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A sensational document, entitled
Out of Your Pocket, was issued
last week by the Provisional Com-
mittee of United Electrical Work-
ers Local 524 at the Peterboro GE
Works to all members.

This folder exposes the record
‘of four of the officers of the
Local, now suspended from their
posts in connection with withdraw-
als from the local’s treasury. The
officers, J. Morton, J. Murphy, C.
O’Donnell and K. Chiles, conspired
with James Carey ,to smash the

UE local in the E -Peterboro
works and herd the member-
ship into James Carey's new

company union set-up.

The seven-months total for these
four individuals amounts to $5,-
910.13. Im other words, each one
ran gip a bill for lost time, travel-
ling, and personal expenses which
averages better than $211 a month,
More than $50 a week—for seven
months.

Another. startling figure brought
to light is that the last two con-
ventions cost the local a total of
$1,720.59, and it was while on the
trip to Cleveland on the money
belonging to Peterboro UE workers
that the Morton group conspired
‘to sell out local 524 to Carey’s
expensively rigged company-union
setup.

In the meantime UE Officials
are rapidly getting names on the
petition campaign started by the
union for the purpose of compel-
ling the GE management to begin

bargaining on wages and working!

conditions,

GE has taken advantage of the
disruption caused by the Morton
raiders and has refused to con-
tinue negotiations on the master
contract, obviously in the hope

that the splitters will wreck the]. :

union.

, The facts are that the Carey
block has failed miserably in the
,attempt to “take over” the Peter-
boro GE plant and has the doubt-
ful support of less than a quarter
of the workers.

Charge CCL has
~“undean hands’

CHICAGO

In ordering a “trial” of the In-
ternational Union of Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers and its interna-
‘tional president, ohn Clark, the
CIO comes “into court with un-
clean hands,” it is charged in a
resolution published recently in

the Union, official Mine-Mill organ. |.

The resolution was adopted by
“more than 50 top leaders and rank-
_and-file members attending the na-
tional wage and bargaining confer-
ence in Denver.

Calling attention ‘to the fact that

_ “charges” have been filed by the

‘CIO, the resolution stated:

“The charges themselves, the,

trial committee and the general at-
tack made against our organization
by ‘eertain CIO national officers

and organizations involve a back-
ground of several years of raiding,
disruption of our strikes and bar-
gaining struggles, and interference
in the internal affairs of our or-
ganization which bring the Nation-
~~ al CIO into court with unclean
hands.”

The resolution eepreeented a sol-
id reaffirmation of support for the
- Mine-Mill policy of fighting to re-
main within CIO and “resist any

attempts to further divide the Am-|}

_ erican labor movement.”

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CCL raiders use goon tactics |

Goon tactics are the latest development in the attempts of
CCL raiders who are trying to disrupt - United Electrical Workers
locals on behalf of the James Carey’s. ClO-sponsored company
union set-up. The piece of steel pipe being looked over by UE
members Marion Cordnei and’ Chris Genakas was wrested from
a CCL raider outside bias General Electric Royce Avenue plant
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Lakehead steel mill
could supply country

—FORT WILLIAM

action to prevent Canada’s rich iron ore and oil resources flowing into
the U.S. is winning a big response from Fort William electors. Despite
the conspiracy to silence him, engineered. by the local radio station
and the daily newspaper here,
_|Johnson’s petition campaign urg-
ing the establishment of a $60,000,-
000 stee] mill at the Lakehead is
being given wide support. —

The labor candidate maintains
that Steep Rock ores are now con-
trolled by the big Cyrus Eaton in-
terests in the U.S. and that Can-
adian taxpayers are subsidizing
the mine only to have all the ores
and the profits go to the U.S._

Johnson has presented incon-
trovertible evidence to prove that
Steep Rock could supply practic-
ally all. of Canada’s iron and
steel requirements if milled in
Canada, thus building a new bas-
ic industry in this area which
would provide employment for
5,000 Canadians. He is demand-—

ALVIN JOHNSON |
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Jackson says

will fight ‘Se
views with CCL

—TORONTO

Despite 4 fising indignation among members iof the United Electrical
Workers at the actions of Canadian Congress of Labor organizers in
assisting in raids against the UE, the union has no intention or desire

to pull out of the CCL.

Cc. §. Jackson,"*Canadian UE
president, stated here last week
that all policy-making conventions

‘|of the union up to and including

the annual district meeting in
September had repeated the deci-
sion to retain affiliation and “to
fight for our point of view within
the Congress.”

A recent meeting of the union’s
largest local in Canada, Local 504
at the Canadian Westinghouse in
Hamilton, had unanimously passed
a resolution urging that district
leaders withdraw the union from
the CCL because of open raids
against UE locals and interference
in the UE’s internal affairs by
representatives of the Congress.

“While we can understand this-
justified indignation and the sen-
timents of. this mass meeting of.
workers against raiding and split-
ting, it is the opinion of the
union that we must continue to
bend every effort to win the
CCL membership to a program
of unity around’ the common
interests of the workers,” said
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“The CCL is constituted as a
body which is supposed to protect
the rights of the affiliated unions,
and we will continue to press for
recognition of those rights within
the framework of the Congress it-
self rather than play into the
hands: of those who desire to see
erennized pee split into Rupee
factions.”

Schools held
fire traps

TORONTO

Stewart Smith, Board of Control
candidate in the coming civic elec-
tion here, is demanding an emer!-
gency confe1ence to begin action

at once to build new fire escapes in,

58 Toronto schools.

Citing ,an article in MacLean’s
magazine which revealed that 58
out of Toronto’s 87 schools
open stairways which were a ter-

rible fire hazard, Smith demanded .
that “without a week’s delay, men ~
shoud 5 put to work making our

schools safe against fire.”
Smith charged that

Board of Education had refused

‘proposals, for’ action from School

Trustees Edna Ryerson and Sam
Walsh. :

“Is the Board of Control and the
Board of Education going to wait
for another Noronic disaster, this
time. in our schools, before they act
in the interests of opr children?”
Smith asked.

On the increase in rents and
higher taxes being charged to small

homeowners, Smith demanded that

Mayor McCallum act on his prom-
ise made over a ‘year ago, of 1,000
low-renta] houses for Toronto. .
Together~with Alderman Charles
Sims and Alderman Norman Freed,
Smith is also posing a new Pigp to
raise tax exemptions on
homes in order that the burden of
taxation may more equitably fall
where it belongs—on big business
buildings in downtown Toronto.

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