The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-26
UNION OFFICERS
 HOLDING POSTS
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UUuhy CAAAA1AO tAAsv VA4S oAbVC AASeSNASN by MT. Murray is not made of of- ficers, and charges the insurgents with "mob violence, misappropria- ton of union money, illegal use of union materials, and baseless pulp licity."
 The statement by MT. Stanton and MT. Napoli follows:
 The executive board of the Chase Brass and Copper Workers Union of the CIO issued the following state- ment today over the signatures Of William E. Stanton, president, and Antonio Napoli, financial secretary.
 Contract negotiations between our union and the Chase Brass and Copper Company have now reached the point where the major issues are are virtually ready for presenta- ton to the War Labor Board. Agree ment has already been reached on practically all issues but wages and union security, despite the attempts of @ disgruntled minority group within the union to create the in1- pression that the contract has not been negotiated. Among the tm- portant provisions already agreed upon are seniority protection; a complete grievance handling pro- cedure; equal pay for women for equal work and production; the "Chase Plan" of staggered shifts for continuous production departments; "call-in" time to prevent loss of pay when workers are called in and there is no work; @ model appren. ticeship program; protection of bonus rates; provision of all health and safety equipment required at work; joint labor-management war production committees; the elimln- ation of all forms of discrimination because of race, color, religion, creed sex or national origin.
 This contract progress has been made despite efforts to sabotage 1t and discredit the work of the negoti- ating committee. It Is important to note that he few members of the negotiating committee who have par- ticipated in the move to disrupt and destroy the union have failed to par- ticipate in contract negotiations. Their true attitude toward the im- portance of winning protection for Chase union workers thus becomes quite clear. They are doing noth- ing to win that protection - and everything to prevent its being won.
 We feel 1t important to warn Chase workers at this time that there is only one union recognized as the bargaining representative for Chase workers. That is the Inter- national Union of Mine Mill and Shelter Workers. Wild talk about pulling out" of the international union or of setting up an independ- ent council" should be viewed with this in mind: there is no other group, independent, "insurgent" or otherwise, that the management can recognize or bargain with. We urge that Chase workers not allow themselves to be taken in by that type of talk. It is, in effect, com pany -Gnionisn.
 There is only one set of officers of the Chase union. They are the officers elected by the membership in June, 1942. True, another small group has attempted to make 1t ap- pear that they arel the officers of the union. To this end they have resorted to the use of hired police men to aid them in taking over" meetings, mob violence, nlisappro- priation of union money, illegal use of union materials. and baseless publicity. Already there has been a switch of so-called officers among the 'insurgent" disruption group Typical of their tactics is the sud- den announcement that the "presi- dent" of the group has been chang ed overnight. even though the dis- rupters themselves claimed that an- other man had been elected to the job - by themselvesl
 The officers elected in June. 1922. are the ofIlcers recognized by the International Union. They are bonded for the protection of union funds. Any money placed in the hands of any other officers is apt to be lost to those who pay t in. Members who do not wish their dues money appropriated for the personal use of Q small group who wants to fight the union instead of building it. should be extremely careful to turn in their dues money only to the bonded officers Of the union.
 It might be interesting to point cut that those who falsely claim to be the AollleeFg' of the union and gibo are now cOaneeatlng oues money, gre themselves not even paidssp members Of the unionf Not even James Murray or kennetn Tracey cen deny thls-boih of them. feF example, are tn arrears in taeiF mnien duesI
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