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The IUE-CIO won a smashing % to | election victory this
week in the third largest electrical manufacturing company,
General Motors. : ‘ i

General Motors’ employs mere electrical workers than any
other company in the nation except Westinghouse and General
Electric, ;

UE, weakened and stunted by Communists and party liners
boring from within, has had one of ifs three big branches lopped
cleanly off, °

It was the workers themselves who wielded the axe.

The resounding victory for IUE-CIO. and American trade

unionism at General Motors leaves no doubt about the outcome
in the big two remaining companies. . 7
It means that before many weeks are over, UE's Communist-
appointed spokesmen will be revealed for what they are—spokes-
men for nobody but themselves and the Daily Worker, and leaders
of a few hundred misguided souls in scattered locals. ;
. 1t means some other things, too,

THE BETRAYAL IS OVER

To the American working man’ and woman, it means the
beginning of the end of the breach which has weakened the:
whole of the trade union movement, ;

To electrical workers everywhere, it méans the long betrayal
will soon be over. The industry, faced again by a strong union,

© ——- se. —

UE PRESIDENT CROSSES LINE

‘Clarence Thom, President of UE Local 313, Painted Post, New York,
shown leaving the plant where he had worked all day on Thursday,

“February 23rd, after a union meetin

unanimously to strike the plant.

g on the previous day had voted

will be forced to grant wages and benefits on a par with those Ingersoll-Rand Strike
Scabs Include "Leaders"

Wages at Ingersoll-Rand are low, Working conditions at
Ingersoll-Rand are terrible. Ingersoll-Rand believes in "collective
bargaining” through tyranny. There has never been a strike at

granted in other heavy industries.

To General Motors electrical wotkers, it means an end to
the long series of sell-outs by UE,

Working as a team with the 350,000 other workers in UAW
and backed by the entire ClO, they will go on to win. pensions,
wages equal to the United Auto Workers' and a higher standard

of living.
FIRST DEMOCRATIC ELECTION

UE leaders, parroting the Daily Worker, have been telling
everybody what a democratic litle organization they have and. °
how nothing, not a single thing, is ever done that isn't the will
of the. membership.

Well, the NLRB election at General Motors was a democratic
election. ;

The important issues weren't decided at the tag end of a

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GM Elections Scoreboard
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1UE. UE UNION
10,860 1416 583
5,098 ° 762 418
ocal 717 oll . 3,273 a 215 114
Local: 509 secs ece: ARES OS St QB eee Os
Local 416 . _ 297 : 0 6

21,167

1,240

Ingersoll-Rand!

The UE has had the bargaining rights at Ingersoll-Rand ‘in
Painted ‘Post, New York, for years. In the early part of February
1950, the workers at Ingersoll-Rand voted to disaffiliate from the.
UE which had been a mill-stone around. their neck, and to affiliate

with the IUE-CIO, On Tuesday,
disciplined unjustly by the In-®

gersoll-Rand management. They
were told to leave the plant
and not.to return to. work for
the rest of the week.

DEMOCRATIC DECISION.

Approximately . 600 workers
left the plant with"'them., A
special membership meeting
was called for Wednesday
morning at 7:00 o'clock. Thir-

-teen hundred workers-attended=

the meeting and democratically
decided by unanimous vote to
picket the plant and not to re-
turn until all grievances which

February 2 Ist, five workers were

had piled up were recognized
and acted upon by the com-
pany. This decision was arrived
at by IUE, UE and even IAM
members,

* *, *

Field’ Representatives of the

IUE-CIO offered their services

for the duration of the strike,
However, the leaders of the UE
and IAM called ‘upon the work-
ers to cross the’ picket’ lineg set
up by the workers. The local UE
president set the example b

crossing the picket line himself,

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THE 1UE-CIO. NEWS

March 5, 1950

Bridgeport GE Werkers CIO Unions Join Hands

Vote to Affiliate withIVE = In Fight Against GM

By an overwhelming vote of 900 to 35, former members of
the UE and workers in the GE plant. in Bridgeport, Connecticut,
decided to disaffiliate from’ the UE and.to affiliate with the IUE-

ClO. The staggering vote left no doubt in anyone's mind con-

cerning the determination of these workers to stay within the
ranks of the ClO. The meeting was held on Sunday, -February
26th, and was attended by approximately one thousand members.

