The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-01

tCOnnectlCut units Ol the CI.O. Mine, Mill & Shelter Workers Union have named committee to muster votes among the rank and file in favor of removal of Reid Robinson, of Denver, as interna- tional president of the union. Thomas Smith, president of Local 32O, Bridgeport, has been named chair mnao fhta
 chairman of the committee.
 A statement by the committee again assails the union president for allegedly soliciting a loan of S5,- GOO from an official of company with which the union has a con- tract.
 Says the statement:
 Tt is a fundamental requirement for trade union leadership that all dealings between management rep resentatives and individual union members be on a completely honest basis.
 Ut is impossible to reconcile with this Standard of conduct an ex- ample like the president of an in- ternational union going secretly to ar executive of a corporation with whom the union has had collective bargaining relationships, in order to ask for 5000"
 Whether such request was for loan or an outright bribe is not essentially important the state ment issued here by the Connec- ticut committee said. Any trade union leader who needed a loan of such dimensions, and who in- tended to repay it, would natural ly first approach his associates in the union movement"
 We. will resist any attempt by any political party or it's sympa- thizers to dictate the program or tactics of our union, since we have seen all too clearly the attempt of the Communist Party to install Communists in positions of union influence"
 Members of the committee in- clude Smith as president; vice president, Michael Velleca, AnSonia; Armand Fiorelli, Waterbury and James c. McGrath. Waterbury; secretary-treasurer, Eva Hudak, Torrington, and trustees, James McLarney, Waterbury, Anthony Russo, Torrington, Andrew Pekar Bridgeport, Joh n YarasaVich, Bridgeport and Peter Higgins, Tor rington
 John J. Driscoll, state CLO secretary, has been elected one of the delegates from Local 25l, Mine, Mill & Shelter Workers Union, to the international con- ventiOn at Cleveland in Septem- her. Ballots for contested offices were counted Saturday.
 Reelected without opposition were Armand Fiorelli, president; Peter Oates, vice president; George Cunningham. recording secretary; and Ovide Garcesyu, financial secretary.
 Delegates named to attend the international convention include John Mirfield, Margaret Murphy, Joseph McEvoy, Joseph Reiner, Edmund Storlazzi, Bronis Vaicu- lis, Fred Caginario, John Driscoll, F1orelli, Cunningham and Oates.
 Others elected were sergeant at-arms, William Carroll; and conductor, Michael DeFazio. New trustees include William Creagan, Miss Murphy, Storlazzi, Reiner and Vaiulis.
 Secretary-Treasurer Joseph M Rourke of the Connecticut Fedora ton Of Labor has joined labor lead CTS asking President Truman to veto the Hobbs bill. He has telegraphed the President that racketeering by anyone cannot be defended but that there are now adequate laws to pre- vent it. The Hobbs bill, he said, might be interpreted in such a way as to subject union officers to fines ana imprisonment for legitimate union activities.
 The National Labor Relations Board has certified the United Metal Products Workers, C.IO., as the bargaining agent for em- plOyes of the Yankee Metal Pro- ducts Corporation, NOrwalk. Hearings on charges of unfair la- bor practices filed against Langrock Stores, Incorporated, of New Ha- ven, by Local 282, United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employes, CI.O., were resumed in New Haven today by the State La bor Relations Board.
 The board will resume hearings Wednesday on Similar charges against the Connecticut Heat and Fuel Company, with the complaint | being Local 472, Oil Workers Inter national Union, c. I. O.
 The Hotel and Restaurant Elm ployes Union, A.F.L., meets next Sunday in it's first July meeting. More new members will be initiat- ed.
 Renato Ricciuti, president of the Greater Waterbury Industrial | Union Council, has wired Senator Brien McMahon, Senator Thomas Hart and Congressman Joseph E.