Auto Workers to Demand Wage Increases 'Adequate for Needs'; Pravda Hits Turkish-U.S. Talks

CLEVELAND, October 20--The CIO-United Automobile Workers will demand "substantial wage adjustments" from all employers whose Union contracts have wages reopening clauses, the Union's International Executive Board decided here today.

The Board did not name a specific figure it would demand, but said in a wage policy statement that "It is the intention of the Union to make efforts across the bargaining table with management to arrive at an agreement on a wage increase adequate to meet the needs of the workers and the nation.

"The unholy alliance between big business and its political henchmen in Congress has finally achieved the purpose in the complete destruction of effective control of the cost of living," the Board statement said. "Under these circumstances we have but one clear course--to demand a wage increase that will provide the workers and their families with a decent standard of living."

The Board demanded that the Government "take immediate steps to stop hoarding and speculation in scarce materials, and, if necessary, operate idle plants to break these bottlenecks and relieve shortages which are seriously delaying the achievement of full production and full employment."

The Board also called upon management to join with the Union in setting up a labor-management committee in the auto industry to study all possible ways and means of stabilizing production to eliminate or minimize seasonal layoffs in order to establish a guaranteed annual wage.