The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-27
STRESSES STEEL,
AUTO, RUBBER
AS STRIKES LOOM
To Begin In Goodyear
and Briggs Plant,
He Declares

To help the big corporations,
especially the steel mills, to put
over the slave codes, the
American Federation of Labor,
through William F. Green, its
president today announced,
that plant" unions, along the
lines Of company unions, would
be organized.
"The new PLAN" writes Ruth
Finney, straightforward Wash.
ington correspondent, "is 81
long step toward concession by
organized labor to the demand
Of industrial leaders that they
only bargain with employees.
This is one of the principal de-
mands made in the steel code
calling for company unions"
The A. F. of L. by its new steps
wants to draw closer to the big steel
companies through organizing COM
pany unions for the bosses. in which
the A. F. of L. leaders will be able
to collect the dues and do the bar
gaining" and strikebreaking.
1.-THE new plan" continues Ruth
Finney, "is being interpreted here by
some persons as an abandonment by
labor Of collective bargaining rights
guaranteed under the industrial re-
covery act, leaving them free TO Sc
lect their own leaders. The federal
unions will not be free to select an
officer or member of the A. F. of L.
outside their own plant to negotiate
for, them under this new system"
To help Roosevelt put over his
slave codes and to prevent strikes.
the A. F. of L. is proposing company
unions with a. F. of L. officials with
in the plants working with the COM
pany management and on the COM
pany payroll, but with the name Of
the A. F. of L.
The experience of the steel and
auto companies, where the workers
rejected company unions, made it
necessary to bring in the company
unions with an A. F. of L. label In
this way the A. F.. of L. is moving
into the basic industries in order to
defeat organization and struggle OF
the workers.
The bosses in some industries, SEN
sing the resistance of the workers to
the company unions, fearing strike
struggles, are bringing in the A. F.
of L. in its new company union form,
in order to beat back these strike
struggles.
1t is significant that Green picks
out the Briggs automobile plant,
where the Auto Workers Union led
strike struggle early this year, the
steel industry, where the revolution
airy trade unions IN Gary, in Mi
chigan and in Buffalo led the strug-
giles against the slave codes to be-
gin his company union-A. F. of L.
program. The growing wave of
struggles, that the T. F. of L. fears
it cannot cont.oi or lead in order
to behead, that las inspired this new
move, undoubtedly with the support
of General Johnson and President
Roosevelt
Green, in his interview with cap
italist press reporters referred spe-
officially to the automobile, rubber,
steel and lumber industries where
these A. F. of L.-company unions
would be formed, naming the Good
year Tire g. Rubber Co., and Briggs
automobile plant.
Undoubtedly Green has had con-
ferences with the bosses in these in
dustries where the struggles are
sharpest and is working out a scheme
of company unions with A. F. OF
L. labels, and with dues going to the
A. F. of L. officialdom in order to
supply the bosses with the strike
breaking experience of the A. F. Of
L. leadership.
There is definitely field of in
innate relationship between an in
dividual employer and his employees
which may involve only the problems
of one plant or enterprise" said
Green, explaining the A. F. of L.
company union idea.
This brings forward the plan Of
the A. F. of L. in industries where
strike struggles are rapidly spreading
to smash them one by one in each
plant, by dealing with the bosses in
the individual pants, and urging the
formation of plant A. F. of L.-com-
pany unions.
The new move of the A. F. Of L.
following President Roosevelt's radio
speech on behalf Of the universal
coolie wage level, is in line with the
company union ideas of Gen. john
son and the administrators of the
industrial recovery act.
1t is inspired by the rapid move-'
ment of the workers for ORGANIZE
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