The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
Auto Workers. Strike Today' Calls Auto Workers Unor
United Front
Auto Conference
To Be Held Sun
Continued from Fage y

to strike and win. Never were
conditions 50 favorable for victory
as today.
"strike together! Unite! Don't
be fccled by the A. F. of L. Of
acials, who ere ditching the wage
demands and playing the COM
panies game.
Make Wednesday the begin
ring of a new day in the life of
the auto workers"
At a special meeting last night
Auto Workers Union representatives
from about Is plants made concrete
plans for pulling out shops. The
Auto Workers Union is calling mass
meatirgs for tonight Of Dodge,
Chevrolet. Ternstedt and Murray
Body workers, where final decisions
will be made. Several A. F. Of L.
locals are also meeting tonight.
In A. F. of L. locals militant OPP
positions are trying to defeat the
trescherous tactics of the A. F. Of
L. leaders. Everywhere A. F. Of L.
officials are sabotaging the strike
decisions. In the Motor Products
plant, where the A. F. of L. local
voted Sunday for strike tomorrow,
a committee of 40 was elected to
present demands yesterday to the
company. Thompson, A. F. of L. or
ganizer, who tried to stall strike
vote on Sunday, appealed to the
committee to delay strike action for
one week. When he appeared be-
fore the company as spokesman of
the company, he tried to talk about
everything except the demands and
strike. but was called to order by
several rank and file members of
the committee in the presence of
the company officials.
Workers Reject Leaders Trick
In Flint, the Fisher Body plant
No. A. 2. Of L. leaders on Sunday
once again tried to put the question
Of strike 20 a vote in order to create
confusion ana wavering among the
men. The workers, however, refused
to vote again, saying they had al
ready done so.
1t is this fighting spirit that is
worrying the manufacturers and is
causing them to publish full page
ads in the capitalist press, and to
issue appeals over the radio, to in
crease lay-offs in some departments,
and initiate police raids on the Auto
Workers Centers.
Yesterday the Auto Workers cen
ter at $50 Tennessee was raided by
police and all literature conflscated.
1t is this fighting spirit and fear
that the A. F. of L. officials will not
succeed in their criminal tactics Of
restraining the strike that is caus-
ing the manufacturers to stake all
on Roosevelt.
- Today's Detroit Free Press re-
ports; CAS- stated privately by an
official of one of the larger COM
panies, the main problem of the
auto. manufacturers is to avoid a
strike during the coming few weeks
the period of intense spring pro-
duction"
Today's Detroit News also carries
an eight column headline: "Roose-
welt May Invoke Full MIRA. Strike
Power" which means that under
the cover of acting impartially,
Roosevelt will be using dictatorial
powers to suppress the strike.
While there are still illusions re-
garding the NR.A. the sentiment of
the workers is indicated by the
action of the Dodge workers yester-
day who, on coming out of the plant
after work, met newsboys cries that
General johnson was confering sec
reilly with the manufacturers with
angry oaths and disgust.
The Bower Roll Bearing Co. work
ers struck today and set up their
own strike committee. the compost
ton Of which is yet unknown. These
workers experienced the betrayal of
the A. F. of L. leaders last summer,
who, together with the Regional La
Dor Board, smashed their strike
against victimization of $50 workers
for union activity
The Auto Workers Union is try
ing to establish contacts with the
Bower strikers, and to direct them
along a fighting policy.
AS this is being written news
comes that the Plymouth A. F. of L.
local voted last night to strike to-
morrow.
Mathew Smith, secretary of the
Mechanics Educational Society,
whose organization pledged support
to the strike, is reported in the
press today as having renowned
his previous support on the grounds
that he had been refused permission
to join the A. r. of L. committee
This statement does not embody the
spirit of the MESA. membership
which fayors uniting for strike
action.
How the workers will meet Roose-
yelt's statement is not yet clear, but
meanwhile activities are going for
ward to defeat all delay tactics
which mean at the present moment
tactics of strike breaking.
Special efforts are being made to
build up united front conference
called By the Auto Workers Union
this Sunday at 10 o'clock at Car
psthia Hall. $500 Elmwood and dele
gates are being elected.
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