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CANDIDATES FOR INTERNATIONAL

TRADE UNION BIOGRAPHIES

CANDIDATES
FOR

PRESIDENT

A. F, HARTUNG

A. F. “Al” Hartung, Interna-
tional President of the IWA-CIO
and candidate for re-election,
first went to work in the lumber
industry in the spring of 1916.

Born on a farm in the state of
Wisconsin on June 18, 1897, he
came to the West Coast in the
fall of 1915 and entering the
woods the next spring, worked
steadily as a logger except for a
few years spent in the Hast.

Hartung joined the Union in
the fall of 1933 at Vernonia, Ore-
gon, and was elected President
of the Vernonia Local in the
spring of 1936.

In August of 1936 he was elec-
ted President of the Columbia
River District Council with head-
quarters in Portland, Oregon. He
served in that capacity until Jan-
uary of 1941 when he resigned
to become Assistant Director of
Organization under Brother
Adolph Germer, who was in
charge of the Organizational De-
partment of the IWA-CIO.

Hartung worked with Brother
Germer until the spring of 1942
when he was appointed to the
position of CIO Regional Director
for the State of Oregon by the
National CIO.

In the latter part of 1942,
Hartung took a leave of absence
to represent the IWA-CIO on the
Lumber Production Division of
the War Production Board. After
five months’ service with the War
Production Board, Hartung re-
signed to resume his duties as
CIO Regional Director.

With the establishment of the
West Coast Lumber Commission
for handling lumber wage cases,
ete., during World War II, Har-
tung was appointed to the Com-
mission on the recommendation
of the IWA-CIO. This Commis-
sion handled all of the lumber
cases in the Pacific Northwest.
While serving on the Commis-
sion, Hartung continued to carry
on his duties as CIO Regional

Director.

In April of 1947 he was select-
ed by the National CIO as a
labor representative to the Inter-
national Timber Conference held
under the auspices of the Food
and Agricultural Organization of
the United Nations and went to
Marianske-Lazne, Czechoslovakia
for the conference.

In the fall of 1947 Hartung
was nominated for the office of
First Vice-President of the IWA-
CIO and was elected. He then
resigned as CIO Regional Direct-
or. Re-elected to that office in
1949, Hartung served for two
years as First Vice-President and
as Assistant Director of Organ-
ization for the IWA under Bro-
ther Adolph Germer.

In 1951 Hartung was elected
International President in the
race against J. H. Fadling. He
was re-elected for another two
year term as International Presi-
dent in 1953.

During the last session of
Congress, Hartung presented a
brief before the Douglas Com-
mittee in the U.S. Senate dealing
with the minimum wage and it
was his report on conditions in
the Southern lumber industry
that was credited by Senators as
being one of the best ever pre-
sented. Hartung’s brief was pre-
sented to rebut the argument of
Southern lumber operators and
members of Congress have spok-

en very highly of it.

He has served on the O. & C.

Land Grant Advisory Board and
was a member of the minority
who threatened and did take the
argument before the Oregon pub-
lic to prevent the Secretary of
Interior from turning over the
O. & C. lands to large monopoly
timber operators.
-Hartung appeared before a
hearing at Port Angeles, Wash-
ington, within the last year to
join with others in protesting a
move to turn the Olympic Na-
tional Forest over to logging
concerns and was credited with
doing a major share of the work
in saving the National Forest.

President Hartung also pre-
sented a brief before the Senate
hearing on the proposed high
federal dam at Hells Canyon on
the Snake River, in Portland,
Oregon last Spring, which was
warmly received by Senator
Richard L. Neuberger, Chairman
of the sub-committee.

Hartung has been very active
in the fight to give fair treat-
ment to various Indian tribes in
the Pacific Northwest.

It,was through his efforts as
President of the International
Union that a full scale Senate
sub-committee investigation of
Indian timber sales policies of
the Department of Interior was
brought about.

In addition to his duties as
President of the Union, Hartung
is a member of the CIO Execu-
tive Board, a member of the Na-
tional CIO Committee of Region-
al Development and Conservation
and a valued advisor and con-
fident of Senator Wayne L.
Morse, labor’s foremost champion
in the U.S. Senate.

He is married and makes his
home in Portland, Oregon.

J. E. FADLING

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J. E. Fadling, known to. his
friends as “Red” because of his
hair—not his politics—is of Irish
descent. Born in Oklahoma in
1906, he came to the Gray Har-
bour area in the State of Wash-
ington in 1928 and became em-
ployed in the sawmills in that
area.

He arose from a newcomer in
the industry to become a setter
and part-time sawyer and has
either been employed directly in
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ficial since that time with the
exception of two years’ service
in the United States Navy, 1943-
45, as a machinists’ mate.
Starting out in 1935, he was
shop steward at the BE. C. Miller
mill in Aberdeen, Wash., and soon
became active in the Interna-
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tive Board member from Local
2, Aberdeen, at that time the
largest local in the union with
more than 5000 members.

