UNIONIST WARNS HENRY FORD

Northern Advocate, 25 March 1937, Page 7

UNIONIST WARNS HENRY FORD

| Workers In Dis Plant Will be Drawn In (Received 10 a,m.) NEW YORK, March 23.' A message from Detroit states that Mr John Lewis, leader of the Committee of Industrial Organisation, and Mr W. P. Chrysler, of the Chrysler ’ Motor Corporation, have agreed to confer with the Governor of Michigan, Mr Frank Murphy, tomorrow. Mr Lewis’ acceptance was petulant and he intimated that the Governor had threatened duress. Mr Chrysler insisted that he would not discuss the court’s order for the eviction of the sit-down strikers from his firm’s plant and would not consent to a closed shop in any settlement. Mr Murphy insisted that it was essential to avert “extreme and costly measures and possible unfortunate circumstances.” The Mayor of Detroit, Mr Frank Couzens, has lessened fears of a general strike by ordering the police not to interfere with sit-down strikers in * small plants. One hundred thousand motor.workers and sympathisers held an orderly meeting in a Detroit Square. Mr Homer Martin, presidents of the Automobile Workers’ Union, j was cheered when he warned Mr i Henry Ford that the Committee of Industrial Organisation intended to / unionise his plants. “He cannot prevent us,” said Mr Martin, Another speaker, Mr Frank .1 Martel, president of the local labour union, threatened that, unless the 1 rights of labour were respected, the < city hall, police headquarters and courts would be turned wrong side up: i