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[sil.]

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[sil.]

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[sil.]

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Now let me explain something to you. I’m supposed to be a top
head electrician. One of the senior electricians on the plant.

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A senior electrician at Taylor Chain
is only making $4.19 an hour.

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A student electrician in the steel
mills is making $3.95 an hour

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and he don’t know his ass
from a hole on the ground.

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And I mean that. They’re
getting stuff three years

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that were supposed to be brought in the first
year. I’m sick and tired of waiting three years.

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I want that stuff now. And I realized this.
We, we are not going back everybody had.

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You’re gonna have to ask one thing.

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The union stays in there for the next 50 years,
every three years is going to have in November.

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And every three years, it’s gonna be
called. Now do you understand that?

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Yeah. No worries. Us right
here came to nothing

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unless we got the back and everybody
out there. It’s a good little company

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but uh… every company in my experience
where they sit down and decide

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the limit to take and go. But it’s not always the first.
Most generally, it isn’t the first. When of course,

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I could say they want to chisel as much as they
can and get by as cheap which, which is fine.

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But our job is to get as much as we can
and uh… and so but they have a limit

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to what they will go and beyond that, they
won’t go. Then you have to go on a strike.

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The majority of the people that work at Taylor Chain
are from this community right around close by.

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I mean, we have father and
son, mother and daughter.

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We have uh… mother and son. It’s
like a home away from home.

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But there is a strong sense of militant at
Taylor chain and there always has been.

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We realize that the union
means only five years old,

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the company was there, what? 85 years without
a union. And believe me at the beginning,

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they weren’t even called by the name of the company. If they
wanted, they were with them. They had to bite tooth and nail

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and those people uh… they were all ready to
fight because they wanted what they wanted.

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They use to be the old timers, you know, what
I mean. We have a lot of young back in there.

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They just don’t strike over wrong
set of times when somebody say,

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hey let’s go outside and harass the company. They
put it like this. I’ve been there five years, I got

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25 more to go and I’m not going
to work in this military years.

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All right, you, you guys want some of the
bummers they’ve given us. Yeah, yeah.

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Okay. This is rather a long article
but what it boils down to is

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they want to eliminate the posting at jobs.

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They want everybody submit slips to personnel
department as to what jobs they’d like to have

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and when a job become open, then they will consider
you. I don’t know, whether they’re trying to be funny

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or you know what. They come here
to propose seniority units.

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Our thinking is if we’re gonna go away
right, Jack. Make a plan wide seniority.

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The biggest catch to something like
this would be for the younger people

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that would maybe give them less of a chance to bid
up to higher jobs. The main advantage is that

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you have is more emotional opportunity
because it’s more occupations in

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uh… within the two units. Let’s say the laid is right
now. They would have more jobs opportunities to bid on.

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Now a woman takes the job.
She’s on there five days

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and if she don’t make it, she goes back. Now, we don’t think,
it’s fair. So you guys get three months to get used to a job

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and they give women five days.
You had a program from the man,

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have you heard the women too? Give them
the same thing. This way, it should be.

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It’s going to be the
young people to decide.

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Let me say this, I will not sail
the old people down the road.

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The old people, they charted the union
but they didn’t know what they wanted.

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Like he said, there are several
people out there working.

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We’re gonna go back to work with teen and twelve
just now. Anything that involves money raise

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uh… pension plan. They
haven’t offered us a thing.

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And we did tell them that if they realize that
we only had uh… one more week after next week

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and that’s it. And they just smiled at us.

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Look, this is not unusual.
This is not unusual because

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normally any money package
comes into play the last week.

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I coughed blood once. When is stuff.

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You know, I went to the doctor.
Doctor says, okay, that’s it for you.

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You want to live a little bit longer. It’s time to go
somewhere else. You got your training, get in there.

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If I go somewhere else, I
get the same rate for it.

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We submitted the health and safety to him.

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They seem to go along with it. Everybody accept what it
had. Any union safety commitment would have the sole right

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to shut a job down if he thought the job was
unsafe. They are not willing to go on with that.

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I’d like to say it right now. We complained about a
cutter and now with the assembly for the last six months.

