. and even wage
increases have been negotiated
satisfactorily through collective
bargaining, It is not the desire
Newly Elected
The following are
committeemen
new
elected to
October:
G. Westfall, 60; A.
2; A, Mathieson, “52;
52; J. Green, 66; B. Price,
P. Muaietta, 60; E. Connelly,
G0; J. Koral, 95; J. Hanley, 285;
Korkosz,
HH. Bay-
T. Dahlen, 273; 1. oBrennan, 60;
A. Lenta, 53, .
J. Kasitch, 53; B..Ford, 18; 6.
Ferris,; 68; Mi Weightman... 53;
J. Modan, 40; A. Siknor, 60; M,
Perretta,--49; W. Martin, 49; J.
Kelly, 24; C. Rose, 24; G. Mock,
28; L. Shannon, 23; J, Wiesinger,
24; A. Faricllo, 85; W. Brand-
horst, 24; H. Friek, 85; R.
O'Brien, 57; F. Whitaker,’ 81; 0.
Mrozek, 60; 8S. Passamonte, 60;
A. Raymond, 58; M. Folkman, 69.
M. Gee, 238; 4% Metala, 69; C.
Rogers, 58; FL Emspak, 46; W.
Christianson, 60; F. Bentley, 109;
S. Riley. 17; R. Frederick, 60; A.
Diamante, 538; V. Lomine, 60; A.
Lockwood, 49 and W,. Trvin, 60.
to abandon the method of settling
differences now. However it takes
two to make a bragain. When
companies like GE and others just
say, “we won't talk about wage
increases unless we get what we
want first” that isn’t and there
can not be collective bargaining.
The President did do exactly
the right thing on the matter of
pending labor legislation. He first
told of the urgent need for pas
sage of the Kilgore-Forand Un- ¢
employment Insurance Bill and the
Full Employment Bill, Then he
called by name the committees that
were responsible for holding up
this much needed legislation.
107
Represents
3 stem
WILLIAM MASTRIANI,
who has represented build-
ing 81, transmitter depart-
ment, on the executive
‘board has been assigned
by that body to also repre-
sent building 107.
past two months:
On September 19th .a delegation
representing the Legislative Com-
mittee and Local 801, composed of
Chairman Al Davis, Francis .Etsal
and Fay Marvin, waited on Con-
gressman Kearney and discussed
several bills with him which were
then pending and are still pend-
ine. (A full account‘of this meet-
ing wus. given in an. earlier issue
of this paper.) ‘These bills, Kear-
ney was informed, menn much’ to
labor unions-and. laboring men and
weet. He professed ignorance to
the subject matter’ of the most of
these bills but promised he would
study ‘them and write us his po-
sition on them, In the month and
a half that has clapsed since that
conference the committee has not
reecived any satisfactory answer.
Agnin on October Srd, Duvis
wrote Kearney again asking him
to become a sponsor of the House
version of the Full Employment
‘EB introduced by Congressman
Kearney's Interest Indifferent,
Replies to Union Group Reveal
’ Report of Legislative Committee
Our members should lity the grand “run around” that the Legislative Committee is .
getting from our representative in Congress, B. W. Kearney. Here is the record for the
the “right to work” be included: in
the bill when reaches the floor
ref the house. Kearney refused to
commit himself as in favor of the
bill, In the same letter Kearney
was asked to support the 65¢ min-
imum wage bill. Davis got the
“brush off” on this one, also,
Kearney was asked in a letter
dated October 17th to act on the
accompanying petitions signed: by
our membership which urged him
“to work and vote” against the
Burton-Ball-Hatch (“ball and
chain”) Bill, His reply’ was “ack-
nowledge reecipt of yours.”
Again on the same date a reso-
lution was forwarded to Kearney
which had been passed .by our
“membership. This condemned “lim
Crowism” and the anti-libor bins
and discriminatory attitude in the
nagional capital and asked Kear-
ney “to do all in his power to
erndiente such sources of provo-~
ention.” His answer again was
Patman and to insist on the phrase
This situation hag existed for
three years. What can we do with
a guy like that?
