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October 3,
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
Registration Starts Today
For City of Schenectady
In order to vote in the Nov. 4 elec-
tions you have to register,
Registration days in Schenectady, Sco-
tia, and other cities and villages with
over 5,000 population are today, tomor-
row and Friday, Oct. 10, from 10 a.m.
to 10 pam, and Saturday, Oct. 11, from
? am. to 10 p.m. You have to register
personally in these cities and villages.
The towns and places of Jess than
5,000 population have non-personal reg-
Get in the PA
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C Fight Today
istration, but it’s wise to look. at the
books yourself and see your name has
actually been put down, If you’ve moved
into your election district or didn’t vote
or register last year, don’t fail to put
in a personal appearance.
Registration in these small places is
from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. tomorrow and
1 pm. to 10 pm, Oct. 11.
In Schenectady, Scotia and other cities
or villages of over 5,000 population you
ean enroll in a political party when you
register, In the towns, however, you en:
roll on election day when you vote.
Stewards Will Hear
Convention Reports
Delegates will report on the national
UE convention at the meeting of: the
Stewards’ Council Tuesday at 801 hall. ©
The drive for registration and for col-
lecting PAC dollars will also be dis-
cussed. :
Second shift stewards will meet at 1
p.m, and first and third shift stewards —
at 7:30 pam,
301 Food Will Go
THE VOICE OF LOCAL 301 - - - UER&MW.A- - - GLO.
Vol. 5 — No. 38
SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK
October 10, 1947
PAC Endorsements
Will Be Voted on
At Oct. 28 Session
The meeting of Local 301 shop’ stew-
ards Tuesday approved the PAC com-
mittee’s proposal that a list of candidates
for city and county offices be recom-
mended to a special meeting of the 301
membership Oct. 28 for endorsement by
the union.
The list to be submitted to this special
meeting on PAC is made up of Republi-
can, Democratic and American Labor
Party candidates who have endorsed in
full the 301-PAC program adopted by
the union membership. Those candidates
who already have held publie office have
records which justify the belief that they
will carry out their pre-election prom-
ises. The list includes some members of
301 and of other CIO unions.
With one exception, all the recom-
mended candidates who are running on
the Democratic or Republican tickets al-
so have obtained the ALP nomination,
because of their pro-labor stand. Many
other leading Democratic and Republi-
can candidates, however, refused to ans-
wer questionaires sent by Local 801.
»- ~- Recommended Candidates __
The list of recommended candidates is
as follows: ‘ 7
County welfare commissioner. Leo H.
Vosburg, Republican and American La-
bor Party candidate.
Mayor. Allen Townsend, Local 301
member, ALP. .
City Council, four years. Milo Lathrop,
legislative director of District 8, UE;
Leonard Colasuano and Marie Sweeney,
Local 301, all. ALP. City Council, two
years, Robert Jacobsen, Local 301, ALP.
Supervisors. eS
First Ward. Jacob Slaight, ALP.
Second Ward. Albert Male, Democra-
tie and ALP. :
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Last chance to register.
Today and tomorrow.
And started things a-humming..
He cried, “Wake up and regiate
Election time is coming!”
Fashion Note
GE Doesn't Like
Open-Toed Shoes
The crime of wearing’ open-toed shoes
was given by the local GE management
as one of the reasons for refusing to re-
hire a woman with six years’ service,
in- accordance with her- seniority: rights, -
The 801 Executive Board this week sent
the case to New York to be taken up
with the top GE management. The- union
contends the company’s action is a gross
violation of the. contract.
Louis Male, general superintendent,
upheld the company’s action in a recent.
grievance meeting. The woman came
to the. union after being out for six
months following her lay-off for lack of
work. When she sought to return to
GE, she was told there was no suitable
job for her. In the grievance discussion
with Male, he claimed her record was
not good, because she had received warn-
ing notices. It developed that one of -
these was for “open-toed shoes.”
