Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-05


4 SURVEY of recent cases
"A shows the llowin
causes:
At CurtiSs-W Wright propeller
plant in New Jersey. slowdownS
have been reported several
times since July. Normal rate
is three propellers per man per
day, When il gets down TO one
propeller per man per day,
authorities know something is
wrong.
Unsettled question is that the
governments National Labor
Relations Board held the indie
pendent union there propeller
craft to be company dominated.
A Curtiss-Wright plane plant
in central Ohio is reported to
have encountered a showdown
February II. Union first COM
planned to NLRB that the COM
pany was trying to dominate
the union, then asked that the
case be Withdrawn.
Company objected because it
claimed il was not trying To
dominate and wanted to prove it.
A ONE-DAY strike was called
"A at Monar!c Aluminium
Company. Cleveland. because
100 members Of the Go mine,
mill and shelters workers had
been refused recognition as a
bargaining agent. The NLRB
had already certified another
union.
A six-day strike of 800 men
was staged al Reynolds Metal
Company, Louisville. against the
adoption of a swing shift which
would have eliminated over
time work for them.
At the Foster-Wheeler Cor
poration boiler shop. Carteret,
N. j., strike was started Feb
ruary l9 on the right to smoke
at work. Five men had been
laid off for smoking in the shop
against the rules. In protest.
all the workers began smoking
and a weeks layoff ensued.
ALL workers at the Marvel
Schebler Carburetor Company,
Flint. Mich. walked out when
the NLRB, after two years,
finally ordered the company 10
reinState a Go employee with
back pay
IMAGINE. II took the NLRB
two years TO decide that the
employe had been fired unfairly
for Go organizing efforts and
then his reinstatement caused a
three-day AFL protest strike
from February % 10 26.
The Armstrong Brothers Tool
Company, Chicago, suffered
five-day strike because the union
was refused the closed shop.
The company asked that there
be no strike while the case was
submitted TO the United States
Cancellation service for settle
mcnt but the union refused.
The Addressograph-Mu
Corporation in Ohio cit is
making gun part now suf-
fcred a showdown after February
p, because the men refused 10
work more than an eight hour
shift
THESE caScS involve war
implements. but not a ono
involved 2 right that seems in
diSpenSable even as labor secs
IT, Tho rights" which were
supposedly being trampled upon
merely because magnified in the
minds of angry. capriciouS or
poorly-led workers until they
assumed an Importance beyond
comprehension of those not in
Volvod.
Clearly. labor. or its leaders.
is not unanimously living up TO
the war responsibilities.
If q soldier dies at the front
because he lacked airplane pro-
/ lection or machine guns. the
worker who denied him those
planes or guns is morally re-
Sponsihle.
4 WORKER who slowed down
~ on = plane propeller and
delayed lis delivery. might take
4 lighter view Of his own
troubles II \ casualty list from
tho fighting front was pasted
each mornisC on tho machine nj
which he works.
The local labor leaders might
consider their administrative
issues less desperate if they
could consult the experience OF
the local labor leaders in
+ France, now in slavery.
They can read in fresh history
the union excuses by which
SpiralinC French wage increases
{ pensions, the 40-hour week were
iealouSly maintained 10 the OK.
cluSion of victory and the los,
Of every right including tho
right ~ live
!. II tht government has not the
EumpiIon or power 10 act. ther
labor itself must. or some ono
else eventually will
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