The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04
AUTO DEALERS
UNITE TO LOCK
OUT UNIONISM
Secret Circular Reveals
Boss Combination
BY LAURENCE TODD,
Federated Press.

WASHINGTON, August 2, Up
Evidence that a nationwide lockout
of union men in automobile shops and
garages is being launched by the dis
tributors' combine, known as the Ma
tional Automobile Dealers Associa-
ton, is pouring into the grand lodge
headquarters of the international AS
ISOLATION of Machinists, in Washing
ton.
This combination of dealers is work
ing in complete harmony, in this at
tack, with the automobile chamber of
commerce. which is the combination Of
manufacturers. In this latter combina-
ton General Motors is the largest
single corporation. General Motors
has just announced record breaking
earnings of S93,2S5,674 for the first
half of 1926, which means a profit of
$17.33 per share of common stock. 1t
is determined to solve the labor prob
lem in the automobile industry along
Judge Gary's lines by exterminating
unionism.
work In unison.
The Dealers Association has recent
ly shown its power in Joliet and Chi
cago Heights, ILL.,, and in Ithaca, Corn
ing and Elmira, N. Y. In Joliet the
dealers all mailed identical letters to
the Machinists' lodge at the same
hour, announcing cancellation Of their
agreement with the union and declar-
ing they would henceforth operate
open shops. In Chicago Heights and
in the three cities in New York state
the union men in the garages were
told they could give up their union
cards or their jobs. In Chicago Heights
the dealers employed gunner, but the
locked out men have put up a hard
fight.
Secret Circular.
A secret circular issued as Bulletin
No. Is by the N. A. D. A. on July 8,
after devoting paragraph to warning
the dealers that leakage Of this
secret information has occurred, des-
cribes an alleged meeting in Cincin-
natl, with President Green of the
American Federation of Labor as the
speaker. Green says no such meeting
was held.
1.-The meeting" says the report OF
the combines detective which is is
sued as being true, held in A. F. of l.
hall, June 25, opened by Green at
p. m, was a closed session. Eleven
! officers were on the rostrum and 8
total of 81 present.
Report Green Speech.
"Mr. Green said they were there tc
discuss things privately. These were
the kind Of meetings he liked, no d
newspaper reporters or any under
cover mem They could come right ou
and say what they liked. He intimated
he was very well pleased with the out
look in general. Talked on the unioI
situation as whole, and then got into
the main theme of his message, which
was the unionizing of automobile
mechanics.
awe have a special drive on at the
present time on behalf of automobile
mechanics, Green said. Proceeding
he asked his audience did they know
there are approximately 100000 mer
working at the automobile game
Couldn't they see what it would NEAR
IL they got all these men with them
He hammered on the golden harvest
angle for a time, enthusing his au
dience, then instructed them to exert
all their own energy and that Of every
man they could get to work on auto
mobile mechanics. Talk union, preach
union, and, If there is no other way
pound union into them he exhorted.
JekyI and Hyde.
"If confirmation of the first para
graph of our bulletin dated May q
was needed, Mr.. Green has certainly
supplied it. This talk of Mr.. Greer
behind closed doors provides an inter
esting contrast with those he frequent
! ly makes before Rotary and Kiwanis
Clubs. Sort of DR.. Jekyl and Mr.. Hyde
touch"
Afraid Of Campaign.
The bulletin adds the statement
that, while we are as yet without
confirmation thatsagitation among fac
tory employees has actually started, Il
has been decided by the A. F. of L. tc
centralize time and effort to organize
the tool and die shops of automobile
manufacturing plants, as well as some
departments where real mechanical
skill is required. These department.
include other plants specializing IL
essential automobile parts, 1. e., trans
missions, ETC."
Discovery that General Organizer
Grifith of the Machinists is working
in Middleton and Hamilton, Ohio, II
| announcad Tho hulIafin iq aiQnpd IN