Electrical Union News, 1946 March 15

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STATE WORKERS JOINED THE PICKET LINE Monday morning ‘when 4 huge buszea carrying over a hundred
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== gg ploycee of state hospitals—and-pricons-in—western— New_York-stonned-for_a_couple_hours_at_ then ni
caravan composed of members of four different locals of State County and Municipal Workers of America, clo,

was headed for Albany to demand that Governor Dewey and Assemblyman. Oswald Heck support legislation which
would give them time and a half for overtime, unemployment insurance coverage, a pension system and other im-

_provements of their working conditions.

The spokesman for the group, Leo Levinson, addressing the picket line
f “atat d that “Governor Dewey and your Assemblyman Oswald D. Heck are no friends of labor unless they are a friend
tate employees. Your fight against GE and our fight against Dewey is the same fight.”

After their tour of

duty on the picket lines, ‘many of the guests enjoyed doughnuts | and, coffse at the n main a gate kitchen before leaving

on thelr: way.

UE Vet Hero

Fought Cops

“My God, this is what we just

finished fighting against,” was the
reaction of servicemen back from
Germany and the Pacific to the con-
duct of Philadelphia police in the
GE strike there, Willidm Hood, Pur-

‘ple Heart veterai and” GE stiiker,”

told the Town Meeting at the Armory
last Sunday..

Hood was one of the veterans who
defended the American Flag from
the policemen’s attack He had a
bandaged wrist as the result of the
beating the police gave him and oth-
era who held the Flag,

On the second day’s police attack,
Thursday, March 28, Hood said, the
police charged the peaceful paraders,
swinging clubs wildly, sending twen-
ty to hospitals, and severely injuring
& woman who was merely watching.
He said the police had aroused the
community's indignation, and that
even school children in. the “City of
Brotherly Love” were giving the
bluecoats the Nazi “Heil” and up-

_vaised arm salute.
At the close of Hood’s talk, the -

meeting adopted unanimously a res-

olution offered by Joseph Dominelli,

chairman: of the veterans’ commit-
tee of Local 301, condemning the Phil.
adelphia police conduct as “an effort

to establish at home the storm troop-

er rule .which American soldiers,
sailors-and marines fought and died

to destroy.”

Julius Emspak, national secretary-
treasurer of the UL, pointed out that
the attack on the marchers of Feb-
ruary 28 had nothing to do with any
injunction violation, because the
marchers were seven blocks from the
plant and were going to the City
Hall. He said that the Philadelphia
incident and the company's indiffer-
ence to their employees’ problems in
negotiations showed a tendency on
his part “to develop a pattern to
that of Hitler in Germany, Spain,
and certain Latin-American coun-

tries.”

Pays For Day Off

) An outstanding picket is George
Walthousen of Building 40, who
brings sugar to the line when he 1e-
ports Saturdays, and buys cakes and
jelly rolls for the boys. Recently
he had to bo off on his picket duty
day, so he offered to hire someone
in his stead. A volunteor took his
place, and Walthousen donated one
day's pay to the strike fund.

“be obtained only
* plant in Lynn.

GE's “Carbaloy” Cartel
Cost American Lives

How General Electric’s agreement.
with the notorious Nazi Krupp firm
to restrict ‘production and _ raises
prices of tungsten carbide in the
United States created one ‘of the
worst bottlenecks in the war effort,

wag told by Russell -Nixon, recently _

of the American Military Govern-
ment in Germany, to 5,000 persons
at the Town Meeting called by 275
merchants and professional people at
the Armory last Sunday,

The ‘charge against GE is con-
tained in an indictment pending in
Federal Court in New York, Nixon
said. He declared that it- was im-
possible to ‘tell how many lives of
American and Allied soldiers would
have been spared if GE had not en-
tered into the collusive agreement

“with Krupp.

Nixon said the Federal Court in-
dietment ae that after GE en-
tered the orldwide combination
with Krupp and others to restrict the
production of tungsten carbide, in
928, its price in the United States
went up from $50 to $453 a pound.

