Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1942-02-19
Local U.ions
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tNOnIlHucu from rage oIlts
TENS, including unemployment
insurance, death, d S a bi lity,
health, retirement and other ben
efits.
3-That in the 14-year period
from 1927 to 1910 inclusive, ex-
tending over the years of de-
preston and recovery, AFL
unions paid to their members a
total of $450,000,000 in unem-
ployment, sickness, disability, old
age and death benefits, thus re-
lieving the nation and it's COM
munities of a heavy relief bur-
den.
4-That union funds are not
used for profit-making or to en-
gage in any business enterprise
but belong to the union members
and are collected and expended
at their direction and in their
behalf.
5-That recent increases in
union assets can be accounted
for as follows:
(a) Increases in union mem
bership (the AFL gained 500,-
600 members during the period
covered by the Vinson commit
tee.)
(b) Because of widespread re-
employment, union members pre-
viously jobless were able to re-
new dues payments and many of
them paid up arrears in order to
re-establish eligibility for bene-
fits.
(c) Because of the no-strike
policy of the American Fedora
ton of Labor and it's affiliated
unions there was a sharp de-
crease in the number Of strikes
and in the length of their dur
alton, thus considerably cutting
down disbursements for strike
benefits.
BENEFIT LOCALLY
In Newark today eight men,
bers of the bricklayers union
are receiving SO per week
each from the old age pension
fund of that organization. The
union also carries disability
benefits and life insurance on
its members.
Two members of the cleo
tricians union each receive
$50 per month pension; four
carpenters are each getting
checks for $40 per month. This
organization also has a home
for their aged at Lakehurst,
Fla.
Four members of Typo
graphical union No. So are
each receiving $40 per week.
The printers also have a home
for the aged and disabled in
Colorado, said to be one of the
finest in the country, and also
carries death benefits up to
$500.
The local members of the
Printing Pressmen's union are
entitled to old age pensions of
5 per week and they also have
a home for the aged, "a tubercu
lOsis sanatOrium, and a tech
nical trades school.
In fact there is a hardly an
organization of union labOring
men which does not have ben
efits of some type to take care
of their members when they
can no longer take care of
themselves. These are the
facts omitted in the VinsOn re-
port.
Mr.. Green declared that fal
from seeking to profit from the
defense program AFL building
trades and metal trades union!
have endeavored to help the
Government in every way pos
sible and have transported al
their own expense hundreds o1
thousands of mechanics and skill.
ed workers from their home com.
munities to the site of defense
projects where their services
were urgently needed.
Mr.. Green said:
"The committees conclusion
that the American trade unions
have sought to benefit from the
defense program to the detriment
of the public interest is utterly
without foundation or substant-
iation. 1t constitutes a slur on
the record of the American trade
union movement. The commit.
tees failure to examine and re-
port on organized labor's con-
tribution to defense and the cost
of such contribution sustained
by trade unions is conclusive
proof of the committees anti
labor bias"
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