The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-28
ISCOVILL UNION
 OPENS ATTACK
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I campaign or Hed~Ua1Glug Dy a small handful of individuals has been Launched ?
 The statement charged that "union splitting move" has been i1l- stituted and claimed that the ''red- baiters place their factional interests above the interests of the workers who make up the union movement"
 Voted For TabIing
 The Scovill delegates. Joseph Beck, Philip Bertrand and Mrs. Edna Kane, had oeen instructed to vote for the resolution barring Commun- lists from union office. Instead they voted to table the resolution.
 MT. Griffin said that two thirds of those attending yesterdays meeting voted to reject the reports of the delegates.
 'The vote shows, he said, that we are prepared to fight this thing through to the bitter end. We may be accused of not being patriotic, or of being FascistS, but we're going to fight the Communist party as far as possible"
 Anti Communist Sentiment MT. Griffin and Dennis McGrath, president of the Scovill local, are known to have strong anti Com munist sentiments. MT. McGrath presided at the meeting yesterday. Another meeting of the loal will : held at 2 p. m. next Sunday.
 Local 251, the oldest and largest of the local units of the Mine, Mill & Shelter Workers, had it's delegates vote for the anti-C Communist resolu- ton, which was originally offered by the Bridgeport Brass Workers Union.
 The Scovill organizational staff. consisting of MT. Skinner, MT. Fla herty and MT. Quill, issued the fol- lowing foaltatemom 'nu Ehrdlu n n lowing formal statement: Union Splitting Move
 s.An unprinicipled campaign of red-baiting by 3 small handful of individuals has been launched within our union as an attempt to discredit the very program which made it possible for the workers of Waterbury to obtain benefits. It is unfortunate that union organization and union the rejection of 8 convention re- port was used as signal for this union-splitting move.
 'The statement of Neil Griffin, treasurer of the Scovill local, re- veals the motives behind this so- called anti Communist campaign and behind the attempted red batting. To raise this nOn-exis- tent issue only serves to hide the true facts about our unions pro- gram. As the convention delegates reported, this has been the great est year in the hst 1ry of this union. In the Waterbury area alone, nearly 17,0O0 --orkers (in- cIuding 7,50O ScOvill ,rkers) won union protection trough out program; in the past ' car we won 68 Labor Board elections "a record which won the highest praise of leading union officials the nation over; the United States Government itself has publicly acknowledged the great cOntribu- tiOns we have made to the war effort, and to the program and leadership which made 1t possible for us to aid our nation 50 ef- fectively.
 Cover Up Program
 'This is the program that the red-baiters would like to distOrt and hide completely. They place their factionaI interests above the interests of the workers who make up the union movement, and above the interests of our nation as a whole. The type of factional ism in which MT. Griffin and . few others are involved, is an old smear weapon used for ye.--s by employers and Iabor's enemies. It is 3 sad sight to see it being used now by those within the union itself.
 ''Fortunately. the overwhelming majority of the union, rejected these disruptive tactics when they were employed at the convention il Denver. The mandate of the convention was to continue the type of program which brought the Scovill campaign to success full conclusion and ended in the victorious NLRB election on Au- gust 1S."
 The staff believes that the con- vention delegates of the Scoyill CIO will want to answer the attack made upon them in MT. Grifin's statement.
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