John Williamson in his Daily Worker column — the American Scene =— gavo on December 17th some very interesting facts on the activities of the Fords management in the Statese Reporting a strike by 4,500 workors at the firm's Mahwah New Jersey, plant, he said this was because of: “incroased workloads, intolerable speed-up and cight months stalling on the settlement of grievances." Aftor a two wock strike the firm agreed to adjust all gricvances, Tho company has also said, when declaring 1,600 men redundant at Highland Park, Michigan, that 1,000 of the jobs will be transferred to Britain.
Williamson also quoted a report in the American Worker as follows: "\ sinister figure in the present battle of the “mglish Ford workers is John S, Bugas, former chief of the Detroit F.B.1I., now a Ford vice-president. The hand of Bugas is in the firing of English Ford workers, just as he was involved in firing hundreds of Ford River Rouge plant workers when they fought against a 25% increase of productivity in 1949....Tho company (then) to break the morale of the workers got some misguided housewives to picket the gate sayings "We don't want a strike." The UeA.W. Women's Auxiliary...came out by hundreds to march in solidarity with their husbands, brothers and sweethearts,"