The collusive arrangements with
Krupp were still being made in 1940,
after the invasion by Hitler of Czech-
oslovakia, Poland, and France, Nix-
on said.

Conceal Facts
To Smear UE

There has been frequent: publicity
from various cities to the effect that
their public lighting system was in

-danger because the city could not

obtain magnite carbon sticks needed
for street lights, ‘as, these sticks could

Someone must have been eager to
throw a little mud at the UE strike,

‘for the fact is that the UE local at

the Lynn plant has made arrange-
ments to permit the carbon sticks to
be withdrawn from the struck plant.

OFFERS AMBULANCE

Henry G.. Smith, operator. of
the Mercy Ambulance Service
has notified this paper that he is
anxious to be of any assistance
he can to union members as well
as tho organization. His service

eee eNO ESAT A MERA,
is available on call at any timo

“As a result of the conspiracy, when
the United States went to war, the
shortage of tungsten carbide held
down the production of machine tools
so that it was not until 1943 that
this country’s machine tool industry

Striking GE veterans, under the”

guidance of the Local 801 veterans’
committee, did some heavy lobbying
in both Washington and Albay dur.
ing. the-past week. *

The lobbying vets have been re-
porting on their experiences to the
weekly meeting of 301 vets, every
Friday night. —

Last: Friday Chairman Joseph Dom-
inelli, Secretary Dewey Brashear,
and Angelo Panella of the 301 Vet-
erans’ Committee returned from
Washington where they. conferred
with Congressman Bernard Kearney‘
of this district. They found him op-

-—_posed__to_the_Patman—hill,which—is_.

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‘THE VOICE OF THE UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO & MACHINE WORKERS OF AMERICA—LOCAL 301, cio

Vol. HI—No. 9

SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK ©

March 15, 1946

iturday

ictory For the

favored strongly by the veterans. He
said he favored a raise in the min-
imum wage law, but was unwilling
to. commit himself-on the proposed
65-cent minimum wage law. He said,
he favored continuing OPA, but the
veterans considered that by oppos-

ing “subsidies; “he was actually un-

willing to preserve an effective OPA.
Kearney did, however, agree to work
for removal of the provision in the
GI Bill of Rights which disqualifies
a striking vet froml its benefits.
Fifty-seven vets from Locals 301
UE, Local 2054 Steel, Local 128
Steamtters, AFL, went to Albany

Monday in an unsuccessful effort to -

see Assembly Speaker Heck,
Fifty of them went back in a spec-

. ial bus and three carg Wednesday

-@qualled the capacity of Germany’s, _and_saw.Heck....He told.them.he_was_

"Nixon said.

The indictment of GE was handed
up in October 1941, but the latest
information from Washington is that
it will not be tried until the fall of
1946.

GE Loses Two

Injunction Suits

The General Electric Company has
“failed to make every reasonable ef-
fort to settle this dispute,’ Federal
District Judge Luther. M, Swygert
in Hammond, Indiana, found this-
week in rejecting the company’s plea
for an injunction to limit picketing
by the UR at GE plants in Fort
Wayne and Decatur, Indiana.

The court added:

“The requirement that the em-
ployed who seeks an injunction must
make every reasonable effort to set-

.tle the dispute by negotiation is not

fulfilled by his mere willingness to
meet with his employees or their
tepresentatives.

Two weeks ago @ court in Pitts.
burgh rejected dn injunction appli-.
cation by the Westinghouse Corpor-
ation:

David Scribner, UL general coun-
sel, handled both cases for the union.

inclined to favor the $250 bonus pro-
posal payable in 1948, but--would
study the Issacson plan for an im-
mediate $300 bonus.

The vets met also with Assembly-
man Fred Washburn of Hudson,
chairman of the Labor and Industry,
and found him very unfriendly to

labor. They also had a sharp dis- ,
agreement with Senator William F. °

Condon of Westchester, who wanted
a referendum before agreeing to a
bonus, :

New Cards
Next Week.

Membership cards bearing a
strike stamp for February, tak-
ing the place of the regular dues
payment, are being prepared by
the Local 301 office, and will be
ready to issue to the strikers be-
gining next Tuesday.

