The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-17
of
Metal Workers
Plans Struggle

YOUNGSTOWN, O., June To-
With great enthusiasm and after a
thorough discussion by the 1877 dele
gates present, the Second National
Metal Workers Industrial League
conference adopted the main resolu-
ton and program of struggle of the
conference. 1t was basiaclly the
resolution submitted by the national
committee and national secretary,
Andrew Overgaard, and calls for in
tensive organization work, building
of the League in the shops,
with shop locals and shop commit
tees as the fundamental form of or
ganization, leading of struggles by
the workers, correct strike strategy,
and national convention in the
near future to establish a new in
dustrial union in this almost en-
tirely unorganized industry.
The delegates included "a Negroes,
26 young workers, and two women.
The meeting opened with singing
of "The Internationale."
A great ovation by delegates and
spectators welcomed the message to
the conference from William z.
Foster, of the committee of the no.
900 unemployed demonstrators in
New York, March 6, and imprisoned
for three years for marching to lay
their demands before the city gov
eminent. Foster urged on the meta,
workers unity, organizational efforts
and ceaseless recruiting of their
strength in this period of intense
dissatisfaction by the exhibited ana
unemployed workers. Metal work
ers must fight, for the whole in.
dustry is racked by wage-cuts speed
up and worsening conditions, all Of
which lead to steadily more unem-
ployment.
Foster is general secretary of the
Trade Union Unity League to which
the M.W.LL. is affiliated. He was
also the recognized leader of the
1919 steel strike. The convention
unanimously elected him an honor
airy member of the presidium (the
conference committee).
Towards Most Exploited.
John Schmies, assistant secretary
of the T.U.U.L. reported on the
present tasks of the revolutionary
trade union movement, its form of
organization and world wide con-
nections, and on the necessity of
the M.W.I.L. turning towards the
most exploited sections of the metal
and steel industry. The M.WI.L.
must win over the rank and file of
the old ALL. unions where they
exist, and bring them under the
leadership of the new revolutionary
unions.
An immediate task in the struggle
against unemployment, and it must
be based on organization inside and
outside of the shops.
Schmies emphasized the import
ance of the Fifth World Congress
of the Red International of Labor
Unions and the relation to it Of the
MWIL.
The Auto Workers Union must
become the auto department of the
new industrial union.
In telling of the boss terror, he
mentioned particularly the signifi-
canoe of the presence of the South
ern delegation of six, including four
Negroes. They are from Birming-
ham, the first time in the history
of the South that such a delegation
hes been sent. They come despite
the fact that in 1919 the Birming-
ham chamber of commerce boosted
that no strike would take place in
that steel center.
To-day the situation has changed,
said Overgaard, "and no doubt in
the coming steel strike, Birmingham
will be one of the biggest centers.'
Elect to World Congress.
The conference stressed the i'm.
portance of the R.IL.U. congress
Schmies reported on the R.I.L.U.
and the Metal Workers international
Committee for Propaganda and Ac.
ton.
The conference elected delegates
to the Fifth World Congress of the
R.LL,U. They are: Edith Brisker
Baltimore; Ralph Hurley, Chicago
c. W. Carey, Negro, of Chattanooga
Lee Meldon, Philadelphi -44ey
was chairman of the National Con
ference of the Unemployed held re.
Gently in New York.
Arthur Murphy, worker in tht
Sharon Steel Hoop works at Farrell
Pa, was elected delegate to the
International Negro Trade Unior
Conference, to be held July 1.
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