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United Automobile Worker
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1943-09-15
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Vol. 7 No. 18
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Detroit,
Vol. 7
September
omigeae 22
15,
1943
No.
18
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Huge
Aircraft Plant Near Baltimore Gives Union
Despite Vicious Anti-Labor Attack by Company.
Majority
in NLRB
Poll
THOMAS ASSAILS RADIO
Pasi.
WASHINGTON—Making
sure
that every worker and his wife
register to vote is the No. 1 task of
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the
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CIO,
Sidney
of the
Committee
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Register
CIO
Hillman,
Political
declared
chair-
Action
following
meeting of the committee in CIO
headquarters here.
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“The
5,000, 000
CIO
members
“wand their families are a mighty
potential political force,” Hillman said in a letter sent from
the meeting to CIO affiliates.
“But that force can be realized
only if all of our members and
their
families
register
and
qualify as voters,
-“A worker who fails to register is as much a drain on labor’s
political strength as an unorganized
worker
on
its
economic
strength.
Reports to our committee indicate that in previous elections the CIO has already failed
to exert its maximum
political
strength, in large part because its
members had failed to register
and were therefore ineligible to
vote.”
The Political Committee, in addition to laying plans for nationwide register to vote drives, heard
reports showing that. “political
action by labor for 1943 and 1944
is catching on like wildfire’ and
that
there
are
demands
for
_ political conferences from all over
the
country.
REGIONAL
OFFICERS
Hillman announced that he expected to make a national tour
lasting from four to six weeks to
speak at these meetings and to set
up a system of regional offices,
some 15 of which are planned.
Each of these offices:-will have a
aster
and paid staff.
Asked about cooperation with
the AFL, Hillman told newspaperman that no approaches
had been made on the national
level, but that the committee
a
to Vote
President is Urged
By UAW- CIO Board
to Address Convention
The Cleveland meeting of the
International Executive Board,
UAW-CIO, has voted to urge
President Roosevelt to attend
the Buffalo convention of the
International
union.
The board also directed its
four officers to confer with the
President on the rolling-back
of food prices or, failing that,
on revision of the “Little Steel”
formula,
By decision of the board, the
officers were instructed also to
discuss with the President and
his advisors the matter of a
fourth term, with a view to
action
by
the
International
convention,
would seek to get together with
AFL unions and Railroad Brotherhoods
as
well
on_
local
Corporation Told Workers Will Not Return to Old Piece- work, Snceduus
System; Reuther Also Denounces GMC Plea for a
Right to Fire.
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levels. National cooperation, he
indicated, would
come
LOCAL CANDIDATES
later.
Backing of local candidates in
1943 and 1944 elections will be
left up
to
the
local.
political
groups, he explained, and the national
committee
would
not
attempt to tell the localities whom
they should endorse.
‘“Habor is concerned with political action because labor wants
to win the war first, and to asSure a just peace,” Hillman said
at the end of the meeting, “Po-
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is imperative
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Subscribe Now to the Third
War Loan Drive
to
achieve these ends.
We intend
to see that this political action is —
organized.”
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SACK THE ATTACK!
litical action by the nation’s millions of workers
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