The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-03
BRIGGS AUTO
STRIKE SOLID
Call on Men to Elect
New Committee
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ance," welfare" and other swindle
schemes, the recognition Of their
shop committees, and for other de-
mands. They have rejected the com
panys offer to eliminate dead time"
and to pay IS cents an hour as the
minimum wage, and are sticking to
the demand for As cents an hour min
inum for women and so cents for
men and for recognition Of the shop
committees.
Strike Hclds Solid.
That the strike, despite all the lies
spread by the capitalist press, is still
solid is evident from the fact that
the Ford Company, which has beer
forced to shut down throughout the
country because of the lack OF bodies
announced today that 1t did not know
when 1t would reopen It's plants. This
in the face of statements Of Briggs
officials that they had succeeded in
hiring several thousand men and were
resuming production. The capitalist
press is also forced to admit that the
scabs thus far hired includes very
few of the Briggs strikers.
Need New Mack Ave. Committee
The chief danger to the strike lies
now in the fact that unstable ele-
ments, who have fallen under the
influence of the A. F. of L. and so
cialist" misleaders, are now in contro!
of the Mack Avenue plant strike
committee. The bosses have also
planted stool pigeons among the
strikers, some of whom may have
succeeded in getting on the commit
tee. The situation at this plant is
being utilized by the bosses and their
agents to maneuver against the en-
tire strike movement. II is absolutely
essential, therefore, for the success oil
the strike for the workers of the
Mack Ave. plant to elect q new strike
committee at once, committee thai
will carry on unf1inchingiy the strug-
gle against the united front of the
bosses, Mayor Murphy, Governor
Comstock and their police and troop
ers, and the A. F. of L., IW.W. and
socialist" betrayers.
The bosses and their henchnien
are also concentrating on the High
land Park plant in an effort to break
the strike. Tunnels leading from the
factory buildings around the plant
are being used to bring in scabS.
Government--Strikebreaker.
The role of Robert NJ. Pilkington,
cancellation commissions" for the
Department of Labor, is becoming
clearer and clearer. He has declared
that he will not deal with a strike
committee which Is "communtstic
(by which is meant one that is really
fighting for the interests of the
workers) and will try to organize a
committee that is not Gin other words,
one that would be willing tool OF
the bosses). Pilkington is also con-
centrating on the Mack Avenue .trike
committee.
A victory was won yesterday by the
strikers when they forced the release
Auto Workers Union, which is leading
of Phil Raymond, organizer of the
the struggle, after he had been ar
rested with about dozen others dur
ing a vicious police attack on the
picket Lines.
Auto Workers Union Statement.
The Auto Workers Union has is
sued q statement exposing the role OF
Murphy, Norman Thomas and the
other social-fascist leaders, and CAL
ling on the workers at the Mack Ave.
plant to elect new strike committee
and drive out of thei franks all stool
pigeons and disruptors. Mass meet
ings are being called all over the city
to rally support for the strike and to
build up the picket-iines.