—-30r Spring Dance
Big Success .
Last Saturday’s big spring dance
at ‘the. Edison Club in Kexford-
‘proved to be one of the most suc-
cessful social affairs run by UE ge",
801 in recent. years.
« he several * hundred persons
who attended, including ‘the many
guests from’ the Mica Insulator
Co., enjoyed the event, reflecting
_the upswing of the union's*activi-
‘ties, which’ has: been, much in evi-
‘dence since ‘the, IUE-CIO raids
were gotten out of the way last
fall. ;
Some idea of the’size and hu-
mor of. the crowd. can’ be ‘gotten
- front? the’ pictire of the. dance:
floor.on the left which was taken
at the height of the festivities.
Workers at: the Mica Insulator Co. Plant will have an opportunity to. make UE their
bargaining agent in an NLRB election on Friday,June 27. ;
The date of the balloting was set inam veeting between union representatives, company
officials and the NLRB on Mon-
day. UE filed for the election —
a week carlier after receiving
ecards asking that. it be designated
their bargaining agent from a ma-
jority of the company's employ-
General Cable Strike “ UE Local 301 has thrown its
in Second Week full support behind the Mica
workers’ efforts to enjoy the
- ’ benefits 6f genuine unionism
Cl Local 881 members in Rome g
continued their picket line battle
for the first time, View Presi-
dent. Roy Schaffer has been
against attempts uf the General : vo : ‘
Cable Corp. to destroy their wage assivned full-time to work
‘ble Corp. ta destroy ay Wages . .
rue, a 1 with the Mica local and UE
and union conditions this week us . ‘ :
. —- -" organizers, Many other execu-
negotiations were broken off hy . ‘ :
5 A tive board’ members, stewards,
the company for the second time.
The 2,000 workers, 1,300 in Rome
and officers have’ been visit-
und the: remainder in two Califor-
ing homes of Mica workers
. : urging them to vote UE.
hin plants of the company, wound R.
up the secand week of the walk-
After filing the cards and pe-
out which resulted trom company — titioning for un NLRB vote, UE
ntLempts to farce GO cuts in wages pressed for x quick election. It
and contract conditions, was this pressure which was 1e-
The unity. and militancy of the sponsible for the setting of a vot-
strikers forced the company to re- ing day this month. With the bal-
turn briefly to the negotiating lating only ‘twa ‘Wools ‘olf, all UE
tuble ut’ iL soon became clear Local 801 members have been ureg-
that the management still wasn’t tl to speak to their friends among”
prepared’ to bargain in good faith the Mica workers about the advan-
and the tuks broke down, tages of UE membership.
UE Lotal 80L has voted full Also on the ballot will be the
support for the Cable strikers.
“Boeave oo In reward Jor 35 years of faithful service
the eas pty hus suggeated Prefer to you ga QBs
feom now uns
UE Oren anizer
ek .
GOOD NEWS.
Joseph Infante, left, tells Mies
workers who ‘allended NLRB
hearing last Monday at the
Hotel Van Curler the pood news
that their six month organizing
sampaign has come to a climax
with a date set for an seetion—
Friday, June 2
FEP Committee Action Wins
Upgrading for Negro Worker
When Ed Gibbons was hired by GE some months ago the company
was putting on many welders, but Gibbons, a Negro worker, could only
get work as a porter. , :
He had an excellent educational stalled bug wis
background, including full training finally wired down and cee
fe ne p tarts
in welding school,.and a top cler- give Gibbons the job he deser
jenl background in the Navy. But on the basis of his skills. This
whenever ‘Gibbons went to- the week Ed Gibbons is. working us a
minagement, he got a run-around, welder in Turbine.
He decided to take his case to the This break-through against GH
- UELoeal 801..Fair- Employment - discrimination ..was-. reported...to..
Practices: Committee which went Monday’s executive board meeting
to work on the case, by FEP chairman Floyd Thomas.
JU-CIO: and a company union.
The IUE-C1O has been all but
invisible at Mien and their ap-
pearance on the ballot | is regarded
“as” merely “an attempt to split umn-
ion forces and produce aNo Un-
ion” vote, .
Pocketbook, Pinch /
Federal direct) taxes’ have in-
Vereased from ani average of" 267
cents a week per worker's family
ih 1989 to a0 au’ weelk in 1961,
4 © Friday, June 13,1952 ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
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v SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK.
