The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-09

has thrown such CONSERVATION into
flunkeys that a movement has been S
ment directly in an effort to smash
the struggles Of the auto workers.
Democratic Representative elect
J Cal M. Wideman last night requested
Secretary Of Labor Doak to inter
vene after he had received a petit
ton from the bosses stating that IAN
attempt is being made by certain
groups who are opposed to our form
Of government to Wrest control Of
said strike from loyal American citi-
zens." The loyal American citi-
zenS' referred to are the stool pi-
seons and disrupters whom the bosses
managed to smuggle into the Briggs
strike committee, tactic they are
trying to repeat in the Hudson strike.
Aimed at Foreign Born.
This petition is designed to pave
the way for splitting the strike ranks
by dividing American and foreign
born and for wholesale deportations
of ,foreign-born strikers. a game at
which Doak is an expert $4,000 de-
ported last year., and for invoking
the vicious Michigan criminal syndi-
caiism law to break the strike.
Meanwhile the Briggs and Hudson
strikers are showing by militant
picketing their determination to fight
all efforts to drive them back to the
old slave conditions. The Hudson
strikers are demanding:
IA 20 per cent increase in all
day-rate wages and $50 per cent
bonus on the basis Of volume pro-
duced; IA 30 per cent raise in
all hourly wages, with cents ad-
ditional an hour for night workers;
3.-An eight-hour day and five
day week; 4.-Time and a half for
overtime and double time for all
holiday and Sunday work; 5.-An
adequate number of relief men on
all assembly lines; 6-New stock
and tools to be supplied in all de-
partments; adequate yentila-
ton; SIN case Of absence, work
ers not to lose jobs until absent ten
days; Sat least one hours pay
for each time called to work; TO-
Abolition of repeated physical ex-
aminations and finseYprinting; IL.
Recognition Of grievance COM
mittees In all departments; 12.-No
penalty against men on grievance
committees.
Briggs Demands.
Among the demands of the Briggs
strikers are minimum wage rates of
IS cents an hour for women and so
cents for men; abolition of dead
time" (unpaid time); elimination of
the group insurance" welfare" and
other boss swindle schemes; and rec
ignition of shop committees.
The strike of the 5000 Hudson
workers has forced the company TO
\ shut all its plants here, manufactur-
Ing Hudson and Essex cars and en-
ploying 5000 men.
The Hudson strike is proving Of
great help to the Briggs men and has
given a serious setback to the bosses
and their agents, Mayor Murphy,
Governor Comstock and the mis-
leaders OF the American Federation
Of Labor, Socialist Party and I.W.W.,
who thought they had had the Briggs
strike in the palm of their hands.
Hundreds Join Union.
The Auto Workers Union and the
Unemployed Councils are organizing
neighborhood meetings in support of
the two strikes and are demanding
the withdrawal Of city and state DO
lice and hired gangsters, modified
TO break the strike. Hundreds Of
Hudson workers are joining the
union and shop branches and depart
ment organizations are being built
UP.
The Auto Workers Union and the
! Unemployed Council has decided
to call a conference for Sunday,
Fob. 10, to take up the joint
struggle for immediate relief, unem-
ploymeBt insurance and against
the wase-cuttins program of the
the auto bosses. This conference
will also make final arrangements
for the city hunger march on
! March and for the hunger march
on March of the employed and
unemployed Ford workers to de-
mand immediate relief from the
Ford Motor Company, the stopping
of wage-cuts in the Ford plant and
an increase In wages March is
the anniversary of last years mas
saere at the Ford Dearborn plant,
at which four workers we're killed.
Cop Shoots Negroes
The Briggs strikers we're in a
fighting mood yesterday and defied
the police to stop number of
street-cars that we're carrying scabs
One Negro worker, Sam Reed, was
shot in the back when Patrolman
Orval Koontz opened fire on the
strikers.
The trial of 81 Briggs strikers, who
have been arrested in Highland Park
during the course of the strike,
began yesterday with the arraign-
ment of three women workers. The
International Labor Defense, which
is defending them, demanded jury
trial for each.
TamDa BOSSES TRY tO