Evening star., 1937-03-22

sole collective bargaining rights upon
a ma jOrity basis" he continued. This
the company consistently refused to
do, despite the fact that its proper
tional representation plan is opposed
to all principles of democracy.
Political Comparison Made
"If the company's proposal to us
were transferred to the method of
representing the people of Michigan,
you would be the Governor today only
for the 892,774 people who voted for
you last November. In the country, as
whole, Franklin D. Roosevelt would
be President only for the 27,75l, ,6l2
citizens who voted for him, while his
opponent, Alfred M Landon, would
be President No. for the 16,68l,913
who voted for him.
You con see how absurd this is,
and yet it is the only concrete pro-
posal the company has ever laid before
the union"
He also said that K. T. Keller, pres
ident of Chrysler, was elected by a
majority of the stockholders, and yet
he speaks for all of them"
The purpose of the corporations
proportional representation plan, Mar
tin wrote, lis to destroy the union and
thus make real collective bargaining
impossible"
Defending sit-doWn strikes. he told
the Governor that the type of strike
has been "singularly free of destruc-
ton of property, and what is more i'm
portant, not a single life has been
lost"
The sit-down, he said, has prevented
the use of "time-Worn, strike breaking
tactics of corporations.
IF it is a good thing and we be-
lieve it is, for the workers to obey
the law, then it is only just and fair
to expect the corporation also to obey
the law he said, and urged the Gov
ernor to give the workers a square
deal and avoid needless human suffer-
ing and bloodshed by demanding that
the corporation likewise abide by the
law"
Martin sat in on the conference with
Chrysler representatives this morning.
Martin and others in the U. A. w.
inner circle criticised the eviction
raids, in which several were injured
and scores arrested. None of the
raided places were related to the auto
mobile industry, but Martin said he
regarded them as "a build-up for an
attack on the automobile union sit
downs"
Gov. Murphy paused in efforts
to bring the Chrysler disputants to-
gether to make public plea yesterday
for temperate attitudes on both sides.
He said pointedly it was "the clear
duty of all to comply" with a circuit
court order for evacuation of the eight
Chrysler factories held by some 5000
strikers
He called for IAN intelligent obedi-
ence to duly constituted authority"
but warned against blind adherence
to legalistic philosophy"
The Governor addressed a Catholic
mems group, then resumed his joint
study of the Chrysler deadlock with
James F. Dewey, Federal labor con-
| ciliator.
Miss Perkins Busy.
Efforts to bring peace in that dis
pute were pushed in New York and
| Washington, also. Secretary of Labor
Perkins was in New York, attempt
ing to bring together Walter P. Chrys-
Ter and John L. Lewis, head of the
c. I. o. She talked to both indi-
vidually, and also with Murphy and
| Dewey and her aides in Washington
What the scope of general strike
of the U. A. w. in the city might
be was undetermined. Martin said
however, that General Motors workers
because of recent final agreement
in that extended controversy, would
stage brief walkout as "demonstra-
ton"
The city has about 1900 plants re-
lated to the auto industry, and they
employ, by conservative estimate, some
100000 persons.
U. A. w. leaders claim they could
completely tie up the industry in
Detroit.
The evictions which led to Martins
general strike" threats were the first
in Detroit's recent strike history
Sheriff's deputies arrested go strikers
who held the Newton Packing Co