The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21
STRIKE AGAINST
WAGE CUTTING
AT AUTO PLANT
Detroit Sees Strike at
Fisher Body Plants
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can only make about so cents an
hour at the new rates.
These men who had been accustom-
ed for many years to $500 and $1,000
a day, can now make only from $500
to $500 and that only under except
ionally favorable conditions. Often
when the work is slow or when there
is a hold up anywhere these men
are unable to earn more than $500
to $3.50 a day. s
Big Cut.
Besides the Trimmers, the Duco-
Sprayers, Slush Sprayers, Ground
Sprayers, Paper-Belters and a num-
Der Of other departments have come
out. All these different operations
have received heavy cuts in wages
amounting to an average Of 35 per
cent. Most of these men had been
earning $500 and $500 per day and
they will have the greatest difficulty
from now on in making as much as
$500.
These savage wage cuts are con-
vincing the men that the management
has absolutely no thought of the well
fare of the workers. They are begin
ming to realize that they must fight
their own battles and their present
temper indicates that they are going
to fight this out to finish The
strikers are certainly giving the COM
pany the surprise of it's life. There
have been many departmental strikes
in the past but none of them have
been fought so tenaciously and at no
time did they assume the proportion
that this one is beginning to assume
Unless the company makes a right
about face with wage cuts in the
other departments, the whole plant
will be out before this strike is SET
tied.
Beware of Splits.
Some Of the departments among
whom are the Cushion Makers, who
were also on the POINT of leaving the
shop were kept in by the bosses by
a promise that they were to get their
old prices back again. We do not
know if this promise has been kept
but we are quite certain that this
concession to the Cushion Makers
will last only until the others have
been beaten and ave back on the job
working at the rates enforced by the
company. oIe
A deplorable feature OF this strike
is the lack of organization among the
strikers. Not many Of them are as
yet members of the union, and altho
the strike has so far been carried out
with great courage and determination
there will be no worth while results
for the workers unless they organize
themselves in the Auto Workers
Union and by permanent organiza-
ton maintain that which they are
now trying to gain.
Must Unlonize.
Auto Workers Union, Local 1877,
has been making a strenuous cam
paign all summer among the Body
Workers in Detroit, pointing out
again and again the inevitability of
just such wage cuts as this and urg-
ing the workers to get organized so
as to be able to give effective resis-
lance to the onslaughts of the EN-.
ployers.
The Auto Workers Union stands
for the following demands:
A minimum scale of $1.00 per hour.
An Eight Hour Day and a A hour
week.
Time and one half for overtime
and doubletime for Sundays and Holt
days.
No piece work without day rate for
waiting time.
The Auto Workers Union calls upon
all Body Workers to join together
and by united action defeat the en-
ployers in their wage cutting, speed
ing up campaign and establish the
above demands as the minimum
conditions under which any man will
have to work. Local 1877 meets every
Friday at So Adelaide.