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...first big break in the union ranks came in Schenectady, N.Y. at G.E.'s biggest plant, where the 8,700 members of I.U.E. Local 301 had never shown much enthusiasm for a strike. Local 301 stayed out only eleven days, then went back to work. Explained Leo Jandreau, the local's business agent: "Carey is on a suicidal expedition that will weaken the I.U.E. There are no fighting issues in the G.E. strike...
Carey scathingly denounced Jandreau as a "Judas," got the union's conference board to agree to give him another week to reach a settlement with G.E. One week more was all the longer that some local chiefs thought they could keep their members out. Workers at the Bridgeport, Conn, plant had already returned; Pittsfield, Mass, was tottering, and Burlington, Vt. started action to declare itself independent of the I.U.E...
...Underlying Threat." All the while, Jim Carey had been putting on the pressure to get the union to switch to I.U.E. He argued privately with Jandreau, pointing out that his local was losing strength, while publicly branding Jandreau as the kind of "Communist union agent who constitutes the underlying threat" to U.S. security. Fellow U.E. members gossiped that there was another source of pressure on Jandreau. His wife Ruth, a onetime Communist Party leader in New York, has reportedly broken with the party and is planning to rejoin the Roman Catholic Church...
Finally, last February, Jandreau told Carey that his local would join the I.U.E. He even argued unsuccessfully with U.E.'s national leaders that the whole union should do likewise. As evidence of his change of heart, Jandreau promised Carey that if called to testify again before a congressional committee, he would swear that he is no Communist...
...Public notice of Jandreau's decision came in G.E.'s Schenectady plant one lunch hour last week, when shop stewards of Local 301 fanned out to poll the members on the switch. The result, they said, was 10,000 in favor v. a mere 200 opposed. U.E.'s National President Albert Fitzgerald promptly notified Jandreau that he was fired, then got a temporary court injuction prohibiting him from "taking any steps or any act to secede from U.E." contrary to the union's constitution. Nevertheless, at a meeting of the Schenectady local this week, members voted...