February 1959 PANEL ON FEDERAL LEGISLATION AT FEBRUARY MEET NG
A panel to consider various proposals for Federal labor legislation to eliminate racketeering in labor unions will be the feature of the Catholic Labor Guild meeting on Monday, February 16 at the Cathedral Hall. Representing labor on the panel will be Frank Lavigne, Director of the Massachusetts State Labor Council>and Arthur Flamm of the firm of Segal and Flamm,legal counsel for the Massachusetts State Labor Council. Representing management will be Lawrence Kearns of Morgan, Brown and Seams, management counsel$ and a representative of the Chamber of Commerce. Moderator of the panel will be John Bowes.
There have been many proposals
made by the President, members
of Congress, labor officials
and industrial leaders.
Many believe that some
proposals are too stringent
and will harm the "clean "
labor movement} others
believe that much more
restrictive measures need to
be taken to eliminate the
present evils. Come to the
meeting to hear the views and explanation of
labor leaders and those in management, and then
be prepared to discuss the pros and cons of
this important issue.
The Guild meeting will begin promptly at B:00 P.M. with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament in the lower church of the Holy Cross Cathedral at Union Park Street. The program and social
hour in charge of Anna Batchelder and her committee will be held in the school hall.
UN-Type Assembly
Two months ago Arthur J. Goldberg, an attorney who is a member ef the AFL-CIO's top echelon, proposed a "Labor-Management Assembly, modeled after the United Nations Assembly....for a periodic examination and discussion of the issues which affect us all."
Sooner 0r later suoh an "assembly" will be established* Sooner or later top businessman and labor
leaders will realize that a triumph over the Reds in the international economic battle will not come automatically, that it will oome only when the men who hold power in U.S. labor and management will get together and plan exactly how they will wage their battle.
(Reprinted from TTORK)
"Because the labor movement has been a movement that was built upon the love and hunger for justice it has beoome a great movement and liien it loses that love and hunger —it will cease to be a great movement and become just another business*" John C.CortPAGE 2
LABOR LIFE
February,1959 Plague of the Unwanted
A disgrace to both the old AFL and the old CIO wast 1* r±h» lack of attention or consideration given to older Union leaders; 2, the lack of proper compensation for those in tremendously responsible jobs; 3. the failure te attract more youmg mea with brains and talents te replace the older leaders* I hope the new AFL-CIO looks to this problem with greater insight*
It is a problem, because the eld-timer has been moved mere by dedication than the modern timer may be* Labor will have a most acute problem ia the lack of brains and talent if it oannot attract the young graduate to its field* A comparison shows the youmg person today that Labor depreciates the value of its personnel, while Management enhances the value by payment of adequate salaries* It appears that a Unioa man can bo expected to match attributes aad talents and be thrown ia the same ring with a 115,000 to $50,000-a-year management man; yet, the Union man is expected to receive a picayune wage for the same or greater exertion of talent* With this consideration, what will be the choice of the college graduate who expects to start at $6,000 minimum? In years to cone, who will have the proper share of trained personnel and which side will suffer as a consequence? We, in Labor, don't hesitate a second te pay properly the professional lawyers, accountants, actuarians, or doctors* Therefore, why do we balk at properly paying our own experts? All who go into Management from the Union side are net "sell-outs"} rather, they feel the economic pinch on their own families aad are forced to make such moves some times*
We should take a leaf from Management's book and compensate our people properly when they have demonstrated their ability, and thereby retain our experienced braias, rather than allow them to be trained for years and then be attracted elsewhere for the lack of decent increment* It is not popular politics, many believe, to advocate an increase in union dues for this purpose; but on the other hand.
are we not judged by an intelligent membership that knows value when they see it? I believe that members, alert and intelligent on these matters, would advocate retention of mea with developed talents, especially at the present time.
