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in this union that the membership
did not vote To- start and to stop"
Thomas said. and this one Will be
no exception
Thomas said that he objected 10
the proposal because the union had
no idea who would be on the board;
that {. f. Wilson had had an oppor-
tunity 10 talk to President Truman
while the representatives of the
union had not; and that inaSmuch
as the right to strike is legal, the
Presidents action is undemocratic.
Meanwhile Walter White. ex-
ecutive secretary of the National
Association for the Advancement
of COlOred People was named on
a committee of fifteen nationally
known persons to come TO De-
trOit Tuesday to hear a reading
Of the transcript Of negotiations
between General Motors COrpO-
ration and the union.
VICE PRESIDENT REUTER-
announced that the following per-
sons had accepted: Bishop Francis
j. Haas, former FEPC chairman;
Leon Henderson, former OPA ad-
ministrator: DR.. William Haber.
University Of Michigan economist;
Bishop William Scarlet, Of st.
Louis; Mrs. j. Birdsall Calkins
president Of the YWCA; Bishop
Nermard J. She'll, of Chicago; Rob-
ert Garrigan, assistant director Of
the council Of American Business,
Inc; DR.. Henry Hit Crane, of De-
trot; Frank w. McCulloch. Of Chi
cago; Elizabeth S Magec. president
of the National Consumers League;
Murray ID. Lincoln, executive sec
rotary of the Ohio Farm Bureau
Administration: Ernest w Burgess
of the University Of Chicago; Rabbi
Leon Fran, Detroit: and Mrs. NJ. +.
lilly, director OF the Women's So
clal Action Division. of the South
eastern Conference, Methodist
Church, Atlanta.
Meanwhile President r. J.
Thomas announced that he was
asking the u. :. Attorney Gen
eral, Tom Clark, TO initiate an
investigation of the position OF
the General Motors Corporations
control Of the motor industry.
STATING THAT President c. F.
Wilson Of the General Motors Cor
poratlon had advanced a proposal
for the resumption of certain auto
mobile parts because other COM
paneS would not be able 10 operate
without them. ThopaS said, This
proposal provides Wrong Corrobo-
ratory evidence for bur belief that
this corporation holds a monopoly
position in the automotIve industry
through It's ownership of the prln-
cipal source of engine fuel pumps
His letter supports the claims ad-
vanCed by George Romncy. general
manager of the Automobile Manu-
facturers Association that a shut
down OF General Motors Corpora
ton would result in shutdown Of
the entire automobile industry
r. j. Thomas and Walter Reu-
Their wired President Truman that
a conference of UAW-GM dele
gates would be held in Detroit
Saturday am, and that a recon-
mendation on the Presidents pro-
posal would be made at that time
Truman in his labor dispute plan
statement said that the all impor-
tant question Of how TO avoid work
stoppages had failed and that the
conference of labor and manage
mcnt had arrived al no accord.
Failing in that" Truman said,
The conference was unable TO at
tain the objective most necessary
TO successful reconversion.
IF industrial strife continues. the
quick reconversion which has been
planned, and which is now pro-