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Ford River Rouge Is Aflame With Union Men Socialist Appeal CHURCHILL ANTI LABOR ACTS FOLLOW AID Grace Carlson On the Strike Fronts: Are Inspired By Reports Negro Audiences RYAN AIRCRAFT Babcock Wilcox SHIPYARD MEN War Power Bill ALL SET TO BE Strikers Hold IN FRISCO GET Similar Reactionary Events Take Place SHUT DOWN Their Lines QUICK RESULTS In China, Mexico, Cuba, Uruguay Official Weekly Organ of the Socialist Workers Party Ford Drive At Crucial Turning Point; GRACE CARLSON Now Is The Moment For Real Action!
IN NEW YORK VOL. No. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1941 to 267 FIVE (5) CENTS DETROIT, Mich. Jan. 21. Ever since the great union vic.
Grace Carlson, Trotskyist tories of the United Automobile Workers of America in General candidate for Senator Motors and Chrysler, the hope and dream of every auto worker from Minnesota in the last election, arrived in New York has been to organize Ford. It can now be done!
this week on her national leeThe auto workers first demanded this of Homer Martin. ture tour. Her speaking dates And he sold out to Ford.
are: They demanded it of their new leaders at Cleveland when FRIDAY, January 24. p.
Martin was put to rout. These new leaders fiddled around with Lenin Memorial Meeting, Ford and that Ford drive frittered away.
Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th Street, New York City.
The auto workers demanded again at St. Louis at their most SATURDAY, February recent convention that a serious attack be planned and carried at the banquet tendered out against Ford.
her by the New York Local of At St. Louis the first real step was made. drive was be the Germania Hall, gun. There was much publicity. Organizers were put to work.
160 Third Avenue, corner 16th And with this little preliminary sign from the UAW that it Street, New York City. Adout to do battle with Ford, the Ford workers began to pour mission See page for complete into the UAW.
schedule of her tour. They came in because the overwhelming majority of the Ford workers were ready to fight to the Anish. They were fed up coin workers, and thereby threw with the terror and speed up of down the gauntlet.
the Ford regime.
Immediately James Dewey An overwhelming majority of Federal labor conciliator. came the workers at the Lincoln plant into Detroit. Bennett said it was joined the UAW!
a seasonal layoff a patent lie.
Michael Widman, sole director Bennett and Dewey made a deal.
of the Ford drive, an appointee They made an agreement where of the CIO, was in charge. Money by the union would submit a list was available. The UAW and the of the 200 men to Bennett. If CIO had contracted to pay an ini. justifiable grievances exlated tial sum of 50. 000 each into a they would be reviewed, and the By GRACE CARLSON Ford Drive Fund.
men would be put back to work BOSTON, Mass. Jan. 20. Per Widman drive was chiefly pro This was no settlement at all haps the most stimulating aspect paganda and publicity. But the Yet Michael Widman accepted it of this tour for me has been the results of even this two cylinder Bennett announced that all pportunity to meet and talk with drive were tremendous.
these 200 men would go back to the militant Negro workers of the They Mirror Coming Events Here At Christmas time 90 of the work by January 1st since it war steel mills. auto factories and BULLETIN BAYONNE, Jan. 20. The SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19. 3500 workers at the Lincoln plant were only a layoff.
other mass production industries Just before the strike deadline, Babcock and Wilcox Company, shipyard workers knocked the signed up.
AND WHILE THE TRUCEf the Ohio, Michigan and upper Ryan Aircraft signed up. The which has a practical monopoly on no strike policy of the bigshots Britain ruling class has already demonstrated what kind of WAS ON. BENNETT MOVED New York areas. These Negro contract, union officials said, the manufacture of boilers for of the AFL Metal Trades Council TIDAL WAVE!
THE WHOLE MERCURY SET workers have found equality with was equivalent to that won by the Navy, after years of pay into a cocked hat when they ted results will follow from the passage of Roosevelt all out aid At River Rouge a tidal wave UP OF THE LINCOLN PLANT the white workers in the great the Vultee strike.
of unionism ywept the plants. Not Instead of 200 there were now CIO unions of these industries.
ing out push profits to its wealthy up the plant of the Bethle bill.
stockholders and starvation wages hem Steel tens, not hundreds, but thousands 500 men out of Jobs!
Co. for over four Churchill and his associates waited just long enough to be And now they are more than ever upon thousands of Ford men jon THE UNION MOVE determined to establish equality The test case in the airerart in with a determined demand for a SAN DIEGO, Calif. Jan. 19 to its workers has been confronted hours last Friday.
sure that Roosevelt War Powers Bill will be adopted. They ed the UAW!
