The daily worker., 1925-02-12
STEEL TRADE
BOOMING, But
union LOSES
Reactionary Officials Kill
Amalgamated

MCDONALD, Ohio - The Byers
company, Girard, Ohio, makers Of
wrought iron pipe, have increased
their capital by several million dollars,
planning expansion of their business,
yet in the face Of this, the puddlers
employed in their mills have suffered
several reductions in their tonnage
rates without even word of protest
coming from the reactionary official
dom now in control of the Anal
gamated Association of Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers headed by M. F. Tighe,
who has been busy of late in Mahon-
ing valley addressing lodges on such
subjects as Cooperation"
The rank and file have concluded
that the brand of Cooperation" that
results in reductions of wage scales
and continued decreased in member.
ship should be thrown on the scrap
heap along with its sponsors.
Wages Reduced AS Union Weakens
Union mills are rapidly entering
non-union ranks and the introduction
of modernized machines in the steel
industry is throwing thousands Of
skilled workers out of employment OF
into other trades. The luke warn
policy of adjusting" wages thru so
called bi-monthly settlements with
agents of the steel barons and some
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usually results in WAGE REDUC
TIONS.
This policy of allowing the stee
barons to name their own price, so
called sliding scale, is a relic of y,
olden days and it is agreed by all pro
gressives that the A. A. of l. S. & T
w. must ORGANIZE AND ACT OF
pass of the stage of trade unionism.
This Union Can Organize
This union is the logical one to bring
about the complete organization o.
the unorganized steel workers yet MOI
one organization meeting has beef
held amongst the unorganized, ant
along with this fact the officialdon
has entirely ignored the organization
of mills where workers are employed
who are eligible to affiliate with the
A. A. of l. S, & T. w.
VIM. z. Foster, leader of the grea
steel strike, has dealt with the official
dom of the A. A. of I. S. & T. w. il
his great book on the Steel Strike
The same leadership exists, and ;
strong progressive movement whicl
is now surging through the union ii
the only hope of saving the union from
going on the rocks, total wreck.
There is no need for the steel work
ers to have false hopes injected b!
speeches from their reactionary Off
cialdom. The facts stare them in tn,
face and the cries of RED cominl
from M. f. Tighe & Co. do not altel
the situation. The facts are that the
progressive movement is a rank anC
file demonstration against the reac
tionary leadership now controlling the
union. The recent elections although
claimed by the officialdom as thei
victory, showed that only by a mar
row margin of a few hundred votei
did most of the officialdom get reelec
ted.
Turn Out for April Convention
In April, in the very capitol of tn,
Empire of Steel, known as Pittsburgh
Pa. the A. A. of l. S. &c T. w. will
hold it's national convention and fol
this reason the officialdom and theil
henchmen are scampering round th'
country making speeches on "CO
OPERATION, with Tighe using hii
old rallying cry used during the las
election GET OUT THE VOTE
THE REDS ARE ON THE JOB" Thii
time the officialdom are yelling get
OUT THE DELEGATES-THE REDS
ARE ON THE JOB"
With a rapidly decreasing member
ship, semi-bankrupt treasury, with III
membership compelled to accept con
tinued reductions in tonnage rates
with a prestige once the pride o.
/ the American labor movement nov
faded into a mere shadow OF its form
er self, with trail of lost strikes ant
rapidly encircling non-union mills
with the growing tramp Of unemploy
ed steel workers ever increasing ant
with their fellow workers in the mill
without any union or present hope
the A. A. of /. S. e T. w. marches Of
to its next convention with a blow
hard reactionary ofiicialdom blamin
all their ills on the REDS.
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