The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-03-13

with convention of unions and an annual meet
ing of employers The agreements provide for
union shop, apprentice regulations, seniority
rights, committee handling of grievances, wages,
lours and working conditions For production
workers, more recently organized, work has been
discontinued IN two places for a week pending
agreement terms, but all difficulties were set
led through collective bargaining. The assist
ance Of other than officials within the industry
has not been found necessary at any time.
The international Printing PresSmen's and
Assistants Union has more than $4,000 contracts
n the United States and Canada. The internati-
onal has maintained contractual relations with the
American Newspaper Publishers Association for
more than thirty years. The national contract is
legotiated by national representatives and sub
nitted to referendum by local unions and ap-
proved by the Newspaper Publishers Association.
This agreement provides machinery for mediation
md arbitration when contracts are about to eX-
oire and changes in standards are proposed, or
when parties to the local contract exhaust the pos
sibilities of mediation to reach an agreement. II
agreement is not reached, local arbitration is the
leXt step. If local arbitration is not satisfactory
he matter is referred to the international board
If arbitration with equal representation for both
parties. II agreement is still not reached dis
Interested chairman is selected and the decision
If the board is final. Work is not interrupted
and in 95 per cent of the contracts, agreement is
'eached in the first step outlined-local mediation
between representatives of the union and employ
and one per cent go to national mediation. The
union accepts responsibility for supplying press
men to the employer and for discipline.
The Brewery Workers constitution makes
mandatory arbitration provision in all local union
agreements. All disputes and misunderstanding
that arise between employers and any of our To-
cal unions are subject to cOnciiaton and arbitra-
ton If Cancellation fails to adjust misunder-
standings or interpretations Of the agreement,
then arbitration must follow. No strikes or lock-
out can be called during the pendency Of arbi-
tratiOn.
The records Of the organization will show that
there have been very few strikes in the more than
fty-ive years of it's existence, and no strikes in
any brewery in more than twenty years. A new
agreement with the Anheuser-B Busch brewery
rounds out fifty years of union relationship with
that large corporation.
The International brotherhood of Electrical
Workers early in 1921 joined with employers in
he construction industry in establishing Council
on Industrial Relations which served as kind
Of supreme court for the industry. 1t has made
more than forty decisions based on research and
economic data. In the power field this union has
agreed to number Of nO-Strke or lockout clauses.
These examples Of the effectiveness Of cOlec-
tive bargaining and Joint union management ma
chinery in adjusting differences and preventing
industrial conflict can be supplemented from the
records of every other international union CO.
operation and Joint relations are essentials for
maximum and uninterrupted production, and these
in turn rest upon the fundamental principles
right to representation in matters concerning our
interests and decision by the majority. Not denial
of the right to strike, but conferences between
representatives of both parties, with more and
more exploration Of the facts is the way to agree
ment. Machinery for adjusting grievances is the
way to prevent conflicts.
Repression or denial of freedom to workers
would not only defeat our defense production pro-
gram, but would undermine ideals to which labor
gives first allegiance.