During the discussion, the members affirmed their conviction
that they could be best served by a union with "no strings at-
tached", by a union which put their interests first and foremost

and which had the full. backing®
of the millions of their fellow
members in all of the other
great Internationals in the fam-

ily of the CIO.

"RED BAITING"

Al Smith, International Rep-
resentative of the UE, and
“Brother MacAvoy of the same
organization told the assem-
blage that the IUE-CIO cam-
paign was one of red baiting
and disruption. They specifically
charged that. R. J. Thomas who
was present, and one of the
principal speakers at the meet-
ing, engaged in red baiting,
pure and = simple. Brother
Thomas told the meeting that
the question was not one of red
baiting, nor was it on of com:
munism.,

"IMPORTANT. THING"

"The important thing," said
Thomas, ‘is ihe question of
what flows as a result of cam-
miunist or party-line leadership
in the Labor movement. Hell,
anyone has the right to be a
communist. That's a privilege we
give to all Americans, That's
one of the nice things you can
say about-America which. you”
can't say about a lot of other
places. What happens when a
communist is your labor leade’
is the real issue.

DIFFERENT SYSTEM

“A communist isn't happy un-
less he sees unemployment in

racy" and “security” under a
system radically different than
ours."
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Other speakers at the meet-
ing included Fred Kelley |UE-
CIO representative from Lynn,
Massachusetts and’ John Calla-
han, “|UE-CIO. representative
from Pittsfield, Massachusetts,

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Michael Quill

The following statement was.

made Wednesday night by
Mike Quill, president of the
Transport Workers Union, ClO,
in a broadcast over. WPTR
Albany. ;

America; poverty and misery--- A recently convicted com:

are the twin evils of his hope
for power in this country. Any
fool can understand that the
communist labor leader is a
communist first So it. follows

~oo- Hhatche speaks about worker

security, but does little or noth-
ing. about it because he’ warits:
that worker to have 'democ-

munist is the man.who gave the
first order to UE and. other top
communist officials which finally
led to their expulsion from the
Clo. 7
* Quill claimed that top ‘com-
mie leaders have been giving
direct orders to CP union lead-
ers.

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THE IVE-CIO

NEWS ‘Page 3

March 5, 1950 .

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THE RIGHT TO D

Two big ClO unions joined hands last. week to take on the
‘giant billion-dollar General Motors in coming spring negotiations.«

James B, Carey,. chairman of the-administrative committee
cof the [UE-CIO, announced following a conference with UAW
top officials at Dayton, O., “The International Electrical Workers
Union and the United: Automobile: Workers will work together to
promote the welfare of General Motors workers and American
labor. We have agreed today, -
on. a three-fold program on our

UPHELD

Ruling Also Establishes Members
Control Treasury, Not the UE

Two far-reaching court decisions, which may serve, as pre-
cedents in cases involving other, unions expelled from the CIO,
were handed down last week in favor.of the International Union
of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers-ClO. «

IN COURT DECISI

bargaining with General
Motors.:' .

The joint program calis for:
®' Increased wages.

“® Pensions: and sociai insur.
(IUE-CIO: ‘pension
policy insists on. severance
pay and death benefits as
part of an integrated pen-
sion program.)

ance;

@® Reduced prices. on GM,

products,
FULL COOPERATION

Arrangements for the epit-
making stand by the CIO unions
in the auto and electrical. field
were made ‘recently in confer
ences between Jim Carey ana
Walter P. Reuther, president of
the UAW. This marks the first
time that full cooperation has
been achieved by CIO unions
in these fields, UEs past history
involved double-crossing the
auto workers and even scabbing

in dealings with General,
| Motors.

