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The Voice of GE Workers, Local 301, Schenectady, No Vije ars . April 16, 1954
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TUE-CIO now represents more than | 00,000 employees of the General Elee-
iric Company! . . .
This was disclosed today by Business Agent Leo 301 disaflitiated from UE. This report disclosed that
Jandreau who announced that he had received this. siice that. time IUE-CIO has scored almost a dozén
up-to-date figure on IUE-CIO strength in GE tn a-- victories in clections against the UE, the IAM and
_ letter from. James B. Garey, President of IUE-CIO, hon-union companies, : .
Carey’s letter was. a report on IUE-CIO. or- _. Lhe account of these victories as contained in
o\ganizing victories since’ March ‘15, the date.Local President Carey’s letter follows:
, 2 ge ES ; - . “2. Since March 15, three UE
i REE Shasta RARER IIIS units in GE have moved into
IUE-CLO. One of these, GE in
Bloomfield, N. J., has 1,400 em-
_— oS >
So [ ‘] a V 0) te AY h a | ; Z 4 i } : ; ployees. Other GE shops that
‘ have voted to affiliate with TUR.
Local 301 members are behind the move to unite GE work- Pe fon GH Wins
wad
ers .in IUE-CIO as they have never been behind any major action f in Cleveland.
of Local. 301 im its entire history. “2. NLRB certifications since
March 15 have given IUE-CIO
So solid is this support that all indications point to a vic-f 1. locals at Vickers of Detroit,
tory with better than 90% of the plant voting for HUE-CIO.. = f= Mich. (where IUE-CIO defeated
‘Sa Lose i UE 1,105 to 754); Underwood
. Typewriter of Bridgeport, Conn.,
That was the conclusion of the entire
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Local 301 Executive Board at its regular According to all the reports, the response
meeting Monday night. With the entire
Board present, the Board Members gave
a complete report of the feeling in the
plant." .
Every Board Member indicated that
his department would be behind the move
by 90 to 9596.
The Board also reported on UE.
That outtit is so weak and so repudi-
ated. throughout the shop that it will.
actually pet less “votes than LAM! The
} Board members: estimated: that the maxi-
Tauny number. o
about hen 9
f votes: UE will get will be
_ The EAM,: it was agreed, is good for
about 6%; No more!
This is not only the feeling of the Ex...
ecutive Board, Alniost every Board Mem-
ber brought along a key leader from a
~ Key section’ in his area to provide an ad-
ditional report, They, too, agreed that
the vate for, IUE-CIO “will be approxi. .
mately $0¢
is terrific.
This is the logical end for a. decision.
that was solid in the beginning: First.
the Officers endorsed: it unanimously.
Then the Executive Board considered: it
and the vote in favor saw 37 out of 38.4
Board Members recommending the move,
Then the Shop Stewards considered it
and they voted by better than 90% in §
favor of joining IUE-CIO,
After’ that more. than 12,000 members
signed petitions endorsing it and voted
in favor of it at mectings in: the: plant.
The climax came when. the regular mem-
bership meetings confirmed those earlier
decisions in one mighty voice. , :
_ The next ‘stop is the election,
~When. ‘that: is “held and- the: yote” is
equally overwhélming. for IUE-CIO, Sche-
nectady. Gi Workers. can reap the fruits #
of the: victory... The harvest. will be in
negotiations when, our’ Union sits down
weross .fvom Boulware’ and ‘speaks for
nore than. 100;000.¢ CAWOLKERS eo =
(where IUE-CIO defeated
IAM); Remington Rand of San
__. Francisco-(which was previously
‘ unorganized);’Montague Rod &
Reel of Greenfield, Mass.; (pre-
viously unorganized) ; Sperry
Gyroscope Company of Mont-
real, Canada, ( previously unor-
ganized) ; and R. P. Mallory Co.,
of Frankfort, Ind. (previously
unorganized.)
“With the recent addition of the
large Bioomficld focal and the two
smaller units, IUE-CIO now rep-
resents beyond any question more
than 100,000 GE workers.”
In closing, Carey wrote: :
“ZT regret that your efforts are made '
omore difficult and that the Schenec-
tady-'situation: has-been: coniplicated” **
“ by “headline hunters who’ seek to.”
muddy the waters with false and tr-
responsible statements. The cause of
unity is far too important to be con-
fused and: clouded by persons whose
inte do not lie with the welfare. -
‘of “the. workers in GE or in our in-
dustry.”
wes
7,600;
3,000;
Printed below is an up-to-date list o
Those plants give IUE-CIO.
