The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-17
By BERTHA K. MARSHALL

WE suppose that from the fact that at our
March demonstration in Youngstown, we
had "mere" 10000 workers, Lovestone will
claim that he was ''corect," that our Communist
Party is "dwindling before our eyes" and that
its activities hardly create ripple in this
"unshakable' capitalist structure known as the
United States of America
We had here in Youngstown "mere" 10000
workers, employed and unemployed. This is
about one-eighth of the total population of the
city. For the first time in the citys history
have such large masses turned out to hear our
message and to demonstrate by their eager
applause, that they had found in the Communist
Party their true leadership.
Our demonstration on the Public Square was
scheduled for 4:30 P. M. However, very early
in the afternoon, thousands of workers had al
ready gathered. By the time we got there to
open the meeting, many thousands more were
there to greet US and as the demonstration
progressed, workers kept swelling the crowd
from every direction until there was not an inch
of space empty on the whole square.
Unfortunately we had only one speakers
stand. However, whether they heard us or not,
the workers stood soidly to the last to de-
monstrate their solidarity with the revolution
airy preletariat of the world.
Youngstown has long been considered the
second largest steel center in the United States,
with many independent companies within the
city and in the surrounding towns. Within this
center the two main groups were the Youngs-
town Sheet and Tube the largest of the group,
the Republic Iron & Steel holding second place.
Recently the Republic Iron & Steel have
consolidated with great many small COM
panies all over the country and have raised
themselves to third place in the steel industry.
More Mergers.
Nou, tho YounuS+own Choot &, Tnho ;S ,,,oro-
ing with the Bethlehem Steel. This will make
this newly formed organization very close
competitor of the United States Steel Corpor-
ation
In the Youngstown plant as in others there
will be tearing out of old machinery and new
electrically powered and controlled machinery
will be installed This, of course, will result
in additional thousands of permanently unenl-
ployed. y,
The Amagamated Association of Iron &
Steel & Tin Workers, an A. F. of l.. union,
have for many years maintained closed shop
among the select few of the workers in one
section of the industry, namely heaters and
rollers. While all workers in the industry were
theoretically included, under the reactionary
leadership of Mike Tigue and others of his ilk
who helped to break tie steel strike of 1919,
they have consistently refused to organize any,
one but the privileged few.
Now these misleaders are becoming alarmed
due to these mergers and the consequent radi-
calization of the workers, which has shown it.
self in the mass movements toward the Metal
Workers League Of the Trade Union Unity
League, and the Communist Party.
Youngstown is also not without it's religious
dopsters. One Of these attempted to hold a
meeting on the Square before we got there,
and until we arrived spouted forth his doc
trine of "Pie in the Sky" However, when we