The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-23
Ohio Steel Wages
Are Cut Is PC.
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less with the railroads following
shortly in the same track. The
Trade Union Unity League will do
its utmost to mobilize the workers
against these cuts. To fight them
will be in the very center of the
business of the National Committee
of the T.U.U.L. to be held in Pitts
burgh, Oct. 3 and 4. The cut in
wages in the steel industry marks
the beginning of whole wave of
strikes. The workers will fight
against the reduction of their stan
dard of living. The coming months
will witness some Of the biggest
strikes and movements of the I'M
employed that this country has ever
seen. These will be under the gen.
eraI leadership Of the revolutionary
unions"
The wage cut is made by the FL
nance Committee to take $39,o00,0oo
out of the meagre pay of the steel
workers, many of whom are on part
time, and hand it over to the para
site stockholders.
All capitalist newspapers have de-
clared that cut by the United States
Steel Corporation will Immediately be
followed by a slash in the railroad
industry, mining, all other metal-in
fact, for all basic industries In the
country
The present open cut is not the
first reduction in wages Through
speed up, frightening Of hours, as
well as through the stagger system,
the wages of the workers In the
United States Steel Corporation had
heretofore been cut from 10 to Is
per cent.
At the last meeting of the Board
Of Directors of the United States
Steel Corporation, James Farrell
president of the company, announced
there would be no wage cut. William
Green and Mathew VOL, officials of
the American Federation of Labor,
hav repeatedly praised the bankers
who run the United States Steel Cor
poration for not cutting wages, and
have informed the workers that this
corporation would not cut wages The
purpose of this was to keep back or
ganization and help the United
States Steel Corporation, a Morgan
concern, put over its wage cut.
The Metal Workers Industrial
League has been carrying on a wide
spread organization drive in the steel
industry. Every steel worker must
organize now to strike against this
wage cut! Organize shop committees!
Get in touch with the Metal Workers
Industrial League. There is no time
to lose. This is not the final wage
cut. If this goes over without any
resistance the steel bosses will keep
it up, IRVING wages down to the star
walton level.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. 2l,-
Wheeling and Weirton Steel Com
panies have n otwaited for the U. s.
Steel announcement of a general
wage-cut to cut wages in their Ohio
Valley mills. Weirton Steel has cut
wages in the hot mill up to Is per
cent within the last ten days and in
the cold rolls as high as 80 per cent.
Wheeling Steel has slashed In the
hot mill at the Yorkville works and
in the blooming mill and bar mill
at the LaBelle works in Steubenville,
where they have also cut the size of
the crews in both blooming and bar
mills, forcing the men to double up
on some jobs.
The Metal Workers Industrial
League is rushing the mobilization
for the fight against the cuts, most
of the activities at the present time
centering around the mass confer
ence which will be held in Pitts
burgh Sept. u.
The Youngstown Section of the
M. w. I. L. held preparations con-
ference in youngstown Saturday,
with 80 delegates present from the
most important mills of youngstown,
Struthers, Warren and Campbell, en-
dorsing the Pittsburgh Conference
and also working out draft demands
for some of the above mills, to be
presented for discussion at the Pitts
burgh Conference. Acting National
Secretary Meldon made the main re-
port, with SAMPLES of youngstown
reporting on the local situation. The
conference pledged large delega-
ton to the mass conference in Pitts
burgh.
Meanwhiel reports are being re-
ceived daily at the national office in
Pittsburgh of delegates elected by
mill groups in various parts of the
concentration area, on the basis Of
which minimum of several hundred
delegates are expected to assemble
in Pittsburgh next Sunday. Impor-
tant among these reports is the word
that from Mansfield, Ohio, scene Of
the strike Of 1900 Empire Steel work.
ers against 10 per cent cut last
spring, a delegation will be present
at the conference.
The miners and metal workers
held a Joint mass meeting at Blaine
Hill, just across the river from Clair
ton, yesterday, with Kemeonovich
speaking for the N.M.U. and Joe