The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-26
Auto WrkrS. Union
Spokesman Put S
Demands in Capital
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approval upon the slave code of the
manufacturers for the automobile
industry.
Successive delays in calling for the
strike which was voted for the au-
tomobile workers resulted in the
workers missing the opportunity to
strike during peak production, when
the strike is most likely to be sue
cessful. These delays were request
ed by the President and eagerly ac-
coded to by American Federation of
Labor leaders subservient to the in
terests of the employers. Further
delays enable the employers to pile
up stock, supply their markets, and
be fully prepared to crush the re-
sistance of the workers at time
chosen by the automobile manu-
facturers.
The Auto Workers Union, the old
est union in the industry organized
in 1898, is bitterly opposed to this
process and feels confident that the
great mass of automobile workers
will break away from all those who
have thus shamefully betrayed them.
We wish to inform you, Mr.. Presi-
dent. that we call upon all honest
rank and file members of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, the Me-
chanics Educational Society of
America, and all other unions in
the automobile industry to unite
with us in taking the only step that
has proven effective in defending
the interests of the workers-im-
mediate strike action.
Mr.. President, we earnestly call
to your attention the vital necessity
of having the following demands of
the automobile workers met i'm
mediately in order to remedy the
unbearable conditions outlined in
our statement before the National
Labor Board during its recent hear
ing on the automobile situation:
/. SIS minimum wage for 30
hour week and 80 per cent in
crease in the weekly wages of all
workers receiving more than the
| minimum.
2. Abolition of the murderous
speed-up system through the cleo
ton of workers committees to
regulate production.
3. Recognition of the right to
organize into real trade unions of
the workers own choice, abolition
of servicemen and all spy sys-
TENS, and abolition of company
unions.
4. Examinations of discrimina-
tions against youth and women
workers doing the same work as
men, particularly the abolition of
discrimination against Negro
workers, to guarantee them the
right to be employed at all jobs
in all departments,
5. Adequate cash relief to the
unemployed to be paid by manu-
facturers and city and state gov
ernments; cessation of discharges
of C.W.A. workers; and enactment
of the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill I'll. R. 1881
The American Federation of La
Dor leaders have dropped demand
after demand voted for even by
their own membership. They have
dropped the demand for increased
wages. They have dropped the
demand for outright recognition of
the workers own unions. They are
ready to barter away the right to
strike and are eager to shackle the
workers in the meshes of compul-
sorry arbitration. These American
Federation of Labor misleaders can
not bind 250,O00 workers in the
automobile industry against taking
their destiny into their own hands
and resorting to the only weapon
they have to effectively defend their
interests, namely, strike action.
Phil Raymond, Natl Secretary
Auto Workers Union