Take President Meany, who has the responsibility to Ik million persons as compared with General Motors President Curtis who has responsibility to an infinitely smaller number* Is the pressure and the responsibility of these two jobs reflected in the wages of
$35,000 (Meany) and $350,000 (Curtis)? Admittedly, there are factors, but are we not
judged somewhat by our own mem* bers and the public in general by the comparative salaries*
Beyond wages, we have another cogent factor that is a de-; torrent to the attraction of now and able talent to replace those who sacrificed j; all personal gain because of their tremendous individual dedication to the aims of the Labor Movement - that factor is lack of security* Labor's aims are no longer nebulous or in the testing stage; the public has seen and experienced Labor*s program and now accepts Labor* By this same acceptance, are applied the comparisons and the bases of judgment of the individuals who serve the
long hours demanded of Labor with honor, distinction, and has a record showing tremendous results for good for a 10 to 50 year spaa, if this person is then placed ia jeopardy of maintaining his livelihood because of progress, internal politics, or some other reason - then do we as a movement, supply the factor of security or reward for outstanding service as do all other organizations? We should not have our older people "sweating out" their next pay check or next year's job because our system of progress is ruthless in its swiftness* We should take steps to ease the same tension and pressure that has killed many a physically sound younger person* We should use the knowledge and experience of the older leader*
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FEBRUARY, 1959
PUBLIC EMPLO/E UNIONS
Samuel Gompers once was asked, it is said, exactly what his members wanted, and his laconic reply according to the story was "More". This may not have been a true incident, but the fact is that workers and management do have "more" as a common objective. They are also getting "more" all the time; more money, more fringe benefits, more pension commitments and more of the material things of life, which are necessary today *
For public employees the same objective exists; but coupled with it is another, "more — sooner" « There is no doubt that public employees lag far behind the general economy, and often lag so far behind that a rank injustice is perpetrated upon them in the name of "economy" and "public policy11.
It is noteworthy that where public employees are well organized, they do not lag nearly so far as in those places where they are unorganized or poorly organized. For instance, in the Federal Service it is common knowledge that Postal Employees, who are fairly organized^ do better than the Federal Classified Employees •
More recently, the
Firefighters of Boston
in November showed what
organized effort is
capable of achieving, when
they were successful in
winning a $790. salary
increase in the City of
Boston, whereas other city
employees have received since
the reclassification of 1952 a
trifling wage increase of
approximately 12# per hour across the board.
It is true that even with organization, benefits do not come without effort, and the effort demands more than the simple payment of the monthly dues to the union. The effort required is the loyalty and personal support of the union which is carrying out the will of the membership. The workers in the private industries have to make this effort and contribution, sometimes at personal loss during strikes,
A sure proof that organization does pay off is the fact that in many citias where employees are thoroughly organized there are negotiated contracts between the union and the city or the department. Where contracts exist,advancement of the members' welfare is much easier and speedier.
It is quite significant that there are now pending in both Congress and the Massachusetts Legislature bills which recognize the unions of employees. The Massachusetts bill will allow cities and towns to negotiate contracts with employees' unions. The Federal Bill will compel Federal Departments and agencies to deal with unions, though not necessarily negotiate contracts.
The public employees at every level should give considerable thought to their needs, and to the means of building their own unions, and making these unions work. When this has been done the slogan of the correspondence school will once again appear in their ads. Remember it I "Don't envy a public employee. Be one." BETTER WORKING CONDITIONS
oont. from page 2
~ John Bercury
You can recognize that a policy is needed which allows our older, admirable participants to hold their heads as high and as proudly as any counterpart they may be compared to on the "ether side**
Since we have reached an age of administratiom, let's administer adequately.
Valentine Murphy President, Local 38?, UWOA (Boston Edison Clerical Workers)
LABOR LIFK
Published Monthly at the Catholic Labor Guild. 75 Union Park Street Boston, MA CHAPLAIN: Rev. Francis J. McDonaldPAGE 4
CALENDAR OF EVENTS — 1959
Feb. 11 Registration Norwood, Merrimac Feb. 18} Boston Feb. 19
Feb. 26 School opening, Boston
March 15 Communion Breakfast
April 30 Graduation, Boston School
May 16 Spaghetti Supper and Dance
Sept. 7 Labor Day Mass
Sept. 2U Fall Registration
Sept. 26 Day of Recollection
Oct. 1 School Opening
not. 7 Dance
Dec. 21 Christmas Party
— Save This Calendar —
Congratulations to John Cort, officer of the Boston Newspaper Guild, tfio has been awarded the Lasker Fellowship on Civil Rights and Liberties for fourteen weeks at Brandeis University.
