The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-31

all four Briggs plants, and that any
settlement include recognition Of
their shop committees. They are Bit
terly resenttul of the efforts to break
the strike on the part of Henry Ford,
Mayor Murphy and his investigation
committee" and the misleaders OF
the American Federation of Labor.
They are solidly behind the Auto
Workers Union, under VI, Sc leader
ship strikes were won tn days ago
in the Briggs Vernon Tshway plant
and the Motor Products Corporation.
Ford Workers, Join the Strike!
The fact that the Briggs strike has
forced Henry Ford to close down his
plants throughout the country,
throwing 10000 workers out Of jobs,
shows how effective the strike has
been. So far Ford's attempts to rally
his workers against the Briggs men
have failed. Many Of the Ford work
ers are In favor Of Joining with the
Briggs strikers in common fight for
better conditions. Ford workers, the
Briggs strikers have shown the way;
organize your committees Of action
ana prepare to strike against wage
cuts, long hours, speed-up and the
whole system of slavery in the Ford
plantsl
Win Concessions in Cleveland
CLEVELAND, O., Jan. 30.Spurred
on by the splendid struggle Of the
Briggs Body workers In Detroit, the
Fisher Body workers here are deve1-
oping organization which has already
forced the bosses to raise wage -fates
twice in one department. After
militant shop meeting, at which
members Of three Unemployed Celin-
ellis Joined in fighting wage-euts, the
wage-rates in the glue department
were raised first to 60 cents per hun
dred, and then, after a little more
work was added, TO $lo6 per hundred.
This enables these workers to make
80 cents an hour.
Workers in other departments are
also planning action against wage
cuts and for higher wages. The Auto
Workers Union is playing the leading
role in uniting the men.
A Contrast: Auto Workers in U.S.S.R.
NEW YORK.--While in November,
1892, about so per cent or nearly AGO.
600 American auto workers were un-
employed and starving (thiS number
has since been increased), getting at
best only the most miserable and in
adequate relief and not a cent in
unemployment insurance, the situa-
ton of the auto workers in Soviet
Russia is entirely different. Under the
Five-Year Plan an auto industry has
been built up which is constantly ex-
panding, SO that there is actually
shortage of skilled auto workers. This
is strikingly illustrated In the letter
of an American worker who recently
visited the Yaroslav auto truck fac
tory In the Soviet Union.
Before the revolution" he writes,
there was garage on this site
which employed about ID workers. AZ
ter the revolution, the little garage
grew rapidly and today there is an
auto truck factory employing 1000
workers and producing about 200
trucks per month. The trucks are
powerful six and eight-ton machines
of very high quality. The demand
for trucks is increasing so much that
the factory is expanding now, and by
the end Of 1898, its annual capacity
will be 5000 trucks
And in contrast to the starvation
of tens of thousands of American
auto workers, this description of the
way the workers at this Soviet fac
tory eat, fitting reply to the lies
about hunger" in the Soviet Union
that have been spread by the CAPT
talist press:
II was invited TO eat with them in
their restaurant and had very well
prepared and delicious dinner, which
could rival the dinner in any Ameri-
can hotel. A vegetable soup, roast
pork with mashed potatoes and
dessert, prepared of fruit juice and
starch. All these were well prepared
and delicious.
"They have five restaurants in this
factory. One is for the foundry, one
for the blacksmith shop, one general
for all other departments, one for the
engineers and technical workers, and
one for the dieticians."
Soviet auto workers are also pro-
tected by social insurance against &C
cidents, sickness, old age, ETC., and
in the days when there was u1en-
ployment in the U.S.SR. they re-
ceived unemployment insurance.