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UAW Solidarity
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1958-03-10
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Vol. 1 No. 13
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by. the union's sbetial conve. ©"
tion in January (Solidarity,
FP
:
HANDS
—
ST
UP at skilled trades conference
demonstrate
s bargaining
delegates got into discussionof
policy.
'
ee
how many
UAW
the
© program
Ford
won as
Chrysof auto
layoff”’
sought.
Picture on Page 8
Non-economic
demands
to resolve the mounting problems of some 70,000 active Chrysler workers.
for
Heading
of the|
1958 are a vital partprog
ram
UAW’s
negotiators
bargaining
the _ corporation's
L.
was
L.
Colbert,
man
t-a
iden
Pres
ict
even thoveh they: have been | Corys
viously able to end what UAW’s
ignored by Ford Motor Co.’s
public statements to date, delegates to the UAW’s national
Ford council emphasized last
Continued
McClellan
from
one area to another. It urged
fiveto the
attention
special
issue
this
on
program
point
which is part of the UAW’s 1958
package.
As in previous Big Three conferences the two-part bargaining program was fully endorsed.
this
fought
the
current
start-
conference
three-day
The
The
the
committee
in
more;
drew
Hotel
Morrison
than 1,100 delegates, the biggest
turnout for any skilled trades
session,
7
In a resolution, the conferthe
“that
out
pointed
ence
under .a
procurable
amount
inwage
substantial
‘very
crease’ will depend on the deand strength
termination
skilled workers are willing to
constituanother
into
put
tional provision ... whereby
skilled workers have the right
to meet separately and tc vote
on
democratically
not
offer
to
strike
Vice
accept
...
with
the
whether
the
right
if dissatisfied.”
Richard
President
Continued
on
give the
ing they
subject.
or
Gompany’s
to
T.
§
Page
Case: Dull,
company
tooth
and
which
appearance of
could drop the
these
company
more,
and
More
committheir
and
officials
tee advocates—Senators GoldMundt—
and
Curtis
water,
attorneys
Whole Tale
for
the
Inside
gives. ogee
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President
UAW
Reuther’s prepared testimony
case will be
on the Kohler
found on Pages 4-7.
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the
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m
ia
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Wi
C.
v.
upon Go
the Ohio unemployment comapfrom
bureau
pensation
pealing the ruling.
County Judge Erskine Maiden
of
the contention
upheld
Jr.
UAW and major employers unSUB
that
contract
der UAW
could legally be paid along with
unemployment compensation. A
contrary view by state officials
since
payments.
blocked
has
,
June 1956.
An estimated 300,000 workers
are covered by SUB plans; some
40,000 of them are now jobless.
“If
is not
Maiden’s
Judge
appealed,
$5 million
an
decision
estimated
bene-
in retroactive
fits can be released immediately,” the UAW pointed out.
Devastating
the
covering
newsmen
And
promised
were
who
hearings,
has | defense
nail against
| equity for its workers
ilast 47 months.
ee
is
Senate
the
droned on monotonously for
the most part in their first | fireworks by the three Senators,
week but nevertheless have are having to scratch for news
been building up a record of | fit to print.
the anti-social, unAmerican,
were
Curtis
and
Goldwater
callous and brutal attitude of | trying hard to fill their roles as
placed
also
conference
The
heavy stress on the protection of
workers when plants are closed
production
8
WASHINGTON —
hearings before
Kohler
acknowledged
members,
000
that “great progress” has been
since the first agreemade
ment in 1941, “but we have a
long way to go before attainour
for
citizenship
full
ing
the plants.”
inside
members
or
Page
Kohler
~ week.
57
160 delegates from
The
Ford locals, representing 145,-
shifted
on
Them
to
the
Reuther led the union’s bargaining team into what was
billed as a “summit conference”
Warned
with
becoming
Maximum
Up
.
r
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Not $
Ce
“
merit spreads,
elimination of
a
negotiations;
for
ing-point
reincrease;
—é substantial wage
view and revision of apprenticeship programs and elimination
of inequities in various skilled
categories. .