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FEBRUARY.,
COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN
Communion Breakfast — Joseph O'Donnell Constitution — John Kelly Dance — Val Murphy Day of Recollection — Joseph Callahan
Education — Eileen Burns, Registrar
Edward Holmes, Asst. Registrar
Labor Life — Amelia Rosen, Editor Helen Pizzano
Rose Panteleo
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Lapsation — Josephine Rickard
Membership — Bob Rickard Publicity — Margaret Kelley Sick and Vigil ~ Robert Fitzgerald Speakers' Bureau — Joseph McKeen Ways & Means,Program — John Bowes
Hospitality — Anna BatcheMer *******
Best wishes to Evelyn and Arthur Sabbag who re proud parents of a son, Arthur Richard, m January 29 •
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VOL.XVX.HO.. APRIL 1969
THE LABOR 6UILD
of
761 HARRISON AVE.
BOSTON, MASS. 02118
Telephone 536-8440
OVERSEAS VISITORS
Tradition and our constitution call for an educational segment in our regular monthly meetings. Perhaps the most pleasant educational experience for our meeting-goers' ~ is tne~ visit "paid ulT once a semester by the trade unionists from abroad and from the far parts of our country during the sessions of the Harvard Trade Union Program.
They'll be at our APRIL MEETING on MONDAY the 21st. If they all come, they number 26. One-half dozen of them are from overseas.
ROMID A DAVIDSON - Secretary, Sydney Branch, Federated Iron Wkrs Black town, NSW, AUSTRALIA
DAYAWONTRAO KDKKA - General Secretary, nauritius Labour Congress - Port Louis MAURITIUS
YUCEL OZKOK - Training Officer, Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions Ankara , TURKEY
BREHAiD G/AHLAK, Chief, Labour Affairs Section, Government of Ethiopia Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA
SOrG PHO - Journalists' Union Saigon, VIETMM
Did you ever meet a real live man from Mauritius, Thailand, or Ethiopia? Or did you ever really find those places on a map? Brush up on your geography and come on in. You'll be glad you did.
R033RT LAWRENCE of Roslindale - Steward, Retail Clerks Local #224, Purity Supreme
COMMUNION MASS & BREAKFAST
As mentioned in an earlier LL, our big date is SUNDAY - APRIL 2?. Mass at 9:00 in the Immaculate Conception Church here and Breakfast at 10:00 in the lower hall below our Guild offices.
Cur Chaplain, FR. GAVIN, trill celebrate the i-Iass and extend greeting. In another column we have T«*itten some detail about WILLIAM L KIRCHER, our guest speaker for that morning.
JOHN GREELISH, of the Bartenders and Dining Room Employees Local J^, is the
j busy Chairman, with our Executive Board pitching in as a supporting committee.
i They have already sent announcement and
i tickets to all the local unions of our
j area.
You will find enclosed with this LL a pair of tickets and a return envelope. j We trust that you can use them and b e here. The envelope is meant for your check. It is not for returning tickets. We are on an "honor system".
j Cur Chairman tells us that it. will be very helpful if returns are in at least 5 days prior to the 27th -- that means the 22nd.
A,FINE SOFT MIST
We had a remarkably informative meeting with 0. RAY EDMARDS of the national Alliance of Businessmen here on St Patrick's | night — our regular third Monday.
The dedicated souls who got here had a real surprise. A blessed benefactor came to meeting with all the makings for "Irish Coffee". It provided a very pleasant fillip at the close of St Patrick's Day.
Thanks be to God who inspires such splendid thoughts 1
April 1969
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page article "The Anatomy of Corruption in Trade Unions" (INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, ' Feb 1969, U of Calif, Berkeley). It is the finest and most balanced examination of the subject your chaplain has seen in print.
Hutchinson defines "corruption" as "the use of union power for private, unsanc -tioned, enrichment by anyone". Starting before the turn of the century, he examines the whole record. It is solid research and excellent writing. A sample:
"The need is perspective. Corruption there was, prominent and irrefutable, but it was never as widespread as the public vias told to believe, and in terms of guilty men it was very small in scale. Tolerance there was, for over half a century; but the labor movement was not an agency of the law — itself most imperfect — and demonstrated in time a remarkable capacity for self-expurgation. Culpable it wa.s, but so was the nation; such corruption as existed sprang as much from the ills of American society as from the imperfections of the labor movement, and one wonders what incjuis -tions elsewhere would reveal."