Friday, June 20, 1952
;
Detroit 14 cent hourly
wage inérease and improved vaca-
tions was wot by UE Local 947°
from five electrical’ repair | firms.
The local also won a four cent
hourly increase and classification
raises 6f up to 12 cents; plus many
fiinge benefits, from the Square D
This victory followed
‘the complete fizzle ‘of an TUI-CIO
raid Which erided when seven IUE-
CIO: staff members ‘nddressed a
“mass”
workers. ‘
rr a ae
Sheboygan, Wis.—The CIO auto
workers climaxed 19 years: of or-
ganizing efforts at the Kohler san-
itary fixtures plant by winning an
“NLRB. representation election
there. The UAW-CIO deefated a
_ company union and the UAW-AFL.
kek ok Ok
< ppospenut Ohio—An attempt: by
a ‘anagement of the Base Works of
the. GE Lamp Division. to speed up
maintenance work so that two men
would-be foreed to handle the work
of five was beaten down by. UE
Local 731. The union called a pro-
test meeting during working hours,
Just before the meeting was sehed-
uled to begin, GM manarement an-
nounced it was abandoning the
sneedup scheme as “too hasty” and
Hh advised.”
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New York—A 15 cent hourly
cost-of-living wage boost will go
into effect in Aug. 1 for 100,000
members of the AFL New York
Building and Construetion Trades
Council. yk ok
Allentown, Pa,—GE management
attempts to intimidate “UIE Local
128 by suspending two of its lead-
ers have been slapped down by an
arbitrator’s decision. The arbi-
trator ovdered the two, the local
president and chief shop steward,
reinstated with full back pay and
complete rights. They had been
suspended by-GE for taking part
prsetinns protesting piece work
Their suspension brought
militant action from the
membership, including oa
week strike: ,
ek ok OF
“San Franciseo—More tha'$0,000
AFL carpenters in Northern and ~
Central California ‘ended a two-
month strike after winning a 21
cent hourly wage increase.
three
meeting of six Square D
_ time for four weeks
union .
Syracuse UE Conference Maps
Women’ S
Pay Equal
ity
Seventy-five men and women from throughout upstate New York got together in Syr a-
cuse on ‘Fathers’ Day.to do something for mothers and for millions of other working women
throughout the United States, In a. Women’s Cen erence called by UE District Three, a 12-point
S37
FOR FULL EQUALITY.
Seviensies raat
ATRL yates
The Contniuations Commumiltee of the Syracuse
Women’s Conference’ makes plans for bringing complete equality of
pay to upstate women workers.
Joyee Minshall,
Local 304;
Seated are Secretary Mary Pidanick,
UB Local 308 and Chairman Helen Quirini, Loeal 301,
Local 832; Norma Mazer, Local 311;
and Leonore James, Local 331.
Standing are
-auline Marth,
Turbine Overtime Balk
- Improves Vacation Pay
United action by thousands in Turbine this week forced
-GE to abandon attempts to foree UE Local 301 members to
accept vacation benefits below those provided last year.
The Building 273 workers unani-
mously refused to work any over-
after top su-
pervision tried to provide vacation>
payments: bused on a period dur-
ing whieh there had been compiara-
tively few overtime hours ivorked.
A Miy mass meeting decided on
the “no overtime” policy and for
a month every worker in the huge
Turbine building adhered to it.
Finally management agreed to
base vacations on a full year end-
ing Mareh 29, 1952. This will re-
sult in high vacation pay for al-
most all workers in the’ building.
Turbine workers agreed. to accept
the’ company proposal in a mass
meeting Wednesday, F
The Building 273° situation” las
reenforeed UE Local 801’s deter-
mination to obtain better vacation
guarantees in the fortheoming con-
tract modification negotiations,
Win Washup Pact
After Stoppage
Building 60 workers: won free-
dom from supervision harrassment
on washup time this week alter the
situation had become so bad that.
they were forced to stup work and
walk out.
Top supervision agreed: to union
demands that foremen should stop
acting as “watehdogs” and jump-
ing workers they allewed were tak-
ing: “too much tine’ for washing
up. The agreement was reached
Wednesday alter a stoppage orig
Jonting in-Serew. Machine Tuesday...
morning had spread throughout the
building.
This stoppage
in the building.
affected all shifts
program to. end discrimination in
pay and.other hardships foreed on.
working women was .drawn up.
Ernest Thompson, secretary of the
UE National Fair Practice Com-
mittee, declared the program could
be put into practice this:year.
