Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-12 | Page 4 | Clash at Ford Plant Averted

Clash' at Ford Plant Averted DETROIT, Aug. 12 (Members of ths United Automekile Workers of America peacefully circulated their periodical, the United Automobile Auto-mobile Worker, to workers outside the Ford Motor company's Rouge plant yesterday afternoon. The quiet of this second attempt waa in contrast with the first, in wtwch a do sen unionists wsrs best-en best-en May 26. The only untoward incident in-cident yesterday was a heavy downpour down-pour which failed to detsr the U. A. W. A. men from their task. Union leaders had Issued instructions instruc-tions to their cohorts to remain on public property and avoid all trouble. trou-ble. A Ford official said company police were ordered to molest no one on public ground. While a crowd of thousands looked on, many day shift worksrs leaving the factory acceptsd ths literature, but fewer of those reporting re-porting for work took it. A few hours after the union took another step In Its campaign to organize Ford employee a supplemental supple-mental agreement in which General Motors corporation granted it exclusive ex-clusive collective bargaining for six month expired. Expiration of the exclusive bargaining bar-gaining clause left General Motors frse to deal with other unions, but it gave no indication of its intentions. inten-tions. The corporation and the union are negotiating on U. A. W. A. proposals pro-posals to revise their agreement.