If the need is perspective, there is no study anywhere in print that will help put the picture in clearer focus than this piece by Hutchinson. He offers no whitewash, nor does he condone the gravei faults. He has illuminated the true dimen-i sions of a problem all too often grossly ; exaggerated and distorted. We are in his t debt.
COMMUNICATIONS i Ingenious adaptation to the needs has led ! to the production by the Meat Cutters of i a special Spanish edition, of a 12-page j pamphlet to carry the message to Puerto | Rican workers in fish-processing at Ports-i mouth N.H.. CLIFF CAIDWELL reports that ! a sizable block of the 250 workers in an un-organized Portsmouth plant are from P.R,. i Clif is recently home from a week in that i island, studying and conferring with local i officials there to improve the union1 s per-i formance among the Spanish-speaking.
The full team that did the good negotiating last month for 589 included
PAUL HALLORAN (Pres) STEVE LAZAR FRANK GALLAGHER MATT RYAN JOSEPH J MURPHY WHITER DOYLE DICK RODWELL TOMMY RUSH
The key man for M B T A at the wind-up
was MICHAEL POWELL
EMBARGO
JOHN DEVLIN of Teamsters Local 504, our Guildsman from W. Roxbury, is the new President of the Mass Branch of the American Irish Immigration Committee. With CARDINAL GUSHING, BISHOP MINIKIN and a long and impressive roster of committee people, they are prodding for amendment to the immigration laws.
Present provisions for restrictive quotas have reduced Irish immigrants into the USA to a little trickle.
They are pushing for Congressional reform of the situation. They pin their hopes on 'the bill of Rep. WILLIAM RYAN of N.Y. — HR 165. Now is the time for all good men - - -.
JOHN DEVLIN'S phone number is 323-63^3.April 1969
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DODI'S ...:,..
Raytheon JIM ROCHE mil be the featured ; guest when friends put on a dance at the ; Hibernian dub in Watertown on the even- ; ing of April 11 — really a kick-off for . his campaign for re-election as President; of IBEW #1505.
There was no dancing on Sunday afternoon, March 18th, at B.C. High when the Saint Joseph's Retreat League for Working Hen had their 20th Anniversary. But JOE O'DOMELL delivered a powerful oration on the Church and American Labor. Mag -nificent job!
Did you know that we have three religious| sisters in our current school roster? I
TEN WAYS TO WRECK AN ORGANIZATION
1 - Don't come to the meetings
2 - If you do come, come late
3 - If the weather does not suit you,
don't think of coming
k - If you attend a meeting, find fault i-iith the officers and the other members
5 - Never accept an office, as it is
easier to criticize than do things
6 - Feel hurt if you are not appointed
on a committee, but if you are, do not attend coranittee meetings
7 - If asked by the Chair to give your
opinion on some matter, tell him you have nothing to say; after the meeting tell everyone how things should be done
8 - Do nothing more than is absolutely
necessary, but when members roll up their sleeves and willingly and unselfishly use their ability to help the organization, say that the unit is run by a clique
9 - Hold back your dues as long as pos-
sible, or don't pay them at all
10 - Don't bother about getting new members; let someone else do it
- DEMETER'S'MANUAL (1969) pg 312
WILLIAM L KIRCHER
Our Breakfast speaker on APRIL 2?th is the national Director of Organization of the AFL-CIO. A journalism graduate of Ohio University in 1935, a newspaperman till 1941, he organized and was the first president of U A W Local 64? in a Cincinnati defense plant. He has been an international representative for U A Wf educational director for UAW covering Ohio - West Virginia and Perm, and West Coast aircraft director.
In 1955 he became assistant director of organization for the whole AFL-CIO and the top director in 1965. One of his major achievements is the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee and its first successful agreements in agriculture.
For the past three years he has been an Exec Board member of the National Catholic Social Action Conference. And he is a consultant to the National Council o f Catholic Men. He has a son a labor attor -ney in Detroit and a daughter married in Norman, Oklahoma, administering the CCD program in St Joseph's parish there.