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THE VOICE OF THE UNITED ELECTRICAL RADIO & MACHINE WORKERS OF AMERICA—LOCAL 301 CIO
Vol. II—No. 38
_. MOVEMBER 17, 1945
caro 900
3c per copy
Consider This A Moment
By AUSTIN CASE, Editor:
Ocal 301 is at this moment facing one of the most critical times
in its history. I and many ‘others are aware of this fact and i
implications. As a union member, I want to bring to light my
would jeopardize the future of not only this fine union, but every
individual worker in the GE plant who ‘looks to loea] 301 as a pro-
tector against unfair employment practices-and- as
fa champion of his rights and well being,
There are two things facing us, coliectively as
‘an organization, and as individuals, They are:
first, to carry on a suecessful fight for a fair
wage adjustment so that we can werk and enjoy
a decent standard of living; second, to elect a
group of officers who will give us the strength
, and guidance to carry on and win that fight.
As for the election, I, as editor of this paper,
do not initend: to write or publish anything in it which would even
faintly imply partisanship. My reason for that is that this is the
paper of ALL membership, not of one person or group of persons.
However, I wish to stress an important point in een to the elec-
tions.
UNITY IMPERATIVE FOR US
The great. weakness of organized labor is luck of unity, caused
of actual splits and differences based solely on personalities, Let
us avoid them! The job which has to be done by this organization for
its membership is so tremendous that its strength must not be
sapped or impaired the slightest. We need all we have, to win, _
So in that connection, if there should develop any verbal or
published . controversy, although there shouldn't be, other than on
fine ‘adv “given. recently by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of one
of the smartest politicians of all time and a great: president, She
Said this:
© “The strong man does net rush te deny accusations, but depends
an
on his character and actions to prove his integrity,”
Let us remember that competition and exchange of opinion. is a
muker of progress and a sign of vitality and heallh, but it can also
be ruinous and destructive if the ethies of fair play and honesty
are cast aside. :
The important bearing which all this has on our own wage
‘increase fight is summed ap in a statement made last weak by Ira
‘Mosher, president of the anti-labor National Munufacturers Agsocia-
tion, when asked which delegates at the Labor-Management Con-
‘ference repiesented his organization and which ones represented the
United States’Chamber of Commerce, the other. big business -group
fighting labor, His reply was, “I can give you no lists because we
are all united” behind the same purpose.”
That purpose ia well known to most union pecple.~ It ig to
‘break the unions, to fight any wage increase to the workers and to
fight means of providing full employment. beenuse. widespread un-
employment would create a flooded cheap-labor market.
i WE MUST MATCH INDUSTRY’S STRENGTH
Local 801 is a very’ small segment of organized Inbor but
nevertheless, as one of the largest union locals in the country, a
_very important one, General Electric is but one company of hundreds.
which are fighting cooperatively against organized © labor,
“the largest in the electrienl industry, GE is a very important one,
GE is completely united along with their industry partners be-
hind the vicious purpose I have just mentioned, This union, Local
801, has a far greater purpose to fight for because it is for the
benefit of humanity. But do we have the strength of unity to
match GE? The answer rests with our membership and candidates
alike, For the benefit of our organization and everyone of us indi-
vidually, let’s hope that when elections are over the answer will be
the right one
‘Election Committee Named
‘Jecutive board recommendation
gommittee which will conduct the
millee lo 10°and the motion was
overwhelmingly approved.
Those: elected to serve- onthe
commitee are as follows: William
Young, Harvey Scott, Blanchard
Mowers, Anthony Villano, W.
Marchawha, H, YW. dudway, C.
