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UE parley backs up
militant leaders
NEW YORK—The 13th con
vention of the United Electrical.
Radio & Machine W'orkers (CIO>
ended here Sept. 10 after a week
in which the majority of the 900
delegates repeatedly demon
strated overwhelming support
for the union leadership
President Albert Fitzgerald.
Secretary-Treasurer Julius Ems
pak and Director of Organiza
tion James J. Matles were re
elected over candidates spon
sored by the anti-administration
group led by Harry Block and
CIO Secretary-Treasurer James
.B Carey, both delegates from
Philadelphia.
Bv an 8-to-l vote, delegates
charged that Carey slandered
and* lied about the union in his
recent testimony at a House la
bor subcommittee hearing on
UE The executive board of
Carey's home local. 101. met
iater and unanimously declared
there was no substance to the
charges.
The condemnation of Carey
came after a dramatic three
hour debate in which President
Fitzgerald, who was also sub
poenaed before the Sept. 2 con
gressional committee hearing.
charged that “the record indi
cates downright collusion be
tween Carey and the commit
tee.’’ Speaking twice in his own
defense, Carey, delegate from
Philadelphia Local 101. lamely
repeated his assertions that the
HE was under Communist con
trol.
The convention withheld of
ficial indorsement from Progres
sive Party candidate Henry A.
Wallace, who received tremen
dous applause and cheers from
all but the melancholy Block
Carey caucus, when he ad
dressed the convention's opening
session. Fitzgerald, an official in
the Wallace party, explained the
decision by declaring that an
indorsement of any candidate
would “split the organization
wide open and weaken it for the
coming year.’’
Instead, bv a rollcall vote of
3.484 to 912. the convention
adopted a resolution rejecting
“the old parties' claim to an
exclusive joint jurisdiction over
political expression in this coun
try’’ and upholding “the right
of any member, local or district
of the UE to work for the ad
vancement of the new Progres
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party.”
In another big majority vote,
the convention called for repeal
of the draft which it denounced
as "an attempt to militarize
American youth and prepare for
aggressive adventures overseas.”
Carey did not take part in the
dehate. His followers, however,
argued against the resolution and
booed reading of the Boston
CIO convention's resolution,
which also denounced the draft.
Reminding the Carey-Block
forces, who represent themselves
at the “pro-CIO'' group, that
their booes directly contradicted
the CIO's position on the draft,
Ernest De Maio. Chicago UE
district president, declaimed:
“The position submitted to
this convention is in no way
different from that of ttie CIO's
resolution .”
A rollcall vote of 2,943 to
1.265, one of the closest of the
convention, approved passage of
a resolution charging that "inter
ference in the internal affairs
of other countries is part and
parcel of the European Recovery
Program, and instead of being
nearer to peace, we are nearer
to war.”
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'Live In Peace'
worth seeing
Reviewed by BOB BENNETT
» DD "To Live in Peace” to
A the small, hard inventory of
worthwhile films.
It s worthy of a group of pred
ecessors that have also come out
of Italy to prove the existence
of a serious, intelligent and pro
gressive film colony.
"To Live in Peace” is in the
"Open City,” "Shoeshine,” “Pai
san” class — although it doesn't
surpass them by any means.
In fact, this film has a number
of failings. As an anti-fascist
film, it is often clouded with a
meaningless pacifism and even
at times a puzzling "nonparti
san" attitude.
The film often confuses its
own point of view with that of
the main character, a simple
farmer who wants only "to live
in peace” and to stay clear of
the terrible struggle between
democracy and fascism which is
raging around him.
np HE FARMER is played by
A Aldo Fabrizi (the priest in
"Open City”), a superb charac
ter actor who gives the film
much of its warmth and sincer
ity. Fabrizi. incidentally, is in
the fortunate position of an actor
who fully understands the lines,
since he is also the author of the
story.
"To Live in Peace” takes
place in a German-occupied
One phone call,
one picket line
— one new union
The 20 men and women who
packed fish for Chicago Packing
Co.. 2110 W. Madison, at the
brutal wage rate of $20 a week,
were tired of low wages, no va
cations. and no holiday time.
It took one phone call and one
day on the picket line to change
ail ’his
The phone call was to Local
208. Warehouse & Distribution
Workers Union (CIO). That was
last Friday. On Monday. Chi
cago Packing workers gathered
in a tight knot in front of the
plant—carrying picket signs.
The company sat down im
mediately with Aaron Bindman.
Local 208 secretary-treasurer,
and a group of their employee
headed by Emily Petty and
Howard Andrews.
Results: between 20 and 40
cents hourly wage increases; au
tomatic wage progression; six
paid holidays: one week vacation
with pay: two rest periods; sen
iority rights and grievance pro
cedure.
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