The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-15

that all men and women working in
and around the iron and steel mills,
shall become members of the Anal
gamated Association. The officials
have made no move to carry this form
Of organization into effect but have
done their utmost to maintain the
craft outlook.
We propose that the Amalgamated
Association become an industrial union
in the full sense of the word on a
modern centralized basis and to be
departmentalized according to the re.
quirements of the industry. We pro.
pose as an illustration the establish.
ment of the following departmentaliza-
ton:
1. Blast Furnace.
2. Open Hearth and Bessemer.
8. Rolling Mil.
4. Sheet and Tin Mill.
Wire Rod, Pipe Mill.
G.. Maintenance.
z. Clerical.
Shop Committee Organization as
Basis of Union.
No union can live and function eff
fectively without job control. The
basic strength of all working class or
gan:Eation must be established in the
shop where the workers Toll and from
whence grows their grievances and as.
pirations. We therefore demand that
complete system of Shop Committee
Organization, taking in all workers in
and around the iron and steel mills.
organized and unorganized, be estab-
lished, as preliminary to union or
ganization and supplementary to the
union.
The Shop Committee must be repre-
sentative Of all workers in each mill,
and composed of delegates elected by
the workers from each department, re-
CARELESS Of craft or skill. Each Shop
Committee shall elect it's own officers
and spokesman and have full power
to take up all grievances of the work
ers with the management and in con-
junction with the union take all steps
necessary to protect the interests of
the workers. 1t shall carry on educa-
tional activities for the building and
strengthening of the union. The shop
committees of each particular district
shall be combined on the same basis
as the local unions.
The so-called Shop Committees now
existing in some mills composed Jointly
of workers and the management or.
ganized by the employers are tools
OF the bosses to protect their inter-
ests and help enslave the workers.
They have nothing to do with the well
fare and the aspirations of the work
ers. These committees should be
fought until they are replaced by
committees composed Of workers only.
Unity, Nationally and internationally.
The capitalists of the United States
are solidly united in their common
efforts to keep the workers in submis-
sion. Their organizations are united
through interlocking directorates.
Capitalism is also international in
scope and the the working class must
likewise unite internationally.
We propose therefore, first, that
there be formed a real fighting ALI.
ance between the coal miners, railroad
workers and steel workers unions.
Not only for the purpose of extending
sympathy with one another but to
actually join forces for united action
and to fight side by side in times of
strike. Secondly, we propose to give
the utmost assistance possible to the
efforts now being made by the Red
International of Labor Unions to
create one united working class Inter
national comprising all labor unions
Of the world.
independent Political Action.
Nowhere has the relations between
the employers and the government be-
come so brutally clear as In the steel
Industry. Time and again the govern
ment has shown itself as an instru.
ment OF the employers to help keep
the workers in submission-as a cap
italist government, courts, police, sol.
diers and every means at the disposal
OF this capitalist government have
been used to attempt TO crush the ef-
forts of the steel workers to organize