Six Hours on Summit,
All Settled at Chrysler
A six-hour bargaining session in Detroit last week
much as 100% more take-home pay for thousands of
ler workers and set the pattern for like treatment
workers elsewhere. It established the “40 hours or
‘This includes
eh Oe
ee
=
|
)
ee
pany (they had intended to be
prosecutors
of the union)
instead of sitting as impartial and
but
objective
investigators,
Mundt has. been hard to find
ever since Joseph L. Rauh Jr.,
UAW counsel challenged him to
waive his Senatorial immunity
so the
libel.
The
UAW
could
committee,
spectators
have
of witnesses,
non-strikers,
of vandalism
homes
But
sue
and
only
him
press
heard
a
for
and
series
both strikers and
testify as to acts
against their cars,
other
one
Continued
property.
case
on
is in
Page
8
the
*
Pact Uniocks
Indiana SUB
CHICAGO — Despite
tical roadblocks balking
poliSUB
in Indiana, one small group of
UAW members at the Walker
Manufacturing
Co.
plant
in
LaPorte, Ind. will receive such
benefits this year — thanks to
to an existing
an amendment
SUB contract clause negotiated
here last Monday with the auto
parts
firm,
60%
after
:
ea
The amendment will permit
Laat the
laid-off workers
Porte plant to draw 65% —
their
four
take-home
weeks
pay
—’ of
entirely
according
payments,
in SUB
Pat
President
Vice
to UAW
the
of
director
Greathouse,
union’s Walker intra - corporation council. This makes up
comfor the unemployment
pensation
benefits
denied
by
|. law to Indiana workers who
get SUB.
worker’s SUB
exhausted
or
is depleted —
fund
occurs
first
—
he
After a laid-off
credit
units
are
the SUB
whichever
becomes
UC
eligible
for
state-paid
benefits.
“This
agreement
achieves
a
good part of what we are seeking from the Big Three during
the
coming
contract
talks
to
help
states
cians
UAW
members
in
those
where reactionary politihave
prevented
the in-
tegration of SUB and UC
ments,” Greathouse said.
pay-
_
;
-8 SOLIDARITY,
March 10, 1958—Page2
~ SKY GUYS SOLID:
Key Meetings Held&
By Aircraft
Two major aircraft industry chains have been served |
notice UAW
members
are
“completely serious” in their
demands
for
security
for
themselves and their families,
it was announced by Leonard
“ Woodcock,
=
~~
UAW
dent and director
craft department.
vice
presi-
of the air-
The stories follow:
At North American
LOS
ANGELES — UAW
and
North American Aviation Corp.
agreed last week to extend contract talks on a day-to-day basis
following expiration of the contract March 5.
The
contract
extension
came after mass méetings held
March 2 by Local 887 here and
Local’ 927,
Columbus,
O., in
which solid support was voted
by NAA workers to the negotiating team. More than 2,500
attended
the
Los
Angeles
gathering,
and
upwards
of
1,000 the Columbus meeting.
Both meetings were held to
make complete reports on contract negotiations to the membership. A motion offered from
the floor to give the negotiators
authorization to call a meeting
to take a strike vote “if such
action. becomes necessary” was
adopted by Local 887.
Jack Hurst, Local 887 president and president of the NAA
intra-corporation council stressed, “North American
management is negotiating,” but added
it was important for the workers
to let management know how
they felt.
At Dougias Aircraft
You're Wright—
We're Reng
Honest, we don’t spel ‘em
“wright” and “rong”’.
In the 3-5-8 edition’s legislative record (Solidarity, Feb.
17) we left out the explanation of what
“R” and “W”
stand for. We left it out be“cause we were cramped
for
space—and we thought these
few lines could be spared.
Apparently we were — well,
“rong”. So: Capital “R” means
a right vote, “r” a right pair;
“W” and “w” mean the opposite; “O” means no record
on the issue.
Cost
items
are
the
main
issues still in dispute, Hurst
said. These include a substantial wage
increase,
continuation
of
the
cost - of - living
clause, severance pay, vacation
and
holiday
pay
and
leadmen’s
bonus.
Most
non-economic
items
have
been
resolved, it was reported.