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We got a man sitting here with a broken hand
because of that cutter. They refused to fix it

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and that’s why this language is necessary.
There is not enough room between

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the two blocks, you know. And that’s where
it caught my arm in between the two blocks

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and it broke the bone in about
four, five places. Eventually,

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you might wind up with a committee
comprised of both sides

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that make the only spot decision to shut down a piece
of equipment but to give the union a unilateral right,

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you know, I don’t think any
company is gonna go that far.

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Not at this time, sometime
in the future, maybe.

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Because blades were rounded up
but it wouldn’t cut what it is,

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now it ripped your hand apart. We propose to have a guard put on
there where he couldn’t have his hands in there while he was doing.

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They finally send an engineer
out to redesign the machine

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and I told him exactly what was wrong with it. He said,
well, yeah, yeah. We’re gonna do this and do that.

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This was four, five months ago. It
wasn’t, they didn’t do nothing.

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Finally, now just happened, you know.
It couldn’t be helped.

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I found in my experience with the top
level and negotiating with the company,

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they’re safety conscious and really they
like to uh… to see it work. The problem is

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and as we explained to the company is getting it carried out on
the bottom from the foreman. A foreman is interested in one thing

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in getting our production.

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[sil.]

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You might have to strike, I don’t know. Now,
there are certain things. This time I’m not

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uh… it’s gonna be a recommendation and I’ll
tell you certain things such as the 30 and out

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and a cost a living. We’re not
gonna recommend you agree anyway.

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Of course, even we recommend that you have the
right to vote it down. You come here on the 31st

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and you vote this in. I don’t know
why that you go blame us for it.

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The way it is and if you want it, you’re gonna take
it and if you don’t, don’t come back to me later

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and say, well, this set me other. You are the
people that’s gonna have to accept it, not me.

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People will never agree with it and you’re gonna
find new people are always as satisfying.

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The only way, you can shut them up is
telling you own it for the contract.

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But hey, let’s don’t go
back to tomorrow morning

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and stick a knife in each other’s back. Look, believe
me, the company eats this up. We don’t either,

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either have to stick together or we might all just
tear the papers up and the whole damn contract

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and just quit.

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They wrote it to a committee. I’ll tell you, they came out
with their first offer and really they haven’t changed it.

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Any vacations? They don’t even
talk about any vacations.

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25 years are over, no vacations whatsoever.
They never responded to it,

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never made an offer on vacation area.

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What about job evaluation?

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They are not gonna give it to you.
They won’t go at all. Questions?

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Will they allow safety equipment
into the plant? They agreed that,

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we found a violation and they didn’t
take care of it and in two weeks,

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we could bring in any kind of equipment
in that we wanted to, to make checks.

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Now, we have some good safety language but really, I didn’t
want to go into a lot of detail because I didn’t think that

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you’re going by the money package. But you telling
to yourself that you only off your seven cents

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over your last contract and we worked over
seven more cents. Say, I don’t want it.

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I don’t even sign it. As all
in favor in of a strike

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and not accept the company’s
last proposal remain seated

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and raise your hand.

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Forget it.

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Well, you don’t have to count it.

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[sil.]

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Questions. You’re going there
and say exactly what you want

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and go away from one another again, you
know. Look, I’ll be honest with you.

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When negotiations is what the word means. You negotiate. You
don’t know what it’ll take. Anybody that’s ever been in here,

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and this is their first time and they’ll tell you, it’s
nothing like they ever saw. They get quite an education.

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This last offer, we made Decker said, “Fine, we’ll
accept it,” and it’s a darn good possibility.

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We brought it back to you and you say go jump in a
lake. We don’t want it. But then you have to realize,

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you weren’t sitting there when all this was going on. They
didn’t know what it’ll take. It also this vote tonight

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mean a lot. They’re gonna see
how many people was together.

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Yeah, oh she was next, go ahead. Do you think
come and clean that Janitors, can they come in?

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[sil.]

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You got a legal strike going on. We call
public service company, can we get in?

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With our permission. Next goal now
belongs to the united steelworkers.

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As over a month ago.

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And not only that but
statewide generating plants.

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So uh… you’ll get cooperation. Respect
the cause as they go out the gate.

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If you goes in level and
comes out dragging.

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You can’t leave by the way.

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Now look, you cannot stop management from going in and
out of their plant. He informed, they can come and go.