Beginning Tuesday, strikers
may call at the front office win-
dow at the hall and get ‘their
card. The big job about issu-
ing the cards consists of sort-
ing them and placing them in
alphabetical order so they can
be found when called for.

In order to bring about a settlement of the GE strike as soon ag

at the struck GE possible and on the best possible terms, it is necessary that ALL the strikers

take part in the various activities, not just their picket detail, but also in
the many different forms of work which make a strike effective and in-

crease the pressure on the company.

Check your choice of volunteer work on the form below, tear it out,
and mail it to UE-CIO Local 801, 301 Liberty Street, Schenectady 6, N. Y.-

I volunteer for the following strike duty:

Check

Neighborhood PAC work—hoyse calls distribution (in my home

neighborhood).
(] Soliciting Contributions.
( . Kitchen duty. *
[] Reereation and entertainment.
CC] Veterans’ problems.
Oo

‘ Clerical work at the union hall.

Name .....

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Do Your Full Part In the Strike

Ratifica tion-of-the= Strike

PRELIMINARY to the 1844-cent offer by GE was the picketing | agreement in which the company recognized the
complete effectiveness of the UE’s picket, lines, -and agreed that workers outside the striking group should enter the
plant only upon proper check by union inspectors, Office :and salaried workers streaming into the main gate Tues»

day (above), showed their badges to the inspectors,

Three of the union representatives ling the sidewalk on the

inside. They are Michael Bielecki, Bldg. 98a, Joseph Saccocio, Bldg. 52, and Gabriel Martino, Bldg. 60. sia office
worker i is showing his badge to Martino. Two more UE inspectors have their back to the camera.

‘Organization of

Clerical Imperative

Organization of GI office -work-
ers is now being pressed inside the

:plant by--the UE Office Workers’

Organizing Committee, backed by
Local 301, with the aim of safeguard-
ing the 18%-cent raise won for all
the workers by the strikers. The
committee intends to set up an of-
fice workers’ local of the UE here,
as exist in other GE cities.

The committee points out that
without a union the raise can be
taken away either through a speed.
up, or directly by notice to the un-
organized workers, as happened
twice in the thirties.

When the company made its first
10 percent offer, it conditioned this
upon acceptance of the speed-up
This was defeated as far as the or-
ganized workers were’ concerned, but
no such guarantee exists now for the
salaried worlers.

Office workers. can protect their
raise only by following in the foot-

(Continued on Page Four)

Be Sure To.
Register Now _

This: ia a- last reminder to
all GE strikers to register this
week for unemployment insur-
ance, if they ‘hayevnot yet done
80. co :

It may take a little while be-
fore the plant is in full opera-
tion, Some strikers may lose a
weok, or more unemployment
insurance pay if they fail to

register this week.

Victory

essage >

From Jandreau

A Statement by Leo Jandreau

. Saturday you will undoubtedly ratify the victory you have
won through eight weeks of courageous and united struggle on the
picket lines. You have already recognized it as a victory not only
for the strikers, but for the whole community, and for the preser-

vation of demoeracy in our land.
“You, by your unity. and deter.

mination, won the fight, There were
other important factors——the strike
was called only after careful prep-
aration and after all means of peace-

ful settlement had been patiently
exhausted. The strike was carefully
co-ordinated nationally by our gen-
eval officers, President Albert J.
Titzgerald, Secretary-Treasurer Ju-
lius Emspak, and Director of Organ-
ization James J. Matles. We owe
thanks to the many prominent citi-
zens who backed us. nationally, to
the efforts ‘of the federal mediators,

; and to Philip Murray, president of

the CIO, for his part in helping
Charles E. Wilson see the need of
meeting the national wage pattern.

‘Community support was a power-
ful feature of this strike all over the
country, It was outstanding in Sche-
neetady, and helped defeat all moves
to attack the strike from the outside,
The support of large groups of GI
salaried workers was o big factor

‘in defeating strike breaking moves.

