UE'S DOING —
A’ DANDY JOB.
JIN TURBINE! |
DANSER
GRIEVANCES
RIGHT AND LEFT
IN ‘TURBINE!
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iz ean aeencennn Re
/ THE TURBINE
WORKERS ARE.
LUCKY TO HAVE A
UNION LIKE VEL,
The issue in this cam-
paign continues as it-al-
ways has been: Unity of
Gt workers.
For the past two years
the Officers of Local 301.
have urged :the National
to. do something to win
unity forsus.
But the National did noth-
ing. They couldn't.
They were so devoted to a
foreign’ policy that they
couldn’t win unity for us. No-
body—not. a single Union in
the country—would- have any-
thing to do with UE.
@ Local 301 asked the Na-
tional to do something’ about
its foreign policy. It refused.
® Local 301 asked the Na-
tional to win back GE shops.
It failed.
- @ Local 301 asked the Na-
tional to organize run-away
shops, It failed.
@ Finally Local 301 asked
- the National to do something
—anything—that would win
conerete unity for GE work-
ers. Again it refused.
The National has no solu-
tion. It refuses. to change.
The National would rather
have their brand of unity—
all dead together—in the UE
graveyard. They would rather
have that kind of unity than
change their policy.
At least they can then say
they all died for “the cause.”
The National would rather
keep the Infantes, the Jimi-
nezes,.the Wrights, the Elcon-
ins and the Flannagans and
the Eastmans and all the oth-
ers on the payroll than win
shops.
That’s the way it has been
ever since 1949,
From 1937 to 1949 we were
united. We were all together
in UE-CIO.
Those were the years that
we made our gains. Those
were the years when we won
paid vacations, paid holidays,
seniority protection, piece-
work guarantecs, and wage
increases that ran as high as
18'4e an hour.
Then GE never dared offer
a piddling 2.68°;. increase!
‘Montreal; Que. (2 Locals):
me NS
eh,
Pittsfield; Mas:
Providencs, Ri
The National sacrificed the
gains that came from. that
real unity for its present pol-
icy of unity in a graveyard.
Now GE workers are again
«bringing about real unity, un- -
ity that will make Boulwar 7
stop piddling around and par
gain in good faith.
" So‘ the outsiders are now
helping Boulware to disrupt
us and stall off this unity as
long as possible.
But they will not succeed.
It’s only a matter of time be-
fore the entire chain of for-
mer UE locals is united again
—in the UE grave pyard.
But the GE workers are
uniting in IUE-CIO —- 100,000
strong.
That is the issue and UE still
can’t provide a solution.
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,” would do. it in Erie!
The Votce of GE
t Workers, Local 301, ‘Schenectady, N. Fi
June'4, 1954.0"
_ TUE-CIO -negotiators continued. to
meet with the company in New York on
eur demands for wage increases and’
Contract improvements, But Boulware
is squeezing every drop of advantage
he can out of the UE stall. . :
As a result, the company is even re-
fusing to negotiate in good faith. . It
still takes the attitude Boulware is, 80
famous for,
.. “We made an offer; take it or leave
it!” :
But, GE workers are fed ‘up with
such arrogance. Throughout the plant
last week GE workers rejected the offer
and directed our negotiators to continue.
fighting for major improvements,
Such arrogance on the part of Boul-
ware is one of the reasons why Local 301
is uniting with 80,000 other GE work:
ers. Only in that way will we be able
to make Boulware bargain in good faith
and provide the gains we deserve.
Such as pensions and insurance: GE
workers are demanding that the com-
‘pany make major improvements along
these lines. ;
But last. week Boulware offered ab-
sohitely nothing on those items. That is
how the outsiders are actually helping
the company and hurting GE workers.
Every day of delay in the election. is
preventing us from mobilizing our. sup-
vort seainst the company.
rie Layoffs Reach 7,
ut
Three hundred more Erie
GE workers. have received
notices, of layoff. This boosts
the total unemployed in Erie
to 7,800 according to UE’s
own GE shop paper. (See cut
at right).
The story, in the UE Local
506 Union News for May 21,.
blamed the layoffs on “GE’s
policy of profits at any cost.”
But the same issue of the
paper showed that UE is do-
ing nothing to help these
thousands of laid off workers.
(Six thousand of these jobs
are moved out of. Erie to:
Louisville, Ky., a run-away
shop which UE failed to or-
ganize, but TUE-CIO organ-
ized.)
UE has no plan of fighting
‘ay-offs in Erie. It has.no pro-
“-gram to prevent unemploy-
ment. In fact, it isn't lifting a
finger to help the Erie work-
ers who. are forced out on the
streets. ;
The only thing UX is-doing
is promoting a plan to get
“surplus ‘government’ food’*
tor the Erie workers. |
And that exposes the phon-
iness of UE’s “fight for jobs”
here. For if UE could do
something to stop lay-offs, it
UNION NEWS
Er ie, Renns Ivania
~ Layoff To Hit
Building 63
Erie Works management continu-
ing tls lavotf poles in disregard for
the welfare of GIS workers and the
Irie community, has ordered an-
other cut-back in Erie Works pro-
auction, this time in room condi-
(OoMer"and food freezer manufactur-
ing that is scheduled to affect about
300 workers,
A reduction in four-foot freezer
production will result in layoffs for
{8 ‘vorkers the week ‘ending June
llth, according to the management
order, with L!2 more food freezer
workers and 169 room conditioner .
workers scheduled to be laid oft
the ea 3 &
off of 300 more oe il swell
y the unemployment “to 7,800.
j Or more. Gis =~ ‘pro a
any cost delivers another. blow to
the Erie economy already affected by .
previous GE layoffs, ~4
Big Midwest
‘Local of UE.
oesn t Lift < a Finger Re-joins ClO
Two thcusand more work-
ers—members of one of UE’s
biggest locals in the midwest
~—have voted to get out of UE
and ‘back into C10,
On May 27, employees of
International Harvester Co.
in Moline, Hlinois, repudiated
UE by the smashing majority
- of §-to-1. The official NLRE
count cf the votes was:
clO____ 1,450
Thus the“parade of UE mem-
bers back into CIO continues.
Every week more and more lo-
cals quit UE,
This vote shows the nation-
wide trend among workers in
big companies to ditch UE be-
cause it represents. oly a
small minority of the work-
ers. Ié shows that through-
out the country workers re-
alize that the only way they
‘an protect: their gains and
_ continue... to. improve. their
standard of livi ing: is by being
united with the rest of: the
workers in that company,
And that is why Local 301
is moving to unite with the
rest. of the GE workers. in...