A year ago his alma mater, Ohio U, cited him as the outstanding alumnus — the first labor man in the history of that award.
On March 11th, Branch 3^ of the Letter Carriers elected RALPH FARRELL
as the nei* JOHN MULHERN. Four Guildsmen were among others chosen by the 3,200-man local —JIM LYNCH, V-P: CHARLES EDGERLY, Sees WILLIAI-; McBRIDE, Clerk, MSB& and JAMES McGUINNESS, Trustee.
We wish a fruitful term to them and their fellow officers!
"GRADUATION"
School commencement speaker Tues - April 29, will be Heat Cutters JOSEPH A SULLIVAN, Executive V-P of the Mass State Council, AFL-CIO.April 1969
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DEMETER'S MANUAL of Parliamentary Law and! Procedure (Revised, Expanded & Updated ) I by GEDRGS DEMETER, AB, HA, LL.B: Little,; Brown & Co., Boston, 1969, 375 pp, $3.95:
A year ago in L L we reported that our oim GEORGE DEMETER, senior instructor in our School of Industrial Relations, had finished the text of his new book. We are happy to report that it is fresh off the press and available in the bookstores.
It is a "Revised, Expanded and Updated" version of his already well-established earlier manual.
As for the revision, the new volume does represent a careful overhaul. As the author notes in more than one place, parliamentary procedure and the style of managing meetings and conventions undergoes change and improvement with similar shifts in community style and culture.
It is truly an expanded handbook. This edition contains 375 pages as against 256 in the last one.
The updating entails many new sections on court decisions, a splendid sketch of the provisions of the Landrum-Griffin Act, the newest rules of the U S Congress and o f the Democratic and Republican Conventions] And there is new material on Town & City Government.
The book is rich in historical -- and sometimes classical — background material] And there is a wealth of wisdom all through it reflecting the long and broad experience of the author. Further, there is on every page evidence of careful scholarship. With it all, this book still manifests the very special knack which Demeter demonstrates in his classes — a peculiar talent for making his subject vital and meaningful for ordinary working people.
"DEMETSR'S MANUAL serves four notable objectives: (1) it is a reliable reference authority; (2) an effective self-instruction book; (3) a unique textbook as a teaching manual; (4) its five hundred court citations affecting essential rights or members will help minimize, or avoid altogether, costly law suits and vexations litigation against the organization by dissentious members or its antagonistic factions." A good book!
TAKING CHANCES
Providence JERRI McGETRICK — sometime Brewery Wkr» Peace Corpsman, volunteer mission helper, and AIFLD staffer — dropped in for visit and talk on his return from the latest gratis stint with the hospital Sisters on the island of St Lucia in the West Indies. He brought us the remnants of a raffle ticket from there. We got a hoist out of it.
ST JUDE HOSPITAL RAFFLE
in aid of A HEW SIS & DEHTAL CLINIC Ticket;
No: 6816 1st Prize 1 cow
2nd Prize 1 Horse
3rd Prize 2 Sheep
4-th Prize 1 Pig
5th Prize 1 radio
6 CONSOLATION PRIZES
Drawn on 5th August at Annual
Garden Fete at St Jude, Viex
Fort
FAITHFUL PUBLIC WORKERS
At the Boston Museum of Science on Thursday April 17th, the Citizens for the Ad -vancement of the Public Service will cite 5 state workers and 3 federal for excellence in their work. 'The dinner is jointly sponsored with the Mass Municipal Per -sonnel Assoc, the Mass Selectmen's Assoc, the Mass League of Cities & Towns, and the Amer. Society for Public Administration.
There's a social hour from 6-7. The subscription is $7. Attorney General ROBERT H QUIM is the featured speaker.
MARCOS - UFWOC
We have been asked to assist in the distribution of pledge cards now being cir-! culated by the Boston Boycott team of the United Farm Wkrs Organizing Committee,They are gathering these as back-up doc-mentation for their negotiations with local markets and retailers. You may want to fill out one and put a stamp on it. MARCOS MUNOZ will be watching for yours.
APRIL 1979
CATHEDRAL RECTORY
76 UNION PARK STREET
BOSTON 18, MASS.
