CANADIAN MOTOR WORKS
PREMIERS INTERVENTION
NO DEALINGS WITH "PAID AGITATOR"
(United Press Association—By Electric /Telegraph—Copyright.) •.■■; ; NEW YORK, April 11. Conferences to settle the strike at the Oshawa plant of the General Motors Corporation of Canada collapsed. . . .'■... ■.' . The Premier of Ontario (Mr. Mitchell Hepburn) refused.to deal with a delegation including Mr. Thompson, of the Automobile Workers' Union of America, or "any other paid foreign agitator of the Committee for Industrial Organisation." The president of the Automobile ■ Workers' Union (Mr. Homer Martin) then arrived/for consultations.- Mr. Hepburn declared that he similarly was unacceptable, and insisted that the General Motors Corporation had made concessions which would assure a settlement of the strike "except for John L>. Lewis and his paid organisers." ■ • , .' . ~. '.
. Pickets have permitted. penetration of the lines to parts of the factory.
It is reported that the General Motors Corporation is prepared to recognise the Automobile Workers' Union, but not as an affiliate of the • Committee for Industrial Prganisation. , '~ ■■~■'-■."■■
A message from Montreal states that the General .Motors.- Corporation^, at Oshawa has decided to resume partial operations on Monday.' Mr." Hepburn reiterated that he would afford .protection, , but said he was hopeful, of; a settlement. . .'; .. . '
Leaders, of the Committee for Indus^ trial .Organisation corldemn Mr. Hepburn's partiality and- say his 'utterances are provocative and that the responsibility for anything.wh^ch.happens will: rest with him. , MR. FORD OBJECTS TO UNIONS. Mr. Henry -Ford, president. of the Ford, Motor Company, has issued; a further statement.' Labour unions, he says, are "the worst things that ever struck this, earth.", jHe promised .that the company soon would demonstrate wages,: .production,' and: competition such as had never, been seen before. He reiterated that .he would never recognise the United 'Automobile Workers' Union or any other,. union for; collective bargaining./He declined to confirm: rumours that he intends to increase the minimum wage to 10 dollars,a' day, which would /exceed union, rates. ,'. ,■;.'■ . .;'/,'. ;V
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 85, 12 April 1937, Page 9
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