_ But after all contributing factors
are considered, let us remember that
the main factor was the solidarity
of the workers, All efforts to split
them or undermine their morale

failed, This was true all over the
country, The spirit of the Schenee-
tady workers, their united stand
against all efforts to provoke trou-
ble, makes them unbeatable. |

We now turn to the job ahead as
we return to our work in the plant.
We have to consolidate the victory,
to see to it that all workers get their
full rights,.‘and to complete enroll-
ment of every employee under con-
tract. We have to help the office.
workers organize, so that they can
take their rightful place with us in
improving conditions in the plant
We have to help the Alco strikers
and the Transport workers win their
just wage and contract demands.

We have to use our experiences in
the strike’ to discharge our responsi-
bilities to the comniunity, in fighting

for the welfare of all, for price con- .

trol, for the election of true servants
of the people, for the building of.a
genuine © people’s political action
movement in cooperation with: all of
labor, with the whole community. We
must play our part in tho fight to

. Preserve. democracy. at. home.and-pre-

vent another world war.
We have learned the lesson of the

strike victory. We shall go forward—
UNITED.

tory, scheduled for Saturday at

meetings of GE locals here and
all over the United States, will
bring the first successful strike
against GE in its history to a
close after almost nine weeks of
hard fighting.

The strikers will begin returning
to work Monday with an 18%4-cent
raise. All Will be called-back without
discrimination, although how quickly
_ they will be called will depend on the
necessary preparations in the plant,
‘Watch the papers’ for announce-
ments. a

Picketing of the plant and check-
ing of non-production workers con-
tinued after the announcement of

“the settlement offer, as well as to-
day, without change in routine, but

the pickets and inspepetors carried
“on in a holiday spirit. They were very
conscious that “Well, we won!”

There was a mild demonstration
at the union hall when Leo Jandreau
phoned from New York at 7:10 Wed-
nesday night and announced that
the company had offered the 18%
cent raise in line with the national
pattern, and other acceptable condi-
tions. Bill Mastriani, picket chair-
man, was hoisted to piekets’ shoul-
ders.

“ Approval of the agreement by to-
morrow's mectings was recommended

_ unanimously by the UE-General Elec-

tric Conference Board, consisting of
representatives of the various GE
locals, at a meeting in New York
yesterday,

The complete offer includes:

The 1834-cent raise to all,
effective Monday.

Retroactive pay of ten cents
or 10 percent for all work since
January‘ 1.

All strikers will be called
back without discrimination,

Old contract extended to
July 1, pending negotiation and
possible arbitration of disputed
issues,

Wage increase: to be subject
te approval by Wage Stabiliza-
tiow Board (which is a matter of
routine in case like this) and to
be acted on by all locals Satur.
day.

The company's offer in line with
the wage pattern came Wednesday
evening in the third day of direct
negotiations, Earlier in the day
Charles E, Wilson had ‘talked in Mi-
ami with Philip Murray, CIO: Presi-
dent, and Lee Pressman, CIO gen-
eral counsel,

The union bargaining committee ,

was headed by the national officers,
and included eight delegates from
GW -locals including Jandreau. Jan-
dreau, President, Andrew Peterson,
and Edward Wallingford of the 801

executive. board: attended the GE

conference board meeting,

A statement by Jandrenu to the
membership appears elsewhere on
this page.

wae rewire, 2
ELECTRICAL UNION

NEWS_

“March” ‘15, 1946

ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS

United Electrical & Machine Workers of America, CIO
Schenectady GE Local 301

Editorial Office . -  -

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; Prepared and Published by the
PUBLICITY AND PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE.

- Electrical Union News

 301,LIBERTY ST. -
. SCHENECTADY PRINTING COMPANY

SCHENECTADY, N. Y.

I See We're
Back In Business

Mrs. | Roosevelt, Others
Support the Strike Fund

Mrs, Franklin D, Roosevelt, James
Roosevelt, ‘eldest son of IDR, and

seven United States senators head a
list of 58 persons, prominent nation-
ally in many walks of life, who have

. Joined a newly-formed board which
‘will serve in an advisory capacity to
the National Citizens’ Emergency
Relief Committes to Aid Stelkcgre!
Famillies.

