The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-12
AUTO WORKERS
MEET MONDAY
|N.DETROIT
Plan Greater Struggle
Against Wage Cuts


some who are mislead by the or
gained bosses. However, the Auto
Workers Union continues to build
its organization, independently, and
will smash the company union in
the process.
Twenty strikers leaders are up
for examination today, including
Raymond, Andonos, Powers, Woods,
Goetz. Five others have been re-
leased without charges, but bru-
tally beaten and flogged. They
were taken for ride one at time
to the woods, miles outside of the
city and there beaten with rubber
hose and other implements.
DETROIT, Mich, July 1t.-A
mass meeting of auto workers and
other workers of Detroit and vicin-
ity will be held at the huge Dance
land Auditorium Monday, July Ia
at 1880 p. M, located at Woodward
near Forest. The meeting will take
up the Flint strike, betrayed by a
company union that was launched
by member of the strike commit
tee named Cecil Comstock. Or
ganization of this union and it's
promise to refrain fro mmass pick
citing, also its cooperation with the
chief of police who had used bay
onets, guns and clubs on the pickets
throughout the strike, split the
strike committee and created con-
fusion. The company union has
since joined the A. F. L. That is
entirely strike breaking move by
the employers aided by police and
A. F. L. is now definitely proved.
Only about 500 workers followed
Comstock's banner of surrender, and
these were compelled to elect him
the agent Of the new A. F. l.. local
and give him salary.
Draw Lessons.
Already the lessons in the Flint
strike show the necessity to pre-
pare for strikes against wage cuts
by organizing into shop committees,
parts of the Auto Workers Union,
and the building of militant leader
ship to carry on the struggle. This
becomes of immediate necessity
now when wage cuts are sweeping
the entire industry and when tens
of thousands of workers are being
thrown into the streets. Ford this
week is completely shutting down
all plants.
The mass meeting will demand
the immediate release of over 60
strikers and organizers arrested and
still held in Jail. Among them is
George Powers, head of the Trade
Union Unity League in Michigan;
Robert Woods, National Secretary
of the Auto Workers Union; Philip
Raymond, National Organizer of
the Union; Bill Siroka, District Or
ganizer of the Y. C. L.; T. Andonoff, |
Organizer of the international
Labor Defense, who will speak at
the mass meeting if released.
Hunger Strike.
The General Motors judges re- ,
fuse to release the Detroit organ
izers. The conditions have become
SO unbearable that all the workers
in Jail have gone on hunger strike
against the miserable treatment the |
bosses are giving them in hopes of |
breaking the spirit of those held
there.
Bill Dunno, one of the best known
revolutionary leaders in the United |
States and now active in the |
struggles of the miners, Andrew
Overgaard, National Secretary of |
the Metal Workers Industrial
League have been invited to speak |
at the meeting.
Admission will be 10 cents to
cover the expenses of the meeting. |
Unemployed workers will be adj
mitted free.
Ukrainian Women Pledge.
The Ukrainian Women's Educa-
tional Association of Detroit met
and voted a message of greetings |
to the Flint strikers, advising them
to follow the leadership of the Auto !
Workers Industrial Union. eve
wish to tell you, our class brothers,
that your fight is our fight" says |