SOCIALIST APPEAL JANUARY 11, 1941 TWORKERS Ford Pays Millions For Lying Ads TROTSKY MEMORIAL FUND FORUM To Conceal His Vile Labor Policy We re On The Last Lap; Minneapolis Is In Front New York Plans Banquet For Grace Carlson Editor: Ford Claim To High Wages Is er who gets funny finds himself, ing, which is close at Nand. fi fired. His creditors pite down on ally comes? These paid tools know Write to us tell us what going on in your part of the him. iiis landlord appears with the score. They will hang on to By JAMES CANNON Exposed As Flagrant Lie labor movement what are the workers thinking about tell a dispossess notice. And, in add the pay roll as long as it is safe. January 1st was the time set by the Chicago Conference for us what the bosses are up to and the Gmen and the local copstion, couple of tough looking as long as the ord workers are completion of the Trotsky Memorial Pund. As can be seen from and the Stalinists send us that story the capitalist press didn Henry Ford published a full page advertisement in hun street and give him some friend them properly. But when the gents may approach him on the still too disorganized to deal with the store board below, the branches came mighty close to the Print and that story they buried or distorted our pages are open dreds of leading newspapers throughout the country last week. 1y advice. If he should still be hour strikes, most of these loyal goal of the average, and some of them went over.
to you. Letters must carry hame and address, but indicate if you This ad makes a desperate attempt to conceal the fact that so told as to press his claim. Service Men will run like scared tell up with and outstrip the list starters, the Political Com In order to give the backward branches a final chance to do not want your name printed.
Ford pays the lowest wages in the entire automobile industry. there are company lawyers, com Jackrabbits.
niittee has extended the deadline for one month, to February You may search ihe Ford blurb with a microscope and you pary doctors and company judges ist. Those branches which are not under the wire by that time War Production Mearis Walt til this war is over. There will find ho figures on his average daily or hourly wage. And for blus company assets or close to a billion dollars. to convince him are down in the biack book for good.
will be bread lines a mile lone good reason!
As the campaign reached its climax, a vicious competitive Daily Blackout If you don get it now you In an earlier ad, which appeared in the New York Times of his mistake.
January 28, 1940, Ford claimed to pay an average daily wage of for his industrial paradise: That Ford makes one further claim struggle broke out between the New York and Twin Cities locals.
never will.
In Pittsburgh This was precipitated by the following telegram from New York Whether they are spenking Pol 25, or 60. cents per hour.
he attempts, as a matter of deli NEW YORK IS UP 44. ON MEMORIAL FUND QUOTA.
Isl, Croation, Slavic or American Bat the average hourly wage INTENDS TO BEAT TWIN CITIES TO GOAL.
they are saying the same thing for the entire automobile Indus. by Ford for an unskilled. sem berate policy, to keep his older workers employed. Aside from This was immediately responded to hy the Twin Cities con Towards the end of the summer. one plant or another. The strikes Labor Statist. cs. And in the un Strikes occur almost daily intry is 95. cents (U. Bureau of skilled and skilled worker. Unskilled. Without exper the fact that this is a lie on the rades as follows: when Uncle face of it, because it would be begar ience.
Motors to go to have different complexions. Some ionized Genera Chrys: Semi skilled. Men WHAT MERE 4496. YOU CAN BEAT MINNESOTA.
town on war production, the work with impossible to maintain the man times it is to get a fink off the ler plants. It is over 00.
killing, nerve shattering speed up NEW YORK, Jan. Grace ers of Pittsburgh began to notice job, sometimes to make the slack For one week New York held the lead by. of However, Ford proves that he pays the limited experience.
can this was a bit of a flike, as a contribution of 100 from the Skilled. Men with years of at the Ford plants with olden Carlson. Trotskyist men, we need only study the fg didate for Senator from Minne. Twin Cities was delayed in the mail during the holidays and seeing of the sun. mass of black ever alle grievance for the strike dustry by deserting that he pays experience.
soot settles over the city and cov: was not credited to them. More than that, the New Yorkers This gives the whole phone ures which Pord publishes and sota, who pieilled more totes than the workers refuse to settle un an average annual wage of 1, 629.
were accused of slick work in putting in an extra dollar to gain ere every house and street with less they get more wages and 05. He compares this figure not wage set up away. What deter compare them with some others the Socialist and Communist ParThe dirt. The particles of soot brake on the speed up.
y combined will be greeted in smäll fead of. of with comparable figures for llie mines a worker job classification which Ford does not publish.