IUE-CIO. >
“OU Y HMIprovemEnt since Wo weeks atten 1S yeats,
~ Militant: ‘Grievanee Handling Fight
Pays Off: For GE Workers
Leroy Henry, Machinist De-
velopment Class. B. at .CA
has won an. upgrading ” to
Class “A” throtgh a griev-
ance handled by Board Mem-
her Mitch. | The company
agreed to. the reclassificatién
eff ective May 24.
‘Another upgrading was
won in Bldg. 60 for: An-
drew Tancheck, Class B Crane
Repairman. He was. bocsted
to Class A, effective May 10.
Local 301, has insisted he was
doing the “A” ‘work before
-» then, and as soon as ‘the out-.
siders are-off our back we in-
tend to press for further re-
troactivity. Board Member
Palazeke handled the case.
In Bldg. 81, A. DeSantis and
other accumulators in ‘the
stockroom under Foreman
West were scheduled for a
day off April 12. West claimed
the men. had to work that day.
Upon refusal he issued.a poor
progress report. and at-
tempted to intimidate the men
_ by.such notation on their time
cards..Through a case han-
dled by Board Member Lupi
the company agreed to clear
the record.
At the Racetrack, Board
Member Mclean succeeded in
winning the protest of 20 peo-
ple who objected to taking
acations at time scheduled.
The people will be allowed to
take their vacations when
they choose. Another seeds
g. by McLean. got’ manage;,
nt to agree to take timé
timates off certain jobs.
In Bldg. 269, Charles Suttle
was laid off for lack of work.
The. Friday. before Memorial
day. Was to be his last, day.
Through a.case handled by.
Board “Member Gray, |
Suttle was allowed to work
the following Tuesday and
therefcre receive his holiday:
pay. As a result of this case,
Ed Knack, a UE steward, and
Stanley Stage, a UE support-
er, were also allowed.to work
Tuesday. and’ be paid for Eke
holiday.
Another case in Bldg. 60
i
“won by Local 301 was. on a
new: classification set up by
the company. -— “Crane: and
Elevator Repair Helper.” The
job rate was set at $1.69.
Through a case handled ‘by
Palazeke’ the company agrees
“to increase the rate to $1. 73s
Also, the company agrees to
advance the classification aft-
er one year to “Advanced
Helper” at the rate of $1.7814,
BULLETIN
Wednesday afternéon the
NLEB denied UE’s motion
to reopen hearings .on, our
election petition. This is a.
major setback for UE’s at-
tempts to prevent an elee-
tion,
Vote on New
SchoolJune8
_June 8 is voting day for res-
idents of Schenectady County
to decide whether Schenec-
tady is to have a new high
school. The voting will take
place in 45 election districts.
A simple majority of those
voting will determine the out-
come.
Bill Stewart
In Hospital
Bill. Stewart, long-time
Board Member and 301 leader
from Turbine division, be-
came seriously ill Wednesday
morning in the plant and had
to be taken to the hospital.
We join with his many
friends in urging Bill a speedy
recovery.
UNITY OF GE WORKERS IS WHAT COUNTS—That was the
- position takenytt
roughout the week as departmental meetings of:
reaffirm their vote of March 70 to unite the GE chain in IVE-CIO,
Here is a picture of Turbine workers under Board Members Stew-
art and Hart who met Tuesday night and stood solidly behind
the. move of Local.301, to unite..100,000.GE workers ‘in. IUE-CLO..
Brother.
fins’
285 Case
Militant fighting of a griev-
ance. by Local 301 has won
George Blair his job back in
Bldg. 285...
Blair, a Class “A” Piet
Lathe Operator, was laid off
-in Bldg. 285 in: April, At. that
time he exercised his: seniority
ights and took a Job. in. Bldg.
“Due. to. scarcity of. work
in 53, he was losing time,
causing a loss in earnings.
Meanwhile ‘his .old job back in
285 picked up to the extent
that two men with less service
were placed on it. After Board
Member ‘Landolfo took , the
case, to 41, management
-agreed to restore Blair to his
old job effective June 1.
as ) uo yt . H
Ranse Girls
Need Support
=Two little Schenectady
are fighting for their-lives in «a
New York City hospital. Bev -
‘erly and Barhara Ranze, of 1346
Fourth Ave. are the vietins of
girls
Coaley’s anenia.
The sisters were sent to New
York last week through contri-
hutions ratsed hy a local organi-
zation, However, additional help
is needéd,
Local 301 regards ‘this as a
worthy cause, Any local leader
who wishes ta make collections:
to support this cause can obtain
canaisters from Union Head-
quarters, :
Welders Fight
- Company Delay
The. Spot: Weld group ii
“Bldg. 73-A walked out Tues-
day afternoon at. 2:30. They
were.protesting the tom-
pany’s..attempts to take ad-
vantage of the disruption by
the outsiders.
The table for these jobs Has
heen. established fer eight
years. Now the company is
trying to change the dispatch-
ing of jobs. There is no
change in method.
After the. company refused
to give a satisfactory answer
Tuesday, the workers laid
down: their tocls and walked:
out. Chief Steward. Mastriani
is handling the case.
301 Enforces
Seniority Pact
‘Robert Burns has been
transferred’ back to his old.
“job on Enamel Wire in Bldg
‘109,-and’a company atte”
to’ circumvent our Local 301
Seniority has again been de-
feated.
From 109, Burns was
bumped to Bidg. 23 where he
suffered a loss in earnings.
The foreman had agreed to
bring Burns back when work
picked up. . However, he put
another man on the ‘job who
had less service.
Board Member La Bombard
processed the case and man-
agement agreed to return
Burns to his old job in 109.
3208 On
Bldg. 37: Earl] Copeland was of-
fered a bump in Gen, Eng. Lab. but
Gen. Foreman. Hunt has attempted
to disqualify him. Shop i pen
Carl Butch has been chosen to pro-
cess case with management,
Bldg. 16: Shop Steward J. Cor-
less. has protested the fact that
supervision has refused to abide
by agreements made at a meeting
5/6/54, Board Member Williams
will handle the case in Bldg. 41.
Bldg. 14: Mary Warner was of.
fered. and accepted a bump in Of-
fice Service.” However, when she
reported for work she was assigned
another job, Boatd Member Pacelli
has been chosen to p he. cause
With. management.
Bldg. 273: Joe Sickinger has S prow
tested the fact that supervision is
attempting to eliminate a Ist shift
operator on the Boring Mills.
Board Member MeColl hus been
selected to handle the case in Bldp.
