The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-20

1Ot SbTlkS, lSSueu Dy lIle AUTO WOtK-'
ers Union, is being widely discussed
by auto workers:
To all organized and unOrganized
auto workers!
To the locals and members of the
American Federation of Labor!
To the executive, shop stewards,
locals and membership of the
Mechanics Educational Society
of America
To all shop committees and other
workers organizations in all the
plants!
Fellow workers:
Now is the time for the automo-
bile workers to strike and win their
fight against the miserably low
wages. the inhuman speed-up and
the oppressive spy system and for
the right to organize into real work.
ers trade unions. Never was the
condition so favorable for a victor
ious strike as at present, Produc-
ton is high and the manufacturers
are in need of automobiles. If we
allow this favorable moment to pass
without taking action we will be
acting against the best interests of
the auto workers.
The auto manufacturers know
that now is the time that the work
ers can win their battle. That is
why they are doing everything to
postpone action and prevent us
from striking, so that they can
build up reserve supply of auto
mobiles and prepare their strike
breaking machinery. The N. R. A.
and General johnson who are re-
sponsible for the slave auto code,
with its starvation wages of 43
cents per hour and the open shop
merit clause" are working hand
in glove with the manufacturers to
postpone action, to confuse the
workers and wear out their fight
ing spirit The auto workers can
get nothing from the millionaire's
government and the N. R. A. If
elections are held to decide the
question of company unions or real
trade unions, these elections will
be fake elections such as were held
in the steel mills of Weirton, West
Virginia, where the workers were
forced under company terror and
through the pressure of the spy
system to vote for company unions.
The A. F. of L. oflcialdom, in
stead of using the present favorable
moment to call strike, are play
ing the game of the manufacturers,
giving the bosses every advantage
to pile up cars and to demoralize
the workers by postponing action,
and by creating false impression
among the workers that the open
shop manufacturers will be brought
to satisfactory terms by the strike
breaking N. R. A. machinery. And
Matthew Smith of the M. E. S. A.
whose militant membership would
warmly support strike action lends
a hand to the game Of the manu-
facturers and the A. F. of L. off,
Gals by wiring to Washington that
a strike at the present time would
be a calamity.
A victorious strike, for which all
conditions are present, would in
deed be calamity to the profit
greedy General Motors, Ford, Hud-
son, Chrysler and other millionaire
exploiters, but would be of the
greatest benefit to the enslaved auto
workers.
Fellow workers: Much valuable
time has already been lost, but there
is still time to strike and win.
We propose 10 all auto workers in
all plants to united their ranks and
form powerful united front, and
to decide upon immediate strike
action for the following main de-
mands, adjusted to the conditions
in each plant:
For the S35 minimum wage
for 30-hour week (6-hour day,
5-day week.. For 30 per cent
increase in wages to all workers
receiving above this minimum.
2--For the abolition of the
1nurderous speed-up system, for
the election of workers commit
tees to regulate production.
3-For the right to organize
into real trade unions of the
workers own choice, for the re-