PUT THAT PINK SLIP

IN YOUR FILE X , BUD
I'M PROTECTED
BY SENIORITY

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The Score To Date

Up until the present time,
there have been ten elections
conducted by the National
Labor Relations Board to deter-

“mine’col lective bargaining

rights between the IUE-CIO
and the UE. The score does not
speak too well for the future of
the so-called left wingers. At
the moment, the IUE-CIO has
won eight of these elections
and the UE has won two.

‘The last of these contests was
held at the General Mills plages,
in Minneapolis, Minnesota, TR?
score—IUE-CIO 507, UE 223.

Let's Go
“Acourting"

Next time you hear one of
these UE guys tell you about
the IUE-CIO going to the
courts, just slap him with these
figures: ; ;

Out of seventy-five law suits
filed by the !UE-CIO and the
UE, IUE filed seventeen and the
UE filed fifty-eight.

* * *

Out of twenty-nine restrain-
ing. orders filed by the two or
ganizat ions, IUE-ClO filed
seven and, the UE filed twenty-
two, It is significant that the
UE filed more of these tem-
porary injunctions in the p
between November |5th
February~-15th.-than- the. anti-
Labor Robert Denham of the
NLRB filed in the entire first
year of the. Taft-Hartley law.

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‘ The rulings, which were made by courts in Cleveland and
Fort Wayne, Ind., were sharp rebuffs to attempts by the United
Electrical, Workers (independent) to tie up the funds and
organization of IUE.through legal maneuverings. |

PROMOTED. "LINE"

In a precedent-making decision in
Cleveland, ‘the court declared that
it was not only the right of [UE"to
disaffiliate from the UE but actually
a duly and obligation. The court
fook official notice of. the faci that
several UE officers and iinternational
representatives have actively pre-
moted the Communist Party and iis
lina, * x a

In Fort Wayne, Special Judge Rob-
ert Y. Keegan blasied UE with a
-permanent injunction restraining the
Coammunist-controlled group from in-
i ‘yring in the affairs of IUE Local
‘2 The ruling found that more than
$100.000 in the local's treasury be-
longed to the membership rather than

jo UE,
KEY IS ClO

Both courls held that the compact
beiween the membership: and UE was
based upon UE's affiliation wilh the
ClO. Once that relationship had
been broken by UE's expulsion from
ClO, the compact became meaning-
less, according to the two judaes,

* * *

Judge Keegan asseried in part
that “the essential feature of the
contract between Local 901 and the
UE is the existence of an industrial
trade union and that continues to
exist despite the expulsion of the UE
from the’CIO, butthis: assumes that
ihe local members were contracting

The IUE-CiIO News

A newspaper dedicated to
the principle of maintaining
the highest ideals of the
Labor movement as ex-
pressed through. the policy
of the CIO. Yaa

CO-EDITORS

Bernard Valachovic
John Marshall

bs) LOCAL OFFICERS

President 4... Milton Danko
oVloes Pres,
Recording Jprak |. Florio
Asst. Rec, See... Ani DeCerbo
Treasurer.,Carmine DiGirolamo
Chie! Shop Steward., John Rej
Business Agent. Prank CG. ktriss

Toh Warren {°

with reference to any industrial trade
union, whereas it seems apparint
that it was the political, financial and
numerical power and pull of the ClO
that the local union wanted rather
than the limited
by the UE."

NO DOUBTS

The court also found’ that’ "The
overwhelming majority of those active
in the local's affairs desire and intend
fo disaffiliate themselves from the
UE cannot be seriously doubted."

This was an obvious refereiice to

jhe fact that the. membership of .

Local 90! voted to disaffiliate from
UE and remain in ClO by a margin
of 2036. fo 117. :

* * *

The Fort Wayne decision was even
stronger in ifs repudiation of UE's
attampts fo fasten a restraining, order
on IUE Local 707 fo prevent it from
holding ‘meetings and disbursing
funds. The court pointed out that for
many years the UE has boasted of
its affiliation with CIO and the fact
that this affiliation qava it additional
economic: strength and prestige.

