‘
Red-baiting is not new. It has been used by big
business ever since labor organizations were born.
, it is used as a means of trying to “divide and
conquer.” Hitler used this technique..McCarthy uses
it today. a :
Negotiations between UE and the General Electric Company resumed Tuesday in New York for further
discussion of the company’s recent offer. The offer, which falls far short of the needs of GE workers, obviously
reflects the company’s taking advantage of TUE-CIO raiding and disruptive and splitting _ policies. _
_ When national UE-GE nego-
tiations resume, UE’s National
mm § 7, Negotiating Committee will
i: R E i VY i Pp discuss the company’s offer in
a Ei : i view of prevailing problems
facing GI workers and: ‘vast
, 7 A . current GE profits... The. com-
32% CUTBACK IN TURBINE ©.
I—An average wage increase |
. 7 es ofapproximately fivecents
GE plans to cut Turbine production by 32/0 with mass layoffs slated to accom- an hour effective June 1
_ pany the cutback. UE Local 301 learned this from management in the process based on raising the pres,
‘ . ; : . < * ent 12% payroll “adder”
a of tracking down layoff reports that went the rounds in Bldg. 273 all of last week, (,, y5¢z/" pay °
Present turbine production of
TEED ET ER RR,
ae:
Attacks against unions by the un-American Com-
mittee are not new. More :than half of the millions
of words of testimony in Committee reports ‘are
devoted to smearing the AFL, CIO, UE, and Mine
Workers unions. .
SUE N ESAT ETI
aa
_ The thing that is new and shocking to all honest
_union.men and women is that a so-called labor leader,
--a man who has himself beefi the target of the un- -
American Committee in dozens of pages of testi-
mony, would resort to the Committee’s own tactics
'-in a desperate effort to save face. James B. Carey,
president of IUE-CIO, only wants to see a part of the 7 million kilowatts will be re- pany uses lay offs to destroy tablished by a ‘vote of 1,800 2—Vague “liberalization”: of
i q : 7 L ean’ F duced to Jess th million Seniority protections, to break ‘Turbine workers at meetings vacation plan which pro-
union movement destroyed: that part which he can’t i _ | a O58 the contains down ‘pie protections, to in- called by UIs, is redoubling its vides tot vaentions for
control! : ‘ = . ‘ . revealed. ‘This cutback would crease the production quotas of — efforts to forge united action on those terminated pridr to
undoubtedly affect directly or day workers ‘and to destroy present Turbine grievances and vacation period.
indirectly, every Turbine conditions. in the fight for jobs.
worker, as well “as thousands Tra leaflet issued to Turbine -
of other GI workers in Sche- workers on Monday morning,
eA Aer oTe
nore
RETA
But he is using the samie old weapon that always
has been and still is being used to destroy all organ-
ized labor! 2 =
3—Payment for any .of the |
seven paid holidays (won
hy UF) which fall on Sat-
b UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO AND MACHINE
WORKERS OF AMERICA
Eleven East 5ist Street, New’ York 22, N. Y.
Publication No. 290 sen 264 AEI54 ‘
fa a
Printed in U.S. AL
BES
nectady.
When one worker is laidol?,
four or five athers are hit by
downgrading, bumping, rate
cuts and speedup. The com-
UE ‘Lacal 301 repeated its. call
for united action by the work-
ers—regardless of union afflia-
tion, The Turbine rank-and-file
unity committee, which was e¢s-
UE UNIT
ne
| He : i
ae
Y PAID OFF
paticcusrtmentye ye
Super eehaa hy
Pictured above are the Clay Room workers from Bldg. 68 who put
an end to short time and speedup by uniting behind a UE grievance
fight. They are (left to right) Irving Vincent, Frances X. Bergeron,
UE Steward Joe Little, John Sims, ‘S$. Jackson and Eddie Duncan.
Bldg. 68 Creu
Wins Grievance
Disgusted with irregular work
weeks, a group of workers in the
Clay Room of Bldg. 68 filed and
won a grievance through UE
Steward Joseph Little. They
have been assured of a -lO hour
week, °
Por months, management ‘had
been shuttling these men back
and forth from short weeks to
regular weeks to suit its) con-
venience, This came to a head
last weeks when the company sent
two men home for lack of work,
Two days later, Pug’ Mill
workers who are supplied by the
Clay Room were sent home for
lack of clay, Now the lathe see-
tion, fed by the Pug, Mill, is be-
ing sent home, sl
Steward Little backed by the
Clay «Room -rapped.. this--snafue
which was caused by the attempt
to squeeze production out of the
men without regard ta stability
ofthe work week.
urcliy.
No mention is made, by the
company of such urgent prob-
lems facing GIF warkers as
those of older workers; the
need for ending discriminatory
practices against women: work-
ers; or the abolition af: geo
graphical wage rate differen-
tials which open the way for!
moving departments te low-
wage areas,
The company offer was made
with one eve on the Fandreau--
IUU-CTO maneuver to weaken
GE workers on the eve of nego-
tations, Janclreau himself rash-
ed to greet the offer as sean as
it was made, stating in the pub-
lic press: :
‘Tt is substantiaily better
than any offer made in the past-
five years,”
Even, while .Jandreau. was
welcoming the offer, his) col-
league—Carey—was branding
the offer as “inadequate.” —
(Continued on Bige 6)
UE Committees
Mobilize Area
UF. area committees this week
went into high gear mobilizing
support for the UIE contract arid,
the UIs jabs program in dozens
of communities, From every
area — Saratoga, Gloversville -
Johnstown, Amsterdam, Cable-
skill and Mechanieville came re-
ports of more and more Sche-
nectady GI workers. joining in
the drive to end JUIE-C1O dis-
ruption throughout the region.
The ULE. committees havé now
been set up in every community
in the area. Members have been
visiting fellow GE workers in
their home towns, discussing the
issues and: bringing them into the
fight to .—protect the an contract.
TURBINE MAN. WINS
FULL WORK WEEK
Anthony Battaglia, Bldg. 273,
has won the right to work 40
hours as the result of a priev-
ance taken up by UE Local
B01;
Battaglia, who has fout years
service, was taken off his slot-
sting job for “lack of work.”
He was transferred to.a job on
an enamel furnace. Howevit
he found that on-his/new job
he was getting only one or two
days work a week. we ye
UE filed a grievance for Bat-
tagha and forced the company
to promise hint a full aul: hour
work week. > :
JOHN BROOKS, Bldg, 273,
says— "The union officers who
have gone IUE-CIO are the
ones who taught us to fight the
IUE. They told me in '49,” '50
and '51 that UE was the button
to wear. I'm not changing but-
tons now. It strikes me as odd,
to say the, least,” that they”
-change their tune. UE is ‘the
best union for GE workers."
* Thursday, May 27, 1954
"UE LOCAL 301.
MEMBERSHIP
AND |
STEWARDS'
MEETING
MONDAY, JUNE 7
Ist and 3rd Shifts—7:30 P.M.
2nd Shift—12 Midnight
SCOTTISH HALL
205 CLINTON STREET
Win Time Study
Grievance in 15
A company attempt to time
aman on a speedy, new machine
and then foree him te work on
an older and. slower
was stopped by UL Local 301’s
grievance machine
Involved in the grievance was
J Trrank Gauvreau, Bldg. 15. ULE
demanded that the job be run
on ‘the ‘same machitie as the
time study it accordance with
the UIE. national contract.
The company agreed that
Gauvreau would "work on the
same machine as he used dur-
ing the study.
UE Wins Bldg. 17
Rate Grievance
A grievance establishing the
rigkt of a worker to his proper
rate on anew job was won this
past week by ULE Local 301, The
beef revolved around the al-
tempt of GIf to pay Donald
Mage af Bldg. 17 only break-in
rate after he had gone on piece
work, Specifically Involved was
hospital and machine down time.
lage was transferred to a
punch press job in 17, but even
after he had finished his break-
in, the company’ shorted his
pay. UTE Steward Harold Rol-
lins took up the case and won
four weeks retroactive pay
for machine trouble time and
hospital. time,
KNOW YOUR
SENIORITY RIGHTS!