The strike occurred as a result waited for Willkie to endorse it on behalf of the Republican high When these formerly cowed and in this station Keenitywaha: drive Jim Crow out of the coun the company has becerea behe is 450 workers went out on to join the APL Machinists Union command, and for Winthrop Aldrich, chairman of the great terrorized Ford workers poured in would the union do?
try.
by many thousands into union UAW CIO 54 cents starting with strike want to pay a special tribute an increase in four months to 58 The union is in a position to Their obstinacy was undoubtedly Chase National Bank, to endorse it on behalf of Wall Street.
The workers, members of Local Instigated by the laborating cor They waited long enough to see that William Green endorsed it the black Bastille of Harry Ben Shake it till all the fight is out though newly formed brachy sected by the water and it is have shut production down cold and the sixth quit the job.
Machine Workers of America, CIO nett was crumbling five of these men joined the union the cio top leadership weren the. Chiang Kai Shek government of it.
only place a 75 cent miWith a courage and crusading But Widman is waiting for the distributed literature and discuss with a 24 hour a day picket line.
going to fight it.
received a big loan from the nimum.
zeal equalled only by the sitdown Government to do something for ed political problems with Negro The strike was called after the Had here been a real industrial Then, assured of the passage of United States, with a pledge of wave of 1937, the Ford workers the union at Lincoln, and mean workers, but have also done un some room to about hoc to comported company had refused every single union set up in the shipyard the the bin, the British rulers began still bigger ones to follow, Chiang has thereby heen encouraged to were sweeping aside all while the Ford management is usual work in tienting at union their negotiating committee major concession asked by the walkout last Fridny might have to move unionism. up meetings for the Negroes right call a strike it and when neces. workers. While the company had been utilized to completely union They announced that the turn and rend the Chinese labor The Ford drive came to a head And now at the huge River to jobs. It was natural, then, sary.
a reported earned surplus of tze the plant and gain other con British government will conscript movement. In Mexico, since CamChristmas at the Lincoln plant. Rouge plants the situation in ripe that in my Buffalo audience there the outcome will determine 024, 473 at the end of 1920, and ditions as well. As it is, electri men and women for national de acho came to a complete ander.
men expected it. The management hanging in the balance. Just as good work in this field is being aircraft men will vote on the 20th cente Maid of 1940 es dividende den Just hietleda poy the machiniste minal oftense for a worker to turned sharply to the right, you are Union organization was at its coln.
unions. In Cuba, having made friends there were able to are the future of the huge Consoll 1940, the management turned out to obtain one bundred percent al permission.
peak. Then Harry Bennett, the Widman, however, is repeating range to have me address a meet dated plant that will employ 35. down a request of the union for unionization. The same day January 21 deal with Washington. Batista czar of the Ford army of thugs the tactics which ruined the lining sponsored by the Toledo Dis 000 men when completed. At pre 10. cent hourly raise from the TOP LEADERS SCARED. that this decision was promul now refuses to carry out his elec and gangsters, laid oft 200 Lin. Continued on Page 2)
cussion Group at the colored sent the AFL holds the contract prosent 55 cent minimum. The av To be sure, the leaders of the gated by the British government, tion promises to give full legality and 30 of the 40 persons at Consolidated, but is doing literage unskilled wage in the en present were Negroes. The queste to organize it.
the industry during the depressed metal trades unions were more it also announced the suppression to the trade unions. In Uruguay President Baldomir dictatorially tion and discussion period show Incidentally, the Fish Cannery year of 1938 was 69 cents an hour frightened than the management of the London Daily Worker. or overrules the vote of the country ON THE WAR FRONTS ed that they are anxious to abolish workers under the militant Sea. The company, of course, is yell at the militant action and solidar banyo the British Communist Congress against dedine baiset to Jim Crowism in the army, and farer International Union, working sabotage of national defense pushing the advantage gained by SETS PRECEDENT the United States: to heil with the popular will, he says, for he by GEORGE STERN trade union control of military panies in San Diego, start at 65c. blowing away this patriotic smoke new demands and the preparation The suppression of the Daily Ships.
has the support of Yankee war.
