The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-18
WORKER
MILITANTS In
FINISH Fight
Battle for Victory Over
ReGctiOnary Leadership
lspeeIaI 70 the Daily worker

WARREN, O., Nov. 1.-THE
battle now going on in the Anal
| gamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers between
the progressives under rank
and file leadership and the con-
servatives under the leadership
of M. r. Tighe and Co. has pro-
duced a sensation in steel work.
ers' circles.
The able leadership exhibited
by the rank and file is contest
ing every inch of the way and
that they are producing colo
chills in labor faker circles Isl
best proven by a letter that NJ
F. Tighe, international president
of the "a. A." sent to the Tighe
Lodge No. %, Lancaster, Pa, in
reply to a letter from his lodge
inquiring why no ballots had
been sent.
The Voice of Tighe.
Hear the voice of Tighe speaking
with all the buster and pleading that
such leaders are capable of: Brother
Hagen, see to it that you get out ev-
cry vote, for we need all we can get,
the REDS ARE ON THE JOB"
Tighe concluded this now famous
letter by remarking that Brother
Denlinger Of your lodge has the BAL
LOTS"
Readers Of the DAILY WORKER
can draw their own conclusions as to
the intent of Tighe's statements.
Up and down the great Mahoning
steel valley echoes the cry sounded
by Tighe: "The Reds are on the Job"
and knowing that Tighe reads the
DAILY WORKER, the steel workers
warn him and his kind that they IN
TEND TO REMAIN ON THE JOB.
The last convention Of the Anal
gamated Association of Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers did away with the
Office Of assistant president and gen
eral organizer yet in defiance to this
order Tighe has maintained on the
payroll a chief henchman of his and
sent this labor faker around the coun-
try defending the machine and lin
ng up votes for Tighe, at the organ
cations expense, with the promise
that if the reactionaries continue in
Office he is to be promoted to the Of
fee of special organizer"
Show Much Inefficiency.
The history of the Amalgamated AS
ISOLATION under its present oficialdom
is rotten with ineficiency and betray-
al Of the rank and file. During the
strike of the Port View tin workers,
McKeesport, Pa, one of the militants
went into the national office Of the
Amalgamated Association at Pitts
burgh and asked Tighe, what are you
going to do for the strikers at Nc
Keesport? Tighe replied, 1--WE can't
do anything; we are waiting for a
committee to come down and tell us
what to dol"
The rank and file are next to this
brand of leadership" and the gangs"
bowling about the Reds being on the
job" seems like an echo from the
steel trust propaganda dished out
during the great steel strike.
II was the Tighe brand Of leader
snip that lost to the Amalgamated
Association two of it's best lodges in
Canonsburgh, Pa. It was Tighe's
friendship with the Standard Tinplate
Co. at this place that the Industrial
organization, built up by the militants,
was lost along with over one-haf of
the membership. 1t was the Tighe
Co. leadership that lost two of
the Oldest and strongest lodges in
the Amalgamated Association at Gran
lite City, ILL.,, who were punished" be-
cause they dared challenge the au-
thority of Tighe.
me czar-like censorship maintain
ed over the Amalgamated Association
Journal by the headquarters gang has
prevented news of these wrongs reach
ing the rank and file. Ben T. Davis.
present editor is really an Office boy
Tor Tighe and voices the sentiments
OF his master on any and all occasions
These facts were given to the world
at large for the first time thru the
DAILY WORKER and the progressive
rank and file organization, which is
being supported by the militants in
all labor organizations.
Let DoIIa Rot In Prison.
The Tighe C Co. ofIicialdom allow
ed Jake Dolla to remain behind the
prison bars and had 1t not been for
the militants arousing the ofiicialdom
to take some action in DolIa's behalf
they would have ignored entirely this
rebel.
These and countless other griev-
ances have aroused the rank and file
to action. The militants have well
seasoned leaders who have years of
experience battling for a better and
bigger Amalgamated Association and