41.
Bldge 58: BE. Sehubert and “M,
the Job
Schrom have been classified as In-
spectors Class “K”, Although there
has been no change in job content,
supervision is. attempting to re-
classify them us “Checkers”, J.
Whitbeck has been selected to pro-
cess this case with management,
Bldg. 2738:
payment for waiting time when ¢
though he had no helper, forema
refused to issue a lack of work
pass, Board Member McColl ‘will
handle this case in Bldg. 41.
IUE-CIO LOCAL 301 NEWS
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF LOCAL 301,
co REPRESENTING SCHENECTADY
GE WORKERS
eB 2:
Published by the Editorial Committoa
Prasident.. - Jomes J, Cognetta
View Pras ~-Joreph Alole
Treasurer -toroph Whitbock
Mrcording Secretary. wtles Meon
Au't Recording Sectatary_._tudy Blasland
Chief Shop Steward.......Willlam Mastelent
Muelnen Ageot. ———Llee Jandrewn
a AISERTY ST, SCHENECTADY 4, M. Y.
K. Hitchcock requests .
_ MIKE
PERLIN™ ~ Local 30
"Mike Perlin was kicked out of
Schenectady by GE workers ee
years ago.
But today “Walrus Mike”
is back in Schenéctady. He’s
set up at 20144 -Broadway
with the rest of the outsiders.
And his objective today is
the same as it was when the :
members of Local 301 threw
him out back in 1950: To
wreck our Local Union and
take over control for the New
York City crowd!
Perlin is not a Union organ-
‘izer. He always wanted to be.
But he could never make the
grade. ;
So he took the next best
thing: ‘He became: a_ political
hack for the UE. _
National UE sent “Walrus
Mike” into Schenectady. The
National said he was to pro-
vide “legal service” ito the
members.: He was “recom-
mended” by Dave Scribner,
OE s expert ir legal trickery.
MIKE PERLIN
-“Cloak and Dagger. Commissar"
But after Pérlin was here a
while, it became obvious what
his real purpose was. It wasn't
to “service” the people:
Actually it was to under-
mine our 301. leadership,
wreck our Local,. and grab
control for the National.
‘If he -was successful, Mike
was to. be appointed ‘business:
agent’” by the. National.
Immediately after” Perlin
got here, he became’ the. poli-”
tie al commissar of the. cloak- .
and:dagger crowd operating :
out of the back room.
But.he was exposed i in shdrt
s: exwosed by mem-"
bers of Local 301 whom he
had approached to help him in
his’ war against our Local.
These members refused to be-
tray our Union-to this devi-
ous, “unscrupulous .
conniver,
So the members threw him
out.
He was thrown. out at the
same time we kicked out Vic
Pasche. ;
Not only was Perlin waging
war against. our Local.” He
was, losing dough for Sche-
nectady GE workers.
Although he was: supposed
to handle, compensation, he
actually fouled. up dozens of
cases. The cases he won were
few and far between.
As one worker’ said when
political
ut in
_told Perlin was to handle his
case: “Not on. your life — PL,
want to win!” ”
. Now he's back in Schenee-
his aEROBatICD and, disruption ;
of the hearings. He’s one of
the guys who is trying to take
over. our funds and property
for the National on grounds
that “seven menrbers object.’
Perlin: is. trying: to- sell GE
workers the jine’ of the Na-
tional. And,’ of course, trying
to. get their compensation
cases at the samie time.
Well .. «if Perlin's “success”
with GE workers follows the
pattern. of ‘the compensatior
cases he won, UE won't even get
the 5% or 6% of? the vote. it is
figured to get; it will get the’
‘ votes of the seven appointed of-
ficers, «No. more!
‘Weve GOTTA.
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‘Bldg. 52 Victory
the
Local 301, the group under
Shop Steward Della Rocco in |
‘Bldg. 52 has’ succeeded in-
getting the company to move
up its June schedule to elim-
Through efforts = of
a lack-of-work . condi-
President J. Cognetta
inate
tion.
“handled the case in Bldg. 41:
Fighting —U:
Hes adiine in the TE News:
UE JOB FIGHT
HITS THE
HEADLINES ~~
Yeah! And 6,000 UE
members in drie hit the
nines beeause UE was too
veuk to Win the fight!
Rotation Case Won
In Bldg. 273 the company
took the position that it did
not have to recognize layout
and machine helpers as one_
“group for” the” “purpose” “of
rotation.
A grievance was filed. The
foreman refused to do any-
thing about it. Board Member
McColl took the case to 41
and’ won it. °°
Stewards in 68
Repudiate UE
As usual, the outsiders are
using stories to make it look
like they have a fcllowing.
Mest recent example is in
Bldg. 68.
Immediately after the story
appeared in the outsiders’ pa-
per, Stewards from 68 came
up to Union Headquarters. OF
the eight Stewards in 68, sev-
en signed a statement. repud-
iating UE and endorsing the
move of Local 301 to ‘unite
GE workers.
The statement reads:
“We duly clected “Shop
Stewards, recognized by the
Company, have deen carrying
the fight for our members in
68 and shall continue to do so
in the future. We support the
elected Officers, Board Mem-
bers and Membership who
have acted to unite our ranks
with all GE workers.
“We support this move be-
cause we recognize it is neces-
sary if we are to win steady
gains in wages and contract.”
The: outsiders were trying
to. make similar. claims | in,
Bldgs. 15, 17 and: 19. To see
how. truthful these. stories
were, Board Member O’Brien
circulated petitions in those
sections. The response was
overwhelmingly — in favor of
“supporting Hoeal 301.
Jobs, GET AWAY
Al
G ONNA: LET: No.
“NOTHING, ‘Witk ) a7
GET AWAY oy
id Wednesday [UE-CTO or-
ganized another big) run-away — fronths.
Ul was in the picture. It: had: or-
ganizers working cn
the ‘place’ for
sho dhe ‘ . But UE couldn’t get a foot in the
Tn so) doings FUR-CIO pre door, Westinghouse workers: refused
Ls LOUNGE,
vented the Westinghouse Cor por-
to have anything to do with UE.
: nn : The UE organizer, s obviously weren’t
ation from establishing a giant working inthe
interests of the
new electrical appliance center Westinghouse ‘workers: The organizers
with sub-standard rates and non-
Union conditions.
Phe: plant is in’ Columbus, Ohio.
‘Lynn Lies Licked!
The outsiders are peddling stories #
Westinghouse is following GE’s pattern ~ . attempting -to show that) Lynn.Gk
und ‘putting all its: cleetrical appliance gworkers “lost” after they “quit, URK
work in this one plant. «That is what fand joined WWE-CIO.