Sille, A. Eastman, 1. Patterson
and P, Canders,
The committeemen at their No-
womber meeting amended an ex-
tliat oight people be elected by
that body to serve as the election
annual general officers’ election
December 4 and 5 They changed
§he number to serve on the com-
i
i } i :
let. every candi late. dake the |. ae
f a Peanetved noti abr Mastriants soit)
“photo-engravings
But as|
Three
“| Consider
age Boards
Joint
ction
The $2 a day wage increase fight being conducted with General Electrie
took added significance as this paper went to press, with the.announcement by,
the national-officers of the UE that.a joint. meeting of the General Electric,
| Westinghouse and General Motors Conference Boards of the union would be
held in New York City November 16 to consider further action against the
Pic Switch
Explained .
ih just couldn't be, but there it
was: William Mastriani, executive
board member ag president of GE
and° Chas. Wil-
son as union
xecutive board
member repre-
senting bui ld-
ing 107.
Ag this issue
of the paper
went to press
3 swe. still hadn’t
against the editor for libel or
Wilson’s note of thanks for the
compliment, but the editor wishes
lo explain how it all happened,
anyway.
In the mechanical process of
printing this paper, the type
is made up in page form and is
eomplete with the exception of
‘the photo engravings, which are
merely laid into the space provided
for them when the mag is rolled
of the page.
When “proofs” of the page are
taken, the engraving is left out of
the form so as not to ink them,
The thing that happened is that
the page was all OK when read
for errors but when the cuts or
were laid in
place for the mat, they were ac-
cidently misplaced,
It was an aceident which
shouldn't but can very easily
happen and sometimes does, even
in large daily papers,
Bill Mastrianni has our sincere
apologies,
‘The Editor.
Nominations
Meeting Nov. 25
“Sunday, November 25, ig the
date set aside for the specia!
menibership meeting which will be
held for approval of the commit-
teemen’s nominations of a slate
of officers for the coming: year,
According to the union constitu.
Hon, the general membership can,
at its diseression, approve the
nominations ag made by the com-
mitteemen or nominate a slate of
officers of thely own to run in
opposition.
* “big three” of the electrical *—
-| industry,
It is the-first time: that
union representatives in the
three companies have met to
consider joint: action on any ‘pro-
gram although General Electric
and Westinghouse boards have
‘met together in the past. * —
David: Seribner, geneyal “council.
of the UF national office, ‘stated
that over 95% of the General
Electric and Westinghouse: work-
ers have signed petitions giving
the union their OK to take what-
ever action necessary to gain their
wage demands and that it was the
desire and intention of the union
to obtain 100% concurrence. _
*90%
(In Schenectady well over 90%
of those contacted have signed
petitions, which have been de-
livered to the national office and
more ure coming in daily.)
On November 7, the national of-
ficers, under provisions of the
Smith-Connolly Act, gave 30 days
notice to the National Lubor Re-
lations Board. of their request for
a strike vote to be taken in the
General Electric, Westinghouse
and General Motors Electrical
Division plants, Although New’
York City papers November 8 car-
vied Washington announcements
that the vote would be conducted
by the NLRB early next. month, it
wag implied that whatever action
will be taken is dependent on fu-4
ture developments.
The union officials were still
seeking a meeting between GE
President Wilson and the General
Officers of the UE in hopes that
true collective bargaining, which
has -been impossible up. to this
time, might-be conducted on the
wage demand.
WILSON MEETING
REMOTE
The likelihood of such a meeting
seems remote however, as. Wilson,
who a few months ago‘openly ad-
voeated increasing wages after.
V-J Day so’ that workers would
maintain their wartime earnings
despite a shortened work week,
now finds himself in an impossible
spot) .and can not justify his
present attitude as revealed by the
policy of his company spokesmen. |
Tt is very Hkely that this is also
the reason for his refusing the
invitation of President Truman
to participate in. the Labor-Man-
agement Conference in Washing-
ton, Meanwhile, Local 301 scems
IN’ SCHENECTADY 7
SCHRUDNER
JANDREAU
ready to follow whatever action
becomes expedient towards meet-
ing the wage issue, Committeemen
last
weelt
enthusiastically aps.
proved the report given by Busi-
ness Agent Leo Jandreau, who is
also chairman of the GE Confer-
ence Board, and evidence gathered
from expsiessions made by rank
and file members points to mem-
attitude.
