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THE VOICE OF LOCAL 301 - - - - UE R.&M.W.A.
SCHENECTADY,
NEW YORK
May 5, 1950
LRB Sets Voting Divisions for Election
Westinghouse Vote
Upsets IE Plans
The national UE office was
waiting for word from the regional
NLRB director when this week’s
EU News went to press Wednes-
day as to whether a run-off elec-
tion will take «place at the big
Westinghouse pia
burgh.
IUE had boasted that it’ would
earry. this Westinghouse’ home
plant by 11 to 1, but UE polled
5,663 votes to 5,763 for IUL. There
were 170 votes for no union and
147 challenged ballots. The NLRB
is making a decision on what to do
with the challenged votes.
. By all rules of the NLRB a run-
off election would appear neces-
Cyr as neither union obtained a
jority of the votes cast. But
ere is always the likelihood of
the NLRB making special rules to
aid the IUE and the company.
UE Asks Immediate Run-off
UE Local 601 at East Pittsburgh
on Monday asked IUE to agree to
an immediate run-off election, so
that Westinghouse workers can get
down to negotiating a contract as
soon as possible.
The IUE ducked the offer and
on Wednesday announced it is in-
sisting that the NLRB proceed
(Continued on page four)
YE-301 on Air
A series of 15 minute radio pro-
grams is scheduled by UE-Local
801 starting next Monday, May 8,
and continuing twice-a-day every
week-day until the NLRB election
May 25. The programs will be on
WPTR (1540 on your dial).
There will be programs from
6:30 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. Monday,
oy 8, through May 12; May 15
© ‘ough May 19, and May 22, 28
and 24, the night before the elec-
tion.
Programs from 11:30 a.m. to
11:45 am. are scheduled for next
Tuesday through May 12; May 15
through May 19, and May 22, 28,
24 and 26. :
Vosburg Announces Prize Winners at UE Dance
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Welfa issio:
Leo H. Vosburg, who attended the
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UE-Women’s Club dance Saturday at 301 hall, announced the prize win-
ners.
vice-president, and Mrs. Betty DiN
Here he is with two of the club officers, Mrs. Peggy Fiori, left,
cola, right, president.
Proceeds of
the dance will help the UE election campaign.
An IUE advertisement in Sche-
nectady newspapers Monday made
the untrue statement that only
“slightly more than 17,000” people
work in the plants where UE has
won elections since November, in-
cluding Westinghouse.
In Westinghouse alone, UE in
the election last week won bar-
gaining rights covering 15,370
workers, That doesn’t count the
5,663 UE votes in Hast Pittsburgh
where a run-off election is expect-
ed soon,
At other plants UE has won
elections since November to repre-
sent 24,000 workers. The plants
and votes were listed in last week’s
EU News.
To this list will soon be added
the overwhelming majority of GE
plants.
At 1,200 shops, with over 300,000
workers, the IUE hasn’t even made
a dent or dared to file an election
What Do Facts Matter To the Imitation UE?
petition. These UE plants employ
more than half the workers in the
electrical industry. ..The disruptive
efforts of IUE and other company
sponsored unions are confined to
300 plants.
The vast majority of workers in
the industry remain UE,
The IUE advertisement Monday
said that UE claimed 760,000 mem-
bers in “1944 and 1945, At the
height of war-time employment
UE’s membership reached 600,000.
The union has never claimed any
more.
Blow for GE and IVE
The IUE recently sent notices of
a meeting to the entire list of
workers at the General Electric
plant at Youngstown, Ohio. Evi-
dently GE cooperated by supply-
ing the names. About 800 notices
were sent out, but only seven peo-
ple showed up.
Balloting
Scheduled
For May 25
The Schenectady GE Works will
-he_.divided—into—two—main
units in the NLRB election May
25, and in addition two small units
are set up for voting purposes out
of each of the larger ones on a
eraft basis.
The attempt to split off these
crafts for bargaining purposes can
be defeated if the tool and die mak-
‘ers and truckers vote, along with
the rest of the Works, for UR.
Who Is In Unit I
Unit 1 will consist of River Rd.,
Campbell Ave., Knolls 1 and Malta,
It will include all production and
maintenance workers including ex-
pediters, but excluding office and
clerical workers, cage dispatchers,
pattern makers, steamftiters,
guards and professional workers,
and excluding:
a) Tool and die-makers and their
helper apprentices who will vote
in a separate unit,
b) Truckers, who will vote in a
separate unit,
The big group of production and
maintenance workers in Unit 1 will
make their choice of UE, IUE or
no union, .