The Ford ad states: recent New York on her nation wide hold the dampness in the air and This week the win Cities cotirades renched the goal and automobile industry, but with the in Ford is not the kind of work check up shows that nearly one tour with a mass meeting and a the whole dirty cloud s like a People who have flown over the latest government figures for he does, but his experience.
sent extra for good measure, to give them a score of 100.
city at night say that one can the average yearly wage of 11 And who determines that? Why, plants were 40 or over. Heiner of the New York local of the the workers at these Ford banquiet. Murray Weiss, organblack fog check for 971 was received from thein, with the following The workers walk along the street see the flames of the furnaces American wage earners covered by Henry Ford!
letter: Thus, a tool and die maker or then gives figures totaling 14. 356 Socialist Workers Party announc ed today Here she is. We re 48 hours late but we have the organ.
mill and every furnace is now the man. made suns in the night the ad says was 842. 00 what machinist may be considered un Ford employes 40 years or over.
The records of Hamtramek, If the reception accorded her ization and give us due credit for that of over the quota and see that there no cheating by those New York have been idle for over ten years, used to be spots in the city where that this figure was for 1988, a gangsters and spies, nominally em Mich. where many Ford workers by the workers in other cities can City slickers. They might tie Minnesota after the excellent hears the giant furnace coughing to discuss world events. As the reports of City Convention but they can beat us yet.
atid belching. It sounds like the furnaces were put into operation morcover. waget paid to part time often does, get 10 a day as a mer Ford employes on their rescheduled speech at the lenin Me lief rolls, 45 out of every 100 fired mor al meeting in New York on Fraternal greetings to the comrades and better and seasonal workers.
distant rumble of cannon on one by one, accompanied by yards To prove that safety and were between the ages of 41 to January 24 will be one of the fuck next time.
On the same basis on which movie screen. But nobody notices of Ingo national defense propa It is now up to New York. They asked for the fight. The it unless he is a stranger visiting sanda, these spots were deserted. Ford computes his admitted aver health conditions in the Ford 50: 31 out of every 100 kicked best attended in recent years question is: Do they intend to go through with it?
the city. To the workers who The whole city is now a beehive age annual wake of 1, 629. 05, Gen blants are better than anywhere on the industrial scrap heap by With the widening of World War feel the strain of keeping the for of workers going in to the plants and Mayors and Corsler union not give the actual igures on ae. ages of 51 and 60. That means that Roosevelt will plunge us into The up and coming branch at Detroit, which completed its quota 100 before the deadline, greeted the extension of the campaign for another month by pledging another 50. Under the sound. It means that now there trudging home at the end of them. In his latest al, Ford does cite be too damaging to the Ford workers on relief were over 10 beginning to seek a way out a are plenty of jobs. And there are During the holiday shopping pe ferent classifications of workers, Forl cost of workmen compens hourly minimum wages for air myth. He simply states that the years old.
way to end capitalist war forever democratic principles of our organization other branches have There is one single fact, how The Second and Third Inter full right to do likewise if they see fit.
so many things they have been riod the workers thronged into unskilled; seini skilled and skilled ation is the lowest in the indus ever, which we can glean from nationals are bankrupt, only Trot wanting to buy for their kids and the city in bigger crowds than For inskilled, it is 75 cents; try.
the house for such a long time ever before. The streets were 80 semi skilled. 80 cents; skilled, 90: Absolutely true. And here this ad, a fact which is incon. skyism, the program of the Fourth The following are the additional payments made to the Trotsky Now they will be able to do it. Jammed with pedestrian traffic cents.
why: testáble: FORD IS SCARED! International, las the revolution it the prices don start going up that the whole reserve police force Henry Ford is self insured. The years of physical terror by ary answer to capitalist crises Memorial Pund this week: too fast.
was used to direct traffic. The When one considers that in the while other companies are insured which Henry Ford has ruled his hunger, war. That our party is Akron 00 are not alone in understanding this So thay drink more boer to XIN workers were spending everything Ceudal domain of Henry Ford the with outside agencies, the Ford industrial stave kingdom Boston 16. 00 drawing to an end.
is clearly shown by the large vote the feel of the soot in their lungs, they could possibly afford to minimum and maximum wage for Motor Co. maintains its own in Buffalo 00 Not all Ford Service Men, accorded comrade Carlson in the and because they are in a state squeeze out a good time. All these the vast majority of the Ford em surance agency, and determines Cleveland 10. 00 of nervous exitement. They know years they had nothing to spend an even clearer picture of Henry Ford maintains his ers, stool pidgeons and ambihis gangsters, gunmen, bruis. Minnesota election. Inquiries from Detroit orker in New York sympath10. 00 what happened in the last war. and now war days are ahead.
