The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14
1000 Detroit Auto
Tool MakerSStrike.
Big Plants FESTIVE
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society to manage the strike wa,
met with boos and Kisses from the
meeting.
The mass meeting repudiates the
| policy Of Smith of turning over the
membership rolls to the scab Tern
Stedt and Fisher Body Corporation
A worker from the floor demanded
to know by what authority die
Secretary Smith offer to show the
membership rolls of Ternstedt anc
Fisher Body employees to Edward
Fisher general manager of Fisher
Body Corporation Smith ex-
planned that he was opposed to this
but that the membership of both
organizations had voted in favor Of
it. A press statement, undenied BY
Smith, on Tuesday and Wednesday
quoted him as favoring the turning
over Of these books.
Refuse to Show Rolls
On this question John Anderson
stated at the meeting that the full
District Committee should go down
to the workers of these plants and
induce them to refuse their mem
bership rolls and an immediat mo-
ton was made and carried without
! dissent that mo MESA membership
rolls shall be shown to anyone not
connected with the organization, no
matter who the person may be who
wants to see them.
Notwithstanding the sentiment of
the membership Of the MESA and
Smiths talk about strike the policy
which this refornlist is pursuing is
one of limiting the strike and keep
it from spreading and to avoid any
tactics that might mobilize the full
strength of the workers and carry
on real fight against the company
He made no proposals to demon
strate the full power of the tool and
die makers against the die-hard
manufacturers but on the contrary
stressed immediate settlement and
against all militant trade union
practices, allowed those that were
ready to settle to remain at work
instead of demonstrating for at least
forty eight hours their solidarity
with the unsettled shops.
Smith Plans Betrayal
Smith will try to chop up the
strike by bringing in the Detroit
Regional Board and trying to rush
the workers back to work. This Is
shown by the M. E. S. A. announce
ment in today's paper that George
A. Gloor Company has settled with
the MESA before the strike call or
the workers terms which is in fiat
contradiction with statements made
on the floor at the meeting last
night by employees of the shop that
the company is not paying the
workers the wages they demand
Upon the militant workers in the
organization depends the carrying
through Of real strike and the full
utilization of the strike spirit ir
Detroit for union organization an6
the improvement of working con-
ditions.
Program of Militant Action
1t is up to the militants (knowr
as the Progressives in the organi-
zation) to demand and put through
real rank and file strike COM
mittee which embraces the bes
fighters in the shops, the unem'
ployed tool and die makers and the
unorganized; to mobilize the ranl
and file in favor of a general strike
to call the production workers tC
act in solidarity with the tool anc
die workers and for their own de-
mands; to carry through mass pick.
citing and in view of the smallnesl
Of the shops to carry through mas
demonstrations and parades which
will unite the workers, inviting tht
workers of the automobile shops tt
participate in such actions anC
thereby raising the spirit and figh
for unioniSm; and to fight for {
united front with the rank and fill
Of the A. F. of L. and the Autt
Workers Union.
It is necessary that the militantl
check the tendency Of Smith to con
front the organization and thu
strike committee with accomplished
facts which are contrary to the deci
Sions Of the rank and file and which
nullif1es their powers. This is in
stanced by the misuse of his pow
ers to carry on negotiations in is
suing a statement that he was read,
to concede on the demands for
20 per cent wage increase and tn
36-hour demand, stating that h
was ready to accept a 10 per cen
increase and q 40-hour week.
Police Active
Police are active in the tool ant
diemakers' strike with scout car
and cruisers. watching tool shop
and protecting scabs.
The situation in other sections O
the industry remains turbulent. TIL
A. F. of L. Hudson workers ar
awaiting the outcome Of the nego
tiations of the officials for thei
wage increase and Pontiac worker
have put their demands for in
creased wages, equal pay for me-
and women, S0-hour week wit
| 36 the maximum during bus
seasons, no work on Saturday an
| Sunday except in an emergency an
, double pay in case of emergenc,
Alexander Marks, A. F. of L. Pom
tiac organizer, talked about strik
evidently under the pressure of tn
workers, but talk of strike met wit
sharp denial by Collins, VIII
stated, according to the Detrot
Times today, that "if anyone say
we are attempting to disrupt tn
peaceful settlement of our Difficult
ties he is in error. AS the regula
spokesman for the American FEEDER
otiny, ~ ToI,1Y Jxx.orx,