®
See Your UE Steward or
Contact. UE Local 301
sng tame aneceipgen er me 5 ad
20134 Broadway - Tel, 3-1337
machine’
entra esi IWC EA
SCHENECTADY DOCKET —
UE WINS KEY CASE
AT NATIONAL LEVEL
-UE has won a grievance at the national -level blocking
company altempts to cut the earnings of a bumped worker
hy $25.to $40.a week.. The company refused to settle the
prievance dn Scheneetady, so
that it had to be sent to New
York for discussion with top
management, The grievance -
underscores the fact that UE
is the exclusive collective bar-
gaining agent for all Schenec-~
tady GE workers, and the only
union able to take Schenectady
grievances up to the top man-
- agement level.
Involved in the ease is Leo
Searles, a worker with three
years’ service.
humped on his lathe job in
49,° where he had an
AER. of $2.26 and average
_UE Grievances Tame
Building 16 Foreman
A foreman who tried to take
advantage of the LUI-CIO raid
to crack down “in Bldg. 16
found himself up against a
stonewall of resistance.
This particular foreman de-
mee to replace a helper on the
big Seller Planter with an ap-
prentice. he helper, Ken
Meachem,
sweeping.
‘Vhere was a protest on the
floor and the foreman baeked
down but nat without threaten-
-ing to give Meachent warning
notices “every hour on the
hour’ A grievance was fled >
hy Joseph Welly, the UIE stew-
ard, and everyone stood sulidly
behind it, Nothing more has
heen heard about warning
notices. .
The same foreman also tried
to do iddies Nane out of his
average earnings while Kane
was helping to trai am ap-
prentice. “Phe claim was that
Kane was. spending too much
time with the apprentice. The
company agreed, after a griey- -
ance filed, that i¢ was not
Kane's fault if a particular ap-
prentice was not catching’ on
as quickly as he might,
E. Arnold Pow er, CAP, was
incorrectly’ listed as a member
of the UE Local 301 Commit-
tée for Amsterdam,
Searles was
was to be put to
earnings of $2.52. When he was
bumped, he had to take a
punch press job in Bldg. 17 on
which he only earned $1 38 an-
hour.
However, shortly after. his
bump, Searles discovered that
a man with less service had
heen given a Class A lathe job
in Bldg, 49, UIE Local 301 tim-
mediately filed a grievance, but
Schenectady management cited
pri ate deals with Jandreau as
its reasons for refusing to give
Searles the, A lathe job. Uk
then*took the case ta the na-
tional level, where the com-
pany ‘was. forced: to agree that
under plantwide seniority pro-
visions of the UE national con-
tract, Searles was entitled to
the lathe job. As a result, Git
has offered it to.hiin at the job
rate of $2.24. -_
In-order to cover up the fact 3
that the IUIE-CIO. clique can't
take cases to the national level,
Jandreau has been claiming
that cases are “never. settled in
New York." The Searles vie-
tory completely exposes this .
Jandreau lie.
PERCY EVERETT, Bldg. 18,
says— "UE has been a good
union for I7 years and I'm stick.
ing with. UE, All the IUE- Sat)
‘offers is more of the same red
baiting to take our minds off
the issues and to cover up some
mighty strange financial trans-
actions. The real issue is who
can give us the best contract.
~The fact that IUE-CIO red baits ©
instead of talking contract tells
us all we need to know." sh
| ELECTRICAL UNION: NEWS
Turbine management has ad-
mitted that it’s planning a 32%
cutback in production,
Q ‘Another 100 workers have
been laid off.in Tube, and more
are scheduled to go. Company
records show 100 to 120 -work-
ers going out the gate every
week,
From everywhere in the
‘plant, reports like this are pour-
ing into the UE Local 301 of-
Here’s
what's
fice.‘ Based on the latest com-
pany payroll reports, employ-
ment at Schenectady GE is
down by over 3,000 from the
figures of last November.
For’ every
four or five others suffer from
downgrading,
time, speedup and rate cutting.
a typical.exaimple of
heen happening as a re-
sult of the layoffs. Let's take
a
for that example a group. of
machine operators.
Last fall, this group was
averaging about 8 hours over-
time for each worker. This
gave an operator with a $2.16
job rate weekly earnings. of
$113 before taxes.
In September, the overtime
suddenly stopped. As a result,
“the carnings of the operator
dropped to $86 a week. The
worker laid off,
bumping, short
Fs
This frontpage headline in the. Erie
Dispatch Jast Thursday reported UE
President Albert J. Fitzgerald’s demand
that Congress immediately investigate the
use of government funds to set up “run-
away plants” in low wage areas. The call |
on Congress by President Fitzgerald
received wide attention , throughout ‘the
country, particularly i in northern industrial
centers which are threatened with depres-
~ sion n-resulting from the runaways.
The UE President, on behalf. of the
300,000 UE. members in 900 plants across
country, demanded “immediate and
rough investigation”
movement of whole factories which he said
was a “depression making problem of major
importance.” He declared:
““The government has entered into.a full
partnership with large sections of .industry
in encouraging the runaway plant trend.
_ ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
on the widespread.
aids tunaway ° Shop Plan
NEW YORK (UP) —The Independent United Electrical
Workers union called on Congress tdday for an “immediate
fand thorough investigation” into widespread factory relocation
Wvhich. it said-has become “a depression pipeline problem of
ajor importance."
, The demand was made in a let
wer from Albert. J. Fitzgerald,
[Rresigent of ae. UE, Which wast
Communist deminalion: The. letter!
was sent tn five senators and ren!
Fitzgerald’s statement was a part of the
- UE national campaign to save the jobs of
workers in the electrical, radio, machine
and farm equipment industries. In Sche-
nectady, this jobs campaign is being led by
UE Local 301, which is mobilizing workers
in the plant and men and women in all area
“communities to fight GE’s r runaway policies
which have already resulted inthe moving
out of thousands of jobs.
+ i
“next thing to hit! the workers °
was short time which knocked
another chunk aut ofthe work-
ers’ paychecks.
Tn -the meantime, GE. was
speeding up, doubling up, us-
ing minor methods changes as
excuses for cutting piece prices,
destroying * conditions built ip
over the years
The result .was inevitable: In
November, after each worker
in the group-had lost a week on
“rotation,” .the layoffs hit!
The machine operator with
the $2.16 rate was knocked off,
despite his 10 “years service.
With this service, he had bunip
rights, but the best job he could
get paid $1.92, a 23%¢ cut.
The--effects ‘of the layoff
didn’t stop theres The man
who had heen on the $1.9214
job -had to bump elsewhere,
The best job he could find paid
$1784, a cut of 14¢ an hour,
The man he bumped had. to
tike a labor job at $1.5414 an
hour, a cut of 24¢ an hour, $9.60
a week,
labor job wert out the gate.
All of this was the layoff of
just one worker on. the’ com-
pany records. Tn life it was:
* One worker and his family
completely without income.
* Sharply reduced living
standards for three other
families.
* Downgrading, speedup and
worsened working condi-
tions for dozens of other
workers.
Muloply this by the mare
than 3,000 workers who have
lost their jobs in Schenectady
GI, and you begin to get’ the
picture. [¢ becomes clear that
thousands of workers still in
the plant have been badly tart
hy the Inyelfs, and that UT's
fight for jobs, both locally and
nationally, is a fight nor only
against unemployment, but te
protect the wages, the working
conditions, the contract protec
tions bialt up ever the years.
Phat's why it’s vitally invpor-
tant for every worker in’ the
shop to rally hehind U's fight
for jobs.
* Full UE Seniority: En-
forcement.
*No Speedup --- No
Doubling Up on Jobs.
-*-No Farming Out:
*35 Hour Week at 40
Hours Pay.
Thursday, May 27, 1954»
The “worker on the | >
COMPENSATION
SERVICE
UE Local 301 is handling
the compensation cases of all
GE workers who are injured
in the plant or who become
ill as a result of their jobs.
Attorney Milton Turkel has
‘been retained by the local to
provide full compensation
service. |
Any worker with a com-
pensation problem should
contact the union at 201%
Broadway or by telephone,
either by using the direct
line from the plant (just ask
for UE Local 301) or™by
calling. 3-1337.
‘BR, MURDOCK:
AT NLRB HEARING
COMPANY AND CAREY URGE
RECKING OF UE CONTRACT o_
Geleral Electric and the. IUE-C1O “joined hands in Washington last week to urge the
Taft-Hartley Board to wreck the UE contract which protects the wage rates and working
conditions of.GE Schenectady workers.
Other developments at the
special NLRB hearing:
The so-called “secession” was
exposed as just another. Carey
TUE-CIO raid, rather than a
move by the rank and file.
A tug of war between Carey
and Jandveau promises to split
the IUE from hell to breakfast
if the raid should succeed.
