VOTE YOUR CHOICE WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR-VOTE SAMPLE NOMINATION BALLOT FOR DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVE OF HUDSON MOTOR CAR CO., DETROIT, MICH. District No. I nominate for representative of my district: (Name) INSTRUCTIONS A. A. W. of A. (Labor group affiliation) Write the name of the person you want for representative of your district. Candidates are not restricted to employees. Indicate, if you wish to do so, the labor group affiliation, if any, of your candidate. For purpose of proportional representation, employees who do not specify any labor group affiliation will be treated as a group. The names of the two persons in your district who receive the largest number of votes will be printed on the final ballot. In the final election the candidate receiving the largest number of votes will be the representative of your district. If the representatives receiving the largest number of votes for all districts do not provide proportional representation for all substantial labor groups in the plant, additional representatives will be added from among candidates receiving the next highest votes in the plant in any groups entitled to more representatives. HUDSON LOCAL UNION NO. 2, ASSOCIATED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS OF AMERICA THE ASSOCIATED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS OF AMERICA IS AN AMERICAN ORGANIZATION FOUNDED FOR AND BY THE WORKERS IN THE AUTOMOBILE AND PARTS PLANTS-IT IS COOPERATIVE, PROGRESSIVE, NONPROFITABLE, DEMOCRATIC, PROTECTIVE, CHARITABLE Its constitution was written by the workers themselves. It has no salaried organizers. It is the largest independent labor organization in the automobile industry participating under the President's Agreement of March 25, 1934. Under modern industrial conditions it is absolutely essential that we remain an industrial union, striving to raise the living standards of all workers in the industry and not break into small groups or trades, each fighting for their own selfish interests. Your assistance is vital if we are to have a voice strong enough to protect the interests of the workers in the coming years of trial and adjustment as we feel our way toward a new social order. We need your efforts to help make a success of this program. We feel that by eliminating outside labor leaders and confining our membership to those within the industry we can build up an idea organization that will function for the best interests of the workers in a spirit of cooperation and coordination. HUDSON LOCAL UNION, NO. 2, MEETS EVERY FRIDAY AT AMITY TEMPLE, PARKVIEW AND KERCHEVAL AVENUES, 7:30 P. M. Don't be a nonunionist because they are not run right. Get into one and help keep it "in the straight and narrow path." Don't forget that organization increases wages and shortens the work week, making work steadier. Don't forget that the more bitterly the employer opposes labor unions, the more the employee should support them. There's a financial reason. Think it over. Don't wait for others, others are waiting for you, someone must be first, why not you? There can be no prosperity without justly high wages. Earnings of working people are the basis and index of progress in any community. Now is the time to make your choice. Join with us in this fight for your benefit. HUDSON LOCAL, NO. 2, ASSOCIATED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS OF AMERICA Mr. LESINSKI. Now, another thing I want the record to show is that the company has mailed to the employees bylaws, applications for employment, membership cards and in this connection section 7(a) bars any company or employer from intimidating his workThe proof presented is that the companies or employers were interested in putting their own company union over. One employee received four letters from the company in which were enclosed a membership card, which is as follows: men. HUDSON INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP CARD-1935 Mr. Percy Denesha is a member and entitled to all benefits which go with such membership. Mr. LESINSKI. And here is an application card made out to no. 43560. APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP-HUDSON INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION Clock No. 43560 TO RECORDING SECRETARY, HUDSON INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION, Detroit, Mich. Wishing to avail myself of the benefits of the Hudson Industrial Association, I hereby apply for membership in said association. (Date) (Name) RETURN TO REPRESENTATIVE OF YOUR DISTRICT OR DEPOSIT IN REPRESENTATIVE'S MAIL BOX Mr. LESINSKI. This data was also presented to me by Mr. R. J. Schmidt, who represents the Mechanical Educational Society of America in Cleveland, Ohio, the headquarters of which is Detroit, Mich. (The letter of Mr. Schmidt is as follows:) Mr. JOHN LESINSKI, MECHANICS EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, Congressman, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. DEAR SIR: Enclosed please find documents and affidavits regarding company unions. If more time were available, many more such statements could be procured. May I