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...test case was an ex-serviceman and welder in Brooklyn, Abraham Fishgold. He had been laid off while nonveterans went on working (TIME, June 18, 1945). Fishgold won his superseniority suit for $86.40 damages in a lower court. But Fishgold's union carried the fight to the Supreme Court. Fishgold, no longer welding, is selling trinkets in Harlem...
...Brooklyn Federal Court, a veteran named Abraham Fishgold, 28, last week won a suit for $94.60 in back pay. Thereby, he lit the fuse of an explosive problem in management-labor relations. The problem: "super-seniority" - meaning that an honorably discharged veteran is entitled to his old job, or a similar one, with his old company for at least a year, even though it means firing an employe with greater seniority. Thus, when Welder Fishgold was laid off from Brooklyn's Sullivan Drydock & Repair Corp. for ten days, while nonveterans with more seniority were kept on (TIME, June...
Less Competition. Selective Service won hands down. Said the court, in awarding Fishgold back pay for the time laid off: "Congress had in mind [the re-employment clause in the Selective Service Act] that the returning veteran should have one year to rehabilitate himself . . . free of competition with fellow employes. The veteran . . . shall be employed . . . even if it means that a non-veteran will not work." The Selective Service Act, it added, abrogates any security clauses in union contracts...
...Fishgold's own union, the C.I.O.'s Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers of America, promptly protested that Congress had meant no such thing, planned to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. If this version of super-seniority is carried out, the Union predicted, employes in many a shipyard and U.S. plant, including World War I veterans, will have to be fired to make way for veterans. Example: the Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. in Chester, Pa. has 19,000 former employes in service. Yet cutbacks have shrunk its payroll down to only 7,000 workers, some with...
...Welder Fishgold had pressed an issue that may possibly breed a new antagonism between veterans and labor...