GE has done in Louisville, Ky. ‘ These are blasphemous lies. They
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More than a year ago’ Westinghouse have no foundation whatsoever.
started operations in Columbus. Im-
mediately IUE-CIO was on the job.
“IUE-CIO petitioned for an election
early ‘this year. The company, AFL Fand IUE-C1O.
f The truth of the matter is that inj
the past four years there have been}
Athree elections in Ly nn between UR}
And in every election}
craft unions, and the UE all fought the Pine workers voted 1U E-CIO.
petition. They tried to raven an elec-
tion.
through the hearing stages. On May 26
In fact, in every election the ma-f
But IUE-CIO pushed the petition pjority for IUGE-ClO was increased. |
FUE was beaten again in the last. elec-
the vote was held and the official NLRE ytion just five months ago in spite of
count wa
IUE- clo fearved out. a
ithe fact that: it Split: the workers,
and then didn’t
adare go on the ballot to be judged hy {
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IAM-AFL ...___. 48
: the tnibie iat
were pulling their usual tacties cf stall-
ing, disruption, confusion and smears—
the same as here in Schenectady.
Still UE couldn’t get support. When
the UE “representative” appeared at
the NLRB hearing he had only,one card.
So to avoid an overwhelming vote:
against it, the UE had to pull off the®
ballot at the last minute. <
The Westinghouse plant now em-
ploys 1,200 people in Columbus. But
when it reaches peak’ preduction in a:
year or so. it will employ SPORE
§,000. 4
Columbus is 70 miles south of Mans-
“field, O.,. location of a big IUE-CIO
Westinghouse local. But Westinghouse
Was so anxious to put over scab: rates
and rion: union conditions that it was
paying “people G0e an hour on the aver-
age less in Columbus than in Mansfield.
Other important organizing cam-
paigns by IUE-CIO that have defeated
these company attempts to get away
with sweat shop conditions have been in
Louisville, Ky., Anniston, Ala., Linton,
Ind., Shawnee, Okla., Dallas, Tex., An-
derson, S. C., Paducah, Ky., Memphis,
Tenn., Anderson, S. C. and Selma, Ala.
The UE, on the other hand,‘has never
organized a single run-away shop. Further-
more, it doesn't represent a single electri-
cal worker in the South anymore: They've
all jomee IUE-CIO!
fe ad elena
eer Wi th h Other GE
WwW orkers i in. Cio!
Here are excerpts from our 1948: 49 GE
|| Contract, ‘the last Contract while all GE. work-
ers were united in CIO... It shows. clearly that
‘we woen-our important gains while we were
united with the rest of the GE workers. ‘These
clauses ne psicaily the San 7e today, if not
exactly the same. No substantial gains have
been made since then. It we are to win further
Sains like. these important ones, we must be
united again w with the rest of ce workers.
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Oniy through unity*can GE workers win the wages, conditions and job
security they deserve.. That is why Local 301 has united with IUE-CIO, to
make 100,000 GE workers unified against the company in: negotiations.
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agement continued. to drag
and. refused. to get down to bargaining mn
good faith,
On Wednesdays President Carey called: fis arrogant
‘in Federal Mediators
Second Shift Turbine workers ‘as they
Pettit Blasts Up Meetings Solid for Uniting GE
The outsiders ure continu-
ing to lie to GE workers.
The recent UE paper said:
“Jim Pettit... charges Frank
_D’ Amico, IUE-CIO Board mem-
ber and. three others with intim-
idation.”- ; :
The same day that story
appeared in the outsiders’ pa-
per, Pettit came to Local 301
“Headquarters and in a sworn.
‘affidavit stated:
“Phere is absolutely. no
truth to the statement made
in the UE newspaper. FE had
not been intimidated by Frank
D'Amico . .. I resent UE’s
efforts to set worker against
“worker by: mis-quoting — and
mis-stating what was said.”
Pettit also revealed that
the phony story in the UE pa-
per was the result of a visit
made to his house by a group
of outside organizers... -. . --,
fond GEE made
out nerotliations: | The. Prat
{eR staticand) dling eroaund.
nea
< work budge
Cathy neve ta show wood faith, agi
is that Boulware has made it
cleue bhat he owl drain every dotiar he ean
out ol Gis workers watil our election is held
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cattifade fidicates.. that. he
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S ae Ss
Departmental meetings of
Tuocal 301 members were held
again Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday of this week.
The stand we took in March
to unite 100,000-strong | in
1UE-CIO is reaffirmed. over-
whelmingly. .
Last Thursday 300 mem-
bers from the Second Shift of
Turbine met at midnight.
They, too, were solidly behind.
.
Rawat
met at Union Headquarters. last Thursday. |
As these meetings continue
it becomes obvious that the
outsiders haven't succeeded in
splitting our ranks. They
haven't even made a dent.
With their usual line of lies
and smears, the outsiders do
succeed at. times in causing
temporary confusion. But the
meetings show that.when the
members get the facts
straight, there is no doubt
as to where they stand.
PAGAL ATTN NSN fT Te Rk ME LD A
Another Local Qusts UE
The stream of frermbers aut of CE continues.
4
Last week auothor loeal dumped Ub and voted Co
unite With the vest of Cleetries? workers in MUE-CLO,
"Pho pliant was North Brothers in Philadelphia. ‘The
Bocal was TR sted, ‘Phe election was Fune 2.
|S AUE Local £35 used. te “he-aebie doch representing
more than 12,000 workers in independent machine shops
in Philadelphia, 'Podex practically all of them are in
YUR-CEO. Ouly a haaedlid
(hear bave indicated Uey,
are dn CI and ahnost all of
Want) to getoout of GES. and
unite aeain as soon as elections ean be held.
‘eh EOI PRT AT ATEN ET IOLA BN FERIA IS EL CODY BTM PIT FMR PORT STR STEEL IA CP AIP
An “emergency | meeting”
‘of the duly elected: leadership
of Local 301 has been’ called
for next Monday .to° “take:
urgent action to get our elec-
tion Order out of the NLRB,’
President James Cognetta an-
nounced Thursday. “6
“Tf we haven’t heard: any-
thing by Monday,” Cognetta
"declared, ‘we will take our’
case to every official in Wash-
ington. We'll go clear up to .
the President of the United.”