request that these documents be returned to our office at 6007 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, when they are no longer needed? Thanking you for your efforts in our behalf and assuring you of my wholehearted cooperation in this matter, I remain, Respectfully yours, R. J. SCHMIDT. Mr. LESINSKI. Then I have Mr. Schmidt's statements. MECHANICS' EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, Congressman JOHN LESINSKI, Washington, D. C. DEAR SIR: The application for employment attached to this letter is further proof that the applicant is forced to declare himself whether or not he is willing to deal and contract directly with the management in regards to wages and working conditions; and it, therefore, becomes a condition of employment. This form of application is being used in a large number of plants here in Cleveland. If an employee or applicant should choose to deal through outside representatives of his own choosing, he does not get the job but is told that "they will let him know if anything is available"; and he never hears from them again. 66 If the employees in a plant are suspected of attempting to organize in an outside organization of their own choosing the management immediately tries to "weed out" the 'agitators" by criticizing their work, attempting to engage them in an argument, in order to have reasons for dismissing them. If this does not help, a company union is immediately established. The employees are approached one by one and asked to join. If they refuse, they are coerced and victimized into joining or are threatened into remaining aloof from any connection with labor organizations. That in itself is contrary to the law and because of that fact a large number of company unions are brought into being by such process which processes themselves are illegal; the company unions, therefore, are also illegal. Employers use industrial spies, blacklists, lay-offs, and every thinkable subterfuge to prevent organization of employees. Some employers use bonus and group-insurance schemes, which they cancel at will, in order to prevent organization. The statements herein contained are ample proof that company unions should be abolished. Yours sincerely, R. J. SCHMIDT. Mr. LESINSKI. Here [indicating] is a letter distributed by the Bartt Stamping & Machine Works, and then I have the plan presented by the National Tool Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, to their employees. (The letter and plan above referred to are as follows:) To the employees of the Barit Stamping and Machine Works: In order to get a better understanding of how we can all get more profitable work, I am writing this. First. Here are some statements that I think are true, that explains the labor policy of the National Recovery Administration: 66 I have said this consistently and to everyone concerned that this administration is not to be used for unionizing any industry. Neither is it the purpose of the Administration to compel the organization of either industry or labor."-Statement issued by Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, June 20. 66 Circulars and other literature purporting to come from labor union agents have intimated or openly stated that it is a purpose of the National Recovery Act and Administration to unionize labor or that the only way labor can secure benefits under that act is to join this or that union. Similar statements purporting to come from industrial concerns have intimated that this or that newly formed company union is the only organization through which labor can get a fair deal under this act. Both statements are incorrect and such erroneous statements of the act and its administration tend to foment misunderstanding and discord. "It is the duty of this Administration to see that all labor-organized as well as unorganized-gets a square deal, and the Administration is organized to do and will do that duty. The improved labor conditions in the textile industry, which is largely unorganized, are an example of this. It is not the duty of the Administration to act as an agent to unionize labor in any industry and, as has repeatedly been stated, it will not so act. Manifestly the purpose of the act is to create and preserve harmonious relationships and to prevent industrial strife and class conflict. "As I understand it, an open shop is a place where any man who is competent and whose services are desired will be employed, regardless of whether or not he belongs to a union. That is exactly what the National Industrial Recovery Act says. The statute cannot be qualified. The law states clearly that there should not be any requirement as to whether or not a man belongs to a union. Is anything clearer than that needed?"