United Automobile Worker

Union Needs Woman's Help

Wives of Negro Union Men Asked to Join Fight for Equality

The UAW Sub-Committee for the Organization of Negro Auto Workers calls upon Negro women whose husbands, brothers, or fathers are union men, to join the auxiliaries of the union and press the fight for economic equality where they can do most good.

The opportunity is presented to Negro women by the UAW, but it is up to the women themselves to take advantage of it and to play an active part in carrying out the program of the organization.

We know that Negro women in Detroit have been denied jobs in auto factories. We know that they have had to do laundry work, domestic work, or work in restaurants while white women of the same education have received twice as high wages.

Women factory workers average from 65 cents to 75 cents an hour while Negro women are in the same rut as they always have been.

Things are not the same, however, as they were last year. Now thousands of Negro men are union brothers. That fact alone gives Negro men and women the right to membership in a union auxiliary, which means a chance to become acquainted with white women and to break down the barriers of prejudice that have made women of the two races more antagonistic toward each other than the men.

With a unity of understanding and a unity of action, it will then be possible to organize laundry, restaurant and domestic workers and bring about higher wages and better working conditions in those lines of work.

Women's assistance is needed in the fight against high rents and it can best be given if the women are organized and led intelligently.

The Sub-Committee for the Organization of Negro Auto Workers asks every eligible Negro woman to join an auxiliary and bend her efforts toward making equality of economic opportunity a fact in Detroit.