Evening star., 1937-10-14
C.L.0. MAPS SDR|VE
| ON FORD IN SECRET
Strike and Boycott Threats
Stand Behind "Educa.
tionaI" Campaign.
BY JOHN C. HENRY.
stan Correspondent OF The Sta

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., October IA.
"A secretive but most intensive organ
izing drive, with the threat Of strikes
and boycotts in the background, will
be launched against the Ford Motor
Co. by the United Automobile Workers
and Its parent labor body, the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization,
upon the breaking up OF the c. I. o.
policy LESSONS now under way, it was
learned here today.
The organization session mean
while today turned its fire on the
Federal Maritime Commission and
the Bureau Of Marine Inspection and
Navigation by passage OF 4 resolution
demanding that these agencies desist
from invoking marine disaster and
mutiny statutes in connection with
marine labor disputes.
The resolution criticized AZ Illegal
the commissions recent threat to
put into chains" seamen employed
on board the 8. S. Algic while lying in
Monteviedo, Uruguay, for refusing to
work while strikebreakers were en-
dangering their lives.
Plans for the drive we're polished
up yesterday At series of hotel room
conferences between John L. Lewis.
chairman OF the C. 1. O.; John Bro
ply, its executive director; Homer
Martin, president of the U. A. W., and
Richard 4. Frankensteen, assistant
president and most effective organizer
OF the automobile union.
Leaving the task of presiding over
the general sessions Of the c. I. O.
meeting entirely to Philip Murray.
head OF the steel workers Organizing
Committee, Lewis devoted his entire
day to conferences on the Ford plans
and one or two other matters.
Strategy "Rehearsed."
Although details of the drive are
being carefully guarded by the very
few who have been involved in the
strategy meetings. it was learned that
the procedure already has been tested
with the same meticulous care as is
practiced by an army In its peacetime
maneuyers.
The testing ground has consisted of
two relatively small departments of
the Ford enterprise, with the result
that 4 majority OF workers in those
sections already have been brought
into the U. A. w. fold.
In brief, the initial organizing cam
paign Is to be directed at the homes
Of the Ford workers, with emphasis
to be placed on the educational as
poets as the benefits of the trade
union movement and the ssins regis
tered in other sectors of the industry
are placed persuasively befor the Ford
employees.
This part of the task will be in
trusted to the 'best-type OF organizer
available, q circumstance which fiG-
ured In the recent purge from the
U. A. w. Of . number of radical"
and providence organizers. Frank
ensteen, college graduate, who has
all the outward appearance Of stock
and bond salesman, Is expected to
direct this phase of the drive.
May Exert Dealer Pressure.
In reserve: and not far back in the
plans, should it be necessary, il = pro-
gram Of bringing pressure on dealers tn
Ford products and indirectly on the
consumers. The outward manifesto
tion Of this program probably will be
the establishment Of small and peace
ful picket lines at Ford distribution
centers, with the sandwich board
legends again to emphasize the edu-
cational aspects of the situation.
Finally, II necessary, the U. A. W.
is prepared to tie up production 1T
numerous parts plants from which
FORD now receives necesaary parts.
The whole program, 1t 4 umderstood,
nas the approval OF Lewis, and the
G. I. o. stands ready to advance addi-
uonal finances II those Of the U. A. w,
DO not prove adequate.
Calculated to aid somewhat In this
campeign. incidentally. u the resolu-
ton adopted yesterday by the fun
c. I. O. meeting by which it commits
itself TO the determined adherence Of
It's contract obligations and responsi-
bilities."
Employers who enter into such col
lective bargaining Agreements" the
resolution concludes, will receive the
complete cooperation and support Of
the unions adiliated with the c. I. o.
In carrying through the full ldminis-
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