Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-04
End These Strikes!


making essential parts for tanks airpanes can prevent
the completion tanks and arpanes IN several factories
many times larger and empoiin@thousands OF men; and
exactly that he's been happening.
Furthermore with hostile submarines preying on
both our coasts and along the strategic shipping routes
with merchant marine losses being reported daily ship
ward strikes have interfering frequently with the
emergency approximation program which is absolutely
necessary to success in the war.
And N back of these work stoppages, sacrificing
millions Of manhours of labor loom omnous threats of
Widespread labor troubles.
head Of the Congress of Industrial Organizations
has publicly instructed his union followers demand
wage increases of 81 a head AT TIME WHEN THE
PUBLIC Is BEING ASKED TO SACRIFICE.
Labor union officials, especially in the Go,
simultaneously demanding arbitrary cosed-shop agree
ments with key industries
One pending issue along these lines threatens to
shut down the four big companies known Little
Steel" the output of which Immediately needed
in the war industries
Another affects the 90 plants of the General Motors
Corporation, which being wholly converted to the
manufacture of military vehicles and weapons.
THE increasing Judgment among the people is this
the desperate national emergency is being selfshy
used by certain labor leaders to obtain domination
industry exploit the public effort for private wage
benefits and fortify themselves in dictatoral power
Such an attitude the part of labor leaders is as
foolhardy it is disloyal to the country.
What good will il do anybody to earn imitation
wages or to have union shop if America loses the war?
Of what avail will labor leaders power be if the
Japanese defeat America?
If labor Leadership" continues to impair the war
effort and if American commanders lose campaigns for
lack of shpsf American armies lose battles for lack
of anksf American cities ravaged for lack of anti
aircraft guns-if American boys slaughtered on
foreign fields for lack of planes-WHOSE FAULT WILL
1T BE?
president ROOSEVELT spoke to this very point
/ when he said in his recent fresde chat:
I'VE coming to realize that extra plane
extra tank extra gun extra ship completed tomor
row may, in a few months turn the tide some dis
ant battlefield; it may make the difference between life
and death for of fighting men
And lose this only if we SLOW UP
OUR EFFORT if we waste ammunition SNIP
ING AT EACH OTHER. .-
Here three high purposes for EVERY AMER
ICAN:
First. We shall not STOP WORK for A SINGLE
DAY. If ANY DISPUTE arises shall KEEP ON
WORKING while the dispute is solved by mediation
Cancellation abritraOn-unti the is won.
Second. We shall not demand SPECIAL GAINS
or SPECIAL PRIVILEGES or advantages for ONE
GROUP OR OCCUPATION.
Third. We shall give up conveniences and modify
the routine of our lives if our country asks us to do So
OF course, the administration itself has very grave
responsibility in this situation.
The administration does not have a wel-defned and
workable labor policy
On the one hand it still has the National Labor
Relations Board trying to enforce the Wagner Act with
its many deficiencies.
On the other hand it has the War Labor Board
which is still wondering whether to enforce the closed
shop industry at this time.
A ND all this trouble could have been obviated in the
a very which President Roosevelt outlined in
his hreslde chat had the administration permitted the
Smith Bill 10 pass Congress and become law.
That bill was passed in the House of Representa-
tves last fall by tWO-tO-One vote.
In the Senate administration influence has kept it
locked IN the committee on education and labor while
more Experiments attempted
As war emergency measure, vital to victory, the
Smith Bill should be brought Of committee in the
Senate, and should be passed IMMEDIATELY and
should then be approved IMMEDIATELY by the Presi-
dent
Under this bill labors gains sill be kept safe until
the war Is over. the nights of industry the public
Will be protected until the over; and ALL OF
AMERICA VIII be enabled FOR THE FIRST TIME to
unite completely and Fundamentally in the enormous
and crucial business Of WINNING THE WAR.
Neglect. and Duty