Back Drive
To Reach 100%
Membership
The
shop
| bership. action, if, the company °
‘does noe chairg
its ‘pr esent aloof
representatives in
their November meeting last weelk
unanimously endorsed an execn-
tive board recommendation to get
all
non-union
members in the
local GE plant into the union in
support of the $2 a day wage
inerenase demand,
Thd exact nature of the ecam-
paign is not known at this writing,
but it is
a job which requires the
combined effort of committeemen
and members alike within their
respective departments.
Reasons
should belong to the union would
fill a book, There are no reasons
why a person should not belong.
NOTE INCREASE
Reports from the business, office
say new applications ave coming
in in numbers four times greater
than ustial since: the strike - vote
authorization petitions were cit.
culated recently. This new spurt
in signing up by non-members has
been entirely voluntary.
It gives promise that if the
committeemen and union members
talk and explain the real benefits
of joining Loeal 801 to the few
non-members
ments, ff there are any,
why
every worker"
in theiv departs
it will
soon be that the plant is 100%
not 90 or 95% union, This in turn
will benefit everyone through giv-
ing added strength to the union
and
ils progra
1s
NLECTRICAL UNION NEWS
Wallace Warns Wage Boost
‘Needed to Stop Collapse
‘' WASHINGTON (IfP)—Unless a
“substantial, increase
in wage rates is granted,” Sec. of { Commerce Henry A, Wal-|
lace said Nov. 5, the incomes of wage earners will continue
do decline “to such an extent that prices must inevitably !
be affected.” in
‘Wallace spoke before the open-
ing session of the national labor-
in the
Depart-
conference
the U.S.
He suid ‘that ‘an
manufacture
management
auditorium - of
ment of Labor.
increase of 15% in
hig’ industries and corresponding-
ly smaller increases in other ac-
tivities would not prevent a drop
of from $20 to $25 hillion in the
total wages and salaries paid in],
the U.S, in 1945,
Vice President under
Franklin .D. Roosevelt, and hero
of many in the American labor
movement, Wallace said that the
decline: in) wages and salaries
would be reflected proportionate-
ly in profits before taxes, “but cor-
porate profits afier taxes will
probably be unaffected and per-
haps even show small gain
“tf such increases in wage
rates are not made,” Wallace
warned, “the decline in wage and
salary incomes will be even grout-
er than .$25 billion, There then
will be severe downward pressure
on prices after the spring of next
year, and profits will be corres-
pondingly endangered.”
Wallace closed by saying that
‘the road of industrial peace is
“reached” through’ a” mutual” ‘con:
cern for the national welfare,
“through full production, full em-
‘ployment, with higher wawes and
more lasting profits than we have
the late
HENRY, A. WALLACE
Thanks 301
The following letter’ has been
received by President Wilkinson
from Mr. Filkins, head of Unem-
ployment Insurance, Schenectady
ollice:
‘This is to thank you for the
use of your CIO Assembly Hall
during he time we were having
a considerable number of people
filing for unemployment insurance.
Tt was generous of you and your
organization. to -apen.-your faciti-
ties lo-us and we appreciate it.”
ever dreamed of before.”
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Schenactady G E Local 303
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tlon $1.00 a year. Entered as sesond class matter August 8, 1944, at
the Post Office of New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879.
AUSTIN |, CASE, Editor
RAYMOND. D, FLANIGAN,
Editorial Committee: Frank Emspak, Sidney Friedlander,
* Jayne Starko, Troy Snipes, Blanchard “Mowers.
Electrical Union News”.
Buy Victory Bonds
weeks of cach month, by Trade
Co-editor
Chet Cook,
Schenectady, N.Y,
rte
+ Thanksgiving
Thanks:
The following’ poem, written by
Floyd Chatham 1
‘memoration of Thanksgiving Day
is particularly fitting “how that
the war is won and the boys are
coming home. It will strike a har-
monious chord.in. the hearts of all
Genter in com-
of our tembers who will, rejoice |
that we con now tira our
thoughts and efforts to building a
lasting peace and ‘a better world.
