The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05

huJO employers III JAlC N. n. " VI ".
might well be grateful" For they
expect an uninterrupted flow of fat
profits and rich salary and bonuses.
Even during crisis years, which have
brought unemployment, low wages,
speed-up and ioblessness to auto
workers, the lords of automobile
manufacturing have benefited by
this flow.
Take Macauley's own firm, the
Packard Motor Car Co.. of which
he is president. Its preliminary
1888 financial report indicates a
s500,000 net profit for 1888. And for
six years. 1s28-1933, 1t paid Mac
auIey a total Of 1927 AL in salary
and bonus. For the years 1928-1130,
inclusive, E. F. Roberts of the same
company netted 1901, 3e1, and J. S.
Vincent 1917 58, according to re-
cent figures released by the Fed
eral Trade Commission.
General Motors Corp, which OPP
crates extensive company unions in
its units, was threatened with a
walkout Of its workers, and may
likewise rejoice at the strikebreak-
ing move Of the Roosevelt govern
ment For in 1888 it reported a
preliminary net profit Of S83,214,-
600, as compared with $164,e79 in
1882! General Motors thus expects
1884 profits to continue at the same
rate. If not higher. No doubt cam
paign contributions Of 5000 given
by John J. Raskob, director, and
the $4,000 given by James D.
Mooney, vice. president of General
Motors, to help elect Roosevelt in
1882, is considered we'll repaid.
Threatened by strike also was
Hudson Motor Car Co.. which re-
corded profit of $l84,583 for the
six months ending Sept. 30, 1888, in
addition to a s49,328 tax refund
from the government, for alleged
assessment" in 1919. Here
are some salaries paid to Hudson
executives: Roy D. Chaplin. former
Secretary of Commerce in Hoover's
Cabinet, 192s-1933, inclusive, 1901, :
42l; R. B. Jackson, 1923 and 1929,
S137 SEQ; w. j. McAneeny, 1925
1898, inclusive. s616,O95; A. E. BART,
1928 1888, inclusive, $481, 572; j. H.
Whitaker, 1923, 1929, 1890, $279 1856.
This makes a grand total Of
e1.e65,944.
Then there is Nash Motors Co..
from four to five thousand of whose
workers at Kenosha, Racine and
Milwaukee, Wise, are on strike.
Nash paid dividends in 1888
amounting to nearly $4,000, 600, and
on Feb. l, 1884, it paid dividend
OF 30 cents share. Nash officials
have also been among the impor-
tant beneficiaries of high salaries
and bonuses. For example. the
company paid in 1928 and 1929 alone
s39o.025 to W. H. Afford and the
same amount to ]. T. Wilson; in
1928 alone, E. H. McCarty was
handed $1460Sl; M. H. Petit in the
three years, 1925 1880, drew s515. 092.
This makes grand total of $f.441,-
223 for four men.
Or look at the Hupp Motor Car
Corp, whose president, c. D. Has
tings, declared on March 10. six
days before the truce. For the
first time in three years I am very
optimistic. His salary for six
wears, 192S-1933, was s244. 1888 plus a
$4,000 bonus in 1928; Dubois
Young's salary for the same years
amounted to $789, 583 and bonuses
for 1928 and 1929 gave him another
$500 900; A. Won Schlegell received
in one year-192e- 500, 900 as his
share of the loot. Grand total
s1.483,916.
Mack Trucks, Inc, another big
anti-union company paid its stock
holders dividends of 1864, 998 in 1888.
Its officers received salaries and
bonuses for the years 1928-1e33 in
elusive. as follows; A. ]. Brosssau.
s3o6,S46; R. E. Fulton, $685. 1886. and
E. G. Fink, 1882 ,916.
There is also Auburn Automobile
Co.. of which the notorious union
wrecking E. L. Cord is chairman.
Cash dividends paid to stockhold-
ers in 1888 amounted to $3.50 0o0
Cord himself was the recipient of
salary and bonus totalling s2.O96 Asa
IN SIX years, 1928-1933. And this
company is just one of the manv
which he dominates.
Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Co. IL
another company that fights work
ers' efforts to organize while pay
ing huge salaries and bonuses to its
executives. Here are some of them,
M. E. Forbes, salary for 1928 and.
1929, 100000; A. r. Erskine. salary
1929-1sS2, inclusive. s2l5.555 and
bonus of s73,305 in 1890: A. j. Cham
ter. salary, l929-ls33. inclusive.
s2l0,2e3 and bonus OF $43,166 in
1880.
WHY'S Overland Co. paid salaries
and bonuses to John N. Willys
s239,220 in 1928 and 1929: $345. 0ol
to L. A. Miller 1928 1882, inclusive.
and 100000 to j. H. Gerkens in
1929. This makes total of s786. 221.
The robbery of the auto workers
indicated by the above facts shows
definitely that the Roosevelt
agreement operates solely in the
interests of the companies, such as
those we have mentioned. Sue
cessful organization and strikes of
auto workers would mean that the
huge p ofits and salaries Of the Of
ficials-which are taken at the ex-
pense of their would be
at down. And this is what the
auto employers fear above all else.