The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-01
Urge Toledo Strikers
To Resist Scabbing OF
AL Heads and NRA
w Orkers Unanimously
Favor Continuing Strike
for All Their Demands
Especial to The Daily WOrser.)

with four plants already out, and the
workers Of the Chevrolet Motor Co.
ready to fall in line.
The strike is being led by the Au-
tonotiye Workers Federal Employees
Union, an A. f. Of L. organization.
Estimates place the strikers at from
1900 to 1000 with the capitalist press
lavoring the lower figure and the
strikers claiming the latter. The
strikers include the following cate
gories: maChinists, tool and die max
ers. electricians, blacksmiths and
drop forgers, as well as production
workers.
The strikers demand q minimum
wage Of 65 cents an hour for men
and women workers, the right to or
ganize; pay for waiting time, and pay
every Saturday. instead Of the BIZ
monthly payment.
The executive committee OF the
striking auto parts wo1zeTs today
rejected the manufacturers counter
proposal (this proposal was made by
Philip Nash, head Of the sub-regionsl
Labor Board, when the slave driving
manufacturers refused to propose
anything but the MIRA. slave-codes
against which the workers struck
for temporary five per cent wage
increase.
See Through Trickery.
This is the old gag Of the capital
lists, again popularized by the dema-
gogy Of President Roosevelt, that 2
temporary wage increase (practically
only few pennies, as opposed to the
strikers demands) be accepted; the
temporary wage becomes permanent,
and no final settlement is ever made,
unless the rank and file go over the
misleaders' heads and strike again.
The workers are unanimously in
favor Of continuing the strike until
all their demands are won.
At the meeting called Monday
night, Feb. 26, the strikers accepted
the decision Of the executive com
mittee, with wild enthusiasm, despite
the obvious efforts Of the A. F. Of L.
leaders to urge the workers to pre-
pare to go back at the manufacturers
| terms.
/ Thomas Ramsey, business agent O.
the Automotive W. T.ers' Federal
Union. is carrying on the usual tao
tics Of the A. F. Of L. misleaders He
calls constantly on the strikers to
maintain "our orderly picketing," and
fights constantly against the call is
sued through leaflet by the Auto
Workers Union Revolutionary union
for mass picketing. At several meet
ings he has made the same speech.
saying, Don't do anything you
wouldn't do to your mother"
Ramsey's speeches are very ramb-
ling and uninteresting, consisting Of
no directives at all and rotten, sense
less generalizations and appeals to
the strikers to refrain from anything
radical so no one can charge them
with lack Of patriotism.
Hold Ranks Tight as Hell.
The first leaflet issued to the
strikers by the Auto Workers Union
called upon the workers to hold their
ranks firm until their demands were
won and urged mass nicketing to
concentrate on the Electric Auto-Lite.
the most important plant, and Close
it up tight as hell" Although the
workers accepted the leaflets with
! out any resentment, even enthusi-
astlcally Ramsey and offlcials under
him took exception to the statement
that told the strikers not to take
orders from the police and calling
Ramsey police AGENT if he accented
the police order of six pickets to q
gate.
That this charge was correctly
made, was proved at tonights meet
/ ing in the Coliseum, attended BY
approximately 1000 strikers, when
workers circulating another leaflet
4 issued by the Auto Workers Union
/ were evicted from the meeting by
/ orders from the platform, in obedi-
1 ence to the A. F. Of L. Officials seated
/ there
Wave Aside Wages
One union official had the nerve
I TO tell the workers that. Wages is
( not our main demand. We must frs
have decent working conditions IN
the factory" This is the old do5ge
Of the A. z. Of L. leadership to breal,
strikes which they cannot prevent
In reality, its chief purpose Is 10
4 prepare the strikers to go back with
cut winning their demands.
4 Ramsey is not even a smooth
demagogue, but the workers previous
lack of any organization laws them
open to the vicious betrayal by such
1 A. F. Of L. officials. Ramsey has won
! the approval of the strikers by the
! loud-mouthed pretense to refuse TO
4 go back, unless they grant, in the
name Of the almighty, every one az
/ our demands" Yet, it is this same
miSleader who says there must be no
mass picketing, who says 'the N. r.
A. administration, the police and the
! National Labor Board are with us
1t is this same Ramsey who told the
workers to evict the workers who
passed leaflets from the meetings. to
use no violence but to call the police
I to handle outsiders And he claims
he is no agent of the police.
More Expected To Join
At least five or six more local
plants are expected TO join the strike.
Among these are: Ndoto- Meter Gauge
and Equipment Co. and. the Dura Co
Ramsey refused to read a United
Front call from the local Unsmploy-
| msnt Councils which stated that all
forces Of the Unemployment Coun-
ellis would be used in support of the
/ strikers, even to the extert of son;ng
the picket lines, and in &c fight to
obtain relief for all strikers. He reed
a notice Sunday from the Lucas
County Unemployed League mus
telts-lett refornistl, the same or
ganization Of unemployed who's
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