The-conferece was Addressed by
Edith Thirner, senior economist of
the New York State Depar tment of —
Labor,
Local 301) was represented
at the conference by 27 women,
who went to Syracuse “in a
Special chartered bus ‘whieh
Iso. transported ‘delegations
from: the Mieas Insulator Co.’
and from the GE
Fort * Edward and
Falls. | Local 301 treasurer
Helen, ‘Quirini was elected
chairman of the conference,
while Mary DPidanick, Local
308, North Tonawanda ,N.'Y.,
was named as seeretary.
These tivo women were named to
serve on a Ul ‘national committee
-towethet “with delegates elected
from all other Ul districts. This
committee will report to the unton’s
National convention in Cleveland
next September.
Another spokeswoman for
the 301 delegation, executive
board member Sadie lovinella,
told the conference of this lo-
eal’s campaign to end pay dis-
crimination against women,
She drew loud applause when
she told of the May 7 plant
gate demonstrations hy GE
‘women and about the rest: of
the 301 campaign,’ ineluding
the three weeks of daily radio
broacasts sponsored by the
union.
Continued en page 2
\. a:
plants in
Hudson
- Ellis Speaks Sunday
UE Local 301 member Ray-
mond 'T. Ellis of Building 27
has aceepted an invitation to
addr the New England Skill-,
ed Crafts conferenée tobe held
Sunday, in Boston,
Ellis will report on the con.
ference of upstate craftsmen
held in Syracuse on May 25.
uns
Raniatenac ce cee
Unity InRome
Cable Strike
The strike of UE Local 3831
aguinst the General Cable Co. plant
_in. Rome continued solid this week
despite. company attempts to throw
‘an anti-picketing injunction at the
1,200 workers. Complete labor un-
ity was achieved as,the office force,
members of the independent Me-
chanics I[ducational Society of Am-
erica respected UIs. picket lines.
ULE leaders were forced to go to
Syracuse on Monday to‘ reply to
company demands. for an injunction
which would have, prohibited mass
picketing: ‘With 150 UWE. members
who had made the 45 milé trip
from Rome present, State Supreme
Court Justice “McCluskey refused
to issue an injunction. However, he
scheduled a second’ hearing in his
chambers: for Friday afternoon, -
With the strike winding up its
third week, community support for
the ‘workers has heen. increasing
steadily, Many .of Rome’s mer.
chants and professional people have
signed statements of support for
the UN, stressing that the con-
pany’s. position has deprived. the |
communityof important. putchas-
ing. power. .
Similar unity was reported: at
two struck General Cable plants in
California. . oF
The strike started when the com-
pany sought to end almost all un-
ion conditions.and benefits.
dadas your new foreman bt want,yau boys to
tuok upon meas your fairy godfather
Craftsmen To.See
Director Of WSB
Representatives of upstate
evaftsmen will meet. next Tuesday
swith Arthur White, New York Reg- ~
ional Director of the Wage Stabili-
zation Board to press demands that
the WSB adopt the raise wage rec-
ommendations of its own skilled
trades panel.
Meeting with White will be Wii-
liam Templeton, UE Local 301, and
Fred Cacchione of Klinira, member
of the AFL muchinists, ‘They are
the chairman and secretary of the
continuations committee of. the
Syracuse crafts ‘conference, which
lust montlY set forth a program
headed. by the wage increase de-
mand, The conference brought to-
wether members of the CIO, AFL -
‘and independent unions.
Carey Finds Red Plot’,
Accuses GE Of Treason
IUE-CIO President. Jim Carey’s desperation because
workers across the country continue to vote UE reached new
Prepare Proposals
To Alter Contract
“ With the contract termination
date passed without GE taking ‘any
action, UIE Local 301 begun prepar-
utions this. week to d “aw up a list
of proposed | modifications to the’
present agreement.
This list will be submitted by the
loenl. to the Ul National GE Con-
ference, Board along with the rec-
ommendations of other
ference board. will then formulite
contract proposals for approval by
the locals. UIE Local 301 is repre-
.sented on the bourd by President
James Copnetta, Executive Board
member Fred Pacelli and Business
Agent Leo Jandreau. .
A notice that UL intends-to-seek
changes in the contract must be
submitted to the company between
July 15 and August 15.. Negotia-
tions will begin not more than 15
‘days. alter the serving .of this no-
tice. ;
If no, agreeement is reached the
union will have the right to take
strike action if it is voted by the’
membership through a secret bal-
lot.
locals °
throughout the country. The con-
depths of ridiculousness last week when he accused GE and
other huge corporations of “som
thing very close to treason” f
bargaining with the union their
employees choose. ’ ;
Carey’s latest rantings burst out
in a. Senate committee hearing.
