To whom it may concern: HUDSON LOCAL UNION, No. 2, ASSOCIATED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS OF AMERICA, The following shows the speed-up in department No. 930 during 1935 production season among polishers and sanders: Ten men produce 280 pieces; 7 men now produce 308 pieces in 8 hours. Rear fenders: 28 minutes each, 8 hours_ 17 20 24 minutes each, 8 hours__ Hourly rate of pay was at an average rate of 89 cents per hour, and was increased to 92 cents per hour. STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of Wayne, ss: JOSEPH H. ALDERMAN. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of February, A. D. 1935. MELVIN A. OWEN, Notary Public in and for Wayne County. Terraplane hoods, sand and polish: March 1934, time of half hood_. March 1934, repair work was done by paid repairmen. August 1934, repairs was done by each one on polishing. Doing repair work adds 1 hour's work per day. Trunks, sand and polish : August 1934, sand and polish (hour)_ 19 16 February 1935, sand and polish (minutes). Running board: March 1934, sand and polish. February 1935, sand and polish. 1 48 Minutes per car 12 8 Polishing machines.-February 1935, new polishing machines are now being installed to cut the time 10 percent. STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of Wayne, ss: KIRBY HATT. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of February A. D., 1935. [SEAL] My commission expires January 22, 1938. MELVIN A. OWEN, Notary Public. To whom it may concern: HUDSON LOCAL UNION, No. 2, ASSOCIATED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS OF AMERICA, The following shows in detail the speed up in department no. 930 of Hudson Motor Car Co., in work being done by sanders and polishers on hoods: September 1934, repair price was taken away and had to be done along with other work. Minutes 33 23 30 19 Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19th day of February, A. D. 1935. [SEAL] MELVIN A. OWEN, Notary Public in and for Wayne County. My commission expires January 22, 1938.. HUDSON LOCAL UNION, No. 2, ASSOCIATED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS OF AMERICA, Detroit, Mich., February 19, 1935. To whom it may concern: In the trim department (no. 880), the installation of the all-metal top has put out of work 16 men and 8 girls. In 1934 we had two relief men in the department and in 1935 we have none. EDWARD HEDDON. STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of Wayne, ss: Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19th day of February, A. D. 1935. [SEAL] MELVIN A. OWEN, Notary Public. My commission expired January 22, 1938. To whom it may concern: HUDSON LOCAL UNION, No. 2, ASSOCIATED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS OF AMERICA, Detroit, Mich., February 18, 1935. We have approximately 110 men in department no. 2900 (export shipping). About 11 of those men are on supervision. Some of those men are working such long hours-I would say 11 or 12 hours per day. In one particular case a man usually starts his men at 10 a. m. or noon; he always starts at 8 a. m., our regular starting time. I can see where those men are using up so much of the money that is allocated for our work that the average man is cut short on his hours usually every day. EMERY C. WILSON. STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of Wayne, ss: Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of February, A. D. 1935. [SEAL] MELVIN A. OWEN, Notary Public. My commission expired January 22, 1938. HUDSON LOCAL UNION No. 2, ASSOCIATED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS OF AMERICA, Detroit, Mich., February 18, 1935. To whom it may concern: The following figures show average hours, weeks, etc., worked by electric cutters with Hudson Motor Car Co., in 1934 in department no. 830. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of February, A. D. 1935. [SEAL] MELVIN A. OWEN, Notary Public in and for Wayne County. My commission expires January 22, 1938. HUDSON LOCAL UNION No. 2, ASSOCIATED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS OF AMERICA, Detroit, Mich., February 18, 1935. To whom it may concern: The following shows production increases in the 1935 production schedule of cylinder blocks, including all operations in department no. 435, Hudson Motor Car. Co. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of February, A. D. 1935. [SEAL] MELVIN A. OWEN, Notary Public in and for Wayne County. My commission expires January 22, 1938. HUDSON LOCAL UNION, No. 2, ASSOCIATED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS OF AMERICA, Detroit, Mich., February 20, 1935. To whom it may concern: Following is a table of production and wages of machining of the Hudson and Terraplane drive shaft (axle shaft) department 2400 axle plant Hudson The equipment is generally Six Barber-Coleman machines Motor Car Co., 1927, 1928, 1929, compared to 1934. the same with the exception of operation 10. and three men were replaced by one Cleveland Hobber and one man. Recently the men have been informed that they must get every piece they can, regardless of time study. Machining of Hudson and Terraplane drive (axle) shaft Subscribed and sworn before me this 20th day of February 1935. My commission expires January 22, 1938. MELVIN A. OWEN, Notary Public. HUDSON LOCAL UNION, No. 2, ASSOCIATED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS OF AMERICA, DEPARTMENT NO 750 Stanley McDill, who is a straw boss, said that anybody who votes for C. M. Fix is a He also took an Associated Automobile Workers of America button off of one of the men and told some of the others to vote for Hudson Industrial Association. Lester Fazenbaker and Joe Donelson, also straw bosses, continually interrupted me in my campaign for district representative in my district. [SEAL] STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of Wayne, ss: C. M. FIX. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of February, A. D. 1935. MELVIN A. OWEN, Notary Public in and for Wayne County. My commission expires January 22, 1938. To whom it may concern: HUDSON LOCAL UNION, No. 2, ASSOCIATED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS OF AMERICA, The way the elections were conducted was not fair to all the laboring men, because the company-union representatives were allowed to leave their machines from 2 to 3 hours at least every other day to canvass for votes, instead of staying on their machines and getting their daily production. The outside union representatives were strictly forbidden to leave their machines to do any campaigning whatever and were held to the lunch period at noon, and even then were stopped on several occasions by the plant-protection department men, which shows to a large extent that the Hudson Motor Car Co. did have a considerable part to play in this election, and by the ruling of the Automobile Labor Board they were to have no part whatever. I firmly believe that if an investigation were held in the Hudson plant regarding the election enough facts could be uncovered to show that the management's special representative had the backing of the entire management of the Hudson Motor Car Co. [SEAL] STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of Wayne, ss: JOHN KRULOCK. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of February, A. D. 1935. MELVIN A. OWEN, Notary Public in and for Wayne County. My commission expires January 22, 1938. To whom it may concern: HUDSON LOCAL UNION, No. 2, Detroit, Mich., February 18, 1935. I, George Moore, a member of the Associated Automobile Workers of America, was active in organizing the Hudson Local, No. 2, and holding the office of delegate to the national council, was transferred from the Gratiot Avenue plant of the Hudson Motor Car Co., to the main plant of the same company on Jefferson Avenue in order to curb my union activities in the Gratiot plant, and this occurred 2 weeks before the Government primary elections were to be held for representation of the workers. I was transferred back to the Gratiot Avenue plant the day before the final elections were held. The plant protection department phoned the Detroit police, Conner Avenue station, and caused the police to stop the handing out of handbills in front of the plant. These handbills were the notice to our members to attend a meeting that we might explain the procedure of the elections. This condition happened twice at the Gratiot Avenue plant. The plant protection department passed out handbills for the Hudson Industrial Association several times and absolute proof of this can be had from the labor member on the automobile labor board. [SEAL] GEORGE A. MOORE. STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of Wayne, ss: Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of February, A. D. 1935. MELVIN A. OWEN, Notary Public. My commission expires January 22, 1938. To whom it may concern: HUDSON LOCAL UNION, No. 2, Detroit, Mich., February 18, 1935. I, the undersigned worker in the Hudson Motor Co., in department no. 2445 at the axle plant, was told by my foreman, Tom Ruby, that I-Tom Ruby 133130-35- -9 |