The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-26

it would merely spread the misery
of the auto workers, increase part
time work and a starvation part
time wage. prevent the workers
from getting local relief and in
crease the speed up for those on
ths Job. The auto manufacturers
have started this talk about stag
gering models in order to create a
smoke screen, under the cover Of
which they are conducting a ierce
attack against the workers eondi-
tionS and unionism in the auto in
dustry The employers are ironing
out the peaks and valleys in the
industry by Ironing the workers out
of the plants.
Strike Only Way
To talk about an annual wage in
the abstract only confuses the
workers. We must show the work
srs that their hrst immediate prob
lem is to get a raise in their hourly
and weekly wages. We must show
them that the winning of gusran-
teed annual income is tied up with
the winning of unemployment in
surance at the expense of the gov
eminent and the employers. But
such sickle and misleading measures
as the Wagner-Lewis bill and the
various unemployed reserve fund
schemes give nothing to the present
unemployment workers. Only by
the enactment of the Workers I'm
employment and Social Insurance
Bill, H. r. 1888 introduced into
Congress by Representative Lun-
deem in February, 1894, can the auto
workers have a guarantee of a real
annual income. This bill calls for
insurance throughout the entire
period of unemployment in amounts
equal to average local wages" and
in no case less than $40 per week,
plus So for each dependent.
Need of Unity for Action
"The Communist Party has con-
sistsntly stood for the unifcation of
the auto workers ranks. We are
opposed to building unions COM
posed solely of Communists. We
stand for the building of one union
in the auto industry which unitcs
workers of all political opinions and
other beliefs, which is built on in
dustrial as against craft lines, which
is controlled by the membsrs them
selves and which struggles against
the employers for better conditions.
Since the various workers unioas
have come into existence in the
auto industry, the problem is to
unite all the real unions into one
union. A common struggle of A.
F. of L.. M E. s. A.. and other real
workers unions to improve the con-
ditions of the workers is bound to
lead to the building of one union in
the industry. This top leaders of
the A. F. of l.. and M E. S. A. have
accepted the Washington agree
ment, called upon the workers to
rely on the capitalist govern-
ment and arbitration instead of
strikes. This policy has brought
nothing but increased misery to the
auto workers. The worker must
now know that only through united
struggles can the bad conditions be
changed.
"The unity Of the auto workers.
of all ZEAL unions in the auto indus
try, must be achieved if the auto
workers are not to be forced down
to lower levels. The united attack
OF the auto manufacturers must be
answered with the united front of
auto labor aided by all workers
organizations. This unity must De
built up in the departments in the
plants, in the locals and between
the real workers unions. We need
united committees of workers in the
shops to prepare fer strike action.
Build United Front Committees of
action which can prepare for a sue
esssful strike struggls Forward to
one industrial union in the auto
industry"