The long simmering tension Chiang waged ruthless terror training. What stands in the way an hour and require no previous screen with a splendid organised of a struggle for higher wares. Worker was obviously designed to of whole hearted acceptance of training.
between Chiang Kai shek and against them. And now that he Thus ale from Washington It cannot be said that picket line, divided into 12 squads they are already relegating tu set a precedent under which the the Communist armies has is emboldened by the growing the reactfonary. 1ly white AFL fective unton organization untilate in scheduled shifts. Every table.
this program by the Negroes is the aircraft industry is under ef. of about 20 men each, which operture disputes to the conference government will outlaw other produces reactionary fruits every: newspapers such as the Nexo where. And all this even before come to a boil again. Chiang Leader of the Independent Labor the War Powers BH is adopted unions. We must make clear, in they pass the fish cannery scale morning and at P. all the troops and the Stalinist con Chiang is tightening his hold explaining our military program, strikers picket in mass to show Al Wynn, secretary of the AFL Party, and numerous trade union by Congress! The reactionary controlled Fourth Route Army have still further and is daring an that it goes together with a fight LOS ANGELES, Calil. Jan. 17. the bosses their full strength and Metal Trades Council whined: organs which have been critical sequences that have already oc.
clashed in Central China and actual test of strength with against the lily white policy in peacetime version of the determination. There will be no more work stop of the government and prevent curred are but grim harbingers General Yeh Ting, the Commun Joseph Stalin.
the unions. Work or Fight decree made by Organized labor in Bayonne, in pages.
workers gatherings and meetings, of what is to come after Roos ist commander, has been arrest It is curiously ironie that From the reports of Akron rub. President Wilson during World cluding a number of AFL locals ed and is being held for court. Yeh Ting the arrested commands bef workers recheveland kuto and War was issued to workers con is backing the strike 100 percent. have plenty of opportunity in the be suppressed was the hairy Wor evell has wrested those power Undoubtedly, the first paper to from Congress.
martial.
This is by no means the first the immediate foreground of this Youngstown steel workers. am sidering a strike at the Ryan Aero. Over a dozen local unions, repres near future to express their opin ker precisely because it and its HERE NEXT heavy strain on the Kuomin development. For Yeh. Ting was confident that Roosevelt all out nautical Company in San Diego, enting 10. 000 workers, established ion on Mr. Wynn surrender pol publisher, the Communist Party.
the Labor Committee in support icy.
And in these reactionary contang Communist Party al. one of the Army commanders program will meet with difficul California.
are in exceedingly bad odor Lieut. Commander Maurice of the W Strikers at a meel, sequences abroad are mirrored liance. Similar clashes occurred who revolted in 1927 when Chiangties. These workers know of the ing in the Labor Lyceum on Jan the The Bethlehem shipyard has among the great masses in Shansi province, some time broke his alliance of that time huge profits of the bosses in the Sparling. Naval Reserve officer been experiencing a small scale British workers. The Stalinists what is to come here in the United States.
age, although on that occasion with Stalin. Yeh became one of war industries, and they are mill tached to California draft head uary 10, Besides the wage demands, the boom working on 32, 000, 000 Rre tarred with the brush of the the conflict was presented as the first Red army command tantly opposed to the plan of one quarters, declared that, in event Churchill undoubtedly came to of a strike, workers available for strikers are asking the union worth of Maritime Commission. Stalin Hitler pact and its further an understanding with Roosevelt one between the Communist ers in Central China and in Dedele selected for the workers. selective service must be rectadgeshop: eight Sesal holidays a year and Navy Department shipbuia suplementation this month by the renewed Stalin Hitler trade agree before he made the drastic moves cial troops, with Chiang Kai tary leader of that fatal three. appellent in these areas and the in effect, this means that work paid vacations of from one to two All Sailors Union members of ment. The Stalinists are hated of January 21. London and Washshek intervening as a mediat day insurrection known to his comerledes have many work partners otherwise liable for training weeks: guarantee of the return of crews working on ships docked ran Poland and Finland by prior two war allies, and at the least ing force. That Chiang this time has gone so far as to ar. Thus Yeh Ting in a way building this militant attitude rest one of the most promin. symbolizes the successive ey.
the mass production workers. And cause of the essential nature of any payment to draftees during Jobs in a solidarity move with their work: Continue work or training with the money to come the strike after SUP officials had That is why the Daily Worke disagreement with these Dracon we re just beginning!
ent Communist Party leaders cles of Stalin twisting poliface is an indication that the prepossibility of being from a fund set aside from profits determined that the beet was was the first paper to he sup working class. Thus Churchill cies in China. He fought under Last night my first Boston meetdrafted.
from war orders.
legitimate.
pressed the government was calanti labor moves pave the way sent strain is much greater and Chiang Kai shek, in 1926 27, ing was held, with approximately culating that the mass hatred of or similar and worse, moves is linked to developments of against him in the years that 70 present, and Comrade Antoin Stalin would lead to acceptance here.
broad international signific. followed, under him again in elle Konikow presiding. What of this gag move. But the British ance.