States: if we have to.” ; a
‘In calling this special meet-
ing,Cognetta, pointed out that
it has: been-14 weeks now
‘since Local 301 ‘acted to get
.an election and the NLRB
still hasn’t. handed down its
decision... ., :
“hese outsiders,” Cognet-
‘ta-anerily declared, “are jeo-
pardizing. the wage negotia-
:tions. of 20,000 people when
they mess around like they
have been doing.”
“They have stalled our elec-
tion and fouled up our griev-
ance. procedure for 14 weeks
now,” he: continued, “and we
intend to put a stop. to ity
They have had more than.
three months now.to carry on
their campaign and: they ‘still
haven’t won any support. The
people in the plant have seen
what the outsiders have done
to our grievance machinery
and.to our negotiations, so we
are calling a halt to this busi-
ness right now.”
90% Majority
For TUE-CIO
The regular Executive
Board meeting of Local 301
was held Monday night.
eh—Roard Member
reported on conditions in his
department and the feeling of
the people.
In literally every instance
the Board members reported
that the people are support-
ing the move to unite in IUEB-
~-CIO“by- 906. or better.
; Hearings:
Last. Thusday: the “contempt” case
hearings ended in: Albany.
On that final day, the outsiders: made
a desperate bid to ‘prove their phony
They failed miserably:
the. outsiders
nacd every bank. in Schenectady. When
they got the Bank officers onthe stand,
they ‘asked whether the Bank had. any
money on deposit.from Officers and.
charges.
In this move,
Board ‘Members. of Local 301.
The sworn .te stimony of these Bank
subpoe-
none of thiais business, that a inSain al’ ;
account was:a private matter,
(Obviously UE thought there were many thousends of dallens ”
in the occount, for they had accused Mr. deindreay af ‘stealing’
and “mis-mpproprioting’’ anywhere {ram $54,900 to $118,000.)
But Mr. Jandreau was in the Court
Room at the time, He told the Bank
counts
“Tes
outsiders
Outsider Is Or
In spite of all. the hullabaloo the
made about”
Thiet
‘finances,
within three figures,
Bani officer.
in ovr Local,
personal savings.
to ‘our Community. have accused’ of. ‘theft,!’ ‘sell-out’? and
other unspeakable ucts. i)
‘With ‘that answer the whole case of-
the outsiders went up in-snioke,
obvious that there w: as Ho truth to their
outrageous charges.
ser to ‘go: ahead and reveal his ac-'
CWithin: three ligurest! means that after 17 years on the job
Mr,:.Jandreau. hes, but a few hundred dollars in
Thot is the record. ofthe man. these. strangers
Tt. was
replied the.
officials—UE’s own witnesses—showed
that the only money deposited. was the
Officers own personal savings or check-
ing accounts. The outsiders asked how
much was in each account and: it was
shown that the amounts were small in-
deed. And no deposits had been made
in any amount of more than $15 or $20
since March 1.
they failed to shoy
to support the charg.
The entire review-o eau iL 301
money showed only: oie shortage.
That. is for $50 which Lo ab 301
loaned to Alec Leith, GI publicity
hack.’ This is the same guy who
“wrote the stories saying Local 301
Officers had'“stolen” the funds.
any evidence
When the outside lawyers came to
the account of Mr. Jandreau, Local 301
Business Agent, they insisted on know-
ing just“how much was in the account.
The Hearing Judge told UE that it was
he would’ re-pay it.
Local 301 loaned this money. te
Laith several months ago. He said
He never has!
‘But still the UE Lawyers wanted-to. *-
‘continue their fishing trip. ‘They wanted
the case carried to Washington cand .
Heaven knows where else.
But the Hearing Judge’s patienc ie was
exhausted. He told the UE plainly that .
he had given them “plenty .of latitude”
and’ that their “own witnesses” “had -
testified that there vy jagvno trath. to She a8
ridiculous charges.
~ §$So the case was over.’ Now the
Hearing Master is inthe. process of
writing his d scision which. will. probably” ’
be handed down in a week or 10 days.
Layoff Stopped ;
Anna Yost won:her fight
for Seniority rights to a Class
D Assembler in. Bldg. 69 after
the company told her she was
laid off for lack of work. The
company offered only office
service or Porcelain. But aft-
er the duly elected Board
Member took the case into 41
the company agreed to the
transfer.
Job Transfer Won
Susan McCarthy won prop-
er placement in Bldg. 69 after
Local 301 carried her fight for
Seniority rights into Bldg. 41.
Formerly employed in Bldg.
269, Sister McCarthy went off
the payroll when the company
offered her no new job. But
after she came to Local 301
and Board Member Gray took
her demand to the company,
she was. called back.
Bldg. 273: A. Pallesehi protests
moving the operation reheat valves
to A-Bay, in an attempt ‘to estab-
lish a new classification without
negotiation and in violation of con-
tract, J. Copnetta will handle the
case. . .
Bldg. 269: C. L. Juno has been
laid off due ‘to Tack of work and
has not reeeived a comparable or
suitable offer of work, Board Mem-
ber Gray will process. demand for
proper offer,
Bldg. 278: A. Adams was offered
and accepted Ist shift chiping job
in K-Bay. Supervision now states
it is a-ded shite joh. Board Mem-
ber MeColl has been designated.
Bldg. 18: C. DeMarea was taken
Joff his job to perform, another ac...
Company's eonvenicnce. — Board
Member Christman will handle de-
mand. for 5 hours’ pay at average
canningss,
CAP: Isabelle Vunek, Blass: eK
Tnspector, has been’ laid off
due to lack of work but has not -
Boird
o
“poceived “i stiitible offein
Member Miteh will process the
case with management,
Bldg. 278: The Class “B” In-
spectors in Shop Steward ‘Thomas’
vroup ure protesting the - Com-
pany’s attempt to assign duties
outside their classification, Etching
of shells iss not a part of their
line of work, *
Bhig. 28: Laura Jakad, Class “]”
Inspector, has, been laid ‘off due to
lack of work but has not received
a suitable offer, Steward K. Gir-
ard has. beeh chosen to take the
cause to Bldg. 41,
tclations Heael certifications
Lusty desisoutted. as anes exclusive
AUTOMATIC PROTECTION-—~Reproduced above is Article 1,
Par. 2 of the IUE-CIO National Contract with GE. It shows
clearly how the IUE-CIO Contract automatically covers Sche-
nectady GE workers after the NLRB election. The Contract
provides full protection o on in Seniority and piece-work guarantees.
IVE-ClO LOCAL 301 NEWS
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF LOCAL 301,
+ REPRESENTING SCHENECTADY
GE WORKERS
01 Preveuts Job Violation by GE
«SEs 2
_A_fight. by, Local..301_ has .