Apart from the trivial nature of the
offenses charged, the contract requires
that the company rehire persons laid-
off and not fired for cause.
on Sale Today
Union Members
Can .Buy Fruit,
Potatoes, Eggs
Eggs, apples,potatoes and . oranges. _.
will go on sale at cost today to mem-
bers of Local 301,
These four foods are the first articles
which the 801 Food Price Committee
bought to help union members fight the
rising cost of living. -
Members must pay for the food at 301
hall where they will receive vouchers to
turn in at the store which the union
_ vented at 106 S. Church, next to the
Case clothing store. They will have to
go to the food store afterward to collect
their purchases. Both the union head-
quarters at 301 Liberty St. and the food
store will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
today and tomorrow.
From present indications, the food will
probably be bought out in the two days
scheduled. If anything is left the com-
mittee will continue the sale next week.
Four Foods on Sale
Here is what you can buy through the
union, -
1600 dozen strictly fresh eggs at 6
cents a dozen. These eggs, coming from
a Tioga County cooperative, are better
than eggs selling in. Schenectady for
over 80 cents a dozen.
94- bushels of handpicked, MeIntosh
and Cortland apples at $1.85 a bushel.
Such apples cost over $3 a bushel now
in Schenectady. The union’s apples
came from Capital District farms.
127 bags of potatoes, weighing 50
pounds each, and 88 bags weighing 100
pounds each. The 50 pound bags are to
sell at 75 cents and the 100 pound bags
at $1.35. They are small potatoes, but
they make good eating, the committee
announced. The potatoes came from
Richfield Springs.
10 boxes of California oranges, with
24 dozen oranges to the box: The oranges
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301 Food Will Go
On Sale Today .
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will sell for 20 cents a dozen, in contrast
to at least 35 cents a dozen charged in
Schenectady stores. \
Must Show Union Card
In order to buy food, a union member
must show his membership card at 301
hall or the card must be shown by the
member of his family who makes the
purchase for him. — ‘
The 3801 office this week mailed to
members their October, November, De-
cember card. However, the office has no
address for about 1,000 members. If
you haven’t received your card yet, ask
your shop steward about it or check -at
the union office when you drop in to
“puy food: “The matter Will be straignt-
ened out at once.
_ Non-members can buy food through
the union by signing a membership ap-
plication card. and presenting it at 301
hall. :
Committee in Charge
James Cognetta, chairman, and .the
other members of the Food Price Com-
mittee will have charge of the food
sales. They are Henry Busse, secretary;
Marshall, White, Leland Sisto, Stanley
Bishop and Albert Davis.
“The union isn’t going into the food
business permanently,” Cognetta said.
“This is an emergency measure, voted
by the union membership, as a protest
against outrageous food prices. Our ac-
tion is going ‘to help the little business
men and store owners in the long run,
because they are being squeezed by the
food trusts too.”
The amount and variety of food which
the 801 committee buys in the future
will depend on the interest shown.in the
first four commodities, and on the chanc-
es of getting. food at substantial sav-
ings.
Senator Taft says, “Eat less.”
Answer him. by giving $1 to PAC.
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
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ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
NEIGHBOR!
Lunch Hour Dispute.
Sent to New York _ :
The Executive Board this week sent
on to the national office, to be-taken up
with the top GE management, thz action
of Foreman C. Slater in Bldg. 77, in ar-
bitrarily sending three men home be-
cause he did not like the time they took
their lunch hour, . .
The job is on continuous process and
the practice is for the men to take 20
minutes for lunch whenever convenient.
Slater was new on the assignment, and
ordered them home for being “too long
period off job.”
According to Slater’s own answer to
the shop steward, however, he gave the
men the passes 80 minutes after they
stopped work, by which time he had al-.
ready argued with them and they had
washed up and changed clothes, . It..was
obvious they had been out much less
than 20 minutes. But last week Louis
Male, general superintendent, refused
to pay for the time the men lost unfairly.