THIS IS YOUR NOTICE OF MEETING Form 3547 Requested
MON. FEBRUARY 16 April 1979
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THE LAB0R GUILD
VOL XXVI NO
APRil I979
GUILD' MASS AND BREAKFAST
AL R1NAGHAN, our Exec Board member and Pres of local ^1700 AFSC&ME, reports as Chairman of the -Communion Breakfast committee that the function set for SUNDAY, APRIL 29th .promises to-be a successful assemblage,
The word has gone out to some 1,400 of our local unions. And with this issue we add some special information for our own Guild family. Enclosed you find here a pair of tickets. Some of you will be coming with your- own organizations and using tickets •purchased by your own union' or Council,
The enclosed tickets are for your convenience," thev will be for you a memorandum which carries time and place. If you do use them, only then do we.expect you to send us a check. They do NOT need to be returned. We are' on a kind of honor system. We do hope that you will indicate to us if you are going to join us that morning. It will help us in our planning with the caterer,
<UVIN and BQVLE will concelebrate the Mass in our adjoining Church of the Immaculate Conception at 9iOO a.m.. In another -olace we will have some detail about our breakfast speaker.
We reneat here what we have said in our letters to the labor organizations in the area.
"We gather together to ask as a body the blessing of p-od on us and on our work and. for the Progress of the labor movement. And we sit down to break bread together and hear a thoughtful talk. Each year many of- . : our friends who are not Catholics join 'us for this annual function."
FAREWELL — BUT NOT GOODBYE
On March 28th at the Copley Plaza in Boston some 300 friends gathered for reception for the popular Vice Pres for Employee Relations of the John Hancock Co, BILL MURDOCK, on the occasion of his retirement.
The gathering included all the Regional Directors and several of the national Board members of the HERB who were in ^Boston for their annual conference. It was a simple and warm tribute to one who has been a loyal Guilder and a Gushing Award recipient in 19?6.
Among other plans, Murdock anticipates some arbitration work. He'll make a good one!
J.P. STEVENS JORDAN'S AND ZAYRB'S
The Mass Women's Committee for Justice for J.P. Steven's Workers announced on Farch 8th a petition drive to collect signatures of 10,000 Jordan Marsh credit card holders to be presented in May to the Company's Board Chairman WILLIAM TIL-BURG. The petitions are to be completed by Araril 30th.
In addition a big drive is being planned for demonstrations at Zayre stores throughout New England to persuade that Company to voluntarily discontinue selling and advertising Stevens products.
MIKE SCHIPPANI is the Regional Dir of the Stevens Boycott effort. He is at the ACTWU Office at 150 Lincoln St, Boston. 02111. Telephonei 426-3951 Guild President: William Ryan (Exec Bd, IUOE ;'/4) Guild Vice-Presidentt Frank Every (Dir Bus Rep, IAM Dist 38)
Chaplain and Editor i Mortimer H Gavin, S J Associate Chaplain &• Contributing Editori Edward F Boyle, S.J
April 1979 LABOR LIFE Page 2 CHaplain Corner Last month FR. GAVIN promised to say a word about the trip to the annual AFL-CIO Education Conference at Washington, Mar 18-21. It was held at the George -Meany Center for labor Studies at the northern edge of the Washington Beltway, their Rt *128f in Silver Spring, Maryland.
About 170 men and women from the field of workers' education gathered for a most useful exchange and comparing of notes. They were equally divided between staff educators from the international unions and from the colleges and universities which have labor relations centers or extension divisions serving union •DeoT>le. Among them was our own HARVEY FRIEDMAN from U Mass-Araherst.
In addition to AFL-CIO educators, there were -Deonle from the Teamsters, UAH, and other independent unions. Geograp h i c -ally, there were folks from Puerto Rico, Calif, Oregon, and Wawaii. They represented an impressive range of skills and interests. And it was gratifying to see the great numbers of young and committed teachers and scholars.
The formal Tirogram of talks and workshops touched on training for organizers, the new trend in management training programs and conferences on "union busting", countering state right-to-work campaigns, humanization of the workplace, women and trade unions in Europe and the U.S., psychological research on stewards and committed union members.