The UE ‘contract which
stands in the way of company °
rate cutting and the destruc-
tion of seniority was the big
stumbling block at the special”
hearing before the T-H Board.
E don’t think anyone has even implied
80 the question that arises in my mind -- and 1
assume to some degree arises in the minds of others oo ip
how do you elean up that ind of @ situation whea you , take
over ene fellow Jandreau?
mn. DIAMOND: Hr, Bosrd Member, this is a serious
problem. .
It is a problem, however, which the C10 and ur.
rettasaerar |x:
a
S antemeen ita tiaentinasticateatenee tiated
Carey must resolve, and _ think Shey are in a position. to
Retr Ue centr ter Wen NT eet etree nay
resolve i
The above exchange. is: from the official NLRB
transcript of Thursday's hearings.
oints to an outlook .of never-ending civil war
Petween Jandreau ‘and Carey, with Fiorillo and
Stanton ready” “to pounce’ down, if the IUE ever”
Cutting through:
the lawyer's language, what IUE-CIO attorney
gains control in Schenectady.
® Thursday, May 27, 1954 |
It clearly
Diamond i is saying: is that in the eyes of Carey,-:
anyone who ever honestly fought for the workers
will always be a ''réed,"'
before McCarthy and GE, So Carey is already
“making plans to "clean up the situation" (in the
words of Taft-Hartley Board member Murdock)
_ by getting rid of Jandreau:
no matter how he crawls
The law says that so long
as a contract is in. effect there
can be no election. How to
cancel a contract in order. to
give Carey’s IUE-CIO. an elec-
tion was the» problem facing
the Taft-Hartley crowd.
UE pointed out that if the
Taft-Hartley crowd: can tear
up one union contract it can
tear them all up. This did not
bother the: TUIE-CIO lawyers ..
although it iss of obvious con-.
cert to organized labor.
The lid .was raised on the
rigged, stacked, “bought and
paid-for meetings. “
Other testimony | made it clear
that Carey who was deféated
badly in Schenectady in 1950
“and 1951 is still trying to: take
over. With’ Fiorillo and his
gang getting. in their licks the
future cén-only hold civil wag
in the TUE... . . But Carey
IUE and the clique that went
over are losing ground daily.
Latest group to swell UE’s
mounting majority in Turbine
are the Bucket Assembly gang
and the Large Machine areas
in F and G Bays.
CAP is strongly UE.
4: great majority in Bldg, 81
are rallying behind UE and the
UE contract. UE strength is
growing in Bldg. 285, The Por-
celain workers in Bldg. 68 are
electing UE stewards pledged
to uphold the UE contract.
The strong UE majority in
Bldgs. 15, 17, and. 19 is growing
daily. The UE upswing in
Bldg. 73 is also sharp, A big UE
majority is reported from the
* Bldg. 95 foundry, The Chemi-
cal Division is.all-out for UE.
UE’s leadership of the fight
for jobs in Bldg. 269 has won
it the. support. of the large
majority of Tube workers,
As against. this, there is t
almost daily revelation of 1U§
CIO plotting against the con-
tract, of misappropriated funds,
of a behind-the-scenes strug-
gle for power, of secret agree-
_ments_ doing away with plant-_
wide seniority and rate protec-
tion, of pushbutton stoppages,
of contempt for the members,
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
-means to live: For
TTT rrp sanamgmeerans
The Right
’ = Bill of Rights guaran-
Res the right to a ‘job, “Justice
William ©, Douglas declared in
a rallying call delivered from
the U.S. Supreme Court,
A man has a constitutional
right to. work, Douglas de-
clared. “The right to work, I
had .assumed, was the most
precious liberty that man pos-
sesses.” 7
This is in striking contrast
to the GE suspension policy.
In his historic opinion, Jus-
tice Douglas declared :
“It does men little good to
stay alive and free and. proper-
-tied if they cannot work. To
also
many. it
would be hercer to work in jail
than to sit idle on the curb.”
Justice Douglas’ declaration
that “the Bill of Rights. pre-
vents a person from being de-
nied employment™-shows that
the right to work is under com-
pany ‘attack as recession deep-
ens into depression.
“The Bill of Rights prevents
person from being denied
employment as a teacher who
though a member of a ‘subver-
sive’ organization is wholly in-
nocent of any unlawful purpose
av activity,” Douglas asserted.
As though speaking directly
to GE President Cordiner, Jus-
tice Douglas denounced flag-
waving attacks upon the right
toa work with this statement:
work means to eat. It
“Neither the security of the
State nor the well-heing of her
citizens justifies this infringe-
ment of fundamental rights.”
What a Difference!
‘On Monday morning, UE.
Local 301 issued a leaflet in
Turbine which told the Bldg.
273 workers the facts on
company .plans to cutback
Turbine production by 32%.
The leaflet urged united ac-
tion of all Turbine workers
to protect their: jobs.
On the same Monday
morning, the [UE-CIO clique
Hut out a leaflet in Turbine.
It was a red-baiting job on
one of. the Turbine workers
—not a word about jobs, not
a word about the need for
unity.
ers saw the difference.
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
y
‘Co. policy,
‘Once more Turbine work- |
GE's McCARTHYITE POLICY
To Work TAKES FULL EFFECT TODAY
GE's pallies, of suspending workers who refuse to. crawl bated McCarthy and othe :
anti-union politicians which -has resulted in the firing of IUE-CIO members in. » Lynn and
two UE members in Erie is due to take effect here today.
Six GE workers had fought
against MeCarthy when. he was
in Albany last February to smear
GI Schenectady workers and
their union, They ‘refused to
give, up to. McCarthy and_ his
sponsor, GE, their rights of free
speech and association under the
Tirst and Fifth Amendments. to
the Constitution’ of the United
States.
UE here and the IUE-CIO in
Lynn have _ filed grievances
against GI's fag-waving union-
busting attacks. The UIE griev-
ance is now at national level
_ awaiting an answer frony GE,
UIE has also ‘taken court ac-
lion against this policy and is
prepared, if necessary, to go be-
fore the United States Supreme
Court. The case is scheduled for
hearing before the Federal Dis-
trict Court in Washington on
Friday.
GE’s “operation intimidation”
began, Dee. 9 with the suspen-_
sion of seven in Lynn just 2
days before the NLRB élec-
tion, Under rank and. file pres-
sure,. the IUE-GE Conference
Board has condemned the GE
But the IUE-ClOers
here have lined up with Me-
Carthy and GE on this, as on so.
many other issues affecting the
livelihood of GIE workers.
UIe’s position is clear and un-
changed,
UE defended Leo Jandrean
and William -Mastriani when
they invoked the Fifth Amend-
ment before the Kersten Com- .
mittee in 1948,.
UE supported Jandreau-when
he stood on the Fifth Amend-
ment.at the Grand Jury hearing
of 1952.
UE defended Mastriani when
he told McCarthy in. Nov. 1953:
.that he was not going to an:
swer his questions and invoked
the. “Fifth,”
The case for the UIE position
was well stated by Jandreau in
his open letter to GE President .
Cordiner on Dee. 10 of last year,
Said Jandreau:
“Your one-man order calls for
the suspension and discharge of
"s any GE worker who stands up
_against, McCarthy and his kind
Schenectady workers have
fought too hard to.in their con-
tractual gains from the Company
SMEAR MERnEEANMEsp NTN MEENrtER RAMU VANE pe mren
to perniit you with one stroke of
the pen. to destroy their job se-
curity... your one-nian order
aims to “scrap the Constitution
andthe Bill of Rights as well as
the company’s obligations under
the contract between GE and this
union.
The union rewards of the six
workers show why GE fingered °
them for McCarthy in its. “op-
eration intimidation,” Each man
without exception, has been in-
dependent, active, militant. Each
iman, without exception, refused
to sell out ‘to Carey’s ITUE-CIO.
All, without” exception, stated
under oath that they had never,
efigaged. in ‘espionage, sabotage
or other unlawful act against the
interests and security. of the
United States.
MANUEL FERNANDEZ —
lormer UE Local 301 eit
Member for Bldgs. 8, 9, 10,
Steward for nine years for Bldg.
269, member of UE. Local 301
Activities Committee. A grinder
with thirteen’ years service, Tank
Destroyers Vet,
GORDON BELGRAVE—Co-
Chairman of Activities Commit-.
tee Local, 301 for ‘three years,
member of Auditing Committee,
member of Election Committee.
