The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-02
STEEL WORKERS
WARREN RALLY
HUGE SUCCESS
Need for Organization Is
Stressed
BY a Worker Correspondent


WARREN, Ohio, Feb 2S.-One OF
the best meetings the Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Tin and Steel
Workers has held in the Mahoning
Valley for ahe past several years was
held in the Hippodrome Hall in War
rem Ohio. Five hundred iron and
steel workers crowded into the hall
to take part in a booster meeting at
which the question Of building up the
organization" was discussed by work
ers from the mills Speakers from as.
far away as Granite City, Ill. took
part in the program.
Max Hayes Of Cleveland was booked
to make the principal speech, but at
the last moment he sent wire that
owing to sickness, he could not ap-
pear. Jack McKeown, one of the hard
workers in the campaign to build the
iron and steel organization, was
drafted from the body of workers and
called upon to tell the purpose of the
meeting. MeKeown gave the workers
clear outline of the position the
Amalgamated Association held in
the field of organized labor and called
upon the workers to wipe the stain OF
disorganization off the working class
in the iron and steel mills. Jake Nc
Kinley was then called upon and
showed that fight is the only way out
Steel Worker Speaks.
The principal speech was made by
A. M. Jennings of Granite City, ILL.,,
who came to the meeting to express
the alarm of the workers from that
city on the fast dissipating forces of
the iron and steel workers. He dis
cussed this. question in a clear and
logical manner which left no doubt in
the minds of his hearers. Jennings
took up the tasks before the meeting
and showed that DO one but the work
ers could solve the problem now con-
fronting the iron and steel workers
and made HIS hearers understand that
it is up to them to put in new meth
DDS of organization if they wished to
succeed nlabuilding up a virile and
militant force to cope with the thor
oily organized and solidified fighting
force of theilcapitalists who were re-
ducing wages at will because of the
unorganized icondition of the workers.
Jennings then introduced from ais
lodge a new plan of organization,
which will divide the country up into
four districts with vice president
for each district, instead of the ten
districts now in existance with two
vice-preside4ts to take care of them.
In speaking for the adoption Of the
resolution he drove home to his hear
ers the unerganized condition of the
workers in sthe mills but failed to
show his hearers that the present
movement in the lodges was not the
work of the yice-presidents or of the
officials but of the rank and file.
The hopeful sign of the present
movement IS that 1t is spontaneous
demand by the workers of the mills
for organization to offset the organ
ization of the masters of the mills.
A feature which added to the en-
joyment of those at the meeting was
the Steel Workers Band led by
steel worker. The playing of 1.-The
International" by this band made up
Of steel workers met with cheers.
A Workers Meeting.
From the opening of the meeting
by Frank Marshall, chairman of the
organization committee, to the ban
quet prepared and served under the
direction of f. R. Price, it was a work
ers' meeting and entertainment. They
did not depend upon the usual non
workers, who on almost all occasions
get up and tell the workers how to-
solve theirrproblems. Lawyers, doc
tors, and ministers were conspicuous
by their absence.
The meeting is in Niles on March
10 faf.