UE Convention Is Target
As usual, the Big Business newspapers
and magazines had a field day twisting
news of the national UE convention, and
attacking the union. f :
The Schenectady Union-Star reprinted
an. editorial from the Boston Herald, crit-
icizing the union, and ran an editorial
of its own praising James Carey. The
Carey-Block faction was overwhelmingly
‘repudiated and condemned by the con-
vention. Time magazine printed a de-
cidedly anti-union report. _ Maybe you
noticed some others.
October 10, 1947
PAC Endorsements Will Be
Voted on at Oct. 28 Session
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Third Ward. Belle Baxter, Local 301,
ALP, —
Fourth Ward. Edgar Smith, Democra-
tie and ALP. .
Fifth Ward. Fred Cameron, Local 301,
Democratic candidate and Mrs. Ethel
‘Etkin, who defeated Cameron for the
ALP nomination by a write-in vote.
Sixth Ward. Ralph Tullio, Loeal 801,
ALP.
Severith Ward. George Judway, Local
301, ALP.
Eighth Ward. Chester Trombley,
Democratic and ALP.
Ninth Ward. Benjamin
Democratic and ALP.
Tenth Ward. Alfred Pelrah, Local 301,
ALP, — : oie
Eleventh Ward. No candidate endors-
ed. ’
Twelfth Ward. Dr. Henry P. Allen,
ALP.
Thirteenth Ward. John Dalton, Demo-
cratic and ALP, *
Fourteenth Ward. George Watson, re-
tired 301 member, ALP.
Rotterdam. William Alheim, Local 301,
’ Republican and ALP.
Glenville. William Hodges, Local 801
vice-president, ALP. ~ ‘
Rotterdam Town Council, two seats.
Roy Hamilton, Local 801, Democratic
and ALP, and William Templeton, Local
301, ALP.
Rotterdam superintendent of highways.
Raymond Gordon, Republican, Democra-
tie and ALP.
Glenville superintendent of highways.
Frank Parker, Democratic and ALP.
Franken,
Registration Guide
For First Voters
People who will vote for the first time
_Nov. 4 have to show proof they are 21
years old and proof of literacy when
they register.
Birth certificates, military discharge
papers or other certificates will be ac-
cepted as proof of age. A diploma from
elementary or high school will establish
ability to read and write.
If a first voter hasn’t a diploma to
show, however, he may be required to.
take a literacy test. These tests will be
given at the Education Building, 108
Union St., from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. today
and from 7 am. to 10 p.m, tomorrow.
Former service men, who used mili-
tary ballots before but never registered
in person or voted at home, simply reg-
ister like everyone else this year.
October 10, 1947
ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
Nixon Attacks
Phony Slogans :
Russ Nixon,.UE Washington repre-
sentative, warned the 3801 Stewards’
Council Tuesday against falling for such
“phony slogans” as “Eat less”, “Eat
fish” and “Waste less”. :
Senator Robert A. Taft is famous for
the “Hat less” slogan. Secretary of
Agriculture Krug coined the “Eat fish”
motto and President.Truman pushes the
“Waste less” campaign.
The present voluntary price reduction
drive is “poppycock”, Nixon charged,
and shows a “bankruptcy of leadership”.
He said that President Truman and
his advisors have not undertaken the
campaign through stupidity, but because
Register Today
Remember, today and tomorrow
are your last chances to register,
In Schenectady, Scotia and other
cities and villages of over 5,000
population, registration is from 10
a.m. to 10 p.m. today and from 7
am, to 10 p.m. tomorrow. Regis-
tration in smaller places is from
1 p.m. to 10 p.m. tomorrow.
Raises for Matrons
In Union's Proposal.
A recent letter to Local 801 signed
only by “The lot of us matrons” com-
plained that their pay rate was too low.
Discrimination against women, and.