On a different color ballot, the
tool and die-makers and their ap-
prentices will vote for :UE, IUE,
IAM or no union,
There will be yet another ballot
for the truckers, with a choice of
UE, IUE, the AFL Teamsters, and.
no union.
Composition of Unit II
Unit IL will be all hourly paid
employees in Atomic Energy Com-
mission work. This unit covers
Peek St, Alplaus, Sacandaga,
Campbell Ave. Race Track and
Knolls 2. As in Unit I, the office
and clerical and professional work-
evs, cage dispatchers, pattern mak-
ers, steamfitters, and guards are
excluded, and there will be sepa-
rate voting units for the too! and
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die-makers and their apprentices
and for the truckers.
The big group in Unit II will
vote for UE, IUE, or no union. The
tool and die-makers and their ap-
prentices will vote for UE, IUE,
IAM or no union and the truckers
for UE, IUE, the AFL Teamsters
or no union:
The NLRB ruled that all unions
are contending to represent the
Atomic workers on an equal basis.
The petition of the AFL Glass-
blowers for a separate voting unit
was turned down by the NLRB.
At a conference with the unions
concerned, the company and the
NLRB, a schedule will be worked
out for calling out the voters to
cast their ballots at the 16 voting
places. Means of identification
will be names, check numbers and
GE badges or cards.
The company will submit a list
of eligible voters which will be
checked by all unions, which may
propose that names be added or
removed. There will be an offic-
ial list at each balloting place of
the workers who are to vote in
each unit there.
Workers on vacation or sick
eave or away from the plant on
compensation cases or temporary
lay-offs will be allowed to vote.
If UE wins in all the. voting
units, all the. workers will nego-
tiate through UE-801.
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Girls at East Cleveland
Beat GE Speed-up Plan
United action by girls at GE's
East Cleveland Lamp ‘Works de-
feated a recent speed-up effort of
the company. GE tried to increase
production on the 100-watt lines
in the mounting department from
the usual 2,350 a day to 2,500 and
higher,
The girls, members of UE Lo-
cal 707, had a meeting on the
problem and voted to resist the
speed-up. GE had to drop its new
production figure.
Vote UE
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Published by Hditerial Commitico
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Adam Kolaalonski, Scorctary
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Victor Parcke George Quick
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ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
U.S. Figures Show Who Raised | Wages Most.
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While the “Imitation UE” twists facts and figures about wages in different industries, the above chart shows
the facts, as given in the report of the Steel “Fact-Find
Carey’s best beloved government agencies. :
ing Board,” one of Philip Murray’s and James B.
They Can't Learn Who Accused Them of What -
— Ordinary rights guaranteed to anyone in a civil or criminal trial
were denied to four Schenectady GE workers at a so-called “hearing”
of “security cases” before Major John Moran of the Military Police
Monday.
Without explanation, the government issued an order last
fall denying clearance to the men for handling classified work. The
union appealed for them to the Industrial Employment Review Board.
Light UE-801 shop stewards
from the workers’ buildings went
to the Organized Reserve Corps
building to attend the hearing,
along with the UE-301 attorney,
Marshall Perlin, an Executive
Board member and another UE
representative. Major Moran said
the room was too small to hold the
observers, When a larger room was
located he said it was too cold.
When arrangements were made to
have the room heated, he refused
on general principles to allow the
observers in,
“We can’t have an army of men
here,” he said. Finally he let a
steward and the Board member at-
tend, plus the attorney.
No charge was made against the
men, except that “some doubt ex-
ists” as to their being good secur-
ity risks. The hearing was for
them to remove the doubt ,without
knowing what they were accused
of or by whom, without the right
to cross-examine witnesses or: to
subpoena records, Under these
circumstances the men said it
would be useless to make any state-
ments. .
~ UB-301 will seck a federal court
injunction to stop the government
from: interfering. with the~ job
rights of the men;"in, violation of
the United States. constitution and
of the union contract: It also will
fight for the right of the men to
an open publie hearing.
One of the workers, who has 39
years’ service, brought to the hear-
ing citations from President Roose-
velt, President Truman, General
Hershey and Governor Dewey for
his war work,
Mangino Speaker
UE-301 Vice-President Joseph
Mangino addressed the Schenec-
tady Tavern Association Owners
Association. He pointed out how
the smal] merchants of the city
have benefited by the gains GE
workers have won through UB.