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Then why is it that they get
locked in steel of a place.

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They haven’t for six years ago.
In 1959 strike,

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I was agree with England steel and we refused to
let them in and out and they got an injunction

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out against us and forced to let them in and out. The
only thing that we have a right to do is to see that

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chain doesn’t go out of that plant
so forth and we’ll do that.

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Oh, here we go.

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No, no he brought this truck.

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I remember way back about 20 years
when we started a union talk.

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We had about 80% and then the
company held a meeting at the hall.

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Had sandwich and beer and whiskey
and give them a good talk until

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and then after that, it was only about 20%
left out of the big percentage that we had.

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Those days are over.

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Matt, you want coffee?

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Nobody goes in. Turn around. Thank you.

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Appreciate it.

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I would like to see him put a price
control on profits you make from stocks.

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Coffee is one of toys that the last contract
man. First they went up and then I think you get

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a smaller cup now.

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[sil.]

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I guess some girls from in here and he was

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highly insulted when they saw these pictures.
Yeah, I can notice and she, one was the last time

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we picket and I all, God it was so big.
Who put up it?

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I don’t know. I know. The
women, that’s right.

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Yes, you did. Well, I guess, it was.

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That’s where the womanhood comes in.

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This company is still
living in the 19th century.

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[sil.]

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Right there, aside. Hey
right here, man. Strike.

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[sil.]

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The employee sustains an injury arising out
of or in the course of his employment.

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First thing they did was that they wrapped our insurance.
And this is the first time I’ve ever seen this happen.

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Every time I’ve seen a strike in the
(inaudible) region, the company automatically

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covers you for at least that month. And they
also made an offer to us, certain few people

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that if they would more or less fact in leading and get
us to accept the contract that they give them a little

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extra raise on the side. Those
that got accused by Ted Clark

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out there waving gun and a ball bat.

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Yeah. Remember the little guy
that come out with a hard hat.

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He pulled up to the gate and we told him that we were on
strike and he informed us, he rolls a little pink slip

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and he can go through the gate. So she informed him that if
he went through the gate, he would stand until it was over.

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So he proceeded to tell her that she not only been her
old friend she didn’t have any brains to go with it.

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Now, this is the mix crass.
I can’t tell you exactly

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what she told the man but she tell
him to put on his little hard hat

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and back his car out there while
he still had a head to put it on.

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Now, they checked it up another 13 cents.

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If they were not 13 cents, they could sure so go up a little bit more.
There is no way, you can sign it through your contract and survive.

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The cost of living.

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We are no where.

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Well, I tell you (inaudible).

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No, no way, never.

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Swing a valid vote. He’s crazy.
He is. I’m really hurt.

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Yes so he can end this scene. So he can go up
and, you know, play around somewhere else.

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He’s got a contract up somewhere else.
I know. And you,

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do you know that he only has, he’s allowed
nine weeks. Got nine weeks to go.

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First come, first serve baby.

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You got to, you know, put up or shut up.

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Goofed up and

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they’re supposed to get you know, points have raised first year
and even got that yet. They doubled our life insurance if we die.

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[sil.]

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Going all sit together. All the people who don’t want the contract.
Spread out among the people so when I have you stand up,

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if you don’t want it, you know, it doesn’t look like
you’re just a few people there. It looks like it’s,

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it’s bigger and everybody along. Everybody
else can get a weekend, we can get it too.

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[sil.]

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Because I’ll be getting 30 and the young one
aren’t getting as you vacation that we owe money,

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I’m gonna go out. So we will be out too.

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Plus, I don’t care a lot of
that, we have to have that.

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[sil.]

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I would like to make one statement.

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I would like to know who the individual was it called at my
house about an hour and a half ago and talked to my wife.

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I think at least if you had
enough guts to talk to my wife,

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you’d have enough guts to say it to me what you said to
her. I understand there has been some more calls made

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to different people. Now,
this is the place to say it.

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We’re gonna conduct this meeting in an orderly fashion.
You’re gonna have your right to reject this contract.

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You’re gonna have your right to vote it
through. You turn it down, fine, good.

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It’s nothing to me, one way or the other. I get paid
to do a job and I do it to the best of my ability.