_ The ten biggest IVE-CIO- plants’.
are: Schenectady . ... 20,000; Lynn :
Syracuse . . . 6,300; Philadelphia . . . 5,100; Cleveland
Louisville . . . 2,800; Tell City ...2,100.
While IUE-CIO represents more than }
than 50 plants, UE has only
in GE is less than.one-fourth of what TUE
Stren gth of | UE-CIO in GE
Result of Support in 55 Plants|
{IUE-CIO plants in the GE. chain.’
strength of more than 100,000 employces. |
alone now’ represent 78,000 GE workers. They
-.. 18,500; ‘Fort Wayne . . . 9,000; Pittsfield
a handful of workers left.
-CTO: bargains. for, The 55 TUE-
CIO Locals in the GE chain are:
| Bargaining
Session Set
For April 20
Bolstered by the additional
Strength of 20,000 Schenec-
dy .G kers, FUE-CIO..!1..
Te Oe IE OO ee Illinois
now moves into the’ Collec-
tive Bargaining table to make
GE come across and meet our
demands.. ; J
Today the IUE-CIO meets
in New York with GE officials
to discuss the question of GE’s
arbitrary firing of employees
who invoke the Fifth Amend-
ment before Congressional
Committees. (This was one of
the important points dis.
cussed by Carey in his. ovigin-
al exchange of lett with
Loeal 3801, whieh d--the
Way for unity in.G c
| Next Tuesday IUE-CiO op-
ens negotiations with GE by ”
presenting our demands for a
new. Contract. Heading’ the
list is a substantial general
wage increase. ve
True to the pledge for full
representation for our Local
in IUE-CIO, .a 301, representa~
tive will attend these negotia-
tions.” In,commenting on the
negotiations, Business. ‘Agent
“. Jandreau said: ~
“This year will be the first .:
time since. 1948. that a block.of
100,000 ‘GE workers have sat
down .across the: table from
_ Boulware. He won't like it, and
i know: he'll tight us_ just .as
«hard as ever. “Bui now he won't
“be able to spurn. our. demands
the way’ He has in the past. five
years, so we ought to be able
:, to -hammer-out some real Sains
for our ‘niembers
I. Alameda, Calif.
~ Anniston: Alabama
Auburn, New York
- Bridgeport, Conn.
(2 Locals)
Bridgeville, Pa.
Bueyrus, Ohio
Cambridge, Mass.
8. Charleston, W. Via.
Cleveland, Ohio
Clifton, Ned.
Coburg, Ontario .- .
Euclid, Ohio
Everett, Mass. ”
Fort: Wayne, Inde
Holyoke, Mass.
» Huntingburg, Ind.
Irvington, Nd.”
Johnstown, Pa.
Linton, Ind.
. Long Beach, Calif.
Long Island City, N.Y.
Los Angeles, Calif,
Louisville, Ky.
Lynn, Mass. ,
Milwaukee, Wis.
Montreal, Quebec
Lachine, Quebec
» New Kensington, Pa.
Newark, N. J.
New York, N.Y.
Oakland, Calif.
. Oakville, Ontario
Peterborough, Ontario
®. Philadelphia, Pa:
(2 Loeals)
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Pittsfield, Mass.
(2 Locals) °
Providence, R. 1.
Quebec. City, Quebec
» Schenectady, N.Y.
(Main Plant) .
Schenectady, N.Y,
“(Knolls 2)
Schenectady, Ni Y.
(Maqua)
Seattle. Wash.
Springfield, N. J, -
45. Syracuse, No YL > et
G.. Pell City. Andy oc. sce ef NE
- Toronto, \
Trenton, oN. J.
‘Ontario
Wabash, Ind, -
. Warren, Ohio
Waterford, N.Y.
ou vn, Ohio: :
00,000 GE Workers in more
.. . 3,600; Bridgeport .
‘
The total UE strength |
5 Petitions ©
in GE Shops
HUE-CIO now has five
petitions pending for NLRB
elections in GE plants.
They are:
1. Erie; Pa. =~ i
2. Bloomfield, N. J:
3. Newark, N. J.
4.” Cincinnati, 0
‘5. Schenectady
All are UE shops where
the members are sick and
tired of UE’s failure in the
past five years,
UE Enters Plea
Of Bankruptcy
The UE is so hard up it has
taken to “designating”’ cer-
tain GE workers as “Wxecu-
tive Board members of UE.”
This is unconstitutional, as.
UE knows. Also, it is not rec-
ognized by’ the company asa
proper basis for representa-
tion.