UE Contract Victory
A general wage increase of 10
cents an hour has been won by UE
at the Jay Electric Company, De-
troit, Mich. The minimum rate
for janitor and labor is now $1.55
an hour and the average straight-
time wage for the plant is $1.80
an hour,
Tune in on the UE-301 broad-
casts on WPTR.
From 6:30 p.m, to 6:45 p.m,
every weekday starting next
Mon., May 8 through May 24.
From 11:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
every weekday starting Tues.,
May 9, through May 25.
Membership Meeting
In Week of Election
The UE-301 membership meet-
ing for May will take place at the
union hall the week of the NLRB,
election. ‘>
Second shift—Immediately after
work Monday night, May 22 (at
12:45 a.m. Tuesday, May 28).
First and third shifts—7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, May 23.
A national UE officer will be
present;
The union office tried unsuccess-
fully for several’ weeks to hire a
larger hall or theater for the meet-
ing, at which there will be a pre-
election rally,
Loud speakers will be placed on
the sides of: the building,
:
Dues Collections
‘Additions to the honor list of
UE-301 shop stewards for 100 per
cent collection of April dues in
their groups are George S, Cran-
dall, and Richard Haines, both of
Building 278.
Stewards this week concentrated
on rounding up some remaining
April dues and began the collection
of the May ones.
UE-30! Will Present
Television Programs
Two television programs are
‘planned by UE-301 on WRGB in
connection with the election cam-
paign. The first will be from 4:45
p.m. to 6 pm. May 15 and the
second from 4:45 p.m. to 5 pm.
“May 5, 1950
_ ELECTRICAL
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UNION. NEWS
CIO Steel Union
Okays Speed-up
U. §S. Steel Corporation in-
creased its 1949 net profit by al-
‘oe ost one-third (31 per cent), while
laying off 5,000 workers,
Bethlehem Steel increased its
net profit 10 per cent, while lay-
ing off 13,500.
This is a speed-up far worse
than GE was able to achieve, de-
spite the help GE received from
the Carey-IUE forces
The explanation that the
steel]. speed-up has the official
blessing of the United Steel-
workers-CIO. David McDonald,
secretary-treasurer of Philip Mur-
ray’s union, made a speech to the
National Industrial Conference
VL
“members of the National Associa-
. tion of Manufacturers, on March
28, 1950. In that speech McDonald
begged the manufacturers to. let
the steel union’ come into their
plants to show the employers how
it could improve workers’ effi-
ciency.
Did You Know? |
UE set the pattern for six paid
Solidays in mass production indus-
iry. Steelworkers still do not have
paid holidays in their major con-
tracts.
Jandreau: Addresses
Union College Group
Business Agent Leo Jandreau
gave a one-hour talk to 100 stu-
dents of the Economie Club at
Union College recently on the rec-
ord of UE-301 and problems fac-
ing the union today. The audience
applauded frequently and kept him
an hour-and-a-half longer for a
question-and-answer session.
He described conditions at GE
‘before the union, and pointed out
the gains won for the workers
through UE and the contribution
made to the community. He con-
trasted the democracy practiced in
UE with undemocratic procedures
of some other unions.’ He spent
considerable time explaining , the
company union role of the IUE
tion,
Victor Pasche, assistant to the
business agent, spoke at Skidmore
College, Saratoga Springs, recent-
ly to a classroom of students,
mostly GIs. Since his talk, a
group of Skidmore students and
instructors has asked permission~
.to’ attend a meeting of the UE-
801 shop stewards. The Executive °
Board granted the request.
William Templeton, assistant to
the business agent, recently ad-
dressed a luncheon meeting of GE
engineers.
Here’s Real Reason clo Expelled UE
William J. Kelly, president of UE-801, told a radio audience last
week the real “bread-and-butter” reason for the expulsion of UE from
the CIO and the present raiding drive.
“The real reason why UE was
expelled was not'the political dif-
ferences,” he said. He pointed out
that UE resisted CIO raids and
political dictation by the CIO Exec-
utive Board in-1948 and 1949, but
remained in the CIO. ;
“The thing that really led Mur-
ray to press for our expulsion is
that our 1949 convention dared
take an independent stand on a key
bread and butter issue, Our 1949
convention condemned the federal
Steel Industry Fact Finding Board
which found that big industry was
making record profits but that
workers should get peanuts. The
steelworkers are finding out how.
right we were. But to Philip Mur-
Eby our action in insisting on gen-
fine collective bargaining was
treason. It was an attack upon
what he considers his sacred rght
to decide what is good for the
steelworkers and make deals be-
hind their backs.