Los Angeles 27. 75 The Belly wrinkles froin the aen the mills the men are what the real average hourly and own hospital, which all injured tious college boys. can give him etle to our party as to our plans Lynn 00 pression are not yet ironed out. posted in umforms and on the daily pay rates are for the work. Ford workers must go. The doc his former accustomed feeling of for her appearance here show the ers.
So every place their thoughts run mill property in special shacks to keen interest her impressive show Take out the wages paid tors are all company doctors. So security.
Minneapolis and St. Paul 371. 00 to the same thing. Whether you guard the defense orders. The foremen, supervisors, and Ford just let an injured Ford Worker in the eyes of every worker on ins in Minnesota Trotskyist New Haven 00 listen to the conversation in the workers are keeping a tight lip private army of spies, sun men try to establish a compensation the Ford assembly line he roads candidate has aroused.
New York 100. 00 m:11, on the street. in the house and thinking of the:r own de and striebreakers, and we find claim! On the control the cost the long awaited accounting Centrade Carlson will speak at Philadelphia 11. 00 or in a saloon over a glass offenses. And when they have at Ford pays not thoughest, ut for medical care is deducted from Ford is deathly afd. Where Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. and 15th Quakertown 00 beer, it is the same thing: Tought enough they put on little by far the lowest wages in their wages.
will all his yellow belliistool St. on January 24 at 8:30 pm.
Rochester 00 This won last, you better actions to show how they feel.
automobile industry. Few workers dare to press pidgeons, his muscle men be, The banquet is scheduled for FetSan Francisco Observe the definitions employed compensation claims. Any work when the hour of reckon ruary at Germania Hall.
15. 00 make it while the making is Pittsburgh, Pa.
Williston 10. 00 good.
JAMES COOK Individual Contribution 00 TOTAL 602. 76 Branch Quota Amount paid BOSTON 100. 00 147. 00 147 QUAKERTOWN. 00 50 107 BUFFALO 25. 00 26. 15 105 DETROIT 200. 00 210. 00 105 PORTLAND 10. 00 10. 50 105 TOLEDO 56. 00 51. 00 102 LOS ANGELES 150. 00 151. 45 101 By MICHAEL CORT ing between employers and workers in fields of production Minneapolis St. Paul 1000. 00 1001. 00 100. REGULARITY dispatch from the other half of II.
necessary for the conduct of the war, or in other fields of Pittsburgh 10:00 10. 00 100 OF APPEAL ARMY the Twin Cities, comparing the national activity, delays and obstructions in which might in Allentown 13. 00 During the closing days of 1917, after various governmentIt was gratifying, during the work our party is doing now to 15. 00 100 past seven or eight months, to the work done a generation ago sponsored labor boards had been functioning one covering marithe opinion of the Board, affect detrimentally such produc Chicago Indiana Harbor 2bo. ob 200. 00 100 tion.
follow the trend in the party with that other Appeal. Milwaukee 10 10 time, another clothing, another for workers employed on Wa 100 toward tremendously increased ST. PAUL. An issue of the Department orders, another for the Navy Department, etc. Reading 00 00 100 volume and REGULARITY SOCIALIST APPEAL containing How the Board Worked Baltimore 10. 00 10. 00 100 APPEAL work. We weren pre articles by Peter Graves, a. form.
strikes reached such a point that the bosses, through the National The Board, through this paragraph, was prepared to dragoon San Diego 50 50 100 pared to find it one day catching er organizer for the Farmers Industrial Conference, called frantically for a super board with every worker in the country, and it did. There was hardly an Rockville 00 00 100 up with us. It has. Admonitions Union, especially written for the complete authority over all workers.
