SUPPLEMENT Official Organ This is your of UNION PAPER Local 713 UPW CIO ACETON SUPPORT IT!
Non political Vol. No. PANAMA, SEPTEMBER, 1947 FRE BURNHAM STORY ON UNION FINANCES VICIOUS DISTORTION Expose Base Admixture Of Fiction And Facts They are trying to provoke you.
Brodsky are 99 employees have built with their sweat and toil. These lies roll from the mouth of the same editor who a few short months ago stated that it was unreasonable for silver employees to Following is a statement to the members of demand an equal right to hold No Whitewash Policy Contemplated.
Local 713 from Max Brodsky, Regional Director. civil service positions in the Government. Could we have expected better from one who You have no doubt read or amounting to several thousand has dealt so shamelessly with denounced today the lying attack made on the Union by newspaper article which Francisco Arauz, President of Local 713 UPW CIO, heard of by this time the dollars, and it concluded by as the futures of the silver employees.
ap serting that the Executive The Nation yesterday. Mr. Arauz stated it was calculat peared in The Nation on Board of the Local had atOf course, desire that the ed to spread erroneous reports among the members of Lo Monday, October 6th. Headlines tempted to conceal the results membership of the Local be ca! 713 and the citizens of the Republic.
on the article screamed that of the auditor report from the made fully aware of the results of the audit. It is true that Mr. Arauz said He was shocked at the irresponsible thousands of dollars were miss membership.
ing. It claimed that 105, 000 These statements all and slanderous character of the article. The story was was sent to the International downright lies. These are the However the total amount of there are some irregularities.
shot through with vicious lies, distortions, exaggerations, Union in Washington. It said reckless statements of a news the discrepancies is 806. 50. This and half truths. It will take its place in newspaper history that there were unsupported paper that is out to wreck the is less than one half of one as an unexampled piece of yellow journalism. expenditures of union funds proud union which the silver percent of the total funds hand The officers and members of Local 713 resent this led by the union during the period covered by the audit.
treacherous attack upon the integrity of the union. They STATEMENT Even though the amount is rewill not sit idly by while a newspaper attempts apparently latively small, compared to the to use their organization as a convenient target to bolster The fact finding Committee is working strenu total funds handled, it is viewits sagging circulation.
ously in order to present a report of its findings to the ed as a matter of grave conIn answer to the charge of whitewashing the report, Exec utive Board on Sunday, October 12, 1947.
cern. would consider it grave President Arauz stated that the Local Executive Board if it were found that only The Committee is not allowing any disclosure to will not conceal and has never intended to conceal the of the many thousands handinfluence or to stampede its action.
led by the union were missing.
facts of the audit from the membership. He said, The The membership can depend on it to protect the Executive Board has turned over the audit to a special in Union interests. know that it is a bitter ordeal for you to endure the vestigating committee so that the information contained Sgd. ELLIS, taunts and jibes of your bosses in it might be studied in a responsible fashion. When the Chairman.
who have been hoping and investigating committee has reported back to the Execupraying for the downfall of the tive Board, the membership will be fully informed of the CIO every since it appeared on results. If any persons are found to have misappropriated was informed by Mr. Brodsky that the International Union the Isthmus. Remember. they funds of the Local they will be dealt with accordingly. in Washington was being closely advised on the matter are trying to provoke you beMr. Arauz stated, It is true that the auditor report and that, if the situation warranted, appropriate action CIO. Were it not for the union, disclosed several irregularities in the handling of funds. would be taken by the International Union.
they would treat you as harshHowever, the total of the discrepancies as specified by the President Arauz stated, We of the CIO regard this ly as in the past. Rest secure auditor report amounts to 806. 50. This figure is less article as an attack to weaken and divide us. But we are in the thought that the amount than one half of one per cent of the total funds handled made of finer stuff than this. We have a proud heritage of excitement and interest by the Union from August 1946 to May 31, 1947. This is a of courageous and militant struggle to obtain a better of aroused in our organization is a measure of its strength and far cry, indeed, from the lying streamer across the The life for ourselves and our families. This union which we power.
Nation yesterday which proclaimed that thousands were have put together with our toil and sweat will not so easily missing. However, even if only were missing from the burst asunder.
Let us shout to our enemies local funds, the officers would view the matter with grave He concluded by saying, The thousands of CIO mem the past. Now, we have a newthat we have had enough of concern.
bers on the Isthmus join with me in declaring that the CIO, found dignity and we walk with Mr. Arauz stated that the investigating committee the hope and promise of our lives is bigger and finer than our heads high. Lies and rumhas nearly concluded its inquiry and that an executive the mud slinging journal that to sully our name. We ors will not divide us and The board meeting of the Local will be held next Sunday to know that the stronger we become and the more we ac and all the other labor hating Nations. the Brodie Burnhams hear its report and to take appropriate action.
complish for the silver employees of the Canal Zone the enemies of mankind will crack He also said that he had discussed the matter thorou more vicious will the opposition grow. This scurrilous at their pens and bust their heads ghly with Mr. Max Brodsky, the Regional Director. He tack is a sign that we have come of age.
on our structure.
DON BE STAMPEDED! HOLD THE LINE. BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL ERNESTO CASTILLERO