Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1937, Page 8

A—8 x LEWIS PROMISES AID IN FORD DRIVE Showdown Near in Probe of Beating of Union Organizers. Br the Associated Press. DETROIT, June 1.—Promised aid from the Committee for Industrial Organization figured today in the cur- rently delayed drive of the United Automobile Workers of America to unionize the Ford Motor Co. Homer Martin, union president, an- nounced that John L. Lewis, C. I O.) chieftain, had telegraphed him assur- ance of “every asistance” from the auto workers’ parent body in the campaign. ‘The message reached Martin even &s a showdown impended in the pro- Jected investigation of Wayne County authorities into last Wednesday's bloody fist fights in which union or- ganizers were beaten off Ford property. In the telegram Lewis branded the “attack by agents of the Ford Co.” upon union representatives, who at the time sought to distribute hand- bills advocating union membership, as & “most flagrant outrage.” ‘Witnesses Demanded. Prosecutor Duncan McCrea, threat- ening “further steps” unless his de- mands are met, had given the Ford Co. and Dearborn city officials until today to produce witnesses to the fight. Neither has indicated assent. The “attack,” Lewis said, will be “resented by every member of or- ganized labor and every thoughtful citizen.” “Such demonstrations,” he said, “indicate the paramount recessity of comprehensive organization of the workers in Ford plants and other units of major undustries. “It will serve to intensify the de- sire of the workers to enroll in or- ganizations associated with the C. I. O. “The C. I. O. will give every as- sistance to the law and its mem- bers to carry on and to establish col- lective bargaining in the plants of the | Ford Co.” Heavy holiday traffic prevented Martin from securing airplane passage for Washington early today to con- fer with Lewis over Ford campaign THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY plans. He planned to leave either late today or postpone the trip. The Ford Organization Committee will meet tomorrow to pame a date for a second attempt to distribute pamphlets among Ford employes. Prosecutor McCrea did not disclose what “further ateps” he would take if the Ford Co. and Dearborn City offi- clals decline to comply with his de- mand for co-operation. He has an- nounced that warrants would issue if the identity of men who assaulted un- lon leaders, one of whom carried a permit for the distribution of the pam- phlets, could be established satistac- torily. The prosecutor said that by nightfall Mayor John L. Carey of Dearborn and Harry Bennett, Ford personnel direc- tor, would have had “sufficient time to comply with my request for wit- nesses.” “If I don't get their co-operation by that time.” he added, “I have other plans in mind.” Bennett, who received the prose- | cutor’s request, said the Ford Co. had violated no law. He suggested McCrea investigate “the extent the U. A. W. 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