Lorenzo. carried. yO Lo.
Published by the Editorial Committaa
Prosidont...-.-..-.-— —Jamos J. Cognatta
Vice’ President —- oaeaJosaph. Alois
Treasurer — Joseph. Whitbeck
Recording Secretary. --Milos Moon
Ass't Rucording Sacro --Rudy Rissland
Chief Shop Steward_.-_.William Mastriant
BusInass, Agent. loo Jandraav
801. LIBERTY ST... SCHENECTADY..5, N.Y
~ forced “management to live. up 41,
to. our Contract protection in
spite of an attempt to cheat
ns by taking ad-
vantage of the. outsiders" dis-
ruption,
3 ec! ATTEY
on GE worke
“ll “Member ‘Di-
the Company agreed to
give Dave Audet his full mea-
sure of overtime as Freight
levator Operator in Bldg. 69.
The company had other peo-
ple dving the work that was
Peeper Audet?
aa
~ thrown.
Block did. his. share to bring
ED
LOCK
"Outsider. Ed’ Block is another.
political hack. s
‘He Vcomes up to Schenee-
‘tady: from New York City:
saying he ‘is here to “save
jobs.”
matter is that: Block was, in-
strumental in. losing ‘the jobs
for 1,000 UE thembers in New
York City, of:
‘This: outsider: never: had
real Trade Union. experience.
\ All.he knew about how to. run
a Union was what he read in.
books.
- So when. he went to. work in”
the Teletone.. plant in. New
-York,. Which was part of UE
Local 430, he tried to run the
Union according to the screw-
ball books he had:read.
Shortly thereafter Teletone
closed down its entire plant
and: 1,000 UK members were
out on the street.
it ‘about. - be ye
s, But “Blockie” never. _wor-
mal
ied about losing. the jobs of
. 1,000 people. - For he gota
pie-card job out of it. Matles
But. the. truth. of the.
‘Lynn. Hew
; Ed Biock
‘. Want to lose’ your job?
. See him!
made him a UE “organizer,”
despite the fact that he, had
no Union background. His
only claim to fame was that
he had been. ALP candidate
for State pre eet Te OF
course, he.
Then‘. he:
ment of: splitting Lynn GE “office
workers away.from: the produc-
tion workers. and’ winning the
Lynn plant for UE.
The UE legal experts. in
Jobs of 1,000
“ui ickery SUCC ceeded i in splitting
the office workers.” But Block |
failed’ miserably in his cam-
paign.
Although lie worked steail:
ily on the Ly nn drive’ ‘for prac:
tically a. year, he wi a8) repudi-
ated by a 4 to-1 vote in the.
election. . The result,’ of that
election “among Lynn office
ORO: held lnsty Dee. 10,
Ww as: :
ge
UE: clo “952
Little wonder is it that he
was.repudiated. For in Lynn
he thought himself too good
to live with the people “who
‘worked in the. plant.
Instead he took up resi-
donee ‘out. in the “Diamond
District” of Boston.
This. carpetbagger never
did anything to help GK
workers .in_ his life, His raid
‘in Lynit split the people, con- -
fused -
them and) disrupted
their Union the same way it
is doing here.
Asa matter of fact, Block:
thinks it’s great fun. He en-
joys.
“for the: éat
workers: 1 is SHOE: so paididhs
» He'lies. and ‘cheats and dodges:
He “wo ¥en- ‘tell GE
workers “his right name! At
one‘ house-he will: say his name: .
is one thing: At, another house
he. gives: an, ‘altogether differ-_ <
ent name. >:
But no-matter what name
“he gives, the workers he- vis-.
its. all: give him. the ‘same’
treatment. They tell him firm-
ly.to scram; they want.noth-
ing to do with him or his raid
of “disruption and confusion.
(in his own local in New York
the workers .were even more
forceful with him. Once when
he was trying to disrupt a méet-
ing of members who were dis-
affiliating from’ UE, the mem-
bers told him-to,scram. Instead,
he went merr, pily | on his malicious
‘way. So.one.of the. workers
could take it.no more. He belied |
“Blockie.” This hack has’ never
“shown his'face around that plant,
/ since: d, ' ’
H URRY uP wi TH TAAT
LOARY
WE'VE GOT AY
ae or MOKE
LT) BURY.
BONS
PVOUVE GOTTA GET
Ky ME ANOTHER MEAT
WAGON- THIS ONE
ACE. alld MOREM &
, A CANT HANDLE THEM
Matles Better Get That Extra Hearse Quick!
“Member's in another UE” Local “are:
rebelling’ and moving to join TUE- Clo.
Latest location to split apart at the
seams is UE Local 437, an amalgamated
unit around Jersey City,-N. J.
This Monday, June 7, the man who
“had been” ‘Business Representative of
“the” Local ‘for more than 12
Ernie Pollock — announced that he was
quitting UE and moving to unite the
2,500 members in IUE- cio. Pollock was
one of the founders of UE back in 1987.
He was first President of his local, and
‘later: the first Business: Representative. :
wait se
‘years =")
“Tir a statement, Pollock said:
, “The sagan
growing strength of IUE-CIO is needed
by the members of Local 437 in order
to protect the gains we have made in
the past and to win higher wages and
better. conditions.in the future.”
The City Council, led by the Mayor, is
Cavtt up a local conference on jobs for
Schenectady. CTO, Has’ been Ked ta
eouperate and be a lvading force in this
city-wide programm. oe
The conference will work-on the city
level to improve employment conditions
geiiitedis
haps
et atte g
Wraaers,
chesecti
rlte did,
LARS
petra
here: in, Schenectady. ;
VEFOO AB, the Mayor, City: Council,
Jes! and Org
Be
ditional . Defense Contracts. cinto.. this
ret 5 ee
But also: the City, Congressional, Gov.
Sernmént and. Labor leaders Will, per-
suades Gide. Alto and ‘other lending in-
~rtustries too make every, effort’ torkeep
alle present facilities operating and: ex-
pand others.
The resolution establishing the
ference on Jobsawas adopted by the City
Council ‘Tuesdiy night. ‘The resolution
ked the cooperation of all Congress
siomed -Governmenttl tauustriad and
“Joeal ABE and COO labor organiza.
Liens! :
ane
Phe resohation followed: action by the
Government last week in designating
Scheneetady: oa erifieal employment
are. .
In commenting en the City Council
Action, Business Agent’ Leo Jundrenu
sald:
“This is a’step in the right direction,
But the: final answer. can only come
rom a national fight on this issue.”