GE Vice ‘President L. R. Boulware,
himself an expert red baiter, snap-
ped back at Carey with an asser-
tion that “if there were any truth
to these reckless and false charg-
es,” then Carey would “long ago
have prosecuted unfair labor charg-
es against the companies.”
Boulware then came to a con-
clusion “reached by UE long ago.
He declared that “Carey is far less
interested in eliminating. Comihun-
“ists from. the electrical industry
than he is in promoting the wel-
fare of the IUE and himself.”
No Freeze Here
Wholesale potato’ prices soared
us much as. fou cents a pound
within .24 hours .of the’ govern-
ment’s action recently in removing
ceilings on spuds. The decontrol
followed on the heels of the mug’)
cial potato shortage. ~The pride”
_ boost brought no‘velaxation in the
Wage freeze,
Thousands of grievances are handled by UE Local 3U1
Bldg. 5¢ “A group of workers is
demanding the end of the unequal
distribution of overtime by fore.
‘nan Panezner and demands fulr
trentment for all in acevordance
with the contract.
Bldg. 10C: Oliver Coyne, 2 tool
crib attendant, is being eliminated
for Saturday overtime work al-
though 10 or 1f men are working
in the group on Saturdays. “Phe
sroup leader is being used to issue
tools. The union regards this. as
plain discrimination’ and demands
that Coyne be ealled in on Satur-
days whenever his group works.
Bldg. 16: A group of. packers
has ‘been losing time beeause of
Ineck of work over a considerable
period and demands necessary re-
dluetions In foree. ,
Bldy. 28: Kenneth Girard de-
mands job rate as Class C inspect-
or since he {ts giving normal. per-
formance in, this job.
Bldg. 29: Mica tape group, which
hus been losing considerable time
in the past two months due to lack
of work, demands needed reduction
in Toree, :
Bldg. 40: Perey Everett has 22
years’ service with the company
cand abort a -year-apo requested: wv:
transfer from 2nd to Ist shift.
Since then several openings have
2 © Friday, June 20, 1952
each year at all levels from the steward up to final_appeal
in New York City. To keep members posted, we shall
each week list some of the grievances that have not been
settled at the steward-foreman level and have been ve
ferred to the executive board-management level.
neen filled on day shift by new
workers while Everett. has been by-
passed. He therefore demands a
transfer when the first opening is
available, -
A group of boring mill operators
working under foremen Miller and
Partington demand. adjustment of .
operation on Stator frames, which
now have a 1.01 timing rate, to
place it on a par avith re-bores,
which have a 1.11 timing rate. The
group now holds both classifiea-
tions.
Bldg. 46:
mands chirification of his plece
price which has been underrated at
81.17 THe has already sought such
clarification from his foreman but
alter several weeks no. price has
been established,
Michel Baaziluk, after 10 years
as a profiler and duplicator, de-
mands A classification. He has re-
quested this rating from at least
six foremen for whom he has
worked, and each has agreed that
his work is entirely satisfactory
and that he deserves the A.classifi-
vation, but nothing has been done
nbout it,
CyChambers, Gear Shift Assem-
~blyycoriginally was vecelving “:135
on his job which he had checked be-
sause of the inadequate pricing.
Henry Bagnolf de-
The new. check showed the price
came’ out to .20 standard but the
next time the job was .run the
vouchers were marked .10, stand-
avd. Foreman Hartman refused to
correct the price after being con-
tucted by steward. The job was
then moved to another floor where
there is a lathe group. This is a
clear violation of contract and ad-
justment is demanded.
T. S. Ovonowski worked on a job
whieh wns being developed and
which had a price of 53.18 includ-
ing change-overs, After 76 hours
on the job, during which it was not
completed, the foreman still had
not told the operator how he was
to be’ paid for piece work and in-
stead he has kept the entire group
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO & MACHINE
WORKERS OF AMERICA (UE) :
local 301
ae
Published by the Editorial Committue
Ass't Recording Secretary....Frank D'Amico
Treasurar --Helen Quirini
Vica-Presidont ......-..-...-Roy Schaffer
Recording Sccretary.....-..-Rudy Rissland
' Prestdent...-....- lames J, Cognetta
Chief. Shop Steward William .Mastrlani
Business Agont ~-..-beo Jandreau
301 LIBERTY ST. SCHENECTADY 5, N. ¥
senio
in a state of confusion,
Management investigation of this
unsound‘ condition is demanded.
