The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-26
A. F. l.. Heads Fear
They Will Fail
In Stating Strike
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the end Of yesterdays futile con-
ference that the difference" re-
naming between labor and owners
representatives was only damned
nonsense"
Want Face-Saving Offer
It is generally understood that
Green and Collins are pressing now
only for the face-saving agreement
for collective bargaining without
union recognition and with pro-
vision for collective bargaining" by
representatives of company-union
minorities as well as by bona fide
union representatives = and f o r
mediation boards" to arbitrate
cases of discrimination against
union members.
1t is for these concessions" that
the manufacturers are demanding,
in return, that the A. F. of L. hand
over for reprisals the names of
every union member. Green has
agreed to hand these names over to
a government agency" but the
manufacturers want them direct.
Every major workers demand al
ready had been surrendered by the
A. F. of L. leadership. They dropped
demands for wage increases before
entering upon the conferences.
Hardly had they met President
Roosevelt when they dropped the
demand, voted for by their own
membership, for full union recog-
milton Then Green said he only
wanted recognition of collective
bargaining representatives" and
the establishment of neutral
boards" to settle cases of discrSm-
nation.
All yesterday the A. F. of L. lead
ership and the manufacturers
shadow-b boxed around these points.
They didn't even meet together.
Last night the local leaders were
corralled in room adjoining Cen
eral JohnSon's office, where the
manufacturers were seated. The
local leaders sat there for some
time after the manufacturers left
in fact, until a newspaper man
poked his head in at the door and
told them the owners had departed
quite a while before. How do you
like this?" the reporter ioshed
about the stalling. There was no
answer.
1t is generally agreed even among
the 20 or so newspapernen follow
ing the chickering's that should the
auto workers obey the no-strike or
ders from Green while the open
strike-stalling continued here be-
yond the next few days, the manu-
facturers might promise an cleo
ton, as was conducted in Budd and
Weirton, with full assurance of get
ting through the peak production
season and intensifying the Gar
istic spy system to weed out mill
tant workers before any pretense OF
a showdown must be met.
Even in the shadow-boxing
Green and Collins are retreatine
step by step and the owners repre-
sented by automobile chamber Of
commerce officials are following
them up with characteristic ar
rogance.
When Green declared he wanted
neutral board" to arbitrate dis
ordinations, the manufacturer;
promptly demanded that these
boards contain no representative Of
labor. Green made a play of re.
jecting that last night. johnson
vaguely acquiesced, but there was
no agreement of how the Tabor
representative should be chosen
And then the manufacturers made
their demand for the union lists
and that minority" representative.
also confer on wages and condi.
tons questions.
ShameleSSly frank, A. F.. of I,
leaders now admit that their mem.
oers are being fired for union &C.
tivity in the factories at the yer,
time the strike-b breaking confer.
ences are going on, and that pro.
duction has been speeded up enor.
mously. They admit that the so.
called increase" in wages and ode.
crease" in hours announced in De.
troit last week is nothing but hood.
wlnkery to keep the men from
striking.
Collins, the very official who will
Green dropped the wage increas.
demands, declared last night tn,
announced cut In average week.
hours from 48 to 30 with "compen
satlng" increase in wages has no
been carried out. It was a fake
Collins admitted in effect. mad
possible by one of the jokers in tn,
: auto code which Green agreed to.
The Automobile Code, as original
) ly drawn, contained provisio,
| limiting the weekly hours to 48 be
employee Collins said. "The EN-
ployers have been working the me,
IN the automobile industry
straight 48 hour week through tn
entire busy season They have bee,
confident that the seasonal layoff
which already occurred last Fal,
and those that will occur durin
this coming Summer, will be ampl
/, to reduce the average for each EN-
pIoye down to 10, SO or even b
much less since this averag
extends over the entire year (bit
: terly Obiected to nv the oI,to ,,,o,l,