The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
To Present
Strike Plan
TOAutOBOdy
Resolution Proposes
Committee Act in
All the Plants
BY Sander VOrOs
DAILY Worker Ohio Bureau)


CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. I'll
Preparations for a united general
strike in the auto and auto parts
industry is demanded from the Ma
tional Auto Council in a resolution
by the White Motors Local of the
A. F. of L. United Automobile
Workers Union, the strongest auto
union, with 5000 members of the
industry.
Asserting that the March, 1884
auto agreement brought worse con-
ditions to the auto workers, the
resolution emphasizes that only by
a victorious strike can the workers
win their demands and improve
their conditions.
To Present Plan
The resolution, adopted unani-
n1ously at the meeting Of the union
following Green's meeting in Cleve-
land, will be presented Friday to
the National Auto Council in De-
troit in person by w. Mortimer,
president of the union, and r.
Reisinger, secretary, as delegates
both of their local and the Cleve-
land Auto Council.
William Green, in short confer
ence held last Sunday before the
mass meeting with the delegates of
the Cleveland Auto Council, prom
ised that the official recognition of
the Cleveland Auto Council will be
taken up in Detroit at the meeting
of the National Auto Council.
Demands Listed
Urging every local to establish
united committees in every plant
and department, the resolution calls
for the following demands: Thirty
hour, five-day week. Minimum an
nual wage of 1850, with $40 week
minimum for unskilled and $35 for
skilled workers.
Time and a half for overtime,
double time for work on Saturday,
Sunday and holidays.
Abolition of speed-up, piece work,
bonus or group systems. with wages
computed on an hourly basis.
Abolition of the merit clause and
company unions.
Seniority rights.
Free medical advice and hospital
ization, with no loss of pay for
time lost from occupational diseases.
Unemployment and social insur-
snce.
To prepare effectively for gen.
eral strike for the above demands,
the resolution calls for the following
measures in the entire auto indus
try: Mass educational and agita-
tional drive by distribution of thou
sands of leaflets among auto and
auto parts workers. asking their
support in preparing for strike.
Recruiting Drive Set
Setting up an organizational COM
mittee in every local to undertake a
mass recruiting drive.
Appeal by each city to the A. F.
OF L. Executive Board for effective
financial support.
Organization of committees to
build a strong strike fund.
Calling general meetings in every
city, with two weeks preparation,
to ratify strike demands and elect
strike committees.
Support of any individual plant
by the general group should strikes
break out before the general action.
The demands drawn up in the
White Motor resolution are basically
Identical with the demands of the
workers in practically all auto and
auto parts plants in the city of
Cleveland. The resolution of the
White Motor local expresses the
sentiment and militant mood of the
Cleveland auto workers, who insist
on clear-cut determined policy
from Green and Dillon after their
vague and ambiguous stand as ex-
pressed In their speech here last
Sunday.