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You respect me and I’ll respect you.
People, that’s been around will find that

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I’ve given this local, as much courtesy
and respect and let them vote.

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There is probably very few locals that have done and this
has been one of the biggest complaints of the union members

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that they don’t have the right to exercise
their vote. You’re gonna have this right.

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But I want you to understand one thing. If
you think because I work for the union,

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I don’t give a damn about the local, you’re sadly
mistaken. And if you think I like to see people

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in this paychecks in just the way it is,
it ceases me to say it doesn’t bother me

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but I’d be lying. It bothers me. I don’t like to
see anybody out. You have to have a little heart.

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Now, I’m gonna go through it and when I get
through it, if you have any questions to ask me,

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be my guest.

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[sil.]

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I want to have one scotch. If I
had two, it would have been good.

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There is a feel, you get about these things

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when you’ve been in enough negotiations just how far you
can go and how much further, you can back the company.

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This gentlemen. I thought
about federal mediator,

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he denied it. Now how can you brought him
back or whoever brought him back in?

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I’ll explain it. Who brought him in?

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Wait a minute. Can I ask you a question? Wait I’ll answer
the question. I received a call from the federal mediator

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and he asked me at that time, will we
be willing to meet? I told him no.

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I felt that we were so far part,
it was just no use talking.

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[sil.]

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Look, I don’t trust lawyers on the other side
anymore than I do on our side. We have lawyers.

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I consult with him on the telephone.

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I don’t care what you people say. I’ve got three kids.
I’m hurting just as well as anybody else around here.

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And if you for this contract I’ll
tell you what, it’s up to you.

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[sil.]

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It’s what the pay board will allow us.

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The figures to be used is $4.70 an hour.

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[sil.]

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Would you listen to me?
Would you listen to me?

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Just relax a minute. Just relax.

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Just relax. The figures are right. Now,
you can just beat him all you want

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but figures don’t lie. Anybody
can figure out the percentages.

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What’s five and a half of a three dollars
and 70 cents? What do you people think now?

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What do you think about this?
Okay, I’ll read to you.

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Honest, straight out here it is.

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Money wise, I don’t think you don’t get anymore but the
language, you can get a hell lot more. You could though.

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Mr. Martin, can I ask you?

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Yes, never mind.

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In my opinion, in my honest opinion,

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I think we can get more money.

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Negotiating committee, I make a motion

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that this contract is not be ratified.

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[sil.]

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I’m not along with that motion because I asked this
before this thing got underway. I’m gonna get that.

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That’s no way to vote.

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[sil.]

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All in favor of the motion say aye.
Aye. No, no.

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[sil.]

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All in favor of the motion, stand please.

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Is it to accept the contract or reject it.

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[sil.]

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I’ll have something to say after the
meeting. We told you in the harbor,

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don’t look for our support.

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[sil.]

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Discuss on the floor front of motion.

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If you seriously think that we cannot get
anymore, I think we’d be asses if we voted

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uh… to strike some more because our
people are hurting and I’m not hurting.

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I’m living with my parents.
I think you people have…

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Let him finish.

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I want to know just one
of these people here

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think on our negotiating team think
that we can’t, we can’t get.

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This young fellow, had hell of a good point.
You’re giving us nothing to go on. What,

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what are we gonna just say, when we go back. You
turn it down, they’re gonna say, well what…

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Can I have a word? Can you hear?

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You know, I was hired in 35.

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We fought and try to get unions
in this place and in 47 we tried,

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we, we failed. And in 56, we failed.
Finally in 67, we got it.

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The old men were against us.
We were young guys.

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Now, we have all of you follow as the young fellows.
So what happened? 1969, we received the contract.

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It was supposed to be from
November the 1st, 1969.

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We didn’t get this till 1971. Now why the
hell do we have to have to go in with this.

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[sil.]

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All right next one.

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An extra hour of raise in the next year.
I want that six cents an hour right now.

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And I ask that for everybody else.
And if you accept this contract,

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you’re nothing but God damn fools.

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Next guy. From what I understand
of this contract, we lost language

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in the point that if we come in

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to work five days a week but go
home one day of that five days,

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at noon or any time earlier. That’s been scratched out.
It wouldn’t be any contract. We took care of that today.

