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June 5, 1946
ATLASS BRINGS IBEW TO TERMS; UNAUTHORIZED STRIKE DISOWNED
Ralph L. Atlass, General Manager of WIND, Chicago, has added another scalp to his fighting trophies by a complete victory in a jurisdictional dispute between members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and WIND.
Three weeks ago the IBEW technicians of the local union at WIND ignored tne arbitration and no strike provisions in their contract and walked off without the approval of the International.
Mr. Atlass, who had fired two IBEW operators, continued operating the station with an entirely new crew.
Now after those three long weeks off the payroll, the ex¬ employees are back at work at WIND considerably wiser than they were at the beginning of their walkout. As a disciplinary measure, they have agreed to forfeit six months' seniority for payroll purposes.
The two temporary employees used by WIND during the technicians' absence will be admitted into the Union and continue to be employed by WIND. The station agrees to have its own technicians handle all local exclusive WIND remotes and the Union agrees that no standbys or duplicate coverage will be required. To avoid a repetition of the walkout, or similar instances, the local union has agreed that all grievances will be handled directly by the International.
Negotiations were handled for the station by Mr. Atlass, and its attorney, William J. Friedman; for the Union by Mike Boyle, International Vice-President, Walter Thoraoson, Local Union VicePresident, and Lester Ascher of Dan Carmel's office. The Local Union President, Eugene J. Kreusel, who ordered the walkout, did not par¬ ticipate.
WIND'S technicians walked out May 20th in a demand for the hiring of a stand-by engineer during the period when WIND was using the studio of WBBM (CBS outlet in charge of H. Leslie Atlass, CBS Western Vice-President, and a brother of Ralph) to put on the air two of its Sunday sustaining programs. This arrangement resulted from dimout restrictions, which made it necessary to originate the shows from the broadcast studio. Under the arrangement with WBBM, that station's engineer was provided to pipe the shows to the WIND studio, where a WIND engineer would send them on to the WIND trans¬ mitter in Gary, Indiana.
The Union, Local 1220 of the IBEW-AFL, demanded that WIND provide a standby engineer at WBBM, contending that the station must use its own engineer for programs piped in from other points.
Mr. Atlass refused the demand, pointing out that this would require a doubled engineering staff on certain programs with half of
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