INDEPENDENT UNION

The UE's relationship with ClO
was an essential one to the welfate
of union members, the court” said,
and‘ the basic reason for Local 707
fo affiliate with UE was the under-
standing that UE was a member of
the family of CIO and would con-
tinue in that family,

* * *

In effect, the court laid the blame
for UE's expulsion from the ClO
squaraly at the door of the UE, add.
ing that af least one section of the
UE constitution was rendered void by
the expulsion. He agreed with’ the
local’s membership that continued
affiliation with UE was meaningless
once UE had become an “indepen-
dent" union,

LEGAL AND: VALID

The Cleveland court ruled that the
Local's secession from UE was legal

_and valid as was the romoval of its

funds fram UE control,

equivalents offered -

ISAFFILIATE
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HOLD IT HIGH TOGETHER!
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IUE-CIO Victory at GM

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long, drowsy night session after-nearly everybody had gone home.
They weren't decided by an executive board which was
elected by persons elected by somebody else, as. in’ the thira-
hand democracy practiced in UE's local 301.
There were no UE stooges standing behind the voters with
threats of loss of pay or of contract or seniority or security for
themselves and their wives and children,

SPOKE IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS

The important issues were decided by secret ballot or. voting
machine in an election supervised by an outside and impartial
body—the National Labor Board. '

The workers had their say, fer a change, and they spoke in
no uncertain terms,

We wonder what Jandreau, Emspak and Matles, of the
a Democratic: UE willesay: NOWsseens swam, % 93 eornmeeunleal arm
"There won't be any more sellouts, in GM, sither,

James. B. Carey, administrative chairman of the IUE, and
Walter Reuther, ptesident.of thé United Auto. Workers, have
agreed to work as a unit in the coming GM contract negotiations.

su etcense mer estes

THE 1UE-CIO NEWS

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March 5, 1950

ASKS GREATER BENEFITS

The CIO's Commitice on Social Security today called for

further improvemenis id’ the nation’s sucial Securit
vocaled sweeping increases in benefit rates and meth©ds of com-:

aw, tt ad-

puting benefits which would, for example, give $162 m°nthly pay-
ments to an. aged couple whose monthly earnings: jn. their “best

five years" avéraged $300.

Under the CIO proposals, benefits would be far higher than

under present law, and considerably above the
in the House-passed H.R. 6000, .

which comes up for hearings in
the Senate this week.
* * * .
The tecommendations, em-
bracing all phases of social se-
“curity, were made public by
Chairman Emil Rieve of | the
CIO Committee on Social Se-
curity. The group held a meet-
ing in Washington late last
week,

COMPLETE COVERAGE

The CIO group suggested
major revisions both in cover-
age of the law, and methods of
, computing benefit payments. |
"tt advocated “universal cov-
erage” under the old. age, sur-
vivors and disability insurance
programs "for all Americans...
so that benefits are received as
a matter of right." :

‘ * * *

The ClO™ committee urged
that benefits should be based
on the average monthly wage
in the income-earner's best five
consecutive years—with a ceil-
ing income figure for social se-
curity tax payment of $4,800 a
year.

$50 MINIMUM

“Benefits should equal 50°,
of the first $160: of this average
monthly wage — plus 20°%, of
balance ‘up to the total of $400
a month, with an additional 1°/,
increment for each year of cov-
erage, the Committee de-
clared, Under such @ program,
it estimated, an aged couple
who received $300-a-month in-
come during-their best five con-
secutive years, would—at the
end of 20 years of social se-
cutity coverage—-recéive $162
per month,

The ClO group added: fur-
ther that minimum benefits un-

der the.program-should-be -$50--

a month, ‘and the» maximum
should be 80% of the average
* monthly wage, : .

Who's Who.
In UE .

This is the fif8t of @
series of artigte5 on the
big shots in the VE. The
material for’ thes articles
is taken” from uthensic
government = jnf*matien,

LEO E. JANpREAU

Leo E. Jandreay [ined the
Communist Party in Pes, 1936,
His patty name froM 1936 to
1944 was Hummel, he petson
who signed him into the Com.
munist Party was Dorothy Loeb,
who is now a reporté? for the
Community Daily Worker, From
the start he has beef a secret
member of the Party: In 193g,
he was on the execu "Ver Com-
mittee of the trade, Mian divi.
sion of the CP, 2

* * #

In 1944, JandrgaY contri.
buted $50 to the COmmunist
Political Association, Which re-
placed the Commynist Party
when the Soviet Government
"dissolved" the ComiMtern to
prove 'to us that Russid Was fin.
ished with world rayalttion.

