The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19
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!. issippi. One-half the gain was re
troactive to Jan. /.
! The lam then settled will
Trans World Airlines for abou
10000 workers. The settlement pro
vided six-cent hourly gain for al
classifications, retroactive to las
January, and another five cents al
hour next January. The new rate
put the pay of lead inspectors a.
i 1924 an hour; of inspectors, a
$2.14; of master mechanics, al
$1.99, and of mechanics, at $1.89
In Milwaukee, lam tool and die
makers, model makers, and mach
inc repairers won a 9-to- 19-cent
hourly pay boost from the AC
Spark Plug Division of General
Motors. In contract with the
Drop Forge and Tool Corp. OF
Utica, NY, lam members got G
cents more in hourly pay. Many
gained additional hourly boosts of
8 to IL cents through individual
wage classification adjustments.
In first contract with the Fair
child Engine & Airplane Corp. of
Oak Ridge, Tenn. the lam gained
from 20 to 80 cents more in hourly
pay, giving six classifications top
rates. In Greenwich, Conn.,, the
LAM won a general wage boost of
5 to 71a cents an hour in a new
pact with the Conde Mast Publica-
tions. Lockheed Aircraft Corp. on
Oct. 5 scrapped it's contract because
it did not have a wage reopening
clause. The new pact gave 10000
workers a 10-cent hourly pay boost,
costing the company about $780,
coo annually.
At Yale & Towne Mfg. Co. in
Philadelphia, lam members gained
a minimum raise of 10 cents hour
ly, putting pay rates at from $1.24
to $2.02. At three companies in
Grand Rapids, Mich, lam negoti-
ated wage increases ranging from
10 to Is cents hourly.
In the electrical industry, on
June 25 the Int'l Union of Elec-
trical Workers gained a voluntary
three percent pay boost for 49,
0C0 workers of General Electric Co.
1t averaged about cents an hour
more. A month later AFL Elec-
trical Workers got an Scent hour
ly boost in a two-year contract
with Union Electric Co. The pact,
covering about 1900 members of
two locals in st. Louis and one inI
Alton, ILL.,, put the average wage at
$1.70 an hour. A few days later
$500 production workers were bene-
fitted by three-year contract be-
tween IUE and the Sperry Gyro-l
scope Co. of New York, providingl
a scent raise retroactive to April
Is, another A cents next April, and
4 cents more a year later. The new
rate gives the average worker
SLIP an hour this year; $1.76 next,
and $3.50 the year after. The set
Element averted a strike. |
In Minnesota in early August,
the IUE won 10 cents more in
hourly pay from Dayton Rogers
Mfg. Co. after 45-day strike. In
mid September, the IUE picked up
a 10-cent hourly boost from Sy-
vania Electric Products, Inc. The
pact covered workers in five plants.
About the same time, the union
signed a contract covering approx
mately 10000 workers with Gen
eral Electric, ending series of
strikes involving nearly 10000.
They gained 10 cents more an hour
With additional raises of 5 to 6
,ents for skilled workers. Another
$4,000 at GE, members Of the
United Electrical Workers, won a
similar settlement. A few weeks
ater in Painted Post, NY, about
900 members of the IUE were
,ack at the Ingersoll-Rand plant
With 8 cents more in hourly payl
md a 500 bonus, following a
hree-month strike. The pact was|
imilar to those ratified earlier at
ngersoll-Rand plants in Philips
'urg, NJ, and West Easton, Pa.
In early October the union, inl
is first contract with Westing-I
louse Electric Corp, won a month
y boost for $4,000 workers aver
Iging about $17.35. Also, Westing
louse agreed to pay a penny per
mploye per hour into a special
und to correct job inequities.
about the same time, the AFL '
electrical Workers won a 9-cent !
lourly boost for 4500 workers at
stewart Warner Corps main plant ,
n Chicago. The contract provides {
or another four-cent boost next t
october and still another a year
ater. In Kearny, NJ, 5000 AFLl
Electrical Workers won pay raises
angling from 9 to Is cents hourly 3