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Vol. v, No. 17 082O 82
Organization Wins
For Workers, U.S.,
URWA Chief Says
BV S. 11. HAI.HY.MI’I.F
President, t tilled Rubber Workers of America, CIO
Orgunization will win Ihe war. Oigaiii/.ation on the battle
line mil on the production line will build a solid and united front
of our people to crush the Axis. The workers at Kelly-Springlield,
in their "organize for Victory" drive are thus doing their share to
help build a mighty arms of organized Soldiers of Production
which will give ar. honorable accounting of itself in the Hattie
of Production.
soldteis and our country.
A production-line soldier can’t do his best work when he has
no job security and when his family suffers because he doesn’t
get the wages he should.
Production suffers when morale is low because grievances are
not nettled, favoritism rather than fairness rules, and working
conditions are bad. Crude Sam wants workers to make sugges
tions for increasing production but what happens to a worker’s
moral" when no one pays any attention to his ideas or his tales
are cut a< a reward tor having made suggestions?
You. as an individual worker, can’t do much to remove these
blockades to all-out production. Hut .sou and the other workers
in the plant, organized in a strong and patriotic union like the
URWA-CIO and backed by over ItJO.OOO other workers organized
in the URWA. can gel results
'l’lte tIR\V’A-f*iO has made winning the war its N’o. 1 job. It
works it all times to get rid of the things that block all-out pro
duction. By enabling labor to meet management on an equal
basis, it builds conlider-ce between lalioi and management so that
working together they can devise means to speed production,
eliminate waste, and utilize manpower most fully.
This is a wai of organization. America needs soldiers of
production-organized soldiers of pioduetion.
for your country’s sake—join the URWA-CIO!
Cleveland labor presented a 100-poiuul airplane bomb to Maj. George M.
Ilecker of the \rniy Air Forres on l.ahor l)ay as a token of their feeling
for llirler, for they are expecting the Army Air Force to drop their gilt
oil' for them as they fly over Nu/.iland. 'lbe bomb, bearing the labor
Dav slogan “Free l.ahor Will Win.” is also inscribed with the names of
Cle >< land labor leaders. Above, left to right, signing their names to the
bomb that they hope will carry their ollicial greeting to the world’s slave
master, are William Finegun. president of the (.leveland federation of
laibor; I,eo E. Casey, of the (10 United Steelworkers oi America; l-aae
1.. S. Smink. of the War I’roduction Hoard; Major Keeker; I". I'.. Nolircn*,
of the Krotiierbood of Kailroud Trainmen; and K. V. Salick, of the
Krotberbood of Locomotive Fngincmcn ami Firemen. The men arc
aigning llieir names in while chalk. Their signature later will be traced
with an electric- needle.
WESTERN MARYLAND EDITION
m <§! r mcuis
November
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Filtered its S' ' "iwl Class M:il tor, l’..st Ollier. W islilngton,
L>. C.. under thu Act uf Auk. 1912 nnU Fob. 28. 1925
Members Compete In
Local 26 ‘Organize
For Victory’ Drive
CinVIBKIILANI), No\. 21 Hundreds of Local 2<i, I'RW’A, members, vied with each other
for War Bonds and Stamps this week in the union's "organize for victory" contest slated to
end - with a mass rally early in 1913, Pres. Raymond C. Burkhart, reported!
War Bonds and Stamps will be awarded to union members enrolling the* greatest number of
Kelly-Springfield workers into the union before the rally to be held on a yet unscheduled date,
* Burkhart said.
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| ORGANIZERS FOR VICTORY: *". *'
l inVA district director mid Itohcrt 1,. Hill, t KtVA rcprescutatn •■.
Hill is stationed in ( timhcrlaml, aiding Local •, while Kagle is
aiding all Goodyear locals.
| CIO Cheers
Offensive
In Africa
Boston, Nov. til -By unanimous
rising —and cheering vole ihe
CIO convention last week hailed
Ihe offensive war in Africa and
renewed pledges to "give every
thing to enable the United Na
tions to smash forward into Eur
ope until our drive ends in the
ln-art of Nazi Germany and the
j military destruction of tins fas
cist Axis has been achieved."
The resolution’s first clause
declared that "ihe interests of
our nation and the cause of vic
tory can best be served through
an immediate' and striking offen
sive action against the Axis.’’
adding: "We rejoice that our
armed forces in Africa are now
beginning to take the war to
J Hiller."
It cpioted General Montgom
ery’s statement that the African
drive i< "only the beginning of
our task.”