“That is why Murray went into
the CIO convention determined to
reject any effort at unity, and set
up James Carey in business as
head of the IUB-CIO even before
the CIO convention. met.
“And that is why. the CIO has
been driven down from a high of
6,000,000 members to less than 3,-
000,000 today. For opposing these
policies, UE was expelled. If UE
could be destroyed, then the elec-
trical workers could be turned over
to political and company union
bondage too. But GE workers have
no intention of letting that happen.
“We of UE want unity with the
‘membership of the CIO, Our fight
is not against them. Our aims and
our interests are the same. We are
fighting for the policies which
made the CIO great, and against
the policies which are destroying
the CIO, ‘
- “[y-YE we never swerved from
those policies. That is why our
gains have been far ahead of those
made by the major CIO unions, We
intend to preserve those. gains,”
: Meet Your Union Leaders
The -founding convention of UE at Buffalo in 1986 elected Julius
Emspak ‘of Local 801 to the post of general secretary-treasurer. He
has been.re-elected to that post at every UE convention since then.
Emspak’s father, a blacksmith,
had worked for GE in Schenectady.
A few years after his father was
killed in an accident, Emspak, then
14, had to quit school and go to
JULIUS EMPSPAK
work. He gota job at GE here as
an office boy.- Later he served his
apprenticeship and became a tool
maker in the tool design depart-
ment. . .
He had plenty of chance to see
GE’s company union — the “em-
ployees representation plan” in ac-
tion — or rather, not in action.
“Most people didn’t even know
there was such an outfit, it played
such an insignificant roll in the
plant”, he recalls today.
In 1927 Emspak quit work at GE
and went to high school to get
enough credits for college. He ob-
tained his B.A. degree from Union
College. :
Depression ‘Days
All the time he was going to
school and college he continued to
work at GE during vacations, until
the depression came, when there
were a lot more men than there
were jobs at GE.
When he went back to work full
time at GE in 1935, the people in
the plant were talking union, They
were still in the depression and
they had seen what the company
had gotten away with‘in forcing
wage cuts to know:that only a real
union, not one run by the company,
could help them fight such condi-
tions.
Oldtimers at Schenectady GE,
including Emspak’s two brothers,
Frank and Victor, got a big laugh
when “Imitation UE” upstarts
started howling in the press about
how Emspak, “an outsider, not
_tady mem!
even a member of the local”, was
permitted to attend a meeting of:
the local. ; ;
Helped Build 301,
When UE came to the plant .
Emspak was one ofthe first to
join. From then on he spent his
free time at union. meetings, hand-
ing out leaflets, talking union,
building Local 301, of which he is
still a member,
The following year the Schenec-
en elected him as dele-
gate to Ult’s first convention. He’s
been working for the union ever
members who know and
have worked with Emspak over
those 14 years know that he meant
just what he said when he told the
last UE convention “we are going
to have a union that is dedicated
to. the service of the interests of
the membership and nobody else.”
That is the main principle of union-
ism that he has fought-to maintain
ever since UE was born.
Scranton Shutdown
Brings GE to Terms
A 100 per cent shutdown of the
General Electric plant at Seran-
ton, Pa. recently forced the com-
pany to agree to abide by the UE’s
grievance procedure. GE had tried
to take advantage of the contract
termination by installing a new
grievance procedure and refusing
to negotiate with the union on a
backlog of grievances accumulated
since Apr. 1.
After the -company ignored
warnings by UB Local 125, the
walkout took place Apr. 19, Man-
agement gave in the next day.
Three Expulsions
The UE-301 membership meet-
ing Apr. 18 unanimously voted to
expel three members for IUE ac-
tivities, on recommendation of the
trial committee.
Those ‘expelled were Wilfred
Vidamour and James M. Nolan,
both of Building 77, and Paul
Schulenburg, Building 278.
The trial committee chairman is
Robert Armstrong and secretary,
William Stella,
Another 5 Cents
UE Local 1227 has just won a
general wage increase of 5 cents
an hour at Pathe Tool Manufac-
turing Company Inc., New York
City. It also won 6 cents there ip
1049.
