The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-08

; the company police and thugs, as
#, they fought back, giving a good
account of themselves, defending
themselves so we'll that number of
their assailants were compelled to
spend several days at home recup-
Grating.
When the Durant plant opened up
few weeks ago, after being closed
down for several months, women,
most of them the wives of the unem.
rloyed auto workers, were put to
work on the "belt," starting at 15c
an hour and getting at most 25 cents
an hour, 9 hours a day in place of
the men who formerly received 81
Per hour. Hundreds of men formerly
employed at Durant's formed in line
each morning in the hope of being
rehired, but the company refused to
put them to work meanwhile con-
timing to take in m ore women work
ers at the miserable wages men.
toned. When the Durant bosses re-
fused to heed the demand of the
unemployed for return of their Jobs
the workers decided to take matters
into their own hands.
As a result of this incident, the
company discharged the women
workers, taking the men back, but
at greatly reduced wages, cutting
them from 81 to 6S and even 40 cents
an hour. The Auto Workers. Union
is pointing out to the workers, that
had they been organized in a rlili-
tant industrial urion, under the ham
ner of the Trade Union Unity
League, they could have forced the
bosses &c take back all the work ers,
with increased wages and shocte
hours, which woule surely cut down
the unemployment considerably.
A. F. L. Takers up to Old Tricks
Another example of the schemes
of the bosses to cut the wages Of
the auto workers, is shown by the
fact that recently, when worker
applied Cor a job at "The Motor
Wheel" plant, he was told he could
get a job, provided he would work
for ice an hour, which on the 55
hour weekly working schedule pre-
vailing in Lansing amounts to $685.
per week. The company officials
were not interested in figuring out
how this worker was going to provide
for himself and family on this won
derful American scale of wages, Of
fered in the capital city Of Michifan,
where the governor, Fred Green
sends forth statements that while
unemployment is increasing, nobody
should talk about it, or the struggle
Of the unemployed workers for
Work or Wages
The A. F. of l. ofticialdom is
filling its characteristic role in this
situation, attempting to mislead the
workers, telling them the same line
of bunk peddled by Green, the gov
ernor, trying to discourage the
workers from mass activity, and as
surfing them, with the typical oily
"applesauce," that all they should do
is to let these pot-bellied "Messiahs
fix things up with the employers"
and then everything will be "all
right"
Everybody knows how they fixed
the auto workers of Detroit. The
auto workers, more than amost any
other e. cup of workers in the United
States, have had their fingers burned
by these A. r. Of l.. agents of tie
bosses, and it is sufficient to remind
, the workers to check up or the
shady records of this gang Of treach-
erous enemies, Who are stool-pigeons,
reporting the active, militant work
ers 60 the bosses for their blacklist.
The bosses in this instance, are de-
hberateiy using the labor takers t.
prevent the workers from carrying
on a militant struggle against the
speed-up wage cuts, long hours and
unemployment.
The Auto Workers Union, affi-
dated With the Trade Union Unity
League, is carrying on a militant
campaign to organize the auto work.
ers to carry on this struggle, t9
build a powerful revolutionary in
dustrial union which will be able to
challenge the power of the auto
bosses, to carry on determined
fight for better conditions, hours
ard wages and for full wages Cor The
unemployed.
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