WLB Mediator Awards
Teamsters Pay Hike
(TMItLKLAXIL Nov. :;i Wage increases correcting gross
! inequalities were awarded close to 100 truck drivers, membets of
Local 153, ALL Teamsters I’nion, in an award handed down by
•a mediation represent at i\e of the War Labor Hoard, Teamsters
■ oflieials reported today.
The award, subject to review by
the War Labor Hoard, gave the
, drivei s of eight major Cumberland
trucking lirnts increases between
$:!.50 and S-l.fo a week and strength
ened tie* working agreements now
in existence lietween the hints and
• the union. C. !•'. Bramble, president
of the AKL Teamsters, revealed.
With the approval of the WLR,
the drivers tire subject to receive
back pay from Sept. 1. Since an
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BULLETIN
1874 Reports
'Progress' in
WLB Hearing
WASHINGTON. Nov. 21—The
resumption of War lailior Hoard
hearings on the rase between
Local IST I and Cclanese Corpora
tion today brought a report of
“progress” from union negotia
tors here.
“The committee can report
progress," President George A.
.Meyers, speaking for the 20 man
union negotiating committee, an
nounced over long-distance tele
phone.
Hearings reopened in Washing
ton after the union and company
completed adjustment of depart
ment wage rates for submission.
S-eents-an-hour increase. ]>l us spe
cial shipment, overtime and lay
over rates were established bv the
mediator's award, the back pav is
expected to run well over SIOO for
each man. Hi amble anticipated.
The award established a •18-hour
work week and stipulated that over
time pay start after each regular
work day. Vacation pay, based on
a regular one week's wage, was
I ordered under the award.
ORDNANCE
WORKERS
ISSUE
I 1
a <!op>, SI a Year
I The contest. <>i initiated at a re
eent union meet in”, is the latest
step in the uni.in’s diive to or
ganize tl.e rapidh growing nutn
ie*r of Kelly-Spt iiiglield ordnance
‘workers. f >|ieii.-d this week, the
drive a!iead\ has had immediate
success, Ruikhatt revealed while
report in” that mote than two hun
j died iii*\v members have been en
j tolled in the union.
Contest 111 i/es to be awatded ate
<1 S'-':, wai bond for the union mem
le't bringing in the greatest mini
-1 ! ber of new members; SlO iti war
! i stamps foi the member enroll ini;
the second greatest amount, and So
in war stamps foi the unionist
signing up the thiid greatest num
ber of new membeis. Cold URWA
pins will also be awarded pi i/e
. w innei s.
•Still another prize, a Si!.") war
bond, will be awarded at the door
in tie* tally now being arranged
by a union committee. A labor lilm
is expected to be shown and promi
nent labor speakers, including nlli
cers of the I'niled Rubber Work
ei s of America, are expected to be
invited to the rally.
Aid War, Join
URWA, District
Director Says
B> X. 11. KAGI.K.
District Director, C KWA-CIO
Akron, Ohio What the URWA
CIO lias done for Goodyear Tire
& Rubber Co. employes in plants
all over the country it can do for
members of I .oral 26. Wot kora In
Goodyear plants under the URWA
CIO banner have won wage in
creases. job security, paid vaea
i lions, equal pay for equal work for
women, and better wot king condi
: t ions.
Kmployes of the Goodyear Co.
here in Akron will soon receive
wage tale adjustments when Ibe
case- now pending helm • the War
Labor Hoard are settled
•JOIN l KU A
In a steady st ream of organizalion.
workers in unorganized Goodvoai
plants are signing up with the
CRWA. A mwv Goodyear local in
| Canada lias grown so fas! in the
■ hi-! few weeks that the union is
about to appioa h management f.:
i ecognition.
In .lat kson. Michigan, Goodyear
Local 180 Sllcie.,fulls pi e.'.ei : •(! the
iobs of it s memhei s w hile ;i j,|.,•(i
was converted from rubber to ord
nance work and is growing lapidly.
This local now has a case foi wage
increa e> and union socuritv before
I hi* \\ a; Labor Uoarsi.
Rapid pio.ress i- being made in
organi ing workeis in ordnance
plants opetated by rubber com
panies. At the Dos Moines Ord
nance Plant, lies Moines. lowa,
a.OOO members signed up in CRWA
in one week. The drive at the Mil
waukee Ordnance Plant. Milwau
kee, Wis.. is in high gear and em
ployes there will soon become the
L’llt l. S. Rubber Co. local in the
count i y.
Kcll>-Springfield workers know
that in union there is strength.