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Helnl Radio-Television Neve Service
9/6/50
G.E. WALKOUT CALLED SERIOUS THREAT TO KOREAN WAR WORK
A walkout of CIO workers at General Electric Co. spread to six more plants Tuesday (Sept. 5)* and temporarily paralyzed an atomic energy laboratory, despite the truce efforts of Government mediators and union leaders.
Violence flared at G.E.'s electronics plant at Syracuse, N.Y., where some 4000 members of the CIO International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE) have been on strike since last Thursday, August 31..
The Syracuse workers, along with 19*000 IUE members at five G.E. plants in Lynn and Everett, Mass., last week kicked off what was scheduled to become a Nationwide strike against General Electric for a 10-cent~an~hour hike in pay and other contract im¬ provements.
The union's leadership, headed by James B. Carey, deferred the walkout at the request of Cyrus S. Ching, Director of the Feder¬ al Mediation and Conciliation Service. Ching said a walkout would be a "most serious threat" to the home front's production effort for the Korean war.
The new strikes involve G.E. plants at Holyoke, Mass., 400; Providence, R.I. 350; Warren, 0., 700; New Kensington, Pa., 3°0; Trenton, N.J., 860, IUE headquarters here emphasized the walkouts are not "wildcat" strikes, but are being conducted under terras of local union autonomy.
The Government's particular interest in the G.E. strike, according to the Conciliation Service, is that about a fifth of G.E.'s production Includes war materiel, such as radar, gunnery systems, electronic items. The struck Massachusetts plants make jet airplane engines and turbines.
However, Lemuel R. Boulware, G.E. Vice President, charged that the Government stepped into the dispute to save the IUE and its leader, Jim Carey, from a "total failure" so far as the strike call was concerned.
XXXXXXXXXX ASKS U.S. TO SEEK CUBAN TV TARIFF CUT
The Radio-Television Manufacturers' Association has asked the Department of State to seek a reduction in Cuba's tariffs relat¬ ing to television receiving equipment in forthcoming negotiations at Torquay, England. RTMA suggested that Cuba be asked to reduce its TV tariffs in return for concessions already made by this country.
RTMA General Manager James D. Secrest said: "I am sure that it is unnecessary for me to emphasize the importance of the radio-television industry in this country, especially with relation to its capacity for military production. It is important that ex¬ ports of television receiving equipment be facilitated wherever pos¬ sible in the interest of maintaining a healthy industry at home."
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