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_-May 5, 1950-
Westinghouse Vote
Upsets IWE Plans
(Continued from page one)
with ruling on the challenges. _
David Seribner, UE general
counsel, has advised UE Local 601
that if IUE consented to an imme-
diate run-off election the NLRB
would ‘undoubtedly arrange such
an election at once, but that IUE
refusal means a long delay. He
said that on the basis of the record
of the challenges, there should be
a run-off election under the law,
In a run-off UE is expected to
win a-clear-cut majority, because
the effects of the last-minute ter-
ror and pressure campaign put on .
by Philip Murray and his outside
forces will have worn off.
Contrary to statements by the
IUE and the newspapers ,the votes
challenged in the,.election were
not challenged by ‘UEbut by the
NLRB itself. The 147 questioned
votes were cast by people whose
names were not on the official list
provided by the NLRB. They ap-
peared to be “ringers” brought in
by the IUE. Because of this ob-
vious irregularity the NLRB had
the votes set aside to rule on later.
The first UE-301 leaflet on the
Westinghouse election said UE
won 20 of the election contests.
Actually it won 21 elections in 19
cities,
UE Wins Turbine Plant
By a margin of 5 to 1, UE took
the second largest Westinghouse
plant, the South Philadelphia (Es-
sington) plant which is the only
turbine plant in the entire chain.
It has about 7,500 workers.
About 2,500 turbine workers are
being called back to work soon, and ~
during the next 60 days employ-
ment is expected to increase also
at several other plants UE won.
Actually, UE got a bigger vote
at East Pittsburgh than IUE, but
the NLRB split off the Nuttal
plant where the 500 workers were
obviously going to vote overwhelm-
-ingly. for UE. If the Nuttal vote
had been counted in with the rest
of the plants of the East Pitts-
burgh Westinghouse Works, the
UE ‘total would have been greater
than IUE.
The vote in Kast Pittsburgh: was
achieved in the face of tremendous
pressure. The city is the home
base of Philip. Murray, with 100,-
000 Steelworkers in the area, Mur-
ELECTRICAL UNION. NEWS
THE NEW YORK TIMES,
f;
1.0. 1S CONCERNED
OVER U. E. SHOWING
gResult at Key Westinghouse
Plant Jolts Belief That
Leftist Union Has Waned
Special to Tue New Yoru Times,
PITTSBURGH, April 29—Labor
HOfficials were studying today the
Bishowing by the new C. I. O. Inter-
finational Union of Electrical Work-
fers in the e] by the National
In four plants, including Hasv'
Pittsburgh -the-larcest-with-13,000,
employes, the elections still are in
dowbt and likely will have to be
firun off again,
~ In East Pittsburgh, where both
unions concentrated their heaviest
attacks on each other, the I. U. E.-
WC.1. 0. won 5,762 of the 13,038 eli-
5,663, One hundred and seventy
workers voted for no union, and
147 votes were challenged by the
leftists, Thirty votes were voided.
The bare, majority of 100 votes
held by the I. U. E.-C.I.0. can be
cancelled out if the Labor Board
upholds 110 out of the 147 chal-
lenges. Another election then
would be necessary.
The East . Pittsburgh election
showed how strongly the leftist
union is entrenched, I. U. E.-C. I. 0.
officials had predicted their group
would win East Pittsburgh easily,
and some of the more optimistic’
set the victory as high as eleven to
one °
Murray Aided New Union
its six-month
a that had
a Ture
involved. : \
Officials of the C, I. O. said they |}
did not believe the overall results
in the Westinghouse elections
would greatly influence workers
of General Electric who will votg
Kgible votes and the leftist U.B.
on May 25.
The New York Times doesn’t like UE, but it still has to look some un-
pleasant. facts in the face.
Brashear Addbeavas
Cleveland GE Workers
Dewey Brashear, UE-301 Execu-
tive Board member, addressed
meeting of shop stewards of the
GE Lamp Division at Cleveland,
Ohio, Apr, 28,
He learned that Cleveland GE
members and stewards are enforc-
ing contract conditions and settling
grievances in the shops. There
have been several stoppages.
The-stewards assured him UE
will win a substantial majority at
the lamp works, though the NLRB
has split the plant into 26 voting
units. Brashear reported on Sche-
nectady developments and cor-
rected false reports which have
been spread by the IUE about Lo-
eal 801.
ray spent a half a million dollars on
the raiding campaign and assigned
250 CIO officials to the drive.
Some priests threatened severe re-
ligious penalties to workers voting
“for UE. There was a campaign
of slander in newspapers, radio and
leaflets. The company closed the
works at 2:30 p.m. the afternoon
before the election to try to get
people to an IUE stadium rally.