_A. Baldigo worked on a job for
30 and 32 hours during one week.
For this he was paid 12 hours piece
Work and five hour P.W.D.W,, leav-
ing’a balance of at least 13 hours
for which there was no price ad-’
Justment, The foreman forces op-
crators to start jobs without any
price. Full adjustment in this case
and a complete end of the practice
of issuing lathe jobs without first
establishing prices are demanded.
Bldg. 50: James N. Sande, a
Clauss B checker, was transferred
_due to lack of work.’ Less than
three weeks later a worker in an-
other group was upgraded from
battery truck operator. to Class’ B
-vhecker, while Sande was not ap-
proached to fll the job, This is a
clear case of discrimination. and
rectification ts demanded.
Bldg. 60: The Cataract group
feel that their work rates an A
classification and demands it ‘be
Biven this with an adjustment. in
rate, . e
Class C inspection group feg*
that their work is 75 per cent) ;
inspection and demands reclassifiz
cation with proper rate adjustment.
Bldg. 81: Group of D testers de-
mand an end to the improper up-
grading procedures under which
iovity is not being considered as
“A nuniber of qualified
men have not received. upgrading
as a result,
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
A full:
CLEANING UP
Men and wo-
men from The
Mica Insula-
tor Co. work
out the final
details for the
last week , of
CH drive
which will,
bring them
“UE = represen-
tion An
NLRB elee-
tion is set for
onext Friday. -
.@ GE Works News
® Boulware's Newsletter
ive ways to a Happy New
Year in Employee Relations” was
the heading on the year’s first
GE News Letter. The ways were:
“Let’s do right—promptly and
voluntarily—as to the pay, bene-
fits and working conditions of. our
employees.” :
In practice—GE has refused to
offer more than- one percent. in
wage ‘increases. ‘ :
“Let’s, better our already out-
standing accomplishment in job
Security.” | ——
C In. practice—Heavy layoffs in
—firie, Tiffin, Newark, Scranton,
Alentown, Ft. Wayne, DeKalb,
Taunton and lots more.
“Let’s really put human consid-
eration first—so as to provide
spiritual, as well as material re-
wards ... prove this by: engag-
ing in genuine two-way communi-
eation with employees about mu-
tual problems and plans... .”
In pfactice—Stalling oni griev-
ances; heaviest speed-up in GEE
history; continued refusal to raise
rates of skilled women workers
to the common labor rate paid un-
skilled men.
“Let’s learn the arithmetic of
our better way of life...” :
That must mean higher corpor-
ation profits, more layoffs for
workers, declining living stand-
ards for labor. On this, GE has
done well.
“Let’s take these activities out
into our communities.”
GE has done well here, too. It
has campaigned for lower taxes
for the rich which means heavier
taxes for the poor,. for denying
‘shor the right to choose its own
Chins it is a front-runner in the
corporation attack on the steel-
workers who are only trying ‘to
get what other workers, includ-
ing UE, won long ago.
.. Boulware’s. new... year .. resolu-
tions are proving to be two-fifths
bunk and three-fifths hypocrisy.
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
Pensioners In D.C.
. President Albert Vanderzee
and Secretary Fred) Helmboldt
of the UE Local 301 Pensioners’
Club visited Washington this
week to press for passage of im-
proved social security legisla-
lion, ~~ . :
Vanderzee and Helmboldt per-
sonally spoke to several. mem-
hers of Congress to urge them
to support. pending legislation
to increase assistance to retired
workers. ‘
Map Women's Wage .
Fight At Conference —
Continued from Page 1
Speaking on behalf of the na-
tional UE, Thompson reported
great progress in the fight against
sex discrimination throughout the
union.
Thompson also tied the question
of discrimination against women
workers with discrimination against
Negro workers.
The Fair - Practices Committee
secretary said the problem of plants
running away to the South, as Gi
is now doing with the result of
7,500 layoffs in-thé Erie Works,
would be licked if these two forms
‘of discriinination were fought by
all unions.
The conference. also voted to
have have the District: Three Coun-
cil’ set another date for a second
women’s conference, this one to be
held in Schenectady.
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Ives Takes Leadership -
Of Anti-Labor Forces
_Sen. Irving Ives stepped up into the leadership of the
anti-labor bloc in Congress this week with a proposal to vir-
tually end labor participation: and influence on the Wage
Stabilization Board.
