The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08

ploye Of voice in those affairs OF
management which management,
by its very nature, must ultimately
decide by its own responsibility"
This means, of course, that all ques-
tionS of hiring and firing, of work.
ing conditions and wages, of speed
up, which are vital to the workers,
are solely in the hands of the
employers.
The General Motors, however,
goes much farther than that. The
dominating auto company, Morgan
controlled, instructs its 10000 en-
ployes that they must act as spies
against the real trade unions and
their members. Since this proVi-
sion 1.-THE auto settlement of last
Spring signed by Green and Col
lins.-C. RI bans coercion by unions
as well as employees, all cases of at
tempted coercion by outside unions
to force employees to join them
should be thoroughly investigated
and if they can be substantiated,
referred through the lines of or
ganization to the industrial rela-
lions department in Detroit or
their records and such use as may
/ be found desirable"
This vicious company union drive
was launched and carried through
under the patronage of the Auto
Labor Board, set up by Roosevelt
with Green's consent. The Roose-
welt government, also with the con-
sent of the Green bureaucracy, in
serted the company union, merit"
clause in the auto code giving the
/ employers sole right to hire and
1 fire and clearing the road for the
company union. Now William
/ Green, to still the militant protest
1 of the auto workers, calls for
amendment to the code, But the
code, it is already made known at
the White House IN. Y. Tribune,
Nov. p is to be extended with all
its anti-labor features, for ninety
days.
The Roosevelt truce" in the auto
=, industry, as in other industries, has
meant the extension of the COM
pany union under protection Of
Roosevelt's Labor Board, and with
/ the consent of the A. F. of L. lead
ers. It has meant denial of all the
demands of the auto workers for
, higher wages, against the speedup,
I for union recognition, against the
company union and for the right
! to organize.
The A. and P. Settlement
In the A. and P employees fight
| for union recognition, the union
smashing drive of the employers
was repeated. The National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers, from New
York City, on Nov. 2, issued a state
ment declaring that the basis Of
settlement Of the A. and P. case by
4 the National Labor Relations Board
(Which Green also approved) pro-
/ hibits coercion" by the unions.
/ Therefore, the National Association
of Manufacturers declares, sta t e
legislatures are urged to pass six
laws, based on the Labor Boards
decisions, which include, ITO make
picketing illegal when it is carried
on in such manner as to in
tinidate or coerce employees or Gus
/ toners; ito make sympathetic
strikes and lockouts Illegal; ito
make illegal employment contracts
requiring a person either to join or
not to Join any labor organization"
This is the program of the en-
ployers, which they term a plan
/ for industrial peace" This is the
program which Roosevelt has
launched in his speech for a no.
strike truce"
5 Increased Fascist Measures
This program marks a definite
increase in the fascist measures of
the government. 1t includes in
creased violence against Negro
workers, increased terror against
strikers and the unemployed.
The Roosevelt truce" means an
/ intensified war against the workers
it means an attempt to increase
the profits of the employers by low
ering the whole standard of living
of the workers. Roosevelt's truce
means company unions for the
workers. abolition of their elemen-
tary right to strike, to picket and
to organize. It means cuts in I'M
employment relief, denial of unem-
ployment insurance, and more fas-
cist terror against the workers.
The A. F. of l.. leaders are carry
ing out this strikebreaking program.
On the one hand they agree to all
of the governments no strike, arbit-
ration proposals which rob the
workers of their demands. On the
other hand, they try to split the
ranks of the workers by raising the
red scare in the trade unions.
The rank and file, the masses
Of workers in the trades unions,
however, are rejecting the Roose-
welt no strike truce. In the textile
industry the dye workers are on
strike for union recognition and
conditions, and strikes are spreading
in other branches of the industry.
The steel workers are preparing
strike struggles. The auto workers
are boiling with protest against the
yoke of the company union. The
employed and unemployed workers
are resisting in ever larger num-
bers the wage cutting, union smash
| ing drive of the employers.
In order to r-in these struggles,
IN order to be1t t2c,I the employers
attack, the woe,:s--S must take the
/ fight into their or-n hands. Rank
and file control of all local unions
of the A. T. of L. is an essential
to a successful fight for the ele-
nentary riTlts and demands Of the
working class.