The committee is raising funds
from the public, to feed the families
of the nearly one million American
workers on strike. The funds will
be allocated to the various striking
groups according to needs, as pre-
sented by thei’ “International unions.

From public life the board mom-.
bers include United States Senators ©

Claude Pepper, Warren G, Magnu-
son, Hugh 3B. Mitchell, James M.
Mead, Joseph F. Guffey, Francis J.
Myers, and Robert M. LaFolette, Jr.,
former Governor Gifford Pinchot of
Pennsylvania and Mrs. Pinchot, for-
mer Mayor F, H. LaGuardia of New
York, former Ambassador Joseph EL.
Davies, Attorney-General Robert ‘W.
Kenny of (California, Mxs. J. Borden
Harriman, Judge William. Hastie, and
Colonel Evans Carlson, famed leader

‘Sondergaard,

Louis Calhern, Norman Corwin, Mel-
vyn Douglas, Jose Ferrer, Mrs. Sher-
wood Anderson, Mrs. Mary McLeod
Bethune, Charles, Bolte, Henrietta
Buckmaster, Mr. and Mrs. William
Dieterle, Mrs. Marshall Field. Arlene
Francis, Elinor Gimbel, Morton
Gould, Ben Grauer,
grove, Walter Huston, Freda Kirch-
wey, Mr. and Mrs. Fredric March,

. Sono Osato, Molly Picon, Elmer Rice,

Artie Shaw, Herman Shumlin, Gale
Dr. Shanning 4H.
Tobias, Max Weber, and Mrs. Steph-
en S. Wise.

-snapping the var-

Marion Har."

Records History- Making Strike

THE MAN be-
hine the pictures.
that tell you the
story of the GE
strike in one is-
suc.of this paper
after another.

“Courtney Wright,

more widely
Known as “Shor-
ty”, ix a boring
mill operator. in
Building 273, and
has been an am-
ateur photogra-
pher for years.
But the _ strike
has made him a
regular. staff
tews cameraman
for this paper. ©
He keeps the suc-
cessive issues il-
lustrated by

fous strike ac-
tions aa they, de-
velop. And many
more shots for
which there is
not enough room
in the paper go
into the  union-
files and will be
a permanent rec=
ord of: this his-
toric fight for
years to come.

ELECTRICAL UNION 3 N EWS _

HOOK LINE AND SINKING

* or . os

‘TIME TO FISH OR. CUT BAIT

by :

Charlic (Try and Stop Me)

Wilson-Wilson ‘
Here I am in my new temporary
office at Grand Central Station. I
moved up here from the Penn Sta-
tion because it is getting to‘be Spring

. and Tl -be nearer to Central Park,

I promised to start negotiating this

__Hanal—

Vets Meet
Campbell

Continuing their lobbying activ-
ities, a joint sub-committee . vets’
committees of UE Local 301, Steel

.2054, and AFL Steamifitters 128 ‘met

with State Senator Thomas Campbell
of Schenectady, at his office in the

Capitol, and reported back that he

was generally evasive on issues of
interest to vets. He is chairman of .
the military affairs. committee of the
State _ Senate, and said ‘he was in
favor of “anything for the vets,”

‘but he opposed the Isaacson: bonus
-bill’ on constitutional grounds.

The

vets, contend it is entirely constitu.
en.

Welfare

Applications by strikers for some
form of assistance have increased in
the last week, John Polak, chairman
of the Strike Welfare Committee, re-
ported to the captains and commit.
teemen’s meeting Tuesday night. He
said. about 30 to 85 were applying
daily.

In view of the fact that the strik-
ers will shortly be able to receive
unemployment compensation, Polak
said, the welfare committee has been
following the practice, where the
need of any one striker is not too
great, of giving him assistance out
of available funds rather than refer
ving him to the County Welfare of-
fice.

The Strike Welfare office is open
daily from 9 to 5, and from 9 to 1
on Saturdays, in Room 810 at 831
State Strect,

of the. Makin, Island raiders,’ better. . _SS

known as Carlson’ a raiders.

