The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-26

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airy of the U. S. Steel, is located The second
section, McKeesport, with the McKeesport Tin
Plate Corporation and the National Tube Cor
poration of the Steel Trust, is next in import
ance in the Pittsburgh district. Third is the
Monesson section, with the big mills of the
American Sheet and Tin Plate, of the U. S. Steel
and the Pittsburgh Steel Company. Fourth, the
Pittsburgh section proper with the huge indie
pendents such as Jones & Laughlin and the A.
M. Beyers Corporation. The last section, but ex-
tremely important in the sense of section con-
centration, is the Ohio Valley, with the base OF
the National Steel Corporation and large indie
pendents.
Garry the Steel Campaign Into the Districts.
This comprises the Pittsburgh area, with its
five centers of attack for the building of the
Steel Workers Industrial Union. Each section
has full time organizer of the M.W.IL and adj
ditional forces to assist them in their work.
Steel workers conferences are being held in
these sections leading up to the mass steel work
ers conference of the Pittsburgh, Youngstown
and Ohio Valley which will be held in Pittsburgh
on September 27. Active steel workers and or
ganizers of the Chicago, Cleveland and Phia-
delphia districts will be present to participate.
A provisional National Committee will be elected
at the mass conference for the building of the
Steel Workers industrial Union. This committee
will he responsible for the creation Of national
steel organization campaign and responsible for
their respective districts.
Chicago Area Second Largest Center.
Ranking next to Pittsburgh in Importance is
the Chicago territory, with the Gary-Indiana
Harbor section as the point of concentration.
Gary, the largest mill of the U. S. Steel, must
ba tho c~-o and cepter nf activity Homestead
is the central point of the Pittsburgh district.
Next is the Cleveland district territory, with
Youngstown as the main section. Thousands OF
steel workers of the Carnegie youngstown Sheet
and Tube, Republic Steel Corporation, are work
ing in this section While Youngstown must be
the concentration point, the huge mills of the
American Steel and Wire Corporation, the Otis
Steel and the Lakeland section of Cleveland,
must not be overlooked. 1t is we'll to remember
that 10000 steel workers walked out of the Cleve-
land mills in one day during the 1919 strike.
Youngstown must receive the closest organiza-
tional attention, but at the same time, Cleveland
proper is not to be overlooked as an important
factor in the district.
The last district concentration is the Phila-
delphia territory. Baltimore and Bethlehem, Pa,
as the centers for the organization and develop
ment of struggle. This district is composed
mostly of mills of the Bethlehem Steel Corpore
ton and large independents. In each of these
cities, Baltimore and Bethlehem there is one
huge chain Of mills of the Bethlehem Corpora
ton. The organization of mill branches of the
Steel Workers Industrial Union and the develop
p1ent of struggle in the two centers mentioned is
the main task of the Philadelphia district.
Continuing General Work of MWIL.
Although the main task of the Metal Workers
Industrial League, as stated in its new program,
is the development Of four district concentra-
ton and the building of mass Steel workers
Industrial Union through organizing and leading
steel workers in struggle against their almost
unbearable working and living conditions, the
general work of the MWIL must not be me-
elected in the cities and mill towns outside the
concentration areas. For instance, although
there is very little steel in the New York dis
trict, mostly in and around Buffalo, the New
! York district is one of the largest metal manu-
! featuring centers in the country. Newark has
thousands of metal workers in its shops. The
| New York district is one of the countrys largest
electrical manufacturing shipbuilding, and ma
chine building centers. Especially in the General
Electric, westinghouse and Western Electric
plants, where many thousands of young workers
are employed under terrific speed-up, second only
| to the automobile industry, there is ripe field
| for organization.
The same holds true for the Philadelphia dis
trict. Along with its main concentration on steel
in~Sparrows Point and Bethlehem, there must
! be coordination of work in the machine build