Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-18
Overall Wage
For Industry Is
PIdnnedbyUAW
Cleveland Conference
10 Fight Psy-Freeze Seeks
10 Eliminate inequalities
News of Labor
BN IACk CRELLIN
TImcsaLahor Editor

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Timcs.Labor Editor
The UAW-CIO may shortly in
SIst upon lncustrN-wlde wage nCEO-
tia'ions which would see the big
three Of The former automotNe in
duStry -Chrysler GN and Ford
al seated around the same bar-
gaining table
This appCarcdllkclN Saturday as
the 21-msn international union eN-
ecu,i>e board prepared for an
emergency conference IN Cleveland
on Monday where a program 10
combat the President s wage freeze
uIdcr of Anil 9 Will be formu-
lated
Question Of an overall industry
wide wage agreement, the prin-
Ciple of which has already been
approved by the board, will be
brought Up for discussion by Nal
ter ?. Reuther. vice president,
whose claim Is that this is the only
way 20 eliminate present wage
6iffcrentialS and inequalities.
Reuther outlined his suggestions
IN a letter 10 r J. Thomas. union
president tho other day.
SCORES WLB
"The War Labor Boards policy
Of handling thousands Of cases
a. individual and unrelated
problems makes for a continue
ton Of gross wage diferentials
and inequalities.
THE establishment OF an over
all industry wide wage agree
ment. based upon equal pay for
equal work. is the only basis
for the establishment of n sound
wage policy which Will provide
for the elimination of wage diff
ferentials and inequalities"
Reuther stated.
Reuther proposes 10 divide the
industry into major subdivisions
for the purpose Of establishing the
same rates for the same work in
every plant.
FAVORS COMPETITION
at Is not only important as n
sound wage policy necessary To
advance the war effort, but IL
also IL imperative III we are TO
protect our membership in the
postwar period by taking labor
out of competition" he said.
1--WE have said all along that
we are not opposed TO competi-
ton between the various auto
producers 80 long as such COM
petition Is in terms of better
management, more efficient en-
cheering and production meth
DDS. and not competition based
on the sweat OF labor.
The executions Of Henrick
Ehrhch and Victor Alter, Polish
labor leaders, by the Soviet gov
eminent appear TO be having more
reprecussions in this country than
they had in Poland
The ranks of the UAW-CIO are
torn aSunder as the Communists
and the anti-CommunistS wage
war on each other over the SUBJ
iect. The Communists take the po-
sition that if the Soviet govern |
ment executed the two they must
have been guilty.
Their opponents condemn the
Reds and insist on the innocence
of the two men.
All Of which brings us down to-
the dispute waxing al the present I
time between Communists in the
labor movement and editors OF the
two principal Go papers in the
state.
RED MANIFESTO
The educational department OF
the Communist Party of Michigan
recently published a manifested
. purporting 10 give the actual facts
on the Erlich-Alter case In effect
they said that the USSR can do
no wrong and therefore must have
done the right thing.
They blasted al Edward Levin
son. publicity director Of the
tAW-Gf6, and Harry Reed. editor
Of the Michigan Go News for
their attacks on the Soviet.
Emmett Mccormick educational
director OF Local 155. a few days
later put out pamphlet slappinC
al Reed and LevinSon for their
'anti-Soviet attitudes.
So LevinSon felt IL his duty 10
issue a statement IN ms own be.
half II said IN part
"As for the TRADES of the
Communist Party. have this
TO say: Philip Murray. presi-
dent of Go, believed enough in
the innocence Of Alter and Fhr-
Itch to plead for their freedom.
James y. Carey. secretary Of the
Go, has denounced the eNecu-
tionS a. political murder"
T