* * *

In 1948, he induced hls execu.
tive board to pass a fsqlution
promising support to the 1}
Communists who were can.
victed last year of conspiring
against the United States Gov.
ernment, He was also active In
the National Wallace for Presi.
dent Committee, which Worked
diligently to defea} pro.ClO,
pro-Marshall Plan candidates.

Beeamuisy. gall ReccgsanrBlons

a S€hjority

@ Negotiate

provision which. will give real
“protection to GE eMPloyess

based upon length of Service
with the company.

level’ Contained -

NOW LETS TAKE
THAT HILL #

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NONCRCUSTS POCA Sa

R. Flanigan, Labor Leader
Nearly two weeks ago, we Wei all shocked to learn of tha

untimely death -of brother Raymond Flanigan. Since 1941, the
name of Flanigan was identified with militant and intelligent trade

union leadérship. He ha

been a fighting, effective right wing

leader in the General Elec fic plant and as such, he had won the

respect of all thase with'whom he came into contact.
Pd * .

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workers, Ray was second fo
none. In his last year as assistant
business agent, Flanigan
handled hundreds of grievances.
Ik is a testament to his unques-
tioned ability that he won the
overwhelming majority of them.
FIGHT GOES ON

Ray is gone; but his fighting,
union spirit will live with all of
us. who knew him well, will live
with all of us who knew of his

ee
In handling the grievances of |

‘determination to build a solid!

clean union here in Schenec-
tacly, a union which will make
for the maximum of security
the workers and theit kids. kw
We are going to miss Ray;
put we are going to carry on
in his spirit, We are’ going. to
continue the fight for decency
and security for GE workers, -
and we are going to carve that
fight into a monument to she
memory of Flanigan. :

Ingersoll-Rand Strike . . .

(Continued from Page 1)

thus trying to break the first
strike in the history of Ingersoll-
Rand in Painted Post.

UE TREACHERY

OF the 1,750 workers, only a
few UE members followed their
president across the picket lines,
Because of ‘the ‘treachery and
strike-breaking activities of UE
and IAM, their members left
them in droves and gave full
vote of confidence to the JUE-
ClO and their field representa-
tives who were going all out jn
suppott .of the workers and
their just demands on Ingersoll.
Rand

”

* * *

There was no doubt after the
first day of the strike who rep-

resented the workers at Inger-
soll-Rand. “It was IUE-CIO,
When the company also real-
ized that IUE-CIO. was the
choice of the workers, it de-
cided to sit down across the
bargaining table with them and,
a committee of the: strikers to
atrive at a settlement. Ingersoll-
Rand for the first time had felt
the power.of united workers.

* a *

Ingersoll-Rand will remember
the unity of their workers: g \e
IUE-CIO when contract Kuwe

tations. open. There will be no: ~

more UE sellouts, They will bar-
gain in. good faith or feel again
the united wreath of thelr work
ers, .

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Be as
cad 288

It luoks. like Schencetiady is going to
have professional -baschall this season.
The announcement was amade last week
by A.B. “Happy” Chandler, the pra-
verbrul Czar of the Diamond.

IVE Local 301 blushes not at all for
the part it played in bringing the -na-
tion’s sport hack te our ‘city, When. the
proposal avas made to Icave’ Scheectady
haschall-less, 301's Executive Board
shipped off a resolution to Happy.

Tt said. in parts

"We, the members of the Executive
Board of Local 301, IUE-CIO, propose
that every cffort he made to keep or-
ginized haseball in the City of Schenec-
lady.

“We, therefore, resolve that every ¢ffort
he made-to reach a satisfactary settlement
that will satisfy all concerned, so that our
members will he able to enjoy this great
American sport in the city of Schenectady
during the coming year,

“Be it further resolved that this matter

be given immediate attention so that the -

employces of the General Electric Co.
and the-citizens of Schenects ady can enjoy
cur national sport.