A toolmaker with 17. years
service.
ROBIERT NORTHROP —
Steward in Bldg. 17 for 3 years, :
member of [Election Committee
who came to GIE from ALCO
Where he was chairman of the
Veterans” Conunittee, elected to
the top S-man negotiating com-
mittes, editor of the CIO ALCO
shop paper, [=xecutive Seere-
tary of the Capital District CIO
Council representing 40,000 mem-
bers. A’ punch pr operator
with 414 years service at GE.
Signal-Corps Vet.
ARTHUR OWENS — Inter-
national Trustee of the United
Electrical Radio & Machine
Workers, Steward in Bldg. 273
for.years. Member of UIE Local
301 Election Committee. A wel-
“der'with 614 years service,
SIDNEY FRIEDLANDER—
Former Board Member for
Bldgs. 15, 17, 19, for more than
4+ years, ‘member of FE
imittee, Building Comiittee,
Treasurer’ of UE. Local 301,
EPC Com- |
member during the war of U.S
Bond Committee, Citizens Unity
Committee, union representative
to Offids of Price Administra-
tion, A machine repairman with
14 years service. *
DEWEY BRASHEAR—For-
mer Board Member for Bldgs.
81, 89 (Control Division) , Secre-
tary “of Veterans Comtnittee,
Chairman of Legislative Com-
mittee, member of Editorial
Committee, Election Committee,
FEPC Committee, delegate to
ULE National. Convention, mem-
- ber of Labor- -Management Coin-
mittee during war, A mainte-
nance worker with 13 yéars
service, Vice-President CIO
Council, Signal Corps Vet.
All GE workers are affected
by this policy of firing workers
without contract cause. UE is
fighting: this policy all the way.
FRIDAY, MAY 21, 193%,
‘MCARTHY ASSERTS
WHITE HOUSE USES
FIRTH AMENDMENT
He Says Administration ‘Must
Have Something to Hide’
by. Its Secrecy Order
By W. I, LAWRENCE:
Special to The New York Times,
WASHINGTON, May 20-—Sen-|.
thar Jogeph R, MeCarthy tonight||
Accused President bisen hower an |
. his. Administration of Invoking
tha “Ritth Amendment’ to bar
possibly selrincrinmmatory tes.
timany about high-level strategy
deelsions. .
‘ie Wisconsin Republican thus
employed agamse Republicans 5
my the description he usually has
rested for aNever Com
who refuse testity about
party activities or possibly ese]
ty Pionage, :
~. is is the first time T've ever]
: ranch of the!
oe
Last Thursday's New York Times
carried this story reporting that
McCarthy had. "accused" Presi-
dent «Eisenhower of -using the
.. Fifth. Amendment... Under. GE's.
suspension policy this would
automatically make it impossi-
ble for lke to work for GE.
Thursday, May 27, 1954:
el ee
sete
Ney
Te hele
Wayne, Pump Co. fos
~Mfg. Co. ,
country.
UE Routs IUE-CiO
At Square D Plant
More than 1,200 workers at the home plant of. the
Square D chain this week routed an IUE-CIO raid by a
crushing vote of 862 for UE to only 261 for the Carey gang.
‘This ‘election at the big Detroit plant inarked the-latest
in the series of UE victories over the current IUE-CIO
raiding. campaign, a campaign in which Carey is pouring
millions of dollars of his members’ money down the drain.
Square. D" workers had their *choice between the solid,
- protections. of a. UE contract and. the red-baiting smears
of the TUE-CIO. ‘The Square D company, the, largest
‘ switch gear equipment maniifacturer in the U. S., worked
closely. with the IUEers in the raid which began in’ the
midst of.contract negotiations. : =
‘ Other recent UE victories over the raiders include:
+. Bridgeport, Conn. — UE defeats IUE-CIO raiders at the
*.800-worker Columbia Record ‘plant. _ cone “
© LaPorte; Ind. — UE wins 6 to. 1 over the raiders atthe
2,000-worker, Allis-Chalmeis plant, r ; - ;
* “Ft, Wayne, Ind. —UE Local No. 903 routs, raid” at
"Muncy, Pa,— UE crushes. CIO raiders at Robinson ,,
. All of these election victories were scored because of the
determination of workers to remain united with the miofe
than 300,000 UE members. in. the 900 UE plants across the
AL DELAFANO, Bldg. 16,
says —~''l've been working for
GE-in Schenectady for 25: years. .:
I've seen. the Works Council,
all for the company. The mem-
bers made UE, not Jandreau, .
and we'vealways done alright
‘with UE, When someone asks
me why I'm for UE, | just say —
the UE contract. It's the best!
_As--for--red--baiting,--we -were.-
always red baited. The fact
that Jandreau went IUE makes
no difference."
_ 6%. Thursday, May 27, 1954
CIO GETS ZERO
IN AMSTERDAM
A close to home example of
what it means to be under CIO
leadership canbe seen in Am-
sterdam where the CIO Textile
Union this week: signed a
aker contract and failed ut-
‘to niake any fight for a
needed wage increase for Mo-
hawk..Carpet workers,
Although the CTO leadership
tries to justify this by “busi-
ness conditions,” the average
wage scale of Amsterdam car-
pet workers reveals that over
the, years the CIO leadership
has been tunable or unwilling
to bring wages up:to UE levels.
Mohawk Carpet ‘Mills work-
‘ers average $1.66 per hour. as
compared with $1.98 in the
Schenectady Works.
The CIO policy of dumping
any fight for the members at the
first sign of a business down-
turn. gives -business. the -green-
light to take any recession or
depression out of the hides of ~
the workers,
Former Pittsfield Worker .
Urges—"Remain With VE!"
Tom Stern, now working in Bldg. 273 on a Boring Mill,
has also worked in a GE plant represented by IUE-CIO..
His advice: “Stay UE!”
Stern worked as a Boring
Mill operator in GE's Pitts-
field plant where he made: ap-
proximately $2.25. an: hour as
compared with $3.10 here.
' “Seniority was by. depart-
ment, group or fot at all,”
Stern said of his Pittsfield ex-
perience. “Foremen were’ fast
with the warning noticé and
favoritism was a seandal.
“We were walking out all
the time over one thing or an-
uther and nobody from the lo-
cal (EUE-CIO Local 255) both-
ered to tell us why. Everything
was pushbutton.” g 26h,
Stern came to GE Schenee-.
tady: after he received: .a
“choice” between . being ‘laid
off or taking a 35¢ an hour
rate cut, His father had worked
for GE here for many years: |
“He told me,” Tom said,
“that. there were better rates:
and working conditions in
Schenectady. I found out how
“TOM STERN
right he was. But I sees-that
the IUE-CIO is trying to
break in here. I’d hate to go
back to the IUE-CIO condi-
tions and rates again.”
The business agent of IUE-
CIO Local 255 is John Calla-
han, the man’ who gave the
Jandreau clique an TUE-CIO
charter!
UE Continues Negotiations
(Continued from Page)“
The fact is the offersis far
fram the best company offer
made in the last five-years,
*In 1950, UE won a 10¢ an
hour wage increase, plus i %¢
for skilled workers, the* 7th
paid holiday, a pension plan
with $125 minimum, and other:
benefits.
*Tn 1951, UE won 9 cents an,
hour wage increase, in March”
and 64% cents increase in-Sep-).
tember, 3 weeks vacation “for. ! bos
‘bers and stewards of UE Local
15. years service,” and ¢ other
benefits. A, ‘
* In 1952, UE won Y cents.an
hour. wage increase, improve-
ments in health ‘and’ welfare
plan and other benefits.” :
*In 1953, UE won a 534
cents increase, plus 1¢ to.8¢ for
skilled workers, » termination
pay for workers in closed
plants, and other benefits. |
It is inconceivable that any-
one could call the current offer
“substantially better than any
offer made in the past five
years.” :
The offer was in the form of
an ultimatum by the company
that the proposal hag~to be
acted upon by. June: 7. which
fails even to give time to pro-_ -
perly negotiate the proposition; . |
or to permit the GE-UE local’
unions to study the proposals
and take the proper action.
“MICA WORKERS |
SOLID FOR UE.
Officers, executive board inem-:
333, representing the workers
at the Mica Insulator Co., last’
week reaffirmed their loyalty
to UE and pledging an all out
fight.to end IUE-CIO disrup-
tion in Schenectady.