Thanksgiving thanks and - our
thanks are due,
The flelds all yielded » their
ures true,
So with thankful hearta,
in our lays
To the God who crowneth
our days,
Thanksgiving:
thankful,
the s aeeee time as the whiter
WW
Ohe seeds were sown a6 Lhe mead-
OWS grassed, ‘
Whe hard earth
the plow,
The harvests
happy Tow,
Thanksgiving Day, Jord, we thanle
cB Wee.
trenas-
we sing
us all
Day, Lord, ‘we are
ylelded itself to
are In, folks are
whe nawaiS wrnaiied and the robins
San,
The people. worshipped
bella rang,
The geaing grew strong and
ripened well,
Now our: joyfut
hil and dell
Thanksgiving
songeul, ‘
‘he plantiugs were watched with
a tender care,
And vighlunce
vigor, rare,
Bach opeaing
vine
Revealed
divine,
Thauksglying Day, Lord, wer, padore
Theae Ce
ns the
they
sougs sound oer
Day, Tord, we are
reigned with op
atalle and growing
us. a God with w-love
The sun of TMeav
itz, heat,
‘The blossoms were > fragrant, SO Ve-
freshingly sweet,
For the falling.
mountain breere
We extol Thee, I wiytior, & for all ot
these.
Thanksgiving
prniseful
The reapers gathered the
erops,
whe lusbandmen nurtured
tenting stocles,
The Prutls were
killing air,
We wisely
tne cnre,
Thanksgiving
hess
raing, ‘anid the
Day, Lovd, we are
ae
Bolden
the fat+
anved from Crost's
discern God's protect-
Duy, Lord, we praise
Ihe garner ts niade, and the barns
ave Cull,
Mews labor rewarded to
ape, alt
Such tasks are noe herd;
ia sweet,
Now we bow our heady In revere
enee meet,
‘Thanksel vies:
trustfut.
“Ye belleve In God," Thy worl de
elures,
Woe ask
prayers.
All naluce
bless,
Tis promise
vontes:
Thinks:
‘Thee,
the truite
such labor
Day, Lord, we ate
our Tard to atiswer
abundant as God stall
fullitled, our heaves
Iving Day, Lord, we trust
The tanitliss come home from near
and fae,
Wen to
tors ajar,
Mirth and
Uinoks aad
To am genevuls
always,
Thanksgiving
sratetul, |
We thank hee,
gralitude, give
Wor Crace, Truth, and Love,
whioh we live.
Mhow hast kept us,
joy stiblline, -
We worship Thee,
sifts of Thine,
Thainkselving Day, Lord, we revere
Vhae. .
friend and stranger the
Joy: enjotued with
pralge
God who provides
Duy, Tard, we are
we bless ‘Thee, and
lno, by
tu
oh Cheist,
God, tor
year
chor,
(hide
Ao dluy set nmiert, onee every
Acday for prayer and tuimily
people to gather therel i
day
ehurehes,
nud pray,
Manksety tis
loving, ,
Let pentse
arise
Wram
Lthes
Vo Cod owt loves, all, so
Whatever their stultin in
be,
Mhatlesayiv bigs
Mhag. F
‘(Cowliiued on page 4)
Tu nid homes, to stig
Thay, Tard we nre
nnd thas,
reverent loarhs, aa holy
free
Heo may
Day, bord,
we lova
thes
shown down In
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By LEO JANDREAU
The following is a list of cases pending before management at the
“prosent time. Ae a service to the membership, the Klectrledl Union News
in co-operation with the Business Agent's Office will publish In each issue
the list of cases pending. When a case no longer appeara on this Liat, lt
may bo axsunied that settlement hus : .
No, Blip.
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been made.
