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Show Shoe Plant Workers Leave jobs - To Celebrate Unionism Rejection JOHNSON CITY, N. Y., Jan. 10 lift All plants of the big Endicott-Johnson Shoe corporation corpora-tion closed today aa a majority of 15.000 workers who yesterday rejected unionization, 5 to 1, left their benches and swept through the streets in celebration. The vote was 1612 for affiliation affilia-tion with the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor, 1079 in favor of a Congress of Industrial Organize-, tiona union and 12,693 for no affiliation. af-filiation. As the celebration gained mo mentum, with parades, back-firing automobiles and much shout-ting, shout-ting, merchants of this city, once rechrlstened Jdhnson City in honor of George F. Johnson, 82-year-old head of the firm, closed their establishments and Joined in the fun. Johnson, for whom special prayer services have been conducted con-ducted by Protestant ministers. Catholic priests snd Salvation Army workers, remained seriously serious-ly 111 with pneumonia In a hospital. Charles F. Johnson Jr, vice president snd general manager, commenting on yesterday's vote under direction of the labor relations re-lations board, declared: "The policies of the company have been proved sound. They couldn't shake the loyalty and faith of the workers In George F." Before the vote was announced last night, agents of both the CIO and A F L announced they were considering a protest because be-cause of "antiunion" demonstration, demonstra-tion, j |