The statement unanimously —
adopted by the Mica union
leadership is now: being ¢%
culated throughout the Bro
way plant where it is being
signed by hundreds of Mica
workers. It pledges “support
for the union which in the pe-
_ riod of. less...than..a.year..has.. 1
meant.so much to us and to
our families in improved work-
ing and living conditions.” |
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS _
They say that when you learn somethin through ex erience
you learn it ‘the hard way, but you don't forgat it aneily,” mend
'. We GE workers here in Lynn have learned the hard wa during
the last four years that under the IUE~CIO our wages, hours Yond Tork,
ing conditions and our. union contract -have gone to hell, Aimost every
“one of the 12,000. to a g000 employees in the Big plant agree with this.
Statement, At least 75% of the employees wished to do something about
it. It was only after the company and the Taft=-Hartiley Board engin-
eered a six-month delay, during which McCarthy had his chance to come
in.and do a job of terrorizing Lynn workers for GE, only then did th
TUE=CI0 squeak through by the narrowest of margins. y , the
« If you in Schenectady are to avoid a similar fate, learn by
“our experience, Do‘not. allow yourself to be red=baited; scared, ine
timidated or tricked into voting for the IUE=-CIO, Keep your UE Local
301 if you wish to keep a union that will fight for you-and protect...
your 17 years of contract gains,
BOW WE WERE TRICKED
: “The trick that fooled most people in Lynn back in the ordge’
inal. eleetion in 1950, was that while the company, the politicians,
-and the red=baiters were attacking and scaring the wits out of the -
people, the IUE-CIOQ leaders of the s tow telling the people that
evovy thing would be Vike it was before -- even better, the contract
Would be the same, the officers would be the same, the stewards would
continue, the local supplements would be taken over by the IUE-CIO
and remain as before. ‘ ; os
_ This promise that "things would be the same" was a lie,
There has hardly been a month go by, that some benefit or protection
we had under the UH has not been given up WITHOUT A FIGHT -
CIO National and Local leadership, hy the THE
ee
LOSSES UNDER TUR~C 10
"Let us give you some illustrations of how things have gone
. from bad to worse under the IUB-CIO:
1. RESPECT: The first and perhaps most important
loss that we have sustained ‘since the IUE-CIO
took over here in Lynn, is the loss of respect
for our union, loss of respect. by the company.
and loss of respect by the community.
PBA TT
‘ALL that has changed NOWe »
soa
Once, usually all that was needed to straighten out a beef
was a mere hint that you intended to take it up with the union, When
.& steward threatened to take a case up to the Executive Board level
then a foreman really broke his neek trying to work out a settlement, .
Time and again foremen have gone so far ‘as to tell a steward,
"don't bother me," when they brought up grievances, Other stewards
have been handed warning notdeas: (an unheard of procedure under the
UE) for daring to investigate grievances in their department, The .
situation is so bad. that between one-quarter to one-third of steward=
ships are vacant, Stewards cannot be found who will put up with the
contempt and ridicule they now receive at the hands of foremen and
higher company officials, a ,
As for the community. Once UE Local 201 was at the head of
every civic. and patriotic activity of the community, Nothing was ever _
‘undertaken without first getting the support. and assistance of UE 201.
Now the local, under IUE-CIO, is completely ignored ‘or relegated to
some minor role while the company has recaptured the role of leader in’
the community, which it uses to effectively spread its company pro-=
paganda, . a gd A os
But all this is nothing,. compared to:what -has happened to —
our contract and our local agreements, us ce ee &
SENTORIT¥: Under the UE we.had plantewide
seniority. In. addition we had a local agree»
. ment which enforced this seniority, - The local
agreement set up what we called. "REPLACEMENT:
COMMITIGES," . These committees kept a complete
. seniority list of everyone employed in the .
“ W\eo plant and any employee who was bumped or laid’
Ney ' off could go to this committee and locate the
most\suitable job to which he was entitled. ‘The UB then made sure he
got it.) There was no-chance fora guy to get a fast shuffle or for a _
foreman\ to hide one of his pets, ay
PX 7 ts
2 after the {UE took over, the company refused to recognize
the UB local supplements, the REPLACEMENT COMMITTERS were dissolved
and plant-wide senicrity wag abolished, It is no longer possible for -
an employee to get a look at the jobs he ean do’ in the same labor —
grade. He takes what personnel offers him or he goes out on the
street, while foreman's pets and special favorites with much less ser«
vice are kept on the job, ;
_ The personnel department now uses a special dirty trick to
get rid of a large number of old service employees in the medium and
higher labor grades, When these people show up at personnel office
looking for a job after being laid off or, bumped, they are offered a
laborers job. in the foundry, a particularly heavy and dirty job, with
consequent loss in earnings: of as much as'75¢ an hour, When the vice
_ tim refuses, out he goes on to the-street, no matter how much service |
. he has, One victim with 12 years service was booted out in this’ mane
ner, while 2 year service people were still in the Peat, bat. ahs
rank and file was so outraged over this gross injustice at they, -
not the IUB-CI0; forced the company to take this man back after about
three months on the street. However, hundreds of people with six,
Seven and eight years are on the street while almost equal numbers.
of employees with two, three and four years service are still in the
plant, THIS COULD NEVE
AGREEMENT THAT -THE UE HAD BEFORE THE IUE-CIO TOOK OVER,
PIECE WORK PRICES: Everyone knows that where _
“ changes in piece work prices are permitted « _
under the contract, that the UE contract guare
antees former earnings while the IUBeCIO con»
.<,. traet. only affords the. opportunity. to make...
former earnings, That simple little differ= _
ence has cost. Lynn workers thousands of dollar:
{ — in the last couple of years, but it is not the
SR as thing! that has happened to our piece work prices.
R HAVE HAPPENED UNDER THE’ UE OR UNDER THE LOCAL |
Firsts the company is making an extraordinary use of "TP
"Temporary Prices" on which they claim the right to také a new study
anytime they like, Year after year the management refuses to make |
these prices standard, often cutting them two, three and four times.
This has always been a problem, but under: the UE we put up a fight
in every case and managed to hold the line pretty good, now under the
IUE-CTO the union leaders just shrug their shoulders and say nothing .
can be done about it, .
Worse even than this evil, is the new. company. practice of
retiming a whole line of apparatus where a small change takes place
in a small part of one of the operations, A classic example of this
took place in the Aircraft Jet Turbine Division while several of your °
former UE Executive Board members from Schenectady were up here in
ans five months ago, trying to help us win back the UE, Ask them
about 1t? a
The job had.the following operations: (1) Rough front. of
hub. (2) Rough hub on shaft side, (3) Rough shaft, (4+) Deep hole
drill, (5) Weld preparation, (6) Hand weld flange on hub, (THIS
_OP2nkaTION WAS. CHANGED TO, MaCHINE WELD.) (7) Face flange and wheel.
- (8) Finish and thread shaft....(9) Inside bore and pack ream,
(10) Broach keyways. (11) Drill holes.” (12). Hobb wheel for’ buckets.
There was a separate price for each one of the operations
listed above, The only change was on operation six (6) which was
changed from hand to machine weld, °
This permitted the company’to take a new study and change
Some of the detailed parts of the study in this operation, But in
stead of confining themselves to this, the company went ahead and in-
mediately changed’ each one of the other eleven operations from stan=
dard to a temporary price, proceeded to’study and cut the price on
‘each one of them, The IUB=-CIO did take this erievance to the New York
level, but when the company turned them down there they just took the
cut and let. the grievance die, THIS IS JUST A SAMPLE OF SIMILAR COM~
LYNN PLANT UNDER THE IUB-CIO,
. LOCAL AGREEMENTS: The IUE-CIO told us before
‘the election in 1950, that all the local
, agreements we had under the UE would remain
in effect, The company never denied this
statement by the IUE-CIO and most people in
the plant believed it, The company kept all
; SOS, these agreements in effect right up to the day
=o = SD. oof the election, but immediately after the
IUE~CIO was certified, the management called them in and informed then
that the local agreements were with the UE, Since the UB-had been de-
feated as bargaining agent the company was under no obligation to con=
» PANY ATTACKS ON PIECE WORK EARNINGS THAT ARH TAKING-PLACE «LL OVER THE
‘ tinue any of these local agreements and therefore they were all abol~
ished as of the day the IUE=CIO took over, The IUR=CIO leaders just
took this. announcement without blinking an eye: or raising a finger,
It looked just as if it had been part of a deal agreed to, by them
in a pay-off to the company for petitioning. for the election, .
