The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22
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Elect Leadership and
Outline Detectives,
Program of Work

Union.
Those who attempt to draw cae
steel workers into the Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers are acting to destroy their
movement" Foster also stated. For
Is years." he said, "the A. A. has
been used to prevent organization.
Leaders like d. w. Davis and Mike
Tighe are just stool pigeons. In the
strike of 1919 I spent so per cent
of my time fighting this rat, Davis.
The A. A. leaders have had an I'M
Outstanding all along with the U. S.
Steel Corporation that the Associa-
ton will leave U. S. Steel plants
alone.''
Peeling off coats and sitting
through the night in committee
meetings, delegates developed the or
ganizational basis for their coming
fight on the magnates of the heavy
and light metal industry.
Agree On Constitution.
The job of completing the consti-
tuition was deferred, but agreement
was reached on all important points
of principle. The final drafting of
the constitution was left to the ma
tional committee, which will circu-
late it's draft to the membership.
Final adoption will be by referen-
dun.
Finances we're the knottiest point
Of discussion, opinion being divided
between those who thought the steel
workers could not pay the 81 initia-
ton fee proposed, and those who
thought they would value the organ
ization more highly if they paid, even
though the payment were in INSTALL
ments. The 81 initiation fee was
adopted in the end. Dues are to be
paid according to sliding scale, the
amount varying with the members
earnings in the previous two weeks.
Unemployed are to pay 5 cents every
two weeks.
While looking forward to the ulti-
mate adoption of the 6-hour day
with the same daily wage as is now
paid, the constitution committee rec
commended that the union confine it
self for the present to a general de-
mand for the 7-hour day and 40-hour
week, plus demand for the 6-hour
day without reduction in pay for the
workers in the hot-mill and on other
dangerous and unhealthy jobs.
Political Stand.
The constitution contains no speci-
fic endorsement of any political party,
but calls for political action on the
basis of the class struggle. Jack
Stachel, assistant secretary of the
Trade Union Unity League, explained
that such political action is an abb
solutely necessary prerequisite for the
carrying on Of the simplest strike
and agitational activity, but that the
policy was to let the general board
of the union decide in each political
campaign which party best carried
our the principles of the class strug-
gle. He added that as Communist
he of course hoped his Party would
be endorsed, but would play ball if
it was not. Workers of all political
beliefs and religious creeds are well
come in the union, Stachel stressed.
Later resolution was adopted de-
claring that Gin the coming election
campaign only the Communist Party
fights for and represents the inter-
ests of the workers"
Rank and File Rule.
It was also stressed by the COM
mittee on constitution that the opin-
ion of the broad masses of the work
ers would govern the policies Of the.
union, and the contrast was Drawn
in this respect between the S. M. w.
I. U. and the autocratic unions affili-
ated with the A. F. of L.
The spirit Ct the later sessions of
the convant.C 7as markedly bust
nesslike, with Iarp differences of
opinion which we're looked on as a
healthy sign.
The credentials committee reported
that additions in later sessions
brought the total number Of dele
gates to 1855, including the fraternal
delegates.
Triple Alliance"
Important resolutions we're adopted
as a basis for the work Of the new
union. One foreshadoWed the luti-
mate setting up of triple alliance"
Of steslworkers, miners and railroad
workers, and outlined procedure for
developing joint action in these three
industries.
Another resolution declaring that
"the outlook of our union is more
and broader strike struggles" called
on all leading committees and mill
and shop organizations, in preparing
for strikes, to organize strike relief
funds. The officers of the union
were instructed to approach the
Workers International Relief, both
national and district offices, and
jointly work out the plans to sst up
w. I. r. branches in all metal and
steel manufacturing centers.
Against Deportation.
Another resolution pointed out
that already over 1000 unemployed
Mexican workers have been deported
from the northern Indiana steel
towns to prevent their fighting
against wage-cuts." The resolution
called for struggle to force the i'm
mediate cessation of deportation of
foreign-born workers.
Defense Committees.
Defense against boss terrorism
should be organized in the shops and
outside of them. together with the
International Labor Defense, the
convention decided. Each local