Two noted clergymen, Bishop

Francis J, McConnell: and the Right |

Rev, Edward L. Parsons also have
agreed to serve. ,

' Representing... farni¢rs:.

“dent of the National Farmers, Un-

-jonj: and Aubroy “Williams-~ of -tho-

same organization,

Othors on the board include Thom-
as Mann, Dr. Ernest P. Boas, Wil-
“Ham Rose Benot, Leonard Bernstein,

the.)
board ‘ate James G. ‘Patton, “presi-

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SERVING HOT poss, doughnuts, and coffea to the. insaoat, group of pickets
waa ‘the kitchen crew at the main gate picket headquarters. - Behind the serv-
ing table are, from left to right, Sadia lovinelli of the office force, Salvatore

Albert of Building 84, Harmon Cartwright of Building 84, ond Roger De -

Fileppo of Building 78. To the right in front of the table on a cold day a

picket warmed up on coffee and,

_in ‘from frateriial

- Contributions
Still Come

Week after week contributions to
the GE strike fund continues to pour
and national
groups, as well as AFL and CIO
unions. ~

Leading the gifts for the past
week was one of $200 from the
Teamsters Joint Council, APL, of
Albany and vicinity, with the mes-
sage that this was “to aid you in
your just fight against the General
Electric Company.” :

Local 76 of the United Textile
Workers, AFL, of Rensselaer, sent
in a collection taken at a dance at-
tended also by members of Locals
124 and 520, ‘

Schenectady Aerie No. 614, Fra-
ternal Order of Eagles, gave $50.
Other donations were received from
Division 1, Schenectady, Ancient Or-
der of Hibernians, and Lodge Mt.
Pleasant, Czechoslovak Society of
America. There were additional
contributions from the Amsterdam
Joint Board, Textile Workers Union
of America, CIO, and Local No. 80,
State County and Municipal Work-
ers, CIO, of Albany.

Investigates

o

Philly Brutality @

Philadelphia labor history was

“made lust week when the US started

its case in. Federal - District Court
for an injunction to stop Philadelphia |
public officials from interefering

‘with the rights of free speech and ~

assembly of the GE strikers there
end their supporters,

“The UR” began™ presentiig” wit
nesses to the extreme brutality use
by. Philadelphia. in ‘their attack -o:
the peaceful protest parade o
strikers on February 28,

George A. Welsh indicated that hi
(Continued on Page 8).

& company.

“Week, so 1 Spent all the week-end
Headland “How to Make Friends and
Influence, People.” On Sunday I
was in front of a mirror ‘here in the
Station practicing the glad hand and

brushing up on my best Brother-Can. ’
You-Spare-A-Dime expressions, It .

is getting close ‘to March 17th and I
thought. it best to have everything
down Pat. --Right. after the 3:30 train
came in.on track 37, quite a crowd
collected to watch me rehearsing. 1
was all wrapped up in myself and
my blue-serge suit, . The erowd broke
up suddenly when I realized where
I was, and I made an A-Line to the
nearest telephone booth. An A-Line
is quite a bit shorter than a B-Line,
and has nothing to do with the 10-
cent Line I have been harping about
for weeks. There I go again talking
about harping, and it isn’t even St.
Patrick’s Day yet. 7
‘Well, I called up one of my much
“used Vice-Presidents and asked him
how things looked for the start of
the negotiations. “He said that
spring must be here already as un-
til now I had been stalling more than
a 1926 Essex trying to run on kero-
sene. I told him to start the mect-
ings off and that I thought I would
be more’ dramatic if I made a “late
entrance.” Of course this was
merely to cover up my embarrass-
ment at having to negotiate at all.
I told him that he could reach. me

during the meetings at the third.

phone booth from the left near the
42nd Street ramp,

So Monday morning I took up my
seat near the phone booth and start-
ed my vigil The phone rang three
‘times. Two wrong numbers and a
woman who insisted that I sell her
a pair of nylons, I lit a cigar, one
that I had earefully saved from one
of last’ year's banquets, I sat and
gat and smoked and sat. I am
at the end of my rope now. Hope
to have some better news for you
next week, ,