“We have already mentioned one of the lost local agreements,
~ Ynown as the "REPLACEMENT COMMITTEES," that has ‘cost us heavily in
our seniority rights, Another was the "Eccles Agreement" that covered
all the maintenance men and. the work and the rates that should be
theirs. Since that agreement was-abolished the company has really |
_ made a-mess of the maintenance department. Work is now done by out=
Side contractors while maintenance men are on short time without.a
Squawk by the union, Jobs have been taken away from maintenance and
given to the operating departments and a dozen other benefits that
made a maintenance. job one of the best in the plant have been wiped
out, until now most anything is better than being in maintenance.
& lost are big important-issues like our sen=~
vn -dority right or our ‘local agreement or our
a AY ' piece work price guarantees, There are lots
P/N we of small things also, Take the case of a
7S) \ week's notice in the event of lay-off, Under
A. ye the. UB when.a.man.was. notified of. a lay-off,
ij he was given a week's work or if there wasn't.
\) Se SMALL ISSURS: Not all of the things we have —
d& .
0 eh 3 |
THE WILL TO FIGHT
me, fish
y. S ; ‘ ee a
We
“eould go en‘recounting feature after feature of our hours,
wages and working conditions that grow worse instead of better since
the IUE-CIO took over. However, we doubt that you would read them all,
but we can't.close without dealing with more issues, — .
This issue is not contained in the wording of any contract,
It is no agreement that you can force’ the company to sign, Yet it is
" pae nese important thing that .a union can possess, IT IS THE WILL To.
Without. "the will to fight".a gooa contract can be worthless,
while a poor contract can be made to work wonders,
This is our biggest loss since the IUR-CIO replaced the UE,
Our union has lost its’ will to fight, We the rank and file are still
“\. willing to fight, but the IUR-CIO gives no leadership, When. we stop
work because of some grave injustice or flagrant violation of the con«
tract, the IUE-CIO leaders drive us back to work-or leave us out on a
und Tor the company to take a crack at, It has now become so bad
that our once proud UB Local 201 has turned. into an IUE-CIO scramble
by individuals == everyone for himself, Not once in the entire four
years that the IUE-CIO has been in Lynn, has the leadership, after
failing to win. a grievance at the New York level, permitted the workers.
involved to take economic action outlined in the contract, Always
they delayed, gave half the story, confused the issue and advised
against action until everyone gives up in despair,
- You can't possibly realize how bad things have become in
Lynn, unless you work here, We once had a fine union like you. in Schen-
ectady, Together with Erie we led the chain, .While you maintained
your conditions and fighting union in UE, we here in Lynn.under IUE-CI0
turned into an organization worse in many respects,. than the old com=
_ pany union the UE drove out of the picture in the early thirties,
PUBASE TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT AND DON'T LE? IT HAPPEN. IN SCHENECTADY .
KEEP THE UE FLAG FLYING .ND IN TH NEXT RLECTION WE HERE IN LYNN WILL
JOIN YOU AND ONCE MORE UNITE ‘SHR GR CHAIN IN 4A FIGHTING UNION, .
No
; ‘ in Sinan olny H
Name ldg. Name’ , }
Joseph LeBlanc . William B. Cuddy
William H. Green -dJames T, Lundy
Peter S, Deucetti : Lester Moran
Joseph S, LaRock John Lawn
Peter Pappas : Henry Jones
Ken Sturtevant Leo D'Amour
“leal Tolan Albert Crowell
ward Greenlaw Charles Campbell .
Momas O'tHearn- Joseph BE, Gabrielski
ohn Davis ab Sy . George Hantman
: " ao Chester Kotkowski ‘
Name :
H, Hatfield
R, T. Valenkamph
li. Sears
. Turbine
Robert W. Scholl
M. J. Gott
John A, Dorman
J. Sonia
D, Parson
Melville A. Nickérson
Ralph Romano
liartin J, Deehy
Edward Clegg —
Wm, P, Morrill
‘Andrew Constant
George F, Mahoney
Wm. F. Sheehan
Albert M. Miles
Hubert Baldwin
Thomas Flanigan
Ellsworth R, Starrett
Carl Nielsen
Wm, E, Kegar
Carpenter
George White 77
Jerry Flynn -Electri¢ian 77.
West Lynn:
Walter WeCebe
George Walsh
Frank Budd
iotor Division
Harold Clay
’ Frank Boisclair
Arthur Hildenbrandt:
M. Estabrook — “
Thomas Butler
Leslie Pugh —
Stan Lusko
Harold Ash
Samuel Trotsky
R. Bishop
Cecil Leatherby
Gladys D. Curry
Delphin BE, Wrenn
Joseph A, Kent
J, A. Nelson |
J. CG. Richard.
Norman Perry
_. Chester Estabrooks
M. J, Gaudet
R, Wilkins
F. Upton | .
R, Hamilton, Jr,
Wallace Nockles
Hugh Baillie
Lightine Division
mA, Zalncraitis
' Office
Florence Ross.
Jack Mould
James Buono
‘Air, Gas Turbine
Enio Calvani :
N. S, Green
Edward Thomas
Carmen Rando
Edward T, White
John Chayoneu
David Withers
_ Calder .Latham
John Entwistle
FE, Bertrand, Jr,
L. C. Haskell
J. H, Godfrey
‘John Farnham
_ James Svenson
Ms J, MacKillop
Ernest Cole
- Vincent Capano
.W, Blanchard ~
Carl Graham .
William C,. Bond
P. Hrubes
Arthur Pappas
M. Beden
John Rearden
John Cahill
Bill Twiss
Howard Thompson
sade
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The following is a partial list of IUE-CIO lost. elections as listed
‘in official National Labor Relations Board reports. IUE-CIO lost
thesé elections because: " .
® Workers reject IUE's raiding, splitting and red-baiting
© Workers reject IUE's surrendering of union conditions
@ Workers reject IUE's back-door deals with the company
® Workers reject Carey's one-man rule Te
@ Workers reject IUE's McCarthy policies
In many cases workers rejected IUE not only once but two or
» three times, as the record here reveals:
Locations Won By . ‘No. of Workers
UE-CIO LOST ELECTIONS IN THE GE CHAIN
:General Electric (P&M) Allentown, Pa, . UE
General Electric (Locke Insulator) Baltimore, Md,
General Electric (P&M) Bellevue, Ohio
General Electric (P&M) Bloomfield, N, J.
General Electric (Powerhouse) Bridgeport, Conn,
General Electric (Glass, P&M) Bucyrus, Ohio
General Electric (Service, P&M) . Chicago, IL.
General Electric (Service, P&M) Cincinnati, Ohio
General Electric (Euclid Lamp, P&M) Cleveland, Ohio
General Electric (Glass Mach., Draftsmen) © Cleveland, Ohio
General Electric (P&M) Conneaut, .Ohio
General Electric (P&M) Decatur, Ind.
General Electric (Warehouse) ' Detroit, Mich,
General Electric fee: Detroit, Mich.
General Electric (P&M, Cafeteria) E. Boston, Mass.
General Electric (Repair) Elizabeth, N. J.”
General Electric (P&M) Elmira, N. Y.
General Electric (Salaried) : Elmira, N. Y.
General Electric (P&M) .Erie, Pa.
General Electric (Salaried) Erie, Pa,
‘General Electric ‘ Ft. Edward and Hudson Falls, N. Y.
General Electric (P&M) Ft. Edward, N. Y.
General Electric (Lab. Ass’ts) Ft. Wayne, Ind.
General Electric (Service; P&M) _ Los Angeles, Cal,
General Electric Lowell, Mass.
General Electric (Lamp, P&M) : Newark, N. J.
General Electric (Seaboard, P&M) Newark, N; J.
General Electric (Warehouse) Newark, N. J.
General Electric (Truck Drivers) Newark, N. J.
General Electric (Mahoning, ‘P&M) Niles, Ohio
General Electric (Glass, P&M) Niles, Ohio
General Electric (Glass) . Niles, Ohio
General Electric (Transformer, P&M) Oakland, Cal.
General Electric (Prod.) Oakland, Cal.
General: Electric (P&M) : Ontario, Cal."
eneral Electric (Prod. ) . Peterboro, Ont., Canada
d ; @ neral Electric (Prod.) . San Jose, Cal.
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(This is a partial list of IUE-CIO lost elections as listed in official National Labor Relations Board reports.)
