We are unable to find any record of having financed the above mentioned automobile. Very truly yours, ENT:rw (Signed) E. N. TRAGO, Manager. EXHIBIT 5218 [Handwritten, on reverse side of exhibit 5212] BROTHERS: Frank, laborer, John, pressman at Truscon (ends of 3 fingers on left hand cut off) in a car canvassed Truscon employes to sign them in CIO. Last night they announced meeting of Truscon men after 3:30 shift Friday to be held 71st & Broadway, 3rd floor over bank building at 4 o'clock. Meeting is to decide whether to call a strike at Truscon Monday. Frank said CIO organizers will appear at Truscon plant Friday. Autos will be used to haul Truscon men to meeting after work. Frank said "a fellow bought his way into Truscon Wednesday, worked until noon in press dept. and signed up 35." John said he signed 15 in Griffin's dept. Frank passed out 9 CIO cards for signatures Thursday. Frank's clothes were searched. CIO cards were found. He was laid off. He says he will complain Friday to local Labor Board. Frank says the "Hammer" or "Stamp" dept. Truscon, is 100% CIO. (All this talk apparently used to "sell" CIO idea to Truscon workers) Frank said 25 chippers wearing CIO buttons at Corrigan were fired Wednesday. Frank knows about a fire hose on 2nd floor in refrigerator dept. Truscon. Truscon seems to be their worry. They boasted Upson is 95% CIO and, Corrigan 98%; that Truscon warehouse workers are well organized. No mention was made of Steel & Tube. Frank said Ferro Machine & Foundry men will strike Monday. Frank talked to Hanousek before 8 a. m. Thursday and Hanousek told a company police and Frank's clothing was searched and CIO cards found. The 2 brothers came to Hanousek's home to sign him at 6 p. m. Thursday nite. They said: "If you think you can't get off at 3:30 Friday for the meeting, don't work Friday. The CIO will get your job back." They said cars will be at Truscon quitting time to haul men to meeting. [They drive an old-1930 or 1931-De Soto Sedan, maroon body and red wheels.] Hanousek says if you fix it with Pop Sheldon so his day is through at 3:30 he will attend meeting and writer will get complete report for you. CIO card Hanousek filled out is C-No. 396568. This was Thursday night. The No. passed to him at 8 a. m. Thursday by Frank was C-No. 396559. Organizer's name on card "Korecky." Frank said dues is $1.00. John says compensation for injury paying him $12.50 week for 11 weeks and he will see an attorney. The 25 chippers, Corrigan, were asked to meet their organizer downtown Friday morning to go to Labor Board. EXHIBIT 5219 AMALGAMATED ASSOCIATION OF IRON, STEEL AND TIN WORKERS OF NORTH AMERICA (Steel Workers Organizing Committee) 3600 Grant Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. C No. 396568 Date MAY 1937. I hereby accept membership in the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers of North America, through the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, and of my own free will hereby authorize the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, its agents or representatives to act for me as a collective bargaining agency in all matters pertaining to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, or other conditions of employment. I, Fred Korecky, after being duly sworn, advised as to my constitutional rights and the penalty provided by law for making false statements under oath, depose and voluntarily state: I am thirty-three years of age and live at 4709 Barkwill Avenue, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. I started work at the Corrigan-McKinney plant before it was absorbed by the Republic Steel Corporation, in the latter part of 1929. I worked there as a pump man and as a service car helper and as the service car operator in the Electrical Department. I was elected Employee Representative Plan Representative from the Electrical Department in July 1936. Shortly thereafter I signed an application card for membership in the Amalgamated Association through the SWOC. This was early in August 1936. I was "laid off" from my job in December of 1936 although I had a good claim to seniority. My case was taken before the General Committee of the Employees Representative Plan and the Representatives voted unanimously to ask the Company to reinstate me. The Company did not do so. In early 1937 I participated actively in organizing the Lodge of the Amalgamated Association, No. 1098 composed of Corrigan-McKinney employees. About April 1937 Mr. B. J. Damich made me a part-time organizer of the SWOC. I worked at first in organizing Corrigan-McKinney workers. In May 1937 Alex Balint, full-time SWOC organizer asked me to work at the organizing of workers in the Truscon Steel plant, which is a subsidiary of the Republic Steel Corporation. In April 1937 I got two boys that worked at the Truscon Steel plant and who had been known to me for some years casually as boys who were growing up in the neighborhood to sign membership cards in the SWOC. The names of these two boys were Frank and John Konkowsky. After they had been members of the organization about a month I got them to work as voluntary organizers beginning in the first half of May. They took cards around to the workers at the Truscon plant whom they knew and got many of them to sign application cards. As I recollect it, I gave both Frank and John each about 15 to 20 of these cards altogether. Each such card carried my name signed on it as the organizer. As the boys signed up members among their fellow workers they turned the cards in to me along with the fees of one dollar each for the Union buttons. They used to see me every couple of days just as we came across each other and then they would turn in any cards that they had gotten signed up. Just about a week before the strike was called for on May 26, 1937, during one afternoon Frank Konkowsky came to me and said that he had been let go at Truscon and that he thought it was on account of his organizing work for me. We discussed taking his case down to the Labor Board as soon as it was sure that he was laid off for good. I then spoke to Al Balint about this apparent discrimination against Frank Konkowsky but I heard nothing more about the case as the strike started soon after and there were lots of other things to do. Along in August or September of 1937 my work as a part-time organizer was terminated by Mr. Damich. My own case involving discharge or lay off from the Corrigan-McKinney plant was taken up with the Labor Board and I testified about this matter at the National Labor Relations Board Hearings. The Labor Board is expected to hand down a decision covering my case along with the others when the Republic Steel case is decided. I have carefully read the above statement and certify the facts as related are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. (Signed) FRED KORECKY. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of August, 1938, at Cleveland, JOSEPH MCDONOUGH, Notary Public. Ohio. EXHIBIT 5221 (See facing page.) EXHIBIT 5222 REPUBLIC STEEL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES DISTRICT, DIVISION OR SUBSIDIARY: BUFFALO DISTRICT Report of regular police force not including temporary empolyees acting as police, guards or watchmen during emergencies Period: January 1, 1933, to December 31, 1937 |