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conference seek to eliminate all ques-
lions of Jurisdiction. President o'Con-
nell, however, agreed to the change
and there was no opposition to the
change.
81 support tn resolution of the
committee" declared O'Connell, in
getting the floor.
He then reviewed the importance Of
the auto industry, claiming 1t to be
the third largest in the United States.
employing 100000 workers, not in
Guiding aflliated activities to the auto
industry.
An Open shop Fortress.
'The Industry has grown by leaps
and Bounds" he said. 'Tt has be-
come a dominant factor in the So
called American plan or non-union
plan.
1.-THE auto industry Is the most
specialized industry. I'll is the most
highly developed industry leading to-
ward mass production. tits employees
are mere atoms in the production of
automobiles. mere specialists in the
highest sense OF the term. The
workers are hired to do one particu-
lar thing, regardless of how small
that particular thing may be, year in
and year out. They are compelled to
do one simple operation over and over
and over.
Becomes q Nut.
Imagine the state Of mind of a
human being who screws nuts on
bolts for an entire lifetime, with all
possibility Of human elevation to any
other place in industry blocked. That
worker becomes nothisg more than a
nut, and don't use that word in an
offesive sense.
A Million Workers Walt Union Drive.
at requires the strength, power and
influence Of this body to approach
this problem. The question Of the
kind of organization to adopt can be
decided after careful consideration.
We must proceed so that the work
ers in this industry may be given
some hope in the future. I hope that
the next convention will be pleased
to have US report at least to the ex-
tent that plans are icing made and
work being done to organize the mil.
lion workers in the industry"
Delegate q. s. Mccullough, print
ters' union, attacked the head Of the
American Plan Commission of De-
trott, who had stated in an interview
given out in New York, that the or
ganization Of the auto workers into
trade unions was economically UNI
sound" He declared that Judge Ell
bert H. Gary had made the same
statement about the reduction of the
work-day from IL to hours in the
steel industry. This American plan
ner is no more abreast of the times
than Gary was" declared Mccullough
Why Not Industrial Organization?
No delegate arose to offer any sug-
gestions as to how to organize the
auto industry. No one urged an all
inclusive union for all auto workers
in the place OF the many conflicting
craft unions.
In the discussion of the three reso-
buttons for the Organization of the
unorganiEed," however, Delegate An,
drew Furuseth, of the Seamen's I'm
ion, had reviewed the workings Of the
American plan, declaring it was just
the modern version of the attempt of
feudal lords, 200 years before Ameri-
ca was discovered, to destroy the
guilds OF that time and promote serf
dom on the land.
You're Asleepl
"The American plan advocates are
doing that very same thing now," said
Furuseth, land you are asleep while
1t IS being done"
Delegate Furuseth offered an
amendment to the substitute resolu-
ton OF the organization committee,
that the executive council provide
some leaflets for general distribution
turnout the country to warn the peo-
pie against what is now being done"
Delegate Furuseth sat down, quite
detected, declaring, "There is no sec
ond." This aroused several delegates
to exclaim, 'Tll second that" but
President Green stated that the COM
mittee substitute for the resolutions
offered included Furrseth's recon-
mendation, so the amendment was
withdrawn. The committee Offering,
containing pious wishes for the organ
'zation Of the unorganized, carried
unanimously.
The convention voted against pris-
on-made brooms thru support given a
resolution on this subject offered by
the Broom and Whisk Makers I'm
on