The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
Down Tools! Demon
strQte on May I!

Employed and unemployed anto workers:
Increased wage-cuts, speed-up, mass unemploy-
ment, in Short misery and mass starvation is
the lot of the masses of automobile workers in
Detroit and vicinity. On theother hanr, the mil
lions of dollars profits for the automobile man
ufactTers are increasing. Over A million dol
lars profits was made by Henry Ford in 1880.
This holds true for General Motors and other
automobile concerns. These millions Of dollars
profits were made out Of the sweat and blood
of the very same automobile workers who are
confronted with this increased misery and mass
suffering. The spring pickup IN the automobile
industry is thing of the past. All the prop
uganda in the capitalist newspapers about the
return OF prosperity is being exposed by the in
creased misery of the masses of workers In ad-
dtion to all this, the city relief institutions are
making wholesale slash upon the meagre relief
which they were compelled to give as result of
the fighting demonstrations and activities of
the TUUL unions an dthe Unemployed Councils.
The automobile manufacturers, together with
the city administration under the direction of
Mayor Murphy are doing everything possible to
shift the whole burden of the present economic
crisis which is developing ever decped in the
automobile indstry upon the shoulders of the
masses OF employed and unemployed automobile
workers. Wage-cuts from TO- 20 to so per cent
are taking place at the present. time. The speed
up program is being applied as never before in
the history of the automobile industry In ad-
dition to thealready over 100000 unemployed auto
workers part time work (stagger plan) is increas-
ing and as a result further swells up the army
of the unemployed.
The leadership of the Detroit Federation of
Labor under the lead of President Frank x Mar
tel not only failed to give leadership and guild
ance to the increased militancy which is de-
veloping among the masses of auto workers, but
on the contrary they are part and parcel of
the machinery Of the automobile manufacturers
and the city administration in helping to further
forse upon the workers this brutal system Of
mass exploitation. Not only are they not the
leaders of the masses of workers in Detroit but
they are the open agents of the bosses and all
their city machinery.
While this misery and suffering is increasing
among the automobile workers in Detroit and
vicinity the automobile workers in the Soviet
Union as well as the workers generally abolished
unemployment and are steadily increasing their
social and economic standard under the success
ful Five-Year Plan of the Soviet Union in build
ing up new social order. The workers in this
country will demonstrate and protest on Nav
Day against increased wage cuts speed-up mass
misery and starvation. The workers in the So
Wet Union will celebrate on May Day the sue
cessful achievements of the workers and peasants
in the building up OF socialism. We auto work
ers must become a part of this fighting move
ment and prepare for counter ATTACK against
the wage-cut and speed-up program OF Ford,
General Motors, and all other automobile manu-
facturers.
Down Tools May Day! must result into
building up Of a militant fighting industrial
automobile workers union under the leadership
OF the Trade Union Unity League embracing all
workers in the automobile industries regardless
of race, color, creed or nationality.
The building up of fighting May Day dem
onstration must be made into challenge against
the bosses policy Of discrimination against Ne
gro. foreign born, youth and women workers.
Organize and strike against wage cuts and speed
up! must become the immediate aim OF the auto
mobile workers. The militant upsurge and mass
discomfort must be crystalzed into real militant
shop organizations under the leadership of the
Automobile Workers Union The building up OF
May Day Committees, the building up OF Griev-
ance Committees in the different departments
and shop organizations is the immediate task OF
all employed automobile workers. May Day. the
revolutionary day OF struggle, must further
Spurn on both employed and unemployed workers
Tor immediate unemployment relief and for