Cane Date
Joe ‘Thurling:
Cleanlag Group ;
55B2 ray Group Complaint:
6515 69 Mrs. Mury Kramer
Pir: 69 Group Complaint
5508 Go Josephine Romac
5598 53 Group) Complaint
B57) 278 dD. A. Burger
bats 46 W, A. Stevens
0 J. Potinent
“40 Group Complaint
0 Group Complaint
4g Group Complaint
109 Warry Perue
109 Brie SelWicht
B81 oup Complaint
Prepare for Ships
ment ¥
Group Complatnt
Tack Mabie
GG. Leone
D. O'Neil
Cecile Groene
Telen Qabrint
croup
As diekeawles
Sareh la, oTucker
Antoine Stanalone
Widtie Plech :
Harry UPTO.
Punch Press
Tovest Mununing:
J. GLanthler
Dewitt Cole
T. Ganthier |
Croup Complatnte
Tucille Kennedy
Rose Dolan
Paullne Pallet
Charles GG. Hyde
6597 Ruth Reld
Sooo Marton Waythe
“$800 2800 da Eanthior
HO3t Wittiam Wharton
5H84~ Genevieve Carling
> Lillian Webster
Virginia Bertram
Thomas Severn
Midgne Histed ¢
Ry, Lash is
Trowp Con mphaliet
Joe Windowskt
: “Pom! Pelkovie
Booe Croup Complaine
4904 Willlam Chlopeckt
H3ee l GQ. Becker
; Croup) Complaint
General Taspec lors LSsTil+
cations & Bales
Sloamfitters
John DeClire.
Bliay, No, 43
Stephen Adunesyls
Bldg No, 60
General dod. Harrington:
CASUS.. UP FOR JOINT
Wien Mars
J. Rispolt
Geoup Complaint
ames Mangito
Taeh Room Chroup
Committeeman
Fuel
Busse
Baciew
Matrazzo
Garrett
Esposilo
Ryan
Kelly
Bowen
_Tamourenx
O'Connell
Waterhouse
Walthousen
Wrysomsii
Tasher
Ragueel
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10- 1-45
10-11-4167
SLATS
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8-10-45
10-15-45
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10-1646
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8-14-45
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9-26-15
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10-10-45
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Manging
Manning
Roberts
Parker
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Scott
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10-11-45
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10-15-45
10-16-46,
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Pranktin
Villa to 16.
10-12-16
10-12-46.
9-11-45,
9-11-46
10-10-16
Bevera
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10-15-15
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10-16-15
INVESTIGATION.
Pagel
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Westbury
Ranroth
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‘Cases in. Advanced Stages
Of Collective Bargaining
CASES BUFORE MR,
GALS 84 Croup
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5A86 as dH. Lets
G48 ruak Shay 20-45
bHOR Alftved fa. Johnson Anibal 20-40
522 Rates Paid Women a
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Over tte
Thewls ‘Arnisteony
Croup Complaint
Cranefollowers
Mra. M, Cevere
Mes, 1D. Priest
- AnH Perone
Tucy Maltolo
Allee Waslulis
Croup Complaint
uo J. Sprubtrgh
a4 Group Compleat
4y WoL Buell
SS ee
HOWELL, WORKS MGR,
Tolimnes
Tanstig
Wilkinson
Complatut
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DeCiuerre
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20-46
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270, 60, Welders
19 Churbing Dept
15 Die Setters
109 firoup Complaint
us Civoup Complalat
208 John T. Casey
V7 Croup Couplatnt
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Automade
Machine
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give the docket number >
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ELECTRICAL. ENON NEWS
NOMINATIONS . — NOVEMBER 25
' ELECTION — DECEMBER 4-5
Read Your Insurance:
: <gDolicy
=i Oncy vw ith Great- Care
Editor of- the Electrical Union
News:
The inquiry made by the Union member whose relative
was refused-a claim for injury by the Travelers Insurance
Conipany on. the ground that
“sickness” and not “accident”
provisions of their accident policy, ®
and I came to the conclusion that
it may be possible that’ the insured
under this form of ‘policy will
meet further disappointment it
the insurance Company avails it-
self of the provisions. numbers 1
and 16 of the Standard Provisions.
