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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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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 at Toronto, }

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 | . , ‘ ing provincial government action.

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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 Jackson. =.

“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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