Still UE does it. It can’t do
anything else, what with ‘no
support in the shop!
You CAN HAVE ITh
| DON'T WANT iT?
Nothing For
GE Workers
In a leaflet issued this
week, LAM: exposed its com-
plete ignorance of GE.
It claimed to have support
in “seven departments.” Then
it proceeded to name the same
department five times. -This is
due to the fact that IAM isn’t
familiar with the way GE is
run anywhere.
“At the rate it is learning, it
will be another 20. years be-
fore IAM even knows: where
GE workers work.
In a desperate attempt to
make a dent in the united
front of GE workers, IAM is
also peddling outright lies.
Examples:
i. “Reasonable dues...
it says. But it does’ not
mention that you would
have to send $1.30 off to
the International. There-
fore, in order: to ‘maintain
‘the present rate of opera-
tions in Local 301, the
‘members would Have to. pay
at least $3.30. That would
mean an increase of at least
30¢ a month,
2. “Strike and Death Ben-
efits...” it says. But. it
fails to mention that the
maximum death benefit: is
$50 “after three years of
continuous ~~ membership”
and only $300 “after 20
years, of continuous mem-
bership.” That wouldn’t
even pay the cost of a de-
cent funeral! And as for
strike benefits, TAM can’t
show a single place where
its members ever collected.
3. “You elect officers...”
it says. The fact is, how-
ever, that IAM tells you
who you can elect and who
you can’t. That is because
the IAM Constitution is
rigged up by small craft
- units who dominate that
. outfit.
”
Big Deal -
Last Tuesday. morning
UE ealled'a. Stewards Meet-
ing. Tt was supposed: to be
wv big deal—Matles, coming
in, and all! an
Six “stewards”. showed
up out of the entire ‘plant.
One, of ‘them immediately
_Atenounced :
asked. Matles. if the UE
would change its Constitu-
tion to prevent Commin-
ists from holding office.
. Matles said “No”, .and
P then | ‘Were five!
UE.-atter: -he-}
‘TAM Can Do
a
— ;
g % d
or
UE Pollutes
‘Basic Ide -
_ In Local’ 301,” our Seniority
system was devéloped to protect
the Stewards: ‘from ‘the’, Com-
os pany. It Was riever- intended to
os
or
be used to protect Stewards
from the membership, - :
However, the outsiders are
so bankrupt that they are cor-
rupting this principle in an at-
tempt to win some sort of fol-
lowing in the shop...
_ That was the case.this week
in Industrial Control, Bldg. 69,
General Purpose. q
There is one UE supporter
in the entire department —
Frances Tallman. She is the
shortest-service person in the
‘gtoup.. A lay-off is séheduled.
and she is to be bumped. The
people in her department un-
animously petitioned to recall
her as a Steward.
d.claimed that Frances was
a UE steward. Then it in-
voked the super-seniority to .
protect her from the member-
ship!
ae
ey" ~\But suddenly UE popped up —
Cp. 4)
Frantic for Time,
UE Stalls Again:
UE is again trying to stall the
election.
Ina last minute appeal to
the HERB in Washingten, UR
Attcrney David Scribner ask-
ed that the Board “reonen all
NLRB hearings.”
- Seribner knows that
hearings lasted longer than
they should -have anyway.
But he also knows that UE-is
headed for one of the worst
shellackings in its entire his-
tory, and he is frantically
’ ‘fighting for time.
. Scribner begged the NLRB
to extend the deadline;for ap-
peals to.May 3. Tomorrow,
April 17, is the deadline for
appeals that was set when the
hearings ended, and that is a
week longer than it should
have been.
Local 301 is vigorously Op:
posing this additional ‘stall,
because more:- than. enough
time has already-been granted
UE and any additicnal delay
only plays further into. the
hands of the company. \
» As a result, Bldg. 69 ig in’ |
turmoil over this deliberate
disruption by UE. But UE is
sticking firm to its anti-union
position using Seniority to
protect a Steward from the
membership! ©
How bankrupt can you get?
Airport: The second shift
group. under Steward E. Bar-
anauskas demand equaliza-
tion of overtime according to
contract,
Bldg. 11: D, LaFountain is
classified as a Varnish. &
Compound Dip Operator, Al- ‘
\,
N.
F ent he has a full time job,
ervision is attempting to
assign to him work formerly
IUE-CIO LOCAL 301 .NEWS
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF LOCAL 301,
REPRESENTING ‘SCHENECTADY
clove GE WORKERS oo...
