The sub., 1945-05-19
EDITORIAL
EDITORIAL What a 'NO-UniOn' Vote Means


 An Independent Union at the Electric Boat has not will function for the benefit of the workers It only function for the benefit of the company Why Be- cause the people the yard have not and will stand behind an Independent outfit for they realize that any man who tries to represent them properly will either lose his Job by discharge be pushed ahead by the commanding officer to supervisory capacity where he is automatically severed from Independent Union activities
 To receive proper union protection workers must have people who receive their from labor unons pie who are intelligent the ways of collective bargaining do have to be afraid of their jobs from the end The only fear they have of their jobs from the Unions angle when they don't produce enough to satisfy the just demands of organized labor.
 Can you imagine Taggart CarbinO anybody else of their cabre, demanding anything from management? If these sincere union men they would not tie themselves down with weak independent unon They talk of their East Coast Alliance and what do for us Next week will tell all of you just what 1t has don and IS cap able of doing"
 credit where credit is due Top management at the Electric Boat and their staff well schooled in the art of socaed "colective bargaining
 Top management officials are we'll paid and we'll quail fled the job they doing And only stands to that the workers must send to negotiating and bar gaining conferences who have the labor educaton the experience and the aggressveness to meet them on men tai and strategic level.
 It is also only reasonable to realize that various craft officials all workers in the yard although they have complete knowledge of their crafts meet with management equal or strategic level We are not trained negOtators but trained and capable Negotator services are available to in the AZ of L. For axtyve years the American Federation of Labor has had uphill exhausting and uncompromlslng battle agans thousands of industrial that would make the Elec trc Boat Company look like workers paradise!
 The AF of throughout the years has fought the good fight against industries antiabor and sweatshop tactics, and it has this major battle We at the Electric Boat know what the AZ of has done for so far in and in writing in seniority clause into the SM agree men They do this while still bound and chained by Independent Union agreement June 9th is the day thank the AZ of by marking in the right hand box the NLRB ballot yes AZ of vote opens the door for and strong AT of contract The chains ot the Independent type of contract will be broken .
 Yes fellows if Taggart and his sincere (which they aren in their bae for the welfare of workers at the Electric Boat Company they could win! But when they Indie such the EBCo Brotherhood for their personal interest you workers will be the ton block their article for a gain personal advance ment with the company!
 "No-Unon" vote will let this happen here!
 Freedom and the welfare of labor is not battle the AZ of has for you and then forgotten Evervglan everwatchfu the AZ of stands guard ready to protect your rights to take of your daily labor problems Pro- tet yourself and loved and in the future by voting the American way the only way-Amercan Fedora tion of Labor