The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-04
Detroit A.
WOuldRenOve
Green's Aide
Especial to the p.iIy workerl

Nspeciat TO tine Ualiy WORKER
DETROIT, Aug. 3.-The Central
Labor Body of the Detroit Fedora
ton of Labor, at its meeting held
August l, voted unanimously to de-
mand the removal of William Col
Inns, A. F. of L. organizer in the
auto industry. A letter will be sent
to the national Office Of the A. F.
Of L. embodying this demand.
This action expresses the disgust
and dissatisfaction of the rank and
file of the A. F. of L. federal auto
locals at the Sell-out policies of Col
Inns. At the same time it is also
an expression of the internal strug-
gle among the A. F. of L. leaders,
the struggle between the Martel-
John L. Lewis clique and the Green
Collins machine.
The same meeting of the Central
Labor Body also railroaded to it's
death the question of a demonstra-
ton on Labor Day by referring it
to the Board of Directors despite
the fact that a previous meeting
had voted for this motion, which
had been proposed by militants.
The recent action Of the Hudson
Local in breaking from the A. F. of
L. was discussed by many of the
old die-hards before the meeting
opened. This insult to their Alma
Mater was the reason for the letter
to Billy Green demanding the re-
moyal of Collins, sort of slap on
the wrist to Billy.
At the time the A. F. of L. de-
cided to organize the auto workers
early last Summer, Martel was a
step ahead and already had a COM
mittee formed to do the organizing.
The struggle in the A. F. of L. ma
chine resulted in Martel being frozen
out and Collins being sent to De-
troit.
One factor that the takers are
overlooking is that the auto workers
are seeing the light, as is evidenced
at the last A. F. of L. auto confer
ence held in Detroit, where the rank
and file delegates raised the slogan
of collective action and rank and
file control. This must be the i'm
mediate task of all honest trade
unionists in the Federal locals. Only
the unified action of all auto work.
ers, A. F. of L. rank and file mem
bers of the Auto Workers Union
and Mechanics Educational Society,
against the N.R.A., against company
unions, low wages and speed-up, for
relief and the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill can win better
conditions and establish one united
union in the industry.
The discussion on the Labor Day
Parade again took all the skill of
the Martel machine to direct it to
their policy. One thing that stands
out in all of these struggles between
the opposition and machine is that
we are getting more support at all
times and that the machine is
forced to become more and more
reactionary and use the steam roller
tactics at every occasion.
When the parade was voted by
the Central Labor Body two meet
ingS before by vote of 81 to As,
Martel thought he would kill it by
calling for a ballot in all the locals.
AT the August meeting Martel
began reading out that certain To-
Gals had voted against the Labor
Day demonstration. But some OF
thees locals had actually voted for
it. At this piece of trickery he was
caught red-handed in the instance
OF Painters Local 81, Martel humbly
apologized, saying: 1T was just one
OF those things" Then another local
also nailed him on the same ques-
ton