Bob Bateman, Loca] 927 president, reported NAA workers in
Columbus took the same strong
stand in support of negotiators
as
displayed
by
their
fellow,
workers in the west coast plant.
NAA
negotiations
are
being
held in Los Angeles with
the
negotiating
committees
being
assisted by representatives from
the staffs of Leonard Woodcock,
UAW vice president and director
of the aircraft department, and
UAW
Region 2A Director Ray
Ross
and™ Region
6. Director
|
Charles Bioletti.
UAW Unions Helped
Launch Food Program
SOUTH
BEND,
Ind.
—
The
program to obtain surplus food
from the United States for distribution to the state’s needy
was started by CIO unions in
St.
Joseph
county,
including
several UAW
locals, UAW
Re-
gion 3 Director Ray Berndt said.
Rapid
growth
of the
relief
load in the 13 townships in the
county because of mounting unemployment prompted organized
labor to recommend the U. S.
surplus
commodity
agency
be
asked to help out, Berndt said.
Labor was backed in the under-
taking by the South Bend Tribune.
When problems of inadequate
staff and space cropped up, laaddivolunteered
unions
bor
tional help
and
the use
to about
900
March
2, Douglas
workers
ap-
proved strike action by an 87%
margin in Long Beach, Calif.;
91% in Tucson, Ariz.; 94% in
Tulsa, Okla., and
lotte, N. C.
98%
in Char-
Dale Smith, president of the
; 10,000 member Long Beach local |
and of the Douglas intra-corporation council, said, ‘““We do not
want to negotiate a strike. We
want
rather
to
negotiate
a
peaceful settlement to our probbargaining
union
The
lems.
committee will continue to approach the negotiating sessions
with this in mind.”
They
Served
Notice
NUCLEAR
ROCKET ENGINE
being conducted under Air
gtudies and research netivitios are
a
Force contract by Rocketdyne,
Above is an artist’s
of North American Aviation Corp.
of
of a nuclear rocket missile theoretically capable
division
concept
hundred-fold
increases over
the
payloads
of
missiles,
today’s
UAW Wins Rocketdyne
But Smith added the “overwhelming strike votes served notice”
on
the
company
that
workers are determined to back
up demands of the negotiating
committee.
Leonard
Woodcock,
UAW
vice president and director of
the
from
tives
senta
repre
were
18An
—
Mo.
NEOSHO,
the aircraft department, made
the
from
nt,
rtme
depa
aft.
aircr
at the
speech
principal
the
campaign which bemonth
tor
Direc
5
on
Regi
VAW
of
staff
Tulsa,
Okla,
meeting.
With — gan with the opening of the
CIO
AFLan
and
r,
Letne
ll
Russe
15
March
a
facing
Douglas
Rocketdyne plant of North field representative.
contract termination date, the
here
Co.
n
Aviatio
an
Americ
company has yet to make any
The Rocketdyne plant here
g
smashin
a
in
ted
culmina
has
proposals on major issues in
manufacturers engines for the
anwas
it
UAW,
for
victory
dispute, Woodcock said.
Thor and Jupiter guided misnounced by Leonard Woodcock,
siles—the same work as at the
148,
include
involved
Locals
vice president and director of |. NAA plant. in. Canoga, Park.
Long Beach, Smith, president;
the aircraft department.
Calif., where workers belong
1291, Tucson, D. Pacheco, presi139
282 with
scored
UAW
to UAW Local 887.
1093, Tulsa, J. F. Randent;
voting no union in an NLRB
UAW spokesmen described the
dolph, president, and 243, Charelection held March 4. A total
campaign
“clean
a
as
drive
lotte, Charles Rogers, president.
of 451 were eligible to vote. In
throughout.” The company held
a separate election on a petimeeta few captive audience
tion filed by the International
ings, wrote some “Dear John”
SOUTH BEND, Ind.—A PortBrotherhood of Electrical
letters and made use of its plant
age township trustee said last
Workers in which UAW interpublication but refrained from
for quick’
he will push
week
vened, the balloting was seven
name-calling
and irresponsible
state approval of a request for, for UAW, five for IBEW.
anti-union attacks, they said.
