The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-17
DAVIS TALKS 10 :
CONVENTION OF
Steel WORKERS
Sec. of Labor Helps to
Stem Progressive Tide
BY ANDREW OVERHEARD
special to The Daily Workerl

Especial TO me Dally Workerl
PITTSBURGH, Pa, April Isl. J.
Davis, the so-caiied secretary of labor
in the strikebreakine Coolidge cabinet,
enemy of the foreign-born workers
who constitute the backbone Of the
steel industry spoke before the con-
Vention Of the AmaIeamated Associa-
ton of Iron, Steel G. Tin workers.
This lickspittle of Wall St., himself
an alien, holds card in the Amalga-
mated Association and by virtue of
rhis fact Mike Tighe generally invites
him every year to repeat his old piffle
of how he began life as a poor puddler
in the steel mills and by working hard
and obeying his masters or being
good sucker he has been able to be-
come a member of the Presidents
cabinet.
Unfortunately he has been able to
fool number Of the steel workers to
believe in that oft repeated fairly tale
that in this country every poor boy
has a chance to become President.
Entertalns Flappers.
According to previous reports, Da-
Wis had informed the convention that
he was sick and could not be present
to address the convention. The fact
was that he was entertaining the Ma
tional Girl Champion Basket Ball
Team of Sharon, Pa, together with
silent Cal on the White House lawn
The Pittsburgh papers carried large
photos showing Davis and Coolidge
among a number of young fiappers.
It seems to have become the sole
occupation of the president and his
cabinet to receive Charleston dancers
and basket ball teams and refuse to
see Populations of strikers asking for
a living wage. Davis, however, de-
cided to appear before the convention
and peddle his hypocricy to the delight
of Mike Tighe the old grandmother
of the Amalgamated who is having a
hell of a time with the progressiyes
in the convention. as
He declared that he would give. the
Communists the same opportunities to
present their views as anyone else. but
would not allow them to undermine 4
our glorious Government etc. He
would, however, not allow these for
eigners to have any say about their
own destinies of lives under the ins
famous laws of suppression against
the foreign born workers that he is
sponsoring. The real reason that Davis
finally was brought before this con-
vention was to arouse prejudices
against the progressive forces in the
convention and especially arouse
hatred against the Communists and
there is no doubt that Mike Tighe has
been doing his darndest to have Davis
perform this task after Bill Green sent
his regrets.
Progressives.
The progressiyes in the convention
who are fighting the reactionary lead.
ership of Mike Tighe and company and
sincerely struggling for change altho
confused and lacking initiative plus a
real program of action, are worrying
the reactionary leadership. The pro-
gressive forces know that the main
problem before this convention is that
of organizing the great masses of or
ganized workers outside of the Anal
gamated and they are sincerely strug-
Cling to bring about real campaign
in the steel industry.
Mike Tighe, realizing the danger of
the growing power of the progressives,
in order to confuse the real issue be-
fore the convention, very conveniently
brings all the various. servants of the \
capitalist class TO peddle the usual
bunk about the capitalists and the
workers getting together"
~. Secrecy
After Davis speech, Mike Tighe and
his machine moved for an executive
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