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No way, it will be in the contract. If we
use any other language besides that? No.

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If we just frank it out, well
we just don’t accept it.

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All we say is we won’t accept it
when you go that. That’s right.

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You ain’t sign any contract. Nothing official
and you sign it. We have a loss on language

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and we got before. Okay.

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Okay, I want to know why is that the
company can buy all these new car

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and all these new…

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[sil.]

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There you go. I would like to know
why is that the company can have

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all these new cars, all these
new machinery, can go to London

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and all over and we cannot get more money? Right, right.
They got money for that. Why don’t they have money for us?

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We’ll take a poll now.

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Poll. Just one shot at one time.

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Let’s start with the right hand side.
And on this side. And count them.

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[sil.]

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Don’t start this crap
with you about sell outs.

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[sil.]

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The vote is a 139, the
rejected and one to go back.

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142.

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[sil.]

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Now when somebody comes up to you, this contract is shit and
negotiation was shit, you can turn around and say to them,

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look friend, I saw you raise your hand, now go back
to work. That’s why you have to have a open court.

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I thought that was a good contract, I would have stood
up and that was the only one. That’s what I do.

00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:24.999
Okay, maybe that’s you but there are so many
people. You saw those people sat down back there.

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Wait a minute. Women have opinions.
Shit. Oh, God damn,

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those people back there. Did they stand up?
No because they were afraid.

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It’s always at least one third of the
people intimidated. I don’t like that.

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I’ve been in this business too long. [sil.]

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You saw those people sitting down there. When
you first had them to stand up on this side,

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it was at least half of them. Settled down. They
didn’t, they wanted to go back to work. When they saw,

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when they saw the majority is
going the way, they all stood up.

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I think it’s the vote was
that way when you go down.

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I’ll tell you what. On my personal opinion
I’m not concerned with that at this point.

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[sil.]

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I would like to say one thing. The
decisions that were made yesterday

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weren’t made by Jack Bierman. If you’ve come here to
crucify Jack Bierman, you’re not gonna crucify him.

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That all the decisions that were made
yesterday were made between Paul and myself

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in the bathroom, outside the presence
of the mediator and Jack Bierman.

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So, it’s us this time,
it’s not Jack Bierman.

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I want to say one other thing before
we get into it. This local committee

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has taken a hell lot of dues and they did one
of the best jobs I’ve ever seen yesterday.

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It’s Paul and Art and all agree,
they’re recommending this to you,

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not me and the reason they’re recommended because they felt
they’ve gone this far as they could and if we go any further,

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we are just wasting our time. We made
some hell of improvements. We’ve come up

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and even the committee will agree, they didn’t
expect to pick up an additional five cent.

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But they did get it. No, but it was your
decisions and they did make those decisions.

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They had to give the company an understanding that
they would come back and recommend this contract.

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I’d like to turn it over to your
committee if they have a final word.

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Every person in this hall has a right to stand
up and vote the way that he feels he should.

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Now, I don’t think anyone here should have
to be afraid of the guy sitting next to me.

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If you want to go back to work,

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be a man and get up and say, I want to go back. If you want to say out, be a man and stand
up and say I want to stay out. Made your promise and when the time comes, I told you,

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I don’t think, we can get anymore. How much money
they are gonna get if they go back to work today?

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That’s what they want to know? 18 and
a half not counting the spillover.

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If we plan ahead, we get a 12 and a half.
It’s 20 and a half, of course,

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with the average worker right now, if you took it all
in context, it probably will be 20 to 23 cents an hour.

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Not counting the spillover.
You agree with it?

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I hope that all of you are man enough to get up and stay
with us. All of you ratifying this contract stand up.

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All right.

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Sit down.

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All oppose, please stand up.

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Motion remains ratifies.

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Not to accept it. On my part there is no hard
fate like I said before I think a man is a man,

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he’s got the guts to get up and vote the way that
he wants to. Hey I didn’t kiss the company’s butt,

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you can bet on that. And we make one damn thing
clear last night. It was one damn thing understood

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that if means if, but means but
and in no way, in the future,

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we’re going to have to take this stuff again.
For one time, since we had the union in here,

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everybody stuck together. We made it plain, the
company knows now that hey, you’re militant.

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[sil.]

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[sil.]