$80,380 in additional relief funds.
t
ted
The
plan
is
loca
on
the
election
key
this
in
y
Victor
The fund request is needed to
rtary
rese
der
mili
p
Crow
Cam
rs
worke
tdyne
Rocke
enable
will
bolster the sagging township rethe
pied
by
erly
occu
on
form
vati
UAW
with
hands
join
to
here
lief budget, hard hit by a steady
y
pan
Arm
and
when
the
com
s,
and
Calif.,
Angele
Los
in
locals
relief
of
stream
growing
ily
d
este
t
ribu
prot
plan
gate
dist
has
NAA
where
O.,
bus,
Colum
applications. Portage township
s
,
ber
ed
tions
UAW
mem
mov
to
reon
Electi
plants.
ple
princi
its
(South Bend) has the heaviest
est
way,
the
near
high
some
four
icance
signif
added
gained
sults
concentration of relief applicas
,
mile
away
to
pass
ets,
out
leafl
ations
are
negoti
fact
of
view
in
tions because of the large num,
ties
ite
icul
Desp
the
diff
res
NAA.
with
proces
in
now
ber of unemployed here.
ception from the workers was
its organizing
opened
UAW
“very good,” UAW spokesmen
gn
and
1956
October
campai
said. Meetings called by the
Butler Won't Run
May
petition
election
an
filed
union were attended by more
WASHINGTON—Paul M. Buthearing
NLRB
final
The
1957.
than
200
im _ spite
of
bad
ler has bowed out of the Senathe
with
1957
er
Septemb
was
weather
and
the
long
dishome
in his
campaign
torial
six
almost
ng
followi
election
tances
over
country
roads
state, Indiana, to retain his post
later.
months
workers were forced to travel
as Democratic national commitee
in this rural area.
Participating in the campaign
rman.
chai
e
e
Flection in Neosho, Mo.
Seek More Relief Funds |
of local
halls. As a result, more
than
300 tons of food was issued in
one
day
at Studebaker
union
hall
In four separate meetings in
widely
- separated
cities,
UAW
members voted by overwhelming
majority to grant strike authorization “if necessary” to negotiating committees meeting now
with Douglas Aircraft Co.
In
mass
gatherings
held
applicants.
The
food
being
distributed
includes cheese; dried milk, rice,
flour, corn meal and beans. Efforts are being made
to add
other
items,
including
butter
and frozen hamburger.
The program is being handled
fairness,
and
efficiency
with
with a card system to ayoid delays operating smoothly, labor
observers said. Several persons
enabled
reported the program
them to feed their families adequately for the first time in
many months.
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ministration
surplus beans,
dried milk, flour, rice and corn meal
(left) after worried applicants
were handed out
registered (center). Family (right) heads for home
trying to smile despite fact some 4,000 in St. Joseph
county are out of work and on relief of some sort.
The
majority,
according
te Region
5 Director
Ray
Berndt,
some
have
have
been
been
idle
since
struggling
check for more than
W. Handley reported
siers, over 8% of the
December
along
although
without
a
pay
a year. Indiana’s Gov. Harold
there are 143,000 jobless Hoostate workforce.
3
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Kohler Hearings Bare’
Bitter Fight on Union
Continued
record
so
from
far
of
Page
any
hoax
1
person
being arrested and convicted
of vandalism. He was a strikebreaker.
:
Another
strikebreaker
testified bitterly that a Sheboygan
bartender
objected
to serving
him a beer because he (the bar-
tender)
didn’t
want
to.
serve
scabs.
It was brought out that one
UAW representative assigned to
the Kohler
strike had been
a
member of the Socialist Workers Party for three or four years
in the early Forties. He had repudiated this party and had not
been
Rovert
Brown,
mittee, the press and
.
Phony Stuff
cal
501,
Local
Dick Dombrowski, LoBuffalo,
right, Vice
N.Y.
President
and,
at
Richard
T. Gosser.
In photo at right,
Vice President Leonard Woodcock, Gosser and Walter Madrzykowski, the latter’s administrative assistant, give the hot
news to Bob Lewin of the Chi-
Skilled Trades|
Members
workers.