Compensation Cases
Meetings are scheduled next
Thursday, May 11, at the union
hall for workers whose workmen’s
compensation cases are now being
handled by UE-301 or have been
handled by the union.
The second shift workers will
meet at 1:15 p.m. and the first
and third shift workers at 7:30
p.m.
[UE Says GM Workers
May Lose Vacation Pay
General Motors Electrical Divis-
ion workers are finding out fast
the cost of giving up the real UE
for the Imitation.
On Feb. 28 the GM workers vo’
ed for IUE-CIO.
On Mar. 1, they took a 2-eent
pay cut.
On Mar. 10 the IUE signed an
agreement with GM cutting 4
months and 10 days out of back
pay claims under several hundred
pending grievances.
Since the election GM has issued
nearly 1,000 disciplinary notices to
workers who refused to work ex-
cessive overtime. Such a thing nev-
er happened under UE.
Now the workers at the big GM
Frigidaire plant in Dayton have
ded_an IUE_leafiet. saying: .___
Attention: Vacation Pay
for 1950 has not been nego-
tiated,
Do you want to lose it?
No. Then Join Now.
$2 initiation fee will be in-
creased June 15 to $10, Vet-
erans no longer exempted.”
And at Deleo, the other big GM
plant in Dayton. an IUE leaflet
said:
‘Do you want a vacation
with pay? ?
As of now we don’t have va- 4,
cations with pay for 1950.”
Under their UE contract the GM
electrical workers of course had
paid vacation,
Cerebral Palsy Drive
The UE-301 shop stewards’ meet-
ing Tuesday voted unanimously to
take shop collections for the Sche-
nectady Cerebral Palsy fund drive.
Workers at. Inland Steel Turn Down
Pension Murray Ordered Strike For
Last fall Philip Murray ordered the 14,500 workers at Inland Steel,
Indiana Harbor, near Chicago, out on strike (without a vote).
Murray was going to get them a non-contributory pension plan.
They already had a pension plan, but admittedly it was inadequate
and contributory, meaning the employees pay something (like at GE).
So Murray won his supposedly super-duper non-contributory $100-a-
month. (including Social security) pension. plan, and the—-workers-avent
back after one month on strike. They- were not allowed to vote on the
the settlement, but they revolted enough to force Murray to give each
worker individually the choice bet
victory super-duper,
ween the old plan and the Murray
This month came the time to sign up for. the pension plan.
Seventy-four percent, almost three-quarters, of the Inland Steg
workers kept the old plan and rejected the Murray victory super-du
for which. they were ordered to strike. They found the old plan was
better.
P.S.—The Murray pension plan is what the IUE now tries to. peddle
to GE workers as a CIO “fourth round” wage increase.
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VOTE UE— TO MAINTAIN THE GAINS OF 14. YEARS
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The Facts in the Coming
NERB Election
William J. Kelly
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You Must Expect It 1
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There are fifteen days more before the election. By now the Imitation UE know they are beaten. They
will resort more and more to desperate surprise tricks to confuse the workers, UE will keep giving you the
facts. But the TUE-CIO will hold some maneuvers for the last days and even hours, in the hope that they
cannot be shown up before the vote. Be prepared for these moves, so their effect can he destroyed.
They’ve Started Already :
From IUE activity in other elections, here are some of the most probable tricks to expect: | a | ae fees . TUNE IN D ATL Y
1. Newspaper smears through Congressional committees, city councils, and similar political bodies,
through the kind of “hearings” and “reports” made. by former Congressman Charles J. Kersten, now a paid Anes
GE lobbyist. . : iE sett Sak W PTR {1540 on dial) — Every day excep
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t Saturday and Sunday
8. Forged literature—the most common is a leaflet urging votes for UE and made to appear as if it were ‘ Ra a. 11:30 to 11:45 a.m. beginning tomorrow morning
signed by the Communist party, (Tuesday, May 9)
4, A flood of rumors. For example—that the government will cancel orders to GE if UE wins. °
. Use of smears printed in the Congressional Record. Many people believe that anything in the Congres- pane 7 . ;
‘Sional Record is certified by the government. Unfortunately the opposite is the case. The law gives a Congress-. od oo i | P .
man the right to print anything in the Congressional Record without fear of any penalty.. The worst Con- a my SN Y (1240'on dial)
gressmen like Kersten and J. Parnell Thomas, who is now in Federal Prison, make the most use of the Congres- ene : :
sional Record to spread slanders against labor and religious and national groups. Sundays, May 14 and 21 — 2:20 to 2:25 p-m.
