Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-18

The National UAWCIO General Conference
today to send the following letter President Harry
Honorable Harry Truman
The White
Washington D. c.
Dear Mr. President
Delegates to the UAw-CIo General Motors Con-
ference representing workers on strike have
fully considered the report your FacFndng Board in
special meeting in Detroit today.
I'VE have voted to the Motors work
that they accept the recommendations of 1912
cents hour increase and s45
tract on the following condition. That successful
persuadng the Corporation accept
pone achievement equity the situation in the pub
lie interest For that reson and that alone make the above
offer.
the Corporation changes its present position and
accepts the must full responsibility
for proongng the strike and forcing the General
workers ano he naon uther hardship In the event the
Corporation does not accept the Boards by
to accept the Boards recommendation 1917 cents an hour
increase and insist equitable you
and the reinstatement the contract
poration negotiates satisfactory issues
that basis prepared to terminate the strike
1--WE welcome the clear statement in the ct-Findng
Boards report that the increase require any price
We believe that this represents victory
the General Motors workers. policies
rston President and American consumers as whole
We believe that the and
manned the picket lines for nearly
sixty days deserve the honor and every
the successful fight they the price line
They have been and st buwark against higher prices
and initiation.
offer to accept Boards recommendation
for 1872 cents hour increase is made contribution
national interest achieving full pro-
ducon and full employment at the earliest
strained to that the l9 42 cents
the GIN workers the arithmetic
proved justified
"The 1914 cents increase which t-Finding
Board recommends represents finding
production achieved in 1941 Finding Board in
assuming 1946 production
levels departed seriously only the
from the detectives high levels
production employment which the economic basis
of cannot be achieved.
Boards report lays the basis on which the General
the rightly additional
pensaton achieve these higher levels production
I'VE believe you should call to the
by General Motors in this dispute The
poraion refused good faith
conciation rejected arbitration
Fact-Fndng Board and within "a hours
issued and without giving serious consideration Cen
eral Motors has rejected the Boards recmmendatins
1T is regrettabe that in democracy managerial
clique that this twobon dollar corporation
deuded into thinking of itself sovereign subject
the moral laws that regulate other institutions and
the interests the Nation its
"Since the Corporation has rejected Boards
mendaons forced intensity further action
"We therefore, informing that requesting
the UAWCIO Strike Strategy Committee take steps
that UAW members tool jobbing Immediately
all General Motors work shall
the action be taken plants working
Motors parts bring the full weight
the Unions economic Corporation
This economic whose had withheld thus
that
resorng to that action. apparently the
only language this insolent Corporation understands
Very truly yours
Alfred Federico Chairman
Charles Beckman, Secretary
r. j. Thomas President
George F. Adde's, Secretary Treasurer
Walter p. Reuther Vice President
Richard T. Frankensteen, Vice
President for the National UAW-CIO
General Motors Conference.