Number 1 Reads as Follows:
“This Policy includes the
endorsements and attached: pa-
pers, if any, and contains the
entire contract of insurance ex-
cept it may be modified by
the Company's classification of
risks and premium rates‘in the
event that the Insured is injured
after having. changed his occu-
pation to one classified by the
Company as more hazardous than
that. stated in the Policy, or),
while ‘he is doing any act~ or
thing pertaining to any occupa-
tion so classified; except ordinary | ¢
duties about his .residence or
while engaged in reereation, in
which ‘event the Company will
pay only such portion of the
indemnities provided in the Pol-
icy as,the premium paid would
within ‘the limits so fixed by. the |
Company for such hazardous |
occupation.”
the injury was a result of
has led me:to examine the
jury is‘veeeived in a full from a
ladder while sputting up storm
windows, does the policyholder
recover full amount. of benefits?
Number 16 Reads as Follows:
“The may cancel
this Policy at any time by writs
ten notice delivered to the In-
sured ov tmailed-to his last ad-
Company
dress as showi’ by the records
of the Company, together with
cash’ or the Company's check Lor
the unearned portion of the pre-
miums actually paid by the In-
sured, and such " cancellation
shall be without prejudice to any
claim originating prior thereto.”
Under this-provision, what ‘re-
course’ hus a policyholder ia the
event the ‘Gomipany cancels the
policy after it had Devi in foree
for a number of. years
In pondering over the above,
the policyholders should aak
themselves, “What shall we do
about it?” .
A.
Buy Victory Bonds
According to lat
Kearney Has
the release petiti
Kilgore-Forand Unempl
Bill to the floor of the House for action.
WRITE AND URGE HIM TO DO SC Now!
information
Not Signed
on to bring the
oyment Compensation
est
OAL MINERS
' AROUND 1900
WERE BADLY EX-
PLOITED. THE.
WORK WAS DAN.
GEROUS, WAGES JOR WORKER
AVERAGED #22,
A MONTH, A 10 HOUR pay was
STANDARD, AND, COMPANY HOUSES
AND STORES MADE THE WORKERS $
"SLAVES" OF THE OPERATORS,
70 KEEP THEM DIVIDED, THE
MINE: OWNERS DELIBERATELY EW)-
PLOYED WORKERS OF 20 DIFFERENT
NATIONALITIES... INCLUDING SLAYS,
LAUGH, POLEG ITALIANS, HUNGARIANS,
THE OWNERS EXPECTED SO MANY
RACES AND RELIGIONS WeULD
DISTRUST AND HATE ONE ANOTHER;
AND THEY'D NEVER FORM A COMMON ®
UNION TO BETTER WORKING CONDI+
TIONS, THEY WERE MISTAKEN, THE
N THE "PENNSYLVANIA COAL- FIELOS, VOD
How Agour \
| /RED ENOUGH SLAVS. (WANT ) ME? MY
name's
aan? Use yOu, WOLOCZER.
H POLES OR ITALIANS NOW!
1'M) JOHN MICHELE,
tome TO ORGANIZE you
MINERS, YOU'VE BEEN
KICKED AROUND LONG
ENOUGH. JOIN'THE UNION!
TALKS
HORSE
‘y
WORNERS DID UNITE UNDER THE
LEADERSHIP OF JOHN MITCHELL,
AND EVENTUALLY BUILT UPA STRONG |
UNION, "THEY PROVED THAT WORK!
DONOT FALL FOR THE "HATE AND
OIVIDE® LING. ¢
S7EETIES
pales”
Digest,
Local 301’s charge that the Digest succeeded in
suppressing “the most' damaging results of “an
(of the Readers Digest) by. the
National” Couneil
investigation which branded the Digest us poison
for the minds of the youth of America, :,
Here is) some evidence that we invite Min
Oursler to answer in. his next letter: On May
39, 1944, the Executive Committee. of the. Nu-+
tional Council.of Teachers of English met at the
Morrison Hotel, in Chicago. At least seven of -
the leading editors and executives of the Readers
Digest were present at that meeting, including
executive editor, Kenneth Payne and others,
These editors made all kinds of apologies to
the teachers, including an apology for theic
attacks on the New Deal,
Digest. by editor Max Eastman for a boycott
of medical ‘aid to Russian wounded. They finally
investig¢ gation
SENSE,
FELLOWS,
AND 1 DON'T |
~ MEAN. GATE
HORSE!