In 1939, he was elected as a
full-time union representative
and President of the same local
union. During the time he was
president of the Local Union,
the Local, as well as other locals

in the district won’ union shop
contracts, and vacations with pay
became established in the indus-
try.

In the 1941 International con-
vention he was nominated on a
slate of officers opposed to the
Communist domination of the
IWA. He was installed as Vice-
president of the International
Woodworkers of America, CIO,
in January, 1942, after winning
the referendum election, He re-
mained in that position until he
entered the Navy in 1943.

Upon receiving an honorable
discharge from the U.S. Navy in
October 1945, he was immediately
urged to take over the Presidency
of the Union to which he ascend-
ed, due to the death of the late
Worth Lowery. A few weeks
later he was nominated to the
position and was again elected
to International office—this time
as President.

The St. Louis convention in
1947 again nominated Brother
Fadling as President. He served
a two-year term and was again
re-elected in 1949.

He is now the President of
District 23, a post which he has
occupied for a number of years.

CANDIDATES
FOR ist VICE-

PRESIDENT

JAMES E. DICEY

J. E. Dicey was born in Hat-
tiesburg, Miss., on February 6,
1905, is married and the father
of three children, one of whom
is married, Mrs. John Douglas
Price. His younger son is in the
‘Air Corps and his older son is
presently a Sophomore at Port-
land State College.

Dicey has served one hitch in
the United States Navy and in
his younger days in the twenties
and thirties he worked in lumber
plants, oil refineries, heavy con-
struction work, highways, etc.,
and for several years was con-
nected with the New Orleans
“Times-Picayune”, the largest
newspaper in the south.

From 1940 to 1946, Dicey
served as a representative of his
department, Chairman of the
plant’s grievance committee and
chairman’ of the plant negotiat-
ing committee at the large Mas-
onite operations in Laurel, Mis-
sissippi.

From 1946 until the late fall
of 1951 he served as full-time
Business Agent of Local 4-443,
IWA-CIO, and during this period
of time he also served the Local
Union as Vice-President, as Re-
cording Secretary, and as Pre:
dent of the Local Union in addi-
tion to serving as Business
Agent. In addition to serving as
chairman of the Negotiating
Committee in the Masonite oper-
ations he served as chairman of
the negotiating committee for all
plants that are amalgamated in
the Laurel Local setup.

In addition to serving as Busi-
ness Agent and other offices in
the Local Union at Laurel, Dicey
worked with many other CIO te

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ternationals in the State of
sissippi in an attempt to
the unorganized plants
throughout the state. This
especially true during the
days of operation “Dixie”.

He also served two terms prior

to his election to International —

office, as Vice-Chairman of the
Mississippi Political Action and
Legislative Committee, and
through his efforts and the ef-
forts of other persons of like
mind from other labor organiza-
tions in 1950 was for the first
time in history able to kill anti-

labor legislation in the lower _

house of the State of Mississippi.

In 1947 he was sent to Wash-
ington and lobbied, although un-
successfully, against the passage
of the now infamous Taft-Hart-
ley Act.

Assuming office around the
first of the year in 1952 he
served .with President Hartung
as Vice-Chairman of the North-
west Regional Negotiating Com-
mittee. In the early Spring of
1952 he was sent into Interna-
tional Falls, Minnesota, with
Brother Baughman, present Sou-
thern Director, in an effort to
try to repel a raid by the United
Paper workers of America.

The raid was successfully re-
pelled and as a result of this
action he presented the first case
to the impartial umpire under
the “No-Raiding Agreement” be-
tween various CIO Unions in
Washington, D.C. The results of
that decision were that the IWA
did retain unquestionably the
bargaining rights in that large
operation at International Bs
Minnesota.

Following this, the operatioie
in the Northwest struck in 1952.
The strike continued several
weeks and in the end he together
with President Hartung present-
ed the Union’s case before the
then-existing Wage Stabilization
Board in Seattle. Immediately
following the strike Dicey was
given the assignment of moving
into the Potlatch area of Idaho,
where the IW of A had just been
successful in winning another
election from the LSW who had
raided each year since 1947.

The membership at Lewiston
at that time was only a little
over fifty members and this was
the largest pine mill in the world.
The Union had no form of union
security whatsoever in that vast
operation of Potlatch Forests
covering four local Unions. Ne-
gotiations with this company con-
tinned periodically for approxim-
ately two months but after all the
dust had settled the Union em-
erged with at least a modified
union shop. Today the member-
ship in Lewiston, Idaho alone
totals nearly 900 members.

Immediately following the 1952
Convention Dicey was assigned
into the South in an attempt to
give assistance in the strike with
the Mengel Company, which last-
ed eight months and four days.
The day after arriving in the
South he was in an automobile
accident, breaking his arm in
three places and breaking 18
ribs. It was necessary that he be
hospitalized three different times
with bone grafts, steel rods, etc.
being placed in the arm from the
shoulder to the’ elbow. However
except for the period of time
that he was actually in the hos-
pital he continued to carry out
the duties of his office, working
in a cast.

He was one of the earliest ad-
vocates of an all-out educational

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