Of much greater value was the informal sharing at meals and the evening socializing. One comes away with a new appreciation of the great range of talent and wowing sophistication among the union educational staffs and their counterparts in the colleges and universities.
The setting was ideal for such a meeting. The Meany Center is a former seminary-used for many years by the Xaverian Brothers for the training of their men. The living quarters and the dining facilities and the audio-visual equipment and
display areas made it a very apt location. The Center is on a generous acreage and includes some six buildings - - somewhat like a small college campus.
One echo from the old religious background of the plant is the placing in each room of the quotation with regard to monastic hospitality. Fr Gavin brought back the copy from his room and it is renroduced now for our readerss
SALUTEM IN DOMINO
If any monk come from distant parts to the monastery, and.be content with the customs which he finds in the place, and not perchance by his lavishness disturb the monastery, he shall be received for as long a time as he desires. If he find fault with anything, let him reasonably and with the humility of charity discuss it prudently with the Abbot. And let the Abbot on his part listen lest perchance the Lord has sent him for this very thing. But if he be found gossipy and contumacious in sojourn as guest, it shall be said to him politely that he must depart. And if he does not go, let two stout monks in the name of God explain the matter to him.
BENE DICTUM XAVIER
COMING CONFABS
Ar>r 19 - All-day Arbitration Seminar U liass - Amherst. DAV5 ", BLOODSVORTH at the Labor Relations Center is Chairman
Apr 25-27, - Rational IRRA Spring Meet-. ing at St Louis
May '8-9 - National Academy rf Arbitrators Annual Meeting, Dearborn, Michigan
Hay 15-16 - American Arbitration Assoc Labor - Management Seminar, Danvers,.Na
May 19 - All-day Seminar on Parliamentary Procedure, Holiday Inn, Rt 128, Newton
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BUSY MORNING
At the Parker House on Friday, April 6, two labor gatherings attracted many of the Greater Boston labor leadership.
The Democratic Social Organizing Committee , and the Machinists sponsored a breakfast meeting which featured MICHAEL HARKING- TON, National Chairman of the DSOC. BILL WINPISINGER, the Int'l Pres of the IAM,
is a key man in the national DSOC.
i j
later the same morning CESAR CHAVEZ of The United Farm Workers discussed the I •present position of the Farm Workers strikes -and ^boycott — Among-others-things,-he reported on the beginnings of the bovcott of Chiquita Bananas — one of thei •principal products of Boston-based United Brands which also owns Sun Harvest, per- haps the largest producer of lettuce among the struck growers.
Farm Workers have opened a temporary Boycott Office at 120 Boylston St, Boston Tel« 542-4548. The representatives are GRETGHEN LANE, who served here in ; Boston earlier, and RO?ERT EVERTS. NO APRIL MEETING
Because of the Guild and School Communion Breakfast on the last Sunday of the month, the Exec Board has canceled the usual third Monday Guild meeting for April. And that third Monday also is the day for legal celebration of Patriot's Day. Our Mass and Breakfast will stand for the general monthly meeting.
NEW ARRIVAL
ED and JOANNE GOLDSTEIN, both 'on our school faculty, are proud as punch about their first-born who saw the light on -arch 10th. He is MICHAEL ASHER GOLDSTEIN. Joanne has conducted our course on EEOC * Affirmative Action in several terms and Ed is our instructor this term in Labor history. We are glad for them — and with them.
KENNETH S MOFFETT
Since June 1977, KEN MOFFETT has been the second-in-command in the national office of the Federal Mediation &•Conciliation Service. First commissioned a mediator with FM&CS in 1961 after navy stint and 1958 graduation from the Univ of Maryland, and 3 years as an Int'l Rep for District 50 UMWA, he has held successively more important posts in the Mediation Service. He has been Special Assistant to former Director J. CURTIS COUNTS, and has served as Exec Sec of the Atomic Energy Labor Relations panel and was _for _ ^several years Dir of Mediation Services for the whole FM&CS.
Moffett is the son of ELWOOD MOFFETT, Pres of the old District 50 of the Mine Workers during the period when that unit withdrew from the UMWA and, after a few years of independent status, merged into the United Steelworkers.
Ken is known among the national staff of the FK&CS as the "mediators' mediator". In 1975 and 1976, he was the National Pres of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution.
