Evening star., 1954-01-04
lila 10 Charge Dewey
with Unfair Practices
In Dock Union Dispute
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NEW YORK. Jan. The
international .Longshoremen's
Association has announced it will
file formal charges with the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board
that Gov. Thomas E. Dewey is
guilty Of unfair labor practices
in the struggle for waterfront
union control.
George A. Brenner, counsel for
the LILA, says the charges will be
f1led this week against Gov.
Dewey and Merlyn s. Pitzele.
chairman Of the State Mediation
Board and labor adviser to Gov.
Dewey.
The union will accuse Gov.
Dewey and Mr.. Pitzele Of inn
proper efforts to block contract
negotiations between the LILA
and the shipping and stevedor-
ing employers here.
The lila, ousted from the AFL
for failure to cleanse itself Of
crime and racketeering elements,
Is fighting for dock union con-
troll with the new ILA-AFL.
Announcement of the LAS
plans to proceed against Gov.
Dewey and Mr.. Pitzele before the
NLRB was made last night.
wildcat Strikes Seen.
Capt. William v. Bradley, lila
president. said yesterday that
wildcat strikes possibly will tie
up the port of New York IF Gov.
Dewey continues to interfere
with the operation of a union
that has just won an election-if
he goes to the NLRB and
interferes.
Capt. Bradley. appearing on
the CHS radio program Lets
Find Out" accused Gov. Dewey
Of acting as an organizer for
the new ILA-AFL.
Gov. Dewey said in a statement
issued at Albany:
"I have never been neutral
about crime. corruption, gang
sters or hoodlumS. The govern
ment Of the State of New York
will not be intimidated by threats
of the gangsters we are trying to
clean out Of the New York water
front"
There was no comment from
Mr.. Pitzele.
The plan to accuse Gov. Dew
ey and Mr.. Pitzele before the
NLRB was part Of strategy
drafted over the week end by
LILA leaders seeking to re-es-
tablish the now independent
union as bargaining agent for
the 24.000-odd dock workers in
the port Of New York.
Capt. Bradley was reported
looking for a "topnotch crime
buster" to oust racketeers from
the LILA.
Ballots Challenged.
In a pre-Christmas NLRB
election, the LA was credited
with 5000 votes to 1858 for the
ILA-AFT-a majority of 1892.
There were 1897 challenged bal
lots, however, and certification
Of a winner has been held up
by the necessity Of passing on
the challenges. The LILA and
the HA-AFL have been given
until tomorrow to furnish the
NLRB with any additional in
formation which might affect
the eligibility of the challenged
ballots.
Isadore Katz. chief counsel
for the ILA-AFL, said he would
confer today with Charles T.
Douds. regional director of the
NLRB, on measures intended to
delay a count of the 1897 bal
lots challenged in the voting
on December % and %.
Mr.. Katz said the nA-AFL
would ask Mr.. Douds to send
consolidated report to the NLRB
at Washington on the challenges
and the AFL motion to throw
out the entire election. The
NLRB could hold a hearing on
invalidating the election before
any official announcement of
the winner. Gov. Dewey has an
nounced he would send a special
representative to such a hear
ing to testify on alleged links
between the voting and gang
rule on the docks. the ILA-AFL
has charged the lila with CO.
ercion and intimidation in the
election.
Brenner to Go to Capital.
Mr.. Brenner. the uA counsel.
planned to 60 to Washington to-
day in an effort to lay before
Secretary Of Labor Mitchell the
LAS charges that Gov. Dewey
has "meddled" in the dock stu
alton. Mr.. Brenner had no
definite appointment with MIR.
Mitchell.
Gov. Dewey charged last week
that the LILA is composed of a
ruthless mob" and has used
coercion and intimidation" to
maintain its rule on the docks.
Capt. Bradley said in his radio
interview yesterday that Gov.
Dewey had no right to step into
the affairs of the NLRB.
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