industry that escaped the Board jurisdiction. During the entire Texas 00 00 100 ate pouring in regarding our regional convention held Samuel Gompers responded with complete agreement to this history of the NWLB only 50 cases were dismissed because of Newark proposal, for he had experienced considerable difficulty in keeping 150. 00 150. 00 100 failure to present this, column late last month in St. Paul, was lack of jurisd. ction. And these cases involved luxury consumer Hutchinson 10. 00 10. 00 REC 100 ARLY each week. This enthusiastically received by the the unions in line. At the very opening of the war he had goods affected very number o! worke 00 St. Louis 00 100 proof that the column is care. Northwest farmers.
pledged the government no strikes in defense industries. His The opening paragraph was phrased in such a manner as to Akron 10. 00 10. 00 fully followed gives us a new ap Papers were distributed at attitude toward those locals which failed to respect his pledge kive labor the impression that all of its disputes with the bosses Philadelphia preciation of its potential value two banquets and both times 30. 00 30. 00 Is best exemplified by the following excerpt from a letter sent 100 in the advancement of our work were eagerly received. Last night would receive a hearing. The practice of the Board was, however, Rochester 15. 00 a local that disregarded a War Department ukage and struck 15. 00 100 We humbly promise hereafter the the farmers stood in line and to keep the cases that it heard to a minimum and to use its few 100. 00 San Francisco 100. 00 for higher wages. and while you may not agree with our 100 strict regularity that the comiblocked the auditorium entrance decisions as precedents to force arbitrary settlements down the Williston 10. 00 10. 00 100 course (cooperation with the boards) the great majority of your rades desire and merit.
in order to get the paper. Those workers throats in all other disputes.
150. 00 138. 00 92 brothers have chosen the road and you can not now scab. To Here are some suggestions for who missed them the first time The Board developed a slight of hand trick that baffled the Lynn 100. 00 90. 00 90 expanded column content from were sent back by the others in the head of the AFL, it was the striker who was the scab! Ac workers for some time. It was this: a law was enacted which New Haven 20. 00 18. 00 90 Minneapolis. Plans for na order to get that socialist paper.
tually, of course, the workers had received no opportunity to vole required the board to reach a decision enforceable by law, only New York 1000. 00 656. 00 tion wide sub drives, information Many farmers mistook the soon either the war or the union busting labor boards.
66 when both parties to a controversy joined in filing an appeal. If 70. 00 10. 00 Cleveland 14 about special sub offers, news CIALIST APPEAL for the AP Once Gompers indicated his agreement with the Nattorial only one side appealed to the Board, the Board could hand down about local sub drives and mass PEAL TO REASON, pre war 80 50. 00 Youngstown 00 12 Industrial Conference on the question of a superboard, Wilson only a recommendation. With the pressure of the bourgeois APPEAL work, comments from cialist paper. Remarks such as Individual Contributions 30 invited him to conter. Pausing on the White House steps long press and all other agencies of public opinion and the apparatus readers and from comrades as The Appeal haven seen that enough to say, There is a disposition among officers of the of the State on their side, it was seldom necessary for the bosses TOTAL signed to the mass work, little for thirty years. Socialist 3527. 60 3121. 57 85 items about the role of the labor want one. Give me another government to deal fairly with labor, he disappeared through to go to the Board. According to Department of Labor records, press, its history, etc. In short, there a guy ahead reads this the sacred portals to collaborate in the creation of the most 12 of the NWLB cases were complaints of the employers, while ALL the inside information about stuff. were heard monstrous anti abor machinery that had ever existed in this the remainder were worker complaints; 36 from those not well as under the War and Navy Departments, the Shipthe paper that would tend to Men who had received the country.
organized in the AFL and 50 from those that were. In 86 ping Board, the Railroad Administration and all other Gov.
stimulate readers and distributors paper the first night still carried proclamation was issued by Wilson in February, 1918, or of the cases then, the Board decision was merely a recommendaërnment agencies.
in their efforts to spread its in it around, congratulated the girls ganizing the super board: The National War Labor Board. tion and if the Board found for the workers (as conditions some The second paragraph of Wilson proclamation setting up fluence.
on getting it out, and commented tines forced it to. the bosses were at liberty to disregard the the Board reads: rie National War Labor Board shall appoint Some of the older comrades favorably on Peter Graves story The Board Membership decision entirely.