Plant ‘ Locations ‘ Won By ~ : No. of Workers a* ! Plant : : abe Locations Wen By
<a Westinghouse “9 he “, Wilkes Barre, Pa, . _ IBEW—AFL
IUE-CIO LOST ELECTIONS IN THE GE CHAIN Westinghouse (M&R) ==,” ss Baltimore, Md. No union
; : Westinghouse (Engineers). ” “Bloomfield, N. J. No union
¢ i San Francisco, Cal. UE . 67 Westinghouse (Salaried), | Fairmont, W. Va. ° No union
General Electric (Toolmakers ) Schenectady, N. Y. ‘ ‘ : : : 633 Westinghouse (Service Appl.) _. Log Island City, N. Y. : No union:
General Electric (P&M) _ Schenectady, N. Y- 14,830 Westinghouse (Powérhouse);.«. " - eMetuchen, N, J. Operating Engineers—AFL
General Electric - Scranton, Pa. é . - 236 Westinghouse. (Sturtevant) ” ' "> .. — “Hydé Park, Mass. IAM—AEL
General Electric ‘ ‘Schenectady, N. Y; 19,579 Westinghouse “= recy “Lima, Ohio . JAM—AFL
General Electric (Prod), Taunton, Mass.. : 8 800 Westinghouse (Engineers) - ” < Newark, N. J. MDEA
General. Electric (P&M, Shipping) Taunton, Mass... , a 443 Westinghouse (Pattern.) ‘ E, Pittsburgh, Pa. Patternmakers—AFL
General Electric : i ; : :
General Electric (P&M, Service)
General Electric
General Electric (Prod.)
General Electric (Prod.)
General Electric (Draftsmen)
General Electric (Eng. Asst's)
General Electric (Glass)
General Electric (Prod.)
General Electric’
General Electric (Prod.)
General Electric (Planning)
General Electric (Salaried Clerical)
General Electric (Prod.)
General Electric (Planners
General Electric (Planners)
General Electric (Planners) :
General Electric (Telephone Operators)
General Electric (Planners) .
General Electric (Planners)
General Electric (Office Workers)
General Electric
General Electric (Toolroom)
General Electric (T&D) .
General. Electric (Toolmakers)
General Electric
General Electric (Kent St, Plant)
General Electric (State St.)
General Electric (Salaried)
General Electric (Planners)
General Electric (Gr, 21, Design)
General Electric (Draftsmen)
General Electric (Draftsmen)
General Electric (P&M)
General Electric (Prod.)
General Electric (Truck Drivers)
, General Electric (Tr. Dr, -- Atom Eng.) _
General Electric (pie eprakess)
General Electric (Die Sinkers)
General Electric (Arch, & Dr.)
IUE-CIO LOST ELECTIONS
‘Westinghouse
Westinghouse
Westinghouse
Westinghouse
Westinghouse (Sales) |
Westinghouse
Westinghouse
Westinghouse
Westinghouse
‘Westinghouse (Salaried)
Westinghouse
Westinghouse
Westinghouse
Westinghouse
Westinghouse
Westinghouse
Westinghouse :
Westinghouse (Eng.)
Westinghouse (Draftsmen)
Westinghouse (Time & Motion)
Westinghouse (Salaried)
Westinghouse (Plant Clerks)
‘Westinghouse
Westinghouse (Repair)
Tiffin, Ohio
Youngstown, Ohio
Brockport, N. Y.
Circleville, Ohio
Ft. Wayne, Ind.
Ft. Wayne, Ind.
Lexington, Ky.
Logan, Ohio
Ludlow, Vt. °
Morrison, Ill.
Decatur, Ind,
Decatur, Ind.
Dover, Ohio
Erie, Pa.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Pittsfield, Mass..
Pittsfield, Mass.
Trenton, N, J.
> West Lynn, Mass.
Youngstown, Ohio
~ Auburn, N.Y,
Morrison, IIL.’ :
Schenectady, N. Y.
Trenton, N. J.
Utica, N.Y.
Utica, N. Y.
Utica, N. Y.
Bloomfield, N. J.
Bloomfield, N. J.
Bridgeport, Conn,
Lynn, Mass,
Pittsheld, Mass.
Danville, Il.
Danville, Hl.
Schenectady, N. Y.
Schenectady, N. Y.
Elmira, N.Y.
Lynn, Mass.
Lynn, Mass.
Attica, N.Y.
Baltimore, Md;
Bridgeport, Conn.
Chicago, HI.
Chicago, III,
Derry, Pa.
Detroit, Mich.
Emeryville, Cal,
Essington, Pa.
Essington, Pa.
Jersey City, 'N. J.
Los Angeles, Calif,
Nuttall, Pa.
Seatile, Wash.
Sunbury, Pa,
Sunnyvale, Calif,
Trenton, N. J.
Essington, Pa.”
Newark, N. J.
Newark, N, J.
Pittsburgh, .Pa,
Pittsburgh, Pa,
Bellefontaine, Ohio
St. Louis, Mo.
* not available
No union
No union
No union
No union
No union
No union
No union
No union
No union
No union
No union
No union
No union
No union
No union
No union
‘No union
IAM—AFL
TAM—AFL
IAM—AFL
TAM—AFL
IAM—AFL
IAM—AFL
IAM—AFL
Boilermakers—AFL
Boilermakers—AFL
IEFTE—AFL
IFTE—AFL
IFTE—AFL
UAW, AFL
UAW, AFL
Teamsters—AFL
Teamsters—AFL
Patternmakers League—AFL
Die Sinkers, AFL
Engineers--AFL
IN WESTINGHOUSE CHAIN
FWISU
IBEW—AFL
TBEW—AFL
XI
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525
6
227
®
178
38
115
*
200
327
Sylvania
Sylvania
Sylvania
Sylvania
Sylvania
Sylvania.
Sylvania
Sylvania
Acme Electric Co,
Addressograph Multigraph
. Admiral Corp: (Office)
Admiral Corp. (Service)
Admiral Corp, =
Allen Dumont
Allentown Gauge & Tool
American Bifocal
“American Safety Razor
Anaconda Wire and Cable
Anchor Wire
Arco Mfg,
Barker. & Williamson
Bector Dickinson
Bernardin Bottle Cap .
J. H. Besser Mfg. Co.
Billings & Spencer
Wm. Boiler, Bros.
A. S. Campbell
Capehart Farnsworth
Champion Motors
Clifton Conduit
Columbia Records
Copeland Refrigeration
Corcoran Metal
Corning Glass Works+
Cornell Dubilier
Dale Products
Daystron Instrument |
Dayton Mfg.
Dayton Malleable Iron
Decca .
Despatch: Oven
Eagle Signal
Eastern Metals
Hugh Eby
E. C. Styberg Engineering
Edison (Automotive)
Edison. (Ediphorie)
Edison (Instrument)
Edison (Medical Gas)
Edison (Plant Service)
Edison (Special Prod.)
Edison (Storage Battery)
Electrical Products
Elgin. Watch
Emerson Electric
Fairchild Engine '
Fasco Ind.
Federal Telephone
Federal Telephone
Federal Telephone
Federal Telephone
Federal Telephone
Emporium, Pa.
Mill Hall, Pa.
Altoona, Pa,
Burlington; Iowa
Burlington, Iowa
Ottawa, Ohio
Wheeling, W. Va.
Williamsport, Pa,
Cuba, N.Y.
New York, -N. Y.
Milwaukee, Wis.
“Milwaukee, Wis:* ~
Newark, N. J. +
E. Patterson, N. J.
Pittsburgh, Pa, °
_ Cleveland, Ohio
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Hastings, N. Y.«
Jamaica, N. Y.
Evandale, Ohio
Upper Darby, Pa,
Columbus, Nebr,
Evansville, Ind.
Alpena, Mich. >
Hartford, Conn,
Minneapolis, Minn.
Boston, Mass.
Ft, Wayne, Ind.
Minneapolis, Minn,
Memphis, Tenn.
Bridgeport, Conn,
Sidney, Ohio
Washington, Ind,
Bradford, Pa. ig
Fuquay Springs, N.
Columbus, Nebr.
Archibald, Pa.
Montebello, Cal,
Buffalo, N.Y.
Richmond, Ind.
Minneapolis, Minn.
Moline, U1.
Tuckahoe, N. Y.
Philadelphia, Pa,
Racine, Wis.
N.
N.
W. Orange, N.
W. Orange, N.
W. Orange, N.
W.. Orange, N.
W. Orange, N.
Oakland; Cal.