6. Efforts by political pals of Philip Murray and James B. Carey to seek frame-up indictments of UE lead- re u and 7:50 to 7:55 p.m.
ers—knowing that the frame-up cannot be proved untrue until months later. a " es ,
7. A campaign of fear directed at wives of UE members—in the hope that some wives don’t realize how
much UE has brought in the way of security and more money for them and their families in 14 years. g 2 ; _ | : TELEVISION
‘8. Use of a big slush fund and promises of jobs to buy up a ‘few weak UE people for publicity purposes. Ps * ,
This has started already. You.can expect this activity to reach desperate lengths. from now on in. : Ww R G BB
9. Falsehoods even wilder than those now used by the IUE in its leaflets and radio broadcasts. More | 5 : ee _
and wilder false charges that UE leaders are members of the Communist Party. These charges are not sup- bo : Mondays, May 15 and 22 — 4:45 to 5 p-m.
ported by anything more than discredited statements in Parnell Thomas and Charles Kersten reports.
10. A last week invasion by swarms of CIO payrollers from other unions—who never did anything for
GE workers—but who will attempt to stampede the workers at election time, and then will disappear. .
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outside forces, newspapers and politicians, whom it influences the year round.
There is a sure way to defeat these ‘moves and preserve our union and improve our working conditions. : : You Can’t Trust Anything They Say
Think over this warning—talk it over with your families, neighbors and friends. Then the. worst tricks will
_come_as_ no. shock—and need have no effect. eens oh Laas i cae eergegmeammsres 5 eee cape sal Bheeoen Ses
Just as UE warned recently, the IUE-CIO agents are now trying to.scare GE
Forewarned is Forearmed. Pee ~ workers with the completely phony story that the government may cancel orders in
; ; Sere plants under UE contracts. They don’t dare say so outright, but their red and yellow
Executive Board UE Local 30 7 leaflet of last Thursday tried to give the impression that all this nonsense comes from
the government. |
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Here are the facts:
UE members, now as in the past, do at least 10 times as much confidential gov- .
VOTE UE —_— _ Protect 14 Voare! Gains . . | a | ernment work as do CIO steel workers. . (ovER)
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we get these typical examples of Airforce orders to GE Schenectady in February 1950:
_ 45 turbo-superchargers $252,342
BH-1 turbo superchargers
Spare parts and data $2,871,307
Who’s the IUE-CIO trying to kid with its leaflet about the Atomic Energy Com-
mission? Here’s a headline from the Schenectady Gazette of November 9, 1948:
“C10 to Join
“UB's Suit
“Against GE,
“Atom Board”
‘The national CIO then recognized the anti-labor conspiracy between GE and
AEC. It-joined UE in fighting it. The national CIO Convention in’ 1948 condemned
the AEC for “dangerous inroads on a-free labor movement.”
Do Philip Murray and James B. Carey now support these unconstitutional at-
tacks on collective bargaining contracts?
Does the TUE-CIO want government work taken away?
Enough of IUE-CIO dishonesty. On May 25 the atomic workers will vote in
their own NLRB election. UE and the IUE-CIO will be on the ballot. :
The atomic workers know that they have only what the production workers have
won — through unity with the production workers. They have won much more than
any atomic workers in CIO or AFL unions. - ®
Of course IUE-CIO wouldn’t be interested in the facts -- but thousands of UE
members right here have been cleared and work regularly on government work.
May 8, 1949
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Philip Murray Does Walk with the IVE-CIO
ut Where To? _
it’s the Imitation UE’s own boast that Philip Murray walks with them.
Workers have the right to know WHERE he would walk them.
The answer is NOT given in Philip Murray’s speeches about Democracy and Communism. It is NOT
given in James B. Carey’s rosy promises.
Where Murray would take electrical workers is shown in the record of the United Steelworkers whom
Philip Murray rules with an iron hand.
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Here's the record of where Philip Murray walked the Steelworkers. Every one of these facts can be
checked -ecisily: i ‘a
1. Dues of $2 a month..
2. Per capita to international of $1.00 (UE's is 50 cents).
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