1937 40, and last week against a wonderful old fighter she is!
workers will learn to their sor The full reactionary meaning of For the present incident ne him once more. And each of row in the coming months that this war is beginning to unfold!
cessarily bears a direct relation these military diplomatic man.
the suppression of the Stalinist The millions of workers and far.
to the Soviet Japanese negotiaIN NEW YORK!
euvers has left the Chinese repaper has opened the door to sup mers who passively accepted the tions now in progress in Moscow volution deeper each time in The kept Press pression of every section of the march toward American participaStalinis demonstrating how the morass. Each cycle has And Henry Ford labor movement which does not tion in the war will now awake, useful he can be to the Japanese moved the Chinese Communists knuckle down to Church! ll. with each day news, to ever in China. For such demonstra still farther away from the Systematic suppression will deeper misgivings about the rote tions he uses the Stalinist. conIt is interesting to recall, in aims and policies of a Chinese take place. In no other way will of the American capitalist gov.
trolled forces in China with proletarian revolution. The connection with the complete willingness of the capitalist the Churchill government smoth ornment, characteristie cynicism. The Stalinist controlled armies of er the aroused resentment of the press to run Ford lying full These misgivings are already Chinese national struggle inter today bear no positive relation page British workers. That resentment vocal in many places. The isolaests him only as a function of any longer to that revolution.
advertisement. Does Ford Pay Good Wages. that has already made itself heard, ontlonlsm of many workers and far They are merely military Kremlin policy. If tomorrow the the very day the conscription of mers is not at all like the pseudointerests of the Kremlin bureau pawns that Stalin moves when Upton Sinclair novel on ractory workers was announced. isolationism of demagogues like Henry Ford, The Flivver cracy should require hamstring around in accordance with the King, was published a couple Even the pro British United Press Senator Wheeler. The isolationing that struggle, he and his min. oft changing requirements of was constrained to report, on ism of the masses has a solid ions would act accordingly and the Kremlin near sighted and of years ago, all the leading January 21, that the decree had healthy core: distrusl of the capi.
the newspapers, including without hesitation.
criminal policies.
NEW YORK TIMES and roused a storm of protest. And. lalist rulers.
Chiang Kai shek has con The armed clash and arrest of indeed, only men reconciled to tinued, however, to hold the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBYeh Ting is apparently to be fol That lealthy core. during the slavery would remain silent while coming days, will provide the whip hand in his deal with the lowed by a fresh attempt at con UNE, completely boycotted it, they were chained to the factories. Coundation for the only real alChinese Stalinists and through ciliation. Chou En lai, the Com did not review it. and refused FRIDAY, JANUARY 24th Especially so when their conserip ternative to Roosevelt: it will de them with the Kremlin. He has munist Party representative in to accept paid advertisements 8:30 tion contrasts with the complete velop into proletarian internationfor it.
kept the main Communist forc Chungking, expressed regrets freedom of the British capitalists alism. special edition of 200, 000 es in the arid wastes of the over the occurrence and promised IRVING PLAZA to proliteer as they please, Northwest and it was his efan end to copies of Sinclair book was But Chou En bought by the United Autofort to send Yeh Ting forces lai too had to flee Chiang KaiNot by turning our backs on ELSEWHERE TOO the rest of the world, but by unit, to the same area that precip shek executioners in Shanghai mobile Workers Union. a sinIrving Place and 15th Street New York City What has happened in Britain ing the workers of this country itated the current clash. Mean fourteen years ago. It looks as gular piece of unusual news is not an isolated case. It is bap with the workers of the rest of while in the area under though he too is reaching the copy in itself. But the boss AUSPICES: Socialist Workers Party Admission 250 pening wherever Washington the world that is the road out press would make no mention Chiang control, Communists turn of still another cycle in the comes to an understanding with Workers of the world, unite!
of it.
enjoy little more freedom than ironies and the tragedies of the the rulers of a country for close You have only your chains to they did in the years that class struggle China.
collaboration. in China, since lose. You have a world to gain!
the LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING Hear GRACE CARLSON