The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-23
16STRIKESA And
LOCKOUTS RAGE
IN Steel MILLS.
Union Journal Is Trying
to Forget Them
By WALLACE T. MErcALFE.

The average outsider, and most labor
leaders, believe that all is serene in
the steel and iron industry and that
the workers are beaten down. In so
far as organization Is concerned, this
Is true, for only small percentage
of the steel and Iron workers are or
aanizsd.
The Amalgamated Association Of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers repres-
ents the organized workers in the IN
dustry and their Journal for June II,
lists sixteen strikes and lockouts now
going on at the following places:
Two Lockouts In West Virginia
Wheeling, w. Va, Lodge No. 8, lock-
ed out by the Wheeling Steel corpo-
ration. Lodge No. 10, locked out by
the same corporation. Lodge No. 26
locked out by the same corporation.
Marietta, Ohio, Lodge No. 141, the
Hudson Tinplate Co. refused to sign
the scale-keep away.
Parkersburgh, West Va, Lodge 1s,
strike at the Parkersburgh Iron and
Steel Co.
Martins Ferry, Ohio, Lodge No. 14s
locked out by the Wheeling Steel cor
poration.
Yorkville, Ohio, Lodge SO, locked
out by the Wheeling Steel corporation.
Beech Bottom, West Va, Lodge No.
%, locked ont by the Wheeling Steel
corporation
Portsmouth, Ohio. Lodge 81, locked
out by the Wheeling Steel corporation.
Washington, Pa, Lodge No, 81,
strike on against the Washington Tin
plate Co., for wage signature.
steubenville, Ohio, Lodge s.. on
strike against the Wierton Steel Co.
at the Pope plant.
Reading, Pa, Lodge No. 90. Locked
out May 2, 1919. Strike sti1i In force.
Keep away from Carpenter Iron
Works
Long Struggle At Burnhan, Pa
Burnham, Pa, Lodge 81. declared q
strike Dec 2Sth, 1918, against all de-
partments of the Logan Iron and Steel
company for recognition. The strike
is still on.
Newport, KY, the third district exc
cutiye board has legalized a strife for
Newport Lodge No. 5, Campbell ooun-
ty Lodge Is, Monmouth Lodge No. 16,
Brighton Lodge II all Of Kentucky
, against the Newport Rolling Mil Co,
Andrews Steel Co. and Globe Corfu,
eating Co.
The determination displayed by
these workers in maintaining their
struggle against uneven odds on this
far flung battle front shows plainly
that the rank and file In the steeI in
dustry are militant and worthy Tight
ers. One Of the strikes dates back TO
1918 and another back to 1878 over q
period of years
Still In the Trenches
These lodges passed thru the great
steel strike and even after rne smoke
OF that great battle has died down we
find them still in the trenches. so TO
some etxent the steel strike is still
on This is the background Of the
struggle now going on in the steel in
dnstrT where thousands Of workers
tell and sweat Also TO some extent
il reflects the new leadership rising
il the A. A OF L s. and T. w. who
have risen up during the struggles
In the past and who are battling
alongside Of their brothers engaged in
the present struggles. To this rank
and fiie leadership belongs the future
OF the A A OF l. S. ana 7. w. and
side by side with these miIitants mar
ohes the unorganized steel and iron
workers.
The key to the organization Of the
steel and iron workers is In the pos
session of the mihtants IN the A. A. Of
/. S. and T. w. and once the door is
open king steel will face the combined
strength of the thousands of slaves
now waiting but the word. The A. A.
of I. S. and T. w. owes It to these
sixteen embattled lodges to gather its
forces for a general organization cam
Daign OF the unorganized.
Try to Bury Many Battles
The militant in this unfon desire
this but the reactionary leaders op-
pose It consequently the greatest
struggle the union is engaged in
comes in for q of a column on page
% in the Amalgamated Journal The
difference between Communist jour
nal and Journal" presided over by
pious labor Journalists. Communist
Journalists enter into the struggle as
part OF II while pious faced editors OF
labor papers enter into the struggle
to bury it. Keep this strike calender
and warn all steel and iron workers
TO stay away.
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