The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Roosevelt "Settlement" Is A
Victory for Auto Co. Unions
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to representation In order to get this representa-
ton the unions must submit lists to the so-caled
impartial committee BY this means the bosses will
be able to obtain record of union members. Thru
the merit clause" in the N. R. A. auto code the
manufacturers can fire and blacklist active union
members.
Where the workers protest against such discrimi-
nation the Presidents statement provides further:
ain cases where no lists of employees claiming to be
represented have been disclosed to the employers,
there shall be no basis for claim of discrimination"
In other words unless the bosses have the list of
union members working in their plants, the workers
cannot claim discrimination"
To cap this set-up against the workers, Roose-
velt's statement declares Decisions of the board
(of three) shall be final and binding on employer
and employees"
On this board, which is to have the final say
about the workers job about his right to belong to
union will be representative of the bosses, a So
called impartial" member General Johnson has
already recommended his SOM, and one of those
A. F. of L. leaders WHO helped the auto bosses betray
the workers and drive them into company unions.
Hereby the enemies of the auto workers are to
sit in judgment on the strike breaking board. The
history of these boards like the National Labor
Board, has shown that this spells disaster for the
workers. Every worker needs but to remember the
Weirton Steel strike, the Ford and Budd strikes to
know how these boards will act in the interest of
the bosses.
WHILE William Green, President of the A. F. of L..
declared that the workers gained some "ad-
vantages," he adds "the automobile manufacturers
have simply given assurance of their full compliance
with the labor section of their industrial code
Of fair practice, their willingness to obey the law"
But the code and the law gives to the bosses
the right to hire and fire any worker on the basis
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of A. F. of L.. or Mechanics Educational So
oiety, or Auto Workers Union member, the
right to fire them for union activities. To work or
belong to a trade union in the eyes of the auto
mobile manufacturer is to lack merit The n
r. A. the law that Green speaks about, is the
law that helped the auto bosses build the COM
pany unions. And with President Roosevelt's new
Interpretation, this power is strengthened and in
creased for the automobile bosses
But President Roosevelt was not content with
resting here. What the auto workers suffer and
are fighting against, millions of other workers are
struggling to overcome
Roosevelt declared: 81 would like you to know
that in the settlement just reached in the auto
mobile industry we have charted a new course in
social engineering In the United States"
The charting of this new course in the words
OF Avian Macauley, of the National Automobile
Chamber of Commerce, is "a settlement in accord
with the principles in which believe"
The new course is the carrying out in practice
the purpose of the strikebreaking Wagner bill.
On Saturday, the Detroit newspapers circulated