-Gen. Hugh S. Johnson in a statement in Cleveland, July 29, 1933. You know it is hard enough for me to try and make a die-jobbing shop pay. I do not know what someone would do with it, that knows nothing about it. When there was no work in sight, no union agitators or organizers bothered you and me, now when it looks as if we may be able to get some work, what are they going to do? Drive it away from Cleveland? I hope for your good and mine you will try and keep it in Cleveland, Ohio. J. J. BARTT. PLAN OF EMPLOYEES' REPRESENTATION PRINCIPLES OF REPRESENTATION The National Tool Co. inaugurates this plan of employees' representation for the National Tool Co. in order to provide effective means of contact between the management and the employees, and an orderly and expeditious procedure for the prevention and adjustment of any future differences, to insure justice, maintain tranquility, and promote the common welfare. The plan of employees' representation, as hereinafter provided, shall in no way discriminate against any employee because of race, sex, or creed, or abridge or conflict with his or her right to belong or not to belong to any lawful society, fraternity, union, or other organization. I. REPRESENTATION 1. Employees' representation shall be by voting divisions which shall be based upon the natural subdivisions of the plant and made with regard to logical groupings and locations. There shall be one or more employees' representative for each floor in the plant, or major fraction thereof (based on the average number of employees on the pay roll for 3 months immediately preceding the election) with a minimum of three employees' representatives under the plan. 2. Adjustments in units of representation, wherever necessary to secure complete and fair representation, shall be made in accordance with the recommendation of the joint committee. II. TERM OF OFFICE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND VACANCIES 1. Employees' representatives shall be elected for a term of 1 year and shall be eligible for reelection. 2. An employees' representative may be recalled upon the approval by the joint committee of a petition signed by two-thirds of the voters in the voting division of such representative and upon such approval he shall cease to be such representative. 3. An employees' representative shall be deemed to have vacated his office as such upon severance of his relations with the company, or upon being transferred from one voting division to another, or upon his appointment to such a regular position as would make him one of the persons described in paragraph 3 of section III hereof. 4. Vacancies in the office of an employees' representative, for which there is no alternate, as described in paragraph 16 of section IV hereof, may be filled for the unexpired term, in the discretion of the joint committee, by special elections conducted in the same manner as the regular annual elections. III. QUALIFICATIONS OF REPRESENTATIVES AND VOTERS 1. Any employee who has been on the company's pay rolls for a period of at least 1 year immediately prior to nominations; who is 21 years of age or over, and who is an American citizen, shall be considered qualified for nomination and election as an employees' representative. 2. All employees who have been on the company's pay rolls for a period of at least 60 days immediately prior to nominations and who are 18 years of age or over, shall be entitled to vote. 3. Company officials and persons having the right to hire or discharge, or holding regularly a purely supervisory position, shall not be eligible as employees' representatives. IV. NOMINATIONS AND ELECTIONS 1. Nominations and elections of employees' representatives shall be held annually in the month of May. Nominations (after the first nominations and election) shall be held on the second Tuesday and elections on the following Friday of such month. In the event of either of these days being a holiday, then the nomination or election, as the case may be, that otherwise would be held on such day, shall be, held on the next succeeding full business day. 2. Nominations and elections shall be conducted by the employees themselves in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the joint committee, with only such assistance from the management as may be requested. 3. Nominations and elections shall be by secret ballot and so conducted as to avoid influence or interference with voters in any manner whatsoever, and to prevent any fraud in the casting or counting of ballots. NOMINATIONS 4. On the day of nominations, each qualified voter shall be furnished a pallot stating the number of persons for whom he is entitled to vote. Such voter shall write on ballot the names or check numbers of the persons in his voting division whom he desires to nominate for election as employees representatives. 5. A voter may place in nomination twice the number of representatives towhich his voting division is entitled. 6. If on any ballot, the name or check number of the same person shall appear more than once, the ballot shall be counted as a vote for such person only once. 7. In case the number of persons whose names or check numbers appearing on any ballot shall exceed the designated number as stated on the ballot, the ballot shall be void. 8. There may be three persons nominated for every office of employees' representative to be filled. 9. Those employees who received the largest number of votes, in any voting division, equal to three times the number of representatives to be elected shall be declared nominated and shall be candidates for election. |