The Exec’s got a letter back in which
Happy said he was happy to hear from
them, and would give serious considera-
tion to the proposals, And. it looks like
he did.

The Executive Board is not claiming
all the credit. for Iast week's announce.
ment, hut then again they're not saying it
wasn't due to their efforts. °

Page Two

WHO'S WHO IN UE

‘This is the second in a series of articles
on the big shots in the UE, The material
for these articles is taken from authentic
government. information,

James J. Matles

“In'1929 Matles attended several closed
mectings of the Williamsburg, Brooklyn
section of the Communist Party. Matles

also) was present at the loth. National

Convention. of the
in 1930,

In 1932 Matles served on. the District

2 Committee of the CP as a paid official.
He was igned by the party to organize:
and head (as Secretary) the Metal and.
Machine Workers Industrial Union, af- :
filiated with the Trade Unity League.
The Metals. Workers. Union was com.
pletely a Communist creation and Matles’
work in it was strictly on Party assign-
ment,

Robert P. Gimkel: organizer’ for the
Hamilton County section ‘of the CP, Cin-
cinnati, appeared at a CP meeting held
m the offices of Local 766 UE on March

195 i7, at which time he explained how
organizers for the UE were appointed.
He said that no organizer wis put to
work on the UE staff unless he had the
approval of the Party, He explained that

CP in’ New York City

‘appointments were made by the following

procedure:

The local county chairman of the Party
would make his recommendations to the
state chairman of the Communist Party.
Vhe state chairman would then confer
with the .international representative of
UE in that district. Tf all agreed that the
particular person was suited for the job
of organizer, the recommendation would
then he passed on to James Matles, head
of the Organizational. Department for
approval,

The best evidence that Matles is a
Communist is to be found in the follow-
ing ‘statement which he signed for re-
lease to the press: “Only the Communist
Party as the party of the working class

represents the interests of the entire.

working population,”

The IVE-ClO News

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words, the bis

EDITORIALLY SPEAKING

THE BRASS

The UE propaganda mill is grinding

out some dillies these days to disorganize

are the. Schenectady GE workers.

UE's professional liats work.on’ the

same theory as one of their dictatorial
compatriots, Adolph Hitler.

Concentration Camp Hitler works on
the theory of the BIG LIF. In other
zer the lie, the mare often
you repeat it, the more likely people are
to believe it. So effective were Adolph’ S

propagandists ‘that after awhile ‘he him-.
self hegan to believe his: own lies, (He

was’ still fighting the war with a 30
group air’ force when the Yanks walked
into Berlin.)

To give you an example: UE has been
whispering around that IUE is undemo-
cratic because Local 301's “appointed of-

ficers’’ ure going to remain in charge
after IUE wins the NLRB elections.

This obvious BIG LIE defeats its own
purpose because [UE Local 301. officers
are just temporary. A full fledged elec
tion will determine who will hold what
position in the union. And the elec-
tions will be held right after TUE is cer-
tified as the bargaining agent.

The reason for waiting is that 1UE is
democratic and will not elect officers until
all the membership i is able to vote.

Aang thus another ‘Hitler-UE ‘BIG LIE
gets a hole blown through it,

OF DUCKS AND MEN

“HY you look like a duck, act like a
duck, walk like a duck and quack like a
duck, people will call you a duck.”

* * k

This is one of the finest descriptions

we can. find for UE fakers who run

The IUE-CIO News

ce 7 > +
around waving non-Commie affidavits,
and saying “we ain't red.’

a * a

Maybe. they're not red, but when you
hear them quack it sounds just like the
quacks: that flow from ‘the Daily Worker,
And it’s the quackiest sheet in existence!

ah at ca

All you have to do is quack the’ same
tune as the rest of the party,

Did the editors of the UE News have
to sit down and intelligently decide the
merits of the. Marshall Plan? Hell, No.
All they had to do was wail for the next
edition of the Daily Worker.

tk By

It's a wonderful way to live. No de-
cisions to make, no problems to think
through, no need to solve controversies.
All you have to do to he a Commic is
quack when you're told to quack, and
keep your mouth shut when you're told
to keep your mouth shut.