Fulton Ourslep, Senior ‘ite of the. Readers: *
‘in a letter to the Union-Star, denies. a
of Teachers of English,” au,
and for a plea in’the -
Editor
invited the Executive Committee to an expensive
dinner and lieaded off the report,
Now, for Oursler, -himsel#,
. > Four . documents, obtained by the weekly, In
Fact, from. the United States Court of Appeals,
District ‘of Columbia, confirm: the following
facts! . .
1. The chief German pitpewsading in America
in ‘the first World War was the German-born
Ameriean citizen, George Sylvester Viereck. »
2. In 1930 Viereck published a book admitting
he was a Gerinan propaganda ‘agent, From the
time Hitler eame into power Viereck Dropagan-
dized the Nazi system in America.
3. Vieveck. was , associated with the MacPadden
Publications . , i:
4. Viereck under his own name jena many |
assumed names wrote a lot of baiting propa-
ganda. articles, all of which append in Mac-
Fadden . Liberty. Magazine, -
5. Viereck tid most of this work ‘for Liberty
whose’ editor-in-chief was Fulton Oursler.
Oflice and clerical workers who are at the present time still outside the union
ranks but surely coming within the collec
much more that they are missing by being
The company and the union very rece
tive bargaining organization of UE -now have’
unorganized,
ntly came to a compromise agreement on, dis-
puted article V of the current ‘con-»
tract which will become effective
as soon as the various.UE-locals
throughout the GE ratify. the
agreement, The provisions apply.
only to the office-clerieal workers
in the various: GE units who have
already joined the tanks’ of UE
through NLRB _clections,.
» Article ¥
Observed
be paid for-at-
time,
Section 3-D
. ployees on the
holidays
Employees: All planned hours of
work performed by exempt) em-
paid for at straight time. Exempt
De ED .
worked shall| employees who perform planned
the-vate of double work” on Suiility shally if-Sunday:
, ig the Tth-consecutive, day worked
in the week; receive compensation:
of approximately one day's pay in
addition to straight time rate for,
that day. Observed holidays wovlk-
ed shall be paid for at double time.
Exempt Salaried
6th day shall be
Section 3-C Non-Bxempt Sal-
aried Employees and Drattsmen:
All work performed by — non-
Cases Before War Lahor Bo
exempt employees and drafitsmen
im excess of eight (8) hours in any
single day ov in excess of forty
(40) Hours ‘in any given week
shall be paid for at time and one-
half. Beginning with. Labor Day,
September 3,. 1945, holidays ob-
served shall count as time worked
for the purpose of computing
overtime for the bth and 7th day
Ceueral
4790 General
ASS Geneval
OMee Workers
CONCILIATION CASES
Ceaneral Complaint
Chissilication aad
Rate Ranges for
Nest Operators
(General)
Cranemenu
Wrap and Prepare
for Shipment
Palsy Chifleeriito
Craup Complhatat
818-15
3-18-15
G-1R-15
Teal ID
8-14-46
Id. 8-15
| _FOR MORE WAGES...
CAN'T LIVE ON
'22.A MONTH!
MR MITCHELL
7OU'RE A COM-
PANY SPY You'Re,
TRYING TO-STIR
' UP RACE HATRED
~ GO WE WON'T FORM
A UNION!
WITH 4 BUNCH OF
“POLAKS AN'HUNKIES?
DE WORKERS NOSE DIDNT DECEWE HIM.)
FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN A MINER ASKED
WHAT, NO PAY THIS Y you owe \ Aor |
IONTH AGA US money! F
F Att GooD.
UNION MEN