‘Convention Urges
Organizing Drive
Tn the face of the Taft-Hartley Law,
organizing the unorganized workers in
the electrical industry is more important
than ever. before, the national UE con-
vention declared,
“It is imperative that we engage in an
immediate and intensified campaign of
organization among all the workers in
our organized shops ‘who are not yet
members of the UE,” a resolution point-
ed out. :
*“Our slogan must be ‘Every UE work-
er an active UE member’.” Only in this
way can we successfully discourage em-
ployers’ use of ‘the Tait-Hartley Board
“to delay and impede negotiations. Only
through the determined and unified ac-
tion of all the workers in o
to be placed on their profits or any lid
on. prices,
“That’s why we need PAC”, Nixon
said.
Referring to President Truman’s
“Waste less” slogan, Nixon declared the
average American family can’t buy
enough food to waste any. *
The National Association of Manu-
facturers spent $3,000,000 on a: single
publicity campaign to kill OPA, Nixon
pointed out, 2
“The Ives and Kearneys jumped every
time the NAM snapped their fingers”,
he said,
Nixon said labor can’t raise a frac-
tion of the money the NAM does.
“But with our little money we can do
better than they do because our program
is the program of the people.”
Sworn as Stewards
New shop stewards who took the oath |
of- office-at- the-Stewards’ Council meet=
ing Tuesday were: Frank D’Amico; Bldg.
58; Godtfred Karlquist, Bldg. 76; Joseph
Cammarere, Bldg. 89; Francis Master-
son, CAP; Anthony M. Gallo, Bldg. 50;
Angelo A. Ferrara, Bidg. 50, and Frank
Stepnowski, Bldg. 49.
New Application Forms
The union office has mailed to stewards
a new form. of membership application
containing space for the applicant’s So-
cial Security number. Stewards are ask-
ed::to use this foxm in the future, in-
aad of the old one, and to see that the
Social Security information is filled out.
Give $1 to PAC to Beat
Robert A. Taft
although they have made big gains too.
The plan approved by the last mem-
bership’ meeting, to seek to negotiate
a complete wage structure for the plant,
includes a proposal to raise all womén’s..
rates, including. the matrons, to at least
the common labor rate of $1.10. This
information is given here because an un-
signed letter cannot be answered. _
When any group have a feeling that
they have a special problem, the union
office is there to discuss it with them.
Pile up those PAC dollars.
They are Labor’s war chest.
The only kind of liberty
That Robert Taft endorses
Is liberty-to eat less food—
Or dine on. cats and horses.
Give $1 to PAC and
Help Get Him
OUT OF. THE SENATE!
shops-wil-we-be-ableto
prove contract benefits in the interest
of our membership. Only in this way
can we discourage and prevent. unscrup-
wlous raiding by ,company unions and
others who wish to“deprive ovr member-
ship of the benefits ‘secured by UE.”
The resolution also called for immed-
iate strengthening of the steward sys-
tem in every UE shop “to protect the
interests of our membership on a day to
day basis.”
UE Wants GE to Offset
Dropping 'Profit Sharing'
Joseph Dermody, secretary of the
GE Conference Board of UE, said last
week that the national UE will ask the
GE to make up to its workers in some
form for the loss of “profit-sharing” pay-
ments.
GE has announced that starting next
Jan. 1 it will.abandon its “profit sharing”
plan, However, it will pay. as usual
next-spring-on-the-basis-of-funds-aceum=" :
ulated during. 1947, But workers won’t
get any “profit-sharing” money on the
year 1948, _
The company first announced its in-
tention of discontinuing “profit sharing”
during this year’s contract negotiations.
Dermody pointed: out that at the time
the union protested against any attempt
to link the abandoning of “profit shar-
ing” with the wage settlement. “Profit
sharing” was not involved in the negotia-
tions nor is it covered by the contract,
the UE stated. The union said then it
would oppose any loss of money. to the
workers,
Cooperative - am
The Los Angeles CIO Council.is ‘set-
ting up union non-profit cooperatives
throughout its territory. ‘
