The daily worker., 1933-10-11
Forced to Retreat
Because of Terror;
Remain Undaunted
At Union Headquarters
Plans for Future Are
Being Made a
BY HARRY CANNES.

ship OF the steel JrnSCS BuIllIlSl, AOA
the time being has been able to stem
the rising tide of steel strikes.
A. F. of L. leaders who stabbed the
strike in the back, trying to prevent
the miners from forming a common
front with the steel workers, who
through the A.A leadership prevented
a rapid spread of the strike and
united front of all steel workers, gave
valuable aid and comfort to the most
powerful enemies of the American
workers. the U. S. Steel Corporation,
and the other powerful steel output
The Ambridge massacre, directed
against the growing leadership OF the
Steel and Metal Workers Industria!
Union. and the heroic example OF
mass picketing, marching on mills in
all direction to pull them out, has
not crushed the militancy OF the
workers. The workers return to the
Anibridge steel mills with every inch
Of their fibre boiling with rage and
anger, undaunted, but recognizing
that for the moment it is impossible
to continue the strike in the face OF
a Fascist army with orders to kill.
Plan Further Fight.
Like the miners who returned at
the time of the first strike, the steel
workers GO back, biding their time
for a greater and more determined
struggle. They go back with new
knowledge of the capitalist state. Of
the Roosevelt and Pinchot regime.
The UM.W.A. officials have sue
ceeded in Withdrawing the bulk OF
the striking miners from picketing the
Carnegie Steel plant in Clarion, Pa.
In Weirton, West Va, Clarksburg, and
Steubenville, Ohio, the $4,000 steel
workers have flounted the A. A. Of
ficials and are resorting to militant
mass picketing But the Pinchot
regime has brought in state troopers,
preparing a bloodbath for the Weir
ton steel workers.
In Greensburgh, Pa, the NR.A.,
state troopers, are attempting to
drive the workers back into the Wal
worth Foundry Co., opening up
lying and vicious campaign against
the Steel and Metal Workers In
dustrial Union.
The steel workers have not been
terrorized by this vicious assault on
| the Ambridge strike. Bullets have
not stemmed the growing strike
preparations in all of the mills. The,
| steel workers are strengthening their
forces, scaling down their illusions
about the NR.A., facing soberly and
grinly the new Fascist forces they
have to face in their struggles
Sweating over the molten metal,
standing at the pounding powerful
hammers, during working hours and
at night, on street corners, in restau-
rants, at meetings, in the head
quarters of the Steel and Metal Work
ers' Industrial Union, the workers are
planning their next step.
Workers Strong for Union.
The Steel and Metal Workers IN
dustrial Union has gone through the
fire of one of the most brutal and
vicious attacks in American labor his
tory. Its leaders in Ambridge are in
prison. But the union has endeared
itself to the Ambridge workers.
| The steel workers have seen the
strikebreaking tactics of the A. A.
leadership, and are learning the
strategy of the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union, with its
rank and file control, it's determined
policy of struggle, its mass picketing
| instilled fear into the hearts of the
steel barons. The steel workers are
beginning to see that the very vicious
ness and brutality of the Ambridge
massacre was the only answer the
bosses had against the growing soli-
darity of the steel workers under mil
liant leadership.
Where the steel workers have been
| driven back to work at the point Of
machine guns, they have the con-
slant reminders of the real meaning
of the NR.A. in the person Of the
armed guards surrounding the plants.
Organization Goes On.
Where strikes have not yet been
called, organization is going on rap
| idly, learning from the Ambridge
strike. Even in the very town where
the steel trusts Fascist gang was Or
ganized, Alliquipa, at the Jones and
Laughlin feudal fortress, organization
is going on,
At the Carnegie Steel Corporation
plant in Duquesne, the Steel and
Metal Workers Union is making
headway, preparing for struggle. At
Clarion, the workers in the Carnegie
Steel Corporation have learned the
role of the A. A. In the Jones and
Laughlin plant in Pittsburgh, the
steel workers are strengthening their
organization, planning strike.
The steel trust has drawn the sword
and thrown the scabbard away. 1t
knows the strike was broken by ma
chine guns, but the spirit and mil
itancy of the workers was not broken.
Every large steel mill in the Pitts
burgh area is arming for the class
war, war they know is growing in
magnitude and militancy. Beds, food,
machine guns and ammunition have
now become part Of the equipment
for the manufacture of steel. The
Fascist gangs are becoming perrna-
nent agencies Of the steel trust. The
workers know these facts. But they
also know that organization Of the
workers can defeat the steel bosses
/ Most important Of all, the steel
workers are learning the role Of the
Roosevelt regime and the MIRA. "The
right to join a union of their own
choosing" has been turned to ashes
and corpses.
Union organization has sunk into
the blood of the steel workers, 1t goes
into the mills with the members OF
the Steel and Metal Workers Indus
trial Union who have been driven In
at the point of gun. 1t seethes In
every still mill in the Pittsburgh
area.
Terror has won the first skirmish,