UAW
Sets: Pace
RR
a eens
8
skilled
—
spectators.
the
strike-
breaker had dreamed it up all
by himself. The strikebreaker’s
wife said he had been put up
to it by Kohler Co. representa-
tives...
6
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at
Summit,
Chrysler Set
1
from Page
Continued
Chrysler department
a “cold war’ against
ers.
The situation was
the negotiators took
tions around the long
table
at. Chrysler’s
offices.
had
the
called
work-
7
critical as
their posiconference
McDougall
@ Every
day
for five weeks,
management at Chrysler’s Dodge
Main
plant
had
sent
its
entire
work force home within two to
three hours of punch-in time.
@e The
vast majority,
denied
the four-hour call-in pay despite
the contract, were earning an
A
gotiations
with
the
big
auto
eompanies .. .”
He lashed at the “prostitute
press” for “keeping: from the
American
a
ne
economic
“This magic figure,” said Gosser, referring to the $3.25 mentioned in the minimum proposal,
“regardless of what it may be,
is not the answer.
“Our union was the first to
set up a craft union within the
an _ industrial
of
framework
toall working
and
union,
gether in the bonds of common brotherhood.
“I think here today we should
of
the
Fraser, administrative assistant
to Reuter; Region 1 Co-direct-
ors
McClellan
committee have now
seen at|
first hand
the meanness
and
pettiness of the Kohler Co. —
Continued from Page 1
Gosser, director of the union’s
skilled trades department asked
the delegates before they voted,
“Did the skilled workers travel
are
they
to get where
alone
that
out
pointed
He
today?”
craft unions had never been able
to organize in mass production
had
irdustries until the UAW
united the production
and
than
‘Pretty Rotten’ Is
Label! for Kohler
cago Daily News.
ements
more
claimed
At the same time, it was established that Kohler had hired
a number
of private
detective
average of $25 a week—less than
agencies to snoop into the prihalf
what
they’d
take
home
vate lives of union representathrough
unemployment
comtives and members and to eavespensation and SUB if laid off.
.
drop in taverns and other public
® Chrysler insisted its workers
places to pick up information
were on a “slowdown.” The UAW
they thought would be damag-/|insisted there was, on the coning to the characters and reputrary, a speedup.
tations of loyal union members.
Reuther was flanked by Secretary - Treasurer
Emil
Mazey;
It was established that at
Art Hughes, administrative asleast one act of alleged vansistant to Vice President Norman
dalism was a pure hoax on the
| Matthews, director of the union’s
part of a strikebreaker. The
Chrysler
department
(absent
company
admitted
it was
a
through illness); Harold Julian,
assistant to Matthews; Douglas
10, Atlanta; Region 1A Co-director
Joseph
McCusker;
(seated) Paul
Selvidge,
Local
599, Flint, Mich.; Howard Milton, Local
1064, Toledo,
O.;
Nick
Macunovich,
Local
600,
Detroit;
for
seven years at the time he was
local.
Kohler
to the
assigned
Mundt,
Curtis
and
Goldwater
into
something
read
tried to
this to the infinite boredom of
the other members of the com-
BIG
SIGN
is.
backdrop
for
(standing)
George
Campbell,
assistant
director
of
UAW
Skilled
trades
department;
Harry Knapp, Local
923, Los
Angeles;
a member
but
people
Woodé@ock
facts
of
stressed
the
true
life.”
the neces-
sity of placing
“a substantial
economic demand” on the bargaining
table
because
“this
nation desperately needs today
additional purchasing power in
the hands of its people.”
7
More people today are becoming aware
of the “basic economics of the automotive
industry
than
have
ever
been
aware of it before,” he said, and
they know that its pricing poli-
cies
have
nothing
to
do
journeyman
status
propen-
sion age to 60, farming out of
dies to foreign countries,
maintaining electrical stand-
ards,
“bastard
classifications,
splinter groups, equal job opportunity,
political
action,
seven-day operations, job descriptions and plastics.
