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OI(G.L\/ZE\( r ltllY'/1: CP.1RA\l)0\.\ POliTI(\ 101' l \lli.l ..1lf ROLT.1\(,f'\' U~J\/)\01<: \ l>Ol rn1 \ .1BOl 7 Ill!· ( P. ( APFIA/1\7' < Ol \I HR 1TTACK· (jJ.'fllOIIC A< 'l 1 G,_ ..., · r \ t '{A CANADIAN PARTY OF LABOUR PUBLICATION $1 I 'r 1[,1-( ~. ldl. JJ. \ \[) ( F. \ flll 4 R l ) '\ , 1 l \ 7 I ()I< I'r N. c\ () s. < 11. R r ('(}( T:\ 111 () \r ... l ' rt } (T R () l p l ) l . H p 1\ I . ·BLOU l·ORBLOl¥ lfllll \1111.£1N.I>.ll!-TCRF1lf\ ·l Pf{l\'/J)Fl'~~I. 0\J [ ,..., \...- \... PV ON LECAL STRIKE Jim Napier m<Jrchi1zg in solidar:ty with the Postal Strikers, 1975 "I hat•e not mellowed or softened with the passing years." Foreword A [u·eat deal has befm u·ritten about tbe Umted Auto Workers' union. Unfortunately. most of it was written h;• people too ;•oung to hat·e been personall; involt·ed in the struggles of the early years or by those uho bate something to lose sbotdd the truth be /mown. In particttlar.l refer to the PhD thesis of M.L. Vere.r of the Unit•ersity of Wmdsor, Ontario, u·hich purports to be a history of the early year.r of the UA Win Windsor. Of those inlen·iewed for this stztdy, a!! but one were either right-u·inger.r Ot' act11al scabs dttring the stmgf!,les. ' I am 1Wtl' close to sixty-fit•e ;•ear.r of age. Recently I ruffered two heart attacks. Before I go. I sub­ mit this little bi.rtOt'J' jot one reason only - to set tbe rec01·d straight. Fraternally. ].S. Napier, April 1975. Hamilton, Ontario. Contents Beginnings 6 The First Active Member in Windsor 8 Strike at Kelsey Wheel 12 UAW's First Win 18 Organizing GM Oshawa 21 UAW Rolling in Windsor 25 Capitalist Counter-Attack 30 Bosses Step Up Anti-red Drive 33 Napier Fired by Right wing 36 Arrested 38 Obstacles: Bosses Bomb Hoax and the CCF 41 Unity Group Dumps the Right 44 Left Creates a President 47 United Front - Fatal Compromise 49 Walkout at Chrysler Plant Two 51 Union Wins at Ford 56 Back From the War 61 Fighting Conclusion: Join CPL 63 I This pamphlet is published by the Canadian Party of Labour P.O. Box 1151, Adelaide St. Postal Station, Toronto, Ontario Printed in Canada ' Introduction The Canadian Party of Labour is proud to present stronger; that communist leadership is the key to "Memories of Building the UA W". This account of the healthy unionism; that the fight for the shorter work origins of the UA W is presently being serialized in week means carrying the offensive to the ruling class THE WORKER, the newspaper of the Canadian Party and to organizing the unorganized; that racism, male of Labour, and has been in such demand that the Party chauvinism, and nationalism must be defeated in was obliged to assemble the pamphlet before the order to unite workers. entire series was run. "Memories of Building the UA W" is also the story of "Memories of Building the UAW" is a history, a working man, the son of a Scottish coal-mineworker, written by the first UA W member in Canada, that does a coal miner, immigrant, autoworker, husband and not pander to the big names of the union - the father, union official and revolutionary, also victim of Reuthers, Millard, McDermott, Woodcock, etc. It anti-communism, unemployment and the blacklist, a gives credit for laying the union's foundations to the man who refuses to be beaten, and never will be. ordinary autoworkers who risked their lives and This is a true story. When workers seize political family incomes to build a fighting organization. It power in this country and the real history of the gives credit as well to the old Communist Parties of working class is finally taught, the official union Canada and the US that provided them the leadership. histories will be consigned to the trashcan where they "Memories of Building the UA W" also belong and the new histories will be made of stuff like demonstrates the strategic mistake of the Communist this. While the schoolchildren of the future will learn Parties in abandoning the idea that communists must of the Woodcocks and McDermotts in the footnotes at openly lead the unions - as communists. This error the end of chapters, the heroes in those chapters will put the communist unionists on the losing end of a boss be communist fighters like James S. Napier. inspired anti-communist drive led by the Co-{)perative Jim tells his story candidly, letting the chips fall Commonwealth Federation (CCF), the forerunner of where they may. A class conscious worker can get at the present New Democratic Party (NDP) and the "what happened", both the errors and wisdom. This is Catholic Church. no manicured legend with an all-knowing hero who is Jim Napier illustrates over and over again the always right yet somehow loses terribly, as in the book suffering brought upon the rank and file by this Brother Bill McKie, a feeble "first hand" account of successful anti-communist attack. A central lesson to the origins of the UA W published by the revisionist Brother Napier's story is that Canadian workers of Communist Party USA. Napier gives us the truth to today must dump the NDP hacks who throttle our chew on and therefore stronger teeth. unions and replace them with revolutionary In printing this history, we salute Jim Napier and all communists.
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