subordinate boards to sit in various parts of the country. During in our branch have referred on 800 papers reached these farm The Board was composed of 12 members; five of whom were If, on the other hand, the Board was about to find for the the first few months of its life the Board was swamped with several occasions to the old Ap ers.
bose, appointed by Gompers, seven by Wilson. The Compers nominees pedl To Rehson, socialist publi The eager reception of the an appeal filed by workers, it was a simple matter to workers complaints. Invoking the above paragraph, 50 field ex were as follows: Frank Hayes, President, United Mine Workers: tip him off, let him participate in the appeal by an amendement aminers e. regular government agents were assigned to travel cation of twenty five years ago, APPEAL shows clearly that the concerning its pheriomenal cir Northwest farmers have not forWilliam Hutcheson. President, Brotherhood of Carpenters; Thomas to the complaint, and thus make the Board award binding upon about the country to make investigations. The Board then em culation and the promotion meth gotten the lessons of the NonJ. Savage, member of the board, International Association of Ma all involved. In other words, when the Board found for the powered the filed examiners to make awards and itself sat only ods it used. It was suggested in partisan League, the Farmers chinists; Victor Olander, representative. Seamen Union of workers it was usually an empty gesture: when it found for the as an appeal body, our committee meeting that we holiday association, and the more America; and Rickert, Pres! dent, United Garment Workers. bosses there were bayonets to back up the order.
The 1921 report of the Department of Labor reveals that might be able to learn a great recent mortgage foreclosures. The seven boss representatives were headed by the co chairmen these examiners heard and decided over 10, 000 cases in a brief deal about promotion of sales They look to the industrial work of the Board, ex President of the United States, William Howard Wilson Invents a Nero Weapon 12 month period. The slim charice the workers had of getting and circulation of the SOCIAL er as an ally and to the Socialist Taft, and Frank Walsh. The names of the five industrialists And what happened to the workers if they imitating the beyond these examiners to the Board itself is revealed by the fact IST APPEAL study was Revolution as the goal.
on the board mean little to us now, but their positions in industry bosses) took it into their heads to regard the Board decisions that the Board heard, during its entire existence, only 1, 251 cases.
made of the methods used by the at that time s important. They were, respectively, Vice president, as only a recommendation? The bayonet was used, of course; In other words, the workers had one charice in ten in getting Appeal to Reason.
in Los Angeles We promise to dig around until Westinghouse Electric Company: President, Delaware and Hud but in addition Wilson evolved a new weapon. starvation! The an examiner decision even reviewed by the Board. And if they son Company: President, Root and Van Dervoort Engineering we uncover some of the inside workers at the Remington Arms plant in Bridgeport, Conn. re. did beat the 100 to odds, then there was still less than a 50 dope on the old Appeal to Reas. Buy the APPEAL at Company; President of Virginia Bridge Company: and President, volted against a Board decision in 1918 and went out on strike. chatice that the Board would reach a decision upon their case; propor.
Lackawanna Bridge Company. According to the 1921 report of Within two days they, and the press of the country, received for the records show that the Board made decisions in only 39 tion our party has attained Brooklyn Ave.
Lazerus Candy Store 2109 the Department of Labor, only one of these five had ever had a letter from President Wilson which read, in part. 488) of the cases heard.
rather a phenomenal success in any dealings whatsoever with organized labor. desire that you return to work and abide by the award. There is no adequate record of the thousands of decisions recent expansion of the AP Book Store 1st St. So nuch for the composition of the Board. Now to its If you refuse, each of you will be barred from employment handed down by the field examinets, but we do know the contents PEAL circulation, Rowan Ave.
philosophy.
in any war industry in the community in which the strike of the 488 handed down by the Board itsell, and these cases ST. PAUL Sam Smit Newsstand 5th The opening paragraph of the Wilson proclamation read: occurs for a period of one year. During that time the United were the important oies. the ones that established inton.
APPEAL BOOSTERS Main St. The functions of the National War Labor Board shali States Employment Service will decline to obtain employment busting precedents that the government enforced for the next We very much enjoyed another be to settle by mediation and conciliation, controversies aris for you in any war industry elsewhere in the United States, ten years. These cases will be revieived and analyzed next week.
War Labor Board Of 1918 APPEAL ARMY Green, Hillman, Murray Following Gompers Policy 100 Flint