The Ives proposal. came in the
form of an amendment to the bill
to extend the wage freeze Defense
Production Act which is due to ex-
pire at the end of this month. The
extension passed the Senate 52 to
i8,
The action by the New York Sen-
ator was of particular interest to
UE Local 801 because Ives told a
dozen UE members attending the
april Buffalo Wage Conference that
he was opposed to extending the
wage freeze, and, in fact, opposed
to all controls. Ives later reneged
on his assertion in a letter to Jim”
Carey which amounted to nothing
more than an IUE-CIO leaflet
written on a U. S. Senate letter-
head,
‘The Ives amendment would give
the politicians. full control over la-
bor representation on the WSB by
requiring Senate confirmation of
members of the Board. It would
also remove. from WSB authority
to even.make recommendations on
the -union shop and other “non-
economic” issues. This has been
a goal of the big corporations ever
since: the WSB recommended a:un-
“ion shop*and wage increases for
the CIO steclworkers.
Ives’ lineup with the Big Busi-
ness bloc was further proof that
his word, as given to 12 UE mem-
bers, was completely meaningless
and that his only ‘standard of hon-
esty was political expediency..
Despite the Senate action ‘in ap-
proving extension of the wage
{freeze and failing to vote any real
controls over prices ar profits, the
fight against continuation of the
Defense Production Act went ons
The House of Representatives still
has to act on the wage freeze law
and UE is urging all of its mem-
bers to wire their congressmen de-
manding they vote against extend-
ing the controls measure.
rolled up their sleeves this week
ployees, will be held next Friday.
agent, «
- Mica Workers Hit Homestretch
Workers at the Miea Insulator Co. backed by UE Local 301, -
paign which will bring. them into UE. 7 ‘
An NLRB election to decide who will represent the Miea em.
lowing a UE petition filed when the majority of Mica workers
had signed cards asking designation of UE as their bargaining
Many 301 members have joined Mica employees in visiting
other workers and urging them to vote UE,
greater turnout, would be an important assuranee of vietory and
all GE workers with friends working at Miea are urged to talk to
- them about the benefits of UE membership. 7° .
/"“Also“on. the ballot ‘are the LUK-CIO and a company anion
which formerly “represented” the workers. -
foc the home stretch of. a cam-
The: election was scheduled fol-
However, an even
_it costs the
End ‘301’ Broadcasts
With Cognetta Talk
The UE Local 801 series of daily
radio broadcasts over station
WPTR finished last Friday” after
three weeks during which 16 GE
workers told the people of the Cap-
ital district. about the “problems ~
arising ont of pay discrimination
against women.
The final broadcast featured the
appearance’.of Local President
James Cognetta and recordings of
Cognetta’s statements to the May
7 women’s demonstration by GE
workers in Schenectady.
Cognetta reported on the pro-
gress already made in cutting
down .wage differentials between
men und women workers, He re-
lated,"a series of shop grievance .-.
victories bringing women’s pay up,.
but emphasized that any practice:
as deeply rooted as the “pay the
women less” racket could not. be
torn up by shop action alone. *
The 3801 president asserted that
aining equal pay for equal work
regardless of sex was one of the ;
chief goals of UE in its forthcom-
ing national negotiations with GEL.
He urged full community support
for Uk’s campaign stressing that
everybody suffered from the ef-
fects of the discrimination against
women.
The union leader noted that the
purchasing power and well-being
of the community was greatly dam-
aged when women were paid low
wages, especially with so many
Women supporting families on en-
tirely inadequate wages.
“We decided to go on the air
with these ‘programs because a. lot
of people don’t realize how bad
this exploitation is, and how much
whole community,”
Cognetta said. .
Other 301 members who went on
the air during the broadcast series
were Mary Daugherty, Helen Quir-
ini, Mary Serotski, Mary Nuzzaco,
Ethel Furman, Hariet Attendorn,
Alice Crowningshield, Helen Nich-
ols, Elsa Ferguson, Mary. Bartlette,
Bob Northrop, Regina Sikorski,
Rachel Stanton, Frances Kopaki
and Marion Smith.
The Bite Gets Bigger
A factory worker's federal taxes,
not counting hidden, state and local
. taxes, rose. from.17..percent. of his...
weekly income in 1949 to 22.2 per-
cent at the end of 1961.
Friday, June 20, 1952 ©
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