Your worried President,
Charlie (Save Your Money)
Wilson-Wilson

Merely A Matter
For the Record

What was GE doing about those
electrodes that somebody wanted to
accuse the UD strikers of holding
up? ——

‘At least until a few days ago, ac-
cording to Local 201 in Lynn, Mass.,
the company had ignored the re-
quest of the mayor of Syracuse and
its - ‘Citizens’ Committee to ask the
‘union to reloase the electrodes “need-
ed for the. Syracuse street lighting
system. |

The electrodes can be atieained at

athe Lynn GE plant only, and the

fLynn UE decided it would release

mihem whenever requested by the
But when John Baston,

business agent of Local $20 in Syra-
cuse, came to Lynn on behalf of the
mayor of Syracuse, he found the
company had ignored the mayor's

Srere sere

On housing;= “Canipvell= vai

he thought that was a federal prob-
lem, so he would not discuss it,
committee reported that most of his

, answers on legislation were “I can't

say, I can’t commit myself, i don’t

now.” ° .
Lécal 301 was represented on the

sub-committee by Dewey Brashear
and: Sanford Archer, the Steamfit-_
ters by Steve ‘Zdunzyk, ‘and 2054 by
Robert Northrop.

Investigates

Philly Brutality |

(Continued from Page 2)
believed workers as well as corpor-
ations have the right to protection
by courts, He declared he was go-
ing-to “protect the rights of citizens

under the Fourteenth Amendment of *

the Constitution of the United States
.. i T'm telling you now that I am
going through this matter and find
out what has happened in Philadel-
phia.”

OFFICE WORKERS!

UE. hos won a raise for you

amounting to about $400 a year,
Join the Union now to protect that
raise.

The"

_ for the young: workers.
- fight for the eight-hour day and for
“all the improvements that have been

"Showed the Way"

Petition For
Vet's Bonus

A petition campaign calling upon. «
the New York State Legislature to |
enact the Isaacson: bill which would -
pay a state bonus of $800-to veterans
immediately, has been launched by”
the Veterans’ Committee. of UE Lo-.

-cal 801L.and Steel Local 2054, fol- -
» lowing upon ‘action by tt ‘

eta” meet.
ings last Friday. 9S 0045

The campaign is being. ‘conducted
from house to. house;, store to. store,
and on the streets. The veta: - report
“a ready and virtually unanimo! wy

PREPARING TO RETIRE shortly
after-33 years in the GE maintenance <
crew, Harry Mogaveroo, 62 years old,
of Building 109, has been taking his
walk on the hain gat

in Freeport, L. 1. .

; sponse by the citizens they. approach,

The petition reminds the legislat-
ors that in his message.of January 5,
1944, Governor Dewey declared that
the state surplus “belongs... .°. to

*the.men who are fighting this. war,

When they return it ‘must be made
available to meet the needs of that

; -eritical il period.” a

ash bonus Isaacson bill are being
circulated by. labor vet groups-else~
where.

The Friday night vets’ meeting of -. -
Local 801 also adopted a resolution
calling upon President Harry. S. Tru-
man, U. S. Attorney-General Tom
Clark, and Governor Thomas E.
Dewey to investigate the killing of
two “Negro veterans ‘by a policeman

oa

~--to-give-them-the- benefit-of-our- bitter: fom

experiences, .

“remember the strikes in GE
back in 1919 ta 1921 when there were
a_dozen sm: i nthe plant,

“We older men must aiaw the way,
We had to.

won up to now. Younger men must
carry on the fight, and it’s'up to us

This strike is much better. We lost
strikes in the old days because the
different small locals couldn't get
together and they had differences
among themselves. . Today all, the
workers are on one side where they
belong. When the workers sre un
ited and determined, they can’t lose.”

LOCOL, 301’s VETERANS’ ‘COMMITTEE answers the questions “of sapuraiee servicemen on the many ‘problema
facing them. The Vets’ Information Desk at the union hall, 301 Liberty Street. is manned by members of the com=
mittee daily from 9 to 5, Above, Dewey Brashear, secretary of the committee, and William Stella, vice-chairman,

discuss questions presented by two vote.

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