Anyone interested ?

The lUE-CIO News
A newspaper dedicated to the prin-
ciple of maintaining the highest ideals
of the Labor movement as expressed
through the policy of the CIO.
CO-EDITORS
Bernard Valachovic
John Marshall
LOCAL OFFICERS
President .........00.0+-Milton Danko
Vice-President. John Warren
Recording Secretary Frank Fiorillo
Asst. Rec, Searoldl Ann DeCerbo
Treasurer. Carmine DiGirolamo
Chief Shop Steward. John Rej
Business Agent... Frank C. Kriss

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GE CONFERENCE BOAI

Standing, left to right, are: Wotocheck, Thomas, Perillo, Carey,
Martin, Steinhilber, Akers. Seated, left to right: Kriss, Fiorillo, Kelly,
Houchins, Smith, Representatives of seven key GE locals attended.

“IUE-CIO leaders from General Electric
plants in seven key cities met here last
week with James B, Carey, Chairman of
the Administrative. Committee of TUE.
CIO, to discuss the econamic. program
that will be presented to GE when the

» present contract expires. ;

The group adopted a program that

calls for:
|. Substantial wage increases.
2. An ‘improved pension plan.
3. Death and sick benefits.
4, Other contract improvements.

The proposals will be taken back to
the membership of cach local union for
discussion ind ratification. Later this

month a full necting of TUL's General +
Electric Conference Board will adopt

specific demands,

Chairman of the meeting was Fred
Kelley, Business Agent of Local 201,
Lynn, Mass. He told the group that IUR-

: strive for the kind of contract

which the defunct
UE has failed to get
its membership in
GE plants,

"the UE has failed

‘miserably in°its ob-

ligations to the

workers," Kelly said. .
"It did not secure a

cenar program in

ast year's: negotia. '
tions, such as was

wen in steel, auto

and rubber. I+ is the

job of 1UE-CIO

to.see that these

wrongs ar¢ righted

in negotiations with

GE,"

Carey reported to the group on the
conference he just completed with the
United Auto Workers in’ Detroit, where
conract, demands . for General Motors

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Left to right: Callahan, Carey, Kriss, Fiorillo, Kelly, Smith.

Conference

Beard discusses contract demands to be

presented to. GE,

were discussed. ,
Carey pointed out

that "there is no

reason why General

Electric cannot give ~

its workers a pay
raise and a decent
- pension plan. Right
now the GE wage
scale is 25 cents per
hour below the rates
in the Auto and
Steel industry, which
have pension plans.

Report on GM elections: Hob Okers, Local 755, Dayton, GE sales have in-
and standing, Wes Steinhilber, Local 801,. Dayton,

creased. five-fold in
the ‘past ten years,
and in 1948 their
profits were more than one-third ‘of the
company's net worth. GE is a rich’ and
prosperous corporation and its workers
deserve some of its productive surplus."

A comprehensive analysis of various

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pension phins was presented to the group
by’ Joseph Swire, TUF pension expert. Ut
included acreview of the Phileo Pension
Plan, recently negotiated by IGE, which
includes the first severance pay agreement
in big, industry,

Also present at the meeting “ were:
Harold) Martin, Local 320, Syracuise :
Dallas Smith, Local vol, Fort Wayne:
Edward) Houchins. Local tla. Philadel-
phia; Frank Fierillo, Director of TUE

CIO. District. 35 Frank. Kriss, Business

Agent, Local 301, Schenectady: John
Callahan, Business Agent, Local 255,
Pittsheld; Dave Fitamaurice, President,
Loval 707. Cleveland; William) Woto-
check, Loval 506, Erie, Pay.

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WHY, LEO!