Mr. Jandreau noted. that early last
winter Local 30% Jeaders were bring-
ine the Schenectady job situation to the
attention. of Mayor: Wemple and city
“deadets. At-that time Local,301 met
with the Mayor and.other organizations.
At that time National’ UE never even
knew a job situation existed. They werent
seven In-townl’-
hosed oat oo
burg, Indiana é
yrus, Ohio
“" Buelid, Ohio”
fell. City, Indiana
Wabash, Indiana «:.,
Youngstawn, Ohio ;
- Philadelphia, Perinsylvania
- (2 Locals). © |
Lynn, ‘Massachusetts .
aeport, Connecticut. -
2 Locals) ‘
- Cambridge, Massachusetls
Pitisfleld, Massachusetts
“(2 Locals)
Everett, Massachusetts:
Holyoke, Massachusetts
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Providence, Rhode Istand-
Schenectady, New York
(Atomic Energy Works)
Syracuse, New York:
Waterford, New York
Trénton, New‘ Jorsey
. New Kensington, Pennsylvanta
‘Charleston, West, Virginia
Pittsburgh, Pennsytyania
. Auburn, New York’
New York City, New. York
‘ Bridgeville, Pennsylvania
‘twaukeo, Wisconsin.
Seattle, Washington
= Johnstown, Ponnsylvanta
Schenectady, New York
“Maqua: Plant)
a, Clifton, New Jersey
( ' “California” .
Long: Béach,'-Ca!
Poterborough, Ontarle, Canada
¢ ebee, Canada
Montreal, Quebec, Canada | -
(Solex, GE Lamps)
: rows
boy wit
“Only through unity. can: GE- workers wi
in the wages, conditions and: job
security they deserve, That is why Local 301 has united with IUE-CIO, to
“make 100,000 GE workers unified aga
inst the company in‘negotiations.
hingority
cesar)
Gorosment we have won over the years, There will be. no ios
whatsoever i in IUE- cio. |
“TUE CIO's National Agreement with GE SPELLS our.
hat GE Workers shall work our their Seniority are .
myestersemte as
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‘Note that iUE-ClO’s National Contiae 15 “subject to all Local
© Understandings.” This guarantees that our Local
. Seniority Supplement remains in full force
and effect in IUE-CIO.
ARTICLE XXI.
ROCA EOE U STANSTED sete
“¢ angec in aCe manner provided
‘Section.
Sy fay
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In 1VE-CIO Schenectady GE Workers Will Keep Our Same Local Seniority Agreement
The Same Way as all These Other GE Worksrs Who have Quit UE and Joined IUE-C!
«
« Layoff and Rehiring Procedure -
“The provisions of Article XI and Article XII of the said GE-IU® (CIO) National
Agreement shall be deemed to be a:nart of this uereement. The provisions of
Article XI, Sect.1 shall, pursuant to this Asreement, be specifically applied |
within the Fort Wayne Bargaining Unit as follows:
The factors of continuous service and ability shall be applied; first within
groups; second, within divisions; and third,.on a plant-wide basis, a1] as here-
inafter set forth. for the surposes of this MBPSSOnU The tert orou.y" shall
mean a unit of employees who are under the-‘sunérvision of a foreman or his ‘equiva
lent; the-term "division" shall mean 4 numberof crouns under the supervision of,
! a general foreman or his eauivalent;~and the term 'nlant-wide" shall méan-a unit
iene AN ion, ton a. ore o -of employees coverine the following four plants located at fort ‘ayne: -
AGREEMENT - a j . iene paar aneceecarcmrani artes renin cio soodhacnatees diainnins st :
“"Rotweon : — qf . Broadway Plant 1635 Broadway winter Street Plant 1605 \inter St,
General Electric Company (Philadelphia Plant) : : au. * Tavior terest Plant 2000 Taylor St, Fairfield Avenue rlant 1512 Fairfield.
When it.is_necessary to reduce the size of a grown, emplovees taken out of such
groups shall be those generally having the least continuous service, providing
the remainine employees can do the job with no.more than incidental trainin.
(a) Turing any reduction in working force or
the Juyoff of employcea from their regular jobs,
Fran ae erg Seee etna contiunous service | q Group surplus employees, selected as nrovidedabove, may be placed on other jobs
shall be applied first on the basis of plant units og f ‘y ie x * tcc ° , ’ . * i 2 “ee . s
specified herein and then on a plant-wide basis, : : r within the division, by assigninz them to the existing vacancies or by displacing
" , commemmnenamnn | 4 1 é 1 _ . _ - on Fi 0
_— : employees having less continuous service who are assigned to jobs which the. sur-
plus employees are cualified to nerform. Thus, those employees retained under the.
Jurisdiction of the seneral foreman shall be those havine the zrertest continuous
service and able to nerform the york with no more than incidental traini‘g. sm- §
ployees not retained in the division, after the foresoing procedure has beer
followed, may be referred to the employment office for_plantowide disposition,
_ The above Supplement between Fort
Wayne GE and IUE-CIO Local 901
Seared
r proves that not only is Seniority
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY :
(Sirecuse Plants) Sg | . eS me Bee ny Be plant-wide, but it is City-wide he-
mete | | | tween the four big G-E Buildings,
F_A=ASASE ASL
Section 3 ~ Increase in Forces along the same pattern as it is here
(b) In re-hiring employees after layorr, ti In Schenectady.
applicd ona plantawide basis, shall ba the major r governing
.,.hining if, the employee is able.té do.the.available work. in -&: satisfactory
er after a minimum amount. of training. wo :
‘People Who Know Say... _
a
y
“UE Told Us The Same Lies”’
Throughout the country . ... from Lynn. to Los Angeles . . . from Pittsfield to Philadelphia
. . .-the National UE has screamed that GE workers “lose their Seniority” every single time a
local has moved from UE to IUE-CIO. In every single campaign UE has said that — and more!
