The daily worker., 1934-03-26
ocialist Mayor Wants
To Stave Off Action
by Workers
Rv e G CLARKE

nc WOIk6Io Ol StIlh6 dO GIle oCd-
jan Body Corporation, Milwaukee,
I'd the Nash Motors Co. at Racine
d Kenosha have rejected as "un-
s5isfaetoIy and unacceptable" the
ms under which the companies
Monday offered the strikers and
1der which they announced they
lOuld rellire them.
The strikers renewed their de-
Bands for a 20 per cent wage in
ease, union recognition, establish
Nent Of seniority rights and abol-
lpnent Of group production.
I'm the reply of the bosses, men
oned above, they evaded the issue
II collective bargaining and pro-
iDsed dealing with indefinite groups
I'd individuals. They admitted no
EnimIm standards, but instead
ed to place bludgeon in their
Gnds to further beat down the
ing standards of the workers.
hey refused the 20 per cent in
Tease IN wages on the claim that
hey couldn't afford it or even the
lsmard for a 60-cent per hour
minimum.
In reply to the demand for
sniority (security in jobs "in en-
loyment to protect every employe
geinst discharge or demotion with
1t good cause and providing for a
,saring on the question Of juStifica-
ION Of any case of discharge or de-
Aotion," the company replied: 1--WE
Sepect to follow the merit clause in
'1he automobile code and to select,
stain or advance employees on the
Sasis OF individual merit, without
egard to their membership or non
membership in any organization.
"a other words, Case, like the rest
4 the slave-drivers, retains the
light to impose anything he wants
q on the workers, to which they
hast submit If they want their jobs.
Thank Bill Green
The workers have Bill Green to
hank for the merit clause" of the
e =. A. slavery code-every auto
Mobile nlagnate is clubbing and
lhooting down workers with it.
In regard to the demand that
preference be given to union MEM
1ers the Case Co. made its most
brilliant" reply: "Inasmuch as it is
contrary to law to discriminate for
Jr against an applicant for work
IN account of his membership or
lon-membership in a union, we
sannot comply with this request"
The unions involved in the Sea-
nan and Nash strikes are the
United Auto Workers Local No.
1875 Of Racine; United Auto Work
ers' Local No. 19008 of Kenosha,
Sad United Auto Workers Local No.
Ep059 of Milwaukee; Tool and Die
Makers of the International ASso-
cation of Machinists; Blacksmiths
md Drop Forgers, Local No. 81 of
lhe International Union of Black
.miths and Drop Forgemen.
In the Seaman strike there have
eeen serious battles between scabs
md strikers and police. Four scabs
we're sent to the hospital on We'd
nesday, after their car had been
stopped by a hundred workers who
were covering an exit gate. An
9ther car full of ScabS was stopped
by group Of 400 pickets, who out
Unanswered the police, who were
Tying to help the Scabs to get into
the plant-instead the workers
helped the scabs to the hospital.
The Socialist Party leaders have
been busy organizing meetings in
front Of the plant and doing some
early electioneering for two more
years Of Socialism in Milwaukee.
Morris Stern, the Socialist attorney
who is running for judgeship:
Robert Buech, Socialist supervisor
and former sheriff; Mayor M. v.
Socialist Mayor of West Al
lig, a suburb (Allis- Chalmers Corp,
all have spoken. Mayor Hoan of
spoke to the strikers
there few days ago-the high
lights of his speech are worth re-
cording to expose his treachery and
chauvinisrl and what we mean
ghen we use the term Social
tascian."
For the N. r. A.
Silver tongue Hoan speaking:
Keep on fighting for your rights.
This is a fight for Section IA of
he recovery act, but there must
be no disorder" ct is not a class
struggle, it is not struggle for
lood and the right to live-it,s "a
light for Section Ia of the recoy-
NY acti" Let scabs come and go.
et the police tell you to picket on
ne other side of the street and
beat you up, 'fbut there must be no
IF you have any complaints to
make about the police, make them
20 Chief j. G. Laubenheimer per-
'onally, as he is always ready to
meet any citizen in times like these
md discuss matters with him man
% man." Qf cops start beating In
your fellow worker-let them, don't
interfere, take a taxi to the Safety
and talk like a man to
he chief, he'll listen to you and
maybe tell the cop to stop by tele-
yram)
Hoan, whose police just clubbed a
worker, Piasecki, to death in the
luther demonstration, whose police
lave beaten up, terrorized, framed.
of Milwaukee workers un-
Ter the direct orders of Lauben-
asks the workers to talk to
lin personally, etc., and all that
ot. He calls the workers to ac-
ion then by saying: Take a tin
rom Lincoln and compel the in
lustrial lords to understand that
vou can't fool all of the people all
# the time" No one questions
hat the industrial lords already
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