DINING OUT
Apr 10 - Mediator John J Sullivan ' s Retirement Dinner at the Sher-aton-Tara in Braintree. Dick Goggin at the FM&CS office is Chairman
Aur 27 - Telephone Local #2222, IBEW 8th Annual Steward's Appreciation Dinner-Dance at Local 103's Freeport Hall
i;ay 5 - Local 201 IUE Steward's Dinner at their building, 100 Bennett Street, West Lynn
May 15 - Boston Chapter IRRA Dinner Meeting at the Captain's Den, 470 Atlantic Ave, Boston. James Howell of -the First National Bank, Speaker
May 19 - Mass State Council of Carpenters Apprenticeship Awards Dinner at Ho Jo 57» Stuart St Boston
April 1979
LABOR LIFE
RIP
March took its toll among our Guild and close collaborators,
DAVE McSWEENEY, charter Guild member, retired Directing Business Mgr of lAM Dist Lodge ^38, in his sleep, March 1st.
ED DONOVAN, retired Letter Carrier and more than 10 years teaching Public Speak-ing in our Guild school, unexpectedly, on March 6th.
ANNA WEINSTOCK SCHNEIDER, 84, the first woman appointed in the Federal Mediation Service, in 1922, at her winter home in Hollvwood Florida, March llth.
girard (gerry) hotttetan, Asst Exec Dir
at the Mass Teachers Assoc, after a long illness, at Pensacola, Florida, March 8.
FRANK DeSISTO, Asst Pres of Boston Fire Fighters local 718 from injuries in an auto accident, March 21st.
JUNE (daiy) COTTER, mother of our Guild Treas KEVIN COTTER of Plumbers Local 12, March 21st.
NSW MEMBERS
ROBERT F CONNEARNEY of Maiden - Carpenters Local #33
ARTHUR J COUGHTIN of Quincy - Asbestos Workers local --6
ROBERT J CROWE of Haverhill - Machinists lodge
WORKING GUILDERS
TOM WILKINSON, Organizer with Local #592 of the Feat Cutters moved over to become an International Organizer as of March 1.
Attorney MARILYN Z ROTH became officially an Associate with the labor law firm of Rossman and Rossman as of Jan 2nd.
EDWARD P SULLIVAN, Esq, who has been with the Mass Teachers Assoc Legal Div and for several terms instructor in Arbitration in our Guild school, was slated for induction as the new Chairman, Mass Bd of Conciliation * Arb. He has withdrawn his name'from consideration.
Our overseas apostle, former Brewery Wkr GERRY McGETRICK, got home at year end from a two-year Peace Corps stint in Columbia, South America.
MARY LYNSKY of Dorchester, Guild charter member, mailed in a couple of. issues of LABOR LIFE dated 1959 and 1961 to help fill some gaps in our early records. We would welcome any old Guild documents from the early years which might be lying around in the homes of Guild pioneers.
; RON BLOOM, Exec Sec for the Jewish Labor Committee since the death of JULIUS
I "BERNSTEIN has been appointed to the International staff of the Service Employees Int'l as a Research Specialist. He has already reported for a three-month
' orientation program in California after
i which he will return to work in New England
MARK M GROSSMAN of Newton Centre - Arbitrator
JOSCELIND B HALstead Of Boston - Harvard Communitv ^Health Plan
E. ALISON LONG of Halifax - SEIU Local 4Q.5, Mass Fed of Teachers Staff Union Chapter
DENNIS McSWEENEY of Boston - U.S. Dept of labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
NANCY MILLS of Dorchester - Union Rep ,
Mass Hospltal Workers Local 880, SEIU
The Boston Letter Carriers elected new top officers during March. Their former Pres RONALD HUGHES moved up to Assistant National Sec-Treas and is at Washington. The new Pres is MICHAEL J O'CONNOR. His old post of Sec-Treas is now filled by BILL EASTMAN. ED MASIELLO continues as Exec V-P. They will be installed at a dinner on April 21st at Boston Teachers Union Hall,
February 1959 PANEL ON FEDERAL LEGISLATION AT FEBRUARY MEET NG
VOL.XVX.HO.. APRIL 1969
April 1969