Show I H Ao Auto Code Rejected By Organized Labor Green Announces Because Trade Board Will Handle Disputes By Associated Press PreS- I V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Feb 1 William Villiam Green president of the American Federation of Labor announced today organized labor would not accept the automobile code extended by President Roosevelt last night until June 16 He made the statement to a senate judiciary subcommittee subcommittee subcommittee considering the Black hour 30 week bill in these words We protest against this code We will not accept it not recognize it no not I yi yield ld to it Green n said the code had absolutely absolute Iy ly failed to spread work because under it the w workers are compelled l lor or required to work almost unlimited ed hours at the discretion tion of or the automobile au le manufacturers A r recent cent ballot conducted among autom automobile workers lJ ilc labor J a t c w d. d gO gOper per per percent cent of of workers V ll hr A nine plants recorded themselves as s not Ot t affiliated af with any lab labor r organization n nand and slightly more than 5 per cent a af affiliated with A. 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L Vot Votes cast numbered Amendments Sought Green said from time to time labor la Ia bor had sought amendments to the code but each time it had been renewed renewed re rc without such amendments Finally II he ald labor thought it would be better belter to ha have havnO hano no no code at all The renewal last night he said td it Incorporated In Incorporated in was worse than ever because the automobile labor in hi instead board as the settlement agency stead of ot the national labor relations board He told the judiciary group that labor on the advice of its attorneys had severed all connections with the auto luto labor board believing Ing it had a ZI legal right to do so Green mentioned the auto code asan as asan asan an Illustration of ol the n necessity ofa of ofa a compulsory ry hour 30 week t to bring brine bout about a spread of employment and increased purchasing power of the masses Important Advances In renewing the code until June 16 President Roosevelt said it contained ad two distinct t and important vances These involved the intro intro- Continued on Put Pass Two r LABOR REJECTS AUTO WORK CODE Continued from P Pott re One e of at new models in the fall faU Instead In In- stead tead of at winter and provision for lor time ime and a half halt pay to es working more than 48 hours Green cited the auto industry as asne one ne which has given us a notable record ecord of at improved return on investment invest Invest- ment General Motors he said had reported report- report ed cd d a net of at in 1934 4 against in 1933 Yet Yetto he added they sa say either renew this objectionable code in its present form lorm or there will be no code codet at t all and after the peak season is Js over ver these noble men recruited from every very section and serving in the industry in in- are cast east aside just as you OU would a machine which had completed ed d its purpose Cities Feed People And HAnd cities like Detroit are feeding feed feed- ini ing ng these people who sho having worked in n the peak season eason are now cast o off cast I human luman units unit The federations federation's demands for tor erasure era era- sure ure of at the merit clause which authorizes au- au employers to hire and fire without regard to union affiliation was wa not granted nor was its it request requestor for or removal of the automobile Industrial indus indus- trial rial relations board bard which it i claimed claimed is i biased An N R 11 A official who would not be quoted by name because he or or- speaks to the press pre off of the te record said these thee questions received little ittle consideration and that there was no apparent reason why the federation federation fed ted should be consulted in view of the elections S. S CIa Clay Williams N R A chairman and Donald Dnald R. R emergency council counci director holding a joint press pres conference said labor was was' fully tuly represented represented rep- rep resented in considerations of the re re newal newal Who the representatives were they declined to o state on the goud ion ton grounds it i was a presidential lorma Taken t to Task took look tok one inquirer to task for or asking this question queston when you must know we cannot answer it it ft Under the plan of or regularized production the heavy y season eason will wi begin bejin be be- gin jin about abut September and continue into nto the spring instead of ot commence tog ing ng late In the year and ending Inthe Inthe in the he spring The compressed production production tion ton period perio has ha had the effect died of or pushing the work week up to t 60 and 70 0 hours for a comparatively short time ime and then down to low levels for tor or the rest ret of ot the year car Talk Talk- Talk of Strike Heard in Michigan DETROIT Feb 1 Strike iF-Strike P Strike talk w was heard in one Michigan automobile automo bile bie factor factory today as the industry bean becan be be- can gan an operating under an cx extension of us it ts N R A code as u amended by President President Pres dent Roosevelt Roosvelt The extension of ot the industry's code through June 16 came as a group o of workers in the Fisher Fiher Body corporations corporation's corporations corporation's cor cor- Lansing factory voted vOled a astrike astrike astrike strike against what they termed intolerable intolerable in tolerable working conditions The Te strike vote was an aftermath of a I walkout by a small smal group of or sanders sander in n the Fisher plant at Lansing Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- da day and the resultant shutdown of both that factory and the Olds motor works work for tor a few hours The Olds plant gets its Jt supply of ot automobile Bodies from the Fisher Fiher factory a tory The situation in the Lansing Laning Fisher Fiher factory was being bing watched closely today to to- to-j to slay pay by labor leaders and manufacturers ers in view of a statement by Clyde Clydel W. W Cook representative of the American Amerlean Amer Amer- lean ican ian Federation of Labor that the proposed proportions strike might spread to t state tte W WASHINGTON eb 2 A P I-A I A blast of or ram or organized Jabor Jabor Ja Ja- abor a- a bor was directed at the lions lion's tons ton's work relief bill bi today as that controversial measure continued under the critical scrutiny of ot the senate senat appropriations commit commit- tee te Appearing before another senate enate group William Green president o othe of the American Federation of Labor said the plan to pay a maximum maxium o ot of 50 a month on public works work projects project would tear down the wage structure of at private Industry and reduce the purchasing power of the workers We are Indeed apprehensive about abou this he said aid Instead of at bein being a benefit to wage earners it is I going to injure them We are insisting thaIn that tha In th the expenditure of the mone money the prevailing wage of ot the locality shall be t maintained So long as the output per r worker per hour continues to increase he said we cannot realize reaUze full lull employment employment employ employ- ment unless hours of work per wage wag earner carer are sufficiently curtailed to offset offet Increasing productivity or com corn pens Uon per e is sufficiently increased to develop an ever expandIng expandIng expandIng expand expand- Ing market Green at the same ame time was wag urging a senate judiciary subcommittee to approve legislation for tor a national maximum hour 30 work week In another another an an- other part of at the capitol Chairman Glass Class Gac D D. Va of the appropriations group and its It members pr pressed sed administration administration ad ad- ministration spokesmen for tor more details de de' details tails tais on how the would b be spent 5 J. J S f S 5 t f 11 S |