FORTUNE FINDS 60% FOR UNION ORGANIZATIONS
Fortune Finds 60% for Union Organizations Workers Favor Unionization, Magazine Survey Reveals NEW YORK CITY—Sixty per cent of all workers—union and non-union —favor the principle of unionism,...
...Since about two-thirds of V. S. labor is not organized, this indorsement of unionism'is impressive," Fortune observes...
...Robert M. La Follette ...22.0 5.5 72.5 John L. Lewis ...32.6 44.6 22.8 Norman Thomas .14.1 20.5 65.4 Tom Girdler...
...1,120 out of 1,2-77 in Richmond, Cal...
...of Labor Perkins .......43.4 19.4 37.2 Sen...
...Among CIO members the national labor party Idea was indorsed by 24 per cent against 23 per cent for the two major parties...
...Among AFL and CIO members, exactly 1.8 per cent each said that unions do more harm than good...
...The Fortune poll also showed that Lewis gets 39 per cent of the blame for the labor split against 11 per cent for Green and 21 per cent for both, the balance of the answers being divided between "neither" and "don't know...
...R. J. Thomas of the United Automobile Workers (CIO) who has predicted that Ford will be under CIO contract before many months have passed, called the Fortune poll "a tstimonial to the ability of the American press to mislead the public" and pointed out that Ford has "one of the largest advertising budgets in the nation.' Thomas Statement "There could not have been many auto workers polled by Fortune," Thomas continued...
...4.4 9.7 85.'' Earl Browder ____ 4.2 39.4 56.4 In Detroit Pres...
...Of the AFL members...
...John L. Lewis, the survey indicated...
...Robert F. Wagner...
...The CIO polled 155,050 and the AFL 35.-326 votes...
...AFL Pres...
...Popularity ratings of various public figures were based on the answers of organized and unorganized workers to this question: "Which of these people do you ieel have been on the whole helpful to labor and which harmful...
...Negotiations are to continue until June 10...
...Interesting result here was that for every three supporters of the Democrats and Republicans, there were two supporters of independent political action...
...Henry Ford .....73.6 12.3 14.1 Sen...
...The companies made a similar agreement May 6 after a 2-day strike, but on May 19 they unexpectedly broke off negotiations and forced the stoppage, affecting some 4,000 workers and tying up 75 per cent of milk deliveries...
...Labor in Politics On politics, 56 per cent of those questioned said that labor should keep out of politics, 18 per cent advocated support of one of the two major parties and 11 per cent wanted a national labor party...
...Green .....49.7 18.2 32.1 Sec...
...The Fortune poll was just a sampling: the NLRB votes gave everyone a chance...
...Unsettled issues will then go to an impartial arbitration board...
...86 per cent said unions are needed, against 88 per cent among CIO unionists...
...Opinions were: Help- Harm- Don't ful ful Know Pet...
...Wagner ...51.8 5.8 42.6 Wm...
...How the rest of the auto workers feel about John L. Lewis may be seen from NLRB elections held in some 40 corporations in recent months...
...William Green or CIO Pres...
...Actually, however, pro-union majorities prevail in every section of the country and in most occupations...
...of Teamsters Chauffeurs Stablemen & Helpers (AFLi...
...and 569 out of 837 in St...
...Fortune Finds 60% for Union Organizations Workers Favor Unionization, Magazine Survey Reveals NEW YORK CITY—Sixty per cent of all workers—union and non-union —favor the principle of unionism, Fortune magazine reports in its June Issue after a nationwide poll by the usual sampling method...
...Strike Ends as Milk Co.'s Yield CHICAGO, III.—Chicago's second milk tieup within a month, caused by the big milk companies' attempts to establish up to 40 per cent wage cuts, ended last week when the firms agreed to continue the $48 wage and to negotiate with the milk wagon drivers local of the Intl...
...American workers think Henry Ford has been more helpful to labor than have Sen...
...The main exceptions are office workers and farmhands, with sales clerks equally divided...
...Labor experts attributed Ford's popularity to the perpetuation of the Ford high wage myth...
...Louis...
...An additional 25 per cent of those queried believe that unions are needed in some cases, while 9 per cent want unions abolished and 6 per cent don't know whether unions are good or bad...
...Wherever Ford workers have been given a chance to vote, the NLRB found, they preferred the CIO: 927 out of 1,000 Ford workers in Long Beach, Cat...
...The belief that unions do more harm than good is surprisingly small, when it is considered that there are large sections of the country that are regarded as firmly anti-union...
...Newspapers have not published the fact that Ford wages are now below the average of General motors and Chrysler, and the press has also played down or suppressed the NLRB's disclosures...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 23