They have also said that people will “lose their. piece-work safeguards” . . . that people will ;
“lose their Contract” ... . that people will lose “all the gains made’ under UE." »
Every time they say it, but never oncé, has it been true.; For more than 400,000 workers
‘have quit UE and they have not only kept what they ‘had in the past, they went on to win
_greater yains through actual Unity. ;
Here is what the people who know say about. these UE lies: |
‘Lyle Dougherty, Business Agent of IUE-C1O Local -
901, representing 12,000 Fort Wayne GE work-
ers .
ers as a result of going IUF-ClO. We at Fort Wayne won our
Local Seniority agreement while still in UE and we have kept
it in IUE-CIO.. It affords full and com- >
plete protection for all GE workers as shige
regards bumping; lay-offs and rehiring, (: 4
etc. We won that agreement locally we Ae eh
and we are proud of it, Our. proudest Vou
gain in that Seniority agreement is one
that provides Seniority recognition for
* Ghoice of shifts. In Fort: Wayne “our
earnings are high because we have :
enforced our Seniority and our National Contract provides
equal protection to the UE Contract, which UE organizers
have a way of referring to as "superior." However, anyone
q
"Not a single thing has been lost by Fort Wayne GE work- ©
who knows ‘about a contract knows that what counts is the |
application of the Contract. And.that is one of the reasons —
| extend the welcome on behalf of Fort Wayne GE workers:
to have Schenectady return to the ranks of ClO. United
100,000-strong we.will all be able to do a more forceful job of
applying the Contract on the day-to-day grievances in the
shop." : ‘
Earl Riley, Business Agent of IUE-CIO. Local 201,
Lynn, Mass., representing 16,000 GE workers . . .
“Back in 1950 when we first threw out UE, "Lose Your
Seniority". was the whole cry from the National's crowd of
outside organizers. Up one side of the Lynn plant and down
the other they shouted it. Naturally
some people believed this and were es 9
justifiably worried about it, But after mh
our election was held and we were in le rd
JUE-C1O, all of those scurrilous claims ‘
were proved to be completely false.
In IUE-ClO we have maintained com-
plete seniority protection for our entire
membership, We have also maintained
all the gains we made under UE and went on to win addi-
tional gains that UE was never able to win. In the past four
years UE has had three NLRB elections here in Lynn and in
every case our members repudiated the UE and voted to stay
in IUE-CIO, This proves the phoniness of the UE claims
about “losing Seniority." If those stories were true, Lynn
GE workers would have voted to go back to UE. The fact
that they didn't proves those stories to be lies."
. Dave Fitzmaurice, President of IVE-CIO Local
707, representing Cleveland GE workers . . .
“To hear the: crowd of National Organizers from UE. talk,
you would think they invented Seniority. You would think that
_they. hada Copyright.on.it.. The fact of the matter is, that...
UE's National Contract with GE doesn't even mention plant-
wide seniority. However, the IUE-CIO National GE Contract
specifically spells out plant-wide Seniority as.a right of GE
workers. We have not lost a single thing as a result of leaving
UE. We ha
ve maintained all the gains of the past and gone .
dditional gains in 1UE-CIO. | am sure that Sche-
nectady GE workers will not lose any
gains either. . Far from "losing" any-
thing, | feel. confident that in TUE-CIO,
Schenectady GE workers will go on to
win greater gains in the future.. For
‘after your election and the outside
liars have again=been exposed, IUE-
ClO will eénfront-GE at the bargain-
ing table with the strength of more
~ than 100,000 GE workers in one Union."
Ed Houchins, President of IUE-CIO Local 119,
representing Philadelphia GE workers .. .
"When we were going through our.campaign against UE
back in 1950,.that's all we heard from the UE national crowd
-—~ "lose your seniority.’ That is a fear technique, a scare
. story, and it was the only thing UE
_ could offer, They had no program for
(&. GE workers. In IUE-CiO, Philadelphia
va | GE workers have not lost anything. - As
; Te : ‘a matter of fact, we have won addi-
ES3 tional strength. For just last December
wa organized: another Philadelphia GE
plant in IUE-CIO, This plant had been
; _ unorganized for many years and the
UE could: never organize it. Here in Philadelphia our piece-
work earnings have been steadily increased to the point where
they are highest in history. This is because our IUE-CIO. Na-
tional Contract proivdes full.and complete piece-work pro-
tection for all GE. workers, Undoubtedly the-National UE
crowd is telling you, too, that in IUE-CIO strikes can be called
by the National Officers. This, too, is a fabrication which
has no basis‘in fact, | know of this personally because |-have
been Local 119 representative on’ the IUE-CIO GE Nego-
tiating Committee and the GE Conference Board.”
John Callahan, representing GE workers in IUE-
CIO Locals 254 and 255, Pittsfield, Mass... .
"| Have been following the propaganda peddled by the
National WE in your campaign. When | show it to people in
our plant, they laugh. {t is just that ridiculous. For:they know
. _ that in IUE-CIO they have iiot lost a
A single thing that they had under UE.
Pittsfield GE workers have kept all their
Seniority protection. They have kept
all theitpiece-work protection. And
they have an evei.gteater degree of
Local dernocracy than under UE, for
they are ino longer harassed by out:
side orgonizers trying to run the Local
the way the National UE wanted it run. Pittsfield GE workers
know how phony are the—WE's scare stories about "push-
button strikes."' In IUE-CIO no strike is ever called without a
vote of the mémbership. In IUE-CIO no Contract is ever
signed without approval of the membership, Pittsfield GE
workers welcome the return of Local 301 to the ranks, of ClO,
for theyiknow that the unity of 100,000 GE workers in negotia-
tions will;end the Boulware brand of take-it-or-leave-it "bar-
gaining” and-will win for all GE people the kind of gains we
won in 1946, 1947 and 1948,"
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, ‘The best recommendation of Local 301’s fight for its women members to win
“equal pay for equal work” is the solid support of the women workers in the ap-
_. Proaching election. : :
LOCAL 30
., Women workers in Schenectady GE know that their own unity and the: ability .
of their elected leaders have made the gains of past years possible. "None of the
significant gains for women workers were ever won by the National UE: In fact,
‘National UE simply. tried to put into effect the outstanding gains. won FIRST here
in Local 301. ee :
l’s RECORD ON WOMEN’S RATES SPEAKS
_ FOR ITSELF: |
Local 301 initiated the fight for equal pay for equal work in 1936. Consistent support
of that principle has resulted in the highest women's rates of any UE local in the GE
chain. (Five years after Local 30! started its fight, the national UE reluctantly agreed
to adopt the “equal pay for equal work" principle.) ,
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Local 301's vigorous campaign in..1943 to end discrimination against women resulted
in upgrading of hundreds of women's jobs. This local 301 project was the first plant
survey of women's rates in the GE chain...
Second survey of women's jobs made by Local 301. Hundreds of grievances filed and |
won. When management balked, Local 301 took the case to the War Labor Board of
the U. S. Government. The Government upheld Local 30!'s position and ordered GE
to end discrimination against women. Again, hundreds of Schenectady women workers
won upgrading wages. (Local 301's precedent-setting victory on this case opened the
_way for thousands of women workers all over the country to win similar wage cases.)
POST-WAR RECORD OF LOCAL 301