Lincoln, Neb.
St. Louis, Mo,
Bayshore, L. I,
Rochester, N. Y.
Newark, Nv J.
Newark, N. J.
Newark, N. J.
Clifton, N. J.
Clifton, N. J.
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IUE-CIO LOST ‘ELECTIONS IN THE SYLVANIA CHAIN
UE
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No union *
No union
No union ~
IBEW—AFL
IBEW—AFL
TAM—AFL
OTHER ELECTIONS LOST BY THE IUE-CIO
No union
No union
IBEW—AFL
IBEW—AFL
~ No union
“No union
No union.
IBEW—AFL
UE
No union
No union
Company union
Blacksmiths—AFL
UE
No union
No union
No union
No union
IBEW—AFL
“Company union
IBEW—AFL
TAM—AFL
No union
TAM--AFL
TAM—AFL
No union -
IAM-—AFL
IAM—AFL
win caw ene tennant te ean g IAEA TH
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Locations: — Won By
OTHER ELECTIONS LOST BY THE: 1UE- ci0.
= Felt and Tarrant , Chicago, I. - =
Perum: Co. s Bronx, N. Y.
Wayne, Dairy Equipment a® ~ Fe. Wayne, Ind:
General Cable 1. Rome,N.Y. .
SGHR Foundry : Dayton, Ohio
Globe Industries, . ' Dayton, Ohio.
Greenfield Tap & Die Greenfield, Mass:
Hoke, Inc, ‘ Englewood, N. je
H.P.L: % » Cleveland, Ohio
Hussman Refrigerator . St. Louis, Mo.
Ingersoll Rand 5 Phillipsburg, N. J.
Judson and Rose- Philadelphia, Pa.
Kurman Electric e * New York, Nv-Y:
Lewis Shepard . ‘ Watertown, Mass. |
Lewis:Engineering , oi Alliance, Ohid
Line Material. Zanesville, Ohio
Llayd Scruggs : St. Louis, Mo,
Mcier Electric & Machine - Indianapolis, Tad,
_ Merrow Machine Hartford, Conn;
Mica Instlator : “Schencetady, N.Y,
Minneapolis-Maline ae es New Brighton, Minn.
Minncapolis-Moline ‘(Machine Shop) "Moline, Th
Monro@' Calculator : “Orange, N. J.
_ . Monroe Calculator ° . Morristown, Nv J.
: eastern Engineering : “Detroit, Mich.
i ; Linden, N, J.
Penn Furnace > Wirren, Pa.
Picker X-Ray . Cleveland,. Ohie
Price Bros, Dayton, Ohio
RCA” = “ Hollywood, Cal.
RCA _ Ganonshurzh, Pa
Reliance Electric and Env, (Toolroom) - Cleveland, Ohio,
JAM--AFL
Retail Clerks—AFL
UE
UE
UE
No union
No union
UE
No union
IBEW—AFL
IAM—AFL
‘ UE :
No union
UE
_ UE:
TAM—AFL
1AM--AFL
UE
UE
No union
No union
UE
UE
~ Hod Carriers—-AFL
IBEW~AFL
IBEW—AFL
[AM--AFL
Issued by UE Local 301
June 1, 1954
Your UE National Negotiating Committee meets with GE raed on the coinipany! S$ most recent offer.
Fs
GE’s “nickel package” falls far short of the needs of th the people,
“in- view of the corhpany’s profits, miserly,
8 ;
There is nothing in the company offer for day workers, skilled workers,
women ... nothing to end wage. (lifferentials between plants... nothing
for the pensioners i. nothing to improve provisions for the sick and injured.
C). The company, obviously taking aitenitage of the IUE- CIO raid, has
A “nickel” for GE workers | is inadequate and,
If settlement: is uot re: hed hy June], 195-
or June Poof any subsequent year, this Ni iliimal
Agreement shall continue in full Hare and effect
made the worst offer in years, The Jandreau group called it “Sthe best offer © until the tenth day following written notice”
" given by either the Company or the Union af’
in five years” (Union-Star, May 24). TUE-CIO President Carey~said it was its intention to terminite such Agreement,
the worst in three years and “far below the GE pattern” (N.Y. Times, May 25). _ .
Remington Rand , N. Tonawanda, N.Y. UE
Remington Rand Pittsburgh, Pa. . No union
Robco Mfg. : * New York, Ni Yue . UE
Rockwell, Mfx. ‘Tupelo, Miss. ; No union
Rockwell Mfg; a Tupelo, Miss. : F No union -
Savaze Arms Utiex, N.Y. . No union
Shaw and Estes Garland, ee aad No union,
J. Sklar Woodside, . UE
Sonotone White Pisin, N Xi : . UE
Square D a oDetroit, Mich, F UE
* Standard Register Dayton, Ohio . TAM—AFL
Standard Reyister Dayton, Ohio IBEW—AFL
Standard Register: (Maintenance ) “Dayton, Ohio IAM—AFL
Standard Rewiste slders y Dayton, Ohio IAM—AFL
: Dayton, Ohio : TAM—AFL
Standard Register (Plumbers) Dayton, Ohio ; IAM—AFL
Standard Register. (Firemen) Dayton, Ohio , IAM—AFL
a day-to-day basis and is subject to cancellation on 10 days notice from either
Standard Rewister (Painters) Dayton, Ohio IAM—AFL ”
Standard Tool | Orange, N. Je - No union
the company or the IUE-CIO ruling clique.
Stupakoff Ceramic hatrobe, Pa. UE “4
' Ge a
‘Tinius Olsen Philadelphia, Pa, UE ‘ ; a : | ‘
Telex, Inc. St. Paul, Minn, IAM—AFL
Union Switch and Signal Wilmerding, Pa. . UE
United Scientific Lab . New York, N.Y, UE ;
ee nae Tee ass. TEN REL. a | fate protections. This UE contract, the acknowledged leader in the GE chain, runs to April 1955.
Wanner Electri¢ St. Louis, Ma, TAM—AEL a ;
Waterman Waterbury Minneapolis, Mina, : UE
Wayne Tron. Works. Wayne, Pa. ‘ No union
Weher Dental Canton, Ohio : UE
Weideman Philadelphia, Pa, Ei
Wathnhause Airbrake- Witmentiae se UE UE contract. We know from recent experience in Turbine and other: divisions that golf unity wins.
Wheeler Reflector Co. Hanson, Mass IBEW—AFL frat . : co
Whirlpool St. Joseph, h, UE : F : . " : ,
Worthington Pump Holyoke, Miss. UE k :
Rudolph Wurlitzer (Salaried) N. ‘Vonawanda, N.Y. No unton
The above section of the IUE-CIO agree-
ment with GE (Article. XXV, Section’ B,
Page 58) shows that as of TODAY, GE
workers in IUE-CIO shops are working
ona 10-day contract, which the company
can cancel at any time. This is in com-
‘parison with the UE contract, far supe-
rior to begin with, which runs to April, 1955.
This is another example of the way the Carey-Jandreau clique plays
politics with. the interests of GE workers in Schenectady. Carey and Jandreau
are also hiding the fact that after June 1, 1954 the IUE-CIO contract goes on
The alternative for Schenectady GE workers is to hold fast to the UE contract with its genuine plantwide seniority and piece
We need the highest. possible degree of unity in the plant to ) force the company to make the mesessary! improvements in the
All GE workers would gain improved contract benefits if the [UE-CIO leadership would
. . . . quit playing politics with the needs of the workers and agree to a mecting of the national UE
300,000 workers are. united in UE, a democratic, rank and file union.
UE signed the first_contract with GE. UE brought union conditions to GE
workers. Defend your job. Defend your UE plantwide seniority. Keep |
the best union contract in GE.
and IUE-C1O Conference Boards of GE to map a common program. The IUE-CIO raidefs would:
be doing their ‘out of town membership a service if they called off their hopeless raid, withdrew
: Re na re their illegal petition and permitted Schenectady workers to unite to win a better national offer
- Mee) feo {from GE and to beat back the company’s attacks on sertiarity rates and conditions.
vote UE LOcAL 301 7 L : : : ce
UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO AND MACHINE WORKERS OF AMERICA (UE} © 201!/, BROADWAY, SCHENECTADY, N. Y.
Pees 7 ar gains of 17 years, and united action nationally to win improvements in-the ‘company’s alfa
me ‘ “ghee :
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The interests of every GE worker require unity in the Schenectady plant to’ protect the.