Ken Bannon, UAW
Ford: di-
rector;
tion
ver,
Brendan
director;
Sexton,
and
co-director
educa-
William
of
the
Oli-
fair
practices department addressed
the conference. Executive board
members
also
spoke
mitted he
tographer
clause,
skilled trades educational
gram,
lowering
the _
briefly.
Kohler
|
press
agent
ad-
had hired a phoinspecific
with
structions to snap pictures of .
or
member
committee
any
in
staff member’ he found
L.
Joseph
with
conversation
Rauh Jr., UAW counsel.
The revelation drew this blast
from
Senator
McClellan:
“To hire a photographer to
come up here especially to try
to get a picture 40 lend some
color of truth to what otherwise is intended to get something to try to smear members
of
this
committee,
in
my
book,
it is pretty low. It is
pretty rotten.”
George
Merrelli
Morris,
and
C. Pat
The
UAW
was
and
Ken
Quinn,
pres-
ent
of
Dodge
local
3.
/4
have
4.
prepared
to
the UAW-Chrysler umpire
arbitrate the charges of “slowdown” or “speedup.” Their highest hope was that Colbert would
see the workers’ plight
same terms as the UAW
ler
conference
in the
Chrys-
(Solidarity,
Feb.
24).
|
At that conference, delegates
called on Chrysler to stop its
|“guerrilla warfare,” to
lay off
workers
duction
it didn’t
so they
and SUB—and
need
for
pro-
could. collect UC
to work
as many
top seniority workers. as possible
a full 40-hour week.
These
proposals
spurned
by Chrysler
|
had _ been
labor rela-
tions officials. But last week, in
a matter of hours, virtually the
same terms were negotiated.
———
with
the so-called law of ‘supply and
demand.
:
“When
demand
drops,
they
prove ourselves with no reserva- don’t drop the price; they just
production,”
Woodcock
to - God | drop.
- est
hon
real
as
tion
said:
“They
throw
people
in
the
basis
the
on
en
skilied tradesm
street
and
put
them
on
short
on.”
resoluti
this
ng
of accepti
workweeks.”
He urged the delegates to “go
_After
flying
in
from
a
meeting
-side
side-by
fighting
here
of
out
Nebrask
in
a,
group
farm
a
with
so
workers
ion
with the product
Vice
Preside
Pat
Greatho
nt
use
ecoour
advance
can
we
that
impressed on the delegates the
in the 1958
conditions
nomic
necessit
for
unions.
to
work
y
negotiations.”
closer with farm groups.
Earlier, Vice President Leonenormo
the
us
of
told
He
confethe
told
ard Woodcock
implem
ent
farm
the
in
profits
ed
concert
a
was
there
rence
unthe
is
he
which
of
field,
beUAW
the
campaign against
ion’s
director
and
the
current
,
Mcthe
before
ing carried on
Clellan committee, in the press,
on the radio and on TV. It is
no accident, he said, that this
on
is “going
campaign
smear
in the weeks immediately. preceding the beginning of our ne-
The Soldier's Creed
WASHINGTON—“Let’s don’t
be trapped into expenditures
that have no useful purpose
_except that. of helping a man
exist for the moment,” President Eisenhower told the National Food Conference, |
Heck no; if he’s not “useful,” let him die,
ss laduomiaainearaabinsodeels
iapeetieaenmn
of unemployment.
rate
high
One company made a. profit of
$3.96 per share on stock with
a $10 par value.
Outlaw
‘Moonlighting’ —
.
resolutions
20
the
of
One
adopted by the conference and
international
the
to
referred
with
dealt
board
executive
“moonlighting.”
. This
is
the
practice of holding two jobs in
the industry — one at day and
the other at night (It does not
apply to a second job in a retail store, gas, station or other
non-competing field.) The conference asked that “moonlighters” be declared automatic quits.
Other resolutions dealt with
(with square corners) at Ford conference includes Ken Bannon, UAW Ford diROUND-TABLE
L. G. Hawkins Sr., Local 870, Dallas, Tex.; Lew Michener, Local 406, Long
rector (standing);
Beach, Calif.; Mareo Dellaca, Local 991, Des Moines, Ia.; James Gilmore, Local 228, Detroit, and
John Derico, Local 930, Green Island, N.Y.
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