Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1945 — Page 18

HERE ARE THE SIMPLE FACTS:

1. During the last year of the war, the aver-

$56.93 per week.

This is based on actual records of the ; money paid and the

worked an verage. of 45.6 hours per week.

2. The public demand for GM products and

when the strike was called. The number of people employed when reconversion is completed and our new | plants and facilities are in production, will be larger t than before the war.

v | 3. General Motors offered to adjust wige I . rates in_line with the cost of living.

Since January 1941, General Motors’ wage rates have in-

i | rejected this offer and called the strike. This offer has . finaly been determined to amount fo an average o 14. cots

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Before GM workers were called out on strike, the va W-CIO refused

an offer aimed Io increase wartime take-home a by at least 10%.

4. The UAW-CIO turned down a poonsl

‘age General Motors hourly-rate worker earned . - which would have given the average. am -

number of people working: To earn this - money- they -

services is enough to keep our plants working at the wartime level of 45 to 48 hours woekly. TE

During the period of shortages, we plan to operate at this rate, barring work stoppages due to causes beyond our control. In fact, some of our plants were working 48 hours a week

creased substantially. Before the ‘strike was called, the ~~

“union was offered a cost-of-living wage adjustment in line ~ with the Government’s stabilization policy. The union

‘Read the background and ask yourself, does this make sense?

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worker $63.44 a week.

Under this offer, the average General Moke poly :

“worker would have received $63.44 for the same 1 of hours for which he was paid $56.93 during the whi This is at least 33% more than he would have received in January 1941 if he had worked the-same number of hours then. The union rejected the offer. The strike continues The workers are etting nothing, .

5. What does the UAW-CIO want? Government figures say that the cost of living has gone up

~ 33% since January 1, 1941. As already pointed out, Genera} ' Motors has offered this much to its workers. But the union insists it wants 30% more than present rates, which are substantially higher than 1941 rates. Its battle uy isa for 40 or fight”—52 hours’ pay for 40 hours’ work,

It refuses to budge from that demand. *