The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-29

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killing off our babies. But giving
them up to the state-I should say
not! There's better way-let the
gle"
THE steel bosses dare to make this
vicious attack upon the living stand
ard Of millions Of men, women and
children Of the working class, only
because of the great mass OF steel
and metal workers are unorganized."
For the steel workers there is only
one way out Of the pit of growing
mass unemployment, increasing
speed-up and deepening misery into
which they have been plunged by
the steel barons. This is the way
of organization and struggle - the
way pointed out by the Metal Work
ers' Industrial League"
Poverty, slavery and actual starv-
ation-or organization and struggle.
This is the situation we face. The
steel barons have put the issue to us
In the erudest and most brutal form.
We will fight"
1--WE shall encourage and organize
departmental and local strikes and
fight to win departmental and local
demands. At the same time we shall
use every effort to spread and broad
en- these struggles into strike strug-
gle in; the decisive mills thruout the
entire district. We shall try with
every resource at our command to
organize national counter offensive
of the steel and metal workers. We
shall work in closest relationship
with the National Miners Union and
the Railway Workers Industrial
League. We shall call upon all work
ers to consider our struggle their
struggle, to support us and join with
us, to defeat this new attack upon
the working class"
When the demands about which
the steel workers will be rallied to
fight were proposed, the steel worker
delegates present responded enthu-
siastically, frequently cheering.
The demands about wages include:
No wage cuts. Strike against the
10 per cent wage cut
Abolition of the "stagger' sys-
tenn method of reducing wages.
No less than SIS per day for any
worker In the mill.
Equal pay for young workers.
Full pay for all time spent In the
mill.
No less than four hours pay for
each time called to work.
General increases in wages for
all steel workers. Higher percent
age Of increases for lower paid
workers.
No attachment of pay for debt.
No deductions by company from
pay.
Right of all injured employees
TO remain home at full pay without
reporting until fully recovered.
Some of the other demands in
clude:
Abolition Of all forms of speed
up.
Full crews on all jobs.
Enforcement Of eight-hour day.
No double turn, no overtime work.
Recognition of mill and depart
ment committees elected by the
workers.
Abolition Of the spy and black
list system, abolition of company
police and guards, abolition of COM
pany towns.
No discrimination against Negro
workers.
Abolition of all Jim Crow rulings.
Abolition of finger printing and
compulsory physical examination.
Right of all employees to select
their own doctors at company ex-
pense.
In addition special demands were
adopted for fight against unemploy-
ment. These include:
No payment of rent by unem-
ployed workers.
Reduction of rent for part time
workers.
No evictions for non-payment OF
rent Of unemployed or part time
workers.
The last business of the conference
was instructing the National Com
mittee to call the Convention that
will establish the Steel Workers IN
dustrial Union no later than Decem-
Der is and reiterated that it be call
ed much sooner If the situation war
rants. Intense determination, readi-
ness to fight, and /eagerness to go
back to prepare for strikes against
the wage cut and build mass in
dustrial union of steel workers, mark
ed thu coufarence.