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» Published: by the Editorial Committue
Prusident. -James J. Cognetta
Vice Presidont.. ~-~Josoph ‘Alols
Treasurer --doseph Whitback
=-Miles Moon
Rudy. Rissland
am Masttani
Chizf Shop Steward.
inoss Agent...
VUibeRTY st, “sc
done in Bldg. 18. Union de-
mands this. situation be cor-
rected.
Bldg. 107: Bernard Dare in
Steward J. Christopher’s
group is regularly perform.
. ing the duties of Special La-
bor. Union demands proper
reclassification and rate ad-
- Justment,
Bldg. 273: Shop Steward I.
Sahr. protests the issuing of a
poor progress report for work
not performed by the individ-
--lal. involved... Union: demands -
record be corrected,
Bldg. 68:' Group under
‘Steward H. Hall demand in-
the
301 Keeps
Building Up
its Record |
In spite ofthe advantages:
the company is taking of UE’s
stalling and confusion, Local
301 is staying on the job and
continuing to win for the peo-
ple. And—although it means
working twice as hard to
make up for the UE disrup-
tion—Local ‘301 is maintain-
ing its successful record of
‘the past.
Treasurer Joe Whitbeck is
working full-time on the
Placement’ Committee. He
cites the following cases as
examples of the way Local
' 801 is continuing. to build on
its record of winning for GE
workers: ee
Fred Maxwell, Bldg. 273,
offered only Common Labor,
placed on chipping job.
Helen Kasper, Bldg. 269,
offered nothing in Division
and only a Punch Press job-
by Bldg. 1.: Placed satisfac-
torily in Office Cleaning Dept.
Frank Bruo, Bldg. 29, over
25 years service, offered only
piece work jobs, wanted day
work.. Placed on day work
job in Bldg. 53.
Edward Berhaupt, Bldg. 84,
offered nothing in Division or
by Bldg. 1. Placed on job in
Division.
Mary Zaccaro, Bldg, 2,
short service, offered nothing.
Placed on part time cleaning
job.
M. Baringer, Bldg. 10-C, no*
offers, placed on job in Office
Service Dept.
Raymond Peacock, Bldg.
4, received notice of layoff
and offered..job at 24c cut.
Layoff rescinded.
«. Kdith Morinelli, Bldg. 269,
received notice of layoff—lay-
off rescinded.
Grace VanDenburgh. Bldg.
269, received notice of layoff
—layoff rescinded.
Sid’s Sideshois :
Last week we reported
there were two jobs un-
ited in the “union” oper-
ating at. 20114, ‘Broadway.
Now it is apparent only one
position remaitis —.that of
Chief Steward. ‘The “busi-
ness agent” post has been
taken. over by: Sid) Fried-
lander de ¢
eourser
hair,
| Forceful Action
Saves CAP Job
Gerald M, Maney, Camp-
bell Avenue Race Track, has
his job back today thanks to
the efforts of Local 301.
Brother Maney was fired by
the company after being un-
fortunately involved in an in-
cident in Albany. . The com-
pany fired him arbitrarily
without knowing the entire
story.
Brother Maney went to his
Shop Steward and then to the
Loeal 301. Office where he
designated President . James
Cognetta to handle his case.
-Cognetta immediately took
up the case and demanded a
meeting with management.
After presenting the case
Cognetta insisted the com-
pany ‘re-hire Maney. As-a re-
sult,. Brother Maney — like
many-other GEworkers—has
his job, thanks to Local 301.
Stewards Still
Settling Cases
The UE outsiders are still
interfering.
They are still disrupting af-
fairs ... trying to foul up the
grievance procedure .. . try-
ing to mess up seniority...
and trying to look like a
Union. :
Despite this harrassment
and interference, Local 301 is
continuing to do the job of
representing GE’ workers that.
it has done for 17 years. The
people’ realize who can pro-
duce for;-them and who can
only spout hot air, UE is
spouting; Loeal 301 is pro-
ducing,
So the people. continue to
designate the elected Local
30L Shop Stewards to handle
their grievances in the shop.
And if the grievance isn’t set-
tled there, they take the case
to a Hocal 301 Executive
Board member, who was _also
elected to do the job, and he
takes it into Building 41.
. And in cases where man-
agement..takes.. advantage -of --
‘this. UE interference and dis-
ruption, Local 301 is keeping
tab. We shall insist on ad-
*“justments for any such tem-
-porary advantages when the
mis over and the out-...,
> disrupters ‘are out: of our
Daan an ea”