The era of the microsefalic (pin-head )-
labor faker is upon us, The UE brain
trust, of which lumpy Leo Jandreau is a
shining example, admits to one of the
most stupid mistakes a labor leader could
make

In an attempt to smear TUE last weck,
the UE News said, “Important officials
of the General Electric Company are on
the hoard of the Schenectady Trust Com-
pany,” where. UE Local 301, if such
exists, deposits its money,

That's great stuff Leo, especially if your
local were faced? with .a strike’ situation,
Damn nice of you to leave your money
Where GE can-keep track of ‘it,

Nothing like concealing your strength
from the enemy!

Why don’t CP labor schools’ teach
their students the simple trick of keeping
union funds out of company controlled
hanks? Thanks for the self incriminating
testimonial on UE "smart labor fakers.”

UNEMPLOYED

. The following telegram, which needs
ho comment, was sent to UE President
Albert J. Vitagerald the day after General
Motors workers were reported to have
done some voting: .

"In view of your forthcoming un-
employment, 25,000 IUE members
in General Motors authorized me to
offer you a permanent: job in our
Dayton headquarters requiring you
only to hold the bag,"

William Snoots, Secretary IUB
Administrative Committee

CAREY COMPLEX |

While wading through a copy of UE
News the other’ day we had_to take off

our shoes to tally the number of times

Jim Carey's name was used, The count:

“4 “Careys" in one issue.

We ‘consulted our psychiatrist about
this fixation and he explained that it was
‘probably a ‘reverse love complex.” On
checking the: editorship of the rag, ‘sure
enough, it was a woman,

Wait tll Jim hears that. UE is. back.
ing into love. with’ him!

PROUDLY PRESENT

The ladies of TUE-CIO plans a gala
evening to_celebrate the overwhelming
GM vitory at Hans Grell's Grill, 2390
Albany Street, on Saturday evening, Mar.
11, 1950. .Dancing from 9 to 1. Free
Beer, Floor*-prizes to he awarded,
Donation 50 cents.

DAT PACKAGE

I've looked high and I've looked low,’
Where, Oh, where did that package go?
Up the chimney, or down the drain,

Ie must be just a mental pain.

That 500 bucks was promised me,

By the bosses of the red-UE

All the promises must be lies,

Or a zero is 500 in disguise!

So T guess I'll let the UE blow,

And cast my weight with the ClO.

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Shown above, from left to right are Milton Danko, ‘President IUE“301; Leu Benedict,.
President TWU; Mike Quill, Int. President TWU: Frank C. Kriss, Bus. Agent IUE 301,

Quill Blasts Red Leaders

At a meeting held last week in Sche-
nectady, Mike Quill, International Pr
dent of the Transport Workers Union,
tore the lid off the phoney UE and

actually named facts and dates about the

misdeeds of the misleaders, —°

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‘He also challenged the top three of
this unholy red.combine to open debate,
any: time, any place.

Quill recalled that at a meeting held in
the offices of the International Workers
Order, New York, some of UE's top
leadership sat down with the Communist
Party bosses to map plans for ihe Pro-
gressive Party.

Present at the sathesting was the CP
brain trust: Dennis, Thompson, Stachel
and the man who is doing his, best todiy
to start another war in Europe, the in-
famous Gerhardt Eisler,

wo

Representing the UE were Ernest De-
maio, William Sentner ,and the biggest
duck of them all, Schenectady's chanepion

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sof the workin

we matt, fedrless fighfer for
the workers, Leo Jandreau, :
“The decision to break with CIO,”

Quill said, “was made by, the Central

Committee of the Communist Party in
New York City, October, 19-17, At the
same time and place the Communist Party
decided to form the third party, the Pro-
gressive Party, behind the leadership of
Henry Wallace. Their aim was to split
the labor vote, guarantecing victory for
the Republican Party in) 19-18 and? thus
delivering the working people into the
hands of their bitterest cnemies here at
home, And to create a foreign” policy
that would serve to play a delaying action
for the Cominform countries behind the
fren Curtain,”

"

There were many, other super-private
meetings of this group, and from time to.
time some of UB's top leadership had. the
honor of getting their instructions:on how
to oppose national CIO policy direct from
the leading Cominforn’ agent, Gerhardt
Eisler,

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