The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13

chairman, mot to picket" and blocka
Lulling the suspicious of the
strikers in packed strike meetings by
militant speeches calling for mass
parade and picket line at 7 am
Tuesday, Long and his partners wait
ed until late Monday evening (toc
late for the strikers to meet again
ard 0yerrule him) to broadcast the
WC~d "pa~ade called off. No picket
inn t~rncrrow due to state of martial
10. The Union Withdravs from the
sitva- on"
E. caca again the strikers disre-
s2~dod tkes5 instructions. Thousands
throngad the streets Scattered tenn
porarily by clouds Of tear gas thrown
oY state police whom Long had told
the strikers, "are here to protect life
and property" the pickets threw back
the bombs at the police and quickly
reformed their lines.
In spite of the cltims of the man
agement that several thousand re-
ported for work it is definite that
onlv few hundred out of the 5000
ob- A-AE-o Cl1bClCQ bllC Oldllb.
In the Pope plant, subsidiary OF
Wei-ton Steel in Steubenville, nor
mallv employing POO, some 300 went
in This morning, but at 9 o'clock only
one Of the u hot mills was operating
Some Of those going in we're unskilled
unsno'o owed, and most of the rest
worked in other departments than
the kew hot mill department. Con-
fused by orders from strike leaders
fo~ peaceful picketing," and demon
aliz1d further by the sheriff's procla-
nation against ''riotous gatherings
ard the presence of riot guns and sub
machine guns in the hands of city
cops and deputies, the few strikers
on the picket line stood aside as the
armed thugs herded the sc bs
through the gates.
Business men, office employees,
company suokers and some honest
workers participated in a strike
meeting" organized by the company
in the courthouse at Steubenville.
The company announced the results
of the vote as 429 to return to work
dEcA4tob Ii W COAAbAiiuc UllC bbl lhE. oub
the main body of the strikers boy
cotted the meeting and refused to
vote The vote" was but another eff
fort of the company to stampede the
men back to work.
The tenacity, solidarity and I'M
broken fighting spirit Of the Weirton
strikers is amazing, especially in view
Of the consistent sabotaging, strike
breaking tactics of the Amalgamated
Association officials, who are affil-
lated with the A. F. of L. bureau-
Gratis. But all their courage and de-
termination will not be enough to win
the strike unless the proposals of the
rank and file committee of the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial Union
for the election of broad rank and
file strike committee to be placed in
full charge of mass picketing and all
other strike activities is put into eff
feet.
Meanwhile, the men in the LaBelle
plant of the Wheeling Steel Corp.
here are preparing to join the strike,
in spite of the anti-strike position of
uAAC 4tellt[4c III S4lC btiitOii, Jiie ftilldl-
gamated Association of Iron, Steel
and Tin Workers A rank and file
group of LaBelle Lodge members have
issued a statement to the rest of the
men, endorsed by the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union, calling
upon them to vote for strike for the
following demands: Wage increases
for everyone; 8-hour day, 5-day week,
equal division of work, no favoritism;
20 minutes on company time for
lunch; abolish the speed-up; no dis
elimination against Negro workers in
hiring or promotion; recognition of
the union of the workers choice and
recognition in each department of
the committees elected by the workers
in that department.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Oct. 12.-
For the second time in five weeks
the clippers of the Bescsmer depart
ment of the Republic Steel Corp.
here have gone on strike, this time
to enforce the companys promise of
no discrimination against strikers and
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union members, and equal division
Of work among the clippers. The
strikers are picketing all gates and all
turns.
The strike followed the second re-
fusal of the management to meet
with the clippers committee, who
wanted to protest the wholesale dis
elimination aaginst active strikers
and union men when the Bessemer
department resumed operations after
ten-day shutdown. The vote for
\ strike was unanimous and the men
ssyledged to stick together until the
company agreed to put all clippers
back to work, with equal division of
the work, no discrimination and no
favoritism.
Company (police) thugs drew
blackjack to force the picketers off
the city sidewalks leading into the
mill property, but the strikers sue
ceeded in stopping quite few Of the
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